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GENEALOGICAL

AND

PERSONAL MEMOIRS
Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.
\
Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Librarian of
Woburn Public Library; Author of 'The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington,"
"Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc.

VOLUME IV.

ILLUSTRATED.

NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
.... 1908 ....

copveight, 1908.
Lewis Historical Publishing Company.

Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.

"Henrie Tuxburie tooke
TEWKSBURY ye oath of fidelity to this
govem't thi,s 17 day of
May 1669." Thu.s it is written in the ancient
records of "Old Xewbury," and the record
has reference to Henry Tewksbury (i), of
Eni|lish birth and parentage and whose des
cendant is traced to an ancient family of the
surname Tewksbury, or Tukesbery, or Tewx-
bury, or Tuxbury, in the borough of Tewk.
Ijuc this Henry Tewksbury, immigrant, weav
er, is believed to have come to America several
ycc.rs at least before he sat down at Xewbury
and took the oath of fidelity there in 1669, for
he was in Boston and married there in 1659.
In 1669 he sold his lands and removed to
Amesbury, took the oath of allegiance there in
1677, was made freeman in 1690, and was
tithingman in 1693. He married, Xovember
ic. 1659, in Boston, Adartha Copp, widow of
V illiam Harvey, and was still living in 1697.
I-i is children: I. Elizabeth, born August 22,
1(160. 2. Hannah, September i, 1662. 3.
Henry, December 25, 1664. 4. Naomi, Janu
ary 18, 1666-67. 5- Ruth, March 10, 1668-69.
<,. Mary, January 13, 1670-71. 7. Martha,
Alarch 3, 1672-73. 8. John, July 11, 1674.
(II) Henry Tewksbury, son of the immi
grant, was born in Newbury, December 25,
1664, lived in Amesbury, married Hannah
 ; children : i . Henry, born December
o, 1694. 2. Jonathan, February 27, 1695-96.
3. Hannah, August 26, 1697. 4. Naomi, Aug-
u,st 6, 1702. 5. Jane, i\Iarch 18, 1704. 6. John,
March 26. 1707. 7. Abner, January 13, 1709.
8. James, November 15, 1712.
(Ill) John Tewksbury, of Pullen Point,
son of Henry and Hannah Tewksbury, was
born in Newbury, March 26, 1707, died in
Chelsea in 1752. He was progenitor of a
remarkable family in the history of the region
in which the later years of his life were spent
and he himself also was a remarkable man,
although he did not live to take part in the
events which distinguished the lives of his
sons. The name of his wife does not appear,
nor have we record of his children except sons,
Andrew, John and James, whose descendants
now number more than one hundred persons
in the town of Winthrop alone, and of these
more than fifty bear the name of Tewk.sbury.
The brothers Andrew, John and Tames, and (I

John, Jr., the young son of John, were all
privates in Captain Samuel Sprague's com
pany of Chelsea men "that kept guard at
Pullen Point in Chelsea" from April 19, 1775,
until discharged by their commanding officer.
In many other ways they were identified with
the best interests of the town in later years.
and each was progenitor of a good family.
(IV) John Tewksbury, son of John Tewks
bury, of Pullen Point, was born probably in
1735, and died in Chelsea, March 11, 1816,
aged eighty-one years. He was living at Shir
ley Point with his father in 1750; was bap
tized and owned the covenant in 1766; served
as one of the committee on the Bellingham
will in 1770, stood guard at the Point for
thirty days in 1775. On September 21, 1758,
he married Anna Bill. His posterity living at
the present time (1908) in Winthrop, says Judge
Chamberlain, number eighty-six persons, bear
ing the surnames Tewksbury, Floyd, Paine,
Richardson, Strout, Smith, Patch, Lindsey,
Durham, Gilmore, Griffin, Cobb and Westlake.
(IV) James Tewksbury, son of John
Tewksbury, of Pullen Point, was born in 1744,
baptized and joined the church in 1769, mar
ried in 1770, stood guard with his brother at
Pullen Point in 1775, and died November 7,
1800, aged fifty-six years. He married, Aug
ust 16, 1770, Jilary, daughter of John and Sus
anna Sargeant. His AMnthrop descendants
number thirty-one persons and are represent
ed in the family names, Tewksbury, Ingalls,
Richardson, Eldridge, Tucker, Durham, Gree
ley, Sanford, Shattuck, Griffin, Whittemore
and Cobb.
(IV) Andrew Tewksbury, son of John
Tewk.sbury, of Pullen Point, was born in 1739
and died in 1814. aged seventy-five years. He
was at Point Shirley with his father in 1750,
was admitted to church communion in
1658, stood guard for thirty days with Cap
tain Sprague's company of Chelsea men in
July, 1775, and by principal occupation was
a farmer. He married, February 18, 1762,
Susanna Hasey, born 1741, died 1832, daugh
ter of John and Mary f Chamberlain) Hasey.
John Hasey was born in 1710 and died in
1753 : married first, in 1730, Abigail Dexter,
died in 1731-32; second, 1734-35, Abigail
Chamberlain. John Hasey was son of William
Hasey, who was born 1679, died 1753 ; mar-
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ried first, Elizabeth

second, 1709,

Sarah Tuttle, {bird, Abigail Hathorn. Wil
liam Hasey was a son of William Hasey, who
was born 1652, married, before 1675, Judith
Jacob. William Hasey was a son of Lieuten
ant William Plasey, who married first, Sarah
 , second, Judith Poole. Pie bought the
Cole farm at Rumney Marsh in 1653-54, was
made freeman, 1665, cornet of the Three
County Troop, 1665, and commander in 1675.
Andrew Tewksbury's wife, Susanna, taught a
school at Pullen Point in 1765, and from a
report of the children in attendance the school
kept in John Tewksbury's house in 1779 we
find the names of the children of Andrew
and Plannah at that time, and who were taught
"Reading & Writeing." They were Andrew,
Jr., Susanna, Hannah, Elizabeth and Carter.
They had other children, \\''illiam, Esther and
Lois, and perhaps others. Judge Chamberlain
in his recent "History of Chelsea," says that
in 1908 there were thirty-one descendants of
Andrew Tewksbury living in Winthrop, repre
sented in the family names of Tewksbury,
Floyd, Magee, Wyman. Haggerston, Hall,
Gilmore and Brown.
(\') Andrew Tewksbury Jr., son of An
drew and Susanna (Hasey) Tewksbury, was
born in Chelsea, October 18, 1763, although
the date of his baptism is mentioned in one
record as 1762. He married, April 26, 1787,
Polly Williams, who was born in Chelsea,
October 15, 1766, and by whom he had eleven
children, all born at Point Shirley: i. Sally,
born March 2, 1788. 2. Andrew, Jr., October
17, 1789. 3. Polly, August 10, 1791. 4. Lydia,
July 12, 1793. 5. EHzabeth, July 29, 1795. 6.
John W., September 9, 1797. 7. Lucinda,
April 7, 1800. 8. Harriet, Felaruary 13, 1802.
9. Adeline, January 30, 1804. 10. Samuel,
December 6, 1806. 11. Gerry, June 16, 1810.
Of these children Andrew, Jr., died at the age
of about forty years ; all the others lived to
between seventy-eight and eighty-five years,
and one lived to more than ninety years.
(VI) John W. Tewksbury, son of Andrew
Jr. and Polly (Williams) Tewksbury. was
born in Chelsea, September 9, 1797, and for
many years was one of the mo.st energetic and
progressive business men of the town. After
the death of his wife's father, Samuel Sturgis,
in company with Samuel Leeds, of South Bos
ton, he became joint owner of the Point Shir
ley Salt Works, which Mr. Sturgis had found
ed soon after 181 2, and as partners they oper
ated the works about five years. Then Mr.
Tewksbury became sole proprietor and car

ried on the business until 1845, when he sold
the plant and a portion of the land to the
Revere Copper Company. In 1852 he dis
posed of the remaining part of his lands m
that vicinity and purchased a desirable farm
farther up the neck. This purchase included
what in later years has been known as Cottage
Hill and there he lived the quiet and content
ed life of a farmer and gardener until about
i860, when he gave the management of the
estate into the hands of his son and retired
from active pursuits. Mr. Tewksbury died in
1884, having' attained the ripe old age of
eighty-seven years. Pie lived to witness the
growth of his town from a sparsely settled
region into a healthful and progressive muni
cipality, and indeed he himself was an impor
tant factor in that growth and development
and for many years was counted among the
foremost men of the town. He was some
thing of a public man in politics, a firm Re
publican, and was one of the first selectmen of
the new town of AMnthrop. In 1822, Air.
Tewksbury married .Abigail Sturgis, daughter
of Samuel Sturgis, of Boston, and for many
years one of the most enterprising business
men of Chelsea. In Boston Mr. Sturgis was
a merchant and otherwise was engaged in
various large enterprises. At one time and
for several years he was owner and proprietor
of the "Golden Key," which later became
"Oak Hall," as now known. In 1812 he went
to Chelsea and made extensive land purchases,
acquiring about two-thirds of Point Shirley,
including Great Head, where he established the
once famous Point Shirley Salt Works, which
in some respects was one of the greatest bus
iness enterprises in New England, and which
he operated with good success for many years.
His father was Captain William Sturgis, of
Cape Cod, master mariner, ^hose life and ex
periences are ample for a volume of history.
He came of that old Barnstable Sturgis (or
Sturges) family of which John Sturges was
the founder and immigrant ancestor.
(\TI) Charles S. Tewksbury, son of John
W. and Abigail (Sturgis) Tewksbury, was
born on his father's home farm in Chelsea,
May 14, 1824, died in that town July 12, 1875.
He appears to have inherited many of the ex
cellent business qualities of his father, and
from early young manhood was closely asso
ciated with him in various enterprises of an
important character In i860, when his father
retired from active pursuits, Charles S. took a
lease of the farm on "the neck," brought it to
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fifteen years gathered from its acres an annual
crop of market products that yielded a gratify
ing revenue to the proprietor. In the mean
time the natural beauties of the locality had
begun to attract the attention of the annual
colony of summer visitors, and quick to see
the advantages of such an acquisition, with
the co-operation of his son. Ensign Kimball,
Mr. Tewksbury caused his farm lands to be
subdivided and laid out into lots for summer
cottages, with all the desirable appointments
of streets and avenues ; and now, after the
lapse of hardly more than a score of years
the old farm site has become the very center
of the most attractive part of Winthrop Beach.
But still, with all these changes of years Mr.
Tewksbury with thoughtful consideration has
preserved many reminders of the old town by
naming the principal thoroughfares of his sub
divided tract of land in allusion to the old sites
and families which once were familiar to
former residents in the locality; and now in
visiting the town one finds Cottage Hill, Bea
con, Tewksbury, Perkins, Underbill, Sturgis,
Irwin and other streets, Hathorne and Shirley
avenues to recall past memories and noted
character^ in the old life of the locality. Mr.
Tewksbury died July 12, 1895. He was an
excellent business man, and withal a good
man in every respect. He did much for the
permanent welfare of his native town, and its
people always respected him according to his
worth. He married first, Armenia Parker,
who was born in Ludlow, Vermont, and died
in Winthrop, having borne her husband five
children, all of whom except one died young:
Albert, Ensign Kimball (who alone survives),
John WilHam, Joshua B. and Almena. For
his second wife Mr. Tewksbury married
Nancy Moore, who was born in Chelsea, Ver
mont, and died while visiting in Boston in
April, 1898, having survived her husband
nearly three years. No children were born of
this marriage.
(VIII) Ensign Kimball Tewksbury, son
and only surviving child of Charles S. and
Armenia (Parker) Tewksbury, was born in
the then town of Chelsea, near where now
stands his own pleasant house, March 27,
1852. His life has been spent in the town,
there he was educated in the public schools,
and he received an excellent business training
by having early associated himself with the
several enterprises in which his father was
interested and in which he too had an interest.
For himself, however, he learned the trade of
carpenter and joiner and having become a

practical workman he soon became a building
contractor. In this vocation he always found
much work to be done, especially in -connec
tion with the land operations in which both
his father and himself were so extensively
interested for many years. During the last
twenty-five or thirty years Mr. Tewksbury
has built more than three hundred dwelling
houses, besides many business structures and
other buildings. And besides his connection
with his father's real estate operations he has
carried on improvement enterprises on his own
account; also in company with Mr. Nickerson,
with whom he is now engaged in building and
real estate undertakings, all of which have
contributed materially to the welfare of the
town and its people. Thus it will be seen that
Mr. Tewksbury has been a pretty busy man
during the last more than quarter of a century,
but it cannot be said that he has been selfish
of his time for purely personal ends, for he
always has been found in some way identified
with every measure proposed for the public
welfare, a leader in some of them and always
ready to do his full share in whatever prom
ises for the interests of the town. He is a
public-spirited, liberal and progressive citizen,
full worthy of success which has been the re
ward of his honest endeavors.
On November 29, 1873, Ensign Kimball
Tewksbury married Mary F. Bugbee, who
was born in Chelsea, Vermont, October i,
1850, daughter of Erastus and Mary (Moore)
Bugbee, both natives of Vermont and descend
ants of highly respectable old New England
colonial families. Mrs. Tewksbury is a woman
of education and social position and her con
genial companionship and sound counsel have
been material factors in her husband's success.
They have two children : i. Charles F., a suc
cessful farmer in Halifax, Massachusetts; he
married Laura Estelle Wison, who was born
in Kansas. 2. Ella, wife of Henry Ridgeway,
an employee of the New England Telegraph
and Telephone Company, Boston.

The name of Rebecca Ffenner is
FENNO found in the list of passengers
on board the ship "Triielove,"
bound from England to New England, 1635.
This is the earliest mention of the Fenno sur
name in America, and it may be assumed that
she was the same Rebecca Fenno who had a
grant of sixty-eight acres of land from the
town of Dorchester, situated in Unity, which
two years later was incorporated as Milton,
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well known. Rebecca Fenno was admitted to
the church in Milton, August 12, 1683.
(I) John Fenno, believed to be a son of
Rebecca Fenno, was granted twenty acres of
land in Equity (Milton) in 1660, and soon
afterward built a house there, as testified by
the Dorchester records, 1661 : "We have lay
ed out and staked the way two rodd and halfe
broad from the meetinghouse at unquetie from
John GiHs land and Robert Redmans land to
John Fennos house leading to the way to
Blue Hills." The locality of his house long
bore the name of Fenno Hill, recently changed
by the Metropolitan park commission to
Kitchamakin Hill. The farm now known as
the Fenno farm, says a recent narrative, was
granted by the town of Dorchester, December,
1657, to Lieutenant Roger Clapp, "where he
shall find a convenient place" beyond the Blue
Hills. Major Humphrey Atherton, Ensign
Foster and William Sumner were empowered
to lay it out. A plan was made in 1662 by
Joshua Fisher, another in 1689, and on But
cher's map it is designated as Captain Clapp's
farm. At the death of Captain Clapp, the
next year, the farm descended to his sons
Samuel and Hopcstill. In 1692 an action to
recover the farm was brought by Richard
Thayer against the Clapp executors, the result
being averse to plaintiffs, and the Clapp heirs,
for a consideration of one hundred pounds,
conveyed it, June 21, 1694, to John Fenno,
who retained possession until his death, 1708.
He willed the farm to his sons John, Benjamin
and Ephraim; his son Joseph had gone with
the expedition to Canada, and the father pro
vided by will that if he returned his brothers
should jointly pay him ninety pounds. In his
will, dated August, 1702, he describes his pro
perty as in "Lancashire in ye Realme of Eng
land." He was a soldier in King Philip's war.
He died in Milton, April 7, 1708, aged seventy-
nine years. He married Rebecca Tucker, died
June 12, 1690, aged seventy-nine. Children,
born in Milton: i. Rebecca, born September
23, 1662, died in Braintree, July, 1741 ; mar
ried, April 27, 1688, Dependence French. 2.
John, see forward. 3. Elizabeth, died Sep
tember 21, 1669. 4. Joseph, born September
I, 1670, probably killed in French and Indian
war, as his father writes in his will, "my son
Joseph formerly went to Canada in an expedi
tion against the then common enemy, since
which time I have never heard from him." 5.
Mary, born July 31, 1677, married, February
18, 1709, James Badcock, of Milton ; removed
to Connecticut. 6. Elizabeth, born March 31,

1680, died 1746; married, October 3, 1706,
John Waldo, of Windham, Connecticut. 7.
Ephraim, born June 30, 1682.
(II) John Fenno, second child and eldest
son of John Fenno (i), was born in Milton,
August 29, 1665. He was a farmer, and lived
in that part of Stoughton now Canton, where
he died April 23, 1741. The house he built in
.1694 is standing — a big-chimneyed red house
with numerous outbuildings, on Farm street,
south side of Porkipog pond. The land, five
hundred acres, was bought by his father in
1694. John Fenno seems to be the only one
of the brothers who settled in Canton. In
1695 he was chosen on committee on bounds
by Dorchester, and was surveyor of highways
in 1704 and 1709. In 1716 his house is rep
resented on a plan as having two stories —
a rarity in those days — and indicates that he
was possessed of more than average property.
At the organization of the precinct he was
chosen assessor, and it also appears to have
been his duty to keep the boys in order in the
meeting house. June 25, 1690, he married
Rachel Newcomb, of Braintree, who died
October 16, 1750. Children : i. Bethia, born
October 12, 1692, died April 29, 1780; mar
ried, December 15, 1713, Charles Wentworth.
2. Joseph, born February 21, 1695, died in
Canton, June 26, 1764; married, December 8,
1726, Sarah White, of Milton, who died Sep
tember 29, 1760. 3. Rebecca, born September
8, 1697, died in Canton, March 13, 1783 ; mar
ried, January 2, 1727, John Pierce, of Water-
town. 4. Isaac, born November 14, 1699, died
July 2, 1771 ; married (first), January 9, 1728,
Hannah Puffer; (second), April 10, 1732,
Mary Niles. 5. John, see forward. 6. Ruth,
born May 30, 1705, died March 28, 1768; mar
ried, October 10, 1728, Eliphalet Leonard, of
Easton; he died February 4, 1786. 7. Eliz
abeth, born May 7, 1707, died October 17,
1783; married, June 9, 1727, Stephen Billings;
he died June 10, 1767. 8. Seth, born October
28, 1709, died Oc tober 31, 1740. 9. Freelove,
born February i, 1714, married, April 18,
1733, John Brett, of Bridgewater.
(Ill) John Fenno, son of John and Rachel
(Newcomb) Fenno, born in Milton, February
7, 1703, was a farmer, and lived in Can
ton, where he died, December 15, 1759. "In
1732 he confessed and bewailed the sin of
fighting." He married, December 15, 1726,,
Hannah, born February 25, 1707, died Octo
ber 23, 1768, daughter of Joseph and Rahanna
(Babcock) Billings. Children: i. Mary, born
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1748, John French. 2. John, born February
II, 1730, died about 1763; married, December
Hi 1752, Jerusha Wentworth. 3. Ruhanna,
born December 6, 1732, married (first), No
vember 7, 1751, Jonas Hartwell; (second),
 Snell. 4. Joseph, born May 15, 1735,
drowned June 19, 1767, while getting a vessel
up Newport river; was in Crown Point expe
dition, 1755; married, July 16, 1761, Jerusha
Robinson, of Dorchester. 5. William ; see for
ward. 6. Rachel, born November 18, 1740,
married, January 18, 1759, Ezra Winslow, of
Stoughton. 7. Abigail, born April i, 1743,
married, May 12, 1760, John Howard Wins-
low, of Stoughton. 8. Freelove, married
October i, 1767, Caleb Kingman, of Bridge-
water. (IV) William Fenno, son of John and
Hannah (Billings) Fenno, born in Canton,
November 9, 1737, died there 1774. His
widow was appointed administratrix July 22,
1774. He married, 1761, Sarah Endicott, born
in Canton, August 10, 1741, daughter of
James, and granddaughter of Gilbert Endicott,
who settled near Dorchester early in the sev
enteenth century. Children, born in Canton: i.
Sarah, born February 27, 1762, married John
Payson. 2. Hannah, born September 11, 1763,
married Oliver Downs, December 25, 1787. 3.
John, see forward. 4. WilHam, born Decem
ber 21, 1767, was a housewright in Boston, and
died there July 24, 1813 ; married Sybil Hay
ward, born November 25, 1769. 5. Joseph,
born November 21, 1769.
(V) Deacon John Fenno, son of WilHam
and Sarah (Endicott) Fenno, born in Canton,
January i, 1766, died in Boston, July 26,
1835. He kept a grocery store on Hanover
street, Boston, and was a deacon of the New
North Church, in the time of Rev. Francis
Parkman. He was the first of the Fenno
family to settle in Chelsea, where he bought a
large tract of land. He married, 1793, Olive
Pratt, born April 10, 1770, died in Chelsea,
November 24, 1856, daughter of Nehemiah
and Ruth (Torrey) Pratt, of South Wey
mouth, Massachusetts. Their wedding was
the first in East Boston. Children: i. John,
born April 8, 1794, died August 24, 1859;
married (first), Charlotte Fracker, July 9,
1820; (second), Lucy Elizabeth Heard, April
14, 1839. 2. Joseph, see forward. 3. Sarah,
born October 24, 1797, died December 4, 1875 ;
married Lewis Jenkins Bailey, April 12, 1819.
4. William, born March i, 1800, died Decem
ber 9, 1866; married Margaret Norwood Bai
ley, January 27, 1839. 5. Harriet Ardelia,
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born October 20, 1803, died June 6, 1836, mar
ried Henry Cutting, January 27, 1829. 6.
Henry William, born November 25, 1805, died
July 14, 1862; married Rebecca Hill Daricott,
November 20, 1828. 7. Olive Augusta, born
September 5, 1807, died September 3, 1878;
married Rev. Horatio Alger, March 31, 1831.
8. Ann Catherine, died September 17, 1813,
aged two years.
(AT) Joseph Fenno, son of Deacon John
and Olive (Pratt) Fenno, born September 20,
1795, died May 20, 1863. In 1838 he erected
a building in Chelsea, that part now Revere,
corner of Beach street and Broadway, and
has been since known as Fenno's Corner.
There he conducted a mercantile business to
the time of his death ; was continued by his
son, Joseph Henry, and by his son, Warren
Fenno, and on the death of the latter, in 1905,
the business was closed to settle the estate.
Joseph Fenno married (first), June 30, 1822,
Eliza Dupee Lillie, born February 25, 1802,
died August 19, 1833 ; child : Joseph Henry.
He married (second), August 24, 1836,
Amelia Caroline Colby, born April 13, 1813,
died January 10, 1840 ; child : Caroline Amelia,
born December 17, 1837, married, June 16,
1859, Russell Tewkesbury; children: i. Ada
Maria, born May 27, 1861, died December 21,
1889; ii. Russell Sturgis, born May 5, x868.
He married (third), January 3, 1841, Lydia
Maria Pierce, born January 12, 1821, died
June 27, 1886; children: i. Thomas Lillie,
boni October i, 1841, died January 29, 1891 ;
married October 24, 1867, Adelaide Eliza
Tucker, born April 12, 1844, daughter of John
and Ann Sarah (Davenport) Tucker; he was
born December 14, 1818, died June, 1899, she
died December i, 1861. Children, two eldest
born in North Chelsea : i. Walter Davenport,
born September 8, 1868, died August 25, 1869 ;
ii. Harvey Chester, born August 25, 1870, died
February 22, 1897; iii. Stanley Warner, born
in Revere, February 2, 1877, graduate of Har
vard, class 1904, since has been science teacher
in Revere high school ; closely identified with
Lfnitarian church, treasurer and collector ;
married Bertha Pierce Whittaker, June 26,
1906. 2. Edward Augustus, see forward. 3.
Charles Francis, see forward. 4. Sarah Pierce,
born February 22, 1847, died February 5,
1882; married Fred E. Proctor, October 17,
1877 ; children : Ralph Fenno, Lucia Maria.
5. Maria Augusta, born February 8, 1849, died
March 9, same year. 6. Walter Pierce, born
May 20, 1850, died January 12, i860. 7. Fred
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Ella Childs, October 21, 1886. 8. Morton,
born July 6, 1855, cjied January 8, 1882. 9.
Herbert, born August 18, 1858, married (first)
Emma J. Sawtelle, of Holyoke ; child : Emma
J., married (second) Mary Lane, of Deerfield.
lO. Parker, born May 10, 1862, died March 15,
1896, unmarried.
(VII) Edward Augustus Fenno, son of
Joseph and Lydia Maria (Pierce) Fenno, born
Chelsea, August 26, 1842, died at Holyoke,
April 16, 1886. He was educated in his native
town. He early went to Holyoke, and was
there engaged successfully in the grocery bus
iness until his death. He married, in Chelsea,
October 16, 1866, Sarah Yendell Derby, born
Chelsea, February 21, 1843, daughter
of Minot and Dorcas (Holliday) Derby. Chil
dren : I. Minot Derby, see forward. 2. Jen
nie Clark, born in North Chelsea, September
20, 1874, died February 23, 1900, in Revere,
unmarried. 3. Albert Edward, born in Re
vere, October 7, 1876, married Georgianna O.
Miller. (VII) Charles Francis Fenno, son of
Joseph and Lydia Maria (Pierce) Fenno, was
born July 30, 1844, died November 24, 1903.
He was educated in Revere schools ; worked
in grocery store for his father and his step
brother Joseph Henry up to the time of his
marriage; after marriage learned trade of
paper hanging and worked at that until 1883,
when he was elected tax collector, in which
capacity he served twenty-two years or until
his death ; he also served as constable, truant
officer, member of police department fifteen
years or more. He was a Republican, Unitar
ian in religion, and member of New England
Order of Protection. He was upright, honest
and conscientious, and was highly respected
and greatly beloved by the poor whom he
helped to the extent of his ability. He mar
ried, July 19, 1865, Emma Catherine, born
April 20, 1846, daughter of John Tucker and
wife, Ann Sarah (Davenport) Tucker ; John
Tucker was born in Milton, December 14,
1818, died June 12, 1898; his wife was born
August 28, 1822, died December i, 1861,
daughter of James and Abigail (Lord) Daven
port, of Dorchester, the former of whom was
son of James Davenport. Children: i. Alice
Russell, born December 2, 1868, married,
October 3, 1889, Vincent Farnsworth. 2.
Charles Percy, born April 13, 1870, married
Mary Louise Richardson, October 3, 1894.
(VIII) Minot Derby Fenno, eldest child of
Edward Augustus and Sarah Yendell (Derby)
Fenno, was born in North Chelsea, November

8, 1868. He received his early education in
the schools of his native town, and finished his
education in Holyoke, whither his parents had
removed. On coming to young manhood he
engaged in the grocery business with his
father, with whom he was associated until the
death of the parent. Minot D. Fenno then
returned to Revere, and became actively iden
tified with public affairs. In 1887 he became
state auditor for the State Bath House at Re
vere, and was later town auditor, occupying
that office until 1904, when he resigned to be
come tax collector of Revere, which office he
StiH holds. Mr. Fenno married, in Revere,
March 4, 1906, Clara I. Higgins. No chil
dren.

In England the surname Kent is
KENT placed with the more numerous
patronymics, and in its origin
dates to the time of the Conquest ; and besides
being a name of remarkable antiquity as
shown by the researches of students it also
appears to have been borne by many persons
of distinction, some of them famed because of
valorous deeds in war, others by reason of
incumbency of high official station in the ser
vice of the crown, and still others who were
eminent scholars, jurists, theologians, and men
schooled in diplomacy and statecraft. And as
they wrought so well they of this house were
honored by an appreciative sovereign with
vast estates in land, amounting almost to
principalities, and with enviable titles, barons,
dukes and earls, with arms and other tokens
of royal favor. Of arms there are not a few,
and the bearings generally display the eagle
on both the escutcheon and the crest.
So too may it be written of the Kents of
America, now a numerous family, but not less
noted in achievement than the ancient house
in the mother, country ; and we have only to
turn the pages of our national history for the
honorable roll of statesmen, divines, heroes of
wars, scholars, authors, and men of all pro
fessions who have sprung from the parent
stock crossed the Atlantic and sat down in the
New England plantations during the first half
of the seventeenth century.
(I) John Kent, of Dedham, immigrant an
cestor and founder of the New England fam
ily of his surname treated in this place, was
not a son of Richard Kent Sr., of Newbury,
as has been asserted by some chroniclers of
the family history. He was admitted to the
church in Dedham in 1652, was made freeman
1654, and he was taxed there from 1653 until

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November, 1664. He joined with others in a
petition to the general court in 1662, was fence
viewer in 1664-5, a^ud removed from Dedham
to Charlestown, where he and his wife Han
nah were received into church membership in
1673. Their first child was born in Charles
town in 1667, and he was tithingman there in
1679. He died after 1707. He married, at
Dedham, May 21, 1662, Hannah Griswold,
born in Cambridge, March 4, 1644-5, died at
Charlestown, January 9, 1 690-1, daughter of
Francis and Mary Griswold (or GrisseU) of
Charlestown. December 5, 1636, "there is
granted unto Francis Greshold, the Drummer,
two acres of land lying at the end of Barnatie
Lambson's pole toward Charlestowne, in re
gard of his service amongst the soldiers upon
all occasions, as long as he stayeth." Chil
dren of John and Hannah (Griswold) Kent:
I. Hannah, born July 2, 1667; married Joseph
Gaboon. 2. Maria, born February 3, 1669.
3. John Jr., born-1670; married, first, De
cember 22, 1692, Sarah Smith ; second, Eliza
beth  ; he removed to Scituate in 1698,
to Mansfield, Connecticut, in 1709, and died
there in 1753 ; representative in 1724. 4. Josh
ua, born June 15, 1672, died June 20, 1672. 5.
Joshua, born July 4, 1674; married, Novem
ber 4, 1697, Agnes Okeman; lived in Boston.
6. Joseph, born October 13, 1675. 7. Samuel,
born March 23, 1678, died March 16, 1702-3.
8. Ebenezer, born August 18, 1680, died at
Hingham, February 16, 1752; married, De
cember 8, 1703, Hannah Gannett. 9. Lydia,
born July 16, 1683 ; married, 1714, Ebenezer
Simmons, of Scituate. 10. Mary, born May
12, 1686; married, 1710, Joseph Barber, of
Hingham. 11. Susannah, born August 13,
1689. (II) Ebenezer Kent, son of John and Han
nah (Griswold) Kent, born in Charlestown,
August 18, 1680, removed to Hingham be
tween 1700 and 1703, and built the first dwell
ing house on the west side of Cohasset river,
where he had a farm. He was a member of
the Second church (Cohasset), constable in
1727 and 1736, owned lands in several towns,
and died well possessed, February 16, 1752.
He married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Gan
nett, born in Scituate, 1684, died in Hingham,
March 27, 1767. Children: i. Abigail, born
October 12, 1706, died March 12, 1709. 2.
Hannah, born 1707; married January 16,
1727-8, Israel Whitcomb. 3. Mercy, born July
31, 1709; married Stephen Stoddard. 4. Eliz
abeth, born September 6, 1710; married (i)
May 7, 1735, Eliakim Mayo, (2)  Pit

cher. 5. Isaac, born September 27, 1712. 6.
Mary, born 1715; married, August 31, 1743,
Joseph Blake. 7. Ebenezer Jr., born April 18,
1717, settled in Leicester, Massachusetts. 8.
Seth, born April 3, 1721. 9. Abigail, born
March 29, 1723; married, October 22, 1744,
Joseph Souther. 10. Lydia, born April 24,
1725; married, December 22, 1743, Noah Rip
ley, settled at Barre, Massachusetts. 11. .^bel,
born August 7, 1730.
(Ill) Isaac Kent, son of Ebenezer and
Hannah (Gannett) Kent, was born September
27, 1712, in Conihasset, near Hingham. He
married first, October 25, 1739, Rachel, daugh-
er of Andrew and Rachel (Bates) Beal, born
in Hingham, August 25, 1719. They removed
to Mendon, Massachusetts, (now Milford),
and were received into the church there April
II, 1746, by letter from the Second church of
Hingham. Their home in Milford was in the
southeastern part of the Bear Hill district.
He was selectman from 1750 to 1760. He is
said to have removed to Bellingham, but in
1770 was dismissed to the church in Annapohs
Granville. Rachel Kent died May 15, 1805,
aged eighty-six. Children: i. Rachel, born
July 28, 1740, in Hingham, died 1746. 2.
Isaac, born June 9, 1742. 3. Susanna, born
July 30, 1744, died May 2, 1751. 4. Elizabeth,
born August 15, 1746, died March 13, 1749.
5. Rebecca, born August 11, 1748-9, died June
9, 1791. 6. Anna, born July 25, 1750, died
June 9, 1791, 7. Abigail, born March i, 1752.
8. Arach, twin, October 4, 1754. 9. Zarah,
twin, October 4, 1754. 10. John, January 31,
1757. II. Caleb, twin, April 15, 1759. 12.
Joshua, twin, April 15, 1759. 13. Hannah,
September 12, 1764, died April 4, 1796.
(IV) Isaac Kent, son of Isaac and Rachel
(Beal) Kent, was born in Mendon, June 9,
1742. He married first. May 17, 1770, (by
Rev. Mr. Willard) Sarah Wheelock, died No
vember 13, 1779, aged twenty-eight years ; he
married second, August 17, 1780, Sarah Way,
died August 20, 1790; he married third, April
21, 1791, Sarah Holbrook, of Grafton, died
February 27, 1813, aged fifty-nine years, he
married fourth, October 26, 1814, at Wethers-
field, Vermont, Rhoda Kenny, widow. He
died January i, 1835, aged ninety-three. He
and his brother John petitioned for the in
corporation of a religious society in Alstead.
Isaac is said to have had a brother Benjamin
who settled in New York. Isaac lived in War
wick, Massachusetts, until 1776, when he re
moved to Alstead. Several of his family, in
cluding his brother Zarah, were loyalists in the

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revolution and removed to Nova Scotia,
probably refugees. Isaac Kent was a soldier
in the revolution, private in Captain Reuben
Butterfield's company, Twentieth regiment,
1776 (Colonel Thatcher). He enlisted in the
continental army July 5, 1777, and served un
til January i, 1778, in Captain Joshua Parker's
company. Colonel Robinson's regiment. He
may'also have been in Captain Moses Barnes'
company. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pierce's
regiment, 1779. At the time of his death Rev.
Mr. Gerould said, "He was a valuable mem
ber of society, always punctual to all engage
ments, and pecuharly so in his attendance on
public worship." Children of Isaac and Sarah
(Wheelock) Kent: i. Israel, born May 28,
1773, died December 29, 1831. 2. Amariah,
born March 4, 1775, died June 16, 1825. 3.
Anna, born January 16, died February 6, 1777.
4. Rebecca, born January 13, 1778, died No
vember 10, 1783. 5. Benjamin, born Novem
ber 13, 1779. Children of Isaac and Sarah
(Holbrook) Kent: 6. Sally, born August 17,
1792, died October 12, 1858. 7. Asa, born
February 28, 1794; remained on the home
stead; died 1882, aged eighty-eight. 8. Arad,
born October 10, 1795, died August 4, 183 1,
in Marion, Ohio. 9. Stephen, born May 27,
1797, died August 10, 1834, leaving a son, a
lawyer in Ohio.
(V) Benjamin Kent, son of Isaac and
Sarah (Wheelock) Kent, was born in Alstead,
New Hampshire, November 13, 1779, and al
though a man of large stature and great physi
cal strength he died in the very prime of life.
He first learned the trade of shoemaking, fol
lowed that occupation with his father for some
time, and later became a blacksmith and farm
er. He died leaving a wife Sarah, and son
Abel W. Kent.
(AT) Abel Willard Kent, only child of Ben
jamin and Sarah Kent, born in Alstead, about
1800, was brought up there by Frank Phelps,
in allusion to whom he named his elder son.
He was educated in the district school in Al
stead, later became a shoemaker, and also
was a teamster and farmer. When about
thirty-three years old he went west and found
a suitable location for a new home for his
young family in Casapolis, Michigan, but be
fore his wife and children reached there he
was stricken with fever and died. In religious
preference Mr. Kent was a Congregationalist,
a Whig in politics, and while living in Alstead
was a member of the state militia. He mar
ried Lucinda Gould, of Marlborough, Massa
chusetts, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail

(Clark) Gould, the former a soldier of the
war of 1812, a blacksmith by trade, and who
settled near Alstead. Children of Abel Wil
lard and Lucinda (Gould) Kent: i. Rebecca,
now dead ; married George Loveland. 2. Ade
line, married William K. Ritchie, and had
Marion, Sarah and Addie Ritchie. 3. Frank
Phelps. 4. Pliny Payson.
(VII) Frank Phelps Kent, son of Abel
AVillard and Lucinda (Gould) Kent, was born
in Alstead, New Hampshire, September 8,
1835, and was less than three years old when
he went with his mother to Michigan. His
father had died before the family arrived
there, and soon afterward they returned to
Alstead and two years later went to Nashua,.
where Frank P. was sent to school. After a
few years in that town the family removed to
Pelham, New Hampshire, and there he attend
ed winter terms of school and worked out dur
ing the warm months of each year until he was
about seventeen years old. He then went
back to Nashua and found steady work in a.
grocery store and later in a meat market, and
at twenty-one, having gained a good under
standing of business, he came to Boston and
for the next two years was clerk for James
Eggerton, whose place of business was in
Quincy market. About 1859 Mr, Kent began
business on his own account, having saved
money enough to purchase a restaurant in
Hanover street, Boston. This he continued
with good success for one year, then sold out
at a fair profit to himself and started a similar
business in Milton, New Hampshire, carried
it on about three and a half years, then sold
out and went to Wilton, New Hampshire. In
the latter town he engaged in the same busi
ness and increased his enterprises by adding a
well appointed meat market and also a livery
and sales stable. In Wilton, Mr. Kent was
counted among the substantial and enterpris
ing business men of the town and made many
warm friends there. In 1886 he sold his store,.
but retained his other interests until his stables-
were destroyed by fire, after which he sold out
his restaurant and removed to AVest Medford,.
Massachusetts, and purchased the general
grocery and meat business formerly carried on
by Burroughs Bros. For the next .six years he
continued the business in its old location near
the railroad station, then moved his stock to
the Usher building, remained there ten years.
and in 1902 erected the building now occupied
by his largely increased stock of general gro
ceries and provisions. Besides this, he has-
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other valuable property in West Medford and
also in Wilton, New Hampshire. From what
has been stated here it must be seen that Mr.
Kent is a capable and successful business man,
and whatever has been accomplished by him
is entirely the result of his own personal effort
and industry. He is interested in public affairs
as a citizen and considerable taxpayer, yet
takes no active part in them, preferring to de
vote his leisure hours to the pleasant associa
tions of his comfortable home. He is a mem
ber of the congregation of the Unitarian
church, and of Mount Vernon Lodge, I. O. O.
F., and in politics is a Democrat. On August
15, 1863, Mr. Kent married Mary Elizabeth
Blanchard, born in Concord, Massachusetts
February 16, 1843, daughter of Bradley and
Mary (Bowers) Blanchard, of Milford. Chil
dren: I. Minnie Bowers, horn in Milford,
November 20, 1864, died July 13, 1873. 2.
Edward Frank, born October 23, 1868. 3.
Jessie Blanchard, born in Wilton, September
24, 1870; married September 28, 1892, John
H. Chute, of Annapolis, N. S., and had Ed
ward Kent Chute, born August 24, 1894, died
August 26, 1894. 4. Bessie Lovejoy, born in
Wilton February 15, 1872. 5. Kittie, born in
Wilton, June 10, 1875 ; married, March 4,
1903, Albert H. Fisher, of Waltham, Massa
chusetts. (VIII) Edward Frank Kent, son of Frank
Phelps and Mary E. (Blanchard) Kent, was
born in Wilton, New Hampshire, October 23,
1868. He graduated from Wilton high school,
class of '84, and in the fall of 1885 began a
special course of study in physiology and bo
tany at Ashburnham Academy, with the pur
pose of laying the foundation of a thorough
education in surgery, which profession he
determined upon for his vocation in life. But
this he was compelled to give up at the end of
a year, and thereupon took a thorough course
in Comer's Business College, Boston. He then
returned to Wilton and acquired a partnership
interest in the grocery and provision business
carried on by his father ; and from that to the
present time the relation has continued under
the style of F. P. Kent, a name and house
well known in trade circles in eastern Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire. The several
changes in location and the general character
of the business conducted by this firm are suf
ficiently stated in earlier paragraphs, but it is
proper to mention in this connection that a
full measure of the success which has reward
ed the endeavors of the firm of F. P. Kent has
been due to the business capacity, enterprise

and known integrity of the junior partner. In
politics Mr. Kent is Republican, taking an
active interest in local affairs, but has no
strong ambition for public office. He is a
Mason of high degree, member of Mount Ver
non Lodge, F. and A. M., Mystic Chapter,
R. A. M., Medford Council, R. and S M., all
of Medford ; Boston Commandery, K. T. ; La
fayette Lodge of Perfection (14) Giles F.
Yates Chapter (16) Princes of Jerusalem;
Mt. Olivet Chapter (18) Rose Croix; and
Massachusetts Consistory (32) A. A. S. R. ;
Aleppo Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. ; past
patron of Middlesex Chapter, No. 64, O. E. S.
of West Medford ; member of Mount Vernon
Lodge, No. 184, I. O. O. F., of West Med
ford, and has served as its sentinel and per
manent secretary. He also is a member of the
Neighborhood Club of West Medford, and at
the time of its dissolution was a member of the
Medford Club. On January 14, 1897, Mr.
Kent married Harriet Havilah Gates, of An
napolis, N. S., daughter of Edwin and Hora-
tia Nelson (Ryerson) Gates. Children : i.
Marjorie, born July 26, 1898, died same day.
2. Katherine Havilah, born November 4, 1902.

Caleb Stone, son of James Stone,
STONE was born about 1750. Pie was
of Boston when he married, Feb
ruary I, 1780, Anna WiHiams, of Lynn. His
wife died August 25, 1833, aged seventy-eight
years. He died at Lynn, January 29, 1818.
Children, born at Lynn: i. John, February 8,
1781. 2. Thomas, January 5, 1782. 3. James,
June 3, 1784; mentioned below. 4. Jonathan,
August 18, 1786. 5. Anna, October 2, 1788.
6. Benjamin, April 6, 1791. 7. Joshua, March
30, 1792. 8. Caleb, February 12, 1794: mar
ried, June II, 1818, Isna J. Wilkins. 9. Wil
liams, April 26, 1796. 10. Polly, March 8,
1799. II. Henry, April 28, 1802; died Sep
tember 22, 1 81 7. 12. George, born September
17, 1805. 13. Nancy, October 16, 1807.
(II) James Stone, son of Caleb Stone, was
born in Lynn, June 3, 1784. He was common
ly known as "Sir Stone." He was educated in
the public schools of Lynn and learned the
trade of shoemaker there. He was one of the
pioneers in shoe manufacturing, which he fol
lowed all his life. He died at Lynn about
sixty-five years of age. He married Eunice
Thayer, of Dedham, Massachusetts, born at
Dedham, died at Lynn, aged ninety-five years.
Children : James, mentioned below ; Abra
ham ; WiHiam ; Katherine ; Lydia ; Ann, died
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(Ill) James Stone, son of James Stone,
was born in Lynn, 1811. He received his edu
cation in the district schools of his native
place, and learned his father's business of
shoemaking. He was appointed constable in
Lynn when it was a town ; later deputy city
marshal ; and was city marshal for a time,
superintendent of streets, and continued
throughout his active life in positions of
honor and responsibility in the city. He was
chief of the fire department for a number of
years. In pohtics he was a Republican, but he
held the confidence and esteem of all his
townsmen, regardless of party affiliations. He
was at one time a member of Bay State Lodge
of Odd Fellows. He was an active and prom
inent member of the First Methodist Episco
pal Church of Lynn, and for many years its
sexton. He married, in 1832, Sally Breed,
born at Lynn, 181 1, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Sweetser) Breed (see Breed family).
Both James Stone and his wife Sally died in
Lynn, in July, 1898, lacking a month of sixty-
six years of married life together. Children,
born in Lynn. I. Lydia Ann, resides in Lynn.
2. William, mentioned below. 3. James Wil
bur, died aged five years. 4. Sarah Maria,
died young. 5. James Edward, died at Lynn,
about 1892, married Lucy Ellen Buxton. 6.
Sarah Abbie, resides in Lynn. 7. Ella F.,
resides in Lynn.
(IV) William Stone, son of James Stone,
was born at Lynn, January 21, 1836, and was
educated there in the public schools. He
worked for a time as a finisher in the shoe
factory of Samuel Bubier. He was then
appointed a special police officer and served
several years, gaining useful experience and
displaying unusual fitness for the duties of
his office. He was later deputy under Mar
shal C. H. Kent, of Lynn, for two years. In
1879 he was deputy under Marshal Charles C.
Frye for two years, then city marshal two
years, 1879-80. Two years later he was
appointed clerk of the Lynn poHce depart
ment. In 1886 he was elected superintendent
of Pine Grove cemetery of Lynn, and served
as such for the twenty-one years following to
the time of his death in 1907. He was a faith
ful and efficient police officer, doing his duty
conscientiously in every position he was called
to fill and commanding the confidence of his
townsmen. He was a member of the follow
ing lodges: Bay State Lodge, of Odd Fel
lows, of which he was for many years a trus
tee ; charter member of .Abraham Lincoln
Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; charter member of

Sagamore Tribe, Improved Order of Red
Men. He was also- a member of the Lynn
Historical Society and one of the council. He
was a prime mover in the reorganization of
the Houghton Horticultural Society, and
afterward its president, and also president of
the American Association of Cemetery Super
intendents. He was the founder of Master
King's school for boys, and later its president.
He was an attendant of the First Methodist
church. He married in Lynn, May 23, 1861,
Eliza Ellen Tufts, born in Lynn, daughter of
Robert D. and EHza B. (Needham) Tufts.
Her father was a native of Lynn, her mother
of Danvers. Children, born in Lynn: i.
Fredilyn A., March 2, 1862; resides at home
with her parents. 2. AVilbur F., November 10,
1866 ; married Cora L. WiHis, of Lynn.

Richard Thayer, immigrant an-
THAYER cestor of this branch of the
American family, (see other
Thayer narrative), settled in Boston. He was
born and baptized in Thornbury, Gloucester
shire, England, April, 1601, and came to New
England in 1641, bringing with him, accord
ing to a deposition of his son Richard, eight
children. He had a brother Thomas who came
to New England also. Richard's son Richard
settled in Braintree. Richard (i) was a shoe
maker by trade. He married, in Thornbury,
England, April 5, 1624, Dorothy Adortimore;
second, Jane, widow of John Parker, and in
1658 joined with her in a deed to her Parker
children. He died before 1668. (See Suffolk
Deeds, v, 446). Children: i. Richard, bap
tized February 10, 1624-5. 2. Cornelius, men
tioned below. 3. Deborah, baptized February,
1629-30; married April 11, 1653, Thomas
Faxon. 4. Jael, married March 17, 1654, John
Harbour Jr. 5. Sarah, married July 20, 1651,
Samuel Davis. 6. Hannah, married May 28,
1664, Samuel Hayden. 7. Zachariah, died July
29, 1693 ; estate was administered by brother
Richard. 8. Abigail, died August 6, 1717,
aged sixty-six years. 9. Nathaniel, born about
1650; married Deborah  ; settled in
Boston. (II) Cornelius Thayer, son of Richard
Thayer, was married to Abigail Copeland
and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. His
wife died January i, 1731. Children: i. Cor
nelius, born 1695. 2. Moses, born 1698. 3.
Gideon, born Alarch i, 1700. 4. David, born
1702. 5. Ezekiel, born 1704. 6. Eliakim, born
1706; mentioned below. 7. Hezekiah, born
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ber 9, 171 1. 9. Abigail, born January 11,
1712. 10. Jeremiah, born August 20, 1716.
(Ill) Eliakim Thayer, son of Cornelius
Thayer, born 1706, settled in Dorchester, Mas
sachusetts. He married, August 12, 1729, De
borah Hersey, of Alilton, Afassachusetts. Chil
dren : I. Eliakim, born October 25, 1731. 2.
Jesse, born April 28, 1733; mentioned below.
3. Cornelius, born February 10, 1738. 4.
Gideon, 1740. 5. Solomon, September 23, 1744.
6. Benjamin, 1746. 7. Betsey, April 10, 1749.
8. Abigail, October 16, 1751.
(IV) Jesse Thayer, son of Eliakim Thayer,
born in Dorchester, April 28, 1733, settled in
Marblehead. He married May 28, 1763, De
borah Niles. Children: i. Samuel, born 1764.
2. Jesse. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Isaac. 5. Cather
ine. 6. Lydia. 7. Hannah. 8. Eunice, mar
ried James Stone (See Stone).

• This surname is of ancient Eng-
BISHOP lish origin. Just how the title of
a sacred office of the CathoHc
church came to be used for a surname is lost
in the obscurity of ancient history. It is sug
gested that it must have been a personal name
or a nickname of some progenitor, as Major
and Deacon are sometimes given. Other
names, like Pope, are of the same class, how
ever. Bishop was a common name in England
many centuries ago. No less than eleven im
migrants of this surname came to Massachu
setts before 1650 with their families. Various
branches of the EngHsh Bishops bear coats-of-
arms and have had titles and dignities of vari
ous kind.
(I) John Bishop, immigrant ancestor, born
in England, about 1600, was one of the twenty-
five immigrants who came with Rev. Henry
AA^hitfield's company from England and found
ed Guilford, Connecticut. His name was sign
ed second to the Plantation Covenant made on
shipboard June i, 1639. Robert Kitchell sign
ed first. The order of the name indicates the
respective social and other standing of the
company, judging from analogy in similar
cases. He was fifth on the Hst of trustees of
the Indian purchases, and one of the four mag
istrates appointed to administer justice and
preserve peace in the community. He brought
his family of several children with him, and is
said to be brother of James Bishop of New
Haven, a contemporary. His wife was Anne.
He died February, 1661, and she died April,
1676. His estate was the largest in the colony
with the exception of Mr. AA/Tiitfield's. The
site of John Bishop's homestead was suitably

marked at the celebration of the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of
Guilford, Connecticut, held September 8, 9, 10,
1889. Children, probably all born in England :
I. John, mentioned below. 2. Stephen, married
May 4, 1654, Tabitha Wilkinson, of Bermuda,
who died December 21, 1692; he died at Guil
ford, June, 1690. 3. Bethia, married James
Steele. 5. Daughter, married  Hubbard.
(II) John Bishop, son of John Bishop (i),
was born about 1625 in England. He married,
at Guilford, Connecticut, December 13, 1650,
Susannah, daughter of Henry Goldham, of
Guilford. She died November i, 1703, and he
died October i, 1683. Children, born at Guil
ford : I. Alary, September 20, 1652; married
John Hodgkin. 2. John, 1655; mentioned be
low. 3. Susannah, 1657 ; married Moses
Blatchley. 4. Elizabeth, 1660 ; married John
Scranton. 5. Daniel, 1663 ; married Hannah
Bradley. 6. Nathaniel, 1666 ; married Mercy
Hughes. 7. Samuel, October 23, 1670; mar
ried Abigail Witmoor. 8. Sarah, January 22,
1674. 9. Abigail, January 25, 1681 ; married
Samuel Lee.
(Ill) John Bishop, son of John Bishop (2),
was born in Guilford, 1655. He married first,
July 3, 1689, EHzabeth Hitchcock, died March
14. 1712; second, November 18, 1713, Alary
Johnson, of New Haven. He died at Guil
ford, November 25, 1731. Children of first
wife, l.iorn at Guilford :'i. Elizabeth, October
14, 1690 ; married Samuel Scranton. 2. John,
August 12, 1692; married Abigail Spinning.
3. Ann, February 15, 1695; married David
Field. 4. David, June 6, 1697 ; mentioned be
low. 5. Jonathan, November 8, 1699 ; married
Hannah Chittenden. 6. Adary, December, 1700;
married Caleb Jones. 7. Deborah, February
19, 1702. 8. Nathaniel, Alay 6, 1704; married
Margaret Blinn. 9. Timothy, 1708; married
Hannah Blinn. Children of second wife, born
at Guilford: 10. AA^iHiam, October 18, 1714;
married Patience  . 11. Enos, Afay 26,
1717; married Abigail Burgis. 12. .Esther,
February 24, 1719. 13. Mercy, May 17, 1722;
married Abraham Dowd.
(IA') David Bishop, son of John Bishop
(3), was born in Guilford, June 6, 1697. He
married Deborah (or Dorothy) Stanley, widow
of Thomas Stanley. She died February 11,
1775. He died in Guilford, August 20, 1773.
Children: i. Deborah, born January 17, 1725;
married January 10, 1743, Jehiel Evarts. 2.
Huldah, born August 5, 1726; died September
15, 1735. 3. David, born September 20, 1728;
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married Handy Bushnell. 5. Sarah, born Au
gust 18, 1736 ; married February 3, J762, Allies
Hall. (V) David Bishop, son of David Bishop
(4), was born in Guilford, September 20, 1728.
He married, April 17, 1755, Audrea Fowler,
born September 12, 1724, died January 24,
1815, daughter of Benjamin and Audrea
(Alorgan) Fowler, of Guilford. Her mother
was daughter of Captain John Morgan, of
Preston, Connecticut. Bishop died June 25,
1792. Children, born at Guilford: i. Audrea,
February 28, 1856; did March 28, 1757. 2.
David, July 29, 1757 ; mentioned below. 3.
Huldah, Alarch 4, 1759 ; married Eber Lee.
4. Margaret, November 10, 1760; died Septem
ber 21, 1764. 5. Jonathan, October 19, 1762;
married Huldah Chapman. 6. Jared, October
22, 1764; took place of his brother David in
coast guard in revolution ; married Mary Alun-
son. (VI) David Bishop, son of David Bishop
(5). was born at Guilford, July 29, 1757. He
was a soldier in the revolution, serving as a
private seven months twenty-three days in
1781 in the coast guard at Guilford, in Cap
tain Peter Vaill's company. His brother Jared
took his place as substitute. He was deacon
of the church at Guilford elected April 28,
1802. During the revolution his barn was
burned a few days before the date of report,
"last Friday night" before January 27, 1783,
and an indignant protest against the outrage
was sent to the general assembly signed by the
selectmen and justices of the peace. He mar
ried, September 9, 1776, Deborah Fowler, born
January i, 1759, died August 16, 1825, daugh
ter of Noah and Deborah (Pendleton) Fow
ler. Her father was of Guilford ; her mother,
who died August — , 1828, aged ninety years,
was a native of Stonington. David Bishop
died April 19, 1833, at Paris, New York,
whither he removed about 1807 with his family
and parents. Children, born at Guilford: i.
David, Afay 9, 1778; died May 17, 1778. 2.
Deborah, .\pril 28, 1779; married Joel Col
lins. 3. David, January 4, 1781 ; died August
20, 17.82. 4. Amos, April 21, 1783; mentioned
below. 5. Joel, June 14, 1785; died at about
twenty -one years of age. He was drowned at
sea during a storm, having been washed over
board as the ship was coming into the port of
New York. 6. Clarissa, July 23, 1787; mar
ried Heaton Atwater. 7. Parnel, September
29, 1789; married John Townsend. 8. Dr.
Leveret, July 19, 1791 ; married, first. Widow
I. ura (Bacon) Owen, second  . 9. Bush

nell, April II, 1795; married first, Amanda
Strong of Paris HiH, New Y^ork ; second.
Widow Eunice West DeLand. 10. Audrea,
1797; married Levi Linsley of Stony Creek,
Connecticut. 11. Maria, 1799; married Otis
Manchester, a successful merchant tailor of
Utica, New York, and later of New York
City. (\^II) Amos Bishop, son of David Bishop
(6), was born in Guilford, April 21, 1783 ; died
in Paris, New York, May 11, 1866. He was a
successful farmer. He bought primeval forest
land at Volney, New York, which he cleared
up and where he built a log house. Later he
exchanged his farm for one at Paris, New
York, upon which he lived until his death. He
married first, April 19, 1810, Fanny Prentiss,
born June 8, 1791, the first white child born
in Paris, Oneida county. New York. She died
in Paris, New York, August 14, 1815. He mar
ried second, April 7, 1824, Amanda Russell,
born Februar)' i, 1795, daughter of Samuel
Smithson Russell and Eunice (Camp) Rus
sell. Children of first wife : i. Daughter, born
at A'olney, New York, January 19, 181 1, died
in infancy. 2. Ann Alaria, born in A'olney,
New York, April 15, 181 2, died Paris, New
York, February 8, 1819. 3. Joel Prentiss, bom
A larch 10, 1814; mentioned below. Children
df second wife, born at Paris : 4, Amos, Febru
ary 9, 1825 ; died Alarch 17, 1825. 5. Amanda,
February 9, 1825 (twin) ; died March 21, 1825.
6. Samuel Russell, April 3, 1826; died at New
Hartford, New York, Alarch, 1896. 7. David
Fowler, September 24, 1828. He was a physi
cian and surgeon of Lockport, New York, later
president of .American District Steam Com
pany of that place, which position he held until
his death, April 25, 1885 ; he married, Septem
ber 21, 1859, Leah Eliza Howes. 8. Robert
Smithson, November 22, 183 1. He was a phy
sician and surgeon at Medina, New York, and
later succeeded his brother as president of the
American District Steam Company, Lockport,
which position he held until his death, at Lock-
port, December 31, 1896. He married, first,
April i8„ 1854, Mary Louisa Hutchins, died
September 2, 1889 ; second, June 2, 1895, Mary
Katharine Fitch. 9. Leverett Bushnell, born
February 5, 1837, died at twenty years of age,
unmarried. 10. Amanda, December 17 iR'^S
died May 28, 1843. ^' "^ '
(VIII) Joel Prentiss Bishop, LL.D., son of
Amos Bishop (7), was born March 10, 1814
in A^olney, Oswego county. New York, 'in the
small log house that his father built in the
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but one. He was an infant when his mother
died, and his father in order to get better
medical attendance for her in her mortal sick
ness removed the family to Paris, where he
-continued to live after her death, exchanging
his farm at Volney for one at Paris, where he
had formerly lived. Here, in close communion
with nature, young Joel spent his childhood
¦and early youth, assisting his father on the
farm while attending a remote district school
and afterwards the academy. He attended
both the Whitestown Seminary and the Oneida
Institute at Whitestown, Oneida county, New
York, and Stockbridge Academy, Stockbridge,
Madison county. New York, and was a mem
ber of the alumni association of the seminary.
He proved to be an unusually brilliant student
and his ambition was stimulated by the un
qualified commendation of his instructors. To
quote his own words: "My aspirations grew,
and at about the age of sixteen an arrange
ment was made with my father to permit me
to leave the farm and get an education by my
own exertions. I found poverty to be no ob
struction. While yet sixteen I taught a public
school, and by such and other means I readily
¦obtained the money for clothing, tuition and
books. I could always earn my board without
hindrance to my studies. But health soon
failed, and then began the struggle. I did
¦everything to baffle disease ; relinquished study,
returned to it under circumstances thought to
be more favorable, broke down again, varied
the experiment and so on, for how many times
I do not remember. When twenty-one I be-
¦came fully satisfied that the struggle was use
less, and gave it up. I did not, like Blackstone,
write a 'Farewell to the Muse', but a ' Fare
well to Science.' It was dated July 19, 1835,
and published in the Literary Emporium of
New Haven, Connecticut, near which place I
then was, in the number, for October 3, 1835."
After his pathetic "Farewell to Science,"
but with courage still good, he sought a busi
ness opening suited to his state of health. His
interest in the anti-slavery movement at that
time brought to him an opportunity, and he be
came general business manager, pubhshing
agent and assistant treasurer of the New
York Anti-slavery Society and assistant editor
of the Friend of Man, an anti-slavery publica
tion of Utica, New York. He afterwards de
clined the offer of the editorship of the paper,
fearing that with his other interests and duties
it might prove too great a tax on his strength.
Hoping to benefit from a change of occupation
and place of residence, he entered the law

office of Henry B. Stanton and Henry A.
Bolles as a student in the fall of 1842, not ex
pecting that his health would permit him ac
tually to practice law, but was happily disap
pointed. He was admitted to the bar April 9,
1844, in Suffolk county, after studying for a
year and four months, supporting himself in
the meantime by editing the Social Monitor
and Orphan's Advocate. Notwithstanding the
fact that he qualified himself as an attorney
in half the usual time, the judge who passed
upon his qualifications took particular pains to
see his preceptors afterward and to commend
them for the unusually thorough preparation
the student had received in their office. Before
opening an office he declined several flattering
offers of partnership and began to practice on
his own account. Showing an unusual pene
tration and skill in solving and conducting per
plexing and difficult cases, he soon established
a reputation at the bar and had no lack of
clients, no period of waiting for business at the
start. Indeed, his legal business began six
weeks after he was enrolled as a law student,
when under what proved to be fortunate cir
cumstances for him he was required to draw
without other help than a little previous ex
planation, a special declaration in an important
case. This went through the courts and stood
all the tests, and afterwards he was entrusted
with the management of the business of the
firm in the lower courts, consulting with clients
and trying their cases. And he also tried and
won his first jury case in the higher court
while yet a student. His first commission as
justice of the peace was issued by Governor
Briggs, dated July i, 1846.
Some years of practice found him with his
business divided between large and small cases,
much of it being of the latter description. Pre
ferring fhe former, he determined to avoid the
latter and to use his leisure in writing a law
book. He published his "Marriage and Di
vorce' just ten years after he entered a law
office as a student. The book was received with
instant and unusual favor by the profession,
and it brought to him a constant succession of
requests and advice to write other books. But
he felt that it was not possible for one both to
practice law and have the time necessary to
make the research that an honest and thorough
treatment of legal subjects demanded. So,
after due consideration and with the approval
of the only one whom he thought entitled to
object, — his wife, — he decided upon making
what he always considered as the greatest sac
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and devoted himself exclusively to the drud
gery of legal authorship. He believed, how
ever, that he could be of genuine service to his
profession by expounding some important sub
jects not adequately treated by other authors.
No better evidence that he proved eminently
successful in his effort and Hfe work could be
desired than the universal commendation and
praise witb which his works on legal subjects
have been received by the bench and bar. And
the .standing- of his works in legal literature
has gained in strength with the passage of
time. Justice Woods, of the United States su
preme court, once said of the works of Mr.
Bishop : "The volumes leave nothing to be de
sired m the exposition of the subject of which
they treat. I cannot too highly commend their
arrangement and the lucid style and the clear
discrimination and good sense with which they
are written. The industry and learning of
which they are proofs are indeed marvelous."
Equally strong and sweeping is the word of
Hon. W. C. Robinson of Yale University :
"Whether they are students, lawyers, judges,
or teachers, to these Bishop's books have no
superior in any branch of legal literature."
As niight be expected tbe knowledge and ap
preciation of his labors as a writer of juris
prudence are not by any means con
fined within the boundaries of the American
continent. He received the honorary degree
of Doctor Juris Utri-usque conferred upon him
by the University of Berne, Switzerland, on
the occasion of celebrating the fiftieth anniver
sary of the founding of the university. It was
in express recognition of the "great services"
rendered by his legal works to his country
"and to the science of law." The degree was
announced in the presence of the representa
tives of the principal universities of Europe
and the specially invited American minister to
Switzerland, and to complete the character of
the event as an international courtesy, as well
as a personal tribute to the author, the diploma
was transmitted through the Department of
State at Washington.
Following is a list of the more important
works of Dr. Bishop : "Alarriage and Divorce"
(six editions, 1852-81) ; "Alarriage, Divorce
and Separation" (1891 ; two vols.) ; "Criminal
Law" (two volumes, seven editions, 1856-82) ;
"New Criminal Law" (two volumes, 1892) ;
"Criminal Procedure" (two volumes, three
editions, 1866-80) ; "New Criminal Procedure"
(vol. I, 1895 ; vol. 2, 1896) ; "First Book of the
Law" (1868) ; "The Law of Married AVomen"
(vol. I. 1871; vol. 2, 1875); "Statutory
Crimes" (vol. i, 1873, three editions, 1873-

1901) ; "Law of Contracts" (vol. i, 1878, en
larged edition 1887) ; "The Written Laws"
(1882); "Directions and Forms" (1885);
"Non-Contract Law" (1889) ; "Law in Gen
eral and as a Profession" (1901). Among his
monographs on quasi-legal subjects, published
as pamphlets, are : "Thoughts for the Times"
(1863); "Secession and Slavery" (1864);
"The Law of A'olle Prosequi in Criminal
Causes" (1876); "Strikes and their Related
Question" (1886) ; "Common Law and Codifi
cation" (1888). He was an occasional con
tributor to the various law journals. It should
be noted that when Dr. Bishop made a new
edition of any of his works he rewrote it com
pletely, making a new work based on the old,
and not merely a reprint. Therefore, he kept
his books up to date.
Although not insensible of his own attain
ments. Dr. Bishop always seemed to take pride
and pleasure in showing indifference to the
glitter of notoriety. Unlike the majority of
lawyers, he always shunned politics and public
office. He was a member of the board of
trustees of the Social Law Library from 1854
to 1871, a period of seventeen years. Not long
before he devoted himself to legal authorship
exclusively, he was tendered the appointment
of chief justice of the Hawaiian Islands by
King Kamehameha III, but after giving the
offer serious consideration, he finally declined
it. He applied himself so assiduously to his
self-imposed task of writing and research that
he became perforce very much of a recluse
and was seldom seen in public. He refused to
accept any cases and only on rare occasions
could he be induced to give an expert opinion
in an important case, where the question itself
was of interest and importance to legal science,
rather than to the parties concerned. Among
the few instances may be mentioned the Laud
erdale Peerage Cases, involving the descent of
an earldom and large estates in Scotland and
depending upon the validity of a marriage
celebrated in New York in 1772. In the fa
mous Louisiana Nolle Prosequi cases he gave
an opinion as to the right and power of the
district attorney to enter a nolle prosequi after
verdict and before sentence.
Dr. Bishop was an indefatigable worker and
seldom took a rest or vacation. It was his cus
tom to rise early, at six or before, employing
the time before breakfast in reading or in the
execution of any errands requiring his atten
tion. Breakfasting at seven, by half past he
was usually ready to begin the day's labors,
which he generally continued until five m the
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1691

luncheon at mid-day. Commonly he did no
work in the evening, but retired early at from
eight to half past. If, however, he were being
pushed for copy by the printers, he would
sometimes work an hour or more before break
fast and put in two or three extra hours after
the evening meal, which was generally taken at
half-past five or six. The reason that he did
not mix more with the world at large was be
cause he was afraid the extra energy it would
require would detract -in some degree from his
remarkable power to sustain protracted mental
concentration in his chosen field of labor, and
thereby lessen the amount and quality of work
he could accomplish. This explains his great
reluctance to accept an invitation to deliver a
public address. In fact the last invitation of
this nature which he accepted was in 1887
when, December 7, he delivered the annual ad
dress of the South Carolina Bar Association in
Columbia before a distinguished assembly of
judges and lawyers in the Hall of the House
of Representatives.
Physically Dr. Bishop was of medium height
and inclined to stoutness, weighing nearly two
hundred pounds, and of light complexion. He
was naturally of a poetic temperament and in
his younger days was considerably addicted to
writing of verse, a weakness that he never
fully overcame. He was possessed of great
depth of feeling and a present, no matter how
trivial, given him by a friend, would always
be preserved as though it were something sac
red. The certificates of merit which he ob
tained at school in early childhood were wrap
ped in paper with painstaking care and always
preserved under lock and key. He was open-
hearted, kind and trustful to a degree that
sometimes led to his being imposed upon by
those with whom he had business transactions.
He greatly enjoyed a good story, and could
always relate one interestingly. It should be
noted too that his laugh was very characteris
tic, aptly described as infectious. It was an
excellent index of his simple, humor-loving,
frank and joyous disposition when his mind
was free from his engrossing labors. In his
younger years he took an active interest in
church work and at one time taught a Sunday
school class at the Massachusetts state prison.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Novem
ber 4, 1901.
Mr. Bishop married, June 5, 1845, Mary
Alice Perkins, born October 5, 1828, in Bever
ly, Alassachusetts, died in Cambridge, January
9, 1901, daughter of George and Mary Ann
(Larcom) Perkins of Amesbury. George

Perkins was a merchant. His wife was daugh
ter of Jonathan Larcom and wife Anna (Ives)
Ober, who was a widow. Jonathan was brother
of Captain Benjamin Larcom, the father oi
Lucy Larcom, the authoress. Children of Joel
Prentiss and Alary Alice (Perkins) Bishop: i.
Herbert Lyon, born in Boston, July 27, 1849 ;
died unmarried, at Eagle Creek, Minnesota,
January 4, 1867. 2. Fannie Prentiss, born in
Boston, Alarch 28, i860 ; died in Sharon, Alas-
sachusetts, December 7, 1894, unmarried. 3.
Charles Sumner, born in Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, December 22, 1869 ; studied law un
der his father's instruction and is now engaged
in the real estate business in Cambridge, re
siding at (the homestead) 1679 Alassachusetts
avenue, Cambridge; married Alay 4, 1904,
De Lana Evelyn Storey, born Alarch 29, 1880,
at MontviUe, Connecticut, daughter of AVilliam
Thomas and Mary Tracy (Fielding) Storey;
children : i. Audrea Bishop, born February 11,
1905; ii. Richard Storey, born A'lay 16, 1906;
iii. Charles Prentiss, born February 20, 1908.

Benjamin Collins resided in
COLLINS Salisbury, and was a house
holder there in 1677. He may
have been brother to Robert, who settled in
Ipswich, and was perhaps son of Henry the
immigrant. He died December 10, 1683, and
the inventory of his estate was filed January
3, 1684. He married, November 5, 1668,
Aiartha, daughter of John Eaton ; she married
second, November 4, 1686, Philip Flanders.
Children: i. Alary, born January 8, 1669. 2.
John, born 1673 ; mentioned below. 3. Samuel,
born January 18, 1676; married March 16,
1698-9 Sarah White. 4. Anna, born April i,
1679. S- Benjamin, May 29, 1681. 6. Eph
raim, September 30, 1683.
(II) John Collins, son of Benjamin Collins,
was born in Salisbury, 1673, and was a
Quaker. He resided in Salisbury. He mar
ried Elizabeth  , who was also a Quaker.
Children: i. Jonathan, born October 11, 1695.
2. Daughter, born October, died November,
1697. 3. Benjamin, mentioned below. Prob
ably others.
(ITI) Benjamin Collins, son of John Col
lins, born 1708, settled in Hawke, now Dan
ville, New Hampshire. He is the ancestor of
all of the name in Weare, New Hampshire,
and vicinity. He married Mary Jones.
(IV) Thomas Collins, doubtless a direct de
scendant of Benjamin Collinj (3), was born at
Merrimac, New Hampshire, October 10, 1801.
The public records necessary to trace the inter-

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vening generations are lacking. He died at
Woburn, Massachusetts, April 5, 1874, aged
according to the state record, seventy-two
years and five months twenty-five days. He
attended the public schools of Merrimac and
vicinity, and when a young man came to Med
ford, Massachusetts, finding employment there
on the farm of Ebenezer Parker, whose daugh
ter he afterward married. He was industrious
and capable in his work. He had the manage
ment of the farm after a time, and made it
profitable. At length Mr. Parker sold his Med
ford farm after the marriage of his daughter,
and Mr. and Mrs. Collins went with him to
Winchester, then part of Woburn, buying a
large farm near the depot center. Air. Collins
managed the place. He bought a farm on his
own account and on the death of his wife and
her parents inherited half of the Parker farm
at AVinchester. He sold out a few years later,
but remained in Winchester several years and
then leased a farm in Woburn. His last years
were spent in that town and he died there
April 5, 1874. He was well known and uni
versally respected in each of the towns where
he had made his home. He and his first wife
were active and faithful members of the Con
gregational church in Winchester. He was a
AVhig in his younger days, afterward a Re
publican in politics. He married, December
20, 1830, Mary Ann Parker, born December
23, 1812, died September 20, 1861, daughter
of Ebenezer and Margaret Parker, of Med
ford and Woburn. Their children, born at
AVinchester: i. George Franklin, October 24,
1831; died March 18, 1885; married, 1855,
Ann Maria Houghton, of Calais, Maine ; child,
Frank H., born October 23, 1856, died No
vember 19, 1874. 2. Margaret Ann, born No
vember 21, 1835; died January 22, 1839. 3.
Parker Thompson, born September 11, 1838;
died October 21, 1884. 4. Jerome Erastus,
born December 11, 1839; mentioned below. 5.
Charles Edward, born October i, 1841 ; died
Afay 3, 1866. 6. Alartha Ann, born February
26, 1848; married May i, 1871, Henry Ward,
of Marlborough, New Hampshire ; children : i.
George, and two others.
(V) Jerome Erastus Collins, son of
Thomas Collins (4), born at Woburn, De
cember II, 1839, on the homestead near the
center of what is now Winchester, died at
West Medford, September 12, 1901. He re
ceived his education in the public schools of
his native town and at Warren Academy. In
the meantime he worked with his father on
the farm. He was the only son who remained
at home on the farm until he came of age.

He began to learn the trade of shirt-cutting
in Boston, when he was twenty-one years old,
in the employ of the Hub shirt factory, 221
Washington street. He was with this concern
five years, and then in the same line of busi
ness in New York city for three years. He
returned to Boston to work as cutter in the
shirt factory of Hawley, Folsom & Martin, 13
Otis street, and was with that house eleven
years. After two more years in the same busi
ness with another Boston firm he decided to
give up his trade, his health having suffered
from the close confinement in the factory, and
he opened a meat and provision store in the
Usher Block at West Medford. But after five
years of successful business he sold out, and
about 1893 returned to his trade as cutter in
the Goodhue shirt factory at Derby Line, Ver
mont, continuing with this concern until he
had to give up work eight years later, on ac
count of illness. He returned to West Med
ford in July, 1901, and died of Bright's dis
ease, September 12 following. Mr. Collins
was well known and highly esteemed in West
Medford, where he made his home for about
twenty-five years. He purchased his first
residence there in 1874 at 44 Allston street,
of Charles Davis. After selling that house
he bought of Oscar Patch, in 1896, the prop
erty at 50 Allston street, where he was. living
at the time of his death. He was devoted to
his home and family, and attracted many
friends. He was upright, earnest and honor
able in all the relations of life, of strict integ
rity and sterling character, firm in supporting
what he thought right and in opposing what
he believed wrong. He attended the First Con
gregational Church of West Medford. He
was a Republican in politics. He was a mem
ber of the Paul Revere Colony of Pilgrim
Fathers, and later of the Craddock Colony,
and held the office of governor in that order.
He married, October 5, 1865, Regina Louise
Van Kampen, born at Boston, April 17, 1845,
daughter of Antony and Celia (Andrews)
Van Kampen, of Boston. Her father was a
stone cutter. Children: i. Mary Louise, born
June 28, 1884 ; died October 9, 1884. 2. Maud
Florence Alclnnis, of Boston, adopted April
9, 1878, born October 17, 1873.
(For early getiprations Sf e William Osborne n
r^or,^-r..T^ *^^^-^^ Samuel Osborne, son
OSBORNE of AVilliam and Hannah (Bur-
ton) Osborne, was born in
Salem, April 27, 1675, married first, Eleanor
South wick, born 1674, died October 26 1702
daughter of Daniel and granddaughter of Law-

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rence Southwick; married second, June 3,
1705, Sarah, daughter of Abraham Clark, of
Oyster river, Piscataqua. He had eight chil
dren, four by each marriage, and all born in
Salem : i. Samuel, February 4, 1697. 2. Eliz
abeth, January 14, 1699. 3. Hannah, Novem
ber 14, 1700. 4. Joseph, October 26, 1702. 5.
Thomas, April i, 1706. 6. Sarah, November
4, 1707. 7. Mary, July 27, 1709. 8. Isaac,
February 13, 171 i.
(IV) Joseph Osborne, son of Samuel and
Eleanor (Southwick) Osborne, was born in
Salem, or Danvers, October 26, 1702, and died
after November 17, 1780. He married first,
Rachel Foster, who died before 1734 ; married
second, Sarah Gardner. He had nine chil
dren, all born in Danvers: i.. Joseph, August
26, 1726. 2. Rachel, baptized 1734. 3. Gin
ger, baptized 1734. 4. Eunice, baptized 1736.
5. Israel, baptized May 27, 1739. 6. Alehita-
ble, November 15; 1741, married first, Ezra
Porter, second, Sylvester Procter. 7. Aaron,
born November 15, 1742, died February 8,
1803 ; married, 1774, Lydia Procter. 8. Abel,
baptized August 18, 1745, died young. 9.
Abel, baptized November 9, 1746, married
Lydia Foster.
(V) Joseph Osborne, son of Joseph and
Rachel (Foster) Osborne, was born in Dan
vers, August 26, 1726, died January 30, 1791.
He married, January 6, 1756, Mary Procter,
born December 3, 1733, died July 9, 1804.
They had eight children, all born in Danvers :
I. Joseph, January 5, 1757, died August 29,
1829; married first, Mary Shillaber, second,
Judith Francis. 2. Sylvester, November 10,
1758, died October 2, 1845 ; married first, Sus
anna Southwick; second, Elizabeth Pool;
third. Airs. L. W. Saunders. 3. Rachel, Janu
ary 31, 1761, died December 27, 1813 ; married
Jonathan Howard, died March 22, 1826. 4.
Jonathan, August 30, 1763. 5. John, Novem
ber 22, 1765, died November 3, 1845 ; married
Lydia Southwick. 6. Daniel, September 10,
1768, died February 11, 1826; married Mehit-
able Procter. 7. Amos, April 2, 1773, died
June 21, 1836; married Nancy Fowler. 8.
Mary, August 14, 1779, died June i, 1850.
(VI) Jonathan Osborne, son of Joseph and
Mary (Procter) Osborne, was born in Dan
vers, August 30, 1763, died July 29, 1833;
married, 1784, Sukey (Susanna) Smith and
had eight children, all born in Danvers : i.
Sukey (Susanna), September 2, 1785. 2.
George, February 14, 1787, died young. 3.
Richard, February 8, 1788, 4. George, Sep
tember 25, 1792. 5. Silas, July 26, 1794. 6.

Rachel, April 26, 1797. 7. Jonathan, May 16,
1806. 8. Hannah, February 5, 1810.
(VII) Richard Osborne, son of Jonathan
and Sukey (Smith) Osborne, was born in
Danvers, now Peabody, Massachusetts, Feb
ruary 8, 1788, and married, at Salem, New
Hampshire, December 31, 1815, Alice Wheel
er. The Danvers vital records show the dates
of birth of three of their children, although
they probably had others. Those whose
names appear were Dennison, born about
1816. William Sumner, born January 4, '
1819, probably died young, for mention is
made of William Sumner, born July, 1820.
The third child was Almira, born August 30,
1821. (VIII) William Sumner Osborne, son of
Richard and Alice (Wheeler) Osborne, was
born in South Danvers, now Peabody. He
married first, November 27, 1843, Caroline M.
Grove, who was born in AVeare, New Hamp
shire, and died in Peabody, August 25, 1845,
aged twenty years ten months. He married
second, April 30, 1848, Catherine Ann Steven
son. He married third, Maria N. Miller.
Children: i. CaroHne Gove, born November
23, 1852, married, November 11, 1874, Charles
Kendall Clark ; two children : Sarah L. and
Richard Osborne; the latter married Mary A.
Sleeper. 2. Richard Abbott.
(IX) Richard Abbott Osborne, son of Wil
liam Sumner and Catherine Ann (Stevenson)
Osborne, was born in Peabody, July i, 1854,
and for many years has been teller of the Na
tional Shawmut Bank, of Boston. He mar
ried, October 5, 1881, Ellinor Laithe Higbee,
who was born September 24, 1853, daughter
of Charles and Sarah Maria (Brown) Higbee.
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have one child, Kath
arine Osborn, born Salem. (See Higbee).

Charles Higbee (i), first
HIGBEE appears in New Hampshire his
tory as a resident in Claremont
and was more than twenty-one years old in
1776, twelve years after that town was grant
ed by Governor Wentworth to its original pro
prietors. Stephen Higbee also is mentioned
in the records as being more than twenty-one
years in 1776, when the selectmen were
designating the town's available men for mili
tary service in the war then just begun. Ste
phen was one of the committee of safety for
Claremont in 1776, and appears to have been a
man of considerable influence in the town;
wherefore it is probable that he then was a
man of mature age and presumably the head

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of the family of which Charles was a member.
The Claremont Higbees are first mentioned
in connection with events of the revolution,
and there is nothing to show whence they
came or where, but it certainly was later than
1764 and probably not before 1770. There is
a tradition that the immigrant Higbees were
three brothers who came to this country about
the middle of the seventeenth century and set
tled one in Connecticut, another in New York
and the third at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
but the Portsmouth records give no account
of such settlement in that vicinity, and it is
more probable that the New Hampshire Hig
bees are descended either from John or Wil
liam Higbee, or of Edward, the son of John.
A remarkable similarity of baptismal names in
the famiHes indicates something more than
possible relationship, but there appears no
present means by which to determine the pre
cise connection.
Charles Higbee was a private in Captain
John Marey's company of Colonel James
Reed's regiment of New Hampshire troops,
and was in service nineteen days from July 12,
1775 ; also private in Captain Samuel Wether-
bee's company of Colonel Isaac Wyman's reg
iment which formed a part of the northern
army in 1776, and was in service at Mt.
Independence; also private in Captain Oliver
Ashley's company of Colonel Benjamin Bel
low's regiment at Ticonderoga in May, 1777.
Levi Higbee, who is presumed to have been
a younger brother of Charles, was at Ticon
deroga, and also was with General Stark's
army at the battle of Bennington in August,
1777. Charles Higbee was a merchant in
Claremont as early as 1784 and for many years
afterward, and in 1805 he was surveyor of
highways. He appears to have carried on
business quite extensively and in various direc
tions, as is shown by some of his old account
books and papers now in possession of his
great-granddaughter, Mrs. Richard Abbott
¦0.sborne, of Salem. The name of his wife
and the names and dates of birth of his chil
dren are not known, except of his son Lem
uel. (II) Lemue] Higbee was born in Clare
mont, August 21, 1784, and died in Salem,
Alassachusetts, January 15, 1843. He was
one of the old Salem master mariners, a deep
sea sailor, a man of great mental and physical
energy, strong in his adherence to Jacksonian
democracy and equally firm in his faith in the
Congregational church. He married Betsey
Francis, about 1812. She died January 4.

1875, having born her husband nine children:
I. Eliza, May 23, 1813, died February 5, 1830.
2. Lemuel, Jr., December 15, 1814. 3. Charles,
November 13, 1816. 4. Abigail B., January
13, 1819. 5. Thomas F., November 23. 1822.
6. Susanna Francis, January 19, 1825. 7.
Benjamin L., October 12, 1827. 8. Stephen
Dexter, February 19, 1830. 9. Elizabeth Phil-
inda, February 3, 1832.
(Ill) Charles Higbee, son of Lemuel and
Betsey (Francis) Higbee, was born in Salem,
November 13, 1816, and began his business
career as a mechanic, having learned the trade
of a carriage wheelwright in Danvers and
worked for some time as a journeyman. Even
from his early young manhood Mr. Higbee
had aspired to an active business Hfe and was
quick to see that little real success could be
achieved by following his trade, but he kept
industriously at work until the right oppor
tunity presented itself and then embarked in
the leather business, in a rather small way at
first and gradually increasing his operations
until he became one of the proprietors of the
largest leather concern of New England in its
time. The firm of Blake, Higbee & Company,
which he was chiefly instrumental in organiz
ing, had large factories in Salem and Woburn,
with principal offices and saleshouse in Boston.
He proved himself to be an energetic, capable
and straightforward business man and by
honest endeavor won the gratifying success
which followed his efforts. He had neither
time nor inclination for the welfare of pohtics,
but, never' on that account was lacking in in
terest or public spirit in whatever measures
were proposed for the welfare of his home
city, its institutions and its people. He was
very much a domestic man, devoted to family,
loyal to friends, considerate of the happiness
of others and generous in dispensing benevo
lences, but always giving in a manner which
would not draw attention to the donor. Mr.
Higbee married for his first wife  Hut
chinson, who died childless. He married sec
ond, Sarah Maria Brown, who was born in
Danvers, died November i, 1883, daughter of
George and Sally (Twiss) Brown. Four chil
dren were born of this marriage: Charles
Henry, who married Ruth Miller and had
Molly and Ruth. Annie, born November 17,
1848, died in infancy. Ellinor Laithe, born
September 24, 1853. Eliza, who died at the
age of four years.
(IV) Ellinor Laithe Higbee, daughter of
Charles and Sarah Maria (Brown) Higbee,
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married, October 5, 1881, Richard Abbott Os
borne, who was born in Peabody, Massachu
setts, July I, 1854, son of William Sumner
and Catherine Ann (Stevenson) Osborne
(see Osborne family). Mr. and Airs. Osborne
have one daughter, Katharine Osborne, born
in Salem.

William Taylor was of Con-
TAYLOR cord, Massachusetts, about
1640, and it is supposed that he
was a younger brother of James Taylor, and
came with him to America, settling in the
plantation at Concord. William was a hus
bandman and owned a farm. of more than one
hundred acres on the East Bedford road. He
died in Concord, December 6, 1696, and his
wife, Mary Miriam, died December 10, 1699.
Children, all born in Concord: i. Mary, Feb
ruary 19, 1649-50. 2. Jo.hn, October 19, 1653.
3. Samuel, July 3, 1655, died July 16, 1655. 4.
Abraham, November 14, 1656. 5. Isaac,
March 5, 1659. 6. Jacob, May 8, 1662. 7.
Joseph, born April 7, 1665.
(II) Abraham Taylor, son of WiUiam and
AJary (Miriam) Taylor, was born in Con
cord, November 14, 1656, and was a husband-
m.an there all through his life. He married,
December 16, 1681, Mary Whittaker, died
February 16, 1756, aged ninety-three years
eleven months. Children, all born in Concord :
I. Abraham, January 11, 1682-3. 2. Ebene
zer, April 30, 1688. 3. Elizabethi August 17,
1690. 4. Mary, March 15, 1691-2. 5. Jona
than, August 10, 1894. 6. Sarah, October 13,
1696. 7. David, January 31, 1698. 8. Benja
min, April 18, 1699. 9. Nathaniel, February
9, 1701-2. 10. Daniel, March 22, 1703-4. 11.
Timothy, March 5, 1705, died A'larch 28. 12.
Samuel, October i, 1708.
(Ill) Abraham Taylor, son of Abraham
and Mary (Whittaker) Taylor, was born in
Concord, January 11, 1682-3. His wife's
name was Mary, and their children, so far as
records show, were : Abraham, Samuel, Tim
othy, born 1 718, Alice, Amos.
(IV) Amos Taylor, son of Abraham and
Mary iTaylor, baptized September 10, 1725, in
Dungtable, Massachusetts, died probably in
New Hampshire. In speaking of him the
author of the "History of New Ipswich," New
Hampshire, mentioned him as a brother of
Reuben and Thaddeus Taylor, who were sons
of Samuel Taylor, and the latter a son df
Abraham Taylor and grandson of William
Taylor the immigrant of Concord, Massachu
setts. This statement, however, is an error,

for Reuben and Thaddeus were cousins of
Amos. He went from Dunstable to New Ips
wich as early as 1757, settled on a farm next
to that of Reuben Taylor, and was a member
of the first church in the town, organized
1760. "It is believed," says the work referred
to, " that he either returned to Dunstable be
fore the incorporation of the town, or settled
in one of the adjoining towns." He married,
Alay 21, 1747, in Dunstable, Bridget Martin,
and had two sons born in Dunstable — Amos,
September 7, 1748, and Edmund. Doubtless
they had other children of whom we have no
account. (V) Edmund Taylor, son of Amos and
Bridget (Martin) Taylor, was born in Dun
stable, Massachusetts, A-Iay 4, 1750, and from
the summer of 1777 to the close of the war
was actively identified with military events of
the revolution. In July, 1777, he enlisted as
private in Captain Samuel Fairfield's com
pany of Colonel Alay's regiment, and with that
command was attached to the northern army.
He served there' eighteen days and was paid
for one hundred miles travel. A*fter the close
of the war he removed to Cavendish, A'er-
mont, opened a farm in that town and lived
there for several years, where he had sons
Levi and Wilder, the latter settling in Ban
gor, Maine.
(VI) Levi Taylor, son of Edmund, the
revolutionary soldier and Vermont pioneer,
was born in Cavendish, Vermont, and died in
Sherburne, Vermont, where the later years of
his life were spent. He was a thrifty and
successful farmer, and by his own enterprise
gained a fair property for his time, but all of
this was swept away by having been compelled
to pay the principal of a surety bond which in
the goodness of his heart he had executed in
behalf of a friend while living in Weathers-
field. After this misfortune he removed with
his family to Sherburne, Vermont, purchased
a farm there and succeeded once more to
accumulating a comfortable property. He
lived to good old age and came to accidental
death by falling off the heavily snow laden
roof of one of his outbuildings, in which he
was at work at the time. He married Han
nah, daughter of Ebenezer Farnsworth, a pa
triot and soldier of the revolution who follow
ed the fortunes of the Continental army and
fought at Trenton, Yorktown, Germantown
and wintered at Valley Forge. Hannah Farns
worth Taylor died at the age of fifty years,
having borne her husband seven children: i.
Lemira, married Luther Harrington (see Har-

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rington family). 2. Mary Ann, married The
ophilus Flagg Clark, a A/'ermont farmer ; both
now dead ; children : Francis G., Charles,
Ellen and Ann Clark. 3. James Harvey. 4.
Hester Ann, married Frank Gates ; lived on a
farm in Vermont. 5. Charles Wesley, married
Harriet Winslow, and lived in Windsor, Ver
mont, leaving children Frank, Charles, Ed
ward and William Taylor. 6. Jane, died at the
age of nineteen years. 7. Gilford D., married
first,  Blake, and had one son, William
S. ; married second, Fanny Adams, and had
two sons, Fred E., and Harry F. Taylor.
(VII) James Harvey Taylor, son of Levi
and Hannah (Farnsworth) Taylor, born De
cember 30, 181 1, died June 29, 1887. He was
a farmer, an earnest, honest and thrifty hus
bandman and a man highly respected by his
fellow townsmen. Soon after marriage he
went to the old homestead farm in Cavendish,
A^ermont, which had been first settled by his
grandfather Edmund Taylor, the revolution
ary soldier, more than half a century before,
and there he lived to the end of his days. He
married Emily Paige, born June i, 1817, died
1893. She is remembered as a very estimable
woman, a devout member of the Wesleyan
Methodist church, and a descendant of an old
New England colonial family. James Harvey
and Emily (Paige) Taylor had eight children:
I. Edwin, died young. 2. Cartoline, died
young. 3. Jane Gray, married J. G. Upham,
now deceased. She is Hving in Ludlow, Ver
mont. 4. George D., enlisted as private in a
A^ermont company for service during the civil
war ; was promoted for meritorious conduct to
the rank of lieutenant, and died of fever con
tracted in the service. 5. Child, died in in
fancy. 6. Elwin P., married and settled in
Weathersfield, Vermont. 7. Eugene S., now
of Boston. 8. Mary E., married John E.
Wetherbee. (VIII) Eugene S. Taylor, son of James
Harvey and Emily (Paige) Taylor, was born
in Sherburne, Vermont, September 15, 1850,
and spent his young life on his father's farm.
As a boy he was sent to the district school
during the winter seasons and in the summ'=>r
months he helped with the work of the farm.
Upon reaching his majority he determined to
enter the profession of dentistry, and to that
end pursued a course at the dental department
of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, gradu
ating from that institution with the degree of
D. D. S. in 1876. For the next four years he
practiced in Jones county, Iowa, then came
back east and practiced in New Hampshire un

til 1885, and then established himself in Bos
ton, where for more than twenty years he has-
been a prominent figure in professional circles-
and has become recognized as one of the lead
ing practitioners of dental surgery in that city.
A practitioner of long experience and excel
lent reputation. Dr. Taylor enjoys a lucrative-
practice, a large clientele and wide acquain
tance in Boston and its vicinity. He is also a.
member of many societies and associations of
a professional character, both general and.
local, while in Freemasonry he holds an envi
able prominence, holding membership in the
several subordinate as well as the more ad
vanced bodies of the craft, and has served
in various official capacities in nearly all of
them. He is a Master, Royal Arch, 'Templar
and Scottish Rite Mason, ¦ and also has tra
versed the hot desert sands to Aleppo Temple,.
A. A. O. N. M. S. In Odd Fellowship he has
passed the chairs of the lodge and holds mem
bership in the encampment and the grand
lodge of the state. In political preference Dr.
Taylor is a firm and unyielding Democrat, and
in religious holdings is not bound by any creed
nor allied to any sect, but he believes in doing
right because it is right to do so, in being just,
charitable and honest because thereby one al
ways feels happier and can add to the comfort
of those about him. His mind is naturally
studious and inclined to be philosophical,
and he is a careful reader of events and close
analyst of men and measures and of the un
derlying motives which impel their action. Dr.
Taylor married first, 1872, Isadora Albee, born
in Rockingham, Vermont, 185 1, died 1878. He '
married second, 1892, Mrs. Fanny M. (Cur
tis) Johnson, a descendant of William Curtis,
of Scituate, Massachusetts.

. ' The earliest representatives of
BEEDE this family in this country came
from the Isle of Jersey in the
EngHsh channel, and their language indicated
the old Norman French which is still spoken
by the peasantry of that island. The chief
seat of the family for more than a century
has been in Sandwich, New Hampshire,
whence come the Beedes of Lynn, Massachu
setts. (I) Eli Beede, the immigrant ancestor of
the family, was a Frenchman, born 1699;
came to America as a lad of fourteen years,
working his passage. He was the only son
of a widow residing on the Isle of Jersey.
Remaining a few months in Boston, he then
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served a regular apprenticeship with a farmer.
In 1720 he removed to the eastern part of
Kingston^ later incorporated under the name
of East Kingston. He was a man of consider
able local distinction, became an extensive
land owner, and was called "doctor" on ac
count of his skill in the treatment of sick
horses and cattle, and "wizard" because of
his power of teaching and training wild and
vicious horses. After his settlement in King
ston he became a member of Rev. Mr. Sea-
combe's church. Eli Beede's will was made
1786, probated June 17, 1789. An inventory
of his estate shows him to have been a very
successful man owning stock farms in East
Kingston, Poplin, Deerfield and Salisbury.
He married Alehitable Sleeper, the first white
female child born in Kingston, and they were
the parents of: 1. Hezekiah, died Alarch 12,
1772, married first, Hepzibah Smith; second,
Judith Gove. 2. Daniel, see forward. 3.
Thomas, died March 6, 1806; married EHza
beth Uraan. 4. Jonathan, born September
18, 1734, died June 14, 1825; married first,
Anna Sleeper; second, Susanna Hoag. 5.
Elizabeth, married John Huntoon. 6. Jo
hanna, died prior to June 17, 1789; married
.Samuel Davis.
(II) Daniel Beede, second son and child
of Eli and Mehitable (Sleeper) Beede. was
born in East Kingston, New Hampshire, July
21, 1729, and died April 7, 1800. His educa
tion was a limited one, as the people of those
times had little money to spare for that pur
pose. The Bible was the only book his father
permitted to be read in the home, and extracts
from this book, printed for that purpose, were
almost all of the literature in use in the schools
of the day. LTnder such circumstances it was
a matter of great difficulty to acquire an edu
cation, but by the assistance of Rev. Mr. Sea-
combe and the use of a few books, among
them a spelling book, loaned him, he obtained
a stock of valuable information. Mr. Sea-
combe also instructed him in the higher math
ematics, more particularly in trigonometry
and surveying, and he afterward became a
practical surveyor and surveyed the town of
Sandwich, New Hampshire, for the proprie
tors who, as an inducement for him to settle
in the town, gave him and each of his sons a
grant of land of five hundred acres each. He
resided for a time in Brentwood, New Hamp
shire, removed to Poplin, thence to Gilman-
ton, and finally settled in Sandwich, Novem
ber, 1770. It was then a new town, which
had been incorporated only a few years ; there

he acquired a valuable farm with good build
ings, and spent the remainder of his days. He
was for many years the representative of that
town in the legislature, and justice of the
peace. He was a selectman in Brentwood in
1754-60-61-62-63, held town office in Poplin
in 1764-66, in 1788 was a member of the New
Hampshire convention which ratified the con
stitution of the United States, in 1791 a mem
ber of the convention which revised and
amended the constitution of his native state,
and June 15, 1795, was appointed a judge of
the court of common pleas for the county of
Strafford, in which he lived. In the winter
of 1799, at the close of the court over which
he had presided, he invited the judges and
lawyers to spend the evening with him at his
lodgings, and when they had assembled, he
announced that before the next term of court
he would reach the legal age for retirement,
and that he had invited them to meet him
for the purpose of declaring his intention to
resign and take his leave of them before he
returned to private life. The gentlemen
present expressed their approbation of his
conduct while on the bench and their sorrow
that the provisions of the constitution required
his resignation. At the time of great excite
ment in Brentwood and its vicinity upon the
subject of religion, Judge Beede adopted the
tenets and. principles of the Quakers, finding
them preferable to all others with which he
had become acquainted; he attended the
Quaker meetings frequently and was attached
to them, but he never became a member of
that or any other church, deeming it better
and wiser to be free from all the restraints
of church government. He was liberal and
charitable in his opinions, and his view was
that there were good and bad men to be found
in all sects ; that genuine religion consisted of
good works, not faith ; in charity and acts of
kindness, not professions ; and that an honest
infidel was better than a zealous, bigoted, im-
m.oral believer. He was a man of sound judg
ment, great prudence and strict integrity ; and
was superior to the narrow views of piety and
the sordid spirit of selfishness. He was dis
tinguished for his hospitality, and kindness
to strangers and travelers. At his house they
always received a cordial welcome. Instead
of thinking they were under obligation to him,
he appeared gratified with having opportunity
and means of accommodating them. In public
as well as private Hfe his great object, and one
he pursued successfully, was to be useful to
others ; and in return he enjoyed the consola-

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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

tion arising from the respect, Esteem and con
fidence of all who knew him. As those who
differed from him in opinion never questioned
the purity of his motives, they submitted to
his decision. Indeed the mildness of his tem
per and the gentleness of his manner tended
not less than the decision of his character to
disarm opposition.
Judge Beede married first, January 22, 1749,
Patience Prescott, daughter of Joshua Pres
cott. She was born in Kingston in 1724. He
married second, February 27, 1795, Dorothy,
widow of Captain Nathaniel Eldridge. Judge
Daniel and Patience (Prescott) Beede had
children : i. Nathan, see forward. 2. Daniel
Jr., born May 29, 1752. 3. Aaron, born Sep
tember 22, 1754, died October 10, 1788. 4.
Elijah, born May 16, 1757, was drowned in
Squam Lake. 5. Joshua, born May 13, 1760.
6. Sarah, born February 19, 1762, married,
October 27, 1785, Joseph Varney. 7. Alary,
born March 26, 1764, married, October 27,
1785, Richard Varney. 8. Cyrus, born March
9, 1766. 9. Martha, born March 9, 1770, mar
ried, Alarch 4, 1790, Stephen Hoag. 10.
Phoebe, born December 6, 1771, married, No
vember 28, 1793, John Purrington. 11. Lydia,
born September 28, 1773, married, November
27, 1803, Samuel Tibbetts. 12. Patience, born
September 2, 1777, married, July 3, 1802,
Barzilla Plines. The first child Nathan was
born in Kingston, the next seven children
were born in Poplin, (now Fremont) New
Hampshire, and the others in Sandwich in the
same state.
(Ill) Nathan Beede, eldest child of Judge
Daniel and Patience (Prescott) Beede, was
born June 4, 1750, and died August 20, 1841.
He was one of the company that settled in
Sandwich, New Hampshire, and felled the
first tree, being at that time a youth of eigh
teen years. He married, July 15, 1770, Dolly
Scribner, who was born in Brentwood, No
vember 4, 1750, and died in Sandwich, May
18, 1842. They had children: i. Daniel, born
June 15, 1771, died December 6, 1833; mar
ried, December 11, 1792, Lydia Hoag. 2.
Betsy, born Alay 10, 1773, died October 16,
1788. 3. Elijah, see forward. 4. Elisha W.,
born A'larch 31, 1777, died Alarch 2, 1856;
married, March 24, 1803, Sally Stephens. 5.
Grace, born August 21, 1779, died December
31, 1802. 6. WiHiam Penn, born November
22, 1781, died February 3, 1817. 7. Nathan,
born March 29, 1785, married Anna Hoar. 8.
Dolly, born January 16, 1787, died July, 1874;
married. May 27, 1810, David Vittum. 9.

Betsey, born March 9,, 1789, died September
15, 1790. 10. Hugh J., born January 20, 1791,
died (October 5, 1795. 11. Patience, born De
cember 31, 1793, died July 20, 1847; married
James Moulton.
(IV) Elijah Beede, second son and third
child of Nathan and Dolly (Scribner) Beede,
was born March 29, 1775, died December 12,
1855, and was a minister of the Quaker de
nomination in Sandwich. He married, Sep
tember 2, 1802, Anna Felch, born May 24,
1785, died November 7, 1848. They had chil
dren : I. Parker, born November 15, 1803, died
February 10, 1890; married, February 16,
1836, Achsah Bradbury, born January 20,
1807, died February 8, 1872. Their children
were: George, Ellen and Abby. 2. Grace,
born February 4, 1805, died December 28,
1880; married Ira Huckins and had children:
Charles, Jennie and Gilbert. 3. David, born
May 2, 1806, died August 11, 1808. 4. Asa,
born November 9, 1807, died August 15, 1808,
5. Jane R., born March 16, 1809, died April
17, 1851 ; married, December 12, 1831, Joseph
Gilman and had children : Mary Jane, Lydia
B., Andrew, Albert and George Edwin. 6.
Lydia, born September 17, 1810, died Febru
ary 21, 1819. 7. David, born April 14, 1812,
died the same day. 8. Solomon, see forward.
9. Valentine, born March 11, 1815, died Feb
ruary 23, 1873 ; married, June 28, 1840, Char
lotte Pierce and had children : Anna Maria,
Henry, Ellen, Abbie, Charles, CaroHne, Frank
and Edward. 10. Phoebe Purrington, born
January 31, 1817, died January 15, 1890; mar^
ried, January 31, 1838, Daniel Davis Clark
and had children : Anna Maria, Daniel E.,
George William and Alberta M. 11. Martha,
born March 30, 1819, died April 16 of the
same year. 12. Lydia, born June 28, 1820,
died June 30 of the same year. 13. Anna
Alaria, born May 24, 1821, died November 25,
1886-87 ; married, January 27, 1843, Langdon
Goddard Clark and had children: George
Langdon, Anna Phoebe, Sarah Jane, Millard
Frank, Selwyn Beede, Charles Sumner, Amy
Maretta, Lulie May, Arthur Aloses. 14. Moses
H., born January 19, 1823, died February 3,
1869; married Mehitable Lee and had chil
dren : Althea Maria, Warren Herbert, Alfred
Wesley and Andrew Freemont. 15. WilHam
Penn, born November 2, 1825, died April 16,
1891 ; married, November 23, 1848, Susan M.
Burnell and had children: Emilv P., Daniel
AViHiam, Clara M., Frederick A.'and M. Ad
die, of whom the two last named were twins.
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(V) Solomon Beede, fifth son and eighth
child of EHjah and Anna (Felch) Beede, was
born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, August
10, 1813, and died in Lynn, Massachusetts,
April 10, 1843. He was never very strong
physically, and his death at the age of less
than thirty years was the resuU of consump
tion. He married, December 20, 1836, Lucy
Moulton French, born September 16, 1815,
died August 24, 1858. Their children were:
I. George Freeman, born July 29, 1838, died
December 31, 1870; married, November 20,
1864, Charlotte W. Freeman, born June 21,
1839, died November 2, 1900. Their children
were: Charles Warren, born March 17, 1867,
died September 9, 1868 ; Grace Freeman,
born February 13, 1870, died July 19, 1872.
2. Charles Otis, see forward.
(VI) Charles Otis Beede, second and
youngest son and child of Solomon and Lucy
M. (French) Beede, was born in Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, December 29, 1840, died August
27, 1898. He attended the public schools at
Lynn, and later went to Sandwich, New
Hampshire, where he completed his education
at the New Hampton Institute. He then re
turned to his native town where he found em
ployment in one ot the large shoe manufactur
ing establishments, and where he remained
until he had obtained a thorough practical
knowledge of all branches of this industry.
He, in 1865, with a smaU capital, started
in business for himself, working personally
when there was necessity for him to do
so, devoting to it all of his time and
energy, and frequently spending the even
ing hours in looking after the business details.
He succeeded in building up a large and profit
able trade, but the cares and responsibilities of
business to which he so persistently devoted
himself, at length made inroads upon his
health and in 1872 he was obliged to retire
for a time and sought rest and recuperation
in New Hampshire. At the expiration of one
year he returned to Lynn and again became
a prominent factor in the industrial life of the
city, devoting his attention particularly to the
manufacture of boot and shoe supplies, and
becoming proprietor of one of the largest es-
tabhshments of the kind in the country; he
disposed of this business shortly before the
great fire of 1898. In addition to this he con
ducted a retail store for the sale of rubber
goods, which business he carried on success
fully for a number of years, but after the
Lynn fire he disposed of it to Mr. O. R. Howe,
who had long been associated with him as a

bookkeeper. Shortly afterward he engaged in
the real estate business which he continued
until his death. Mr. Beede was one of the
best representatives of the purely self-made
and successful business men of whom Lynn
can boast, and whatever measure of success
he achieved was the result of his own personal
effort and industry. One considerable factor
that tended to this result was the regard and
consideration he had always shown his em
ployes, giving them an annual holiday at his
own expense, sharing in their pleasures, lis
tening and giving heed to their requests, mak
ing them his friends at all times, and permit
ting them in return to regard him as their trua
benefactor and friend. He took a commend
able interest in the municipal government of
Lynn, served as a member of the board of al
dermen in 1881-82, and was otherwise identi
fied with important measures proposed for
the promotion of the welfare of the city. At
the time of his death he was completing the
third year of his service as a member of the
water board. He was a member of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature in 1897 and 1898. The
first year he won, over a number of candi
dates, and such satisfaction did his service
give that the following year there was no
opposition. In this position his sound judg
ment and discriminating mind enabled him to
support every measure which he believed for
the interests of the city. At the time of his
death he was a candidate for senator in the
First Essex district. Among other positions
of trust he held were those of director in the
Manufacturers' National Bank, trustee in the
Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank, and member
of the Lynn Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany. He was an active member of Mount
Carmel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons;
Sutton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Mount
Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar; and a
charter member of the Oxford Club.
He and his wife were members of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church of Lynn for
nearly thirty years, during aU of which time
Mr. Beede served on the board of trustees,
and for several years previous to his death
was in point of service the senior member of
this board. He was apparently in good health
until the day before his death, which followed
an ihness of but a few hours, being caused by
an attack of heart disease. He was a great
hearted man and a model humanitarian, his
charities being judicious and numerous, his
sympathies genuine, sincere and tender. His
life was a credit to the church, an honor to the

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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

city and a precious legacy to the family.
Mr. Beede married, December 22, 1864,
Irene S. Rich, born December 24, 1839. The
children of this union were: i. Elizabeth L.,
born September 4, 1865. 2. George W., born
October 26, 1868, resides in Wakefield, Mas
sachusetts; married, March 17, 1892, Nellie
M. Black, born January 18, 1868, and has chil
dren : Merton, born March 6, 1893, died July
II, 1906; Irene Estelle, born April 2, 1899. 3.
Arthur Crosby, born June 22, 1874, died No
vember 17, 1875.

The surname Whitte-
WHITTEMORE more is of Anglo-
Saxon origin, from
Whytemore, (a white lake or meadow). The
first John, Lord of Whytemore, took the name
from the place where the family originally
dwelt. His home was on the northeast side
of the parish of Bobbington, in the meadow of
Claverly, in Shropshire, England. The place
now bears the name of Whittemore. It is
recorded by two historians that Whittemore
Hall, at whittemore, was the home of the pro
genitors of the American family.
The genealogy of the Whittemore family
has been traced back in England to the twelfth
century. Mr. Eli Jones Whittemore, of
Worcester, has the result of researches of D.
J. Whittemore, chief engineer of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, which were
carried on for a number of years in England
at considerable expense and infinite pains to
secure accuracy. A vast amount of informa
tion which he collected should be edited. A
brief abstract only can be used here. It will
serve to correct some of the errors in the
Whittemore and Whitmore genealogists. The
name is commonly spelled Whitmore in Eng
land, while some of the descendants of the
original stock spell their name Wetmore.
(I) The Whitmores of Staffordshire, Eng
land, were originally termed de Boterel. The
name of the father of William de Boterel
(1100-1135) and his brother, Peter de Boterel,
is unknown. William had a son William
(1158-1163). (II) Peter de Boterel, of Staffordshire, had
a son Radulph or Ralph.
(UI) Ralph de Boterel (1152-1171) mar
ried twice. His son AVilliam by the first wife
married Avisa de Whitmore in 1179. Wil
liam (IV) (1174) had a son Reginald (V)
(1238), who had a son Robert (VI) (1260).
"This is not the American line. That descends
from the second wife, by her son Ralph de

Boterel, and not by Rad Fitz Wetmore (1220-
40), an illegitimate son. Rad had a son WiU
de ijurgvyllon (1242-54).
(IV) Ralph de Boterel had a son Sir John.
(V) Sir John de Whitmore married Agnes
(1252-76) and had at least three sons; John,
Lord of Whitmore, founder of what the gene
alogists call the Caunton line; William, mar
ried Alice Fenners, had a son Philip (VII),
founded what is called the Claverly branch;
Ralph (VI). This John was the first to bear
the name AVhitmore, as mentioned above.
(VI) John AVhitmore, son of Sir John
Whitmore, married Margerie (1270-1301;.
(VII) Richard of Whitmore married Sus
annah Draycote, daughter of Sir Philip Dray-
cote, of Painesley, knight, and had: i. Jane..
married John Blunt. 2. Mary, married John
Gifford. 3. Beatrix, married John Chetwind.
4. Christina, married Richard Fleetwood. 5.
Philip, mentioned below.
(VIII) PhUip Whitmore married Thomas
ine, daughter of Richard Oliver (?) and had
a son Richard.
(IX) Richard Whitmore, son of Philip
AVhitmore (8), married first a daughter of Sir
Ralph Bagot; second, a daughter of Richard
Devereaux; third, a daughter of Simon Har
court , probably of EUenhall, Staffordshire,
and by her had a son Nicholas.
(X) Nicholas Whitmore, son of Richard
Whitmore (9), married Annie Aston, daugh
ter of Thomas of Tixhall, Staffordshire, and
had Alary, married William Lusone ; and An
thony, mentioned below.
(XI) Anthony Whitmore, son of Nicholas
Whitmore (10), married Christina Vaux,
daughter and heir of Nicholas Vaux, and had
Joan and William.
(XII) William Whitmore, son of Anthony
Whitmore (11), had a son John.
(XIII) John Whitmore, of Caunton. sec
ond son of William Whitmore (12), in the
reign of Henry AT, married Alice Blyton,
daughter and heir of Robert Blyton, of Caun
ton, county Notts. He married second, Cath
erine Compton, daughter and heir of Robert
Compton, of Hawton (Visitation of York,
1563), and had WiUiam, and Robert, who was
the heir.
(XIV) Robert Whitmore, son of John
Whitmore, of Caunton (13), married Cath
erine Claye, daughter of George Claye, of
Finningly, county Notts. (Visitation of
Yorkshire), and had a son William, the heir,
who married a daughter of John Ridley. Wil
Ham of Rotterham died in 1568. Robert Whit-

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1 701

rnore married second, Alice Atwoode, of Har-
lington, Bedfordshire. He died at Caunton
in 1540. By this marriage were children : i.
Richard, died without issue in 1559. 2. John,
living in 1545. 3. Charles, died 1568. 4.
Thomas, living in 1559, probably died about
1603. 5. Edmund, living in 1559. 6. Row
land, living in 1 59 1. 7. James. 8. Randall;
and three daughters. Thomas Whitmore Sr.,
of Hitchin, was the son of Edmund or Row
land, sons of Robert. Hitchin is the parish
¦where the immigrant, Thomas Whitmore, was
born, but he was the son of another Thomas
Whitmore, as will be seen later.
(XV) Qiarles Whitmore, son of Robert
Whitmore (14), died in 1568. He lived in
Tuxforth, county Notts. Children: i. Wil
liam, died in 1582 in county Notts. 2. John,
supposed to have lived in Staffordshire and
died 1 57 1. 3. Robert, died 1608. 4. Richard,
died 1578. 5. James, died 1614. 6. Thomas
the elder, died 1649. 7- Roger of Hitchin. 8.
Christopher, of county Beds, died 1640. Four
daughters and a posthumous child supposed
to have been George. Three of the sons spell
ed the name Whittamore, three Watmore, and
one Whitmore, the prevailing English spell
ing. (XVI) Thomas Whitmore, son of Charles
Whitmore (15), lived in Hitchin, Hertford
shire. He married Alary — ;  . His two
sons emigrated to New England. Thomas went
to Maiden and John to Stamford, Connecticut.
Thomas is the ancestor of most of the Ameri
can AVhittemores, John had a daughter Eliz
abeth and son John, who was of age in 1649,
and lived at Stamford and Middletown, Con
necticut. (XVI) Roger Whitmore, son of Charles
Whitmore (15), and brother of Thomas of
Hitchin, was the father of Nicholas Whit
more. Nicholas had two sons also who went
to New England. Francis Whitmore to Bos
ton and Thomas to Middletown, Connecticut.
From these are descended the American Whit
mores. Their father was a first cousin to the
Maiden emigrant, Thomas Whittemore men
tioned below.
(I) Thomas Whittemore, the immigrant
ancestor, son of Thomas Whitmore (16), of
the English lineage, came to New England
about the year 1643 from the town of Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, England. He was an early set
tler of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and his
home was in the southeast part of what be
came Maiden, now Everett, about three miles
from Boston. In 1645 he purchased of Rev.

John Cotton of Boston, "meadow for two
cow's grass," a piece of land adjoining his own
farm. His farm was bounded on the east by
Chelsea, and south by the Alystic river. It is
remarkable that the homestead remained in
the family until May i, 1845, when it was
sold by the late William Whittemore to Na
thaniel Sands, of New York City. The site
of the dwelling house erected by Thomas
Whittemore is still to be identified by the old
cellar hole, on which in 1806 a house was built
by Joseph Whittemore. In 1866 this house
was burned. The site is a fine one, command
ing a beautiful view of the surrounding coun
try. Thomas Whittemore was baptized January
6, 1593, son of Thomas and Mary Whitte
more, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England.
He died in Maiden, May 25, 1661. He mar
ried first, Sarah  , who died October 31,
1616. He married second, Sarah Deardes,
April 14, 1623, in England. She was buried
November 17, 1628. He married third, Han
nah  , who according to her own deposi
tion was born in 1612. She married second,
June 3, 1663, at Chelmsford, Benjamin But
terfield. His will was proved June 25, 1661.
Child of first wife: i. Sarah, baptized April
14, 1616. Children of second wife: 2. Alary,
baptized May 12, 1624. 3. Thomas, baptized
October 6, 1626, lived in England. Children
of third wife: 4. Daniel, baptized July 31,
1633, mentioned below. 5. John, baptized
April 27, 1635, buried April 29, 1635. 6. Na
thaniel, baptized May i, 1636, married Mary
Knower and left no male descendants. 7.
John, baptized February 11, 1638-39, at Hitch
in, England, as were all the preceding; settled
in Cambridge) Massachusetts, and has many
descendants. 8. Elizabeth, born in New Eng
land in 1641. 9. Benjamin, baptized 1643,
married Elizabeth Bucknam ; died July 16,
1726. 10. Thomas (one of the few cases
where there are two sons of the same name
living at the same time, the elder Thomas
never came to this country), baptized 1645,
married, November 9, 1666, Elizabeth Pierce,
of Woburn. 11. Samuel, baptized 1647, mar
ried Hannah  ; removed to Dover, New
Hampshire, thence to Somerville, Massachu
setts, and died September 15, 1726. 12. Pelet-
iah, baptized 1653. 13. Abraham, baptized
1656, was in King PhUip's war ; died January
14, 1690-91.
(II) Daniel Whittemore, son of Thomas
Whittemore (i), was born at Hitchin, Hert
fordshire, England, and baptized there July

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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

31, 1633. He married, Alarch 7, 1662, Alary
Mellins, daughter of Richard Alellins, of
Charlestown. Her father removed to Wey
mouth, where he was admitted a freeman Sep
tember 7, 1639. Daniel Whittemore inherited
the homestead from his father and settled on
it; he bequeathed the homestead to his sons
Daniel and John. The will was nuncupative
and was not proved until nearly two years
after his death. His widow Mary was the
administratrix. Children: i. Daniel, born
April 27, 1663, resided in Charlestown and
Maiden; died September 21, 1756; left the
homestead to his son Daniel. 2. John, Febru
ary 12, 1664-65, mentioned below. 3. Thomas,
March 5, 1667. 4. Mary, February 15, 1668-
69. 5. Nathaniel, February 7, 1670. 6.
Peletiah, 1680, married, October 25, 1709,
Elizabeth Eustis; died October 21, 1725. 7.
James, married first, 1703, Hannah Paul ; sec
ond. Alary Grover.
(Ill) John Whittemore, son of Daniel
AVhittemore (2), was born February 12, 1664-
65, died in 1730. He married Ruth Bassett,
sister of Lydia Bassett, who married his
brother, Daniel Whittemore. They were
daughters of Joseph Bassett, and granddaugh
ters of AVilliam Bassett, the immigrant, who
came over in the ship "Fortune," in 1621,
lived in Duxbury in 1637, was deputy to the
general court several years, and joined Gover
nor Bradford and others in the purchase of
Dartmouth. Massachusetts, and removed to
Bridgewater where he died in 1667. Ruth
Whittemore was appointed April 3, 1730, ad
ministratrix of her husband's estate, which was
inventoried at five hundred and three pounds.
Children: i. John, born September 12, 1694,
settled in Leicester ; married Rebecca Richard
son ; died 1771. 2. Jeremiah, born 1696, set
tled in Concord ; married first, March 15. 1722,
Patience Reed; second, June 5, 1746, Abigail
Wooley; died Alarch 31, 1783. 3. Joseph,
born 1698, probably removed to Alansfield,
Connecticut. 4. Benjamin, born 1700, men
tioned below. 5. Elias, born 1702, rnarried,
November 13, 1728, Rhoda Holt, of Andover;
died at Concord, December 29, 1793. 6. Pa
tience, born 1704, married Timothy Lamson.
7. David, born April 16, 1 706, married first,
Alice Kendall, of Boston ; second, Sarah
 ; died September, 1782, at Litchfield,
New Hampshire. 8. Deborah, born March i,
1708, married, February 2, 1738, Moses Glea
son. 9. Peletiah, born October 30, 1710, mar
ried, July 30, 1738, Deborah Kendall, of Dun
stable, who died August 2, 1799.

(IV) Benjamin Whittemore, son of John
Whittemore (3), was born in 1700. He re
sided in Rumney Marsh (Chelsea), and was
constable there for several years. He mar
ried, December 10, 1723, Sarah KendaU, of
Chelsea. Children: i. Benjamin, born Octo
ber 9, 1724, mentioned below. 2. Esther,
October 5, 1729. 3. Phebe, February 6, 1731.
4. Rebecca, June 16, 1734. 5. Abraham,
March 7, 1736. 6. Amos, February 26, 1738.
(V) Benjamin Whittemore, son of Benja
min Whittemore (4), was born October 9,
1724, and died at Greenfield, New Hampshire,
January 10, 1798. He probably moved from
Chelsea to Nottingham West, now Hudson,
about 1748, where the last five of his children
were born. He was in the revolution, in Cap
tain Samuel Greeley's company from Hudson.
Pie was in Nottingham West in 1777, and re
moved to Greenfield late in life, and lived with
his eldest son. Major Amos Whittemore, at
the time of his death. He married, April 28,
1746, Hannah Collins, of Chelsea. Children :
I. Amos, born February 9, 1747, mentioned
below. 2. Infant, died young. 3. Peter. 4.
Benjamin, March 6, 1752, at Nottingham
West. 5. Sarah, June 8, 1754. 6. Hannah,
April 9, 1756. 7. Phebe, August 18, 1763. 8.
Esther, May 18, 1766.
(VI) Major Amos Whittemore, son of
Benjamin AVhittemore (5), was born in Chel
sea, February 9, 1747, and died August 18,
1827. He went when a child with his father
to Hudson, where he lived until after he was
married. In 1769 he was living in Monson,
afterward incorporated into the towns of Hol
lis and Amherst. He removed in 1771 to what
was then a part of the Lyndeborough Gore,
which became a part of Greenfield in 1790.
He was one of the first settlers there and
bought the farm where he lived the remainder
of his life, now or lately owned by his grand
son, A. AlarshaU Whittemore. He was a
major in the revolution, and answered the
Lexington alarm, AprU 19, 1775, returning
with Lieutenant Barron. He was at Ticonder
oga in 1776, and enlisted in the Continental
army and went to New York, September 26,
1776. He was at Bennington under General
Stark in 1777. In 1807 he returned to Green
field and afterwards held various town offices.
He married Molly Taylor, of Milford, who
died November 27, 1837. Children: i. Col
lins, born June 7, 1767, at Hudson, married
Mehitable Fuller. 2. Asa, born 1769, married
Hannah Burnham, of Greenfield, and resided
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1703

4; Benjamin, married Deborah Perry and re
sided at Bennington ; had sons Charles P. and
Timothy of Boston ; Emily F. ; Francis M. and
other chUdren. 5. Polly, married Paul Crag
in, of Greenfield. 6. Betsey, married Dr.
Moses Marsh. 7. Jacob, resided at Antrim,
New Hampshire. 8. William, resided at
Greenfield. 9. Abram, mentioned below.
( VII) Abram Whittemore, son of Major
Amos Whittemore (6), was born November
26, 1786, and died September 4, i860. He mar
ried Martha Marshall, born October 17, 1790,
died March 31, i860. Children : i. Amos M.,
born January 25, 1815, married Jane Bates.
2. Joseph R., May 16, 1817, was living in Kan
sas City in 1890. 3. John Mark, July 27, 1819,
mentioned below. 4. Paul C, May 3, 1821,
married twice and left descendants. 5. Abram,
February 8, 1823, went west. 6. Martha A.,
October 28, 1825, married Willard Hardy,
died 1890. 7. Mary M., September 28, 1827,
married Andrew J. Alitchell, of New Hamp
shire. (VIII) John Mark Whittemore, son of
Abram Whittemore (7), was born in Green
field, New Hampshire, July 27, 1819, and died
November 18, 1901. He received a liberal ed
ucation when a young man and went to Bos
ton and engaged in the publishing business,
and later as a manufacturer of stationery. He
married Mary C. Loud, of Boston. (See
Loud family herewith). Children: i. Alary
C, born 1844, married Benjamin P. Guild
and had Mary and Helen Guild. 2. John Mar
shall, born January 6, 1846, mentioned below.
3. George C., born 1857 ; never married.
(IX) John Marshall Whittemore, son of
John Mark Whittemore (8), was born Janu
ary 6, 1846, and died April 20, 1893. He was
a graduate of Harvard University, class of
1866. He went into business with his father,
manufacturing stationery, and remained with
him a number of years. From 1884 to
1885 he was secretary of Harvard College.
He was a member and vestryman of St. John's
Church (Episcopal) of Cambridge. He mar
ried Louisa Adams Kelsey, born February 15,
1848, died December 30, 1885, daughter of
James Harvey and Caroline Louise (Adams)
Kelsey. (See Kelsey family herewith). Chil
dren: I. Rev. Francis Lee, born Alay 6, 1871,
mentioned below. 2. James Kelsey, April 13^,
1875, married Elizabeth DeBlois Lane, of
Weston ; professor of mathematics at Har
vard. 3. Wyman, April 6, 1879, physician.
(X) Rev. Francis Lee Whittemore, son of
John Marshall Whittemore (9), was born in

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alay 6, 1871. He
was educated in private schools and at Har
vard University, graduating with the class of
1892. He then attended the Episcopal Theolo
gical School at Cambridge, graduating in
1895. At this time he was ordained deacon,
and in 1897 priest, in the meantime continuing
his studies in England and Germany. In 1897
he was appointed assistant of Grace Qiurch at
New Bedford, Massachusetts, and later vicar
at Providence, Rhode Island, in the Church of
the Savior. In 1904 he became rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church at Dedham, Massa
chusetts, where he is now situated.

The early .history of the Loud
LOUD family in this country is particu
larly difficult, on account of miss
ing records or lack of records. Savage men
tions only Solomon Loud who was a soldier
from the East (meaning Alaine probably) at
Northampton, Massachusetts, in King Philip's
war under Captain Turner. The name is the
same as that of the ancestor of the family a
hundred years later and it is impossible to
doubt that both were of the same family. We
know that Francis Loud, the ancestor from
whom most of the family in this country are
descended, was in the Sagadahoc Valley,
Maine, in 1675, and we may assume that Solo
mon was a brother or a near relative. No
others of the name can be found at that time.
Francis Loud Jr. married a sister or niece of
Thomas Prince, the annalist. We are told by
one genealogist that Honof Prince was of the
fifth generation from Elder Brewster of the
"Mayflower." The Loud family settled in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, where it has been
well represented to the present time.
(I) Solomon Loud, ancestor of the family
of this sketch, seems to have come to Boston
from Alaine. We find the marriage of Solo
mon Loud and Sarah Heard, of Dover, sol
emnized January 19, 1789, at Dover, New
Hampshire, by the minister of the parish. Rev.
Jeremy Belknap. Solomon Loud was a cabinet
maker by trade. He followed his trade in Bos
ton in partnership with Nathaniel Bryant. To
gether they bought Lot 38 of a section of land
owned by John Al. Germain and Benjamin
Longley. In September, 181 1, he bought the
interests of his partner in this land. He died
in 1833, leaving a widow Abigail who adminis
tered his estate. His daughter, Mary C. Loud,
married John Mark Whittemore. (See Whitte
more family herewith).

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The surname Kelso and Kelsey
KELSEY seem to have the same origin,
though Kelso is the common
spelling of the Scotch families and Kelsey of
the English. Other spellings such as Calsey,
Kelse, Kelsea, Kelsa, Kelsy are also found
in both families in America and in the old
country. There is a parish of North and
South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, England. A
Kelsey family had its seat at Chelmsford and
Thorp, county Esse.x, in 1634, and had a coat-
of-arms. The founder of the Scotch family of Kelso
lived at Kelso-land, county Ayr, Scotland,
Hugo de Kelso, by name, as early as 1296.
John Kelso, a descendant, alienated the pro
perty in 1676 and his second son William
acquired lands in Dankerth, Ayrshire, near the
family estate. Arms : Sable a f esse engrailed
between three garbs or. Crest : A garb or.
Motto : Otium cum dignitate. Another seat
of the Kelso family is in Roxburghshire. One
of the Scotch Kelso family was the Presbyter
ian minister of Enniskillen, Ireland, at the
time of the revolution of 1688 when William
took the throne of the United Kingdom from
James. Enniskillen was an unwalled village
of eighty houses, situated on an island in the
river which joins the two sheets of water
known as Lough Erne. The Rev. Robert
Kelso urged resistance to the Roman Catholic
soldiers who were to be placed there for a
garrison and labored both in public and pri
vate to animate "his hearers to take up arms
and stand upon their own defence ; showing
example himself by wearing arms, and march
ing in the head of them when together." They
had at first but eighty men poorly armed, but
were soon augmented by friends of the same
race and religion who fled from the murder
ous attacks of the Irish Roman Catholics in
the south and west. From that time to the
end of the war the men of Enniskillen waged
a vigorous and successful campaign. The
family in Ireland settled in Antrim in Ulster
Province and was doubtless descended from
the redoubtable minister.
Among the early settlers of Londonderry,
New Hampshire, was a branch of this Scotch-
Irish family of Kelso. From Londonderry
they removed to New Boston and the history
of Nottingham, New Hampshire, claims rela
tionship with them, but the evidence of the
Connecticut origin of the Nottingham family
is too strong.
(I) William Kelsey, immigrant ancestor,
was born doubtless in England, but may have

been of the Scotch family of Kelso, as the
name was frequently speUed in early records.
He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as
early as 1632 and was a proprietor in 1633.
He was admitted a freeman March 4, 1634-35.
He sold a meadow there April 19, 1636. He
removed to Hartford where he lived until
1663 and then settled in the adjacent town of
Killingworth, Connecticut. He was deputy
to the general court in 1671. Children: i.
Abigail, born April, 1645. 2. Stephen, No
vember 7, 1647, mentioned below. 3. Daniel,
born 1650. 4. Mark, married, March 8, 1658-
59, Rebecca Hoskins ; second, December 26,
1683, Abigail Atwood ; resided in Wethers-
field and Windsor, Connecticut ; chUdren : i.
Rebecca, born January 2, 1659 ; ii. Thomas,
October 16, 1663 ; iii. John, died June 18,
1685. 5. Lieutenant John, resided in Hart
ford ; was admitted freeman 1658 ; removed to
Killingworth ; married Phebe Disbrow, daugh
ter of Nicholas ; children : John, Joseph,
Josiah and three daughters.
(II) Stephen Kelsey, son of William Kel
sey (i), was born November 7, 1647, and died
November 30, 1710, married, November 15,
1672, Hannah IngersoH, daughter of John.
Children: i. Hannah, born 1675. 2. Stephen,
September 20, 1677, married, January 11,
1699, Dorothy Brownson. 3. John, January
20, 1680, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, Sep
tember 14, 1682. 5. William, February 19,
1685. 6. James, August 21, 1687. 7. Charles,
June 15, 1692.
(Ill) John Kelsey, son of Stephen Kelsey
(2), was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut,
January 20, 1680. He married, November 23,
1704, Mary Buck, daughter of Ezekiel. He
resided in the west Beckley quarter and peti
tioned in 1712 with others for a new parish.
Children, born at Wethersfield: i. Mary,
born September 14, 1705. 2. John, November
22, 1706.. 3. Hannah, January 6, 1708. 4.
Tames, November 16, 1709, mentioned below.
5. Charles, September 16, 171 1, married,
March 4, 1742, Mabel Andrews. 6. Ezekiel,
January 26, 1713, married Sarah Allen. 7.
Rachel, August 21, 1714. 8. Comfort. Febru
ary 27, 1715-16. 9. Enoch, August 27, 17/7,
married, August 30, 1744, Mary Bidwell. 10.
Esther, May 22, 1725. 11. Ruth. December
6, 1727.
(IV) James Kelsey, son of John Kelsey
(3), was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut,
November 16, 1709. He married, November
10, 1737, Eunice Andrews. Children: i.
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2. James, born at Wethersfield probably. 3.
Zachariah, (perhaps nephew instead of son)
was in Captain Pride's company. Colonel
Erastus Wolcott's regiment at Boston in 1775-
.76; he was of Connecticut at that time; in
1780 he was aged twenty-three years when he
was in a New Hampshire regiment and was
•allowed seven pounds, eleven shillings, for
losses at the battle of Ticonderoga. Besides
Zachariah many of the family were in the
revolution in Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire regiments, as well as Connecticut. Many
of the family went from Killingworth, Con
necticut, to Newport, New Hampshire. Moses
and Hugh Kelsey settled in Moultonborough ;
Robert and Hugh at Center Harbor. A James
Kelsey lived at Bristol and Topsham, and
served in the revolution in 1777 and 1780.
Seymour and Hugh were in western Massa
chusetts regiments as well as in New Hamp
shire. The western Massachusetts families
seem to be from the Connecticut family.
(V) James Kelsey, son of James Kelsey
(4), was born in Wethersfield, or vicinity
about 1740. He and Zachariah Kelsey appear
to have come from Connecticut during or be
fore the revolution and settled in Northfield
or Nottingham, where James Albert Kelsey
had his residence lately, and built the main
part of the house on this farm, a half mile
west of the Lee line in the Kelsey district on
the road from Deerfield Parade to Levi Hall's
house. He died April 23, 1795. He rnarried
Elizabeth Harvey, sister of John Harvey, of
Nottingham, New Hampshire. He was prob
ably the same James that served from New
London, Connecticut, as a corporal in Captain
Alartin Kirkland's company. Colonel Wal-
cott's regiment. Children, recorded at Not
tingham : I. Alargaret, born November 3,
1762, married Miles Reynolds and resided in
Lee ; children : Betsey, Lois, John and Olive
Reynolds. 2. WUliam, born October i, 1764,
married Hannah Harvey and had the home
stead; children: i. Daniel, born June 2, 1805;
ii. Ehzabeth, October 16, 1806; iii. William;
iv. John H. ; v. James, April 5, 1814 ; vi.
James Albert, April 5, 1818, married Abbie A.
Sears. 3. James Jr., born May 6, 1766; chil
dren : Sally, Rendal, Harvey, James, John,
Robert, Moses, Sally, Hiram, Hugh. 4. Jane,
born March 10, 1768, married Jonathan
Thompson, of Lee ; children : James, Susan,
Noah, Hugh and Mary Thompson. 5. Moses,
born February 17, 1770, died unmarried. 6.
John, born October 5, 1771, mentioned below.
7. Hugh, born September 19, 1773, married
Ann Harvey; son Hugh inherited his farm.

(VI) John Kelsey, son of James Kelsey
(5), was born in Nottingham, New Hamp
shire, October 5, 1771. Married Mary Rob
erts, of Waterborough, Maine. ?Ie lived on
what is known as the John Kelsey place. Chil
dren, born at Nottingham: James H., men
tioned below ; Susan, Eliza, John, Alary, Icha-
bod, Hiram.
(VII) James Harvey Kelsey, son of John
Kelsey (6), was born in Nottingham. He
married Caroline Louise Adams, daughter of
William Parker Adams, of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. He was a well-to-do merchant in
Boston. Children: i. Louisa Adams, born
February 15, 1848, died December 30, 1885 ;
she married John Marshall Whittemore. 2.
Kate, born November 15, 1852, married Nich
olas Baron von Zedlitz-Neukirch of Kauffung,
Silesia.

The late Nicholas Weber, for
WEBER many years a prominent leather
manufacturer of Lynn, Massa
chusetts, and a successful business man in that
city for almost a quarter of a century, was of
French birth, although in common with nearly
all others who bear the surnames Webber or
Weber he doubtless was descended from Hol
land Dutch ancestors. The American Web
bers and Webers generally claim descent from
Wolfert Webber, of Amsterdam, Holland,
where he was born, and of New Amsterdam
(New York City), where he came about 1633
with Van Twiller, the Dutch governor of New
Netherlands, and where he became owner of
a large tract of land which now and for many
years has been a part of the vast property
owned by -the corporation of Trinity Qiurch.
Nicholas Weber was born in Alsace Lor
raine, France, now Germany, September 29,
1836, son of Nicholas and Anne (Weber)
Weber, the former of whom was born in
Luxembourg, and the latter in Lorraine. He
learned the trade of leather dressing in his
native country, and was there when the Prus
sian war broke out. He took an active part
in the war, shared the privations that came to
a people at such a time, and saw his native
province pass from the control of France to
that of Germany. In 1873, with his wife and
three children, he came to the United States,
settling first in Quebec, from whence he re
moved to Boston, later to Cambridge, where he
remained one year, and finally to Lynn, where
he obtained a position as foreman for A. B.
Alartin. His trade, which he had learned at
home, and subsequent twelve years experience
with Levin Foreres, in Paris, France, stood

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him in good stead in his new position, and he
soon took the front rank in his vocation. After
serving faithfully for Mr. Martin, he went
into business for himself and engaged in the
manufacture of gloves and white sheep stock,
and for a dozen or more years turned out that
quaHty of stock for Lucius Beebe & Son. His
large factory was located at the corner of
AA'estern avenue and Federal street, and he
gave employment to nearly two hundred
hands. In January, 1892, he organized the
Weber Leather Company, of which he was
president till the time of his death, taking his
oldest son, Nicholas AL, in company with him.
He invented a staking machine, which is used
in all the factories in this country and in sev
eral other countries where leather is made.
By close attention to business he built up a
trade that is not confined to the United States,
the company having agents in France, Ger
many, Austria and other countries. Mr. Weber
is remembered as a skillful workman, a
capable and straightforward business man,
and one who enjoyed the respect of all per
sons with whom he was acquainted either
socially or in a business way. He was a mem
ber of the National Alorocco Manufacturers'
Association, Lynn Alanu facturers' Associa
tion, of which he was at one time a member
of the executive committee, St. Jean de Bap
tiste Benevolent Society, and a charter mem
ber of Lynn Lodge of Elks.
Nicholas Weber married, November 23,
1867, Alarie B., daughter of Alatthias and
Barbara (Peiffer) Kline, of Lorraine. The
father of Matthias Kline was a soldier under
Napoleon I. Mr. and Mrs. Weber had nine
children: i. Nicholas AL, born St. Denis,
France. October 28, 1868, married, June 2,
1897, Alary A. Quill, daughter of John and
Mary (Dorgan) Quill, of Ipswich; children:
i. Ruth Alarie, born April 24, 1898; ii. Alade-
Hne, Alay 2, 1899, died Alay 17, 1905 ; in. Dor
othy Aliidreth, August 10, 1900; iv. Mabel
Marie, June 10, 1902, died December 12, 1902.
2. Charles P., born January 29, 1871, in Paris,
at the time of the siege of that city, married
Agnes Fitzpatrick, of Lynn ; children : i. Qaire
Agnes, died in infancy ; ii. Nicholas, died in in
fancy ; iii. Alfred Joseph, born July 17, 1900;
iv. Nicholas Charles, March i, 1901. 3. Eugene,
born in Paris, AprU 30, 1872, died in Lynn,
aged five years. 4. John L., born in Lynn, Feb
ruary II, 1877, see forward. 5. Albert Arthur,
born March 26, 1879, married, September 14,
1904, Mary E. Donahue, of Salem ; children : 1.
Genevieve Alarie, born September 27, 1905 ;

ii. Albert Nicholas, June 23, 1906 ; iii. William
Francis, September 4, 1908. 6. Marie, born
July 26, 1880. 7. WiUiam Simon, born Feb
ruary 18, 1884. 8. Alice Madeline, born Aug
ust 27, 1885, a graduate of St. Ann's Acad
emy, Marlboro, Massachusetts, class of 1904.
9. Joseph George, born April 23, 1889, a grad
uate of Mt. St. Louis Institute, Montreal.
Nicholas Weber, father of these children, died
December 12, 1900, aged fifty-four years. AU
of Mr. Weber's children are stockholders in
the Weber Leather Company and the foUow
ing hold offices : Nicholas M., president and
treasurer; John L., vice-president; Albert A.,
secretary; Charles P., foreman of the factory.
John L. Weber, son of Nicholas and Alarie'
B. (Kline) Weber, was born in Lynn, Alassa
chusetts, February 11, 1877. He received his
education in public schools in that city, and
also in Mount St. Louis Institute, Montreal.
Returning home he began work in his father's
factory, and in 1898 acquired an interest in the
AVeber Leather Company, of which he is stiU
a member. Although his business interests are
largely in Lynn, Air. Weber lives in the ad
joining viUage of Cliftondale, town of Saugus,
where he is prominently identified with local
institutions. Since 1900 he has been a mem
ber of the Saugus Fire Department, was a
member of its board of engineers in 1904, and
in 1906 was appointed chief engineer of the
department. He is a member of Alalden
Lodge, No. 965, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and of Valladolid Council, No.
70, Knights of Columbus.
Air. Weber married, June 19, 1898, Alary
E. Guy, of Lynn, daughter of John AV. Guy.
Children: i. Lauretta Marie, born April 11,
1899. 2. John Louis, August 15, 1900. 3.
Alarion, October 12, 1901. 4. Leo Francis,
July 19, 1903. 5. Alice Aladeline, April 2,
1906.

The family name Hood has been
HOOD known in the history of Lynn,
Alassachusetts, for more than two
and a half centuries, and as evidence of the
highly respectable character of him who first
bore that surname in the region it may be said
that in 1692 the town voted Richard Hood,
senior, should have a seat in the pulpit in the
meeting house. On May 23 same year, Sarah
Hood, daughter of Richard Sr. and wife of
WUliam Bassett, was placed on trial in Salem
on a charge of witchcraft, and after the hol
low mockery of trial was finished she was
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1707

confined there until December 3 following.
In the jail with her she was allowed the com
pany of her child, then less than three years
old, and her next child was christened Deliv
erance, in allusion to her release from impris
onment. (I) Richard Hood, immigrant ancestor of
the branch of the family here considered, came
to New England from Lynn Regis, Yorkshire
or Norfolk, England, in 1640, and was an
early settler in Lynn, a town which had been
founded ten years before by people who came
largely from the town of that name in Eng
land. He was a member of the Society of
Friends, and a man of good report in the
town ; the appointment mentioned to a seat in
the pulpit with the minister was a mark of dis
tinction and an evidence of the respect in
which he was held by the townsfolk. The
home of Richard Hood was in that part of
Lynn which was and is called Nahant, where
previous to 1800 the only dwellers were the
Breeds and Hoods and later the Johnsons, and
they all were counted among the most substan
tial and respectable inhabitants of the town.
Richard Hood died September 12, 1695. The
name of his wife was .-Vgnes, and Savage's
"Genealogical Dictionary" mentions their chil
dren as follows: i. Richard, born November
18, 1655. 2. Sarah, August 2, 1657, married
William Bassett. 3. Rebecca, February 7,
1663, married Hugh Alley. 4. John, May 7,
1664. 5. Plannah, October 21, 1665. 6. Sam
uel, May 12, 1667. 7. Ann, February 13,
1672. 8. Joseph, July 8, 1674. 9. Benjamin,
January 3, 1678 ; made freeman 1691 ; died
September 12, 1695.
(II) Richard Hood Jr., born November 18,
1655, son of Richard Hood (i), had sons
Samuel, born October 18, 1690; Richard,
March 30, 1692 ; Zebulon, 1693, died December,
1693 ; Zebulon, 1694, died July 12, 1695. It
is quite probable that Richard Jr. had other
children whose names do not appear in the
published records.
(Ill) Richard Hood, born March 30, 1692,
died October 4, 1762, was son of Richard
Hood Jr. H,e married. May 20, 1718, Theo-
date, daughter of Samuel Collins, gunsmith,
of Lynn. Richard Hood was appointed a
constable for collection of taxes in Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, by the English crown in 1732.
Children: i. Theodate, born October 27,
1719. 2. Jedediah, September 25, 1721. 3.
Content, December 20, 1722. 4. Rebecca,
April 3, 1725. 5. Hannah, December 9, 1727.
6. Patience, September 9, 1730. 7. Abner,

September 26, 1733.' 8. Abigail, September
14, 1736.
(IV) Abner Hood, son of Richard and
Theodate (Collins) Hood, born at Nahant, a
part of Lynn, September 26, 1733, died there
March 11, 1818. He married, June 11, 1783,
Kezia Breed, born August 25, 1750, died No
vember 4. 1825, daughter of Benjamin and
Ruth (Allen) Breed, granddaughter of Sam
uel and Anna (Hood) Breed, great-grand
daughter of Allen and Anna (Breed) Breed,
and great-great-granddaughter of Allen
Bread, immigrant ancestor of the Breed fami
Hes in this country, and of whom and his des
cendants mention wiU be found in these an
nals. Abner and Kezia (Breed) Hood had
(vital records) six chUdren: i. Abner, bom
April I, 1784, see forward. 2. Richard, March
13, 1786. 3. Theodate, May 23, 1787. 4-.^.
Ebenezer and Benjamin (twins), born April
7, 1790 : for history of Benjamin see forward.
6. Content, born Decernber 21, 1792. Three
of the sons of Abner Hood were the first men
to contribute money to build one of the first
public libraries in the country in 1819.
(V) Abner Hood, eldest child of Abner
and Kezia (Breed) Hood, was born in Lynn,
April I, 1784. He married, September 28,
1805, Polly (Mary) Richardson; children: i.
George, born November 10, 1806; see for
ward. 2. Martha Ann, January 21, 1809. 3.
Abner, July 29, 1812. 4. Charles Green, De
cember 23, 1814. 5. James Magee, November
2, 1820.
(V) Benjamin Hood, son of Abner and
Kezia (Breed) Hood, was born in Nahant,
Massachusetts, April 7, 1790. He received his
early education at the old homestead, being
taught by a tutor in a room which had been
set apart from the rest of the house and called
at that time the school room, but later went
through a course of studies at the Andover
Academy. He later returned to his home and
during his life was never engaged in any prac
tical business, but remained at home to assist
in the care of the property and led the life of
a farmer. During the summer months Mr.
Hood opened the old home for summer board
ers, and it became a favorite resort for pleas
ure and comfort'; it was there that Longfellow
wrote a part of his poem "Hiawatha." Mr.
Hood was of the old Whig party, but never
served in any town office, having confined his
interest entirely to the care of the old home
stead, which was owned by the family for
nearly two hundred years, and was sold in
1865. He was of Quaker faith, but was read

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out of the church when he purchased a piano
for the pleasure of his children, such an act
being contrary to the laws of the church. He
married Hannah Philips, born in Swampscott,
1800, daughter of John and Judith (Dow)
PhUips, of Swampscott; children: i. Louise
P., born March 14, 1821, died 1876; married
Albert Wyer, no children. 2. Ann Alaria,
January 9, 1824, died 1875 ; married, 1846,
Dexter Stetson, see forward. 3. Anna Amelia,
January 27, 1832, died 1900. 4. Julia Pond,
July I, 1834, resides on Nahant street, Lynn.
Benjamin Hood (father) died at the old
homestead at Nahant, 1857; his wife died in
1859, aged fifty-nine years.
Dexter Stetson, born in Freeport, Maine,
1815, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1899, was
a son of Charles and Abigail (Dennison)
Stetson. After learning the trade of carpen
ter at Durham, Maine, Dexter Stetson went at
an early age to Nahant, Massachusetts, where
he built many of the finest summer cottages.
He was a respected and public-spirited citizen,
and served his town in many capacities, being
one of the first selectmen of Nahant, but his
ambition led him to a larger field of action,
and he went to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a
contractor and builder for the United States
government, and there built large storehouses.
but was later transferred to the Atlantic coast
and built light houses from Florida to North
Carolina, erecting some, of the finest Hght
houses on the coast. He served the govern
ment faithfully for thirty years, and after
his retirement constantly received complimen
tary letters from many parts of the country
for his elegant workmanship. He married Ann
Maria Hood, mentioned above, and is survived
by his only daughter, Helen L. Stetson, who
was born at JSlahant and now resides on Na
hant street, Lynn.
(A^I) George Hood, son of Abner and Mary
(Richardson) Hood, was born in Lynn, No
vember 10, 1806, and received his early educa
tion in the public schools at Nahant, in which
locality his youth was spent. After leaving
school he learned the trade of shoemaking,
followed that occupation for a few years, but
soon after attaining his majority went west
with John C. Abbott and in company with him
located in ^t. Louis and established a shoe
business in that city. This was in 1829, and
although the country was comparatively new
to the line of trade they established, it proved
a successful venture and was soon followed by
a branch store in Natchez, Mississippi, which
Air. Hood started for his firm and gave to it

his personal attention until 1835, when he re
turned to Lynn. However, he retained his
interest in the business in St. Louis and
Natchez until 1841. Having returned to the
east Mr. Hood established a commission shoe
and leather house in Boston and continued at
its head until his death, although in many ways
his attention was directed in other channels of
business and at the same time he became an
active figure in local and general politics. In
this field his fortunes were cast with the Dem
ocratic party, the minority party always in
Essex county politics and generally in the
state ; yet frequently he was called to stand as
the nominee of his party in the hope that his
known personal influence, high character and
popularity might turn the scale of doubtful
contest, tie filled various offices of local im
portance, served several times in the lower
house of the general court and in 1843 was
elected to the senate. In 1846 he was nomin
ated by the Democratic state convention for
the lieutenant-governorship, but was defeated
at the polls by the natural opposition majority
in the state, and in 1852 he stood as the Dem
ocratic candidate for a seat in the lower house
of the federal congress, but the Republican
majority in the district was too great to over
come. In 1853 he was chosen a delegate to the
convention for revising the constitution of the
commonwealth. The crowning achievement
of Air. Hood's political career was the great
good he was so largely instrumental in accom
plishing in connection with the movement to
incorporate the city of Lynn and supercede
the old with a new form of government. The
charter proposed in 1849 contained provisions
which were unsatisfactory to many of the peo
ple, and he led the forces which opposed and
defeated its adoption. In the spring of the
year 1850 another charter was granted, and
was accepted by vote of the people. Although
he had opposed the second charter and was
not at all in sympathy with the movement to
establish the so-called high form of municipal
government, Air. Hood was nominated and
elected the first mayor of Lynn ; and so satis
factory was his administration of the city gov
ernment during that year, that in "March, 185 1,
he was re-elected by a largely increased ma
jority and served two years in office.
But not politics alone occupied Mr. Hood's
attention during the period of his activity in
that field, for he continued his mercantile bus
iness in Boston, and in 1853 was one of the
principal organizers of the Shoe and Leather
Fire Insurance Company of Boston, and its

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president from 1853 to 1858, when he re
signed. Besides these and other personal con
cerns, he always manifested a wholesome in
terest in the social and industrial welfare of
his native town and its institutions. He was
in ali respects a model citizen, universally
esteemed for his high moral character, his un
selfish liberality and public spirit, and for his
real worth as a man.
Mr. Hood died at his home in Lynn, June
29, 1859, being then a Httle less than fifty-
three years old. He married, September 11,
1833, Hermione Breed, born in Lynn, March
18, 1812, died January 20, 1887, daughter of
Major Aaron Breed and his second wife,
Mary Kemp, granddaughter of Amos Breed
and Ruth Newhall, great-granddaughter of
Jabez and Desire Breed, great-great-grand
daughter of Samuel Breed and Anna Hood,
and great-great -great-granddaughter of Allen
Breed (or Bread) who was the son of Allen
Bread, the immigrant ancestor of the family
of that surname in America. Children of
George and Hermione (Breed) Hood: i.
Harriet M. 2. George Abbott, September 7,
1835. 3. Adelaide M. 4. Edwin E. 5. Edwin.
6. Julius S. 7. Henrietta A.,%iarried A. Bige
low, of Nova Scotia. 8. Henry, born May 28,
1844, died May 29, 1844. 9. Caroline P. 10.
Aubrey, born July 18, 1846. 11. Ada H., mar
ried Louis H. Bonelli ; (see BoneUi). 12. Ed
ward K. 13. Mary.

Among the successful and rep-
BONELLI resentative business men of
Boston may be mentioned
Louis Henry Bonelli, a native of St. Thomas,
West Indies, second son of Andre and An
nette (Bessupp) Bonelli. Andre Bonelli
(father), a native of Italy, went to the West
Indies about the age of eighteen, and shortly
afterward opened a hotel, which became one
of the leading hostelries of the place, and con
tinued in that line of business throughout the
active years of his life, his death occurring
there in 1876. He married, in 1842, .Annette
Bessupp, of Holland ; children : Andrew,
Louis Henry, Annette, Charles A., Eugene,
all born in the West Indies.
Louis tienry BoneUi acquired his education
in Hamburg College, Germany, which he
attended five years, after which he returned to
his native land, and one year later removed to
Boston, Alassachusetts, about 1871. He at
once established a cigar business which he con
ducted successfully for two years, and then
turned his attention to the real estate business.

continuing in the same up to the present time
(1908), with office at 60 State street, Boston,
with his sons Walter, George and Edward.
He is a member of the Unitarian church, a Re
publican in politics, and a member of the
Masonic fraternity. He married Ada H.
Hood; (see Hood) ; their children: i. Waiter
Hood, born in Lynn, Alassachusetts, February
10, 1875, acquired his early education in the
schools of his native place, went to Boston,
1887, graduated from Phillips grammar
school, then pursued a course in Boston Latin
school, after which he entered Harvard Col
lege, remaining two years. He entered the
employ of the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany, New York, remaining two years, and
then received and accepted the appointment of
head clerk in Charlestown navy yard. At the
present time he is interested in the real estate
business with his father at 60 State street,
Boston. 2. Anna Hermione, born in Lynn,
September 3, 1876, resides at home, unmar
ried. 3. Louis Henry Jr., born in Newport,
September 2, 1878, graduate from Boston
Latin school, 1897, and Plarvard College, 1901.
He was appointed, through Harvard College,
as supervisor of schools in the Philippine
Islands by the government at Washington,
1901, going there in July of that year and re
maining three years. In 1904 he returned to
Boston, having traveled around the world. He
became interested in the real estate business
and has since been engaged in the same with
his father and brothers — Walter, George and
Edward — under the firm name of Hood Land
Company. He is a member of the Real Estate
Exchange, also the City Club. He attends the
Unitarian church, and is a Republican in poli
tics. He is unmarried. 4. George Hood, born
Cambridge, Massachusetts,, October 15, 1880,
a graduate of Rice graminar school, after
which he pursued a course in Boston Latin
school. He is engaged in the real estate busi
ness in Boston, with his father and brothers.
He served as librarian of the Second Unitar
ian Church of Boston three years, which
church he attends, and his political affiliations
are with the Republican party. He is unmar
ried. 5. Edward Hood, born in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, November 15, 1882, graduate of Bos
ton Latin school, 1902, and Harvard College,
1906; was member of the I-yy Club and Har
vard Crew at Harvard. He is engaged in the
real estate business with his father, at 60 State
street, Boston. He is a member of the Real
Estate Exchange, the City Club, Boston,
attends the Unitarian church, and is a Repub-

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lican in politics. He married, at Trinity
Church, Boston, November 27, 1907, Emma
A. White, a native of Augusta, Maine, but
whose home has been in Boston. 6. Mabel
Hermione, born Boston, Massachusetts, Feb
ruary 24, 1889; educated in the schools of
Boston, graduated from Girls' Latin school,
June, 1907. She resides at home.

So far as American refer-
PROCTER ences disclose, the first repre
sentatives of the Procter sur
name in New England were George Procter
of Dorchester, Robert Procter of Concord,
and John Procter, of Ipswich and Salem, from
whom have descended nearly all who now
bear that name in the region mentioned; and
many among them, in every generation from
the time of the ancestors, have been found
men of character, worth and prominence in
the activities of life. This narrative, however,
has to deal particularly with John Procter of
Ipswich and Salem and his descendants.
According to authenticated records, John
Procter was born in England in 1588, married
there, and emigrated to New England in 1635,
with wife Martha, age twenty-eight, and their
two children — John, age three, and Mary, age
one, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," and settled
first in the plantation at Ipswich. After a few
years he removed with his family to Salem
and lived there to the end of his days. His
wife Martha died June 13, 1659, and he after
ward took a second wife of the same baptis
mal name and who survived him. He died
some time between August 28 and November
28, 1672, and in his will mentions his sons
John, Joseph and Benjamin, and daughters
Martha White, Abigail Varney, Sarah Dodge
and Hannah Weeden. His estate inventoried
1,228 pounds, which indicated that he was a
man of substance, and well settled tradition,
borne out by frequent mention of his name
in connection with affairs relating to the gov
ernment of the town, also indicates that he
was a man of consequence among the plant
ers. (II) John Procter, son of John Procter the
immigrant and Martha his wife, was born in
England in 1632, and was three years old
when his parents came to New England and
settled at Ipswich. He lived many years in
that town, and removed thence to Salem,
where in 1692 both he and his wife were
accused with the heresy of witchcraft and the
judgment of death was pronounced against
them. John Procter suffered the death penal

ty, but his wife was set free because of her
pregnancy at that time. This, however, was
his second wife. He married, first, December,
1662, Elizabeth, daughter of John Thorndike.
She died August 3, 1672, and April i, 1674,
he married Elizabeth Basset. By both mar
riages he had twelve children, and at his death
he left lands in Ipswich and Salem of the
value of 208 pounds. ChUdren: i. Benja
min, born in Ipswich probably about 1664,
died 1720. 2. Alartha, born June 4, 1666. 3.
Mary, born October 20, 1667, died February
15, 1668. 4. John, born October 28, 1668. 5'.
Mary, January 30, 1670. 6. Thorndike, July
15, 1672. 7. William, February 6, 1675. 8.
.Sarah, January 28, 1677. 9. Samuel, January
I, 1686. 10. Elisha, born April 28, 1687, died
November 11, 1688. 11. Abigail, born Janu
ary 27, 1689.
Some accounts of the Procter family make
no mention of Benjamin, who is here given as
the eldest of John Procter's children, nor of
his daughter Elizabeth, who in 1681 became
the wife of Thomas Very, and therefore must
have been the eldest of his children. In the
"Essex Institute Historical Collections" an
account is given of the children of John Proc
ter, "late of Ipswich," and there both Eliza
beth and Benjamin are mentioned as "the eld
est of these children." Benjamin Procter is
mentioned in the division of his father's estate
and from the best information to be obtained
it is believed that he must have been born
about 1664.
(Ill) Benjamin Procter, son of John Proc
ter "the sufferer," married, December 8, 1694,
 Whitridge; children: Mary PrisciHa,
Sarah and John Procter.
(IV) John Procter, son of Benjamin and
 (Whitridge) Procter, born in Salem,
1704, died September 3, 1773. He married,
December 14, 1727, Lydia Waters, the mother
of aU of his children, and who "departed this
life" October 14, 1750. That he married a
second wife is shown by his will made Febru
ary 6, 1772, proved October 4, 1773, in which
is mentioned a wife Eunice, and makes pro
vision for her, but says that "in case she doth
marry again she shall have no liberty to live
in my house nor to any of above articles of
living." John and Lydia (Waters) Procter
had ten children, all of whom except Daniel,
the youngest (who is mentioned in "Bridg-
man's Memorials" as one of them), were bap
tized by Rev. Benjamin Prescott, minister of
the middle precinct of Salem: i. John, born
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ust 27, 1771. 2. Lydia, baptized Alay 10,
1730; married a Flint. 3. Benjamin, baptized
April 30, 1732. 4. Mary, baptized December
9> 1733; married an Osborn. 5. Sarah, bap
tized August 20, 1736; married a Gould. 6.
Sylvester, baptized October 29, 1738, died
March 21, 1790. 7. Prudence, baptized No
vember 23, 1740; married James Buffington.
8. Joseph, born August 23, 1743; married
Elizabeth Epes. 9. T3aniel, of whom little is
known other than has been mentioned.
(V) Joseph Procter, youngest but one of
the children of John and Lydia (Waters)
Procter, born in Danvers, August 23, 1743,
baptized September 4 same year, died January
20, 1805. Of his early life and occupation
little is now known, but from subsequent
events it may properly be assumed that the
foundation of his career as a man of business,
a husband, a father, and a true Christian,
were deeply and broadly laid, under judicious
culture, and that, aided by his naturally strong
common sense, his integrity of character and
honesty of principle and purpose, produced in
his life the most substantial results and left
their impress in the hearts of his children
and descendants in all subsequent generations.
Pie moved to Gloucester about 1766 and pur
chased lands fronting on what became known
as Canal street. That part of the town at one
time was known as the "Cut," so called in
allusion to its proximity to the smaU water
course known by the same name, where the
canal was afterward constructed. From that
point his lands extended northerly nearly to
Washington street, including what afterward
became Mansfield street, which formed the old
bed of the mill pond from which he obtained
power for operating his mill machinery. In
this locality he erected his mill, several dweU
ing houses, barns and other buildings, and also
store houses for fish, grain and merchandise.
Mr. Procter first erected suitable buildings,
built in 1768 the house on Canal street, then
brought his bride from Danvers and establish
ed himself as a miller and potter, and engaged
extensively in the manufacture of earthen
ware, which at that time was in general use
for all domestic purposes. His mill was con
sidered a triumph of mechanical engineering,
and by its peculiar construction was made to
accomplish a very great amount of work with
a comparatively small expenditure of power.
He also had a cooperage for making hogs
heads, barrels and other utensils, and a forge
for light iron work and repairing. _ He estab*
lished and carried on a fishing business, send

ing his vessels to the Grand Banks, and also
built several vessels for fishing and other pur
poses, employing some of them in the foreign
trade, but particularly for shipping fish and
earthenware to southern ports and the AVest
Indies ; and on the return voyage the vessels
brought back cargoes of foreign produce, co
coa, and corn for his mill, and frequently
goodly sums of money.
For five successive years Mr. Procter filled
the office of selectman of Gloucester, and in
later years several of his descendants served
in the same capacity. At a meeting of the
officers of the Sixth Regiment of militia, held
at Gloucester, January 27, 1775, he was chosen
first lieutenant of the sixth company, com
manded by Captain Jacob Allen ; .Samuel Gor
ham was second lieutenant, and Eben Parsons
ensign. During the revolutionary war he was
agent for the owners of the privateer "Gener
al Stark," by the operations of which several
rich prizes were taken and sent into American
ports; and there is a tradition in the family
that Joseph Procter was the first man' in
Gloucester to reduce granite blocks by the use
of steel wedges. The sickness which resulted
in Mr. Procter's death was due to fatigue and
exposure consequent to getting afioat one of
his vessels which had been driven on Coffin's
beach in a heavy storm. He died January 29,
1805, aged sixty-two years.
On March 3, 1768, Joseph Procter married
Elizabeth Epes, born in Danvers, April 24,
1743, died July 29, 1817, daughter of Captain
Daniel and Hannah (Prescott) Epes, and
granddaughter of Colonel Daniel Epes of
Salem, and Hannah his wife. Hannah Pres
cott, born 1719, died 1775, married, 1737, Cap
tain Daniel Epes, was daughter of Rev. Benja
min Prescott, born Concord, 1686, died Dan
vers 1777, and his wife Elizabeth Higginson,
born 1696, died 1722-23 ; and Rev. Benjamin
Prescott was a son of Captain Jonathan Pres
cott of Concord, by his first wife, Elizabeth
Hoar. Elizabeth Higginson, wife of Rev.
Benjamin Prescott, was daughter of John
Higginson, and his wife Hannah Gardner
(daughter of Samuel Gardner Jr., grand
daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Higgin
son, of Guilford, Connecticut, and Salem, and
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Savage of Boston
and his wife Mary Symmes), great-grand
daughter of Rev. John Higginson, 1616-1708,
of Clay Brook and Salem, and his wife Sarah
Whitford (daughter of Rev. Henry Whit-
ford) and great-granddaughter of Rev.
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1630. Samuel Gardner Jr., father of Hannah
Gardner, who married John Higginson, was
a son of Samuel Gardner and his wife Mary
White, and grandson of Thomas Gardner.
(See Gardner).
In this connection it is interesting to note
that Alary Symmes, who married Thomas
Savage, his second wife (his first wife was
Faith Hutchinson, by whom he had seven
children), was a daughter of Rev. Zachariah
Simmes, son of Rev. William Simmes, and
was born in Canterbury, England, April 5,
1599, rector of Dunstable in 1625, and the sec
ond minister of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
He arrived in New England, September 18,
1634, with Rev. John Lothrop and William
Hutchinson and his famous wife, Ann. With
Rev. Zachariah also came to New England his
wife Sarah and several children. He lived
with her fifty years, and according to Mather
they had thirteen children, five of whom were
sons. Savage says that Rev. Zachariah died
January 28, 1672, and that his widow died in
1676. It may also be mentioned that John Hig
ginson, who married Sarah Gardner, was born
August 20, 1675, and was a Salem merchant.
He married, September 11, 1695, and died
April 26, 1718, having survived his wife, who
died June 20, 1713. John Higginson, father
of John last mentioned, was born at Guilford,
Connecticut, in 1646, and afterward settled
permanently at Salem, where he was a mer
chant. He married Sarah Savage, of Boston,
October g, 1672, and died March 23, 1719.
His father, Rev. John Higginson, was born
at Clay Brook, England, August 6, 1616, and
kept a grammar school at Hartford, Connecti
cut. He married Sarah Whitfield of Guilford
and assisted her father in his work in the min
istry of that town. He left Guilford in 1659
and, stopping over for a brief season at
Salem, was persuaded to settle as minister
over the church there which his father had
planted more than thirty years before. He
was ordained there in 1660 and continued the
work of the ministry at Salem until his death,
December 9, 1708, aged ninety-two years. His
wife Sarah died July 8, 1675. Rev. Francis
Higginson was son of Rev. John Higginson,
of England, where Francis was born in 1587.
He was settled in the ministry at Clay Brook
in Leicester, but having become a Puritan was
invited to settle in New England. He arrived
at Salem June 29, 1629, and in August of the
same year gathered and planted the first
church in the colony of Massachusetts Bay.

Thus it was that by his marriage with Eliz
abeth Epes, Joseph Procter and his descend
ants after him in all generations became con
nected with some of the best Puritan stock of
New England, and who in the early times of
the colony were largely engaged in the work
of the ministry. Children of Joseph and
Sarah (Epes) Procter: i. Daniel Epes, born
December 18, 1768, died March 9, 185 1. 2.
Elizabeth, born November 10, 1770, died April
15, 1845. 3. Joseph, born June 27, 1772, died
October 21, 1842. 4. Hannah, born AprU 9,
1774, died 1841. 5. Lydia, born May 26, 1776,
died July i, 1843. 6. John, born March 24,.
1778, died November 10, 1852. 7. Polly, born
September 8, 1780, died February 20, 1807. 8.
Denmark, born November 26, 1782, died in
infancy. 9. Greenwich, born November 26,.
1782, died November 19, 1854.
(VI) Daniel Epes Procter, eldest child of
Joseph and Elizabeth (Epes) Procter, born in
Gloucester, December 18, 1768, died in that
town March 9, 1851. He married, October 4,
1792, Lydia Gould; children: i. Epes, born
July 31, 1793, died March 4, 1795. 2. Lydia,.
born May 14, 1795, died November 19, 1873.
3. Joseph, born November 22, 1796, died
Alarch 25, 1881. 4. Sarah, born October 26.
1797, died October 19, 1798. 5. Sarah, born
Alay 22, 1799, died Alay 31, 1801. 6. EHza,
born March 9, 1801, died January 5, 1847. 7-
Alary, born August 7, 1802, died February 24,
1867. 8. Francis Epes, born July 30, 1804,
died August 19, 1846. 9. Hannah, born Sep
tember 23, 1806, died September 21, 1842. 10.
Nancy, born October 7, 1808, died January
17, 1889. II. Sarah, born December 23, 1810,
died May 5, 1882.
(VII) Francis Epes Procter, eighth child
and third son of Daniel Epes and Lydia
(Gould) Procter, born in Gloucester, July 30,
1804, died there August 19, 1846. Like his
father he was a seafaring man, trading at
foreign ports and also along the American
coast. His advice to his sons was that they
should not follow the sea, and generally they
gave heed to the paternal admonition. He mar
ried, November 25, 1829, Ann .Alien, daugh
ter of Thomas Allen, of Gloucester, whose old
home farm in that town has remained in the
family for more than two hundred years.
Children of Francis Epes and Ann (Alien)
Procter: i. Frances Ann, born February,
1831, died February 9, 1832. 2. Francis, bom
.March 16, 1833, senior member of firm of
Procter Brothers, publishers and bookseUers.
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ber pf firm of Procter Brothers. 4. WiUiam
Allen, born — ^  , 1838, died February 2,
1849. (VIII) Francis Procter, elder of the two
surviving children of Francis Epes and Ann
(Allen) Procter, was born in what then was
the town of Gloucester, March 16, 1833, and
for more than three score years has been
closely identified with the business history of
that town and subsequent city. As a boy he
attended the common school, but his best edu
cation was acquired more by association and
contact with men than by study in the school
room. When he was thirteen years old his
father died, but even before that time the
young boy had learned to depend on himself
and was earning money for his own support.
As a boy he had seen others peddling city
papers, and believed that he could do as well
as they, and with that end in view he wrote to
the publisher of a Boston paper asking that
a number of copies be sent him with which to
begin business ; but was surprised to learn that
a cash remittance must accompany his order.
He therefore borrowed a doUar from his
mother, and with that as a starting capital pur
chased thirty-three copies of The Flag of Our
Union, and sold them all in Gloucester in a
single day, realizing a profit of thirty-three
cents for his work. This was the beginning
of Mr. Procter's business career, and upon the
foundation then laid the present extensive
business carried on by the firm, of which he is
senior member, has been built up and estab
lished. His early earnings were put back into
the business as capital, and in the course of a
short time he was able to open a store on
Main street, where newspapers, periodicals
and books were kept for sale, and at one time
his stock included confectionery, fruits and
nuts, but this branch of the business proved
unprofitable, and was soon discontinued.
Later on his brother, George H. Procter, was
taken into the store, and in 1857 the firm of
Procter Brothers was established, and has
since been well known in trade and newspaper
circles in New England and the Canadian pro
vinces. In 1853, on account of certain annoyance
at the hands of publishers, Mr. Procter deter
mined to become himself a publisber, and in
July of that year issued the first number of
Procter's Able Sheet. At first it was pub
lished monthly, and from the outset proved a
successful journahstic venture, showing, as
the headline indicated, that the Procters were
"able" to publish a ".sheet" of their own. Sub-
iv 20

sequently the name was changed to Glqucester
.-kivcrtiser, and the paper was issued semi
monthly. In 1856 the firm started publication
of the Cape Ann Advertiser, a weekly paper,
and continued it until July i, 189 1, when it
was merged with the Times. The Gloucester
Daily Times appeared June 16, 1888, and has
since been continued as an independent Re
publican newspaper — not the avowed organ of
any political party, but rather as an independ
ent paper, representing the best interests and
institutions of Gloucester and Cape Ann, and
one which has gained a wide circulation in
Essex county, eastern Massachusetts, No-va
Scotia and the provinces. In the division of
work and responsibility in connection with its
publication the senior member of the firm has
given particular attention to the business and
general management, while the junior partner
has capably filled the equally important posi
tion of managing editor. Since 1850 the place
of business of the founders of these news
paper enterprises has been at the corner of
Main and Centre streets, Gloucester. The
building (which was the family homestead)
and plant was destroyed by fire in the disas
trous conflagration of 1864, and was at once
replaced with the present building, in which
the "old corner bookstore" is still maintained,
with the editorial and composing rooms on the
second and third floors and press room in the
rear, on Centre street.
AA'hile the business and general manage
ment of the papers published by the firm has
always occupied a large share of Mr. Procter's
attention as editor and publisher, he neverthe
less has for many years been regarded as a
public man in Gloucester, and has been identi
fied in some prominent manner with nearly
every measure which has been proposed for
the promotion of public interests in the city
during the last fifty years. Politically he is a
Republican, and was chosen as delegate to the
first Free Soil convention held at Worcester,
before the Republican party was brought into
existence. In 1861 he was auditor of town
accounts. In 1872 he was elected a delegate
to the Liberal Republican convention that
nominated Mr. Greeley for the presidency,
and also was a member of the conference
that nominated Charles Sumner for the gov
ernorship of Massachusetts. He was elected
alderman of ward four of Gloucester in 1876,
when perhaps no other Republican candidate
could have been elected in that always Demo
cratic stronghold. He has been largely inter
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ber of the Massachusetts Press Association,
founded in 1869, served as secretary two
years, vice-president five years, president three
years, was a delegate to the first National Edi
torial Association, which met at Cincinnati in
1880, and chosen member of the executive
committee, and in connection has travelled on
excursion from Prince Edwards Island to the
City of Mexico. He also spent two winters
(1879-1880) in Bermuda for the benefit of
his health.
Mr. Procter became a Mason when he was
a young man, and for two years was secretary
of Tyrian Lodge. From 1883 to 1889 he was
chairman of the Independent Christian So
ciety (the oldest Universalist society in Am
erica). For many years he has been a director
of the Gloucester IBoard of Trade and of the
Gloucester Co-operative Bank. He is one of
the original park commissioners of Gloucester,
appointed by Mayor Asa G. Andrews, the
first meeting of which body was held Novem
ber 27, 1894, and he has been secretary of the
board since it was organized. He also has
been interested in various land improvement
enterprises on Cape Ann, the laying out of
BeUevue Heights, Wolf Hill and Willoughby
Park; Procter street in Gloucester, where he
built his home in 1859, is named in allusion to
him. Mr. Procter served as general secretary
of the 250th anniversary, which was cele
brated in 1892 with great success.
On March 15, 1856, Francis Procter mar
ried Mary Melissa Rice, born March 14, 1838,
daughter of Solomon and Mary Rice, of Marl
boro, Alassachusetts. Mrs. Procter passed
away July 2, 1907, in her sixty-ninth year.
Children : i. Frank Rice, born Gloucester, Jan
uary I, 1857; married December 18, 1877, Car
rie L., daughter of WiUiam C. and Susan
(Leach) Rust, of Alanchester-by-the-Sea ;
children, born in Gloucester : Ethel, born April
II, 1879, died November 14, 1903; Edna, born
July 5, 1881 ; Vera, born December 25, 1887,
died August 30, 1888 ; Narda, born July 16,
1892. 2. George Perkins, born Gloucester,
October 17, 1859, died October 18, i860. 3.
AVilliam AUen, born in Gloucester, October 28,
i860; married July 5, 1883, Geneva AV.,
daughter of Cephas and Tabitha Smith, of
Rockport; children: Marian, born Gloucester,
January 18, 1887; Carleton S., born Glouces
ter, November 6, 1891. 4. Mary Melissa, born
Gloucester, July 23, 1873; married October
24, 1900, George V. Fisher, son of George and
Sarah (Marchant) Fisher.
(VIII) George Henry Procter, managing

editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, and for
more than half a century the active editorial
head of the several newspapers published by
the firm of Procter Brothers, and the subse
quently incorporated company of the same
name, was born in Gloucester July 4, 1835,
youngest surviving child of Francis Epes
Procter. When a boy in school he worked
evenings in his brother's news store, and car
ried newspapers in the town, traveling on foot
from "the cut" to Eastern Point on Rocky
Neck. When a little older he was apprenticed
to learn the trade of tinsmithing, with a reser
vation of a fourth of his time for the purpose
of attending school, but later on he gave up
the trade and took charge of the outside work
of his brother's business. In 1854 he became
partner with his brother under the firm name
of Procter Brothers. He was editor of Proc
ter's Able Sheet, of which mention is made in
a preceding paragraph, and he has been edi
tor of each of the papers, monthly, semi
monthly, weekly and daily, which have been
published by the firm in all later years. Mr.
Procter is counted among the oldest newspa
per editors in active service in New England,
having filled the editorial chair for somthing
more than half a century. In journalistic cir
cles he is well known, and as a writer on all
general subjects his editorials have attracted
attention by reason of their logic and strength,
and his evident capacity of fervent analysis
displayed in them. A Republican himself, his
papers have been conducted on an independent
basis so far as party politics is concerned, but
he never has been known to occupy a neutral
position- on any important question of national
or state politics. His papers always have been
kept clean, free from sensationalism, but he
has given the news of the day and commented
on it in a way calculated to awaken public in
terest rather than to arouse passion or prejii-
dice. In the early part of his career as a news
paper man Air. Procter was for a time in seri
ously impaired health, and in 1858, on the ad
vice of his physician, spent a part of that and
the following year in Surinam, South Am
erica, and while there he wrote several articles
on subjects of importance to Gloucester com
mercial interests. He has not taken a con
spicuous part in Gloucester politics, having
little inclination in that direction, although he
did serve two years in the common councU.
On nearly all public occasions he has taken an
active part and was a member of the literary
committee on the celebration of the 250th an
niversary of the incorporation of the town of

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Gloucester; also on Gloucester Day in 1907,
and frequently has served on Fourth of July
celebration committees. For several years he
served as historian of the Massachusetts Press
Association. Mr. Procter has been a Master
Mason since 1856. In religious preference he
has been a Universalist, the greater portion of
his life, but is now investigating Christian Sci
ence. He married, December 23, 1856, Sarah
Steele, born August 3, 1838, daughter of James
and Sarah D. Steele. Children: i. Annie S.,
born in Gloucester, November 22, 1857; mar
ried Bryant G. Smith; children, all born in
Boston: Infant, born September 10, 1878,
died same day; Kenneth Procter Smith, born
September 5, 1879; Mary Bates Smith, bom
December 30, 1884; Conrad Alaric Smith,
born June 20, 1887; Sarah Procter Smith,
born October 11, 1889; Gladys Louise Smith,
born June i, 1893. 2. George Henry, Jr., born
April 5, i860; married October 12, 1889, Emily
D. Jones ; one child. 3. Eddie, born August
30, 1862, died September 9, 1862. 4. Frances
Mens, born February 23, 1866; married Janu
ary 14, 1889, John J. Stanwood; children:
Barnard Lewis Stanwood, born July 17, 1890;
Marjorie Procter Stanwood, born February
19, 1892; Philip Stanwood, born July 22,
1893. 4. Mabel Bigelow, born August 20,
1868; married July 29, 1889, Gardner W.
Tarr; one child: Donald Procter Tarr, born
October 31, 1890. 5. John Murray, born No
vember 10, 1870, died February 9, 1871. 6.
James Lester, born AprU 25, 1876; married
September 3, 1900, EHzabeth Clark Burt; one
child: Alonzo, born June 24, 1901.

(For ancestry aee preceding sketch.)
(VI) Joseph Procter, third
PROCTER child and second son of Joseph
and EHzabeth (Epes) Proc
ter, born in Gloucester, June 27, 1772, died
there October 21, 1842. He appears to have
been a substantial man in the town, and fol
lowed the excellent example of his father in
his business life, as weU as in town affairs,
the records showing that he was selectman of
Gloucester 1808-9. It is believed that he
engaged extensively in the fishing business,
and also that he had an interest if not the
sole proprietorship in the old rope walk on
the shore not far from his residence. He
married, February 7, 1801, Elizabeth Piper.
born January 17, 1777, died June 24, 1863.
Children: i. Joseph Johnston, born July 2,
1802, died September 2, 1846. 2. Mary, born
September 20, 1804, died July 2, 1888. 3.

John Piper, born February 23, 1807, died
September i, 1891. 4. Addison, born August
27, 1809, died October 29, 1883. 5. Infant
son, born and died January 11, 181 1. 6. Eliza
beth, born February 5, 1813, died January 5,
1817. 7. Martha, born December 17, 1815. 8.
EHzabeth, born October 20, 1823, died No
vember 18, 1848.
(VII) Joseph Johnston Procter, eldest
child of Joseph Procter, was born in Glouces
ter, at his father's house down in the "Cut,"
July 2, 1802, and died September 2, 1848, at
the age of forty-six years. As early as the
year 1829 he established himself in the fish
ing business on the site now occupied by his
grandson, Joseph Osborne Procter, and con
ducted it for many years, until about the time
of his death in the prime of his manhood, just
when he had succeeded in laying the founda
tion of a substantial fortune; but his untimely
taking off placed the burden of responsibility
on his eldest son, Joseph Osborne Procter,
who assumed charge of the business just be
fore he had attained his majority. On June
17, 1826, Joseph J. Proctor married Eliza
Ann Gilbert, born July 18, 1805, died March
24, 1887. Their children: i. Eliza Ann,
born November 22, 1827; married November
25, 1852. 2. Joseph Osborne, born May 4, 1829,
died September 5, 1904. 3. David Ranney,
born October i, 1830; married February 24,
1851. 4. Ellen Maria, born August 10, 1832;
married November 17, 1850. 5. Sarah Au
gusta, born July 14, 1834; married October 6,
1854. 6. Martha Jane, born April 8, 1836,
died August 25, 1853. 7. Addison Gilbert, born
July 29, 1838; married July 10, i860. 8. Lucy
EHzabeth, born January 11, 1840; married
January 5, 1859. 9. Mary Adelia, born
.\ugust 25, 1842; married November 17, 1861.
10. William Otis, born October 12, 1844;
married June 16, 1864. 11. Howard, born
June 6, 1847, died September 16, 1848.
(VIII) Joseph Osborne Procter, second
son and child of Joseph Johnston Procter and
Eliza Ann Gilbert, his wife, was born in
Gloucester, Alassachusetts, May 4, 1829, and
died suddenly in that city, September 5, 1904.
With his daughters EUa and Adeline he had
attended a house party at Long Beach, and
while there suffered an attack of acute indi
gestion. He raUied, however, and was being
taken to his summer home when he was
stricken with apoplexy and died almost imme
diately. For many years Mr. Procter was prominent
among the men engaged in the vast Gloucester

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fisheries, and in many respects was one of the
most representative business men of the city.
Playing succeeded his father in business upon
the death of the latter in 1848, he continued
it until January, 1878, and then passed it over
to his son. He often had as many as fifteen
vessels engaged in the fishing business and
employed about one hundred and fifty men,
In 1852 Air. Procter was elected a director of
the Gloucester Mutual Fishing Insurance
Company, and for the next twenty years exer
cised a dominant influence in the management
of that company, having been its president
and treasurer during the last fifteen years of
that period. For fourteen years he was a
director of the Holyoke Mutual Fire Innsur-
ance Company of Salem, and for two years
its treasurer. From 1858 to 1862 he was a
director of the old Bank of Cape Ann, and in
1864 was one of the organizers of the First
National Bank of Gloucester, a member of its
first board of directors, serving in that capac
ity until 1896, and being president of the bank
during the last sixteen years of that time. He
was a charter member of the Gloucester
Water Supply Company and its president
from the time of organization. He also was
vice-president of the Gloucester Electric
Company, a director of the Gloucester Net
and Twine Company, and the first president
of the Gloucester Board of Trade, serving in
that capacity from 1866 to 1890. In religion
Mr. Procter was strictly orthodox; and hav
ing united with what is now Trinity Congre
gational Church in 1858, he was for several
years a member of its standing committee,
three years treasurer, twenty-eight years clerk,
and for more than thirty years superintend
ent of the Sunday school, librarian, teacher or
secretary. He took an active part in the pro
motion of the Gloucester Young Men's Chris-
tion Association, was always liberal in its sup
port, and was honored by being selected to
turn the first shovelful of earth for the new
building on Middle street. He was named one
of the trustees of the Sawyer Free Library by
the late Samuel E. Sawyer, and for forty
years was one of its directors. He also served
as a director of the Gloucester Seamen's and
Fishermen's Widows' Aid Society, a director
and corporate member of the Gloucester
Fishermen's Institute, and for a time was
president of the latter institution, and he also
was a director of the Gloucester Salt Com
pany. In politics Mr. Procter was originally
a AVhig and later a firm Repubhcan; and he

was a member of the convention at Worcester
which gave birth to the Republican party in
Alassachusetts. Frequently he was a delegate
to state and county conventions, a member
and chairman of the Gloucester board of
selectmen in 1868 and 1869, county commis
sioner from 1874 to 1880, being chairman of
the board during the last three years. He was
appointed by Mayor Andrews a member of the
park commission on the organization of that
body in 1896 and continued as a member
until 1902.
At the Procter family gathering held March
3, 1868, in commemoration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the wedding day of its
progenitors, Mr. Procter took an active part
as chairman of the preliminary meetings and
also furnished the genealogy of the family,,
which was published in pamphlet. He was
the first civilian elected an honorary member
of Colonel Allen Post No. 25, Grand Army of
the Republic, and did much work to aid the
post in its charitable and benevolent work.
Few men in Gloucester have done more for
their native city than Joseph Osborne Procter..
Possessed of a high order of executive ability
and business talent, together with an energetic-
will, with untiring industry and perseverance,.
he had the faculty of doing an immense
amount of clerical labor with little apparent
effort. Left at an early age by the death of
his father in charge of a large business, he
assumed burdens which developed his latent
energies and helped in the formation of a
character which shone to advantage all along-
his pathway in life as an energetic public
spirited citizen who gained the respect of his
fellow men and whose presence has been
greatly missed in the community in which he-
lived so long and so well.
Air. Procter married first, November 28,.
1849, Lydia Ann Gaff ney, born November 28,
1828, died December 3, 1852, by whom he had
one child, Ella Lucinda, born September 13,,
1850. He married second, October 14, 1853,.
Martha Ann Morse, born December 3, 1825,
died February 15, i860, who bore him two-
children: Joseph Osborne, born July 26,.
1854, and Martha Ann, born February i,
i860, died August 12, i860. He married third,.
September 11, i860, Lucy Anna Evans, born'
November 7, 1828, died April 24, 1904, by
whom he had two children: Annie Bur
roughs, born December 17, 1862, died Decem
ber 19, 1862 ; Adeline Winthrop, born Decem
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(IX) Joseph Osborne Procter, son of
Joseph O. and Martha Ann (Morse) Procter,
was born in Gloucester, July 26, 1854, and re
ceived his education in the public and high
schools of that city. When not in the school
room his time was generally occupied with
some kind of work in connection with his
father's business affairs, and when he reached
the age of twenty-two years he succeeded his
father and became sole owner and manager
of the Gloucester Mackerel Company, an im
portant element of the Gloucester fisheries in
general, and which under his proprietorship
has become one of the most extensive enter
prises of its kind on the Atlantic coast, while
to-day Mr. Procter himself is the largest
handler of salt mackerel in the entire country.
In respect to his capacity to build up and suc
cessfully direct a large business undertaking
Mr. Procter is much like his father, but other
wise is differently constituted, in that his busi
ness methods and domestic habits are more
conservative; and while he is not in any re
spect wanting in what is usually called pro
gressive public spirit, he much prefers the
comfort and congenial associations of home
rather than the distractions of politics or
monetary investments in enterprises which
demand constant personal attention, frequently
at the sacrifice of the rightful claims of home
and family upon his time. He is a thorough
Repubhcan, but never has allowed himself to
become actively identified with the political
life of his home city beyond the natural re
quirements of good citizenship. With his
falnily he enjoys both domestic and foreign
travel, an indulgence which to all of them has
been found a source of educational improve
ment as well as of pleasure.
On December 5, 1876, Mr. Procter married
Florence Cunningham, daughter of Sylvester
and Mary P. (Tarr) Cunning:ham; Mary P.
Tarr was a daughter of William and Sarah
(Knutsford) Tarr, and granddaughter of
Nehemiah and  (Parsons) Cunning-
^ham. Mr. and Mrs. Procter have five chU
dren; aU born in Gloucester: i. Mabel D.,
born June 12, 1878; married James C. Tate,
of Kansas City, Missouri ; children : Florence
Procter Tate and Frances Marshall Tate. 2.
Joseph Osborne, born September 17, 1880;
graduated from Harvard College, A. B., 1901 ;
Harvard Law School, LL. B., cum laude,
1904; now in practice in Boston. 3. Helen
Alansfield,- born July 2, 1885. 4- Richard
Cunningham, born March 3, 1891. 5- Doro-
. thy Knutsford, born September 29, 1893.

The Ivers family came to New
I VERS England about 1720 with the
pioneer Scotch settlers from the
north of Ireland. It is likely that the family
is English in origin, but like all the Protest
ants from Ulster Province, Ireland, came to
be called Scotch-Irish. Doubtless several gen
erations had intermarried with the Scotch
families in Ireland.
(I) We find two settlers in Boston. WiU
iam Ivers married in Boston, April 28,' 1724,
Jane Barber. The Presbyterian minister offi
ciated. His son William married (intention
dated December 28, 1750) Sarah Flagg, of
Boston. Gregory Ivers married within about
a month of his brother William, Elizabeth
Green, March 23, 1724, and their son Gregory
married, February 19, 1755, Elizabeth Ivers,
probably a sister of Gregory, and William
Ivers, married August 17, 1737, at Boston,
Elizabeth Green. All were Presbyterians.
The name is found nowhere else in this coun
try before the revolution. Owing to the de
fective condition of the Boston records it is
impossible to give complete information of
the early generations. The family of James is
the most complete.
(II) James Ivers, son of WiUiam Ivers
(i), born in Boston, about 1730; married,
August 18, 1753, at Boston, Hannah Tre-
cothick. He was a wealthy merchant, owning
land on Chardon street, Ivers street, Vine
street, where he resided; Green's Wharf;
store on Broad street; brick store in Mer
chant's Row; a sugar house and a distillery.
He died August 5, 1812. His estate was
finally divided September 15, 1823. The
widow's brother Barlow Trecothick is men
tioned. Children, born in Boston: i. James,
born July 7, 1754; married January 14, 1779,
EHzabeth Hughes. 2. Hannah, born March
20, 1756; married Jonathan Loring Austin. 3.
Jane, born March 17, 1758; married Benjamin
Austin. 4. Daughter married James T. Aus
tin (?). Jane Ivers, widow of AA'illiam Ivers
(i), died at Boston, 1789. Her wiU, dated
AprU 29, 1776, proved AprU 13, 1789, Captain
Job Prince executor ; bequeathed to son James,
mentioned above, and to Thomas, mentioned
below, and his children.
(II) Thomas Ivers, son of WiUiam Ivers
(i), died 1781, just before his "aged mother"
Jane. His will, dated April, 1781, bequeaths
to his mother, his wife Mary, and daughters
Elizabeth and Ann Ivers. His executors were
his wife and Rev. Samuel Parker. He mar-

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ried, September 19, 1776, Mary Cutler at Bos
ton. (Ill) Samuel Ivers, grandson of Gregory
(i), and doubtless son of William Ivers (2) ;
married at Boston, April 11, 1784, Mary
Brazier; second, August 9, 1807, Mary Nan-
ning (Manning?). No record of his estate
or death has been found.
(IV) Samuel Ivers, doubtless son of Sam
uel (3), born in Boston, about 1795, died 1869.
He rei:eived his early education in the public
schools of Boston. He came to Dedham when
a young man, and Hved a number of years,
removing later to Cambridge and finaUy to
Somerville, Massachusetts, where he died. He
was a carpenter and cabinet-maker by trade,
and became a contractor and builder. In his
later years he was engaged in the retail furni
ture business. He married Caroline Fuller.
Children: i. George, married Eunice White,
of Kennebunkport, Alaine; four children, all
deceased. 2. AVilliam H., born April 30, 1822 ;
mentioned below. 3. Caroline, married James
Hunniwell (Honeywell?) ; still lijdng at Cam
bridge ; children : i. James ; ii. Frank Hunni
well. 4. Samuel, died 1905 ; married first,
Jane Goby ; second, EHzabeth Perkins ; daugh
ter Ella living at New Bedford. 5. Francis,
married first, Sarah POrter ; one child, Carrie ;
second, Grace Haywood; one son, Francis
Haywood, married Levina Sidney Norton, of
Nashua, N. H. ; children : i. Leonie ; ii. Grace.
6. AVarren, married Jennie Lovejoy.
(V) William H. Ivers, son of Samuel
Ivers (4), was born in Dedham, April 30,
1822. He was reared in Dedham and educated
in the public schools of that town. When
thirteen years old he found employment in
Boston as clerk in a retail grocery store, and
was thus employed for five years. He then
returned to Dedham and worked at cabinet-
making for his father. Later he engaged in
the business of cabinetmaking on his own ac
count in Dedham. He went to Cambridge
with his father, and thence to Roxbury, where
he worked at his trade, cabinetmaker, manu
facturing and finishing chairs. In 1846 he
went to work in the Chickering piano factory,
and for the next twenty-five years was em
ployed by the Chickerings in various positions
of responsibility. In 1871 and 1872 he was
with the Hallett & Davis Piano Company. He
resigned his position to begin the manufacture
of pianos on his own account, in 1871, at Ded
ham, with a limited capital and upon a very
modest scale. His pianos found a ready sale
on account of his superior workmanship and

good taste, and his little business developed
rapidly. He interested some capitalists and
formed the now famous firm of Ivers & Pond
Company. From year to year the business in
creased until it became one of the largest in
New England. The pianos and organs manu
factured by Air. Ivers's house have the high
est standing for every quality that counts in a
musical instrument. In the perfection of
their pianos this company has kept in the fore
most ranks. Owing to his age, Mr. Ivers sold
out his interests and retired from the com
pany in 1897. The business continues under
the old name, and is still flourishing. The fac
tory is at Cambridgeport, and the main offices
are at Boylston street, Boston. Mr. Ivers re
sided in Dedham for more than fifty years in
his home which he bought in 1855. It was
called the old Howe homestead before he
owned it. He was a member of the Unitarian
Church of Dedham ; a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and politically was a Republican.
He married April 22, 1845, Lucy Jane Allen,
born in Roxbury, September 30, 1825, daugh
ter of John AVhite and Camelia (Knight) Al
len. Her father was born in 1796, and died
in 1844; his children: Alary Allen, Frances
Allen, Caroline Allen, Lucy Allen, Hannah
Allen, John Allen, Alice Allen. Children of
WilHam and H. Ivers: i. William H. Jr.;
married Nancy Jane Wilkinson (nee Hayes) ;
child : Jeanne. 2. Charles Francis, married first,
Martha Dunham Chapman; second, Lavinia
Vynal; children of first wife: Helen Louise,
Hester Adelaide. 3. Lucy Adelaide; married
AVilliam E. Pedrick ; daughter Mary Alice. 4.
Jane Amelia ; married George Ingalls ; daugh
ter, Lucy Eleanor. WilHam H. Ivers died Feb
ruary 9, 1908.

Within the first quarter of a cen-
STONE tury following the landing of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth in New
England there were no less than ten persons
of the name John Stone settled in the plan
tations of the region, and by reason of fre
quent removals on the part of some of them
from one place to another much confusion of
names and heads of families has long been a
source of annoyance to chroniclers of Stone
genealogy. (I) In speaking of John Stone, the im
migrant ancestor of the particular family
under consideration here, so good an authority
as Savage says that he was of Salem, Massa
chusetts, in 1636, and "kept the ferry across
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1719

he was the first keeper of a ferry at that place ;
that he had a grant of land on the Beverly
side in 1637, and was x)ne of the founders
of the church in Beverly, June 23, 1667 ; that
he was called John Stone, senior, from which
it is supposed that he had a son of the same
name, and perhaps other children. The same
author also suggests that John Stone may have
been a passenger in the "EHzabeth" from Lon
don in 1635, when, according to the ship's list
of passengers, he was forty years old. There
is no doubt of the general correctness of the
statements made concerning John Stone,
which are narrated in the preceding para
graph, but insomuch as the name of the old
pioneer ferryman disappears from the Salem
and Beverly records within a few years after
he settled there and does not again appear un
til he is mentioned in connection with found
ing the Beverly church in 1667, it is well to
quote what is written of this John Stone in
one of the more recent Stone genealogies :
John Stone came to Salem, Massachusetts,
in April, 1635, from Hawkhurst, Kent county,
England, in the "EHzabeth," remained there
for some time plying a ferry between Salem
and Beverly, and finally removed to Guilford,
Connecticut. This appears to account for the
absence of his name from the Salem and Bev
erly records after the term of his ferry lease
had expired, but it has been questioned wheth
er the John Stone who helped establish the
Beverly church was John the immigrant, or
John his son, although in the list of original
members the name is plainly written John
Stone, sen.
The name of John Stone in early Salem
and Beverly history figures most prominently
in connection with the establishment of the
first ferry across Bass river, which was done
in pursuance of an agreement with the town
of Salem, entered into on December 26, 1636.
"It is agreed that John Stone shall keepe a fer
ry, to begin this day, betwixt his home on the
neck vpon the north point and Cape Ann side,
and shall giue diligent attendance therevpon
dureing the space of three years, vnless he
shall giue just occation to the contrary, and
in consideracon thereof, he is to haue two
pence from a stranger and one penny from an
inhabitant. Moreover, the said John Stone
doth promise to provide a convenient boat for
the said purpose, betwixt this and the first
month next coming after the date hereof." In
1639 the ferry lease was given to William
Dexey, to continue for three years.

The name of the wife of John Stone, the
elder, does not appear, but he had a son John,
who died in 1691, leaving a widow Abigail.
He had also a daughter Abigail and perhaps
other children whose names do not appear.
(II) John Stone, son of John Stone, sen
ior, married Abigail  , and had a son
Samuel. (Ill) Samuel Stone, son of John and Abi
gail Stone, born Beverly, about 1658, died
November 23, 171 7, aged about fifty-nine
years. He married, March 11, 1683-84, Eliz
abeth Herrick, and had, according to the pub
lished records of Beverly, six children:
I. Zachariah, born Alay 22,. 1685. 2. Samuel,
born April 15, 1687, drowned in Squam river
in 1743. 3. John, born May 3, 1689. 4. Robert,
born April 28, 1692. 5. Abigail, born Novem
ber 17, 1695. 6. Elizabeth, born August i,
1698. . (IV) Robert Stone, son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Herrick) Stone, born Beverly,
-A-pril 28, 1692, married, January 23, 1723,
Elizabeth Elliot. She was a granddaughter
of Andrew Elliot, the first town clerk of Bev
erly and who died Alarch i, 1703-04, aged
seventy-six years. Robert and Elizabeth (El
liot) Stone had (according to the pubhshed
vital records of Beverly) three children : i.
Robert, born September 27, 1725, drowned
in Squam river, December 7, 1743. 2. John,
born September 8, 1728, see forward. 3. Zach
arias, born October 2, 1731.
(\^) John Stone, son of Robert and Eliza
beth (Elliot) Stone, born Beverly, September
8, 1728, married, February 18, 1752, Hannah
Rea. She was born in Beverly, September 13,
1732, and was a daughter of John and Han
nah (Brown) Rea. The names and number
of their children are not known, but they had
a son John Stone.
(A"I) John Stone, son of John and Hannah
(Rea) Stone, born Beverly, April i, 1755,
died there January 22, 1832. He was a soldier
of the revolution, having enHsted twice dur
ing the war, and on one occasion served under
Washington's command at Harlem Heights in
the province of New York. He married, June
28, 1755, Hannah Obear (Ober), who died
October 24, 1846, aged eighty-nine years, six
months, daughter of Captain James and Lydia
(Cleaves) Ober. Children of John and Han
nah (Ober) Stone: i. MoUy, born March 28,
1776, married  Edwards. 2. John, born
January i, 1778, died at sea, November 16,
1801. 3. Nancy, married Dr. Jones, of Wen-
ham. 4. Hannah, born February 28, 1783,

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married (first) Captain Groves; (second)
Edward Stone. 5. Robert, born March 15,
1785, died March 23, 1846. 6. Ezra. 7. James,
born December 4, 1789, see forward. 8. Lydia,
born March 11, 1793. 9. Anna, born June 20,
1795. 10. Louisa, born July 14, 1797. n.
Henry, born September 20, 1800.
(VII) James Stone, son of John and Han
nah (Ober) Stone, born Beverly, December
4, 1789, died there September 26, 1881, having
lived to attain the age of more than ninety
years, after a life of hard, earnest and suc
cessful work. He early took to the sea, first
as a fisherman and from that modest place
gradually advanced through his own efforts
and enterprise to the ownership of the largest
fleet of deep sea fishing vessels that ever put
out of the port of Beverly. He was not only
a successful man, but he was a thoroughly
good man, straightforward in his dealings
with others, honest, liberal with his employees, -
of whom during his long business career there
were perhaps thousands, and he often made
liberal charitable contributions for the relief
of the families of unfortunate fishermen. He
always felt a deep interest in the welfare of
his native town of Beverly, and served in vari
ous offices of local importance. For several
years he was a member of the school commit
tee, and for many years was a member of the
Unitarian church. Originally he was an old
line Whig, and afterward a Republican in poli
tics. On November 13, 1817, James Stone
married Lydia Foster, of Beverly, born March
25, 1788, died November 16, 1878. She was
a daughter of Ezra T. and Sarah (Stickney)
Foster. Sarah (Stickney) Foster was born
March 31, 1754, the youngest but one of four
teen children of Deacon William Stickney, of
BUlerica, Massachusetts, who was born in
Bradford, Massachusetts, October 14, 1704-
05, and died August 27, 1781. He was brought
up in the family of his grandfather, David
Hazeltine, of Bradford, his own father having
died when WilHam was about two years old,
and returned to live with his mother after her
marriage with Samuel Hunt, of BiUerica.
William Stickney was a prominent man in
his day, and when about eighteen years old
(July, 1722) was a servant to Joshua Abbot
and served under Sergeant Jonathan Butter
field during the early Indian wars. He was
deacon of the Church of Christ in Billerica
as early as 175 1 and performed various im
portant offices in the church, having been its
clerk from 1760 to 1763, moderator in 1762,
and frequently a delegate from his church to

ecclesiastical conventions. He was town clerk
of Billerica twelve years, selectman as early
as 1747, representative to the general court,
and justice of the peace and quorum as early
as 1765. He represented Billerica in the first
provincial congress at Salem in 1774, at Cam
bridge and Watertown in 1775, and in 1776
was one of a committee in Billerica in behalf
of the general court to purchase soldiers cloth
ing for the army. He married twice. His
first wife, whom he married in June, 1729,
was Ann Whiting, who died March 26, 1749,
and he married (second), November 23, 1749,
Hannah Abbott, widow of Jeremiah Abbott
and whose maiden name was Hannah Ballard.
She died February 17, 1789.
Deacon William Stickney, father of William
Stickney, was the second of three sons of
William and Anna (Hazeltine) Stickney, who
married in Bradford, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 14, 1 70 1. He was born in Bradford, Jan
uary 27, 1674, and died there February 21,
1706, aged thirty-two years. He was a son of
Lieutenant Samuel Stickney, who was born
in England in 1633, came with his father to
this country in 1638, settling first at Boston
and afterward at Rowley, Massachusetts. He
was selectman of Bradford eight years, con
stable in 1676, took the oath of fidelity in 1678,
the freeman's oath in 1682, and represented
Bradford in the general court in 1689-90. He
is mentioned as lieutenant in the Bradford
records in 1691, grand juror in 1697 and ty-
thingman in 1704. He married (first), in
Rowley, February 18, 1653-54, Julia Swan,
and married (second), April 6, 1674, Mrs.
Prudence Gage, whose family name was
Leaver. Lieutenant Samuel Stickney was the eldest
son and child of William Stickney, who was
baptized in St. Alary's church, Frampton, Lin
colnshire, England, September 6, 1592, and
came from Hull, Yorkshire, to America in
1637, with his wife EHzabeth and three chil
dren — Samuel, Amos and Mary — and was one
of the original settlers of Rowley. He was
the immigrant ancestor of the Stickney family
of the line here briefly mentioned, and was
himself a son of WUliam Stickney, of Framp
ton, baptized 1558, married, June 16, 1585,
Alargaret Pierson, and grandson of Robert
Stickney, of Frampton, who was buried Octo
ber 18, 1582. Frampton is a parish in the
wapentake of Kirton, Lincolnshire, England,
and the church there is dedicated to St. Mary.
Its parish register contains many records of

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1721

l)aptisms, marriages and burials of Stickneys
from 1588 to 1609.
Lydia Foster who married James Stone
was born in Beverly, March 25, 1788, and died
there November 16, 1878. Her father, Ezra
Trask Foster, born in Beverly, January 29,
1752, married, October 3, 1784, Sarah Stick
ney, of whom mention is made in a preceding
paragraph. Ezra Trask and Sarah (Stick-
aiey) Foster had six children, of whom Lydia
was fifth in order of birth.
Ezra Trask Foster was a son of Deacon
Joseph Foster, who was born in Ipswich, Mas-
-sachusetts, February 14, 1714, and died Feb
ruary 27, 1767. He was town clerk, selectman
.and overseer of the poor, and in 1761 received
from the town three pounds for disbursements
for the French neutrals. He married, Novem-
rber 12, 1735, Hannah Trask, who died August
II, 1778, having borne her husband twelve
¦children, of whom Ezra Trask Foster Was
¦eighth in order of birth.
Deacon Joseph Foster was a son of Joseph
Foster, who was born in Ipswich, Massachu
setts, September 14, 1680, and died February
22, 1755. He was a cordwainer, attended the
South meeting-house in Ipswich and owned
¦one-half of a pew in the gallery. He married
(first), January 23, 1704, Elizabeth Goodwin;
¦married (second), August 13, 1712, Mary
Cressy, of Salem; married (third), November
.30, 1714, widow Mary Brown, whose family
name was Linforth. He had in all eleven
¦children, of whom Joseph was third in order
•of seniority.
Joseph Foster was a son of Deacon Jacob
Foster, who was born in England, 1635, died
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, July 7, 17 10. He
was a deacon of the First Church in Ipswich.
He married (first), January 12, 1658, Martha
Kinsman, who died October 15, 1666, daugh
ter of Robert Kinsman, of Ipswich. He mar
ried (second), February 26, 1667, AbigaU
Lord, who died June 4, 1729. Of his four
teen children Joseph was twelfth in order of
birth. Deacon Jacob Foster was a son of Reginald
Foster, who was born in England about 1595,
and died in Ip.swich, Massachusetts, in 1681.
He came from England in 1638 and had a
grant of land in Ipswich, AprU 6, 1641. He
Tjrought with him his seven children by his
-first wife. He married three times, the name
of his first wife being unknown. His second
wife, Judith  , died in October, 1664,
and he married for his third wife, September
19, 1665, Sarah Martin, widow of John Martin

and whose family name was White. She died
February 22, 1683. Reginald Foster, of Little
Badow, county of Essex, England, belonged to
the Fosters of Bamborough and Etherstone
Castle, county of Northumberland, England,
(see Foster family elsewhere in this work).
James and Lydia (Foster) Stone had four
children, all born in Beverly: i. James W.,
born September 12, 1821, died August 10,
1901 ; married Liia E. Long, a southern
woman, who was born January 11, 1827, and
died August 8, 1905. Their children : Carrie
L., born September 12, 1853, married Francis
M. Nash and Hves in New York City ; LUa F.,
born August 25, 1859, lives in New York City.
2. John, born November 5, 1823, died Septem
ber 7, 1867 ; never married. 3. Ezra F., born
September 17, 1825, died March 28, 1885;
never married. 4. Lydia, born October 23,
1828, lives in Beverly. She is a woman of
high educational and social attainments and
has taken an earnest interest in benevolent and
church work in Beverly for many years.

For the origin of the
ARRINGTON name in England, see
sketch of the Harrington
family in this work. The surnames Arring-
ton, Harrington and Errington are identical
in derivation.
(I) Captain James Arrington, doubtless the
immigrant, is said to have come from Virginia
to . Salem. He settled in Salem and married
there August 2, 1768, Mary Pickering, sister
of Colonel Timothy Pickering. (See Picker
ing). He married second, September 11,
1783, Mary Abbott. (See Salem records).
Children of the first wife: i. James, born
about 1770; mentioned below. 2. Joseph, mar
ried, November 27, 1796, Katherine Richards.
Perhaps daughters.
(II) Captain James Arrington, son of Cap
tain James Arrington, was born in Salem
about 1770, and educated in the public schools.
He was a master mariner. He lost his Hfe
during a storm at sea, being washed over
board. He was a member of the First Uni
tarian "Church. In politics he was a staunch
Whig. He married, March 10, 1797, Deborah
(Richards) Scott, widow of George Scott.
He died in 18 10 and his widow Deborah was
appointed guardian of the children July 10,
1810 ; administratrix July 17, 1810. Children,
born in Salem: I. James, mentioned below. 2.
George, born 1804, married Jane Monies ;
children : i. Mary Jane, died young ; ii. Eliza
beth, died young ; iii. George, died unmarried ;

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

iv. Deborah R. ; v. Eliza, married Charles
Williams; resides at Salem and has a son
George S. AVilliams. 3. Benjamin, born 1807,
followed the sea; died unmarried. 4. Polly,
died young. 5. Lydia, born October, 1809,
died unmarried.
(Ill) Captain James Arrington, son of Cap
tain James Arrington, born at Salem, Alassa
chusetts, February 21, 1801, died there July
19, 1866. He was educated in the public school,
and at an early age began to follow the sea.
He became a prominent ship-master at Salem.
In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a
Universalist. Pie was a member of East India
Marine Society. Among the vessels he com
manded were the "Three Brothers" and
"Mary Ann." He married, July 23, 1829, at
Salem, Elizabeth R. Arrington, a cousin,
born September 10, 1810, died January 30,
1840, daughter of Joseph and Catherine
(Richards) Arrington. He married (second)
Alary Ann Tufts, daughter of Aaron and Sally
(Ward) Tufts. (See Tufts and Ward). Mary
Ann Tufts married (first) Benjamin McAllis
ter Richards, a seaman, son of Benjamin and
Mary (Fowle) Richards. She had one daugh
ter, Mary A. Richards, born October i, 1837,
married Henry M. Robinson, of Salem, and
had two children who died young. The Pick
ering Genealogy gives among the families
from which James Arrington descends (large
ly through the Hne of his mother) : Arrington,
Pickering, FHnt, Hobby, Symonds, Browning,
Foster, Stuart and Richards. His great-great-
grandmother, Jane Plobby, married Benjamin
Pickering, grandson of John Pickering (i),
the immigrant. He was cousin of Hon. Tim
othy Pickering, of Washington's cabinet, one
of the most prominent men of revolutionary
days in Massachusetts. Captain Arrington
was one of the best known and most prominent
master mariners of Salem, one of the best
navigators. He accumulated a comfortable
fortune. He was a Whig in politics, and a
Unitarian in religion. Children of first wife :
I. Mary, born October 11, 1830, married Ed
ward Pierce ; she lives in Brockton. 2. James,
horn September 10, 1832, married (first) Me-
linda Bickford; (second) Mary Kimball. 3.
Benjamin, born February 21, 1835, died young.
4. Benjamin P., born June 13, 1836, died April
9, 1871 ; married Lydia Manning, who died
December 30, 1870. Children of second wife :
5. Samuel W., born February 10, 1846, died
February 9, 1877 ; married Sarah Jane Alorse,
who lives in Salem ; children : i, Sarah Jane,
born July 2, 1868, unmarried ; ii. Samuel W.,

born December 26, 1869, unmarried ; iii. James,
born January 9, 1872, died young; iv. Mary,
born September 2, 1873 ; v. James, bom Octo
ber 16, 1875, unmarried. 6. Deborah Richards,
born Alay 26, 1847, married Charles H. Allen ;
no children ; they reside in Providence, Rhode
Island. 7. Lydia Ward, born Alarch 12, 1849,
married William H. Varney, born at Bosca
wen, New Hampshire, died November 28,
they had no children ; widow lives with

Philip Payne Pinel Arrington. 8. Zachariah
Taylor, born October i, 1850, married Fannie
Stingle, of Digby, Nova Scotia ; they live at
Lynn; have no children. 9. Philip Payne
Pinel, born April 6, 1852, mentioned below.
10. Sally Ward, born March 2, 1854, died July
II, 1905; married George A. NewhaU; he
Hves at Salem ; children : i. George E. Newhall,
died young; ii. Beatrice Newhall, born July 12,
1889. II. Helen A'larr, born April i, 1857,
died in infancy. 12. Helen Marr, born Janu
ary 29, 1859, married (first) Frederick Froth
ingham ; (second) Charles Alley, of Lynn;
child of first marriage, Frederick Herbert
Frothingham, born June 12, 1882 ; child of
second marriage, Ruth Evelyn Alley, born July
28, 1900; they live in Lynn.
(lA^) Philip Payne Pinel Arrington, son of
Captain James Arrington (3), was born in
Salem, April 6, 1852. He was educated in the
public schools there. He has never been in ac
tive business, having been occupied in the care
of his real estate and other investments. He
has lived in the old Arrington home at 6
-Andover street, and has always been greatly
interested and useful in church work. He is
a prominent member and deacon of the First
LTnitarian Church of Salem, the original
church organized in Salem in 1629. In politics
Air. Arrington is non-partisan. He is opposed
to machine politics of all kinds and votes for
the men whom he prefers regardless of the
party nominating them. He is a member of no
lodge or secret society. He has never married.

(For ancestry see Peter Tufts 1.)
(IV) Peter Tufts, son of Peter
TUFTS Tufts, born April 24, 1728, died
Alay 4, 1 79 1, aged sixty-three
years. He resided in Charlestown and was
taxed there from 1756 to 1770. In his wiU,
dated March i, and proved May 3, 1791, he
mentions his wife and ten children. He mar
ried, April 19, 1750, Ann Adams, who died
February 7, 1813, aged eighty-four years. Her
grave is marked by a headstone. Children,
born at Charlestown: i. Peter, born May 20,

BO.STON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1723

1751, died March 19, 1752. 2. Peter, born
January 9, 1753, mentioned below. 3. John.
born November 24, 1754. 4. Ann, born jfanu-
ary 25, 1757, married Abel Richardson. 5.
Elizabeth, born October 23, 1758, married
Daniel Swan. 6. Joseph, born July 12, 1760.
7. Lydia, born June 10, 1762, married Rev.
Robert Gray. 8. Asa, born July 2, 1764. 9.
Thomas, born May 18, 1766. 10. Lucy, born
November 12, 1767, married Jacob Osgood.
II. Rebecca, Wn September 20, 1769, mar
ried Nathan Adams. 12. Sarah, married Jo
seph Adams.
(V) Peter Tufts, son of Peter Tufts, was
born in Charlestown, January 9, 1753. He
was in the revolution in Captain Benjamin
Blaney's company. Colonel Eleazer Brooks'
regiment, in 1778, and was in camp seventy-
one days. He married, at Cambridge, July 22,
1773, Hannah Adams, who died in 1816, aged
sixty. Children, born in Charlestown: i. Peter,
born December 10, 1774. 2. Hannah. 3. Anna,
born December 21, 1777, married Isaac Tufts.
4. Thomas. 5. Rebecca. 6. Sally. 7. Aaron,
born about 1787, married October 24, 1813,
Sarah Ward (See sketch of Ward family
herewith). 8. Eliza. 9. Lucretia. 10. Ivory.
II. WUham.

(For preceding generations see Miles Ward 1.)
(IV) John Ward, son of Miles
WARD Ward (3), was born in Salem,
July 7, 1707. He married, Sep
tember 17, 1734, Hannah Higginson, born No
vember 8, 1 71 2, daughter of Nathaniel and
Hannah (Gerrish) Higginson. He married
(second), September 14, 1758, Martha Batter,
born September 21, 171 2, died October 12,
1787, daughter of Edmund and Martha (Pick-
man) Batter. Children, born in Salem: i.
Hannah, born December 21, 1735, married
Samuel Webb. 2. Mary, born August 9, 1737,
died May 27, 1740. 3. John, born January 10,
1738, married (first), June 4, 1761, Bethia
Archer; (second), October 24, 1784, Molly
(Lufkin) Emmerton, widow. 4. Nathaniel,
born January 29, 1739. 5. Andrew, born Oc
tober 6, 1742, mentioned below.
(V) Andrew Ward, son of John Ward, born
in Salem, October 6, 1742, died January, 1816.
The Pickering Genealogy gives a list of the
families from which he is descended as : Ward,
Flint, Massey, Wells, Warner, Higginson,
Whitfield, Sheafe, Savage, Symmes, Gerrish,
Lowell, Ruch and Spooner. He was a soldier
in the revolution in the company of Captain
Benjamin Ward, Jr., from January 22, 1776,

to November 18 following, on coast defense
duty at Salem ; also in Captain Allies Green
wood's company. Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regi
ment in 1777-78. Pie married. May 21, 1773,
Sarah Henfield, who died December, 181 7,
aged sixty-seven years, daughter of Edmund
Henfield. Edmund Henfield, born at Salem,
was the son of Joseph and Lydia (Baston)
Henfield; died in 1794; married Lydia Hardy,
born in Salem, 1723, died there Alarch, 1794,
daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Pickering)
Hardy. Joseph Hardy was a ship-builder on
Hardy street, Salem ; resided also at Haverhill
and Boston; son of Joseph and Mary (Graf
ton) Hardy; left no descendants in the male
line. Lieutenant John Pickering, father of
Sarah (Pickering) Hardy, was son of the im
migrant John Pickering (See .sketch of the
Pickering family) ; was born at Salem in 1637
and resided there on his farm ; was selectman,
constable in 1664, on committee to determine
the Lynn line in 1664, collector of subscrip
tions for Harvard College, signed the protest
against various imposts in 1668, ensign of the
military company in King Philip's war and
took part in the battle of Bloody Brook.
Children of Edmund and Lydia (Hardy)
Henfield: i. Joseph Henfield, died March i,
1809, aged sixty-six years. 2. Lydia Henfield,
baptized May 13, 1744, married George Chap
man, July 2. 1764. 3. Edmund Henfield, born
at Salem, drowned ; married Mary Bendle. 4.
Sarah Henfield, married Andrew Ward ; men
tioned above. 5. Mary Henfield, married
Joshua Goodall, baptized June 17, 1753. 6.
John Henfield. 7. Martha Henfield, married
David Neal. 8. Jonathan Henfield, married
 Dowst. 9. Ruth Henfield, married
John Chapman. Children of Andrew and
Sarah (Henfield) Ward : i. Andrew, married,
November 18, 1798, Betsey Bowman. 2. Na
thaniel, drowned March 31, 1824, aged forty-
nine, light-house keeper at Baker Island ; mar
ried Alary Cutler. 3. John, died October 18,
1821, aged forty years; married Lucy How.
4. Samuel, prominent citizen, representative
to the general court. 5. Sarah, married, Oc
tober 24, 1813, Aaron Tufts (See sketch of the
Tufts family herewith). 6. Lydia, married
(first)  Scagel ; (second) Moses Smith.

(For preceding generations see John Piclcering 1.)
(IV) William Pickering, son
PICKERING of Benjamin Pickering (3),
was born at Salem. He was
a cordwainer by trade. His will was dated
February 16, 1765, and proved March 18 fol-

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

lowing, bequeathing to two sons, John and
William, his shoemaking tools, etc. ; to two
daughters, Hannah Foster and Abigail Scol-
lay ; and to his wife Eunice who had the whole
estate during life. He married Eunice (Pick
ering) Neale, widow of Joseph Neale, daugh
ter of John Pickering (3) mentioned below.
Children of WUliam and Eunice Pickering: i.
Rev. John, baptized January 2, 1738-39, died
October 27, 1823; married Hannah IngersoH,
daughter of Nathaniel IngersoH. 2. William,
born at Salem, died at AVarwick, Massachu
setts ; removed to Richmond, New Hampshire,
and later to Warwick ; married Philadelphia
Kempton, born at Richmond, daughter of Ste
phen and Catherine (Boyce) Kempton. 3.
Hannah, baptized February 8, 1740-41, died
October, 1801, aged sixty; married Joseph
Foster ; second, Joseph Lakeman ; third, David
Masury, of Salem. 4. Abigail, baptized June
12, 1743, died March 28, 1808, married James
ScoUay ; second, WiUiam Baldwin. 5. Mary,
baptized at Salem, June 12, 1743, probably died
at Salem; married James Arrington. (See
sketch of Arrington family. Colonel Timothy
Pickering's sister did not marry an Arring
ton). (Ill) John Pickering, son of John Picker
ing (2), and grandson of John Pickering, im
migrant, was a farmer in Salem ; admitted to
the church in his native town, December 16,
1688. He inherited the homestead and be
came a prominent citizen of Salem ; was se
lectman from 1710 to 1716 inclusive and dep
uty to the general court 1714-16-17. He was
prosperous and left a goodly estate. His death
was caused by cancer of the face. He was
buried in the private yard of the Pickering
family where his grave is marked by a stone.
He died June 19, 1722, the inscription on the
stone being wrong. He married Sarah Burrill,
of the "royal family of Salem", as the Burrills
were nicknamed on account of the prominence
of' the family.
George Burrill, immigrant, was her grand
father ; he came to Lynn before 1637 soon
after the first settlement and lived on the west
side of Tower Hill where he owned two hun
dred acres or more : married, in Boston, 1626,
Mary Cooper ; children : i. Francis Burrill,
born 1626, died 1704; ii. John BurriU, men
tioned below ; iii. George BurriU, died 1698.
Captain John Burrill, father of Sarah Bur
rill, and son of George Burrill, was a promi
nent citizen of Lynn ; selectman, deputy to the
general court ; lived on Tower Hill also ; mar
ried Lois Ivory, born 1631, died June 24, 1763,

daughter of Thomas Ivory ; will dated August
14, 1703; children: i. John Burrill, born De
cember 15, 1658; ii. Sarah BurrUl, born Au
gust 6, 1661, married John Pickering, men
tioned above ; iii. Thomas, born March 7, 1663-
64; iv. Anna BurrUl, born November 15, 1666-
67; V. TheophUus BurriU. vi. Lois BurriU,
born March 27, 1671-72; vii. Samuel BurriU,
born 1674; viii. Mary BurriU, born April 18,
1676-77, died December 26, 1694; ix. Eben
ezer, born September 13, 1679, married
Martha Farrington ; x. Ruth Burrill, born July
17, 1682, married Benjamin Potter.
Children of John and Sarah (BurriU) Pick
ering: I. John, baptized February 6. 1688. 2
Lydia, drowned October 14, 1704. 3. Rev.
Theophilus, baptized September 29, 1700,
graduate of Harvard, 1719, settled at Chebac-
co. 4. Deacon Timothy, had father's home
stead, baptized February 14, 1702-03; was
father of Colonel Timothy Pickering of Wash
ington's cabinet, one of the most famous men
of the revolution and subsequent days. 5. Lois,
baptized September 22, 1683, married Timothy
Orne, baptized 1683, son of Joseph Orne, and
grandson of John Horne or Orne, of Salem, a
celebrated family. 6. Sarah, married Joseph
Hardy, of Salem. 7. Eunice, mentioned below.
(IV) Eunice Pickering, daughter of John
Pickering (3), was baptized in Salem, No
vember 17, 1705. She married first, Joseph
Neale, fisherman; second, WiUiam Pickering,
mentioned above. She bequeathed to her chil
dren. Children of first husband : i. Emma
Neale, baptized May 28, 172 — , married Ben
jamin Bacon ; ii. Mary Neale, baptized AprU
5, 1730, married John Foster and second, John
Cleveland. Children of second husband — see
WiUiam Pickering (4) above.
Hugh Alley Sr. was one of the
ALLEY earliest and most prominent set
tlers at Nahant and the only one
who kept his home there in opposition to the
decree of Lynn that it should be "sown down
to EngHsh grass, and that no house should be
left standing", as a final settlement of the
fierce controversy raging as to the proprietor
ship of the land at Nahant.
(I) The first that is known of Hugh Alley
is in 1635, when at the age of twenty-seven
years he embarked, a "no subsidy" man, from
Stepney parish in England, in the ship ".Abi
gail" bound for New England. In company
with him were Henry and Ann CoUins with
three children — Henry, John and Margery.
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J647 or 1648, as six of his children were born
there. By the .depositions of various indi
viduals vyho testified in the contest over the
Nahant landSj is 'shown .that, one Thomas
Graves was the first inhabitant of Nahant, and
Hugh Alley the second, and that his house and
barn were standing in 1673 or 1674. His
homestead was a most desirable dwelling place,
with the bounty of land and sea at its very
doors. He served in the Pequot war, as by
deposition of Benjamin CoUins and others,
"the land now in controversie, called the Hope
Well, was given to Hugh Alley for his ser
vices in the Pequot war". It would seem that
they were a sturdy fighting family, for his son
Solomon was killed afterward in King Philip's
war. Hugh Alley died January 25, 1674. He
married, 1641, Mary Graves, who came from
England with her sister Joanna Graves in the
ship "Hopewell", which arrived in .Salem in
September, 1635 ; these two were children of
Thomas Graves, as they went to Nahant where
Graves was settled. Children of Hugh and
Mary Alley: i. Mary, born January 6, 1641-2;
married June 6, 1667, John Linsey. 2. John,
November 30, 1646; married August 15, 1670,
Joanna Furnill. 3. Martha, July 31, 1649; mar
ried, 1671, James Mills. 4. Sarah, April 15,
165 1 ; married "beginning of August", 1668,
Eleazer Linsey, a brother of John Linsey, who
married Mary, see above. 5. Hugh, born May
15, 1653 (see post). 6. Solomon, born August
2, 1656; located in Deerfield, Massachusetts;
one of Captain Lothrop's company, "the flower
of Essex", and was kiUed at Bloody Brook,
September 18, 1675. 7. Hannah, born June i,
1661, died August 30, 1674. 8. Jacob, born
September 5, 1663, died January 25, 1674.
(II) Hugh Alley, second son and fifth child
of Hugh Alley, was born in Lynn, October 13,
1653. He was a weaver by trade, and spent
his life in his native town, Lynn. He married,
December 9, 1681, Rebecca Hood, who sur
vived him and was his widow in 1722. He di
vided his estate between his wife Rebecca and
his children in 1712. Children, born in Lynn:
I. Solomon, born October 11, 1682; kUled in
the Pequot war. 2. Jacob, January 28, 1683;
perhaps died before 1712. 3. Eleazer, Novem
ber I, 1686; perhaps died before 1712. 4. Han
nah, August 16, 1689; unmarried in 1712. 5.
Richard, July 31, 1691 ; living in 1712. 6. Jo
seph, June 22, 1693; died in autumn 1767;
lived in Lynn, a shipwright by trade ; married
first, Hepzibah Newhall, January 14, 1724-5 ;
second, Anna Johnson, December 10, 1755. 7.
Benjamin, February 24, 1695 (see post). 8.

Samuel, died between March 3 and November
2, 1767; married December 12, 1728, AbigaU
Basset; housewright by trade, also fisherman
several years.
(Ill) Benjamin Alley, sixth son and seventh
child of Hugh and Rebecca (Hood) Alley,
was born in Lynn, February 24, 1695. He was
a farmer and fisherman, and lived in Lynn;
He married first, Elizabeth Newhall, of Lynn
(published September 26, 1717). She was Hv
ing in 1741. He married second, Hannah
Hart, of Lynn (published March 20, 1742-3).
He made his will May 19, 1756, and it was
proved June 21, 1756. His wife Hannah sur
vived him. Children, born in Lynn : i. Jacob,
September 19, 1719 (see post). 2. Solomon,
born January 2, 1721 ; married Rebecca  ,
both living in 1771 ; he was a fisherman and
lived in Lynn. 3. Eleazer, April 16, 1723;
lived in Lynn; shipwright, 1749; married
Tabitha Ingalls, of Lynn (published Septem
ber 20, 1747) ; was living in 1756. 4. Richard,
October 9, 1726 ; perhaps died young. 5. Han
nah, July 28, 1728, died before 1756; married
March 22, 1749-50, John Ingalls of Lynn. 6.
Benjamin, April 9, 1731 ; of Boston; ship
wright, 1749; living in 1756. 7. John, March
25, 1738; died in Lynn, March 10, 1807; mar
ried, before 1762, Sarah Hood, of Lynn ; she
was living in 1799; he was first a cordwainer,
afterward a yeoman. 8. Abner, twin, February
18, 1741 ; married May 25, 1762, Sarah Web-
ben; he was called cordwainer, but went to sea
in 1778 and believed to have been lost. 9.
Elizabeth, twin with Abner, married Novem
ber I, 1757, John Richards.
(IV) Jacob Alley, eldest child of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (NewhaU) Alley, was born in
Lynn, Massachusetts, September 19, 1719. He
was yeoman and cordwainer, and hved in
Lynn, succeeding his father on the homestead,
on corner of Sea and Market streets, present
site of Boston and Revere Beach Railroad,
Lynn. He married Huldah Newhall, of Lynn,
June 26, 1753, but there is a question if he did
not marry, for first wife, Mary Provender, of
Lynn, February 21, 1738-9. He was stiU liv
ing in 1773. Administration upon his estate
was granted April 28, 1777. His wife Huldah
NewhaU survived him, and died April 22,
1808. His children: i. Jacob, living in Sher
burne, Nantucket county, 1780 ; Quaker ; ship
wright ; eldest son born 1777. 2. Timothy, born
October 10, 1760 (see post). 3. Jerusha, born
about 1764; married William Richards, of
Lynn (published June 5, 1785). 4. Benjamin,
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married February i, 1785, Sarah Graves, of
Lynn; died July 5, 1842, aged seventy-seven.
5. Solomon, born about 1768, died January 19,
1829, aged sixty years ; was a blacksmith, lived
in Lynn; married first, Bethia Hayward (or
Howard) of Danvers (published March 18,
1792), who died December i, 1794, aged twen
ty-six years; married second, June 10, 1796,
Rachel Berry, of Lynn, who was living in
1828. (V) Timothy Alley, second son and chUd
of Jacob and Huldah (NewhaU) Alley, born
October 10, 1760, died December 16, 1850,
aged ninety years. He lived in Lynn, and was
a cordwainer. He married, April 8, 1787, Abi
gail Witt, of Lynn, born October 9, 1763, died
1834, on her seventy-first birthday. Children,
born in Lynn: i. Nabby, July 31, 1788, died
May I, 1838; married John D. Pecker, of Sal
isbury, born September 2, 1784, died January
16, 1865. 2. Sally, February 26. 1790, married
Aaron Newhall. 3. Lydia, December 28, 1791,
died July 24, 1792. 4. Timothy (3), April 30,
1793, see forward. 5. John, March 28, 1795,
died November 29, 1865 ; married Sarah Ho-
man, of Marblehead, died June 12, 1864. 6.
Lydia, May 18, 1800, died October 10, 1884;
married Benjamin Clifford, born 1795, died
April 20, 1842. 7. Jacob Randolph, March 12,
1802, died December 17, 1872; married Ta
bitha Doliver, born 1801, died August 19, 1855.
8. Reuben, born November 15, 1805; married
Hannah Moulton. 9. James, April 6, 1808,
died March 25, 1899 ; married Abigail, daugh
ter of Alajor Witt.
(VI) Timothy Alley, eldest son and fourth
child of Timothy and Abigail (Witt) Alley,
born April 30, 1793, died December 16, 1850.
Alarried first, June 4, 1820, Elizabeth S. Fol-
let, died July 8, 1843, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Elizabeth FoUet, of
Marblehead, and who had five children.
He married second, January 4, 1844, Widow
Sarah Allen Wiggins, daughter of John Wood
bury, of Lynn. No chUdren were born of this
marriage, but a child was adopted — Sarah El
len Varney, born February 18, 1843, whose
name was changed May 10, 1848. She was
wife of N. Everett Silsbee, of Lynn, and is
deceased. Children of Timothy and Elizabeth
S. (FoUet) Alley: i. Timothy Norval, born
February 28, 1823, see forward. 2. Anathasia
Maria, born November 28, 1824, died October
16, 1829. 3. Edgar, born November 11, 1831,
died November 14, 1831. 4. Edgar, bom May
6, 1834, died May 7, 1834. 5. Mary Elizabeth,
born April 12, 1839, died December 7, 1868.

(VII) Timothy Norval Alley, eldest child
of Timothy and Elizabeth S. (FoUet) Alley,
was born in Lynn, February 28, 1823, and died
May 24, 1887. He was educated at the acad
emy in Lynn, and always lived there, and dur
ing his active life was engaged in the pressed
leather business. First had a shop at corner
of Union and Mailey streets, later next to the
old Goodwin factory on Mt. Vernon street,
later retired from business. Politically he was
a staunch Democrat. His family attended ser
vices at the Universalist church in Lynn. He
married, January i, 1852, Harriet Augusta
BurriU, born April 9, 1828, died November 26,
1878, daughter of Nathaniel Fuller BurrUl, of
Lynn. ChUdren: i. Alden BurriU, born No
vember 6, 1852, died June 3, 1901 ; married
Mary T. Noyes ; no children. 2. Lizzie, born
May 29, 1855, died in infancy. 3. Charles A.,
born in Lynn, October 16, 1856 ; in real estate
business in Lynn. 4. Eva Maria, bom April i,
1859, died June 7, 1884; unmarried. 5. Reu
ben, born March 6, 1863, died AprU 23, 1865.
6. Addie Horton, bom March 24, 1866; un
married ; lives in Lynn.
(VIII) Charles Albert AUey, second son of
Timothy Nerval and Harriet Augusta (Bur
rill) Alley, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
October 16, 1856. He was educated in the
common schools of Lynn, also at Johnson's
private school, and on completing his studies
engaged in cutting shoes for his uncle, Albert
B. Ingalls, remaining in his employ between
twelve and fifteen years, cutting, packing and
finishing shoes. Later he worked at shoe mak
ing for different concerns in Lynn for a period
of almost a quarter of a century, after which
he and his cousin, C. R. Smith, engaged in the
manufacture of shoes, continuing until the fire
of 1889, when he engaged in the real estate
business on his own account, building and de
veloping property, especially the old Burrill
farm in Lynn. Air. Alley is past master of Mt.
Carmel Lodge, F and A. M., past high priest
Sutton Royal Arch Chapter, and past
eminent commander Olivet Commandery, No.
36, K. T. ; at present he is secretary of the
board of trustees of the Masonic Fraternity of
Lynn, member of Bay State Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Mr. Alley married, January 21, 1890, Helen
Marr Arrington, born Salem, Massachusetts,
January 29, 1859, daughter of James and
Mary A. (Tufts) Arrington, natives of Salem.
(See Arrington). They have one child, Ruth
Evelyn, born Lynn, July 28, 1900. Mrs. Alley
had by a former marriage a son, Fred Herbert
Frothingham, born Lynn, June 12, 1881, at

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present a salesman for Blodgett, Ordway &
Webber at 100 Essex street, Boston, Massa
chusetts.

Extract from EngHsh records :
ATTWILL Atwell Family. Lion rampant
on one leg. Arms : Argent a
pile sable surmounted by four chevrons coun-
tershaped. The crest of this family was given
to John Atwell, of Manhead, in Devon, by
WiUiam Camden Clarenceaux, 1614. Four
generations given, Fred, John, William, Peter,
1620. Thomas, of Walkhampton, four gener
ations, John Roger, Richard, Tristram, Grace.
Richard aged fifty, 1620. Arms : Argent on
a chevron sable. Three roses of the field. Wil
liam Gilbert, View of Devonshire in 1630, by
Thomas Westcote, John Atwell, of Kempton
and Manhead, historian, born 1567. AttwiU
of Devonshire: Argent three leopards heads
azure. Atwyl : Sable a pile H ; a chevron
counterchanged same with some others, pat.
1614. AtwiU or Atwell : A pile gules, depress
ed by chevron azure, all within a border in-
grailed argent; Devonshire.
(I) John Atwell settled in Casco, Maine,
between the years 1630 and 1640, coming from
Devonshire in England with John Maine,
whose fifth daughter he married. In Maine
Historic-Genealogical Records, vol. 2, p. 224,
we find Maine's Point named after John
Maine, father-in-law of John Atwell. He came
to Lynn between the years 1650 and 1675
(See Lewis's History of Lynn, p. 96). John
Atwell and his wife had children : John, Jo
seph, Richard and Sarah.
(II) John Atwell, eldest son of John and
Elizabeth (Maine) Atwell^ married Margaret
Max, of AVenham, who bore him three chil
dren : Joseph, Nathan and John. Up to this
time the name was spelled Atwell, since then
Attwill. (Ill) Nathan Attwill, second son of John
and Margaret (Max) Atwell, Hved in a cer
tain dwelling in Lynn with barn and land situ
ated near the old "Tunnel" meeting house;
land bounded on every side by town common.
This dwelhng, built 1789, is still standing on
Whiting street, Lynn. He married, Novem
ber 27, 1727, Anna RamsdeU; children: Wil
liam, Nathan and John. Nathan Attwill died
previous to May 24, 1784, and his wife died
about that date.
(IV) William Attwill, eldest son of Nathan
and Anna (Ramsdell) AttwiU, was born in
Lynn, 1730, died November 5, 1806. He re
sided in the old Attwill house on site of Lynn

common, built 1789 and moved about 1836;
see above. He was a farmer, and lived and
died in Lynn. He enlisted as private at Mai
den, Massachusetts, December 22, 1775, and at
Winter Hill, January 22, 1778. He married,
April 12, 1753, Lydia Hicks, bom October 31,
1732, died January 8, 1812. ChUdren: i. Lydia,
married William Tarbox. 2. Zachariah, born
October 9, 1775, died November 6, 1836. 3.
Anna. 4. Mary. 5. Hannah Hicks, married
James Alley. 6. Thomas, served in Jacob Ger
rish's regiment. 7. William. 8. Sally, married
Aaron Breed. 9. John Daggett, see forward.
10. Betsey.
(V) John Daggett Attwill, youngest son of
William and Lydia (Hicks) Attwill, was born
in Lynn, May 7, 1771, died AprU 12, 1842. He
was a shoe manufacturer in Lynn. He later
went to New Orleans and opened a commis
sion house with his son, John Daggett Jr., who
died there at the age of thirty-three years. He
continued in business there a number of years
successfully, but in his last years returned to
Lynn, where his death occurred. He is buried
in what is known as the West End Burying
Ground or Union Street Graveyard. He was
a major in Lynn militia and was known by the
name of Major Attwill. He married first, in
Lynn, November 15, 1794, Alartha Ingalls,
born March 2, 1775. He married second, April
12, 1842, Hannah Palfrey. Children : i.
Martha, born March 20, 1797. 2. Nelson,
September i, 1798. 3. John Daggett, May i,
1800. 4. Mary, April 25, 1802. 5. Betsy, Feb
ruary 4, 1804. 6. Alfred, January 9, 1806. 7.
Gustavus, May 22, 1808, see forward. 8. Ed
win, August 7, 1810. 9. Richard I., July 17,
1812, see forward. 10. William A., Alarch 22,
1814. II. Joseph W., July 3, 1817. 12. Ben
jamin, twin of Joseph W., July 3, 1817. 13.
Jacob, March 26, 1816, died in infancy.
(VI) Gustavus Attwill, fourth son and sev
enth child of John Daggett and Martha (In
galls) AttwiU, was born in Lynn, May 22,
1808, died in Lynn, August 18, 1873. He was
educated in schools of Lynn, and learned shoe-
making. He took up shoe manufacturing and
continued in same during his active career, for
a number of years liaving his place of business
on Broad street. He accumulated considerable
property, and lived several years in a house
which he built at the head of Union on Chest
nut street, later residing on Newhall street.
He was well known and respected. He took
an active interest in city affairs ; was member
of old AVhig party ; became a Republican when
tfcat party was formed ; member of general

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court and in the only constitutional conven
tion ever held to. amend the constitution;
served in common council in Lynn, and presi
dent of same a number of years. He was
major in the old Lynn mihtia, member of Uni
versalist church and trustee a great number
of years. He married, in Lynn, first, March
24, 1836, Almira Mudge, of Lynn (see history
of Mudge family). Children: Charies Ander
son, Frances Maria, Josephine, married
George H. Rich, one child, Maria E. Rich;
John D., Almira. Mr. Attwill married second,
Maria A. BurriU, of Lynn, born October 20,
1823, died August 27, 1905; children: Alfred
Mudge, see forward; Gustavus, see forward.
(VI) Richard Ingalls AttwiU, ninth child
and sixth son of John D. Attwill, was bom July
17, 1812, in Lynn, died in Boston, December
8, 1902. He was for many years a well known
newspaper man in Lynn and Boston, He
began his career in 1845 as editor of the Lynn
Freeman, a weekly paper published in Lynn.
He later became connected with the Boston
Transcript, reporting the proceedings of the
legislature, and remaining for many years. He
then went to Alton, Illinois, and was in the
office of Editor Lovejoy at the time that a
mob took possession of the office of his news
paper, kiUing Mr. Lovejoy and burning the
building. He then returned to Boston and
acted as reporter for the leading newspapers
for some years, when he received an appoint
ment in the United States internal revenue
office, where he remained until his retirement
from active pursuits.
(VII) Alfred Mudge Attwill, son of Gus
tavus and Maria A. (Burrill) AttwUl, was
born in Lynn, January 15, 1857. He was edu
cated in public schools, and then worked for a
time in shoe factory of Mr. B. F. Spinney,
of Lynn. He next entered office of Great
Western Insurance Company of Boston in
1874, remaining twenty years until 1894, when
he engaged with Nathan Matthews, of Boston,
as private secretary, remaining until 1904,
during which time he acquired a thorough
knowledge of real estate, and in 1904 opened
an office of his own and has continued suc
cessfully in same since with offices in Lynn
and Boston. He is a Republican in politics,
and attends the Universalist church. In 1901
he built a house in Kensington Square, Lynn,
where he resides. He is unmarried. Mr.
Attwill has for many years taken a deep inter
est in the genealogy of his family and the rec
ord found here has been compiled from his
manuscript. In memory of his father, Gus

tavus AttwiU, and his uncle, Richard Ingalls
Attwill, he has placed an engraving of each in.
this work.
(VII) Gustavus Attwill, son of Gustavus
and Alaria A. (BurriU) AttwUl, was born
March 25, 1865. He received his education in
the public schools, and in 1881 entered the em
ploy of the Shoe and Leather Fire Insurance
Company of Boston and continued with themt
until the company went out of business, when.
he entered W. H. Brewster's Insurance
Agency, where he still remains. He married
Flora May, daughter of Henry L. Chase, of
Lynn, who was a schoolmaster for many years-
in ward 4 of Lynn. Children: Orrissa M.,.
born October 19, 1894, and Gustavus L., Oc
tober 8, 1900. The English surname Field, whichi
FIELD has many thousands of repre
sentatives in both Great Britain.
and America, is one of the most ancient
patronymics and can be traced in its origin to-
an era far antedating the Norman conquest,,
to the time when it was written De la Feld
and De la Felde, and was applied to certain
persons and families whose places of abode-
were in or near some field. Burke's "Landed
Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland" gives.
the family an original place in Alsace, in the-
vicinity of the Vosges mountains, and speaks-
of its having been seated there at the Chateau
de la Feld, near Colmar, from "the darkest
period of the middle ages"; and "that the-
counts de la Feld were the once powerful pro
prietors of the desmenes and castles near Col
mar, of which the latter still bears their name.
These lords had large possessions in Alsace-
and Lorraine, and are frequently mentioned
in the wars of those countries. The Croix
d'Or of La Feld, their ancient badge, is still'
the coat of armor of the Delafields,
Hubertus de la Feld was the first of his
race that emigrated to England. He went over
with the crowd of foreigners who attended
the Conqueror hither, his name appearing en
rolled in the county of Lancaster in 1069, the-
third year of the reign of WiUiam I (Field
Gen.). Hubertus de la Feld received large
grants of land from William as a reward of
fealty and honorable military service. In the-
fourteenth century the English de la Fields
discontinued their old French prefix and adop
ted the more ordinary surname of Field.
Roger Del Field, of Sowerby, England, born
about 1240, was descended from Sir Hubertus-
de la Feld. and was the head of the Field fam- -

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1729

ilies that settled in Lancaster and Kent coun
ties, tiis son, Thomas Del Feld, born about
1278, had a son John, born 1300, who had son
Thomas, born 1330, married AnnabeUe — ^ 
and had son Thomas Del Field, born 1360,
who by wife Isabel had son William Feld,
born Bradford, England, married Katherine
 , and by her had son William Field,
born Bradford, married and had son Richard
who married Elizabeth  ; he was born
probably in East Ardsley, England, and died
Decernber, 1542. His son John, born about
1525, in East Ardsley, England, married, 1560,
Jane Amyas, daughter of John; she died Au
gust 30, 1609; he died May, 1587: resided in
Ardislawe, England. Their son John, born
about 1568, in Ardsley, England, married, and
is supposed to have died young. His son
Zachariah, born in East Ardsley, Yorkshire,
England, see forward.
(I) Zachariah Field, son of John Field, the
first American progenitor of the family, was
born at East Ardsley, Yorkshire, England,
1596. He sailed from Bristol to New England
in 1629, and settled first in Dorchester. In
1636 he with others settled in Hartford, Con
necticut. His residence was on Sentinel Hill,
near the present north end of Main street. He
was one of the forty-two men furnished by
Hartford to take part in the Pequod war. He
owned large tracts of land in Hartford. In
1644 dissensions arose in the church, and he
with sixty others, being the minority in the
dispute, bought of the Nonotuck Indians a
tract of land nine miles square on the east side
of the Connecticut river above Northampton.
Here he was engaged in the mercantile busi
ness and had a large trade with the Indians.
He was one of the twenty-five persons who
engaged to settle in what is now Hatfield, and
was one of the committee to lay out the lands.
They were to have their houses built and oc
cupy them before Michaelmas, (September 19,
1661) but he did not probably go there until
the following year. His home lot contained
eight acres, and was the first log north of the
Northampton road, and is or was lately owned
by William Billings. He died there June 30,
1666. He married, about 1641, Mary  ,
who died about 1670. Children : i. Mary, born
about 1643, married, October 6, 1663, Joshua
Carter, Jr., of Northampton, who was killed
by Indians at Bloody Brook, September 18,
1675, while removing some of his effects to
Northampton for safety. 2. Zachariah, born
about 1645, married Sarah Webb. 3. John,
born about 1648, married Mary Edwards. 4.

Samuel, bom about 1651, mentioned below.
5. Joseph, born about 1658, married first, Jo-
. anna AVyatt ; second. Alary Belding.
(II) Sergeant Samuel Field, son of Zacha
riah Field (i), was born at Hartford, Con
necticut, about 165 1. He came with his father
to Northampton in 1663. He removed to
Hatfield, where he was slain by Indians in
ambush while hoeing corn in Hatfield Mead
ows, June 24, 1697. He was a sergeant in the
Turners Falls fight. May 19, 1676. He was a
prominent and influential man in Hatfield,
holding many town offices. He left no will
¦ and his estate was settled September 20, 1701.
He married, August 9, 1676, Sarah Gilbert,
born December 19, 1655, died February 4,
1712, daughter of Thomas and Catherine
(Bliss) Gilbert, of Springfield. She married
second, October 17, 1702, Ebenezer Chapin,
of Springfield. Children: i. Samuel, born Sep
tember 27, 1678, married Mrs. Hannah E.
Hoyt. 2. Thomas, born June 30, 1680, mar
ried Abigail Dickinson. 3. Sarah, born June
30, 1683, married, November 18, 1702, Samuel
Warner, of Springfield. 4. Zachariah, born
August 29, 1685. 5. Ebenezer, born March 17,
1688, mentioned below. 6. Mary, born July
23, 1690, married, June 26, 1712, Jonathan,
son of David Hoyt ; resided at Deerfield ; with
his father David, mother, brother Ebenezer
and two sisters he was taken captive by the
Indians in the battle of Deerfield, taken to
Canada, and returned later. The father died
of hunger near the lower Cohoes ; his sister
Abigail was killed on the way to Canada;
Ebenezer remained among the Indians. 7.
Josiah, born November 5, 1692, married Eliz
abeth  . 8. Joshua, born April 9, 1695,
married Elizabeth Cooley.
(Ill) Ebenezer Field, son of Sergeant Sam
uel Field (2), was born at Hatfield, Massa
chusetts, March 17, 1688. He married, 1714,
Elizabeth, born 1695, daughter of WUliam
Arms ; she married second, Azariah Wright.
Ebenezer Field settled about 1710 in Deer
field, and in 1717 moved to Northfield, where
he followed his trades of blacksmith and gun
smith. There is a tradition that being mis
taken by the guard in the twilight for an In
dian, while pitching peas into his barn, he was
fired upon and wounded in the hip. There
being no surgeon at Northfield, he was taken
to Deerfield for treatment, and wearied by the
journey, died before his wound could be dress
ed. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil
liam and Joanna (Hawks) Arms, of Deer
field. She was born 1695 ; married second.

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January 27, 1727, Azariah Wright, of North-
field; she died October, 1772. Ebenezer Field
died September 12, 1723. Their children: i.
Ebenezer, born June 15, 1715, mentioned be
low. 2. Joanna, born April 6, 1717, married,
1737, Colonel Phineas Wright. 3. Moses, born
February 19, 1719, married Ann Dickinson
and Alartha Root. 4. Aaron, born March 17,
1722, married Eunice Tracy. 5. EHzabeth,
born January 3, 1723, married, February 14,
1745, Captain Ebenezer WeUs.
(IV) Ebenezer Field, son of Ebenezer
Field (3), was born in Deerfield, June 15,
1715. He married first, March 27, 1746.'
Sarah, daughter of Eleazer Mattoon, born
1722, died October 20, 1785 ; second. May 24,
1786, Mrs. Christian (Hubbard) Field, wife
of Paul, born 1733, died November 6, 1795 ;
he married third, Mrs. Abigail Chapin, of
Orange, born 1728, died June 7, 1801. He
was an innkeeper and tailor. He settled in
Northfield, where he kept a tavern and con
ducted a tailoring business. He died at North-
field, August 12, i8ot. His children: i. Lydia,
born September 12, 1742. 2. Ebenezer, born
October 11, 1744, mentioned below. 3. Sarah,
born November 4, 1747, married, April 29,
1784, David Allen, of East Windsor, Connec
ticut. 4. Abner, born Alay 27, 1750, married
Mary Alattoon. 5. Lucy, born September 20,
1752, married Oliver Watrise. 6. Keziah,
born February 3, 1755, died February 3, 1755.
7. Keziah, born October 24, 1756, married
first, July 13, 1806,  Stiles, of GUI; sec
ond, July 3, 18 — , James King, of Guildford.
A^ermont : she died in Boston.
(V) Ebenezer Field, son of Ebenezer Field
(4), was born October 11, 1744, died 181 1.
He married, July 21, 1767, Eunice, born Janu
ary 26, 1752, died July 6, 1826, daughter of
Benoni and Martha (Sheldon) Wright. He
was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, set off
to Gill in 1805, resided at Weston some time,
then returned to GiU, where he died. He was
one of the company of minute-men, with the
rank of corporal, on the Lexington alarm roll,
Captain Reuben Read's company. Colonel
Jonathan Warner's regiment, which marched
April 20, in response to the alarm of April 19,
'^77S< from Weston to Roxbury; he was
sergeant in Captain Granger's company. Col
onel Ebenezer Learned's regiment, October 7,
1775, enHsted in Weston ; was in Colonel Shep-
ard's regiment, January i, 1777, to December
31, 1779; also from January i, to AprU 14,
1780; lieutenant; rolls dated at Providence,
November 13, 1778, and May 5, 1779; report

ed furloughed May 4 for ten days by Colonel
Shepard. By occupation Mr. Field was a
farmer; he owned several hundred acres in
what is now known as GiU, and was for years
known as the richest man in that section. The
farm was a fine one, and always under admir
able cultivation ; it was portioned off to vari
ous sons and daughters. His children: i.
AuriUa, baptized October 16, 1768, died No
vember 13, 1768. 2. Rodolphus Wright, bap
tized October 22, 1769, married Hannah D.
HoUister. 3. Bohan Prentice, baptized AprU
26, 1772, died young. 4. Ebenezer Sereno,
baptized May 7, 1775, married Amelia Conna-
ble. 5. AuriUa, baptized March 11, 1778, mar
ried, 1793, Deacon Elihu HoUister. 6. Eunice,
baptized AprU 3, 1780, married Zephaniah
Pitts, of Gill. 7. Asaph Warren, baptized
June 5, 1783, died unmarried. 8. Loren Shel
don, baptized April 9, 1786, married Mary
Hubbard. 9. Gratin, baptized October 11,
1789, died unmarried. 10. Filena, baptized
January 7, 1794, married (first) Leonard
Jacobs; (second) John Warner. 11. Bohan
Prentice (judge), born Alay 23, 1773, men
tioned below.
(VI) Bohan Prentice Field, youngest chUd
of Ebenezer Field (5), born May 23, 1773,
was a native of Northfield, Massachusetts. He
was a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1795 ;
studied law in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
and later entered the office of Hon. Samuel
Dana, of Amherst, New Hampshire, where he
finished his studies preparatory to being ad
mitted to the bar. In 1798 he settled in North
Yarmouth, Maine, being the first lawyer to
settle in that place. In 1799 he removed to
Belfast, Maine, and became the pioneer of his
profession in that town, then in Hancock coun
ty, and in 1800 contained but six hundred and
seventy-four inhabitants, and in 1900 con
tained four thousand six hundred and fifteen.
Air. Field resided there forty-four years. On
the organization of the county of Waldo in
1827, he was appointed by Governor Lincoln
chief justice of the court of session for the
county, which was a surprise to him, as they
were political opponents. He continued to
discharge the duties of the office for the term
of ten years with industry and to the satisfac
tion of the county. He was a well-read law
yer, and his opinions were regarded as good
authority and entitled to great weight. He
rarely appeared as an advocate, but when he
found it necessary or expedient to address a
jury he did it with force and clearness, with
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cause and not for outside effect. He was val
ued in the community where he lived for his
general intelligence, soundness of judgment
and integrity of character. He died March 13,
1843. He married, October 23, 1807, Abigail,
daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mann)
Davis, of BiUerica, Massachusetts, born Octo
ber 23, 1787, died November 3, 1863. Chil
dren : 1. Henry Cummings, born September
14, 1809, married Aseneth Harriman. 2. Wil
Ham Patten, born January 31, 181 1, married
Sarah Ingraham. 3. Abigail Eleanor, born
March 2, 1812, died October i, 1813. 4.
Ebenezer Wright, born September 23, 1813,
died October 7, 1813. 5. Charles Davis, born
August 5, i8i4j married Eliza Osgood. 6.
Bohan Prentice, Jr., born September 11, 1815,
mentioned below. 7. George Warner, born
December 9, 1818, married Lucy H. Hum
phrey. 8. Benjamin Franklin, born October
10, 1820, married Caroline AVilliams Toby,
and Annie Fuller Toby. 9. Edward Mann,
born July 27, 1822, married Sarah Ross Mc-
Ruer. (VII) Bohan Prentice Field, sixth child of
Judge Bohan Prentice Field (6), was a native
of Belfast, Maine, born September 11, 1815,
died October i, 1897. He married, at Bel
fast, September 11,^1843, Lucy Haraden, born
October, 181 7, died July 20, 1892. He was a
lawyer, read law in his father's office and with
Hon. Jacob McGraw, of Bangor, Maine. He
began practice in Searsmont, Waldo county,
Maine, but later returned to Belfast and .suc
ceeded to his father's business. He was never
known to have an enemy; a man endeared to
the community, and well known and esteemed
by his legal brethren in the state. In his man
ners he was bland, social and affectionate ; in
his morals pure and unaffected. He was a
model in his office duties, and faithful to all
his trusts. Through all party changes and ad
ministrations he held the office of register of
probate for over forty years. He was one of
the first to interest himself in insurance busi
ness in the state, and instructed his sons in
law pertaining to that department, which they
chose for their profession in life. He was
deacon of the Congregational church, and was
punctual at church, as he was in office; he
gave the entire influence of his example to the
observance of the Sabbath, and all the practi
cal duties of religion. Children: i. George
Prentice, born October 17, 1844, mentioned be
low. 2. Abby Ellen, born December 8, 1849,
married, January 10, 1872, Charles Spofford
Pearl, born May 20, 1843 ; they have two chil

dren: Alice Field, born December 31, 1873,
married W. H. Whitemore, of Portland,
Maine, one child, Alice ; Haraden Spofford,
born June 27, 1879. 3. Charles Haraden, born
November 25, 1855, married (first). May 16,
1877, Bertha Frances Chase; (second), June
2, 1886, Emma Moreland.
(VIII) George Prentice Field, eldest child
of Bohan Prentice Field (7), was born at
Searsmont, Maine, October 17, 1844. He was
educated in the public schools of Belfast,
Alaine, and after graduating from the high
school entered his father's office, in the in
surance business. At the breaking out of the
civil war he was appointed deputy provost
marshal of the Fifth District of Maine, which
position he held until the surrender of Rich
mond. He then after serving for two years
as deputy collector of customs, resumed the
insurance business, becoming first the assistant
secretary of the National Fire Insurance Com
pany of Bangor, Maine; then later secretary
of the First National Fire Insurance Company
of Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1873 he
resigned that position to become special agent
of the Royal Insurance Company of England,
under its then New England managers, Foster
& Scull. Here he became successively general
agent, assistant manager, and later a member
of the firm. The house dates back to 1858,
when it began business as Foster & Cole, then
in succession, Foster & Scull, Scull & Bradley,
Scull & Field, and finally, as it is now. Field
& Cowles. It is one of the oldest as it is
the largest house in its line in Boston and
New England, employing about seventy people
in its office at 85 AVater street, Boston, and
maintaining a branch office at 65 Warren
street, Roxbury. Every description of insur
ance is written with the exception of Hfe lines.
The firm is the representative in all New Eng
land of the Royal Insurance Company of Liv
erpool, England ; and Boston agent for the In
surance Company of North America of Phila
delphia, the AUiance of Philadelphia, and the
National of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Field
has long been prominent in insurance circles,
aside from his business relations, and has
served as president of the Boston Board of
Underwriters of New England, as director
and president of the Boston Protective De
partment, chairman of the board of trustees of
the Insurance Library Association of Boston.
He is also connected with various organiza
tions — the Merchants' Association, the Board
of Trade, of which he is vice-president; the
Boston Firemen's Monument Association, of

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which he is treasurer ; and the following clubs :
the Algonquin, Boston Art, Country, Eastern
Yacht, Essex County, Merchants' Exchange
and City. He is vestryman of Emanuel Pro
testant Episcopal Church of Boston. Mr.
Field married, at New Bedford, Massachu
setts, June 12, 1868, Alma Claghorn Field (a
cousin), born March, 1843, died August 5,
1908. Children: i. Walter Ingram, born
March 9, 1869, died February 7, 1894. 2.
Edith Alma, born October 7, 1873, married,
November 14, 1895, Horace Bertram Pear
son; children: Robert Field, born 1900, and
George Field, born 1902.

The name of Breed has been a
BREED familiar one in Lynn from the
earliest days of her history, Allen
Breed having been a prominent settler there
as early as 1630, while others bearing the
name have been active in succeeding years
in the development of the country and in fur
thering the best interests of the community.
More especially active in recent years was the
late Amos Franklin Breed, to whose far-see
ing policy alone is due the excellent network
of railways throughout the entire section, and
a man who fulfilled in every way the highest
ideals of citizenship.
(I) Allen Breed, mentioned above, was
born in Westonning, England, in 160 1, and
settling in Lynn, Massachusetts, made his
home in the western part of Summer street,
the vicinity being called "Breed's End." He
was the owner of two hundred acres of land,
and actively and successfully engaged in its
cultivation. As early as 1640 he was one of
the grantees in the deed from the Indians of
Southampton, Long Island, but either he did
not remove to that place, or if he did, he soon
returned to Massachusetts. He was made a
freeman in 168 1, and his death occurred in
1692. He married Elizabeth Knight, who was
probably his second wife, and his children,
who are presumed to be of his first union,
were Allen and 'John.
(II) Allen, son of AUen Breed, was born
in England in 1626, and was made a freeman
in 1684. He married Mary  , who died
November 30, 1671, and their children were:
Joseph, born February 12, 1658; AUen, Aug
ust 3, 1660 ; John, January 18, 1663 ; Mary
August 24, 1665; Ehzabeth, November i,
1667; and Samuel, September 25, 1669.
(Ill) Samuel, fourth son and youngest
child of AUen and Mary Breed, probably spell
ed the name Bread. He married Anna,

daughter of Richard Hood, February 5, 1691-
2, and their children were : Samuel, born No
vember II, 1692; Amos, July 20, 1694; Jabez,
January 26, 1696; Abigail, September 7, i6g8;
Nathan, January 3, 1703; Keziah, October 16,
1704; Anna, July 28, 1706; Ebenezer, May i,
1710; Ruth, March 10, 1712, and Benjamin,
July 4, 1715.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Anna
(Hood) Breed, married Rebecca PhUlips, of
Boston, November 29, 1737, and their chU
dren were: Richard, born September 11,
1738; Amos, November 4, 1739; Ebenezer,
Alay I, 1741 ; Rebecca, December 29, 1742;
Samuel, April 10, 1747; James, April 19, 1749;
Elizabeth, March 19, 1751 ; WUHam, February
20, 1753, and Simeon, September 13, 1755.
(V) Amos, son of Ebenezer and Rebecca
Breed, married Ruth Estes, April 30, 1766,
and their children were: Amos, born April
19, 1772; Hannah, February 16, 1781, and Re
becca, June 17, 1784.
(VI) Amos, only son of Amos and Ruth
(Estes) Breed, married Frances Reed, of
Salem, January 14, 1827. Their children
were : Ruth Ann, born December 8, 1827,
died January 26, 183 1 ; Amos Franklin, born
October 15, 1830, died May 22, 1900; AVilbur
Fisk, born May 11, 1834, died January 8, 1837,
and Wilbur Fisk, born December 5, 1836,
married Susan Estelle Keith, April 6, 1864,
who died April 27, 1907.
(VII) Amos Franklin, second chUd and
eldest son of Amos and Frances (Reed)
Breed, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
October 15, 1830, and died in the same city.
May 22, 1900. His education was acquired
in the public schools, and he soon engaged in
the shoe business, where he gave evi
dence of those remarkable traits of industry
and integrity coupled with a natural aptitude
for business and its practical and successful
management and expansion. He retired from
the manufacturing field directly after the great
fire of 1889. His advice was early sought by
financial institutions, and in 1884 he became
president of the First National Bank, an office
he filled until his decease. He was a director
and vice-president of the Lynn Institution for
Savings, director of the Boston, Revere
Beach & I^ynn Railroad Company, and a di
rector of the Lynn Gas & Electric Company.
He became best known, however, through his
management of the Lynn & Boston RaUroad
Company, wherein his success was little short
of miraculous. He assumed the manager's
chair when the stock was considered almost

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1733

¦worthless, and inaugurated a policy which
made it one of the best in the commonwealth,
extended its tracks in all directions, improved
the rolling stock, and eventually absorbed the
Belt Line road. This was all accomplished
quietly and was an established success by the
time the investors realized his enterprise.
Attracted by the phenomenal rise in the value
of the stock of this road, the North Shore
Traction Company was organized, absorbing
the Lynn & Boston road and all its subsidiary
branches, Mr. Breed becoming president of
the new corporation and repeating his former
successes. On July 30, 1899, the system of
the North .Shore Traction Company was
bought by a company of Boston capitalists,
and several of the roads were combined under
the name of the Massachusetts Electric Com
panies, and again Mr. Breed was made presi
dent, a high and deserved compliment to his
business acumen and executive ability. Mr.
Breed was a most exemplary citizen, a man of
inborn courtesy, with a bearing of confidence
inspired by the courage to do and the will to
act. His active interest in politics and the Repub
lican party dated from the .time of his major
ity, and in 1864 he was elected to the common
council. He was a member of the board of
aldermen in 1865-6-7-8-70, and was elected to
the state legislature in 1865-6, and again in
1876. In 1877-8 he was a member of the
state senate, and in the latter year served as
chairman of the committee on street railways.
He was a presidential elector in 1872 and 1880,
and a delegate to the Republican national con
vention in 1880 and 1896. He gave his time
so freely, and his public spirit and general
worth were so widely recognized, that he was
continually sought to fill those positions which
show the confidence of neighbors and friends.
He was commissioner of the sinking fund of
the city, and chairman of the commissioners
of Pine Grove Cemetery, the latter an office he
filled for nearly twenty years. Mr. Breed
was naturally a charitable man, and gave free
ly to all measures for the relief of distress.
He was married, December 7, 1854, to Mary
A. Lindsey, of Lynn, and they were blessed
with four children: Amos F. Jr., who died
in infancy; Ruth Ann, born February 20,
1856, died August 31, 1872; Amos F. Jr., the
second, born January 15, 1858, who stUl sur
vives: Sylvester B., born January 18, 1867,
died July 8, 1902; married, September 29,
1887, Mary B. Harrington, of Salem, and had
one son, Ahios Francis, born March 1-7, 1890.

The land upon which the old homestead
now stands was purchased by the grandfather
of Mr. Breed from his father-in-law, WiUiam
Estes, January 4, 1774, and the house, which
in those days was called a. "mansion house,"
was probably erected soon after.

The surname Willard was in
WILLARD use as a personal name from
ancient times. Earlier than
its use as a surname it was also a local or place
name, in England. The ancient coat-of-arms
used by manj-^ bi^anches of this family : Argent,
a chevron sable between three fish weels pro
per five ermine spots. Crest : A griffin's head
erased or. Motto : Gaudet patientia duris.
(I) Richard Willard, to whom the line is
traced, grandfather of the American immi
grant, was a yeoman at Brenchley, England,
where he died leaving a will dated September
18, 1558, proved October 24, 1558. Children:
Robert, Alexander, George, Richard, Andrew,
Svmon, Thomas, AVilliam, Alice, Agnes.
'(II) Richard WiUard, son of Richard Wil
lard (i), resided at Horsmonden, county
Kent, England. He married first, Catherine
 , buried March 11, 1559; second, Mar
gery, died December 12, 1608; third, January
17, 1610, Joan Morebread, buried February
25, 1617. His will mentioned children George,
Mary, Elizabeth, Margery, Catherine, Rich
ard ; brother Thomas Willard; brother-in-law
Thomas Humphrey ; son Symon and sister-in-
law Mary Davy. Children: i. Richard, died
young. 2. Thomas, baptized May 6, 1593,
buried January 15, 1608. 3. Edward, bap
tized March 21, 161 1-2, buried AprU 16, 1612.
4. John, baptized March 3, 1612-3; buried
June 20, 1613. 6. George. 7. George. 8.
Mary. 9. EHzabeth. 10. Margery, married
Dolor Davis. 11. Catherine, baptized August
30, 1607. 12. Richard. 13. Simon, mention
ed below.
(Ill) Major Simon Willard, son of Rich
ard WUlard (2), was the immigrant ancestor,
born at Horsmonden, Kent, England, in 1604,
baptized December 4, 1^14. He was a soldier
in Kent when a young man. He came to New
England in 1634, in April, in the same ship
with Dolor Davis, his brother-in-law. He was
a merchant, and began to trade with the In
dians as soon as he was fairly established at
Cambridge. Davis, progenitor of many dis
tinguished Massachusetts families, settled on
the farm adjoining, on the Brighton side of
the Charles river. Here Willard acquired a
thousand acres, bounded by the farm of Davis.

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Charles river and the Boston town line. He
had many grants of land from time to time.
He was one of the founders and first settlers
of Concord, and was the first deputy to the
general court, elected in December, 1636, serv
ing every year after that until 1654, excepting
1643, 1647 and 1648, and was elected but de
clined to serve in 1654. He was a member of
the council fifteen years, and for twenty-two
years an assistant. He was given a patent
by the general court in 1641 for trading with
the Indians and collecting tribute from them.
He was appointed magistrate, and during his
life attended between seventy and eighty
terms of the county court, his first term be
ginning November 28, 1654, his last April 4,
1676. For forty years he was active in mili
tary life. He rose to the rank of major, and
commanded the provincial troops against the
Indians. Both in military and civil life he be
came one of the most famous men of the pro
vince. He led the expedition against the Nar-
ragansetts in 1655, and was at Brookfield and
Hadley in King Philip's war leading the Mid
dlesex regiment. The town of Lancaster in
vited him by a personal letter dated February
7, 1658-9, to make his home in that town,
promising lands and privileges. He decided to
locate in Lancaster, and sold out his Concord
estates to Captain Thomas Marshall, of Lynn,
in 1659. His first home in Lancaster was near
the opening of the present Center road, bound
ed on two sides by the Nashua river, and com
manding a superb view of the valley and sur
rounding country. He lived there twelve years,
and in 1 670-1 removed to the large farm in the
south part of Croton, where in 1671-2 he
served as chairman of the committee to seat
the meeting house. In 1673 he was chairman
of the Groton selectmen. He had a fine farm
at Still river, now Harvard, and doubtless
moved to Groton in order to be nearer this
property. He left Lancaster enjoying peace
and good order, though King Philip's war was
soon to deva.state the country. In civil life
Major Willard was a surveyor and was often
called upon to fix town boundaries. He died
of influenza, an epidemic of which occurred
ni 1676. He was one of the most conspicuous
and honored men of his day and he died at
the close of King Philip's war, after reaping
his greatest triumphs April 24, 1676. He,
was a stalwart Puritan, conscientious and of
sound understanding, of brave and enduring
spirit. He had wealth as well as honor, bring
ing to this country an ample patrimony, giving
large amounts of land to his children and leav

ing thirteen hundred acres besides other pro
perty at his death. Yet his widow petitioned
the general court for reimbursement for losses
occasioned by Indian wars, stating that the
Alajor often said he had lost a thousand
pounds in this way. The court answered this
petition by a grant of a thousand acres to be
divided among the six youngest children. He
was buried April 27, 1676, and the inventory
of his estate filed later by Mrs. WiUard. He
married first, Mary Sharpe, born 1614, at
Horsmonden, daughter of Henry and Jane
(Field) Sharpe; second, EHzabeth Dunster,
sister of Henry Dunster, first president of
Harvard College, and Willard's third wife was
her sister Mary. His widow married Deacon
Joseph Noyes, of Sudbury. His children
were by first and third wives. Children: i.
Mary, married Joshua Edmunds. 2. Elizabeth,
died young. 3. Elizabeth, married Robert
Blood, of Concord, April 8, 1653, and she
died August 29, 1690. 4. Dorothy, died young.
5. Josiah, married Hannah Hosmer. Chil
dren, born in Concord : 6. Samuel, born Janu
ary 31, 1639-40, graduate of Harvard College,
1659 ; married Abigail, daughter of Rev. John
Sherman, who married second, Eunice Tyng,
daughter of Edward. 7. Sarah, born June 27,
1642; married Nathaniel Howard. 8. Above-
hope, born October 30, 1646; died at Lancas
ter. December 23, 1663. 9. Simon, born No
vember 23, 1649; married Martha Jacobs;
second, Priscilla Buttolph ; prominent man of
Salem, Massachusetts. 10. Mary, born Sep
tember 7, 1653 ; married Cyprian Stevens, an
cestor of AVorcester county Stevens famUies.
II. Henry, born June 4, 1655; mentioned be
low. 12. John, bom February 12, 1656-7;
married Mary Hayward. 13. Daniel, born
December 29, 1658 ; married Hannah Cutler.
Children, born at Lancaster: 14. Joseph, born
January 4, 1660-1 ; resided in London, Eng
land. 15. Benjamin, born 1665; married Sarah
Lakin. 16. Hannah, born October 6, 1666;
married Captain Thomas BrintnaU, Alay 23,
1693; li'^ed at Sudbury. 17. Jonathan, born
December 14, 1669; married Mary, daughter
of Alajor Thomas and Patience Browne, of
Sudbury. .A. tablet inscribed as follows is fixed in
the wall outside the crypt near St. Gabriel's
Chapel, Canterbury /Cathedral. Eneland:
"In Memoriam: Major Simon WiUard,
born 1604, died 1676, exactly one hun
dred years before the Declaration of Inde
pendence. A Kentish soldier, and an early
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of New England, America, 1634. He was
made commander-in-chief of the British
forces against the hostile Indian tribes. He
was distinguished in the military, legislative
and judicial service of the American common-
weahh until his death, aged 72. Of Simon
AVillard's ancestry, one was Provost of Can
terbury, 1218, and another was Baron of the
Cinque Ports, 1377; and his descendants to
the present day have held eminent positions
in the United States. Erected by Sylvester D.
AA^iUard, London, 1902." The late Mrs. Fran
cis Willard has also erected a brass tablet in
the church of Horsmonden — the old home.
(lA^) Henry Willard, son of Major Simon
AVillard (3), was born in Concord, June 4,
1655. He was a soldier in King Philip's war,
1675. He was a farmer, and left a consider
able estate at Groton and Lancaster. He mar
ried first, Mary Lakin, of Groton. She died
1688, and he married, 1689, Dorcas Cutler.
Willard died 1701, and his widow married
second, Benjamin Bellows. Children, born at
Groton: i. Henry, April 11, 1675; married
.Sarah Nutting and Abigail Temple. 2. Simon,
October 8, 1678 ; married Mary Whitcomb. 3.
John, born September 3, 1682 ; married Anne
Hill. Children, born at Lancaster. 4. Heze
kiah, about 1712; married Anna Wilder,
daughter of Thomas ; Hezekiah was first se
lectman of Harvard, 1733-38. 5. Joseph, born
about 1686 : married Elizabeth Tarbell. Chil
dren, of wife Dorcas: 6. Samuel, born May
31, 1690; married Elizabeth Phelps, August
19, 1717, daughter of Edward and Ruth; had
homestead of Alajor Simon, and it remained
in the family of descendants to the present
time ; was deputy to general court, judge of
county court ; commanded colonial regiment
at Louisburg; died November. 1752. 7- James,
married Hannah Houghton, 8. Josiah, born
1693 : mentioned below. 9. Jonathan, born
1695 ; married, August 17, 1719, Keziah
White. Children of wife Mary: 10. Mary,
born 1680; married Isaac Hunt. 11. Sarah,
married Samuel Rogers. 12. Abigail, died un
married. 13. Susanna, married' March ig,
1723-4, John Aloore. 14. Tabitha, died un
married. (V) Colonel Josiah WiUard. son of Henry
Willard (4), was born at Lancaster, 1693. He
was one of the first settlers and principal offi
cers of Lunenburg, Massachusetts ; was prom
inent in military life, commanding a company
in excursions against the Indian enemy on the
frontiers,, and afterwards was colonel and
¦"firhander at Fort Dummer (now Brattle-

boro), Vermont. In both public and private
life he had an excellent reputation, and did
good service for his country. He died De
cember 8, 1750, in his fifty-eighth year. A
newspaper of that time says of him: "He
was a grandson of the renowned Major Simon
Willard, and was a gentleman of superior na
tural powers, of a pleasant happy and agree
able temper of mind ; a faithful friend ; one
that paid singular regard to ministers of the
Gospel ; a kind husband and kinder parent.
His death is a great loss to the public, consid
ering his usefulness in many respects, particu
larly on the -western frontiers where in late
wars in his betrustments he has shown himself
faithful, vigilant and careful. Of late he has
had command of Fort Dummer, and always
used his best endeavors for the protection of
our exposed infant towns and his loss will be
greatly regretted by them." He married,
about 1715, Hannah, daughter of John and
granddaughter of Thomas Wilder, who was
among the earliest settlers in Lancaster. Chil
dren, born at Lunenburg: i. Josiah, January
21, 1715-6; mentioned below. 2. Abigail, July
4, 1718 ; baptized at Lancaster, with Josiah
and Susanna; married, August 2, 1737,
Thomas Prentice. 3. Susanna, July 9, 1720;
married John Arms. 4. Lois, December 16,
1722 ; married Valentine Butler. 5. Nathan,
born Alay 28, 1726, commander at Fort Dum
mer ; married Lucy AUen. 6. Prudence, Sep
tember 30, 1727; married William Willard,
magistrate, judge, prominent man at Brattle-
boro, A^ermont. 7. Oliver, March 6, 1729-30;
married Thankful Doolittle : captain, judge,
grantee of various Vermont towns. 8. Samp
son, June 27, 1732, drowned December 15,
1739, at AA'^inchester. 9. Wilder, June 30,
1735 : married Susanna Hubbard.
(A^I) Colonel Josiah Willard, son of Col
onel Josiah Willard (5), was born at Lunen
burg, January 21, 1715-6, baptized there Aug
ust 6, 1 72 1. He was the principal grantee of
the township of Earlington or Arlington
(Winchester), New Hampshire, 1733; was
surveyor of land at the Upper Ashuelot, 1736,
and later. He was commissary and command
er at Fort Dummer in the old French and In
dian war, 1744-50. The enemy was driven off
in May, 1746, "by the spirited behavior of
Alajor Willard at the head of a small party of
^.oldiers." He held a captain's commission in
the forces raised for the defence of the Upper
and Lower Ashuelot, 1747-9; was promoted
lieutenant-colonel and succeeded his father in
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1750. He was an active agent in procuring
from the legislature of New Hampshire a
charter for the town of Winchester in 1753.
He was active in the campaign of 1755, and
was at Fort Edward in September, when the
battle of Lake George was fought by General
Johnson and Baron Dieskau. He was lieu
tenant-colonel of the regiment of Colonel
Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, and in active
service in the Crown Point expedition under
General Johnson in 1755. He took up his
residence in Winchester, and represented the
town in the state legislature 1768-73. He was
active ih securing a new county, and was
given full authority to speak and act for the
town. He was the colonel commanding the
Sixth New Hampshire regiment of militia in
1775, but was loyal to the crown, and his regi
ment was divided, leaving him without a
command. He was a grantee of Putney, Ver
mont, from New Hampshire, 1753, and from
New York, 1766; also of Westminster, Ver
mont, and Westmoreland, New Hampshire,
but never lived in those towns. He died No
vember 19, 1786, at Winchester. "A man of
great activity and benevolence, possessed of an
equable disposition and conciliatory address.
He was a Christian by precept and example,
very useful and influential. His heart was al
ways open to his friends in general and to the
learned, especially the clergy, in particular."
"The wise," says his epitaph, "will imitate his
virtues and fools lament they did not when he
shall rise immortal." He married, November
23, 1732, Hannah Hubbard, of Groton, who
died August 15, 1791. They had twelve chil
dren, of whom: I. Solomon, was a graduate
of Harvard. 2. Jonathan, graduated from
Harvard in 1776. 3. Josiah, mentioned be
low. (VII) Major Josiah Willard, son of Col
onel Josiah AVillard (6), born 1737, died June
29, 1 80 1, aged sixty- four. He was buried
with his three wives at the burial ground at
the lower end of Main street, Keene, New
Hampshire. He was sergeant at Fort Dum
mer, 1753-4, under his father's command. He
settled at Keene, and was a sadler by trade.
He was selectman there 1764-5-6-7; first rep
resentative in state legislature, 1768-70; first
recorder of deeds in Cheshire county, 1771-76.
He was major in his father's regiment when
it was reorganized, throwing him as well- ?.«
his father out of a command, on account of
their Tory principles. His name was at the
head of the list of those refusing to sign the
association test in 1776. but he was not very

obnoxious, and no radical steps were taken
against him during the revolution. He was
five years senator, seven years representative,
and thirteen years selectman. He married
first. Thankful Taylor ; second, Mary  j
third, April 15, 1785, Susanna, daughter of
Colonel Isaac Wyman. His first wife died
July 24, 1767, aged twenty-six; his second
July 20, 1779, aged thirty-eight, and his third
October 25, 1785. Children, born at Keene:
I. Lockhart, May 15, 1763; died 1818; prom
inent citizen; married Salome, daughter of
General James Reed. 2. Grate or Grata,
February 27, 1765. 3. Cynthia, born Novem
ber 19, 1766. 4. Rebecca, May 24, 1772. 5.
Hannah, January 14, 1774. 6. Josiah, March
28, 1776; died November 5, 1776. 7. Josiah,
January 9, 1778; married Bial  . 8.
Henry, mentioned below.
(VIII) Henry WiUard, son of Major Jos
iah Willard (7), bom at Keene, July 20, 1779,
died at Washington, New Hampshire, Febru
ary 26, 1815. When a young man he went
to Washington, New Hampshire, and engaged
in business, conducting a general store. He
was a member of the firm of Dorr & Willard
from 1802 until 1805, and after that time car
ried on the business alone for the rest of his
life. He resided at Washington Centre, near
the spot where the house now or lately of
Elizabeth Perkins now stands. He died of
malignant spotted fever. In his wUl he made
a provision for the perpetual care qf the
graves of himself and wife, who died of grief
the same week. He married March i, 1804,
Lovey Adams, born at Lincoln, March 21,
1769, died Alarch i, 1815, daughter of Joseph
and Mary (Eveleth) Adams, of Lincoln. Her
father was born October 5, 1724, and died
March 28, 1807. (See Adams family). Chil
dren : I. Alary Ann, born May 12, 1805 ; died
1827, unmarried. 2. Catherine Hannah, born
January i, 1807; married G. A. Kettell, June
12, 1832; chUdren: i. Alary I. Kettell, -born
April 21, 1833; ii. Catherine Hannah KetteU,
November 4, 1836; iii. Henry Augustus Ket
tell, February 8, 1838 ; iv. Francis E. KetteU,
October 16, 1841 ; v. Louise Cary Kettell, No
vember IT, 1843; vi. George Adams KetteU,
May 10, 1846; vii. Charles Willard KetteU,
November 3, 1848; viii. Helen Lee KetteU,'
March i, 1851. 3. Joseph Henry, September
27, 1808: died at Littleton, 1833. 4. Ehsha
Wheeler, mentioned below. 5. Martha Law
rence, borrr-~5e^tember 17, 1812; married,
February 14, 1839, Coinffipdore C. H. Jack
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ii. Mary Alsop Jackson, married Francis
•Goodwin; iii. Martha Lawrence Jackson; iv.
Alice Fenwick Jackson. 6. Sarah, born 1814,
¦died at Littleton, 1821.
(IX) Elisha Wheeler WiUard, son of Hen-
Ty Willard (8), born in Washington, New
Jiampshire, May 22, 1810, died at Newport,
Rhode Island, December 14, 1904. His par
ents died when he was only five years old,
and he and his brothers and sisters were
brought up by relatives. Elisha resided with
his uncle David Lawrence at Littleton, Mas-
rsachusetts, until he was about fifteen years
old, going to school and working on the farm.
He afterward went to Charlestown, Massa-
¦chusetts, and lived with his uncle Nathan
Adams, working in his grocery store for a
number of years. Later he was employed by
a leather firm in Boston. In 1833 he went
west and settled at Fox River, Kendall county,
Illinois. He and a companion named Picker
ing, with whom he took up a grant of six
hundred and forty acres of govemment land,
"built a log cabin and started a farm. He fin
ally bought out Pickering's interest and re
mained on the farm seven years. He carried
the produce of his farm, which consisted most
ly of grain and live stock, sixty miles by
wagon, to Chicago, the nearest market. About
1840 he removed to Chicago, where for a time
be was in a land office. He entered into part
nership with George Smith in the banking
business. Mr. Smith made an extended visit
to England, and Mr. Willard retained the
management of the business, and conducted it
safely through the panic of 1857, when many
•of his contemporaries were forced to the wall.
In 1863 he retired from the firm and under
took the management of a branch of the Bank
of Montreal, which later was discontinued.
He served on the committee of safety in Chi
cago during the trying period preceding and
¦during the civil war, and gave liberally to the
cause. In the spring of 1865 he removed to
Burlington, Massachusetts, where he bought a
hundred acre farm and stayed for two years
as a farmer, when he retired from active bus
iness. He sold the farm to Henry Cook and
made his home in Ithaca, New York, and Bos
ton. He toured England and the continent
from 1870 to 1872, and returned again to Bos
ton. About 1876 he removed to Newport,
Rhode Island, and erected a house where he
lived until his death. His daughter, Mary
Adams Willard, makes her home there at the
present time. Mr. Willard was a self made
man in the highest sense. His education and

success were won by hard work, with a fixed
determination to win. He believed in being
temperate in all things, and his ideals were
of the purest and best. A great reader and
deep thinker, he was well informed on all the
topics of the day. One of his mottoes in life
was "to be just before being generous," and
he lived up to this motto. In politics Mr.
Willard was a Republican, and during the civil
war he was especially active in supporting the
Republican administration with his wealth and
influence to the extent of his ability.
He married, November 20, 1836, at Squaw
Grove, DeKalb county, lUinois, Mary Eleanor
Eastabrooks, born September 26, 1815, Owe-
go, Tioga county, and died January 7, 1899,
at Newport, Rhode Island, daughter of John
and Eliza Eastabrooks. Children : i. JuHa,
born at Fox River, Illinois, October 11, 1837;
died at Squaw Grove, Illinois, October 6,
1841 ; buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2. Joseph Henry,
born at Chicago, February 28, 1844; grad
uate of West Point, class 1868; entered engi
neering corps United States Army, and after
forty years of faithful service retired Febru
ary 28, 1908; married September 23, 1888,
EUa Quinn, Vicksburg, Mississippi ; children :
i. Eleanore, bom September 11, 1889, died
January 17, 1901 ; ii. Roberta, born July 17,
189 1 ; in. Natalia, July 11, 1893; iv. Dorothy,
September 28, 1896. 3. Mary Adams, born at
Chicago, October 21, 1851 ; lives in house built
by her father, at Newport, on Miantonomi
avenue. 4. John Howard, mentioned below.
(X) John Howard Willard, son of Elisha
Wheeler Willard (9), was born in Chicago,
Illinois, May 2, 1855. His elementary educa
tional training was under private tutorship and
in the old Boston Latin School. He traveled
with his parents in their trip abroad, returning
in the autumn of 1872, and in autumn that
year entered Phillips Academy at Exeter, New
Hampshire, taking a three-year course, grad-
' uating in 1875. He then entered Harvard
College. At the end of his sophomore year
he left coUege. and went to Hve with his par
ents at Newport, where he began the study of
law in Francis B. Peckham's law office. He
did not. however, continue in the active prac
tice of his profession. In 1880 he purchased
his present homestead in Lexington, where he
has resided to the present time (1908). He
is regarded as a good and representative citi
zen in the town. Mr. Willard is a Republi
can in politics. He has never sought public
office. He and his family belong to the Han-

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cock Congregational Church at Lexington. He
is a member of the Belfry Club and of the
Lexington Historical Society. He married.
Alarch 24, 1880, Ida Lillian (Haven) Hut
chinson, of Burlington, born July 25, 1859,
daughter of Timothy and Laura (Tibbetts)
Haven, of Burlington. She was adopted when
ten years old by her uncle, John W. Hutchin
son. Children: 1. Constance Alton, born De
cember 14, 1880, graduate of Radcliffe Col
lege, Cambridge : married, Alay 5, 1906. Rob
ert Watkinson Huntington, Jr., of Hartford,
Connecticut ; child : Robert Watkinson Hun
tington (3d) born July 2, 1907. 2. Helene
Adams, born January 23, 1882 ; died June 10,
1902; married, October 16, 1901, William
Starling Burgess, of Boston, Alassachusetts ;
no children. 3. Edith, bom June 13, 1885,
secretary of School of Design at Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.

(For early generations see John Adams 1).
(Ill) Captain Daniel Adams.
ADAAIS son of Joseph Adams (2). and
grandson of John Adams (i),
of the same family as President John Adams,
who was descended from the father of John
(i). Henry Adams of Braintree, was born at
Alenotomy, January 3, 1690. He married,
April 23, 1715, EHzabeth Minot, of Lincoln,
Massachusetts, who died November 12, 1764,
aged sixty-seven, daughter of James and Re
becca (AA^heeler) Alinot. Her father was of
Dorchester and Concord ; her mother was born
January 29, 1697, at Concord. He married,
October 30, 1765, Mrs. Hannah Benney, of
Weston, died June 11, 1776. Captain Adams
and Ephraim Jones, both of Concord, cut a
road from Townsend, Alassachusetts, to the
Ashuelot river in New Hampshire in 1737,
without compensation. He resided in that
part of Concord set off as Lincoln. He died
February q, 1780, aged ninety. Children: i.
Captain Daniel Jr., born October 15, 1720. 2.
Elizabeth, October i, 1722; married Hum
phrey Barrett. 3. Captain Joseph. October 5,
1724 ; mentioned below. 4. Rebecca, Septem
ber 2, T727 ; married Nathan Brown. 5. Alary,
May 18, 17.30: married Peter Hubbard. 6.
James, March 20, 1732. 7. Lydia, September
I, 1735; married Abel MUes. 8. Alartha.
April 13, 1738; married Joseph Wellington.
flV) Captain Jo.seph Adams, son of Cap
tain Daniel Adams (3), was born in Lincoln.
October 5, 1724. He married first, 1746.
Alary Eveleth. of Stow; second, (intentions
dated July 20, 1795), Mrs. Priscilla Alartin,

of Cambridge. In his will he names wife
Priscilla, sons Joseph, Daniel and Nathan, and
daughter Sally Eames, heirs of Polly Wheeler
and Lovey Willard and sister Rebecca Brown.
He died March 28, 1807, aged eighty-three.
Children: i. Alary, born April 29, 1747; died
June 4, 1748. 2. Dr. Joseph, born January 30,
1749; married, November 23, 1774, Love
Adams Lawrence, daughter of Rev. William
and Love (Adams) Lawrence, and grand
daughter of John and Love (Minot) Adams
(3) ; was called "a gentleman of Lincoln," a
Loyalist who left home during the revolution
and spent most of his life in England ; served
as surgeon in the British Navy, his farm in
Townsend was confiscated and sold March,
1780 ; he died in England, February 3, 1803J
children : i. Lovey, born in Lincoln, April 30,
1775; died June 10, 1776; ii. Lovey, born in
Liskard, Cornwall, England, June, 1778; died
unmarried, 1870 ; iii. Mary, born 1790, married
William Teckell. a solicitor of Liskard, died
without issue August 14, 1876; iv. Susanna,
born 1792; married Lieutenant Robert Ede,
E. N., who died 1834; she died December 5,
1879; of their nine children three were: Em-
eline Susan, Joseph Adam Ede, and Caroline
Ede, who married Joseph Rock, a London mer
chant, and had seven children. 3. Dr. Charles,
born in Lincoln, November 8, 1750; also a
Loyalist, removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
4. Nathan, born in Lincoln, November 11,
1752; died August 11, 1756. 5. Mary, born
October 11, 1754,, died August 17, 1756. 6.
Sarah, born September 13, 1756; married,
August 14, 1783, Robert Eames, of Sudbury.
7. Mary, born July 14, 1758; married. May 4,
1779, Elisha AVheeler, of Sudbury. 8. Na
than, born Alarch i, 1760; married May 16,
1706, Hannah Soley McCarty. 9. Pattie, born
July 15, 1763; married, December 23, 1790,
David Lawrence Jr., born 1762, died March
29, 1827, only child of Captain David and
Hannah (Sawtelle) Lawrence. 10. Dr. Dan
iel, born April 14, 1766; married Sarah Gold-
waite, daughter of Benjamin ; was third post
master of Keene, New Hampshire. 11. Lovey,
born in Lincoln, March 21, 1769; married,
Alarch i, 1804, Henry Willard, of Keene, New
Hampshire, born July 20, 1779: died Febru
ary, 181 5. She died a week after her husband.
(See Willard).

There were several early set-
NORTON tiers bearing the surname Nor
ton. George Norton, of Ips
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1739

don early, took the freeman's oath in 1634,
and died in 1659, leaving a widow who mar
ried Philip Fowler and had ten children, but
no son. William Norton, born 1610, in Eng
land, came in the ship "Hopewell," in 1635,
was admitted a freeman in 1635-6 ; brother of
Rev. John Norton ; left son John, ancestor of
Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard ;
son Bonus, who settled in Hampton, and no
others mentioned in will ; daughter Elizabeth.
Rev. John Norton, born at Stortford, Hert
fordshire, May 6, 1606, a godly man and
preacher in England, came with his family on
the invitation of Governor Edward Winslow
in the fall of 1635, preached at Plymouth, but
settled in Ipswich ; removed to Boston as pas
tor of the first church ; died April 5, 1663 ;
mentions brothers William and Thomas Nor
ton; left no sons. Nicholas Norton settled
in Weymouth, 1635-40, removed to Martha's
Vineyard and had sons Joseph, born 1652, too
young to be Joseph (i) mentioned below.
George Norton, a carpenter, settled in Salem
in 1629; admitted freeman May 14, 1634; re
moved to Gloucester, and to Wenham ; no son
Joseph in list of children attached to inventory
of estate in 1659. Francis Norton, of Lon
don, was in Charlestown as early as 1630 ; had
charge of the armory at Boston and had inter
ests at Salem. There were several others from
England before 1630.
(I) Joseph Norton, born about 1640, may
have been nephew of some of the immigrants
named above, though no actual proof of re
lationship has been found. He settled in Sal
isbury, Massachusetts, in the vicinity of
which the Nortons named above settled. He
took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in
1677 ; was a soldier against the Indians in
1697. He died November 10, 1721, at Salis
bury. He married, March 10, 1662, Susanna
Getchell, who died his widow, August 18,
1724. Children, born at Salisbury: i. Son,
born 1662 ; died young. 2. Samuel, born Octo
ber II, 1663 ; soldier in WeUs, Maine, 1696. 3.
Joseph, born August 14, 1665 ; mentioned be
low. 4. Priscilla, born December 16, 1667;
married John, son of Robert Ring. 5. Solo
mon, born January 31, 1669-70; died May 2,
1721. 6. Benjamin, born March 24, 1671-2;
died October, 1693. 7. Caleb, born June 25,
1675; married March 6, 1699-1700, Susanna
Frame; was soldier in 1697-8; removed to
Brunswick, Maine. 8. Flower (daughter),
born November 21, 1677. 9. Joshua, born
October 13, 1690; died January 22, 1692-3.
(II) Joseph Norton, son of Joseph Norton,

was born in Salisbury, August 14, 1665. He
married, November 16, 1699, Elizabeth
Brown, and settled in Salisbury. He was a
soldier against the Indians in 1697. Chil
dren, born in Salisbury: i. Joshua, February
16, 1700-1 ; mentioned below. 2. Mary, Feb
ruary 28, 1702-3 ; died Alay 7, 1703. 3. Judith,
March 3, 1703-4; baptized an adult, April 28,
1723. (Ill) Joshua Norton, son of Joseph Nor
ton, was born at Salisbury, February 18, 170Q-
i. He settled in Newbury, and was a periwig
maker. He was one of the signers of the
petition dated Alarch 9, 1762, presented to the
town of Newbury stating that a company had
been formed to care for the fire engine, and
asking that. members be relieved from certain
other minor public duties while serving as
firemen. The road known as Elbow Lane is
mentioned in the Newbury records as running
between his house and that of Samuel Swazey,
and this land had been in use, though not
accepted as a public way, for fully thirty
years. It is now within the limits of the city
of Newburyport and extends from Market
Square to Liberty street. In 1783 it probably
extended through what is now Centre street
to New Lane, now Middle street. He bought
the estate of Benjamin Bishop in 1767. He
married Lydia Bishop. Children: i. Mich
ael, mentioned below. 2. Bishop, died 1808 ;
married Anna  ; a prominent citizen of
Newburyport. 3. Constantine. 4. William. 5.
Miriam. 6. George, of Newburyport.
(lA^) Michael Norton, son of Joshua Nor
ton, was born probably about 1770, and died
at China, Maine. He settled before 1790 on
what was known as Jones' Plantation, later
incorporated as China, Alaine, and took up a
large tract of land about two miles out of the
village. He was a farmer and weU-to-do for
his day. Late in life he gave his farm to his
youngest child, who cared for his parents in
their old age. He was a Baptist in religion
and a Whig in politics. He married Bethia
Williams, daughter of a lawyer of Augusta,
Maine. Children i. Benjamin, mentioned be
low. 2. Bethia, married  Keller, and
had son Horace Keller. 3. Ezra, born 1809,
died May 30, 1852; married. May 31, 1837,
Sarah L. Hanson, a native of Lebanon, Maine.
Children : i. Henry C, born January 15, 1840,
died April 29, 1852 ; ii. Albert E., born March
5, 1842, died November 25, 1874, married
Lizzie Bennet, May i, 1874; iii. Myra J., born
December 4, 1844, married Ralph J. AVhitak-
er, March 5, 1868: chUdren: Albert E., born

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

January 9, 1869; Carrie E., April 14, 1871 ;
Lilla M., September 23, 1873 ; James R., June
22, 1875; Laura G., April 7, 1878; Leroy G.,
November 29, 1880; Edgar H., February 4,
1883 ; Sadie B., July 7, 1885.
(V) Benjamin Norton, son of Michael
Norton, born at China, Maine, June 20, 1800,
died there June 13, 1874. He attended the dis.7
trict school and worked on the farm until he
became of age. At this time his father gave
him seventy-five acres of land and he settled
there as a farmer. About the time of his
marriage he built his house. The principal
product of his farm was butter and cheese.
He was a Baptist in religion and a Democrat
in politics. Energetic, industrious, enterprls-^
ing, he succeeded in business ; of kindly, mod
est, and charitable nature, he possessed many
sterling qualities and an exemplary Christian
character. He married, 1826, Alice Prebble,
born at Whitefield, Maine, died at China,
Maine. Children: i. John Henry, bom June
17, 1827 ; mentioned below. 2. Alartha, bom
April 6, 1829 ; married Joshua Robbins, of
Vassalboro, Maine ; had Charles Robbins. 3.
EHzabeth, born February 10, 183 1 ; died Feb
ruary, 1900; married Addison P. Gould, of
Bangor, Maine ; children : Susan, married
Frank Jay; Frederick; Abbie, married Daniel
Leary. 4. Bertha Williams, born December 3,
1833 ; resides at West Medford. 5. Orin, born
December 20, 1835 ; married, 1867, Omenia
Sarah Brown, of Vassalboro, Maine ; chil
dren : i. William Herbert, born March 29,
1868, married Lucy H. Bennett, of Newton-
ville, Maine ; ii. Henry Clark, born October
24, 1870; iii. Daniel Newbert, born February
29, 1872 ; married, June 27, 1900, Mabel
Leighton Swan, of Lowell, Massachusetts,
and had Doris Mabel, born April 22, 1901,
and Newbert Kendall, born January 25, 1903 ;
iv. Carrie Rebecca, born October 30, 1874,
married, February 26, 1896, George R. Stev
ens, of Waterville, Alaine; v. John Moffett,
born February 21, 1877, died February 27,
1901 ; vi. Lois Minnie, born December 6, 1879,
married Albert T. Merrill, of WaterviUe : vii.
Perley Orin, born November 3, 1882. 6. Han
nah Clark, born December 10, 1837; died un-
rnarried, 1875. 7. Daniel, born May 29, 1840;
died unmarried, February i, 1906. 8. Ann
Maria, born April 3, 1844; married, October
17, 1866, John Farris, of China, Maine, born
September 30, 1839, died August 8, 1901, son
of Samuel and Sybil (Hanson) Farris; chil
dren: i. Fred A. Farris, born May 3, 1867,
died May 30, 1889; ii. Alice M. Farris, born

March 6, 1868, married, January 13, 1889,
Leon Lewis, of China, and had Ethel M.
Lewis, born March 26, 1889, now deceased,
and Scott AV. Lewis, born February 19, 1892;
iii. Sybil E. Farris, born August 4, 1870, mar
ried, August 16, 1892, Fred Atkins ; iv. George
R. Farris, born November 7, 1875, married
first, March 9, 1897, Emma Spaulding, second,
November 27, 1907, Annie Atkins.
(VI) John Henry Norton, son of Benja
min Norton, born at China, Maine, June 17.
1827, died at West Medford, Massachusetts,
December 5, 1904. He attended the Wood
district school near his home and assisted in
the work of the farm. He learned the trade
of carpenter, and removed when a young man
to Bangor, Maine, where he worked at his
trade. He removed to Arlington, Massachu
setts, and engaged in carpentering until 1849,
then going to West Medford, where he set
tled. As soon as he had acquired a small capi
tal he started in business for himself, and be
came a successful and prosperous contractor
and builder, erecting many of the best build
ings in Medford and the surrounding towns.
Among the contracts were the Brooks school
building, the Neighborhood Club House, the
Newton Upper Falls school house, and over
a hundred private residences. He encouraged
the building up of the residential section of
Medford by making easy terms of payment
for young men. In 1871 he offered to build
a house for pubhc worship if the lumber and
materials were provided. It was not thought
advisable to accept this offer at the time, but
he took an active part in the organization of
the Congregational church and society of
West Medford the next year. It is not too
much to say that without his influence and
help the church would not have been organ
ized at that time. He made the largest con
tribution toward the building fund of the old
church edifice, and was the largest individual
contributor toward the payment of the mort
gage debt. For many years he was the largest
contributor toward the current expenses of
the church and society, and gave a parsonage
built expressly for the purpose, located near
the new church. He was a charter member
of the church and one of its first deacons,
taught in the Sunday School, and for several
years was chairman of the standing committee
of the society. In politics he was a Republi
can, and although a citizen of Medfo.rd for
over fifty years never accepted public office.
He was interested, however, in everything
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be called truly a man "diligent in business,
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." He was
unassuming in manner, and his voice was sel
dom heard in public, but his deeds spoke for
him. Always industrious, his energy seemed
untiring. He married, 1849, Martha R. Huff-
master, born July 6, 1819, died May 22, 1888,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Reed) Huff-
master, of Medford. Her father was a farm
er, and was fatally injured in the tornado of
August 22, 1851. Children: i. Thomas Hen
ry, born January 7, 1853 ; mentioned below.
2. Benjamin J., born January i, 1854; men
tioned below. 3. Frederick L., born January
22, 1855 ; died July 16, i860. 4. Susan Alice,
born May 4, 1858; died September 15, (?).
5. Carrie R., born June 12, 1859; died January
17, 1869. 6. WiUiam S., born March 18, 1863 ;
died September 20, 1863.
(VII) Thomas Henry Norton, son of John
Henry Norton, was born at Medford, Massa
chusetts, January 7, 1853. He attended the
public schools until sixteen years of age, and
learned the carpenter's trade of his father.
He worked as journeyman carpenter for his
father, and with his brother, B. J. Norton,
took charge of the building of many of the
important structures of the town. In 1893
he met with a serious injury sustained by fall
ing some distance to the frozen ground, per
manently disabling him and compelling him to
give up his work. He then removed to Barnet,
Vermont, and resided on the Strobridge home
stead, which had belonged to his father-in-law,
a farm of thirty-five acres. This he conducted
until 1905, when his father died, and he re
turned to West Medford to take charge of the
estate. He is at present a large property
owner, including many apartment houses, and
his time is fully occupied in looking after his
property. He resides at 19 Brooks street, in
a house that was buih for him by his father in
1885. He attends the First Congregational
Church, and is a member of the Brotherhood
of Andrew and Philip of that society. He is
also a member of the Medford Historical So
ciety and of the Royal House Association. In
politics he is a Repubhcan. Mr. Norton is
highly esteemed by his townsmen for his many
good' qualities of heart and mind. He mar
ried, December 22, 1881, LiUa Margaret Stro
bridge, born at Barnet, Vermont, July 2, 1854,
daughter of Ebenezer Hinds and Margaret
(Somers) Strobridge. Her father was a farm
er and prominent in the militia. They have no
children. (VII) Benjamin John Norton, son of John

Henry Norton, was born at West Medford,,
January i, 1854. He was educated in the pub
lic schools and at the Brooks grammar school,
supplemented by a course in the Bryant &
Stratton Business College at Boston. Pie learn
ed the trade of carpenter of his father and.
early became associated with him in the busi
ness, beginning by driving the wagon for him.
About 1883 he entered the baking business in
the Usher Block, on High street, and for four
years carried on a successful business. He
sold it and entered the employ of the West.
End street railway in Boston as a conductor,
remaining six years. He then entered the em
ploy of William Ricker & Company as sales
man on their produce farm. Six years later-
he became associated with his father again in
the building trade, and remained with him un
til his father's death in 1904. At present he is-
engaged, like his brother, in looking out for
his extensive real estate interests, and resides-
at 42 Woburn street. He and his family at
tend the Unitarian Church, and he is a mem
ber of the Unitarian Club. In politics he is a.
Republican. He married, June 29, 1887, Anna
Christianna Walkling, born March 24, 1869,.
daughter of Frederick and Christianna (Kahl-
hoefer) Walkling of Medford. Children: i.
Ethel May, born June 5, 1888. 2. Gertrude-
Anna, December 26, 1889. 3. John Benja
min, March 21, 1892. 4. Alice, November 26,.
1895. 5. Louis Henry, June 15, 1897. 6.
George Henry, August 13, 1899. 7. Ruth,
September 24, 1901. 8. Henry Thomas, De
cember 16, 1903. 9. Ralph Edwin, March 7,
1907.

This ancient Scotch family attain-
IRWIN ed distinction through the friend
ship of Robert Bruce for Sir
William de Irwin, who was the elder son of"
WilHam Irwin, of Bonshaw, and sealed his
favor with the gift of the estate of Drom, or
Drum, and thus the Irwins of Drum became
an old feudal baronial house, upon one of
whom was conferred the governorship of Ab
erdeen, and twice its masters refused the earl
dom of the same province.. Sir William was
armor-bearer to Bruce, and with the estate he
was favored with a coat-of-arms. The three
holly leaves were graven on the armorial when
he was exalted to the earldom of Garrick.
Sir Alexander Irwin, son of Sir William,
married a daughter of Sir Gilbert Hay, lord
high constable of Scotland, and had a son
Alexander of Drum, who was commander of
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he fell fighting. His title and estate then suc
ceeded to his brother John, who took the name
Alexander, married his brother's widow, who
was a daughter of Sir Robert Keith, great
marshal of Scotland. Sir Alexander the suc
cessor was knighted by James I, whom his
loyal subject afterward repaid as a commis
sioner to treat for his majesty's ransom.
From the Irwins of Drum descended the
Irwins, Irvins and Irvings of Lenturk, Hill-
town, Kingcausie, Fortrie, Enniskillen, Murt-
hill, Cutts and other municipalities of Ireland.
Burke has this to say of the Irwin family in
Ireland : "The Irwins of Tauragoe have main
tained a position of great respectabihty
amongst the gentry of the county of Sligo
since their settlement in Ireland, but from
which branch of the Scottish Irwins or Irvines
they descend has not been ascertained. The
peculiar name of Crinus, borne by members
of the family, is traditionally derived from
Krynin Abethnae, second husband of the
mother of Duncan, king of Scotland, to whom
and his descendants that monarch granted the
privilege of bearing the thistle as a crest. John
Irwin, who married a daughter of Colonel
Lewis Jones, of Ardna-glass, held a commis
sion in the parliamentary army, in which his
father-in-law also served, and accompanying
Cromwell to Ireland, settled at Sligo".
The emigration from Scotland to Ireland
began about the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, and about three-quarters of a century
later the descendants of many of those who
had become seated in that place of temporary
refuge followed the tide of European emi
gration to the shores of America ; and they
would have come earlier, but they had fled
from the country of their ancestors because
of religious persecution and were reluctant to
fly in the face of evils they knew not of. They
were Protestants, many of them Presbyterians,
and because they were not of the church
founded by the New England Puritans, they
were unwilling to subject themselves to the
discipline and punishment visited upon the
Quakers and all others who were not of their
faith. Many of these Irwins and Irvines were
soldiers of the crown and came to take part
in the wars with the French for supremacy
in the western world.
James Irvine, born 1735, son of George Ir
vine, was a soldier in his majesty's service.
James Irvine, the Canadian statesman, was
born in England, 1766, a son of Adam Irvine
who emigrated from Scotland to Canada soon
after Cromwell's time.

William Irvine, soldier and surgeon, was
born in Enniskillen, Ireland, 1741, graduated
from a Dublin university, and was surgeon on
board a British ship of war, 1756-1763.
Paulus Aemelius Irving, born Bonshaw,
Dumfries, Scotland, 1714, entered the army;
became major of foot under Wolfe and was
wounded on the Plains of Abraham ; adminis
tered the government of Quebec, 1765, being
commander in chief of the forces. His son,
Sir Paulus Aemelius Irving, born Waterford,
Ireland, 1751, became lieutenant of foot, 1764,
captain, 1768; major, 1775 ; fought under the
British standard at Lexington and Bunker
Hill, Three Rivers, Crown Point, Ticonderoga,
and under Burgoyne at Saratoga, where the
army of the king met its first decisive defeat
in the war for American independence.
About the year 1740 two brothers, descend
ants of Scotch ancestors, left the north of Ire
land for this country and settled, one in the
valley of the Hudson river, and the other in
the province of Lord Baltimore in Maryland.
And there was still another of the descendants
of the Irwins of Drum, Aberdeen, who also
came to this country as a soldier of the king,
and whose own descendants have continued to
live in the land, and honored it and their noble
house with loyal citizenship.
(I) John Irwin was born in the north of
Ireland before the middle of the eighteenth
century, and while it is not certain that his
parents were of Scotch birth, it is known that
they came of Scotch ancestors and reasonably
certain that the father was descended from
Sir WilHam de Irwin, armor-bearer to Robert
Bruce, and founder of the house of Irwins
of Drum. A few years before his death, whUe
living in Nova Scotia, John Irwin wrote an
account of his life, which as a matter of gen
eral and family interest is worthy to be placed
in these annals.
"This is to certify that I enHsted in the year
1 77 1, in the city of Dublin, Ireland, under the
command of Lord Langanier, 9th regiment
of foot, he being full colonel, it being com
manded by Lieut. Col. Taylor, and I done duty
for several years through Ireland, and I Em
barked early in the year 1776 for America
under the command of Lieut. Col. Hill, and
landed at Quebec, Canada; from thence pro
ceeded on a hea-yy campaign under the com
mand of General Charlton and suffered great
ly therein, having wintered in Canada.
"Next summer proceeded on second cam
paign under the command of General Bur
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by reason of several engagements — everything
but death itself ; became a prisoner to General
Gates by capitulation and remained a prisoner
for 4 years in a dreadful state of confinement,
having a family with me all this time, which
increased my suffering: being released came
into New York and joined the 40th regiment
of foot, under the command of Lieut. Col.
Musgrave; being discharged in October, 1783,
came to Nova Scotia and settled in the county
of Shelburne, where I remained, having done
military duty since I came to Shelburne until
age rendered me incapable" "signed John Irwin'"
John Irwin married probably in England
and doubtless his wife accompanied him to
Canada in 1776. A brief mention of their
children may be made as follows : i. Sarnuel,
the eldest, was born in Canada and was a
farmer there throughout his life of eighty-
four years. He married Cynthia Horton. 2.
Margaret, born while her father was away
from home on military duty. She married
Philip Hemeion, a farmer in Shelburne county,
Avhere their Hves were spent. He lived to be
ninety years old, and she died at the ripe age
of ninety-six years. They had a large family
of twelve children, six sons and six daughters.
3. Hannah, the third child, never married. She
Avas born in the states and lived to be ninety-
four years old. 4. Margia, born in Shelburne
and died there ; she married James Muir, a na
tive Nova Scotian, a famous ship builder in
his time, a man of means and much influence.
5. Robert G., of whom mention is made in the
next paragraph.
(II) Robert Grandby Irwin, youngest of
the children of John Irwin, the soldier imrni-
grant, was born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia,
and was brought up on his father's farm, a
part of which, fifty acres in extent, he feU heir
to. He was a man of good education and
made use of his talent by teaching school dur
ing the winter seasons for many years. He
also was a man of considerable local promi
nence and exercised a healthful _ influence
among his fellow townsmen. He died at the
age of sixty-five years. His wife, IsabeUa
(Firth) Irwin, was born in'the north of Ire
land and came with her parents to the British
provinces in America when she was a child.
Her father was John Firth. She was a very
faithful helpmeet to her husband and made his
a life of contentment to the end of his days ;
and she survived him many years and died in
1802, aged eighty-four years. They had four
children : i. Captain Samuel G., of whom men

tion is made in the succeeding pafagraph. 2.
Thomas, died young. 3. EHza Ann, died young.
4. Robert G., born in Shelburne and died there,
aged seventy-five years. He was a business
man, thrifty, industrious and successful. His
wife, whose name before marriage was Isa
bella Archer, was born in Nova Scotia and
still alive at the age of seventy-five years, hav
ing borne her husband ten children : Frank, a
physician, now dead ; Robert, a prominent bus
iness man, and now (1908) a member of the
Nova Scotia legislature; Bessie, unmarried,
and lives with her mother; Archer, a physi
cian, now in practice in the Sandwich Islands ;
Samuel, a manufacturer in Weston, Massa
chusetts ; Anna, died when sixteen years old ;
Mary, whose husband is a mining engineer in
Mexico ; Harry, a lawyer in the Sandwich Isl
ands ; Frederick, a physician in the Sandwich
Islands; Wesley.
(Ill) Captain Samuel Grandby Irwin, eld
est child of Robert G. and Isabella (Firth)
Irwin, was born in Shelburne, June 15, 1827,
and for something like twenty years was one
of the most famous master mariners on the
northem Atlantic coast. He seemed to have
been born for a, seafaring life and from the
time he left school until of mature age he fol
lowed the life of a seaman, from deckhand to
skipper and part owner. When only a boy he
shipped on board a coast trader, but from his
first trip out he showed the qualities of the
true sailorman and it was not long until he
was capable of navigating a ship in any waters
on the coast from Greenland to below the
Delaware capes. At the age of twenty-seven
he was master of the "Itasca", afterward sail
ed other coast traders and eventually became
master of the "George J. Marsh" and owner
of a three-fifths share in her. While master
of the "George J. Marsh" Captain Irwin had
the only serious misfortune of all the years
of his life on the ocean. In the fall of 1866
he loaded at Greenland for Philadelphia with
a cargo of 600 tons of mineral ore and cleared
for the passage under favorable conditions
considering the fact that the vessel was bot
tom-heavy on account of the great weight of
ore in her hold ; but as there was no possible
way in which to distribute the cargo and ease
off the weight below, he took a sailor's chance
and put to sea. The "George J. Marsh" was
a stanch boat and behaved well under good
handling until the night of September 10, 1866,
when she ran into an awful sea in the gulf of
St. Lawrence, which sent her down after a
mighty struggle of fifteen hours, with all hands

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at the pumps and her master at the wheel.
Under ordinary conditions she would have
rode out the gale, but being so very heavy
below she could not rise with the sweU and
therefore her deck was awash all through the
night ; and when the pumps failed to keep her
from filling and she began to sink, the captain,
his wife, and crew of fourteen men took to the
big lifeboat and pulled clear of the foundered
ship before she went down. For the next ten
hours the crew, already much exhausted with
overwork, succeeded by a hard struggle in
keeping the lifeboat afloat until all were pick
ed up by a passing vessel and carried to port.
After this unfortunate experience Captain
Irwin quit the sea; not because of the ship
wreck itself, for he was a born sailorman,
every inch of him, but in a large measure his
action was influenced by his wife, who spent
that September night with him aboard the
"George J. Marsh", when their lives were in
great peril and when the sinking ship carried
down with her a large share of her husband's
hard-earned means.
In 1867, having recovered from the effects
of a serious illness, Captain Irwin went to
AVinthrop, Massachusetts, purchased a com
fortable house and a large tract of land near
the center of the town and began a general
real estate and insurance business. At the
same time he was constantly looking about for
other opportunities, and seeing the need of im
proved transportation faciUties from Win
throp to Maverick Square, East Boston, he
purchased at foreclosure sale in 1877 the com
pany franchise and equipment of the horse
railroad formerly operated between those
points, organized a successor corporation un
der the name of Boston, Winthrop & Point
Shirley railroad, and converted the old system
into a narrow g^age steam road, connecting
with the Revere Beach & Lynn raUroad at
Orion Heights, and thus constructing the first
steam road in the town of Winthrop. At the
organization of the new company Captain Ir
win was elected president, serving in that ca
pacity for the next three years and operating
the road with a fair degree of success, but
owing to the difficulty in securing a fair rate
for passenger traffic between Orion Heights
and Boston it became virtually compulsory
that his road be sold to the Boston & Maine
Company. But notwithstanding the ultimate
outcome of the venture to those most directly
interested from a financial standpoint, the fact
remains that Captain Irwin did more than any
and all other persons in promoting the welfare
nf the town of AA''inthrop at the time when

Boston was beginning to assume the character
of a metropolitan city and men of means were
casting about for desirable sites for suburban
homes. Indeed he was the leading spirit of
this enterprise from its inception, just as he
was in later years the prime mover in various
other improvements which have been for the
prosperity of the town and its people. For
many years Captain Irwin was known as a
public-spirited, progressive and broad-minded-
citizen, devoting his energies, time and means
to the accomplishment of ends which have ad
vanced the general welfare as well as his own
personal concerns, and selfishness was a qual
ity not to be found in his nature. His fine
business ability had been utilized by the town
in many ways as he had at various times
served as sinking fund commissioner, collector
of taxes, assessor, selectman, chairman of the
appropriation committee, and in addition to
these offices had many times been placed updh
important committees and delegations connect
ed with private enterprises and philanthropic
work of various kinds. During his career
as a seaman and officer his experiences were
varied and many, and he told some highly
interesting stories of the countries he had vis
ited, as well as stirring incidents of his career
during that time. Captain Irwin was always
genial and lovable, was held in the very high
est esteem by both young and old of the town.
In the later years of his life both he and Mrs.
Irwin had been greatly interested in charitable
and educational work.
Captain Irwin married first, in Gloucester,.
January 3, 1853, H. Almira I)eming, born in
Nova Scotia, 1830, died in Winthrop, May
6, 1886. He married second. May ii, 1887, in
Georgetown, Delaware, Mary E. McGill, a na
tive of Nova Scotia, a woman of superior edu
cational attainments and who has devoted
many years of her life to teaching, and more
than fifteen years to educational work in the-
south. Her acquaintance in and about Win
throp and Boston is large, and with grace and
becoming dignity she fills an enviable place in
the social life of those localities ; her own home
is a seat of comfort and refined hospitality.
She is a regular attendant at the services of
the Methodist Episcopal church, of which her
husband was a member for more than forty
years. One child was born to Captain and
Mrs. Irwin, Irene Blanche, who died at the
age of three years. By recent adoption they
took a daughter into their home, Ruby Ray,
bom October 16, 1904. Captain Irwin died at
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1745

•' Among the early settlers of
LAWRENCE Watertown were John and
' George Lawrence. John
Lawrence, a carpenter, settled there early in
1636, and was admitted a freeman March 9,
1636-37. He married first, Elizabeth  ;
second, Susanna  ; he had twelve chil
dren by his first wife and two by his second
wife. In 1662 he probably removed to Groton,
Massachusetts. John and George were prob
ably nearly related, possibly father and son,
and it is from the latter that the families of
Watertown, Waltham and Weston by this
name are descended.
(I) George Lawrence was born in 1637,
died March 21, 1708-09; his will was dated
1707. He married first, Elizabeth Crispe,
born January 8, 1636-37, daughter of Benja
min and Bridget Crispe, of Watertown ; she
died May 28, 1681. He married second, Au
gust 16, 1691, Elizabeth Holland. Children:
I. Elizabeth, born January 30, 1658, married,
October 18, 1681, Thomas Whitney, born Au
gust 24, 1656, died September 20, 1719. 2.
Judith, born May 12, 1660. married, about
1681, John Stearns. 3. Hannah, born March
24, 1661-62, married Obadiah Sawtel, of Gro
ton. 4. John, born March 25, 1664, killed
June 15, 1674, by being run over by a load of
bricks. 5. Benjamin, born May 2, 1666, mar
ried Anna Adams Coolidge. 6. Daniel, twin
of Benjamin, was living in Charlestown in
1708. 7. George, see forward. 8. Sarah, mar
ried Thomas Rider. 9. Mary, born December
4, 1671, married, April 5, 1689, John Earl, of
Boston. 10. Martha, married, November 29,
1697, John Dix, born March 6, 1672-73. 11.
Grace, born June 3, 1680, married 
Edes, of Charlestown. 12. Joseph. 13. Rachel.
born July 14, 1694. 14. Patience, twin of
Rachel. (II) George Lawrence Jr., son of George
and Elizabeth (Crispe) Lawrence, born June
4, 1668, died March 5, 1735-36. He married
Alary  . Children : i. Mary, born Feb
ruary 15, 1696-97. 2. George, see forward. 3.
Elizabeth, born October 9, 1700. 4. John, see
forward. 5. Da-vid, born July 16, 1706. 6.
Sarah, born January 20, 1708-09, married,
1726, John Baldwin, of Woburn. 7. WUliam,
see forward. 8. Anna, born March i, 1713-14-
(III) George Lawrence, son of George and
Mary Lawrence, born June 3, 1698, died Aug
ust 2, 1773. He married, May i, 1724, Alary
Stearns, born July 20, 1699, died January 21,
1740, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and
Mary (Hawkins) Steams. He married sec

ond, Alay 13, 1742, Grace Brown; born 17 19,
died September 9, 1787. He was assessor of
Waltham, 1738-39-40-46-48. Children: i.
Abigail, born t^ebruary 14, 1724-25, died De
cember 8, 1726. 2. tienjamin, bom January
30, 1727-28, died abroad in the wars, 1754. 3.
EHjah, born April 10, 1732, died April 14,
1805. 4. Joshua, born February 8, 173 — , died
•November, 1735. 5. Jonathan, born and died
in 1737. 6. Eunice, born September 19, 1738,
died February 8, 1802; married, November
17, 1768, Isaac Stearns Jr., son of Deacon
and Elizabeth (Childs) Stearns. 7. Mary,
baptized April 17, 1743. 8. George, see for
ward. 9. Mary, baptized December 14, 1755,
married, February 14, 1782, John Herrick, of
Andover, Alassachusetts.
(Ill) John Lawrence, son of George and
Mary Lawrence, born February 20, 1703-04,
died August 23, 1770. He was a resident of
Waltham. He married, January 24, 1733-34,
Mary Hammond, born February 4, 1714-15,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Harrington)
Hammond. ChUdren: i. Anna, born January
30, 1734-35, married, April i, 1756, Edward
Harrington. 2. Sarah, born July 21, 1737.
married, June 15, 1762, Josiah Whitney, born
November 22, 1730, died December 3, 1800,
son of Ensign David and Rebecca Whitney.
3. John, born November 30, 1740, married,
April 16, 1765, Sarah Fiske, born September
19, 1745. 4. Abigail, born December 6, 1744,
died October 21, 1803; married, June 7, 1763,
Jonathan Fiske, born May 14, 1735, died
Alarch 30, 1787. 5. Phineas, see forward.
(Ill) William Lawrence, son of George
and Mary Lawrence, was born May 20, 171 1.
He was a resident of Weston. He married,
November 28, 1734, Mary Perry, born Sep
tember 7, 1718, daughter of Samuel and Mar
garet CTrain) Perry. Children: i. Samuel,
born August 7, 1735, married. 1758, Mary
Clarke, of Medfield. 2. Alary, married, 1758.
Isaac Gregory, born February 4, i734-35> so^n
of Isaac and Grace (Harrington) Gregory. 3.
Abigail, born May 7, 1739, married, December
27, 1772, James Priest, born 1749-50,^ died
Alay 21, 1790. 4. Mercy, twin of AbigaU. 5.
AVilliam, born June i, 1741, married, October
13, 1763, Hannah Hammond. 6. Josiah, born
July 16, 1744. 7. Josiah, born September 29,
1745. 8. Daniel, born September 29, 1747,
married, April 22, 1772, Elizabeth Graves. 9.
Jonathan, born February i, 1750, married,
1773, Lucy Alorse, of Sudbury.
(IA'') George Lawrence, son of George
and Grace (Brown) Lawrence, was a resident

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of Waltham. He married, 1771, Esther War
ren, born March 14, 1754, daughter of Asa
and Tabitha Warren. Children: i. Benja
min, born January 31, 1772, died November
25, 1800. 2. George, born December 12, 1773,
died February 3, 1796. 3. Jonas, born May
13, 1779. 4. Grace, born March 23, 1782, mar
ried, January 23, 1806, Leonard Green, bap
tized January 30, 1785, son of Samuel and
Lydia Green. 5. Eunice, born May 3, 1784.
6. Sally, born July 22, 1786. 7. Elijah, born
September 23, 1789. 8. Josiah, born April
18, 1791. 9. Hannah, born May 12, 1793. 10,
Esther, born May 17, 1794, married, 1814,
Leonard Green.
(IV) Deacon Phineas Lawrence, son of
John and Mary (Hammond) Lawrence, was
born February 19, 1749. He served as select
man from 1781 to 1786. He married, Novem
ber 5, 1770, Elizabeth Stearns, born March
17, 1752, daughter of Deacon Isaac and Eliza
beth (Childs) Steams. Children: i. Susanna,
born June 18, 1771-72, married, September 26,
1793, Rev. Nathan Underwood, of Hardwich,
a graduate of Harvard in 1788. 2. EHzabeth,
born and died in 1773. 3. Phineas, born Feb
ruary 19, 1775, married, December 22, 1796,
Polly Wellington, born April 16, 1776, daugh
ter of William and Alary (Whitney) Welling
ton ; children: i. Isaac W., baptized 1797; ii.
Louisa, baptized September 23, 1798; iii. Mar
ion, baptized April 6, 1800; iv. Adeline, bap
tized November i, 1801 ; v. William H., bap
tized November 28, 1803 ; vi. Sybil, baptized
September 8, 1805 ; vii. Sydney, baptized De
cember 28, 1806. 4. Leonard, born May 6,
1777, died December, 185 1 ; married Nancy
 ; child, Frederick, baptized October 7,
1809. 5. Elizabeth, born September 2, 1779,
married, December 12, 1797, Abraham W^ell-
ington. 6. Priscilla, born December 26, 1780,
died July 24, 1803, unmarried. 7. Mary, born
May 25, 1785, married, September 23, 1810,
Chester Lyman, of Roxbury. 8. Nathan, bom
May 27, 1787. 9. Abigail, born June 18, 1789,
married, April 12, 18 10, Jonas Viles, Jr. 10.
Jacob, see forward. 11. Lucretia, born Janu
ary 19, 1797.
(V) Jacob Lawrence, son of Deacon Phin
eas and EHzabeth (Stearns) Lawrence, was
born in Waltham, June 11, 1792, died Decem
ber 28, 1881. He came to live in the house
now occupied by his son Phineas at the time
of his marriage in 1817, and resided there un
til his death. The homestead house was built
by his father in 1809 ; an earlier homestead
house was built in 1759, and is now the resi

dence of Charles E. Lawrence, a nephew of
Phineas Lawrence, both of the houses (adjoin
ing) stand on the land originally granted to
the early settler, George Lawrence. Jacob
Lawrence was a farmer, following that voca
tion all his life. He married, May 15, 1817,
Hannah Brown, born December 5, 1795,
daughter of- Jonas and Relief (Pierce) Brown
(a full account of the Brown ancestry appears
in the sketch of George R. Beal, elsewhere in
this work). She died August 24, 1877. ChU
dren: I. Edward, born February 28, 1818,
married Nancy Stearns ; child, Charles E. 2.
John G., born January 8, 1820, died August
12, 1896, unmarried. 3. George B., born May
14, 1822, died August 10, 1900, unmarried.
4. Martha B., born May 22, 1824, died Janu
ary 16, 1904. 5. Phineas, see itorward. 6.
Frances J., born July 17, 1830, died August
13, 1903. 7. Nathan N., born March 10, 18^3
died December 21, 1884. 8. Mary E., bo%n
February 4, 1837, died March 7, 1843. *
(VI) Phineas Lawrence, son of Jacob and
Hannah (Brown) Lawrence, was born in
Waltham, August 12, 1826. He was reared on
the homestead, where he has passed the eighty-
one years of his life. His early education was
received in the district school. At an early
age he took up farming, and has followed that
vocation up to the present time. Both he and
his father made a specialty of dairy farming;
in 1826 his father established a milk route to
Boston, Massachusetts, and this business was
carried on successfully for half a century. In
politics Mr. Lawrence has always been a Re
publican, and served on the board of aldermen
of Waltham the first two years after its incor
poration as a city. He is a member of the
Unitarian church. He has been a contributor
to the local journal, notable among his papers
being, "Trepelo, Past and Present," a series of
articles historically descriptive of the part of
the city in which he resides, which have often
been referred to and quoted as authority. He
has also furnished numerous articles on agri
culture and horticulture, on which latter sub
ject he may be said to be an enthusiast.

This surname had its origin in
CLAPP the proper or personal name of
Osgod Clapa, a Danish noble in
the court of King Canute (1017-36). The site
of his country place was known afterward as
Clapham, county Surrey. The spelling in the
early r'icords varies from Clapa to the present
form. '"lap]D. The ancient seat of the family
in England is at Salcombe, Devonshire, where

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important estates were held for centuries by
this family. Their coat-of-arms: First and
fourth three battle-axes, second sable a griffin
passant argent; third sable an eagle with two
heafs displayed with a border engrailed ar
gent. A common coat-of-arms in general use
by the family in America as well as England :
Vaire gules and argent a quarter azure
charged with the sun or. Crest : A pike naiant
proper. Motto : "Fais ce que Dois advienne
que pourra." The American branches of this
family are descended from six immigrants,
brothers and cousins, who settled in Dorches
ter, Massachusetts, whence they and their des
cendants have scattered to all parts of the
country. (I) Nicholas Clapp, progenitor of the fam
ily given herein, lived at Venn Ottery, Devon
shire, England. Three of his sons and one
daughter, wife of his nephew Edward Clapp,
came to America. His brother WiUiam lived
at Salcombe Regis, England, and besides his
son Edward another son Roger Clapp immi
grated to America and settled at Dorchester.
The family genealogy gives the name of Rich
ard instead of Nicholas (i). Children: i.
Thomas, born 1597; mentioned below. 2.
Ambrose, lived and died in England. 3. Rich
ard, had Richard, Elizabeth, and Deborah ;
remained in England. 4. Prudence, came to
New England; married her cousin Edward
Clapp, and died at Dorchester, 1650. 5. Nich
olas, born at Dorchester, England, came from
Venn Ottery, Devonshire, about 1633 ; town
officer, deacon; married Sarah, daughter of
WiUiam Clapp, of Salcombe Regis, mention
ed above ; married second, Abigail, widow of
Robert Sharp; he died 1679. 6. John, came
to Dorchester ; died July 24, 1655 ; mentions
brothers and sisters in his wiU, brother-in-law
and cousin Roger ; widow married second,
John EUis, of Medfield; left land at South
Boston to the town ; sold in 1835 for a thous
and dollars an acre, about thirteen acres.
(II) Thomas Qapp, the immigrant, son of
Nicholas Clapp (i), was bom in England in
1597. He arrived from Weymouth, England,
July 24, 1633, and in 1634 was at Dorchester,
¦ where Nicholas and John had settled ; was ad
mitted a freeman at Dorchester 1636 ; removed
to Weymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1639
and lived on the farm owned later by Hon.
Christopher Webb. He removed to Scituate
in 1640 and was deacon of the church there in
1647; admitted freeman of Plymouth colony
June 5, 1644; deputy to general court 1649;
overseer of the poor 1667; a useful and em

inent citizen. His farm was in the southwest
part of the town near Stockbridge's mill pond,
later owned by Calvin Jenkins. He died April
20, 1684, aged eighty-seven. His will, dated
April 19, 1684, stated he was in his eighty-
seventh year, bequeathing to wife Abigail,
children : Thomas, of Dedham, Samuel, In
crease and four daughters, mentioned below.
ChUdren: i. Thomas, born March 15, 1639;
mentioned below. 2. Increase, born May, 1640,
probably. 3. Samuel. 4. Eleazer, removed to
Barnstable; killed March 15, 1676, by Indians.
5. Elizabeth, married Captain Alichael P.
Pierce. 6. Prudence, unmarried. 7. John,
born October 18, 1658; died 1671. 8. Abigail,
born January 29, 1659-60.
(Ill) Thomas Clapp, son of Thomas Clapp
(2), was born at AVeymouth, Massachusetts,
March 15, 1639, and settled at Dedham, living
in that part incorporated in 1724 as Walpole.
He was a housewright. His wiU was dated
December 14, 1688, and proved January 29,
1691. He married, November 10, 1662, Mary
Fisher, of Dedham. Children, born in Ded
ham: I. Thomas, September 26, 1663; died
January 28, 1704. 2. John, February 29, 1665-
6; died March 12, 1665-6. 3. Joshua, 1667;
mentioned below. 4. Mary, December 13,
1669. 5. Eleazer, November 4, 1671. 6. Abi
gail. 7. Hannah. 8. Samuel, August 21,
1682; died June 13, 1772.
(IV) Joshua Clapp, son of Thomas Clapp
(3), born in Dedham, 1667, died 1728. He
resided in Dedham in what was later the town
of Walpole, (incorporated 1724). He was a
farmer, inheriting part of his father's estate,
including half the field near the river bounded
north by land of his brother John, six acres
adjoining land of James Fales, twelve acres
at north of Neponset river, also two cow
rights. He married Mary Boyden, daughter
of Jonathan. She died May 18, 1718, and he
married second, December 4, 1718, SUence
Wright, widow of William, and daughter of
John Bird, of Dorchester. She was born Feb
ruary 4, 1690. Children, born at Dedham, by
first wife: i. Joshua, 1707; mentioned below.
2. John, 1709, died February 21, 1775, aged
sixty-six. 3. Abigail, married  Morse.
4. Esther, married  Morse. 5. Mary,
married Eliezer Robins, of Stoughton. 6.
Thankful, 1716. Children of second wife:
7. Silence, 1720. 8. Seth, 1722.
(V) Joshua Qapp, son of Joshua Clapp
(4), born in Dedham, 1707, died May 6, 1802,
aged ninety-five years. He was a man of high
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of his company; justice of the peace and mag
istrate; deputy to general court; deacon of
church at AValpole, formerly Dedham. About
1745 he marched to Boston with his company
to defend it from the attack of the French
fieet, then expected. He married, December
12, 1728, Abigail Bullard, of Walpole. She
died August 12, 1782; and he married second,
Deborah, widow of Deacon Hewins. She died
November 18, 1797, aged ninety. Children,
born at Walpole: i. Joshua, September 7,
1729 ; mentioned below. 2. Ebenezer, Novem
ber 27, 1733 ; married  Fales, of Wal
pole. 4. Eliphalet, March 6, 1736. 5. Abigail,
September 5, 1738; married Benjamin Harts
horn and Jeremiah Smith. 6. Elhanah J.,
October 2, 1740; died October 13, 1805; mar
ried, July 16, 1767, Abigail Partridge. 7. Oli
ver, January 13, 1743, captain of Walpole
company ; married Susanna Gray ; second,
Susannah Clapp, widow of Thomas. 8. Es
ther, March 23, 1746; married Swift Payson,
of Foxborough, son of Rev. Phillips Payson.
(VI) Joshua Clapp, son of Joshua Clapp
(5), born in Walpole, September 7, 1729;
married Margaret Guild. Children, born at
Walpole: i. Margaret, June 12, 1750; mar
ried Benjamin Pettee. 2. Joshua, March 11,
1753- 3- Aaron, February 5, 1755 ; resided
at Walpole; married Lois Holmes; second,
Abigail Whitman. 4. Oliver, February 22,
1757 ; married John Boyden. 5. Eliphaz, Sep
tember 3, 1760; resided at Walpole; married
¦  Boyden. 6. Asa, March 26, 1763:
mentioned below. 7. TJjomas, born May 19,
1766; married Nancy Boyden. 8. OHver, Sep
tember 6, 1768 ; married Patience Copp.
(VII) Asa Clapp, son of Joshua Clapp (6),
born in Walpole, Alarch 26, 1763; married,
September 7, 1790, Esther Allen, of Walpole,
bom December 16, 1771, died Alay 29, 1839.
Asa removed to Marlborough, New Hamp
shire, about 1798, and settled in the northeast
part of the town, near Qapp's Pond. He died
there March 31, 1840. Children: i. Allen, born
April 28, 1784, at Walpole; had the home
stead: died February 6, 1837; married, Feb
ruary 10, 1819, Hannah Newcomb, of Rox
bury, who died March 26, 1846; children; i.
John Newcomb, born November 27, 1819, died
January 4, 1834; ii. Esther, born September
I, 1822; married Matthew Brown; iii. Lura
N., born July 8, 1825, married Edwin Piper;
iv. Lydia B., born March 5, 1828, married,
January i, 1861, Elbridge Cummings; v.
Sarah, born November 17, 1830; married
 7— Fiske ; yi. Allen Newcomb, born Janu

ary 2, 1837, married Josie M. Mason. 2. Asa,
born February 11, 1801, at Marlborough, men
tioned below. 3. Franklin, born June 17, 1805 ;
died March 13, 1854; married Roxanna Ten-
ney who died April 29, 1853 ; lived on part of
homestead at Marlborough; children: i. Sa-
brina, born May 31, 1830, married William
Guild and WUliam Dort; ii. Charles A., born
September 27, 183 1, married Eugenia M.
Smith ; iii. AVilliam M., born December 25,
1832 ; married Elizabeth McCoUester and
Sarah M. Bryson; iv. Elmer Augustus, born
August 15, 1835, went to California, thence
to Chile, South America, married a Spanish
girl, Damiana Corasco, and had four children,
son William lives in Valparaiso, Chile; v.
Maria S., born July 21, 1839; married Solon
AV. Stone. 4. Daniel, born July 16, 1810 ; mar
ried Fannie SneU, of Roxbury; died July 31,
1846; resided in Roxbury.
(VIII) Asa Clapp, son of Asa Clapp (7),
born at Marlborough, New Hampshire, Feb
ruary II, 1801, died 1880. He married, Alay
5, 1825, Delina Bullard, born January 18,
1801, on the old Bullard homestead at Wal
pole, and died November 5, 1872. ChUdren:
I. Harriet S., born July 10, 1827; married
Charles Robinson ; children : George and Har
riet Robinson ; reside at Walpole. 2. Frances
Delina, born December i, 1829, died May 17,
1850 ; married William Allen ; reside at West
Dedham, Massachusetts. 3. Asa Elbridge,
born January 29, 1834; mentioned below. 4.
George Allen, born May 7, 1838 ; died Febru
ary 24, 1850.
(IX) Asa Elbridge Clapp, son of Asa
Clapp (8), born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
January 29, 1834, died October 21, 1876. He
was educated in the public schools of his na
tive town. He learned the trade of cabinet
maker, and was for many years employed at
his trade in the old Everett factory. He mat-
ried, July. 18, 1859, Mary Elizabeth Annis,
born at Alontville, Maine. (See Annis). Chil
dren: I. Elmer E., born in Walpole. Alay 23,
1 86 1, mentioned below. 2. Mary Frances,
born in Norwood, August 23, 1868; married,
October ,30, 1905, Herbert W. Fishlock, son of
Thomas and Elizabeth Fishlock, born March
13, 1864, in Wiltshire, came to America in De
cember, 1883, and resided first in Boston, now
in Roslindale.
(X) Elmer E. Clapp, son of Asa Elbridge
Clapp (9), was born in Walpole, May 23,
1861. He received his education in the public
schools of South Dedham. He learned the
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Sleeper & Company, and later engaged in bus
iness in partnership with W. F. Tilton, under
the firm name of Clapp & Tihon, succeeding
his former employers in the same quarters,
12 Summer street, Boston, and is well known
in the trade throughout the country. Mr.
Clapp is a Unitarian in religion, and has served
on the parish committee of the Unitarian
church at Dedham. He is a member and past
master of Orient Lodge of Free Masons, Nor-
¦w^ood; of Hebron Chapter, Royal Arch
Alasons; of Cypress Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Hyde Park. He resides at 30
Highland street, Dedham, where he has made
his home. He married^Annie P., daughter of
Charles and Sarah E. (Vaughan) Hill. (See
Hill). Children: i. Richard E., born May
.25, 1883. 2. Elizabeth, born September 7,
1885 ; married H. D. Bixby. 3. Esther E., born
November 28, 1889. 4. Ruth E., born April
3, 1891, died February 8, 1892. 5. Charles E.,
born October 12, 1892. 6. John B., January 7,
1897.

John HiU, immigrant ancestor of
HILL this branch of the HiU family in
America, was first recorded as
moving from Plymouth to Boston in 1630. He
was made a freeman March 18, 1642; was
taxed in Dover, New Hampshire, December 8,
1639. He seems to have been interested in
land speculation in several places. He was
one of the grantees of "Nashaway" in 1640.
He died in 1647, probably in Boston. The
only child of which there is a record was John,
mentioned below.
(II) John HUl, son of John HiU (i), was
born about 1624. He inherited land from his
father in Dover and was taxed for it in 1650.
He lived in that part of Dover called Oyster
River, now Durham, New Hampshire. He was
a grand juryman 1668-71 ; was taxed in 1684,
after which he is not mentioned. He married,
January 16, 1656, Elizabeth Strong. Children,
as far as known from deeds and incidental
mention : i. Joseph, born 1657. 2. Samuel,
born probably 1659; mentioned below. 3.
John, born 1661 ; married perhaps Sarah
Brackett. 4. Benjamin, born April 8, 1665.
5. Hannah, married William Frye.
(IH) Samuel PliU, son of John HiU (2).
was born probably in 1659. He made a depo
sition September 27, 1682, in which he says
that he was about twenty-five years of age.
He was then a constable. In 1685 he sold land
to John Smart, which the deed declares he
bought of his father, John Hill. He married

first, in Kittery, Maine, Catherine Knight;
second, October 28, 1680, EHzabeth, daughter
of William and Mary Williams, of Oyster
River, New Hampshire. He bought land in
Eliot, Maine, in 1686. He also owned estates
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His will
was dated August 26, 1713, and proved March
28, 1723. ChUdren: i. John, born Novem
ber 30, 1681. 2. Elizabeth, November 7, 1683;
married, February 25, 1701-2, George Mar
shall, of Portsmouth. 3. Mary, April 6, 1685 ;
married Benjamin Welch. 4. Hannah, Sep
tember 29, 1687; married Samuel More. 5.
Abigail, September 29, 1689; married, June
10, 1714, Ebenezer Bennett. 6, Samuel, De
cember 13, 1696; married Mary Nelson. 7.
Sarah, July 28, 1701 ; married, January 13,
1725-6, Joseph Fogg, of Scarborough, Maine.
8. Benjamin, July 2, 1703; mentioned below.
9. Joseph, July 28, 1706 ; married Abigail
Libby. (IV) Benjamin Hill, son of Samuel HiU
(3), was born July 2, 1703. He married, Jan
uary 12, 1726, Mary, daughter of Andrew and
Catherine (Furbish) Neal. Children: i.
John, born December 12, 1727. 2. Eunice, No
vember 6, 1730; married, November 13, 1751,
John Shackley. 3. Alary, July 20, 1733 ; mar
ried, October 22, 1761, John Adams. 4. James,
December 20, 1734; mentioned below. 5.
Catharine, November 6, 1735 ; married, July
25, 1773, Peter Nowel, of York, Maine." 6.
EHzabeth, May 15, 1738; married Samuel
Hodge, of Dover. 7. Benjamin, December 24,
1739. 8. Abigail, March 26, 1741 ; died young.
9. Andrew, December 11, 1742;. died young.
10. Andrew, April 3, 1744; married Judith
Gerrish, of Newbury, Massachusetts. 11. Ab
igail, September, 1745 ; married, August 25,
1768, Ezra Moody, of Newbury. 12. Daniel,
April 2, 1748; died November 6, 1749. 13.
Anne, November 12, 1750.
(V) General James Hill, son of Benjamin
HUl (4), born at Kittery, Maine, December
20, 1734, died August 22, 181 1. He married,
January 31, 1760, Sarah Coffin, born July 11,
1740, died February 3, 1774, daughter of Ed
ward and Shuah (Bartlett) Coffin; second,
June 20, 1774, Sarah Burleigh, died December
10, 1789 ; third, Martha Folsom, widow, died
June 7, 1812, daughter of Jonathan Wiggin.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian
war, and raarched from Newbury, Alassachu
setts, in the Crown Point expedition from
April to December, 1755. He worked as a
ship-carpenter on the ship "Achilles." He was
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and for the defence of Portsmouth Harbor,
November 6, 1755 ; was appointed captain of a
battalion in the Continental army June 13,
1776. He signed the Association List at New
market, July 12, 1776. As lieutenant-colonel
he commanded the Fourth regiment of New
Hampshire militia, June 27, 1771 ; was ensign
in Captain John Langdon's independent com
pany and marched to Saratoga, where they
joined General Gates' army in the defeat of
Burgoyne, October, 1777. Although he had
been in many engagements in both the French
and Indian and the revolutionary wars, he re
turned home without a wound. With Michael
Shute, of Newfields, he was delegated from
Newmarket to the provincial congress at Exe
ter, New Hampshire, April, 1775 ; he was in
the New Hampshire assembly, 1779 to 1785,
and a candidate for state senator in 1786, 1787
and 1792. He served on the court martial at
the trial of the insurrectionary officers in
Shay"s Rebellion, September 27, 1786. He
was a candidate for congress in 1796, and for
the governor's council in 1797. Children, of
first wife: I. Daniel, born July 16, 1761 ;
mentioned below. 2. Sarah, January 5, 1763.
3. Mary, June 2, 1764. 4. James, March 2,
1766. 5. Aphia, December 4, 1767; died June
21, 1770. 6. Eunice, May 28, 1770. 7. Ehz
abeth, February 22, 1772. 8. AVilliam, April
7> 1773. Children of second wife : 9. Han
nah, Alarch 27, 1775. 10. John Burleigh, June
3, 1776. II. Joseph Hoit, June 16. 1778. 12.
Benjamin, September 19, 1779. 13. Deborah,
Alay 3, 1781. 14. Aphia, July 4, 1783. 15.
Mehitable Burleigh, April 2, 1785. 16. Olive
Bridge, January, i, 1787. 17. Amos Shepard,
Alarch 30, 1788.
(A^I) Daniel Hill, son of General James
Hill (5), was born July 16, 1761. He mar
ried, August 22, 1784, Elizabeth Burleigh, born
June 10. 1766, died March 29, 1845. Chil
dren: I. John Burleigh, born April 22, 1785;
died February 27, 1786. 2. Olivia P., born
January 21, 1787; died AprU 6, 1822. 3. Eliz
abeth, born January 11, 1789; died .July I,
1867. 4. Daniel Jr., born February 13, 1791 ;
died June 8, 1815. 5. Mary B., bom Novem
ber 23, 1792; died June 22, 1867. 6. John B.,
born January 5, 1795; died June 12, 1841. 7.
Nathaniel R., born October 29, 1796; mention
ed below. 8. James, born February 10, 1799:
died September, 1875. 9. Henry, born AprU
13, 1800; died February 26, 1803. 10. Me
hitable, born December 25, 1802 ; died Decem
ber 27, 1874. II. Sarah Ann Coffin, born Jan
uary 15, 1806; died February 5, 1874. 12.

George Henry, born September 23, 1807.
(VII) Nathaniel Rogers Hill, son of Dan
iel Hill (6), born October 29, 1796, died July
3, 1878. He resided at Dover and Newmarket,
New Hampshire, and married May 18, 1825,
Esther Ela, born February 2, 1802, died April
10, 1889, daughter of Nathaniel Whittier and
Esther (Emerson) Ela. Children: I.Esther
Emerson, born March 17, 1826; died March
28, 1900; married, April 18, 1848, OHver Tibv
bets, of Rochester, New Hampshire. 2. Na
thaniel Ela, born November 26, 1827 ; married,
January 21, 1858, Caroline G. Tufts, of Dov
er, New Hampshire. 3. Daniel, born October
22, 1830; died December 13, 1833. 4. Eliza
beth B., bom January 25, 1834; died March
12, 1850. 5. Charles Ela, born September 22,
1838 ; mentioned below. 6. Mary Ednah, born
December 15, 1843. 7- Susan Frances, born
July 9, 1845 '-• died September 6, 1847.
(VIII) Charies Ela HUl, son of Nathaniel
R. HiU (7), was born September 22, 1838.
He married, June 20, i860, Sarah E. Vaughan,
daughter of Richard and Eliza P. (Baxter)
Vaughan. Children: i. Elizabeth Vaughan,
born AprU 16, 1861 ; died October 25, 1866. 2.
Annie Florence, born January 5, 1863 ; mar
ried Elmer E. Clapp; (see Clapp). 3. Minnie
Alice, born March 9, 1868; died August 3, 1869.

The surname Annis or Ennis is
ANNIS of Irish origin. The usual spelling
in Ireland at the present time is
Ennis ; both spellings prevail in this country.
(I) Curmac Annis, or Ennis (ahas Charles
Annis), was the first of the name in New Eng
land. He was born in 1638, and came with
other Protestants from EnniskUlen, in the
north of Ireland, to Massachusetts. He was
a planter in Newbury, Massachusetts, as early
as 1666. He married. May 15, 1666, Sarah
Chase, who died before 1722. Children : i.
Joseph, born about 1666, weaver, lived with
his father ; married Dorothy  , who died
at Newbury in 1740; he died August 12, 1758,
aged ninety-two; sons Aquila, Jonathan,
Joseph, Christopher and Charles. 2. Abraham,
born .'August 18, 1668, weaver, resided at New
bury until 1736, then at HaverhiU, his farm of
a hundred acres falling in New Hampshire
when the line was fixed. (See "Essex Antl^
quarian," vol. iii, p. 185). 3. Aquila, born
June 6, 1670; died April 17, 1672. 4. Isaac,
born April 12, 1672; widow Rebecca married
Shimuel Griffin. 5. Sarah, married, 1704, Or
lando Bagley. 6. PriscUla, born November
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nah, born November 15, 1679; married Eph
raim Wood. 8. Anne, born December 28,
1 78 1, married George Worthen.
(II) Andrew Annis, of Boston, may have
been related to Curmac Annis, mentioned
above, very likely a grandson. His name was
spelled Ennis, Enis, Enness, etc., in the Boston
records. He married. May 25, 1713, Hannah
Belcher. They were married by the Presby
terian minister of Boston. Children; 'i.
Charles, born September 8, 1722 ; married,
July 15, 1756, Eliza Green, at Boston. And
the following probably, none of their births
being recorded : 2. Hannah, married Richard
AA^illiams, 1739. 3. Mary, married, September
IQ, 1742, William Roads. 4. Samuel, married
Alary Humble, of Wells, Maine, July 6, 1743.
(Spelled Annis). 5. Captain John, mentioned
below. 6. Jonathan, married, December 12,
1754, Hannah AVhite. And perhaps Lucy,
Betsey and Rebecca.
(Ill) Captain John Annis, born July 20,
1732, married Mary Melony, and came to
Alaine from Boston, according to the history
of Warren, Maine, settling at Broad Cove,
Gushing, removing later to Warren. He
served in the revolution in the volunteer navy,
called privateers, and was shot in battle, re
ceiving a wound that caused his death. His

widow married

Blaisdel and resided

many years on Blaisdel's Island, but died in
Camden, Maine. Children: i. Amy, born
July 13, 1754. 2. Susannah, .Septemoer 2S,
1758 : married Samuel Boggs 3d ; resided at
AVarren ; died November 15, 1838, aged
eighty-two. 3. Mary, October 11, 1759; mar
ried Alexander Bird, in Camden. 4. Hannah,
November 8, 1761 ; died September 15, 1840.
5. John, January i, 1764: mentioned below. 6.
Thomas, October 5, 1766. 7. Samuel, March
4, 1769; married Sarah Thorndike. 8. Martha,
January 24, 1772 ; resided and died at Boston.
9. Sarah, January 4, 1774: married John
Thorndike ; resided at Camden ; died Decem
ber 12, 1767, burned to death by accident, 10.
James Calder, November 16, 1778, lost at sea.
(IV) John Annis 2d, son of Captain John
Annis (3), was born in Warren, Maine, Janu
ary I, 1764; married in Boston, (by Rev. Peter
Thatcher) Sally Caverly, March 3, 1795.
Child : John, mentioned below.
(V) John Annis, son of John Annis (4),
born in Belmont, near Belfast, Maine, 1809,
died 1851. He married Esther Rowell. They
lived at MontvUle, Maine. Children: i.
Mary E., born at MontviUe, July 18, 1839;
married Asa E. Clapp. (See Clapp).

The Raddin family is identical
RADDIN with the Reading famUy of
England, the difference in spell
ing having arisen through the custom of spell
ing in this country. In Alarblehead, the original
home of the family in this country, we find
births, deaths and marriages recorded in this
family under the following styles of spelling:
Reading, Redding, Redden, Reddin, Reddaine,
Reddain, Reddan, Ridden, Riddon, Raddan,
Raddin, Readdin, Readin, Reddan, Rodden,
Ridden, Readdan, Redan and Raddain. Doubt
less this list could be extended by research in
other records. The derivation of the name is
unquestionably from the town of Reading,
Berkshire, England, also spelled Redding, etc.,
in early records. The town is said to have
been named for a Saxon tribe, the Radingas,
descendants of Raeda. The town is now shire
town of Berkshire, and was an important place
before the year 900, though the Domesday
Book gives but twenty-eight houses there in
1066. Some of the town was destroyed in
1006 at the time of the invasion of Sweyn,
King of Denmark. The ancient coat-of-arms
of the Readings was : Argent three boars'
heads couped sable. The following is in gen
eral use : Argent three boars' heads erased
sable. Crest : A griffin sejeant holding in the
dexter paw a garland of laurel all proper. A
notable branch of the family in America is
descended from Colonel John Reading, who
came from England to New Jersey in 1684.
(I) Thaddeus Raddin, the immigrant ances
tor of the Alarblehead Readings or Raddins,
was born in England. For the sake of uni
formity we shall spell the name Raddin in
this sketch, though no uniform style was fol
lowed in the early days. Savage (p. 501, vol.
iv.) says he was in Alarblehead in 1674. He
was a commoner at that time. (See New Eng.
Reg. viii, p. 288). (See also Essex Inst.
Collections ii 279, 280). He was a prominent
citizen and was appointed with the selectmen
and several others to look into an Indian claim
against Marblehead property. But he settled
in Lynn first and his children's births are rec
orded there.' Children, born at Lynn : i.
Hannah (twin), born August 12, 1660, died
November 13, 1660. 2. Sarah (twin), born
August 12, 1660. 3. Hannah, born November,
1662. 4. John, born February 3, 1664-65,
mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born June 4,
1671. Perhaps others not recorded.
(II) John Raddin, son of Thaddeus Rad
din, was bom at Lynn, February 3, 1664-65.
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Jiving at Marblehead Neck at the time of the
division in 1724. He married, at Marblehead,
Alarch 12, 1692-93, Joan Hawkins, who was
a member of the Marblehead Church. (Vital
records p. 361). Children, born at Marble
head: I. Thaddeus, baptized May 13, 1694,
married three times. 2. John, baptized April
14, 1695. 3. Mary, baptized January 31, 1696-
97. 4. Thomas, baptized June 11, 1699, men
tioned below.. 5. Hannah, baptized May 18,
1701, married, at Lynn, January 19, 1719-20,
Aaron Browne, of Marblehead. 6. Joseph,
baptized July 15, 1705. (Page 423, Marble
head vital records). 7. Ehzabeth, baptized
March 27, 1709.
(Ill) Thomas Raddin, son of John Raddin,
was born at Marblehead about 1690, baptized
June II, 1699. He married (intentions at
Lynn, July 9, 1720) Jerusha Collins. Children,
born at Alarblehead: i. Sarah, born about
1721, baptized December 8, 1723. 2. John,
baptized December 8, 1723, married, Septem
ber 24, 1744, Sarah Bowden. 3. Eleazer, bap
tized February 20, 1725-26. 4. Elizabeth, bap
tized October 20, 1728. 5. Mary, baptized
March 7, 1735-36. 6. Benjamin Bullard, bap
tized July 19, 1741, mentioned below.
(IV) Benjamin Bullard Raddin, son of
Thomas Raddin, was born in Marblehead, July
5, 1741, baptized there July 19, 1741. There
are very few instances of middle names as
early as 1741. The reason for giving this
name Bullard does not appear. There were
BuUards at Dedham and Sherborn, Massa
chusetts, and it seems most probable that Ben
jamin Bullard must have been nearly related
to Thomas Raddin or his wife. Benjamin B.
Raddin died at Saugus, March 25, 1825. He
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain
David Parker's company which marched from
Saugus on the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775 ; and he was also in Captain WilHam
Blackler's company. Colonel .John Glover's
regiment in 1775. (See vol. xii, p. 899, Mass.
Soldiers and Sailors in Rev.) He married at
Lynn, October 10, 1771, Anna Mansfield.
Children, born in Lynn and recorded there,
probably of the third parish, which became
finally the town of Saugus: i. Thomas, born
June 30, 1772, married, December 19, 1793.
Sally Sweetser. 2. Jerusha, born January 29,
1774- 3- John, born March 3, 1775. 4. Rob
ert, born January 10, 1777, married. May
26, 1801, Betsey Danforth. 5. Benjamin, born
October 17, 1778, married (intentions No
vember 7, 1807), Mary King, of Danvers. 6.
Joseph, born July 10, 1780, mentioned below.

7. Mary, born November 17, 1782.
(V) Joseph Raddin, son of Benjamin Bul
lard Raddin, was born in Lynn, in what is now
the town of Saugus, July 10, 1780, and died
at Saugus. Children, born at Lynn, now Sau
gus : I. Joseph, born October 19, 1805, died at
Saugus, July 22, 1831. 2. Polly, born Janu
ary 12, 1807. 3. Charles, born May i, 1809,
mentioned below. 4. William, born February
22, 1810. 5. Hiram, born November 19, 181 1.
6. Hiram, born February 24, 1816. 7. Milton,
born February 9, 1817. 8. Hiram Augustus,
bom February 17, 1819, cigar maker; married,
June 5, 1845, Sarah Mansfield, aged twenty-
eight years, daughter of Richard Shea Mans
field. (VI) Charles Raddin, son of Joseph Rad
din, was born in Lynn, now Saugus, May i,
1809. He was educated in the public schools
of Saugus. He became one of the largest
cigar and tobacco manufacturers and dealers
in the state and acquired a considerable estate.
Most of the men of this family were tobaccon
ists and tobacco manufacturers. In religion
he was a Methodist, being a charter member
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Cliftondale, and also its first treasurer, hav
ing held this office many years. He married,
at Saugus, April 25, 1833, EHzabeth Mans
field, born August 4, 1812, daughter of Rich
ard Shea Mansfield, sister of Hiram Raddin's
wife. Children, born at Saugus : i. Charles
W., born February 5, 1834, died October 11,
1896. 2. Lucy Ann, born November 30, 18,36,
died March 2, 1839. 3. Richard Lowell, born
1838, died February 23, 1839. 4. Fales L.,
born January 19, 1839, died December 29,
1873. 5- Joseph A., bom February 15, 1842,
mentioned below. 6. Caroline E., born No
vember 2, 1844. 7. George Pickering, born
1847, died November 9, 1847, at Saugus. 8.
Janette, born July 12, 1850. 9. Everett W.,
born July I, 1855.
(VII) Joseph A. Raddin, son of Charles
Raddin, was born at Saugus, February 15,
1842. He was reared on a farm and ih early
youth he began to learn the tobacco and snuff
business of his father, whom he succeeded in
business, continuing this till his death, Aug
ust 18, 1887. He was a member of Franklin
Lodge of Odd Fellows of Boston, and a char
ter member of Cliftondale Methodist Episco
pal Church, of which he was for ten years the
treasurer. He married, March 7, 1872, Char
lotte E. Breed, born in Lynn, daughter of
Ephraim and Jane (Sweetser) Breed. Mrs.
Joseph A. Raddin died September 23, 1897.

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ChUdren, born at Clifondale: i. Joseph Ar
thur, born March 13, 1873, mentioned below.
2. Jennie Breed, born May 19, 1874. 3. Willis
Albert, born April 8, 1883. 4. EUery Herbert,
born November i5", 1885. 5. Carrie Elizabeth,
born June 21, 1887. 6. EUa May, born Aug
ust 18, 1889.
(VIII) Joseph Arthur Raddin, son of
Joseph A. Raddin, was bom at the village of
Cliftondale, town of Saugus, Massachusetts,
March 13, 1873. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of his native town and at the Bur
dett Business College of Boston. Since 1895
he has been engaged in the retail dry goods
business, and dealer in men's and ladies' fur
nishings in Cliftondale. He is also the owner
of the Indian Chief Poultry Farm of Saugus,
established in 1888, and has a model farm.
Mr. Raddin is a Republican in politics and in
1908 was elected a selectman of the town. He
is a member of Cliftondale Lodge of Odd Fel
lows, No. 193, and of Old Essex Chapter,
S. A. R. He has been a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church from his youth; is
treasurer of the board of trustees of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church of Cliftondale,
and is superintendent of the Sunday school
which is the largest numerically in the South
ern Essex district outside the city of Lynn.
He married, September 6, 1899, Lavinia Brun-
dage, born in Nova Scotia, August i, 1876,
daughter of George Brundage. They have no
children.

(For preceding generations see Mansfield Tapley 1).
(Ill) John Tapley, son of
TAPLEY. Mansfield and Mary (Wyeth)
Tapley, born Charlestown, Mas
sachusetts, April, 1774, died September 9,
1847. He married, November 3, 1795, Lydia
Tufts, born May 24, 1778, died July 15, i860.
He was a blacksmith by trade, or perhaps a
¦shipsmith, for it was he who superintended
the construction of iron work for the Ameri
can frigate "Constitution," of fame during the
second war with the mother country. Lydia
Tufts, wife of John Tapley, was a daughter of
Samuel Tufts, who was born November 24,
1737, and married. May 11, 1769, Martha
Adams, who died August 28, 181 1, aged sixty-
five years. Samuel Tufts was a son of Peter
Tufts, who was born in Medford, Massachu
setts, May 10, 1697, and married Lydia Buck-
man, who died October 31, 1776, aged seventy-
two years. Peter Tufts was a son of John
Tufts, who was born in Medford, married
Mary Putnam and died March 28, 1728. John

Tufts was a son of Peter Tufts, who was
born in England, and was an inhabitant of
Charlestown, on the Maiden side, before 1638.
With his brother William he kept the ferry
in 1646-47. He married Mary Pierce, who
died in January, 1702-03, aged seventy-five
years. (IV) John Mansfield Tapley, son of John
and Lydia (Tufts) Tapley, born April 24,
1798, died May 10, 1843. He lived in that
part of Charlestown known as Trainingfield
square. He married, March 10, 1819, Mary
Brown, of Marblehead.
(V) George A. Tapley, son of John M. and
Mary (Brown) Tapley, was born in Charles
town, February 28, 1820. He married ParneU
Munroe Thorp, born September 24, 1821, died
December 15, 1896, daughter of Ira, born
April 15, 1786, died May 4, 1868, and Cather
ine (Munroe) Thorp, born July 24, 1791, died
June 6, 1869, granddaughter on the paternal
side of EHphalet and Hannah (Lewis) Thorp,
of Dedham, who married December 17, 1762,
and granddaughter on the maternal side of
Philemon and Rhoda (Mead) Munroe, of
Lexington, Massachusetts. Eliphalet Thorp
was sergeant of mihtia, April 19, 1775, and
with his company marched on the occasion of
the Lexington alarm. He continued in the ser
vice until June 13, 1783, when he held a com
mission as captain of the fourth company of
Lieutenant-Colonel John Brooks' regiment of
Massachusetts militia. Philemon Munroe
fought at Lexington, private in Captain Park
er's company. He died in 1806. His first wife
was EHzabeth (Waite) Munroe, of Maiden,
who died in 1784, and in 1786 he married
Rhoda Mead. Mr. Tapley attended the Uni
tarian ch-urch.
(VI) G. Arthur Tapley, son of George A.
and ParneU Munroe (Thorp) Tapley, was
born in what formerly was North Chelsea, bt^t
now is Revere, Massachusetts, August 12,
1845, and received his early education in the
public schools of his native town and at
French's Commercial College, Boston. His
chief business occupation for many years has
been that of farming and market gardening,
which he has carried on with gratifying suc
cess, for he always has been a practical hus
bandman, just as in other occupations he has
been a practical, common sense business man.
He is member of board of trustees and of
board of auditors of County Savings Bank of
Chelsea. For many years Mr. Tapley has
been closely identified with the civil and politi
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in various official capacities, and for the last
more than twenty-one years has filled the
office of town treasurer of Revere, having
been first elected in 1887. He holds member
ship in the New England Order of Protection,
and also since June, 1900, has been a member
of Old Suffolk Chapter of the Alassachusetts
Society of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion. Mr. Tapley's eligibility to membership
in this famous organization is established
through two principal lines — Thorp and Mun
roe : his great-grandfather, Eliphalet Thorp,
1738-1812, of Dedham, Massachusetts, a min
ute-man; sergeant, Lexington, April 19, 1775;
sergeant. Captain Guild's company. Colonel
Heath's regiment, enlisted April 30, 1775 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Brooks' regiment, conti
nental army, January i, 1777, to December 31,
1779; commissioned captain September 16,
1780; captain, Sixth Company, Seventh Mas
sachusetts Regiment, 1781 ; captain. Fourth
Company, Seventh Massachusetts Regiment
1781 ; captain, Fourth Company, Seventh
Alassachusetts Regiment to June, 1783. His
great-grandfather, Philemon Munroe, 1753-
1806; private. Captain Blaney's company, Col
onel Eleazer Brooks' regiment, January 12 to
February 3, 1778, as guard at Cambridge; pri
vate. Captain Walton's company. Colonel
Brooks' regiment, September 4-1 1, 1778.
On October 29, 1889, Mr. Tapley married
Helen A. Pickering, born July 16, 1863, daugh
ter of AVilliam and Helen Althea (Doyle)
Pickering, of Salem, and by whom he has two
children : AVilliam Thorp, born October 5,
1893, and Thelma Althea, born May 25, 1895.

(For ancestry see Joseph Pope 1).
(Ill) Joseph Pope, eldest surviv-
POPE ing son of Joseph and Bethesda
(Folger) Pope, born in Salem,
June 16, 1687, died 1755. He was a farmer
and lived at "the village" That he was a man
of substance is shown by his own upright life
and the prominence afterward attained by his
sons and daughters. He married, February
17, 1715-16, Mehitable Putnam, born July 20,
1695, daughter of John and Hannah Putnam ;
children: i. Joseph, baptized September i,
1717 ; when grown to manhood settled in Pom-
fret, Connecticut; married, October 7, 1743.
Hannah Shaw, of Salem ; their son, Joseph
Pope Jr., born in Pomfret, September 28,
1746, graduated from Harvard College 1770,
ordained minister of Congregational church
I773> preached many years in Spencer, Massa
chusetts, and died March 8, 1826. 2. Mehit

able, baptized May 3, 1719; married April 18,
1 741, Joseph Gardner, son of Abel Gardner
and Sarah Porter, and had Joseph, Mehitable,
Nathaniel and Eunice Gardner. 3. Hannah,
baptized September 23, 1721, died 1764; mar
ried June 30, 1739, Israel Putnam, born Janu
ary 7, 171 7-8; removed to Pomfret, Connecti
cut, 1739, and there Mr. Putnam engaged in
farming and acquired both wealth and influ
ence. He was Alajor General Israel Putnam
of the Continental army during the revolution
ary war, one of the famous characters of his
time, and active both in mUitary and civil life.
He died Alay 19, 1790. 4. Nathaniel, baptized
Alay 17, 1724, died November, 1800 (see
po.st). 5. Eunice, baptized April 30, 1727, died
January, 1821, aged ninety-four years; mar
ried October, 1745, Colonel John Baker, of
Ipswich. "She was a remarkable woman, and
retained her faculties to the last. She was a
connection of the late General Putnam, and
was full of the same ardor that possessed
him". 6. Alary, baptized May 31, 1730; mar
ried November 28, 1748, Samuel WiUiams, of
Pomfret, Connecticut. 7. Ebenezer, baptized
June 9, 1734, died November 4, 1802 ; married
October, 1754, Sarah Pope, died October 12,
1832, daughter of John and Mary (Eaton)
Pope ; their children : Lucretia, John, Eben,
Lucy, Oliver, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane and Abra
ham Gould Pope. 8. Eleazer, baptized No
vember 14, 1736; married July 7, 1757, Nanny
Putnam : children : Eleazer, Rebecca, Molly,
Joseph, Mehitable, Nanna, Allen, Huldah, Per
ley Putnam, Betsey, Jasper and William Pope.
9. Elizabeth, baptized October 14, 1739 ; no
further record.
(IV) Nathaniel Pope, second son of Joseph
and Alehitable (Putnam) Pope, born in Salem,
had his home and farm at "the village". Like
his brothers and others of his father's family
he was a man of high character, although he
led a comparatively quiet life. He married
first. Alary, daughter of Jasper Swinnerton,
born 1728, died December 20. 1773, having
borne her husband eleven children. He mar
ried second, December 23, 1784, Sarah Clark,
daughter of Rev. Peter and Deborah (Ho
bart) Clark, of Danvers, Massachusetts, born
December 18, 1738, died February 12, 1802,
having survived her husband about two years.
He died in November, 1800, and his estate was
administered by his sons Elijah and Amos.
Children of Nathaniel and Mary (Swinner
ton) Pope: I. Mary, born December 12, 1748;
married June 4, 1777, Aaron Gilbert. 2. Eu
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tember 6, 1773, James Putnam. 3. Nathaniel,
born March 22, 1753, died unmarried, Febru
ary 10, 1778. 4. Rebecca, born April 16, 1755;
married January 27, 1784, Jonathan Proctor.
5. Hannah, born August 21, 1757, died aged
twenty-one 3'ears. 6. Jasper, born October 10,
1759; died aged nineteen years. 7. Ruth, born
November 7, 1761, died 'aged two years. 8.
Zephaniah, born May 6, 1764, died unmarried,
aged thirty-two years. 9. EHjah, born Janu
ary 28, 1766, (see post). ID. ATehitable, bom
April 3, 1768, died June 2, 1837; married
Caleb Oakes, of Danvers, and was mother of
William Oakes, of Ipswich, the botanist, who
was bora July i, 1799, died July 31, 18^8,
graduated from Harvard College in 1820. 11.
Amos, born in Danvers, February 20, 1772,
died there January 26, 1837 ; married January
16, 1806, Sarah Goodale, born April 19, 1773,
died September 7, 1832 ; children : Zephaniah,
bom December 15, 1807, and Eunice, bom
Alay 30, 1810, died October 20, 1834.
(V) Elijah Pope, fourth son and ninth child
of Nathaniel and Mary (Swinnerton) Pope,
born January 28, 1766, died in Danvers, Feb
ruary 16, 1846. He married, June 20, 1791,
Hannah Putnam, who died in Danvers, Sep
tember ID, 1844. Children: i. Nathaniel, born
August 2, 1792 (see post). 2. Hannah, born
September 29, 1794; married Francis Fletch
er, of Dunstable, Alassachusetts ; daughters,
Rachel, Hannah and Mary Fletcher. 3. Bet
sey, born February 18, 1797 ; married Samuel
Putnam ; removed to Brooklyn, New York.
4. Mary, born April 19, 1799, died single, June
25, 1823. 5. Jasper, born July 14, 1802 ; mar
ried first, December 13, 1830, Harriet Felton,
born September 19, 1803, died November 24,
1843 ; second, February 9, 1846, Sarah Felton,
born January 4, 1807. One son by second
wife, Jasper Elijah Felton, born February 12,
1847. 6. Phebe, born November '8, 1807, died
August 25, 1830. 7. Elijah, born July 13,
1809; married, 1831, Eunice Prince, born May
19, 181 1 ; children: Francis Elijah, Nathaniel
A., Samuel Putnam, Mary Elizabeth and
James Arthur Pope.
(VI) Nathaniel Pope, eldest son and child
of Elijah and Hannah (Putnam) Pope, was
born in Danvers, Massachusetts, and was a
successful and substantial farmer of that
town, where his life was spent. He occupied
a position of influence among the townsmen,
filled various important offices, being select
man many years, member of the school com
mittee, and a prominent member of The First
Religious Society of the first parish, some

times called Dr. Braman's church. He mar
ried first, August 8, 1814, Abi, daughter of
John Preston; she was born February 13,
1791, and died March i, 1841, and was the
mother of all of his children. - He married
second, Alarch 9, 1848, Charlotte FHnt, born
May 12, 1801, daughter of Elijah FHnt and
EHzabeth Putnam. Children of Nathaniel
Pope: I. Elizabeth Putnam, born February 12,
1816; married Andrew Al. Putnam, of Dan
vers. 2. Harriet Adeline, born September S.
1817; married Plenry F. Putnam, of Da.nvers.
3. Mary Putnam, born July 26, 1819; married
Calvin Putnam, of Danvers. 4. Aseneth Pres
ton, born September 19, 1821 ; married Na
than Tapley, of Danvers. 5. Ira Preston, born
September 11, 1823; married Eliza C. Batch-
elder. 6. Daniel Putnam, born Alarch 8, 1826 ;
married Lydia N. Dempsey. 7. Hannah Put
nam, born June 2, 1828; married Dr. Bowman
Bigelow Breed, of Lynn. 8. Phebe Alansfield,
born Alay 12, 1830, died August 29, 1830. 9.
Jasper Felton, (see post).
(VII) Jasper Felton Pope, youngest child
of Nathaniel and Abi (Preston) Pope, was
born at Danvers Center, April 4, 1832, died in
Beverly, Massachusetts, January 27, 1906.
His youth was spent in his home town and
there he received his early education in the
public schools. Later he was a student in the
academy at Randolph, A'ermont, and upon
leaving school he returned home and worked
as a clerk first in a general merchandise store
at Danversport, and afterward for his brother,
Ira P. Pope, a manufacturer of shoes. In
1874 Mr. Pope became a clerk in the office of
Calvin Putnam, his brother-in-law, who then
was engaged in a general lumber business in
Danversport and Beverly, and two years after
ward, in 1876, he removed his family to the
latter named city. In 1880 he acquired a part
nership interest in the business and the firm
name became Putnam & Pope, and still later,
when Air. Pope's son, Jasper R. Pope, came
into the firm, the style became J. F. Pope &
Son. Air. Pope was a capable and reliable man of
business in every respect, and showed himself
worthy of the confidence and esteem of all
men of business in the town and city in which
he lived, and the business success of the firms
with which he was connected was due to a
large extent to his energy and capacity. Out
side of personal concerns. Air. Pope contrib
uted his full share of work for the public wel
fare of Beverly, its people and its institutions.
He was neither politician nor partisan, but he

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held well-grounded opinions on all public
questions, whether of local or of general im
portance. He was a member of the Beverly
board of trade, taking an active part in the
work aimed to be accomplished by that body,
and also was a member of the finance commit
tee of the Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Boston. He was known as a
liberal and public-spirited citizen, interested
in all enterprises for the public welfare and al
ways ready to contribute his share of either
work or means to accomplish the desired ob
ject. His domestic life was always pleasant
and his home was a center of comfort and
hospitality. Mr. Pope married, November 27, 1856,
Sophia Jane, born in Rindge, February 11,
183 1, died in Beverly, December 8, 1892,
daughter of Abraham and Asenath (Part
ridge) Richards, of Rindge, New Hampshire.
He married second, January 14, 1897, Martha
Mansfield, daughter of Andrew and Sophronia
(Preston) Alansfield; Mrs. Pope died July 23,
1907. Children of Jasper Felton and Sophia
Jane (Richards) Pope: i. Miriam, born Feb
ruary 23, 1859. 2. Jasper Richards, born Au
gust 29, 1863 (see post). 3. EHzabeth Put
nam, born December 29, 1865. 4. Elsie Wilder,
born October 6, 1869, died June 2, 1870.
(VIII) Jasper Richards Pope, son of Jas
per Felton and Sophia Jane (Richards) Pope,
was born in Danvers, August 29, 1863. He
received his education in the public and high
schools of Danvers and Beverly, and after
completing his studies became associated in
business with his father. From the time his
father admitted him to partnership until the
death of the senior Mr. Pope, Jasper R. was
junior member of the firm, and at the present
time is sole proprietor of the business. He is
also serving in the capacity of vice-president
of the Beverly National Bank. Mr. Pope takes
an active interest in all movements for the
welfare of his adopted city, and is actively
connected with the Beverly Hospital. He is
a man prompt in action, cordial and consider
ate in his intercourse with his associates and
warmly attached to his friends.
Mr. Pope married, November 24, 1884, Hit-
tie Porter, daughter of Francis A. and Caro
line A. (Porter) Couch, of Salem. Children:
I. Chester Couch, born February 20, 1886, at
tends Harvard College, scientific course, class
of 1908. 2. Ruel Putnam, born February g,
1888, attends Harvard College, academic
course, class of 1910.

The name Poer, Power and
POWERS Powers, is found in English
history from the times of the
Norman Conquest, and one of the officers of
William the Conqueror bore the name and
greatly honored it in the battle of Hastings,
and his name appears on the roll of that battle
as preserved in Battle Abbey. Richard Poer
was high sheriff' of Gloucestershire 1187, and
it is on record in the Herald's College that
"he was killed while defending the Lord's
day." Sir Roger le Poer, an "English knight,"
held a chief command in the army of King
Henry II when he invaded Ireland for con
quest in 1 171, and for "distinguished services
reitdered" large grants of land were made to
him by the crown. In the Domesday Book of
St. Paul's the names of Walter Poer (Power)
appears as possessing various landed rights in
Ireland as a gift from the crown for services
rendered in 1222. In America the name
appears in "The Genealogies and Estates of
Charlestown in the county of Middlesex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818,"
prepared by Thomas Bellows AVyman, as :
John Power or Powers, hosier, married Sarah
and had a son Peter born in 1643. No record
is found of any descendants of Peter, and as
Sarah or Sally Power sells land in 1645 under
power of attorney to Gaudy James, it is prob
able that her hu.sband, not finding the business
of hosier profitable, retumed to England,
where he was later rejoined by his wife and
possibly son Peter who was at that time an
infant. Then we have Nicholas Power, who
came to the colony of Massachusetts Bay, re
moved to Rhode Island, where he had an only
son Nicholas, and the succeeding generations
were strangely limited to one male, and after
several generations the lone male representa
tive of the name failed of issue. Thomas
Power, a blacksmith, appeared in Charlestown,
where he was married, Febmary 17, 1714-15,
to Abigail Fosket, and they had five chUdren,
but their descendants do not appear to have
been especially notable, and mo.sfly confined
to the town and city of Boston. We can
therefore safely say that the progenitor of the
numerous and well known famiHes of Powers
in New England trace their ancestry direct
to Walter Power.
(I) Walter Power, according to a manu
script record left by the Rev. Grant Powers,
of Goshen, Connecticut, from family tradi
tion, arrived in Salem, colony of Massachu
setts Bay, 1654. and married the daughter of
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ords give this marriage : "ye eleventh page of
ye first month 1660," Waher Power married
Trial, daughter of Deacon Ralph and Thanks
(or as .sometimes written Thankeslord) Shep
pard, at Maiden in that county. Ralph Shep
pard came from Stefney Parish, London (in
Essex), July, 1635, with his wife Thankes.
His age is recorded as twenty-nine, and that of
his wife as twenty-three. They had one child
Sara, aged two years, and they settled in Wey
mouth, removed to Maiden, where he was
deacon in the First Church, and died Septem
ber II, 1693, his gravestone still preserved,
recording his age as ninety years.' W. W.
Fowler, in "Hints to Genealogists," places the
EngHsh location of the Power immigrants
who made a home in New England, as Essex,
judging from the surnames that occur in Mon-
¦ant's history of Essex of families of repute
who lived in that county in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries.
Walter and Trial (Sheppard) Power settled
at the time of their marriage in Concord Vil
lage, Middlesex county, the place becoming the
town of Littleton, adjoining the Indian settle
ment of Nashohe, which property Deacon
Ralph Sheppard bought of Lieutenant Joseph
Wheeler. In 1694 Walter Power purchased
of the Indians one-fourth of the township of
Nashohe, and when he died, February 22,
1708, his remains were doubtless buried in the
old Powers burial ground, as were those of his
widow, who survived him many years. She
was born February 10, 1641, but the date of
her death is not on record. The children of
AValter and Trial (Shepard) Power were :
William, bom 1661 (q.v.) ; Alary, born 1663,
married Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler, January
I, 1 68 1, died 1706; Isaac, born 1665; Thomas,
1667 ; Daniel, May 10, 1669 ; Increase, July 16,
1671 ; Walter, June 28, 1674; Jacob, December
15, 1679; Sarah, February 8, 1683. Walter
Power used this form of the family name. It
is understood in the present-day family that
his son used the form Powers; that in the
third generation the form of Power was ob
served ; since then the name has been written
Powers. (II) William, eldest child of Walter and
Trial (Sheppard) Power, was born in Con
cord ViUage, 1661. He married Mary, daugh
ter of John and Hannah Bank (or Bank), of
Chelmsford. He is referred to by his father
as his oldest son, and he inherited the home
stead place and the Powers saw mUl. He died
March 16, 1710, and was doubtless buried in
the Powers burial ground. Children of William

and Mary (Bank) Power: John, born 168 — ,
married Elizabeth Robbins, and died 1756;
William, born 1691 (q.v.) ; Experience, May
10, 1693, married John Perham; Mary, April
25, 1698, married William Elder; Samuel,
September 23, 1701, died at Newport, Rhode
Island, 1738 ; Lemuel, born 1703 ; Ephraim,
1705, married Lucy, daughter of Isaac Pow
ers ; Walter, born 1708; Benjamin, October 10,
1711. (Ill) WilHam, second son of WiUiam and
Mary (Bank) Powers, of Chelmsford, was
born in Concord ViUage, 1691. He was mar
ried March 16, 1714, to Lydia Perham, and
they lived on the westerly side of the town of
Grafton, where his children were born. His
wife was a native of Chelmsford. He was a
cordwainer by trade. They had three chil
dren : Lemuel, born 1714 (q.v.); WUliam,
April 15, 1717, married, November 14, 1739,
Remembrance Pearce ; and Stephen. He died
in Grafton, and after his death his widow be
came insane.
(IV) Lemuel, oldest child of WiUiam and
L^dia (Perham) Powers, was born in Graf
ton in 1714; was married, January 14, 1742,
to Thankful, daughter of James and Hannah
(Earned) Leland, of Grafton. She was born
August 16, 1724, and died in 1809. Lemuel
Powers was a cooper by trade and occupation
in Northbridge, Alassachusetts, and he ad
ministered the estate of his father and be
came the guardian of his mother who was in
sane after his father'.s death. Lemuel Powers
died at Northbridge in 1792, and his widow
removed to Croydon, New Hampshire, and
lived with her children up to the time of her
death in 1809. The children of Lemuel and
Thankful (Leland) Powers, of Northbridge,
Massachusetts, were : Deliverance, born De
cember 9, 1742, married John Rokes, and died
1770; Ezekiel, March 27, 1745, married Han
nah Hall, and died November 11, 1808 ; Lydia,
January 28, 1747, married Jonah Stow, of
Croydon, New Hampshire, and died 1783 ;
Prudence, 1750, married Gresham Ward, of
Croydon, and died 1799; David, March 4,
1753, married twice, was a soldier in the
American revolution, and died March 8, 181 3 ;
Lemuel, born in 1756, became a Baptist clergy
man, and married Abigail Newland, and their
daughter Abigail, born in Stillwater, New
York, in March, 1798, was married February
5, 1826, to Millard Fillmore, who became the
thirteenth president of the United States, and
their only son, Millard Powers Fillmore, was
a lawyer in Buffalo, New York; Sarah, born

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1758, married twice and died 1820; Samuel,
born in 1762 (q.v.) ; Mary, 1765, married
Dean Sherman Cooper, and died June 18,
1847. (V) Samuel, youngest son and ninth child
of Lemuel and Thankful (Leland) Powers,
was bom in Northbridge, Massachusetts, in
1762. He was a soldier in the American rev
olution, having served as a private in Captain
Edmund Hodges's company, Colonel Josiah
Whitney's regiment, two months and seven
days, although at the time he was only fifteen
years of age. He marched with the regiment
to Rhode Island, starting out on the day of his
enlistment, May 5, 1777, and returning after
his discharge, July 5, 1777. He was married,
December 9, 1782, to Chloe, daughter of Dea
con John and Mary Cooper, and settled in
Croydon, New Hampshire. Hie was an officer
in the state militia with the rank of colonel,
and a member of the state legislature. He died
in Croydon, March 9, 1813. The children of
Colonel Samuel and Chloe (Cooper) Powers,
of Croydon, were: Olive, born September 11,
1786, died unmarried December, 1841 ; Cap
tain Obed, April 20, 1788, married Cynthia
Cummings, removed to Cornish, New Hamp
shire, where he died; Judith, March 16, 1790,
married Fry Barton, removed to the state of
New Y'ork, where she had a large family;
Nancy, 1792, married David Kinney, Hved in
Plainfield, Vermont, and died in 1829; Chloe,
May 21, 1795, married Lemuel Martindale,
and removed to Iowa; Captain Samuel, May
21, 1795, died unmarried December 12, 1828;
Ara, February 25, 1797, married Mary Seaver,
died 1865; Lemuel, March 10, 1801, died
March 14, 1803 ; Solomon L., January 2, 1804,
married Catherine Atkinson, and lived in Get
tysburg, Pennsylvania; Ithamar, December 21,
1805, died unmarried November 23, 1834;
Lamed (q.v.), born April 20, 1808; RandiUa,
October 6, 181 1, married Alfred Ward, of
Newport, New Hampshire.
(VI) Earned, youngest son and eleventh
child of Colonel Samuel and Chloe (Cooper)
Powers, of Croydon, New Hampshire, was
born in Croydon, April 20, 1808, married
Ruby Barton, removed to Cornish, New
Hampshire. He was a successful and intelli
gent farmer, and greatly interested in educa
tional matters. He also took a large interest
in political affairs, but always declined to ac
cept any office. Children, born in Cornish,
New Hampshire: CaroHne M., 1837; Erastus
B., Victoria, Samuel Leland (q.v.). Erastus
became a law partner with his younger brother,

Samuel Leland, after his partnership with J.
H. Barton, Jr., was discontinued in 1881.
(VII) Samuel Leland, youngest son of
Earned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, and
of the seventh generation from AValter
Power, the immigrant, Salem, 1654, was born
in Cornish, Sullivan county, New Hampshire,
October 26, 1848. He worked upon his fath
er's farm, attended the district school, pre
pared for coUege at Kimball Union Academy,
and Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hamp
shire, and matriculated at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1870, taught
school at interims during his college course
on Cape Cod, and was graduated A. B., 1874,
and was winner of the Lockwood prizes for
oratory and composition. He studied law in
the Law School of the University of the City
of New York,, and in the law office of Verry
& Gaskill, in AVorcester, and was admitted to
the Worcester bar in 1875. He commenced to
practice law in Boston in January, 1876, in
partnership with Hon. Samuel AV. McCall,
who was a classmate of his at Dartmouth, and
who for many years has represented Massa
chusetts in congress. Mr. Powers for four
years was associated with Colonel J. H. Ben
ton, Jr., later was a partner with his brother,
Erastus B. Powers, and in 1888 became coun
sel for the New England Telephone and Tel
egraph Company, and for many years devoted
himself exclusively to representing corpora
tions engaged in electrical business. In 1897
he formed a law partnership with Edward K.
Hall and Matt B. Jones, which continued un
til 1904, when Mr. Jones retired to become the
attorney of the New England Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and a new partnership
was formed under the name of Powers & Hall.
This is one of the active law concems of Bos
ton, and is located at 10 1 Milk street.
Mr. Powers removed to Newton in March,
1882, where he has since resided, and taken an
active interest in social and public affairs. He
was a member of the Newton common coun
cil for three years, two years of which he was
its president, and a member of the board of
aldermen for one year, and for three years a
member of the school board. He was nom
inated unanimously for congress in 1900, and
represented the Eleventh Alassachusetts Dis
trict in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and the
Twelfth Massachusetts District in the Fifty-
eighth Congress, there having been a re-dis
tricting while he was serving in congress
which made a change in the district which he
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congress, against the earnest protest of his dis
trict, on March 4, 1905, to devote himself ex
clusively to the practice of law. While in the
national house he served upon the committees
of judiciary, District of Columbia, and elec
tions. He was one of the sub-committee of
five appointed from the judiciary committee
to frame the bill for the regulation of trusts
in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and he was one
of the managers appointed by the speaker to
conduct the impeachment trial of Judge
Swayne, before the Senate, in the Fifty-eighth
Congress. He was one of the founders and the first
president of the famous Tantalus Qub of
Washington, and is at the present time the
president of that organization. He was one
of the founders and president of the Newton
Club ; has been president of the Channing Uni
tarian Club, is a trustee of Dartmouth CoUege,
vice-president of the Massachusetts Republi
can Club, and is the Massachusetts vice-pres
ident of the Alerchants' Marine League. He
is also a member of many of the leading social
clubs in and about Boston.
Mr. Powers was married, in 1878, to Eva
Crowell, daughter of Hon. Prince S. Crowell,
of Dennis, Massachusetts. They have one son,
Leland Powers, born July i, 1890, who is now
a student at Dartmouth College.

(For ancestry see Thomas Gleason 1).
(IV) William Gleason, son of
GLEASON Isaac Gleason, born January
2, 1730, died February 3,
1818. He settled in Billerica, Massachusetts,
and leased the college farm east of the Shaw-
shin river and afterward bought it. This farm
remained in the Gleason family until 1850,
when William S. Gleason, who then owned it,
sold it and removed to the village to live in a
house on the south side of the Andover road.
William Gleason was a taxpayer of Billerica
as early as 1750. He married Mary Seger,
died October 5, 1776, aged forty-five years;
second, June 25, 1780, Mary Goss, widow of
James Goss, and she died June 11, 1817. Chil
dren, born in Billerica; i. William, born Au
gust 21, 1756; died young. 2. Mary, born
August 17, 1758 ; married Mark Pitman ; lived
in Maine. 3. Hannah, born December 10,
1760; married Timothy Watson, son of Jo
seph. 4. WiUiam, born February 13, 1763;
mentioned below. 5. Rebecca, bom December
ID, 1765 ; married February 28, 1786, Joseph
Heywood; had Joseph, born March 14, 1800,
graduate of Bowdoin College, 1821 ; married

Alaria, daughter 6i Hon. Judah Dana, judge
of Maine supreme court. 6. Joseph, born Feb
ruary 5, 1768. 7. Ruth, born Aiay 2, 1770. 8.
Sarah, born August 13, 1772; married July 2,
1801, William Homer; children: William,
Lucy, Augustus, Aaron and Francis. 9. Lucy,
born March 21, 1776; died young. 10. Lucy,
baptized July 7, 1782.
(V) WilHam Gleason, son of WilHam Glea
son, was born at Billerica, February 13, 1763.
He was brought up on his father's farm and
attended the common schools of his native
town. He succeeded to the homestead and
was a well-to-do farmer. Besides general
farming he had an excellent dairy and raised
cattle, and like many farmers of that section
raised hops. He was a useful and honored
citizen, a prominent and devout member and
for many years deacon of the Congregational
church of Billerica (orthodox). He served in
the state militia and held various town offices.
In his later years he was a Whig in politics.
He married, at Bedford, February 10 or 11,
1795, Sarah Bacon, born September i, 1771,
died December 15 or 16, 1852. Children, born
at Billerica; i. Sarah, born August i, 1797;
married June i, 1826, Robert Ames, of Wo
burn ; children ; i. Robert Erskine Ames, bom
July 15, 1828, died May 12, 1906, married
.first, January i, 1862, Sarah Matilda Farring
ton, of Methuen; second, March i, 1874, Mary
Anna Severance, of Woburn, and had by his
first wife, Clara Alatilda Ames, born February
26, 1864, married October 22-, 1882, WilHam
Allen Prior of Woburn (had children ; Allen
Ames Prior, born November 19, 1890, and
Ruth Tisdale Prior, born March 23, 1894) ;
Erskine Luville Ames, born July 18, 1870,
married January i, 1896, Alversa Goodale,
of LoweU, (children; Harold Farrington
Ames, born December i, 1896, AVarner Good
ale Ames, born September 3, 1899, and Charles
Nathan Ames, born Alarch 16, 1906). ii.
Henry Lyman Ames married Charlotte E.
Converse of Woburn. 2. Bertha, born Febru
ary 20, 1799, died February 20, 1799. 3. Wil
liam, born January 11, 1801 ; died March i,
1801. 4. Mary Ann, born April 13, 1803. 5.
Elizabeth, born October 8, 1805, died Septem
ber 12, 1895; married December i, 1831, Jere
miah Goldsmith, of Andover ; children ; i. Wil
liam Gleason Goldsmith, born November 28,
1832, married March 29, 1865, Joanna Bailey
Hart, and had Qara Gleason Goldsmith, born
February 5, 1866, died March 4, 1873; Clar
ence Goldsmith, born May 29, 1874, married
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Gleason Goldsmith, born February 7, 1907) ;
Bessie Punchard Goldsmith, born November
21, 1882; u. Elizabeth Goldsmith, born De
cember 23, 1834, died October 12, 1854; iii.
Jeremiah Goldsmith, born Alarch 27, 1837,
died in Florida, August 20, 187 1, he served
valiantly during the civil war. iv. Josiah
Goldsmith, bom October 8, 1839, died May 24,
1883; V. Albert Goldsmith, born June 11,
1842; vi. Joshua Goldsmith, born April 3,
1845, died December 29, 1851. 6. Abigail
Harriet, born January 22, 1808 ; married April
23, 1829, George Crosby, son of Deacon
Alichael Crosby, of Bedford; son, Frank
Crosby. 7. William Segur, born November i,
1809; married June i, 1842, Mary Baker;
child; Sarah, born in Billerica. 8. Louisa,
born February 3, 1812; married May 15, 1844.
Daniel Richardson, of Woburn. 9. Izah, born
and died November 9, 1814. 10. Josiah Ba
con, born July 13, 1816; mentioned below.
(VI) Josiah Bacon Gleason, son of William
Gleason, born in Billerica, July 13, 1816, died
at Arlington, Massachusetts. He received his
education in the public schools and at Phillips
Academy, Andover. From early youth he
worked on his father's farm, and before he
came of age had saved five hundred dollars
cutting timber from a woodlot that he bought.
and selling the timber and wood to the Boston
& Lowell railroad. He embarked in the retail
dry goods business in Boston, and later return
ed to Billerica to enter partnership with Jere
miah Goldsmith, of Andover, in the wood and
lumber business. The firm bought wood lots
and cuit the timber for shipyards in Boston
and Medford. After two years he bought out
his partner and continued in business alone
until 1858. In 1845 he bought a farm of
one hundred and twenty-five acres in Billerica,
on the main road about one mile from the
center of the village, and after 1858 devoted
himself exclusively to farming, making a
specialty of peaches, cranberries, apples and
other fruit, and had one of the finest and most
productive orchards in the county. He kept
about fifteen cows and was counted among the
most prosperous farmers of the town. The
farm was the old Squire Crosby place, with
a large house of twenty rooms, on high
land, overlooking the "Stage Coach" road from
Boston to Lowell and surrounded by shrubs,
trees, vines and quaint old arbors. He sold
the farm in Billerica 1858, when he retired
from the lumber business and bought the old
Captain Skilton place, in Bedford. After
working this farm for nine years he sold

it and bought a portion of the SimOnds
farm. Later he resided in Arlington, and
died there at what is now 907 Massachusetts
avenue. During his last years hfe invested ex
tensively in real estate in Medford and Boston,
and in real estate mortgages. Mr. Gleason was
gifted with Unusual business ability, tact and
enterprise, which he evinced from early youths
He was upright, honorable and conscientious
in his deaHngs, strong, brave, resolute, self-re
liant and genial, and naturally secured a wide
circle of friends. He won his competence fair
ly, and never failed to keep his word nor to
meet every obligation. He was an honored and
useful citizen. He was devoted to his home
and family and greatly beloved for his sterling
qualities of mind and heart. He was original
ly a Whig in politics and later a Republican.
He held the ofiice of highway surveyor of Bed
ford for a few years. He was a member of
the Lexington Congregational church. He mar
ried, in Bedford, November 27. 1845, Mary
Hartwell, born March 19, 1825, daughter of
Deacon Amos and Louisa (Hodgman) Hart
weU, of Bedford, Alassachusetts. ChUdren: i..
Henry Josiah, born March 17, 1847, died De
cember 15, 1903; his early life was one of un
usual promise and usefulness, but later ill!
health required a sojourn in a .southern clime
which failed ; he then gave his fertile mind to
inventions which were on the eve of perfect
success, he having secured his LTnited States
patent just a few months previous to his death..
2. Frederick Eugene, mentioned below.
(VII) Frederick Eugene Gleason, son of
Josiah Bacon Gleason, was born at Billerica,
April II, 1848. He attended the public schools
there until ten years of age, then at Bedford,.
whither his parents went to live, and he took a
course of study in Miss Lunt's academy. He
went to Lexington with his parents and assist
ed his father with the farm work until 1869,
when he entered partnership with his brother,
Henry J. Gleason, in the meat and provision-
business at Charlestown, in the Waverly Mar
ket, under the old Waverly House. After two-
years of commercial life, Mr. Gleason returned
to the farm at Lexington and worked upon it
for the next five years. Then he became a.
farmer on his own account, buying a fifty-acre-
farm as the old Thurston place on Hancock
street, in 1878. For fifteen years he had a
dairy and conducted general farming, with
some market gardening. He sold his farm and
bought a small place containing seven acres of
land on Hancock street, near Bedford, where
he now resides, devoting his time to the care-

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and improvement of some thirty tenements
and other property, some of which he inherited
from his father, most of the property being in
South Aledford, Cambridge and Wakefield, in
cluding about one hundred and fifty acres of
his father's homestead in Lexington. Mr. Glea
son is a man of quiet, domestic tastes, and is
highly respected by his townsmen. He and his
vyife are members of the Hancock Congrega
tional Church, of Lexington, of which he has
been a member for the past twenty-five years.
In politics he is a Republican.
He married, November 23, 1885, Sarah
Louise Upton, born at Lowell, May 23, i860,
daughter of Henry and Fannie (Skilton) Up
ton, of Lowell. Her father was in the furni
ture and upholstery business there. Children :
I. Henry, born October 31, 1886, died Decem
ber 24, 1889. 2. Alary Hartwell, born Novem
ber 10, 1887. 3. William Eugene, November
23, 1890. 4. Clarence Herbert, February 5.
1892.

Stephen Flanders ( i ) , and
FLANDERS wife Jane, early immigrants
from England, were among
the first settlers in Salisbury, Massachusetts,
going there between the years 1640 and 1646,
and Stephen died there June 27, 1684. Their
children were ; Stephen, Mary, Philip, Sarah,
Naomi and John.
(II) John Flanders, youngest child of Ste
phen and Jane Flanders, was born in Salis
bury, February 11, 1659, and died at South
Hampton, New Hampshire, 1745. He mar
ried Elizabeth Sargent ; children ; Jacob, John,
Ezekiel, Josiah, Philip, Jonathan, Tamsen and
Hannah. (Ill) Jacob Flanders, eldest child of John
and Elizabeth (Sargent) Flanders, was born
August 5, 1689. He went from South Hamp
ton to Antrim, New Hampshire, prior to 1738,
in which year he was chosen one of a com
mittee formulated for the purpose of erecting
a log meeting-house. He married Mercy
Clough ; children ; Tabitha, Jacob, Jesse, Ezek
iel, John, Philip, Betsey, Ruth, Hannah and
Mehitable. (IV) Ezekiel Flanders, third son and
fourth child of Jacob and Mercy (Clough)
Flanders, was probably born at South Hamp
ton, but data at hand fails to mention place and
date of birth. He was killed by Indians in
1756, while hunting at Newfound Lake. He
married Sarah Bishop; children: Ezekiel.
Enos, Sarah, Susannah, Aphia, Jemima and
Benjamin. IV— 23

(V) Ezekiel (2) Flanders, eldest child of
Ezekiel and Sarah (Bishop) Flanders, was
born at Antrim, in 1743. He erected a dwell
ing-house on Water street. He married Jer
usha Goodwin, of Concord ; children : Mary,
Sarah, Martha, Susannah, Anna, Ezekiel,
Cydia, Israel and Benjamin.
(A''I) Benjamin Flanders, youngest child pf
Ezekiel and Jerusha (Goodwin) Flanders, vvas
born in Antrim, August 19, 1782. He married
Polly Walker, and the record at hand men
tions but one son Walker.
(ATI) Walker Flanders, son of Benjamin
and Polly (Walker) Flanders, was born in
Boscawen, New Hampshire, July 12 or 22,
1809. He settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
going there when the vast hydraulic power
afforded by the Merrimack river was in the
early stages of its development, and establish
ing himself in business as a contractor and
builder, was actively concerned in the building
up of that splendid industrial city. He mar
ried Harriet, daughter of Thomas D. and
Alartha (Weeks) Nesmith, of Antrim, New
Hampshire. She is of Scotch origin and a
descendant in the fifth generation of Deacon
Janies (1) Nesmith through James (2), Jona
than (3), and Thomas D. (4).
(i) Deacon James Nesmith, a Scotch Pres
byterian of the north of Ireland, was one of
the signers of the memorial presented to Gov
ernor .Shute, of New Hampshire, in 1718,
came to America the following year, and was
one of the si.xteen original settlers in London
derry. He was a man of ability and integrity,
who enjoyed the esteem and confidence of his
fellow-townsmen, and in 1735 was chosen eld
er of the West Parish Presbyterian Church.
He died 1767, aged seventy-five years. He was
married, in Ireland, 1714, to Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Tames and Janet (Cochran) McKeen.
Elizabeth Nesmith died in Londonderry in
1763, aged sixty-seven. She was the mother
of nine children ; two of whom Arthur and
James, were born in Ireland, and the former
died there in infancy. The others, all born ip
Londonderry, were : Arthur, Jean, Mary,
John, Elizabeth, Thomas and Benjamin.
(II) James Nesmith, second son of Deacon
James and Elizabeth (AlcKeen) Nesmith, was
iDorn in 1718, just prior to the embarkation of
his parents for America. He settled in the
northerly part of Londonderry. Although
well advanced in years at the breaking out of
the revolutionary war, he entered with spirit
into the struggle for national independence,
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minute-men, and participated in the battle of
Bunker Hill. He died in Londonderry, July
I5> 1793- He married Mary Dinsmore; chil
dren; James, Jonathan, Robert, Elizabeth,
Mary and Sarah.
(Ill) Jonathan Nesmith, second son of
James and Mary (Dinsmore) Nesmith, was
born at Londonderry, August, 1759. In 1774,
when a boy of sixteen, he secured a tract of
wild land in Antrim, New Hampshire, and
building a log cabin he proceeded to clear a
farm. He settled there permanently in 1778.
When twenty-five years old he was chosen an
elder of the Presbyterian church in Antrim,
and in addition to his activity in rehgious mat
ters acquired prominence in public affairs,
holding the office of selectman, representing
the town in the state legislature for several
terms, and serving on various important town
committees. He was not only obliged to pay
a second time for most of his land, but twice
suffered the misfortune of having his house
destroyed by fire. He never wavered in his
religious faith, however, and when in extreme
old age he found it necessary to resign his
position as elder of the church, after having
served in that capacity for a period of fifty
years, he arose in the meeting, stretched forth
with difficulty his palsied hand and solemnly
invoked the divine blessing upon his succes
sors. He died an octogenarian, October 15,
1845. In 1781 he married Eleanor Dickey,
born 1 76 1, daughter of Adam and Jane (Stra
han) Dickey, of Londonderry, New Hamp
shire, and granddaughter of John and Alargar
et Dickey, of Londonderry, Ireland. She died
September 7, 1818, and Elder Jonathan Nes
mith married second, .Airs. Sarah Wetherbee
(nee Hamlin), of Concord, Massachusetts.
She was twelve years old when the Concord
fight took place, and she witnessed it from the
doorstep of her father's house. She died Jan
uary 16, 1852, aged eighty-nine. Children of
Elder Nesmith : James, Jean, Thomas D.,
Adam, Mary D., Maragaret, Isabel, Hon.
George W., and Robert.
(IV) Thomas D. Nesmith, second son and
third child of Elder Jonathan and Eleanor
(Dickey) Nesmith, was born in Antrim,
March 22, 1789. He inherited the homestead,
and occupied it until his death, September 10,
1841. March 10, 1813, he married, first, Mar
tha Weeks, died 1828, aged thirty-five years ;
February 4, 1830, he married second, Nancy
Gregg. She died February 9, 1856, at sixty-
three. He had chUdren: Robert W., Jona
than, Sarah E., Miles, Harriet Frances, Mar

tha J., Melvin, Hiram G. and Nancy R.
(V) Harriet Frances Nesmith, fifth child
and second daughter of Thomas D. and Mar
tha (Weeks) Nesmith, was born in Antrim,
February 2, 1823. She became the wife of
Walker Flanders, of Lawrence as previously
stated. (A^III) Frank Byron Flanders, M. D., son
of Walker and Hariet F. (Nesmith) Flanders,
was born in Lawrence, May 16, 1850. He
fitted for college in his native city, was grad
uated from Harvard University with the class
of 1874, and in the autumn of that year be
came a student at the Harvard Medical
School. At the. conclusion of his second year
he went to the Rhode Island Hospital at Prov
idence as an interne, remaining one year, and
returning to Harvard for the completion of
his studies he took his medical degree in 1878.
Locating in Lawrence, he entered upon his
professional career with the enthusiasm of a
student, and he has ever since practiced in that
city, having attained the success for which he
has so diligently labored. In addition to his
extensive private practice Dr. Flanders is con-
' nected with the Lawrence General Hospital.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Association, and also of the North Essex Dis
trict Branch, of which he has served at differ
ent times as censor, councillor and president,
and for many years occupied the post of sec
retary of the Lawrence Medical Club. Politi
cally he is a Republican. In his religious be
lief he is a Congregationalist.
Dr. Flanders married, in Lawrence, June 5,
1884, Anna Lillian Niles, born in Leominster,
Massachusetts, August 30, 1853, daughter of
Joseph and Miriam (Hill) Niles. In common
with all others in New England bearing the
name, she is descended from John Niles, who
was in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1634,
and is supposed to have come from Wales.
He went to Braintree, Massachusetts, and was
admitted a freeman there in 1647. Joseph
Niles, grandfather of Mrs. Flanders, was of
Chester, New Hampshire, and Joseph Niles,
her father, was born there July 10, 1814. He
• attended school in his native town, but by a
well-selected course of reading acquired an
excellent education. He began the activities
of life at the age of nine years as an operative
in a horn factory in West Newbury, but later
engaged in the confectionery business in Low
ell, Massachusetts. Later he removed to Leo
minster, Massachusetts, and became a comb
manufacturer. His death occurred at Law
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1846 he married Miriam Hill, daughter of
Isaac Hill, of Mason, New Hampshire. She
became the mother of five children, of whom
the only one now living is Mrs. Flanders. The
others were ; Charles William, William Fran
cis, Miriam Josephine and Charles Joseph.
Children of Dr. and Mrs. Flanders: i.
Eleanor, born 1885, died in infancy. 2.
Miriam Nesmith, bom July 18, 1886; graduate
of Wellesley, class of 1908. 3. Bancroft, born
July 6, 1888; died at the age of eight months.
4. William Niles, born July 26, 1889; now
attending Pennsylvania Military College. 5.
Richard Henry, born March 22, 1891 ; died
December 13, 1903.

John Davis, of Ipswich, Massa-
DAVIS chusetts, took the oath as freeman
in 1638, and in 1656 bought land
in Gloucester, lived several years there, and
then returned to Ipswich, leaving two sons on
Cape Ann — James and Jacob.
(II) James, son of John Davis, was ensign
of the trainband in 1681, and was commission
ed captain in 1689. In 1693 he is reported as
being "very sickly" in consequence of "country
service in Sir Edmund Andros's time," and in
1699 he received a grant of Straitsmouth Isl
and "for the charge and expense he had been
at and time he had spent in the late wars with
the French and Indian enemy." He was select
man several years, and representative to gen
eral court eight years. By his first wife
Mehitable, who died June 9, 1666, he had four
children, of whom John and James grew to
rfianhood. By his second wife, Elizabeth (Bat-
chelder) Davis, of Wenham, he had seven
children. He married third. Widow Mary
Cook, who died 1725. He died May i, 1715.
(Ill) John, son of Captain James and Me-
hitabel Davis, had three acres of upland in
Gloucester, between Lobster and Hodgkins'
coves, in 1684, and probably had his house
there. He filled various town offices, and was
lieutenant of the military company. He died
March 16, 1729, aged sixty-nine years. He
married Ann Haraden, who survived him as
did their two sons, Benjamin arid Joseph.
(IV) Joseph, son of Lieutenant John and
Ann (Haraden) Davis, was supposed by Mr.
Babson, in his "History of Gloucester," to
have been the Joseph Davis, of Squam, who
married Jemima Haskell, in 1732, and died
1753. (V) William, son of Joseph and Jemima
(Haskell) Davis, served in the revolutionary
war, and for two and a half years was a pris

oner in the hands of the British in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and died 1814, leaving several
children noted for longevity ; Betsey, lived to
be ninety-three ; Captain George, eighty-six ;
Rev. Epes, who died in Lynn, aged eighty-
two ; Captain William, died in Newburyport,
aged seventy-five; Sally, seventy-six; and
Joseph, eighty-nine.
(VI) Joseph, son of William Davis, born
about 1763. was a native of Annisquam, and
died in Lowell, Massachusetts, being the last
of his generation. He married twice, and left
three sons.
(VII) Joseph, son of Joseph Davis, born
about i8(X), was a fisherman, as were many of
the descendants of the ancestor, John Davis.
He may have carried on fishing at Cape Ann,
and did so quite extensively at Marblehead,
and was finally drowned on one of the trips
to the Grand Banks. His wife, Sarah (Dyer)
Davis, married second, William Henry Smith,
of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had a son named
for the father.
(VTII) Hon. Joseph Davis, son of Joseph
and Sarah (Dyer) Davis, was born in Marble
head, October 4, 1833. He was an infant when
his parents settled in Lynn, in the Woodend
section, where he attended the common
schools. The early death of his father neces
sitated his going to work when he was only
eleven years old. He learned the trade of
shoemaking, and when about nineteen years
old he began to work up stock on his
own account, and his industry and energy
enabled him to early make his mark in
his chosen calling, in which he rapidly rose
until he became one of the most extensive
shoe manufacturers of Lynn. At first he was
associated in business with Edward Curtin, in
Broad street, and later George K. and Henry
A. Pevear (sketch elsewhere in this work)
were special partners with him for a period of
three years. He subsequently gave to his fore
man, WiUiam Henry Chase, an interest in the
business, the firm then being Joseph Davis &
Company. Among others associated with him
at the time was William H. Wheeler in the
manufacture of boots and shoes under the
name of Davis & Wheeler. Later he formed
the firm of Davis, Whitcomb & Company, to
manufacture under contracts with the states
of Maryland and Virginia. This business was
very successful and reached large proportions.
At one time he paid the largest yearly royalty
of any manufacturer to the McKay Sewing
Machine Company. In 1891 reverses overtook
him and his business was practically swept

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away. He then associated himself with Mr.
Henry C. Thacher, of Boston, and formed the
Davis Boot & Shoe Company to take over the
contracts for the manufacture of boots and
shoes in the state penitentiary at Richmond,
Virginia. He was in active control of this
very successful business up to the time of his
last and fatal illness. He was also officially
connected with various financial institutions as
president of the Lincoln National Bank of
Boston for several years ; director in the First
National Bank of Salem ; besides holding sev
eral positions of trust in Boston. He was
universally respected in business circles, and
was regarded as a pioneer in the larger shoe
trade, of which he was a practical and pro
gressive exponent.
In civil life Mr. Davis was also active and
efficient. He was connected with the city coun
cil in 1865, when the new city hall was erect
ed, serving upon the committee on public pro
perty, having as a coadjutor Benjamin Doak
(sketch elsewhere), who was a warm person
al friend. He served in the governor's council
in 1881-82, and for five years was a commis
sioner of Pine Grove Cemetery. In politics
he was a staunch Republican, and he was a
candidate for the congressional nomination, di
viding the Lynn delegation with Hon. Henry
Cabot Lodge ; both were defeated, in the con
vention, however, by Hon. Elisha A. Con
verse, who was defeated at the polls by Hon.
Henry B. Lovering. Air. Davis was a member
of the Masonic fraternity, affiliated with Mt.
Carmel Lodge, of Lynn. He was in early man
hood an active member of the Lynn Light In
fantry, Company D, Eighth Regiment. He
was all his life associated with the First Uni
versalist Church of Lynn, and it was largely
through his liberality that the present splendid
edifice was erected. His contribution to this
church amounted to about thirty thousand dol
lars. He also gave liberally to the deserving
needy, and all objects that appealed to him as
worthy, and his extreme sympathy ever moved
him to practical response to calls upon him.
He was endeared to all the community not
only for these kindly deeds, but for his earnest
and unselfish interest in the welfare of the city
and its institutions, and his public spirit and
liberality in support of every measure promis
ing improvement in municipal and community
affairs. After one of his many visits to
Europe, he wrote a most interesting account
of his travel, experiences and impressions,
which was privately printed, a volume of sev
eral hundred pages, and distributed gratui

tously amoni;- his friends.
Mr. Davis married, in June, 1855, Lydia
Chadwell Atkinson, of Lynn, daughter of
Joseph Alley and Ruth (Mudge) Atkinson.
(See Atkinson). Six children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Davis; i. Charles Edward,
died in infancy. 2. Wilbur H., born July,
1857, lives in Lynn. 3. Anna Gertrude, died
in infancy. 4. Joseph Edwin, born Septernber
II, 1859. 5. A. Lillian, born June 9, 1863,
now wife of Dr. Herbert W. Newhall. 6.
Florence Mudge, born August 18, 1873, wife
of Alfred M. Walter, residing in Chicago, Illi
nois. 7. Ruth Mabel, born June 5, 1876, lives
in Lynn. 8. Edith, born March 8, 1880, lives
in Lynn.
Mr. Davis died in Buffalo, New York, Jan
uary 24, 1897. His demise awoke profound
and general sorrow at his home in Lynn,
where his remains were conveyed for inter
ment, and at the funeral a feeling tribute was
pronounced by his pastor. Rev. James M. PuU-
ma, D. D., of the First Universalist Church of
Lynn, summing up the character of the de
ceased, the speaker said :
"A neglected and friendless boy starts out
to make a place for himself in this big and
busy world. He conquers his adverse condi
tions and wins his way, inch by inch, to a pros
perous and honored estate among men. Pos
sessed of a remarkably alert, fertile and com
prehensive mind, his career is brilliant, with
many striking successes, and he acquires a
large confidence in the powers which have
served him so well. Cheery, warmhearted and
openhanded, he helps his feUows, right and
left, as he goes along. In fact, his business
misfortunes began with his large helpfulness
to others, and his business losses grew out of
his generosity of heart. At an age when most
men begin to shorten sail a little, he finds him
self loaded with a widely extended and em
barrassed business. His struggles against his
early adversities were good, but his warfare
against these later misfortunes were better,
rising to the point of heroism.
"He cherished one steady purpose, con
ceived in the very hour of defeat, to which he
bent all his energies. If life was not long
enough to do all that he desired, he would at
least repay those who had been most disas
trously involved in his misfortunes. Over and
over again he returned to this purpose as thi?
fixed determination of his soul, and in these
later months it seemed to him that the con
summation of this purpose was almost in sight.
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in this long struggle, and today he lies dead
upon the field of honorable battle, with victory
only partially within his grasp. He died in
sight of the promised land, meeting death as
he had met the fortunes of life, with courage,
dignity and faith. It is impossible not to wish
that time had been granted him to achieve the
desire of his heart. But as he yielded to the
decree with serene composure and unshaken
trust, so also must we, forgetting whatever
imperfection inhered in his large nature, and
cherishing the memory of his warm and tender
heart, his brotherly helpfulness toward all
men, and the essential and imperishable fideli
ties of his soul."

Thomas Atkinson and
ATKINSON brother Theodore came
from Bury, Lancashire,
England, and settled in Concord, Massachu
setts, before 1636. Thomas was made free
man, December 7, 1636, and died in Novem
ber, 1646. His children were Rebecca, John,
Susannah and Hannah.
(II) John, only son of Thomas Atkinson,
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, about
1639-40, and after his father's death was
adopted by his Uncle Theodore, of Boston,
with whom he learned the trade of hatter and
feltmaker, and settled in Newbury, Massachu
setts, in 1662. He died before September 29,
1715. He married first, April 27, 1664, Sarah
Alirick, who was mother of all his children,
and who died after 1686. He married sec
ond, June 3, 1700, Widow Hannah Cheney,
who died January 5, 1704. His children;
Sarah, John, Thomas, Theodore, Abigail,
Samuel, Nathaniel, EHzabeth, Joseph and Re
becca. Joseph, the youngest son, was killed
by Indians in Maine, in 1706.
(Ill) John, son of John and Sarah (Mir-
ick) Atkinson, was born in Newbury, and was
a feltmaker, and passed his life in that town.
In his will his father acknowledged the duti-
fulness of this son to him in his old age, and
devised to him the house, barn and land in
Newbury. He married Sarah Woodman, and
died before September 27, 1744. Children, all
born in Newbury; i. Thomas, March 16,
1694. 2. John, October 29, 1695. 3. Theo
dore, October 8, 1698. 4. Sarah, November 6,
1700. 5. Hannah, January 11, 1702. 6. Abi
gail, March, 1705. 7. Joseph, October 5, 1707.
8. Mary, February 19, 1709. 9. Elizabeth,
June 29, 1712. 10. Ichabod, August 13, 1714.
(IV) Deacon Ichabod, son of John and
Sarah (Woodman) Atkinson, born in New

bury, August 13, 1714, died there 1803. He
was a yeoman and feltmaker. He married,
October 7, 1733, (published) PriscUla Bailey,
died February 9, 1793. Children, born in
Newbury: i. Moses, September 22, 1734,
cordwainer. 2. Matthias, January 6, 1736. 3.
Miriam, March 20, 1739. 4. Abigail. 5. Han
nah, September 2, 1743. 6. Anna, May 16,
1746. 7. Sarah, November i, 1748. 8. Amos,
Alarch 20, 1754. 9. Eunice, September 18,
1759- (V) Matthias, son of Deacon Ichabod and
Priscilla (Bailey) Atkinson, was born in New
bury, January 6, 1736, died before December
26, 1815. He was a carpenter, and lived in
Newbury. He married, April 10, 1766, Abi
gail Bayley, who survived him. Children,
born in Newbury; i. Moses, January 31, 1773.
2. Daughter, March 10, 1775. 3. Sally, May
18, 1777. 4. Joseph, April 26, 1780. 5.
Eunice, October 29, 1782. 6. George, Sep
tember 5, 1785.
(VI) Joseph, son of Matthias and Abigail
(Bayley) Atkinson, was born in Newbury,
April 26, 1780; he married, July 31, 1803,
Hepzibah Alley, born in Lynn, June 5, 1785,
daughter of Captain Joseph Alley, cordwain
er, who married, December 13, 1781, Hannah
Bacheller, and died February 10, 1832. Cap
tain Alley was .son of Joseph Alley, fisherman
and cordwainer, who lived in Lynn and mar
ried, November 12, 1751, Rebecca Hall.
Joseph Alley was son of Joseph Alley, born in
Lynn, June 22, 1693, married first, January 14,
1724-25, Hepzibah Newhall; second, Decem
ber 10, 1755, Ann Johnson. Joseph Alley was
son of Hugh Alley, born October 15, 1653,
and was a weaver ; married, Decenjber 9, 1681.
Rebecca Hood. Hugh Alley was son of Hugh
Alley, born about 1608, came from London to
America in the "AbigaU," 1635 ; lived in Lynn,
and owned land in Nahant; died 25, iimo.
1673, and was survived by widow Mary.
(VII) Joseph Alley, son of Joseph and
Hepzibah (Alley) Atkinson, born September
17, 1807, in Lynn, was one of the early manu
facturers of shoes on a large scale in that
town, but was compeUed by failing health to
abandon that vocation. He then bought a
farm on Pine Hill and spent the remainder of
his life there, conducting a fine nursery. He
was a Republican in politics, and an earnest
member of the Boston Street Methodist Epis
copal Church. He married, Alay 6, 1830, Ruth
Mudge; children, al! born in Lynn; i. Lydia
Chadwell, married Joseph Davis. (See Davis).
2. Edward, a shoemaker of Lynn. 3. Eugene,

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a shoe dealer, now living in Richmond, Vir
ginia. 4. Hannah Marie, married James
Houghton. 5. Sarah E., married George
Southworth.

Edward Fuller (i), immigrant
FULLER ancestor, came in the "May
flower" to Plymouth with the
Pilgrims in 1620 with his famous brother. Dr.
Samuel Fuller, and was one of the signers of
the compact on board 'the ship before landing.
Both he and his wife died early in 1621, leav
ing a son Samuel who went to live with his
uncle, Dr. Samuel Fuller, and another son,
Matthew, mentioned below.
(II) Captain Alatthew Fuller, son of Ed
ward Fuller, was born in England. When his
parents died he went to Hve with friends in
England and came to this country later. It is
beheved that he came with the wife and child
of Dr. Samuel Fuller. In later years he was
accounted to be "one of the first born of the
colony," and had land assigned him by virtue
of his primogeniture. It was the law that
where no children were born to a family in
this country, the right of drawing land was
given to the eldest son, though he were born
in the old country. Nevertheless he was class
ed among "the first-born of the colony." In
1642 he was granted ten acres near the farm
of Thurston Clark, in Plymouth, and in the
same year served as juryman. He applied for
admission as a freeman, September 7, 1642,
but was not aUowed to qualify until June 7,
1653. He was one of the leading miUtary men
of the colony. When the first company was
organized under command of Captain Myles
Standish in 1643 he was appointed sergeant,
and became lieutenant September, 1652. He
was lieutenant, June 20, 1654, under Standish
in command of fifty men organized for the
proposed expedition against the Dutch of New
Amsterdam, later called New York. The com
pany was ordered to rendezvous at Sandwich,
Plymouth Colony, June 29, to embark from
Manonet in the barque "Adventer," owned
by Captain Samuel Mayo, of Barnstable, and
to join the other English colonial forces, but
on June 23 news was received that peace was
concluded between England and Holland and
preparations for war ceased. Fuller was elect
ed to the council of war, October 2, 1658, and
was made chairman in 1671. In that year also
he was lieutenant of the colonial forces in the
e.xpedition against the Indians of Saconet. He
was a ph)'sician and stood well in his profes
sion, as shown by his appointment, December

17, 1673, as surgeon general of the Plymouth
Colony troops and also of the Massachusetts
Bay troops. He served as captain of his com
pany in King Philip's war and took a dis
tinguishing part. He was a deputy to the gen
eral court as early as 1653. He lived first at
Plymouth, then at Scituate, where he was ad
mitted to the church, November 7, 1636, by
letter from the Plymouth Church, and finally
at Barnstable, where he was the first regular
physician. His son John and some of his
grandsons followed him in his profession,
which he doubtless learned of his uncle. Dr.
Samuel Fuller, and in turn taught to his son.
He and his brother lived side by side on Scor-
ton Neck, which was bought of the Secunke
(Seeconk) Indians by Barnstable and Sand
wich. The west end of the FuUer farms form
ed the town line between Sandwich and Barn
stable. A dispute as to this boundary line
caused a lawsuit, which was eventually com
promised, the Fullers relinquishing their claim
to certain lands granted by Barnstable, October
30, 1672, and the town of Sandwich conceding
to the Fullers certain rights of way with the
privilege of cutting fence stuff in Sandwich.
Captain Fuller had land granted at Suckenes-
set, now Falmouth, and in the "Majoc's Pur
chase," Middleborough, as "first-born" rights.
He was a man of sound judgment, good
understanding and courage. He was faithful
to his trusts, liberal in politics and tolerant in
reHgion. In fact he was too tolerant for his
day and too frank in his speech to avoid
trouble. He was indignant at the persecution
of the Quakers, and was indicted for saying
"the lae enacted about ministers' maintenance
was a wicked and devilish law and that the
devil sat at the stone when it was enacted."
He admitted that he used the words and was
fined fifty shillings. Yet he held the confidence
of the people and received further honors and
high office afterward. He died at Barnstable
in 1678. He bequeathed in his wiU dated July
25 and proved October 30, 1678, to his wife,
Frances, to grandchild, Shubael, son of Ralph
Jones ; to son John, and to Thomas, Jabez,
Timothy, Matthias and Samuel, sons of his
deceased son Samuel ; to Elizabeth, wife of
Moses Rowley, and Anne, wife of son Sam
uel ; to Bethiah, wife of son John ; to grand
child, Sarah Rowley, Jedediah Jones and all
the rest. Also to Robert Marshall, the Scotch
man. Children; i. Mary, married, AprU 17,
1650, Ralph Jones. 2. Elizabeth, married,
April 22, 1652, Moses Rowley. 3. Samuel,
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maVl^'^j^", 4- John, mentioned below. 5. Ann,
Yf;^^ her cousin, Samuel FuUer^Jr.
Dr mL.u- ¦^°''" Fuller, son of Captain and
¦ and dl2"^/"^l^^' ^^^ bom about 1645-50
homit. ?¦ '^.?'- He resided on the paternal
homestead in Barnstable on Scorton Neck, ad
joining Sandwich. He was a physician of note
and a prominent citizen. He married first,
t>ethia — —— . second, Hannah  , of
ijoston. His widow married second, Captain
John Lothrop, of Barnstable, December y,
1695. Children, born at Barnstable; i. Lydia.
born 1675, died in Connecticut, November 6,
1755 ; married. May 12, 1699, Joseph Dimock.
2. Bethia, born December, 1687, married, Feb
ruary 20, 1706, Barnabas Lothrop. 3. John.
born October, 1689, mentioned below. 4. Re
liance, born September 8, 1691, married John
Prince. (lA^) Lieutenant John Fuller, son of Dr.
John Fuller, was born in Barnstable, October,
1689, died there July 20, 1732, aged forty-two
years. His gravestone at West Barnstable
states that he was son of Dr. John. He mar
ried, June 16, 1710, Thankful Gorham. Chil
dren, born at Barnstable: i. Hannah, born
AprU I, 1711; married, September 3, 1730,
Matthew or Matthias Smith. 2. John, born
August 3, 1714, married, October 29, 1741,
Temperance Gorham. 3. Mary, born Septem
ber I, 1715, married, August 11, 1733, Seth
Lothrop. 4. Bethia, born September i, 1715,
married, December 20, 1739, Joseph Bursley.
5. Nathaniel, born December 10, 1716, men
tioned below. 6. Thankful, born September,
1718, married, October 25, 1739, Nathan Rus
sell, Jr., of Middleborough.
(V) Captain Nathaniel Fuller, son of
John Fuller, was born December 10, 1716. He
was widely known as "Captain Nat," stern of
manner, decided in opinion and of good char
acter, though the very frank and critical his
torian of Barnstable families tells us that he
was not very industrious and hence not pros
perous. He was unlucky, however, in ways
not due to idleness, for when he came home
from the French and Indian war he brought
smallpox with him. His wife and daughters
Abigail and Thankful fell victims to the
scourge : his dau.ofhter Hannah recovered. He
married (first), February 22, 1739, AbigaU
Hinckley. He married again. He owned the
western' part of the homestead on Scorton
Neck, about thirty-five acres on the south side
of the old highway to Sandy Neck, opposite
the Blossom house in Sandwich. In 1783 he
sold his farm and moved over the line on Scor

ton Neck into Barstable. After the death of
his second wife he went to live with his daugh
ter, Hannah Smith. Children: i. Nathaniel,
mentioned below. 2. Thankful, died unmar
ried. 3. Abigail, died unmarried. 4. Hannah,
married Alatthias Smith. 5. Lydia, married
Lazarus Ewer. 6. Lieutenant Joseph, died
Augu,st 16, 1805, married Tabitha Jones,
daughter of Josiah Jones ; was an officer in
the revolution.
(AT) Nathaniel FuUer, son of Captain Na
thaniel Fuller, born in Barnstable or Sand
wich, 1762, died at Sandwich, April 9, 1840.
He married, March 18, 1791, Rachel Jones,
who died at Sandwich, Alay 10, 1841. (Swift
gives the name Ruhama Jones, town records
Rachel). Children of Nathaniel and Rachel
Fuller: i. Ruhamah, born October 4, 1791,
died September 5, 1840. 2. Samuel, born No
vember 14, 1793, mentioned below. 3. James
Harvey, born November 4, 1798. 4. David,
born October 27, 1806. 5. Anna, born April 4,
1809. (VII) Samuel Fuller, son of Nathaniel
Fuller, was born in Sandwich, November 14,
1793. He was a sea captain. He Hved at
Sandwich. He married Hannah Chipman, of
an old "Mayflower" family, descendant of
John Howland. Children, born at Sandwich :
I. Elizabeth A., born October 10, 1823, mar
ried the Rev. Loranus Crowell ; children : Eliz
abeth, Samuel, Abigail, Harrison, Julia and
Albert. 2. AbigaU F., born June 19, 1825,
married Edward Pease ; children : Ella, Ed
ward, Frank and Elizabeth. 3. Sylvester
Brown, born April 17, 1829, mentioned be
low. (VIII) Sylvester Brown Fuller, son of
Samuel Fuller, was born April 17, 1829, at
Sandwich. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He learned the
trade of shoemaking, and began his career as
a manufacturer at Lynn, Massachusetts, about
1870, as a partner in the firm of Haskell &
Fuller. After his partner withdrew he ad
mitted his son, Charles S., to partnership un
der the firm name of S. P. Fuller & Son, this
name being changed later to C. .S. Fuller &
Company, and now (1908) conducting busi
ness under the name of The Fuller Shoe Com
pany. The business grew from a modest be
ginning to large proportions, with factories
at Essex, Salem and Gloucester, Massachu
setts. In Salem they had a large plant on
Cousins street, where they manufactured a
medium AlcKay shoe, opening an office on
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S. Fuller assumed charge of the business, later
being associated with his brother, Fred P. Ful
ler, but subsequently Charles S. was compelled
to relihqiiish active business, on account of
failing health, the affairs of the concern being
looked after by his brother. Sylvester B. Ful
ler continued to live at Lynn, however, and
had an attractive home on Herbert street. He
had also a suramer residence on Shirley Hill,
Goffstown, New Harapshire, where he died
July 14, 1893. He was a Republican, but
never active in politics. He was _a faithful
and prominent raeraber of the North Congre
gational Church of Lynn, of which he was
one of the founders, a thoroughly upright and
conscientious man, well beloved in the com
munity in which he made his home and re
spected by all who knew hira. From the eulogy
of the Rev. Dr. Hadley, his pastor, we quote;
"You aU know what he was in the world of
business, the home and the church. His mera
ory you will all cherish and his good works
will live after hira. He has laid down the
work ; let us take it up with his largeness of
heart and syrapathy. He was always faithful
in church work, as you can all testify. You
alfeo knOw better than I of the happy home life,
his life and friendship being so rich. It seems
as if a dark cloud has come over us, but we
must say : 'Thy will be done.' The impress
of his character and goodness was felt in the
horae, the church and the city."
Sylvester B. Fuller raarried, September 25,
185 1, Alary C, born at Hadley, Alas
sachusetts, July 9, 183 1, daughter of Ansel
and Sally (Johnson) Pomeroy. Children: i.
Charles S., born September 6, 1852, mention
ed below. 2. George A., born November 19,
1855, married Lucy A. Burnham; two chil
dren ; Sarah E., born February 16, 1880, died
April 16, 1889; one child died in infancy. 3.
Henry H., bom August 2, 1858, died Decem
ber 22. 1881. 4. Sarah E., born January 5,
1861, raarried, Septeraber i, 1885, Charies S.
Crosman, of Haverford, Pennsylvania; chil
dren: Alarion Fuller, born October 29, 1887;
Qiaries H., November 18, 1890; Elizabeth.
June 10, 1894; Lincoln Holway, March 4,
1901, died Alarch 17, 1902. 5. Fred P., born
March 20, 1863, married, December 22, 1885,
Harriet Ricker, of Lynn; children: Henry
H., born January 8, 1887 ; Raymond, March 6^
1888; Alorris AA^iggin, July 23, 1891 ; Louise,
August 6, 1895.
(IX) qharles S. Fuller, son of Sylvester
Brown Fuller, was born at Amherst, Massa
chusetts, September 6, 1852. .A.fter graduat

ing from the high school, as president of his
class, 1872, he became associated with his
father in business as hitherto related. In ad
dition to his activity in his own business, he
was deeply interested in the welfare of the city
and its institutions. He was for many years
vice-president of Lynn Institution for Savings
and one of its board of trustees; director of
Lynn National Bank for twenty-one years,
up to his death ; director of Lynn Safe Deposit
& Trust Company; for many years clerk of
the board of directors of Lynn National Bank ;
member of the board of managers of Lynn
Home for Aged Women; acted in the same
capacity for Lynn Home for Aged Men ; mem
ber of board of managers of Lynn Hospital.
He was prominent in the affairs of the Unitar
ian church, and was past president of the
LTnitarian .Society. He was a member of the
Unitarian Club of Boston and Whiting Club
of Lynn. Mr. Fuller was one of the most
public-spirited citizens of Lynn, and his in
tegrity in business circles won him a host of
respecting associates and friends, and his
death in Lynn, Deceraber 30, 1906, was a dis
tinct loss to that city. Although suffering
great pain, with wonderful fortitude he took
an energetic part in the conduct of his business
affairs up to the time he was obliged to enter
retirement because of invalidism.
Charles S. Fuller married. May 26, 1880,
Addie G., daughter of Leonard and Lydia M.
U'sher. Air. Fuller is survived by Mrs. FuUer;
four .sons ; Lawrence W., Harold S., Charles
Kenneth, Donald Wellington; one daughter,
Madeline ; two brothers : George A., of Lynn,
and Fred P., of Salem; a sister, Mrs. Charles
S. Crosman, of Philadelphia.

This surname belongs to a cur-
PRIEST ious class of patronymics, com
mon in other languages besides
English, designating offices of the church, as
Pope, Cardinal, Abbot, Prior, Archdeacon,
Rector, Parsons, A'^icar, Deacon, Clerk, Friar,
Alonk, Sexton, Pontifex, Novice, etc. In some
cases the origin was plainly a nickname, but in
mo.st cases, doubtless, the progenitor's office
or title in the church became his family sur
name. Celibacy has not been a rule of the
Church of England, nor of the Roman Church
at all times. The first American immigrant
of the Priest family was Degory, who came
frora Leyden, Holland, in the Mayflower. An
other early settler was .James Priest, of Dor
chester in 1637, and of Weymouth, Massachu
setts, in 1640.

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(I) John Priest, immigrant ancestor, settled
at Charlestown," Massachusetts. He owned a
small farm in that town. He sold twenty acres
of land near the Reading line in 1680 (record
ed 1683) to Humphrey MiUer. He married
Sarah ¦  .
(II) John Priest, son of John Priest, born
about 1650, died in 1704. He lived at Wo-
born until about 1687, then removed to the
vicinity of Bare Hill, Lancaster, Massachu
setts, where he had thirty acres of land. He
came with John Warner and they lived togeth
er, having a sixty acre grant in common, ad
joining the grant of Nathtiiiel Wales, later
¦owned by James Frost. During the Indian
war in 1704 he and his son John Jr. were in
the Bare Hill garrison, in what is now Har
vard. He died in 1704, and his inventory was
¦dated December 21, 1704. He raarried, March
10, 1678, Rachel Garfield, died May 17, 1737,
in her eighty-first year. His widow and son
John administered the estate, the other chil
dren being under age. Children, bom at Wo
burn: I. Elizabeth, September 12, 1679. 2.
John, Noveraber i, 1681 ; sold his place in
Harvard in 1738 to John Forbush ; died Sep
tember 29, 1756, at Bolton ; married Anna
Houghton ; children ; i. Anna ; ii. Mary ; iii.
Abigail, baptized 1708.; iv. Damaris, baptized
1710; V. Rachel, baptized 1713; vi. Hepsibah,
born 1716; vii. Jonathan, born 1718; viii.
Maria, born 1721. 3. Daniel, born July 19,
1686; mentioned below. Children, born at
Bare, HiU, Lancaster ; 4. Gabriel, married Ab
igail  ; children : i. John, bom November
21, 1717; ii. Gabriel, June 17, 1720; iii. Jere
miah, April 30, 1722. 5. Joseph; children; i.
Joseph, born Noveraber 28, 1717; U. Benjarain,
February 17, 1719-20; hi. Alary, March 23,
1 720- 1 ; iv. Susanna, March 21, 1726; v. Ta
bitha, November 5, 1728; vi. Bathsheba, May
I, 1731 ; vii. Dorothy, October 11, 1733; viii.
Betty, April 24, 1736; ix. John, January 13,
1737-8. 6. Mary. 7. Hannah.
(Ill) Daniel Priest, son of John Priest,
born in Woburn, July 19, 1686, died at Lan
caster, October 9, 1723. His widow EHzabeth
Priest was baptized in the First church of
Lancaster, September 27, 1724, with her chil
dren mentioned below. She died August,
1737, aged fifty-three years (town records),
September 6, 1737, according to the recorcls
of John Secomb." A road was laid out to his
house May 20, 1724. Children; i. John,
mentioned below. 2. Daniel, married, June 4,
1741, at Lancaster, Elizabeth Kilborn; li-ved
in Lancaster. 3. Eunice. 4. Hasadiah, died

at Lancaster, July i, 1736. 5. Betty. 6. Si
lence. (IV) John Priest, son of Daniel Priest,
born about 1715, at Stow, Bolton or Lancas
ter, was baptized in First church of Lancaster
with the rest of the children. He settled in
Marlborough. Hudson says in his history of
that town that at one time the family was
numerous in Bolton, Stow and Marlborough.
He married Mary  . Children, born at
Marlborough; i. Alary, AprU 15, 1739. 2.
Bette, March 2, 1743. 3. John, October 2,
1744. 4. Daniel, September 16, 1746; settled
in Jaffrey, New Hampshire ; his wife was born
1748 and died January, 1840. 5. Abraham,
December 26, 1748 ; married Abigail White. 6.
Silence, February 9, 1750; raarried Siraon
Maynard. 7. Isaac, July 2, 1752. 8. Jacob,
November 17, 1753-4; raentioned below. 9.
Corafort, March 4, 1758; married Jonas Wil
kin. ID. Betsey, Alarch 7, 1761. 11. Benja
min, born February 18, 1764; died October 22,
1853 ; married, January 15, 1786, Phebe Bruce,
of Alarlborougln. 12. Joseph, born Noveraber
28, 1765. 13. Jonathan, October 6, 1766-7.
(A''^) Captain Jacob Priest, son of John
Priest, born in Alarlborough, November 17,
1753-4, died at Lexington, January 28, 1824,
of smallpox, while on a visit, and is buried in
the old cemetery at the center. He reraoved to
Littleton, Alassachusetts, about 1795, buying a
farra of one hundred acres in the south part
of the town near the present station of the
Fitchburgh railroad. His farm is now occu
pied by his great-grandson, George L. Priest.
He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in
Captain Cyprian How's company, on the Lex
ington alarm, April 19, 1775 ; also in Captain
Jonathan Rice's corapany, Colonel Sarauel
BuUard's regiment, August 17 to October 21,
1777, sent to reinforce northem array. He
• m.arried first, Ann Jones, of Bolton; second,
1787, Sarah Longley, born September, 1766,
died April 11, 1839. Children; i. John Long-
ley, born March 17, 1781. 2. Frank, February
26, 1784; died at Parishville, New York, Aug
ust 7, 1850; married, 1808, at Littleton, Mas
sachusetts, Mary Wood, born June 28, 1788,
died August 15, 1874, daughter of John and
Lucy (Martin) Wood. (See Wood Genealo
gy, by William S. Wood, published at Worces
ter, 1885) ; children; i. John, born at Pomfret,
A^ermont, October 18, 1809 ; u. Manna Jones,
born at Pomfret, November 27, 1810; iii.
Maria Jones, born at Pomfret, April 26,
1812; iv. Mary Jones, born at Porafret, March
14, 1814; V. Lucy, born at Parishville, Novera-

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ber 15, 1816; vi. Benjamin FrankUn, born at
Parishville, February 20, 1818; vii. Aliranda,
born Alarch 26, 1819; viii. Captain Luther,
(father olMrs. Edgar A. Newell, Odgensburg,
N. Y.), born March 31, 1821 ; died at Martins-
burg, Virginia, March 14, 1863, captain of
Company E, One Hundred Sixth New York
Volunteers in civil war ; raarried first, Barbara
Rose; second, January 21, 1852, EHzabeth
Rose, died July 6, 1896 ; (children ; Addie Bar
bara, born December 27, 1854, married, No
vember 19, 1879, Edgar A. NeweU, and had
Albert P Newell, born January 2, 1882, and
William Allan Newell, born April 23, 1883 ;
EHzabeth Cynthia, bom December 2, 1858,
died Au.gust 29, 1877 ; Rose Lucy, born Janu
ary I, 1861, married, June 26, 1890, Freeman
H. Allen and had Barbara Allen, born July 20,
1891, Elizabeth Rose Allen, born January 18,
1895, died August 20, 1895, and Newell Priest
AUen, born June 11, 1901) ; ix. Frederick,
born April 28, 1823 ; x. Valentine Thoraas,
June 16, 1831. Children of second marriage:
3. Asa, born June 13, 1788; mentioned below.
4. Jacob, born March 7, 1790; raentioned be
low. 5. Williara, born August 28, 1793 ; died
February 7, 1836 ; married Susanna Davis, of
Acton, Massachusetts: children; i. Susan
Adams, born July 23, 1825, married, October
24, 1843, John Tenney, of Acton, and had
John Priest Tenney, bom September 8, 1844,
married, January 23, 1878, Elizabeth Appleton
Moorhead, of Boston. 6. Nathan, born Feb
ruary 16, 1795; raentioned below. 7.
Luther, born August 3, 1797. 8. Sarah,
born July 2, 1802; died Deceraber 28, 1878;
raarried first, October 22, 1829, Asa Fletcher
of AVestford ; second, November 7, 1855, .Ab
raham Stone, of Groton, Massachusetts, who
died July 16, 1868 ; children of first husband ;
i. Asa Fletcher, born November i, 1830, mar
ried. July 3, 1851, Isabella L. Speare, and had
WiUiara Asa Fletcher, born July 14, 1862, and
Walter K. Fletcher, born Septeraber 17, 1865 ;
ii. Williara Fletcher, born October 18, 1832,
married, January 11, 1856, Josephine L. Cor-
ser, and had Charles A. Fletcher, born August
30, 1858, died October 7, 1861, Harry K. and
Herbert P. Fletcher (twins), born November
4. 1865; iii. Augustus Kimball, born October
12, 1834, married, February 16, 1861, Adelaide
C. Marshall, and had Lewis Asa Fletcher, born
May 19, 1871, and Lucy Fletcher; iv. Sarah
EHzabeth Fletcher, born January 4, 1840 ; died
March 3, 1903, married, Octot)er 28, 1858,
James F. Wilson, and had Lucy Appleton Wil
son, born .'August 10, 1859, married, July 20,

1890, George K. Millikin. 9. Sophia, born
September 11, 1804, married Porter Tuttle.
of Littleton, and had Edward H. Tuttle, un
married, and other children.
(VI) Asa Priest, son of Jacob Priest (5),
was born June 13, 1788, and died August 25,
1871. He was captain of the militia company.
He married Nabby Bulkeley. Children: i.
Joseph Andrew, born August 25, 1817; died
February 28, 1892 ; married Mary J. Bige
low ; children ; i. Sarah A., born April 7,
i860; n. Mary (Minnie) J., born July 10, 1861,
died August 5, 1873 ; iii. Frank Bigelow, of
Commercial street, Boston, born June 16,
1863, married Lillian F. Malcolm, and had
Malcolm, born July 23, 1890, Dorothy B.,
born September 10, 1891, Roger A., born Jan
uary 28, 1893, and Barbara B., born October
30, 1903 ; iv. Edwin H., born Septeraber 12,
1865 ; V. George L., May 26, 1868; vi. Herbert
B., February 6, 1875 ; vii. Benson B., Decem
ber 14, 1876. 2. Sarah L., born February 25,
1819 ; died January 2, 1895. 3. Jane. 4. Abi
gail. (NT) Nathan Priest, son of Jacob Priest
(5), was bom February 16, 1795, and died
August 24, 1887; married, AprU 27, 1831,
Mercy Robbins, of Harvard, Massachusetts.
Children : i . Lucy Eveline, born May 22,
1832, married James Johnson, of Troy, New
York ; child : i. Lilias Jean, married William
Owen, of Troy, and had Lucy Owen, WiUiam
Owen, Helen Owen, and Mary Owen. 2.
George Sumner, born Septeraber 19, 1834. 3.
Nathan Robley, born March 12, 1836. 4.
Sarah Fletcher, born July 5, 1837; raarried,
Noveraber 25, 1858, Moseley Gilson, of Gro
ton, Alassachusetts ; children : i. Herbert
Aloseley Gilson, born October 17, i860; u.
F"anny Elksworth Gilson, Septeraber 4, 1861 ;
iii. Ellen Priest Gilson, December 23, 1863 ; iv.
Gertrude Bancroft, Gilson, October 8, 1865 ;
V. George William Gilson, born Deceraber 31,
1870, died 1876; vi. Henry Robbins Gilson,
born September 27, 1877 ; vii. Howard Luther
Gilson, June 10, 1879. 5- WilHam Henry, No
vember 18, 1838. 6. John Robbins, born July
25, 1840. 7. EUen Sophia, born August 26,
1842. 8. Adelia Caroline, born January 3,
1844. 9. Francis Davis, born January 24,
1846. 10. Jacob, born May 8, 1850.
(VI) Captain Jacob Priest, son of Jacob
Priest (5), was born at Marlborough, March
7, 1790, and died at Littleton, April 18, 1869.
He moved with his father's family to Littleton
when he was about five years old, and attend
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learned the trade of cooper. He volunteered
in the war of 1812, but did not enter into ac
tive service, and worked at his trade as coop
er for Ripley, the owner of Ripley's wharff
Boston. He worked on the "Chesapeake" and
other American war vessels fitted out in the
port of Boston. He returned to Littleton and
took up farming, and in 1824, at the death of
his father, with his brother Asa, succeeded to
the homestead. In the early forties he re
moved to Acton, and after two years in farra
ing there went to Sterling to carry on the farm
of his wife's parents. Like most farraers of
that thrifty day he followed his trade in win
ter. In 1855 he returned to Littleton, buying
a farm which he conducted during the re
mainder of his life. He was industrious, up
right and of sterling character, having the es
teem and confidence of all his townsmen. He
was an active and prominent member of the
Unitarian church, and an officer of the society.
He served on the board of selectmen of Sterl
ing, and was captain of the Littleton militia
company and was always known as Captain
Jacob. He married, November 5, 1817, Eliza
Porter, of Littleton, born July 21, 1796, died
February 12, 1884, daughter of John and
Mary (Kendall) Porter, of Littleton. Her
father was a farmer. Children; 1. John Por
ter, born July 30, 1818 ; mentioned below. 2.
EHzabeth KendaU, born August 20, 1821 ; mar
ried, April 21, 1840, Ephraim Hosmer, born
November 25, 181 1, died March 5, 1871, and
had Joel Kendall Hosmer, born October 6,
184T, and Edmund Porter Hosmer, born Sep
tember 6, 1844, died December 2, 1864. 3.
Lucian Jacob, born May 8, 1830 ; died Febru
ary 26, 1892; married, November 9, 1851,
Charlotte E. Reed, of Sterling; children: i.
Helen Florence, born March 19, 1853, mar
ried, September 8,' 1872, Frederick Tyler
Gibbs, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, (chil
dren; Lucian Everett Gibbs, born February
19, 1874, died May 10, 1898; Florence Street
Gibbs, born December 10, 1876, married, No
vember 4, 1908, Albert Orington Bullard) ;
ii. Lottie Gertrude, born June 8, 1861, married,
June 27, 1888, Huntley Sigourney Turner, of
Ayer, Massachusetts, born June 12, 1863, son
of John Henry and Helen Mitchell (Brown)
Turner. (VII) John Porter Priest, son of Jacob
Priest, was bom at Littleton, July 30, 1818,
and died at Charlestown, Massachusetts.
March 26, 1900. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Littleton and at Ashby Academy.
He worked on his father's farm until he was

eighteen, then became station agent at Acton,
Alassachusetts, the first at that place on the
Fitchburg railroad, remaining there until 1849,
when he left to engage" in the milk business in
Somerville, Alassachusettg. After six years
of prosperous business he sold out and entered
partnership with James T. Davis in the pro
duce business at No. i North Market street,
Boston, in the Fanedil Hall district, under the
firm name of Davis & Priest. His partner en
listed in the civil war, and Mr. Priest con
tinued the business alone for a time. Subse
quently he became a salesraan for the firms of
Jonathan Bigelow & Company and for Ben
nett, Rand & Corapany respectively. In 1868
he engaged in the retail grocery business on
his own account, with a store at the corner of
Green street and Bunker Hill street, Charles
town, did business here for about twenty-five
years, and then reraoved to the store at the
corner of Polk street and Bunker Hill street.
In 1898 his son Lucian, who had been asso
ciated sorae years with hira, took over the bus
iness and Air. Priest retired.
In his early days he was a AVhig, but from
the formation of the Republican party was a
loyal supporter of its candidates and princi
ples, and especially the great war president,
Lincoln, in the trying days when the adminis
tration needed the firm and faithful co-opera
tion of the business men of the country. In
religion he was a Unitarian. He was a charter
member of the Boston Retail Dealers' Associa
tion, of Boston. In his younger days he served
in the state railitia. He belonged to the
Charlestown Improveraent Association. Mr.
Priest was a man of good judgment, of strict
integrity, cautious and conservative, painstak
ing and industrious. He had a lively sense
of humor, and a natural fund of wit that made
him a pleasant companion. He raade raany
friends both in business and social life. He
married, March 29, 1842, Sarah Caroline
Davis, iDorn at Acton, November 11, 1820,
daughter of Jonathan BiUings and Sally
(Hosmer) Davis, of Acton. Her father
was a farmer. Children; i. John Tenney,
born March 13, 1843 ; mentioned below. 2.
Sarah Eliza, born December 28, 1845 J
raarried, November 5, 1867, Thomas War
ren Beddoe, of Charlestown; children: i.
Lizzie Alice Beddoe, born July 6, 1870, died
July 26, 1871 ; ii. Carrie Delina Beddoe, born
September 13, 1872, married June 30, 1897,
Edward Foster Chamberlin, of East Orange,
New Jersey, and had Virginia Chamberlin,
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Chamberhn, born September 24, 1904. 3.
Henry Porter, born Septeraber 23, 1852; died
Septeraber 30, 1902 ; raarried, December 6,
1881, Lucia Mead Fyffe, of Manchester, New
Hampshire ; mentioned below. 4. Emma Car
oline, born December 27, 1855 ; unmarried,
living with her mother. 5. Dora Eveline, born
April 29, i860; died December 24, i860. 6.
EUa Davis, born June 23, 1861 ; died June 25,
1861. 7. Lucian Jacob, born November 3,
1865 ; married, November 15, 1898, Fannie De
Young, of Boston; children: i. Lucian
Charles, born September 18, 1899; ii. Helen
Katharine, February 28, 1907.
(VIII) John Tenney Priest, son of John
Porter Priest, was born at Acton, March 13,
1843. At the age of six years he moved with
his parents to Somerville, Massachusetts,
where he attended the public schools until
1855. He completed his schooling at Charles
town, wither his parents removed at that time
and graduated in the class of i860 from the
Charlestown high school. For two years fol
lowing he was clerk in the meat and provision
store of Robert Wason. He enlisted in Aug
ust, 1862, in Company B, Thirty-sixth Massa
chusetts Volunteer Regiraent, going into camp
imraediately at Worcester. The regiment was
assigned to the Second Division, Ninth Array
Corps, and joined the Army of the Potomac.
His first battle was Fredericksburg. After
ward the regiment was sent to Kentucky, and
later to Vicksburg to reinforce General Grant's
command in the spring of 1863. After Vicks
burg fell the regiraent moved with the array to
Jackson, driving out the forces of General
Johnston and investing the city. Thence the
regiraent returned to Vicksburg and later to
Kentucky when they rendezvoused at Nicho-
lasville, Kentucky, afterwards going to East
Tennessee under General Bumside, in the
Army of the Ohio. Air. Priest took part in the
battles of Blue Springs, Campbell's Station
and in the Siege of Knoxville. In March,
1864. he went with his regiment to Annapolis
to reinforce the army of the Potoraac, and on
May 6th fought in the battle of the Wilderness
at Spottsylvania, May 12, on May 26 in the
battle of North Anna River, and on June 3
at Cold Harbor, where he received the wound
that cost him his leg. He was in the army
hospital at AVashington for three months and
at the hospital at Boston nine months, receiv
ing his discharge and being mustered out June
17, 1865.
He resumed business as a bookkeeper in the
office of Sargent Brothers & Corapany, whole

sale dry goods dealers and jobbers, Devonshire
street, Boston, resigning that position to be
come city clerk pro tempore of Charlestown
in April, 1871. He was elected clerk in Sep
tember following, and continued in that office
until January, 1874, when Charlestown was
annexed to Boston. He then betame assistant
city clerk of Boston, continuing as such until
February, 1908, when he was elected city clerk
of Boston. During his long public service he
has shown himself a competent, efficient and
accoraraodating official and numbers among his
friends raost of the prominent men in public
life in Boston and vicinity. Mr. Priest resides
in Roxbury. He is a Republican in politics.
He is a member of King Solomon Lodge of
Free Masons, of Charlestown, which he joined
in June, 1867; of Signet Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, of Charlestown; of Maiden Council,
Royal and Select Masons ; of Hugh de Payens
Commandery, Knights Templar, Melrose,
Massachusetts, and Aleppo Temple, Mystic
Shrine; also of the Ancient Order of United
Workraen, of the Dudley Club, of Roxbury, of
the Roxbury Historical Society, of Abraham
Lincoln Post, No. 11, Grand Army, Charles-*
town, and of the Alassachusetts Association of
City Clerks. He married, October 14, 1875,
Harriet Elizabeth Beddoe, of Charlestown,
born May 23, 185 1, daughter of Thomas and
Harriet (Jameson) Beddoe. Her father was
a painter by trade ; served in the civil war.
Children ; i. Warren Albert, born July 4,
1876; married, July 20, 1907, J. Edith, daugh
ter of Myron Rounds.
(VIII) Henry Porter Priest, son of John
Porter Priest, was born in SomerviUe, Massa
chusetts, September 23, 1852, and died Sep
ternber 30, 1902. He had a common school
education. He entered the employ of the
Alanchester Alills Corporation in February,
1877, being eraployed under W. F. McConnell,
engineer in charge of the surveys for the
Manchester & Ashburnham railroad, which
was then in contemplation. In September of
the same year he entered the mill office at
Alanchester, New Hampshire, and won his
way by successive promotions to the office of
payraaster of that great corporation. He was
in the eraploy of the company for a quarter of
a century, and in all the various capacities in
which he served that corporation proved a
faithful and efficient worker, and won and
held the respect not only of the management
but of his fellow-workers as well. He suc
ceeded J. S. Shannon as payraaster. He re
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1773

of paralysis, but his resignation was not ac
cepted until a year later. His health had been
failing, however, for some time before, and
his condition grew gradually worse untU his
death. He was a member of the First Unitar
ian Church and devoted to its mterests attend
ing service regularly and one of the directors
of the business of the society. He was a
member of the Masonic fraternity, being a
past-master of Lafayette Lodge of Free
Masons; of the Royal Arch Chapter, the
Council of Royal and Select Alasters, and of
Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of
which he was past eminent commander. He
was also a member of the Odd Fellows, the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Royal
Arcanum and the New England Order of Pro
tection. He was a man of many sterling qual
ities, genial, kindly, honest and sincere. In
deed, unaffected simplicity is perhaps the ex
pression that best describes his leading char
acteristic. He was modest, unaffected, simple
in his ways, home-loving and of strict integ
rity. True always to the right as he saw^it,
he was withal a man of strong convictions and
high courage. And while he was quiet and
never put himself forward into the public
gaze, he had many friends and in a quiet way
was a prominent club man and popular social
ly. He was one of. the oldtime raembers of
the Derryfield Oub, was at one time president
of the Calumet Club and one of the founders
of the Cygnet. In all these organizations his
counsel was respected and his membership
prized. He was a prominent Republican, and
served his district one term in the state legisla
ture. One of his friends who knew him best
is quoted by the Manchester Mirror ; "Few
people save those who knew hira best, appre
ciated Harr)' Priest to the fullest extent. He
was honest as the day is long and he never by
word or deed did any one wrong. He had not
an enemy in the world." He married, Decem-
ter 6, 1881, Lucia Mead Fyffe, of Manchester.
They had no children.

The Tebbetts family, of
TEBBETTS which Jeremiah Hall W.
Tebbetts, a late resident of
Lynn, was a representative, was founded in
Rochester. New Hampshire, at an early date.
(I) James Tebbetts, a native and resident
of Rochester, New Hampshire, was a black
smith by trade, hard working, of sinewy com
mon sense, and feelings remarkably strong,
though scrupulously reserved from the casual
glances of mere acquaintances. He died in

November, 1854, aged eighty-two years. His
wife, Mary (Nutter) Tebbetts, was a woman
of delicate physique, but of quick sympathy
and many genial, social qualities, and the mem
ory of her life was an inspiration to her chil
dren. (II) Noah Tebbetts, youngest son of James
and Alary (Nutter) Tebbetts, was born in
Rochester, New Harapshire, December 26,
1802. After the preliminary studies of the dis
trict .school, he spent two or three years in the
academies of Wakefield, New Hampshire, and
Saco, Alaine, preparing for college. He spent
his 'freshman year at Dartmouth University,
and in 1819 entered Bowdoin College, from
whence he graduated in 1822. His rank at
graduation was that of the third scholar. The
Salutatory was assigned hira at Commence
ment, and ^ Latin "Alaster's Oration" in 1825.
Without undervaluing the importance of
attention to prescribed studies, he did not con
fine himself to the routine of the regular
course, but devoted himself also to a wide
range of miscellaneous reading, and his raem
ory was so retentive and prompt that through
out his life his college reading in poetry, his
tory, biography and philosophy was always
ready to illustrate and enforce arguraents, or
to enliven conversation. He was regarded as
possessing a reraarkably well-balanced mind,
with equal tastes and capacities for the an
cient languages, matheraatics, raetaphysics, and
English literature, though as the years went
on his literary enjoyraents were chiefly found
in Latin and English classics.
Immediately after graduating, Mr. Tebbetts
began the study of law in his native village
with Jeremiah H. AVoodman, in whose office
he remained three years, and at the end of that
time, 1825, was adraitted to the bar of York
county, Maine, and in the fall of that year be
gan the practice of his profession in North
Parsonsfield, Maine. In the fall of 1827 he
removed to the "Middle Road" VUlage in
Parsonsfield, and became the partner of Hon.
Rufus Mclntire, then member of congress
from Alaine. His practice extended through
York county in Maine, and Old Strafford
(now Strafford, Belknap and CarroU) in New
Hampshire. During his seven years residence
in Parsonsfield, he was a member of the super
intending school committee nearly all the time,
and chiefly through his wise and persistent
labors, the schools of Parsonsfield rose to a
very high order of exceUence. so that their
teachers were sought for from far and wide.
In November, 1834, Mr. Mclntire being no

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longer a member of congress, and the legal
business of the town being insufficient for two
lawyers, Mr. Tebbetts removed with his fam
ily to his native town, Rochester, where he re
mained till his death. As a lawyer he was
never ambitious of a reputation for managing
difficult cases, and always preferred to have
his own important causes argued by some
other lawyer. He never favored the creation
of litigation, nor allowed his clients to become
involved in law, if he could keep them out of
it. He steadily advanced, however, in theoreti
cal and practical knowledge of law, and, his
practice grew almost in spite of himself.
As a citizen, he was early in suggesting and
active in carrying out all social enterprises,
even when his public spirit interfered with his
private interests. He greatly enlarged the
sphere and improved the character of a (so
cial) library which he found almost extinct,
and by his wise selection of books and his dis
criminating advice to the young who came to
his office for thera, he gave a permanent im
pulse to the literary and studious tastes of the
town. In education, he continued to be the
friend of progress, and did much to supersede
ancient ideas by a raore liberal policy, and in
augurate a generation of better school houses,
better teachers and better scholars. He was
for many years a teacher in Sunday schools,
and occasionaUy a superintendent. During
several summers he was the superintendent of
a school in the village in the moming, and of
another in the afternoon at a school house four
railes away. He took an active interest in the
cause of teraperance very early in life, at a
time when it cost something to be an open
advocate of that reform. His labors in that
cause were untiring throughout the town and
state, and he sought by lectures and addresses
to rouse his fellow citizens to prompt action
in the matter. He had the rare power of de
nouncing vice, and endeavoring to overthrow
its strongholds, without provoking the per
sonal animosity of the -vicious.
In politics Mr. Tebbetts was at first' a Re
publican, in opposition to the Federalists, and
as new distinctions arose, he was a Democrat.
He was always a steadfast and conscientious
politician, receiving the confidence of his party,
while he did not hesitate to oppose particular
measures supported by its leaders, when they
seemed unwise or unfair. He had no taste for
the notoriety of office, and though repeatedly
urged to be the candidate of his party, in days
when a nomination by the Democratic party
of New Hampshire was equivalent to an elec

tion, he resolutely refused to leave the peace
of private life and the duties of his profes
sional career. In 1842, however, considera
tions of public duty overcame his private pref
erences. The contest was then very severe
between the friends and enemies of the Tem
perance Reformation, and as the laws of the
state were to be revised that year, the, great
struggle was for the control of the legislature,
in order to regulate the penal enactments for
the sale of ardent spirits. It was believed that
Mr. Tebbetts alone could carry, by his personal
popularity, the temperance ticket in the town
of Rochester, and when this was made plain
to him he consented to be a candidate for rep
resentative. The result was his election, by a
large majority, in March, 1842. During two
long and laborious sessions of the legislature
he was a constant resident at the capitol, al
ways in his place in the comraittee room to
work, and in the house to vote. He was a
member of two iraportant committees, on
banks and banking, and on the judiciary, and
both in the committee room and in the house
he was always watchful to detect and prompt
to expose the elements in proposed laws, which
tended to favor the few at the expense of
many, while he was as ready to suggest and
advocate raeasures that would promote the
public good. In January, 1843, Mr. Tebbetts
was appointed by Governor Hubbard circuit
justice of the court of common pleas. In a
discriminating and beautiful tribute to his
memory, published a few days after his death,
and understood to have been written by his
lifelong friend, Hon. John P. Hale, Judge
Tebbett's appointment and his character as a
jurist are thus spoken of ;
"Perhaps injustice is done to no one else
when it is said that no appointment is recol
lected to have been made by the Executive of
this State, within the memory of the writer,
which was received with raore satisfaction by
the whole community than was that of Judge
Tebbetts. His character, disposition and habits
of thought eminently qualified him for success
in the office to which he was proraoted. His
great integrity, his even temper, his suavity of
manner, his clear perception, his modest dis
trust of his own powers which induced him to
listen patiently and respectfully to the argu
ments and suggestions of others, and the clear
ness and distinctness with which he announced
the results to which his reflections had led him,
were such estimable and rare qualities for a
judge, that his friends and the public had al
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favorable anticipations of his reputation and
usefulness in his judicial career. He had not
the least particle of that vanity in his composi
tion which induces some to adhere with such
pertinacity and obstinacy to their own notions,
however hastily formed,, that the principles of
law and the rights of parties must bend to
conform to them. He never sank the gentle
man in the judge, but always treated every
one who had occasion to transact business with
him on the bench, with such uniform urbanity
and kindness, that it is believed he never, even
by accident, wounded the feehngs of the hum
blest individual who approached him. He had
such a rich and rare combination of those traits
of character admirably adapted to his place
and station, that it is believed to be far from
extravagant eulogy to say that the public have
suffered a loss in his death not easily to be re
paired." The following tribute was paid to the mem
ory of Judge Tebbetts by Hon. Josiah Quincy,
of Rumney, New Hampshire ;
"Soon after his appointment as judge, he
held a term of the court in Grafton County. At
that term was the celebrated trial of Cumming
for the murder of his wife. I was counsel
for the prisoner. The trial was exceedingly
laborious — occupying twenty-one days. Judge
Tebbetts gave the charge to the jury, and dis
charged his duty ably, faithfully and impartial
ly. Coming to the bench so very recently,
deeply impressed with the magnitude and im
portance of the trial, he manifested the deepest
solicitude in regard to the right of perform
ance of his arduous duties. I believe neither
the prisoner nor the government had any rea
son for complaint. It was a severe trial for
him, but it was manifest that he possessed
qualifications for the office he held of the first
order. When upon the bench he was courteous
in his demeanor, patient and laborious, exhib
iting sound judgment and discriminating good
sense, which enabled him to apply his extensive
knowledge of law to the questions that were
presented, with almost intuitive sagacity".
The long trial of Cumming to which Mr.
Quincy alluded, left unmistakable traces up
on the health of Judge Tebbetts. The tedious
confinement for so many weeks in the fetid
atmosphere of a court room, the continual
strain of the intellectual faculties, the scrupu
lous anxiety of a conscientious, sensitive mind
with quick sympathies and a deep conviction
of the utter wrongfulness of capital punish
ment, completely prostrated his physical
strength, which was never robust. August 19,

1844, after a very debihtating summer, he
went to Gilford to hold a term of court for
Belknap county. After a few days he seemed
to have caught cold, and was unusually unweU.
He was urged by the whole bar to adjourn the
court and go home to recruit his health, but
with his wonted conscientiousness and exact
ness in the discharge of duty, he refused, be
cause he thought the public interest would
suffer by the postponement of the causes then
ready for trial. But finally it became im
possible for him to hold out longer, and ad
journing the court he returned home, August
30, and September 9, 1844, at the age of forty-
one years and eight months, his life on earth
was ended.
Judge Tebbetts married, June 3, 1828, Mary
Esther, daughter of J. H. Woodman, Esq., of
Rochester, New Hampshire. In his family
he was all that the most sensitive affection
could desire. Domestic happiness was dearer
to him than gratified ambition or hoarded
wealth. He sought to win the love and affec
tion of his children, as well as to command
their obedience.
(Ill) Jeremiah Hall W. Tebbetts, son of
Judge Noah and Mary E. (Woodman) Teb
betts, was born in Rochester, New Harapshire,
Septeraber 4, 1840, died March 11, 1880. He
received his early education in the common
schools of his native town, and later com
pleted his studies at Exeter Academy, New
Hampshire. He first worked with his brother-
in-law as a carpenter, remaining a few years,
and afterwards engaged in different lines of
business until the breaking out of the civil war,
when he enlisted and served about one year in
Company I, Fifteenth New Hampshire Regi
ment, being with General B. F. Butler at New
Orleans. He became very active in war af
fairs, serving as a private in two active battles.
Port Hudson and Fort Donaldson, and receiv
ing promotion in military ranks, finally becom
ing fifth sergeantj and later sergeant-major
under General Neal Dow, and also served as
adjutant. Upon his return from the war he
went to Lynn, Massachusetts, and entered the
Beede & Tebbetts Shoe Corapany as a partner,
remaining several years. He later went to
New York and became a partner of the Faxon
AVholesale Shoe Company, located in Duane
street. Subsequently, owing to ill health, he
returned to Lynn, but was unable to engage in
any active business, and lived retired up to his
decease. He was a Republican in politics, and
took a decided interest in political campaigns.
He was twice elected as delegate frora Lynn

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

to the state convention at Worcester. He was
a raember of the Order of Free and Accepted
Alasons, and a regular attendant of the Uni
tarian church.
Air. Tebbetts married, at Lynn, May lo,
1870, Kate P. Hood, daughter of Hon. George
Hood, first raayor of Lynn, born at Lynn, July
23, 1845. Children: i. Gertrude Hermonie,
bom October 22, 1871, as a teacher at Ingalls
school at Lynn. 2. Mary Esther, born July 9,
1875, raarried Hugh K. Moore, of Lynn ; child,
Katherine Burgess, born May 23, 1908. 3..
George Woodraan, born February 19, 1877,
married Ethel Alorgan, of Lexington, Ken
tucky; they reside at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. 4. William Hall, born AprU 29, 1879,
died Alarch 31, 1903.

(For flrst generation see John Foster I).
(II) Samuel Foster, son of
FOSTER John and Martha Foster, bap
tized March 7, 1651-52, lived in
Salem, where he is mentioned as husbandman.
He married first. May 14, 1676, Sarah Stuard
(or Stuart) and after her death he married
Margaret  . He had in aU seventeen chil
dren, of whom Joseph was sixth in the order
of birth.
(Ill) Joseph Foster, son of Samuel Foster,
born Salem, March 11, 1687^ died Beverly,
January 28, 1750. He was a farmer and fish
erman and lived in Beverly. He married, Sep
tember 4, 1708, Mrs. Rebecca Groves, widow
of John Groves, and daughter of Nathaniel
and Margery AVallis, and by her had ten chU
dren, Samuel being fifth in the order of birth.
(IA'') Samuel Foster, son of Joseph and Re
becca Foster, born Beverly, Massachusetts,
August 20, 1717, died there in 1775. He mar
ried first, August 31, 1741, Mary Thorndike,
who died in 1757, and he married second, No
vember 28, 1758, Martha Bisson. Of his eight
children five were born of his first and three of
his second raarriage: i. Samuel, baptized Alay
30, 1742, died young. 2. Alary, born May 30,
1743, married, December 13, 1763, Robert
EUinwood. 3. Samuel, born March 4, 1745,
married Alary Ober. 4. Lydia, born Alarch 3,
1746, married, September 2, 1773, Josiah
Thissell. 5. Paul, born July 14, 1750, married
Martha Trask. 6. Josiah, born December 29,
1759, married Rachel Lovett. 7. Joshua, borg
Alay 28, 1763, died October 3, 1838. 8. Israel,
born August 23, 1765, married and died before
1800. (V) Joshua Foster, son of Samuel and
Alartha (Bisson) Foster, born Beverly, May

28, 1763, died there October 3, 1838. He was
a mariner. He married, December 5, 1782,
Sarah Ober, born in 1755, died July 8, 1825,
daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Pittman)
Ober. They had nine children: i. Joshua,
born September 20, 1783, married Hepsibah
Pride. 2. Patty, born September 20, 1783,
died June 27, 1843; married, September 11,
1803, Henry West. 3. Hezekiah, born Janu
ary 29, 1786, married Betsey West. 4. Abi
gail, born 1787, died September 22, 1791. 5.
Judith, born October 16, 1798, died April i,
1854 ; married Joseph L. Foster. 6. Jonathan,.
born Noveraber 26, 1791, died in February,.
1817, at Point Adventure. 7. Elizabeth, born
September 22, 1793, married, December 31,.
1818, Azor Dodge. 8. Mary, born August 9,
1796, died June 15, 1852; married, January
II, 1 82 1, John Prince. 9. John Ober, born
August 19, 1799.
(A^I) Captain John Ober Foster, youngest;
son and chUd of Joshua and Sarah (Ober)
Foster, bom Beverly, August 19, 1799, died.
there Alay 14, 1852. He was a mariner and
captain of a vessel engaged largely in coast
wise trade, and after many years of seafaring;
Hfe he bought and Hved on the farm which
now is owned by his grandson, John Henry
Foster. He married (first), March 25, 1821,.
Hannah Foster, born 1802, died May 10, 1836;.
raarried (second), August 12, 1838, Mrs..
Louisa (Woodbury) Jaraes, daughter of Sara
uel Lawson and Sally Emery. She was born^
in 1807 and died January 25, 1896. Captain.
John Ober and Hannah (Foster) Foster had
three children; i. CaroHne E., born September
17, 1823, died August 4, 1835. 2. John O.,,
born August 11, 1829, died 1845. 3- Henry
F. W., born August 19, 1832.
(VII) Henry Francis West Foster, young
est child of Captain John Ober and Hannah'
(Foster) Foster, and the only one of their
children who grew to raaturity, was born in-
Beverly, August 19, 1832, and died there April
13, 1891. His business life was spent in Bev
erly, where he was a carpenter and joiner un
til the death of his father. After that he took
the farm, which he had inherited from his
father, and turned his attention to market
gardening. He made a coraplete success of"
this business, as he did also of whatever he
set out to accomplish, for he was an energetic-
man both in his own personal affairs and
those of the town with which he was prorai
nently identified. For raany years he was a
raeraber of the board of selectmen of Beverly,
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at one time was district chief of the Beverly
fire department. He held membership in Bass
River Lodge, No. 141, Independent Order
Odd Fellows, and attended the Baptist church.
On March 20, 1856, Mr. Foster married Jo
anna H. Pierce, born January 9, 1835, died
October 7, 1886, daughter of Leonard and
Margaret (Lord) Pierce, of Watertown, Mas
sachusetts. Three children were born of this
rnarriage; i. John Henry, born July 24, 1857,
lives in Beverly. 2. Emily Esther, born Oc
tober 10, 1859, married, November 28, 1878,
Frank AV. Plaisted, born 1855, son of AVilliam
Plaisted. 3. Carrie Frances, born May 6, 1869,
married, April 5, 1896, Louis Dudley Webber,
born 1866, son of Henry A. and Hannah C.
Webber. (VIII) John Henry Foster, eldest child and
only son of Henry Francis AVest and Joanna
H. (Pierce) Foster, was born in Beverly,
July 24, 1857. Iri business hfe he has follow
ed the occupation of his father, that of market
gardener, which he has carried on with suc
cess ever since his father's death. Mr. Foster
was given a good education in the Beverly
public schools, and after leaving school went
to work with his father, farming and market
gardening, and to-day is owner of one of
the best cultivated anci most productive farms
in Beverly; his is the same farm which his
grandfather. Captain John Ober Foster, pur
chased after he retired from seafaring life.
Mr. Foster is something of a public man in
the affairs of Beverly, but has no inclination
for office, having frequently declined it. For
several years he was captain of Hose Cora
pany No. 4 of the Beverly fire, departraent.
He is a member of Liberty Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, Amity Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, and St. George Commandery, Knights
Templar ; member of Bass River Lodge, No.
141, Independent Order Odd Fellows, and of
Golden Star Council, No. 22, O. U. A. M.
On November 22, 1881, Mr. Foster married
Sadie Abbie Whitehouse, born in Beverly,
September 22, i860, daughter of Michael and
Abbie (Benson) Whitehouse, the latter a
daughter of Henry Benson. Mr. and Mrs.
Foster have three children ; i. Louise Benson,
bom February 11, 1883, a graduate of Welles
ley and now a teacher in Rockland, New
Hampshire. 2. Sarah Gertrude, born April
28, 1884, lives with her parents. 3. Henry
Franklin, born September i, 1887, lives with
his parents.
iv-24

(For early generations see Nathaniel M errill 1).
(Ill) John MerrUl, son of
MERRILL Abraham Merrill (2), was
born October 15, 1673. He
was called yeoman. He married first, August
7, 1708. Deborah Hazletine, of HaverhiU;
second, Margaret  , who survived him.
His homestead was on the Merrimac river,
and he had land at Salisbury. His wiU, dated
November 3, 1749, proved May 31, 1756, be
queathed to wife Margaret; to daughters
Abigail Downer, Deliverance Williams; and
the children of his daughter Deborah Brown,
deceased. His sons John and Henry were
executors, and were given the real estate,
each to have half the homestead, and to pay all
other bequests. ChUdren, all born at New
bury: I. Deborah, July 12, 1709; married
Thomas Brown. 2. Ruth, January 7, 1710;
raarried Christopher Annis. 3. Abigail, Sep
tember 14, 1712; married Joseph Downer. 4.
EHzabeth, May 4, 1714; died Noveraber 2,
1728. 5. Deliverance, March 18, 1716; raar
ried Thoraas Williaras. 6. John, January 13,
1717-8 ; married Annie Ordway. 7. Henry,
June 27, 1719; mentioned below. 8. Sarah,
October 22, 1721 ; died November 25, 1727.
9. Nathaniel, Alay 6, 1724; died July 10, 1727.
(IV) Henry MerriU, son of John Merrill
(3), was born at Newbury, June 27, 17 19.
He resided in Newbury, and married Pris
cilla, daughter of Benjarain Lowell. They
had a son Henry, mentioned below, and other
children, (V) Henry Merrill, son of Henry Alerrill
(4), was born about 1745. He resided in
Newburyport, and married Rebecca Moulton.
He was a residuary legatee with his son Sam
uel of the estate of his son Paul. Children ; i.
Paul ; will dated December 13, 1812, proved
Alarch 4, 1813 ; bequeathed to mother Rebec
ca ; sister Abigail ; brothers Samuel, Hardy,
John and Henry, who was executor ; to Paul,
the two-year-old son of his brother Henry ; to
sister Mary Jackman and to father Henry. 2.
Abigail. 3. Sarauel. 4. Mary, married Jo
seph Jackraan. 5. Hardy. 6. John. 7. Henry,
raentioned below.
(VI) Deacon Henry Merrill, son of Henry
Merrill (5), born February 15, 1778, died
September 14, 1859, in Newburyport. He
was a wool-puller and hatter, and also
in the grocery business. He was active in
church work and served as deacon. He mar
ried, September 3, 1803, Lydia Jackman, born
December 19, 1779. (WUI of son Paul calls
his raother "Alice".) ChUdren; i. Sarauel,

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born September 21, 1804; died while attending
Yale College. 2. David Jackman, born Oc
tober 6, 1806; mentioned below. 3. Henry,
born June 23, 1808. 4. Paul, born August 1,
1810. WiU dated October 25, 1832, bequeath
ing to father Henry, his mother Alice,
brothers David J. (executor), Henry and
WiUiam. 5. Williara, born April 29, 181 7.
(VII) David Jackman Merrill, son of Dea
con Henry Merrill (6), born in Newburyport,
October 6, 1806, died there December 28,
1 89 1. He attended the district schools and
the acaderay in his native town and graduated
in the class of 1827 frora Yale College. He
began the study of raedicine, but his health
failed and he had to abandon his studies. He
taught school for a tirae and then embarked in
the business of druggist, for which his medi
cal learning had especially fitted him. He was
successful in business and acquired a hand
some property, investing extensively in real
estate in Newburyport. When the civil war
began he sold out his business and devoted all
his time in his later years to the management
and iraprovement of his property. In addition
to the care of his own real estate he had
charge of other property for various clients.
He was a justice of the peace and convey
ancer. In politics he was a Republican, and
while a meraber of the school board was on
the coraraittee in charge of building the girls'
high school. He was a prominent and zealous
member of the Baptist church, and served for
more than thirty years as its collector arid
treasurer. He raarried, Septeraber 20, 1835,
Ann M. Titcorab, born January 24, 1813, at
Newburyport, died September 19, 1894, daugh
ter of Luther and Sally (Teel) "Titcorab.
Children; i. Charles Griswell Gurley, born
July 27, 1836; mentioned below. 2. Harriet,
born February 10, 1838, died young. 3. An
nie, born July 7, 1841. 4. Sarah, born May
23, 1843, died young. 5. George D., born No
vember 28, 1846.
(VIII) Charles Griswell Gurley MerriU, son
of David Jackraan MerriU (7), was born July
27, 1836, at Newburyport. He attended the
public schools of Newburyport and fitted for
coUege in the high school. He was graduated
frora Yale College in 1861, and frora the Yale
Medical School in 1863. He was appointed
surgeon of a Philadelphia regiraent of colored
troops in 1863, and reraained in service to the
end of the civil war. He then gave up his pro
fession to engage in the wholesale grocery
business in New Haven, Connecticut, and is
at the present time manager of a wholesale

grocery concern in New Haven. For many
years he was United States guager in that city.
In politics he is a Republican. He married
May 23, 1865, Georgia A. Linsley, born 1841,
daughter of Charles Linsley. Children: i.
Georgia A., born October 18, 1866; married
Rev. Everett T. Root; two sons — Edward M.
and AVinthrop H. 2. Mabel, born January 31,
1874 ; married Edward C. Baldwin ; one child,
Grace. 3. Alice, died young.

The ancient spelling of the
GOODRIDGE name Goodrich was Good-
ridge. This family was
founded in Alassachusetts in the early years
of the colony by William Goodridge (i) and
his wife Alargaret, who settled in Cambridge
and soon reraoved to Watertown. Williara
Goodridge died in 1683.
(II) His eldest child, Jeremiah, was born
March 6, 1637 or 1638, in Watertown, and in
1660 married Mary Adaras. He was the
founder of the line frora which was descended
Micajah NewhaU Goodridge, for many years
a leading citizen of Lynn, Massachusetts.
(Ill) Jeremiah Goodridge, son of Jeremiah
Goodridge (2), and grandson of the first set
tler, William Goodridge or Goodrich ( i ) , was
born in 1667. He married Mary  and
settled at Newbury, Massachusetts. Children,
born at Newbury; i. Mary, born September
27, 1704. 2. William, born July 30, 1707, raar
ried, February 3, 1735, Elizabeth Pillsbury.
3. Jeremiah, born December 26, 1708, men
tioned below. 4. Ezekiel, born January 3,
1713, raarried, December 18, 1744, Rebecca
Goociridge, daughter of Philip Goodridge.
(IV) Jeremiah Goodridge, son of Jereraiah
Goodridge (3), was born in Newbury, De
ceraber 26, 1708. He married there January
18, 1738, Abigail LoweU, beHeved to be line
of James Russell LoweU. Among their chil
dren was Joseph, mentioned below.
(V) Joseph Goodridge, son of Jeremiah
Goodridge (4), was born in Newbury. He
was a soldier in the revolution, a private in
Captain William Rogers's company, Colonel
Samuel Gerrish's regiment, April 19, 1775 ;
also in Captain William Rogers's company,
Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin's regi
raent; also in Captain Thomas Mighill's com
pany. Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment,
from July 8 to October 10, 1780, reinforcing
the Continental army. Joseph Goodridge Jr.
was also in the service from Newbury. He
raarried Matilda Newhall. Among their chU
dren was BaUey, born 1781, mentioned below.

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rS^^\ Bailey Goodridge, son of Joseph
S" f.1^! (5), was born in Newbury in 1781.
m!.!.1 o* ^y""^ ^"d married in that town,
S ^' u^5. Elizabeth (or Betsey) CoUins.
Children, born in Lynn : i. Lucretia, born June
S.C ^; ^- .^"y- born July 25. 1806. 3.
Betsey, born June 2, 1808. 4. Bdley, born
may 7, i»io, mentioned below. 5. Zachariah,
bom November 14, 1811. 6. Lydia, born
« " ^ o ^?^3- 7- AbigaU, born December 19,
T "u A J°^^Ph> born August i, 1818. 9.
J. °S'fPh Alonzo, born May 25, 1821. 10. Ma-
rinda Ann, born January 24, 1823; only one
nOw hvmg; married Levi Lufkin and resides
on Eastern avenue, Lynn. 11. Thirza, born
January 21, 1825.
(VII) BaUey Goodridge, son of BaUey
Goodridge (6), was born in Lynn, May 7,
1810. He married at Lynn, October 23., 183J,
Mary Ann Newhall, a native of Lynn, daugh
ter of Paul and Mary (Mudge) Newhall and
descended from Thomas (2), the first white
child born in Lynn; Joseph (3) ; Daniel (4) ;
Joseph (5) ; Micajah (6) ; Paul (7). Micajah
Newhall Goodridge was named after a de
ceased son of Paul who had been named in
memory of his grandfather, Micajah NewhaU,
who fought at Lexington. The maternal
grandmother, Mary Mudge, was descended
from the following line : Thomas Mudge ( i ) ,
born in England and in 1657 living in Maiden ;
John (2), served in King Philip's war in 1675 ;
John (3) ; John (4) ; Nathan (5), served in
revolutionary war under Captain Simon
Brown and is also on Ticonderoga rolls (as
per Mudge memorials) ; Mary (6), wife of
Paul Newhall. Bailey and Mary Ann (New
hall) Goodridge had five children; i. Harriet,
married George C. Collins. 2. Henry H., de
ceased. 3. Micajah N., see forward. 4. Mary
E. 5. Augustus, in Wyoma, residing on
Springvale avenue.
(VIII) Micajah NewhaU Goodridge, son of
Bailey Goodridge (7), was born in Lynn, No
vember 5, 1839. He received his education in
the public and high schools of Lynn, gradu
ating from the new high school in one of the
first classes and receiving his diploma in 1855
from the hands of Jacob Batchelder, the first
high school principal. Like most boys of that
town he learned the trade of shoe-maker,
working first in the little shop of Samuel H.
Frothingham. At that time the work was done
by hand and all but the cutting was done in the
little shoe-shops on the farms. Thenceforth
for the greater part of his life he was engaged
in some employment akin to or connected with

this leading industry of Lynn. He preferred
the mercantile life, however, and shortly after
becoming master of his trade he purchased the
retail store of his brother-in-law, G. Z. Col
lins, formerly conducted by Egbert Burrows,
on Market street near Treraont, in what was
then the Lynn Free Library building, and con
tinued in that business until 1872 when he re
moved to Charlestown to take a position as
foreman in a large shoe factory. Later he
held a similar position in a factory at Clare
mont, New Hampshire. He then returned to
Lynn to take charge of the retail department
of Welman Osburne, shoe dealer and raanu-
facurer, Lynn. He held this position until
1889, when the store was destroyed by fire. In
1890 he became associated with George Z. Col
lins, in the leather board business. They had
leather board mills at Ashland, New Harap
shire, East Tilton, New Hampshire, and Lynn,
and at the time of his death was associated
with George Z. Collins and Arthur J. Phillips
under the firm name of G. Z. Collins & Com
pany. He became president of the East Tihon
Pulp Manufacturing Company, and reraained
in active business to the time of his death.
In politics Mr. Goodridge was a Re
publican and he was actively interested in
municipal affairs though never willing to
accept public office. He was a strong ad
vocate of the cause of teraperance, and
was a meraber of Bay State Lodge of Odd
Fellows, a member of the Lynn Historical So
ciety, of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion and one of the first members of the
Athenian Debating Society, which met on
Market street near Liberty, and of which the
Hon. Carroll D. Wright and others of local
fame were members. He was a prorainent
member of the Lynn Common Methodist Epis
copal Church and missed but two Sundays in
attendance during twenty-one consecutive
years before his death, both occasions being
due to illness. He was a zealous worker in the
ranks and at the time of his death was treas
urer of the Sunday school, secretary of the
official board of this church, class leader and
steward. He was for some time a member of
the Methodist Social Union of Boston and di
rector two years, and was active in the Camp
Meeting Association of Asbury Grove. He
was beloved by all of his associates in the
church and many friends of other denomina
tions. Mr. Goodridge died at his home on
Lawton avenue, Lynn, February 22, 1902. He
was an exemplary husband and father, a man
of sterling principle, versatile in talent, active

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and enthusiastic in disposition and ever ready
to lend his aid in all departments of church,
city or state.
He married, in Lynn, September 13, 1865,
Georgianna Frothingham, of Lynn, born in
Lynn, July 22, 1843, daughter of Samuel H.
and Ann Maria (Tapley) Frothingham, of
Lynn. (See Tapley family). Children: i.
Samuel Bailey, born Lynn, September 10,
1866, died in infancy. 2. Harriet Leslie, born
July 18, 1868, formerly a teacher in St. Albans,
Vermont, now teaching in Wheaton seminary
at Norton, Massachusetts. 3. AHce Melville,
born July 12, 1872, married (first), O. F.
Pelley, one son, Ralph Wellington Pelley;
married (second), Edgar Fletcher Hodgkins,
of Lamoine, Maine, resides at Waltham,
Massachusetts. 4. Frederick Stanley, born
August 19, 1876, graduated from Massachu
setts Institute of Technology as a mechanical
engineer and is now in the office of Thompson,
Starett & Company of Wall street. New York
City ; married Ethel G. Higgins, born in Well-
fleet, Massachusetts, and reared in Lynn. They
reside on Hasbrouck Heights, Jersey City.

(I) William Sawyer, imrai
SAAVYER grant ancestor, who came frora
England, probably from Lan
cashire, was in Salem as early as 1640 ; was a
proprietor in 1642 ; reraoved to Wenhara,
where he was living in 1643, and later to New
bury, where he was living the next year, and
where he died. He sold his house and lot
March 24, 1648. He raarried Ruth Bitfield.
Children, born in Newbury; i. John, August
24, 1645 '' raarried February 18, 1675. Sarah
Poor ; died 1689. 2. Samuel, November 22,
1646; married Mary  ; died 1718. 3.
Bitfield, died unraarried, aged ninety-seven. 4.
Ruth, September 16, 1648 ; raarried August
27, 1667, Benjamin Morse. 5. Mary, Febru
ary 23, 1649; died June 24, 1659. 6. Sarah,
November 20, 1651 ; married January 15, 1668,
Joshua Brown. 7. Hannah, February 23,
1653 ; died January 20, 1659. 8. WilHam,
February i, 1655; mentioned below. 9. Fran
cis, March 24, 1657; died February 7, 1659.
10. Mary, July 29, 1660; married June 13,
1683, Jobn Emery Jr. ; died Noveraber 3, 1699.
II. Stephen, April 25, 1663; married 1686,
Ann Titcorab ; died June 8, 1753. 12. Hannah,
January 11, 1664; died August 28, 1683. 13.
Frances, Noveraber 3, 1670.
(II) Williara Sawyer, son of William Saw
yer, was born at Newbury, February i, 1655,
and settled there. He married, March 10,

1 67 1, Mary Emery, born June 24, 1652, daugh
ter of John and Mary (Webster) Emery.
Her father was son of John Emery the immi
grant, who settled in Newbury. Children: i.
Mary, born January 20, 1672. 2. Samuel,
June 5, 1674. 3. John, March 15, 1676. 4.
Ruth, September 20, 1677. 5. Hannah, Janu
ary 12, 1679. 6. Josiah, mentioned below.
(Ill) Captain Josiah Sawyer, son of Wil
liam Sawyer, was born in Newbury, January
20, 1681. Children: i. Josiah, mentioned be
low. 2. Dr. Moses, bom 171 1; died August
25, 1778; was captain of the Newbury com
pany ; was a ship owner, and made frequent
voyages to the Netherlands.
(IV) Josiah Sawyer, son of Captain Josiah
Sawyer, was born in 1708, and died June 1.0,
1792. He was a farmer, and resided in New
bury until 1746, when he bought a farm in
Southampton, New Hampshire, and removed
there in April that year. He married Mary
Ordway, born November 2, 1714, died March
2, 1796, daughter of Deacon John Ordway.
She was rauch loved for her sweetness of dis
position, and her universal kindness. Chil
dren ; I. Josiah, born 1737; raentioned below.
2. Israel, born 1739; raarried Miriam Clough;
died July 19, 1821. 3. Miriam, died unmar
ried, September 4, 1780. 4. John, born 1745;
married Abigail Shepherd ; died March 19,
1796. 5. Hannah, born 1746; died September
24, 1774, unraarried. 6. Richard, born May
31, 1748; died June 22, 1818; married EHza-
iDCth Clark. 7. Matthias, born May 31, 1748
(twin) ; died June 22, 1818; married Eunice
Batchelder. 8. Deacon Moses, born August
2, 1750; married January 16, 1775, Ann Fitz;
died April. 29, 1821. 9. Tirzah, born 1758;
died September 2, 1832, unmarried. 10. Mol
ly, born 1764; died September 21, 1789, un
raarried. (V) Josiah Sawyer, son of Josiah Sawyer
(4), was born in 1737, and died June 19, 1812.
He settled in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He
became a prosperous farmer and blacksmith.
He was one of the original proprietors of
Nottingham, and lived where Daniel Jones
lately lived, near the line between Deerfield
and Nottingham. He raarried Nabby, sister
of Jeremiah Eastman, who surveyed the town
of Deerfield. Children; i. Josiah, removed to-
GuUford. 2. Jeremiah, mentioned below. 3.
David, born April 14, 1666; died August 21,
1845; married first, Hannah Palmer; second,
Mary Knowles ; third, Mrs, Susan Chesley. 4.
John, lived in Andover. 5. Israel, lived on the
homestead.

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(VI) Jeremiah Sawyer, son of Josiah Saw
yer, married Hannah Purrington of Brent
wood. He removed to Gilmanton, New Hamp
shire, where he died. Children: i. John. 2.
Jeremiah, mentioned below. 3. James. 4.
David. 5. Nancy. 6. Miriam. 7. Lydia, mar
ried Eben Jones of Epping, New Hampshire.
Jeremiah Sawyer was a soldier in the revolu
tion, from Bradford and Cape Elizabeth, in
the vicinity of which l;e lived. He was one
of the men raised from the Fifth Company,
Colonel Peter Noyes' regiment, (First Cum
berland county) as retumed by Captain Daniel
Strout, engaged for the town of Haverhill,
also Bradford, for three years. The towns of
Cape Elizabeth and Bradford both claimed
him in their quota, and he was finally allowed
by Bradford. This does not mean that he was
living there, but that he enlisted as part of the
Bradford quota. He was mustered by Na
thaniel Barber, muster master, of Suffolk
county, July 20, 1777, in Captain Allen's com
pany. Colonel Alden's regiment ; was a private
also in Captain Smart's company. Colonel Cal
vin Smith's regiment, 1777-9, credited to Brad
ford ; also in Captain Nicholas Blaisdell's com
pany. Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's regi
ment, and was at Valley Forge, 1777-8, was
sick and reported to be dead, but recovered
and joined his regiraent June, 1778, and in
October foUowing was on the payroll at Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He was in the service
as late as April, 1779. The New Hampshire
roUs have no record of the service of Jere
raiah Sawyer.
(VII) Jeremiah Sawyer, son of Jeremiah
Sawyer, was born in the vicinity of Brad
ford, Massachusetts, though perhaps not in
that town, February 16, 1784, and died at
Exeter, New Hariipshire. He farmed in his
youth, and learned the trade of painter. He
settled in Newburyport, Alassachusetts, where
he engaged in business as a painter and con
tractor. He had a shop on Franklin street
near his house and he lost all in the great
fire in 1809-10. He then removed to Lee,
New Hampshire, and followed farming and
painting for about seven years. In 182 1 he
removed to Exeter, New Hampshire, and
lived on a small place that he bought, lo
cated near the center of the village. In a
small shop on the premises he prepared his
paints and stored his materials, continuing in
the business of painting until his death. He
was quite religious and an active member of
the church. He married Jane Chase, born
February 22, 1787. Children; i. Mary Jane,

born July 2, 1808 ; died December 20, 1895 ;
married, November 6, 1832, Andrew Baker
Jr., of Litchfield, Maine, born August 3, 1806,
died November 14, 1853; children; i. Melvina
R. Baker, born June 5, 1836, married July 2,
i860, Samuel H. Green, and had Walter Baker
Green, born November 11, 1861 ; u. Hattie
A. Baker, born December 18, 1838, married
Honestus F. Senter, and had Harry Baker
Senter. 2. WiUiam, married Sarah Tuck, of
Brentwood, New Hampshire; their son Dr.
Edward Warren was a graduate of Norwich
University Medical School, Vermont, and a
prominent physician. 3. Samuel, died young.
4. Samuel, married Lucy Otis ; children ; Lucy,
Otis, Alunroe. 5. Jeremiah, born at Lee, April
14, 1810 ; mentioned below. 6. Lydia, married
Henry Hook, of Newmarket, or Brentwood.
7. Abigail, born Alay i, 1821 ; died at New
buryport; married first, 1840, WilHam H.
Marshall ; second, July, 1846, Michael C. Teel,
of Newburyport ; child of first wife : i. Wil
liam H. Marshall Jr. ; children of second wife ;
ii. Rebecca Marshall ; iii. Jane Chase Marshall,
born April 16, 1850, unmarried, resides in
Newburyport; iv. Edwin Lawrence Marshall,
bom January 13, 1854, died August, 1907,
married Laura Prescott, of Newburyport, and
had Walter L. Marshall ; v. Rebecca Marshall,
born November, 1857, died 1859; vi. Georgi
anna Keeley Marshall, born July 18, i860,
married August 28, 1886, Willard Wheeler;
(chUdren; Abbie Edith Wheeler, married
Frederick Thayer; George WiUard Wheeler,
and Arthur Wheeler). 8. Joseph.
(VIII) Jeremiah Sawyer, son of Jeremiah
Sawyer, was bom at Lee, New Hampshire,
April 14, 1810, and died at Newburyport, Jan
uary 26, 1876. He had a common school edu
cation. He removed with his parents to Exe
ter, where he learned the trade of carriage
painting as weU as his father's trade of house
painter. He established hiraself in business
at Exeter, and kept a large force of journey
men busy on his contracts. He built a resi
dence in Exeter. In the early forties he re
moved to Amesbury, the home of the carriage
building business of the country, and followed
his trade as a carriage painter and decorator
for the next six years. He worked in Boston
a year, and about 1847 located in Cambridge,
where he again engaged in business as a house
fainter and decorator with signal success. He
retired from business some years before his
death, and spent his last years on a sraall
farm in Brentwood, New Hampshire. He
died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, at the

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home of his sister. He was a very quiet, un
assuming man, never taking an active part
socially, owing to his soraewhat defective
hearing, but was studious and interested in
the affairs of the world. He was an oranivor-
ous reader. In politics he was a Deraocrat.
In early life he joined the Baptist church. He
married first, at Exeter, December, 1832,
Susan Gilman Sherriff, born at Exeter, Oc
tober 24, 1806, daughter of Benjamin Pierce
and Martha (Gilman) Sherriff. Her father
was born at Exeter, July 10, 1763 ; her mother
June 14, 1768. Mr. Sawyer married second,
Inez Evans. Children of first wife; i. Howard
Malcolm, born February 19, 1834; raentioned
below. 2. Anna Elizabeth, died aged five
years. 3. Sarah Ellen, born July 10, 1837 ;
raarried May 5, 1861, Charles Henry At
wood, of Carabridge; child; Howard Julian
Atwood, born August 24, 1866, died Septera
ber 6, 1866. 4. Jeremiah Stow, born at Exe
ter, died at Brentwood. 5. Annie Mary, mar
ried Deceraber 31, 1863, Charles E. Wheeler,
of Carabridge ; children ; i. Winnif red Bertha
Wheeler ; ii. Charles Irving Wheeler, raarried
Eraraa Brown of Carabridge ; iii. Bertha How
ard Wheeler. 6. John Sherriff, born June 27,
1847. Two others died in infancy.
(IX) Howard Maleolra Sawyer, son of
Jereraiah Sawyer, was born at Exeter, New
Harapshire, February 19, 1834, and died at
Aledford, Massachusetts, Septeraber 7, 1902.
He attended the common schools of his native
town. At the age of thirteen he carae to East
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work for his
uncle, John L. Sherriff, manufacturer of
brushes.' While his father lived in Boston
he attended the old Comraon street school and
after coraing to Carabridge he continued in the
public schools until he graduated frora the
high school. He went to Chicago when he
was nineteen years old, and found eraployraent
in the raeat packing industry, which was then
in its infancy, and had the distinction of pack
ing the first shipraent of pork sent to the east
em market frora Chicago. After reraaining
there three years he was called home to at
tend his mother in her last sickness, and after
her death he entered the employ of B. D.
Moody, manufacturer of waterproof hats, to
learn the trade. Mr. Moody formed a part
nership with William H. Pettingill and Mr.
Blodgett, under the firra name of Moody,
Pettingill & Blodgett. Mr. Sawyer showed
great proficiency in the business and rose to
positions of responsibility. At the age of
twenty-five he was made superintendent of the

factory, and after the retirement of Mr.
Aloody, when the firm name became Pettingill
& Blodgett, he was adraitted to the firm. When
Mr. Blodgett retired a few years later, the firm
narae became Pettingill & Sawyer. Mr. Moody
afterward re-entered the firm and the name
became Pettingill, Moody & Sawyer, but after
two years retired, and the narae of Pettingill
& Sawyer was resumed. The factory was de
stroyed by fire August 7, 1877, and Mr. Pet
tingill withdrew from the firm. Mr. Sawyer
continued the business, and later he and his
son Charles H. Sawyer forraed the firm of
H. M. Sawyer & Son. In 1895 the business
was incorporated under the title of H. M.
Sawyer & Son, Inc., as a Massachusetts com
pany with H. M. Sawyer president, Charles
H. Sawyer treasurer. The concern does a
large business, manufacturing in great variety
oil clothing for the use of fishermen, sports
men, teamsters and western farmers and cow
boys. A large and increasing demand for
waterproof clothing is supplied by this house.
In 1895 Mr. Sawyer established the Sawyer
Belting Company as a separate corporation,
with hiraself as president and son vice-presi
dent, to manufacture canvass waterproof
stitched belting. The product of their factory
has been extensively used as a substitute for
old-fashioned leather belting, especially in
threshing machines and machinery exposed to
rain and moist conditions. This business was
sold to the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Com
pany and the plant moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
It is now a part of the United States Rubber
Corapany. In 1897 another son was admitted
to the corapany, Lawrence T. Sawyer, and
after the father's death, the third son, Ralph
V. Sawyer, became active in the company.
Air. Sawyer was an adrairable type of self-
made man, making his own way in business
by the force of his industry and natural abUity
and he rose to a high position in the business
world. He was well known and highly es
teemed in the trade throughout the country.
His goods stood the test and his house main
tained the highest reputation for the quality
of its product. He was not only a leader in
business, but popular socially, and a distin
guished Free Mason. He was made a member
of old Putnam Lodge, East Cambridge, June
18, 1866; exaked in Mystic Chapter, R. A. M.,
Medford, May 7, 1883; received his cryptic
degrees in Medford Council, R. S. M., May
15, 1890; received his degrees of knighthood
in DeAlolay Commandery, Knights Templar,
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of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic
Shrine, Boston. He was also a member of
Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 186, I. O. O. F.,
and of Mystic Lodge, Knights of Honor, West
Medford. He was an active and useful citizen
of Medford, though he never sought public
office. He held the office of street commis
sioner several years, and was especially inter
ested in good roads and parks. He took much
interest and gave much of his time to the
land.scape gardening when Flag Staff Hill was
laid out in a public park a few years ago. His
residence at 4 Laurel street, opposite this
beautiful spot, was built by him in the winter
of 1872. In politics he was a Democrat of the
old school. He was a meraber of the East
Carabridge Baptist Church, serving on various
church committees, but in his later years he
attended the Congregational church at West
Aledford. He married, November 29, 1859, Mary Has
kell Pettingill, born Newburyport, Massachu
setts, August 7, 1838, daughter of William
Henry and Hannah (Johnson) PettingUl, of
Newburyport. Her father was formerly a
sea captain, then a railroad man, and finally in
the oil clothing business with Mr. Sawyer at
East Cambridge. Children ; i. Mary Ella,
born September 17, i860; married September
14, 1899, William Francis Macey, of Med
ford. 2. Charles Howard, born August 19,
1862; mentioned below. 3. Susan Sherriff,
born November 21, 1866; died May 30, 1868.
4. WUliam Miner, born Alarch 12, 1870; died
December 12, 1870. 5. Lawrence Taylor, born
May 8, 1875 ; mentioned below. 6. Sarah An
nie, born Anarch 20, 1878; married, Septem
ber 14, 1899, John Walter Emery, of Med
ford; children: i. Malcolm Sawyer Emery,
born December 8, 1901 ; ii. Miriam Emery,
born July 29, 1907. 7. Ralph Underdown,
born December 8, 1880 ; mentioned below.
(X) Charles Howard Sawyer, son of How
ard Malcolm Sawyer, was born at East Cam
bridge, August 19, 1862. He attended the
public schools of Cambridge until he was ten
years old, and the schools of Medford until
he was fifteen. He began at an early age to
learn his father's business and after the plant
was destroyed was associated with his father
in the rebuilding and management of the fac
tory. He took charge of the shipping depart
ment, then of the counting room and when he
came of age was admitted to partnership, as
stated in the sketch of his father. For some
years he was buyer and salesman for the firm,
making the first westem trip for the house

when he was but nineteen years old. Since his
father's death he has been president of the
company, having as his department of the
business the buying of stock and marketing of
the product. Air. Sawyer is also president of
the .Alvin Clark Sons corporation, the most
famous makers of lenses and telescopes in the
country. Pie is also president of the Rhode
Island Dyeing and Finishing Corapany of
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, organized under
Rhode Island laws, a large concern engaged
in finishing corduroys and velveteens. Mr.
Sawyer is a prorainent Free Mason. He was
made a member of Alount Hermon Lodge, of
Aledford ; exalted in Alystic Chapter, R. A.
Al., Aledford ; and received his cryptic degrees
in Aledford Council, R. S. Al., Medford. He
is a member of the AVinchester Country Club,
Winchester, and of the Exchange Club, Bos
ton ; president of the Alonoraoy Brant Club,
a shooting and hunting club with a clubhouse
at Chatham, Massachusetts; and belongs to
the Neighborhood Club of Medford. He is
president of the Medford National Bank. His
home is on Wyman street. West Medford.
He and his family attend the West Medford
Unitarian church. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and has served his party as delegate to
various nominating conventions. In raunici
pal affairs he believes in independence, and
non-partisanship. He raarried, July 7, 1887,
at Aledford, Sarah Lizzie Siraras, born at
Manchester, July 3, 1863, daughter of Alex
ander Stowell and Sarah Jane (Liverraore)
Simms of Winchester. Children; i. Howard
Martin, born March 16, 1890. 2. Winnifred,
October 21, 1898. 3. Charles Lawrence, Oc
tober 7, 1900.
(X) Lawrence Taylor Sawyer, son of How
ard Aialcolm Sawyer, was born at West Med
ford, May 8, 1875. He attended the public
schools of his native town and took a three-
year course in the Medford high school. He,
then began to learn his father's business. He
made hiraself famihar with every process in
the manufacture of oil clothing and all de
partraents of the business of H. M. Sawyer
& Son. In 1897 he becarae interested in the
corporation of H. M. Sawyer & Son, and later
in the Sawyer Belting Company owned
by his father. Soon afterward the two
concerns were both incorporated under
the laws of Alassachusetts, and Lawrence
T. Sawyer became vice-president of the
H. Al. Sawyer & Son company. After
ward he became treasurer and clerk of
the corporation. He and his brothers share

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the manageraent of the corporation. Mr. Saw
yer is a resident of West Newton, Massachu
setts, 266 Highland avenue. He is a director
of the Aledford National Bank. In politics
he is a Republican, in religion a Unitarian.
He is a raember of the Exchange Club of
Boston and the Braeburn Club of Newton.
He raarried, Alay 3, 1906, Alice Louise Hurd,
born at Dorchester, July 13, 1875, daughter
of Edward Payson and Sarah Louise (Pope)
Hurd, of Dorchester. Her father is assistant
treasurer of the LTnited Shoe Machinery Cora
pany, and is a veteran of the civil war. Child ;
Edward Lawrence, born July i, 1907.
(X) Ralph Underdown Sawyer, son of
Howard Aialcolm Sawyer, was born at West
Medford, December 8, 1880. He received his
education in the Medford public schools and
high school, which he left at the end of his
third year to learn the business of the Sawyer
Belting Company. He had four years of valu
able experience in the factory before the busi
ness was sold and removed to Cleveland, Ohio.
He then became associated with his father
and brothers in the H. M. Sawyer & Son oil
clothing business at East Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, and after the death of his father he
became one of the owners of the business and
associated with his two brothers in the man
agement of the corporation. He is at present
assistant superintendent of the plant and di
rector of the company. He resides at 131
Mystic street. West Aledford. He served a
term of enlistment in the state militia, mem
ber of Lawrence Light Guard, Company E,
Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Mi
litia. He is a Republican in politics and a
Unitarian in religion. He belongs to the
Neighborhood Club of Medford. He married,
December i, 1906, Marion Coburn, born
March 15, 1883, daughter of Frank J. and
Hannah Gushing (Haskins) Coburn, of Med
ford. They have one child, John Coburn,
born February 21, 1908.

The surname Welling-
AVELLINGTON ton is identical with
WiUington, the more
common spelling in the old country, though
both spellings were used interchangeably by
many families a few generations ago in both
England and America. The history of the
family extends back to the Norman conquest
of England. The ancient baronial family of
Willington was established at the time of Wil
liam the Conqueror. It is a place-name, like
that of many of the more important English

surnames. The family of Willington took the
narae of the town. The Willington family at
Umberleigh, Devonshire; at Todenham, coun
ty Gloucester; at Barchesterm Brailes and
Hurley, county Warwick — all trace their an
cestry to Sir Ralph de Willington, who mar
ried in the fourteenth century a daughter of
Sir AVilliam Champerdowne, of Umberleigh,
inherited his estates and assumed his coat-of-
arras, omitjiing the billets ; Gules a saltire vair.
Crest ; A mountain pine vert, f ructed or. John
de Wellington (or Willington) of Derbyshire,
lived at or about the time of the conquest, and
from him descend the baronial family men
tioned above. There are parishes of this name
in county Salop, county Somerset, Hereford
and Northumberland. The coats-of-arms of
the Wellingtons are given by Burke: Ermine
a chevron sable ; also ermine a chevron sable
a crescent or. Crest ; A demi-savage wreathed
about the head and middle with laurel leaves
all proper. Other Willington arms : Sable a
bend engrailed cotised argent; also ermine a
chevron ermine (another sable) ; also per pale
endented argent and sable a chief or ; also
ermine three bends azure ; also sable a bend
engr. argent cotised or ; also or a cross vair.
The similarity of arras such as may be noted
in these cited, is the best proof of relationship
in old EngHsh families.
(I) Roger Willington, immigrant ancestor,
planter, born 1609-10, died Alarch 11, 1697-98,
sailed from England, and probably came to
Watertown at once on landing. The first
record of him is the first entry of town records
of Watertown, showing an allotment of land
dated July 25, 1636 — a grant of the great divi
dend allotted to the freemen and to all the
townsmen then inhabiting, one hundred and
twenty in nuraber. Roger Wellington received
twenty acres, now a part of Mt. Auburn ceme
tery, on which he built the first WeUington
homestead, where he lived until 1659. Other
references in towrj records are as follows :
April 9, 1657, account of men deputed by
towne to fee. To keeping of the order of hogs
(the 15th) Roger AVellington is the entry 3
shillings. "Town raeeting January 10, 1658,
chozen to looke after the law and for the regu
lating of hogs and fences Roger Wellington
and Thomas Straite ; December 6, 1662, fined
10 shillings for insufficient fence Dated Oc
tober 29, 1663." "Haveing given in an ac
count of to rates to great diffiaction both to
pastor and selectmen We have appointed Leife
Burns Willy and Bond to deal with him to
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1785

to send him to the grandiary". "Att a meet
ing of the selectmen 30 8th Alonth 1662 agreed
between the town & Corporal! Willington that
a straight line from the corner from his pres
ent fence att Eaton's house next the highway
and so to the line between him and Samuel
Hatchers land upon the north side of the
Swampe; shaU be the dividinge Hne between
him & the Towne consented unto by the Cor
poral! Willington owned before the selectmen
by setting to his hand Signed Roger Willing
ton". "A town meeting November 2, 1674
chozen for surveyors Corporal! Willington
and John Traine Senyear". "The  of
Eaprill 79. Corporal! Willington & Robt
Herington with the consent of the selectmen
demanded the (Gee) of the schoolhouse of
Leftenant Sherman but he refused to deliver
it". It is interesting to note that he was usual
ly called Corporal. By deed dated April 4,
1657, Middlesex county registry, he purchased
twelve acres of land containing dwelling house
and barn which became a part of the family
estate in Lexington and the home of all the
Wellington ancestors. Lexington was then a
part of Watertown and later Carabridge. He
was admitted a freeman April 18, 1690. His
will is dated December 17, 1697, and was
proved April 11, 1698, "feeble by reason of
age", bequeathing to sons John, Joseph, Ben
jamin, Oliver and Palgrave ; grandchild, John
Maddocks, Roger Wellington and Mary Liver
more. He was selectman in 1678-79-81-82-
83-84-91. He married Mary, eldest daughter
of Dr. Richard Palgrave, of Charlestown, date
of marriage not known. Children; 1. John,
born July 25, 1638, admitted freeman 1677,
farmer of Cambridge. 2. Mary, born Febru
ary ID, 1641, married, Alay 21, 1662, Henry
Maddocks : second, John Coolidge. 3. Joseph,
born October 9, 1643, married first, Sarah
 ; second, EHzabeth Straight. 4. Benja
min, born about 1645, mentioned below. 5.
Oliver, born November 23, 1648. 6. Palgrave,
admitted freeman April 18, 1690; followed
the profession of his grandfather for whom
he was named ; married Sarah Bond.
(II) Benjamin Willington, fourth child of
Roger Willington, probably born 1645, died
January 8, 17 10. He lived on the family es
tate in Lexington, and was called yeoman.
December 7, 1671, he married Elizabeth
Sweetman, of Cambridge. Children: i. EHz
abeth, born December 29, 1673, married John
Fay, of Marlborough. 2. Benjamin, bom June
21, 1676, mentioned below. 3. John, born July
26, 1678, died November 30, 1717. 4- Eben

ezer, married, January 28, 1704, Deliverance
Bond; settled in Lexington. 5. Ruhamah,
married November 15, 1699, Deacon Joseph
Brown. 6. Mehitable, liaptized March 4, 1688 ;
married, September 13, 1715, William Sher
man, of Newtown, and was mother of Roger
Sherman, who was named after his great-
grandfatlier, Roger Willington. 7. Joseph,
baptized January 4, 1691. 8. Roger.
(Ill) Benjarain Wellington, son of Benja
min WiUington, born June 21, 1676, died No
vember 15, 1738. "At towne meeting were
chozen survayurs swine cattle & fences Rich
ard Child & Benjamin WeUington". He was
admitted a freeman in December, 1667. The
"History of Lexington" says of him ; "He was
for many years one gf the most popular men
of the town ; was assessor sixteen years, town
clerk fifteen years, treasurer three years, rep
resentative three years. He was admitted to
the church at Lexington, June 10, 1705. His
will, dated July 13, 1708, proved January 30
following, described hira as "housewright and
carpenter". He married first, January 16,
1698-99, Lydia Brown, and the sarae year built
himself a house on the family estate at Lex
ington; his wife died May 13, 171 1. He mar
ried second, December 25, 1712, Elizabeth,
widow of Samuel Phipps, and daughter of
 Stevens, of Charlestown ; she died Jan
uary 17, 1729-30, aged fif ty-four. He mar
ried third, Mary Whitney. Children of first
wife; I. Benjamin, born May 21, 1702, died
November 15, 1738. 2. Lydia, born August
24, 1704, died August 10, 1718. 3. Kezia, bom
March 28, 1707. 4. John, born November 12,
1709, died September 22, 1728. Children of
second wife: 5. Abigail, born July 14, 1715,
married, February 19, 1734, David Alunroe.
6. Timothy, born July 27, 1719, mentioned be
low. Children of third wife: 7. Mary, born
October 20, 1732. 8. Oliver, born April 14,
1735- (lA'^) Timothy WeUington, son of Benja
min Wellington, was born in Lexington, July
27, 1719, date of death unknown; his will was
probated December 23, 1750. He was by trade
a wheelwright and made (family tradition
says) the wheels to the gun carriages of the
Cambridge cannon used in the revolution. He
was also a farmer, and resided on the horae-
stead in Lexington, which remained in the
faraily until 1895, when it was sold. He mar
ried, September 23, 1742, Rebecca Stone,
born January 22, 1721, daughter of Jonathan
and Chary (Adams) Stone, of Lexington, a
descendant of Deacon Gregory Stone, of

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Watertown. His wife survived him, and Feb
ruary 14, 1754, married John Dix, of Wal
tham. Children; i. Benjamin, born August 7,
1743, mentioned below. 2. Chary, born July
12, 1745. 3. Timothy, born April 15, 1747,
died April 18, 1809; was father of Dr. Tim
othy Wellington. 4. Abigail, born March 14,
1750, married, Deceraber 29, 1768, Daniel
Colling, of Walthara. 5. Ruharaon, born Sep
teraber 4, 1 75 1.
(V) Benjarain WeUington, son of Tiraothy
Wellington, born at Lexington, August 7,
1743, died there September 14, 1812. He at
tended the district school, and early learned
the trade of wheelwright, which he followed
many years. His shop was across the road,
just north of the house. The first house of
the Wellingtons was of the old-fashioned type,
where the roof slants nearly to the ground
in the rear. In 1803 he built a new house. He
raade many of the gun carriages for the Con
tinental array. His farm was inherited by his
two sons, Peter and Benjarain. The milk
raised on the farm was marketed in Boston,
and it is said that Benjarain Wellington was
the first man to carry railk such a distance.
Wooden bottles were used, and the Charles
river was crossed by a ferry. He was a raem
ber of the First Congregational Church, and
was beloved for his kindly and charitable na
ture. In politics he was a Democrat, and
served as selectman in 1717-23-25-30-32-33-
36-37185-92. He was one of the gallant com
pany of minute-men who took part in the
battle of Lexington, and was the first armed
prisoner taken during the war. On this spot
where he was captured, has been erected a
red granite tablet commeraorating the event
and his gallantry. Elias Phinney, in his his
tory of the battle, describing the raarch of the
British towards Lexington Coraraon on the
memorable morn, says ; "In order to secure
persons traveling upon the road the British
would send two soldiers at a considerable dis
tance in advance of the main body with orders
to secrete themselves in each side of the road
and when anyone approached they would al
low hira to pass them so as to get between
them and the troops and then rise and close
in. As Benjarain Wellington was on his way
to Lexington Common that raorning, having
been warned by the summons of Paul Revere,
in climbing over a high stone wall into , the
highway at East Lexington he found on
either side of him a British soldier. He was
taken prisoner and disarmed. On being asked
where he was going he replied Hunting.' He

proraised to return to his home, and as it was
impossible for his captors to manage a pris
oner he was allowed to go but his gun .was not
returned. Instead of returning home he took
another way to the common and arrived be
fore the British in time to announce their ap
proach and take part in the fight. Thus he
told a lie in order to fight in the cause of free
dom." His name is given by Captain Parker
in list of his company in 1775, and following
in Parker's account refers to him in Twelfth
carapaign to the taking of Burgoyne, Sergeant
Benjamin Wellington, four pounds. He was
with Washington's array at Cambridge. The
following story used to be told by Hepzibah
(Hastings) AVellington : "AVhen Benjamin
Wellington was with Washington's army
there was a time for several days that the
army was practically without food. During
that time Benjamin Wellington came home
to find his family just ready for their dinner,
but the army had to be considered so he took
not only the faraily dinner but every edible
thing in the place, and harnessing the horses
carried provisions to the troops. For two days
the faraily had only raush and railk, but such
sacrifices were willingly made by them." He
was in Captain John Bridges' corapany. Col
onel Eleazer Brooks' regiraent, on duty at
Roxbury. He was also sergeant in Captain
Sarauel Farrar's corapany, Colonel Reed's
regiment, in 1777, to reinforce the array under
General Gates, and was present at the sur
render of Burgoyne.
He married, December 4, 1766, Martha
Ball, of Waltham (Southborough?). Chil
dren; I. Mary, born September 22, 1767;
married first, December 31, 1789, Asa Bald
win Locke; second, Abi jah Harrington; chil
dren ; Oliver Locke, Baldwin Locke, Abigail
Locke, Mary Locke. 2. Abigail, baptized in
Waltham, October i, 1769. 3. Benjamin, bap
tized July 13, 1772. 4. Oliver, baptized No
vember 13, 1774. 5. Benjamin Oliver, born
August 23, 1778; died November 10, 1853;
married May 20, 1811, Polly Hastings; chil
dren : i. Oliver Hastings, born February 23,
1812, died March i, 1813 ; u. Oliver Hastings,
born August 19, 1813, married August 29,
1838, Charlotte Augusta Kent, of Concord,
New Hampshire, and had Mary C, WilHam
A., Arthur M., and Lucy M. D. ; iii. Mary
Jane, bom July 15, 1815, married AprU 17,
1845, Jaraes H. Danforth, of Boston; iv. Al
bert, born June i, 1817; v. Ambrose, born
April II, 1819, married May, 1845, Lucy J.
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1787

January, 1863; vii. Benjamin, born March 21,
1823; viii. Dorcas Ann, born April 20, 1825,
married Dr. George H. Taylor; ix. Laura,
born December 26, 1826, died December 30,
1843; X. Winslow, born May 16, 1829; xi.
Edward, born March 3, 1831, drowned in
Fresh" Pond, July 6, 1852, while a member of
the Lawrence Scientific School. 6. Peter,
born Alay 31, 1781 ; mentioned below. 7.
Richard, born July 14, 1783; died December
II, 1836. 8. James, twin with Patty, born
December 12, 1785 ; married November 18,
1821, Susannah Jacobs, of Littleton, Massa
chusetts, born August 7, 1801 ; children ; i. Ed
win, born 1823 ; ii. Angelina, born May 20,
1824, married Darius Crosby, and had Linda,
Carrie May, James Wellington and Isaac
Wellington Crosby; iii. James Everett, born
AprU 27, 1827, married October 24, 1854,
Frances Jane Kilboume, born June 21, 1829,
and had Emma Kilbourne, born August 7,
1856, died Alarch 17, 1865, Maud Kilbourne,
born November 29, 1858, and Everetta Kil
bourne, born September 22, 1872; iv. Adrian-
na, born May 27, 1829, married James H.
Kidder, of Watertown, and had Osmer Well
ington Kidder, Mary WeUington Kidder
(married Edwin H. Baker, and had Madeline
and Adrianna Baker). 9. Patty, twin with
James, born December 12, 1785 ; married, June
28, 1821, Charles Reed, of Lexington; had
Henry, not now living ; she was drowned, date
unknown. 10. Isaac, born December 5, 1787;
married November 18, 1824, Mary Wilder
Jacobs, and had Oliver, Francena, Mary Ann,
Isaac Baldwin and Luther.
(VI) Peter Wellington, son of Benjamin
Wellington, was born at Lexington, May 31,
1781, and died there December 5, 1869. He
was brought up on his father's farm, and
when his father died he and his brother Ben
jamin had the farm divided, each acquiring
one half in separate ownership. They were
progressive farmers in every sense of the
word, and developed it into handsorae paying
properties. The raising of fruit and milk was
the chief business, and the orchard was consid
ered the finest in New England, producing
about twenty-two hundred barrels of apples
yearly. Benjamin owned tlie milk route, and
numbered among his customers many of the
best families of Boston. Benjamin died in
1853, and his son Winslow took his father's
place, living in his part of the, same double
house built in 1802, Parson Clarke being pres
ent at the raising of the house, adding dignity
to the occasion. At the death of Peter, in

1869, his son Cornelius succeeded to and car
ried on the farm until 1895, when he sold it.
Benjamin and Peter Wellington married two
sisters, Mary and Hepzibah Hastings. They
Hved together in the house now standing on
their estate which they built. Henry Sandhara,
in his picture of the battle of Lexington called
"Dawn of Liberty," has used Peter Welling
ton as a representative of "the embattled
farmers." Peter AVellington was a selfmade man of
the highest type, working early and late, and
applying every means to round out a success
ful life. He was strictly honest, and the
closest scrutiny of both public and private life
failed to reveal any dishonorable act. He was
generous to a fault, and had the respect of all
who knew him. Keeping hiraself well in
forraed on the topics of the day, he took a
lively interest in the politics of his town and
country. He was a strong temperance advo
cate and in politics a Jacksonian Democrat,
later a Free Soiler and a great admirer of
Abraham Lincoln. His home was the head
quarters for anti-slavery leaders, and he was
a close friend of Theodore Parker, William
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Parker
Pillsbury, and other anti-slavery advocates.
His house became what was known as an
"underground railway" station for escaping
slaves, two having been helped across the line
by his son. At one time he held the office of
overseer of the poor, and during his adminis
tration the rule requiring occupants of the
poor farm to dress in uniform was annulled.
In all his affairs of life he was strictly sincere
and just, and direct in his statements. He was
a meraber of the school committee and was
road surveyor. He was a strong Unitarian,
and deeply interested in the FoUen church at
East Lexington, owning two pews there, and
serving on the building committee, but was
never a regular meraber of any church. He
was in the war of 1812, and served in a com-
paijy of cavalry ordered to the northern fron
tier. He married. May 24, 1813, at Lincoln,
Hepzibah Hastings, born May 24, 1793, died
May 31, 1879, daughter of Major Samuel
and Lydia (Nelson) .Hastings, of Lincoln.
Her father was a major of militia, selectman,
and farmer. Children; i. Henry Wakefield,
born February 25, 1814; mentioned below. 2.
Darius, born October 9, 1815 ; died February
13, 1893 ; married first, December 28, 1844,
Hannah DuviUe, died July 18, 1846 ; second.
May I, 1853, Charlotte Chism of Boston; one
child, Herbert DuviUe, born November 17,

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1845, married June 2, 1868, Josephine Bor-
rowscale, and had Florence D. and Herbert D.
3. IsabeUa, born May 23, 1817; died August
3, 1848; married April 23, 1845, Rev. Herman
Snow, of Pomfret, Vermont; children:
George Henry Snow, WiUiam Gray Snow. 4.
Abigail, born March 29, 1819; died October
12, 1845 ; married January 4, 1844, James
Blodgett, of Westford. 5. CaroHne, born De
cember 3, 1820. 6. Andrew, born December
23, 1822; died Septeraber 17, 190 1 ; married
January 21, 1858, Leah L. Nichols, of Hing
ham; children; i. Frank Goddard, born No
vember 9, 1859, died September 4, i860 ; ii.
Mary Jane, born Noveraber 6, 1865. 7. Eliza,
born Deceraber 6, 1824. 8. Elbridge Gerry,
born July 29, 1826; died in California, Octo
ber 23, 1849. 9- Cornelius, born May 23, 1828.
10. Eraily, born February 24, 1830 ; died April
13, 1850. II. Samuel Hastings, born August
6, 1832; died April 7, 1833. 12. Louisa Maria,
born April 20, 1834; married May 24, 1863,
Lucius H. Peaslee, of Boston, who died No
vember 7, 1867. 13. Charles Austin, mention
ed below.
(VII) Henry Wakefield WeUington, son of
Peter AVellington, born at Lexington, Febru
ary 25, 1814, died at Newton, January 21,
1899. He was brought up on his father's
farm and attended the district school. At the
age of fourteen, with the intention of learning
the dry goods business, he entered the eraploy
of Charles Merriara in his general store at
Weston. He remained here several years, and
finally bought out his employer. Later he
spent one or two winters in Calais, Maine, in
the interest of his business, but finally went
to Boston, and was salesraan for a dry goods
firm there, until he started in business in the
firm of Wellington, Winter & Gross, which
later became Wellington Brothers & Co., his
brother Cornelius having been adraitted into
the firm. During the time the firm was on
Arch street, Mr. Wellington became the own
er of a quarry of red granite at Jonesborough,
Maine. The red granite frora this quarry was
later used in the construction of some large
comraercial buildings in Boston. He later sold
the quarry to Governor BodweU of Maine, a
personal friend. About this time it became
necessary for the dry goods firm to seek new
and larger quarters, on account of increased
business, and the result was the erection of
the Wellington Building, at the corner of Bed
ford and Chauncey streets. Mr. Wellington
was especially interested in having it built of
the red granite quarried at Jonesborough,

Maine, which was furnished by Governor-
Bodwell. The firm occupied their new quar
ters, and were one of the leading dry goods
firms in the city and in New England. In
1869 Mr. Wellington became a stockholder in
the Silver Lake Manufacturing Company at
Newtonville, a concern making cordage of
high quality, was a director of the company
and later became treasurer. In 1882 the dry
goods business was discontinued. While con
nected with this company, he was instrumental
in improving the service of the life saving
stations along the coast, and supplied the finest
life-saving hues for their use. The great
difficulty with life lines, when shot from a
gun, was "kinking," and through Mr. Well
ington's efforts a line was produced from his
plant that met every requirement and proved
to be the best ever made for the purpose.
Mr. Wellington remained in active business
until his death, in 1899. On May i, 1863, he
removed to Jamaica Plain, and bought the
Stephen Al. Alien property, known as Allen
dale, and resided here until September, 1882,
when he built his residence on Fairmont ave
nue, Newton, near the Silver Lake miU, where
he died. No finer tribute could be paid to a
friend than that of the address of his friend,
William Lloyd Garrison, at the funeral. It
sums up his character in a few words, full of
feehng. He says in part; "I come to pay a
brief tribute to a dear friend whose deliver
ance was raerciful and whose raemory will be
cherished. His was a long life, useful and
valued. * * * Mr. Wellington illustrated
the virtues of self-denial, unremitting indus
try and excellent judgment. More than that,
he was born into an anti-slavery family, hos
pitable to reformatory idea^ and, in the days
of the great adversity, he took a manly and
courageous part. He was with the abolition
ists, sustaining them by word and deed, when
to take such a stand implied popular reproach
and mercantile disapproval. He was the
valued friend and coadjutor of Garrison and
PhiUips. The anti-slavery lecturers found
welcorae in his horae, and Parker Pillsbury,
often his guest, held him in brotherly regard.
When Boston was in subjection to the South,
and fugitive slaves sought shelter among her
people, his hand was extended to help them,
and he shared in the counsels of the famous
vigilance coraraittee. * * * Theodore
Parker, his fellow townsman, had no more
devoted friend and supporter in the unpopu
lar days than Mr. Wellington, whose theologi
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spoken love of freedom. He was a straight
forward man, of saving common sense, with
a clear head, a keen business perception, and
of decisive speech. It was impossible for him
to conceal opinions, or utter half-truths, be
cause nature made him a fearless as well as
an honest man. Although inheriting long
evity, our friend was rarely without physical
discomfort, against which he battled with
courage and philosophic patience. * -^= *
Under his habitual gravity, which a stranger
might mistake for austerity, his near and dear
ones found only sweetness and affection. * '''- *
He was the founder and patriarch of the small
colony on the lovely shore of the Cape,
(Wiamo, Massachusetts) bound together by
a common sympathy and aim. His counsel
and advice were invaluable. He loved trees
and flowers, his grounds and garden furnish
ing a perennial resource and happiness. He
was tenacious of his friends, who, once ap
proved, he grappled to his soul with hooks of
steel. At an age when most men consider the
time of active service ended, there came to
him a business embarrassment, which he met
and surmounted in a way to increase respect
for his sterling character. It was an episode
illustrating courage, promptness and consid
eration for others, that his children may well
be proud to recall. Mr. Wellington was a
figure to be remembered, handsome, dignified
and picturesque. His individuality command
ed attention, and the passer-by distinguished
him from the crowd. * * '¦' He did his
own thinking, never submitting his convictions
to church or party, but gravitating to funda
mental principles by a law of being."
Air. Wellington was a member of the stand
ing committee of the 28th Congregational So
ciety of Boston, (Unitarian) over which
Theodore Parker presided. He was one
of the stockholders that purchased Music
Hall in order that Theodore Parker might
be heard. His independence was 'shown
in his political affiUations. He was first a
Whig, later a Free Soiler, and was one of the
early RepubHcans. Later he voted for Cleve
land, and from that time remained an inde
pendent voter. He was a member of the Free
Religious Society of America, of which Ralph
AValdo Emerson was a member, and was a
personal friend of Mr. Emerson's. He was
a member of the Freedmen's Commission, and
contributions in its behalf were received at his
.store. He belonged to the Merchants' Ex
change. He married first, at St. Mary's Church,

Newton Lower Falls, June i, 1836, Martha
Small, born at Needham, November 14, 1813,
died at West Roxbury, July 20, 1871, daugh
ter of Robert and Eleanor W. Small, of Need
ham. Martha Small had, after the death of
her father, become a member of the family of
her uncle, Doctor Starr, and took his name.
Mr. Wellington married second. May 16, 1872,
Lydia Davenport Colburn, born October 31,
1836, daughter of John Dexter and Clarissa
(Crehore) Colburn, of the Crehore family of
Milton, and the Colburn faraily of Dedhara,
Massachusetts. Her father was a provision
dealer at "West Roxbury, and captain of mi
litia at Dedham. Children of first wife; i.
John Ware, born November 22, 1837; mar
ried first, September 5, 1859, Jennie Howarth;
second, 1869, Sarah Hall, of Maine; children:
i. Emma, born June 26, i860; died October
14, 1861 ; ii. Helen Frances, born March 14,
1862. 2. Henry Alyron, born July 9, 1839;
died April i, 1873; lost at sea from steamship
"Atlantic", in Halifax harbor. 3. Frederick
Wakefield, born Septeraber 10, 1841 ; died
November 9, 1845. 4- George Hastings, born
October 3, 1844; died October 20, 1845. 5-
Curtis Willard, born January 16, 1847; died
January 13, 1849. 6. Caro Ware, born Febru
ary 14, 1849; died August 24, 1853. 7. Louis
Howard, born April i, 1851 ; resides at Long
Branch, New Jersey. 8. AVilliam Elbridge,
born December 8, 1857 ; died January 27,
1872. Children of second wife, aU born at
Allendale, Jamaica Plain : 9. Martha Starr,
born Alay 19, 1873 ! resides at 903 Beacon
street, Boston, with her raother. 10. Henry
Wakefield Jr., born Noveraber 11, 1875; raen
tioned below. II. Anna Colburn, bom March
8, 1882; resides with her mother in Boston.
(VII) Cornelius Wellington, son of Peter
Wellington, was born in Lexington, May 23,
1828. He was educated in the district schools,
supplemented by a course in Mt. Caesar Acad
eray, at Swanzey, New Harapshire. After
leaving school he entered the employ of
George W. Torrey, wholesale grocer, as clerk.
The business, which included the selling of
rum, was very distasteful to Mr. WeUington,
and September 8, 1846, he left his employ.
He worked several years as clerk in the dry
goods business ; then went west, and into the
lumber business at Stillwater, Michigan, where
he remained a short time. After two years as
clerk for Gates, Warner, Chalmers & Com
pany, a mill machinery firm at Chicago, he
returned east in 1857 and went into the dry
goods business with his brother Henry AV.

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WeUington, and John A. D. Gross and Na
than Daniels, the firm name being Wellington,
Gross & Company. In a few years the firm
was dissolved and became Wellington Broth
ers & Company, which continued about ten
years. The business was closed, and he start
ed in with his brother Charles Wellington in
the Household Art Company. While in the
dry goods business he also carried on the
farm at Lexington, and became interested in
Jersey cattle. He imported his first herd, and
the following year went abroad to the Island
of Jersey, returning with a herd of fifty cattle.
He made a great success in this line, and his
blooded stock brought fancy prices in the
markets of Boston, New York and Philadel
phia. In 1895 he sold the farm and gave up
the business. Later he built a fine residence
on Pleasant street, which he afterwards sold.
He now resides on Clark street, with his sis
ters, Caroline, Eliza and Louisa M. Welling
ton Peaslee. Mr. Wellington is a man of firm
principle and high standards of living. He
enjoys the esteera and confidence of his neigh
bors. In politics he is a Democrat in princi
ple, but independent in action. He has been
tree warden for the past seven years, and is
local agent for the destruction of the gipsy
brown-tail moth. He is a meraber of the
Lexington Historical Society, of the Massa
chusetts Reforra Club, and the Field and Gar
den Club, and a former member of the Lib
eral Union Club and the Appalachian Moun
tain Club. Mr. Wellington is unmarried.
(VII) Charles Austin Wellington, son of
Peter AVellington, was born December 2, 1837,
died unraarried February 2, 1901. He received
a district school education, supplemented by
a course of instruction in a private school at
Cambridge. At the age of sixteen he raade
an engagement with a manufacturing jeweler
to learn that trade. After an apprenticeship
of a few years he took up and carried on the
business, designing and producing only the
finest goods for the then leading jewelry es
tablishment of Boston. Because of feeble
health and necessary confinement and to assist
an invalid relative, he entered the crockery
ware business and a short tirae afterward be
came connected with an establishment under
the name of "The Household Art Company",
which business was the manufacture and sale
of works of art, furniture, etc., connected with
which was the introduction of tiles for floors,
fire places and interior and exterior decora
tion, at that time a new departure in decora
tive work and involving frequent trips to Eu-

Hancock and Adams, ornamenting the public
rope, after having bought out the business
from his former employer. Shortly after this,
in consequence of partial failure of his eye
sight, he was compelled to abandon mercantile
life. He was an active member of the Lexing
ton Historical Society, also of the Field and
Garden Qub. At the time of the centennial
celebration in 1875 he published an edition of
Phinney's history of the battle of Lexington,
prefacing it by a short preface by himself. As
a citizen the town was indebted to him for
valuable service in various ways. Always in
terested in the public schools, he was at one
tirae member of the committee who built the
Hancock school house, and with the other
members of that committee was instrumental
in abandoning the district school buildings and
transporting the children to the village centres.
It was through his efforts that the statues of
library, were designed and modeled by an ar
tist instead of being cut out of granite by a
quarryraan. It was at his suggestion that the
historical painting by Henry Sandam, now
adorning the town hall, was created and there
placed. Under his supervision the Hancock-
Qark house was re-located, repaired and as
far as possible its former appearance restored,
including a reproduction of the paper original
ly covering the walls of its most iraportant
room. Many articles of interest now to be
seen there were contributed by hira, many of
them his own creations. Perhaps the most
important of his work was in connection with
the design and erection of the Hayes fountain.
That it took the form of a drinking place for
man and beast was largely, if not entirely, due
to him. The design of the fountain in its
general outline was his also, as was the select
ing and collecting of the stones necessary for
the foundation, with the exception of the one
stone forming the water basin for horses, that
being furnished by the stone mason. He took
an important part in placing meraorial raonu
ments and tablets at various points of interest
about the town.
(VIII) Henry Wakefield WeUington Jr.,
son of Henry W. Wellington, was born at
Jamaica Plain, Alassachusetts, November 11,
1875. He attended a private school until eight
years old, when he removed from Jamaica
Plain to Newton with his parents, entered the
public school and later continued his studies
at Chauncey HaU School, Boston. He was
prepared for college at Cutler's private school
at Newton, and attended Harvard College two
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father. He remained with the Silver Lake
Company from 1895 to 1901, when he became
interested with D. C. Pierce in the manufac
ture of lace curtains, the firm being Welling
ton & Pierce, a corporation under Massachu
setts laws. Mr. Wellington is treasurer and
director of the corporation, and is also a di
rector of the Silver Lake Company. The firm
of Wellington & Pierce is known to the dry
goods business throughout the country, and
has an extensive trade. Mr. WeUington re
sides at 65 Mt. Vernon street, Boston. In
politics he is a Deraocrat, but has never held
office. He is a member of the Harvard Club
of New York city. He married June 2; 1902,
May Ethel Hamblen.

(I) Robert Tower, first ancestor
TOWER to whom is traced the American
family, Hved in the parish of
Hingham, county Norfolk, England. While
the name is found in various parts of the
United Kingdora at an early date, the ancestry
has not been traced further. He married Au
gust 31, 1607, at Hingham, Dorothy Damon,
who was buried November' 10, 1629. He was
buried May i, 1634.
(II) John Tower, son of Robert Tower, was
the immigrant ancestor. He was baptized at
Hingham, England, May 17, 1609. He came
-with many others of that town to Hingham,
Massachusetts, where he settled in 1637. Sam-
-uel Lincoln came with him. He became a pro
prietor of Hingham, and frora time to time
drew land with the other comraoners; bought
various parcels, sold a few lots. He was ad
mitted a freernan March 13, 1638-9, and was
then a member of the church. During the
controversies in Hingham he took an active
part, and his name figures in the proceedings
before the general court in 1640-45. He de
posed January 9, 1676, that he was about
sixty-nine years old. He was one of the in
corporators of Lancaster, but never settled
there. He had an Indian deed to land in
Rhode Island dated June 17, 1661, but faUed
after some litigation to establish his title. He
bought land of Edward Wilder in Hingham
by deed dated May 16, 1664, extending from
what is now Main street at Cole's corner to
the brook at Tower's bridge, and soon after
wards built a house thereon. Three of his
sons built houses on this lot also, and some of
the land has remained in the possession of de
scendants to the present time. The old house
was torn down soon after 1800. In 1657 he
Avas a way- warden ; in 1659 constable ; in 1665

he was on an important committee to lay out
highways, with very full powers. He fortified
his house during King Philip's war, and his
sons and others formed the garrison. He was
an active and enterprising man, rather illiter
ate perhaps, as he signed his name with a
mar!< like a capital "T". He was frequently
in court both as plaintiff and defendant. His
wife signed her own name. He died intestate
February 13, 1701-2, having deeded land to
his children, and thus in part settled his own
estate. He married, February 13, 1638-9,
Margaret Ibrook, daughter of Richard Ibrook,
an early settler of Hingham. She died May
16, 1700. Children; i. John, baptized Decem
ber 13, 1639; raarried May 14, 1669, Sarah
Hardin. 2. Ibrook, baptized February 7,
1643-4; married April 24, 1668, Margaret
Harden. 3. Jeremiah, baptized March 9,
1645-6; married Elizabeth Rowlands, widow,
November, 1670. 4. Elizabeth, baptized Oc
tober 9, 1648; married at Boston, October 9,
1667, William Roberts. 5. Sarah, baptized
July 16, 1650; married  Curtiss. 6.
Hannah, born July 17, 1652; married first,
 Cowell ; second, David Whipple. 7.
Benjarain, born Noveraber 5, 1654; mentioned
below. 8. Jemima, born April 25, 1660; mar
ried Thomas Gardner. 9. Samuel, born Jan
uary 26, 1661-2 ; married December 14, 1683,
Silence Damon, of Scituate.
(Ill) Benjamin Tower, son of John Tow
er, was baptized November 5, 1654, and died
March 24, 1721-2. He resided in Hingham
and married there, Septeraber, 1680, Deborah
Garnet (Gardner), born July 5, 1657, died
1728-9, daughter of John and Mary Garnet.
He inherited his father's homestead, the garri
son house which he built, and which has been
succeeded by one or more dwelling houses.
The one now standing is or was lately occu
pied by the widow of William Tower, who in
herited it. It was built soon after 1800. Ben
jamin Tower's will was dated July 2, 1717,
and proved AprU 28, 1722. Children, born
in Hingham ; i. Abigail, baptized May 22,
1681. 2. Ruth, baptized Septeraber 2, 1682;
died November 2, 1682. 3. Nathaniel, born
September 12, 1683 ; died November 24, 1700.
4. Deborah, bom February 4, 1684-5. 5-
Benjamin, September 2, 1686. 6. Christian,
March 16, 1687-8. 7. Sarah, December 18,
1689. 8. jael, October 26, 1691. 9. Thomas,
June 27, 1693. 10. Hannah, March 14, 1694-5.
II. Peter, July 17, 1697. 12. Ambrose, men
tioned below.
(IV) Ambrose Tower, son of Benjamin

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Tower, was born in Hingham, in January,
1699-1700. He removed to Hull, vvhere his
eldest son was born, and later to Concord,
residing in that part of the town which became
the town of Lincoln. In 1733 he was before
the court on account of a debt to Peter Tower,
of Hingham, of fifty-eight pounds; and other
records show that he was in financial difficul
ties. He married first, Mary  , and sec
ond, Elizabeth  . Children; i. Joseph,
mentioned below. 2. Ambrose, born 1727. 3.
Jonathan, 1729. 4. Mary, 1731. 5. Elizabeth,
1734; died unmarried, in Concord, February
19, 1814, aged eighty. 6. Benjamin, baptized
March 18, 1738-9. 7. Lydia, born November
12, 1742. 8. Sarah, born 1744; died unmar
ried, in Concord, Alay 14, 1807.
(V) Joseph Tower, son of Arabrose Tower,
was born September 5, 1723, and died in Rut
land in 1779. We find that one hundred and
forty-one bearing the name of Tower, and
whose names appear on the rosters and rolls
of sailors and soldiers in the revolution, took
part in the struggle for liberty, some of them
responding to the alarm of April 19, 1775, at
Lexington, and several bearing the name of
Tower were present at the surrender of Corn
wallis, at Yorktown. Joseph Tower may have
been beyond the age limit, but his son Joseph
was active in the struggle and died at the siege
of Boston. In the early part of his life he
resided in Weston and was a member of the
church there. He removed to Sudbury in 1748,
and resided there nearly twenty years. He
afterwards resided in Princeton, Lancaster,
Shrewsbury and Rutland. He was a mill
wright by trade, and at the time of his death
owned a mill in Rutland. He married July
21, 1748, in Sudbury, Hepzibah Gibbs, born
there February 25, 1730, daughter of Isaac
and Thankful (Wheeler) Gibbs. She died in
Waterville, New York, January 16, 1816,
aged nearly eighty-six years. Children; i.
Joseph, born AprU 11, 1750; died 1776, in the
siege of Boston. 2. Isaac, born Feljruary 2,
1752. 3. Thankful, bom February 9, 1754. 4.
Jeduthan, born August 7, 1758. 5. Polly, born
December 17, 1760; raarried May 4, 1784,
Abijah Potter of Brookfield. 6. Lurany, born
January 4, 1763. 7. Justus, born October 16,
1.765- 8. Jonas, born Alarch 8, 1768; men
tioned below. 9. John, born May 13, 1770.
10. Jotham, born January 28, 1774. 11. Jo
.seph, born April 12, 1776; died 1780 in Rut
land. (VI) Jonas Tower, son of Toseph Tower,
was born Alarch 8, 1768, died" in Petersham,

Massachusetts, April 12, 1827, and is buried
in the church yard there. He early learned
the trade of shoemaker, and also owned a
farm known as the Parmenter place, a mile
south of the centre of the town. He was for
many years a mail carrier, his route extend
ing from Providence, Rhode Island, to Brat-
tleborough, Vermont. He conveyed the maU
on horseback, his residence being convenient
ly central between the two points. He was la
Shay's rebellion. He married, February 16,.
1792, Fanny Parmenter, born 1772, died Oc
tober 25, 1815, daughter of John Parmenter;.
second, November 24, 1816, Nancy Stone,,
who died 1822. Children of first wife: i..
Charles, born July 2, 1793. 2. Oren, mention
ed below. 3. Louisa, born January 2, 1797.
4. Fanny, born November 5, 1800. 5. Horatio,.
born 1803 ; died young. 6. Horatio N., bom
1806. 7. Harriet, baptized November 9, 1817 ;.
died unmarried March 11, 1827, aged nine
teen. 8. John Parmenter, baptized November-
9, 1817 ; died in Wisconsin, 1843, unmarried,.
aged thirty-three. 9. Mary Ann, tjorn August.
II, 1812. Children of second wife; 10. Sam
uel S., born July 17, 1817. 11. Nancy, bom
Deceraber 23, 1818. 12. Maria, born 1821 ;.
died 1828.
(VII) Oren Tower, son of Jonas Tower,
was bom at Petersham, September 25, 1794,
and died there December 3, 1878. He was
brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the
usual common school education of a farmer's
son at that period, which was mostly during
the winter months. He early learned the trade
of house painter, which he followed more or
less during his active life. He bought of his
father's heirs their shares of the homestead,
and settled there. He was a progressive and
successful farmer, and advanced the improved
methods of agriculture. His farm consisted
of one hundred acres of land one mile to the
westward of Petersham Common, which net
ted him a handsome yearly income, depending
on the raising of milk and general products.
He was successful as a cattle raiser. He was
active in public affairs, and identified with the
temperance movement in its various phases
for many years, and also with other and kin
dred reforras. In his earlier days he was a
firra and faithful Whig, but when that party
went to pieces he becarae a Republican, and
gave his earnest support to the administration
of Lincoln in the trying times of the civil war.
He was chairraan of the board of selectraen
in Petersham raany years, and demonstrated
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He also served the town as highway surveyor
and member of the cemetery committee. He
was a member of the Petersham company in
the state militia when a young man. In per
sonal character Mr. Tower had raany fine and
attractive qualities, making many friends, and
commanding the respect of all his townsmen.
A useful citizen, upright, conscientious and
capable, his life was altogether exemplary and
blameless. He married first, June i, 1823,
Harriet Gleason, bom June 16, 1803, baptized
May 3, 1808, died April 13, 1832, daughter of
Joseph and Sukey (Whitney) Gleason; sec
ond, January 5, 1836, Lucy Lincoln Foster,
born at Petersham, March 4, 1814, died at
Pasadena, Califomia, September 3, 1907,
daughter of John and Hannah (Lincoln) Fos
ter, of Petersham. Her father owned a saw
mill and made lumber, etc. Children of first
wife ; I. William Augustus, born February
26, 1824 ; mentioned below. 2. Harriet Ellen,
born August 29, 1826; died unmarried May
28, 1855. 3. Susan AVhitney, born July 22,
1828 ; died May 9, 1867 ; raarried January 9,
1865, Abraham G. R. Hale, of Boston; chil
dren ; i. Willie Augustus Hale, born February
28, 1866, died AprU 4, 1866 ; u. WiHie Abra
ham Hale, born March 8, 1867, died October
II, 1867. 4. Louisa Gleason, born January 3,
1831 ; died unmarried July 3, 1854. Children
of second wife ; 5. Francis Emery, born No
vember 30, 1836; married November 30, 1868,
Ella S. Shepardson, of Petersham; children;
i. Dr. Ralph Winfred, born May 24, 1870,
physician, practicing at New RocheUe, New
York; married, August 31, 1893, Bessie Belle
West, of Bristol, Connecticut, and had Law
rence West, born July 6, 1896; ii. Maud
Helen, born Septeraber 13, 1873, married,
November 12, 1902, Josiah Henry Peck, of
Bristol ; iii. Ethel EUa, born July 25, 1876.
6. George Hammond, born September i, 1839;
died Alay 4, 1885; married January 22, 1873^
Frances E. Farrar, of Montague, Massachu
setts: child, Grace Hortense, born May i,
1878. 7. Harriet Augusta, born April 11,
1843. 8. John Foster, born August i, 1845 '>
died November 18, 1849. 9. Katharine Lucy.
born September 29, 1847; married April 30,
1888, Roy H. Penney, of Pasadena, CaUfor
nia. 10. Horatio Nelson, born November 7,
1850; married December 25, 1886, Fannie
Gertrude Spooner, born at Petersham, May
15, 1868, daughter of Benjamin and Fanny
(Grout) Spooner ; children : i. Fanny Foster,
born May 24, 1889 ; ii. Arthur Augustus, April
17, 1892; iii. Sidney Spooner, October 30,
iv-25

1895; iv. Lloyd Lysle, July 18, 1898. 11. Al
fred Oren, bom February 25, 1855, married,
November 16, 1887, Clara Alice Shepardson,
born December 28, 1870, daughter of Frank
F. and Betsey Ann LoveU Shepardson; chU
dren ; i. George Harold, born September 25,
1888; ii. Frank Stanley, June 2, 1890; ui. Al
fred Leigh, September 12, 1892; iv. William
Reginald, December 27, 1893 ; v. AHce Mar
garita, June 25, 1896; vi. Nelson Lysle, March
II, 1898.
(VIII) William Augustus Tower, son of
Oren Tower, was born in Petersham, Wor
cester county, Alassachusetts, February 26,
1824. He received his education in the com
mon schools of his native town. Being the
eldest of eleven children, he was thrown early
upon his own resources, and at the age of
fifteen years found eraployraent in a country
store in the adjoining town of Lancaster
where, in 1845, when twenty years of age,
he was admitted to partnership, this connec
tion continuing until 1848, when he sold out
to his partner and removed to Sterling, Massa
chusetts. In 1850 he came to Boston and en
tered the flour and grain business in Haymar-
ket square, as member of the firm of Rice,
Tower & Company, the first house in Boston
market to establish direct communication with
the west in the sale of cereal products. In
1852 the firra of Tower, Davis & Company
¦ succeeded the parent house. Unremitting at
tention to business impaired the health of Mr.
Tower, so that in 1855, the same year in which
he changed his residence to Lexington, he
found it necessary to retire frora active busi
ness for a time and seek a recuperation in
rest and travel. During a trip south and west,
while stopping in Chicago, he formed the ac
quaintance of George Watson, a native of
Scotland, with whora he organized in Chicago
the banking house of Watson, Tower & Cora
pany, which carried on an active and pros
perous business until i860. During this tirae
Mr. Tower still held his position as head of
the firm of Tower, Davis & Company in Bos
ton, and also retained his interest as a silent
partner in the firm of Davis, Whitcher & Com
pany, which succeeded Tower, Davis & Com
pany, until 1865. In i860 he opened a private
banking house on State street, Boston, in part
nership with George E. Wilder, of Lancaster.
Two years later Edward L. Giddings and Mr.
Torrey were added to the firm and Mr. Wilder
retired, the firm name becoming Tower, Gid
dings & Torrey. After a short time Mr. Tor
rey withdrew, and in 1867 the firm name be-

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came Tower, Giddings & Company, which still
exists as a leading representative house. Sub
sequently his son, Augustus Clifford, who had
started in business with Edward Sweet &
Company of New York City, was a partner
for a few years, also another son, Richard
Gleason, and WiUiara Lawrence Underwood
was also a raember of the firm. Colonel Tow
er remained at the head of the firm to the time
of his death. The present house of Tower &
Underwood consists of Richard G. Tower,
WiUiam Lawrence Underwood, Frank S. Pal
frey and Charles B. Butterfield.
Railroad and banking affairs being so close
ly connected, naturally attracted Mr. Tower
and in many of them he was prominent. From
1870 to 1873 inclusive he was president of
the Concord Railroad, in New Hampshire;
he was one of the founders and was a director
of the National Bank of the Commonwealth
since its establishraent in 1871 until his death,
serving as president from February, 1881, to
April 4, 1882, succeeding E. C. Sherman and
being succeeded by A. L. Newman; he again
became president May 13, 1892, and held of
fice for several years, and subsequently was
again elected to that responsible office ; during
1877-78 he was president of the Nashua &
Lowell Railroad ; was director of the Equit
able Life Insurance Company of New York,
of the Guaranty Company of North America,
of the Shawmut National Bank, and was iden--
tified with the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust
Corapany, and of the New England Trust
Corapany ; was vice-president of the Security
Safe Deposit Company, and a trustee of the
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. He was a
large stockholder and active in the manage
ment of other railroad properties.
He was originally an old-time Whig, but
after the organization of the Republican party
identified himself with it, entering with zeal
and purpose into all the measures of the Na
tional government for the preserving of the
Union. In 1863 he was a member of the
house of representatives ; was aide-de-camp on
the staff of Governor Alexander H. Rice from
1876 to 1878 inclusive, with rank of colonel;
in 1882 was elected to the governor's council
from the third district, and served as a mem
ber of Governor Butler's council, although
himself a Republican. He was a member and
liberal supporter of the FoUen Unitarian
Church of Lexington. At the centennial cele
bration of the battle of Lexington, Colonel
Tower not only acted as chief marshal of the
parade but was also prominent in all pertain

ing to that well reraerabered event in Lexing
ton. From a small and raodest beginning
in business life Mr. Tower attained to
a prom.inent and foreraost position in bus
iness and financial circles, and everywhere
his narae was regarded as a synonym for in
tegrity and honor in all his transactions. His
record was as clean as it was successful, his
judgraent was sound and his ability grew as
he faced larger questions. He was strong in
tellectually and he cultivated his mind con
stantly, and his advice in finance and business
was eagerly sought and respected. Despite
the multifarious cares of his busy life, he took
much pleasure in his home and spent much
time there. He was beloved by his family and
neighbors who knew and loved him best. He
was generous in giving to those in need, and
he took particular interest in young men seek
ing an education or entering business. Mr.
Tower entertained and cherished the tradi
tions and associations of his home and ances
tors, which fact is clearly demonstrated by
his purchasing the old family homestead at
Petersham, Massachusetts, and endowing it
upon his nephew, the eldest son of his half-
brother, Horatio N. Tower.
Air. Tower was a man who entered heartily
into the interests of any community where he
made his home, and at Lexington his abilities
as a leader were recognized. He was of genial
temperament, though his almost courtly man
ner might have given another impression to
one meeting him for the first time; he was a
great admirer of the beauties of nature, and
he loved animals. The horse was to him a
source of delight, and touring^ about this sec
tion with tally-ho or drag was one of his chief
enjoyments, while driving over the road from
his home in Lexington to business in Boston
was the habit of his hfe, winter and summer,
going this way much oftener than by public
conveyance. He never neglected business,
but he frequently pushed important affairs
aside that he might enjoy his ride and spend
a few hours of daylight on the estate he had
developed with intelligent foresight.
Mr. Tower married, at the homestead in
L.ancaster, April 29, 1847, Julia, daughter of
Captain Austin and Sally (AVellington) Davis;
Captain Davis was captain of a local militia
company. Thomas Da-vis, father of Captain
Austin Davis, was of Holden, Massachusetts ;
he had a long and honorable record in the
Continental army during the revolution. Chil
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born in Lancaster, February 28, 1848. 2.
Charlotte Gray, born in Cambridge, February
12, 1851, died at Lexington, July 6, 1885. 3.
Augustus Clifford, born in Cambridge, July 3,
1853, died at Lawrence, Long Island, Decem
ber 28, 1903 ; he engaged in the banking busi
ness in New York City, was for a time part
ner in his father's firm, founded the banking
firm of Tower & Sherwood in New York,
which was very successful; married, June 7,
1883, Louise Greble Dreer, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, born July 29, 1858, daughter of
Henry Augustus and Mary (Leavenworth)
Dreer, of Philadelphia. 4. Richard Gleason,
born in Lexington, October 1 1, 1857, mention
ed below.
Mr. Tower died November 21, 1904, at his
home in Lexington. The funeral was largely
attended, many Boston friends and business
associates being present. The Rev. L. D.
Cochrane, of FoUen church, conducted the ser
vices, which were extremely simple consisting
only of appropriate scriptural selections and a
prayer. Interment was in the family lot in
Lexington cemetery. A forceful, progressive
man, stern but kindly withal. A natural lead
er, although modest, and even shy. A good
citizen and neighbor who made the world bet
ter for his having lived in it.
(IX) Richard Gleason Tower, son of
William A. Tower, was born at Lexington,
October 11, 1857. He attended the public
schools of his native town and Nichols Acad
emy. When he was twenty years old he went
abroad and spent a year in study and travel.
Upon his return he began to work for his
father's firm, and in 1885 became a partner,
and also a member of the Boston Stock Ex
change. In 1893, on account of ill health, he
withdrew from the firm, but two years later
again became a partner. In 1905 the firm
name was changed to the present name of
Tower & Underwood. Mr. Tower's residence
on the state road, Lexington, is one of the
most imposing and beautiful in the state. Like
his father he is an admirer of fine horses.
He is an Unitarian in religion, a Republican
in politics. He is a member of the Middlesex
Hunt Club, the Somerset Qub, and the Coun
try Club. He married September 30, 1905,
Henrietta Niles Lockwood, born at Charles
town, Massachusetts, January 29, 1873, daugh
ter of Rhodes and Henrietta (Niles) Lock-
wood, of Charlestown. Her father was at the
head of the Davidson Rubber Company, of
East Somerville. Child : i. William Augustus,
born March 6, 1907, at Thomasville, Georgia,

on the old Mclntyre plantation, one of the
finest old places in Georgia, and now owned
by Airs. WilHam A. Tower, and called "Box-
hall."

The surname Wetherbee
WETHERBEE or Wetherby is of ancient
English origin, being de
rived from the name of a locality. The name
is spelled in a great variety of ways in the
early records. There is a town of Wetherby
in Yorkshire. The seat of the principal family
of this name in England has been for some
centuries in Norfolk and its coat-of-arms:
Vert a chevron ermine between three rams
passant argent attired or. This is the only
armorial of the Wetherby faraily of ancient
date. (I) John Wetherbee, immigrant ancestor,
was born in the north of England about 1050.
He settled first in Marlborough, Massachu
setts, in the south part of the town, now the
town of Southborough, and later removed to
Stow, where he died in 171 1. On June 7,
1684, he sold land in Stow to Thomas Ward,
and August 22, 1701, he 3old to Joseph Doby
thirty acres with town rights. On Septeraber
20, 1706, he bought of Ruth Wheeler fifty
acres of upland and eleven of raeadow, and .
March 4, 1706, he sold land to Jacob Brown.
He was called yeoman. His will was dated
October 13, 1707, with codicil April 11, 1709.
It was proved April 2, 171 1. He married
first, at Marlborough, September 18, 1672,
Mary Howe, born November 18, 1653, died at
Stow, June 5, 1684, daughter of John and
Mary Howe, of Marlborough. He married
second, Lydia Moore. Children; i. Joseph,
born at Marlborough, October 5, 1672-73,
married, February 9, 1699, Elizabeth Johnson,
born 1677, died September 22, 1726; children;
i. Caleb, born January 5, 1700-01, married
first, January 12, 1726-27, Joanna Wheeler,
second, Huldah  and had Thomas,
David, Shadrack, Nathaniel, John, Ephraim,
Zaccheus, Joseph, Mary and Huldah; (Zac
cheus, son of Caleb mentioned above, married
Sarah Snow ; children — Lucy, married Moses
Morse, of Hopkinton; Martha, married Cod
ding AVetherbee; Caleb, bom April 3, 1760,
died January 3, 1783 ; married Hepzibah Brig
ham and had Jabez Snow, born September
12, 1802, married, January i, 1826, Harriet
Brigham; Elijah Brigham, born January 19,
1804, married, April 12, 1829, Louisa Brig
ham; Nancy Maria, born October 19, 1808,
died November 27, 1829; Nahum, born April

1796

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

12, 1812, married, April 30, 1835, Mary Smith
and had Henry Smith, born February 8, 1836 ;
Dennis, born November 25, 1813, married
first, Betsey Stowe, second, Abigail Stowe,
third, Sophia Rice; John Brooks, born June
10, 1816, married Sarah Goddard; Sarah
Breck, born October 26, 1818, died September
22, 1842; WiUiam WaUace, born February 21,
1821, married Elizabeth G. Brigham; David,
married Ann Tyler. Catherine, married Tem
ple Parker ; Sewell, married  Jameson ;
Jabez; Jonas), n. Thankful, born May 10,
1703, married Isaac Bellows; iii. Joseph, born
February 20, 1704, married Unity Adams ; iv.
Hepsebah, born February 14, 1706, married
Robert Sennet; v. Deborah, born December
23, 1709; vi. Elizabeth, born September 16,
1714, married Nathan Rice. 2. John, born
March 26, 1675, mentioned below. 3. Thomas,
born January 5, 1678, died January 23, 1712-
13; married, February 20, 1698-99, Hannah
Woods; children; i. Mary, born June 10, 1700;
ii. Hannah, born June 3, 1702; iii. Thomas,
born March 4, 1705, died June 7, 1714; iv.
Silas, bom July 20, 1707, died March 10,
1783, married Thankful Keyes, born 1709,
died June 17, 1782, and had John Keyes, born
February 28, 1743, died February 18, 18x1,
^Lavinia (Levinah), born March 19, 1745
'(married, February i, 1780, Samuel WUson),
Lieutenant Thomas, born January i, 1747,
died Alay 9, 1827, Mary, born February 6,
1749, married, 1784, Leonard Brighara, Sarah,
born June 14, 1753, married, November 7,
1783, Azriah Wilson, of Spencer, Massachu
setts; V. Subrait, born March 9, 1709-10.
(John Keyes AVetherbee, son of SUas men
tioned above, married. May 3, 1768, Lavinia
Rand, born July 4, 1743, died June 23, 1775;
children: i. Silas, born February 20, 1769,
married, June 3, 1793, Sarah Brigham and
had — i. Mary, born 1796; ii. Jeremiah, born
1798; iii. Joel, born 1800; iv. Jesse Brigham,
born 1807; V. Esther Louise, born 1810. 2.
Danforth, bom August 28, 1771, died Septem
ber 18, 1794; raarried Lucy Stiles.) Lieu
tenant Thoraas Wetherbee, son of Silas men
tioned above, married Rehef Heuston, of
Dunstable, New Hampshire; chUdren: i.
Louis, born December 2, 1770, married Hul
dah Wesson, daughter of Joel Wesson, of
Worcester Cove, and had — i. Oliver, t)orn
July 21, 1793, raarried Mary Harrington; u.
Louis, born August 21, 1795, married Deborah
Faye ; iii. Hannah, born October 2, 1799,
married, January 9, 1819, James Healey
Benchley, of Providence, Rhode Island, and

was mother of Henry W. Benchley, lieuten
ant-governor of Massachusetts; iv. Dennis
FrankUn, born March 14, 1814. 2. Jonathan,
born March 3, 1772, married, October 30,
1796, Virtue Hemenway, born January 23,
1775, and had: i. Thomas, born April 2, 1797,
married Amelia Adaras, of Athol ; ii. Seth,
raarried Elizabeth Williaras; iii. Levi Jenni
son, married Mary Harailton ; iv. Relief, raar
ried June, 1834, Nathan Craft ; v. Mary Hem
enway, died January 3, 1843, aged thirty-
three, raarried Charles Ste-vens, of Temple-
ton; vi. Sarah Merriam, died April 7, 1838,
aged twenty-seven ; vii. Susan Temple, mar
ried Luke B. Wetherbee. 3. Thomas, born
February 13, 1774, died October, 1840; raar
ried, June 5, 1800, Susannah Knowlton and
had — i. Calvin Knowlton, born December 9,
1801, died July 24, 1827; ii. Thomas Heuston,
born June 25, 1802, married, February 22,
1824, Lois Muzzy; iii. Elizabeth, bom Alarch
3, 1804, raarried. May 17, 1825, Elijah A.
Brigham; iv. Luke Bucklin, born December
17, 1809, raarried Susan Teraple Wetherbee;
v. Jonathan Edwin, born November 11, 1815,
died December 28, 1836; vi. Susan Rehef,
born November, 1815. 4. Sarah, born Decem
ber 10, 1775, married Joseph Merriam, of
Grafton. 5. Mary, born November i, 1777,
raarried, Alay i, 1796, Joseph Dispeau, of
Grafton. 6. Silas, born January 7, 1784, mar
ried Lois D. Wheelock and had — i. Charles
Silas; ii. Joseph Vernon; iii. Mary Lois; iv.
Jonathan Gardner; v. Charlotte Sophia; vi.
Reuben Miner; vii. Luther Brigham; viii.
Persis Lucretia ; ix. Lucinda Relief ; x. David
Thoraas. 4. Ephraim, died at Boston, No
vember 9, 1745; married first 1721, EHzabeth
Hall, died June 12, 1732; second, September
18, 1732, Joanna Bellows; children of first
wife : i. Ruth, born February 28, 1722-3, mar
ried July 30, 1741, Joseph Wood; ii. Ephraim;
iii. Paul, died January 6, 1768; iv. Mary, born
January 6, 1729-30, married July 18, 1746,
Ephraim KimbaU. v. Betsey; children of
second wife: vi. Rachel, bom April 3, 1733,
married Thomas Putnam, of Charlestown;
vii. Jonathan, born October 14, 1734; viii.
AbigaU, February 13, 1735-6; ix. Susannah,
March 27, 1738; x. Abijah, April 24, 1740; xi.
Joannah, September 23, 1742; xii. Samuel,
April 13, 1745. (Paul Wetherbee, son of
Ephraira mentioned above, married June 11,
1746, Hannah Pierce; children: i. Ephraim,
born August 24, 1747; married December 3,
1772, Keziah Pierce and had Hannah, born
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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1797

1774, Anne, born August 24, 1782, Samuel,
born November 12, 1784, Thomas, born De
cember 3, 1786, Lucretia, born June 11, 1789.
2. Paul, born August 12, 1749. 3. Hannah,
July 19, 1751. 4. Betsey, December 15, 1753.
5. David, born February 16, 1757; died Janu
ary 21, 1842 ; married Eunice  , and had :
i. Eunice, born June 16, 1779; ii. Susannah,
June 15, 1781 ; in. Betsey, AprU 25, 1783; iv.
David, March 31, 1785; v. Mary, December
26, 1787; vi. Sophia; vii. Martha, May 16,
1794; viii. John, born February 20, 1798, mar
ried Ann Upton; ix. James, born July, 1802;
X. David, October 5, 1805. 6. Joel, born April
26, 1759. 7. Abijah, 1761. 8. Esther, Decem
ber 3, 1763. 9. Daniel, February 16, 1766.)
5. Jonathan, born August 31, 1686. 6. David,
married Mercy Brown; children: i. Edward,
married April 30, 1743, Hannah Whitney, and
had Mary, born June 30, 1745, Ephraim,
June 5, 1747, and Edward, December 20, 1752;
ii. Lydia, married August 30, 1751, Timothy
Brown; iii. Joseph, married April 16, 1748,
Elizabeth Whitney; iv. Silas; v. EHzabeth,
born April 21, 1715 ; vi. Phineas, born October
6, 1716; married first Sarah  , second,
Betsey  , and had Oliver, bom April 4,
1743, Sarah, November 11, 1748, Betsey,
February 11, 1753, and Israel, July 18, 1756;
vii. Mary, born November 3, 1718, raarried
 Stevens ; viii. David, born February
28, 1722. (Silas Wetherbee, son of David
mentioned above, married May 24, 1749, Bet
sey Brown; children: i. Judah, born April 13,
1755 ; married June 19, 1781, Catherine Whit
man, and had — i. Charles, born November 30,
1781 ; ii. Betsey, born March 8, 1783, Mehit
able, December 4, 1784, Catherine, May 26,
1787, Jane, January 28, 1791, Judah, July 19,
1794, Isaac, July 17, 1796, Jacob, August 19,
1798, Anna S., November 17, 1799). 7. Ann,
married June 17, 1724-5, Thomas Stow, of
Concord; child; Lydia, married October 15,
1754, Samuel Dudley, of Littleton.
(II) John Wetherbee, son of John Wether
bee, was born at Alarlborougli, March 26,
1675, and died at Stow, where he lived and
owned a farm. On June 25, 1697, he bought
of Richard and Abigail Cheever twenty-five
acres of land situated west of great Rattle
snake Meadow, near the Lancaster line, and
nine acres in Great Rattlesnake Meadow, and
other lands. John Wilson and wife Sarah,
Jonathan Houghton and wife Thankful, Beza-
ieel Sawyer and wife Judith, and Hezekiah
White, heirs of the estate of their father Jo
siah AVhite, Senior, of Lancaster, conveyed to

John Wetherbee, of Stow, land in consumma
tion of a bargain, May 13, 1719. His will was
dated June 6, 1720, and proved September 25,
1720, at Worcester. He married Catherine
 . Children: i. Daniel, married Rachel
 ; children: i. Oliver, born January 14,
1724; ii. Rachel, born December 18, 1726;
iii. Paul, born January 2, 1729. 2. John, mar
ried, 1722, Ehzabeth Whitney. 3. Hezekiah,
mentioned below. 4. Josiah, married, 1729,
Sarah Hall ; children ; i. Samuel, born August
13, 1730; n. Samuel, June 20, 1732; in. Sarah,
June 24, 1734; iv. Ruth, died May 10, 1739;
V. Hannah, died June 3, 1739; vi. Catherine,
died June 3, 1739; vu. Ruth, born August 13,
1744; viii. Ethan, July 31, 1746; ix. Lucy, Oc
tober 3, 1750; X. Reuben, October 3, 1750
(twin). 5. Catherine, married, 1726, Joseph
Osgood. 6. Isaac. 7. Micah, born December
25, 1712. 8. Thomas, born June 10, 1715;
married Elizabeth Hale, or Hapgood; chU
dren : i. Joseph ; ii. Mary, died 1794, married
Williara Whitcomb; iii. Olive, born August 5,
1745, married May 10, 1764, Jacob Whitcorab ;
iv. EHzabeth, born November 23, 1747, mar
ried August 22, 1766, WiUiam Wolcott; v.
Sarah (twin), born August i, 1750, raarried
 Josselyn ; vi. Thomas (twin), born Au
gust I, 1750; vii. Catherine, born March 15,
1753, married February 15, 1777, John Gates;
viii. Ephraim, bom June 3, 1756, died January
31, 1852. (Joseph Wetherbee, son of Thomas
mentioned above, married April 11, 1767,
Sarah Gates, of Leominster; children; i.
Reuben, born June 8, 1773 ; married April 6,
1799, Rebecca Gates. 2. Joseph, born June
16, 1776; married April 12, 1800, Betsey
Gates, and had : Sarah, baptized April 19,
1801, Sophronia, baptized March 13, 1803,
Asa, baptized October 6, 1804, iv. Lucy Gates,
baptized February 14, 1808. 3. Jonas, born
August 13, 1779, married Lucy Warren; 4.
Elias, born April 22, 1784; 5. Daniel, Novera
ber 2, 1785.) (Thoraas AVetherbee, son of
Thoraas mentioned above, married, 1779,
Mary Gates; children: i. Alary, born March
28, 1780 ; married AprU 14, 1807, Jonathan
Sawtelle, Jr. 2. Josiah, born March 19, 1783 ;
raarried Noveraber 28, 1805, Clarissa SawteUe,
and had: i. Josiah Lyman, born September i^,
1806, married first, Fannie Colburn, second,
Alary AVhittaker; ii. Qarissa, born April 15,
1809, died September 2, 1825 ; iii. Adelaide,
born April 19, 1811, married Lyman Whit
taker; iv. Edmund S., born January 25, 1815,
married Abby G. MiUer; v. Marshall, born
June, 1817, married October 13, 1843, Ma-

1798

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

rinda AA'hittaker ; vi. Levi Warren, born Janu
ary 3, 1820, killed. 3. Sarah, born March 14,
1786; married April 14, 1807, Solomon Weth
erbee. 4. Ami, born January 21, 1793; mar
ried Mary Gates. 5. Betsey, married WilHam
Washburn.) (Ephraim Wetherbee, son of
Thomas mentioned above, married October
17, 1772, Olive Gates; children; i. Lois, bom
January 28, 1773; married Darius Whitcomb.
2. Thomas, born February 26, 1774; married
Betsey Hale, and had Almira, Elizabeth, Al
vira and Levi. 3. Dorcas, born October 11,
1775 ; raarried Jedediah Alexander. 4. Sam
uel, born July 17, 1777 ; married Hannah Ross.
5. Levi, born April 29, 1779; married Betsey
Hawes. 6. Olive, born April 15, 1781. 7.
Betsey, born November 14, 1783; married
first, February 27, 1812, John Rogers ; secorid,
Araos French. 8. Ephraim, born April 17,
1786 ; raarried Lucy Stone, born April 29,
1788, and had ; i. Mary, born August 24, 1808,
married Charles B. Taft; n. Mary, born July
23, 1810, died December 23, 1823; in. Ariel,
born October 28, 1812, married Elizabeth Col
ton; iv. Lucy, bom October 22, 1815, married
Joseph Stone ; v. Otis, born Noveraber 8, 1817,
raarried Dorothy Stone).
(Ill) Hezekiah AVetherbee, son of John
Wetherbee, removed to Lunenburg about
1730, and was a yeoman and a prorainent man
of the town. He bought .September 4, 1730,
one hundred and twenty acres of land from
Josiah Willard. His homestead was beyond
Mulpus brook, and he died about 1754. The
inventory of his estate was filed August 28,
1754. He raarried, at Marlborough, April 22,
1728, Huldah Martyn, who raarried second,
January 12, 1773, Deacon Ephraim Pierce, of
Lunenburg, and went to Rindge, where she
died. She was born April 27, 171 1, daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Gove) Martyn. It is
said that one day when her husband Hezekiah
and two of the sons were absent from home
to fight the Indians, she took her son John,
then a year and a half old, on her back, and a
child in each hand, and went through the for
est at night to the garrison house, a distance
of three miles. Children: i. Benjamin, born
at Alarlborough, November 3, 1728; settled in
Rindge, New Plampshire ; married, 1755,
Keziah Munroe, born October 16, 1731, died
July 12, 1772; children; i. Betsey, born Janu
ary 5, 1756, married Matthew Osborne; n.
Hezekiah, bom June 20, 1757, at Rindge,
raarried Lucy Hale ; iii. Rachel, born January
5, 1758, raarried  Parker ; iv. Benjarain,
born October 2, 1762, died in the array, of

sraall pox; V. Mary, born August 16, 1765; vi.
Keziah, born July 4, 1768. 2. Thomas, born
November 27, 1730; mentioned below. 3.
Phebe, born February 12, 1733; died young.
4. Phebe, born July 7, 1740; married April
26, 1758, .Abel Platts Jr.; children; i. Mary,
born January 31, 1759, married Moses Chap
lain; ii, Phebe, born November 11, 1763; iii.
Sarah, born June 8, 1765; iv. Asa, born May
28, 1766, raarried Rebecca Burse! ; v. Abel,
born December 10, 1769; vi. Lucy, born April
2, 1 77 1, married Daniel Gibson; vii. Dolly,
born September 14, 1773, married  Car
roll ; viii. Ruth, born February 29, 1776, mar
ried Dr. Joel Chamberlain; ix. Aaron, born
November 2, 1778; x. Abram, born March 30,
1781 ; xi. Huldah, born July 3, 1783. 5. Sarah,
born Noveraber 17, 1742; raarried, 1763, Noah
Dodge, of Lunenburg; children; i. Sarah
Dodge, born April 20, 1766; ii. Paul Dodge,
January 23, 1767; iii. Ruth Dodge; iv. Mary
Dodge; v. Hannah Dodge; vi. Phebe Dodge;
vii. David Balch Dodge; viii. Samuel StiUman
Dodge ; ix. Anna Dodge ; x. Rebecca Dodge.
6. John, born September 14, 1746; died March
31, 1838; raarried June 23, 1773, Susannah
Page, died August 21, 1840, aged ninety-three;
children : i. Susannah, born November 7, 1773,
died September 12, i860, raarried March 4,
1795, Benjamin Foster; ii. Huldah, born No
vember 18, 1775, died January 14, 1826; iii.
John, born Deceraber 18, 1777, died April 19,
1778; iv. Jereraiah, born Deceraber 31, 1779,
died August, 1863 ; v. Joseph, born October 8,
1781, died 1867; vi. Sarah, born January 23,
1784, married first, Enoch Breed, second.
Deacon Adin Cumraings; vii. Hezekiah, born
Alay 6, 1786, died March 11, 1869, married
Grace Baker; viii. Deborah, born August 11,
1788, died unmarried ; ix. Phebe, born March
8, 1799, died November 10, 1837, married
Aloses Binney. (Jeremiah Wetherbee, son of
John mentioned above, married first, Mary
Pope, second, October 19, 1809, Mercy Hold
en, of Barre, born December i, 1790; children,
all by second wife; i. Sarah Holden, born
July 27, 1810: married WiUiam Henshaw. 2.
Alary Pope, born June 12, 1812; died May,
1836; married George Washington Eddy. 3.
Moses Holden, born July 5, 1814; died Sep
tember 28, 1855 ; raarried Frances HaU ; chil
dren ; i. Mary Eddy, raarried Daniel Murdock ;
u. Emma ; 4. George AV., bom June 28, 1816,
died June 19, 1818; 5. Susannah, born No
vember 10, 1818; died September 14, 1820. 6.
Mercy, born September 21, 1820; married
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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1799

tember 22, 1822; died July 24, 1825. 8. Ehza,
born November i, 1824; married Avery W.
Gilbert. 9. Henry, born February 19, 1827;
married Ellen MerrUl of Westfield. 10. Seth,
born November 12, 1829, married September
I7> 1859, Mary Rand, of San Francisco, and
had Alice, Ethel and Frank Rand. 11. Jere
miah Otis, born January 16, 1832 ; married
January 29, 1863, Alartha Trundy Lovejoy,
born at Boston, April 19, 1841 ; children ; i.
Winthrop, bom November 5, 1863; ii. LUa,
February 11, 1866; iii. Mattie, June 23, 1868;
iv. Henry (2nd), December 5, 1871 ; v. Nettie,
August 16, 1873. 12. John Williams, bom
AprU 30, 1835; died aged two years.) (Jo
seph Wetherbee, son of John mentioned
above, married Nancy Conant, born August
10, 1793, died April 11, 1835; children: i.
Laura, born December 20, 1810; marned
Sraith Sunderland. 2. John, born Noveraber,
1812, married Sophia Faye. 3. Arvilla, born
January 24, 1815 ; raarried ApoUas Griswold.
4. Marinda Breed, born March 5, 1817. 5.
Eliza Ann, born July 29, 1819; raarried Ste
phen Sylvester. 6. Harriet, born September
27, 1821 ; married Benjamin Stone. 7. Mer-
sylvia, born August 24, 1824; died February
28, 1825. 8. Joseph Sylvester (twin), born
May 12, 1828; married Laura M. Nutting. 9.
Nancy Alersylvia (twin), born Alay 12, 1828;
married George Godding. 10. Susan Rand,
born December i, 1832; raarried October 13,
1852, Anson E. Platts.) 7. Abrahara, bom
June 5, 1752; raarried Joanna Sawtelle; chil
dren: i. Abraham, born August 2, 1776; ii.
Benjamin, July 8, 1778 ; iii. Nathaniel, May
31, 1780, married March 8, 1803, .Susan Hub
bard ; iv. John, born June 2, 1782 ; v. Solo
mon, born 'August 15, 1784, married Sarah
Wetherbee: vi. Joanna, born August 16, 1785;
vii. Thirza, born February 8, 1788 ; died
young; viii. Thirza, born January i, 1790,
married  Callendar ; ix. Levi, born
March 3, 1782 ; x. Ephraim Cummings, May
15, 1793; xi. Asenath, June 5, 1797.
(LV) Thomas Wetherbee, son of Hezekiah
Wetherbee. was born at Lunenburg, Novem
ber 27, 1730. He owned a large farm in
Lunenburg, where all his children were born,
and about 1777-8 removed to Rindge, New
Hampshire. He was in the revolution, in
Captain George Kimball's company, and an
swered the Lexington alarm, April 20, 1775 :
in Captain Joseph Sargent's company, Colonel
Josiah Whitney's regiment, pay abstract for
mileage, dated June 22, 1777, ninety miles;
also private same company. May 5 to July 12,

1777, company drafted from Colonels Josiah
AVhitney's and Steam's regiments, marched
to serve under General Spencer. He and his
wife were members of the Congregational Or
thodox church at Rindge, and he was a mem
ber of the standing committee from 1793 to
1800. In 1800 he removed to New Ipswich,
New Hampshire. Pie married, (intentions
dated April 22, 1756), Hannah Munroe, of
Carlisle. Children: i. Thoraas, born April
7, 1757 ; mentioned below. 2. Daniel, bom
December 16, 1758; died January 3, 1845;
married Hepsibah Merriara ; children : i. Wil
liara Burns, born January 26, 1784, raarried
Persis Patch; ii. Daniel, born Septeraber i,
1785, died January 11, 1813, married Polly
Adains ; iii. David, born February 27, 1787,
married first, Harriet Keyes, second, 
Carter, widow; iv. Alary, born September 17,
1788, married Jonathan Jones; v. Lucinda,
born April 10, 1790, died February 19, 1845;
vi. Josiah, born December 10, 1791 ; vii.
Asenath, born April 25, 1800, married first
John Withington, second Abel Ward. (Jo
siah Wetherbee, son of Daniel, married Abi
gail Jones, born July 12, 1786; children; i.
Isaac Josiah, born Alarch 9, 1817; married
January 3, 1837, Sarah Abigail Sheldon, born
April 27, 1819, and had George Sylvester,
born October 10, 1838, died October 13, 1838.
2. Marcia Alaria, born June 8, 1818 ; married
April 17, 1838, Jaraes Henry Schultz, and had;
Catherine Abigail Schultz, Calista Alaria
Schultz, Amanda Ursula Schultz, Ellen
Schultz. 3. Sylvester George, born October
3, 1822 ; died August 7, 1825 ; 4. Daniel Jones,
born May 14, 1826; married August 9, 1849,
Sarah Ann Gilman). 3. Hepsibah, born Feb
ruary 28, 1760, married Nathan Hewitt. 4.
Isaac, born Septeraber 2, 1761 ; married Han
nah Knapp. 5. Sarah, bom March 30, 1763 ;
married first, Joshua Heald ; second 
Hamblin ; third,  Nesraith. 6. David,
born Alay 31, 1764; married Esther Hathorne.
7. Hannah, born February 16, 1766; married
Tilly Alason. 8. Lucy, born August 4, 1767 ;
married Gregory Farley. 9. Josiah, born
March 17, 1769; married Lavinia Hyde. 10.
Martha, born October 10, 1771 ; raarried Ben
jamin Bachelor. 11. Mary, born November
14, 1773-
(V) Thomas Wetherbee, son of Thomas
Wetherbee, was born at Lunenburg, August
7, 1757, and died at Ludlow, Vermont. He
was educated in the district school and resided
in Rindge until 1800, when he removed to New
Ipswich, and afterward to Ludlow, Vermont.

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BOSTON AJSFD EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

He was deacon of the church. He married at
Rindge, New Hampshire, June 23, 1788, Abi
gail Meriah Sawtelle, born January 18, 1763,
daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Holden)
SawteUe. She was a school teacher at Rindge.
They had twenty-one children, all but the eld
est dying unnamed in infancy.
(VI) Luther Wetherbee, son of Thomas
Wetherbee, was born at Rindge, New Hamp
shire, March 18, 1789, and died at Ludlow,
Vermont, August 15, 1867. He was educated
in the district school and taught in the Ludlow
district school. It is related that the first day
he taught in the school was exceedingly try
ing. The scholars were many of them as large
as the teacher and did all they could to get
the best of the master. They filed into the
roora, each with a log of wood on his shoulder,
which he threw on the floor, making a wood
pile in the raiddle of the room. The second
day the same trick was attempted, but the
master stood behind the door and the first
pupil who entered with a log of wood was
felled to the floor. The second met with a
like fate, and the raaster had no more trouble.
After teaching a short time he followed the
carpenter's trade for many years, until he was
obliged to give it up on account 'of blindness.
He becarae blind about twenty years before his
death. He was very fond of reading and was
well informed in the topics of the times. He
was a fervent member of the Orthodox church
at Ludlow, and served as deacon many years.
He belonged to the Whig party in politics, and
took a lively interest in his party. He was a
member of Black River Lodge, No. 85, Free
Masons, at Ludlow. He married November
21, 1811, Nancy Kendall, bom June 21, 1793,
died May i, 1872. Children; i. Thoraas Ken
dall, born Noveraber 27, 1812; died in New
York, July, 1842. 2. Alaria, born May 23,
1815; died February 22, 1892; married No
vember 12, 1835, Charles Caldwell; children;
i. Maria Elizabeth CaldweU, born March 25,
1837, (raarried July 17, i860, William Gushing
Haskins, of Aledford, born February 18, 1838,
died F'ebruary 17, 1892; child: i. Hannah
Gushing Haskins, born July 21, 1861, married
first, Alarch 29, 1882, Frank J. Coburn, of
Medford, born Alarch 22, 1853, died Novem
ber 4, 1894, son of Jonas and Sarah (Free
man) Coburn; married second. May 6, 1900,
Dr. Frederick W. Jackson, of Jefferson,
Alaine, born September 9, 1858, son of Jo
seph and Arietta (Flagg) Jackson; children;
i. Marion Coburn, bom Alarch 15, 1883, raar
ried December i, 1906, Ralph Underdown

Sawyer, of West Medford, and had John Co-
burn Sawyer, born February 21, 1908; ii.
Alice Coburn, born May 20, 1884, married
October 8, 1907, Winthrop Irving Nottage, of
West Medford ; iii. William Haskins Coburn,
born March 8, 1890; and by second husband,
iv. Frederick Jackson, born February 20,
1903. 2. Harriet Caldwell, born February
29, 1864, died January 19, 1869. 3. WiUiam
Haskins (2nd), born January 23, 1870, died
April 24, 1899, married Mabel Hutchins, of
Medford, and had Elizabeth Haskins, born
October 20, 1895, died July 24, 1896. 4. Alice
Berais Haskins, born July 9, 1874, died Au
gust 5, 1903, married June 28, 1900,
Arthur Choate Crombie, and had twins —
Elizabeth Crombie, bom November 6, 1901,
died Septeraber 3, 1902, and Barbara
Crombie, died July 18, 1905; 5. Helen
Marion Haskins, born August 6, 1876,
died December 11, 1877). 3. Nancy, born
October 13, 1817; died March 8, 1902;
married October 29, 1839, E. S. Morgan, of
South Woodstock, Vermont, born May 14,
1814: children: i. George R. Morgan, born
September 26, 1848; ii. Mary M. Morgan,
born January 3, 1854, married  Cowr
dray, of Verraont; iii. Homer L. Morgan,
born February 29, 1856. 4. Adelaide, born
Septeraber i, 1819; died July 16, 1850; raar
ried Horace Putnara. 5. Melinda, born Sep
tember 14, 1822 ; died June 14, 1905 ; married
October 18, 1841, George Bent Green, of Mt.
Holly, Vermont ; children ; i. Darius Alonzo
Green, bom January 24, 1843, married June
13, 1866, Harriet O. Emery, of Medford, and
had Winthrop Darius Green, and George
Emery Green; ii. Charles Montreville Green,
born December 18, 1850, married June 29,
1876, Helen Al. Ware, of Medford, and had
Robert Montreville Green ; iii. Luther Lorenzo
Green, born October 10, 1856, married Oc
tober 27, 1880, Alice J. GiU, of Medford, had
two children ; iv. George Wetherbee Green,
born November 29, 1862, married October 18,
1888, Annie C. Bowers, had Dorothy Green.
6. Eliphalet Sawtelle, born June 21, 1823;
mentioned below. 7. Tyler L., born July 21,
1825 ; died December 29, 1871 ; raarried Eliz
abeth Long, of Chester, New Hampshire, who
died December 14, 1900, aged sixty-seven
years. Children; Caroline L., married John
F. Murphy ; Melinda, married ElLsworth L.
Chase. 8. Louisa, born June 30, 1828 ; died
October 28, 1887; married Ezra H. Hatch,
who died June 17, 1894, at Benton, Maine.
9. CaroHne Persis, born September 23, 1830;

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1801

•died May 14, 1903; married March 21, 1854,
William Lake Sweatt, who died December 23,
1894, aged sixty-one; children: i. Adelaide
Louise Sweatt, born March 8, 1855, married
December 27, 1877, Joseph Henry Eaton, of
Arlington, and had Carrie B. Eaton, born
February 18, 1879, died March 18, 1879,
Charles S. Eaton, born January 28, 1880,
(married April 29, 1903, Emma R. Withing
ton, and had Chester Charles Eaton, born Oc
tober 6, 1904, and Joseph W. Eaton, born No
vember 25, 1907), Arthur L. Eaton, born
January 17, 1882, died young, and Mildred
Eaton, born January 17, 1896; died young;
ii. Frederick W. Sweatt, born March i, 1859,
¦died November 2, 1904, married January 9,
1880, Alice Burns, of Portland, Maine ; mU.
Nancy Jane Sweatt, born September 14, 1861,
married February 18, 1885, Charles Puffer,
and had Marion Brackett Puffer, born March
6, 1890. 10. Levi Ivers, born December 6,
1833 ; died March 24, 1886 ; married March
20, 1859, Mary Ellen Cram, of Ludlow ; chil
dren; i. Henry, born October 6, 1861, died
October 29, 1861 ; ii. Minnie, born August 31,
1864, died May 17, 1900, married February
22, 1892, J. Fred McCloud, of Arlington, and
had Kenneth McCloud, born August 13, 1895 ;
iii. Walter Levi, born June 7, 1869; iv. Ivers
Loring, born May 14, 1874; v. Clarence Al
fred, born October 28, 1875, married August,
1904, Beatrice Maud Tutten, of West Med
ford, and had Beatrice Ellen, born December
20, 1905, and Evelyn, born June 15, 1907. 11.
Charles I., born January 23, 1836; died Au
gust 18, 1882, crushed under his team; mar
ried Elizabeth Cole. 12. Luther, born Sep
tember 3, 1840; died young.
(VII) Eliphalet SawteUe Wetherbee, son
of Luther Wetherbee, was born at Ludlow,
Vermont, June 21, 1823, and died at Lexing-
¦ton, Massachusetts, October 23, 1906, aged
€iglity-three years four months two days. He
attended the district school of his native town
in a time-worn building where several gener
ations of farmers' sons had learned the rudi
ments of an education. At ten he went to live
with Charies Ives in his native town, and
worked on the farm until he was twenty years
¦old. Then he decided to seek a new field of
larger opportunity than that of his native
town. He sent his trunk by freight and him
self walked to Boston, with the intention of
going to sea, but his experience with a pro
fane and bellicose old skipper led him to re
consider his purpose. He took his belongings
to Lexington and finally found a job at Tops-

field. He worked on a farm there two years,
on another at Danvers three years for Rev.
Mr. Tenbrook, an Episcopalian minister, and
then for one year at Medford, Massachusetts,
on the farm of Edwin T. Hastings, a wealthy
oil merchant, of Boston. About 1848 he sign
ed a contract with William E. Kingsbury, an
enterprising market-gardener of Roxbury,
Massachusetts, as superintendent. Afterward
he held a similar position on the adjoining
farm owned by Aaron E. Williams for the
period of twenty-four years, evidence of his
superior skill in this business and of the ex
cellent relations he enjoyed with his employer.
He left Mr. Williams to invest his savings in
a farm of his own. In 1878 he bought the
Johnson farm at North Lexington, and made
a specialty of his dairy. He had a herd rang
ing from fifty to sixty cows of fancy stock,
and owned a milk route in Roxbury. He was
very successful in this venture and acquired
a competence. He remained in the dairy and
milk business to the end of his days. He was
at one time interested as a stockholder in the
Boston Lead Company. He was a typical self-
made man, starting in life with but little
schooling and no advantages of property or
influence, and fiUed the humblest positions
with ability. He made his way in the world
by dint of quiet industry, husbanding his sav
ings and keeping step with the advance in ag
ricultural methods and ideas. He was essen
tially progressive, of sterling comraon sense
and exceptional business ability. His person
ality was pleasing. He made many friends
not only in business but in social life. He
was thoroughly upright in all his dealings.
He was brought up a Methodist and re
mained a member of that church all his adult
years. He was treasurer and trustee of the
Methodist church of Roxbury, and always an
active and zealous member. In politics he
was a Repubhcan, and while interested in pub
lic affairs never was active. His chief inter
ests was his home and his business. During
the civil war he served in the Roxbury Horse
Guards and did his duty in Boston in sup
pressing the draft riots.
He married, Noveraber 30, 1848, Eliza Mas
sey Pike, born Noveraber 6, 1825, daughter
of John and Mercy (McMiUan) Pike, of Dan
vers, Massachusetts, descendant of James
Pike, who settled in Charlestown before 1647
and removed to Reading, Massachusetts. Her
father was a blacksmith. Children: i. George
Tyler, born January 2, 1850; married May 9,
1877, Mrs. Lilla (Hardway) Gurley of Mari-

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BOSTON AND E.'VSTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

etta, Ohio, daughter of Frederick and Priscilla
(Whipping) Hardway; children; i. Herbert
Eliphalet, born May 4, 1878, married October
31, 1906, Lena Johns, of AVellington, Ohio. 2.
Annie Florilla, born November 18, 1852 ; mar
ried March 24, 1880, WilHam Hadley
Whittaker, of Lexington ; children : i. Bertha
Esther AVhittaker, born March 4, 1881 ;
ii. Ethel Florilla Whittaker, March 28,
1884. 3. Herbert, May 7, 1856; mar
ried first, January 17, 1877, Louise
Aleserve, of Roxbury ; , second, Florence
Davis, of AVorcester ; children of first
wife; i. Alice Louise, born April 8, 1878; ii.
George Aleserve, born Septeraber 29, 1881,
married June 19, 1901, Harriet Maud Beem,
of East Alachias, Alaine (children; i. Vivian
Beem, born September 6, 1902 ; ii. Richard
Meserve, born April 2, 1904; iii. Hortense,
born April 23, 1907). 4. Fannie, born July
28, 1861,

The earliest records of the Peirce
PEIRCE family in this country relate to
one Abraham Peirce, of Boston
and Salem. His marriage is recorded thus ;
"Abraham Pierce and Isabel Witherspoon,
both of Boston, Joyned in marriage Alarch
nth 1686-7 by Rev. John Bayley, at AVater-
town, Mass. Recorded June 9, 1687 by L.
Hammond, Clerk of the County Court, East
Carabridge, Mass." They had one son, Sara
uel, born May 10, 1689. Abrahara Peirce's
name appears on the Salem town records
many times. He was chosen constable in 1709,
Alarch 20, and March 24, 171 1; was chosen
tythingman for the ensuing year ; was chosen
deacon in 1713. He is several times mention
ed in land transactions. March 20, 1710,
Abraham Pears and fifty others sign a petition
for a new raeeting house. The Abraham
Peirce farra, South Peabody, Massachusetts,
is on the Ipswich road, and one of the oldest
in Essex county. The naraes of the descend
ants of Abrahara Peirce figure conspicuously
in the records of Salera, Andover and Boston.
The narae is spelled Pers, Pears, Pearce,
Pierce and Peirce on the early records.
AVilliara Peirce, father of Isaac Newton
Peirce, of this review, was born in Green
field, Massachusetts, February 7, 1806, died
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 22, 1883.
He was the son of Proctor and Susanna
(Newton) Peirce. At the age of ten years
William Peirce came from his home at Green
field to Carabridge and became an apprentice
for General Samuel T. Armstrong, publisher

and bookseller, in his store then known as 50
Cornhill, Boston, now (1907) Washington
street. After finishing his apprenticeship with
General Armstrong he engaged in business
as a bookseller at 9 Cornhill, Boston, under
the firm narae of Peirce & Parker, where he
remained until 1838-39, when he removed his
business to Andover, Massachusetts. He was
appointed postmaster at Andover, Alay 18,
1 84 1, and to the same position at Lawrence
in 1849. Retiring from these positions he was
appointed to a clerkship at the custom house
in Boston, which he held until April, 1854,
when he was appointed clerk of the Massa
chusetts state prison in Charlestown. He
held this position twenty-eight years and seven
raonths, resigning in November, 1882. In
1856 he removed from Andover to Carabridge,
and from the latter place to Charlestown in
1859. September 2, 1827, he was admitted a
member of Park Street Church, and his wife,
Ellen (Prentiss) Peirce, was admitted a mem
ber June 2, 1827 ; Rev. Edward Beecher was
the pastor. In 1840 he took letters for himself
and wife from Park Street Church, Boston,
to the South Congregational Church in An
dover, where he was elected clerk of the
church in 1846-48, superintendent of the Sun
day school, and moderator in 1850. For four
teen years Mr. Peirce took a special interest
in a raission Sunday school which had been
established on Bunker Hill street. He became
identified with the First Congregational
Church in Charlestown, where he was elected
scribe on January 7, 1861, deacon of the
church January 10, 1862, filling both positions
until his death. He was a Mason, belonging
to St. Matthew's Lodge, Andover, in which
he filled the position of chaplain. William
Peirce was married, June 7, 1831, at the house
of Mark Weare, 21 Poplar street, Boston, by
Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., to Ellen Prentiss,
born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 31,
1808, died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, May
29, 1872, daughter of Jonas and Helen (Whit
temore) Prentiss. During his entire life Mr.
Peirce was a friend of the unfortunate, the
helper to a better life of the fallen, and a true-
hearted christian man.
Isaac Newton Peirce, son of WiUiam and
Ellen (Prentiss) Peirce, was born in Andover,
Alassachusetts, "Seminary Hill", March 13,
1843, died in Newton, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 20, 1907. During his boyhood years his
parents moved from Andover to Cambridge,
and later to Charlestown. He received his
education in the pubhc schools of Carabridge.

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1803

For many years after completing his school
ing he served as bookkeeper with the Tucker
Manufacturing Company, and for nineteen
years was actively interested with the firm of
Joel Goldthwait & Company, carpet dealers,
remaining with them until the business closed-
December 31, 1901. He was initiated in
Bunker HiU Lodge, No. 14, I. O. O. F., Oc
tober 4, 1869, and served as noble grand from
January, 1875, to July, 1875; initiated in
Bunker HiU Encarapraent, No. 5, same order,
December 5, 1872, served as chief patriarch
of same from July, 1876, to January, 1877;
admitted to third degree in Henry Price
Lodge, F. A. M., May 24, 1882, and served
as worshipful raaster frora October, 1891, to
October, 1893; initiated in Waverly Chapter,
R. A. M., December 5, 1894; Melrose Coun
cil, R. S. M., November 20, 1893; Hugh de
Payens Commandery, No. 20, K. T., March
13, 1895 ; admitted meraber of Newton Royal
Arch Chapter, February 19, 1907. Frora the
formation of the Crow Club of Charlestown
in 1875 until his death he served in the ca
pacity of secretary. During his early man
hood he was a member of the Charlestown
Cadets. He was a member of the Eliot Con
gregational Church, and his political affilia
tions were with the Republican party. He
was a loyal and patriotic citizen, a man of high
ideals in friendship, fraternity and business,
and his demise was sincerely deplored ty all
who knew him. Isaac N. Peirce was married
first, by Rev. Roscoe L. Greene, of Charles
town, Massachusetts, at the home of the
bride's uncle, Wendall P. Van Kleeck, Bunker
Hill street, Charlestown, January 17, 1884, to
Frances Priscilla, daughter of Parker and
Cynthia (de les Dernier) Lynch. She was
born at Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia, Septem
ber 26, 1847, died at 39 Wildwood street, Win
chester, Alassachusetts, January 14, 1892,
buried in Elm Avenue cemetery, Cambridge.
He was married second, by Rev. Leighton
Parks, D. D., of Boston, at the home of the
bride's father, 277 Beacon street, to Elizabeth
Brown, daughter of John and Helen (Brown)
Goldthwait, of .Boston, April 3, 1902. Mr.
Peirce had one son by the first wife, Frederick
Newton, born at 25 Green street, Charlestown,
Massachusetts, February 2, 1885.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. (Goldthwait) Peirce is a
lineal deecendant of Thomas Goldthwait, the
ancestor of all of the name in the United
States (see Goldthwait). She traces her ma
ternal ancestry to Richard Brown (i), who
came from England in the ship "Elizabeth

and Dorcas", in 1634, with his brother George,
who died in 1642. Richard wintered in Ips
wich, Massachusetts, helping to begin that
plantation. He went to Newbury and was one
of the first settlers in 1635. He was admitted
freeman in May, 1635. His first wife, Edith
Brown, died in April, 1647. His second wife,
Elizabeth (Badger) Brown, was widow of
Giles Badger, and daughter of Samuel Green
leaf. He was the father of eight children.
He died April 26, 1661. Richard Brown (2),
born February 18, 165 1, married Mary Jac
ques. Richard (3), born September 12, 1675,
raarried Martha Whipple, of Ipswich, daugh
ter of Alajor John and Catherine (Frost)
AAHiipple. He was a minister of the gospel.
WilHam Brown (4), born at Newbury,
January 24, 1707, married Ann Poor,
daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca (Hale)
Poor, of Newbury. They had ten chil
dren, araong whom was Sarauel (5),
born December 13, 1752, married Han
nah Stone. They had a son Charles (6),
born February 24, 1792, raarried Elizalaeth
Chandler Hunt, at his father's mansion house,
March 28, 1819, the ceremony being perform
ed by the Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D. He settled
in Boston. By an act of legislature, Alarch
24, 1843, his name was changed to that of
Charles H. Brown. Their daughter Helen,
born April 29, 1826, raarried, July 16, 1851,
John Goldthwait, and they were the parents
of Elizabeth B. (Goldthwait) Peirce.

(For ancestry see Thomas Goldthwait 1).
(V) Ezekiel Goldthwait,
GOLDTHWAIT son of Sarauel Gold
thwait (4), was born at
Sraithfield, Rhode Island, October i8, 1748.
He received his early education in the Friends'
School of his native city. His parents re
raoved to Northbridge when he was twelve
years old, and he worked with his father on
the farra until April i, 1775, when his father
gave him a tract of land upon which he went
to live with his young wife and on which he
remained until 1784, when he bought of the
heirs of Richard Derby by deed dated Feb
ruary 7, 1784, a farra in his father's native
town, Danvers, Alassachusetts, and removed
thither with his family. This farra was on the
Great Road from Boston to Salem and was
forraerly known as the Ivers and later as the
Derby farra. In the purchase was included
"a pew in the meeting house of South Dan
vers where Mr. Holt preaches and now occu
pied by one Joseph Flint." Ezekiel Gold-

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

thwait has left a record of some of his ex
periences in making the change of residence
in an old account book under date of Febru
ary 4, 1784. "I, Ezekiel Goldthwait of North-
bridge in the county of Worcester bought a
farm in Danvers and determined to move di
rectly to it, but through disappointment
through selling my farm in Northbridge as I
expected I let it to Amos Flint who was on
the farm when I bought it which proved an
injury to rae. May 3, 1784, I set out with my
family (except my second son in his 9th year
I left Avith his grandfather Adams) and I ar
rived in Danvers May the 5th with ray family
well through the goodness of God which I
hope forever to remember. May 3, 1785, I
brought my son Joel from his grandfather's
and I saw a snow bank of considerable length
in the town of Lynn." Ezekiel Goldthwait
died very suddenly June 18, 1800, of a disease
resembling Asiatic cholera. He was a raan of
many good principles and honest purposes,
and was highly esteemed by all his townsmen.
He married, December 3, 1772, Anna Adams,
born April 8, 1754, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Dean) Adams, and twin sister of
Israel Adaras. The Adaras family lived in
that part of Sutton set off as Northbridge in
1780. Children: i. Ezekiel, born January i,
1774; married Polly Fuller. 2. Joel, born
January 9, 1776; died unraarried January i,
1853 ; was a baker at Salem, Massachusetts,
his bakeshop being situated in the west part
of Essex street, near the present site of Grace
Church. 3. Elijah, born October 12, 1777;
died at sea. May 2, 1800. 4. Prudence, born
October 14, 1779; married Jonathan Wilson.
5. Beulah, born October 31, 1781 ; married
Stephen B. Dockham. 6. Lucinda, born Sep
tember 16, 1783; married first, Ezra Dodge;
second, Stephen Fogg. 7. Luther, born Janu-
ton City Hospital. Pie was a large stockholder
ary 12, 1786; raarried Hannah Meader Law
rence. 8. Moses, born September 29, 1787;
raentioned below. 9. Willard, born July 6,
1790; raarried Dolly Johnson. 10. Aaron, born
Noveraber 6, 1793; married Christiana Pea
body. II. Anna, born March 8, 1797; died
June 24, 1880; married William Johnson; no
children. (VI) Moses Goldthwait, son of Ezekiel
Goldthwait (5), was born at South Danvers,
Massachusetts, September 29, 1787, and died
July 13, 1864. He married, May 31, 1812,
Margaret G. Garney, of Marblehead, born De
cember, 1791, and died November 17, 1875.
ChUdren; i. Aloses Jr., born August 18, 1812;

married Elizabeth Barker Wormstead. 2.
Margaret, born Febmary. 7, 1815 ; died April,
1894; married John Stevens, of Marblehead;
children; John H. Stevens, Frank Stevens,
Augusta Stevens. 3. Susan L., born January
I, 1817; died August 8, 1894; married John
Gardner. 4. Anna A., born October 8, 1819;
died April, 1863 ; married William Lamprell ;
had no children. 5. John, born July 2, 1823 ;
mentioned below. 6. Benjamin F., born July
I, 1825; died February 23, 1904; married El-
mira Porter ; no children. 7. Joel, born April
4, 183 1 ; died May 29, 1901 ; married EUen A.,
daughter of Jasper and Lucy (Whipple)
Rand ; no children. 8. William Johnson, born
May 7, 1834; married Mary L. Pitman.
(VII) John Goldthwait, son of Moses Gold
thwait, was born at Marblehead, July 2, 1823,
and died at 277 Beacon street, Boston, Janu
ary 16, 1899. He attended the district schools
of his native town, and when he had but just
reached his teens carae to Boston to begin life
on his own account. After trying various oc
cupations he became a clerk in the old com
mercial house of Kindmouth & Company, at
the corner of Washington street and Temple
Place, the present site of the dry goods house
of Houston & Henderson. In 1844 Mr. Gold
thwait entered partnership with RusseU Bates,
under the firm name of Bates & Goldthwait,
on Washington street, near CornhiU, in the
carpet trade, and the firm continued with
marked success until the death of Mr. Bates
Shortly afterward Mr. Goldthwait

in I
also retired, and the business was continued
by Joel Goldthwait, Snow & Knight. The
firm becarae Joel Goldthwait & Company and
the high reputation and prestige of the busi
ness was maintained. Joel Goldthwait had
been in the employ of his brother's firm since
Noveraber i, 1847, when he began as a sales
man. Both brothers were well and favorably
known, not only in Boston but throughout
New England, and their house stood among
the forem.ost in the carpet trade for many
years. The store of Joel Goldthwait was at
165 to 169 Washington street, the present site
of the Alartin building. The building at 43
and 45 Washington street, six stories high,
with marble front, was erected by John
Goldthwait and occupied by the business. This
Goldthwait firm is the oldest in this line of
business in the city. John Goldthwait was
prudent and sagacious in business, straightfor
ward, upright, self-reliant, of sound judgment
and sterling integrity. His advice and counsel
was often sought by other business raen and

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was freely given. He was an authority on
subjects pertaining to the carpet and kindred
business. He was a charter member of Eman
uel Unitarian Church, of which Bishop Hun
tington was formerly the minister. Mr.
Goldthwait was also a parishioner of Dr.
Huntington, when he became rector of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, Boston. In pol
itics he was a Republican, and at one time
served the city of Boston in the common coun
cil, and for many years as trustee of the Bos
ton City Hospital. He was a large stockholder
in the old Middlesex Horse Railroad Com
pany. He was a member of the Boston Art
Qub. He married, July 16, 185 1, Helen
Brown, born April 29, 1826, at Boston, and
died May 5, 1880, at Boston, daughter of
Charles H. and Elizabeth (Hunt) Brown, of
Boston. Children : i . Elizabeth Brown, born
at Boston, June 12, 1852; married by Rev.
Leighton Parks, D. D., April 3, 1902, to Isaac
Newton Peirce, of Charlestown, Massachu
setts. (See Peirce). 2. Helen Maria, born
June 13, 1854; married, November 12, 1884,
Simon Davis, of Charlestown, son of Silas
and Mercy Elizabeth (Taylor) Davis. Chil
dren ; i. Helen Goldthwait Davis, born August
21, 1885; ii. EHzabeth Goldthwait Davis, born
December 16, 1888, died August 27, 1889 ; iii.
John, born September 25, 1891 ; iv. Elizabeth
Brown Davis, bom March 10, 1898. 3. Qiarles
Brown, born January 18, 1856; died March
30, 1897 ; married, December, 1893, Caroline
Alexander, of Alalden, Massachusetts; and
had a son Crawford, born Alarch 11, 1890.
4. John B., died in Alay, 1863, aged three
months.

Henry BodweU, immigrant
BODWELL ancestor, was born in Eng
land in 1654. He was a sol
dier in King Philip's war in 1676 and took
part in the battle of Bloody Brook. His left
arm was broken by a musket ball and he was
surrounded by Indians, but seizing his gun in
his right hand and swinging it about he mowed
a swath through the savages and escaped. He
was admitted a freeman in 1678. He resided
in Newbury a short time and his eldest chUd
was bom there in 1682. He removed
to Andover, where he was living m
1685, and finally to HaverhiU, where in 1693
his father-in-law, John Emery, of Newbury,
gave him and his wife a hundred acres of
land. In 171 2 he was living in Haverhill, a
renowned hunter and a terror to hostile In
dians. He is said to have shot an Indian on

the opposite bank of the Merrimac, when the
enemy, deeming himself out of range, was
making insulting gestures. Bodwell's Ferry
and Bodwell's Falls were naraed for him. He
married. May 4, 1681, Bethia Emery, daughter
of John J. and Mary (Webster) Emery, of
Newbury. Sergeant John Emery Jr. came to
Newbury in 1636; married Mary Webster,
daughter of John and Mary (Shatswell)
AA''ebster, October 24, 1648; was a selectman
1670-73 ; juror 1675-76 ; appointed to carry
the votes to Salem 1675-76; tythingman in
1679 ; owned eighty acres of land at Artichoke
or Raspberry river, of which half was given
him by his father and some of it is at the
present time owned by his descendants. Em
ery's mill was on the site now known as Cur-
zon's mills at Newburyport. Emery was ad
mitted a freeman Alay 30, 1660 ; his will was
dated August 3, 1793; his wife died February
3, 1709. ChUdren of John Jr. and Mary Em
ery : I. Mary, born June 24, 1652. 2. Han
nah, April 26, 1654. 3. John, September 12,
1656, died July 14, 1730. 4. Bethia, Octo
ber 15, 1658, mentioned alDove. 5. Sarah,
February 26, 1660. 6. Joseph, March 23,
1663, died at Andover, Septeraber 22, 1721.
7. Stephen, September 6, 1666. 8. Abigail,
January 16. 1668. 9. Samuel, Deceraber 20,
1670. 10. Jtfdith, February 5, 1673. ^^¦
Lydia, February 19, 1675. 12. Elizabeth, Feb
ruary 8, 1680. 13. Josiah, February 28, 1681,
married AbigaU Moody. Children of Henry
and Bethia BodweU: i. Bethia, born June 2,
1682. 2. Mary, April i, 1684. 3. Henry, Jan
uary 27, 1685 (twin). 4. Josiah, (twin), Jan
uary 27, 1685. 5. Abigail, January 15, 1686.
6. Henry, November 6, 1688; son Henry mar
ried Mary Robinson ; their son Joseph raarried
Mary How ; their .son Hon. Joseph Bodwell,
bom June 18, 1818, resided at Methuen until
1852 ; removed to Maine and became governor
of the state; died December 15, 1887. 7.
James, January 16, 1691, raentioned below. 8.
Daniel, February 14, 1693. 9. Sarah, Decem
ber I, 1694. 10. Hannah, September i, 1696.
II. Judith, April 4, 1698. 12. Ruth, December
2, 1699. 13. Infant, July 10, 1701, died young.
(II) James Bodwell, son of Henry Bod
well, was born January 16, 1691, in Andover,
Massachusetts. He removed to Haverhill with
his parents and later in life was of Methuen,
adjoining Haverhill. He died in Methuen in
1746. His will was dated March 19, 1745,
and proved July 7, 1746. He married Sarah
 . Children, mentioned in the will: i.
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Timothy Myrick. 3. Hannah, married John
Hibbard. 4. Jaraes Jr.
(Ill) Stephen Bodwell, son of James Bod
well, was born at Alethuen about 1720, died
in 1803 at Methuen. His will is dated No
vember ID, 1797, and was proved July 6, 1803.
He married Ruth  . Children, born in
Methuen, mentioned in his will; i. Sarah,
married Nathaniel Hibbard. 2. Ruth, raarried
Moses Emery. 3. Lydia, married Solomon
Worth. 4. C3live, married  Davis and
had Moses Davis and Abigail Davis, of Bak-
erstown. 5. Alary, married Silas Brown. 6.
Abigail, died unmarried 1834, mentioning in
her will the children of her brother William
and sisters Sarah, Ruth, Lydia, Mary, Olive;
Edna was the only one surviving Abigail. 7.
Abiah, unmarried. 8. Edna. 9. William, men
tioned below.
(IV) William BodweU, son of Stephen
Bodwell, was born at Methuen about 1750.
He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain
John Peabody's company. Colonel Ebenezer
Francis's regiraent in 1776; also in Captain
John Willey's company, Colonel Michael Jack
son's regiment 1777-79, giving his age as eigh
teen, his height five feet, four inches,
hair and coraplexion light and his resi
dence Methuen. He was at West Point
in the Continental service, 1779; was
in Captain Abner Wade's corapany. Col
onel Jackson's Eighth regiment in 1780. He
married Sarah  . Stephen Barker, pre-
.suraably a relative of his wife, was on the
comraittee appointed by the court to set off the
widow's dower rights, in the real estate. The
name has been preserved in the family.
Among his children, various deeds indicate
there were: i. Zadock, mentioned below. 2.
Joseph, who deeded certain land to Zadock in
September, 1805. 3. John L., who deeded to
Zadock September 28, 1809. 4. Isaac.
(V) Zadock Bodwell, son of William Bod
well, was born about 1780 in Methuen. He
married Olive Barker, August 27, 1800. His
will was dated Alarch 7, 1839, and proved
October 15, 1839, soon after his deatli. He
lived at Bradford for a tirae and while there
bought of Ebenezer Merrill, of Methuen, for
ty acres with houses and other buildings and
various lots in Methuen by deed dated Sep
tember 5, 1799. ChUdren: i. Leonard, born
January 10, 1801, died August i, 1829, in the
west. 2. Nelson, born September 25, 1803. 3.
Zadock, bom September 2, 1805, died in the
we.st. 4. Asa M., born March 2, 1812, died
July II, 1891, at Lawrence, Massachusetts; he

was born in what is now known as the old
Tarbox homestead on the Howe road in Me
thuen, better known as Buckly street, and his
whole life with the exception of a few years
in the west was spent in Lawrence and Me
thuen ; after his birth the family removed
from Alethuen to Haverhill street, Lawrence,
where he lived and died; in 1875 he built a
spacious brick mansion on the site of the old
dwelling which he moved and thereafter occu
pied it for his home; it was nurabered 589; he
was a farmer all liis life; belonged to the
Farmers' Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Me
thuen, and of the Farmers' Alliance. 5. Na
thaniel, born August 5, 1814. 6. Joseph R.,
born August 11, 1817. 7. George W., born
November 5, 1821, veteran of civil war and
was present at the capture of Jeff. Davis. 8.
Stephen Barker, mentioned below.
(VI) Stephen Barker Bodwell, son of Za
dock Bodwell, was born in Methuen, Novem
ber 13, 1823. He was educated in the public
schools. He reraoved to Lawrence with his
father's faraily and lived on Haverhill street.
He was by occupation a farmer. In religion
he was a Universalist, and in politics a Repub
lican. He married first, Elizabeth Dunlap;
children ; Stephen Byron, Albert, Leonard and
George. He raarried second,  Brown;
no children; raarried third, Aldana Spear;
Stephen Byron, raentioned below.
(VII) Stephen Byron Bodwell, son of Ste
phen Barker BodweU, was born in Methuen,
November 18, 1846. He was educated in the
public schools of Lawrence. He worked on
the farm of his father on Haverhill street,
Lawrence, during his youth. He enlisted in
the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment, First
Heavy ArtUlery, during the civil war and
served three years. Afterward he worked for
a time in Lowell, then engaged in the railroad
business and became the road master of the
southern division of the Boston & Maine raU
road. Later he accepted a position as assis
tant superintendent of streets in Lawrence,
then bought out the Wilson Building Moving
Company, and about a year later he bought
out a general contracting, concreting and as
phalting business, in which he has been very
successful. He is a member of Lanson Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is
quartermaster. He is a member of the Free
Masons, Commandery, No. 17, Knights Temp
lar, and of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, No. 65. In politics he is a Re
publican and takes a keen interest in public
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kind. He married, September 16, 1865, Sarah
Diana PIUl, born at Alilton, Vermont, July 30,
1846, daughter of Warren and Nancy (Crean)
Hill, of Milton. Children, born at Lawrence ;
I. WilHam, April 25, 1868, died same day.
2. Alinnie Elizabeth, November 13, 1869, mar
ried, 1891, J. Allen Robbins, of 'Wahham. 3.
Olive, November 23, 1872 ; married E. H.
Hohon.

(For early generations see John Stevens 1).
(Ill) Captain James Stevens,
STEVENS son of Deacon Joseph Stevens
(2), was born in Andover,
1685 ; died May 25, 1769, aged eighty-four
years. He was in the French and Indian wars,
1744 to 1749, and commanded a company of
Andover men in the Cape Breton expedition,
taking part in the capture of Louisburg. With
others of this army he petitioned for a grant
of land for services, Noveraber 22, 175 1, and
received land in the province of Maine. He
was a prorainent raan in his day ; selectman
in 1742; town treasurer 1721-29 and 1733-34.
He married, Alarch, 171 2, Dorothy Frye, born
1695, died 1751. Children; James, mention
ed below ; Joseph ; Benjamin ; probably several
daughters. (IV) Ensign James Stevens, son of Cap
tain James Stevens (3), was born in Andover,
in 1720; married, 1746, Sarah Peabody, born
1728, died 1808, He raised a company in An
dover and fought in the French and Indian
war. He marched to Lake George as ensign
at the head of his company, and died there
of camp fever November 28, 1755, in his thir
ty-fifth year. He was in Captain Abie! Frye's
company. Colonel Williams's regiment. His
widow petitioned for reimbursement for the
loss of personal effects in the service. Chil
dren ; Jonathan, mentioned below ; James ;
Lydia, married  Peters.
(V) Jonathan Stevens, son of James Stev
ens (4), was born in 1747, in Andover, and
died tliere April 13, 1834., aged eighty-seven
years. He was a soldier in the revolution, in
the Andover company, and took part in the
battle of Bunker HiU. On the anniversary of
the battle he invariably invited his comrades
in the fight and entertained them at his home
with hearty old-fashioned hospitality, while
the old veterans fought their battles over
again. He was also in the battle of Ticonder
oga, and a letter to his sister, dated at Pawlet,
October i, 1777, is published in the "History
of Andover," (page 377) . He married, De
cember 15, 1773, Susanna Bragg, born 1755,

died 1840. Children; i. Captain Nathaniel,
mentioned below. 2. William, graduate of
Franklin Academy and Harvard College,
1819; many years judge of municipal court of
Lawrence. 3. Isaac, philanthropist and re
former. (VI) Captain Nathaniel Stevens, son of
Jonathan Stevens (5), was bom in Andover,
October 19, 1786, and died March 7, 1865, at
North Andover. He and liis brother William
were educated in the public schools and Frank
lin Academy. In 1804, after leaving school,
he took a sea voyage to Leghorn as a coramon
sailor before the mast, for the sake of his
health and the experience. He was a trader
in Andover from 1810 to 1812. He was a
lieutenant of the Andover corapany in the war
of 1812, and later was captain. 'The example
and encouragement of his father-in-law, Moses
Hale, started him in the manufacturing bus
iness. Entering partnership with Dr. Joseph
Kittredge and Josiah Alonroe, in 1813, he built
the wooden raill on the site of the first saw
mills on the Cochickawick river, the sarae
building with brick walls instead of wooden
ones being still in use as part of the Stevens
mills. Janies Scholfield was engaged to take
charge of the raill, and Mr. Stevens devoted
his entire attention to raanufacturing. By per
severance and energy he .soon mastered in all
its details the art of manufacturing cloth. He
then decided to give up making broadcloth, in
which he experimented first, because of the
difficulty of making the goods and the uncer
tainty of profit, and began to manufacture
flannels. He was the pioneer in the manufac
ture of flannel in this country. In 1828 and
1 83 1 he bought out his partners and took en
tire charge of the mill and business. He was
warned by well-meaning friends that he wouM
lose his time and sink his capital. Abbot
Lawrence, the importer, especially warned him
that American manufacturers could not com
pete with the British successfully. "Take my
advice," said he, one day, when Mr. Stevens
carried a load of flannels to Boston, "sell out
your mill and go into some other business."
"Never," replied Mr. Stevens, "as long as I
can get water to turn my mill wheel." Captain
Stevens continued despite the discouragements
of small and insufficient capital, of narrow and
inconvenient quarters and of a market flooded
with foreign goods, and against the advice of
his friends, and won a brilliant success even
tually. He lived to become one of the most
wealthy, honored and influential manufactur
ers of the country, a leader in the woolen in-

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dustry of the country, carrying on business
for half a century with continuous success and
increasing volume. Pie had the satisfaction
also of seeing the industry, in which he was a
pioneer, become of giant proportions in the
United States ; he saw American looms pro
ducing- the best goods and winning a place in
the markets of the world, employing millions
of dollars in capital and hundreds of thous
ands of men. Perhaps no one manufacturer
nor single individual in this country contrib
uted more than Mr. Stevens in paving the way
for the textile industries that have held the
prestige of New England when she ceased to
be of importance as an agricultural commun
ity. He opened the way to wealth for the
nation by proving that American raills could be
operated profitably. He was a reraarkably
shrewd and far-sighted business man, of rauch
coramon sense and consuraraate executive abil
ity. He had no precedents to fall back on.
He had to rely on his own discretion in mak
ing goods and marketing them.
He was also generous with the wealth that
carae as a fruit of his enterprise and industry.
He contributed to every charity within his
reach, and was especially eager to contribute
to the welfare and progress of his native town.
He was the leading citizen of North Andover
for raany years. He derived much pleasure
frora the cultivation of the ancestral acres.
He was a man of iron constitution and phe
nomenal industry. Pie used to say that he never
felt fatigue until he was fifty years old. He
was a meraber of the Merrimac Power Asso
ciation, one of the founders of the city of
Lawrence, which was forraerly part of And
over. He believed in the value of sound learn
ing and gave the best possible education to all
of his large family. In politics he was an ar
dent Democrat, a loyal supporter of the An
drew Jackson administration, and formidable
in debate in defending and supporting "Old
Hickory." When the civil war came he was
loyal to the Union, and did his utmost to sup
port the administration in his old age. Three
sons became associated with him in business in
Andover, and all five became prominent manu
facturers. To the sons as well as to the father
the town of Andover, the town of North And
over and all the other villages in which the
faraily has raills owe them a great debt. They
have been model mill proprietors in every
sense of the word.
Mr. Stevens raarried, Noveraber 6, 1815,
Harriet Hale, born August 21, 1794, died Jan
uary 29, 1882, daughter of Moses Hale, of

Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Her father was
a pioneer manufacturer. Children; i. Henry-
H., linen manufacturer at Douglas, Alassachu
setts, 2. Charles A., born 1816 ; died at Ware,,
Massachusetts, April 7, 1892; began to make
woolens at Ware in 1843 in partnership with.
George H. Gilbert; after ten years eacli part
ner continued by himself; married, April 20,.
1842, Maria Tyler; represented his district in
congress and in the governor's council; a Re
publican in politics; son Jonathan Tyler was
also a prominent manufacturer of AVare. 3.
Moses Tyler, mentioned below. 4. George,
connected with the North Andover mills own
ed by his father ; died in middle hfe. 5. Hor
ace N., was connected with the Haverhill and'
North Andover miUs ; died in middle Hfe. 6..
Julia Alaria, married Rev. Sylvan S. Hunting..
7. Catherine, married Hon. Oliver Stevens. 8..
Ann Eliza, married John H. D. Smith.
(VII) Hon. Moses Tyler Stevens, son of
Captain Nathaniel Stevens (6), was born in'
Andover, October 10, 1825. He was educated
in the public schools, at Franklin Academy and'
Phillips Academy of Andover, taking one year
in Dartmouth College. He left college to be
come associated in business with his father,
learned every detail of the manufacture and'
raarketing of flannel, and in 1850 was admitted.
to partnership by his father, under the name-
of Nathaniel Stevens & Son, which partner
ship lasted for a period of twenty-six years_
The firm was dissolved in 1876, about tem
years after the death of the senior partner,
the business being continued by his brothers-
and himself separately. He then began to
manufacture ladies' dress goods. In 1886 his
sons Nathaniel and Sarauel D. Stevens were-
admitted to partnership and the firm name
M. T. Stevens & Sons adopted. In July, 1879,.
Mr. Stevens bought the Marland mills at And
over, established in 1834 by Abrahara Mar-
land, a native of Ashton parish, Lancashire,
England, employing about one hundred and'
fifty hands and manufacturing about five hun
dred thousand pounds of wool yearly. The
Stevens riiills at Haverhill, Andover and North
Andover were connected by telephone soon-
afterward, and the management made easier.
The old raills at North Andover employ about
a hundred hands, using over three hundred
thousand pounds of wool yearly. The Stev
ens firra acquired another mill at Franklin
Falls, New Hampshire. As a manufacturer
of woolen goods Mr. Stevens ranks among
the foremost in the country. He is president
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Webster, Massachusetts. He was conceded
to be the owner of the largest private woolen
establishment in the country.
Air. Stevens was as prominent in public life
as in the business world. He represented his
district in the general court in 1861, and was
state senator in 1868, serving on important
committees. He was the first Democrat elect
ed from his district to congress — the fifth dis
trict, formerly the eighth. In 1890 he defeat
ed Frederick T. Greenhalge, an able and popu
lar congressman, subsequently governor of
Massachusetts. Mr. Stevens was placed on
the ways and means committee and introduced
the bill placing wool on the free list in the
Fifty-second Congress. He was the most
prorainent American woolen manufacturer
favoring free wool, and was a powerful fac
tor in framing tariff legislation. He was re
elected for the next term and again served on
the ways and means committee. The follow
ing editorial from the influential Republican
organ, the Boston Journal, shows his status in
Congress ; "Mr. Aloses T. Stevens is the New
England Democratic member of the ways and
raeans committee. He holds his place secure
ly, and the ingrate tariff reformers had better
beware how they find fault with him. Their
criticisra will not injure Mr. Stevens; he is
too strongly intrenched, but it raay do harm
to the Deraocratic party. Mr. Stevens is a
tariff reformer to the extent of favoring free
raw materials, and he also favors a protective
duty on finished goods, i. e. : he represents
what Governor Russell was protesting only
two short months ago was the tariff policy of
the national Democracy. Yet Mr. Stevens is
now a target of sharp opposition from his
party friends on the ground that he is too little
of a tariff reformer to suit them and too much
of a Protectionist."
Air. Stevens has given freely to public and
private charities. He contributed five thous
and dollars to the Johnson high school build
ing. He has aided the first and second parish
churches generously. He is keenly interested
in all that makes for the material and raoral
welfare of North .Andover. He gave a free
summer resort at Lake Cochickawick for the
poor. He is a director and was formerly pres
ident of the Andover National Bank, trustee
and formerly president of the Andover Sav
ings Bank, and director of the Mutual Fire In
surance Company. In religion Mr. Stevens is
a Unitarian, and is treasurer and one of the
chief supporters of the North Parish churcli.
North Andover, one of the oldest churches of

New England. He was prominent in the Uni
tarian Club which has its home on Beacon
street, Boston. He resides at North Andover.
He married, at North Andover, May 5,
1853, Charlotte Emeline, daughter of Isaac
and Charlotte (Adaras) Osgood. Their three
sons becarae associated with their father as
partners. Children, born at North Andover;
Alary O. ; Nathaniel, married Elizabeth White,
of Haverhill ; Samuel D. ; Virginia ; Helen ;
Aloses Tyler.

Edward Sprague (i), the
SPRAGUE English progenitor of this dis
tinguished American family,
was a resident of Upway, Dorsetshire, where
he died in 1614. He was a fuller by trade.
Earlier in life he lived at Fordington, Dorset
shire. He married and had children ; Ralph,
Alice, Edward, Richard, Christopher, William.
(II) William Sprague, son of Edward
Sprague (i), was born in Dorsetshire, Eng
land. In Prince's Chronology we read ;
"Araong those who arrived in Naumkeag
(Salem) are Ralph Sprague with his brothers
Richard and William, who with three or four
more were by Governor Endicott employed to
explore and take possession of the country to
the westward. They traveled through the
woods to Charlestown, on a neck of land called
Alishawum, between Alystic and Charles riv
er, full of Indians, named Aberginians, with
whora they raade peace." Hon. Edward Ev
erett, in his address commemorative of the
bi-centennial of the arrival of John Winthrop
at Charlestown, said ; "Ralph, Richard and
William Sprague are the founders of the set
tlement in this place, and were persons of sub
stance and enterprise, excellent citizens, gen
erous public benefactors, and the head of a
very large and respectable family of descend
ants." William Sprague remained in Charles
town until 1636, when he settled in Hinghara,
whither he went in a boat, landing on the east
side of the cove, on a tract of land afterward
granted to him by the town, and he became
one of the first planters there. His house lot
is said to have been the pleasantest in the
town. Alaiiy grants of land were made to him
frora 1636 to 1647. He was elected selectman
January 30, 1645, and at various later times ;
was treasurer in 1662 ; constable, fence viewer,
etc., at various times. He deeded to his son
Anthony, February 21, 1673, certain lands for
six and thirty pounds of lawful money of New
England and nine pounds in merchantable coin.
His wife Alillicent was admitted to the

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Charlestown church, April 3, 1635. He died
October 26, 1675-. His will, dated October 19,
1675, bequeathed to wife Millicent; children
Anthony, Samuel, AVilliam, John, Jonathan,
Persis, wife of John Daggett; Johanna, wife
of Caleb Church ; and Mary, wife of Thomas
King. Pie gave to Anthony the sword that
was his brother Richard's. The widow died
February 8, 1695-6. Children; i. Anthony,
born September 2, 1635 ; raarried Elizabeth,
(laughter of Robert Bartlett, of Plyraouth. 2.
John, baptized April, 1638; married, Decem
ber 13, 1666, Elizabeth Holbrook. 3. Samuel,
baptized Alay 24, 1640; reraoved to Marshfield,
where he became secretary of the Plymouth
colony and register of deeds before 1692. 4.
Elizabeth, born 1641, baptized Alay 2, 1641.
5. Jonathan, baptized March 20, 1642; died
July 4, 1647. 6. Persis, baptized November
12, 1643 ; married John Daggett. 7. Joanna,
baptized December, 1645 ; married, Deceraber
16, 1667, Caleb Church. 8. Jonathan, bom
May 28, 1648; mentioned below. 9. William,
born Alay 7, 1650; married Deborah, daugh
ter of Andrew Lane, December 13, 1674. 10.
Alary, baptized May 25, 1652 ; raarried
Thomas King. 11. Hannah, baptized Febru
ary 26, 1655; died Alarch 31, 1658-9.
(Ill) Jonathan Sprague, son of Williara
Sprague (2), was born in Hingham, Massa
chusetts, May 28, 3648. He married Alehita
ble, daughter of William and Elizabeth Hol-
book, and in 1672 they removed to Alendon,
In 1675, when the Narragansett war drove the
settlers frora Mendon, he settled on a sixty
acre lot of land left to him by his father in
Providence, Rhode Island. He aided in sur
veying the eastern line of the colony. His
was a strong, manly character, and was often
honored with positions of trust and responsi
bility by his townsmen. He was a raeraber of
the house of deputies sixteen years between
1695 and 1714; was speaker of the house,
1703; member of the town council, 1705-12;
clerk of the assembly in 1707. In 1703 he was
appointed with two others to draw up rules
for the procedure of the court of common
oleas. The "Annals of Providence" say he
was a decidedly religious man, professed the
Baptist faith, and preached as an exhorter.
He died in 1741. Children of Jonathan and
Mehitable Sprague: i. Jonathan, resided in
Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island, died
April 22, 1764; married, November 28, 1699,
Bethiah Mann, born March 12, 1683, died
April 6, 1712; second, Hannah, widow of Ste
phen Hawkins. 2. Williara, born February 2,

1691 ; mentioned below. 3. Patience, born in
Providence; married WiUiam Jenks. 4. Jo
anna; married John Taft, who died in 1762;
she died in 1757. 5. Mary, married Daniel
Brown. 6. Daughter, married Ebenezer Cook.
(IV) Captain William Sprague, son of Jon
athan Sprague (3), was born February 2,
169T, and resided in Providence, Smithfield,
Rhode Island. Smithfield was set off from
Providence and incorporated as a town in
1730. Sprague was captain of a company in
the Second Regiment of Providence in 1632.
The "History of Woonsocket, R. I.," says :
"For upwards of a century the Spragues were
prominent actors in the religious and political
history of old Springfield." He deeded rauch
land to one cause and another, and large tracts
to his children. He died in Smithfield in 1768.
He married, September 16, 1714, Alice Brown,
born Alay 31, 1691. Children: i. Nehemiah,
born January 5, 1717; mentioned below. 2.
A-lice (or Ales), born October 2, 1720. 3.
Sarah, born February 10, 1722 ; married Wil
liam Sly. 4. Samuel, born September 12, 1724.
5. Jetter, Septeraber 19, 1726. 6. Joshua, July
3, 1720; married Abigail Wilber.
(V) Neheraiah Sprague, son of Captain
William Sprague (4), was born January 5,
1717; raarried, April 16, 1738, Alary Brown.
ChUdren: i. Elias, born June 16, 1744; men
tioned below. 2. Nehemiah, born January 20,
1750; died June, 1796. These brothers were
farmers and both members of the Society of
Friends. (VI) Elias Sprague, son of Neheraiah
Sprague (5), was born at Smithfield, Rhode
Island, June 16, 1744; died in Douglas, Mas
sachusetts, February 15, 1799. He removed
to Douglas not later than 1788, at which time
he deeded his homestead in Smithfield, Rhode
Island, for three hundred and ninety pounds
silver money, to Moses Ballou and John Coe.
His will was dated March, 1798, and was
proved May 7, 1799, his sons Stephen and
Preserved being the executors. The inven
tory of the estate amounted to $5,838.52. He
married Mercy, daughter of Joseph Bassett,
August 5, 1764. She was sister of Alice Bas
sett, who raarried his brother, Neheraiah
Sprague, Jr. Children of Elias and Alercy
Sprague: i. Jonathan, born December 9,
1765. 2. Theodate, January 4, 1768. 3. Amy,
October 6, 1769. 4. Benjamin, April 10, 1771.
5. Lavinia, August 12, 1773. 6. Stephen, No
vember 18, 1775 ; married Olive Seagrave. 7.
Preserved, October 17, 1777; mentioned be
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liam, June 3, 1782. 10. AHce, August 29, 1784.
II. Elias. 12. Lucina. 13. Child, unnamed.
(VII) Preserved Sprague, son of Elias
Sprague (6) , was born in Douglas, Massachu
setts, October 17, 1777; removed to Lynn,
about 1805, and there remained a resident for
the rest of his life. He died December 18,
1846. He was a great-uncle of General
Augustus B. R. Sprague, of Worcester ; for
mer sheriff of Worcester county, former
mayor of Worcester, author of the "Sprague
Genealogy" (1907). General Sprague was son
of Lee and Lucia (Snow) Sprague, grandson
of Jonathan and Patience Sprague, and great-
grandson of Elias Sprague (6). Preserved
Sprague married Joanna Trask, whose father
was a man of substance, owning a mill and
water power. The Trask family has been very
prominent in Essex county, Massachusetts.
Children of Preserved and Joanna Sprague;
Lydia, Maria, Samson, Emma, 'William,
Elijah, Benjamin, Mary, Henry, and two eld
est, who died in infancy.
(VIII) Benjamin Sprague, son of Pre
served Sprague (7), was born in Lynn, August
2, 1 8 19, and was educated there in the public
schools. When a young man he learned the
trade of shoe making, the staple industry of
his native city. In 1849 he gave up the shoe
business to join the throng of gold-seekers,
and made the voyage by way of the Isthmus
of Panama to California, where he remained
prospecting for four years. He returned to
Lynn, and in 1855 began the business of shoe
manufacturing in his native town. He was
remarkably successful and having acquired a
competence, retired from active business in
1869. Mr. Sprague has been a man of large
influence and highly esteemed in the cora
munity in which he lives. He was a meraber
of the board of aldermen from 1861 to 1865
during the trying period of the civil war. His
home is at 145 Ocean street, Lynn. He mar
ried first, in 1839, Susan Emily Ireson. died
1858, daughter of Captain John and EHza
(Bulfinch) Ireson. They had six children,
four of whom died in infancy. The two sur
viving were: i. Charles Otis, born 1840, died
1887; married Alary Elizabeth Morrill; chil
dren ; William Chase, George Everett. 2.
Henry Breed, born September 27, 1854, raar
ried Laura L. Brown (see Brown family).
Benjamin Sprague married second, 1867,
Mary Jane, daughter of Aaron and Abigail
(Eames) Pratt, of South Framingham, Mas-
sachusett. Of this marriage there was one
chUd: Herbert, born March 19, 1872; died
at age of seventeen months.

In recent generations many of
BROWN the descendants of the early
families of Massachusetts have
branched out in various lines of business,
carved out fortunes, built up great industries,
and developed a fine business talent which had
been latent from lack of opportunity. Among
that number was the late Joseph Gould Brown,
for many years a well known resident of
L3'nii. (I) Chad Brown, the ancestor, emigrated
frora England in the ship "Martin" which ar
rived in Boston, July, 1638. He was a sur
veyor and laid out the first house lots in Prov
idence, of which city he was a raost useful
citizen, he was also a leader in the colony. In
1640 he served on a committee with three
others regarding the disputed boundary be
tween Providence and Pawtucket, and in 1642
was ordained as the first settled pastor of the
Baptist church. In 1640 he with Robert Cole,
William Harris and John Warner, were the
committee of Providence colony who reported
to them their first written form of govern
ment which was adopted and continued in
force tUl 1644 when Roger Williams returned
from England with the first charter. His
name was the first of the thirty-nine signa
tures to this agreement. This instrument con
tains the arbitrary decision in which in later
years, Roger WiUiams, in speaking of the dis
sensions which so disturbed the peace of the
early colonists, referred to thus ; "The truth
is that Chad Brown, that holy man, now with
God, and myself brought the reraaining after
coraers and the first 12 to a oneness by arbi
tration." The exact date of his death is not
known, but it is presuraed he died about 1665.
He was accompanied to this country by his
wife EHzabeth, a .son John, then eight years
of age (see forward), also Jaraes, Jereraiah,
Judah or Chad, died May 10, 1663, unraarried,
and Daniel.
(II) John Brown, son of Chad and Eliza
beth Brown, born 1630, died 1706. He raar
ried Mary, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and
Catherine Holmes, of Newport, Rhode Island,
where he resided at the North End in the
house afterward occupied by his son, Elder
James, near the junction of North Main and
Randall streets. He was a surveyor of land
and also surveyed fbr highways ; was a raem
ber of the town council, and held a number of
town offices. ChUdren : Sarah, John, James,
see forward; Obadiah, Martha, Mary, De
borah. (Ill) James Brown, son of John and Mary
(Holmes) Brown, born 1666, died October

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28, 1732. He served as a member of the town
council from 1705 to 1725, and from 1714 to
1718 as town treasurer; was pastor or elder
of the First Baptist Church, associated with
Elder Pardon Tillinghast, and in 1726 succeed
ed the Rev. Ebenezer Jenks, remaining its pas
tor until his death. He married, December 17,
1691, Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary
(Tew) Harris, granddaughter of WilHam and
Susanna Harris, also granddaughter of Rich
ard and Mary (Clark) Tew. She was born
December 17, 1761, died August 18, 1736.
Children : John, James, Joseph, Alartha, An
drew, Alary, Anna, Obadiah, Jeremiah, Elisha.
(lA^) Elisha Brown, son of James and
Mary (Harris) Brown, born May 25, 1717,
died April 20, 1802. He was a prominent pol
itician, a raeraber of the general assembly and
served as deputjr governor of the colony of
Rhode Island, 1765-66-67. He raarried Mar
tha, born April 3, 1719, died Septeraber i,
1760, daughter of John and Deborah (Angeli)
Smith, granddaughter of James and Abigail
(Dexter) Angeli, and great-granddaughter of
the first Thomas Angeli and Gregory Dexter.
Children; i. Deborah, born 1740, died July 7,
1745. 2. John, born January 28, 1742. 3.
James, born .April 27, 1744. 4. Jeremiah, born
December 28, 1746. 5. Elisha, born June i,
1749. 6. Isaac, born May 23, 1751. 7. Mar
tha, born .April 17, 1754, died June 27, 1755.
8. Smith, born .April 12, 1756, see forward. 9.
A daughter, born June 26, 1760, died aged
seven days. Elisha Brown married second,
February 22, 1761, Hannah, widow of Elisha
Gushing and daughter of Jaraes Barker, of
Newport. She was born May, 1721. One
child, Alartha, died at age of nine raonths.
(A^) Smith Brown, son of Elisha and Mar
tha (Smith) Brown, born April 12, 1756, died
November 20, 1826. He raarried, October 12,
1785, Lydia, daughter of Sarauel and Eliza
beth (Barker) Gould, of Pembroke, Massa
chusetts, (Airs. Sprague has their wedding
certificate), and granddaughter of Isaac Bar
ker. Children: i. Sarauel, born February 12,
1787, see forward. 2. Anna, born October 4,
1788, died June 6, 1813. 3. Gould, born Alarch
7, 1701, died Lynn, March 31, 1857; married,
November 8, 1842, Alary, daughter of Nathan
iel Starbuck. 4. AA^illiam D., born Alarch 21,
1793. 5. Elizabeth, born May 10, 1795, died
Lynn, November, 1823. 6. Lydia, born Janu
ary 14, 1798, died Perabroke, November 22,
1883. She took an active interest in the anti-
slavery society and taught for a time in the
south, but later, because of failing health, re

tumed north where she took an active part in
all charitable movements. Of the thirty-five
grandchildren of ElLsha and Martha (Smith)
Brown, eleven of whom died young, she was
the youngest, but one, and the last survivor.
The history of these grandchildren covers a
period of one hundred and eighteen year^
from the birth of James in 1765 to the death
of Lydia at the age of eighty-six in 1883. The
JV Oman's Journal of December 22, 1883, con
tains the following, contributed by her
nephew, William A. Brown; "She received a
fair education at horae and at the Friends'
School, at Nine Partners, New York, where
her eldest brother Sarauel was a teacher and
her second brother Gould, afterward so well
known as the author of Brown's grammar, and
a younger brother, the late Dr. WilHam D.
Brown, of Lynn, were scholars. She was a
frequent contributor to the Woman's Journal
for many years ; one of the most advanced be
lievers in the rights of woraan to take her part
in the raanagement of huraan affairs and de
voted much time, raoney and thought to the
elevation of woraan. Every benevolent, chari
table and elevating object found in her an ar
dent supporter and firra friend, and no appeal
to her kind heart was ever unheeded."
(\T) Samuel Brown, son of Smith and
Lydia (Gould) Brown, born February 12,
1787, died August 19, 1868. He married,
Alarch 6, t8i6, Maria, born Deceraber i, 1792,
died -November 22, 1868, daughter <5f George
Gorham and Lydia (Chase) Hussey, of Nan
tucket, Massachusetts, granddaughter of
George and Deborah (Paddock) Hussey and
of Francis and Naorai (Chase) Chase, and a
descendant in the seventh generation of Tris-
trara Coffin, one of the first proprietors of
Nantucket, and its governor in 1671. Chil
dren; I. Ann, born September 28, 1818, mar
ried, February 6, 1844, Joseph S. Barnard;
he died January 21, 1885; two sons; George
Albert, born January 11, 1845, and Edward
Gould, born October 23, 1847. 2. Sarah Joy,
born November 24, 1820. 3. Lydia Gould,
born August 27, 1822, married, January i,
1843, Nathaniel K. RandaU ; he died Decem
ber 29, 1884; she died October 22, 1898; three
children : i. Charles Franklin, bom December
15. 1848, married, October 10, 1874, Mary
Ann (Sterling) Doherty, of Louisiana, five
children ; ii. Elizabeth Chase, born March 14,
1852, died Alarch 26, 1874; iii. Anna Gould,
born September 4, 1863, died Septeraber 4,
1865. 4. Joseph Gould, born June 19, 1825,
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1813

1827, married, October 13, 1854, Jabez Wood,
of Acushnet, Massachusetts ; she died June 25,
1868. 6. George Smith, born October 0, 1829.
7. William Austin, born October 11, 1832,
married. May 23, 1859, Ann Maria Chase,
daughter of Philip Chase ; she was born Octo
ber 13, 1830; residents of Lynn; four chil
dren ; Samuel Gould, Abbie Chase, Alice,
WiUiam Allerton. 8. Moses, born March 30,
1835, died December 28, 1861 ; was a graduate
of the Chandler Scientific School of Dart
mouth, New Hampshire, class of 1858.
(VII) Joseph Gould Brown, son of Samuel
and Alaria (Hussey) Brown,- was born in Pem
broke, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, June
19, 1825, died in Lynn, May 27, 1901. He re
ceived the greater part of his education at the
district school in his own town, and this was
, supplemented by a course at the Friends'
school in Providence, Rhode Island. After
leaving school, like most young men, he felt
that his energies demanded wider scope than
was offered him on his father's farm, and he
went to Wilmington, Delaware, where he en
tered into the' hardware business. He gave
it up, however, in 1862, and came to Lynn to
engage in the manufacturing of shoes with his
brother, AA'^illiam Austin Brown, under the
firm name of Brown Brothers. Afterwards,
and until the great fire of 1889, he conducted
a large shoe business on his own account on
the site of the present P)rown building, which
he erected after the destruction of a forraer
one built by his brother and himself. In poli
tics Mr. Brown was a staunch Republican,
and was elected by that party in 1896-97 to
represent wards two and four of Lynn in the
state legislature. During his first term he
was a member of the joint standing committee
on printing, and the following year served as
house chairman of that committee and also a
member of the comraittee on Hquor laws. In
1898 he served the city as an alderman frora
ward four and was twice re-elected. In both
of these public offices Mr. Brown displayed his
uncompromising fidelity to what he believed to
be for the good of the people, and his succes
sive elections to the legislature and city coun
cil indicate the esteem in which he was held
by his fellow citizens. For raany years, and
up to the tirae of his death, he was one of the
trustees of the Nathan Breed estate of Lynn,
the duties of which he performed with faith
fulness and exactness to the last. Air.
Brown's parents were Quakers, of which soci
ety he reraained a lifelong member, bemg a
constant attendant at the services, and holding

the office of treasurer of the Lynn meeting
until within a few months of his death, when
his failing health obliged him to resign it.
He was a member of the Lynn Historical
Society, and was always deeply interested in
everything connected with the welfare of the
city of his adoption.
M'r. Brown raarried, Deceraber 30, 1854,
Katherine Murray Bostwick, of New York,
born June 14, 1832, who survives hira. Her
maternal grandfather was a Huguenot, whose
life having been repeatedly threatened, fled
with his family to Araerica during the French
revolution. Children : i. Maria H., born March
13, 1856, in Wilmington, Delaware, raarried,
October 29, 1878, Charles J. H. Woodbury, of
Lynn ; children ; i. Eraraa Louise, born Octo
ber 26, 1879; ii. Laura B., AprU 13, 1881 ; in.
Alice P., October 26, 1883. 2. Laura L., born
December 21, 1858, married, October 26, 1880,
Plenry B. Sprague, born Septeraber 27, 1854;
children : i. Howard B., born November 3,
1895 ; ii. Charles H., November 12, 1897. 3.
Cora E., born July 18, 1863, married, Janu
ary 22, 1890, Grant S. Hilton, of Swampscott;
child, Adrienne C, born May 21, 1892. 4.
Alary Eraraa, born Deceraber 9, 1864, married,
Alarch 22, 1892, Nelson A. Hallett, of New
ton Centre; child, Joseph Gould, born .August
6, 1894. 5. Bethany .S., born January 10, 1871,
in Lynn. (See Sprague).

Edward Hilton (i), one of the
HILTON pioneers in New Harapshire,
was born in England. The Hil
ton faraily is of old English origin. He came
with his brother. Williara Hilton, and Air.
David Thorapson, all fishraongers frora Lon
don, to begin a plantation at Piscataqua in
1623. The place of settleraent was at Dover
Neck, seven raUes from Portsmouth, in the
limits of New Harapshire. They were sent
over by the proprietor of Laconia not only to
fish, but to plant vineyards, discover raines, etc.
Exhaustive search of the records of the Fish
mongers Company of London by Charles H.
Pope in 1907 failed to reveal the names of the
three raen, but a tax roll of London, raade in
1641, brought to light by Air. Gerald Fother-
gill (See New Eng. Reg. Ixi), gives the
name of Edward Hilton in the list of fish
mongers, \\ ith the niemorandura "Newe Eng
land" after it. , This indicates that he had cer
tainly been in business in London and had con
tinued the sale and shipment of fish to a recent
date. No trace of his native parish or his
ancestrv have been found, nor the name of his

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first wife. Edward Hilton was the leader of
the little plantation and received the patent for
the land — the Squamscott Patent, as it was
caUed, including what is now known as Dover,
Durham, Stratham and parts of Newington
and Greenland, etc. The council for New
England "for and in consideration that Ed
ward Hilton and his Associates hath already
sundry servants to plant in New England at
a point called by the natives AVecanacohunt
otherwise Hilton's Point, lying sorae two
leagues from the raouth of the river Piscata-
quack -¦' * * where they have already
built sorae houses and planted corne. And for
that he doth further intend by Divine Assist
ance to transport thither raore people and cat
tle * * * a work which may especially
tend to the propagation of Religion and to the
great Increase of Trade" -* * * convey
to him "all that part of the River Pascata-
quack called or known by the name of We-
canacohunt or Hilton's Point * * * with
the south side of the River and three miles
into the ATaine land by all the breadth afore
said," etc. Possession was given in the name
of the council by Captain Thomas Wiggin and
others July 7. 1631. (Sup. Court files. New
Eng. Reg. .xxiv, 264). Part of this land was
sold to individual settlers, part to the Lords
Say and Brook and some to New England
gentleraen. Mr. Hilton raade his horae after
some time at Exeter and signed the petition
of its inhabitants in the year 1642. In the
same year he was appointed by the Massachu
setts 'Bay government one of the local associ
ate justices of the court, sitting with the mag
istrates on the highest questions and acting
by theraselves in cases not beyond certain
liraits. The general court held him to be ex
erapt from taxation on account of this office,
in 1669. He filled raany other iraportant po
sitions and was highly honored in the colonies.
The records of Exeter show that he was set
tled and had a house in that part of Exeter
which is now South Newfields, as early as
December, 1639. ,A large grant of land had
been made to him by the Exeter authorities
"on the 4 day of the ist week of the loth
month 1639 — December 4, 1639," Iu 1653 an
other grant of about two miles square, com
prising the whole village of Newfields, was
made to hira in return for his setting up a
saw-mill, and a considerable part of this later
grant has remained to this day in the posses
sion of his descendants. He was selectman
of Exeter frora 1645 nearly every year up to
1652. In 1657 he was one of the comraittee

of two frora Exeter to meet the committee of
three from Dover to settle the bounds between
the two towns by marking the line, and agreed
upon the enjoyment that each town should
have, of the border land. He has been called
"The Father of New Hampshire." He died
early in 1671. Administration on his estate
was granted to his sons Edward, William,
.Samuel and Charles, March 6, 1670-71 ; the
claims of two daughters were presented by
Christopher Palmer ; widow's dower was fixed
at thirty pounds a quarter.
A possible clue to the English ancestry of
Hilton is found in the record of a suit brought
in the Piscataqua court by WiUiara Hilton,
April 4, 1642, respecting a payment tO "Mr.
Richard Hilton of Norwich (Northwich)."
Air. H. F. Waters found a record at Wotten-
under-e'dge, Gloucestershire, England, of the
baptism of a child of Richard Hilton, "coming ,
out of New England."
AA'"illiam Hilton came to America in the
"Fortune" to Plymouth in Noveraber, 1621 ;
his wife and children carae in the ship "Anne"
in 1623 and land was assigned to Hilton and
faraily that year; he wrote soon after his
arrival a letter of great historical and personal
interest, published by Captain John Smith in
his "New England Trialls" in the edition of
1622 ; he reraoved to New Hampshire and
lived near his brother at Dover; then at Kit
tery, Maine, and later at York, Maine; car
ried on a ferry; kept a public house; was se
lectman, etc. ; died before June 30, 1656, when
his widow's second husband, Richard White,
administered the estate.
Edward Hilton brought a wife to America
with him, or raarried soon after coming, but
her maiden name is not known. He married
second, Jane Shapleigh, daughter of Hon.
Alexander Shapleigh, agent of Sir Ferdinando
Gorges in Maine, widow of James Treworgie,
of Kittery, Maine. Qiildren, all by first wife :
I. Edward, born 1626, mentioned below. 2.
Captain William, born about 1628, died 1690;
he raarried Rebecca Symmons, daughter of
John Symmons, of Kittery, Maine; she died
September 8, 1701, leaving sons Richard and
Jonathan, perhaps others. 3. Samuel, of whom
nothing further is known. 4. Charles, born
1643, died in 1683. 5. Susanna, who married,
November 7, 1650, Christopher Palmer ; she
died January 9, 1716. 6. Sobriety, born about
1633, died January 31, 1718; married, No
veraber 20, 165 1, Henry Aloulton.
(II) Edward Hilton, son of Edward Hil
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shire. He removed to Exeter. He made a
large purchase of Nadononamin or John
Johnson, sagamore of Washucke and there
dwelling, who as well for the love he bore the
EngHsh generaUy and especially Edward Hil
ton, of Pascataqua, eldest son of Edward Hil
ton of the same Piscataqua, gentleman, and for
divers other reasonable causes and considera
tions deeded all his lands between the two
branches of the Lampreel river, called Was
hucke river, about six miles and a neck of land
reserving half if need be of convenient plant
ing land during grantor's life. This land is
believed to be in the present towns of New
market, Epping and Lee, New Hampshire.
He married Ann Dudley, who was born
October 16, 1641, at Salisbury, Alassachusetts,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley, of Exeter,
New Hampshire, and granddaughter of Gov
ernor Thomas Dudley, of the Massachusetts
Bay colony. His wife. Alary (Winthrop)
Dudle)', was daughter of Governor John
Winthrop, second governor of Massachusetts
Bay. (See sketches of the Dudley and Win
throp families in this work). Edward Hilton
died April 28, 1699. Children; i. Winthrop,
born about 1671, leader in the military affairs
of New Plampshire ; commander of its forces ;
judge of the court of comraon pleas ; coun
cillor of the province ; killed by the Indians
June 23, 1710, and buried in his own field on
the west bank of the river ; raarried Ann Wil
son, daughter of Huraphrey Wilson and Ju
dith (Hersey) AA''ilson. 2. Dudley, resided in
Exeter, n.jw South Newraarket ; was taken
captive at the time his brother was killed ;
raarried Alercy Hall, daughter of Judge Kins
ley Hall, of Dover, New Hampshire. 3. Jo
seph, born about 1681, mentioned below. 4.
Jane, married Richard Alattoon, of Newmar
ket. .^. .-''nn, married Richard Hilton, son of
AA'illiam and Rebecca (Symmons) Hilton. 6.
Alary, bo'-n 1677, died June 13, 1723; she
married Thomas Bradbury. 7. Sobriety, mar
ried Jonathan Hilton, son of William and
Rebecca (Symmons) Hilton. 8. Judith, died
in mfancy. 9. Bridget, died in infancy.
(Ill) Ensign Joseph Hilton, son of Edward
Hilton (2), was born in 1681 and died in
1765, aged eighty- four years. He was a
farmer at Exeter. He married first, Hannah
Jose, daughter of Richard lose, of Ports
mouth. He married second. October 10, 1716,
Mrs. Rebecca (.Atkinson) Adams, daughter
of John and Sarah ("Alerrick) .Atkinson. Child
of first wife; i. Hannah, born August 11,
1710. Children of second wife : 2. Israel, born

October ii, 1717, went south, settled in Vir
ginia where he founded the town of Hilton,
he was a blacksmith. 3. Ensign Joseph, born
in 1720, settled in North Carolina. 4. Theo
dore Atkinson, mentioned below. 5. Dudley,
born October 4, 1725, married Sarah Taylor
and lived at Newmarket ; died January 5,
t8oo: children: i. Dudley, lived at Parsons
field, Alaine; ii. Daniel, lived in Newmarket;
iii. George, lived in Newmarket ; iv. Ward,
lived in Newmarket ; v. Nathan, lived in Deer
field, New Harapshire ; vi. Ann, married
Alajor William Norris.
( IA' ) Theodore .Atkinson Hilton, son of
Ensign Joseph Hilton, was born at Exeter in
1721 and died there in 1765. He lived at
Newmarket. He married Mary Sinclair,
daughter of Richard and Katherine (Stevens)
Sinclair, of Stratham, New Harapshire. Chil
dren ; I. Colonel Joseph, born in Epping, New
Hampshire, June 13, 1747, died November 16,
1826 ; lived at Deerfield : married, in 1770,
Sarah Thurston. 2. Mary, born July 16, 1749,
died January 5, 1829 ; married, in 1768, John
Alarston. 3. Richard, raentioned below. 4.
AA''illiam, born August 15, 1759; lived in
Cornville, Alaine ; raarried second, Annie Al
len, of .Augusta, Alaine. 5. Sarah, born Janu
ary 9, 1762. 6. Nathaniel, born March 17,
1764; resided at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire. (A') Richard Hilton, son of Theodore Hil
ton, was born at Newmarket, July 6, 1752,
died at .Shapleigh, Alaine. where he was one
of the early settlers. He settled. on Hilton's
Ridge in the south part of the town, where he
cleared the land and built a log cabin. About
1795 he built a frame house. He was con
sidered a prosperous farmer. He married
Temperance Richards, probably born at Ossi-
pee. New Hampshire. Children, all born at
Shapleigh ; i. Winthrop, mentioned below. 2.
Theodore, married at AA'iscasset, Maine, Lydia
.Stetson. 3. Richard, born July 10, 1784, died
Se])teniber 7, 1868; married first, Sarah Good
rich ; children; i. Joseph, born June 7, 1806,
died unraarried ; ii. Richard, born June 4, 1808,
died Septeraber 25, 1888, raarried first, No
vember 25, 1832, Nancy Dore, and second,
February 21. 1842, Eunice AA'entworth, born
Januarv 8. 18 10, died December 24. 1882,
daughter of Tames and Lydia (Pierce) AVent-
worth, and had Joseph N.. born November 13,
1833, died February 26, 1846, Sarah P.. born
January 20. iS-^S, (married E. D. White-
house), Sarauel D., born Alarch 20, 1838, died
Februarv 23. 1846. Lvdia A., born Deceraber

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3, 1840, died February 19, 1846) ; children of
second wife ; i. James P., born February 26,
1843 (married, 1876, Mrs. Emma Chick Fall,
born January 13, 1847, daughter of Amasa
and Leonora E. Fall, of Moultonville, New
Hampshire; children; i. Achsa E., born July
27, 1879, married, October 7, 1899, Frank A.
Fernald, son of TTobias and Lavinia (Dore)
Fernald and had Gladys Al. Fernald, born
September 16, 1901 ; ii. Newell Chick, born
October 4, 1880, married, July 20, 1902,
Elizabeth AI. AVebster, daughter of Horace
F. and Ada L. Hobbs ; iii. Jennie May,
born August 27, 1876, married August 8, 1896,
George H. Thurley, born Noveraber 9, 1872,
son of George H. and Annie P. (Hanson)
Thurley; iv. Richard George, born October 11,
1887, married, December 26, 1901, Elizabeth
P. Johnson; v. Edward P.. born August 15,
1889) ; ii. George Albert, born October i,
1845, died October 12, 1884, (raarried, No
vember 9, 1869, Susan Clementine Nutter,
born July 26, 1847, daughter of Moses and
Louisa Chick, of Tuftonborough, and had
Lura May, born February 3, 1870) ; iii. Rich
ard S., born Deceraber 20, 1847, died Febru
ary 19, 185 1 ; iv. Joseph P., born February 23,
1849, (married first. May 10, 1872, Mary Etta
Neal, daughter of Tyler R. and Mary E. Neal ;
raarried second, July 4, 1880, Elizabeth Drake,
daughter of Charles and Alaria Drake) ; v.
Smith C, born July 17, 1852, died September
18, 1875, (married, Alay 9, 1872, Sarah J.
Bodge, born April 19, i860, died Septeraber
5, 1898, daughter of Jaraes R. and Betsey
Bodge ; children : i. Emma F., born April 2,
1873, raarried, July 5, 1892, Fred M. Canney,
born February 27, 1866, son of Henry and
Sarah (AA''eeks) Canney, and had Karen L.
Canney, horn Alarch 31, 1893, and Forest F.
Canney, born July 19, 1894;) ii. Charles L.,
born July 5, 1874, (married, September 16,
1897, Sarah J. Hutchins, daughter of Fred
erick and Abbie Jane (Daggett) Hutchins) ;
iii. Hannah, born at Rochester, New Hamp
shire, September, 1812, died February 15,
1866, married Smith L. Cotton, born 1805,
died Alay 24, 1864; iv. Sarah, born at Ossipee,
New Hampshire, February 18, 1820, died at
Rochester, New Hampshire, January 9, 1891,
married, April 27, 1847, John R. AlcDuffee,
born Alarch 13, 1818, died January 10, 1865,
son of Seth and Lucy ATcDuffee, of Rochester,
and had Dana H. AlcDuffee, born Deceraber
2.q, 1848, fraarried, Septeraber 30, 1869, Fan
nie Foss, daughter of Robert N. and Sarah .A.
Foss, of Rochester) , John H. AlcDuffee, born

August 18, 1850, John N. McDuffee, born
April 7, i86i, and Plerman A. McDuffee. 4.
Sarah, raarried Thomas Shorey, born 1771,
died April 10, 1864, and had David, Rebecca,
Ezekiel, Sarah, Eliza, (married Thomas
A.ppleby), Temperance, Alary, Thomas Hil
ton. Jason I., Thankful and Moses W. Shorey.
5. Polly or Mary, married Ichabod Shorey. 6.
Temperance, baptized September 12, 1784,
married Elisha Goodrich.
(A^I) Winthrop Hilton, son of Richard Hil
ton, was born at Shapleigh, Maine, and died
at Acton (Shapleigh), November 12, 1861. He
was a farmer of Shapleigh and owned a farm
of about two hundred acres, much of which
was good timber land, adjoining that of his
son Andrew. He was algo a carpenter and
blacksmith by trade, and had shops for both
trades on his farm. In politics he was a Dem
ocrat, and attended the "Union Church at Shap
leigh. He was a firm believer in the Bible,
which he read carefully and studiously, and
he was considered an authority on scriptural
matters in that section. He was upright and
honorable, and a good citizen in every sense
of the word. He married Mary Drew, born
1777, died January 4, 1856, daughter of Ben
jamin and Nancy (Savage) Drew. Her father
died 1820 and her mother was said to have
been the first woman who rode on horseback
on the same horse with her husband into the
new town of Acton, Maine. Children; i.
Nathaniel, born April 9, 1797, died March 21,
1888 ; raarried, October 5, 1828, Hannah
Wentworth, born June 22, 1801, died AprU 13,
1884, daughter of Gershom and Abigail Went
worth, of Lebanon, Maine. 2. Sophia, born
Junc, 1799, died unmarried November 10,
1890. 3. John, born December 5, 1802, died
at St. Albans, Maine, May 25, 1889; raarried
A/faria Ricker, born August 19, 1802, died
June 27, 1871 ; children ; i. Abigail, born June
IT. 1824, married Samuel Withee and had
Mary R. Withee, born January 20, 1846,
(raarried Joseph Mitchell, who died Febru
ary, 1897), George AVithee, bom Deceraber 14,
1848, died December 15, 1850, Llewelyn
AA^thee, born July 11, 1851, (married Flora
AA^elch), Alaria Withee, born March 27, 1853,
(married Haskell W'elch), Sarauel Withee,
born Alay 10, 1855, died December, 1859, and
Sumner C. Withee, born February 28, i860,
(married Grace Eldridge) ; ii. Mary, raarried
Samuel Plartwell and had John Hartwell, born
Septeraber 21, 1847, died May, 1865, Jane
Plartwell, born Alarch 12, 1849, ("married
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1817

Maine; Eliza HartweU, born July 15, 1850,
(married Belden Southard), WiUiam Hart-
Avell, born August 10, 1852, (married Georgie
Powell), Charies Hartwell, born May 12,
1854, (married Annie Gahame), Thomas
HartweU, born May 8, 1856, (married Flora
Brackett), Victoria N. Hartwell, born Decem
ber 8, 1858, (married Leslie Johonnott), Mary
Hartwell, born May 21, i860, died August 12,
1876, Luella HartweU, born April 12, 1862,
(married Bonaparte Forbush), Hiram Hart-
¦well, born April 16, 1863, (married Frances
Bellyea), and Leslie HartweU, born April
10, 1869, (married Edna Battie) ; iii. Jane,
married George Morse and had Frederick
Morse, bom June 17, 1851, died August 12,
1863, Ella Morse, born October 18, 1852, died
October 26, 1886, Abbie Morse, born May 14,
1854, (married Frank Southard), Emma
Morse, born Alarch 12, 1856, Nellie Morse,
born May 7, 1858, Frank Alorse, born March
17, i860, Jennie Morse, born March 2, 1862,
¦died Alarch 18, 1883, Fred Morse, born Aug
ust 16, 1864, (married Belle Randlette), and
Minnie Morse, born July 4, 1866 ; iv. Good
win, born June 18, 1832, now resides at Fruit-
vale, California, married Rosella Alaria Gor
don, daughter of John and Rosella Al. (Bate
man) Gordon, and had Anson, born February
28, 1859, "OW practicing attorney at Fruitvale,
California, (married Nancy Garside, daugh
ter of George and Ann Cheethara, and had
Harold, born June 10, 1889, and Nadine, born
January 6, 1901), and Alice, born June 16,
1867, (married Edward Longley, son of Ros-
¦coe and Alary (Sraith) Longley) ; v, Eliza,
married Plirara Alartin, of St. Albans, Maine ;
vi. Nancy, married  Whitney and had
Wallace E. Whitney, born June 2, 1863, (mar
ried Mary Rand). 4. Joseph, born Noveraber
13, 1803, died Januarj' 19, 1861 ; raarried Jane
(Bickford) Downes, widow, born November,
1807, died October 31, 1886, daughter of
Aloses and Lydia Bickford ; child : Charles
E., born April 26, 1833, died August 26, 1849.
5. James, born October 20, 1806, died Decem
ber 21, 1873; raarried first, Jane Tash, of
New Durhara, and had Alalvina and Jane
Adeline, both died young: married second,
September 23, 1855, Adeline Pike, daughter
of David D. and Sarah Woodman, of Middle-
ton, New Hampshire. 6. Nancy, married Ar
thur Gage, of Lancaster, New Hampshire ;
¦children ; i. Eliza Gage, married Benjamin
Perkins and had Charles, Laura and Albert
Perkins ; ii. Alary Ann Gage, raarried  ¦
Buzzell ; iii. Sarah Gage ; iv. Susan Gage, mar

ried WiUiam F. Derby. 7. Andrew, born
September 10, 1810, mentioned below. 8.
Alary, bom 1812, died i860; married Luther
Drew, born 1810, died 1859; children; i. Al
bert Drew, born 1840, died 1856; ii. Sarah
Jane Drew, born 1842, died 1848. 9. Eliza,
born 1815, married Ruel Cummings and had
Walter Cummings. 10. AVilliam, born Novem
ber 27, 1819, died July 19, 1885 ; married first,
Abigail Lazell, of Bellingham, Massachusetts,
born April 17. 1821, died October 13, 1841,
daughter of Warren and Betsey (Walker)
Lazell ; married second, Noveraber 9, 1842,
Betsey E. Adams, born December 18, 1825,
died September 3, 1894, daughter of John and
Persis "Wheeler, of Bellingham ; child of first
wife: i. Ehzabeth Jane, born June 15, 1840,
married, December 25, 1871, Pardon A. Cook,
who with his family resides in San Francisco,
California ; he was born January 23, 1822,
died December 22, 1901, son of Avery and
Charlotte Cook, of AVest Wrentham, Alassa
chusetts, and had Alvira Lizzie Cook, born
Alarch 11, 1873, died December 31, 1885, Lara
Ardelia Cook, born August 23, 1874, Avie
Eraraa Cook, born January 29, 1876, died Aug
ust 10, 1876, Alice Maria Cook, born Septem
ber 16, 1878, (married, June 26, 1901, Robert
T. Swan), Inez Almira Cook, born January
20, 1880, (raarried, April 23, 1902, Dr. Paul B.
Noble) ; children of second wife : ii. Sophia
-A., born October 24, 1843, died August 22,
1871, raarried first, March 20, i860, John
Treen, who was killed in the civil war at battle
of .\ntietam in 1862, married second, 
Cobb; in. Mary A., bom June 2, 1845, mar
ried, July 14, 1862, WilHam P. Fiske, a resi
dent of Springvale, Maine, and had Lizzie,
George and Ulysses Fiske ; iv. Etta Al., born
December 17, 1847, married, September 21,
1870, John R. Butler, born August 30, 1849,
a resident of Lebanon, Maine, and had Alice
M. and Ruth B. Butler; v. Williara H., born
February 8, 1849, a resident of Milford, Mas
sachusetts ; raarried, June, 1873, Ida Marsh, of
New Jersey, and had Lizzie H., Susie, Asa
and Clarence; vi. Phebe A., born December
10, 1852, died January 17, 1873, married, De
cember 5, 1869, Dexter L. Kennie, of Sanford,
Alaine, and had George and Etta M. Kennie ;
vii. John A., born December 17, 1855, a resi
dent of Milford, Massachusetts ; married,
August 5, 1877, Alice M. Littlefield and had
Grace B., born March i, 1881, Charles S.,
born December 27, 1883, Evelyn, bom Febru
ary II, 1886. Arthur AA''., born July 17, 1888,
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ard E., born June 12, 1898; viu. Evelyn E.,
born September 2, 1859, married, Alay 6,
1880, WiUiam L. Godding, of Acton, Maine,
born June 12, 1858, and had Rayraond L. God
ding; ix. Persis E., born August 19, 1861,
married, July i, 1886, Andrew J. Fernald, of
North Berwick, Alaine, born January 8, 1854 ;
x. Carrie F., born Alay 3, 1865, married, June
23, 1884, E. Trebor, born October 27, 1862.
(VII) Andrew HUton, son of Winthrop
Hiiton, was born at Shapleigh, Alaine, Sep
tember 10, 1810, died at Middleton, New
Harapshire, December 27, 1873. He was
brought up on his father's farm and besides
the ordinary schooling he studied raechanics
and astronoray by himself, and became a self-
educated man. He was a great reader, and
iraproved all his spare, tirae. He learned the
trade of raillwright, serving his apprenticeship
with Aloses Paul, who later became his father-
in-law. He subsequently engaged in the raill
wright business, taking contracts for the build
ing of daras, the erection of raills and raachin
ery, and doing a general business. Early in
the forties he went to Havana, Cuba, to su
perintend mill installment, spending a year in
that country. His farra was at Hilton Ridge,
adjoining that of his father. It was extensive,
containing about two hundred and fifty acres,
being land bought of Asa Drew, Nathaniel
Hilton, and part being the Prescott farm and
the McCrillis farm. This farm he held for
his children, who did most of the work there,
as he spent most of his tirae in his business.
He was a raeraber of the Free Will Baptist
Union Church and was a free thinker in relig
ion. In politics he was a staunch Democrat
and a warm supporter and admirer of Presi
dent Jackson. He served in the state militia.
He loved music and for a number of years
played in the Shapleigh band. He was an
earnest advocate of temperance and other re
forms. He was self-possessed and at times
stern and reserved in his manner, but he
appreciated a joke and had a great fund of
humor. Upright and honorable in every walk
of life, a keen observer, a careful investigator,
a useful citizen, he was a strong raan in his
day, possessing a wide and wholesome influ
ence in the community.
He married Ann Eliza Paul, born at Shap
leigh, Alaine, October 4, 1816, died at Lewis-
ton, Maine, October 24, 1891, daughter of
Moses and Susannah (Fox) Paul. Her father
was a native of Kittery, Maine, a farmer and
millwright : her mother was of Lee, New
Hampshire. Children, aU bom at Acton.

Maine: i. Alary, born January 22, 1835, died
June II, 1838. 2. John Paul, born May 3,
1836, died at Alalden, Massachusetts, Alay 18,
1895; married, 1861, Alary Abbie Mudgett, of
Acton, born September, 1835, daughter of
Samuel and Xancy (Cram) Mudgett, of Free
mont. New Hampshire ; had no children. 3.
James Aladison, born February 13, 1838, raen
tioned below. 4. .Abbie Ann, born .August 3,
1839, married, Deceraber 24, 1859, Ezekiel
Ancill Prescott, of Acton, born December 5,
1831, son of Ezekiel and ]3etsey (Worcester)
Prescott ; the father a native of Epping, New
Hampshire, the raother of Berwick, Alaine;
children ; i. Charles Elraer Prescott, born No
vember I. 1861, married, December 26, 1885,
Lillian Picott, daughter of Orin Picott, of
Kittery, Alaine, and his wife, MeHssa (Paul)
Picott^ of Eliot, Alaine; child, Arthur Pres
cott. born July 9, 1888 ; ii. Jennie Hilton Pres
cott, born Alay 9, 1866, died Alay 26, 1869 ;
iii. AlarshaU Leonard, born August 11, 1869,
died Alay 9, 1894; iv. John Andrew Prescott,
born March 16, 1874, died September 2, 1877.
5. Eliza Jane, born February 28, 1841, raar
ried, November 24, 1866, Thomas J. Roberts,
of Alilton, New Harapshire, born Deceraber
20, 1833, son of Nicholas H. and Dorothy
(Hurd) Roberts; children; i. Dora Etta Rob
erts, born April 22, 1872, graduate of Bates
College, now engaged in a clerical capacity in
the Alassachusetts General Hospital; ii. John
Hilton Roberts, born Alarch 9, 1875, raarried,
January 2Q, 1902, Alice C. Laskey, of Alilton,
Alaine, daughter of John S. and Sarah Abbie
(A/'inal) Laskey, of Dover, New Harapshire,
and had Luther Hilton Roberts, born August,
TQ06. 6. Joseph FuUonton, born October 7,
1842, owner and proprietor of the Wiley
House, at Oak Bluffs. Alassachusetts, and for
over thirty-five years has owned and con
ducted business in the stalls at 5 and 7 in the
Ouincv raarket, in Boston ; married, Septem
ber 26, 1866, Abbie J. Grant, born February
8. 18 11, at .Acton, Alaine, daughter of John
and Charlotte (Durgin) Grant, of Newfield,
ATaine : children ; i. George Albert, born April
10, 1869, graduate of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology; died June 24, 1890; u.
Clarence, born July i, 1871, died July, 1872;
iii. Joseph Alyron, born July 3, 1876, died
Alarch, 1877 '• iv- Florence, born June 3, 1878,
married. Tune 30, 1902, Herbert Alann Chase,
of Randolph, Alassachusetts, now a practicing
attorney of Boston, son of Dr. Augustus L..
and Mary Louise (Mann) Chase, and had son.
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1819

April 26, 1904. 7. Charles Albert, born May
2, 1856, was for several years mayor of Tama
City, of Iowa, and now resides at Modesto,
California, where he owns a large fruit
ranch; married first,. August 15, 1878, Sadie
Noyes Prescott, born at Acton, October 7,
1856, died at xActon, June 13, 1879, daughter
of George W. and Eliza B. Brackett, of Ac
ton; married, second, February 6, 1883, Ida
M. Rhoades, born December 20, 1856, daugh
ter of Levi L. and Catherine McAnulty, of
Pennsylvania ; child of first wife, Leroy Pres
cott, born June 12, 1879, married, October 5,
1901, Mary Addie Coffin, and have Lucile
Alary, born December 2, 1902 ; children of
second wife ; ii. Edna B., born June 14, 1884,
died at Tama City, Iowa, September 10, 1884;
iii. Anna C, born Septeraber 15, 1885, died
October 17, 1886; iv. Charles R., born Sep
tember 16, 1889; V. Fred W., born June 4,
1891 ; vi. Frank Drew, born October 30, 1895.
8. Luther Drew, born November 30, 1858, died
at Bell Plain, Iowa, Alarch 6, 1894; married,
September i, 1880, Clara Georgietta Prescott,
born at Acton, June 10, i860, daughter of
George W. and Eliza B. Brackett ; she now re
sides in North Carolina.
(VIII) James Madison Hilton, son of An
drew HUton, was born at Acton, Alaine, Feb
ruary 13, 1838, on what is known as Hilton's
Ridge, where his great-grandfather settled in
the south part of the town. His schooling
was limited to the district school on the Ridge,
supplemented by a course at the New Hamp
shire Institute at New Hampton, New Hamp
shire. From early youth he worked on his
father's farra. He left home when he came of
age and entered the employ of Jaraes Viles, a
dealer in provisions on Cambridge street, Bos
ton. After a short tirae he became a clerk
in the employ of Elisha Shapleigh Stacy, deal
er in meats and provisions, 6 and 8 Quincy
Market, Boston, where he worked until he
enlisted. In August, 1862, he was mustered into the
Eleventh Massachusetts Battery (unattached)
under Captain Edward J. Jones, later attached
to the Eighteenth Army Corps. He was sta
tioned with his battery at Centerville Heights,
Maryland, at the fortifications built by the
Confederate generals, Johnson and Beaure
gard, and the battery was entrenched there
from January to Alay,- 1863, when it was re
lieved by the Ninth Alassachusetts Battery.
He received an honorable discharge and was
mustered out at Boston in May, 1863. The

battery was called out to quell the draft riot
in Cooper street, Boston, afterward.
He returned to the provision business as a
clerk for the firm of Dyer & Frost, remaining
until September, 1863, when he and his broth
er, John P. Hilton, purchased a butter, egg
and cheese business in Faneuil Hall Market
and engaged in business under the firm narae
of J. P. & J. Al. Hilton. The success that
attended their enterprise warranted an exten
sion. Accordingly they rented the cellar of E.
H. AValker in the sarae building and sold their
rights in their stall to Aloses Paul. After
twelve raore years of successful business in
'ii-ie cellar store, the brothers sold their rights
and reraoved to 38, 39, 40 South Alarket and
14 Chatham streets, continuing in the same line
of business. In 1895 the senior partner died,
and the surviving partner admitted Andrew
Nimmo to the firra. .After a short tirae this
copartnership was dissolved and Air. Hilton
entered partnership with Captain Harrison
Aldrich under the firra narae of the Hilton &
-Aldrich Corapany, under Massachusetts cor
poration laws, with Air. Hilton president and
Air. Aldrich treasurer. After three years A'Ir.
Hilton bought out his partner and had since
had his son, Everett Stacy Hilton, in partner
ship with him. Besides the provision business
in Boston, the firm has had creameries for
making butter at Tama City, Chelsea and
Gladbrook, low^a, and at Lowell, Alichigan,
with a total capacity of a million pounds of
butter annuaUy. The Cloverdale Creamery
Company, the retail departraent of the Hilton-
Aldrich Company, was incorporated under
Alassachusetts laws with headquarters in Bos
ton, having thirty-two retail stores in Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and
Connecticut, dealing in tea and coffee, as well
as cheese, butter and eggs. The president of
the company is A. P. Lee, the treasurer, Frank
Herman Hilton ; both being the directors. On
account of ill health Mr. Hilton retired from
active basiness in 1906, residing at 20 Gush
ing avenue, Belmont, Alassachusetts, an estate
that he bought in 1903.
Air. Hilton had always been keenly interest
ed in business and he was exceedingly active
and industrious while in active life. He laid
the foundation for a very extensive and pros
perous business, and had every reason to be
proud of the growth and high standing of the
.concerns that he founded. He was naturally
domestic in his tastes and greatly devoted to
his horae and faraily. He remembered with
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many interesting- stories of his early life. He
was a meraber of the Tremont Teraple Baptist
Church of Boston, treasurer of the church
and of the building, and had been deacon for
the past twenty years. In politics he was a Re
publican, but had never been an active partisan
and never sought public office. He was a raera
ber of Massachusetts Lodge of Free Masons,
Boston ; of Odd Fellows, Boston ; of the Bap
tist Social Club, of Boston ; of the Home
Alarket Club, of Boston; forraerly a member
of the Old Produce Exchange; trustee of the
Evangelical Baptist and Benevolent and Mis
sionary Society of Tremont Temple and one
of the raanaging coraraittee of five of the so
ciety. Mr. Hilton died September 12, 1908.
pie married, October 16, 1868, Mary Etta
Frances Stacy, born at Acton, Maine, January
II, i8/|8, daughter of Elisha Shapleigh and
Ann Alaria (Plubbard) Stacy, of Acton. Her
father was a provision merchant in Faneuil
Hall Market, Boston. Children: i. Everett
Stacy, born at Boston, September 14, 1869,
married, October 2, 1893, Augusta Gassett,
born January 17, 1870, at Lunenburg, Massa
chusetts, daughter of Charles and Harriet
Freeman ; her father was born at Hancock,
New Hamp.shire, her raother at Boston; chil
dren ; i. Thelma, born at A^an Wert, Ohio, No
vember 25, 1894; ii. Leone, born at Cara
bridge, May 25, 1896; iii. Doris, born at Sora-
erville, December i, 1898. 2. Etta Frances,
born at Boston, November 4, 1871, married,
Alay 2, 1895, William Faxon Pierce, born at
Carabridge, July 20, 1870, son of Jaraes
Pierce, of Cambridge, and his wife Anna
fBillings) Pierce, of Milford; children; i.
Carl Hilton Pierce, born at Somerville, March
6, 1896; ii. Ralph Wilson Pierce, born August
29, 1900; iii. Lillian Stacy Pierce, born Feb
ruary 9, 1902. 3. John Paul, born at Cam-
brid.ge, June 11, 1873, an officer of the Clover-
dale Conipany. 4. Frank Herman, born at
Cambridge, July 27, 1875, treasurer of the
Cloverdale Company; he married, September
II, 1908, Olive Whiteley, of Kansas City,
Missouri, born December i, 1887.

There were numerous pioneers
TUCKER of the Tucker family in New
England during the first fifty
years of its settlement, and there are evidences
that many if not all of them were related.
Robert Tucker came to Wentworth, Massa
chusetts, lived for a tirae at Gloucester, and
finally settled in Milton. A full sketch of him
appears elsewhere in this work. Richard

Tucker came from Stagumbery, Somerset
shire, England, and settled among the first at
Falraouth (now Portland, Maine) ; married
Alargaret Reynolds, and his daughter Seaborn
married Nicholas Hodge, of Portsraouth, but
lie left no raale descendants. Richard owned
mills at Nevvichawannock in 1657. WilHam
Tucker lived in Maine; his wife Grace was
living in 1665 ; his estate was adrainistered by
Nathaniel Fryer in 1666.
(I) John Tucker, a fisherraan of the Isle of
Shoals, died in 1670, and left all his property
to John Ameredith and wife Joanna.
(I) Lewis Tucker, the first perraanent set
tler of this family, at Kittery, Maine, had
brothers John and Richard. Lewis and John
were early at Falmouth, but removed to Kit
tery. Lewis was a fisherman at the Isle of
Shoals and came to Kittery about 1680. He
married Sarah Gunnison daughter of Hugh
Gunnison and Sarah (Tilly) (Flynn) Gun
nison. He or son Lewis sold land in Fal
mouth in 1 7 19, adjoining land of John Tucker.
Children ; Nicholas, born 1653. 2. Lewis,
resided at Newcastle. 3. Hugh, married Brid
get  and Dorcas Heard. 4. Elizabeth,
married, 1727, Jethro Bragden. 5. Grace,
raarried. May 5, 1708, Isaac Pierce, of Bos
ton. (II) John Tucker, son or nephew of Lewis
Tucker (i), was born about 1660. He settled
in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He raarried,
May 9, 1681, Sarah Riggs. He probably had
a brother Richard Tucker who married Bethia
 and had a son in 1704 at Gloucester.
His brother Lewis married on the Kittery side,
and had a grant for himself and heirs of ten
acres at the head of Goose Cove. Children,
born in Gloucester : i. Mary, October 5, 1682.
2. Sarah, March 14, 1685. 3- John, December
24, 1686; married, December 14, 1714, Mary
Lane; twelve children. 4. WiUiam, Alay 11,
1690; mentioned below. 5. Thomas, July 18,
1692 ; drowned in Carolina, April 20, 1717.
6. Richard, May 17, 1695; raarried, January
16, 1718, Abigail Harvey. 7. AbigaU, July 15,
1697. 8. Joseph, February 26, 1701. 9. Grace,
July 27, 1706.
(Ill) William Tucker, son of John Tucker
(2), was born May 11, 1690, at Gloucester
and settled there. He married, January 8,
1713, Dorcas Lane. Children; i. Dorcas,
died young. 2. Abigail, died young. 3. Abi
gail. 4. William Jr., bom May 22, 1721 ; mar
ried Patience Griggs. 5. John, mentioned be
low. (IV) John Tucker, son of William Tucker

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(3), was born in Gloucester, January 30,
1725 ; married, November, 1746, Mary Davis.
Children, born in Gloucester ; i. Mary. 2.
Lucy. 3. Susanna. 4. Daughter, died young.
5. John, mentioned below. 6. Nathaniel, sol
dier in the revolution, died June 2, 1848, aged
eighty-seven years fifteen days ; married, Jan
uary 4, 1787, Judith Robbins, who died Alay 8,
1842, aged. seventy-nine.
(V) John Tucker, son of John Tucker (4),
was born in Gloucester, 1749-50, died January,
1831, aged eighty-two years, at Gloucester.
He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain
Enoch Putnam's company (third). Colonel
John Mansfield's regiment, June 8, 1775; ser
geant of same conipany and regiment later in
the year; ensign of same corapany 1776; lieu
tenant in Captain Gate's company. Colonel
Rufus Putnam's regiment, in 1779. After the
war he was colonel of his regiraent of railitia.
He seems to have been commander of the
privateer "Speedwell" in 1779, though this
record may belong to his father of the sarae
name. He was active in public affairs, a lead
ing Federalist, elected seven tiraes representa
tive to the general court. He raarried, Octo
ber 22, 1772, Elizabeth Elwell. She died at
Gloucester, November 17, 1831, aged eighty-
one; he died January, 1831, aged eighty-two.
Children, born in Gloucester; i. John, men
tioned below. 2. Betsey, married Elias W.
Hayes. 3. Lucy, married Colonel AA^illiara
Beach. (A^I) John Tucker, «on of John Tucker
(5), or a near relative, was born about 1780,
probably in Gloucester. Alaiiy of the family
here given settled before or during the revo
lution in New Gloucester and Pownalborough,
Alaine. Several were soldiers in the revolu
tion from those towns. John Tucker was liv
ing in Pownalborough in 1784, when he was
mentioned in a will. Robert Tucker, of Pow
nalborough, died 1798, leaving a son Richard
Hawley Tucker and widow Joanna. Pownal
borough adjoined New Gloucester, then in
Lincoln county. Richard was from Glouces
ter. Lemuel Tucker, of New Gloucester.
was in the revolution, as were also Samuel
and AA'illiam Tucker of that town, and Nehe
miah of Cape Ann and New Gloucester. John
Tucker settled in the adjoining town of Bath,
Alaine ; married Rebecca  . He was a
prominent brick manufacturer in his day.
Children, recorded at Bath ; i. Irean (Irene),
bom October 4, 1805. 2. Betsey, September
23, 1806. 3. Cordelia, January 30, 1810. 4.
T^ancy, August 5, 1812. 5. Lobida, August i,

1815. 6. John Adams, March 25, 1818; men
tioned below. 7. George Washington, April
30, 1 82 1. 8. Thonias Jefferson, September 2,
1823. 9. Rebecca Madison, August 2, 1828,
died July 5, 1832.
(VII) John Adams Tucker, son of John
Tucker (6), was born March 25, 1818. He
resided at Nashua, New Hampshire, and
served as foreman in foundries at different
places. He married Lucy (Watson) Howe.
Children: i. Frank E., raentioned below. 2.
John, died in childhood. 3. George G., bom
1849, resides in Haverhill, Alassachusetts.
(A'^III) Frank E. Tucker, son of John
Adams 'Fucker (7), was born in Nashua, May
17, 1846. He was educated in the public
schools, and when a lad of only twelve years
of age began working at farm labor. At the
age of sixteen he enli,sted in Corapany K,
Twenty-first Massachusetts A^olunteers, in the
civil war, and participated in the following
battles: South Mountain, Anti etam, Freder
icksburg, Morgan's campaign, thence to Ten
nessee, siege of Knoxville, Wilderness, Spott
sylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg; he was
struck on the chin with a spent ball, this being
the only injury he received ; he was mustered
out in August, 1864. He then served an
apprenticeship at the trade of moulder, work
ing at the same time at different points for
eight or nine years, after which he located in
Plaverhill, Alassachusetts, and forraed a part
nership with J. J. Vaughn, under the firm
name of A^aughn & Tucker, furniture deal
ers. This connection continued for three
years, at the expiration of which time Mr.
Tucker purchased the interest of his partner
and conducted the business alone until 1903,
when he admitted his son to partnership under
the firra narae of F. E. Tucker & Son, which
still obtains. They are conducting an exten
sive business, one of the largest in the city of
Bradford, with annual sales of upwards of
$100,000. Frora a very raodest beginning the
business has increased steadily in volurae and
importance, this result being achieved by
steady application to business, upright and
honorable transactions and a regard for the
wants and wishes of his patrons. He has also
devoted considerable tirae to the real estate
business, opening up new streets, erecting up
wards of twenty-five houses, and in various
other ways contributing to the growth and de
velopment of the section wherein he resides.
He is a Republican in politics. He is a mera
ber of Merrimack Lodge, F. A. M. ; Post No.
47, G. A. R. : and General Bumside \''eteran

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Union. Air. Tucker and his family attend the
Congregational church.
Air. "Tucker married, November 30, 1872,
Ella Chapman, daughter of Joseph Chapman,
of Deerfield, Alassachusetts. ChUdren; i.
Joseph Elmer, born September 21, 1873, un
married. 2. Lucy Belle, born March 2, 1875,
married Arthur W. Durgin, of Haverhill,
Alassachusetts ; they have one son, James Hen
ry Durgin.

John Stone, of Salem, 1636, and
STONE afterward of Beverly, Massachu
setts, immigrant ancestor of the
faraily treated in this place, was only one of
several persons of the same christian and
family name who were seated in the New
England plantations in the early part of the
seventeenth century, but this John Stone is
the same referred to by various chroniclers
as having embarked from London in the ship
"Elizabeth" in 1635. He settled first in Salem
and soon removed to Beverly, and was one of
the founders of the first church there in 1667.
He had a grant of lands in 1637, and it was
he who with his son John kept the first ferry
across Bass river, between Salera and Beverly.
(II) John Stone, son of John Stone, died
in 1691, leaving a wife Abigail and several
children, araong them sons John, Jonathan
and Neheraiah.
(Ill) Neheraiah Stone, son of John and
-Abigail Stone, was baptized May 29, 1670,
and, lived in IJeverly. His wife's name was
Lydia ; children, all born in Beverly : Nehe
miah, Lydia, Sarah, Jonathan, Abigail, Exper
ience and John.
(IV) Jonathan Stone, son of Nehemiah
and Lydia Stone, was baptized in Beverly,
September 20, 1702, died January 11, 1750,
"after a long confinement with jaundice, fol
lowed with a nurab palsy and dropsy, which
brought him to his end." About 1735 he went
to Alaine as agent for Edward Goffe, of Cam
bridge, and remained there until he died. Af
ter his death several of his children went else
where in the province, and they are mention
ed in Brunswick, Berwick and other places as
well as Kennebunkport. The intentions of
raarriage of Jonathan Stone and Hannah
Lovett, of Beverly, were entered October 31,
1726, and several of their children were born
in that town ; Hannah, Israel, Jonathan,
Elizabeth; Benjamin, who died at sea; and
besides these they had other children, born in
Alaine; William, John, Neheraiah, and per
haps others of whom we have no record.

After the death of her husband, Hannah Stone
went from Kennebunkport to York in order
to administer the estate. On the journey sbe
was thrown from her horse and sustained
severe injuries. She charged the doctor's biU
against the estate and the same was allowed
by the court of probate. One account says that
she afterward returned to her former home
"so lame as to be unable to walk," and that
"two men carried her in a chair to her fire
side." (V) William Stone, son of Jonathan and
Hannah (Lovett) Stone, was born after 1735,
in Shapleigh, Maine, but lived in Berwick
when he entered the service as a soldier of
the revolution. The records show that he en
listed as private in Captain Philip Hubbard's
conipany. Colonel Jaraes Scammon's Thirtieth
regiment, and was in service from May 5,
1775, until August I, 1775, three months and
four days. He is again mentioned in an ab
stract of pay roll frora July 31, 1775, to Octo
ber, 1775, and on December 21 following he
received an order for raoney in lieu of a boun
ty coat. He also served as private in Captain
Jedediah Goodwin's company, Colonel Ed
ward Wigglesworth's regiment, and the pay
roll shows his travel allowance from Albany
to his home, two hundred and eighty miles.
His corapany was discharged November 30,
1776. (VI) James Stone, son of William Stone,
was born in Berwick, .Alaine, about 1781, and
was a farmer there. The later years of his
life were spent in Lynn, Massachusetts, and
he died there December 4, 1843, aged about
sixty-two years. He married Sally Trafton,
of Shapleigh, Maine, and by her he had thir
teen children, whose names are given here,
but probably not in the order of seniority:
AVilliam, Charles, Lewis, Joel, Abial; Julia,
only one now Hving, resides in Davenport,.
Massachusetts ; Mary, Elizabeth, Dorothy,
Sarah, Susan, Belinda, Isaiah.
(VII) Isaiah Stone, son of James and Sally
(Trafton) Stone, was born in Shapleigh,
Alaine. He was reared and educated in
his native town, and when a young man
was attracted to the newly discovered gold
fields of California, where he remained for
some time. Retuming to New England
he was located for a short period in
Danvers, Massachusetts, whence he re
moved to Lynn and engaged in the manufac
ture of shoes, having a factory on South Cora
raon street. He was among the pioneers of
that industry in Lynn. After the breaking out

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1823

of the civil war he relinquished business and
¦enlisted in the signal corps, serving with that
body in the Department of the South, receiv
ing an honorable discharge at the expiration
¦of his term of enhstment. Upon his return
from the army he resumed his trade in Lynn,
that of shoemaking, and was shortly after
ward appointed a special officer on the police
force of that city. He remained in the de
partment for thirty-five years, the greater part
of which period he served as special watchman
in the various bank buildings and at the Bos
ton, Revere Beach & Lynn railway station.
His long and faithful service in the police de
partment was terminated by his resignation in
1899, and he spent the remainder of his life
in retirement. He died in Lynn, August 21,
1904. He was widely known among the civil
war veterans, being an active meraber of Post
No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, Lynn;
he was also a member of Everett Lodge, No.
20, Knights of Pythias, and of the Gold Dig
gers' Association. Mr. Stone married, August
27, 1857, Catherine F. H. Hara, of Shapleigh.
Children; i. Herman E., born July 18, 1858.
2. Georgia E., born April 8, i860, now the
widow of Dr. Frank D. S. Stevens (see
sketch). 3. Frank E., see forward. 4. Clar
ence, born September 16, 1866.
(A/III) Dr. Frank E. Stone, son of Isaiah
and Catherine F. (Ham) Stone, was born in
Lynn, July 16, 1862. He received his elemen
tary education in the Lynn public schools, his
secondary education at Lynn high school, and
his professional education at Portland School
of Medical Instruction, Maine Medical Col
lege and the Alaine General Hospital. He
graduated from Lynn high school, class of
1881, and in 1882 matriculated at the Maine
Medical College, graduating M. D., June 25,
1885. His course at the Maine General Hos
pital was in the nature of the regular interne-
ship and continued one year, but the practical
experience gained there was equal to if not of
greater value than a post-graduate course of
study. Having completed his year at the hos
pital. Dr. Stone returned to Lynn and began
the active general practice which has contin
ued throughout the last twenty-two years, and
which bj his earnest and capable effort has
placed him among the leading men of his pro-
fession in that city Few physicians in Lynn
have more extended acquaintance than he, and
few indeed of them have achieved greater
success. In connection witl professional pur
suits he naturally has taken considerable in
terest in public affairs in the city and has

served in various capacities in the city govern
ment. Since 1905 he has filled the office of
city physician, and during the same period has
been a member of the city board of health
He is a member of the American Medical
Association, Massachusetts Medical Society,
Massachusetts Association of Boards of
Health, Essex County Medical Society, and
the Lynn Medical Fraternity. In fraternal
orders he is a Pythian Knight, a Red Alan, and
an Essenic Knight. In religious preference he
is a Universalist, and in politics a Republican.
Dr. Stone married, in Brunswick, Maine,
June 25, 1889, Annie Jewell Allen, a native
of Brunswick, daughter of Calvin AVinchester
and Aribine Louise (Jewell) Allen, the for
mer a native of Turner, Maine, and the latter
of Framinghara, Alassachusetts.. Mr. Allen
went from Turner to Brunswick when a young
man, and for a time was a traveling salesraan ;
later on he becarae proprietor of a drug store
in Brunswick, continuing in that business
raany years, taking his sons as partners as they
grew to manhood and eventually turning over
the store and business to their management.
Mr. and Airs. Allen have three sons : Harry,
Edward and Ernest ; two daughters, Mrs. Dr.
Stone, and Florence M. Alien, a teacher in
Brunswick, Alaine. Dr. and Mrs. Stone have
two children : Avesia Hortense, born February
28, 1891 ; Ellsworth Allen, born May 10, 1892.

The Holders of Holderness,
HOLDER England, are believed to be
descended from one of the
early naval chiefs who extended his conquests
along the coast of Germany, Gaul and the
British Isles about A. D. 500, the time of the
invasion of Ida. Holder was a leader under
Ida and his rank was the same as that of ad
rairal of raore raodem tiraes. Ida was a chief
of the Angles and the first king of Bernicia
and at the time of the invasion he landed his
forces near Flamboro Head, Holderness, Eng
land, and there one of those in chief command
under hira, Holder by narne, seized and held
the coast between the North sea and the Hum
ber, Yorkshire; and to the region thus fell
under his control was given the narae of Hol
derness — a name which ever since has been
retained. In the centuries which succeeded
the invasion by Ida and Holder others of like
character followed, notably the Danes, the
Norsemen, the Normans and after them the
Anglo-Saxons, and in consequence of these
Holderness frequently passed under new sov
ereignty and ultimately resulted in the survival

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of that which may properly be termed the sur
vival of the fittest and the permanency of the
English dominion.
Genealogy of Holder family: Holder, of
Holderness, Saxon chief, who captured Hol
derness, England, A. D. 500: Holder, Thane
during the reign of Alfred the Great, A. D.
870 : Rev. George Holder, rector of All Saints,
Roos, Holderness, 1588. The Rev. WiUiam
Holder, D. D., born 1616, in Nottingham
shire, -England, died January 27, 1697, a
clergyman of distinction and author of con
siderable note, is believed to have been an elder
brother of Christopher Holder, the immigrant
ancestor of the branch of the Holder family
of New England treated in these annals. He
married Susannah (died 1688), daughter of
Christopher Wren, dean of Windsor, and sis
ter of Sir Christopher Wren, Bart.
Christopher Holder, American ancestor,
was born in Winterburne, Gloucestershire,
England, 163 1, died April 13, 1688, the rec
ord of his death being as follows ; "Christo
pher Holder, of Puddimore, in the county of
Somerset, died at Ircott, in the parish of Al-
mondsburg, 13 4mo 1688, and was buried at
Plazewell." He was a most devout and con
scientious rainister of the Society of Friends,
and for thirty-three years of his life preach
ed the doctrine of his creed in England, Amer
ica and the West Indies, and for this "offense"
on the soil of New England he was persecuted
and held up before the populace as an object
of abhorrence, punished with severe stripes on
his bare back, imprisoned and ill provided
¦with sustenance, banished from the colony,
and under sentence of his persecutors was
bereft of one of his ears ; yet he failed not in
his duty at any time as he saw it.
Early in the year 1656 Christopher Holder
sailed from England in the "Speedwell" and
landed in Boston June 27 of the same year.
Here he and six other persons of his own
religious faith were at once subjected to per
secution. Let us glance at the record ; July
27, 1656, arrived at Boston and soon suffered
persecution for his Quaker views. August 29,
1657, for speaking a few words "in your meet
ing after your priest had done, was hauled by
the back of the hair of his head and his mouth
\iolently stopped with glove and handkerchief
thereunto thrust with much fury by one of
your chief members." September 23, 1657,
was whipped with thirty stripes "as near as
the hangman could in one place, measuring hi?
ground and fetching his strokes with great
strength and advantage." October 8. 1659

was visited in pri.son by Mary Scott and Hope
Clifton, both of whom were taken into custody
for the offence, as also was Mary Dyer, who
came with them to the prison. On November
22, 1659, he was sentenced to banishment from
the colony under penalty of death if he should
return, and as an additional punishment one
of his ears was cut off. In 1673 he was again,
in New England and in that year was made
freeman in Newport, Rhode Island. He had
returned to England in the same ship in which
he first carae over, and on coming again he
landed at New Amsterdam (New York) and
in corapany with John Copeland raade his way
to Bo.ston by way of Providence and Martha's
Vineyard. On .AprU 4, 1676, it was voted in
raeeting "that in these troublesorae times and
straits in this colony, the Asserably desiring
to have advice and the concurrence of the most
judiciois inhabitants, if it may be had for the
good of the whole, do desire at their next
sitting the company and council of sixteen per
son?, among them Christopher Holder."
Christopher Holder married first, June 12,.
]66o. Alary Scott, who died October 17, 1665;
children, Alary and Elizabeth. He married
second, December 30, 1665, Hope, who
died January 16, 1681, daughter of Thoraas
and Alary (Butterworth) Clifton; children; i.
Christopher Jr., born December 22, 1666, died"
1720. 2. Hope, Alay 25, 1668. 3. Patience,
Febru.ary 12, 1669, died in infancy. 4. Pa
tience. August 16, 1671. 5. John, August 20,
1672, died in infancy. 6. Content, May 22,
1674, died August 24, 1676. 7. Anne, Febru
ary 29, 1676, died Alarch 21, 1676.
Christopher Holder Jr., eldest son and child
of Christopher and Hope (Clifton) Holder,
born December 22, 1666, died in 1720. He
married, at Hallatrow, England, February 15,
1691, EHzabeth Dani ell, of Winterburne, Eng
land : two children, the first a son, born and'
died December 5, 1693, and John, born 1694.
Captain John Holder, son of Christopher
Jr., and Elizabeth (Dani ell) Holder, is raen
tioned in "'The Holders of Holderness" as the
only surviving child of his parents; that he
was a mariner and master of a merchant ship
sailine between Boston, the Barbadoes and
Pii.g-lisli ports : and that he raarried and had a
son Daniel, but mentions no other children,
and leaves the subject with inference that
there w-ere no other children. This Daniel
Holder, horn 1721, was the noted Nantucket
shipbuilder, and who wrote his name Daniel,
although he is supposed to have been christen
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his niother's family name. In 1748, according
to the authority above mentioned, he married
Susannah  , who died August 3, 1807,
and by her had nine children, the seventh of
whom in order of birth was Daniel, born Mar
blehead, Massachusetts, AprU 14, 1761. He
married Desire Styles, of Marblehead, and
had by her thirteen children, the seventh of
whom in order of seniority was Nathaniel,
born January 19, 181 1, married, August 12,
1833, Hannah Dodge Alorgan and by her had
thirteen children.
Such in brief is an outline of the descent of
rhe late Nathaniel Holder from Christopher
Plolder, the immigrant, through each succeed
ing generation of his ancestors as understood
and published in various chronicles and
especially in the Holder genealogy to which
reference is raade. But it appears according
to the researches of members of the Holder
family and particularly by some of the chil
dren of the late Nathaniel Holder, of Lynn,
(181 1- 1900) that his father, Daniel, (1774-
1816) was not a son of Daniel Holder, of
Marblehead, (1761) who married Susannah
 but was in fact a son of Nathaniel
Holder, baptized 1732, and married 1755, Sus
annah Horsom ; and that this Nathaniel was a
son of Thomas Holder, who raarried in 1731
Barbara Haydon.
(I) Of Thoraas Holder nothing is known
previous to his marriage with Barbara Hay
don, and none of the several chroniclers which
purport to treat of the Holder family make any
mention of his name. The Marblehead vital
records give an account of his marriage, and
also of the death of a Thomas Holder i 5rao
1732. The same records also mention the mar
riage of Thomas Holder and Bathsheba Need
ham, February 11, 4721-22, but whether he is
identical with Thomas Holder who married
Barbara Haydon, June 29, 1731, is not known.
It is safe to assurae that Thomas Holder was
born sometime between 1700 and 1710, and
as tliose who claim descent from him also
claim Christopher Holder the Elder as their
American nncestor it is clear that Thomas
must have been a grandson of the iraraigrant ;
but the records indicate that Christopher Hol
der Jr., was the only surviving son of hi.s
father and also that Captain John Holder was
the son of the younger Christopher. From
this it appears. that either Christopher Holder
Jr., had a son Thomas as well as a son John,
or that Thomas Holder who married Barbara
Haydon was of another family than that of
Christopher. In his "Genealogical Dictionary"
lv-«7

Savage mentions Nathaniel Holder, of Dor
chester, 1634, but nothing further than that;
and the "History of Dorchester" (1851) men
tions that "Nathaniel Holder" was admitted to
the church there in 1636. One writer of con
temporary history speaks of a confusion of the
names Holder and Holden, but frora what is
here written it is evident that Christopher
Holder, the Rhode Island Quaker missionary,
was not the first of his surname in New Eng
land. There were Haydons and Haydens too
among the earliest settlers in old Dorchester,
but there is nothing now obtainable which fur
nishes a clew to the probable ancestor of
Thomas Holder who married Barbara Haydon.
(II) Nath;iniel Holder, son of Thomas and
Barbara (Haydon) Holder, was baptized in
Alarblehead, Massachusetts, October i, 1732,
and married, April 3, 1755, Susanna Horsom,
who died August 3, 1807, and whose death is
identical with that of Susannah  , who
is mentioned in the Holder Genealogy as the
wife of Daniel Holder, of Nantucket and Alar
blehead. Children of Nathaniel and Susanna
(Horsom) Holder (dates of birth unknown;
dates of baptism given) ; i. Ann, February
29, 1756. 2. Susanna, December 11, 1757. 3
Natlianiel, 1760, died young. 4. Sarah, De
cember 20, 1761, married, June 30, 1778, Cap
tain William Dennis. 5. Jane, 1764, died
young. 6. Alary, July, 1765. 7. Nathaniel,
Cc'ober 4, 1767. S. Jane, Deceraber 17, 17&9
married, December 20, 1787, Lloyd Smethurst
9. Elizabeth, June 16, 1771, raarried, April 15
1798, Samuel Bowden. 10. Daniel, July 17
1774. II. Lvdia, Deceraber 15, 1776.
(Ill) Daniel Holder, Quaker, son of Na
thaniel and Susanna (Horsom) Holder, was
born in Alarblehead, Massachusetts, July 17,
1774, and died September 25, 1816. He mar
ried April 9, 1797, Desire, of Alarblehead,
born Alay 24, 176^, died October 9, 1839,
daughter of Captain Richard and Desire P.
Styles. Daniel and Desire (Styles) Holder
are said to have had thirteen children, a rec
ord of eight of whom is found; i. Daniel,
January 26. 1799, died March 12, 1801. 2.
Nathaniel. September 30, 1800, died October
15, 1804. 3. Daniel, May 5, 1802, died April
20, 1S07. 4- Desire, February 28, 1804, died
February 24, 1820. 5. Sally, February 24,
1806, died June 24, 1900 ; married Joseph
Selman, of Alarblehead, who died in 1873. 6.
Daniel. Alay 14, 1808, died September 14,
1843. 7. Nathaniel, January 19, 181 1. 8.
Susannah, -September 15, 1814, died Novem
ber 20, 1899; married Isaac Abbott AUen.

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(IV) Nathaniel Holder, youngest son of
Daniel and Desire (Styles) Holder, was born
in Marblehead, Massachusetts, January 19,
181 1, died in Lynn, June 24, 1900, having
attained the remarkable age of almost four
.score and ten years. He was of pious mind
and his walk in Hfe was in keeping with the
precepts he taught during the years he de
voted to the work of the ministry. He was a
young raan when he becarae a clergyman of
the Universalist church and his first pastorate
was in Washington, New Hampshire, where
he reraained a few years. Sometime after that
his views changed and he became a Unitarian ;
he was a member of the latter church and one
of its trustees for many years previous to his
death. But it was as a man of business that
Air. Holder was best known in the city of
Lynn, where he engaged in active pursuits
nearly half a century. His young life was
spent in his native town of Marblehead,
where he was educated in the public schools,
and after leaving school he learned the trade
of baker. In 1830, when only nineteen years
old, lie went to Boston and started in business
on his own account, remained there three years
and then went to Lynn and built a bakery and
residence on Commercial street. This was the
real beginning of his successful business
career, and as his means would allow he grad
ually branched out and increased his facilities
for raanufacture until at length he was pro
prietor of a large wholesale baking establish
ment and of a trade which was very extensive.
In addition to his general bakery enterprise
Mr. Holder, with exceUent judgment, invested
a considerable part of his unemployed capital
in unimproved real estate in Lynn and its im
mediate vicinity. This he did in a sraall way
at first, but before he had lived there fifteen
jears he owned several separate tracts of land-
His first considerable purchase was made in
1844, when he bought ten acres in the vicinity
of Boston street, laid it out in house lots,
opened Grove street in 1845 and offered the
lots for sale at public auction, the first event
of its kind in Lynn, and so successful in its
results that all of the lots were sold off in a
single day. In the same year he opened Salem
street, later laid out Linwood street frora Wal
nut street to the Dungeon, completing one
mile of it in three weeks ; then opened Pine
Grove avenue. Greenwood and Tapley streets.
In 1848 he bought one hundred and ten acres
of land on what was then known as Pine HUl,
and there built his large baking establishraent.
The remaining portion of the purchase was

laid out, improved and developed under his
personal direction. In the meantime he had
erected a large number of dweUing houses,
and as an evidence of his public spiritedness
and unselfish interest in city where he lived
so long, it may be said that Mr. Holder was
one of five men who purchased a tract of land
seventy acres in extent and donated it for a
public cemetery — Pine Grove cemetery, as now
known. Mr. Holder was not in any sense a
politician or seeker after political honors, al
though occasionally he was induced to stand as
the candidate of the Republican party for local
offi'ce. He served one term as overseer of the
poor, was for some time a member of the
school committee, and in 1853 was a member
of the constitutional convention of that year.
His political views inclined to independence,
and he looked first at the man and at his party
afterward. He himself was urged to stand
for the mayoralty of Lynn, but he declined
the honor, and also several other prominent
offices which were offered him. At the age of
seventy years Mr. Holder retired from active
pursuits and turned over to his sons the man
agement of his varied business interests.
On August 12, 1832, he married Hannah
Dodge, of Salem, Massachusetts, daughter of
Andrew and Rachel (Safford) Morgan. Chil
dren; I. Sarah Selman, born July 31, 1834,
died January 17, 1896; married, March 14,
1854, Charles Augustus Adams, died Novem
ber 19, i860; children : Charles Holder Adams,
born December 29, 1856, died November 27,
1866; Sarah Augusta Adams, September 16,
1858, died March 10, 1859; Qara Bassett
Adams, May 16, i860, resides in Lynn. After
the death of her husband Sarah Selman Hol
der Adams married Henry Breed, of Lynn;
children; Flora Hold», Henry Lincoln,
Isabel Morgan, Sarah Ellen and Emma Haw
thorne. 2. Elizabeth Safford, born January 7,
1836, married, Lynn, Alay 7, 1855, Amos S.
-Adaras, died Alansfield, Ohio, August 11,
188 1 ; chUdren; Helen Elizabeth Adams, born
September 15, 1857; Florence Adams, Alarch
24, 1S60, died Septeraber 25, 1887; Annie
Alartin Adams, Alarch 21, 1862, married John
Henry Whipple, of Chicago ; Gertrude Adams,
Alarch 26, 1868 ; Dr. Nathaniel Holder Adams,
January 14, 1871, married Clara Rosina Mel-
chert, in Chicago. 3. Mary Ann Morgan,
born November 12, 1837, married, December
31, 1863, Andrew J. Kidder, both dead; chil
dren ; Martha Richards, born April 16, 1868 ;
Henry Worcester, January 25, 1871 ; Andrew
Jackson, March 14, 1873, married, 1898, Helen

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1827

Arnold Bowles, who died January 20, 1901 ;
xMary Holder, April 3, 1875 ; WUham Mudgett,
January 8, 1878; Nathaniel Holder, October
19, 1880, died January 2, 1881 ; Luther Mc
Cutcheon, February i, 1884. 4. Harriet Ella,
born June 23, 1839. 5. "William Channing,
born March 7, 1841, business man of Lynn;
former alderman and president of the com-
. mon council ; member and trustee of the Uni
tarian church; married, January 25, 1870,
Helen Shedd ; children : William Leighton,
born February 26, 1871, died July 21, 1871 ;
Henry Allen, September 4, 1872 ; Jesse Mor
gan, February 9, 1874; Alary Esther, March
28, 1875 ; Helen Zulette, August 6, 1876 ; Wal
ter Safford, October 27, 1879 ; MarceUus, Oc
tober 8, 1882, died April 6, 1883; Bertha,
April 8, 1884. 6. Caroline Healey, born No
vember 28, 1842. 7. Theodore Parker, born
July 30, 1844, married, July 20, 1870, John
Alexander Jameson ; children ; Hannah Hold
er, born May 8, 1871 ; Charles Smith, August
12, 1873; George Sargeant, October 14, 1874;
Sarah Abbie, September 26, 1876; Arthur
Lawrence, January 10, 1879 ; John Alexander,
March 10, 1881, died July 25, 1885; Holder
Morgan, August 5, 1882; Lucy Cook, Decem
ber 24, 1886. 8. Langdon Healey, born March
10, 1846, former member of the state legisla
ture; member (1907) of the board of alder
men of Lynn ; married first, October 28, 1868,
Ella Maria Jack.son; children; AHce Jose
phine, born October 29, 1869; Amy Leland,
June 21, 1871, married, October 15, 1890,
Willard Nathaniel Al or rison (had Harold
Ivory, bom September 5, 1891 ; Willard Lang
don, August 27, 1892; Ella Marjorie, October
2, 1896; Hazel Avmy, June 2, 1901) ; Healey
Langdon, born March 2, 1874, died March 21,
1878; Earnest Morgan, bom August 8, 1876,
married, January i, 1906, EUen Choate; child,
Kennett Alorgan; Bessie Davenport, October
3, 1878, married, January i, 1906, Frederick
WiUiam Bryan ; chUd, Louise, deceased ; Ever
ett Tracy, December 6, 1883, died May, 1905.
For his second wife Langdon Healey Holder
married, June 12, 1894, Anna Sophia Nutter,
of Lynn. 9. Qara Bassett, born February 6,
1848, died April 21, 1891 ; married, July 12,
1871, Daniel Frank Bennett; children; Clara
Bennett, born and died May, 1872; Frank
Bennett, June 21, 1873, died November 28,
1873. 10. Nathaniel Jr., bom Septeraber 22,
1849, died July 2, 1903 ; succeeded his father
in the baking business; married, August 22,
1877, Ellen Ardelia Dow ; children ; Nathaniel
Dow' Holder, born July 21, 1878, married, June

20, 1900, Alice Inez Winslow (had Andrew
Nathaniel Dow, born July 16, 1901, died Au
gust I, 1901 ; and Glenna Winslow, born
1906) ; Andrew Morgan, June 29, 1880, died
April I, 1900; Frank Pierson, December 6,
1883, died February i, 1908; Ralph, Novem
ber 19, 1885; Clara Ethel, July 25, 1888; Lil
lian, July 14, 1891. II. Emma, born Septem
ber 2, 1851, died Alarch 21, 1878; married,
December 13, 1871, Jackson Locke, who died
June 10, 1899; children; Sarah Sanborn
Locke, born November 30, 1872, died March
15, 1878; Emma May Locke, October 7, 1875,
married, June, 1899, Wilson Hiram Thorne
(had Stella May Thorne, born May 19, 1900,
and Wilson Hiram, born February, 1902) ;
Sanborn Holder Locke, March 4, 1878, mar
ried, January 24, 1900, Lillian Alice Jones
(had Howard Sanborn Locke, born June 3,
died June 6, 1901, Clarence Alorgan, LUHan
Alay, Bernice). 12. Zulette, born July 5, 1853,
died August i, 1888. 13. Daniel, born April
I, 1855, died November 30, 1856.

This ancient and highly re-
McDONALD spectable family name is
here written McDonald in
stead of MacDonald for the reason that in one
of the generations of the early part of the last
century a MacDonald, a Scotch Presbyterian,
married a McDonald, an Irish Catholic woman,
and in deference to her wishes the husband
adopted the Irish way of spelling the name.
(I) Ronald McDonald, a descendant of the
old Scottish MacDonald family, was born on
one of the northern isles of the Hebrides in
Scotland, at a place called Uyst. When he was
a young man, with his wife and their only
child, he left his native country, crossed the
Atlantic ocean and settled at Cable Head, a
little to the eastward of the harbor St. Peters,
on Prince Edward Island. There Ronald Mc
Donald afterward Hved and died. He was a
farmer by principal occupation, an industrious
honest man, and while he never succeeded in
gaining a fortune in lands and money, he al
ways lived in comfort, raised a family of ten
children, educated thera as well as the situation
of his country horae would permit, and train
ed them in useful occupations. The sons in
the faraily generally took to farraing and fish
ed more or less, according to the custom of
nearly all the people of that region. The eld
est child was born in Scotland, and the others
on Prince Edward Island, viz.; i. Alexander,
came over with his parents; farmer and ship
builder; married and had a large family. 2.

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John, was a farmer and ship carpenter. 3.
Donald, was a farmer. 4. James, was a ship
carpenter, one of the two sons of Ronald Ale-
Donald who left the island and remained away
for a considerable time. He came to New
Brunswick, Maine, worked there at his trade
for a year or two and then returned to the old
home and became a farmer. 5. Sarah, mar
ried Thomas Reville, and raised a large fam
ily. 6. Catherine, married Thomas Murphy,
and came to the states, where he died. She
afterward lived in Maiden, Massachusetts,
and died there. 7. Mary, never raarried ; died
1906, aged eighty-nine years. 8. Charles,
mentioned below. 9. Ronald, lived a few years
in Gloucester, on Cape Ann, where several of
his sons Hved. They were fishermen, and
three of thera — Alatthew, Andrew and Daniel
— were lost at sea. After this misfortune the
father returned to his native town and died
there. 10. Andrew, always lived on the old
home farm where his father settled ; now is
eighty-five years old. 11. Stephen, died in in
fancy. (II) Charles McDonald, fifth son and eighth
child of Ronald AlcDonald, was born about
1808 and died in 1880. He carae to the states
only once, and then to visit the home of his
son. Captain Jerome McDonald, of Glouces
ter. His occupations were farming and ship
carpentering, and he was a thrifty raan, a good
farmer and provided corafortably for his fam
ily. He raarried first. Alary McDonald, (not
a relative) died aged twenty-eight years; sec
ond, Ann O'Hanley, a native of Prince Ed
ward Island. Children, four by each raar
riage; I. Charles, born Prince Edward Island,
died in infancy. 2. John, bom Prince Edward
Island, died in infancy. 3. Jerorae, born Sep
teraber 15, 1845, mentioned below. 4. Ellen,
married Stephen McEachern and lived at Fair
field, Prince Edward Island. She died about
1894 ; children ; Mary Margaret, died aged
eighteen ; Joseph, living at Hyde Park, Massa
chusetts ; Emanuel, living at Hyde Park ;
Flora, raarried, and lives in Roxbury, Massa
chusetts ; Winnie, lives on Prince Edward Isl
and ; Jerome, lives Prince Edward Island ;
EUen, lives Prince Edward Island. 5. Mal
colm, born Prince Edward Island, died aged
twenty-two. 6. Mary, born Prince Edward
Island, raarried Frank Bond ; lives in Clifton
dale, Massachusetts. 7. WiUiara, born Prince
Edward Island, a farmer living on old home
stead. 8. John P., born Prince Edward Island,
a farmer, raarried twice ; two children.

(HI) Captain Jerome McDonald, third son
and child of Charles and Mary McDonald,
is a native of Prince Edward Island, born
September 15, 1845, and for more than forty
years has been identified with the Gloucester
fisheries, although before he went to Cape
Ann to Hve he had sailed as a fisherman from
various New England ports. He was brought
up on the old home farm on Prince Edward
Island, vvhere his grandfather had settled more
than a century before Jerome was born, and
received a good comraon school education, al
though his opportunities in that direction were
soraewhat liraited, for he being the oldest son
in the faraily who grew to maturity it was
necessary that he do much of the work on the
farm,. "When eighteen years old he left home
and went fishing, and then began a business
Hfe which has witnessed many changes, and
occasional hardships, but which resulted in
ultimate success. For two years he sailed on
a fishing vessel out of Cape Cod and made his
first trip to the banks of Newfoundland. Later
on he sailed to the AVest Indies, afterward
returning to Cape Cod, and during the- spring
and summer of 1865 stayed at his old home on
Prince Edward Island. In the fall of 1865
Captain McDonald went to Weyraouth, Mas
sachusetts, but soon afterward removed to
Gloucester and has since been a prominent
factor in the fisheries of that city. For the
first five years, from 1865 to 1870, he sailed
as an ordinary fisherman, but in the year last
mentioned was made master of the "Eastern
Light" on a trip to the Grand Banks for the
firm of Aladdox & Knowles. In the next year
he was master of the "Alidnight" for the same
firm, and in the fall of 1872 engaged with Den
nis & Ayer to sail the "Sarah P. Ayer" and
was her raaster for the next two years. In
1874 Captain McDonald had accumulated
money enough to purchase a half interest in
the new ship "G. P. AVhitman", the other half
being owned by the firm of Dennis & Ayer.
This ship he sailed for the following six years.
Then Mr. Andrew Leighton purchased the in
terest of Dennis & Ayer, and Captain Mc
Donald sailed her four years as master and
part owner with his friend, Mr. Leighton. In
1885, in company with Mr. Leighton, Captain
McDonald built the "Monitor", which was lost
in 1886 on the coast of Fortune Bay, New
foundland. They then built the second "Moni
tor" and sailed her in partnership untU the
death of Air. Leighton, after which Captain
McDonald purchased his interest in the "Mon
itor" and sailed her until 1891 ; then ran the

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

1829

"Gladiator'', "Senator", "Preceptor", and in
1901 buih the third "Monitor". In 1891 he
built the "Gladiator", sailed her two years,
then built the "Senator" and was her master
until 1898, when he quitted the sea to devote
his entire time to the business management
of fishing interests, which at that time had
largely increased and needed his personal at
tention, for it was one thing to run into port
with a good ship's trip of fish, but quite an
other thing to sell or cure it to the best advan
tage. In 1899 Captain McDonald built and
added the "Preceptor" to his fleet, followed
her with his fourth "Monitor" in 1901 and
"The Actor" in 1902. His fleet of fishing ves
sels now comprises the "Gladiator", "Sena
tor", "Preceptor", "Monitor" and "The Ac
tor", and besides these ships and those before
mentioned he has had a share interest in the
"Elector", "Motor" and the "Mary E. Mc
Donald", the latter having been named in al
lusion to his daughter, Mary Evelyn Mc
Donald. The foregoing was the only loss Cap
tain McDonald ever had during all his long
service as a fisherman, but he was not discour
aged by a single loss and on returning to Glou
cester built his third "Monitor" and sailed her
for the next five years with good success.
Although he had an owner's interest in a fish
ing vessel in 1874, Captain McDonald dates
his success in the fisheries frora the year 1881,
and gives to Andrew Leighton a full share of
credit for the success he achieved during the
earlier years in which he was engaged in the
business. He himself started out in the busi
ness without a dollar in capital and in Mr.
Leighton he had a loyal friend and helper ;
and they were associates together so long as
the latter lived, to the profit of each of them.
For many years Captain AlcDonald was a
curer and distributor as well as producer of
fish, but more recently he has sold the products
of his vessels to other curers and distributors.
He never made a success of salt fishing, but in
fresh fishing he ranked with the most suc
cessful men in that business ; in one year he
was 4,000 "high line" in Gloucester.
In Gloucester, where the best years of his
life have been spent. Captain Jerome AlcDon
ald is regarded as one of the substantial busi^
ness men of the city, and besides 'his interests
in the fisheries he is a considerable real estate
owner, a man of sound business judgment,
Hberal views on matters of general and local
interest, and one whose opinions have influ
ence as well as good sense. He is a member
of the Master Alariners' Association and the

Fishermen's Institute of Gloucester. He is a
Republican in politics, a firm supporter of the
principles of his party, but never had a desire
for political office.
On January 18, 1871, Jerome McDonald
married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Mc
Kenzie, of Prince Edward Island. Children:
I. John Jaraes, born September 8, 1872, un
married, lives at home. 2. George Francis,
born December 18, 1873, married Mary Kane,
and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
he is a bookkeeper and accountant; children,
Mary, Jerome and William. 3. Mary Theresa,
born May 10, 1877, died at the age of two
years, eleven raonths. 4. Jerome Edmund,
born April 25, 1878, lives in Portland, Oregon.
5. Charles Albert, born November 21, 1880,
lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an em
ployee of the Baldwin locomotive works. 6.
Mary Evelyn, born July 18, 1882, a profes
sional nurse, lives in New York. 7. Margaret,
born Deceraber 12, 1883, lives in Gloucester.
8. Joseph, born Deceraber 6, 1885, died in in
fancy.

The surname Ellis comes to New
ELLIS England from England and has
been known in America for nearly
three centuries. It cannot be claimed that the
earHest ancestors of the Ellis surname in the
country during the first half of the seventeenth
century were all of one kin, although there
has been considerable speculation among the
later generations of the descendants of the
several ancestors in regard to the probable re
lationship they bear to each other.
(I) The Ellis faraily of the line here under
consideration is descended from John EUis, of
Sandwich, Massachusetts, an Englishraan by
birth and parentage, but the place of nativity,
the year of his birth and the exact date of his
imraigration to the hospitable shores of New
England are not known. He was of Sandwich
as early as 1641 and in 1643 he is raentioned
in the town records as a person capable of
bearing arms. This implies that he was a man
of good report in the plantation there, a free
raan, and member of the church in good stand
ing. In July. 1657, John Ellis, mentioned as
"Lieutenant Ellis", was one of the fourteen
freemen of Sandwich who signed the agree
ment to support a rainister in tbe town ; "We
whose naraes are hereunder written, do hereby
engage ourselves to pay towards the minister's
support, yearly, the several sums as foUoweth
— except as God by His Providence shall dis
enable us, or any of us remove out of Sand-

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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

wich". To this cause John EUis promised to
pay one pound each year, there being only
three of the whole number who pledged a
greater sura, hence it raay be inferred that he
was a man of substance as well as of influence
among the townsmen.
In the same year "the account of Lt. Ellis
for drura, rauskets &c purchased was render
ed", araounting to ten pounds, six shillings,
seven pence. In 1658 the lands of the town
were described in accordance with an order of
the court, and John Ellis Sr. and John EUis
Jr. are raentioned as property owners at that
time. His name also appears in 1675, when a
meeting was called by Lieutenant John Ellis
and Benjamin Hammond, the constable, for
the purpose of granting liberty to "any fami
lies that may be necessitated, to repair to the
town .garrison for safety". In the same year
the name of John Ellis Sr. appears araong
those who could "raake appear their just right
to the privileges of the town" The "Annals
of Sandwich" in noting events of the year
1677 state that "Air. John Ellis, the ancestor
of those of the narae in this town, one of the
oldest and first settlers, died this year". To
this stateraent the author of that work adds
this note; "He is called Jr., we know not for
what reason. He must, we think, have been
vSr. of Sandwich. There probably was one of
the narae older in the colony".
In 1645 John Ellis married Elizabeth,
daughter of Edmund Freeraan, to whom,
April 3, 1637, and nine associates, the town of
Sandwich was granted. He was the leading
proprietor of the town. He was born in Eng
land about 1590 and came to New England in
1635. in company with his two sons, Edmund
Jr., and John, the forraer of whom was fifteen
vears old and the latter eight years old at the
tirae of their immigration. Both of them after
ward married daughters of Governor Prince.
He also brought with him two daughters,
Alice, then seventeen, and Elizabeth, twelve
years old. Alice Freeman married Deacon
Williara Paddy, of Plymouth, the first treas
urer of the colony. Elizabeth, third in the
order of birth of her father's children, raar
ried John Ellis, of Sandwich. It is said of
Edraund Freem.an that "he was a raan of con
sideration in England and brought with him
much valuable plate : which last reraark," says
Air. Freeman in his "History of Barnstable
County", "we suppose was intended to be in
dicative of his po,':ition in society. Such, per
haps it might have been at that day, but it
would be a poor criterion now. It is said.

moreover, that he acted as the 'confidential
agent' of certain of the 'merchant adventur
ers'. This would seem to be corroborated by
his correspondence with Mr. Beauchampe, 'a
London merchant and valuable friend to the
colony', who also was brother-in-law to Mr.
Freeman. Mr. Freeman was not only con
spicuous in town affairs, but from 1640 to
1646 inclusive, assistant in the government of
the colony. He lived to be ninety-two years
old, dying in Sandwich in 1682. His sons
Edmund and John also were prominent, both
being deputies to the general court, and the
latter, who removed to Easthara, became as
sistant". Lieutenant John Ellis and Elizabeth Free
man had eight children : r. Bennet, born 1649.
2. Mordecai, 1651, made freeman 1681, died
1715; married Rebecca Qark. 3. Joel, 1655.
4. Nathaniel, 1657. 5. Matthias (see post).
6. John, married Sarah Holraes. 7. Samuel.
8. Freeraan, adraitted freeman 1681 ; raarried
Alercy  — and had sons Joel, Ebenezer,
Alordecai and Gideon.
(II) Matthias Ellis, fifth child of Lieuten
ant John and Elizabeth (Freeman) EUis, was
admitted freeraan in Sandwich in 1681, and
died August 30, 1748. The name of his wife
is not known, but he married and had chil
dren: I. Matthias, born 1681. 2. Freeman,
1683. 3. Mary, 1685. 4. Experience, 1687,
married Stephen ChurchiU. 5. Malachi, 1689.
6. Reraeraber, 1691. 7. Benjamin. 8. Samuel,
1699. 9. AVilliara.
(Ill) Williara Ellis, youngest son of Mat
thias Ellis, married Jane  ; children: i.
AA''illiam, born 1719. 2. Experience, 1722. 3.
Eleazer, 1724. 4. Thomas, 1726.
(IV) AVilHam EUis, son of AVilliam and
Jane EUis, married Patience  ; chil
dren: I. Thomas, born 1744. 2. Betty, 1748,
married Ezra Harlow. 3. Lydia, 1750, mar
ried Thomas Clark. 4. Mary, 1753.
(V) Thoraas EUis, eldest son and child of
AVilliam and Patience Ellis, was born in 1744,
and married, in 1767, Jerusha, born. 1745, a
daughter of Israel and Deborah (Pope) Qark.
Israel Clark, born 1720, married, 1741, De
borah Pope, of Sandwich, and had Josiah, Je
rusha, Thomas, Thankful, Lurania, Betty, Abi
gail, Olive, Grace and John Qark. Israel
Clark was a son of Josiah and Thankful
(Tupper) Clark, whose children were Eliza
beth, died 5^oung, Israel and EHzabeth Clark.
Josiah Clark was a son of Thomas Clark, who
raarried first, in 1682, Rebecca Miller and had
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1831

and Thomas, born 1685. Thomas Clark mar
ried second, 1690, Elizabeth Crow and had
Josiah, bom 1690, Elizabeth and Nathaniel.
Thomas Clark married third, Susanna Miller,
and had Anna, married Gideon EUis ; Abigail,
married Nathaniel Bartlett, and Sarah, born
1704. Thomas Clark, father of Josiah Clark,
was a son of James Clark, born 1636, raarried,
1657, Abigail, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop,
and had John, James, Susanna, Abigail, Jo
anna, Thomas and Bathsheba Clark. Janies
Clark, father of Thomas Clark, was a son of
Thomas Clark, the immigrant, who came to
New England in the "Ann" in 1623. and was a
merchant in Boston. He married first, before
1634, Susanna, daughter of Widow Alary
Ring, and by her had Andrew, James, Susan
na, William, John and Nathaniel. Thomas
Clark married second, in 1664, Widow .Alice
Nichols, daughter of Richard Hallett. Thomas
and Jerusha (Clark) Ellis had children; i.
Betsey, born 1770, married  Swift. 2.
William, 1771. 3. Lydia, married

Morey. 4. Jerusha. 5. Polly. 6. Lucy. 7.
Nathaniel. 8. Thomas.
(VI) Thomas Ellis, j'oungest son and child
of Thomas and Jerusha (Clark) Ellis, raar
ried Rebecca Burgess; children; i. Hannah,
born 1803, married Joseph Harlow. 2. Elisha,
1805, (see post). 3. Betsey, 1807. 4- Lydia,
1808, married Paul Crowell. 5. Thoraas, 181 1,
married Joanna B., daughter of Francis EUis.
6. Anson B., married Harriet N. Howes, of
Dennis. 7. Hiram. 8. -Qark S., married
Eliza A. Swift.
(A^II) Elisha EUis, second son and child
of Thomas and Rebecca (Burgess) Ellis, was
born in Plymouth, Alassachusetts, 1805, and
lived in that part of the town in which others
of his family in earlier generations had lived,
and which was named Elli,sville in allusion to
the family. He was a farmer and it is under
stood that he engaged to sorae extent in fish
ing. He lived to a good old age and was for
raany years a meraber of the Alethodist Epis
copal church and one of the officers of the so
ciety. Mr. Ellis died in 1892. He married
Priscilla Crowell, of West Sandwich. Alassa
chusetts, (now Sagamore) ; chUdren; i. Elisha
Winslow, bom 1837. passed his entire life in
Alanomet, Massachusetts ; raarried Gertrude
Nichols, who died Septeraber 2, 1890; two
chUdren, the first of whom died in infancy;
the second was Cynthia Holmes EUis. 2.
Priscilla Ann, died in infancy. 3. Priscilla
Crowell, born 1845, married Aialcolm Alc
Kenzie, and had Arthur Kenneth AlcKenzie,

James Frankhn AlcKenzie, Susan Priscilla
McKenzie and Ellis McKenzie. 4. Nathan
CroweU (see post). 5. Thomas P., married
Mrs. Harriet HiU and had Beatrice and Bertha
Ellis. 6. Sarah Sears, married William H.
Pierce and had one daughter, Alberta Wil
liams Pierce, who died in infancy. 7. Ed
mund Sears, married Mary Jane Deloriea,
and had Alverado Leroy, Ralph Deloriea, Ed
na, Ethel Vivian, Eva May and Viola Ellis.
8. Benjamin Franklin, married EHza Town-
send. (VIII) Nathan CroweU Ellis, fourth child
of Elisha and Priscilla (Crowell) Ellis, was
born in Ph'mouth, Alassachusetts, Deceraber
30, 1849, and died in Lynn, Massachusetts,
January 15, 1891. He attended school in
Plymouth and afterward went to Worcester,
Alassachusetts, where he learned the trade of
machinist and becanie a thorough and practi
cal mechanic. Later on he removed to Lynn,
worked for a few months as a journeyman and
then became a junior meraber of the firm of
J. G. Buzzell & Corapany, the partners being
Air. Buzzell, George W. Eraerson and Air.
Ellis. The firra engaged chiefly in the manu
facture of shoe machinery and owned a nura
ber of valuable patents and also did consider
able business in the way of constructing ma
chines on special order and setting up machines
in various factories. .After about twelve years
of successful operation the interest of the
senior partner in the old firm was purchased
by Air. Emerson and Mr. Ellis and the new
partnership of George AA^ Eraerson & Com
pany succeeded to the business. This firra
was continued until the death of Mr. Ellis in
1891. He was an industrious and hardwork
ing raan, an upright citizen and an earnest
raember of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in which he was class leader for several years.
While in active business much of the hardest
work of the shop fell upon him, for he was a
skillful machinist and the making of machines
was required to be done under his imraediate
supervision. In 1875 Air. Ellis raarried Linda Munroe,
born in Charlton, Alassachusetts, April 16,
1855, daughter of John Jordan, of Charlton,
and Ellen (Royle) Jordan, the latter a native
of England. Air. and Airs. Ellis had two chil
dren ; I. Cora Linden, born in Lynn, August
12, 1878, married Dr. John Henry Andrews,
physician and surgeon in active practice in
Lynn. 2. Edith Zerniah, born in Lynn, No
vember 15, 1883.

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Thomas AI. Burckes, for
BURCKES nearly twenty-five years a
member of the poHce force of
Lynn, Alassachusetts, and incumbent of the
responsible office of chief of police for the last
eleven years, a naval veteran of the war of
1861-65, is a descendant of an English family
of ancient origin, who have been known in
New England history since the later years of
the eighteenth century.
(I) Alartin Burckes, great-grandfather of
Thomas M. Burckes, resided for many years
in Quincy, Massachusetts; later he came to
Boston, where he foUowed the business of
contractor, laying the first pavement in that
city. Here he spent the repiainder of his life
and died at an advanced age.
(II) Alartin Burckes, grandfather of Thom
as Al. Burckes, was bom in Quincy, Massa
chusetts. He served as a carpenter with the
rank of lieutenant on board the American ship
"Hornet" under Lawrence in the naval en
gagement in which the British ship "Peacock"
was sunk. After the war Lieutenant Burckes
established a ship yard on that part of the
water front in Boston which was familiarly
known as "Billy Gray's wharf". He was an
enterprising business raan, engaged in various
undertakings in the city of Boston. At the age
of about fifty years he left Boston and took
up his abode on a farra in Waterford, Maine,
remained there about twelve years, then re
turned to Massachusetts and lived in Charles
town until the time of his death at the re
raarkable age of ninety-eight years. He mar
ried Mary Sparrowhawk, of Boston ; she died
in Charlestown. Their children were ; i. Mar
tin, mentioned below. 2. Henry, who was a
"forty-niner" in the gold fields of California
and who died in San Francisco. 3. George,
deceased. 4. James, a resident of Somerville,
Alassachusetts, a contractor and builder. 5.
Samuel, a resident of San Francisco, Califor
nia. 6. Alary Ann, married John B. AVilson ;
died in Boston. 7. Josephine, married David
Coffin, died while visiting in southern Cali
fornia. 8. Barbara, married George Gibson,
removed to Wisconsin, where she died.
(Ill) Martin Burckes, father of Thomas
Mr. Burckes, was born in Charlestown, Massa
chusetts, 1814. He was a carpenter and con
tracting builder in Charlestown for many
years, but the latter part of his life was spent
in San Francisco, California, where he died
about 1853. While living in Charlestown he
married Rebecca Blanchard, who died in that
city in 1869, aged about forty-seven years, and

by whom he had the following named chil
dren : I. Carrie E. 2. Thomas M., mentioned
belovv. 3. Jennie, married Stacy Reed, of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4. Urilda, twin,
who died unmarried. 5. Nellie, twin, married
Henry Whitmore, of Dennison, Massachusetts.
(IV) Thomas Al. Burckes, second child
and only son of Martin and Rebecca (Blanch
ard) Burckes, Was born in Charlestown, Mas
sachusetts, May 3, 1847. He was educated in
the public schools of that city and also of
L}ran, where he went when fourteen years old
to live with the famUy of his aunt, Eleanor
Snow. In the first year of the civil war he
enlisted in the United States navy and served
under Farragut on board the gunboat, "Aroos
took", in the blockading squadron, where that
worthy admiral gave such effective service to
the Union cause. His naval service covered
a period of one year and two months, his term
of enlistment having been for one year. After
being mustered out of service, Mr. Burckes
returned to Lynn and found employment in a
shoe factory and followed that occupation
until 1884, when he was appointed special po
lice officer on the city force. In 1885 he was
made a member of the regular force by ap
pointment of Mayor Baldwin, and after three
years was proraoted to lieutenant of the city
police. At the end of another year he was made
captain and served in that capacity nine years,
then was elected chief of police, or city mar
shal, and has served eleven years as head of
the force of the cityr He is a member of Gold
en Fleece Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Bay State Lodge, No. 40, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows ; General Lander Post, No. 5,
Lynn, Grand Army of the Republic, in which
he has been comraander, junior and senior
vice-coramander. In his political preference
he is a Republican.
In 1866 Mr. Burckes married Lucy A.
Clark, of Lynn, a native of Dixmont, Maine,
born June 16, 1847, daughter of Meschis and
Mary E. (Siders) Clark. Mr. and Mrs.
Burckes have five children; i. Charles H.,
married Bella S. Steeves. 2. Grace B., wife
of Harry E. Southwick, of Lynn. 3. Stacy
R., raarried Mabel Howard; two sons; Ralph
and Thoraas M. 4. Myron E. 5. T. Gordon.

The surname Martin is derived
AlARTIN frora the baptismal name and
is of old English origin. There
are in England no less than thirty-nine coats-
of-arms belonging to Alartin famiHes and
fifty more to Martyn families in the United

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1833

Kingdom. Some of them h^e seats in Lock-
jnge, county Berks; Bowton, county Cam
bridge ; Bodmin, county Cornwall ; Athelhamp-
ton, county Dorset, and Long Melf ord, county
Suffolk; Plymouth, Devonshire, and in some
Irish counties. An ancient armorial of this
family, similar to many others Martin arms is :
Argent a chevron between three mascles sable
with a bordure engrailed gules. Crest: A
•cockatrice's head between two wings. Motto ;
Initium sapientiae est timor Domini.
More than a dozen of their name came to
New England to make their home before 1650.
Christopher Martin who came on the "May
flower", left no descendants, his whole famUy
"being swept away by disease in the first infec
tion. Richard Alartin, an early settler at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was one of the
founders of the church there in 1671 ; deputy
to the general court in 1672 and 1679 and
speaker of the house ; councillor in 1680 ; mar
ried, December i, 1653, Sarah, daughter of
John Tuttle, of Boston ; married second the
widow of John Denison and daughter of Sam
uel Symonds ; third, EHzabeth Lear, widow
of Tobias Lear, and daughter of Henry Sher
burne; fourth, Mary, daughter of Benning
AVentworth. George Alartin, doubtless brother
•of Richard, and perhaps of other pioneers,
-came to this country in the employ of .Samuel
Winsley about 1639 ; settled in Salisbury.
Massachusetts ; also lived in Amesbury ; blaclt-
smith by trade ; died 1686 ; first wife Hannah
¦died in 1646; married second, August 11,
1646, Susannah, daughter of Richard North ;
¦bhe was charged with witchcraft, tried, con
victed and executed at Salem, July 19, 1692.
(I) Ebenezer Alartin, ancestor of the line
herein treated, was bom in 1741, and died at
Alarblehead, January 10, 1800, aged fifty-nine
years. He married, at Marblehead, October
28, 1766, Prudence Alerritt, who died there
November 10, 1800, aged sixty-one years.
Children, born at Marblehead: i. Ebenezer,
mentioned below. 2. Holbrook, baptized Jan
uary 31, 1773. 3. Jane, baptized November 5,
1775. 4. Mary, baptized September 27, 1778.
5. Prudence, baptized April 29, 1781. Eben-
•ezer Martin was a soldier in the revolution ;
in 1775 was in Captain Gideon Burt's cora
pany. Colonel Timothy Danielson's regiment;
also a quarter gunner in Captain Edward
Fettyplace's company from Alarblehead in
J777. (II) Ebenezer Martin, son of Ebenezer
Martin, was born in Marblehead about 1767,
died in Canada, aged thirty-three years. He

was a cabinet maker by trade, and also had a
farm in Alarblehead upon which he raised
wheat and other crops, taking them to Canada
on a raft and exchanging them for various
'kinds of wood for use in the making up of
furniture. While on one of these trips on a
raft, he was seen to go over the falls and his
body was never recovered. He had on his
person at the time a gold watch and consider
able money. He was a fine cabinet maker
and was celebrated in that line. He married,
Noveraber 25, 1792, Jane, baptized January
10, 1770, daughter of Elkanah and Jane (Hub
bard) Hitchins, who were married, August
24, 1769. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin:
I. Ebenezer, baptized September 29, 1793,
died in New Orleans, May i, 1827; married
Ruth Nicholds. 2. Hannah, baptized April 5,
^795- 3- Mary, baptized May 7, 1797. 4.
AVilliam Phippen Alerritt, born August 23,
1800, mentioned below. 5. Almira Marcella,
baptized October 31, 1802. 6. George Whit
field, baptized November 4, 1804.
(Ill) AVilHam Phippen Merritt Martin,
son of Ebenezer Martin, was born in Alarble
head, August 23, 1800, died in Swampscott
about 1878. He was educated in the public
schools of that town, learned the trade of
shoemaker and was later a shoe manufactur
er, continuing for many years. He removed
to Swampscott in 1842. He married second,
Jemima, born in Alethuen, daughter of Eben
Carleton. Children, born at Swampscott; i.
Miriam Sargeant, born at Marblehead, mar
ried Samuel Clough. 2. Alary Hanson, mar
ried the Rev. David H. Sherman, of Barre,
Massachusetts ; children : i. Jennie Louise
Sherman ; ii. Alary Sherman. 3. William.
Two others died in infancy. Children of sec
ond wife : Louise Carleton, deceased, and Jane
Hitchins, mentioned below.
(IV) Jane Hitchins Martin, daughter of
William P- M. Alartin, was born at Marble
head, August 25, 1836. She was educated in
a private school and in the public schools of
Swampscott and the Lynn high school, gradu
ating from the latter. She raarried. May 20,
1863, Captain Thoraas Stanley, born at
Swampscott, October 26, 1817, died aged
eighty-five years. He was a fisherman and
followed that vocation in his locality. He was
a son of Thomas Stanley, who was born in
Salem, where he was a farmer, spent all of his
life and died at the age of sixty- nine years.
Child of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley; Louise Carle
ton, born in Salem, June i, 1865, graduate of
Wheaton Seminary, a school teacher.

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Timothy Tuttle was born in
TUTTLE New Hampshire, and spent his
life in that state. He was a
descendant of an old New England famUy
whose imraigration dates to the time of the
colony. Indeed, history records that four dis
tinct families of the surname Tuttle came over
from England as early as 1634-35, three of
them in the ship "Planter" and the other in
the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked off
the coast of Maine in 1634. The three were
John of Ipswich, Richard of Boston, and Wil
liam, who went to New Haven. The survivor
of the "Angel Gabriel" was John Tuttle, of
Dover, New Harapshire.
Calvin Butterfield Tuttle, son of Tiraothy
Tuttle, was born on Long Island, New Harap
shire, Alay 16, 1851, and died in Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, May 6, 1906. He was one of the
raost successful lawyers of Boston and Lynn,
specializing his practice to cases involving
questions of patent law, which necessitated
hira to relinquish his general practice in the
civil courts of this comraonwealth. When
about eighteen years old he left his horae in
New Harapshire and went to New York state,
remained there about two years, then came to
Lynn and began a course of study preparatory
to entering the legal profession. Later on,
however, he entered AA'^esleyan University, and
still later matriculated at Boston University
Law School, completed the course of that in
stitution and graduated LL.B. in 1879. He
at once began practice in Lynn and soon
attained an enviable prorainence at the bar of
the courts, and as a trial lawyer before the
court and jury he was remarkably successful
and carae to be recognized as one of the lead
ing men of his profession in eastern Alassa
chusetts. He was counsel for several large
industrial corporations, and as associate coun
sel took a prominent part in directing the
affairs and operation of the great United
•Shoe Alachinery Corapany. In connection
with his extensive patent practice Air. Tuttle
raaintained offices in both Boston and Lynn,
and he was the first lawyer to take up practice
under the United States patent laws in the
latter city. He was one of the incorporators
of what originally was known as the Hand
Power Lasting Machine Corapany, a corpora
tion which had its inception in Matzeliger's
"nigger-head lasting machine," the later de
velopraent of which was due largely to Mr.
Tuttle's enterprise and business sagacity, for
he saw the future pos.sibUities to be derived

from its utilizatiW and therefore took a lead
ing part in organizing a corporate corapany
for its raanufacture, which in the course of
time became a highly iraportant element of
the consolidated corporation now known as
the LTnited Shoe Alachinery Company. His
be.st work in connection with these several en
terprises was that which identified him so
closely Avith the Shoe Alachinery Company
for which he secured the first patents and of
which he was the chief promoter. Indeed, it
was largely through his personal endeavors
that the present remarkable success of that
great corporation was raade possible. He also
was one of the principal organizers of the Ex
pedite Heel Finishing Company, a Alassachu
setts corporation which ultimately merged in
the United Shoe Machinery Corapany From
what is written in the preceding, it will
be seen that Mr. Tuttle must have been a very
busy man in his active professional career,
for otherwise the great results achieved by
him would not have been accomplished. He
was a raan of tireless mental energy and al
though during the last fifteen years of his pro
fessional career he v»ras a physical invalid, he
continued the great end he had set out to
accomplish until he attained the desired ulti
mate result and then laid aside the arduous
duties of former years for needed and well
earned rest. He retired frora active profes
sional pursuits in 1900, but afterward kept in
close touch with concerns which he had been
the chief instrument in creating and in the
success of which he always took a deep inter
est. Air. Tuttle for many years was an hon
ored member of the Essex Bar Association
and enjoyed an enviable standing in all pro
fessional circles. He was a member of Mt.
Carmel Lodge, F. and A. M., Sutton Chapter,
R. A. AI., and Olivet Commandery, K. T.
He married, August 22, 1877, Anna M., of
Lynn, daughter of Smith .A. Morse, who was
born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, came to
Lynn when a young man and afterward be-
caiiie a shoe manufacturer. He died in Lynn
at the age of eighty-three years. His wife was
Ruth F. (Hiller) Morse, born in Alarblehead,
daughter of Captain John C. Hiller, who
spent the later years of his life in Lynn, and
died there at the age of eighty years. Sraith
A. and Ruth F. (Hiller) Morse had three
children, Anna AL, now Mrs. Tuttle, Mary I.,
and John E., now living in Connecticut. Air.
and Airs. Tuttle had one daughter, Aland M.
1'uttlt, graduate of Wellesley, '06.

¦is Hist Q-r-. cat Tub, Cs.

VlTBa-thBv.Il.Y

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1835

The family of which the late
SHELDON Ex-Mayor Joseph H. Shel
don, of Haverhill, was a rep
resentative, was fomded in this country by
three brothers who came from England. It
is supposed by some that they came over from
Spain when Phihp A^ married Queen Alary of
Scotland, and about 1600 came to America.
The armorial bearing, borne by the faraily of
Sheldon of England and America; Arras —
Sable a fesse argent between three sheldrakes
ppr. Crest — A sheldrake ppr. Motto — "Op-
timun patti," "To .suffer is best." The broth-
er!5— Isaac, John, William — settled in Dor
chester, Massachusetts.
(I) Isaac Sheldon, eldest of the three
brothers, married and was the father of four
children, among whom were John (see for
ward), and Isaac, who reraoved from Wind
sor, Connecticut, 1654.
(II) John Sheldon, son of Isaac Sheldon,
signed the Parker and AVhiting agreements in
BiUerica in 1658, and -in the same year was
raade freeman. The following year John and
AA''illiam Sheldon were granted eight acres of
land ; William asked for more, but after some
differences between the town and hiraself he
left Billerica. John also left and settled in
AVoburn for a tirae. On Alarch 30, 1674, the
town of Billerica granted to John Sheldon
forty acres "provided there shall be an end to
all differences between the Town and the Shel-
dons." Air. Sheldon married, Septeraber 21,
1658, Alary (Converse) Thorapson, born in
England, 1622, daughter of Edward Converse
and widow of Simon Thompson. One child,
John, see forward. John Sheldon, Sr., died
May 24, 1690.
(Ill) John Sheldon, son of John and Mary
Sheldon, born April 24, 1660, died August 27,
1724. He was made a freeraan in 1680. He
married, November 20, 1690, Deborah HiU,
who died 1729. Children, born in Billerica :
I. John, 1691. 2. Alary, 1692; raarried Peter
Hunt. 3. Samuel, April 9, 1694; raarried,
January 22, 1718, Sarah Hutchinson, died
May 14, 1777. 4. Deborah, 1698, died young.
5. Hannah, 1700. 6. Godfrey, see forward.
(IV) Godfrey Sheldon, son of Deacon John
and Deborah Sheldon, died 1789. He raarried
Hepzibah Felton ; five children, among whom
were John, born 1732, at Beverly, and Skel
ton. (V) Skelton Sheldon, son of Godfrey and
Hepzibah Sheldon, married Elizabeth Wal-
cott; -children: Jonathan, Jeremiah, see for
ward, Amos, Hannah.

(VI) Jeremiah Sheldon, son of Skelton
and Elizabeth Sheldon, was born in North
Danvers, Alassachusetts, June 13, 1757, died
there in 1803. He married, June 5, 1781,
Elizabeth Goodell, an English lady, a direct
descendant on her father's side of General
Israel Putnam, who commanded at Bunker
HUl, June 17, 1775. She was born in Danvers,
July 8, 1759, died at AA^ilmington, August 18,
1853, a.ged ninety-four. Children: i. Elbridge
G., see forward. 2. Lucinda, born August 7,
1783. married John Howard, died October 23,
1885, aged one hundred and two. 3. Samuel
Holbon, born December 26. 1786. North
Reading. 4. Asa Goodell, born October 24,
1788, Wilmington. 5. Harriet, born August
5, 1791. 6. Elizabeth, born December 16,
1795. 7. Jeremiah, born January 26, 1798. 8.
Sophia, born August 24, 1801, married James
Plathaway Milbury.
(VII) Elbridge Gerry Sheldon, son of Jer
emiah and Elizabeth Sheldon, was born in
Danvers, Noveraber 18, 1781, died there De
cember 23, 1846. He married Eleanor Hard
ing ; children ; Elbridge, born 1814, died June
5. 1894, at Haverhill; Sarauel, born 1816;
Eleanor ; Sarauel.
(VIII) Samuel Sheldon, son of Elbridge
Gerry and Eleanor Sheldon, born in Danvers,
October 16, 1819, died October 18, 1854. He
married Emily B. Sleeper, born Alton, New
Harapshire, November 2, 1818, died July 11,
1890. Children; i. Joseph H., see forward.
2. Samuel H., born Haverhill, November' 15,
1844, died Alarch 25, 1884, unraarried. 3.
Charles N.. born Haverhill, February 27, 1847,
died March 2, 1850, 4. Jesse H., born Haver
hiU, August 3, 1849, married Ellen Richard
son, born Haverhill ; one child, James Fitts
Sheldon, born February 24, 1872. 5. Eraily,
born Haverhill, November 24, 185 1, died
March 12, 1852. 6. Burton, born HaverhiU,
May 26, 1854, drowned June 4, 1864.
(IX) Joseph PI. Sheldon, son of Sarauel
and Eraily B. Sheldon, was born in Haverhill,
Alassachusetts, February 12, 1843. In early
life, after acquiring a practical education, he
engaged as clerk in the clothing store of J. S.
Wheeler, with whora he reraained for thirteen
years. Frora 1871 to 1879 he was in business
on his own account on Merrimack street,
Haverhill, and then associated in the same bus
iness v/ith Frank D. Sargent, this firm contin
uing for several jea-vs and being succeeded by
James A. Keefe. After his retirement from
the clothing bu.siness Mr. Sheldon devoted
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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

own real estate holdings. Honored by his fel-
lowraen in various political positions, he dis
charged the trust iraposed upon him, sacrific
ing personal business for that of his fellow
citizens, and time and again refusing higher
positions than those to which he had previous
ly been elected. In the years 1882-83 he served
in the board of aldermen; in 1885 was elected
chief executive of the city, recalled in 1887
for another year, his administrations being
without bleraish and to the entire satisfaction
of his constituents ; in 1877 was norainated
by the Democrats of the state for the posi
tion of state auditor, and from 1893 to 1899
was a member of the overseers of the poor.
In social and religious circles Mr. .Sheldon
was equaUy prominent as in politics. His re
ligious affiliations were with the First Univer
salist Church, of which he was a tru.stee for
years : he was a constant attendant at church
services, and gave liberally of his time and
raeans to the support of the same. He was
a raeraber of the Alerrimack Lodge of Free
Alasons, Alutual Relief Lodge of Odd Fellows,
HaverhiU Lodge of Elks, of which he was
past exalted ruler, and a trustee of the Odd
Fellows' Building Association. He was at one
¦ time district deputj' for the Elks of Eastern
Massachusetts, was a meraber of the Red Alen
and the Wachusett Club.
Mr. Sheldon raarried, Deceraber 27, 1866,
Emily E. Jaques, born Haverhill, Alassachu
setts, February 26, 1843 (see Jaques). Ex-
Mayor Sheldon died at his late home, 108
Main street, Haverhill, October 21, 1906, after
an illness of about two raonths, aged sixty-
three years eight raonths nine days. The in
terment was in Linwood cemetery. His death
was not only mourned by his widow, but by
a large circle of friends.

The late Addison B. Jaques, for
.J/\QUES many years a widely known
and valued citizen of HaverhiU,
traced his ancestry on the paternal side to
Parker Jaques, who was instrumental in estab
lishing American independence. The name of
Parker Jaques appears as first corporal in
Captain Stephen Kent's company, which en
listed July 13, 1775, discharged November i,
1775, said company being raised for seacoast
defense in Essex county, stationed at New
bury. He signed an order for wages due No
veraber I, 1775, dated Gloucester, December
10, 1775. He served as corporal in Lieutenant
John Brackett's company on the alarm of
April 19, 1775, marched the foUowing day.

troop of horse, length of service nine days.
He was a private in camp of Captain Jonathan
Poor, Alarch 18, 1777, six weeks service. He
lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years
two raonths, and his father attained the great
age of ninety-two years, proving that the fam
ily was noted for longevity.
''Alaster Eliphalet Jaques," son of Parker
Jaques, and father of the late .Addison B.
Jaques, was well known as an educator in
Newbury, Massachusetts, for many years. He
was a m.an of inventive genius and raechani
cal skill, as proved by the fact that on May
24, 1814, he had granted to him a patent for
a washing raachine, also a patent for a foun
tain pen, two very useful articles. He raar
ried Elizabeth Davis, bom August 23, 1791,
died January 8, 1864, daughter of Wil]iam and
Elizabeth Davis, the forraer born August 8,
1758, and the latter .Augu.st 11, 1763. Chil
dren : WilHam, died young. Caroline, died
young. Addison B., see forward. Eliphalet
Jaques died August 4; 1863, aged eighty-eight
years. Addison B. Jaques was born in Newbury
port, Massachusetts, August 2, 1819 At the
age of thirteen he carae to old HaverhiU to
become a clerk in the book store of Janies
Gale, which was kept in the Bannister block
and later served in the sarae capacity for the
Rev. Thomas G. Farnsworth, the first Univer-
saHst rainister of Haverhill, who was a book
seller, and was the first coraraissioned post
master of the town, in which latter responsible
public service Addison B. was his assistant.
In due course of tirae Mr. Jaques becarae pro
prietor of the book store in which his early
experience was gained, and he continued in
this line for several years, conducting business
first in the Bannister block and afterwards in
the block then known as the Currier block, on
Main street, just above the Eagle House, and
later as the Chase block. Subsequently he be
came a partner for several years in the book
and stationery business with the late James A^.
Smiley, on Main .street, the business being
later sold to Jaraes A. Hale. He was succes.s-
ful in business, having acquired the habits of
industry and frugality, and he gradually grew
in favor with the people, winning their confi
dence to a reraarkable degree. As an evidence
of this fact he was elected as town treasurer
and custodian of the public finances as the
successor of Williara Taggart, in March, 1844,
which office he held for twenty consecutive
years and until his resignation in 1864, when
he was succeeded by Calvin Buttrick. Fol-

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lowing this he was elected assistant treasurer
of the HaverhiU Savings Bank in 1865, and
the following year was elected treasurer, the
successor of the venerable James Gale, and
this office of great trust and responsibiHty he
held untU his resignation in 1889, a period of
twenty-four years, for the express purpose
of passing into comparative retirement After
his retirement as an executive officer of that
institution he was retained in advisory rela
tions by being made the vice-president of the
same. For one year he was a director in the
Haverhill National Bank, which he resigned
in 1866. He filled the office of director in
the Haverhill Gas Light Company, treasurer
of the Odd Fellows' Building Association,
trustee of the City Plospital from the time it
was founded, and was on the board of com
missioners df the Haverhill city sinking fund.
He also held many minor relations in various
capacities where good judgment and discre
tion were regarded of importance. Under the
city government in 1870 he was elected a mera
ber of the comm.on council, but declined a re
election. In the voluntar)' associations of the
city he was represented for many years. He
was the owner of considerable real estate in
Haverhill, erected several buildings, and in
various other ways contributed to the growth
and development of his adopted city. In Octo
ber, 1845, he was elected a member of Alutual
Relief Lodge ; he was a member of Eagle En
campment of Patriarchs, in which institution
he expressed great interest, and in which his
counsel was often sought and held in the
highest esteem ; was a member of Saggahew
Lodge, Free and Accepted Alasons ; Pentucket
Social Club; and Sumner Street Universalist
Society (now Kenoza Avenue Universalist
Society), of which he was a much valued
raember. Air. Jaques married, June 9, 1842, Eraily R.
Farnsworth, of Boston, a niece of the Rev.
T. G. Farnsworth, and they were the parents
of two daughters : Emily E., widow of Joseph
Henry Sheldon, a sketch of whom precedes this
in the work; and Alary E., who died in July,
1894; she was the wife of Marlon Greene, of
Amesbury, Alassachusetts, and mother of four
children; WUliam A., Louis E., Harry M.
and Ralph R. Greene. Mr. Jaques died at his
home on Main street, September 5, 1890, and
his wife died December 4, 1900.
The last rites over the remains of Mr.
Jaques took place from his late residence, 108
Alain street, and in accordance with the well
known taste of the deceased the ceremonies

were quiet and unostentatious, but solemn
and impressive. Many of the prominent bus
iness men and citizens were present to share
in the general sorrow. The services were con
ducted by the Rev. J. C. Snow, and the inter
ment was in Linwood cemetery. The Rev.
J. C. Snow spoke in substance as follows ;
After referring to him as a man of simple
tastes and habits, and remarking that it was
the desire of the family that the services of
the occasion should be void of display, he said
"that his life was marked from the beginning
with those characteristics which only ripened
with his years into fixed habits. He was in
dustrious, frugal and upright. Coraing to thi.i
city a poor boy, at the age of thirteen, he won
first the confidence of his eraployers and grad
ually rose to the favor and confidence of the
general public. He was called to fill raany
positions of trust, of both a public and private
nature. The duties of these varied positions
he discharged not only with fidelity but with
a certain exact and scrupulous honesty that
left no possible opening for raiscarriage or
even su.spicion. It may be said that whatever
worldly fortune he won is free from all taint
of dishonesty. The same spirit and teraper
which distinguished hira elsewhere marked
also his religious life. It was not demonstra
tive, but simple and quiet. The Summer Street
Universalist Society with which he was early
connected had in him a faithful supporter.
No better evidence of the genuineness and
strength of his religious convictions need be
given than are afforded by his steady loyalty
and liberality to the parish of which he was
to the last an honored member. From all the
other numerous associations with which he
was connected would come a like tribute to
day. His life may well be taken as an object
lesson for young men, and as an encourage
ment to all who would believe that integrity
of conduct is not incompatible with business
prosperity."

Thomas Harris, the progenitor,
HARRIS was probably nephew of the
first Thomas Harris, of
Ipswich. Little is known of him and perhaps
some facts credited to the record of Thomas
Sr. and Thomas Jr. belonged to him. He
lived at Ipswich, and his widow Martha mar
ried, in 1683, Samuel Burnham. Thomas Sr.,
who died in 1687, also had a wife Martha.
Children : Thoraas of Ipswich ; John, raen
tioned below ; EHnor ; Aquila ; Mary.
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was born about 1650, in Ipswich, where he
lived and died. His wiU, dated July 16, 1714,
proved November 13, 1714, bequeathed to son
Thomas lands at Gloucester, excepting the lot
at Pigeon Cove, and "that lot that was Law's ;"
to sons John and Samuel rest of land in Ips
wich and Gloucester, Coxhall, (Maine), ex
cept lot at Pigeon Cove. To John he gave his
gold ring and silver shoe buckles. He be
queathed also to four daughters mentioned
below. He married Esther  . Chil
dren : I. Thomas, born in Ipswich, about
1675 ; married .Susanna Sibley, daughter of
William; she died January 15, 1705; he was in
Gloucester as early as November 29, 1702,
when his son John was born there; son "Wil
liam, born January 10, 1705, at Gloucester;
he bought land at Sandy Bay, Gloucester,
March, 1709, of Richard Tarr, and again in
1712 more land. 2. John, mentioned below.
3. Samuel, perhaps settled in Maine, on land
inherited at Coxhall. 4. Abigail, married
 — Burnham. 5. Esther, married 
Chapman. 6. Alary. 7. Margaret.
(Ill) John Harris, son of John Harris
(2), was in Gloucester as early as 171 1. In
1720 he had a grant of land near his horae on
Pigeon Hill, Gloucester. He married Maria
 . Children; i. Thomas Jr., raarried
Sarah Norwood. 2. Benjamin, born June 6,
1716; died September 21, 1726. 3. Hannah,
born October 26, 1720. 4. Samuel, mentioned
below. 5. Abigail, married  — Grover. 6.
Ann, married Jonathan Andros.
(IV) Sarauel Harris, son of John Har
ris, was born about 1710; raarried at Glouces
ter, June 6, 1737; died before 1770. He was a
fisherraan. His estate was divided by deed
dated July 7, 1770, signed by Thoraas Harris
of Gloucester, Sarauel Pluraraer of Glouces
ter, as attorney for Abigail Grover and Jona
than and Ann Andros. The estate is described
as belonging to their father, who inherited it
from his father "John Harris of Ipswich."
Samuel received land on the Cape, on the west
side of Little Swamp, near his own barn, ad
joining land of Caleb Poole and Jonathan
Poole. Children; i. Sarauel, born about
1735 ; went to Maine. Amos, William and
David, of New Gloucester, Maine, also appear
to belong to this faraily. They settled before
the revolution on Harris Hill.
(V) Captain Araos Harris, son of Samuel
Harris (4), removed to Alaine when a young
man. He settled in New Gloucester. He was
captain of a New Gloucester company in the
-Fourth Cumberland county regiment. 1776;

also of second company, same regiment, I777;
and also of a detachment in Colonel Pike's
command, 1779, under direction of the com
mittee of safety at Falmouth (Portland),
Maine. (A^I) Amos Harris Jr., son of Captain
Araos Harris, was born about 1760. He was
a soldier in the revolution from New Glouces
ter, Maine, a private in Captain Benjamin
Parker's company. Colonel Nathaniel Wade's
regiment, 1778 ; also in Captain Benjamin Le-
man's company, same regiment, later in the
year, in the Rhode Island campaign. In 1790
he resided at Bakerstown, now Poland, Maine,
and the federal census of that year shows that
he had two sons under sixteen and three
females in his family. WilHam Harris,
doubtless a brother, had three sons under six
teen and one female in his family, according
to the same census. WiUiam and David Har
ris were early settlers of Poland, on Harris
HiU, according to the local history. There
was also an A..mariah Harris among the early
settlers of New Gloucester, adjoining Poland.
(VII) David Harris, son of Amos Harris
(6), was born in Bakerstown, now Poland,
and lived there on Harris HiU. He became a
prosperous farmer, and followed also the trade
of cooper. He was a highly respected citizen.
(VIII) Lyman Harris, son of David Harris,
was born at Poland, Maine, about 1800. Chil
dren: I. Simeon Lyman, mentioned below. 2.
Albert Watson, born April 7, 1843 '> married,
July II, 1868, Lizzie FuUer, of London, Eng
land; child: Mabel Rose, born May 18, 1872,
married, January 22, 1896, Louis E. Small, of
Mexico, Maine. 3. Emma, married Amos
Chadman. 4. Chase. 5. David. 6. Tristram.
7. Roscoe. 8. Abbie, married Daniel Robin
son. (IX) Simeon Lyman Harris, son of Ly
man Plarris, was born at Harris Hill, Poland,
Alaine, November 16, 1835. He received his
education in the district school of his native
town, and when young, was apprenticed first
to his uncle, Sylvester Harris, and later to
Jedediah Cook. He learned the trade of shoe
maker, which he followed for a time. He
owned two farms in New Gloucester, adjoin
ing Poland, Maine, containing one hundred
and fifty acres. In the early seventies he re
raoved to Dover, New Hampshire, where he
continued at farming for two years, thence
removing to Madbury. About 1877, he re
turned to his native town and engaged in the
teaming business, later taking up farming
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1839

Falls district, about a hundred acres which he
bought of OHver Dwinell. He carries on an
extensive dairy business in connection with
his farm. He is a very popular man on
account of his hearty good nature and friend
liness. His cheerful optimism makes him a
welcome visitor wherever he goes. He is a
member of the Alethodist church, in politics
is a Republican, and has served as overseer
of the poor, and has been a member of the
school committee and road surveyor. He is
a member of Poland Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married first, Clarissa, daughter
of Nelson and Harriet AVight ; second. Flora
Etta, daughter of Oliver and Mehitable
Bearce. Her father was a ship joiner, and
¦served in the war of 181 2. Children of first
Avife ; I. George Nelson, born February 9,
i860; married, December 22, 1885, Susie
Evelyn Furbush, of North Berwick, Maine.
2. Son, died young. Children of second wife ;
3. Franklin Elden, born March 9, 1864; men
tioned below. 4. Frederick Lincoln, born
October 17, 1865; married, February 18, 1891,
Jennie Gertrude Brooks, of Portland, Maine;
children: i. Levi Cutler, born September 11,
1896; ii. Ruth Annie, February 4, 1901. 5.
Aiberton, mentioned below. 6. Sylvia Miner
va, born June 22, 1869; married, June 13,
1893, John E. Estes, of New Gloucester,
Alaine. 7. Jennie Grace, born May 7, 187 1 ;
married first, June 13, 1889, Stephen M.
Prince, of Mechanics Falls, Maine, who died
May 24, 1900; second, September 5, 1906,
Frank J. Dwinal, of Alinot, Maine ; one child,
Ralph Clyde Prince, born February 12, 1895.
(X) Franklin Elden Harris, son of Sim
eon Lyman Harris, was bom at Poland,
Maine, Alarch 9, 1864. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of New Gloucester,
Poland and Mechanics Falls, and at the early
age of twelve went to work for Charles Hill-
man, of Poland, still attending school during
the winter. Later he went to Portland, where
he was employed by J. P. Hutchinson in the
milk business, and remained with hira for five
years. After returning home he removed to
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, working in the lumber
business at different times for Peter Gratton,
.Judge Washburn and Hayward Brothers. He
ithen went to Hillsboro, near Fargo, Dakota,
and worked on the wheat farms a short time,
thence going to Arkansas, where he was em
ployed by the United States .government on
river improvement. Owing to the severe heat
nf the suraraers there he was obliged to give
up and return to the Dakota wheat fields.

Later he retumed to AA'^isconsin and Michigan,
being employed at lumbering. For some time
he was in a hospital on account of injuries
received from the kick of a horse, and on
this account he returned east to his home in
Alaine. For six months he was employed by
George Goodwin, grain dealer of Poland, and
he subsequently went to West Aledford. After
a short time he went to Hope Valley, Rhode
Island, to work for Edgar Swett. Returning
to West Aledford he bought out C. H. Dunn,
a partner of his brother Aiberton Harris in
the milk business, the firm name being Harris
Brothers. Later the firra was dissolved, he
taking the Somerville route, which he still re
tains. He has an extensive business, with high
class customers, and contracts for his milk
with J. PI. Pre.scott, of Bradford. He resides
at 68 Quincy street, Medford Hillside, where
he bought a house and later built a barn. He
is a Republican in politics and a Universalist
in reHgion. He was formerly a member of the
Somerville and Cambridge Milk Dealers' As
sociation. Through strict attention to business
and unquestioned integrity, he has achieved
success, and has the esteem- and confidence of
all who know hira. He married, March 27,
1893, Gertrude Matilda Stuart, born at Wash
ington, D. C, Alarch 4, 1868, daughter of
Samuel Porter and Alatilda (Waterhouse)
Stuart. Her father was a veteran of the civil
war, employed in the war department at
Wa.shington. Children; i. Son, died at birth.
2. Irraa Gertrude, born March 20, 1904. 3.
Stuart Franklin, born January 16, 1906.
(X) Aiberton Harris, son of Simeon Ly
man Harris, was born at New Gloucester,
Maine, September 2, 1867. He attended the
public schools there until the age of eight, re
moving with his parents to Dover, New
Hampshire, attending school there two years,
thence removing to Aladbury and then to Po
land. He attended school at Page's MUls and
Mechanics Falls until he was seventeen years
old, working during vacations in the shoe fac
tory. He also worked a year in the drug store
of J. C. Walker. V/hen twenty-one years of
age he went to West Aledford and entered the
employ of Frank A. Oxnard, a milk dealer.
driving his team about seven raonths. He
then worked for Charles C. Stevens in the
same business, at Aledford Hillside, for five
years. On July i, 1892, he purchased the bus
iness of Air. Stevens and formed a partner
ship with C. H. Dunn. In a short time this
partnership was dissolved and Frank E. Har
ris admitted to the firm. The brothers did a

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thriving business for about eight years, when
the firm dissolved, A,-lberton retaining the Med
ford route and the stock in trade. He has
from sixteen to forty head of the best mixed
.stock, and four horses. He bought his pres
ent residence of Mr. Stevens in July, 1900,
and has since added a stable. He and his fara
ily attend the Universalist church at Medford.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a raem
ber of Harmony Lodge, No. 68, I. O. O. F.,
and was formerly a raeraber of Mount Sinai
Commandery, Knights of Malta, at Aledford.
Air. Harris is a raan of great energy and de
votes his attention to the management of the
farm. Pie is devoted to his family, and highly
esteemed by his many friends. He married,
at West Medford, Alarch 11, 1898, May Bur
nett, born at Cape Breton, Province of Que
bec, Canada, June 30, 1871, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Christy) Burnett, of
Cape Breton. Her father was a fisherman
and farmer. Children; i. Delbert Leslie, born
October 18, 1898. 2. Flora Stevens, December
25, 1899. 3. Edith Alay, August 2, 1903. 4.
Dora (twin), born April i, 1906. 5. Doris,
twin with Dora.

This family was of ancient
LINDSAY Scotch ancestry, of Norman
origin, the name being taken
from some Norman or French location. The
family probably carae first to England and
from there went to Scotland, where they were
as early as 11 16, in Roxburghshire, Fifeshire,
Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire. They
owned the dukedom of Montrose, and the earl-
dora.s of Balcarres, Crawford, Lindsay, and
the lordship of Spynie. There were many
distinguished men among the members of the
family, among them David Lindsay, first
Protestant Bishop of Ross, 1600, and several
members of parliament ; Sir John Lindsay,
laird of Dunrod, Lanarkshire, John Lindsay,
Anstruther, Easter, John Lindsay, of Edzell,
Forfarshire, Patrick, Lord Lindsay, of the
Byres, Edinburgh, Robert Lindsay, of Dun-
rod, Rutherglen, in 1579, Robert Lindsay, of
Ruthergeln in 1617, David Lindsay, of Cupar
in 1540, Sir David Lindsay, of Cupar in 1571,
Sir David Lindsay, of Edgell in 1597, David
Lindsay, of Brechin in 1621. David Lindsay.
of Beltsanes, Forfarshire in 1593. Several of
these families bore arms, as did also Alexan
der Lindsay, baronet, of Evelick.
(I) John Lindsay, immigrant ancestor, born
in Ayrshire, Scotland, settled at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. He was an officer in the British armv

in the revolution, and his sword was in the-
possession of his son John for years, and is
still owned by the family. He was given a
grant of a thousand acres in what is now
Brookvale, Halifax county, and built a log
cabin. He cleared a part of the land and car
ried on the farm, a large dairy being a part
of his business. Later he erected a frame
house, but the day before he was to move into
it he died of apoplexy, whUe sitting in his
chair. He was a Scotch Presbyterian. He
married  Griffin. Children : i. Sarah,
died unmarried at Archat, Nova Scotia. 2.
John. (II) John Lindsay, .son of John Lindsay,
attended the district school at Halifax, and re
mained in Halifax until he was about seven
teen years old, when his father was granted
a farm. He went with his father to Brook-
vale, and received a part of the land as a
wedding gift from his father. He was con
sidered one of the best and most prosperous
farmers in that section of the country, and
he also did lumbering. His methods were pro
gressive, and he was popular personally. He
owned a large double house, in one half of
which his son Alexander lived, and John and
his son shared in the business of farming.
Alexander inherited the farm, two and a half
miles from the village. John Lindsay was
brought up a Presbyterian, but became a
Alethodist in later life. In politics he was a
Liberal. He married Alargaret Parker. Chil
dren: I. James, born 1809; married Mary
Stuart, of Scotland, and had Anthony, Isabel,
Albert, John, Jessie, and Sarah. 2. Abigail,
born March 4, 1814; died October 28, 1899;
married, July 4, 1832, James Hanna, of Mus-
quodoboit; children; i. Elizabeth Hanna, born
April 8, 1834; ii. John Hanna, born April 22,
1836, died July 31, 1891, married in Pottsville,
Pennsylvania, Julia Teller, and had Annetta
Hanna, died aged nine months ; iii. James
Hanna, born February 18, 1841 ; iv. Hugh
Hanna, born September 22, 1839, died in. Mo
bile, Alabama ; v. Alexander Hanna, born May
18, 1843, married Cassie Ellis, and had Wini
fred Aluir Hanna; vi. Margaret Hanna, born
March 22, 1845, married Edward L. Howard;
vii. Samuel Hanna, born April i, 1848, mar
ried. Alay 27, 1886, Mary McCurdy, and had
Frank Hanna, bom Alarch 26, 1887, Norma
Hanna, born January 25, 1889, Grace Hanna,
born November 25, 1890, AVilliam Hanna,
born November 12, 1892, Victor Hanna, born
January 7, 1898, and Hugh Smith Hanna,
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born February 7, 185 1, married, May, 1885,
Jane Sibley and had Harold Hanna, born Jan
uary 19, 1888, and Anna Hanna, born Decem
ber 20, 1890. 3. Thomas, born November 29,
181 1 ; died November 15, 1889; married first,
1832, Rebecca Hanna, of Belfast, Ireland ;
second, 1846, Margaret Richards, of Musquo-
doboit ; children ; i. John, born August 16,
1833, married, November 26, 1855, Jessie Mc
Kenzie, and had James Alexander, born Jan
uary 8, 1857 (married, January 19, 1885,
Elichia H. Bosworth), Rebecca Jane, born
April 23, 1859 (married, November 24, 1877,
Alexander Doyle, and had Jessie Maud Doyle,
Alargaret E. Doyle, Frederick J. Doyle,
Thomas AV. Doyle, Harry W. Doyle, Lottie
E. Doyle, Wilburt L. Doyle, Carrie J. Doyle,
Foster H. Doyle, Frances J. Doyle, Eleanor
D. Doyle and John .A. Doyle), John William
Dickson, born September 12, 1862, (married,
July 13, 1887, Annetta Hilchey, and had Stan
ley Janies, born Alarch 20, 1891), Thoraas
AVarren, born August 24, 1864, (married.
April 22, 1890, Mary B. Hilchey, and had
Ray Dickson, Basil, Vivian, Blanchard, Plar-
old and Jessie Laurel), Margaret, born Octo
ber I, 1869, (married, September 4, 1900, Em
erson Hunt, and had Hazel L. Hunt), and
Frederick, born March 17, 1873, died April 27,
1878; ii. Jaraes, raarried Susan Murphy,
and had Everett, Alyra, Lexie and Emily; iii.
Hugh, married Qara Harvey, and had four
children; iv. Jane Elizabeth, born May 7,
1838, married, August 31, 1868, John Wilson,
of Aberdeen, Scotland, and had Charles Fran
cis Moore Wilson, bom Noveraber 3, 1869,
(married Ella Alunroe, of Halifax), Arthur
Gordon Wilson, born February 27, 1871,
(married Sarah McDonald), Florence Bertha
"Wilson, born September 10, 1873, Jane Oliver
Wilson, bom June 25, 1875, Margaret Hen
rietta AVilson, born October 6, 1877, and John
Dickey Wilson, born January 4, 1880; v. Re
becca, bom November 28, 1852, (married,
Septeraber 27, 1894, Freeraan CaldweU, of
Gasperneaux, Nova Scotia) ; vi. Margaret
Henrietta, raarried first, Charles Weaver, of
Lowell, Alassachusetts, and had Lindsay and
Osman Weaver, married second, George Wil
liams, of Vermont; vii. WilHam, married
Amanda Young; viii. Emily, married Jaraes
Fitzpatrick, and had John, AVilliam, Alary,
Emily, Nellie and Thomas Fitzpatrick ; ix.
(by second wife), Charles, born September 6,
1847, married, October 21, 1869, Matilda
Fisher, and had Margaret Ella, born August
31, 1870, (married July, 1890, John A. Richey,
iv— 28

and had Charles Richey, born 1891, Robert
Richey, born 1893, and Jessie Maud Richey,
born 1895), William George, born October
9, 1872, Sarah Ganimel, born Noveraber 21,
1874, Henry, born September 13, 1877, (mar
ried, 1900, Elizabeth Wright, and had Victor,
born 1903), Ethel Bessie, born November 12,
1879, (married, March 3, 1895, Gustave G.
Nohl, and had Anna Nohl, bom May, 1898,
George Nohl, born November, 1903, and Rob
ert Gustave Nohl, born February, 1908), John
AlcDonald, born January 2, 1882, (married,
January 2, 1907, Clara "Wood, and had Edna
Alae, born December 3, 1907) ; Angus, born
April 2, 1850, married first, 1874, Jessie Fish
er, who died June 10, 1891, second, Noveraber
29, 1893, Etta Beck, and had Warren, born
March 11, 1875, AVallace, born February 21,
1877, Frank, born January 6, 1880, died Aug-
use, 1882, Frank, born July, 1883, Lloyd, born
April 3, 1885, Leland, born February 15, 1887,
Stanley, bom Alarch 14, 1889, (by second
wife) : Jessie, born Septeraber 23, 1894, Alex
ander, born February 18, 1899, Gladys, born
June 10, 1900, Beatrice, born August 29, 1902,
and Ethel, born October 17, 1905 ; xi. Mary,
born September 15, 1855, died September 10,
1889, married, December 24, 1878, Henry
Dart, and had Hadley Dart, born April, 1882,
Osman Dart, born March, 1886, Angus Dart,
born June, 1888, Alary Dart, born August 20,
1889, and Ernest Dart, born August, 1890 ;
xii. Susan, bom September 25, 1857, resides
at Alalden, Alassachusetts, unmarried ; xiii.
Jessie, born Alay 17, 1863, married, April i,
1884, Thomas Beal, of Sackville, New Bruns
wick, and had Carl Russell Beal, born April
2, 1S85, Blanche Lindsay Beal, born January
ig, 1887, Caroline Wells Armstrong Beal, born
Alarch 11, 1889, Thomas Beal, born Septem
ber 6, 1890, died November 14, 1898, Ethel
Beal, born January 16, 1892, died Noveraber
15, 1898, Alargaret, born August 28, 1893,
Lena Gladys Beal, born August 6, 1895, Jessie
Alildred Beal, born February 6, 1898, and
Susie Ethel Beal, born July 15, 1900; xiv.
Thoraas, born July 13, 1853, died Alarch 13,
1875 ; XV. Blanche, born April 12, 1870, raar
ried, August 29, 1894, John Hood, of Elgin,
Nova Scotia, and had Thoraas Lindsay Hood,
born Septeraber 12, 1895, Alexander Donald
Hood, born November 12, 1898, Margaret
Emily Hood, born October i, 1901, and Flor
ence Lavina Hood, born May 19, 1905 ; xvi.
Alexander, born January i, 1861, died Sep
tember I, 1898, married, December 23, 1886,
Annie L. Dickey, of Lower Steweack, Nova

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Scotia. 4. John, born Alarch, 1817; died
.April 6, 1876; raarried, 1840, Margaret Hutch
inson; children; i. WilHam, born 1842; ii.
John Hutchinson, born 1845, married Eliza
beth Waugh, and had Margaret (married
Abraham Currie) and Alabel (married Henry
Shannon) ; iii. Francis Parker, born June 26,
1847, died unmarried March 14, 1906; iv.
Robert, born April 10, 185 1, married Alice
Mason, of Gay's River, Nova Scotia, and had
Katherine ; v. Katherine Linton, bom January
I, 1854, died unmarried, November 12, 1872;
vi. Edgar, born Alay 22, 1857, married, De
cember 18, 1882, Clara Louise Clendenning,
born Deceraber 17, 1861, and had Grace
Louise, born January 25, 1885, Margaret, born
February 16, 1887, Elizabeth, born .April 5,
1889, Lydia Carpenter, born June 3, 1891, died
Noveraber 28, 1892, Alabel Lillian, born July
5, 1893, and Edgar Gardner, born February i,
1905 ; vii. Joseph Howe. 5. Sarah, born 1821 ;
died November 29, 1886; married, June 30,
1855, Alexander Stewart, of Scotland. 6.
Williara, mentioned below. 7. Alexander,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Williara Lindsay, son of John Lind
say, born at Musquodoboit, March 19, 1819,
died there October 12, 1876. He went to the
district school, and reraained with his father
on the farra until he was eighteen years old.
He engaged in lurabering for a year or two
in Woodstock, but returned to the farm. At
his marriage he received from his father about
two hundred acres of land in Brookvale, in the
centre of the township — a valley farra with a
streara known as Lindsay Brook, running
through it. It had rauch wood on it, which he
cut, for a time running a saw mill. He was
known as a hardworking successful farmer,
and had also a reputation as a good cattle
raiser and trader. In person he was of me
dium build, and of lovable character and equa
ble disposition. It was said that he never had
an enemy. He was deeply religious, devoted
to the interests of the Presbyterian church, of
which he was a raeraber, and to which he was
a liberal contributor of his tirae and money.
He took great interest in the political life of
the town, and served as trustee of the school
committee, overseer of roads, assessor, and
selectman. He was a prominent member of
the County Agricultural Society, and was in
the railitia. He raarried, February 10, 1845,
Agnes Higgins, born at Musquodoboit, May
30, 1825, daughter of George and Agnes Pitt
(.Scott) Higgins. Children; i. William
George, born December 13, 1846; married.

December 8, 1870, Isabelle AlcClellan, of Lon
donderry, Nova Scotia; children: i. Augustus,
lost his life by accident; ii. Ida Belle, born
August 14, 1876; iii. Charles Edgar, born Jan
uary 28, 1879, raarried, May 25, 1904, Theresa
Cruikshanks, of Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia ;
iv. OUa Alay, born July 20, 1884; v. Henry
Howard, born September 13, 1886; vi. Lean
der Nobel, born December 20, 1888; vii.
Stella Lee, born Alay 29, 1891. 2. Henry,
born June 15, 1848; married. May, 1908, Miss
Mitchel, of Musquodoboit, Nova .Scotia. 3.
Leander, born September 21, 1851. 4. Caro
line, born October 18, 1853; married, March
28, 1876, Alexander Fraser Rhodes, of Mus
quodoboit ; children ; i. Arthur Rhodes, born
January 22, 1877, died Alarch 25, 1877. ii.
Bessie Lindsay Rhodes, born January 18,
1878; iii. Edgar Allen Rhodes, born August 6,
1880, died April 30, 1896; iv. Chester Alex
ander Rhodes, born September 10, 1882, died
December 11, 1907; v. Elida Elsie Rhodes,
born May 7, 1884, married, Septeraber 25,
1907, Francis Burgess Coffin. 5. Eliza, born
October 3, 1854; married, November 19,
1890, Charles Converse, of Amherst, New
Plampshire, and had Agnes Fuller Converse,
born October 28, 1893. 6. Melinda Margaret.
born AprU 3, 1857; married, December 15,
1882, Adam Isaac Archibald ; children ; i. Car
rie Mabel Archibald, born November 26, 1883 ;
ii. Leander Lindsay Archibald, January 23.
1886 ; iii. Jean Braden Archibald, October 16.
1887 ; iv. Ernest Bayne Archibald, September
26, 1889; V. Bertha Alay Archibald, April i,
1894. 7. John Augustus, born May 8, 1859;
mentioned below. 8. Alary Ellen, born 1861 ;
m.arried, August 6, 1888, William Tupper
Dickey, of Lemoore, California; children: i.
Grace WiUard Dickey, born September 25,
1889 ; ii. Bessie Tupper Dickey, September 20,
1890 ; iii. Leland Converse Dickey, February
22, 1893 ; iv. Olanta Fay Dickey, June 4, 1895 ;
V. Leander Lindsay Dickey, Alarch 15, 1898;
vi. William Francis Dickey, August 17, 1900;
vii. Harold Dickey, Septeraber 14, 1905 ; viii.
Ellen May Dickey, September 12, 1907. 9.
Arthur, born December 21, 1864; married.
September 19, 1895, Frances Trent Beakes, of
Trenton, New Jersey. 10. Alfred, born Octo
ber 28, 1866; married, October 28, 1896, Nan
cy Julia Hicks, of Hanford, California ; chil
dren ; i. Edgar Ray, born December 8, 1897 ;
ii. Edna Reita, June 7, 1901 ; iii. Osmer New
ton, April 25, 1905. II. Alortimer, died be
tween four and five years of age. 12. Bertha,
born 1866; married, December 21, 1898, Al-

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bert Murdock Higgins, of Brookvale, Nova
Scotia ; children ; i. Edith Agnes Higgins, born
September 7, 1899 ; ii- Ruth Beatrice Higgins,
July 17, 1901; iii. Claire Linda Higgins, Sep
tember 24, 1903.
(IV) John Augustus Lindsay, son of Wil
liam Lindsay, was born at Brookvale, Nova
Scotia, May 8, 1859. He received his educa
tion in the public schools in his native town,
and remained on the home farm until a year
after the death of his father. At the age of
eighteen he went to Arlington, Massachusetts,
and found employment with Joseph Butter
field, a market gardener. A year later he was
employed by Airs. David Fisher, who owned a
large market farm on Massachusetts avenue.
Here he remained eight years, taking charge
of the marketing of the produce. Later he
entered the employ of Daniel L. Tappan, son-
in-law of Airs. Fisher, who assumed charge
of the same farra at that time, and attended
to the marketing himself. Mr. Lindsay took
charge of the cultivation, and has since super
intended the farm. He eraploys some twenty-
five men the year round, with the number
doubled in the spring season. He has under
cultivation between fifty and sixty acres, with
two large greenhouses and heating plant. He
raakes a specialty of early smaU vegetables,
with outside crops of onions and celery. About
thirty-five acres is devoted to celery, and the
output of onions reaches as much as six thous
and bushels. Mr. Lindsay thoroughly under
stands his business, and is considered one of
the best gardeners in the vicinity. He resides
at 13 BeU-rnap street, where he built his house
in 189'!. In politics he is a Republican, and
he and his family attend the Arlington Con
gregational Church. He is a member of
Bethel Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O. P., at Ariing-
ton, and is on the working staff of the lodge.
He belongs to the Arlington Men's Club.
He married, December 22, 1885, Georgianna
Spencer, born at Londonderry, Nova Scotia,
August 21, 1864, daughter of George Robert
and Catherine (Durgin) Spencer, of London
derry. Children ; T. Raymond Mortiraer, born
November 25, 3887. 2. Lillian Maud, No
vember 7, 1890.
(Ill) Alexander Lindsay, son of John
Lindsay (2). was born in 1822 in Musquodo
boit, Nova Scotia. He received his education
in the district school during the winter months,
and assisted his father on the farm. He lived
after his marriage in half the house on the
farm, and he and his father worked the farm
together. At his father's death he inherited

the homestead, consisting of about three hun
dred acres, and he found a ready market for
his produce in Halifax, doing his own selling.
In 1869 he let his farm on shares and removed
to Chetezcook, Halifax county, on the coast,
on account of the health of his wife. Here
he conducted a general store for four years.
He then returned to his farm and continued
there until within two years of his death, when
he went to Colorado Springs. He died there
March 7, 1889, and the homestead at Brook
vale v/as sold. Alexander Lindsay was a man
of high character, who was respected and
loved by his neighbors. He was deeply inter
ested in the Wesleyan Alethodist Church, and
served as a deacon. In politics he was a Con
servative, and was trustee of the school com
mittee, and road overseer. He was captain of
the Musquodoboit militia. He married first,
Charlotte Sprott Gould, born 1825, died Octo
ber 8, 1882, daughter of William and Susan
(Archibald) Gould, of Alusquodoboit. He
married second, Eliza, daughter of Alexander
Scott. Children, all by first wife; i. Sidney,
born Noveraber 26, 1848; married, Alay 15,
1879, Auginette AlcCurdy ; children; i. Everett
R., born April 26, 1880, died August 25, 1902 ;
ii. E. Guy, born June 27, 1884; iii. Munroe,
born February 14, 1889; iv. Edith Alay, born
January 26, 1893. 2. Parmelia, born February
16, 185 1 ; married, January 6, 1891, Frederick
.Alonzo Hatch, of Somerville, Alassachusetts,
and had Edith Alay Hatch,- born November 9,
1891. 3. Georgianna, born July 6, 1853; mar
ried, 1882, Howard Taylor; children; i. Aus
tin WyHe Taylor, born July 3, 1884; ii. Czerny
Lindsay Taylor, October 30, 1886 ; iii. Ira Gar
cia Taylor, June 25, 1889 ; iv. Ethel Neruda
Taylor. September 9, 1893 ; v. Carl Ernest
Taylor, September 15, 1895. 4. Munson
Henry, born April 23, 1854; married, 1886,
Jessie Kitson, born November 8, 1857 ; chil
dren ; i. Edna A^ida, born April 4, 1888, raar
ried, 1905, AA^illiam Ridden, and had Ralph
Rix Ridden, born Alay 27, 1906, and an in
fant, born March 15, 1908; ii. Winnie May,
born June 30, 1893. 5. Susan Alargaret, born
September 29, 1856; married, February 16,
1882, Alexander Grant, of Pictou, Nova Sco
tia, born December 15, 1838, died August 17,
1898 ; children ; i. Charlotte F Grant, born
Noveraber 20, 1883, died aged two years ; ii.
Helen L. Grant, born February 25, 1885 ; iii.
Charles A. Grant, born February 2, 1887, died
1905; iv. James A. Grant, born August 31,
1888. died 1906 ; v. John G. Grant, bom Janu
ary 15, 1891, died in infancy; vi. Frank Al.

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Grant, born January 6, 1893 ; vii. Harry M.
Grant, born October 29, 1894. 6. Wesley,
bom November i, 1857; died May 15, 1862.
7. Elliott Gould, married Rebecca Fader, of
Dover, Nova Scotia. 8. Ainslee, born No
vember 26, 1863. 9. Edith, born February 7,
1866; married, June 2, 1891, George Higgins;
children ; i. Eva C. Higgins, born May 3, 1892 ;
ii. Ross G. Higgins, Septeraber 10, 1893 ; iii.
Aland I. Higgins, December 27, 1895 ; iv. AVal
ter Al. Higgins, Alarch 25, 1897 ; v. Edna L.
Higgins, June 14, 1899; vi. Alary C. Higgins,
January 21, 1901 ; vii. Alice G. Higgins, April
28, 1904; viii. Frank L. Higgins, July 17,
1905. 10. Libby Alay, born February 5, 1869 ;
married, November 4, 1890, Edward Logan
Hadley, a resident of Cambridge, Alassachu
setts ; children ; i. Harold Elliott Hadley, born
Alarch 17, 1892; ii. Ralph Gorham Hadley,
December 31, 1895; iii. Alargaret Cayvan
Hadley, February i, 1904.

In the early history of
LITTLEFIELD the colony and subse
quent province of Alaine
there was perhaps no single family whose
representatives were more closely identified
with public events or occupied a more exalted
position in its civil, military and industrial life
than the Littlefields. The house of one of
thera -was the seat of colonial government for
a time and the sessions of the general court
were held there, and in all that was done in
respect to settlement, the defense of the colon
ists against the ravages of hostile Indians, the
conflicts in regard to sovereignty and juris
diction and in promoting the growth of towns,
the name Littlefield is associated with almost
every important event throughout a period of
more than a century.
(I) The founder of the Maine branch of
the family on this side of the Atlantic Ocean,
Edmund Littlefield, was born in England.
1 59 1. He was knighted for bravery on the
battle field, and given a coat-of-arms. He first
appears in Boston, Alassachusetts, 1635. He
was a churchman and royalist, and on account
of his political and religious opinions was re
fused perraLssion to settle in any of the planta
tions of the Massachusetts colony, hence went
to Alaine and located in the colony at Wells,
in that then sparsely settled region, where he,
with John Wheelright, Edward Rishworth,
Henry Boade and others, "entered on the land
and began to make it subservient to the uses
of man." His relations with Wheelright lead
to the inference of a. close friendship, and one

authority says he was one of AVheelright's
church in Exeter, and one of the combination
to each of whom twenty-one acres of land was
assigned under the Gorges proprietary. This
church was founded by those whose theology
was denounced by the dominant church in the
Massachusetts colony, and as Littlefield's name
does not appear in the list of those who were
driven from the plantation at Boston, it is
assumed that he left there before the actual
expulsion took place. He built a saw and grist
mill on the Webhannet river in 1641. He
was one of the coraraittee to settle boundary
between Wells and Cape Porpoise, and a com
mission to try small causes, elected by the
people for the years 1654-55-58-60-61. A
family tradition is that he carae over in a ship
of his own building, bringing raachinery for
his mills. "The programme of the celebration
of the 250th anniversary of the town of Wells
reads : Sir Edmund Littlefield, with Rev. John
Wheelright, shares the honor of founding the
early settlement in Wells." The baptismal
narae of his wife was Annis, but her faraily
narae is not known. She died in 1678, having
survived her husband seventeen years, he hav
ing died in 1661. The children; Francis, An
thony, Elizabeth, John, Thoraas, Mary, Han
nah, Francis. Seventy-six of his descendants
were in the revolution.
(II) Francis Littlefield, eldest son of Ed
mund and Annis Littlefield, was born in Eng
land, 1619, acquired a university education.
and has a peculiar history. It will be seen,
says Bourne, that there are two children of
this name, and the first Francis for some cause
disappeared from his father's home in Eng
land during early childhood, probably when
he was not more than six or seven years old,
and that he was giveii up by his parents as not
being alive is shown in the fact that about
twelve years later another son (the last born)
was given the same narae. It is not known just
when the elder Francis first met his parents in
this country and joined the family. In 1639
he was in Exeter, New Harapshire, and then
was twenty years old, but he was so far
acknowledged a raeraber of the Wheelright
combination and a lot of land was assigned
him. From Exeter, Francis Littlefield went
to AVoburn, Alassachusetts, and married Jane,
daughter of Ralph HiU, of Plymouth, Massa
chusetts, who died December 20, 1646. leaving
a daughter Mary, then four days old, and who
died soon afterward. Soon after the death of
his wife and child he went to Dover, New
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assembly in 1648. He does not again appear
in the history of WeUs until 1650, when he
maintained a prominent position and evidently
had an extended acquaintance. He kept a
tavern and "because of his good moral char
acter" was licensed to sell strong liquors.
That he was a man of considerable influence
is shown in the fact that he was elected repre
sentative of York in 1668, of Wells in 1675-
76. Pie was a strong supporter of the claims
of Alassachusetts, and Savage speaks of him
as a leader in that contest. The sessions of
the general court were held in his house. He
was recognized by the inhabitants of AVells as
a sound man, and he lived to the good old age
of ninety-three years. He may have divided
his pro])erty among children previous to his
death, else he died in very moderate circum
stances. His personal property inventoried
at twenty pounds, and he had no real estate at
that time. He married second, 1648, Rebecca
 , by whom he had several children.
(Ill) Dependence Littlefield, son of Fran
cis and Rebecca Littlefield, appears to have
taken an active part in public affairs in Wells,
and was one of those who at a town meeting
held March 20, 1716, voted that "the right
and property of all the coramon and undivided
lands within the said township doth belong to
and forever hereafter shall be and remain unto
the persons hereafter raentioned and their
heirs forever," etc. There were five Little-
fields in the list of those araong whora the
lands referred to were proposed to be divided,
and he himself was one of them. He also
was one of the committee charged wath the
erection of a new meeting house in 1727, and
was directed to see that the same "be done
workmanlike to the turning of the Kee;" and
when seats were assigned he and Sarauel Era-
ery were given "the liberty of cutting out a
window against each of their Pues of the sarae
bigness as the other windows."
(IV) Captain James Littlefield, son of De
pendence Littlefield, gained prominence as a
soldier of the French and Indian wars, and
in 1744 was one of the AA'^ells company enlist
ed under Colonel John Storer and embarked
on board transports for the expedition against
Louisburg. He was afterward advanced to
the rank of captain and gave valiant service
in later years. He was a man of substance,
and the records showed that he owned several
slaves named Scipio, Sharper, Dinah and Tom.
In 1766 he was one of a coraraittee to build
a new meeting house, and when the pews were
assigned he was mentioned as one of the per

sons who "ought to be of the first rank for
pews on the floor."
(V) Captain Abraham Littlefield, son of
Captain James Littlefield, spent his Hfe in
Wells and died there. In 1775 he enlisted for
three raonths in Captain James Hubbard's
company, later for five months, and subse
quently served as captain in the militia and
was known as Captain Littlefield.
(A'^I) Josias Littlefield, son of Captain Abra
hara Littlefield, was born in Wells, Maine,
and died there. He was collector of both
town, parish and county taxes. He raarried
Sarah, daughter of Alajor Daniel Littlefield,
who was killed in the battle of Bagaduce, aged
twenty-six years; Daniel Littlefield was son
of Peletiah, grandson of Captain Jonathan,
great-grandson of Ensign Francis, Jr., young
est son of Sir Edmond, and great-great-grand
son of Sir Edmund Littlefield. Children of
Josias and Sarah (Littlefield) Littlefield;
Abraham, George, Charles, Julia, Hannah,
Sophia, Lydia, Horace.
(VII) Horace Littlefield, youngest son of
Josias and Sarah (Littlefield) Littlefield, was
born in Wells, Alaine. He was educated at
Exeter Acaderay, Exeter, New Hampshire.
He was a carpenter by trade, a builder and
carriage manufacturer by principal occupation
as a young man, and also conducted a farm,
a part of the original old homestead. He was
a lieutenant in the Maine state militia, a Re
publican in political preference, and in relig
ion a consistent follower of the Alethodist
Episcopal church. He married Dorcas Bur
gess Shorey, September 28, 1839 ; children ;
EUsha Jewett, William Bradbury, .Susan Ade
laide, Lydia, Alelissa, Horace Greeley, Charles
Alvin. (VIII) WiUiam Bradbury Littlefield, son
of Horace and Dorcas Burgess (Shorey) Lit
tlefield, was born in AVells, Maine, January 24,
1842. He received his early education in the
public schools of Wells, was brought up on a
farm, and followed farming and milling for a
number of years. Later he becarae a box raan-
ufacturer in Lynn, Alassachusetts, a consid
erable real estate owner, and also in the course
of time became interested in a financial way
with the banking and shoe manufacturing in
terests of that city. In the same raanner and
by force of his own native capacity and enter
prise. Air. Littlefield has become closely iden
tified with the business and social life of Lynn
during his resid-ence in the city, being exten
sively engaged in building operations, and he
has not been an entirely passive figure in the

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political history of Essex county or the com
monwealth of Alassachusetts, although he has
never sought nor desired political office of
any kind. He is a Republican of undoubted
quality, and for years has held a prominent
place in the councils of his party in this state.
In 1888 he was a Harrison elector; for several
years he was a member of the Republican
state committee, Lynn city committee ten
years and city council three years. Among
the institutions Qf Lynn with which he is or
has been raost prominently connected there
raay be mentioned the board of trade, of which
he has been on the executive committee and
also vice-president, and the board of water
coraraissioners, of which Jie was chairraan for
seventeen years. He is part owner of the
Lynn Theatre, president of the Lynn Arause
raent Corapany, vice-president of the Manu-
• facturers' National Bank, a raeraber of the
Lynn Driving Club, the Alerchants' Qub, Ox
ford Club, Park Club and the Tedesco Coun
try Club; a raeraber and past grand of Bay
State Lodge, chief patriarch of Palestine En
carapraent, No. 37, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; charter and life raeraber of the Ben
evolent and Protective Order of Elks ; a mem
ber of Lynnwood Lodge, International Order
of Good Templars ; and an attendant of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Littlefield
married first, at Wells, Maine, Susan Alice,
daughter of Arioch and Alice (Sargent) Get
chell; second, at North Berwick, Maine, Hora-
tia Appleton, daughter of Haven A. and Lucy
P. (Ricker) Butler.

The Luddens of Alaine are
LUDDEN descended frora the older fam
ily of the same name which
has been seated in Alassachusetts for more
than two hundred j'ears, and the latter in turn
are without doubt descended frora that James
Ludden who is mentioned in our early colonial
history as having been the guide and personal
attendant of Governor Winthrop in October,
1632, when he travelled on foot from Plyra
outh to Weymouth, and in honor of whom
the governor named a fording place in the
North river. Through intermarriage the Maine
Luddens also are descended from Peregrine
White of the "Mayflower."
While there is no room to doubt the old
and highly honorable lineage of the family
under consideration in this pUce, the town and
church records in some parts of Maine are
so imperfect that there appears no present
raeans bv which to determine the exact rela

tionship of Jacob Ludden and the Luddens of
Braintree, Alassachusetts. One of the several
notable characters of the family in the colonial
wars was John Ludden, of AVeymouth, pre
sumably a son of James of whom mention
has been raade. This John was a soldier under
Captain Turner in service in the Connecticut
valley during King Philip's war in 1676; and
another was Benjamin Ludden, of Braintree,
also a soldier of the early Indian wars and
who, having in mind the uncertainty of a sol
dier's life in such times, made a will in 1690,
with the first paragraph in these words ; "I
Benjamin Ludden, in New England, being
now called forth as a souldier in the time of
great distress for to fight the Lord's battles
against the bloody enemies of the Christ and
people of God in New England, naraely, those
Anti Christians and bloody ffrench, together
with those Bloody, Alartherous and Salvage
Indians, And considering whether I raay re
turn again with ray life to see my parents,
wife, and relations, Comraitting my soul to
God that gave it", etc.
(I) Jacob Ludden, the earliest ancestor of
the imraediate family here treated, was born
in Turner, Maine, in 1760, hence his father.
whose narae is not found in any extant record,
raust have been one of the pioneers of that
region. Jacob spent the early part of his life
in Turner and reraoved thence to Canton.
(II) John Soule Ludden, son of Jacob Lud
den, was born in Canton, Alaine, Septeraber 3,
1805, and reraoved to Dixfield, Maine.
(Ill) John Mandeville Ludden, son of John
Soule Ludden, was born in Dixfield, February
6, 1837, and was a farmer and prominent citi
zen of that town. For several years he was
one of the selectmen and a part of that time
chairman of the board. He also served as
assessor and overseer of the poor, and as a
prosperous farmer he was a member of the
local grange of Patrons of Husbandry. He
married Elevene J., daughter of Eleazer
Carver. She died January 12, 1896, having
borne her husband three children; i. Charles
Alandeville, born November 4, 1863. 2. Forest
E., born October 16, 1867, at Dixfield, Alaine.
3. William Elwood.
(lA^) William Elwood Ludden, son of John
AI. and Elevene J. (Carver) Ludden, was
born in Dixfield, Maine, and received his
earlier education in Wilton Academy. He took
up the study of law under the direction of
Savage & Oakes, attorneys and counselors of
Auburn, Maine, and supplemented his pre
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versity Law School, graduating in 1892. On
October 10 of the same year he was admitted
to practice in the courts of the state of Alaine.
Air. Ludden began his professional career in
Auburn, remained in that city eight years and
in 1893, in connection with general practice,
served as city clerk. In 1898 he reraoved to
Boston and since that year has been an active
member of the Suffolk bar. His home is in
the suburban town of Saugus, for which mu
nicipality he was commissioned trial justice,
February 6, 1905. He is a member of AVilliam
Sutton Lodge, A. F. and A. Al. ; Bradford R.
A. C, No. 38, of Lewiston, Maine; Lewiston
Council, R. and S. M., of Lewiston, Maine ;
TonOquon Chapter, No. 100, O. E. S. ; North
Star Lodge, No. 67, N. E. O. P. ; Pejepscot
Lodge, No. 1467. I. O. F. ; Cliftondale Lodge,
No, 193, I. O. 6. F. In 1895 Mr. Ludden
married Bertha G., daughter of Alfred W.
and Bertha E. Plill. Airs. Ludden died June
4, 1907, leaving one child, William Elwood
Ludden, Jr., born September 10, 1901.

Benjamin Fitz Patrick Bruce,
BRUCE father of the late Orsamus B.
Bruce, for many years one of
the best known and most popular school men
in the state of Alassachusetts, was born in
Edinboro, Scotland, July, 1828, and reared by
an aunt. AVhile a resident of Dublin, Ireland,
he was married to Helen Emmett Ennis, born
in Dublin, Ireland, July, 1829; the marriage
occurred at "Gretna Green", and their ages
were seventeen and sixteen, respectively.
William Ennis, grandfather of Helen E. (Fu
nis) Bruce, served as clerk to the clerk of the
Crown at Dublin, and carae to his death in a
singular manner ; the court of assizes was to
sit on a very hot day in August, and he was
obliged to be present ; the cab failed to call for
him, and he walked to the court ; he was a very
heavy man, of mature years, and had on a pair
of new patent leather shoes ; his feet became
swollen and gangrene set in, from the effects
of which he died. Christopher Ennis, son of
William Ennis, and uncle of Helen E. (En
nis) Bruce, kept a linen draper's shop on
Sackville street, Dublin, near the Nelson mon
ument, and often used to send presents of suits
of clothes to his young nephew in New York
which was the admiration of Air. Bruce's
raother's acquaintances, being different in
quality and style from anything in the stores
in New York at that time. Air. and Airs.
Bruce carae to the United States after their
marriage and settled in New York City, from

whence he went to California in 1849, at the
outbreak of the "gold fever", being wrecked
on the way, taking nine months to reach San
Francisco, going round the Horn in a sailing
vessel. He sent lumps of gold home, and
told in his letters many incidents of those early
days of a miner's life. He died and was
buried in Sonora ; it was raore than a raonth
later before the family heard of his death,
and nothing was ever known of what were
his possessions. In those early frontier days
there was little law or order ; everything he
had was gone, though it was known he was a
successful miner. He was fond of gunning,
belonging to the Sportsman's Club, the Druids,
and other societies in New York City. His
children, all born in New York City; i. Rob
ert, died in infancy. 2. Orsamus B., see for
ward. 3. Eugenia, deceased. 4. Alary Ann,
resides in New York City, unraarried. 5.
Julia, resides in New York City, raarried.
Orsaraus B. Bruce, born in the city of New
York, November 3, 1840, died in Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, February 5, 1903. He passed his
boyhood in the metropolis, obtaining his early
education in the public schools, and completed
his education in the Bingharaton (New York)
Acaderay, under the tuition of the famous
educator. Professor D. H. Crittenden. He in
tended to take a college course, but the break
ing out of the civil war turned him from this
purpose, and he entered the Union army. Eight
days after the fall of Fort Sumter he enlisted
in the (Hawkins Zouaves) Ninth Regiment,
New York Volunteers, equipped by the raer
chants of New York City. The regiment was
sent to Fortress Alonroe, and Private Bruce
was detailed as dispatch bearer between the
fortress and points nearby, and later went into
the office of the regimental adjutant. Return
ing to Bingharaton, Mr. Bruce was successive
ly principal of a public school, superintendent
of schools, instructor in New York state teach
ers' institutes, and head of a successful private
school. He was appointed superintendent of
schools in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1879, and
continued in faithful service until 1901, and
after retiring from the superintendency was
engaged in other educational work. He was
for several years secretary and was twice
president of the Massachusetts Teachers'
Association, was president of the Essex Coun
ty Convention and president of the American
Institute of Instruction, and filled all offices
with dignity and skill. In all his public work
he was singularly popular and useful, and few
men were so widely and favorably known to

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teachers and school superintendents. For al
raost a quarter of a century he devoted hira
self to the children and teachers of the city of
Lynn, and by them he will be remembered
for many years to come. Always on the alert
for better methods of instruction, he spared
no pains to find and test them, devoting his
vacation travels in Europe and in this country
largely to personal inquiry and investigation
of whatever systems promised any improve
ment over current practices. Many such im
provements, which came into vogue after his
death and were supposed to be new, had been
exarained, approved and recommended by him
years before. So far as the raatter lay with
hira, he brought the best there was in the world
of education to Lynn. His insight into child
Hfe and his kindly and engaging manner won
the love of the children, and his moral worth
and personal influence upon the successive
generations of pupils must be reckoned as an
important factor in his chosen life work. At
the funeral services of Mr. Bruce there were
present the mayor, raerabers of the city gov
emraent, the school board and other city de
partments, as well as officials high in the coun
cils of the state, all of whom honored and re-^
spected him, but the sentiraent which express
ed raost eft'ectively the loss which the city and
the state sustained was represented in the large
nuraber of school teachers, who carae to offer
their final tribute to one who had been to them
friend and counselor. Many in the vast con
gregation of mourners felt that their position
in life, their education and their character,
were due to the foresight, skill and uniform
kindness of Air. Bruce, and many felt that for
all they had accomplished they were indebted
largely to hira. While a resident of New York,
Air. Bruce was a meraber of the Presbyterian
church, but during his residence in Lynn he
attended the First Universalist Church, in
which Mrs. Bruce was the organist for twenty
years. Mr. Bruce raarried, in Bingharaton, New
York, September 6, 1864, Katharine M.,
daughter of Rev. Hiram W. and Katharine
E. (Pease) Gilbert, of Bingharaton, New
York. Rev. Hirara W. Gilbert who was a Pres
byterian rainister, preaching in Windsor and
other towns and later in Peru, New York, and
also had an active part in the local Bible So
ciety there, died in New A^ork, 1879 ; his wife
died in 1900. Their children; i. Katharine
Al., born April 14, 1842, aforeraentioned. 2.
Sarauel Eugene, born Noveraber 15, 1859, de
ceased. 3. Charlotte Hortense, born August

4, 1 86 1, deceased. Katharine Al. (Gilbert)
Bruce was educated in Bingharaton, New
York, and pursued her musical studies under
Dr. AA^illiam Alason, B. J. Lang, George E.
Whiting and other celebrated teachers of Bos
ton and New York. She began teaching music
in a girls' school at the age of fifteen years,
and played a church organ at twelve years of
age in her father's church in Greene, New
York. Upon coming to Bingharaton she took
a position as organist in the First Presby
terian Church, where she played for fifteen
years, also teaching rausic during this time
with great success, and at the tirae she left
Bingharaton for Lynn five of her pupils were
playing church organs in the forraer city.
After taking up her residence in Lynn she
again took up her profession and has since
raaintained her usual high standard. Many
of the raost prorainent organists in this sec
tion have taken lessons frora her. She was
for many years the accompanist at the great
musical conventions throughout the United
States, conducted by the most erainent musi
cians of that time, among thera being Dr.
Williara Alason, Carl Zerrahn and other prora
inent rausicians and coraposers. Araong her
mementoes of these occasions is an autograph
album, containing not only autographs, but a
large number of compliraents to her ability as
an accompanist. When the Daughters of the
Revolution was organized in Lynn, she was
adraitted to membership on three lines, and
was regent of the chapter for three years, and
has served in the state council. She is a mem
ber of the AVoraan's Club, of which she was
president four years, also a raember of the
North Shore Club.
Children of Air. and Mrs. Bruce; i. Robert,
born in Bingharaton, New York, September
8, 1866 ; teacher of vocal music, having studied
in Boston and Lynn ; also conducts the music
in St. Paul's Church, Lynn, where his daugh
ter Grace M. is organist; he was for nine
years a member of the old Tremont Temple
Quartette of Boston, which traveled all over
the country, singing baritone in this faraous
organization; he is favorably known in rausi
cal circles, not only as a vocalist, but as a
teacher, and is a member of the Apollo Club
of Boston. He resides in Lynn. He married
Elizabeth Valpey, of Lynn ; children : Ronald,
Grace Alarjorie, Donald and Robert. 2. Grace
Helen, born in New York, December 3, 1868,
died aged nine years. 3. Donald, born April
9, 1870, died in Lynn, aged twelve years.

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1849

The surname Hill is as old as the
HILL use of family names in England.
The family is widely scattered in
the United Kingdom and United States and
has many branches from the remotest period
of history. There are many coats-of-arms.
The family of this sketch settled in the north
of Ireland, where King James attempted to
establish a loyal Protestant settlement by
grants to Scotch and English subjects early
in the seventeenth century. The resulting
population is still known as Scotch-Irish,
though none of the Protestant settlers inter
married with the Catholic Irish. The HUl
family of Carrickfergus, county Antrim, in
Ulster, doubtless numbers both Scotch and
English in its ancestry. This branch of the
family bears a coat-of-arms, described thus ;
Sable with a chevron argent three discs sable,
two boars heads above and one below. Crest — •
a greyhound sejeant. The presence of the
boars' heads on the shield seeras to denote a
Scottish origin of the Hill family.
(I) Captain Hugh HiU was born in 1741,
in Carrickfergus, county Antrim, Ireland. He
was doubtless of both Scotch and EngHsh
ancestry. He ran away from home when a
boy and became cabin boy in the English navy.
He had had no schooling, but knowing the
value of knowledge gave his allowance of
grog to a sailor who in return taught him the
rudiments of a comraon school education. He
left the EngHsh service and settled at Marble
head, continuing, however, to follow the sea.
He married, at Marblehead, March 13, 1766,
Hannah Goudey. He becarae a raaster raari-
ner. His ship "Pilgrira" was a privateer in
the Araerican service during the revolution.
He was coraraissioned captain September 12,
1778; also commissioned January 15, 1781, in
command of the privateer "Cicero" on peti
tion of Andrew Cabot, of Salem, and others.
His valuable log books were lost in the old
Hill place in North Beverly- which he pur
chased in 1798. His wife's mother carried on
the farm there. After the war Captain Hill
went to Ireland with his vessel and advertised
for passengers to America. He brought his
father, brothers and sisters to America. At
that time his father was so lame that he had to
be carried. It is said that he set his brothers
up in business and vi^as the means of making
them successful men m the new country. He
died at Beverly, Massachusetts, February 17,
1829, aged eighty-eight years. Of him the
town record of his death says: "native of
Ireland and an active; and successful com

mander of a private arraed ship in the Revolu
tionary War."
Children: i. Hugh, settled in Beverly, and
had a faraily there. 2. Peter, lived in Beverly.
3. Janies, born 1757; mentioned below. And
two daughters.
(II) James Hill, son of Hugh Hill, was
born probably in Marblehead, in 1756-57, died
at Beverly, Alay 17, 1798, aged forty-one years
and six months. If this age is stated correctly
in the records, his father's birth year is incor
rectly given or the father raust have married
very early in Hfe. The Beverly records say
of his wife Elizabeth, "widow of James and
a native of Ireland settled in Beverly about
1779, died December 23, 1823, aged sixty-
five." She was born, therefore, about 1758,
making her a year younger than her husband.
James also followed the sea. He and his
brothers engaged in the fishing business, owned
many vessels and were highly prosperous.
Children, all recorded at Beverly: i. Hannah,
born September 17, 1784, (of her the records
say ; "born on the passage from Ireland to this
country, so says ruraor, but believed not to
be true (church records) died March 16, 1838,
aged fifty-three." It is quite likely that she
was born on her grandfather's ship on sorae
of his trips to the old country). 2. Jane, No
vember 16, 1786. 3. Nancy, May 28, 1789.
4. EHzabeth, July 21, 1791. 5. James, Febru
ary 20, 1794; mentioned below. 6. Isabel,
April 20, 1796. 7. John, December 29, 1798,
died in Pedang, East Indies, December, 1821.
(Ill) James Hill, son of James HUI, born
Beverly, Massachusetts, February 20, 1794,
died November 6, 1829, aged thirty-five years,
nine months, according to the Beverly records.
He married, at Beverly, October 8, 1816, Sally
Beckford, born February 6, 1798, died of
jaundice, January 12, 1849, daughter of Cap
tain Benjarain and Ruth (Ober) Beckford.
(See Beckford sketch herewith). Children,
born in Beverly;, i. Jaraes, born 1817; mar
ried Mary Curtis. 2. Nancy Stephens, June 3,
1818; married WilHam P. Friend. 3. Benja
min Beckford, November 10, 1819; married
Elizabeth Perkins. 4. Sally Beckford, Octo
ber 21, 1821 ; never raarried. 5. John Beck
ford, Septeraber 25, 1824; raentioned below.
(IV) John Beckford Hill, son of James
Hill, was born at Beverly, September 25, 1824.
He was educated in the public schools of Bev
erly, and in 1840 was apprenticed to learn the
trade of watch-maker in Salem, Massachu
setts, to Edmund Currier, then the best watch
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four years he embarked in business on his own
account in Beverly, and frora 1844 to the time
of his death, March 28, 1904, continued in
business with uninterrupted success. He was
undoubtedly for many years the best-known
jeweler in this section of the county and always
maintained a high reputation for excellent
work and honorable dealing. At the time of
his death he had been in business longer than
any other man in the town of Beverly. He
was prominent in public affairs, always keenly
interested in the welfare of the town and
county. His personal influence and public
spirit effected raany perraanent improvements
ill the municipality. He was secretary and
treasurer of Beverly Gas Light Corapany for
twenty years, trustee of the Danvers Savings
Bank, and later served as its vice-president.
He was independent in politics and not greatly
concerned with partisan affairs, but held many
positions of trust and honor in the town ; was
assessor for a period of twenty-four years,
overseer of the poor and town auditor raany
years. He was a raeraber and past raaster of
Liberty Lodge of Free Masons, of Beverly,
having been master of the lodge for twelve
years; member of Amity Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, and was past high priest; of St.
George Commandery, Knights Templar, and
was past commander of both Winslow Lewis,
of Salem, and St. George Commanderies, of
Beverly, Massachusetts, and had taken the
thirty-third degree in Masonry. He was active
in the teraperance raoveraent and a prominent
member of Franklin Division, Sons of Tem
perance, of Beverly, and Beverly Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. He was a leading mem
ber of the Baptist church of Beverly, and was
clerk of the society frora 1856 to 1876. He
was treasurer of the Beverly Historical
Society. During his later years Air. Hill was
doubtless the foremost citizen of the town,
universally respected and esteemed by his
townsmen. Of exemplary character, his life
and example have long exerted and still exert
a large and wholesome influence. He married,
in 1852, Caroline Elizabeth Perkins, born Bev
erly, February 22, 1833, daughter of Benja
min Frankin and Elizabeth (Murray) Perkins.
(See Perkins sketch herewith). Children,
born in Beverly; i. Sarah Ehzabeth, born
January 5, 1854; married, December 18, 1884,
Theodore Taylor, of AVest Yarmouth, Massa
chusetts. 2. John Franklin, born January 10,
1856; mentioned below. 3. Benjamin Lam
son, born August 27, 1858, died July 2, 1861.
4. Charles Flanders, born Deceraber i, i860;

married June 24, 1885, Liefa AA'eadwell Perry,
born July 19, 1861.
(V) John Franklin Hill, son of John Beck
ford -Hill, was born in Beverly, January 10,
1856. He attended the public schools, and the
Central grammar school and the Beverly high
school in his native town. In 1873 he became
associated in the jewelry business with his
father, and in 1883 was admitted to partner
ship. The firm continued until dissolved by
the death of the founder and senior partner,
and since then Mr. PIUl has conducted the
business alone. Besides the mercantile inter
ests of Air. Hill he is director of the Beverly
Co-operative Bank, and trustee of the Beverly
.Savings Bank. In politics he is a Democrat,
a member of the board of registrars of Bev
erly since 1896 and of the school committee.
He is a meraber bf the Baptist church. He
is a raember of Liberty Lodge of Free
Masons ; of Amity Chapter, Royal Arch
Alasons ; of St. George Commandery, Knights
Templar, and of the Sutton Lodge of Perfec
tion. He is well known in Masonic circles in
Beverly and vicinity.
He married, Noveraber 3, 1881, Annie B.
Adaras, born at Beverly, July 12, 1856, daugh
ter of Charles Adams. (See Adaras sketch
herewith). John F. Hill and wife have been
parents of the following children; i. Charles
Adams, born June 7, 1883, died March 12,
1884. 2. Marjorie B., born April 24, 1885.
3. Karl F. A., born AprU 30, 1890. 4. John
B., born Noveraber i, 1897.

Williara Adams, immigrant
ADAAIS ancestor of this branch of the
family, carae to New England,
aged fifteen, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann,"
in May, 1635, and settled at Carabridge. He
was adraitted a freeman Alay 22, 1638 ;
removed to Ipswich, and was a member of the
grand jury in 1642 ; was selectman 1646, and
died 1661. His widow was living in 1681. He
probably Hved in or near what is now Hamil
ton. Children: i. William. 2. John, born
about 1631. 3. Samuel. 4. Hannah, married,
Deceraber 6, 1659, Francis Munsy. 5. Mary,
raarried, February 29, 1660, Thomas French.
6. Nathaniel, mentioned below.
(II) Nathaniel Adams, son of Williara
Adams, was born about 1641, and died at Ips
wich, AprU II, 171 5. He married, June 30,
1668, Alercy, daughter of Thomas Dickinson,
of Rowley. She died December 12, 1735. He
was admitted a freeman May 27, 1674. Chil
dren, born at Ipswich; i. Nathaniel, July

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1851

II, 1670; mentioned below. 2. Thomas, June
14, 1672. 3. Alercy, AprU i, 1674; died June
13, 1674. 4. Sarah, July 19, 1675; married
 Fairfield. 5. AA^Uiam, June 29, 1678;
probably died young. 6. Mercy, March 18,
1680; married, February 4, 1703, John Smith;
second, September 18, 1716, Arthur Abbott;
died September 11, 1733. 7. Samuel, June 29,
1682. (Ill) Nathaniel Adams, son of Nathaniel
Adams, was born at Ipswich, July 11, 1670,
and died August 31, 1736. He raarried, Janu
ary, 1693, Abigail, died May 30, 1755, daugh
ter of Caleb Kimball, of Ipswich. Children,
born at Ipswich: i. Nathaniel, March i,
1695; died at Boston, October 25, 1712. 2.
AA'iUiara, November 26, 1696 ; mentioned
below. 3. Abigail, December 6, 1699; mar
ried, 1718, AVilliam Goodhue; died September
10, 1764. 4. Caleb, February 13, 1702. 5.
Alercy, February 25, 1704; married, 1723,
Thomas Savery. 6. Robert, October 14, 1705.
7. Anna, March 25, 1708; raarried, 1725, John
AVoodman. 8. Mary, 1714; married, 1732,
Thonias Lamson.
(IV) WiUiam Adams, .son of Nathaniel
Adams, was born at Ipswich, Noveraber 26,
1696; raarried, 1716, Mary, daughter of John
AVarner, Ipswich. Children, born at Ipswich:
I. Mary, 1717; married, 1738, WilHam AA'hip-
ple. 2. AbigaU, 1719; married, 1744, Joseph
Bolles. 3. AVUliara, 1722. 4. Nathaniel, 1727;
raarried, 1757, Ruth Bolles. 5. Sarah, 1729;
married, 1750, Jacob Low, of Wenham. 6.
Son, 1731 ; probably John, raentioned below.
(V) John Adaras, son of Williara Adaras,
was bom in Ipswich, 1731. He raarried, 1754,
Mary Lamson, of Ipswich. In 1789 John and
Mary Adams deeded their share in the estate
of the widow Mary Potter in Ipswich to Jo
seph Adams. The grantees were Caleb Lam
son, John Goodhue, Jr., and wife Mercy, Paul
Lamson, Nathaniel Lamson, of Westborough ;
John Adams and wife Mary, John Rogers and
wife Abigail, John Goldsmith and wife Mar
tha, of Moultonborough. Ipswich Haralet,
part of Ipswich, later called Harailton, was
the home of this family. Thomas Adams,
Stephen Adams, Joseph Adams, Asa Adams
and Oliver Adams, or most of them, were
brothers, sons or nephews of John Adams,
all living in Hamilton about 1800. Also Sam
uel Adaras, who married, February 4, 1794,
Lydia Lamson. Isaac Adams, of Harailton,
deeded land to Stephen Adams, April 28, 1805.
Stephen Adams deeded land to his brother
Isaac, mariner, adjoining land of Samuel

Adams, 1804. Stephen Adams raarried Mehit
able  . Stephen Adams deeded to Mary
Adams, wife of Oliver Adams, of Hamilton,
April, 1806, land there and elsewhere. Oliver
Adams deeded land to John Adams, fifteen
acres, Alarch 8, 181 1. Elisha Perkins also
deeded land to Oliver Adams' wife Mary, in
181 1. John Adams, again, deeded land to
Paul Dodge, April 19, 1763, bordering on land
of Samuel Lamson, evidently the homestead.
(VT) John Adaras, son of John Adaras,
was born 1762, and died in 1838, aged seventy-
six, according- to Harailton records. He was
possibly a nephew of John Adaras, instead of
son. He was deacon of the church at Hamil
ton. He raarried, perhaps second. Alary
Patch, June 26, 1804. She died at HaraUton,
of dropsy, January 18, 1835, aged fifty-three.
Children; i. Son, born March 22, 1813. 2.
Son John, died August 3, 1817, aged one year.
3. Child, born May 9, 1820. 4. Charles, men
tioned below.
(A^II) Charles Adams, son of Deacon John
Adams, was born in Hamilton, Alassachu
setts, in 1823, and died in Sacramento, Cali
fornia, in 1864. He married, March 10, 1853,
Anne Porter Batchelder, born Septeraber 2,
1828, daughter of Colonel Henry Batchelder.
Her father was born September 24, 1793, at
Beverly; married, December 3, 1815, Abigail,
born April 6, 1796, died August 31, 1874,
daughter of Perez Mann. Children ; Clara
L. ; Charles H. ; Annie B., born at Beverly,
July 12, 1856, married John Franklin Hill,
born January 10, 1856 (see Hill).

(For first generation see John Perkins i).
(II) Thomas Perkins, son of
PERKINS John Perkins, was born in
England in 1616, and came to
America with his parents in 1631, when he was
fifteen years old. At Ipswich he owned Saga
more hill, a tract of land one hundred and
seventy feet high. He exchanged this land
with his brother John for a house and lot in
town. After a few years he reraoved to Tops-
field and married there, about 1640, Phebe
Gould, daughter of Zaccheus Gould. She was
born in England in 1620, baptized at Herael
Hempstead, September 20, 1620. Her father
gave them one hundred and fifty acres of land.
Thomas Perkins was chosen deacon of the
Topsfield church, and was probably the first
deacon. Pie was often selectman and tything
man, and on the committee to choose a min
ister. His farm was next that of his brother-
in-law Redington, not far frora the Newbury-

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port turnpike. His will was dated Deceraber
II, 1685, and proved Septeraber 10, 1686. He
died May 7, 1686, and his wife survived him.
Children; i. John, born 1641 ; married, No
vember 28, 1666, Deborah Browning; died
May 19, 1668. 2. Phebe, born about 1644;
raarried, 1665, Joseph Towne. 3. Zaccheus,
born about 1647 ; married Rebecca  . 4.
Martha, born about 1649; married, December
17, 1669, John Lamson. 5. Mary, born about
1 651; married, October 27, 1671, William
Howlett; died 1728. 6. EUsha, born about
1654; married, February 23, 1680, Catherine
Towne. 7. Judith, born January 28, 1658,
died unmarried before 1719. 8. Thomas, born
about 1659; mentioned below. 9. Timothy,
born June 6, 1661 ; married (first) Hannah
 ; (secohd) Abigail  .
(Ill) Thomas Perkins, son of Thomas
Perkins, was born about 1659, in Topsfield,
died in April, 1722. He was a weaver by
trade. He received by will part of his father's
farm, which it was his father's wish the
brothers should conduct together. In 1718
they divided the property and separated. He
was on a jury at the time of the Salera witch
craft trials, and was one of those who after
wards signed a declaration of regret for their
part in the trials. He married, June i, 1683,
Sarah WaUis. Children; i. Sarah, born Jan
uary 20, 1684-85; raarried, January 28, 1722-
23, AVilliara Makittrick. 2. Thoraas, baptized
December 9, 1688. 3. Hannah, baptized
Alarch 12, 1692; married David Balch. 4.
Robert, born February 28, 1697; mentioned
below. 5. Sarauel, born November 22, 1699;
raarried Margaret Towne.
(lA'^) Robert Perkins, son of Thoraas Per
kins, born Topsfield, February 28, 1697, died
June 15, 1750. He was baptized by Rev. Mr.
Capen, March 7, 1697. He raarried, February
24, 1719-20, Elizabeth Towne, daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Knight) Towne. She
died Noveraber 26, 1772, "aged." Children:
I. Elizabeth, born June 7, 1723; married, Au
gust .30, 1742, Isaac Perkins. 2. Sarah, born
September 9, 1725 ; raarried, February 24,
1744, Elizur Lake, Jr. 3. Rebecca, born Janu
ary 12, 1726, died May 15, 1774. 4. Robert,
born January 16, 1727-28; mentioned below.
5. Amos, born February 16, 1730-31 ; married,
1756, Keziah Kimball, of AVenham; died Sep
tember 18, 1814. 6. Phebe, born February 3,
1732-33; married, Deceraber 18, 1750, Jona
than Knight. 7. Alartha, born January 8,
^734-35- married (first), February 5, 1754,
Archibald Dwinell; (second), April 4, 1774,

Sarauel Carter, of Manchester. 8. Mehitable,
born February 6, 1736-37; married (first),
July 2, 1761, Solomon Gould; (second) An
drew Foster. 9. Anna, born June 24, 1739;
married, December 29, 1757, Thomas Gould,
Jr. (V) Robert Perkins, son of Robert Per
kins, born Topsfield, January 16, 1727-28, died
November 10, 1801. He was in the revolu
tion, in Captain Stephen Perkins' company
and answered the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775. He raarried, probably in Ipswich, the
intentions being published September 30, 1750,
Hannah Cumraings, of Ipswich, born 1725,
died July 12, 1802. Children; i. Ruth, born
October i, 1753; raarried, 1744, John Gould,
3rd. 2. Hannah, born May 17, 1755, died No
vember 16, 1802. 3. Lydia, born August 6,
1757, died February 27, 1830. 4. Robert, born
Alay 29, 1760; mentioned below. 5. Asa, bom
June 15, 1762; raarried Hannah Johnson. 6.
Mehitable, born Noveraber 14, 1767, died De
ceraber 28, 1818.
(VI) Robert Perkins, son of Robert Per
kins, born Topsfield, May 29, 1760, died of
consuraption, January 14, 1725. He was some
tiraes called Captain Robert in the records.
Either he or his father was in the revolution,
in Captain Benjarain Adams' corapany. Col
onel Johnson's regiraent in the departraent of
the north in 1777 ; also in Captain John Didge's
corapany. Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiraent in
1778. He married, Alarch 4, 1784, Esther
Gould, who died January 29, 1817, aged sixty-
three. He raarried (second), April 25, 1822,
Hannah Perkins, born October 5, 1778, died
July 19, 1855, daughter of Zebulon and Mary
(Wildes) Perkins. Children, all by first wife:
I. Benjarain, born March 13, 1786; mentioned
below. 2. Amos, born April 2, 1788; married
Betsey Brown. 3. Esther, born January 12,
1790; married John R. Peabody. 4. Robert,
born February 16, 1792, died October 9, 1814.
5. Nehemiah, born April i, 1794; raarried
Lydia Bradstreet. 6. Betsey, bom January 8,
1798, died July 18, 1814.
(A-^II) Benjamin Perkins, son of Robert
Perkins, born Topsfield, March 13, 1786, died
April 3, 1858. He married. May 28, 1809, in
Salem, intentions published April 23, Rebecca
H. Ashby, of Salem, born 1791, died January
27, 1863. He was a farmer and shoemaker.
Children.; i. Benjamin Franklin, born May
30, 1812 : raentioned below. 2. Rebecca, bap
tized August 8, 1819; raarried (first), AVilliam
Preston Dodge; (second), Elbridge Perkins.
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abeth Ashby, baptized June i, 1823; married
Benjamin HiU. 5. Edward Augustus, physi
cian in Boston. 6. George Henry, married
(first), Augusta L. Story; (second), Mary
Sawyer. (VlIT) Benjamin Franklin Perkins, son of
Benjamin Perkins, born Topsfield, May 30,
1812, died October 28, 1887. He married, No
veraber 5, 1832, Elizabeth Murray. He was
a shoe manufacturer and resided in Beverly.
ChUdren; i. CaroHne Elizabeth, born 1833;
married John B. Hill. (See sketch of Hill
family herewith). 2. George Franklin, born
August 28, 1834; married Harriet A. Prime.
3. Mary Ellen, born July 31, 1837; married
Charles L. Dodge, of Beverly. 4. Sarah Beck
ford, born June 22, 1839, died unmarried, No
vember 28, 1884.

(I) George Beckford, immi-
BECKFORD grant ancestor, lived in
Marblehead, Massachusetts.
He married, in 1666, Christian  , born
in 1649, according to her own deposition. She
was granted adrainistration of her husband's
estate, June 28, 1678, and the inventory was
thirteen pounds, nine shillings and six pence,
the estate to reraain in her hands for the bring
ing up of her children. Among the children
were; i. Williara, born in Marblehead. 2.
John, born about 1674; raentioned below.
(IP) John Beckford, son of George Beck
ford, born Alarblehead, about 1674, settled in
Salem. On December 8, 17 17, he and his wife
were baptized and received into the First
Church there, with seven of their children.
He married, in May, 1699, Rebecca Pinsent,
daughter of William and Rebecca (Greene)
Pinsent. He removed to Reading, where he
died. Children: i. George, born July 5, 1700,
died May 30, 1760; married, July 30, 1722,
Elizabeth Batter, daughter of Edmund and
Alartha (Pickman) Batter. 2. John, born
September 15, 1702; mentioned below. 3. Re
becca, born February 26, 1705; married, Feb
ruary 6, 1722-23, John. Archer; died March,
1763. 4. William, born March 4, 1706. 5.
Bethiah, bom February 2, 1708. 6. Benja
min, born August 30, 171 1, died May, 1773;
married (first), December 6, 1733, Mary Col
lins, daughter of Adoniram Collins; (second),
1750, Lydia, widow of Jaraes Alorris. 7. Ebe
nezer, born May 18, 1715. 8. Priscilla, born
August 8, 1717; married. May 24, 1738, David
Phippen. 9. Mary, born November 22, 1719;
married. May 3, 1738, Warwick Palfray; died
before 1747. 10. Sarah, born December 18, 1721.
/

(III) Deacon John Beckford, son of John
Beckford, born Salem, December 15, 1702,
died January 13, 1788. He married, October
6, 1724, Elizabeth Hayward, baptized in Tab
ernacle Church, October 11, 1702, died Octo
ber 22, 1763, daughter of Samuel Hayward.
Children: i. John, born August 2, 1725 or
26. 2. Elizabeth, born August 17, 1727; raar
ried, December 19, 1745, Jonathan Very, Jr.
3. Mary, born October 11, 1728; married, No
vember I, 1750, William AVest. 4. Samuel,
born August 27, 1730. 5. Benjamin, born June
4, 1732; mentioned below. 6. Pinsent, born
July 14, 1733; died before 1783; raarried, De
ceraber 9, 1756, Deborah Ward. 7. Hannah,
born October i, 1734; raarried George Smith.
8. Sarah, born February 11, 1735. 9. Ebe
nezer, born April 8, 1737, died February, 1816.
10. Rebecca, born August 17, 1738. 11. David,
born October 5, 1740; raarried, Deceraber 5,
1756, Sarah Frye, widow of James Odell. 12..
Eunice, born December 10, 1741 ; married,
April 10, 1759, Thomas Ropes. 13. Jonathan,
born June 6, 1743 ; married, November 14,
1765, Sarah King.
(IV) Captain Benjarain Beckford, son of
Deacon John Beckford, born Salera, June 4,
1732, died Beverly, June 5, 1799. While of
Salem he raarried, March 29, 1753, Elizabeth
Herrick, widow of Jonathan, who died May
18, 1808, of old age, aged eighty-one. The
church records give the date of death as May
16. Children, born at Beverly ; i. John, born
December 7, 1753. 2. Sarah, born August i,
1755 ; married, November 4, 1777, John Ed
munds. 3. Benjamin, born May i, 1758; men
tioned below. 4. Rebecca, born July 12, 1760;
raarried, Septeraber 8, 1785, Asa Batchelder.
5. Eunice, born November 27, 1766; raarried,
November 21, 1787, John Baker. 6. Elizabeth,
baptized September 22, 1771 ; buried January
20, 1780, aged nine years.
(V) Captain Benjamin Beckford, son of
Captain Benjamin Beckford, born May i,
1758, died September 2, 181 1. He was a famous
sea captain, and served in the revolution. Was
a raeraber of Captain Larkin Thorndike's
company, AprU 19, 1775. He made raany voy
ages between Salem and Russia, and the
models of some of his ships are in the Peabody
Museum, of which he was a prominent mem
ber. He raarried, April 15, 1777, Ruth Ober,
daughter of Peter, Jr., and Lucy (Woodbury)
Ober, who died of dropsy, August 17, 1808,
aged forty-eight. ChUdren, born at Beverly;
I. Ruth, born 1777; married, March 13, 1800,
Benjamin Chase, of Newburyport. 2. EHza-

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beth (twin), born September 29, 1779. 3.
Benjamin (twin), born September 29, 1779;
married, Noveraber 28, 1804, Elizabeth Dy
son; died January 8, 1814. 4. Captain Siraon
(or Simeon), born January 28, 1782; married,
Alarch 7, 1807, Ruth Smith; buried Noveraber
2, 1815. 5. Ruth, born May 31, 1786. 6.
John, born September 6, 1795 ; buried Septem
ber 10, 1795. 7. Sallie, born February 6, 1798;
married, October 8, 1816, James HiU (see
sketch of Hill family herewith) ; died January
12, 1849. 8. Lucy, baptized September 8,
1799, died May 13, 1803.

March 28, 1754, Experience

Josiah

The surname Gregory or Mc-
GREGORY Gregory is of Scotch origin.
In New England a John
Gregory was an early settler at Weymouth
where he died December, 1692, John Taylor
being appointed his administrator. About the
time of the Scotch-Irish immigration several
Gregory famiHes appear in B.oston and vicin
ity. Patrick McGregory or Gregory died at
Roxbury in 1734, leaving a widow Hannah;
George Gregory, a gunsmith, died at Boston
in 1730, and George Bridge was appointed
administrator May 13, 1730. James Gregory,
of His Majesty's ship "Sea Horse," died in
1721, and his widow, Olive (Smallpiece)
Gregory was appointed administratrix Decem
ber 18, 1721. This sarae Jaraes was prob
ably the progenitor of the Marblehead farai
lies. He was a mariner; bought of John
Smallpiece, innholder, for thirty-two pounds,
ten shillings, land at Marblehead adjoining
land of Isaac Turner and Samuel Read by
deed dated April 5, 1720. Alexander Gregory,
possibly a son of James Gregory, was a baker
in Boston. His will was dated April 23, 1730,
and proved June i, 1730; his executors were
Barrett Dyer and Nathaniel Green, and his
only son was Alexander. Abigail, his widow,
also of Boston, quitclaimed her rights to his
estate April 17, 1745, and June 12. 1748, to
her son Alexander Gregory, a tailor. The
homestead of Alexander Gregory was on Cross
street, Boston. John and Abigail (Guild)
Gregory lived at Walpole. married there
March 30, 1748; children; i. Abigail, born
March 28, 1749. 2. Abigail, born March 18,
1750-51; married (intention dated May 24,
1775) Jotham Morse. 3. Sarah, born June 16,
1761 ; married, April 26, 1787, Joseph Boy
den. 4. Mille, born February 24, 1768; raar
ried, Septeraber 6, 1801, John Needhara. 5.
Child. 6. AVilliara.
AA^illiam Gregory, of AValpole, married.

Gregory, of the adjacent town of Medway,
died 1759, bequeathing to raother Sarah,
brother Daniel and wife Catherine. WilHam
Gregory, of Ipswich, died in 1711. Williara
Gregory, of Boston, raarried there June 18,
1774, Alary AVoodlot, and he, or another of
the same name raarried at Boston, Noveraber
2, 1800, Elizabeth. Carapbell. It is not possible
to trace with certainty the ancestry of the
Marblehead farailies to these pioneers, nor to
establish the relationship which must exist, on
account of missing records. AVilliara Gregory,
probably grandson of James Gregory, was
born about 1760. He married Sarah  ,
and lived at Marblehead. AVe have mentioned
all those of the name in Alassachusetts at an
early date.
(I) Joseph Gregory, the first of the line
herein treated of whom we have definite
information, was a British soldier and a cotton
weaver by trade, who carae frora Lancashire,
England. Joseph Gregory was a blacksmith
and followed that trade in Marblehead, where
his death occurred at the age of fifty-six years.
He raarried, at Alarblehead, April 19, 1790,
Hannah Hooper, a native of Marblehead, who
there January 6, 1843, aged seventy-eight
years, nine raonths, daughter of John Hooper,
who was a son of Robert Hooper, the first
ancestor. Robert Hooper was one of three
brothers, two of whora settled in Maine and
the third in Marblehead; Robert Hooper had
two sons — Robert and John — the latter of
whora was a ship chandler. Children of Mr.
and Airs. Gregory, born in Marblehead; i,
John Hooper, baptized Deceraber i, 1793; see
sketch. 2. Captain Joseph, baptized December
I, 1793, died March 9, 1824, aged thirty-three
or thirty-five years ; raarried, September 24,
1822, Ruth Roundey, then a rainor. 3. Thomas,
baptized December i, 1793. 4. James, born
October 27, 1796; mentioned below. 5.
Arabrose Martin, baptized July 14, 1799;
drowned at New Orleans, April 26, 1831 ;
married, March 6, 182 1, Ehza Bruce. 6. Han
nah, baptized April 25, 1802; raarried, May
30, 1824, Nathaniel Brirablecom, Jr. 7. Mary
EUis, baptized June 24, 1805 ; raarried, Alarch
26, 1826, Nathaniel Adams.
(II) Janies Gregory, son of Joseph and
Hannah (Hooper) Gregory, was born in Mar
blehead, Massachusetts, October 27, 1796.
He was a boot and shoe maker by trade, but
becarae a merchant in Marblehead. He was
also a pension and bond land agent, was col
lector of the port eight years, was a trial jus-

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1855

tice and auctioneer, took an active part in the
political affairs of the day, was president of
the Whig organization, and was a state sena
tor two years. He married Ruth Roundy,
daughter of Captain John Roundy; she was
born at Marblehead, where she died aged
fifty- two years. He died aged seventy-eight
years. ChUdren, born at Marblehead; i.
Mary Knight, born January 2, 1825, deceased.
2. James John Howard, born November 7,
1827; mentioned below. 3. Walter Raleigh,
born September 9, 1829, died July 13, 1831.
4. Walter Raleigh, born November 17, 1831,
deceased. 5. Helen Alaria, born March 14,
1834; married James L. Gould, of Norwich,
Connecticut. 6. Emma Brown Knight, born
January 27, 1836; married Charles Griffiths,
of Boston ; two children ; AVilliam and Arthur
L. 7. Ruth Ann, bom August 21, 1838; mar
ried Captain Robert Brown, now deceased,
and has four children — Ruth, Annie, Gregory
and Bancroft — all of whora reside in New
York. 8. Hannah Hooper, born March 14,
1843; married J. Gregory Carleton, a raining
expert in Marblehead, at one tirae of South
/.merica. 9. Arthur Files, born January 27,
1846. (Ill) James John Howard Gregory, son of
Jaraes and Ruth (Roundy) Gregory, was born
at Marblehead, Noveraber 7, 1827. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
town, pursued a two years' course at the Mid
dlebury Academy, after which he raatriculated
at Amherst College, graduating therefrom in
1850. His advent into the seed business was
alraost by accident. He once said of his begin
ning in' the seed business : "A man wrote to
the Neiv England Farmer for a nice winter
squash; I heard of it and we happened to
have one; my father called it "Marm Hub
bard's Squash" because we got the seeds from
an old lady by the name of Hubbard. I sent
hira sorae of the seeds; he tried them and so
well did he like them that he wrote an article,
which was published in a number of papers,
describing the good points of the squash. Be
fore I fully realized it I was getting orders
for this squash seed from aU parts of the
United States, and also for many other kinds
of seeds and soon found I was doing a thriv
ing seed business.'' At first he transacted this
in his home, but about the year 1883 built a
store, which he enlarged from time to time,
his business becoming one of the largest of the
country. Pie sent goods to all parts of the
U^nited States and to Canada and the pro
vinces. During the famine in India he was

especially active and benevolent. He sent
from his store houses large quantities of seed
corn, aiding raaterially in the securing of a
new crop for the relief of the starving people.
"I had a college raate, he said, who was a
missionary there and I sent him seeds of the
best varieties of American vegetables. He
planted and also distributed them among the
people. It had such a good effect that the
governor of that section of India where he
was, sent for, thanked, and rewarded him, and
offered hira three hundred dollars a month to
take charge of the agricuUure of the govern
ment, but being a missionary he would not
accept the offer." His extensive seed farms
located in Middleton comprise over four hun
dred acres, and he makes a specialty of grow
ing particular varieties for market garden
purposes. During the time he was in the busi
ness he raade a specialty of introducing new
varieties of vegetables before unknown to the
public. He has written, published and sold
raany thousands of copies of works on agri
culture, and has lectured extensively on this
subject before the colleges and seminaries
throughout the northern states. Many of Mr.
Gregory's clerks have been in his employ for a
quarter of a century.
Mr. Gregory retired in July, 1907, from the
great business he constructed during his long
and active business life, and since then has
devoted himself to his private concerns and
charities. He has always lived modestly,
notwithstanding the wealth at his command,
and has taken much pleasure and satisfac
tion in giving away funds for southern
colleges and churches and in similar good
works. He has aided a number of young
men to pursue a coUege education. He pre
sents to every male member of the gradu
ating classes of the colored colleges of the
south a character forming book, and has
awarded a fund to continue this gift for all
future time. He has given books of advantage
to the public, at times as many as three thou
sand voluraes per annura, for a, nuraber of
years, sending them to jails, prisons, etc. He
has recently given a nuraber of fine engravings
to the schools of Marblehead and the Young
Alen's Christian Association, and twenty oil
paintings to the different churches and chapels.
He has for many years been a collector of
Indian relics of which he has over two thou
sand, and also of shells of which he has a large
collection and a thorough knowledge. Mr.
Gregory has taken an active interest in public
and raunicipal affairs. He has been one of the

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

generous supporters of all movements of moral
or material benefit to his native town. He gave
the bell and clock for Abbot Hall in Marble
head. He is a Republican, and in 1876-77 was
state senator, elected by the joint vote of the
Prohibition and Republican parties.
Air. Gregory married (first) Eliza C. Bubier;
(second) Harriet R. Knight; (third) Sarah
Lydia CasweU. Mr. Gregory has adopted four
children; i. Edgar, mentioned below. 2.
James H., born Boston, 1873, educated in
public schools of Marblehead, spent one year
at the Massachusetts AgricuUural College at
Amherst, then went to South America to live
with his uncle, James Gregory Carleton, a
mining engineer. He enlisted in the Colum
bian army, being promoted through the various
ranks, taking part in a number of battles, and
finally being made brigadier-general. He mar
ried a Spanish girl and they are the parents
of six children. 3. Annie, married Stephen
Burroughs, of Long Hill, Connecticut, and
has six children. 4. Laura, married Simeon
Coffin, of Marblehead, and has three chUdren.
(IV) Edgar Gregory, adopted son of James
John Howard Gregory, was born at Chelsea,
Massachusetts, Deceraber 12, 1869. He re
ceived his education in the public schools of
Marblehead and the Massachusetts Agricul
tural College at Araherst, graduating frora the
latter in the class of 1890. He becarae asso
ciated with his foster-father in the seed busi
ness, and in 1901 was adraitted to partnership
under the firra name of J. J. H. Gregory &
Son and continued thus untU the senior partner
and founder retired July i, 1907. Since then
Edgar Gregory has been sole proprietor
though the narae is unchanged. He resided at
Middleton, where the seed farras were located,
until 1908, when he removed to Marblehead
and where the place of business is. Mr.
Gregory is interested in botany, in which study
he took a first prize in college. He is a Repub
lican, and was a member of the school com
mittee in Middleton in 1905. He is a promi
nent member of the Congregational church of
Middleton, is a member of its standing com
raittee and was for three years superintendent
of the Sunday-school. He is a member of
Philanthropic Lodge of Free Masons, of the
New England Order of Protection, Elbridge
Gerry Lodge, No. 303, all of Marblehead.
Air. Gregory married, June 17, 1901, Flora
Dell Stebbins, born June 14, 1871, daughter
of Lafayette C. and Flora Elva (Lovett) Steb
bins, of Araherst, who were the parents of one
other child, Horace Canon Stebbins, born June

3, 1868. Mr. L. C. Stebbins was a soldier in
the civil war; died June 19, 1872; his wife,
born January 8, 1849, is daughter of -Edward
Ballou Lovett. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Gregory; i. AVarren Albertus, born July 17,
1893. 2. Edgar Stebbins, January 14, 1895.
3. James Capron Lovett, February 18, 1900.
(For first generalion see preceding sketch).
(II) John Hooper Gregory,
GREGORY son of Joseph Gregory, was
baptized December i, 1793, at
Marblehead. He was educated in his native
town and became a prorainent citizen there.
On land forraerly owned by him were built the
first four suramer cottages at Marblehead
Neck near the harbor. He sold the land April
29, 1867, and the houses were buUt by A. H.
Dunlap, Thomas Pierson, John Blunt and
George McMasters, of Nashua, New Hamp
shire. Mr. Gregory married, at Marblehead,
1809, Tabitha Bowden, born in Marblehead,
about 1794. Children, born at Marblehead;
I. John Hooper, Jr., baptized December 17,
1809. 2. Samuel Bowden, baptized December
20, 1812. 3. Joseph, baptized February 26,
1815; raentioned below. 4. Michael Bowden,
baptized April 27, 1817. 5. Hannah Hooper,
baptized January 4, 1819. 6. Thomas Hooper,
baptized Alay 13, 1821, aged two months. 7.
Tabitha Angenette, baptized October 31, 1824.
8. AVilliam Doliber, baptized June 4, 1826,
aged one year, six months. 9. Franklin Au
gustus, baptized October 26, 1828.
(Ill) Joseph Gregory, son of John Hooper
Gregory, born at Marblehead in February,
1815, was baptized there February 26, fol
lowing. He was in the fishing business,
learned the trade of shipwright and was asso
ciated with his father in ship-building. He
became a master mariner. He was prominent
in railitary and political affairs also. He
attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the
Second Regiraent, Massachusetts Volunteer
militia, and served from 1850 to 1855. He
took a lively interest in municipal affairs and
was selectman for a number of years. He
was upright and honorable in all his deaHngs,
of exceptional ability, sound judgment, and
strict integrity. He was a charter member of
Atlantic Lodge of Odd Fellows of Marble
head. He died in July, 1873. He married,
1843, EHzabeth A. Paine, born in Marblehead,
died in January, 1858, daughter of Henry
Paine. Children, born in Marblehead: i.
Joseph, born March 7, 1844; mentioned below.
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1857

the clipper ship "Radiant," and was lost in the
bay of Bengal in February, 1876.
(IV) Joseph Gregory, son of Joseph Greg
ory, was born at Alarblehead, March 7, 1844.
He was educated there in the public schools.
He followed the sea for two years in his
youth, making one voyage to China. When the
civil war came he enlisted as acting master
mate in the United States navy and remained
Ul the service until October 21, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged. He returned to
Marblehead and followed the trade of shoe
maker in various factories in his native town
for a period of twenty-two years. In 1887 he
was appointed inspector of custoras in the
Boston custora house, a position he has filled
to the present tirae. He is a member of John
Goodwin Jr. Post, No. 82, Grand Army of
the Repubhc, and of Philanthropic Lodge of
Free Masons. He has been an active and
prominent member of the First Congregational
Church for the past thirty years. In politics
he is a Democrat, and has been chairman of
the Democratic town coraraittee. For four
years he was town auditor and for the same
period a registrar of voters for the town.
He married, in 1863, Hannah H. Pedrick,
born in Marblehead, August 10, 1844, daugh
ter of Captain John B. Pedrick, who was born
in Alarblehead in 1S07, and died in California,
August, 1850. Captain Pedrick was a master
mariner. He married Sarah H. Johnson, who
died in January, 1892 ; they were parents of
seven children, four of whom died in infancy ;
those who came to maturity were ; Hannah
PL, raarried Joseph Gregory; Isabella, born
1846; John J., born 1850. Captain John John
son, grandfather of Mrs. Joseph Gregory, died
in 1862.
Lafayette Gregory, only chUd of Joseph and
Hannah H. (Pedrick) Gregory, was born in
1863. He was educated in the Marblehead
public schools, and is now a partner in the
firm of Joseph M. Herman & Company, Bos
ton, manufacturers of men's shoes. He raar
ried, 1889, CaroHne Goldthwait, daughter of
AA''illiam I. Goldthwait, of Marblehead, and
they have a son, Ernest Gregory, born 1891,
now a student at Amherst College.

The surname Trefry (or Tref-
TREFRY fry) is of local or place name
in derivation. There is a Manor
of Treffry in the parish of Lanhydroch, Corn
wall, England, and the famUy taking its name
frora this raanor traces its history to a very
early period. In 1620 John Treffry was elev

enth ill descent from Roger Treffry of this
Manor of Treffry, reign of Henry HI. The
coat-of-arms : Sable a chevron between three
trees eradicated argent. In England we also
find the spelling Trevett, which is also used
very infrequently as a baptismal name. This
narae is derived frora the Manor Treffry,
parish Lanhydroch, and is traced to an early
period. The family removed to Fowey, where
was born the gallant Sir John Treffry who,
fighting under the Black Prince at the battle
of Poictiers, took the French royal standard,
for which he was created a knight baronet,
and given augmentation of his arms — the
fleur-de-lis of France. In the next century
some French marauders (whether in revenge
of the national disgrace or not does not
appear) attacked Place House, the residence
of the family at Fowey, but met a repulse at
the hands of Alistress Treffry, of the period.
Leland says ; "The Frenchmen divers times
assaulted Fowey and last most notably about
Plenry A^. tyme when the wife of Thomas
Trevry with her raen repelled the French out
of her house in her husband's absence, where
upon Thoraas Trevry builded a right fair and
strongly embattled tower in his house" ("Pat
ronymic Brittanica").
(I) Henry Trefry (or Trevett) seems to
be the ancestor of both Trevett and Trevry
(or Trefry) families of Alarblehead. There
were many French Huguenots at Marblehead
at an early date, and . fishermen who spoke a
patois that still lingers in the speech of that
quaint old town. Trivett, Trevett, Trevery,
Trifett, Trefry, and all the other spellings of
the name, would have been pronounced about
the same — Trefry — and there appears to be
some relationship between the Trefry faraily
mentioned below and the famous Peter family
from Cornwall, England. Elizabeth Trefy, of
Fowey, Cornwall, "of a family of great anti
quity yielding not in quality to any in Corn
wall," married William Peter, a prominent
merchant, fourth son of Sir John Peter,
knight, of Exeter, Devonshire, and their
three sons — William, Thomas and Rev. Hugh
— 'were erainent men in both old and New
England. Rev. Hugh Peter was born in 1599
at Fowey ; graduated at Trinity College, Cara
bridge, 1617, A. M. 1622 ; preached at St.
Sepulchre's, London; subscribed to the stock
of the Alassachusetts Bay Corapany in 1628;
became a Puritan and pastor of the English
Church at Rotterdam ; carae to Boston, Massa
chusetts, in 1635, and was ordained pastor of
the church at Salem and did excellent work;

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returned to England as one of the represen
tatives of the Colonies at the opening of the
1 evolution, and becarae one of the foremost
leaders of the parliamentary party; after the
restoration was brought to trial for treason,
condemned, hanged, drawn and quartered Oc
tober i6, 1660. Plenry Peter, a kinsman, mar
ried in 1609 Deborah Trefry, daughter of
John Trefry, Esq., of Place, a lineal descend
ant of Sir' John Trefry, mentioned above, and
his son Henry Peter, imprisoned for political
reasons was released through the efforts of
Rev. Hugh Peter "kinsman."
(I) Thomas Trefry, iraraigrant ancestor,
settled at Marblehead, and was a prorainent
citizen. He was in all likelihood descended
from the Trefry family of Cornwall, and
related to George Trefry who settled in York,
Alaine ; was deputy to :^e general court of
Alassachusetts; and to Heiiry Trefry (Trivett,
Trevett, Trevery, or Trifett as variously
spelled), who was living at Marblehead from
1646 to 1674, and had a son Henry. Thomas
Trefry was one of the signers of a petition for
a town meeting for March 16, 1673-4, to be
at eight o'clock in the raorning. Marblehead
then as now was inhabited principally by sea
faring men, and the petition adds; "We
desire it the more because we suppose the
inhabitants now at home." (p. 70, Gen. Reg.
1853). Henry "Treatt" was another signer.
.A few years later Thomas Trefry signed a
petition to the county .court with numerous
other Alarblehead raen protesting against
actions begun by Erasmus James and others
as agents or attorneys to the commoners or
town of Alarblehead. Henry "Trivitt" (same
as Treatt above) was another signer. It may
be added that there was a John Treby (sic)
of Marblehead before 1668, probably the John
Trefry of Boston who died in 1675 ; was aged
forty-five in 1672; left no descendants and
similar name is found in the colonies. (Reg.
1854, p. 163 and p. 288). (Savage Gen.
Diet.). Children of Thomas Trefry: i.
Thonias, mentioned below. 2. James, married
June 8, 1702, Sarah Russell. 3. Sarah (?),
raarried November 5, 1696, Samuel Holraan.
4. Benjamin (?), had son Benjamin, who died
at Alarblehead in 1712.
(II) Thomas Trefry, son of Thomas
Trefry, was born about 1660, either in Mar
blehead or the old country. He lived in Mar
blehead. Pie married first, Sarah  ;
second, October 14, 1692, Annas (Agnes)
Dennis, who died at Alarblehead, December,
7749. Child of first wife; i. John, born June

5, 1689; perhaps. Children of second wife;
¦J. Thomas, born August 3, 1694. 3. Mary,
baptized December 5 or 15, 1695. 4. James,
Jr., born September 5, 1698, mentioned below.
5. Annas, (Agnes), born July 16, 1700. 6.
John, born April 2, 1703; married Rebecca
AVormstall (or AVorrastead) of a prorainent
Alarblehead family. 7. AVilliara, born May
26, 1706, baptized June 9 following. 8. Sarah,
born December 15, 1709. 9. Amy, born 1712,
baptized May 11, 1712.
(Ill) James Trefry Jr., son of Thomas
Trefry, was born at Marblehead, September 5,
1698, baptized there October 9, 1698. He
married, at Alarblehead, June 29, 1720, Mary
Tomson; second, September 26, 1738, Mary
Dodd. He was called "Jr." to distinguish
him from his uncle of the sarae narae. Chil
dren, born at Marblehead; i. Jaraes, baptized
July 9, 1 72 1. 2. Jonathan, baptized May 5,
1723. 3. Thoraas, baptized August i, 1725. 4.
John, baptized January 28, 1727-8. 5. AVilliara,
baptized July 12, 1730; mentioned below.
Children of second wife; 8. Janies, baptized
Noveraber 4, 1739. 9. John, baptized August
15, 1742.
(IV) AVilliara Trefry, son of James Trefry,
Jr., was baptized July 12, 1730. He married,
December 16, 1751, at Marblehead, Tabitha
Pousland. Children, born at Marblehead; i.
AA'illiam, baptized November 26, 1752. 2.
Jaraes, baptized November 17, 1754. 3.
Tabitha, baptized October 31, 1756. 4. John,
raentioned below. 5. Mary, baptized Decem
ber 14, 1760.
(V) John Trefry, son of William Trefry,
was baptized at Marblehead, February 11,
1759. He was a soldier in the revolution,
private in Captain Jaraes Prentiss's corapany.
Colonel Samuel Brewer's regiment, 1777. He
died August 29 or 31, 1836, aged seventy-six.
He raarried at Marblehead, Deceraber 4, 1787,
Susanna Stacey. Children born at Marble
head; I. Susanna, baptized November 8,
1789. 2. John, baptized May 20, 1792. 3.
Samuel Stacey, mentioned below. 4. Susanna,
born September 11, 1796. 5. Tabby, born Oc
tober 28, 1798.
(NY) Sarauel Stacey Trefry, son of John
Trefry, was born June 4, 1794 (church
record). He was cashier of the Marblehead
Bank, and one of the raost prominent raen
of Marblehead in his day. He married, at
Marblehead, November 2, 1817, Sarah (Sally)
Turner. Children, bom in Marblehead; i.
John, born June 2, 1818 ; died young. 2. Sam.-
uel Stacey Jr. (Stacey), raentioned below. 3.

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Susanna Stacey, born October i, 1822. 4.
Sarah Turner, born December 27, 1824; still
living at Lunenburg, Alassachusetts. 5. John,
born October 9, 1827. 6. Henry Gallison,
born December 21, 1829. 7. Tabitha, born
August 7, 1831. 8. Hannah Devereux, born
March 7, 1833. 9. AA'^illiam Lewis, born Sep
tember 7, 1835. 10. Stephen C. P. Trefry.
II. Mary Aleek, born Alay 19, 1840. 12.
Theodore, born February 21, 1843. 13. EUen
Maria, born April 17, 1844. The four last
named still reside in Alarblehead.
(VII) Sarauel Stacey Trefry, son of Sara
uel Stacey Trefry, was born in Marblehead,
July 5, 1820. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He was for many
years bookkeeper in the Suffolk Bank and in
the Marblehead Bank. He was accountant also
for the Mount Auburn Cemetery Association
of Boston, and for the receivers of the Hamil
ton Insurance Company of Salera. In 1872 he
engaged in the fire insurance business with
offices at Marblehead and continued with con
spicuous success to the time of his death. In
politics he was a Deraocrat, and in reHgion a
Unitarian. He died at Alarblehead, February
2, 1882. He raarried, at Marblehead, Novem
ber 30, 1843, Rebecca Wormstead, born at
Marblehead, daughter of Benjamin and
Martha (Baker) Wormstead, of Alarblehead.
His wife died October 28, 1863, and he mar
ried, second, Mary K. Caswell, born in Mar
blehead, daughter of John Caswell. Children
of first wife; i. Hannah R., married Janies
Shepard. 2. Mary B., raarried Benjamin S.
Phillips. 3. John H., died November, 1907.
4. Williara Davis Thayer ; see forward. 5.
Benjarain W. 6. Sarauel Stacy. 7. Rebecca
AV., married Arthur Haines. Children of
second wife ; 8. Frank H., died 1896. 9.
Sarah T., married Arthur R. Dinsmore. 10.
Walter C.
(ATH) AA^'ilHam Davis Thayer Trefry, son
of Samuel Stacey Trefry (7), was born at
Marblehead, Alay 10, 1852. He attended the
public schools of his native town and Tufts
College, where he was graduated in the class
of 1878. He then studied law and was admit
ted to the bar at the April term of the supreme
court of Massachusetts, in Essex county,
1882. He opened an office in Marblehead and
practiced also in Salem, advancing rapidly in
his profession. In politics he is a Republican,
and he has been active in public affairs. He
was chairraan of the Marblehead school com
raittee for a nuraber of years, and he is one of
the trustees and the secretary of the board of

trustees of the Public Library of Marblehead.
He is a trustee of Alarblehead Acaderay and
keenly interested in educational raatters. In
1 89 1 he was elected auditor of commonwealth
of Alassachusetts, and in January, 1892, was
appointed by Governor Russell commissioner
of savings banks, becoraing chairman of the
board. He held this office until September,
1899, when he was appointed tax coraraissioner
and commissioner of corporations. He has
filled this iraportant and difficult position to
the present tirae with marked ability, tact and
discretion. Mr. Trefry is a member of Phil
anthropic Lodge Free and Accepted Masons ;
of AA^ashington Royal Arch Chapter ; of Salera
Council, Royal and Select Alasters; of Wins
low Lewis Commandery, Knights Templar; of
Sutton Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R. ;
of Giles S. Yates Council, Princes of Jeru
salem ; of Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose
Croix, and Alassachusetts Consistory ; and an
honorary member of the Supreme Council
of the Northern Masonic jurisdiction for
the 33d and last degree. In 1891-2-3 he
was district deputy grand raaster of the
Eighth Masonic District, and is a member of
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. His
activity and prorainence in the Alasonic fra
ternity have given a very wide acquaintance
among the leading raen of the state, and he is
a welcome visitor and popular guest on raany
occasions of Masonic interest. He is a raem
ber of that society of scholars, the Phi Beta
Kappa, and at the last commencement of his
class, June 17, 1908, he received the degree of
A. M. He is a prominent Episcopalian, and
senior warden of St. Michael's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Marblehead.

The original Howlands in
HOWLAND America were Arthur, Plenry
and John. The last named
was one of the "Mayflower" number, and the
others appeared in Plymouth colony in the
early days of the settlement, but how and from
what place in England they came from has
never been definitely ascertained.
(I) John Howland held to the original faith
of the Puritans, and was an officer of Rev.
John Cotton's church and a stanch adherent
of the Orthodox faith until his death, while
Arthur and Henry were Quakers. The orig
inal painting from which the engravings of
the Howland coat-of-arms in this country was
made was in water colors, highly ornamented,
and the following description of it was hand
somely engrossed under the arms : "He bear-

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eth Sable, two bars Argent, on a chief of the
second thin lions rampant of the first, and for
his crest on a wreath of his colors a lion pas
sant sable, by the iiarae of Howland." Tradi
tion says this was brought from England soon
after the "Mayflower" came. In 1865 it was
in the possession of Rev. T. Howland White,
of Shelbourne, Nova Scotia. He was a grand
son of Gideon AA'hite, whose wife was Joanna,
daughter of John Howland, son of the Pil
grim. John Howland's was the thirteenth name on
the list, of forty-one signers of the "Compact"
in the cabin of the "Alayflower" in "Cape Cod
Harbor," November 21, 1620. At this time
he was twenty-eight years of age, and was a
member of Governor Carver's family. How
this came to be is not known, but it is probable
that Carver saw elements in his character
which led him to supply Young Howland's
wants when they left England, and caused hira
to be considered one of the family. That he
possessed sound judgment and business capac
ity is shown by the active duties which he
assumed and the trust which was reposed in
him in all the early labors in establishing a
settlement. AVhile the "Mayflower" was yet
in Cape Cod harbor, ten of "her principal"
men were "sente out" in a boat manned by
eight sailors, to select a place for landing. A
storm drove them into Plymouth Plarbor, and
Plymouth was selected as the place of settle
ment. The first mention of John Howland in the
old Plymouth colony records is on a list of
freemen, and the third in nuraber in the gov
ernor's "councill" of seven raerabers. In 1633
or 1634 he was an assessor; was a selectraan
of Plymouth 1666, and chosen deputy of the
same town in 1652-56-58-61-63-66-67-70. His
election June 2, 1670, was the last tirae he
accepted public office, being nearly eighty years
of age. Besides these public positions of
honor and trust bestowed upon hira, he was
very often selected to lay out and appraise
land to run highways, settle disputes, and on
committees of every description. He was not
only full of zeal for the temporal welfare of
the colony, but gave powerful encouragement
to a high standard of morals and religion, so
nu-:ch so that he is recorded as "a godly raan
and an ancient professor in the ways of
Christ." It is shown that he was active in this
work for Governor Bradford notes that he
became "a profitable member both in Church
and Commonwealth," and it appears that at
the ordination of John Cotton, Jr., in 1667,

John Howland "was appointed by -the Church
to join in the imposition of hands." He lived
at what was caUed Rocky Nook. He died 23,
2, 1672, old style, April 23, 1673, new style.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Tilly,
who died December 21, 1687, aged eighty
years, in Swanzey, Massachusetts. She was
the last but three of the "Mayflower" passen
gers to die. They had the following children ;
I. Desire, born October 13, 1623 ( ?), in Barn
stable ; married, 1643, Captain John Gorham,
who was baptized at  , Northampton
shire, England, January 28, 1621, died Feb
ruary 5, 1675-76. 2. John, raentioned below.
3. Jabez, died in Bristol, Rhode Island. 4.
Hope, born August 30, 1629, died January 8,
1684 ; married, 1646, John Chipman, born
Barnstable, England, 1614, died April 7, 1708.
5. Elizabeth, married first, September 13, 1649,
Ephraira Hicks, of Plyraouth, who died De
cember 2, 1649; second, July 10, 1651, John
Dickarson, of Plymouth. 6. Lydia, married
James Brown, born 1623, died October 10,.
1710; they settled in Swanzey. 7. Ruth, mar
ried, November 17, 1664, Thomas Cushman, of
Plymouth, born Septeraber 16, 1637, died
July 23, 1726. Thomas Cushman raarried
second, October 16, 1679, Abigail Fuller, of
Rehoboth. 8. Hannah, married, July 6, 166 1,
Jonathan Bosworth. 9. Joseph, died January,
1704. 10. Isaac, born November 15, 1649,
died March 9, 1724; married Ehzabeth
Vaughn, born 1652, died October 29, 1727.
(II) John Howland, son of John and Eliz
abeth Howland, was born in Plymouth, Feb
ruary 24, 1627. He married, October 26,
1651, Mary, daughter of Robert Lee, of Barn
stable. John lived for a time in Alarshfield,
appearing there as early as 1653, where he
took the oath of fidelity in 1657. He was later
an inhabitant of Barnstable (1657). He was
an energetic and systematic business man, and
was highly respected in the colony. In 1674
he was appointed by the court "Ensign of the
Military corapanie of Barnstable." In 1685
he took out a license to sell cider in Barn
stable. In 1689 he was selectman in that
town. Children: i. Mary, born 1652; mar
ried, 1670, John Allyn, of Barnstable. 2. Eliz
abeth, born May 17, 1655; married first, Feb
ruary, 1673, John Bursley, born 1652 ; second,,
September 14, 1691, Isaac Hamblin. 3. Isaac,
born November 25, 1659, married, December
27, t686, Ann Taylor, born December 12, 1664.
4. Plannah, bom May 15, 1661 ; married. May
20, 1686, Jonathan Crocker, of Barnstable,
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21, 1663, died 1717; married, AprU 27, 1704,
Joseph Hamblin, born November 20, 1680,
died August 27, 1766. 6. Lydia, born January
9, 1665, married, March 21, 1689, Joseph Jen
kins. 7. Experience, born July 28, 1668. 8.
Anne, born September 9, 1670; married Sep
tember 18, 1691, Joseph Crocker, born January
3, 1668. 9. Shubael, born September 30, 1672,
married, December 12, 1700, Mercy Blossom,
born 1678, died 1759. 10. John, mentioned
below. (Ill) John Howland, son of John and
Mary (Lee) Howland, was born December 31,
1674, in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He mar
ried first, Abigail Crocker; second, June 11,
1719, Mary Crocker, born June 29, 1681. John
Howland lived and died in Barnstable. His
will was dated February 8, 1738, and proved
March 29, 1738. The estate inventoried
£1088, 8s. Children by first wife; i. George
Gill, born December 30, 1705; married Abi
gail Crocker. 2. Hannah, born February 2,
1708, died 1738, unmarried. 3. Mary, born
August II, 1711, died 1738, unmarried. 4.
Joanna, born January 26, 1715; raarried first,
April 12, 1750, Jaraes Lewis; second, Decera
ber 28, 1752, John Allen, of Hingham. Chil
dren by second wife; 5. John, born February
13, 1721 ; graduate of Harvard College, and
becarae a Congregational minister ; died No
vember 4. 1804; raarried a daughter of Rev.
Mr. Lewis, of Pembroke. 6. Job, mentioned
below. (IV) Job Howland, son of John and Mary
(Crocker) Howland, was born June 18, 1726,
in Barnstable. He married, Deceraber 6, 1753,
Hannah, daughter of Benjarain and Nancy
(Howland) Jenkins, born 1733, died Septem
ber 21, 1781. He died May i, 1794, at the
house of his daughter, Joannah Chapman, in
Barnstable. Most of the sons and grandsons
of the daughters of Job settled in Cape Cod,
and many of thera becan* raaster mariners.
None of the sons mentioned below, though
born on the Cape, settled there. Children: i.
Mary, born July 21, 1755, died June 18, 1783;
married Samuel Bassett, of Barnstable. 2.
John, born March 31, 1757, died June 18,
1843 ; married Grace Avery, June i, 1786. 3.
Shore, born December 28, 1759, died Febru
ary 25, 1833 ; raarried Elizabeth Hastings. 4.
Hannah, born May 20, 1762, died April 9,
1838; married first, December 11, 1783, Wil
liara Chipman, born 1760, died May 11, 1786;
second, June 5, 1792, Lemuel Nye. 5. Job,
born July 24, 1764, died March 13, 1847; mar
ried, November 29, 1792, Mary Fisher, of

Dedham. 6. Joanna, born July 28, 1766, died
July 6, 1838; raarried, 1788, John Chipman,
born June, 1762, died June, 1806. 7. Benja
min, born August 7, 1768, died  , 1770.
8. Benjamin, born June 18, 1770, died Novem
ber II, 1825; married, June 3, 1794, Hepzibah
Hastings. 9. Mehitable, born June 23, 1773,
died  , i860; married, January 24, 1799,
Heman Nye, of Sandwich, born Deceraber 23,
1773, died June 2, 1747. 10. Southworth,
mentioned below. 11. Timothy, born Septera
ber 17, 1777, died August 5, 1824; raarried,
February 3, 1802, Lydia Putnam.
(V) Southworth Howland, son of Job and
Hannah (Jenkins) Howland, was born March
29, 1775. in Barnstable, and died June 9, 1853.
Pie married first, Noveraber 24, 1797, Esther,
daughter of Nathan and Persis Allen, of West
Brookfield, born Deceraber 18, 1780, died Oc
tober 12, 1814; second, Alarch 13, 1816, Polly,
daughter of Dr. Samuel and Bertha (Avery)
AA'are, of Conway, born December 5, 1785,
died February 11, 1870, in Conway. He
learned the trade of a house carpenter with
his eldest brother, John Howland, and in
coming of age was employed in the erection of
an elegant dwelling house in West Brookfield
by the distinguished architect, Asber Benjamin,
and became a prorainent resident of that town.
He was a raan of decided convictions, and
was prorapt and fearless in defending them.
As early as 1812 or 1814 he and his wife
pledged each other not to take intoxicating
drinks passed around in corapany, or when
making calls, as was the universal custom at
that time, and not long after united with a
few neighbors in forming a society for the
promotion of temperance. He also printed at
his own cost, for distribution, an edition of a
tract on the subject by the celebrated Dr.
Rush. Children: i. Southworth, died young.
2. Southworth A., raentioned below. 3. Maria,
bom August 22, 1802, raarried June 17, 1830,
Williara Avery, of Conway, born September
16, 1705, died April 25, 1853. 4- Harriet,
born July 6, 1804, died May 9, 1805. 5.
Harriet, born March 18, 1806; married, Alarch
.11, 1845, Hezekiah Perry. 6. Louisa, born
Alarch 26, 1808, died September 10, 1877;
married first, April 9, 1839, Galen Carpenter,
of Worcester, born October 16, 1804, in Attle
borough, died July 3, 1867; second. Dr. Henry
O. Adams, of South Royalston. 7. Henry
J., born October 26, 1810; married, November
29, 1832, Ellen Maria, widow of Horace H.
Smith. 8. Harrison O., born January 28,
1813, died February 14, 1872; married. No-

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vember 23, 1845, Hannah O. Bailey, of Ames
bury, born March 23, 1813. Children by sec
ond wife ; 9. William Ware, born July 25,
1817; married, October 14, 1845, Susan Reed.
10. Samuel, born August 2, 1819, died June 24,
1843. II- Joseph Avery, born February 19,
1821; married, April 20, 18,47, Adeline Hen
shaw. 12. Alary E., born August 28, 1823,
died Alarch 26, 1879; married, 1867, Edward
Smith, of Enfield. 13. Elizabeth S., born April
3, 1826. died September 15, 1855, at Cincin
nati, Ohio ; raarried, February 25, 1852, Rev.
H. D. Perry, of Monson.
(A^I) Southworth Allen Howland, son of
Southworth and Esther (Allen) Howland,
was born in AA^est Brookfield, Septeraber 11,
1800, and died October 7, 1882. He married,
September 30, 1823, Esther, daughter of Cap
tain AA^illiam and Betsey (Barnes) Allen, of
Plymouth, born July 13, 1801, died April 14,
i860, -in W^orcester. He died in AVorcester,
October 7, 1882. Captain AVilliam Allen was
born 1775 ; he was a son of John Allen, who
came to America about 1760, and married
Esther Savery in 1768. Being a Tory he
returned to England during the revolutionary
war (1777). His children were; Esther,
Betsey, John, AVilliam and AVinslow. South-
worth A. Howland learned the trade of book
binder with Joseph Avery in Plyraouth, and
in the autumn of 1821 went to Worcester and
entered the bookbinding and retail book trade
in the firm of Dorr & Howland, remaining
until 1842. From that time until 1852 he was
engaged in the same business alone. He then
gave his attention to the insurance business, in
which he continued until his health failed. He
was an active and useful citizen, an energetic
worker, charitable and kind to all ; a man who
loved his home, and the church, of which he
was a constant attendant; he was a diligent
student and reader of the Bible. Children ;
I. Southworth Allen, Jr., born July 5, 1826,
(lied March 29, 1828. 2. Esther Allen, born
Augu,st 17, 1828; unmarried. 3. Charles AUen,
mentioned below. 4. Edward Payson, born
April 6, 1834; married Elizabeth Holden, of
Quincy, who died August 6, 1875; he was
for many years engaged in the insurance busi
ness, and in 1885 resided in Quincy. 5. AVill
iam Otis, born A'larch 27, 1838 ; married, June
23, 1870, Ella P., daughter of Isaac Shepard;
children; i. Shepard, born March 29, 1871,
in Quincy ; ii. Allen Shepard, born at Swatow,
China ; iii. Jehila Shepard, born in Worcester.
(VII) Charles AUen Howland, son of
Southworth Allen and Esther (Allen) How

land, was born Septeraber 4, 1829, in Wor
cester. He received a public school and acad
eraic education. He learned of his father the
trade of bookbinder, and worked with hira for
nearly fifteen years. He was for two years
in the office of the register of deeds in Wor
cester. His father, having given up the book
trade and become agent for a number of insur
ance companies, among thera the Quincy
Alutual, Charles A. entered the office with him.
In 1857 he entered the office of the Quincy
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1861 the
secretary of the company died, and Air. How
land was unanimously elected in his place
April 14 of that year. The company was then
in its infancy and struggling for existence, but
prospered finely under the new management.
Tts losses at the Boston fire of 1872 were
nearly $460,000 and were promptly paid in
full. The president and treasurer of the com
pany, Israel M. Alunroe, having died, Mr.
Howland was chosen president, in April, 1885,
which office he now holds. Air. Howland has
since held many positions of trust and respon-
sibilitiy in the business circles of Quincy. He
has been treasurer and one of the directors
of the Citizens' Gas Light Company, trustee
of the Savings Bank, and a director of the Mt.
AVoUaston National Bank, and is now presi
dent of that bank. He was also director of
the Hingham Cordage Company. He has
been justice of the peace for Norfolk county
for many years. Pie was for a number of
years superintendent of the Lhiitarian Sunday
school of Quincy.
Air. Howland married first, Abbie P., daugh
ter of Israel AV. Alunroe, of Quincy; she died
t866. He married second, 1871, Helen Alaria,
born January 24. 1844, daughter of Rev.
Josiah and Alaria F. (Doane) Aloore. Rev.
Josiah Aloore, a minister of the Lhiitarian
church at Duxburv for forty-two years, was
born November 2;^ 1800; he married, July 10,
1839, Maria Foster Doane, born November
26, 1814, in Cohasset, a daughter of Elisha
Doane, a native of AA''ellfleet, who lived in
Cohasset and married Jane Cutter, of Boston.
Rev. Josiah Moore was the father of the fol
lowing children; i. Jaraes Henry, born 1840.
2. John Greenough. 1842. 3. Helen Maria,
1844; wife of Mr. Howland. 4. Williara
Sturtevant, 1846. 5. Josiah, 1848. 6. Emily
Hewes, 1851. 7. Mary Elizabeth, 1854. Rev.
Josiah Moore was a son of Henry and Mary
Aloore, who were the parents of the following
children: Henry, Nelson, Emery, Ploratio,
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1863

and Josiah. Air. and Airs. Howland have two
children; i. Alabel, born January 27, 1872,
in Quincy; married, June 22, 1896, Captain
Francis Henry Lister, engineer comraander
in the British navy, perforraing special work
in the admiralty. Their children are : i. Olive
Howland, born January 20, 1898; ii. Francis
Allen, born June 8, 1902 ; iii. Helen Roy, born
April 15, 1907. 2. Charles Allen, Jr., born
August 13, 1877. Air. ITowland died Octo
ber I, 1908. (I) John Redman, immigrant
REDMAN ancestor, came to Plampton,
New Hampshire, about 1642,
and settled as a blacksmith in the eastern part
of the town. He died February 16, 1700,
about eighty-five years old. He raarried first,
Margaret  , died May 30, 1658; second,
July 23, 1673,. Sabina, widow of Captain Mars-
ton. Children, all by first wife ; i. John, born
1647 '¦ mentioned below. 2. Mary, Deceraber
15, 1649. 3- Joseph, April 20, 1651. 4. Sam
uel, April 12, 1658.
(II) John Redman, son of John Redman
( I ) , was born probably in Hampton, in 1647.
He married, March 27, 1667, Martha, daugh
ter of John Cass. He served as representative
to the general court for five years from 1722.
Children: i. Maria, born November 12, 1669.
2. John, October 7, 1672 ; mentioned below. 3.
Alartha, December 23, 1674. 4. Joseph, De
cember 28, 1678; died April 23, 1679. 5.
Abiel, May 17, 1681 ; raarried August 7, 1700,
Jaraes Gordon. 6. Alary, June 3, 1686; raar
ried Janies Moulton.
(HI) John Redman, son of John Redman
(2), was born in Hampton, October 7, 1672,
and died February 9, 1718. He married, No
vember 12, 1696, Joanna Bickford, who mar
ried second, Daniel Healey. Children: i.
Joseph, mentioned below. 2. John, Alarch 20,
1701. 3. Alartha, baptized March 8, 1712;
died February 14, 1775 ; married Joseph John
son. 4. Anna, baptized March 8, 1712.
(IV) Joseph Redman, son of John Redman
(3), was born November 6, 1697. He mar
ried May II, 1727, Hannah Rawlings (Rol
lins), who died Alay 4, 1758. Children: i.
Hannah, born February i, 1728 ; died March
I, 1813; married first, Nathan Godfrey; sec
ond  Howell. 2. John, mentioned below.
3. Joseph, November 7, 1731 ; died October
17' 1757- 4- Patience, born December i, 1733;
married January 27, 1754, Benjamin Newman,
of Newbury. 5. Tristram, born November 12,
1735- 6. Jonathan (twin), born August 3,

1740; drowned May 26, 1748. 9. David
(twin), born August 3, 1740.
(V) John Redman, son of Joseph Redman
(4), was born at Hampton, New Plampshire,
March 20, 1701. He married Sarah, daugh
ter of John Godfrey, and removed to Notting
ham, New Plampshire, sometirae after 1740.
Children, (dates of baptism) : i. Benjarain,
December 29, 1729. 2. Sarah, June 7, 1730.
3. Joanna, August 27, 1732. 4. John, men
tioned below.
(VI) John Redman, son of John Redman
(5), was baptized in Hampton, .June 15, 1740,
and died in Castine, Alaine, August 11, 1774.
Pie reraoved with his parents to Nottingham,
New Hampshire, after 1740, and thence to
Scarborough, Alaine, and about 1770 to Cas
tine, Maine. He settled there in the part later
set off as the town of Brooksville. He mar
ried Sarah Blake (?). Children; i. Moses,
born April 8, 1763, died January 4, 1764. 2.
John, born February 14, 1765. 3. Israel, bap
tized at Scarborough, Maine, February 16,
1767. 4. Benjamin, mentioned below. 5. Eph
raim. November 10, 1770. 6. Sarah, Novem
ber I, 1772. 7. Frances, November 17, 1774.
(A'll) Benjamin Redman, son of John
Redman (6), was born in Nottingham, New
Hampshire, November 24, 1768. He married
Alary Byard, born November 30, 1768, died
Alay 18, 1807.
(ATII) Robert Redman, son of Benjamin
Redman (7), was born at Castine, Alaine,
July 16, 1805, died February 18, 1880. Pie
raarried Sarah Sraith Merrithew, born April
14, 1811,'died December 24, 1885. ChUdren:
I. Abbie D., born April 22, 1834. 2. Benja
min R., March 14, 1836, mentioned below.
3. Nancy Jane, Noveraber 11, 1837, deceased.
4. Alary Ann, July 3, 1839. 5. Sarah E., Octo
ber II, 1840, deceased. 6. Angeline, Septem
ber 10, 1843, deceased. 7. Robert M., bom
Aprl 16, 1845, deceased. 8. Caroline J., born
February 16, 1847. 9- Clara P., born Alarch
25, 1849. 10. Varnum Rose, born September
15, 1851, died October 2, 1880, lost at sea. 11.
Addie A., born April 15, 1854,
(IX) Benjarain R. Redraan, son of Robert
Redman (8), was born March 14,-1836, died
December 13, 1905. At an early age he
evinced a desire to follow the sea. His par
ents objected so that he complied with their
wishes and helped his father on the farm until
he was about twenty, at which time they gave
their consent. After making a few trips he
was appointed captain, in which capacity he
was very successful, making some of the fast-

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est voyages on record, one of which was cross
ing the Atlantic in eleven days in a sailing
vessel. In 1863, his vessel, the brig "Williara
C. Clark," was captured by the privateer
"Florida" and burned, he and the crew being
landed in Bermuda. At the age of forty-two
he retired. Captain Redman, who was in
every sense of the word a truly selfmade man,
was a Unitarian in religion, a Republican in
politics, and a Alason in fraternal matters.
He raarried first, Ethelinda Chestina, daughter
of Andrew P. and Philena (Parker) Gilkey
(see Parker family) ; she died February 25,
1878. He married second, Harriet Josephine,
born Alay 2, 1845, daughter of the Rev. James
and Roxanna (Hazelton) Adams. Children
of first wife; i. Elnora Adele, born October
18, 1862; married Charles E. Williams, born
January 14, 1854, raaster mariner, son of Cap
tain Emory and Charlotte Williams ; children ;
i. Benjamin Franklin, born .April 29, 1882; ii.
Chestina Redman, March 30, 1884; iii. Leslie
Redman, June 2, 1886. 2. Walter Plerman, born
September 22, 1864; married Emma A^ioletta
Piatt, of Bridgeport, Connecticut ; children :
i. June, born June 24, 1892, died July 24, 1894;
ii. Benjamin Ray, February 21, 1896; iii.
Edythe, October 10, 1900. AValter Herman
went to New York when a young man, and
at the present time (1908) is the leading senior
member of one of the largest wholesale lum
ber concerns in the metropolis. 3. Emerson,
born June 11, 1866, died December 11, 1869.
4. Ralph AA'inchester, born June 15, 1868;
mentioned below. 5. Infant daughter, born
June 4, 1873, died Septeraber 19, 1873. 6.
Blessie Chestina, born March 2, 1876, died
AprU 8, 1879. Children of second wife: 7.
Jaraes Adams, born January 18, 1888. 8.
AVilliam Wason, born Alarch 22, 1890.
(X) Ralph AAlnchester Redman, son of
Benjamin R. Redman (9), was born June 15,
1868, at North Isleborough, Maine. He
received his education in the public schools,
and in his boyhood accompanied his father in
several sea voyages. In 1888 he went to Cali
fornia and was engaged in the real estate busi
ness for a year, and he also traveled exten
sively in the west. Pie returned east and for
one year was engaged in the lumber business
in New A'ork. He then reraoved to Dedhara,
Alassachusetts, and established himself in the
coal, ice and grain business in that town, con
tinuing the sarae to the present time and
achieving therein a raoderate raeasure of suc
cess. He stands araong the forenio.st raer
chants of the community, and enjoys the con

fidence and esteera of all who know hira. He
is a Unitarian in religion, a Republican in poli
tics, and a member of the Masonic and Odd
Fellow lodges. He married, July 2, 1895,
Grace Derby, born July 19, 1868, daughter of
Chase and Lucinda (TirreU) Parker. Chase
Parker was born July 11, 1825, died Decem
ber II, 1890, son of Chase and Betsey (Foss)
Parker, of Lewiston, Maine, grandson of
Abrahara Parker, and great-grandson of Chase
Parker, probably of Buxton, Maine. Chase
Parker, Sr., was born August 20, 1792, and
died in 1866. His wife, Betsey (Foss) Parker,
was born in 1799, died Septeraber 4, 1867, a
daughter of Major Foss, soldier of the revo
lution and war of 1812, who resided in Lim-
ington, Maine. Lucinda (Tirrell) Parker,
wife of Chase Parker, Jr., was born May 20,
1828, daughter of Jared and Lucinda Tirrell,
the former a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Derby) TirreU. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph W. Redraan, born in Dedhara ; i. Ches
tina Josephine, January 23, 1898. 2. Grace
Parker, twin of Chestina Josephine.

The surnarae Parker is derived
PARKER from the Latin parcarius — park
keeper, or shepherd. Danes,
Saxons and Normans in England all seems to
have had the name in use as a surnarae at an
early date. Parcura and de Parco are found
in Doraesday Book. As early as the years
900-925 in the reign of Edward I, a Geoffrey
Parker is mentioned, even before the coramon
use of surnames in England. At first the pre
fix Le (the) was common, and it is altogether
likely that raany Parker farailies had their
origin like other families named for occupa
tions in many different lines, distinct and unre
lated. The coat-of-arms of the Brownsholrae
family of Parker, the pedigree of which is
traced to William Le Parker, of Eztwistle,
Lancashire, before 1400, and which seems
most likely that to which the American line
here given belongs, is; Vert, a chevron
between three stags heads cabossed or. Crest;
A leopard head affrontee erased or ducally
gorged gules. Motto — "Sepre ande" (dare
tobe just). This coat-of-arms has descended
through the Park Plall and Staffordshire lines
and is now used by Sir Thomas Parker, Earl
of Alacclesfield, England. It is similar to the
earlier coat-of-arms of the Parker faraily of
Eztwistle and doubtless modified from that
design. (I) Janies Parker, iraraigrant ancestor,
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settled in AVoburn, Massachusetts, and he was
a taxpayer there as early as 1645. He was
probably related to some of the numerous
other pioners of the name located in that sec
tion of the Bay colony. Abraham Parker, of
Woburn and Chelmsford, and John of Bille
rica and Woburn, were doubtless brothers.
James Parker removed to Billerica about 1654,
to Chelmsford in 1658, and to Groton in 1660.
The town of Groton was divided into "acre
rights," each of which entitled the owner to
nearly fifty acres of the common lands when
divided. Parker owned rights and further
increased his holdings by purchase until he
was the largest owner of land and probably
the richest proprietor of Groton. He became
prominent in both town and church. He was
deacon of the church, and was selectman of
the town from 1662 to 1699. He was town
clerk for a tirae ; raoderator of all the important
town meetings of his day ; chairraan of iraport
ant committees to locate highways, lay out
lots to proprietors and establish town bounds.
He was representative to the general court in
1693. While Hving in Groton he was once
elected selectman of Dunstable. He was a
brave and sturdy Indian fighter, rising through
the various ranks to captaiii of the Groton
corapany. His horae was at a distance frora
the present viUage, near Alartin's pond,
reraoved some distance frora the highways,
shaded and secluded, and no trace of it is left.
A description of his homestead given in a
recent publication doubtless belongs to a later
generation of the family. A small part of the
original estate was recently and perhaps is
still owned by descendants in Groton. He
owned a large part of the Half Moon Meadow.
He died in 1701, aged eighty-three years. He
married. May 1644, Elizabeth Long, daughter
of Robert Long, of Charlestown, Massachu
setts. He married second, Eunice  .
Children; i. Elizabeth, born April 12, 1645,
at Woburn. 2. Anna, January 5, 1646-47. 3.
John, January 18, 1648, died young. 4. John,
"February 28, 1649. 5- Sarah, August 29, 1650,
died October 15, 165 1. 6. Joseph, AVoburn,
1651. 7. James, AprU 15, 1652; married
Mary Parker; he was a grantee of Billerica
and was killed there by the Indians, July 27,
1694. 8. Josiah, 1655; married EHzabeth
Saxon, of Boston. 9. Samuel, mentioned
below. 10. Joshua, March 3, 1658, at Chelms
ford; married Abigail Shattuck. 11. Zacha
riah, January 14, 1659, at Chelmsford. 12.
Eleazer, Noveraber 9, 1660, at Groton. Thirty
years after the birth of Eleazer the youngest

of the family, Sarah, was born Deceraber 12,
1697, by the second wife, as shown by the will
and town records. His will is published in
full in Butler's History of Groton.
(II) Samuel Parker, son of Captain James
Parker (i), was born in Billerica about 1657.
He married Abigail Lakin, at Groton, daugh
ter of Sergeant John and Alary Lakin, of
Groton. Her father and his brother. Lieuten
ant William Lakin, settled in Groton with their
grandfather, William Lakin, who died Decem
ber 10, 1672, aged ninety years, at Groton.
Children, born at Groton; i. James, born
April 28, 1686; raarried Abigail Prescott. 2.
Robert, April 2, 1688. 3. Sarauel ; raarried
Deborah Prescott. 4. John, raentioned below.
5. Abigail, August 22, 1696; raarried Thoraas
Tarbell. 6. Jonathan, raarried Sarah  ,
and both died September 23, 1723. 7. Rachel.
8. 'Eunice, March 11, 1705; married, January
12, 1730, Josiah Boyden.
(Ill) John Parker, son of Sarauel Parker
(2), was bom at Groton, in 1694. He married
in that town, May 22, 1719, Joanna Ames.
Children, born in Groton; i. John, Decem
ber 12, 1 7 19. 2. Robert, January 20, 1720.
3. Jerusha, June 20, 1725. 4. Sarah, June 8,
1727. 5. Beulah, October 10, 1729. 6. Jona
than, December i, 1732 (twin). 7. Relief
(twin), December i, 1732. 8. Deborah* June
4, 1736. 9. Oliver, mentioned below.
(IV) Oliver Parker, son of John Parker
(3), was born February 23, 1738, at Groton.
He raarried there, August 7, 1759, Jane Nutt
ing. He was a soldier in the revolution, first
lieutenant in Captain Asa Lawrence's com
pany of minute-men, April 19, 1775, and was
probably in the battle of Bunker Hill with
Captain Prescott's company as an order for
new cartridge boxes at Cambridge the day
after is endorsed "Prescott." Children, born
at Groton; i. Oliver, Jr., 1760; soldier in the
revolution. 2. William, November 24, 1761.
3. Stephen, February 14, 1763. 4. Mighill,
Febsuary 27, 1765 ; settled in Isleborough,
Alaine. 5. Plenry, Noveraber 19, 1766, died
November 21, 1766. 6. Simon, August 21,
1767 ; settled in Isleborough. 7. Jane, March
7, 1769, died March 17, 1769. 8. Ezekiel, June
20, 1770. 9. Jonathan, September 28, 1772;
mentioned below. 10. Sarah, February 20,
1775. II. David (twin), December 2, 1779.
12. Hobart (twin), December 2, 1779.
(V) Deacon Jonathan Parker, son of
Oliver Parker (4), was born in Groton, Mass
achusetts, September 28, 1772, died April 5,
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ter of Jonathan Holbrook; second, AA^ealthy
Dodge, who married first his brother Ezekiel
Parker, and third, Zenas Lawry. He settled
at Isleborough, Maine, with his brothers Eze
kiel, Simon and Mighill, and perhaps others
of the family. Children, born at Isleborough :
I. Jonathan, May 25, 1796, died June 10, 1723;
married, May 31, 1818, Alargaret Jones; their
daughter Deborah, born March 14, 1823, mar
ried, Deceraber 16, 1848, Williara F. Veazie.
2. Silas, May 30, 1799; raarried, 1821, Sibyl
Drinkwater ; reraoved to Boston. 3. Lucy,
August II, 1801 ; married Joseph Skinner. 4.
Jane, December 5, 1803 ; blind frora birth ;
died unmarried, January 23, 1768. 5. Philena,
April I, 1806; mentioned below. 6. Louisa
C, September 22, 1808; died young or raar
ried, December 5, 1841, Ferdinand Skinner,
of Searsmont (reports differ). 7. Ellison,
November 30, 1810. 8. Thomas H., April 26,
1813; married Emeline Coombs. 9. AVilliam
Avery, July I, 1815; married Caroline Veazie.
10. Sabrina, Alay 22, 1818; married James
AA^arren. (VI) Philena, born April i, 1806, daughter
of Deacon Jonathan Parker (5) ; married first,
Jordan Veazie and second, Andrew P. Gilkey.
The daughter of Andrew P. and Philena
(Parker) Gilkey was Ethelinda Chestina, born
Alay "15, 1845; married Captain Benjarain
R. Redman (9). (See sketch of the Redman
family). The surnarae Balkam or Bal-
BALKAM com is of ancient English
origin. The spelling in vari
ous branches of the family differs widely, the
numerous possibilities of the phonetic spelling
of the ancient clerk and recorder being fully
realized. ¦ ¦ -^1
(I) Alexander Balkam, immigrant ances
tor, settled at Portsmouth and Providence,
Rhode Island, and became a leading citizen of
his day. He was in Portsmouth as early as
January 31, 1664, and was probably bonn as
early as 1635. He was a mason by trade. He
was deputy to the general assembly in 1683
from Providence. He bought a tract of land
twelve railes north of Providence, July 14,
1686, of Nathan Payne. He died May 4,
1711, and his will was proved July 18, 1711.
His estate was settled by his widow Jane and
son John, executors. Piis will mentions his
children by name. He married Jane, daughter
of AVilliam and Elizabeth Holbrook. Chil
dren; I. Alexander, mentioned below. 2.
Catherine, married Daniel Jenckes, born April

19, 1663, son of Joseph and EHzabeth Jenckes.
3. Sarah, raarried Timothy Sheldon, son of
John ; four children. 4. John, married Sarah
Bartlett, born 1678, died January 30, 1739;
-resided at Providence and Smithfield, Rhode
Island, and kept a tavern ; naraes various rela
tives in his will. 5. Freegift, was insane at
time of Joseph's death. 6. Joseph, bom in
Portsmouth, about 1660; reraoved to Men
don, Alassachusetts, later to Douglas ; raarried
Phebe  . 7. Hannah, raarried, February
22, 1716, Ebenezer Hayward; four children.
8. Samuel. 9. Deborah. 10. Lydia, married,
April 14, 1701, Daniel Hix, born 1660; died
Alarch 21, 1746; five children.
(II) Alexander Balkam, son of Alexandei
Balkam (i), born about 1660, died at Attle
borough, January 31, 1727-8. He settled in
Attleborough before 1692. He took the oath
of allegiance to the English crown in 1682.
He was a mason by trade. He married Sarah
AA^oodcock, daughter of Williara. He bought
of his father-in-law twenty acres of land May
29, 1 70 1, and another parcel of twenty acres
February 17, 1 707-8, of his raother-in-law.
Alary AA^^oodcock, and other heirs of AVilliara
AVoodcock. Children, born at Attleborough;
I. Williara, born Septernber 3, 1692; married
Alary Tyler. 2. Katherine, born February 7,
1694; married, February 2, 1717-8, Andrew
Starkey. 3. Alexander, born April 4, 1696.
4. John, born April 29, 1699. 5. Baruck, born
June 12, 1702 ; married Patience Blake. 6.
Sarah, born February 8, 1703-4; married
Richard Atwell. 7. Joseph, born February
23, 1705-6; married Mary Parmenter.
(Ill) John Balkam, son of Alexander Bal
kam (2), born at Attleborough, April 29, 1699;
married Mary Grover, died January 4, 1732;
married second, May 29, 1732, Sarah Grover.
Children of first wife, born at Attleborough;
I. John, born July 27, 1720, baptized at Nor
ton ; married at Attleborough, Bathsheba Dag
gett : she raarried second, February 27, 1747,
Henry Sweet. 2. Mary, born December 14,
1722, published April 20, 1751, to John Fisher.
3. Abigail, born June 23, 1726; married. May
18, 1749, Ebenezer Shaw. 4. Jacob, born Sep
tember 29, 1728. Children of second wife;
5. Samuel, born August 31, 1734; mentioned
below. 6. Bathsheba, born February 18,
1735-6; married (intentions dated February
13, 1762) Daniel Tiffany. 7. Hester, born
August 16, 1737. 8. Daniel, born March 4,
1739. 9. Zilpah, bom February 21, 1741-2;
married (intentions dated August 6, 1763)
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ber, 1643 ; published January 30, 1772, to John
Wetherell. 11. Hannah, born June i, 1746;
married, June i, 1771, Thoraas Norton. 12.
Luce, born Alay 8, 1748; married (intentions
dated February 16, 1776) Benjamin Grover,
of Mansfield, Connecticut.
(IV) Samuel Balkam, son of John Balkam
(3), born in Attleborough, August 31, 1734;
married Sarah Richardson (intentions dated
December 23, 1769). He removed to Planta
tion No. 5, in Alaine, and was a soldier there
in the revolution, a private in Captain Nathan
Watkins's company, Colonel John Patterson's
regiment, August, 1775; he was of this same
company and regiraent November of same
year, residence then Gageborough or Part-
ridgefield, Maine. (See p. 532, vol. i, "Mass.
Sailors and Soldiers of the Revolution," and
p. 243, vol. ii, same work). Children, born in
Attleborough ; i . John, born Noveraber 25,
1770; raentioned below. 2. Sarah, born May
16, 1772. 3. Samuel, born June 9, 1774. Per
haps others after removing to Alaine.
(A'") General John Balkam, son of Samuel
Balkam (4), was born in Attleborough, Mass
achusetts, November 25, 1770. Pie probably
changed the form of the family name from
Balcombe to Balkam. He reraoved with wife
and four children from Plantation 5 to Planta
tion 4, Washington county, Maine, now the
town of Robbinston. He built a fine residence
at Robbinston and for many years after his
death it was occupied by his family and their
descendants. It was later destroyed by fire.
General Balkam was one of the foremost citi
zens of the county, was well-to-do, and owned
the first piano-forte in the town. The story
of the delight of the children of the town at
hearing Mrs. Balkam's playing is still told.
General Balkam was a leading member and
deacon for many years of the Orthodox Con
gregational church. He served in the state
legislature, and was elected to the governor's
council. He was active from his youth in the
state militia, rose to the command of his regi
raent, and was finally commissioned brigadier-
general of the state militia, and was one of the
most popular and efficient of officers. His
two sons were also deacons of the church sub
sequently, and another was a minister. The
general was a staunch Democrat in politics.
He married, April 23, 1795, Abigail Smith,
born June 29, 1771, at Norton, Massachusetts,
and died at Robbinston, October 4, 1822. He
married second, Mary McLelland, of Port
land, and she died November 9, 1866, aged
seventy-eight, at Milltown, New Brunswick.

He died at Robbinston, September 20, 1832.
Children ; i. Abigail G., born at Norton, April
10, 1796; married Bryant P. Stephenson; she
died June 10, 185 1; children; Abigail, John,
Benjamin T., Reuben M., George, Charles and
Howard. 2. Deacon John Adams, born Janu
ary 3, 1798, at Norton; married Mary Brewer;
died Alarch i, 1863; she died February 5,
1884, aged eighty; children; Hannah and
Charlotte. 3. George AA^, born January 17,
1800, in Alilton, Alassachusetts; died Novem
ber 3. 1812. 4. Laban S., born at Robbinston,
Maine, December 22, 1802, died February,
1875; married Almira Durkee; teacher and
merchant; resided at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
5. Gilbert, born at Robbinston, October 4, 1804;
married Susan O. Brewer, widow of AVilliam
Brewer; died April 8, 1883. 6. Deacon Cyrus,
born August 4, 1806; died Deceraber 7, 1886;
raarried, at Calais, Septeraber 8, 1835, Adeline
T. Denning; she died Alarch 8, 1883; he was
a tanner by trade; deacon of the Congrega
tional church, and superintendent of its Sun
day school ; selectman and assessor, town clerk
and postmaster; inspector of United States
customs ; children ; i. Mary, born January 14,
1837; married Deacon Rufus Gates* of Rob
binston, February 12, 1867, and had Helen
Gates, born October 28, 1863; ii. Adeline D.,
born April 16, 1838, married Henry Brewer;
iii. George H., October 29, 1839; iv. Ellen S.,
born April 24, 1842 ; v. Cornelia, born August
24, 1846; vi. Lucia, born Noveraber 18, 1847;
vii. AA'illiam D., born July 20, 1851 ; viii. Char
lotte AA'-, born October 20, 1852 ; ix. Esther
D., born October 23, 1857. 7. Alary, born
April 10, 1808 ; died March 6, 1837. 8. James
Madison, born March 13, 1810, died February
25, 1863 ; married Harriet Palmer, daughter
of a Robbinston; he was representative to the
.general court in 1850. 9. Rev. Uriah, born
March 2, 1812; killed by a fall from his horse
March 4, 1874; pastor of Congregational
church, of Lewiston; and college professor ;
raarried Ellen  . Children of second
wife, all born in Robbinston; 10. Frederick
G., born January 22, 1825, died April, 1857;
raarried Susan M. Brewer, daughter of
Thomas. 11. Edward H., born January 11,
1827 ; married Lenora, daughter of George
Harris ; resided at Milltown, New Brunswick.
12. Jane, born June 25, 1828, died November,
1866. 13. Horatio B., born December 10,
1829, died November 3, 1832. 14. EHzabeth
G., born December 15, 1831, died December,
1854. (A-^I) Gilbert Balkam, son of General John

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Balkam (5), born in Robbinston, Maine, Octo
ber 4, 1804, died April 8, 1883, at Jamaica
Plain, Massachusetts. He married Susan
(Dutch) Brewer, widow of William Brewer.
She was born in Lubec, Maine. Children: i.
Stephen Brewer, born October 4, 1842; raen
tioned below. 2. Henry Gilbert, married first,
Cora Boynton; second Annie  ; chil
dren ; i. Lloyd G. ; ii. Herbert. 3. Charles
Herbert, died young. 4. William Frederick,
raarried first, Eraraa MiUs, of Boston; raar
ried second, Jennie Van Zandt ; children ; i.
Charles, by the first wife; ii. Mary, by second
wife ; both deceased. 5. Sewall Druraraond,
married Annie Vose, of Robbinston, Maine ;
children ; i. Arthur ; ii. John ; iii. Frank ; iv.
Ruth. 6. Mary Lee, unraarried. 7. Hannah
Abigail, died Deceraber, 1907 ; unmarried.
(VII) Stephen Brewer Balkam, son of Gil
bert Balkam (6), was born in Robbinston,
Maine, October 4, 1842, and died in Hyde
Park, Massachusetts, February 23, 1901. He
married Alice B. Crandon, of Colurabia Falls,
Alaine, born May 11, 1845, daughter of Joseph
and Alice Bentley (Frankland) Crandon.
The following memoir of Mr. Balkara is
taken fr«m the "Hyde Park Historical Rec
ord," (vol. iii, April, 1903, written by the edi
tor, Williara A. Mowry) ; "By the deraise of
Stephen B. Balkara, Hyde Park lost one of its
most honored citizens, and the Historical
Society one of its most useful members. Mr.
Balkam was a native of Maine, that state
which has furnished to the old Bay state and
to the nation so many raen of high character
and great deeds. His birthplace was Robbins
ton, a town in AVashington county, at the very
southeastern corner of the Dirigo State. He
was born October 4, 1842. He died at his
home in Hyde Park, on Saturday, February
23, 1901. He had passed a busy and success7
ful life. At the early age of seventeen he
¦entered the eraploy of George Harris & Com
pany, of Columbia Falls, where he remained
about two years. He came to Boston in 1861
and accepted a position with William Pope
& Sons, lumber raerchants. On May nth,
1868, he raarried AHce B. Crandon, of .Colum
bia Falls, Maine, and established his home in
Jamaica Plain. In 1874 he coraraenced busi
ness in Hyde Park, raanaging it for the old
firm, but three years later he bought out the
entire plant and stock and began business in
his own name. In 1882 the firm became S. B.
Balkam & Company. He raoved his faraily
frora Jamaica Plain to Hyde Park in 1874,
and from that time till his death, for more

than a quarter of a century, he was one of the
foremost men of Hyde Park, trusted and hon
ored by everybody. He was a pubHc-spirited
citizen, alive to every interest of the town.
He was a member of the board of selectmen
for eight years between 1879 and 1893, and
was chairman of the board two years. As a
public official he was conscientious, courteous
and dignified ; as a private citizen simple and
unassuraing and in all relations he coramanded
in a raarked degree, the respect, confidence
arid esteera of his fellow citizens. He was a
man of good practical judgment, what Dr.
Johnson called large, round-about common
sense. For more than twenty-five years he
was at the head of a large business in coal and
lumber, always honest and always successful.
He was a devoted husband, a kind and affec
tionate father, a good neighbor, and upright
citizen and a genial Christian gentleman. Mr.
Balkara was an honored and faithful raember
of the Congregational Church. He served the
church as a teacher in the Sunday school, a
deacon and a meraber of its prudential com
raittee. At the memorial service held after
his death it was said ; 'Nor did he confine the
manifestations of his Christian life to this
church, nor circumscribe it within the liraits
of these walls. He carried the principles for
which the church stands into all his daily life
and associations. Whether in business or pub
lic relations or the realm of personal friend
ship, the same characteristics of a loyal Chris
tain manhood stood pre-eminent. The path of
right once presenting itself to hira, he never
swerved to the right or the left therefrom.'
He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity,
a Knight Templar, a vice-president of the
Hyde Park Historical Society, and officer in
the Hyde Park Savings Bank and in the Hyde
Park Co-operative Bank. He was a lover of
good rausic, and his happiest moments were
spent at his horae with his family indulging
his fine musical taste, assisting in the singing
or accompanying on the cello. Such in brief,
was the character of Mr. Balkam. If 'an hon
est man' be 'the noblest work of God' surely
we cannot fail to speak well of him and we
ought to cherish his meraory as that of a
marked man, an upright character, a model
for all to imitate."
Joseph Crandon, father of Mrs. Stephen
B. Balkam, was born at Fairhaven, Massachu
setts, July 21, 1802, and died August 21, 1883,
son of Philip Crandon. He was raarried
first to Ruth Ruggles, January, 1829. She
died October 20, 1839, and he married second.

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1869

November 3, 1842, Alice Bentley Frankland,
born at St. Andrews, December 5, 1808. Chil
dren of Joseph and Ruth Crandon; i. Emily
Crandon, born April 29, 1830, died November
18, 1839; ii. James Crandon, born October 10,
1831, died November 6, 1831 ; iii. George R.
Crandon, born August 28, 1832, died about
1899 ; iv. Lorenzo Crandon, born December 19,
1833, died January 14, 1834; v. John H. Cran
don, born Alarch 27, 1835; vi. Stephen R.
Crandon, born September 9, 1836, died about
1906; vii. Henry Augustus Crandon, born
May 23, 1838. Children of second wife ; viii.
Joseph Crandon, Jr., born December 5, 1843,
died January 20, 1908 ; ix. AHce B. Crandon,
born Alay it, 1845, at Columbia Falls, married
Stephen B. Balkara, raentioned above ; x. Ruth
Ann Crandon, born November ii, 1846, died
June 8, 1905. (See Crandon).
Children of Stephen Brewer and .Alice B.
(Crandon) Balkam: i. Elizabeth Gertrude,
born March 3, 1869-; married, September,
1893, William Flett; children; i. Ahce Ger
trude Flett, born December 8, 1891 : ii. Helen
Hendry Flett, born May 22, 1895. 2. Charles
Herbert, born November 24, 1870, at Jaraaica
Plain; married, September 11, 1901, Gertrude
Robbins, of Charlestown ; children ; i. Ruth
Howland, born June 21, .1902, died July 6,
1903 ; ii. Howland Hunnewell, born January
7, 1904, died January 25, 1908; iii. Hilda
Estelle, born August 6, 1906. 3. Alice Cran
don, born May 22, 1874; married, 1903, Rob
ert T. Plathaway, of Hyde Park ; had one
daughter, Priscilla Hathaway, born March 23,
1906, died March 29, 1906. 4. Ralph Wilson,
born Noveraber 11, 1875; married, December
29, 1901, Gertrude Savage, of Hyde Park. 5.
Gilbert, born January 3, 1877, at Hyde Park;
married Gertrude Mitchell ; one son, Stephen,
born March 13, 1907. 6. Helen, born Octo
ber 20, 1878; raarried. May i, 1905, Leonard
Barney; one son, AVendall Robinson, born
January 6, 1908. 7. Marion May, born Sep
teraber 2, 1885, died August 6, 1893.

(I) John Crandon, immi-
CRANDON grant ancestor, was born in
Topsham, Devonshire, Eng
land, in 1697, and died in Dartmouth, Massa
chusetts, April I, 1773. He came to this coun
try in 1718, and lived at Boston and Dart
mouth, Massachusetts. He married in Bos
ton, November 20, 1718, Jean Best, born in
Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1694,
daughter of George and Alargaret (Hender
son) Best. She came to America in 1718 with

her parents, and became acquainted with her
husband in Boston, where they were married
by Rev. John Cotton Mather. She died No
vember 18, 1767. Both were buried in the
old ground at Acushnet, Massachusetts. Chil
dren, born at Dartmouth and Plyraouth; i.
Jean, 1722. 2. John, 1726, died in the West
Indies. 3. James, raarried, 1749, Sarah De
lano. 4. Sarah, married John AVitherell. 5.
Thomas, mentioned below. 6. Grace, born
1724; married John Carver.
(II) Thomas Crandon, son of John Cran
don (i), was born December 15, 1728. He
married, in Plymouth, June 20, 1751, Ruth
Howland, daughter of Consider and Ruth
(Bryant) Howland. Consider Plowland was
descended from John Howland, one of- the
Pilgrims. His lineage ; Consider (4), Thomas
(3), Joseph (2), John (i). Crandon died at
Dartmouth, January 9, 1821. He was captain
of a coast defense company in the revolu
tion, and a prominent citizen of Dartmouth.
Children, born in Dartmouth; i. Thomas,
born June 6, 1752; died January 20, 1753. 2.
Joan, born October 20, 1753, died December
24, 1770. 3. James, born August 5, 1775;
died August 1841. 4. Thomas, born August
12, 1757; killed by the British, in the revolu
tionary war. 5. Ruth, born April 22, 1760;
died May 7, 1792. 6. John, born April 14,
1763, died January, 1841. 7. Benjamin, born
October 22, 1765, died September 29, 1841.
8. Philip, born January 21, 1769; mentioned
below. 9. Joseph, born June 11, 1771, died
1799. (Ill) Philip Crandon, son of Thomas Cran
don (2), was born in Dartmouth, Massachu
setts, January 21, 1769, and died there January
26, 1846. He married, in 1793, Esther, daugh
ter of Benjamin Dillingham. He resided at
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Children : John ;
Consider Howland : Ruth, raarried Lewis
Shaw ; Joseph, raentioned below.
(IV) Joseph Crandon, son of Philip Cran
don (3), was born in Fairhaven, July 21, 1802,
and died August 21, 1883. He raarried first,
January, 1829, Ruth Ruggles, died October
20, 1839, daughter of Thoraas Ruggles; sec
ond, Noveraber 3, 1842, AHce Bentley (Frank-
land) Small, widow of Levi SmaU, born at St.
Andrews, December 5, 1808. Children of Jo
seph and Ruth Crandon ; i. Emily, born April
29, 1830, died November 18, 1839. 2. James,
born October 10, 1831, died November 6,
1831. 3. George R., born August 28, 1832:
died about 1899. 4. Lorenzo, born December
19, 1833, died January 14, 1834. 5. John H.

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born Alarch 27. 1835. 6. Stephen R., born Sep
tember 9, 1836, died about 1906. 7. Henry
Augustus Crandon, born May 23, 1838. Chil
dren of second wife ; 8. Joseph, Jr., born De
cember 5, 1843, died January 20, 1908. 9.
.Alice B., born Alay 11, 1845, at Columbia
Falls; married Stephen B. Balkam (7) (see
sketch). 10. Ruth Ann, born November 11,
1846, died June 8, 1905.

(I) AA^illiam Browne, prob-
BROAVNE ably brother of Rev. Edraund
Browne, was one of the origi
nal proprietors of Sudbury, Massachusetts.
He was deacon of the church, captain, and
deputy to the general court in 1692. He raar
ried, November 15, 1641, Mary Bisbee (Bes-
beech or Bisbidge). ChUdren; i. Mary, born
Alay 18, 1643; married Benjamin Price. 2.
Thonias, born May 22, 1644. 3. William. 4.
Edmund, November 27, 1653. 5. Hopestill,
July 8, 1656; mentioned below. 6. Elizabeth,
July 23, 1657. 7. Susanna.
(II) Hopestill Browne, son of AVilliam
Browne (i), born July 8, 1656, died December
II, 1729. He married, November 26, 1685,
Abigail Haynes, who died April 12, 1737.
Children, born at Sudbury; I. Hopestill, raen
tioned below. 2. Josiah, Noveraber 12, 1693.
(Ill) Hopestill Browne, son of HopestiU
Browne (2), was born August 26, 1691, died
January 2, 1737. He married Dorothy Paris,
died March 24, 1725, widow of "the Reverend
and unhappy Samuel Paris." Children: i.
Sarauel, born October 17, 1719. 2. Plopestill,
mentioned below.
(IV) Lieutenant Hopestill Browne, son of
Hopestill Browne (3), was born at Sudbury,
April 30, 1 72 1. He married, December 30,
1746, Sarah Loring, born September 10, 1724,
daughter of Rev. Israel and Mary (Heyman)
Loring. Children, born at Sudbury ; i. Hope
still, October 27, 1747. 2. John, April 14,
1749, died young. 3. "William, March i, 1751.
4, AbigaU, June 19, 1753. 5. John, AprU 10,
1755; mentioned below. 6. Sarah, September
23, 1760. 7. Caleb, July 16, 1764.
(V) John Browne, son of Lieutenant
Plopestill Browne (4), was born April 10,
1755. He married, July 2, 1783, Alice Howe,
who died April 6, 1834. Pie was a soldier in
the revolution, in Captain Andrew Haskell's
company. Colonel Thomas Alarshall's regi
ment, 1776, and in Captain Jonathan Rice's
conipany. Colonel Sarauel BuUard's regiraent,
which marched to reinforce the northern army
in 1777. ChUdren, born at Sudbury; i.

Nancy, Noveraber 25, 1786. 2. Polly, Decera
ber 26, 1788. 3. Israel Howe, August i, 1791 ;
mentioned below. 4. John, April 3, 1794- 5-
Alice, December 23, 1796. 6. Newel, August
4, 1799. 7. Edward, Septeraber 7, 1802. 8.
Evelina, May 15, 1806.
(VI) Israel Howe Browne, son of John
Browne (5), born at Sudbury, August i,
1791, died August 25, 1879. He raarried,
April 14, 1816, at Maiden, Lucy Bowdoin
Adams, born March 17, 1790, at Hubbardston,
died December 22, 1776, daughter of Reuben
Adams, born 1760, and Azubah (Jones)
Adams (see Adams sketch herewith). Among
their children was Theodore Lyman, raen
tioned below.
(VII) Theodore Lyman Browne, fifth
child of Israel Howe Browne (6), born Au
gust 21, 1822, at Sudbury, died September 4,
1888, at Dedham. He resided in Dedhara, and
was a deacon in the Congregational church
and superintendent of the Sunday school. He
¦was for many years an officer in the Norfolk
county jail and later he engaged in business
in the Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, in which
he continued up to his death. He raarried, at
South Acton, Noveraber 27, 1844, Elizabeth
Fletcher Cole, daughter of George Browning
Cole, who was born January, 1799, died June
21, 1832, and Eliza (Fletcher) Cole, born No
vember 19, 1804, died April 26, 1883, at Ded
ham. Children; i. George Edwin, mentioned
below. 2. Emma Howe, born July 8, 1850;
raarried, June 15, 1877, Dr. Ezra F. Taft. 3.
Frank Fairbanks, born July 8, i860; married
Alay A. Morrell, in Dedham, September 19,
1883; he died June 21, 1899.
fVlII) George Edwin Browne, son of
Theodore L. Browne (7), born at Sudbury,
November 23, 1846, died January 14, 1908.
He removed with his parents to Needham,
then to South Boston, and subsequently in
i860 to Dedhara, where he received his edu
cation in the public and high schools. For
some years he was associated with his father
in his business at Faneuil Plall Market in
Boston. From his youth he had been an inter
ested student of natural history, and at the
death of his father he engaged in the business
pf taxidermy, and in this line achieved consid
erable renown and success. Pie was a skillful
workman, and araong the natural history
exhibits at the AVorld's Fair in Chicago were
some prepared and mounted by him. Mr.
Browne attended the Congregational church at
Dedham. Pie married first, AprU 5, 1871, Emma
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1871

one child, Mabel Frances, who died December
9, 1882. Married second. May 8, 1877, Ida
Florence Thomas, born at Weyraouth, Septem
ber 4, 1845, daughter of Colonel John Warren
Thomas (see Thomas family). They have
one child, Thomas Blanchard, born December
I, 1884, engaged in agricuUural pursuits.
(For first generation see Heury Adams i),
(II) Ensign Edward Adams,
ADAAIS son of Henry Adams (i), born
in England about 1630, died No
vember 12, 1716. He settled in Aledfield,
Massachusetts, where he appears as early as
1650. He was an ensign in the army. During
King Philip's war his house was burned by
the Indians. He was selectman, deputy to the
general court from 1692 to 1702, and commis
sioner to end small causes. He married first,
Lydia Rockwood, who died 1676. He married
second, in 1678, Abigail Day, of Dedham,
who died 1707. He raarried third, in 17 10,
Sarah Taylor. He had fifteen children.
(Ill) John Adams, third child of Ensign
Edward Adams (2), born February 18, 1657,
died March i, 1751. He had a grant of land
on the west side of the Charles river, "near
the new miU," in 1682. He married first, in
1682, Deborah Partridge. He married second,
Susanna Breck, who died in 1744. He had
thirteen children.
(IV) Obadiah Adaras, fifth child of John
(3) and Deborah Adaras, born in Medfield,
January 20, 1689, died Noveraber 22, 1765.
He married, April 24, 1716, Christian San
ford, who died July 21, 1777, daughter of
Deacon Thomas Sanford, of Mendon. He
resided in West Aledway, Massachusetts, and
had ten children.
(V) Nathan Adams, son of Obadiah
Adaras (4), was born December 30, 1723. He
married, Alay 9, 1750, at Medway, Keziah
Thompson, born November 17, 1730, daugh
ter of Eleazer and Hannah (Daniels) Thomp
son. Hannah Daniels was born September
30, 1 701, daughter of Joseph (3) and Rachel
(Partridge) Daniels (born 1669, in Medfield).
Joseph Daniels (3) was born September 23,
1666, in Medfield, son of Joseph (2) and
Mary (Fairbanks) Danieis Alary (Fair
banks) Daniels was daughter of George Fair
banks, son of Jonathan Fairbanks, the immi
grant ancestor of the family in America. Jo
seph Daniels (2) was born 1635, in Water-
town, died June 23, 1715, son of Robert (i)
and Elizabeth Daniels. Robert (i) died July

6, 1655, and was the immigrant ancestor of the
Daniels family.
(VI) Reuben Adaras, son of Nathan
Adams (5), was born in 1760, in Medway;
raarried Azubah Jones.
(VII) Lucy Bowdoin Adaras, daughter of
Reuben Adaras (6), born March 17, 1790,
died Deceraber 22, 1876. She married Israel
Howe Browne. (See Browne family).

(I) Captain John Thomas,
TPIOMAS iraraigrant ancestor of this
branch of the Thonias family
in America, settled in Braintree. The first
mention of him is in the diary of Judge Sewell,
of Boston, under date of January 5, 1694,
which says ; "Had Captain Thomas' com
pany from Thos. AA^alker's to the Lhikles Gate
by accident." Under date of November 26,
1695, he says; "Aladarae Sam'l Bellingham,
Captain Thoraas, Mr. Willard and their wives
etc dined here." He married, sometime before
the latter date, Lydia Whitman, born in 1678.
died 1750, daughter of Deacon Abiah and
Mary (Ford) AVhitman, of Weyraouth. She
was a beautiful woraan, of great piety and
strength of character. He was a wealthy man,
being the second largest taxpayer in the town.
He was a slave owner, and all that he pos
sessed was of the very best quality. His estate
was inventoried at twelve hundred and one
pounds. He died October 4, 1714, and was
buried in the old AVeymouth burying ground.
(II) John Thomas, son bf Captain John
Thomas (i), was born February 27, 1709.
He married, June 30, 1750, Silence Orcutt,
born in Weymouth and died there in 1799,
daughter of Benjarain and Elizabeth (Ran
dall) Orcutt. Her father was son of Will
iam and Martha Orcutt. Her raother was
daughter of John and Mercy Randall. John
Randall was son of Robert and Mary (French)
Randall. Robert Randall was a freeman of
AVeymouth in 1647.
(Ill) John Thomas, son of John Thomas
(2), born in Braintree, June 16, 1751, died
July 9, 1834. He settled in Weymouth. He
was a man of good education, and was a
school teacher. He was known as "Governor"
Thonias. His house was situated in that part
of Weymouth known as "back of the pond."
The house is still or was lately standing and
occupied by his grandson, Alfred Thoraas. He
married, December 4, 1774, Lydia Bayley,
bom August I, 1755, daughter of Deacon Na
thaniel and Tamer (White) Bayley. She sur-

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vived her husband many years. Deacon Na
thaniel Bayley was an ardent patriot in the
revolutionary war; was a representative of
AA'eymouth to the provincial congress at
Watertown; the same in 1775 to the congress
at Concord and at Carabridge; was a soldier
in the revolutionary and French wars. Rev.
James Bayley, father of Deacon Nathaniel
Bayley, was born in Roxbury; graduated at
Harvard College in 1719; taught a school at
Andover for two years at an annual salary of
forty-four pounds ; he was the first minister
in South Weymouth; ordained there Septem
ber 26, 1723; preached forty years until his
death which occurred August 22, 1763. Her
mother. Tamer (White) Bayley, was born at
AA^eymouth, January 19, 1731, died June 20,
1787, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel (4) and
Sarah (Lovell) AVhite, of Weymouth. Dr.
White was an eminent physician of his day ;
was born at AA'^eymouth, Septeraber 4, 1701,
died November 23, 1758; graduate at Harvard
College, 1725; son of Thoraas and Alary
AVhite. Thomas White (3) was born August
19, 1673; married, 1700, Mary White; was
distinguished in civil and military life ; deacon
in the Weyraouth church ; son of Ebenezer
and Hannah (Phillips) White. Ebenezer
AVhite (2) was born at Weyraouth, in 1648,
died August 24, 1703; married Hannah Philips,
born at Boston, November 25, 1654, daughter
of Nicholas and Hannah (Salter) Philips;
son of Thomas AVhite (i), who was adraitted
a freeraan at Weyraouth, March 3, 1635-36,
born 1599 in England and died 1679.
(IV) Captain Andrew Thoraas, son of
John Thomas (3), born Noveraber 10, 1776,
died at South Weymouth, October 12, 1857.
He settled in South Weymouth. He was a
captain in the state militia and was aide on
the staff of his brigade coramander for many
years. He married first, Polly Loud, born at
Weyraouth, November 13, 1781, died April
30, 1833, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Joy)
Loud, of South Weyraouth. Married second,
Deborah Whitraarsh. Alarried, third, Zerviah
(Tower) Ager, widow of John Ager. He
had twelve children, all by his first wife. Jacob
Loud, father of Polly (Loud) Thomas, was
a soldier in the revolution, and was son of
Jacob (3) and Mary (Smith) Loud. Jacob
(3) was son of Francis and Onner (Prince)
Loud. Francis (2) was son of Francis (i)
and Sarah Loud, of Sagadahoc, Maine. Onner
(Prince) Loud, wife of Francis Loud (2),
was born at Hull, in 1701, daughter of Isaac
(2) and Alary (Turner) Prince, of Hull.

Isaac Prince (2) was son of John and Anna
(Honor) Prince. John Prince (i) was born
in England, in 1610, son of Rev. John and
Elizabeth (Tolderburg) Prince, of England;
was a student at Oxford and was expected to
succeed his father as rector of East Shefford
parish in Berkshire ; but he incurred the
enmity of Archbishop Laud because of his
liberal views, and was obliged to flee to New
England in 1633 ; settled in Carabridge, Massa
chusetts, where he was a landholder in 1634;
adraitted a freeman March 4, 1635, and about
that time removed to Hull, where he died Au
gust 16, 1676; was deputy, to the general court
from Hull in 1642; married, 1637, Anna
Honor; married second, 1674, Anna Barstow,
widow of AA'"illiam Barstow; was ruling elder
of the church at Hull for raany years. Mary
(Turner) Prince, wife of Isaac Prince (2),
died in 1738, aged eighty years. She was the
daughter of John and Alary (Brewster)
Turner, of Scituate, who was born at Ley
den, Holland. Mary Brewster was daughter
of Jonathan and Lucretia Brewster ; Jonathan
was born at Scrooby, county Notts ; he came
in the ship "Fortune" in 1621, his father hav
ing preceeded hira to this country; married
Lucretia  . In June, 1636, was in com
mand of the Plymouth trading house on the
Connecticut river and gave the first warning
of the attack of the Pequot Indians; he
removed early from Plymouth to Duxbury,
and was deputy to the general court in 1639-
40-41 and 44; reraoved to New London, Con
necticut, before 1649, where he was selectraan,
and died there before Septeraber, 1659. Jon
athan Brewster was son of Elder WilHam
Brewster, who was born about 1563, at
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, and he was son of
AVilliam Brewster, a favored tenant of the
Archbishop of York. Elder William Brewster
long resided in the house of his father, the
same house at which Cardinal Woolsey made
his last stop before reaching home in his final
journey from court after banishraent by
Henry VIII, thirty years before; after honor
able service with Davison, private secretary to
the Queen, he abandoned political life in 1587
and was the first prorainent layraan to reject
conforraation to the Church of England; was
ruling elder of the church at Scrooby and post-
.raaster there twelve years before 1594; mar
ried first, Mary  ; fled to Holland about
1607, and was ruling elder of the church at
Leyden, Holland, of which Rev. Mr. Robin
son was pastor; came to New England in the
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and his two younger sons, and the faraily of
his son Jonathan; settled in Duxbury and
served the church twenty-three years ; died at
the home of his son Love April 16, 1643 '> 'eft
a library of three hundred volumes, sixty-four
of which were classics.
(V) Colonel John Warren Thomas, son of
Andrew Thomas (4), was born in Weymouth,
April I, 181 5. He received his education in
the public schools of his native town. He
learned the trade of shoemaker and at an early
age began to manufacture boots and shoes,
continuing for several years. Alost of his
life was spent in the public service. He became
interested in politics when a young raan, and
' his zeal and activity as a Democrat soon placed
hira in the foremost ranks of that party. With
many other prorainent Democrats he joined
the coalition with the Free S.oilers, which was
successful in Massachusetts, and he was
elected representative to the general court for
the Weymouth district in 1852 and to the con
stitutional convention of 1853, Colonel
Thomas was commissioned sheriff of Nor
folk county by Governor George S. Boutwell,
but on the return of the Whig party to power
in the following year, he was reraoved from
office for political reasons by Govemor Clif
ford. In 1856, the state law having been changed
so that sheriffs were elected instead of being
appointed. Colonel Thomas received the unani
mous nomination of the Republican (Fre
mont) and American parties for the office of
sheriff, and was elected by a plurality of three
thousand votes and a majority of twenty-five
hundred votes over the Democratic and (FUl-
more) American candidate Edward Potter.
Colonel Thonias again assumed the duties of
the office of sheriff and keeper of the jail and
house of correction, January i, 1857, and soon
afterward removed his residence frora AVey-
raouth to Dedham. He continued in the office
until January i, 1878, being re-elected by large
raajorities at each succeeding triennial election
until, owing to failing health, he declined
further election. His term of service by elec
tion lasted from January i, 1857, until Janu
ary I, 1878, making with the year during
which he held the office by appointment from
1852 to 1853, twenty-two years, the longest
term of service of any sheriff in Norfolk
county, with the exception of Sheriff Crane,
of Canton, who served for a period of twenty-
three years. During the long terra of official
service. Colonel Thoraas administered the
duties of his high office with rare executive
ability and discretion. Selecting his subordi-
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nate officers with care and discrimination, he
conducted the public business with their ener
getic co-operation with the greatest efficiency
and won the approval of other public officers
and all others who had business with the office.
Thoughtful and considerate of the comfort
and well being of the prisoners coraraitted to
his charge, he was able to raaintain thorough
discipline and at the sarae time to gain and
hold their good-will and respect. Beginning
his career as a Democrat, Colonel Thomas
early becanie a raeraber of the Republican
party, of which he continued a firra and con
sistent advocate and supporter to the end of
his life. Although of strong convictions and
unfaltering in the support of his party, he was
neither narrow nor offensive in his partisan
ship and he received the cordial support of
Democrats as well as Republicans.
His title as colonel he won in the military
service of the coraraonwealth, rising through
the various grades in the militia to lieutenant-
colonel of his regiment. His first coraraission,
as ensign, when sixteen years of age, is in the
possession of his daughter, Airs. Browne. It
reads as follows ;
"His Excellency, Levi Lincoln, Governor and
Coraniander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of
Alassachusetts, to John AV. Thonias, of Wey
mouth, Gentleman, Greeting; You have been
elected on the third day of May A. D. 1831
Ensign of a company in the Second Regiment
of Infantry in the First Brigade and First Di
vision of the Militia of the Commonwealth
reposing special trust and confidence in your
ability, courage and good conduct, I do, by
these Presents, Commission you accordingly.
You will, therefore, with honor and fidelity,
discharge the duties of said office, according
to the Laws of this Comraonwealth, and to
Military Rule and Discipline. And all inferior
Officers and Soldiers are hereby commanded
to obey you in your said capacity; and you
will yourself observe and follow such Orders
and Instructions as you shall from time to
tirae receive frora the Commander-in-Chief or
others, your superior officers. Given under
ray hand and the seal of the Coraraonwealth
on the Twenty-sixth day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-one and in the fifty-fifth year of the
Independence of the United States of Amer
ica. By his Excellency the Governor, Edward
D. Bangs, Secretary of the Commonwealth."
Colonel Thoraas was a public-spirited citi
zen, broad in his views and liberal and gener
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said that he was the friend and supporter of
all good enterprises in the community of
which he was for so many years an active and
influential raeraber. He was always an attend
ant and later in life was a member of the Con
gregational church. He was a member of A.
F. and A. M. He died July 20, 1888, after a
prolonged and distressing illness.
He raarried, January, 1845, Sarah, born
AprU 27, 1822, died January 8, 1901, daughter
of Cyrus and Rachel (Haws) Blanchard.
Children; i. Ida Florence, born September 4,
1845; raarried George Edwin Browne (see
sketch herewith). 2. Charlotte Ellen, born
.August 24, 1847, at South Weymouth; died
January 8, 1875, at Dedham. 3. John Warren,
Jr., born Noveraber 14, 1849, died March 4,
1890, in Dedhara.

John Wilson was born in Scot-
WILSON land and removed to Nova
Scotia when a young man,
residing there until a short time before his
death when he came to Lynn, Massachusetts,
and died at the horae of his son, Charles Will
iara. He was a carpenter and builder. He
raarried in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Newman,
of English birth. Their children ; Sophia,
John, Williara, Kate, Thoraas, Charles "Will
iam, Elizabeth and Jaraes, all of whom were
born in Nova Scotia. Of these John married
and at his death left a son and a daughter.
James married and also had one son and one
daughter. Elizabeth married Thomas H.
Reynolds, of Boston; no children.
Charles WilHam Wilson, son of John and
Elizabeth (Newman) Wilson, born in Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, October 19, 1826, died in
Lynn, Massachusetts, October 5, 1905. His
younger years were passed in his native place,
where he was .given a good private school edu
cation. At the age of nineteen he came to
New England, landing at Gloucester, and from
thence went to Boston, where he apprenticed
hiraself to the trade of a tailor and cutter,
with Charles A. Smith. Having served his
tirae and becorae a thorough workraan, he
went to Weymouth, Massachusetts, and from
there to Kingston, working at his trade in
both places. In 1855 he went to Lynn and
was given charge of the cutting department
of Tollman & Howard's extensive department
store, and when that firra failed he purchased
that part of the business with which he had
been connected, and subsequently became pro
prietor of a merchant tailoring establishraent.
In 1880 he retired and thereafter devoted his

attention to scientific and literary pursuits,
taking up departments-of study in which he
had long taken deejp interest, but which he was
unable to follow closely on account of the
exactions of a mercantile life. In literature
his reading took a wide range, and Shake
speare and Burns were among his favorite
authors, as Booth and Forrest were his most
admired interpreters of the classics in tragedy
and the drama. His chief scientific study was
astronomy, and he seemed to never tire or
lose interest in it; and when his earlier
endeavors in business life had yielded a com
petency, he gave his attention assiduously to
this favorite pursuit. He provided himself with
a good nine- foot telescope with six-inch glass,
from the celebrated- telescope maker Clarke,
of Cambridge. His knowledge of the solar
and stellar systeijis was self-acquired, and as
he mounted successive steps of knowledge he
seemed to thirst for yet deeper informations
His doraestic Hfe was always surrounded by
pleasant associations, and his horae was a seat
of comfort. He was a charter member of
Golden Fleece Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, and he was active in his interest in
the work of the order. At one time he was
an Odd Fellow. In religious preference he
was a Unitarian, and in politics a Republican.
Air. Wilson married, at Plympton, Massa
chusetts, February 14, 1853, Angeline M. Per
kins, born in Plympton, 1835, died in Lynn,
November 20, 1906. Children; i. Emma
Augusta, born 1855, died August 8, 1896. 2.
Annie Eudora, educated in the public schools
of Lynn, and well known in the social life of
the city; she is a member of the AVoraan's
Club, the North Shore Club, the Unitarian
Club, being one of its board of directors ; and
at one tirae was a director of the Woman's
Alliance. 3. Charles Henry Wilson, born in
Lynn, February 7, 1859. In early business
life he was a bookkeeper, and engaged in that
and other pursuits for about twenty years;
ill 1895 he becarae interested in a hardware
business in Boston, and retired about six years
afterward. (See Standish and Sampson
families). So well known to every stu-
STANDISH dent of American colonial
history is the story of Cap
tain Myles Standish that in the present con
nection it is hardly necessary to recapitulate
the events of his most reraarkable career during
the first half century after the landing of the
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purpose is to trace in a brief way a single
descendant line from this famous character
through two generations after him to his
granddaughter Lydia, who becanie the wife of
Isaac Sampson.
Captain Myles Standish died October 3,
1656. His first wife. Rose, died in 1621,
and he married second, Barbara, the mother
of all his children, and who is supposed
to have come to New England in the ship
"Ann" in 1623. She survived him and with
her sons Alexander, Myles and Josias (Josiah)
was joint executor of his estate. Their
children were ; Alexander, married first,
Sarah Alden, second Mrs. Desire Sherman ;
Charles, who was alive in 1627 ; John, who
was alive in 1627; Miles, of Boston, died
April 5, 1663, raarried, July 19, 1660, Sarah,
daughter of John Winslow, and who married
twice after the death of her first husband;
Josias (Josiah), died Alarch 16, 1690; mar
ried first Mary Dingley, and second Sarah
Allen ; Lora, and Charles.
Alexander Standish, eldest child of Alyles
Standish and wife Barbara, received under
his father's will a full share of money, a
double share of land, and also was a residuary
legatee, as may be seen from the following
extract from the testator's will : "I giue vnto
ray son & heire aparent Alexander Standish
all my lands as heire apparent by lawfuU
decent in Ormistick Borsconge Wrightington
Maudsley Newburrow Crawston and in the
lie of Alan and given to mee as right heire
by lawfuU decent but surruptously detained
from mee, my great grandfather being a vond
or younger brother from the house of Standish
of Standish." Alexander Standish was
admitted to the freedora of the colony in 1648,
was town clerk of Duxbury 1695- 1700, and
died in Duxbury, in 1702. He raarried first,
Sarah, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla
MuUins; second. Desire, daughter of Edward
Doty and widow of Israel Holraes and WiU
iam Sherman. By his wife Sarah Alden,
Alexander Standish had seven cliildren, and
by his wife Desire Sherraan he had four chil
dren; I. Miles, died September 15, 1739;
raarried Experience Sherman (or Holmes).
2. Ebenezer, born 1672, died 1748; married
Hannah Sturtevant. 3. Lorah, married Abra
ham Sampson of Duxbury. 4. Lydia, raarried
Isaac Sampson, of Plympton (see Sampson
family). 5. Mercy, married Caleb Sampson,
of Duxbury. 6. Sarah, married Benjamin
Soule, of Plympton. 7. EHzabeth, married
Samuel Delano, of Duxbury. 8. Thomas (by

wife Desire), born 1687; married Mary Car
ver. 9. Desire, born 1689; married Nathan
Weston. 10. Ichabod, married Phebe Ring,
of Pring. II. David killed in Duxbury, 1689,
by fall of a tree.

In the company of Pilgrims
SAMPSON who came to New England
in the "Mayflower" was
Henry Sampson, a raeraber of the family of his
uncle, Edward Tilley, and then was too young
to sign the. compact in the cabin of that vessel
while riding at anchor in the harbor at Prov-
incetown. However, he was enumerated in
the assignment of land, 1623, in the division
of cattle, 1627, and was adraitted freeman of
the Plymouth colony in 1637.
Abraham Sampson is beHeved to have been
a brother of Henry Sampson, and came from
England to New England about 1629 or 1630.
He settled in Duxbury, and his narae appears
on the list of persons in that town in 1643 who
were able to bear arras. He was one of the
fifty-four original grantees of Bridgewater in
1645, all of whora then Hved in Duxbury, but
it does not appear that he ever settled in
Bridgewater. He was surveyor of highways
in Duxbury in 1648, constable in 1653, and was
raade freeman in 1654. He was stiU living in
1686. His wife, baptismal name not known,
was a daughter of Sarauel Nash, lieutenant of
the Duxbury corapany. He was frequently
engaged in the military service of the colony,
and was an officer in nearly all of the expedi
tions ; was sheriff or chief marshal for more
than twenty years, beginning in 1652. One
authority says that he had a second wife, but
does not give her name ; and there is no record
of the settlement of his estate, the Duxbury
records previous to 1666 having been destroyed
by fire, hence there is no way by which to
ascertain the naraes of all of his children, of
whom there were several. The naraes of four
sons are known, for they grew to raaturity and
had farailies, 'as follows; i. Sarauel, born
about 1646 ; raarried Esther  . 2. George,
born 1665 ; raarried Elizabeth  . 3. Abra
ham, born about 1668; raarried Sarah Stand
ish. 4. Isaac, born 1660 ; raarried Lydia Stand
ish, sister of Sarah.
Isaac Sarapson, youngest son of Abrahara
Sarapson, was born in Duxbury, in 1660, and
died September 3, 1726. He was one of the
first settlers in Plympton, and his house stood
on the north side of the road leading from
Plyrapton green to Durham's neck. His wife
was Lydia Standish, daughter of Alexander

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Standish and granddaughter of Captian Myles
Standish (see Standish family). Isaac Sarap
son and Lydia Standish had children; i.
Isaac, born April 18, 1688; married first, Sarah
 ; second, Elizabeth  . 2. Jona
than, born February 9, 1690; married Joanna
Lucas. 3. Josiah, born June 5, 1692 ; died
March 29, 1731 ; unraarried. 4. Lydia, born
April 22, 1694; unmarried; lived in Plympton,
1734. 5. Ephraira, born Alay 8, 1698; raarried
Abigail Plorrel. 6. Peleg (twin), born Novem
ber 12, 1700; married Alary Ring. 7. Priscilla
(twin), born November 12, 1700; raarried
Jabez Fuller. 8. Barnabas, born February 12,
1704-5; married Experience Atkins.
Jonathan Sampson, second son and child of
Isaac and Lydia (Standish) Sampson, was
born in Plympton, Massachusetts, February 9,
1690, and died intestate February 3, 1768. He
spent his entire life in Plyrapton, and hved in
the house where one of his descendants dwelt
nearly one hundred years after his death. He
married, September 28, 1721, Joanna Lucas,
who survived him ten years and died January
I, 1768; children: I. Alary, born July 26,
1722-, died December 31, 1812; married Nathan
Perkins, of Plympton. 2. Joanna, born July
31, 1723, died single in Plympton, January 22,
1784. 3. Priscilla, born April 14, 1726; raar
ried Joseph Perry, of Plympton. 4. Abigail,
born April 12, 1727 ; married Jabez Prior, of
Duxbury. 5. Jonathan, born April 23, 1729;
raarried Deborah Bradford. 6. Bethiah, born
April 22, 1731 ; married Joseph Sampson. 7.
Josiah, born January 23, 1733-4. died aged
about fifteen years.
Mary Sampson, eldest child of Jonathan and
Joanna (Lucas) Sampson, was born in Plymp
ton, Massachusetts, July 26, 1722, and died
there December 31, 1812; married Nathan
Perkins, of Plympton, and had children,
among them a son Josiah Perkins, born 1751,
and lived in Pl)'rapton on the Jonathan Sarap
son horaestead place. He married Deborah,
daughter of Elijah Bisbee, and 'his wife Deb
orah Sarapson, the latter born Alarch 14,
1724-5, died October 25, 1815, daughter of
(George Sampson and Hannah Soule, grand
daughter of George Sampson and his wife
Elizabeth  , and great-granddaughter of
.Abraham Sampson, the immigrant ancestor of
the branch of the Sampson family purposed to
be treated in this place.
Elijah Bisbee, father of Deborah Bi,sbee,
who married Josiah Perkins, was born March
20, 1720, and died Septeraber 28, 1804. He
was a son of EHjah Bisbee, born January 22,

1692, at Penibrooke, Massachusetts, and his
wife Eleanor Pierce, whom he married June
14, 1719. The Elijah Bisbee last mentioned
was a son of John Bisbee, born in Hingham,
Massachusetts, in 1647, died September 4,
1826, and his wife Joanna Brooks, died Au
gust 17, 1726. John Bisbee was a son of Elisha
Bisbee, of Scituate., Alassachusetts, and his
wife Hannah  . Elisha Bisbee was a
cooper by trade, although in his will he calls
himself "glover." In 1643 his name was on
the list of those in Scituate able to bear arras,
and in 1644 he is mentioned as keeper of a
ferry and tavern. Plis children were Hope
still, born 1645; John, 1647; Mary, 1648, mar
ried Jacob Beals ; Alartha, married Jonathan
Turner; Elisha, born 1654, died 1715; and
Hannah, born 1656, married, 1687, Thomas
Brooks. Thomas Bisbee, father of the Elisha
Bisbee last mentioned, carae frora Sandwich,
England, with six children and three servants,
and settled in Scituate as e^rly as 1634. He
was admitted freeman of the Plymouth colony
January 2, 1637-8. In the early records his
name appears as Besbeach, Besbetch, Besbitch,
Besbege and Beesbeech, as well as Bisbee. In
one of Rev. John Lothrop's entries in the
church records of Scituate this mention is
found : "Goodman Besbitch joyned the
Church in Scituate, April 30, 1637; and was
invested into the office of Deacon February
22, 1637-8." He was of Duxbury in 1638,
representative of that town in 1643, but he
afterward lived in Alarshfield.
Josiah Perkins and Deborah Bisbee, of
whora mention is made in a preceding para
graph, had children, and araong them a son
Josiah Perkins ; married Deborah Hall, and
had a daughter Angeline Perkins, born 1835 ;
raarried, in Plyrapton, Alassachusetts, Febru
ary 14, 1853, Charles AVilliam AA'^ilson, born in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 19, 1886, died
in Lynn, Alassachusetts, October 5, 1905 (see
AA'ilson family).

(For preceding generations see Elizabeth Cutter i).
(Ill) William Cutter, son of
CUTTER Richard Cutter (2), was bom
at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
February 22, 1649-50, and was baptized at the
Cambridge church. He and his wife were
admitted to the church July 28, 1700, and his
family Bible is still in existence. He resided
in that part of the town called Menotoray, on
the banks of the stream flowing frora Lexing
ton through Arlington to the Mystic river.
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acre of land, and added to it by purchase April
10, 1684. He built the house bought by his
son John, which stood on the site of the pres
ent residence now or lately of his descendant,
Cyrus Cutter. This land was the west corner
of the Rolfe homestead. When he sold the
house to his son, he removed to what was no
doubt the home of the Rolfes, in a house which
¦was built in 1671. Williara Cutter inherited
his father's estate, and was a housewright by
trade. He was also a farmer, and dealt largely
in real estate. He owned a mill on the banks
of the stream near his house. He married
Rebecca Rolfe, daughter of John Rolfe, of
Newbury and Cambridge, who came to New
England about 1670. She married second,
June 3, 1724, John AVhitmore, and gave six
pounds towards a coraraunion service for the
Menotomy church in 1739. She died Novem
ber 23, 1 75 1, aged ninety years. WUliam Cut
ter made his will June i, 1722, and it was
proved April 29, 1723. ChUdren; i. Eliza-
"beth, born March 5, 1680-1 ; married, April 12,
1705, John Harrington, Jr. ; died February 8,
1749-50. 2. Richard, November 13, 1682;
married, August 20, 1706, Mary Pike. 3.
Mary, January 26, 1684-5, died April 6, 1685.
4. Hannah, May 20, 16S8 ; married, June 17,
1708. Ephraim Winship; died AprU 9, 1764.
5. John, October 15, 1690; raarried Lydia Har
rington ; died January 21, 1776. 6. Rebecca,
January 18, 1692-3; raarried, January 18,
1710-1 1, Lieutenant Joseph Adams ; died Janu
ary 12, 1717-18. 7. WiUiam, 1697; married
Anne  . 8. Samuel, June 4, 1700; men
tioned below. 9. Sarah, baptized October 18,
1702 ; married Ebenezer Cutter ; died February
4, 1788. 10. Amrai Ruharaah, baptized May 6,
1705 : graduate of Harvard 1725 ; physician
and surgeon in the revolution.
(IV) Samuel, son of WUHam Cutter, was
born June 4, 1700, and baptized Septeraber 15
following. He was executor and heir of his
father's estate, and lived in the house on the
site of the late William AVhitteraore's residence
on the road to Winchester and AA'^oburn AVest-
side, within the Charlestown liraits. He died
September 27, 1737, intestate, and his tomb
stone is near the centre of the Menotomy
graveyard. He raarried, Noveraber 10, 1720,
Anne Harrington, daughter of John and Han
nah (Winter) Harrington. They owned the
covenant at Cambridge church, September 17,
1721, and were admitted members Septeraber
29, 1723. His widow owned the covenant at
the founding of the Menotoray church Septem
ber 9, 1739, and married second, March 31,

1743, Nathaniel Francis, of Aledford. She
died Deceraber 31, 1777. Children of Sarauel
and Ann Cutter; i. AA^illiara, born September
10, 1721, died April 27, 17 — . 2. Esther, Feb
ruary 15, 1723-4; raarried, August 6, 1741,
Stephen Prentice. 3. Samuel, baptized March
31, 1728, died young. 4. Anne, born January
30, 1 730- 1 ; married. May 3, 1750, AA'alter
Dickson. 5. Rebecca, Alarch 3, 1732-3; mar
ried, October 26, 1749, Jason Dunster. 6.
Hannah, February 27, 1734-5; married, March
21, 1754, Joseph Tufts, Jr. 7. Samuel, Janu
ary 21, 1736; mentioned below.
(A') Lieutenant Samuel Cutter, son of Sam
uel Cutter, was born January 21, 1736, and
died .April 7. 1791. The sentiment on his
gravestone at Arlington reads ;
"A sov'reign God, -who set my bounds,
Did quickly talce my breath,
Be ready then each hour you live
To meet an instant death."
He resided on the homestead. He was in
the revolution, and fought at the battle of
Bunker PIUl June 17, 1775, and was ensign of
Captain Isaac Hall's company. Colonel Thoraas
Gardner's regiraent. This regiment was sta
tioned in the road leading to Lechmere's Point,
East Cambridge, and late in the day was
ordered to Charlestown. On arriving at Bunker
Hill, General Putnam ordered part of it to
assist in throwing up the defenses, while Cap
tain Harris' conipany was stationed at the rail
fence. On the way while descending the hill,
Colonel Gardner was raortally wounded. July
6, 1775, the corapany was stationed at Prospect
Hill, and before the close of the year Cutter
was commissioned lieutenant. On April 7,
1791, while going up the eastern slope of AVin-
ter Hill in Somerville, on his way home in a
cart with a barrel of tar, an accident to the
cart threw hira headlong to the road, the heavy
tar falling upon him, and he was instantly
killed. He married, April 28, 1757, Susanna
Francis, born November 28, 1734, died Decera
ber 19, 1817, daughter of Ebenezer and Rachel
(Tufts) Francis, of Medford. Children; i.
Samuel, born January 30, 1758; mentioned
below. 2. William, July 15, 1759; married first,
April 29, 1 783, Hannah Cutter ; second, Novem
ber 9, 1 81 8, Lydia Cutter, widow ; died Novem
ber 28, 1846. 3. Susanna, Alarch 12, 1761 ;
raarried, Noveraber 16, 1783, Thomas AVhitte
more ; died October 10, 1818. 4. Francis,
April 15, 1763; married, December 29, 1782,
Susanna AVhittemore ; died Alarch 6, 1807. 5.
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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

gail (Oakes) Stacy, widow; second, Alargaret
(AveriU) Mitchell, widow; raarried first, 1789,
Abigail Brown Bowman; second, February 3,
1805, Anna Frost ; died December 10, 1824.
7. Abigail, January 19, 1769; married, January
21, 1787, Sarauel Cutter; died October 17,
1803, 8. Anne, June 19, 1771 ; married, Feb
ruary 2, 1796, William AVhittemore, died Octo
ber 27, 1849. 9- Adam, AprU 12, 1774; mar
ried Sally Putnara; died April 11, 1855. 10.
Edward, June 9, 1775, died August 2, 1778.
II. Washington, June 18, 1777; married first,
Alarch 16, 1800, Elizabeth Robbins; second,
January 26, 1823, Anna Fillebrown.
(VI) Samuel Cutter, son of Lieutenant
Samuel Cutter, was born January 30, 1758,
and died in Charlestowai, now SomerviUe, in
April, 1820. He was a farmer in Menotoray,
now Belmont, and afterwards at Prospect Hill,
Somerville. He took part in the revolution,
and took a rausket from the hands of a Brit
ish sergeant on the retreat frora Concord.
This musket is or was lately owned by Fitch
Cutter, of Somerville. He was adjutant of
the militia and an esteeraed raeraber of the
church and of the Masons. He raarried, Sep
teraber 29, 1780, Rebecca Plill, who died Feb
ruary 9, 1847, aged ninety, daughter of Abra
ham and Susanna (Wellington) HiU. Chil
dren ; I. Samuel, born July 22, 1781 ; married
first, February 17, 1805, Eunice Carter; sec
ond, Noveraber 10, 1835, Rachel Ireland ; died
April 7, 1854. 2. Edward, January 13, 1783;
raarried, April 8, 1808, Elizabeth Nutting;
died February 7, 1862. 3. Rebecca, January
29, 1786; raarried Isaac AA'aitt. 4. Susan
Francis, May 17, 1790; raarried Neheraiah
Wyman, died 1863. 5. Fitch, Alarch 22, 1791 ;
mentioned below. 6. Sophia, January 25,
1794; married Moses Whitney, October 27,
1816. 7. Ebenezer, died April 22, 1796, aged
ten days. 8. Anna, born Alay 23, 1799, died
same day. 9. Ebenezer Francis, Alarch 13,
1801 ; married. May 13, 1827, Eliza Ann Ed-
mands ; died April 22, 1857.
(VII) Fitch Cutter, son of Samuel Cutter.
was born March 22, 1791. He was engaged in
brickmaking and farraing in Soraerville, where
he Hved after his fourth year. In 1812 in the
war he was stationed at Chelsea Bridge on
duty with the artillery to defend the United
States navy yard frora an expected incursion
of the British fleet. About 1822 he went on a
voyage to Cadiz, Spain, in a raercbant vessel.
He married first, April 5, 1818, Lucy Hathon,
who died December 7, 1848, aged fifty-three,
daughter of Ebenezer Hathon, of Jaffrey, New

Hampshire. He married second, Noveraber
14, 1850, Mary J. (Fiske) MitcheU, widow, of
Somerville, who died Noyeraber 25. 1859, aged
forty-seven. He married third, Septeraber 19,
i860, Mary C. (Ellis) Cannan, widow, of
East Boston. Children of first wife: i. Ed
mund Fitch, born May 13, 1819; married, No
vember 20, 1845, Charlotte Maria Watson, and
resided in Boston ; children ; i. Alexander De-
Witt, born July, 1847, died August 16, 1849;
ii. Chester (juild; iii. Nina, raarried December
29, 1887, Hollis Bowraan Page, and died Sep
tember, 1889; other children, died young. 2.
Ebenezer Francis, born December 13, 1821 ;
died March 9, 1828. 3. Samuel, born October
12, 1823; died August 15, 1825. 4. Samuel
Henry, born August 12, 1826; raentioned
below. 5. Ebenezer Francis, born May 26,
1830; removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and
was captain in the infantry under General
Grant at Vicksburg in the civil war. 6. Lucy
Sophia, born August 29, 1833 ; married, Octo
ber 20, 1858, Rufus Baker; died March 26,
1866. 7. Charles Edward, born September 16,
1835; raarried, November 5, i860, Jennie Fox,
of Porter, Maine ; children ; i. Lillian Estelle,
born July I, 1862; ii. Charlotte Evelyn, born
November 27, 1865 ; iii. Jennie Mabel, born
December 12, 1867. 8. Alartha Bowman, born
Alay 10, 1838; married, November 14, i860,
J. Foster Qark, and resided at Titusville,
Pennsylvania. Child of second wife ; 9. Fred
eric AVebster, born October 9, 1852 ; died Feb
ruary 28, 1853.
("VIII) Sarauel Plenry Cutter, son of Fitch
Cutter, was born August 12, 1826. He raar
ried, December 9, 1847, Harriet S. Blanchard,
daughter of Reuben K. and Alary G. (Ed-
mands) Blanchard, of Charlestown. Chil
dren; I. Fitch Henry, born April 15, 1849.
2. Charles Kimball, born March 15, 1851 ; men
tioned below. 3. John Goodnow, born Novem
ber 6, 1852; died Septeraber 2. 1854. 4. Effie,
born July 3, 1855 (twin). 5. Ettie (twin),
born July 3, 1855; died July 28, 1855. 6.
Alinnie, bom Febriiary 20, 1858. 7. Ida, born
February 20, 1858 (twin). 8. Lucy, born Sep
tember 24, i860. 9. Benjamin Russ, born May
24, 1867.
(IX) Dr. Charles Kiraball Cutter, son of
Samuel Henry Cutter, was bom in SomerviUe,
March 15, 1851. He attended the public
schools of his native city and graduated from
the high school under George L. Baxter, prin
cipal, who still holds the same position. The
present subraaster of the school, Frank M.
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roommate of Dr. Cutter at college. Dr. Cutter
entered Tufts CoUege, where he was graduated
with the degree of A. B. in 1873. He studied
his profession in the Harvard Law School and
received his medical degree with the class of
1876. Since that time Dr. Cutter has enjoyed
an extensive and profitable practice in Charles
town and Somerville, Massachusetts. While
in college he began a somewhat notable career
as a teacher. He began as substitute for sev
eral weeks in the SomerviUe high school
and the Foster gramraar school. Winter Hill,
SomerviUe. He was an instructor for a year
in the Greenfield high school and also taught
in the high schools of Bedford, Massachusetts,
of Woodstock and Strafford, Vermont. His
teaching was in addition to his college work,
and left him no leisure. Yet the extra burdens
of those student years undoubtedly contributed
much to his success in his profession through
the forraation of habits of industry, of per
sistent attention to the duty in hand, and of
great concentration of raind and purpose when
necessary. Evidently his ability as a teacher
was beyond the average, for his services were
in much demand. He was made principal of
the old Franklin Evening School, Washington
.street, Boston, just above Dover street, in 1874
while a student in the Aledical School, and he
continued in this position until 1880 during the
early years of his practice. Dr. Cutter was a
capable and successful instructor and he has
good reason to take pride in the letters from
prominent educators and school officials cora
raending his work. And the doctor's interest
in education has never dirainished. His
acquaintance with other teachers and scholars
has continued. Frora 1876, when he began to
practice, until 1879 his office was at the corner
of Main and Franklin streets, Charlestown.
He raoved then to 200 Franklin street and
remained there until May i, 1890, when he
bought the brick house at 208 Main street and
remained until 1893. Since then he has made
his home in Soraerville, in a house he bought
at the corner of School and Medford streets,
but has continued his office in the Main street
building, Charlestown. For ten years he served
as physician and surgeon at the Charlestown
Free Dispensary and for raany years has been
on the board of physicians of the Winchester
Horae for Aged Women and treasurer of the
Charlestown branch of the Associated Chari
ties, giving rauch raedical advice and assistance
ill the work. He is a meraber of the Middle
sex South District Medical Society, which he
represents on the Council of the Massachu

setts Medical Society. To him is largely due
the changing of the rules in the society, so
that women physicians were allowed to join.
Pie was a constant and earnest advocate of
the admission of female members and the wis
dom of the change in the rules has been abun
dantly proved by experience. Dr. Cutter was
surgeon in the Spanish- American war and had
charge of the examination of recruits for the
regular army from Bo.ston from April 20, 1898
to June 30, 1899, when he received an honor
able discharge from the service. Dr. Cutter
is as rauch of a raedical student as ever. The
demands of his practice and other interest do
not prevent his studying the current literature
of his profession and continuing his own
researches. When Dr. Cutter left Charles
town the Enterprise said; "The recent
reraoval of Dr. Charles K. Cutter frora this
district to the suburbs of Somerville is felt
as a distinct loss in a social way by the old
families in the district who have long regarded
the erainent physician and his lady as fixtures
in the social firraaraent. Dr. Cutter's patients,
however, find comfort in the knowledge that
he will not relinquish his practice here and will
continue his office hours at the Main street
building practically as heretofore. For the
past seventeen years Dr. Cutter has been a
well known personage in the district. Grad
uating from the Harvard Medical School in
1876, he came to Charlestown in July of the
year and has ever been classed araong its active
and progressive raen."
Pie is a raember of various fraternal orders.
He becarae a raember of John Abbot Lodge
of Free Masons in 1873, and of Howard Lodge
of Odd Fellows in 1875. He is one of the
founders and charter merabers of Joseph War
ren Council, Horae Circle; a charter raeraber
of Alonunjpnt Council, Royal Arcanum; mem
ber of the Windrow Castle, Knights of the
Golden Cross ; and a director of the Charles
town Club. Dr. Cutter is a meraber of the
Universalist church and was formerly superin
tendent of the Charlestown church. In politics
he is a Deraocrat.

Benjarain Franklin Swan, son of
SWAN Henry Swan, was born at Arling
ton, Massachusetts, in 1829, and
died at San Francisco, California, January
9, 1900. He had a common school education
in Arlington, and assisted his father in the
poultry business. He went to work for Nathan
Robbins, a poultry dealer, driving his team to
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the district. When he was twenty years of age
the gold fever broke out, and he was one of
those early "Forty-niners" who braved count
less dangers to go overland to California.
When he had accumulated quite a fortune, he
returned and married, taking his wife to Cali
fornia with him, by way of the isthraus. In
1866 he returned to .Arlington, where he lived
several years, but finally returnedto California.
Like all "Forty-niners" raoney carae easUy and
went as it came, and he made and lost three
large fortunes. He was for a long time inter
ested in stocks, and was a member of the
Pacific Stock Exchange at San Francisco for
years. During his last few years he suffered
from a severe kidney trouble, which termi
nated in a heart affection, causing his death,
January 9, 1900, at San Francisco. He was
a raan of strong qualities and superior intellect,
energetic in business. He was a raeraber of
the Congregational church at Arlington. In
politics he was a Republican. He was a mera
ber of Hiram Lodge of Masons, at Arlington.
He married, April 8, 1863, Elizabeth Thaxter,
of Arlington, who died June 25, 1885, aged
thirty-nine years, nine raonths. Children; i.
Benjamin Franklin, mentioned below. 2.
James Thaxter, born April 4, 1867 ; married,
October 9, 1889, Alice Gertrude Tappan, of
Arlington, Alassachusetts.
Benjamin Franklin Swan, son of Benjamin
Franklin Swan, was born at San Francisco,
California, August 14, 1864. AVhen he was
quite young his parents removed to Arling
ton, Alassachusetts, their former horae, where
he received his education in the coramon
schools, graduating from the grammar school
and going two years to the Cotting high school.
During these two years he worked after school
hours in Dodge's Pharmacy. Then his desire
to learn the business impelled hira Jo give up
school and after spending two and one half
years in the Pharmacy, he entered the whole
sale drug business of Gilman Brothers, 50
Franklin street, Boston, as clerk. Strict atten
tion to business soon led to promotion, and
today he occupies a position of trust, being
buyer and salesman for the firra. Gilraan
Brothers is one of the old established firras
in Boston, and went through the big fire in
1872. Mr. Swan purchased in 1892 a house at
68 Evans street, Dorchester, where he resides
with his family. Since 1906 he has been a
member of the Church of the Epiphany (Epis
copal) in Dorchester. He was one of a com
mittee of five to start that society, and has
alwavs been a leader in the church, and is

treasurer of the society. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the church
club. He was formerly a raember of the Ar
lington Boat Club, being captain of the first
club bowling team that was entered in inter-
club corapetition. He married, October 11,
1892, Sophia Priscilla Rudolf, of Dorchester,
born Alay 8, 1864, daughter of John George
and Priscilla Couch (CoUings) Rudolf, of
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Her father was a
sea captain and a prorainent Free Mason, a
descendant of the old family of Von Rudolphs,
of Germany. Children; i. Franklin Rudolf,
born February 22, 1897. 2. Ernst Thaxter,
August 6, 1900; died Septeraber 22, 1900. 3.
Evelyn Elizabeth, born September 14, 1903.
(I) Samuel Packard, immi-
PACKARD grant ancestor, carae to New
England with- his wife and
one child in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich,
John Martin, raaster, in 1638. He carae frora
Windham, a small hamlet, near Hingham,
county Norfolk, England. He settled in Hing
ham, Massachusetts, and removed about 1660
to Bridgewater, held office there in 1664, and
was licensed to keep an ordinary in 1670. His
sons, and probably he hiraself, were soldiers
under Captain Benjamin Church, in King
Philip's war, 1675-6. His will was dated 1684.
Children; i. Elizabeth, born probably in Eng
land ; married, 1665, Thomas Alger, of West
Bridgewater. 2. Samuel, Jr., born in Hing
ham ; married Elizabeth Lathrop. 3. Zaccheus,
mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born in Hing
ham ; living in Bridgewater in 1673. 5. John,
born in Hingham. 6. Nathaniel, married a
daughter of John Kingman. 7. Mary, mar
ried Richard Phillips. 8. Hannah, married
Thomas Randall. 9. Israel. 10. Jael, married
John Smith. 11. Deborah, married Samuel
AA'ashburn. 12. Deliverance, married Thomas
Washburn, brother of Sarauel, mentioned
above. (II) Zaccheus Packard, son of Sarauel
Packard ( i ) , was bom in Hinghara, and died
in Bridgewater, August 3, 1723. He raarried
Sarah, daughter of John Howard, of AVest
Bridgewater. Children, born in Bridgewater :
I. Israel, raentioned below. 2. Sarah, born Au
gust 19, 1682; raarried, July 27, 1704, Captain
Josiah Edson ; cHed 1754. 3. Jonathan, born De
cember 7, 1684; married first, December 24,
1719, Susanna PTayward ; second, Abigail
 . 4. David, born February 11, 1687;
married, Deceraber 17, 1712, Hannah Araes;
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March 20, 1689; married, November 16, 171 5,
Sarah Lathrop; second, Susanna Kingman;
third, October 5, 1760, Dorothy, widow of
Mark Perkins. 6. Deacon James, born June
2, 1691 ; married, June 7, 1722, Jemima Kieth;
died November 24, 1765. 7. Zaccheus, Jr.,
born September 4, 1693; married, October 21,
1725, Alercy Alden; died 1775. 8. John, born
October 8, 1695 ; married, 1726, Lydia Thom
son ; died June 3, 1738. 9. Captain Abiel, born
AprU 29, 1699; married January 11, 1723,
Sarah Ames; died 1776.
(Ill) Israel Packard, son of Zaccheus Park-
ard (2), was born in Bridgewater, AprU 27,
1680. He married first, 1703, Plannah  ;
second, November 20, 1735, Susanna, daugh
ter of Daniel Field, of West Bridgewater.
Children; i. Seth, mentioned below. 2. Me
hitable, born 1705; married first, 1725, John
Ames; second, 1727, Samuel AA-'est. 3. Sarah,
born 1707. 4. Eliphalet, 1708. 5. Hannah,
1710; raarried  Phillips. 6. Zerviah,
born 1713; married Benjamin AA^ashburn. 7.
Israel, Jr.. born 1717; married Ruth Field;
died 1752. 8. Robert, born 1722; married,
1749, Lydia Titus; died about 1753.
(lA^) Seth Packard, son of Israel Packard
(3), was born in 1703. Pie married, about
1727, Mercy Bryant. He died in 1788. Chil
dren; I. Sarah, born August 25, 1728. 2.
Lucy, July 26, 1731. 3. Mehitable, March 28,
1733. 4. Mercy, May 20, 1735. 5. Isaac,
September 22, 1737. 6. Mary, Noveraber 28,
1739- 7- Joshua, April 20, 1741. 8. Seth, Jr.,
Alarch 12, 1743. 9. Abigail, March 17, 1746.
10. Abner, mentioned below. 11. Jonathan,
September 27, 1751. 12. Jerusha.
(V) Abner Packard, son of Seth Packard
(4), was born April 9, 1749. He raarried
Elizabeth  . He was a soldier in the
revolution, sergeant in Captain John Cal-
lender's company, commanded by Lieutenant
AVilliam Perkins, Colonel Richard Gridley's
regiment of artillery, 1775 ; also captaiii in
Colonel Gridley's regiraent later in 1775. He
was then of Alilton, Massachusetts. Qiildren ;
I. William, raentioned below. 2. Elisha.
(VI) William Packard, son of Abner Pack
ard, was born at Alilton, Alassachusetts, No
vember 18, 1773. He married Lucy Turner,
who lived to the advanced age of ninety-six
years. Children; i. Lucy Ann (Newcomb),
born December 6, 1806. 2. Alargaret, April
6, 1807; married  White. 3. Rosamond,
July 12, 1809. 4. Lydia, February 10, 181 1;
married  Savill. 5. Williara Henry,
October 7, 181 2. 6. Elizabeth, January 2,

1814; died young. 7. Elizabeth, January 3,
1816 ; died young. 8. Elisha, mentioned below.
9. Eraily, married  Alarsh. 10. Louisa,
married  Stowe. 11. Colonel Abner B.,
born November, 1821 ; died 1902. 12. Abigail,
married  Dunbar. 13. Sarah, raarried

 Burrill. There were eighteen children
in all, of whom eleven grew to maturity.
(ATI) Ehsha Packard, son of William
Packard, was born January 23, 1818, in
Quincy, Massachusetts. He married Lucy
Newcomb. Children, born in Quincy; i.
Elisha, Jr., mentioned below. 2. Francesca,
married AVilliam N. Eaton ; children ; Minnie
Francesca Eaton, Lucy Eaton, Annie Eaton,
Edith Eaton, Grace Eaton.
(ATII) Elisha Packard, Jr., son of Elisha
Packard, was born in Quincy, June 8, 1844.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town and studied for the ministry, but
before corapleting his course was attracted to
a business career. He engaged in the manu
facture of type metal, and remained in that
business for a period of forty years, becoming
one of the best known and most highly respected
men in his trade. Since 1906 he has repre
sented the firm of E. AA'. Blatchford, of Chi
cago, manufacturers of type raetals, with his
liead(|uarters in Boston. Air. Packard is con
sidered among the most expert judges of type
metal. The introduction of typesetting
machines in the newspaper and printing offices
of the country has enormously expanded the
trade in metals of this kind.
Mr. Packard is an active and prominent Re
publican. Pie was a member of the coraraon
council of the city of Quincy in 1898-99 and
1900-01, and was twice the nominee of his party
for mayor. Piis record in the legislative body of
the city was irreproachable. Many improve
ments of great importance were due in large
measure to his energetic advocacy. He was
sthe prime mover in securing the system of free
transfer on the street railways ; greatly
improved the sidewalks and street crossings
throughout the city, and brought about a better
standard of road-building and street-lighting
in the city. He was chairman of the committee
on state and railitary aid during the Spanish-
Araerican war, and did excellent work in that
department. Pie made an enviable record as
chairman of the committee on finance and pub
lic buildings, effecting economy as well as pro
gress in that department. He was a pioneer
in the moveraent to abolish grade crossings in
Quincy ; his influence and rousing arguments
stirred the people to action and brought about

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a greatly needed reform, though against the
firm opposition of the conservative, standstill
element and Various individual interests of
rauch strength. He is a prorainent raember of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Quincy,
active in the various charities and benevolences
of that parish, and has been vestryman or
warden for more than twenty-five years. Mr.
Packard is upright, honorable and capable in
business life, active, enterprising and public-
spirited citizen, of engaging manner and pleas
ing personality, sound judgment and sterling
common sense.
He raarried, June 30, 1867, Charlotte Hol
brook Beale, born June 30, 1849, daughter of
Joseph and Susanna H. (Adaras) Beale. (See
Beale family). Children, born in Quincy; i.
Elisha B., born August 20, 1872 ; died January
18, 1873. 2. Susan Adams, born February 22,
1876; raarried, June 4, 1900, Charles Lewis
Greene ; child, Mary Virginia Greene, born
AprU 6, 1901. 3. Dr. Abner Beale, born June
29, 1882; graduate of Harvard Dental School,
now favorably known and successfully prac
ticing in Quincy; a vestryman of the Quincy
Protestant Episcopal Church.

The surnarae Beale is of ancient
BEALE English origin. Great variations
in the spelling have been found
even to the present tirpe. AVe find in the early
records Beal, Beale, Beals, Beales and Biell
used interchangeably, besides raany others.
Hingham, Massachusetts, is the chief seat of
the family. John Beal, a shoemaker, came
there in 1638 with wife, five sons, three daugh
ters and two servants from Hingham, England ;
was admitted a freeman March 13, 1638-9; was
proprietor and deputy to the general court;
married Narazeth Hubbard, daughter of Ed
mund, Sr. ; second, March 10, 1659, Mary
Jacob, widow of Nicholas. He died April i,
1688, one hundred years old. It is a well
authenticated fact that John Beal, Jr., who also
carae to Hingham, was a younger brother of
the same name. Many similar cases are found,
and doubtless many more exist where proof
is wanting, where two children in the same
faraily have the sarae names. John, Jr., died
in 1658. He made his wUl October 26, 1657,
when about to go to England, and bequeathed
to his father Edmund Beal, England. Thomas
Beal, of Cambridge, left no children; died
1661, aged sixty-three. WiUiam Beal of Mar
blehead had a numerous faraily.
(I) Benjamin Beale, of Boston, appears to
be a relative of the Hinghara faraily, but very

little is known of hira. He raarried Bathshua
 . But one chUd's birth was recorded _
in Boston. John and Susanna Beale, of Bos
ton, had a daughter Alartha, born March 29,
1683,- in Boston. John and Benjamin were
doubtless brothers or near relatives. Chil
dren; I. Alercy, born July 17, 1672. 2. Ben
jarain, Jr., mentioned below. Perhaps others.
(II) Benjamin Beale, son of Benjamin
Beale (i), was born in Boston or Seetomb,
about 1676. He married Anne  . ChU
dren, born in Braintree, formerly part of Bos
ton : I. Bathshua, AprU 13, 1701. 2. Benja
rain, December 22, 1702; raentioned below. 3.
Mary, April 17, 1709. 4. Abigail, October 11,
1704. (Ill) Lieutenant Benjarain Beale, son of
Benjarain Beale (2), was born in Braintree,
Deceraber 22, 1702. He married AbigaU
 . Children, born in Braintree; i. Ben
jarain, May 21, 1741. 2. Joseph, mentioned
below. 3. Peter, July 11, 1745. 4. Abigail,
March 22, 1746. 5. Hannah, Septeraber 17,
1748. 6. Mary, July 15, 1750. 7. Nathaniel,
January 30, 1753.
(IV) Joseph Beale, son of Lieutenant Ben
jamin Beale (3), was born in Braintree, May
21,1743. He married Lilly  . Children,
born in Braintree; i. Joseph, born Alay 12,
1769. 2. Peter, born January 30, 1771. 3-
Sarauel Davis, born March 23, 1773. 4. Theo-
docia, born Deceraber 9, 1775. 5. Lilly, born
October 30, 1776. 7. Jonathan, mentioned
below. Probably others born in Quincy.
(V) Jonathan Beale, son of Joseph Beale
(4), was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, about
1780. He married Maria Swift. Children,
born at Quincy: i. William, born April 27,
1789; married  Holbrook. 2. Jonathan,
born December 25, 1790 ; died young. 3. Thomas
Swift, born March 3, 1793. 4. Captain Jona
than, born December 20, 1794. 5. Peter, born
January 26, 1797. 6. Benjamin, bom Novem
ber 7, 1798; married Salome Dillingham Gibbs,
of Sandwich; children; i. Benjamin Franklin,
married Emma Russell; ii. Albert Seymour;
iii. Salome Isadore, married George R. Spurr ;
iv. Alarion Gibbs, married John Oliver
Holden ; v. Walter Gibbs, married Ida Whit
comb ; vi. Nathan Gibbs, married Isabel Black-
well. 7. Joseph Swift, born Septeraber 9,
1800; mentioned below. 8. Maria A., born
July 3, 1803; died July 19, 1856. 9. Cynthia
Ann, born March 2, 1805 ; died unmarried.
10. Caroline, born May i, 1807.
(VI) Joseph Swift Beale, son of Jonathan
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and died April 3, 1882 ( ?). His father's horae,
where he was born, was in Quincy, near the
Milton line. The old house was burned shortly
before he was born. He raarried Susanna H.
Adams. Children, born in Quincy ; i. Joseph,
married Frances Messinger ; children ; Jo
seph Henry, Emily Adams, Mary AlcKenzie,
Agnes, Lillian, Arthur, Edith. 2. Jonathan,
went west and died there ; married. 3. Sarah
Ann Adams, raarried Frederick M. Severance ;
children ; Carrie Severance, married Samuel
Shaw; Clara Severance, married Samuel
Chase; "Mabel Severance; Russell Severance.
4. James Adams, married Ellen Homer ; chU
dren ; Inez ; Frederick. 5. Caroline, raarried
Granville S. Webster ; children : Grace, mar
ried Hervey Varney ; Alice. 6. George Wash
ington, married Sarah Hobbes. 7. Samuel G.,
married Eraraa Peterson. 8. Annie M., born
1844; unmarried. 9. Charlotte, born June 30,
1849; married Elisha Packard (see Packard
family). Williara Barrett, of Cara-
BARRETT bridge, Massachusetts, tailor,
was living there in 1656 and
bought a house and land in Dunster street, near
to the college building. He was a selectman
in 1671 and 1681, served as lieutenant during
King Philip's war, and died May 19, 1789. He
married first, August 9, 1656, Sarah, daughter
of Elder Richard Charapney. She died Au
gust 21, 1661, and he married second, May 19,
1662, Mary, daughter of John and Phebe
Barnard ; married third, October 8, 1673,
Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Patience
Sparhawk ; married fourth, Margaret Bartlett,
who survived hira. His children; i. Lydia,
born Septeraber 17, 1657. 2. Williara, August
15, 1659; died young. 3. John, February 6,
1661. ' 4. Mary, January 11, 1663. 5. WiUiam,
May 3, 1665. 6. Edward, February 8, 1668.
7. Samuel, February 8, 1670. 8. Bartholomew,
April 6, 1672 ; died young. 9. Margaret, May
4, 1676. 10. Thomas, January 25, 1678. 11.
Bartholomew, April 12, 1681. 12. Lydia, May
14, 1683.
(II) William Barrett, son of WilHam and
Alary (Barnard) Barrett, was born in Cam
bridge, Alay 3, 1665, and died about 1730.^ He
was a tailor and Hved on the homestead with
his father. He married Hannah, daughter of
Daniel Cheever; children; i. AViUiam, bap
tized January 16, 1696-97; died young. 2.
Hannah, baptized March 6, 1696-97; died
young. 3. EHzabeth, baptized 1699. 4. Han
nah, born 1700. 5. Williara, baptized May 30,

1703. 6. John, July 9, 1706. 7. Daniel, born
February 28, 1707-08.
(Ill) AA^illiam Barrett, son of WiUiam and
Hannah (Cheever) Barrett, was born May 30,
1703, and was a cordwainer, living on the old
homestead in Dunster street, Cambridge, until
about 1737, when he sold the property to his
son-in-law and then probably removed to Bos
ton. The baptismal name of his wife was
Mary, but her family narae does not appear.
Children; I. William, born November 30,
1728. 2. Jonathan, February 6, 1730; died
young. 3. Hannah, October 14, 1731. 4.
Daniel, November 12, 1733; raarried his cousin
Elizabeth, a daughter of Daniel Barrett. 5.
Samuel, August 3", 1735. 6. Mary, May 15,
1737; died young. 7. Mary, baptized Febru
ary ir, 1739. 8. Joshua, baptized January 25,
1741. 9. Jonathan, baptized June 25, 1741.-
TO. Caleb, baptized June 27, 1745. 11. Han
nah, baptized February 8, 1747.
(IV) . William Barrett, son of AVilliara and
Alary Barrett, was born November .30, 1728,
probably in Cambridge, and died in Boston.
He married, in Boston, June 21, 1758, Abigail
Bradford, and at the time of their marriage his
age is mentioned as about twenty-eight, and
his wife about three years his junior. They
had ten children, all born in Boston: i. John,
twin, Alarch 21, 1759. 2. Thomas, March 21,
1759- 3- AVilliam, August 28, 1760. 4. John
Spencer, July 26, 1762. 5. Daniel, twin, Sep- .
tember 20, 1764. 6. Samuel, twin, September
20, 1764; died young. 7. Samuel, October 5,
1766. 8. Benjamin, September 17, 1768. 9.
Nathaniel, February 27, 1770. 10. Smith Free
man, May 13, 1772.
(V) AVilliara Barrett, son of WilHam and
Abigail (Bradford) Barrett, was born in Bos
ton, August 28, 1760. Little is known of him
except that he was a soldier of the war of
1812-15, and died in the service. He raarried,
' March 24, 1798, Hannah Turner Sumner, bom
Boston, July 24, 1778, died in Melrose, Alassa
chusetts, August 22, 1858, daughter of Sarauel
and Elizabeth (Shedd) Sumner, of Boston.
(See Sumner). She survived her husband
and married (second) Amos Ruddock. She
was a most devout and exeraplary raeraber of
the Methodist church, having been received in
full coraraunion March 3, 181 1; and in the
church edifice in East Boston is a beautiful
window, a raeraorial of her true christian char
acter and womanly worth. William and Han
nah Turner (Sumner) Barrett had two chil
dren; I. WiUiara, Jr. 2. Sarauel Sumner Wil
ton.

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(A^I) Samuel Sumner Wilton Barrett, son
of AVilliam and Hannah Turner (Sumner)
Barrett, was born in Boston, May 9, 1809, and
died in Melrose, Alassachusetts, in 1896. He
first learned the trade of carpenter and joiner,
later became a machinist, and for several years
was eraployed by the Tuft Printing Press
Manufacturing Corapany. After a tirae he
adandoned mechanical work and was employed
as superintendent in the service of the Cunard
Stearaship Company, Boston. Still later he
was appointed station raaster of the Boston
& Alaine railroad at Alelrose, whither he
reraoved frora Boston in January, 1855, and
held that position for the next twenty-five
years, until he retired from active pursuits.
It may be mentioned here that after his mar
riage Mr. Barrett changed his name to Sura-
iier Foster Barrett, and ever afterward was
so known. During Governor Lincoln's admin
istration he held the rank of captain of the
watch. He raarried, in Boston, February 28,
1831, Hannah Barrett Sumner, born Beverly,
Massachusetts, February 26, 181 1, daughter
of John AA'itt and Deborah (Hogan) Sumner,
of Beverly (see Sumner). Children, all born
in Boston; i. Albert Brown, born January
25, 1832. 2. Amos Ruddock, July 29, 1833.
3. Sumner Foster, November i, 1835; died
young. 4. Charles Lewis, December 30, 1838.
5. Sarah Ann, July 17, 1843; died young. 6.
Frank Sumner, September 25, 1850. Air. Bar
rett and his sons were Masons.
(A^II) Albert Brown Barrett, eldest son and
child of Sumner Foster (formerly Samuel
Sumner AAilton) and Hannah Barrett (Sum
ner) Barrett, was born in Boston, January 25,
1832. He received a good early education in
Boston public schools and the faraous Dum-
raer Academy, Byfield Parish, Newbury, Mass
achusetts. After leaving school he became a
machinist in the East Boston shops of the old
Eastern Railroad Company, beginning his busi-'
ness career in 1849, first as machinist appren
tice and continuing afterward as journeyman
and practical workman. From the latter posi
tion he was advanced to that of foreman of
the machinist department, later becarae raas
ter raachanic for the Boston & Alaine Rail
road Company, successor to the Eastern,
and finally was advanced to the still
more responsible position of general in
spector for the Boston & Maine Com
pany, which he held until his retirement
from active pursuits, March i, 1908. In relig
ious preference Mr. Barrett is a Unitarian and
in politics a Republican. He is a member of

various subordinate Masonic bodies, past mas
ter of Mt. Tabor Lodge, F. and A. M., and a
charter member and past coraraander of WUl-
iara Parkman Comraandery, K. T. He mar
ried, Alarch 30, 1854, in East Boston, EUen
Hall, born Alarshfield, Massachusetts, Decem
ber 28, 1835, daughter of Luke and Alice
(Carver) Hall. Children; i. Sarah Ellen, a
graduate of the Boston grammar and high
schools; not married. 2. Emma Suraner,
a graduate of South Portland (Alaine) high
school; married Dr. Frank Henry Carter,
and had Philip Barrett, Margaret Pillsbury,
Doris Eloise, Elsee Carver and Constance Car
ter. 3. Isadora, a graduate of SomerviUe
grararaar school and Alelrose high school; not
raarried. (ATI ) Amos Ruddock Barrett, second son of
Sumner Foster and Hannah Barrett (Sumner)
Barrett, was born in Boston, July 29, 1833,
died May 11, 1895. He was educated in the
schools of Boston, learned the trade of
machinist and then that of locomotive engineer,
and went to Wisconsin about 1854 as an engi
neer, remaining for several years. Upon his
return east he was eraployed as superintendent
of engineers for the Eastern railroad of Mass
achusetts, later entering the employ of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway as divi
sion master mechanic, located in Arizona. He
remained with that line eight years, after which
he returned east as master raechanic of the
Worcester & Nashua railroad, and finally was
master of rolling stock of the Boston & Maine
system, holding that position up to his decease.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.
He married first, November 2, 1858, Eliza
Jane Gardiner, of Saco, Maine; children; i.
Carrie Anna, born November 12, 1863 ; died
young. 2. Fred Sumner, born April 8, 1867 ;
mentioned below. Married second, Noveraber
6, 1890, Lucy Anna Milliken, of Bucksport,
Maine. No children.
(VII) Charles Lewis Barrett, fourth son
of Sumner Foster and Hannah Barrett (Sum
ner) Barrett, was born in Boston, December
30, 1838. He was educated in the schools of
Boston and Melrose, and in 1858 went to
Haverhill, Massachusetts, to learn the shoe
business, residing there frora then to the pres
ent time. In the civil war he enHsted in Com
pany G, Forty-second Regiment, Massachu
setts Volunteers, was with General N. P.
Banks at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gal
veston, Texas, taken prisoner and confined in
Houston prison, Texas, paroled but not
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was mustered out August 20, 1863. He is a
Royal Arch Alason. Pie married. May 23,
1865, Plannah Elizabeth Chace, of Haverhill,
Alassachusetts ; she died Alay 8, 1875 ; no chil-
(hen. Married .second, February 25, 1889, Isa
belle C. AlcDonald, of Alelrose, Massachu
setts. No children.
(VII) Frank Sumner Barrett, youngest son
and child of Sumner Foster and Hannah Bar
rett (Sumner) Barrett, was born in Boston,
September 25, 1850, and gained his education
in the grammar and high schools of that town,
and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts. AVhen a young man he learned the trade
of machinist, later became a mechanical
draughtsman and worked in that capacity for
several years. He then engaged with a large
Boston wholesale thread house and for the
next twenty years represented the interests
of that concern in Chicago. While living in
the middle west he becanie much interested in
amateur photography and indulged and culti
vated his tastes in that direction until he
attained a degree of proficiency which entitled
him to recognition among the leading artists
of that profession; and thus it was that in
1902 he returned east and settled in AVinthrop,
Massachusetts, where in 1904 he became a pro
fessional photographer in that town. He is
a Master and Royal Arch Mason and both his
wife and hiraself are members of the Unitar
ian church. In 1872 he married, in Boston,
Frances E., born Charlestown, Massachusetts,
daughter of George H. and Sarah M. (Bird)
Alorse, both descendants of old New England
stock. Air. and Mrs. Barrett have children ;
T. Sidney Foster, born July 19, 1875; died
aged three months. 2. Ernest Laurence, born
November 24, 1895.
(VIII) Fred Sumner Barrett, only livng
child of Araos Ruddock Barrett was born in
East Soraerville, Massachusetts, April 8, 1867.
He was educated in the schools of East Sora
erville, learned the trade of locoraotive engi
neer, which Hne of work he is following at the
present time in the employ of the Boston &
Maine railroad. He resides in AVorchester,
Massachusetts. He raarried, April 7, 1892,
Agnes Child Hicks, of Worcester. Children ;
I. Frances Jennette, born Septeraber 23, 1897.
2. Alildred Alice, November 28, 1899.

Roger Suraner, of Bicester.
SUMNER Oxfordshire, England, hus
bandman, died 1608; married,
1 601, Joane Franklin, who married (second)
161 1, Marcus Brian, of Merton, who died 1620.

Roger and Joane (Franklin) Suraner had one
son. (II) William Sumner, only son of Roger
and Joane Sumner, born Bicester, England,
1605, came to New England and settled in the
plantation at Dorchester, Alassachusetts, 1636;
was made freeraan, 1637; selectman, 1637,
and for more than twenty years afterward ;
magistrate to try small causes, 1663 to 1671 ;
one of the feoffees of the school land, 1663 to
1680; clerk of the trainband, 1663 and after
ward ; deputy from Dorchester to the general
court, 1658, 1666-70, 1678-81, 1683-86. Pie
died December 9, 1688. Alarried, in Bicester,
England, 1625, Mary AA''est, died in Dorchester,
June 7, 1676; children; i. AA'illiam. 2. Joane,
born Bicester, married Aaron AA'ay, of Dor
chester. 3. Roger, 1632. 4. George, 1634. 5.
Sainuel, Dorchester, Alay 18, 1638. 6. Increase,
Dorchester, February 23,' 1643.
(Ill) AVilliam Sumner, son of AA'illiani and
Mary (AA'est) Sumner, was born in Bicester,
England, and died in Boston, Alassachusetts,,
[675. He was a mariner, lived first in Dor
chester and afterward in Boston. Married
Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Clement, of
Dorchester; she died before 1687; ten chil
dren, the fir,st two of whom were born in Dor
chester and the others in Boston ; i. Elizabeth,
1652, died 1728; married Joshua Henshaw. 2.
Mary, 1654, died 1706; married first, Nicholas.
Howe ; married second, John Trow. 3. WiU
iam, February 9, 1656. 4. Hannah, June 10,
1659 ; raarried John Goffe, of Boston. 5.
Sarah, February 14, 1662, died February 12,
1736; raarried first,  ; second, Joseph
AVeeks. 6. Experience, September 22, 1664;
married Thonias Gould. 7. Ebenezer, October
30, 1666; soldier in the Phipps expedition to
Canada, 1690. 8. Deliverance, Alarch 18, 1669,
raarried Ebenezer AVeeks. 9. Clement, Sep
tember 6, 1671. 10. Alercy, January, 1675,
died young.
(IV) Clement Suraner, son of AA'illiani and
Elizabeth (Clement) Sumner, was born in
Boston, September 6, 1671 ; married. May 18,
1698, Alargaret Harris ; children, all born in
Boston; i. AViUiam, March 18, 1699. 2. Ebe
nezer, Septeraber i, 1701. 3. Margaret, De
cember 7, 1702, died sarae day. 4. Margaret,
July 18, 1705; married William Jepson, of
Boston. 5. EHzabeth, October 8, 1707; mar
ried John Bennett, of Boston. 6. Samuel, Au
gust 31, 1709. 7. Benjamin, May 28, 171 1.
(V) Ebenezer Suraner, son of Cleraent and
Margaret (Harris) Sumner, was born in Bos
ton, September i, 1701, died there December

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26, 1783; married, October 8, 1723, EHzabeth
Cox; children, born in Boston; i. Elizabeth,
October 11, 1724. 2. Susannah, Septeraber 13,
1726; raarried Ephraim Abraham Foster. 3.
Ebenezer, 1728, died young. 4. Samuel, De
cember 22, 1730. 5. Ebenezer, Alarch 25, 1733.
6. Cleraent, 1735. 7. Mary, March 26, 1739,
married Joseph Ingraham. 8. Rachel, 1741.
(VI) Samuel Sumner, son of Ebenezer and
Elzabeth (Cox) Sumner, was bom in Boston,
December 22, 1730, and died at Port Royal,
February 26, 1783. He lived in Boston and"
married first, Bethia, daughter of Benjamin
Clough, of Boston ; married second, Elizabeth
Shedd, who died December 28, 1810. I'wo
children by first wife and eight by second
marriage, all born in Boston: i. Benjamin
Clough, April 14, 1755. 2. Samuel, August 22,
1758. 3. Elizabeth, July 20, 1765, died sarae
day. 4. Sarah, died ' Noveraber 10, 1769. 5.
Elizabeth, November 10, 1768, died 1836. 6.
Rebecca, 1770, died 1775. 7. Joseph Shedd,
November 10, 1771, died June 27, 1776. 8.
Bethia Clough, 1773, died 1776. 9. Hannah
Turner, July 24, 1778, died Alelrose, August
22, 1858; raarried, March 24, 1798, WiUiam
Barrett, of Boston, who died in service dur
ing the war of 1812-15. (See Barrett). 10.
Bethia Clough, August 24, 1779; raarried
Jabez Knight.
(VII) Benjarain Clough Suraner, son of
Sarauel and Bethia (Clough) Suraner, was
born in Boston, April 14, 1755, and died in
Beverly, Massachusetts, June 21, 1807. He
raarried, in Beverly, Mary Witt ; children, born
in Beverly; i. Mary Clough, March 9, 1784,
died March i, 1849; raarried Nathaniel Hogan,
of Beverly. 2. Benjarain Clough, March 13,
1786, died at sea November, 1803. 3. John
Witt, February 18, 1788. 4. Samuel, Septem
ber 8, 1789. 5. William Clough, August 5,
1791. 6. Sarah, January 6, 1794. 7. Ebenezer,
April 5, 1796. 8. Rebecca H., July 16, 1798,
died Melrose, January 12, 1871.
(VIII) John Witt Sumner, son of Benja
min Clough and Mary (Witt) Sumner, was
born in Beverly, February 18, 1788, and died
there July 3, 1828. He married first, Deborah
Hogan, and second, Elizabeth Legro. Three
children by first wife and three by second wife,
all born in Beverly; i. Hannah Barrett, Feb
ruary 26, 181 1 ; raarried, February 28, 1831,
Sumner Foster Barrett, of Melrose. (See Bar
rett). 2. Anna Black, June 2, 1812; married
Daniel Poor, of Bradford. 3. John Witt,
March 15, 1815, died East Boston, 1851 ; mar
ried Hannah Arbuckle. 4. Eliza Cleaves, No

veraber 5, 1820; raarried WiUiam Elliott, of
Topsfield. 5. Rebecca Haskell, March 21, 1822,
died October 11, 1824. 6. Rebecca Haskell,
April 24, 1825; raarried, June 20, 1844, Ed
ward R. Fiske, of Worcester.

(I) John HaU, iraraigrant ancestor
HALL of this faraily, according to family
tradition was born in AVales. He
settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts, about
1640, and his name appears on the list of those
able to bear arms in 1643. He removed to
Yarmouth in 1653 or even earher, locating in
that part now forming the town of Dennis,
and his descendant, Josiah S. Hall, was
recently living on the original homestead. He
raust have been closely related to George Hall,
who had lands assigned to him in Duxbury
before 1639; who was of Taunton on the list
of those able to bear arms in 1643 and town
officer in 1645; whose will was dated October
26, 1668; bequeathing to wife Mary, sons
John, Sarauel and Joseph, daughters Charity
and Sarah, and to WiUiam Evans. Hall's
house in Barnstable was near the site of the
new court house. He owned a small tract near
Cooper Pond, and a great lot of forty acres at
Indian Ponds. He bought his house and lands
of General James Cudworth, and sold to James
Nagle when he removed to Yarmouth. He
settled, about 1651, on a farra of one hundred
and. forty-seven acres in Conny Furlong, at
Nobscusset, a short distance from the meeting
house. Pie also owned fifteen acres of upland
west of Coy's Pond, and twelve acres of
meadow in that vicinity. He was a constable
in Barnstable in 1647; surveyor of highways
at Yarmouth in 1653; on the grand inquest
1657 and 1664. He was a man of eminently
distinguished raoral worth, we are told, and of
religious character. He died at an advanced
age in 1694. His wUl was dated July 15, 1694,
and was proved August 25, 1696, bequeathing
to sons Samuel, Joseph, AVilliam, Benjamin,
Elisha, John, Nathaniel and Gershom. He
was buried on the horaestead. Of his children
we have the following record: i. Samuel,
niarried Elizabeth Pollard; he died without
issue, raentioning his seven brothers in his wiU ;
his widow raarried se'cond, April 27, 1799,
Nathaniel Jones. 2. John, see forward. 3.
Joseph, baptized July 3, 1642. 4. Benjamin,
born 1744; baptized July 14, of that year; died
July 23, 1744. 5. Nathaniel, baptized February
8. 1746. 6. Gershom, baptized March 5, 1648. 7.
AA'illiara, baptized June 8, 1651. 8. Benjarain,
baptized May 29, 1653. 9. Elisha, born 1655.

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(II) Deacon John Hall, son of John Hall
(i), was born about 1637; died at Dennis,
Massachusetts, October 14, 1710, according to
record on the gravestone. He was deacon in
the church ; selectman in 1685 ; and had a pew
in the meeting house as early as 1672. He
resided at Yarmouth. Pie married PriscUla
Bearse, born March 10, 1643, died March 30,
1712, daughter of August Bearse, of Barn
stable, who came from Southampton, England,
at the age of twenty years, sailing in the ship
"Confidence," April 2, 1638. They had chil
dren, all born in Yarmouth; John, 166 1, died
young; Joseph, see forward; John, 1666; Pris
cilla, 1668; Priscilla, February, 1671 ; Esther,
1672; Mary, March i, 1674; Martha, May 24,
1676; Nathaniel, September 15, 1678, married
Widow Jane Moore, removed to Lewiston,
Pennsylvania. (Ill) Deacon Joseph Hall, second .son and
child of Deacon John (2) and Priscilla
(Bearse) Hall, was born in Yarmouth, Massa
chusetts, September 29, 1663, died January 29,
1737. He settled on the farm of his father
in Dennis, and was deacon of the church in
Yarmouth. He was appointed a member of
the comraittee to confer about getting a new
meeting house in 1716; was deputy to the gen
eral court in 1715-6; selectman in 1701, and
for twenty-eight years altogether. He raar
ried first, February 12, 1690, Hannah MUler,
born April 19, 1666, died August 23, 1710,
daughter of Rev. John MiUer, the first minister
of Yarmouth ; children ; i. Hannah, born Feb
ruary 30, 1691 ; married, November 22, 1715,
Ebenezer Crocker. 2. Priscilla, born March
28, 1693. 3- Margery, born February 24, 1695.
4. Joseph, born August 6, 1697. 5. Daniel,
see forward. 6. Josiah, born August 12, 1701.
7. David, bom August 6, 1704. Mr. HaU
raarried (second) Mary, daughter of 
Faunce and widow of John Morton. She
died May 31, 1761, at the age of eighty years.
They had children: Mary, born March 31,
1712; Peter, born May 19, 1715; John, born
January 30, 1717; Bethsheba, born July 5,
1719. (IV) Daniel Hall, second son and fifth
child of Deacon Joseph (3) and Hannah
(Miller) Hall, was born in Yarmouth, July 15,
1699, and died October 14, 1768. He was
representative to the general court for four
years, 1735 and later; selectraan, 1757; and
deacon of the Yarmouth church. He married
first, Alay 18, 1721, Lydia Gray, of Harwich,
Massachusetts ; second, Sarah Downs ; third,
Rebecca Bangs. His children, all born in

Yarmouth, were: Daniel, Jr., born August
6, 1722; David, born March 6, 1724; Lot,
March 18, 1725; Joshua, born May 5, 1737;
Atherton, see forward; Peter, born February
10, 1750; Samuel, born March 7, 1752, removed
to Ashfield in 1777. He also had two sons and
seven daughters, of whom the names are not
known (V) Atherton HaU, son of Daniel HaU (4),
was born in Yarmouth, Alassachusetts, March
7, 1748. He was a prominent citizen of his
day, being selectraan in 1786 and representative
to the general court three years, 175 1-4. He
married Ruth Crowell, born in Yarmouth,
September, 1749, and they had children; i.
Atherton, see forward. 2. Peter, born Novem
ber 14, 1772; married Polly  ; children;
Alran, born September 25, 1794; Joseph, Feb
ruary 10, 1797; Joshua, Alarch 4, 1799; Polly,
June 5, 1801 ; Peter, February 8, 1803; John
C, March 25, 1804; Sabina, February 14,
1805; Rebecca, October 21, 1807; Bradford,
March 21, 1810; Henry, February 22, 1812;
Daniel, March 17, 1814; Aguley, Septeraber
ID, 1816; Benjamin, June 21, 1819; John C,
September 8, 1823. 3. Sarah, born Septeraber
30, 1774; married Isaac White; children:
Polly, born October 14, 1798; Ruth, June 7,
1801; Sarah, November 27, 1802; Mira, Sep
teraber 29, 1804; Lydia, May 3, 1806; Isaac,
December 29, 1807; Rebecca, December 29,
1809; Bartlett, Septeraber 25, 1811; Joseph,
October 21, 1813. 4. Lydia, born October 8,
1776; raarried Gideon Hallet; chUdren: Ed
mund, born August 20, 1798; Atherton, Octo
ber 10, 1799; Ruth, February 13, 1801 ; Lydia,
August 31, 1802; Gideon, April 16, 1804;
Freeraan, Noveraber 24, 1805 ; Russell, Decem
ber 12, 1807; Marsene, November 26, 1809;
Sebina, October 30, 181 1 ; Phila Ann, July 19,
1813; Otis; Howes; Mary, November 3, 1819.
5. Ruth, born July 13, 1778; married Israel
Nickerson ; children ; Ruth H., born April
22, 1809; Hirara, February 6, 181 1 ; Mehitable
P., May 26, 1812; CaroHne, Deceraber 25,
1813; Keziah, November 12, 1815; Sophia,
Alay 26, 1817. 6. Alehitable, born August 4,
1780; married Newson Perry; children; Me
hitable, born May 18, 1801 ; Newson, April 28,
1803; Ruth, March 4, 1805; Mira Ann, July
2, 1807; WiUiara B.. Septeraber 2, 1810; Dan
iel, May 17, 1813; Ralph, September 2, 1815;
Hilyard H., February 25, 1818; Daniel W.,
January 14, 1821. 7. Elizabeth, born January
3, 1783; raarried Ezra Ide; chUdren; Esther,
born October 15, 1804; Hiram H., January 31,
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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

born February i8, 1785; raarried Isaac Gor
ham ; chUdren ; Emily, born August 20, 1812 ;
Diantha, Alarch 18, 1814; Irvin, February 4,
1816: Jane, October 26, 1817; Charles, March
10, 1818; Hannah, December 7, 1820; Jason,
March 25, 1822; Atherton, May 29, 1824;
Hiram, Septeraber 21, 1827; Rebecca, Septera
ber 27, 1829. 9. Desire, born January 8, 1788;
married A^ine Carpenter ; children : Infant,
born July 17, 1808; Harriet, July 18, 1811;
an infant, January i, 1813; Sophia, July 19,
1814; an infant, June 26, 1816; Pamela, Janu
ary 4, 1818; Granl, January 26, 1820; Almira,
December 25, 1823.
(VI) Atherton Hall, eldest child of Ather
ton (5") and Ruth (CroweU) HaU, was bom in
Yarmouth, Massachusetts, November 4, 1770,
and died November 21, 1848. Plis farm was
in Dennis, as incorporated June 19, 1793, from
the old town in A'armouth. He niarried, Jan
uary 29, 1795, Olive Hallet, born April 16,
1775, died October 10, 1854; children; i.
Edward, see forward. 2. Sally, born May 5,
1798; died June 25, 1803. 3. Atherton, born
October 29, 1800; died Septeraber 15, 1881. 4.
Olive, born April 19, 1803; died October 31,
1853. 5- Hirara, born May 29, 1806; died
February 20, 1887; raarried, 1831, Silence
Sophronia DeAVitt, born April 27, 1809, died
February 26, 1893. 6. Sally, born October
9, 1808; died September 21, 1859. 7. Harriet,
born December 5, 181 1; died Alarch 13, 1815.
8. Nathan Hallet, born June 22, 1815; died
October 13, 1862; married, July 12, 1847, Eliz
abeth Smith, born November 21, 1818, died
September 26, 1898 ; children ; Jennie Eliza
beth, born September i, 1849, died Septeraber
2, 1883; and Fannie Smith, born January 21,
1859. 9- EHza Jane, born March 21, 1818;
married, February 14, 1839, George Ranney,
bom February 7, 1813, tenth child of Elijah
and Lydia (Crawford) Ranney. 10. Ebenezer,
born October 16, 1820, died February 19, 1898;
niarried, December 30, 1847, Betsey Miller,
born February 16, 1821, died January 9, 1900,
daughter of John and Betsey (Robinson) Mil
ler ; children ; Charles Atherton, born Novem
ber 8, 1848 ; Henry Augustine, born September
21, 1850; Florence Amelia, born December 2,
1852. (VII) Edward Hall, eldest child of Ather
ton (6) and Olive (Hallet) Hall, was born
Deceraber 20, 1795; died March 13, 1889. He
niarried first, October 28, 1819, Orpah GoodeU,
born in AA^est AVestrainster, Vermont, July 26,
1797, died November 30, 1845. Children; i.
WiUiam GoodeU, born .August 15, 1820, died

August 24, 1896; married, at Ashby, Alassa
chusetts, May 20, 1846, Mary Russell Haskell,
born January 17, 1821, died January 15, 1906;
children ; Frances Jane, born April 13, 1847,
died Alay 30, of the same year ; Georgiana,
born May 8, 1848, died July 3, 1851. 2. Mary,
born February 19, 1823; died August 12, 1825.
3. Julia Ann, born November 27, 1824; died
September 16, 1901 ; raarried, January 21.
1846, Daniel Campbell, born in AA'estrainster,
Verraont, Alarch 8, 1820, died at Saxton River,
February 3, 1898, son of Edward Rayraond
and Clarissa (Charaberlin) Campbell ; children,
the five elder born in West AA^estminster, the
others at Saxton River; Charles Hamilton,
born December 31, 1846, died August 28, 1848;
Flora Elizabeth, born May i, 1848; Julia Alice,
born November 23, 1849, died August 4, 1851 ;
Edward Raymond, born September 27, 1853 '<'
AA'illiam Hall, born June 7, 1856, died March
24, 1904; Harriet Julia, born January 11, 1859;
Clara Orpah, born October 5, i'86i ; Mary
Ellen, born Alay 9, 1867. 4. Mary, born Feb
ruary 25, 1827; died April 27, 1890; raarried,
October 13, 1857, Henry Holmes, born in
Grafton, A^ermont, February 5, 1806, and died
in sarae town, August 27, 1871. They had
one child ; George Henry, born in Grafton,
May I, i860; died at Bellows Falls, Verraont,
January 23, 1893. 5. Edward Bangs, born
Noveraber 13, 1828; died July 15, 1893; raar
ried, October 30, 1851, EUen Narcissa Buxton,
died June 6, 1889; children, all born at West
Westminster: A daughter, born March 17,
1855, died April 13, same year; Herbert Ed
ward, born December 25, 1856, died in Dan
vers, Colorado, December 19, 1899 ! WiUis
Henry, born December 23, i860, died in
Fresno, California, August 26, 1895. 6. Josiah,
born February 5, 1835; married, Noveraber
29, 1865, Delia EHzabeth Adaras, born in Mon
tague, Massachusetts, Noveraber 12, 1846,
fourth child of Amos and Sarah (Whitney)
Adaras ; children ; George Warren, born in
Greenfield, Massachusetts, December 25, 1866 ;
Carrie Luella, born in Greenfield, Massachu
setts, September 25, 1868. 7. Nathan, born
Alarch 7, 1837 ; died August 11, 1875 ; married,
NoveralDer 30, 1865, Laura Bugbee, born April
26, 1846, died January 10, 1872; one child;
George Edward, born in Brattleboro, Verraont,
.August 2, 1868; niarried, Septeraber 30, 1902,
Anna Copeland Ames, daughter of Frank AI.
and Catherine H. (Copeland) Ames; children;
Catherine Ames, born in New York City, May
24, 1904, and Aiice Araes, born in AVatertown,
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1889

born August i, 1841 ; raarried February 12,
1868, Julia Ann Britton, born in Neosho, Mis
souri, July 29, 1850, tenth child of George
Washington and Catherine Ann (Aloody)
Britton; children; Edward Clay, born in
Neosho, Missouri, November 18, 1868; Myrtle
Pearl, born in Greenfield, Missouri, April 30,
1874. Edward Hall married second. May 12, 1846,
Mrs. Frances A. Wheeler, whose maiden name
was Tuttle. She was born in Grafton, Ver
mont, March 15, 181 1, and died February 11,
1905. She married first, November 27, 1834,
HoUand Wheeler, born in Westmoreland, New
Hampshire, April 3, 1796, died October 10,
1842. They had children ; Kirke W., born Au
gust 15, 1835, died June 25, 1904; and Hol
land, Jr., born April 19, 1837. Mrs. Hall
was a daughter of Daniel and Lucretia (Hap
good) Tuttle, who were married in 1808. The
former was born at West Springfield, Massa
chusetts, June 5, 1788, and died June 6, 1861 ;
his wife was born at Bellows Falls, Verraont,
June 12, 1792, and died March 19, 1871. They
had children ; Quarters Morgan, born August
28, 1809, died March 19, 1877; Frances Ade
line, who married Mr. Hall; Adehne; Daniel
Atwater, born July 4, 181 5, died July 17, 1882;
Caroline Matilda, born August 18, 1817 ; Ly
man Hapgood, born October 28, 1819, died Oc
tober 3, 1841. By his second marriage Mr.
Hall had children; i. Alfred .Stevens, born
April 14, 1850; married first, October 18, 1876,
Martha Annette Hitchcock, born November
3, 1849, died September 26, 1887, daughter of
Josiah Hubbard and Martha Ann (Chamber
hn) Hitchcock. The former was born Octo
ber I, 1818, died Alarch 7, 1866; his wife was
born January 30, 1823, and died July 2, 1886,
They niarried Septeraber 8, 1842, and had chil
dren ; Sherman Josiah, born September 9,
1844, died February 25, 1862; Martha Annette,
who niarried Mr. Hall; Abbie Frances, born
September 13, 1856, died April 8, 1862; Frank
Ellsworth, born October 28, 1864, died July 2,
1882. By this marriage Mr. HaU had chil
dren ; Francis Chamberlin, born September
23, 1878, and Helen Annette, born January
15, 1883. Mr. Hall married (second), April
10, 1895, Delia Rebecca Ranney, born Decem
ber 21, 1854, only child of Henry Porteus and
Frances Augusta (Hamblen) Ranney, the for
mer born January 30, 1829, the latter born Au
gust 20, 1833, died November 19, 1903. 2.
Solon Goodridge, born September 11^1852;
married, September 23, 1884, Libbie Fowler
Clarkson, born in Dundee, Illinois, April 2,
iv— 31

i860, seventh child of David and Jeanette
(Crichton) Clarkson.

Beal (or Beals) is an EngHsh sur-
BEALS name of great antiquity, derived
from the narae of a place. It
means literally a narrow pass. The Scandina
vian giant BeH, from whora the name raay
descend, was slain by Freyr. The French
forra de la Beale is found in the Hundred
Rolls in the thirteenth century. There is a
hamlet of this name in the detached portion of
Durham, England, and the faraily is numerous
in Herefordshire and Northamptonshire. Their
coat-of-arms ; Argent a chevron between three
pheons sable, the two in chief lying fesseways
point to point. Another ancient coat-of-arms
of this family was derived from William Beale,
portreeve of Maidstone in the fourteenth cen
tury ; his descendant, Sir John Beale, of Farra
ington Court, Kent, was high sheriff of county
Kent in 1665. Arras : Sable on a chevron or
between three griffons heads erased argent.
As raany estoiles gules. Crest; A unicorn's
head erased or semel of estoiles gules.
(I) John Beal, iraraigrant ancestor, came
from the parish of Hingham, county Norfolk,
England, where he was born, 1588, to Hing
hara, Alassachusetts, with his wife, five sons
and three daughters, and two servants. This
fact is stated in so raany words on the town
clerk's records by Daniel Gushing, fourth town
clerk of Hingham. He had a grant of land at
Hingham, Massachusetts, September 18, 1638,
si.x acres for a house lot on what is now South
street, near Hersey street. He was a shoe
maker.'' He was admitted a freeman in 1639,
and was deputy to the general court in 1644-
59. He married first, Nazareth Hobart, born
in England, about 1600, died at Hinghara, Sep
tember 23, 1658, daughter of Edmund and
Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. He raarried sec
ond, March 10, 1659, Mary, widow of Nicholas
Jacob; she died at Hinghara, June 15, 1681.
In noticing his death, David Hobart, son of
Rev. Peter Hobart, made full record "zApril i,
1688, my uncle John Beal died suddenly."
Judge Sewell also made a record on the sarae
date, "Father Beal of Plinghara died aged one
hundred years." His will was dated Septem
ber 27, 1687, and bequeathed to his children
and grandchildren. Children, all by first wife ;
I. Martha, born 1620, married, March 16,
1640, WilHam Falloway, of Plymouth; second,
June 29, 1649, Samuel Dunham ; died AprU 26,
1690. 2. Mary, born 1622, married, December
30. 1647, James AVhiton, of Hingham ; died

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

December 12, 1696. 3. Sarah, born 1625, mar
ried, March 22, 1648-49, Thomas Alarch ; sec
ond, September 5, 1662, Edmund Sheffield, of
Braintree; died at Braintree, November 9,
1710. 4. John, born about 1627. 5. Nathaniel,
born 1629. 6. Jeremiah, born about 1631,
mentioned below. 7. Joshua, born about 1633.
8. Caleb, born 1636. 9. Relaecca, baptized at
Hingham, February, 1640-41, died December
13, 1686. 10. Jacob, born October 13, 1642.
(II) Jeremiah Beals, son of John Beal (i),
was born in England about 1631. He carae
with his parents to America, and settled in
Hingham. He was a blacksmith; was con
stable, 1672; selectman, 1671-73-84; deputy to
the general court 1691-92-1701. He resided on
Bachelor street, near Main street, near the
meeting house of the First Parish, but late in
life removed to East street, near Hull street.
He raarried, November 18, 1652, Sarah Ripley,
hern in England and died in Hinghara, June
29, 1715, daughter of WiUiara Ripley. He
died August 10, 1716, aged eighty-five years.
Children, bom at Hingham; i. Jeremiah, May
I3j 1655. 2. John, March 8, 1656-57, men
tioned below. 3. Sarah, July, 1659, raarried,
January 21, 1679-80, John Lane. 4. Lazarus,
September 7, 1661. 5. Phebe, March 2, 1663-
64, died July 12, 1665. 6. Mary, May 6, 1666,
married, December 23, 1702, John Orcutt, of
Bridgewater. 7. Elizabeth, May 16, 1669, raar
ried, December 29, 1708, Ephraira Lane.
(Ill) John Beals, son of Jereraiah Beals
(2), was born in Hinghara, March 8, 1656-57,
and died Deceraber 30, 1735, in his seventy-
ninth year. He resided on East street, at
Rocky Nook. He raarried, about 1686, Han
nah  , who died April 27, 1762, aged
ninety-three years. His will was dated May
7, 1734, and proved January 27, 1735-36. Chil
dren, born at Hingham; i. Sarah, October 12,
1687. 2. Ruth, 1690, married, 1718, Richard
Cobb; died May 14, 1719. 3. Infant, died
young. 4. Infant, died young. 5. Hannah,
October 14, 1695, raarried, November 15, 1722,
Caleb Marsh. 6. Lydia, April 10, 1697, raar
ried, December 25, 1718, David Lincoln. 7.
Deborah, June 22, 1699, died November 14,
171 1. 8. John, December 30, 1700. 9. Daniel,
June I, 1703, married, October 15, 1724, Eliz
abeth Tucker. 10. Samuel, February 2, 1704-
05, mentioned below. 11. Stephen, September
16, 1707. 12. Mary, Alay 7, 1710, married,
November 20, 1729, Thomas Waterman.
(IV) Sarauel Beals, son of John Beals (3),
was born at Hingham, February 2, 1704-05,
died 1750. Pie settled at East Bridgewater,

on the Eleazer Kieth place. He married, 1725
Mary, daughter of Elnathan Bassett. Chil
dren, born at Bridgewater; i. Samuel, 1726;
married, 1745, EHzabeth Blackman; settled in
Medford; children: David and Samuel. 2
Nathan, 1727, married Bathsheba  . 3,
Daniel, 1729, married Mehitable Byram,
daughter of Joseph Byram, and settled in Med
ford. 4. Jonathan, 1730, mentioned below. 5
Joseph (twin), 1733. 6. Benjamin (twin)
1733, raarried Sarah  ; settled at Med
ford. 7. Seth, 1736. 8. Mary, 1742. 9
Joseph, 1743.
("V) Jonathan Beals, son of Samuel Beals
(4), was born 1730, died 1813, aged eighty-
three. He married, 175 1, AbigaU Harlow, who
died 1779, aged fifty. He married second,
Abigail (Snow) Edgerton, widow of John
Edgerton, and daughter of Jaraes Snow, in
1780. He removed with his brothers to Men
don (now Medford), Massachusetts. Chil
dren, born in Bridgewater; i. Joseph, 1752,
reraoved to Abington. 2. Azariah, 1753, men
tioned below. 3. Abigail, 1755, married, 1779,
Josiah Hull. 4. Jonathan, 1758. 5. Hannah,
1760, died young. 6. Hannah, 1762, married,
1780, Noah Hull. 7. Molly, 1770, married,
1793, Bela Reed.
(VI) Azariah Beals, son of Jonathan. Beals
(5), was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
1753. He removed to Cummington and Plain-
field, Massachusetts, residing in the latter place
during the revolutionary war, and later moved
to Pharsalia, New York. He had extended
service in the revolution; was in an independ
ent corapany under Captain Joseph Trufant,
1775; in Captain Thoraas Nash's company.
Colonel Solomon Lovell's regiment at Dor-
cliester Pleights, 1776; under the same captain
in Colonel Josiah AVhite's regiment, at Hull,
1776-77; in Captain Thomas Nash's company,
Colonel David Cushing's regiment, 1777-78, in
Rliode Island in Captain Nathan Alden's com
pany, Alajor Eliphalet Gary's regiment, in
Rhode Island, 1778. He married, at Bridge-
water, 1776, Bathsheba Bisbee, born April 21,
1753, died Alarch 24, 1844. Children; i.
Daniel, born 1779, probably died young. 2.
Ezra, born February 20, 1781, married, Jan
uary 29, 1807, Lucena  , born January 4,
1789; children; i. Bathsheba, born March 16,
1808; ii. Delilah, Noveraber 28, 1809; iii.
Ralph, May 11, 181 2, died AprU i, 1834; iv.
Orphia, June 26, 1814; v. Badoura, September
12, 1816; vi. Horatio, January 23, 1819; vii.
Rush, March i, 1821 ; viii. Leroy, September
17, 1823; ix. Horace, June 16, 1829. 3. Rox-

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1891

anna. 4. Levi, born Alay 18, 1789, mentioned
below. 5. Patty.
(^^H) Levi Beals, son of Azariah Beals
(6), was born May 18, 1789. died August 31,
1861, at Aloline, Illinois. He was brought up
on his father's farm, and learned the trade of
a tanner, which he followed for some time.
He also learned the trade of shoemaker. From
Pharsalia, New York, where his marriage
occurred, he removed to Moline, Illinois, where
he made his home untU his death. He was a
man of excellent judgment, and was prominent
in the town. He married Catherine Smith,
who died December 30, 1833. Children; i.
Morell Bisbee, born September 18, 1822, men
tioned below. 2. Pattie M., born August 28,
1826, raarried Ploratio Beals, of Bear Lake,
Pennsylvania; one child. 3. Austin M., born
September 22, 1828, married JuHa Wells, of
Meadeville, Pennsylvania. 4. Charles James,
born July 12, 1832, died June 6, 1865 ; raarried,
December 24, 1853, Henrietta Prosser, born
March 10, 1837, died January 26, 1884, of
Girard, Pennsylvania ; children ; i. Bird Pros
ser, born October 17, 1855, married Ida V.
Blood, of Monroe, Ohio ; had Marie Henrietta,
July 26, 1889; Prosser Blood, February 9,
1890; Gilson AA^ilHs, October 10, 1892; Cary
Chamberlain, .September 26, 1894; Edith Cor
nelia, AprU 2, 1896; ii. Mary Jane, born De
ceraber 25, 1857, married, November 21, 1878,
Edgar R. Skinner, of Ohio; children: Charles
Lothrop, born Septeraber 25, 1880, married,
September 10, 1907, Levia M. Bond ; Homer
Burden, December i, 1882, married, December
25, 1906, Ella Al. Griffey, one son, Robert Ed
gar, born Septeraber 16, 1907; Ruth Henri
etta, born October 20, 1885, raarried, February
28, 1907, John Lee AVhite, one son, Albert
Noble, born April 2, 1908; Edgar Prosser,
born July 20, 1890 ; Lois Trayne, born January
9, 1896; iii. Charles Bartlett, born Alay 7,
1859, died March 20, 1901 ; iv. Emma Ruth,
born August 20, 1861, raarried, AprU 4, 1894,
Charles H. Dixon, of Cleveland, Ohio; chil
dren; Charles H., Jr., born April 23, 1898,
died April 29, 1898, and Lelia Alberta, born
April 28, 1899, died same day.
(VIII) Dr. AloreU Bisbee Beals, son of
Levi Beals (7), was born in Pharsalia, New
York, September 18, 1822, and died at Muske
gon, Michigan, November 26, 1889. He fitted
for college in his native town, and graduated
at AA^iUiams College at the age of twenty-five.
He studied medicine and took an allopath
degree. He went west and taught school sev
eral years, being teacher and school superin

tendent at La Crosse, Wisconsin, Iowa City,
Iowa, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, also
several years at Flint, Michigan. In 1868
he becarae interested in the theory and prac
tice of homeopathy, and in 1877 he received
a diploma from the Hahnemann College in
Chicago. He located at Muskegon, Michi
gan, where he built up a large general and
surgical practice, and reraained there until
his death. Pie was a scholarly man, of fine
intellect, one of the foremost teachers of his
day, and a powerful public speaker, although
he was not generally speaking a public man.
He was a close follower of the Swendenborgian
religion for forty years, having becorae
acquainted with the works of Swedenborg
while at college, and always admired and stud
ied them. He was a raeraber of the Masonic
order, and was a Republican in politics. He
raarried Caroline Wells, born October 25,
1827, died in New Mexico, June 7, 1897,
daughter of Joab and Edna (Long) AVeUs, of
Meadeville, Pennsylvania. Her father was
a farmer. Children: i. Dr. Guy WiUiam,
born March 21, 1853, resides in Hillsboro,
New Alexico; raarried Ida M. Morrish, of
FHnt, Michigan ; children ; i. Pattie, born Oc
tober 31, 1889; ii. Ethel, June 13, 1891 ; iii.
AloreU Morrish, June 6, 1893; iv. Carolyn,
June 30, 1895 ; ^- Arthur CarroU, September
24, 1898, died May 23, 1901. 2. EUa Ger
trude, born April 18, 1855, unmarried. 3.
Jessie, born November 22, 1857, deceased. 4.
Jessie, born November 25, 1859, unmarried.
5. Carl Morell, bom May 10, 1865, died Feb
ruary 2, 1908; niarried Eraraa Quick, of Lake
Valley, New Mexico; children; i. Kenneth
Bisbee, born September 13, 1902, died April
28, 1906; ii. Carlton Aladison, April 27, 1904;
iii. Guy Morgan, Alay 28, 1906. 6. Caroline.
7. Erl Vinton, born June 17, 1867, mentioned
below. 8. Archie Bisbee, born December 12,
1869, unmarried.
(IX) Erl Vinton Beals, son of Dr. Morell
Bisbee Beals (8), was born at Topeka, Kansas,
June 17, 1867. At the age of four he reraoved
"with his parents to Moline, Illinois, where he
attended the public schools, later reraoving to
Ovid, Michigan, and thence to Muskegon,
sarae state, where he received the greater part
of his education, going to the high school until
1886. He then becarae reporter for the Muske
gon Chronicle, where he remained ten years.
He became interested in type-setting machines
before any practicable machines were on the
market and later turned his attention to the
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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

setting. In 1891, when he took up the w'ork
seriously, there were several type-setting
machines on the raarket. The Thorne machine
set type and distributed it again by an ingeni
ous device. The Mergeiithaler machine casts
each line separately, and after using the slugs
the metal is melted and used again. The mon
otype machine, which in later years has become
a strong rival of the linotype, casts each letter
separately and is used extensively in book
work. The Rogers and Mergenthaler com
panies each had devices advantageous to the
other's machine, and finally the Mergenthaler
obtained a monopoly of them. Since 1893 the
Mergenthaler company has equipped almost
every newspaper office of importance in the
United States and many foreign countries with
its raachines, changing the whole character of
the press, enormously increasing the size of
newspapers. The Nciv York Sun uses the
the monotype machine. The original type
setting machines have not held their own in
the race — the type-casting machines have the
field. Air. Beals studied the problera of sirapli-
fying the mechanisms which require skilled
machinist's care all the time, and which are
costly to make and to keep in repair. The lino
type costs from three to four thousand dollars,
and some offices have more than fifty of these
machines in use. He secured the financial
support of such men as Chief Justice Charles
D. Long, Colonel Frank J. Hecker, of the
Panama Coramission, and M. S. Smith, of
Detroit, where he began his experimenting.
He has developed a machine entirely different
from all others, raore efficient, less compUcated
and less expensive. He had the machine well
worked out in 1897 when he came to Boston
to coraplete it, the raechancial facilities for
developing the more complicated parts being
obtainable best in that city. After two years
in Boston he made his home in Arlington,
Alassachusetts, occupying the Piper estate. In
1901 he purchased the Sampson estate, which
overlooks the city of Boston, and its harbor.
He has converted a portion of the buildings
into a laboratory and workshop for his experi
raents, and installed an electrical plant that
lights all his buildings and supplies power for
his shop. His machinery is of the most deli
cate and expensive sort. The three floors of
his laboratory have an area of four thousand
square feet. The Beals machine, which was
placed on the market a year later, has at least
double the capacity of any other raachine for
setting or casting type. It is operated entirely
by electricity. The keyboard has the one-mag

net system, a device of Mr. Beals that is being
appHed to church organs, typewriters, leather
measuring machines and similar mechanisms.
Mr. Beals has also invented an area-meter for
raeasuring leather sides, a device that is indis
pensable to tanners and concerns buying large
quantities of leather. This raachine is built
by the Beals Area-meter Company, a corpora
tion organized under state of Maine laws. Mr.
Beals is a follower of the Swedenborgian relig
ion, and a radical thinker. In politics he is a
Republican. He raarried, June 27, 1899, Mar
guerite (Banimel) Cook, born July 4, i860,
adopted daughter of John and Mary (Fran-
auer) Bamrael, of Marine City, Michigan.
Her father was a fanner and stationary engi
neer.

(For first generation see Nicholas Worthington l).
(II) Jonathan Worth-
AVORTHINGTON ington, of West Spring
field, Alassachusetts,
eldest son of Nicholas Worthington (i),
raarried first, February 19, 1708, Elizabeth,
daughter of John and Sarah (Bliss) Scott,
of West Springfield, died September 18,
1743; second, March 21, 1744, Experience
Fowler. Children by first wife; i. Elizabeth,
born February 17, 1710, raarried, January 3,
1730, Samuel Gaylord, of Hadley; he died
1759. 2. Margaret, born February 2, 1712,
married, December i, 1733, Jonathan Pur
chase, of AA''allingford, Connecticut. 3. Jona
than, see forward. 4. Nicholas, born July 26,
1717, died February 23, 1720. 5. WUliam,
born January 16, 1720, married, about March
21, 1743' Sarah Rogers, who died Deceraber
17, 1804. 6. Amy, born November 3, 1725,
died February 20, 1743. Children by second
wife; 7. Olive, born April 10, 1750. 8. Beulah,
born April 7, 1752, died in infancy. 9. Beulah,
born April 2, 1754.
(Ill) Jonathan AA'orthington was born June
17, 1715. He married Mary Purchase. He
lived at Agawam, Alassachusetts, and died
there. Children; i. Jonathan, see forward.
2. Eleanor, born October 27, 1746, died July
22, 1749. 3. Aray, born July 6, 1749, in Aga-
wara, raarried, December 10, 1772, Lieutenant
Jube Leonard, bom Alarch 12, 1747, son of
Benjamin and Thankful Leonard. Amy Leon
ard died April 26, 1813, at .Agawam, and her
husband September 22, 1820, at Agawam. 4.
John, born July 25, 1 751, in Agawam, raarried
first, January 20, 1774, Eunice Ferre, born
September 6, 1752, at Springfield, Massachu
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and Eunice (Choplin) Ferre; second, Polly
Leonard; third, September 30, 1794, Betsey
Potter. John died April 15, 181 5, at Agawam.
5. Eleanor, born July 23, 1754, niarried, Au
gust 15, 1 77 1, Stephen Bodurtha, born March
22, 1746, son of Jonathan and Joanna (Frost)
Bodurtha. 6. Hulda, bom August 23, 1756,
married, July 10, 1774, Isaac Cooley, who died
June 5, 1782. 7. Seth, born August 18, 1760,
was killed by Indians near Fort Stanwix (near
Roscoe, New York) during revolutionary war.
8. Margaret, born September 30, 1763. 9.
Eunice, twin to Margaret, born September 30,
1763; raarried Major Gad Warriner, born
January 29, 1762, in West Springfield, Massa
chusetts, son of Hezekiah and Persis (Hitch
cock) Warriner.
(IV) Jonathan AVorthiiigton, of Agawara,
Massachusetts, was born there March 31, 1744.
He received upon the division of the land in
West Springfield (now Agawara), Alassachu
setts, lot nuraber one, which was east of Darby
brook to the main road, also number twenty-
one, which was south of nuraber one. He after
ward purchased from the Indians a piece of
land one raile square, situated in the south part
of the town. In 1894 his grandson Henry
lived on the sarae land, and part of it has been
held by the faraily ever since. He raarried
first, January 11, 1770, Mary Burbanks, born
1750, died May 10, 1794; second, June 5, 1795,
Airs. Sybil Cotton, died March 29, 1803 ; third,
February 26, 1804, Lorena Chapin. He died
August 14, 1809. Children of first wife; i.
Lucy, born August 26, 1772, raarried, Novem
ber 25, 1787, Captain EH Ball, of Agawam,
born April 2, 1764, son of Aloses Ball. She
died April 20, 1838, at Agawara ; he died May
26, 1844, at Agawam. 2. Araos, born October
19, 1774, at Agawara, married, June 22, 1798,
Dezier Gallup, born November 20, 1773, in
Groton, Connecticut, daughter of Benjamin
and Bridget (Palmer) Gallup. Amos remained
engaged in business in Agawam until 1847,
when he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
died January 31, 1852 ; his widow died in 1862.
3. Arabrose, born April 16, 1777, at Agawara,
married, May 6, 1801, Ruth Chapin, born No
vember, 1778. They lived for thirty years in
Agawam and then moved to Bloomfield, New
York, where he died December 15, 1854. She
died there August 22, 1831. 4. Jonathan, see
forward. 5. Mary, born July 15, 1782, at
Agawam, married, October 21, 1802, Roderick
Alorley. 6. Alargaret, born October 30, 1784.
married, January 6, 1805, Samuel Smith, of
Groton, Connecticut, born June 9, 1772, son of

Captain Samuel and Abigail (AA'oodmansee)
Smith. They lived at Suffield, Connecticut,
where both died, he October 4, 1828, and she
April 25, 1829. 7. Fanny, born August 18,
1787, married, April 17, 1823, Benjamin
Austin, of Kirklaiid, Ohio. 8. Seth, born Janu
ary 5, 1790, died young.
("V) Jonathan Worthington, of Agawam,
Alassachusetts, was born Septeraber 2, 1779,
at Agawam, Massachusetts. He married
first, December 26, 1803, Phebe Smith, born
January 6, 1781, died Alay 17, 1809,
at Agawara, daughter of Captain Samuel
and Abigail (AVoodmansee) Sraith; sec
ond, June 2, 181 1, Fanny Smith, born
April 29, 1784, died May 7, 1855, in
Groton, Connecticut, sister to Phebe. He
died February 26, 1870, at Groveland, New
York, and was buried at Agawam. Children
of first wife: i. Sarauel Smith, born Novem
ber 10, 1805, died in infancy. 2. Henry, born
Augu.st 3, 1807, in Agawam, married. May 6,
1835, Henrietta Kenton, born August 13, 1814,
in Oxford, England, daughter of William and
Henrietta (Kayne) Kenton. Both Air. and
Mrs. AVorthiiigton were living in 1892, resid
ing on the old horaestead at Agawam. The
land carae to the grandfather of Henry upon
the division of land in West Springfield, now
Agawam. Children by second wife : 3. Miner,
born September 17, 1812, married. May 30,
1838, Nancy I. Flower, who was born April
5, 1813, died May 9, 1883. 4. Job, born June
24, 181 5, in Groton, Connecticut, died March
30, 1878 ; married, September 16, 1846, Eliza
J. Warner, of Groveland, New York, born
1822, in Geneseo, daughter of David and Han
nah (AVelton) AA^'^arner. 5. Roland, see for
ward. 6. Solomon, born April 3, 1820, in Aga
wara, married (first), October 16, 1850, in
Groveland, New York, Nancy L. Pray, born
1826, in Groveland, daughter of James Pray,
of Groveland. She died August, 1852. He
married (second), April 18, 1854, in New
York, Alatilda AV. Westfall, born 1829, daugh
ter of George AVestfall, of New York. 7.
Phebe S., born June 4, 1822, in Agawam, mar
ried, October 24, 1867, Gilbert L. Deane, of ¦
East Groveland, New York, born December
23, 1840, in Allen, New York, son of Apollos
and Wealthy (Lincoln) Deane. 8. Jonathan
Hiram, born February 2, 1825, in- Agawam,
died in Cleveland, Ohio, September 11, 1854.
9. Fanny Smith, born November 9, 1829, in
Agawam, married, July 26, 1854, Amos Beach,
of CedarviUe, Ohio, born 1828, in Aurora, New
York, son of Jabez and .Abigail (Gates) Beach.

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(AT) Hon. Roland Worthington, of Bos
ton, Alassachusetts, was born in Agawam, Sep
tember 22, 1817. Pie received his education
in the district schools of his native place, and
frora the early age of twelve until he attained
i-iis twentieth year was employed in various
capacities, supporting and educating hiraself
as he went along. In March, 1837, he went
to Boston, and found employment in the count
ing-room of the Daily Advertiser. For six
years he had the valuable experience of asso
ciation with the business department of that
paper, which, with Nathan Hale as its editor,
was indisputably the leading daily of New
England, both in points of enterprise and influ
ence. In 1843, m order to recuperate his fail
ing health, he crossed the Atlantic, and made
a journey up the Mediterranean, touching at
various points, and enlarging his knowledge
of Europe by actual observation. Returning
to this country he then passed a winter at the
south, where he acquired a practical insight
into the political and social conditions of that
section, which proved valuable to hira as the
great questions which culminated in the civil
war developed themselves. In June, 1845, Slav
ing returned to Boston with fully-renewed
health, he took charge of the Daily Evening
Traveller, with whose history his name has
been inseparably connected. The first number
of the Daily Evening TraveUer appeared on
April I, 1845; it was a four-page sheet, about
fourteen by twenty, bearing the imprint of
Upton, Ladd & Company as the publishers,
but that firra very soon afterwards relinquished
all connection with it. Its originators and first
editors were Rev. George Punchard and Dea
con Ferdinand Andrews. They projected it
as a strictly Orthodox paper, devoted to the
zealous advocacy of the teraperance cause.
Rev. Mr. Punchard was popularly spoken of
as "the bishop of the Orthodox churches of
New Harapshire," in which state he had been
preaching with raarked ability and power. Mr.
Worthington brought with him, from his
experience on the Advertiser, a large fund of
practical wisdom as a publisher, and a natural
endowraent of creative and originative faculty
besides, and these were dorainating factors in
the developraent of his new enterprise. Mr.
AA'orthington's narae is identified with some
notable steps in the progress of journalisra.
The newspaper life of Boston, at the tirae he
first entered it. was a very stately and slow-
going affair. All the dailies of the Hub, save
the Mail and Times, were six-penny sheets,
and newsboys were not perraitted to cry any

of them for sale on the streets. Their very
rigid ideas of what dignity required confined
them to circulations acquired "by subscription
only." In August, 1848, Daniel Webster was
announced to address a raeeting to his neigh
bors at Marshfield on the political issues of
the hour. Air. AVorthington engaged Dr.
Janies W. Stone, a well-known and expert
stenographer of that tirae, to go to Marshfield
and report Mr. Webster's address in full. Early
the following morning an extra was on the
streets of Boston, and had an immense sale.
Large editions were rapidly called for, and the
newsboys of Boston cried it lustily all day
long. From the Traveller's report it was sent
especially to the Nezi' York Herald, and from
that time on till the organizing of the Press
jAssociation, the Traveller was the Boston cor
respondent of the New York Herald. Mr.
AVorthington was obliged to seek a personal
interview with the president of the Eastern
Railroad in order to obtain a permit for a boy
to go upon the ferry-boat in the afternoon to
sell his evening paper. He persisted in the
innovation, however, and by another energetic
stroke made it a permanent feature of- The
newspaper business. When the news of the
French Revolution of 1848 and the dethrone
ment of Louis Philippe arrived at New York,
it was sent by telegraph to the Boston reading-
room. Air. Worthington got out extras as
quickly as his press facilities would allow, and
his press-room was kept at the high pressure
point of activity until late in the evening, satis
fying the demand for this startling piece of
foreign intelligence. Another feature of news
paper offices, which is now stereotyped by gen
eral use, but the initiation of which in Boston
belongs also to Mr. Worthington, is the staring
placards, or bulletins, giving the brief heads of
the latest news of the day.
Mr. Worthington was one of the earliest
of the Free Soilers of Massachusetts, and is
remembered by all the survivors of "the raen
of '48" as a staunch and steadfast member of
the Httle band of men who at that early date
foresaw and welcomed the conflict with the
slave power, and who were in fact the advance
guard of the great Republican party, which
was twelve years later to take the destiny of
the nation into its keeping. When the Repub
lican party was organized, Mr. AVorthington,
in common with his brother Free-Soilers, at
once joined it, and carried his paper with him.
though this last step cost him a conflict of
opinion with Editor Andrews, who was
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Webster's famous speech of the seventh of
March, 1852. It was wholly due to Air. Worth-
ington's inflexible attachment to the Free-
Soil idea that Mr. Andrews's views were over
ruled and the Traveller held true to the policy
which made it one of the most fearless and
ablest exponents of the Republican creed. Mr.
Manton Marble then became raanaging editor
of the paper, filHng the position with signal
ability until Samuel Bowles joined the paper
in ^857. Mr. Bowles was the managing editor
from April 13 until August 10 following; his
connection with the paper was brief and bril
liant. Mr. Bowles entered upon the project of
uniting the Atlas, the Bee, and the Chronicle,
with the Evening Traveller and founding upon
the consolidation a great quarto, modelled after
the Nezv York Tribune, to be supported by
the highest literary talent, and to be first-class
in every respect, but this scheme failed utterly.
Mr. Bowles was succeeded by Joseph B. Morss,
who put upon its columns many years of solid
and effective work. The war for the Union
came and the price of the paper was advanced
to four cents, and later to flve cents a copy.
Mr. Reuben Crooke followed Mr. Morss as
managing editor, and he sustained the paper's
reputation as a champion of sturdy Repub
licanism in politics, and kept it on the right
side in all the moral reform movements of the
time. The Traveller showed a truly remarkable
foresight in discussing the political situations.
In i860 it was the first paper to suggest, as
the successor of Governor Banks, the raan who
became the great war governor . of the Com
monwealth. In 1879 it brought forward the
name of Hon. John D. Long for the office of
governor, and against the united and strenuous
opposition of the other Republican dailies of
Boston it urged Mr. Long's nomination upon
the convention, and he was nominated and
elected. In 1882 it warned its party against
the nomination of Air. Bishop, and the foUow
ing year, against every other Republican paper
in Boston, it insisted that Hon. George D.
Robinson was the wisest nomination that could
be made against Governor Butler; the party
carae near to making another nomination, but
at the eleventh hour the advice of Mr. Worth
ington was taken, Mr. Robinson was nomi
nated and subsequently elected. Again and
again it foretold the national overthrow of
RepubUcanisra if the feud of 1880-81 was kept
iip. AVhen the Chicago convention was about
to raeet in June, 1885, the TraveUer appealed
most earnestly to the New England delegates

to join the Arthur column early and secure the
defeat of Mr. Blaine, whose candidacy it
plainly intimated would, in its belief, be peril
ous to the party at the polls. Mr. Blaine and
the party suffered national defeat. This is a
remarkable record of political far-sightedness
and the credit of it belonged to Mr. "Worthing
ton, who laid down its course and inspired its
utterance. A keen and close observer of the
current of public affairs, with a strong faculty
for perceiving the practical points in a political
situation, his judgment gave the paper a singu
lar pre-erainence as a sound and safe political
guide. Although writing but little himself he
was a very ready and correct critic of good
writing, and always drew around hira, by an
instinctive appreciation of Hterary talent, an
editorial corps of capable and accomplished
writers. Always a warm admirer of Hon.
Chester A. Arthur, he sturdily championed hira
against the hostile criticisra of the so-called
half-breed presses, at the time of his' noraina
tion for the vice-presidency. Without solicita
tion President Arthur tendered to Mr. Worth
ington the office of collector of the port, in
April, 1882. A bitter opposition was raade to
his confirmation by Senator Ploar, purely on
political grounds, but the appointraent was
confirraed by a very large raajority, and even
those who then opposed it later conceded that
he proved a raost efficient collector, conducted
the business of the office with an eye single
to the service of the governraent and the busi
ness comraunity which had to do with the cus
tom house, and never allowed partisan con
siderations to interfere with the manageraent
of the large force of eraployees under his
orders. It is doubtful, indeed, if true civil
service reform has been carried out more per
fectly in any government office in the country
than at the Boston Custom House under Col
lector Worthington. His terra expired in May,
1886. He was also a member of the house of
representatives of Massachusetts and alder
man of the city of Boston.
Air. Worthington married, April 25, 1854,
Abbie Bartlett Adams, born 1825, in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, daughter of James and Mary
(AVilliaras) Adaras, of Hardwich, Vermont,
and Roxbury, Alassachusetts, respectively.
ChUdren; i. Julia Hill, born March 5, 1855.
2. Roland, Jr., born November 10, 1858,
dro-wned July 11, 1908 (see below) ; raarried,
June 12, 1902, Edith Louise Johnson, bom in
Somerville, Massachusetts, July 4, 1879; one
child, Theoda, born January 22, 1907. 3. Ed
ward .Adaras, born i860, died 1862. 4. Fannie

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Smith, born August i, 1862; married, October
II, 1898, Daniel Staniford, of Roxbury, Mass
achusetts. The following tribute to Roland Worthing
ton, Jr., who came to his death by drowning,
was from the pen of a friend*
"Roland AA'orthington, son of the collector,
was a Roxbury school-boy, and caring not for
a college career went into the office of the
Boston TraveUer. Being an observing youth,
with a bent toward raachinery, he laid in a
store of knowledge which proved its value
later. He inherited from his father a soundly
balanced mind. A lover of nature in all its
aspects, he was, at first, in contact with men,
reserved even to bashfulness, but after his
father's death and the responsibilities of his
position feU upon hira, his strong qualities of
head and heart were asserted. He developed
rare tact in the management of business affairs,
and in that of the building bearing his father's
name, on State street, manifested such practi
cal knowledge of details and discrimination as
to tenants, that the building becarae one of the
raost desirable for offices in the city.
"Tolerant almost to a fault of the shortcom
ings of others he was equaUy firm in his treat
raent of such when convinced of their
unworthiness. Later in his life he went beyond
his building to raingle in the larger affairs of
raen and by energy, sagacity and enterprise
prevented one of the largest and most solid
corporations of our country frora being cap
tured by stock jobbers and watered out of
existence. He gained thereby not only the
praise and esteem of its president, but also of
the directors whom he had awakened to the
gravity of the situation.
"He died in the prime of life, both respected
and beloved, just as he was impressing himself
upon the community as a man of marked busi
ness ability, just and yet raerciful, keen in
his perceptions, loyal and true."

(For ancestry see Reginald Went-worth i).
(XXIII) Ephraira Went-
WENTWORTH worth, son of Ephraim
AVentworth, died at Dover,
New Hampshire, February 24, 1776. He
married February 11, 1724-5, Alartha Grant,
of Berwick. He and five children (Alary,
Grant, AA^illiam. Ephraim and Alartha) were
baptized August 24, 1740. On Alarch 6,
1778, AVilliam AA'entworth and wife Hannah,
of Somersworth, Reuben AA''entworth and wife
Eleanor, and Ephraim AA'entworth and wife
Phebe, of Rochester, deeded their rights in

their father's estates to their brother, Spencer
Wentworth. On June 30, 1778, Daniel Kim
ball and wife Alartha (AVentworth), gave a
similar deed, and July 9, 1778, Daniel Heard
and wife Anna (AVentworth) did the same.
Children of Ephraira and Martha Wentworth :
I. Alary. 2. Grant, in Captain Gerrish's cora
pany, 1760. 3. William, born October 20, 1730;
mentioned below. 4. Ephraim, baptized Au
gust 24, 1740. 5. Martha, baptized August 24,
1740; married Daniel Kimball. 6. Spencer,
born October, 1734. 7. Reuben. 8. Anna,
married September 28, 1768, Daniel Heard, of
Dover. (XXIA') AVilliam Wentworth, son of Eph
raim AVentworth, was born October 20, 1730.
He fought at the battle of Bunker Hill, and
served throughout the revolution. There was
some controversy in 1781 between the towns of
Wakefield and Somersworth as to which town
his service belonged. He raarried Hannah,
daughter of Ichabod and Abigail Hayes, of
Madbury, New Harapshire, granddaughter of
John Hayes, the iraraigrant. She was born
January 5, 1734, and died August 11, 1808.
He died October 20, 1798. Children ; i. Mary,
born October 8, 1756; raarried October i,
1793, John A'arney. 2. Ichabod, born Febru
ary 25, 1759; mentioned below. 3. William,
born August 15, 1761. 4. Abigail, born June
2, 1764 ; married George Yeaton, of AVolf-
borough. 5. Martha, born August 21, 1766;
married June 7, 1787, James Varney, of Mil
ton. 6. Sarah, bom September 26, 1769; raar
ried January I, 1793, Dudley Burnhara. 7.
Ephraim, born June 16, 1773. 8. Hannah,
born Alarch 22. 1778; married Jeremiah Cook,
of Alilton.
(XXV) Ichabod AVentworth, son of WiU
iara AVentworth, was born February 25, 1759,
and died April 16, 1834. He was admitted to
the church at Rochester, July 4, 1790. He
married first, Alarcy AA^entworth, born Octo
ber 7, 1764, died January 23, 1790, daughter
of his uncle Ephraim AA'entworth. He raarried
second, March 10, 1791, Keziah Cook, of Som
ersworth, born January 14, 1763, died AprU 4,
1833. Children of first wife, born at Roches
ter; I. Jonathan, Noveraber 21, 1787. 2. Abi
gail, February i, 1789; raarried August 30,
1835, Jonathan Howe, of Alilton. Children
of second wife ; 3. Marcy, born January 16,
1791 ; raarried, November 16, 1808. James
Cook, of Rochester; died January 2, 1851. 4.
Alartha, born April 4, 1793: married Octobef
30, 1814, Elihu Hayes ; resided at Exeter ; died
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born December 14, 1795 ; mentioned below. 6.
William, born October 30, 1797. 7. Keziah,
born January 14, 1799; married April 2, 1817,
Joshua Gray, of Farmington. 8. Joseph C,
born September 24, 1801.
(XX"VT) Ichabod PI. Wentworth, son of
Ichabod AVentworth, was born December 14,
1795, and died at Milton, New Hampshire,
July 19, 1872. He resided in Milton, and was
representative to the state legislature in 1846
and 1847. He married, December 18, 1817,
Peace Varney, died July 30, 1873, aged sev
enty-seven years, nine raonths, daughter of
Aaron and Mary (Cleraent) Varney. Chil
dren; I. Hiram, born November 12, 1818. 2.
Eli, raentioned below.
(XXVII) Eli AVentworth, son of Ichabod
H. Wentworth, was born in Milton, February
19, 1821, and died July 18, 1863, at MUlville,
Mississippi. He was quartermaster of the
Sixth New Hampshire Regiment of Volun
teers in the civil war, and died in the service,
and his body was brought to Milton for inter
ment. He lived at Milton, New Hampshire,
and was a prominent citizen. He was a manu
facturer of boots and shoes. He represented
his district in the state legislature four years
and the state senate. He was an active and
influential Republican. He was a prominent
member of the Baptist church and superin
tendent of its Sunday school. He married,
July 23, 1843, Mehitable Jane Howe, daugh
ter of Jonathan Howe. After his death she
lived at South Milton. Children ; Clara Anna,
born November 26, 1844; married May 26,
1865, Daniel S. Burley (see Burley) ; Charles
Walker, born April 21, 1853, resides with his
si«ter.

The surname Burley is an
BPfRLEY ancient English family name.
The most common spellings of
this name in the early records are Burley,
Burleigh, Burly, Birle, Birley, Birdley and
Burdley. No less than nineteen branches of
this faraily in England have coats-of-arras.
(I) Giles Burley, iraraigrant ancestor, was
an inhabitant of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as
early as 1648, and was born in England about
1640. He was a coramoner at Ipswich in
1664. He was a planter, and lived eight years
on what was later called Brooke street, own
ing division lot No. 105, situate on Great HiU,
Hogg Island. His name was spelled Birdley,
Birdly. Burdley and Budley, in the Ipswich
records, and his narae as signed by mark to
his will is given as Giles Berdly. He

bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth, (called else
where Rebecca), his sons Andrew, James,
John, and an uncle whose name is not given.
Theophilus Wilson was executor; Deacon
Knowlton and Jacob Foster, overseers ;
Thoraas Knowlton, Sr., and Jacob Foster, wit
nesses. Soon after his death in 1668 his widow
was granted trees for a hundred rails and one
hundred posts, June 13, 1668. She married
second, February 23, 1669, Abraham Fitts, of
Ipswich. Children; i. Andrew, born at Ips
wich, September 5, 1657 ; raarried Mary,
daughter of Governor Roger Conant. 2.
Jaraes, born February 10, 1659; mentioned
below. 3. Giles, born July 13, 1662. 4. John,
born July 3, 1662 (twin) ; died February 27,
1681. (II) James Burley, son of GUes Burley (i),
was born at Ipswich, February 10, 1659, and
died in Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1721.
He married first. May 25, 1685, Rebecca, daugh
ter of Thomas and Susannah (Worcester)
Stacy. She died October 21, 1686. Her raother
was a daughter of Rev. William Worcester, of
Salisbury. His sons Joseph, Giles, Josiah and
James made a written agreeraent in 1723. Chil
dren ; I. William, born in Ipswich, February
27, 1692-3; mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born
April 6, 1693. 3. Thoraas, born April 5, 1697.
4. Jaraes, born 1699. 5. Josiah, born 1701 ;
died 1756; married Hannah AA'iggin. 6. Giles,
bom 1703; raarried Deceraber 9, 1725, Eliza
beth Joy, of Salisbury.
(Ill) Williara Burley, son of Jaraes Burley
(2), was born in Ipswich, February 27, 1692-3.
He was at Newmarket, New Hampshire, in
1746. Children; i. John, born at Ipswich
December 18, 1717; died November 18, 1776
raarried first, February 11, 1740, Sarah HaU
second, December 15, 1757, Elizabeth Chesley.
2. AA'illiam, born 1721 ; died at Candia, New
Hampshire, June 18, 1801 ; raarried Olive
— ¦  . 3. Andrew, niarried Martha  .
4. Jacob, mentioned below.
(IV) Jacob Burley, son. of William Burley
(3), married Abigail  . His will was
dated at Newraarket, July 17, 1776. Children:
I. Mary, born at Newmarket, October 21,
1752; died Alarch 12, 1828; was blind from
infancy, and lived with her brother Jacob. 2.
Lucy, married in Newraarket, March 17, 1777,
Soloraon Huntress. 3. Abigail, married
Joshua Sanborn. 4. Jacob, born June 23, 1756;
mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, born 1757 ;
died at Wakefield, New Hampshire, May 24,
1814 : married Sarah Haley, of Epping.
(V) Jacob Burley, son of Jacob Burley (4),

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vvas born June 23, 1756, and died February
13, 1828. He resided in Newmarket, and was
a highway surveyor, 1784-7, tythingman 1785,
selectraan 1788-9, and auditor 1790. He was
in the revolution, and was at the surrender of
Burgoyne. He raarried, Alay 20, 1779, Sarah,
daughter of Josiah and Judith (Tuttle) Burley.
Children; i. Abigail, born August 16, 1781 ;
died June 2, 1856; niarried January 19, 1804,
Trueworthy Charaberlain. 2. Jacob, born No
vember 17, 1783 ; mentioned below. 3. Josiah,
born Alarch 30, 1787; died September 20,
1832; married June 13, 1812, Alargaret M.
Newcomb, of Alachias, Alaine. 4. John, born
February 27, 1790; died July 23, 1872; mar
ried February, 1814, Betsey Page. 5. Judith,
born November 6, 1793; married first, her
cousin Asa Sanborn; second. Colonel Isaac
Freeman. 6. Ezra, born June 18, 1796; died
June, 1878; married, 1819, Lucy Hyde 7.
Henry, born August 23, 1801.
(VI) Jacob Burley, son of Jacob Burley
(5), was born in Newmarket, Noveraber 17,
1783, and died Septeraber 30, 1840. He was
a farraer and blacksraith, and resided in the
homestead in Newmarket. He married first.
Alary Chamberlain, sister of Trueworthy
Chamberlain, of Brookfield, New Hampshire.
He married second, Lois Mather, born at Lee,
New Hampshire, July 26, 1798, died April 21,
1848. Children of first wife; i. Jasper H.,
born AprU 5, 181 1; married January, 1845,
Plarriet S. Hayden, of Quincy, Massachusetts ;
children; i. Jasper H., born October 20, 1852,
died young; ii. Jasper M., August 27, 1857;
iii. Mary C, February 22, 1859. 2. Frederick
Plumer, born December 25, 1814; mentioned
below. 3. Alary Chamberlain, born June 7,
1817; died unmarried, September 5, 1840.
Children of second wife: 4. Reuben Mathes,
born January 8, 1822; married Olive B. Little
field. 5. Jacob Chamberlain, born August 17,
1831. 6. John, born October 13, 1840; married
Ada Jane Perkins ; children : i. Lois Maude,
born February 13, 1869; ii. Mabel, April 27,
1871 ; in. Ada Gertrude, August 9, 1875; iv.
Jacob, May 29, 1878.
(VII) Frederick Plumer Burley, son of
Jacob Burley (6), was bom in Newmarket,
December 25, 1814. He removed from New
market to Middleton, New Hampshire, in 1843,
and from there to Union. He married, Jan
uary 16, 1839, Martha J., daughter of John
and Hannah (Gilraan) Burley. Children; i.
Daniel Sraith, raentioned below. 2. Eli, died
young. 3. Ellen. 4. Charles P., died young.
5. EHzabeth S., married Jacob B. Stevens.

(VIII) Daniel Smith Burley, son of Fred
erick Plumer Burley (7), was born in New
market, New Harapshire, June 10, 1843. When
he was two years old his parents removed to
Aliddleton, New Harapshire, where he was
educated in the public schools. He worked at
farraing in his youth. AVhen the civil war
broke out he enlisted in Corapany I, Third New
Harapshire Regiment of A'^olunteers, in Au
gust, 1861, under Captain Rail Carlton. He
served three years, and was in all the engage
ments in which his regiment participated for
fifteen months, being then transferred to the
signal corps with the rank of sergeant. He
took part in all the battles and skirmishes in
which the Tenth Corps was engaged, and dur
ing the siege of Morris Island and Fort Sum
ter was continuously under fire for months.
He was honorably discharged August 24, 1864.
He was for a time a partner in a boot and shoe
firm in business at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He was in Boston for a tirae, then located in
Newburyport, where he began in the manu
facture of boots and shoes in a small way.
He was successful, however, and gradually
enlarged his factory and increased its capacity
until he became one of the leading manufac
turers of the city. Shrewd and far-sighted,
industrious and enterprising, his success was
due to his own abilities and efforts in the face
of many difficulties and discouragements. The
reputation of Air. Burley and his shoes is high
throughout the shoe trade of the country. Mr.
Burley has been an exemplary citizen, active
in works pf charity and benevolence and in the
Congregational church, of which he is a prorai
nent meraber and has been for many years a
deacon. He is president of the Young Men's
Christian Association, of Newburyport. No
man has taken a keener interest or a larger
share in the various raoveraents for the wel
fare and iraprovement of the city than he. No
raan in the city is better known or raore gen
erally loved and honored than he. Mr. Burley
was president of the National Bank of Wolfe-
borough, New Harapshire, and director of the
Ocean Bank of Newburyport, and of the
Mutual Insurance Company, of Boston. He
always has had an office in Boston, since he
began manufacturing shoes and has large
acquaintance and varied interests there. He
is a staunch Republican, but has never taken
active part in political campaigns and has
declined to take public office He is a member
of the Dover (New Hampshire) Lodge of
Masons ; of the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ;
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of the Knights Templar. He is also an Odd
Fellow. He was a member of no clubs and
preferred the domestic pleasures of his beau
tiful home to any others. His health failed
late in 1907, and for months he has been con
fined to his bed.
He married, Alay 26, 1865, Clara A. Went
worth, born at Milton, New Hampshire. (See
AA^entworth family). They had several chil
dren, all of whom died young, the one of long
est life dying aged four years and a half.

The various Allen families of
ALLEN New England are the progeny of
different iraraigrants. The faraily
raentioned below is descended from an early
settler in Kittery, Alaine, who came frora Eng
land. John Allen was raentioned in the court
records of Kittery of 1655, showing that he
was residing there at that tirae. AVhether or
not he was an immigrant cannot be accurately
ascertained. (I) Robert Allen, perhaps son of John, was
of English origin. He received a grant of land
in Kittery in 167 1, and lived a short distance
below Sturgeon creek. He died in 1701, and
his son Francis was appointed administrator
of his estate. He married Hannah, daughter
of John and Lucy White, of Kittery, where her
father was an early settler. Children of Robert
and Hannah (White) Alien; i. Robert, prob
ably married, 1700, Sarah, widow of John
Lary, daughter of George Lydston. 2. Fran
cis, see forward. 3. Anna, married, Nathaniel
Fernald, September 10, 1702. 4. Elizabeth,
married John Cole, September 23, 1700. 5.
Mary, married Timothy Robinson, of Dover,
1692. 6. Lydia, married Joseph Catlin, of
Dover. (II) Francis Allen, son of Robert, was born
in Kittery, where his will was proved in 1744
cr 1749. He married Hannah, daughter of
Jabez and Hannah (Curtis) Jenkins, and
granddaughter of Reynolds (or Reginald)
Jenkins, who was born in England in 1608, and
was in the service of John AVinter at Rich
mond's Island from 1634 to 1639. Children
of Francis and Hannah (Jenkins) Allen: i.
Francis, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born
August 10, 1699, married Samuel HUl, Decem
ber 23, 1721. 3. Robert, born October 4, 1701,
died young. 4. Anna, married Ephraira Tib
betts, of Dover, November 6, 1722. 5. Eliza
beth, born December 30, 1705, died young. 6.
Elizabeth, born February 6, 1708-9; married
Daniel Meader, of Dover, June 22, 1727. 7-
Robert, born July 24, 1710, died 1761 ; mar

ried, Deceraber 10, 1730, Catherine Furbish.
8. Mary, born July 19, 1712; married Timothy
Robinson, of Dover, July 24, 1730. 9. Jabez,
born August 19, 1715. 10. Lydia, July 12,
1717. II. Eliza, March 12, 1719-20.
(Ill) Francis Allen, son of Francis (2),
was born in Kittery, about 1697, and died prior
to 1759. He resided in one of the faraous old
block houses erected by the early inhabitants
as a means of protection against the savages,
and the four succeeding generations raentioned
in this article were born there. This block
house was demolished in 1853. September 17,
1824, he married Mary Pettigrew, born Octo
ber 12, 1707, daughter of Francis and Eliza
beth (Ball-Hammons) Pettigrew. Her father
was of French origin, and her raother, who
married second, Edward Hammons, was
daughter of John and Joanna Ball, of Kittery.
Children of Francis and Mary (Pettigrew)
Alien; Elijah, see forward; Jedediah;
Ezekiel. (IV) Elijah Allen, son of Francis, was born
in Kittery, probably about 1716, and died 1765.
He was a tanner by trade, and followed that
occupation in connection with farming. He
married first, Elizabeth Reed, of Salem, Mass
achusetts; second, December 7, 1760, Elizabeth
Jenkins, widow of Jabez Jenkins, daughter of
Ebenezer and Abigail (Hill) Dennett. Eliza
beth was born October 22, 1721, and was a
descendant of Hugh d'Anet, who was of Nor
raan origin, said to have come into England
with Williara the Conqueror, and raany of the
narae of Dennett in England trace their line
age back six centuries or raore. Elijah Allen's
children, by first raarriage; i. Jabez, died
young. 2. Ephraira, raentioned below. 3.
Jacob, born in Kittery, was a revolutionary
soldier and a pensioner ; was a farmer and
lived in North Berwick ; reared a large family,
and died an aged raan. Children of Elijah by
second marriage; i. Elizabeth, born August
22, 1762, married James Neal, Jr., of North
Berwick, Maine. 2. Sarah, born January i,
1764, married James Varney, of Dover, New
Hampshire, January 3, 1793.
(V) Ephraim Allen, son of Elijah by first
raarriage, was born August 16, 1750. He was
a tanner and a farraer. In his religious belief
he was a Quaker, as were his father and
mother. He married Lillis Brown, of Smith-
field, Rhode Island; children; i. Aza, see for
ward. 2. Anna, born in Kittery, October 30,
1782, married Samuel Breed, of Lynn, and
died there aged eighty-nine years. 3. Hannah,
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to her death, but died in Lynn unmarried. 4.
Content, born in Kittery; raarried Nathaniel
Jenkins, and died in Madbury, New Harap
shire. 5. Lydia, born May 24, 1791, raarried
Nathan Hanson. 6. Lavina, born in Kittery,
1793; married Benjarain Breed, of Lynn. 7.
Sabina, born in Kittery, died young. 8. Moses,
died young.
(VI) Aza Allen, son of Ephraira, was born
in that part of Kittery now Eliot, December
29, 1780. After concluding his education he
taught school and also taught navigation. He
was a surveyor of considerable note, and for
many years did nearly all the surveying for
the town; served as town clerk several years;
was regarded as a talented raan, and was
thoroughly devoted to his horae and faraily.
He was originally a Whig in politics, later
supported the Anti-slavery movement, in 1844,
and voted for the Liberty party candidate for
president, James G. Birney, of Ohio. He raar
ried, 182 1, in North Berwick, Maine, Lydia,
daughter of Joshua (5) and Patience (Rogers)
Buffum. She was a descendant in the sixth
generation of Robert ( i ) and Tarason Buffum,
who came with their children from Yorkshire
or Devonshire about 1638, settling in Salem,
Alassachusetts, and the line of descent is
through Caleb (2), Caleb (3), Joshua (4),
and Joshua (5). Children of Aza and Lydia
(Buffum) Allen; i. Statira P., deceased;
married Stillman Estes. 2. Matilda B.,
deceased ; married Charles H. Breed, of Lynn.
3. Caroline M., died in Eliot, Maine. 4. "Wal
ter B., of whom more later. 5. Martin Read,
resides upon the old horaestead in Eliot. 6.
Mary Ann, died young. 7. EUwood, died
young. 8. EUwood (2d), died 1875, aged
thirty-seven years.
("VII) Walter Brown Allen, son of Aza
Allen, was born January 17, 1828, in Eliot,
Maine, in the old block house, which had been
the birth place of at least five generations of
the Allen family. He received his preliminary
education in the public schools of his native
town and at a Friends' boarding school in
Providence, Rhode Island, now known as the
Moses Brown school. Possessing a natural
ability for mechanical pursuits, he adopted the
carpenter's trade, which he followed in Lynn
for about three years, and then established
himself as a contractor and builder in that
city. At the age of twenty-six years he was
awarded the contract ter erect a church at East
Saugus, although considered by some of his
contemporaries as being too young for such an
undertaking. He completed the work success

fully, however, and a few years since had the
satisfaction of attending the ceremony com
memorating the fiftieth anniversary of its dedi
cation and was one of the speakers on that
occasion. During his long and unusually
active business career covering a period of
more than fifty years, he has erected numer
ous business blocks and residences, which attest
the substantial character of his work. When
young he acquired a good knowledge of sur
veying under the direction of his father and
has often found opportunity to apply it to
advantage. For several years he has devoted
a large part of his time to the care of his real
estate, which consists of valuable city property.
In 1862, after serving several years in the
capacity of ward officer, Mr. Allen was elected
a member of the common councU, serving two
years, and for the three succeeding years was a
member of the board of aldermen. He was a
raeraber of the City Hall building coraraittee,
and during the three years of its construction
served as its secretary. For seven years from
1869 he was annually elected a raember of the
school board, and he also is an ex-member of
the Massachusetts legislature. Through aU
his political career he never failed of an elec
tion when nominated, a conclusive fact of his
popularity, and has voted at every national,
state and city election up to the present time
(1908), fifteen times for president and fifty-
seven tiraes for governor. Being strongly
anti-slavery, his first presidential vote was cast
for John P. Hale, of New Harapshire, the Free
Soil candidate. He was enthusiastically active
in the Fremont campaign in 1856, and was a
member of the Republican city committee in
i860, the first Lincoln carapaign.
Mr. Allen is a raeraber of the Friends'
church, of Lynn ; a charter raeraber of Lynn
Historical Society, Hfe member of Essex
County Agricultural Society, charter raember
of Old Men's Home Corporation, member of
Old Ladies' Home Corporation, member of
Lynn Board of Trade, and for many years
director of the Saugus Mutual Fire Insurance
Conipany. Early in the history Mr. Allen
became identified with the Houghton Horticul
tural Society, a local institution which has for
its object not only the encouragement of the
cultivation of fruit and flowers, but the plant
ing of ornamental trees and the efforts that
tend to raise the standard of civic pride. He
served as president of this society for ten
years. About thirty years ago Mr. Cyrus M.
Tracey originated the idea of obtaining a por
tion of the Lynn woods for the purpose of

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having a public park for the city. Mr. AUen
was then a member of the Houghton Horti
cultural Society, and he endorsed and entered
heartily into this moveraent with Mr. Tracey
and others, assisting financially and otherwise
toward the object which soon grew into popu
lar favor and eventually resulted in the city
taking an active part in the raatter and obtain
ing the land for the beautiful park now known
as Lynn AA'oods Park. Mr. Allen went to
Alaine and from the woods of the old Allen
homestead he took up a nuraber of trees of
different varieties, brought them to Lynn and
planted them in the new park where they have
since continued to flourish. Among them were
sorae Norway pines which are now over fifty
feet high.
Mr. Allen married, October 14, 1858, Eliza
M. Fry, daughter of Homer and Patience
(Boyce) Fry, of Lynn, and sister of the late
-Brigadier-General Charles Coffin Fry (see
Fry). Children: i. Carrie Al., born in Lynn,
July 25, 1859, educated in Lynn and Provi
dence ; married, 1883, Louis A. Aldrich, of
Lynn; he died 1886; one child, Florence Buf
fum Aldrich. 2. Walter Frank, born October
12, 1863, educated in Lynn common and high
school, one year at Moses Brown school at
Providence, Rhode Island, after which he be
came engaged at the carpenter's trade with his
father for a time, then entered the furniture
business as a dealer and is now a manager of
the sales department of a large furniture house
in Boston ; he married Annie Decator, of Mai
den ; children ; Francis EUwood^ Elizabeth
Gertrude, Albert D. Allen. 3. Charles Edward,
born July 3, 1869, educated in Lynn, after
which he began in the electrical business in a
sraall way, later working up to a position
where he forraed the company of Sampson &
Allen; he died Noveraber 30, 1901.
On October 15, 1908, Air. and Mrs. Allen
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their mar
riage, upon which occasion there were present
their two children, four grandchildren and
some three hundred guests frora all over the
New England states ; araong the number were
twelve who had been present at their marriage
fifty years before. The presents were numer
ous, and the occasion one to be long remera
bered.

Brigadier-General Charles Coffin Fry
FRY (deceased) was born in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, May 31, 1842, son of
Homer Fry, of Bolton, Massachusetts, and
Patience (Boyce) Fry, a native of Lynn. Like

the raajority of those of his narae in New
England he may have been a descendant of
General Joseph Fry, founder of Fryeburg,
Maine, who was born in Andover, Massachu
setts, in April 171 1 ; was an ensign in the army
that captured Louisburg in 1745 ; colonel in the
British army at the capture of Fort AVilliam
Plenry by Montcalm in 1747 ; attained the rank
of brigadier-general in the revolutionary war
and died in Fryeburg in 1794. Charles Coffin
Fry's parents and ancestors were members of
the Society of Friends.
Charles Coffin Fry was educated in the pub
lic schools of Lynn, and after graduating from
the high school he entered the shoe business
with which he was connected for a number of
years. Later he was employed by the Lynn
Gas Light Conipany, of which he becanie
treasurer in 1880, and still later served in the
same capacity for their successors, the Lynn
Gas and Electric Light Company. In 1862 he
enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Massachu
setts A'oluiiteer Infantry for service in the
civil war, and was appointed corporal. He
served in the department of North Carolina,
under General John C. Foster; was subse
quently with the army of the Potomac in Alary-
land, with which he continued until the expira
tion of his term of enlistment in 1863. Frora
1865 to 1874 he served as first lieutenant of
Company I, Eighth Regiraent Alassachusetts
A'^olunteer Militia; was adjutant of sarae regi
ment. 1874-75 ; major of Seventh Battalion
1876-77-78; adjutant of Eighth Regiment,
1879-80-81, and assistant adjutant-general
Second Brigade, 1882-97. He was in the
latter year retired, at his own request, with the
rank of brigadier-general, having rendered
efficient military service both to the state and
to the nation for a period of thirty-two years.
His devotion to the Alassachusetts railitia was
second to no other interest, and he eraphasized
this in a raost graceful raanner by writing an
able and comprehensive "History of the Sec
ond Alassachusetts A'olunteer Militia." In
politics General Fry was a Republican, and his
marked ability in various directions made hira
an exceedingly eHgible candidate for public
offices. His long and honorable service in
behalf of the city began in 1876 as city audi
tor, and for the two succeeding years he acted
as city marshal. In the years 1896-97-98 he
was a member of the coraraon council ; was a
member of the board of aldermen 1899-1900
and 1901, and president of that body the latter
year. For five years he served upon the com
mittees on finance, and for various periods

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upon the coraraittees on education, ordinances,
public grounds, water supply, license, the police
and fire departraents. For raany years he was
an active member of Alt. Carmel Lodge, F
A. M. ; Sutton Chapter, R. A. M. ; Zebulon
Council, R. S. M. ; Olivet Comraandery K. T. —
all of Lynn; LaFayette Lodge of Perfection;
George P. Yaters Council, Princes of Jerus
alem ; Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix ; Massa
chusetts Consistory; and Aleppo Temple,
Order of the Alystic Shrine; Grand Com
raandery of Knights Templar, of Massachu
setts and Rhode Island ; (Stand Encarapraent
of the United States, and an honorary raember
of the Alost Supreme Council, Northern Ma
sonic Jurisdiction, Thirty-third degree. His
official Masonic record is as follows ; Wor
shipful master of Mount Carmel Lodge, 1876-
77 ; eminent coraraander Olivet Commandery,
1882-83; right erainent grand commander of
Knights Templar of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, 1893-94; president of Massachusetts
Union of Knights Templars Commanders,
1896-97. He was a member of the Park Club,
of Lynn, and its president for the years 1892-
93-94; the Oxford Club of that city; and a
comrade of General Lander Post No. 5, Grand
Army of the Republic. General Fry died
Alarch 31, 1901. He was unmraaried.

Deacon John Pearson (i),
PEARSON iraraigrant ancestor, came to
New England frora county
Essex, England. He settled at Rowley, Mass
achusetts Bay, and becarae a leading citizen.
He was a town officer in 1649 and was elected
to various positions of trust and honor. A
pious and godly raan, he was elected the first
deacon of the Rowley church. He was ad
mitted a freeman in 1647, and was a deputy
to the general court in 1678 and afterward. He
niarried Dorcas  who survived him. He
made a will, but it is not extant. The widow
Dorcas declined administration Alay 19, 1694,
the son John also declined July 28 following
and the sons Jeremiah and Stephen undertook
the charge and gave bond August 6 following.
The inventory is dated January 11, 1693-94,
shortly after his death. Children, born at
Rowley; i. Mary, May 26, 1643. 2. John,
Deceraber 27, 1644. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Sarauel,
July 29, 1648, resided in Newbury; married
 Poor and D. Johnson. 5. Dorcas. 6.
Mary, February 17, 1651-52. 7. Jeremy, Octo
ber 25, 1653. 8. Sarah. 9. Joseph, August 21,
1656. 10. Benjamin, born April 6, 1858, raen
tioned below. II. Phebe, April 13, 1660. 12.
Stephen, 1663. 13. Sarah, May 6, 1666.

(II) Benjarain Pearson, son of Deacon
John Pearson (i), born in Rowley, April 6,
1658, died in 1731. He married, 1680, Hannah
Thurston. ChUdren, born in Rowley : I.Han
nah, 1681. 2. Phebe, 1682. 3. Daniel, 1684.
4. Ruth. 5. Abigail, 1689. 6. Benjamin, 1690,
died 1774. 7. Sarah, 1691. 8. Jedediah, 1694.
9. Alehitable, 1695. 10. Jonathan, 1699. 11.
David, 1702, raentioned below. 12. Oliver,
born in Newbury, 1704. 13. Bartholomew.
(Ill) David Pearson, son of Benjamin
Pearson (2), born in Rowley in 1702, was a
resident of Newbufy, Massachusetts. Chil
dren; I. Eliphalet, born 1752, died 1826;
resided at Byfield, Newbury, graduate of Har
vard College in 1773, professor of PhiUips
Acaderay, Andover, 1778-86, professor of He
brew at Harvard 1786-1806, ordained 1806,
earliest professor at Andover Theological
Seminary; died at Greenland, New Hamp
shire, 1826; one son Henry B. 2. Joseph,
mentioned below. 3. Dr. Abiel, born 1756, at
Byfield, resided at Andover ; died 1827. 4.
Jesse, born 1762, reraoved to Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, in 1790; raarried  Pluraraer;
son Sarauel, born 1806; son Frank M., resided
in Washington, D. C. 5. Ebenezer. 6. Mary,
raarried  Jewett.
(IV) Joseph Pearson, son of David Pear
son (3), was born in Newbury in 1755. He
was a soldier in the revolution in 1775 in Cap
tain Jacob Gerrish's company. Colonel Moses
Little's regiment.
(V) Joseph Pearson, son or nephew of
Joseph Pearson (4), born in Andover, Septera
ber 5, 1792, and died there July 15, 1841. He
married, October 24, 1814, Sally F. Pearson,
bom September 25, 1789, died February ii,
1853. Children, born at Andover: i. Sarah
J., born September 23, 1816, married George
Pearson. 2. Hannah T., born February 21,
1818, married Albert Bancroft and lived on the
homestead. 3. Joseph James, born February
5, 1820, mentioned below. 4. Alary E., born
December 29, 1822, raarried Herbert Currier.
(VI) Joseph Jaraes Pearson, son of Joseph
Pearson (5), born in Andover, February 5,
1820, died January 11, 1894. He was edu
cated in the district schools of his native town,
and spent his youth on the homestead helping
his father. He sold his share in the estate to
his sisters after his father died and hired a
farm in Andover on a twenty-year Jease. He
bought the farm on which his sons are now
living and greatly improved it. The house was
built in 1855, and a sraall barn. He attended
the old South Congregational church. He
raarried, at Boston, in 1845, Dorcas Ricker

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Chadwick, of South Berwick, Maine, born
October 11, 1824, died December 14, 1901.
Children, born in Andover : i. George Henry,
October 12, 1848, mentioned below. 2. Fred
J., June II, 1855; has always resided on the
homestead and has charge of the milk route
owned by the family. 3. Frank J., June 11, 1855,
twin brother of Fred J.; married Charlotte
Ward; he died October 25, 1905; remained on
the homestead all his life.
(VII) George Henry Pearson, son of Jo
seph James Pearson (6), was born in Andover,
October 12, 1848, on what is known as Sunset
Place farm, then under lease by their father.
He was educated in the public schools. He
began in early youth to work on the farm and
continued with his father as long as he lived.
Since the death of his father in 1894 the farm
has been carried on by Mr. Pearson and his
two brothers, one of whom has since died.
The farm to which the family removed in 1865
consists of two hundred acres of land and is
known as the High Hill farm. They do gen
eral farming, dealing to some extent in wood
and lumber, and having an extensive dairy and
milk route. They have some forty cows in
their dairy. Mr. Pearson is a Republican in
politics, and a Congregationalist in religion.
He married, March 14, 1895, Margaret "War-
cup, born October 6, 1869, at Leeds, Province
of Quebec, Canada. They have no children.
(For early generations see John Hill i).
(Ill) Joseph Hill, son of John
HILL Hill, was born about 1657, accord
ing to deposition he made Septem
ber 27, 1682, that he was about twenty-five
years of age. He was then a constable. In
1685 he sold to John Smart' a farm at Oyster
River, which he had bought of his father.
John Hill. He married first, in Kittery, Maine,
about 1688, Catherine Knight, and settled in
Dover, where he bought land of Job Clements
in 1689. He sold this, and a grant which he
had received from the town in 1694, to John
Downing, in 1699. Exception is made in the
deed to "a rod square, where my former wife
and children are buried." He married second,
before 1699, Susanna, daughter of Christopher
Beedle. In 1696 he bought land at Long
Reach, in Kittery. His will was dated January
30, 1712-3, and proved July i, 1713. Children;
I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, mar
ried July 17, 1725, Sarah Dennett. 3. John.
4. Elizabeth, raarried December 9, 1714, John
Emerson. 5. Hannah, married August 5, 1720,
Thomas Hutchins. 6. Abigail, married Janu

ary 30, 1723-4, Thomas Ham. 7. Catherine,
married Edward Ordway, of Haverhill. 8.
Mary, married, January 20, 1732-3, Samuel
Jackson, of Portsmouth. 9. Dorcas, married,
1729, Joshua Reniick. 10. Sarah, raarried
Alarch 2, 1727, Nathaniel Jackson, of Ports
raouth. (IV) Samuel HUl, son of Joseph HUl, mar
ried December 23, 1721, Hannah, daughter of
Francis and Hannah (Jenkins) Allen. He was
a Friend. He inherited land on the upper
side of Caramock's Creek, in Eliot. His will
was raade in 1764 and proved in 1775. ChU
dren; I. Joseph mentioned below. 2. Isaac,
raarried first, Lyd-ia Roberts ; second, EHzabeth
Estes. 3. Simeon, married, 1745, Rebecca
Austin. 4. Miriam, raarried, 1751, Nathaniel
Austin. 5. Ruth, married  Spinney. 6.
Huldah, married May 9, 1744, Moses Sawyer.
7. Jerusha. (V) Joseph HUl, son of Sarauel Hill, re
moved in 1773 to Beech Ridge, in Berwick,
Maine. He married first, 1744, Miriam Saw
yer; second, Mary Breed. Children; i. Ste
phen, coraraander of a privateer ; died at sea.
2. Miriam, died young. Children of second
wife; 3. Mark, lived on Beech Ridge. 4.
Araos, mentioned below. 5. Abner, married
Susanna Thayer; removed to New York. 6.
John, born AprU 15, 1770; died in Vermont,
in 1840. 7. Sarah, raarried Ephraim Gary, of
Sanford. 8. Lydia, raarried AVilliam Frost, of
Sanford. 9. Miriam, married Stephen Staples.
10. Daughter, married Joseph Winslow, of
AA'indham, Maine.
(VI) Amos HiU, son of Joseph Hill, was
born at North Berwick. He married Decem
ber 30, 1790, Mercy, born March 8, 1771,
daughter of Timothy and Abigail (Hussey)
Varney. Children, as recorded in Dover,
where dates vary a little frora those given in
the record at North Berwick: i. Lebbeus,
born January 28, 1792; died January 22, 1816.
2. Oliver, born Septeraber 26, 1794; reraoved
to Sandwich, New Hampshire. 3. Corafort,
born February 26, 1796; raarried Amasa Var
ney, of Dover, New Hampshire. 4. Sarah,
born May 7, 1798; married Benijah Varney, of
Dover. 5. Mary, born April 4, 1800; married
Jedediah Felch, of Sandwich, New Hamp
shire. 6. Isaiah Breed, born November 18, 1804,
died in Melrose, Alassachusetts. 7. Mercy,
born Alarch, 1807, died in Lynn, Massachu
setts. 8. Timothy Varney, born December 28,
1808 ; died in North Berwick. 9. Abner, born
March 6, 1810; mentioned below. 10. Huldah,
born Alarch 22, 1814; died November 16, 1814.

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

(VII) Abner Hill, son of Amos Hill, was
born in Nortli Berwick, Alaine, March 6, 1810.
Pie received a common school education, and
at an early age went to Lynn, Alassachusetts,
where he worked on the farm of George Hood,
the first mayor of Lynn. This farra was one
of the best in Lynn, and was faraous for its
orchards and gardens. During the time that
Mr. Hill worked here he started the first milk
route in Lynn, building up a large trade and
was very successful. Some years later Mr.
Hill left Air. Hood's farm and went to Derry,
New Harapshire, where he purchased a farra,
and carried it on under the raost iraproved
raethods. After seven years he was burned out,
losing all, and removed again to Lynn. He
bought several acres of farm land, which is
now used for circus grounds. Here he remain
ed the rest of his life, running the farm with
success. The farra was considered one of the
best in the town, and was developed by his own
hard work and good raanagement. He was a
man known widely and highly respected. He
died in Lynn, 1867. In politics he was Repub
lican, but never held office. He was of the old
Quaker faith, but owing to his raarriage out
of this faith, he was according to the customs
of the Quaker denoraination "read out of
church," after which he attended the Method
ist church. He married, in Lynn, Martha
Ann, daughter of Abner and Mary (Richard
son) Hood. Her father was born in Nahant
and her mother in Lynn. They had four chil
dren : I. Charles G., died 1892. 2. Edwin L.,
raentioned below. 3. Henry M. (twin), mar
ried Ellen Porter, of Lynn ; children ; Henry,
Melville and Mabel. 4. Herraoine Adelaide
(twin), raarried Franklin Pike, of Lynn; he
died in Saugus, December 2, 1905 ; children :
i. Mary Adelaide, married John Honeywell,
she died in Lynn, 1892; ii. John Plenry, born
in Lynn, married Mary Lavery, of Philadel
phia ; children : Jaraes, George, John, Frank,
Alary, Sydney and Ellen; iii. Alartha Ann,
born Lynn; raarried Henry E. Wrigley, of
Newark, New Jersey ; had Hermoine and Rob
ert R.
(ATII) Edwin Libbeus Hill, son of Abner
Hill, was born in Lynn, December 3, 1838.
AA'hen he was eight years old he removed to
Derry, New Hampshire, with the family and
attended school there. AAHien he was sixteen
he was apprenticed for three years to learn the
trade of shoe cutting in Lynn. He worked at
his trade several years, and then began to
raanufacture boots and shoes on his own
account. His shop was in the old Union Block at

first, and he employed five journeymen. He
sold out his business after a few years and
returned to the bench and worked as a cutter
in Doherty's factory, Bubier's and Spinney's.
In 1865 he established himself in the retail
milk business in Lynn, and continued with
uninterrupted success for a period of seven
teen years. He was one of the most success
ful raen in this line of business in the city of
Lynn. After he disposed of his railk route he
devoted his time and attention to real estate,
buying and selling much property and acquir
ing through business and investment a hand
some competence. He has been retired from
active business since 1875 at Lynn. In poli
tics Air. Hill is a Republican, and has always
taken a lively interest in municipal affairs. He
has been a useful citizen in the various walks
of life. In religion he is a Methodist. He
married, at Manchester-by-the-Sea, 1866,
Charlotte Rust, born at Alanchester, daughter
of WiUiam Choate and Eliza (Lee) Rust, of
Gloucester, Alassachusetts. Her mother was
born in Manchester. Children, born in Lynn;
I. Clara Benton, married Elvin Varney, of
Dover, New Hampshire, an electrician; child,
Gladys. 2. Lilla Lee, resides at home, unraar
ried. 3. Josephine, married Fred O. Rich
mond, of Lynn ; .she taught in the public
schools of Lynn eight years. 4. L. Gertrude,
resides at home, unmarried.
WiUiara Rust, father of Mrs. Hill, was born
in Gloucester, but removed when very young to
Manchester-by-the-Sea, and became a fisher
man. He then learned the trade of cabinet
maker and followed it throughout his active
life in Alanchester, where he died. In politics
he was a Republican, in religion Orthodox.
Children, born at Alanchester; i. William C.
Rust, lives at Manchester. 2. David Rust, died
in Minnesota. 3. George Rust, died at Man
chester. 4. Charles Rust, lives in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. 5. Ann Eliza Rust, married
Joseph Lee, of Alanchester, and later of San
Diego, California, where his widow resides;
children ; i. Josephine Lee, died young ; ii.
Lottie A., married William H. Morse, of Hol-
liston, Alassachusetts, now of San Diego, Cali
fornia.

(For preceding generations see Barnard Hutchinson i).
(XVI) Nathaniel Chick-
HUTCHINSON ering Hutchinson, son of
Osgood and Hannah
(Fuller) Hutchinson, was born in Francis-
town, New Hampshire, July 3, 181 1, died in
Lynn, Massachusetts, October 15, 1875. He

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married, October 27, 1833, Rebecca J. Lyons,
born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and died
in Lynn, August 11, 1904, daughter of Captain
John and Rebecca (Selman) Lyons, of Mar
blehead. Rebecca J. Lyon Hutchinson was the
oldest member of the Congregational church.
Nathaniel Chickering and Rebecca J. (Lyons)
Hutchinson had four children, all born in
Lynn; i. William Henry, born March 25,
1834, died March 23, 1902. 2. George, born
March 13, 1837, died January 31, 1861. 3.
James, born July 7, 1848 ; died young. 4.
Abbie Jane, died August 3, 1900; married
Frank Robinson.
(XVII) William Henry Hutchinson, son of
Nathaniel Chickering and Rebecca J. (Lyons)
Hutchinson, was born in Lynn, Alassachusetts,
March 25, 1834, and died in that city March
23, 1902, after a long, honorable and entirely
successful business career. "When old enough
to work he learned the trade of painting with
his father, who himself was a practical work
raan in that Hne, and when he attained his
majority purchased his father's interest in the
business and carried it on for several years.
Gradually, as his means would permit, he
branched out in other raercantile lines and
established what afterward becarae one of the
largest concerns in the general hardware and
builders' material trade in Essex county, while
he came to be regarded as one of the most
capable and progressive raen of Lynn. In
addition to his interests in Lynn, which he
always kept under personal supervision. Air.
Hutchinson raade considerable investraents in
other enterprises, and was for a nuraber of
years senior partner of the firra of Hutchinson
& Kiraball, coal dealers in Brockton, Alassa
chusetts. He took a coraraendable interest in
public affairs in Lynn, although not in the
sense of being a politician. He was a member
of the city council in 1890-91, alderman in
1892-93, and again in 1899, and was a repre
sentative from Lynn to the lower house of the
general court in 1894-95. AVhile in the legis
lature he was a raeraber of the coraraittee on
banks and banking and on parishes and
churches. He was a director of the Lynn
National Bank and a trustee of the Lynn Safe
Deposit and Trust Corapany, vice-president of
the Asbury Grove Camp Aleeting Association,
and a consistent member of the Boston Street
Methodist Episcopal Church of Lynn, and
chairman of its board of trustees. Mr. Hutch
inson always found relief from business cares
in his favorite recreation of hunting and fish
ing, and he was a true sportsman, having

hunted nearly every kind of game in this cbun-
try, always in proper season and never did he
permit his enthusiasm as either hunter or fish
erman to indulge in the wanton killing of game
of any kind. He loved the pleasures of travel,
and his trips and excursions took him over the
whole country and even across the Atlantic
ocean. Only a few years before his death he
visited the Holy Land, and raany parts of
Europe were quite familiar to him. Mr. Plutch
inson niarried Jane Howard Howes, daughter
and one of ten children of Sarauel Howes, who
was born in Anson, Maine, and who married
Sarah Abbot, who was born in Sidney, Maine.
Four children were bom of this marriage.
(XVIII) W. Howard Hutchinson, eldest
child of William Henry and Jane Howard
(Howes) Hutchinson, was born in Lynn,
Alassachusetts, February 4, i860, received his
education in the public and high schools of that
city, and after leaving school began his busi
ness career as clerk in his father's store. In
1902, after the death of his father, he assumed
the entire raanageraent of the business for the
estate, and still continues in that capacity. He
is a meraber of various subordinate Masonic
bodies, the lodge and chapter, also of Olivet
Commandery, Knights Templar, and is a Re
publican in politics. He niarried Alary Nellie
IBIack, of Lynn. By a former marriage Air.
Hutchinson has one child, Alarion J. Hutch
inson, born April 23, 1885.
(XA^III) Samuel Chickering Hutchinson,
son of AA^illiam Henry and Jane Howard
(Howes) Hutchinson, was born in Lynn, Feb
ruary 15, 1864, was educated in the Lynn
schools and after leaving school began a clerk
ship in his father's store which continued about
eighteen years. In 1900 he organized the
Hutchinson Lumber Company, secured its
incorporation and becarae its president, treas
urer and general raanager. The corapany was
founded largely with his capital, and he is its
principal stockholder as well as its active man
aging head. Mr. Hutchinson is a business
man, with little tirae or inclination for political
participation, although he is a strong Repub
lican. He is a raeraber of Golden Fleece
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and other
subordinate bodies of the order, and also is a
Knight Templar. He raarried Mabel Abbot,
who was born in Lynn, January 13, 1873,
daughter of Frederick Everett and Eunice
Maria (Bassett) Abbot, the former born Oc
tober 23, 1836, died Alarch 9, 1903, and the
latter born March 30, 1843. ^L". and Mrs.
Hutchinson have no children.

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BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

(XVIII) Jennie Howes Hutchinson, only
daughter of "William Henry and Jane Howard
(Howes) Hutchinson, was born in Lynn, De
ceraber I, 1865, and married, Alay 26, 1886,
Rufus Henry Kimball, who was born in
Bridgewater (now Brockton), Massachusetts,
April 5, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have
two chUdren, Howard Hutchinson Kimball,
born in Lynn, Septeraber i, 1887, and Marjorie
Kiraball, born in Lynn, Septeraber 10, 1894.
(XVIII) James Abbot Hutchinson, son and
youngest child of William Henry and Jane
Ploward (Howes) Hutchinson, was born in
Lynn, Massachusetts, May 20, 1874. He was
educated in the public and high schools of that
city and graduated from Yale College A. B.,
1896. His business career was begun as a
clerk in the office of Keck, Mosser & Corapany,
dealers in leather, where he reraained between
one and two years and later he continued with
the successor firm of Williara F. Alosser &
Company until 1902. In the year last raen
tioned Air. Hutchinson secured a clerical posi
tion with the Boston house of Verrailye &
Corapany, bankers and brokers, and continued
in the employ of that firm five years. Two
years of this time was spent in the Boston
branch office, where he had charge of the office
of McKay & Company, and about two and one-
half years in the New York city office of Ver
railye & Company. In March, 1908, Mr.
Hutchinson began business in Boston on his
own account as broker and bond dealer, but
maintains his residence in Lynn. He married.
May II, 1905, Mary Knowlton Whiton, who
was born in Plainfield, 'New Jersey, February
17, 1878, daughter of John Milton and Mary
Elizabeth (Bond) Whiton, of Boston. Mr.
and Mrs. Hutchinson have two children, James
Abbot, Jr., born in Plainfield, New Jersey,
January 25, 1906, and John Whiton, born in
Plainfield, April 9, 1907.

The surname Chase is undotibt-
CHASE edly derived frora the French
Chasser (to hunt). The ancestral
seat in England was at Chesham in Rocking-
harashire, through which runs a rapidly flow
ing brook or river, the Chess.
(I) WiUiam Chase, iraraigrant ancestor,
carae from England with Winthrop in 1630.
Thomas and Aquila Chase, who settled at
Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1639, were
brothers, and perhaps cousins of AVilliara
Chase, the first coraer. The record of Rev.
John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, of "such as
adjoined themselves to this church," the first

church of Roxbury, has this entry ; "WiUiam
Chase, he came with the first company, bring
ing with him his wife Mary and his son Will
iam." The maiden narae of his wife is not
known. The son William was about seven
years old at the time of migration. The father
applied for admission as a freeman October
19, 1630. He was a town officer at Roxbury.
He served against the Narragansetts in 1645.
He removed to Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in
1638, and died there. His will was dated May
4, 1659, and states that he was aged. It was
proved May 13, 1659. He bequeathed to his
wife Mary and two sons, Benjamin and Will
iam. His daughter Mary was buried at Barn
stable, October 28, 1652. The early records of
the town of Yarmouth were destroyed by fire,
so that it is impossible to give the dates and
birth of aU his children.
(II) William Chase, son of AVilHam Chase,
was bom in England about 1623 and removed
with his father's family to Yarmouth in 1638.
He died there February 27,- 1685. Children,
born at Yarmouth; i. WiUiara, raarried first,
Hannah Sherman; second, Deceraber 6, 1732,
Priscilla Perry. 2. Jacob, married Mary
 . 3. John, married, 1674, Elizab"eth
Baker. 4. Elizabeth, married, Alay 27, 1674,
Daniel Baker. 5. Abraham, married EHzabeth
 . 6. Joseph, raarried, February 28, 1694,
Sarah Sherman. 7. Benjamin, married, Sep
teraber 21, 1696, Aray Borden. 8. Sarauel,
raentioned below.
(Ill) Samuel Chase, son of WiUiam Chase,
was born in Yarmouth and married, in 1699,
Sarah Sherman, daughter of Samuel and
Martha (Tripp) Sherman. Children; i.
Phebe, born January 22, 1700; married, De
ceraber 6, 1720, Edward Slead. 2. Martha,
February 24, 1702, raarried first, June 5, 1722,
Ezekiel Fowler; second. May 11, 1749, Samuel
Bowen. 3. Susanna, April 7, 1704, married,
July 5, 1726, WiUiara Buffinton. 4. EUsha,
May 5, 1706, married first, October 20, 1726,
Elizabeth Wheaton; second, January 16, 1746,
Sarah Tucker. 5. Sarauel, January 20, 1710,
raarried, August 13, 1730, Abigail Buffura. 6.
Eleazer, AprU 27, 171 1, married. May 26, 1730,
Ruth Perry. 7. Philip, August 20, 171 5, raen
tioned below. 8. John, Deceraber 8, 1720, mar
ried, January 18, 1744, Lydia Luther. 9. Sarah,
married Daniel Baker.
(IV) Philip Chase, son of Samuel Chase,
was born in Yarmouth, August 20, 1715. He
married, November 18, 1735, Hannah Buffum.
He resided in Swansea, Massachusetts. He
had a son Samuel, mentioned below.

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1907

(V) Samuel Chase, son of Philip Chase,
was born proba^|ly at Swansea, about 1755, and
died March 20, 1825, at Lynn, Massachusetts.
He was a cordwainer by trade, and belonged
to the Quaker church at Lynn. He raarried
there, September 27, 1780, Alice, who died
July 15, 1817, daughter of John and Hannah
Mower. Children, born at Lynn; i. Thorn
dike, March i, 1782, married (intentions dated
October 22, 1807) Betsey Pierce, of Bolton.
2. Phebe, October i, 1784, married. May 10,
1812, Samuel Carter. 3. Mary, February 26,
1788. 4. John, February 26, 1790, died Octo
ber 27, 1791. 5. John, March 26, 1792, men-
toned below. 6. Lydia, August 15, 1795, died
October 6, 1797. 7. Phihp, November 27,
1798, married, Septeraber 10, 1828, Roxanna
AVilkins. (VI) John Chase, son of Samuel Chase, was
born at Lynn, March 26, 1792. He was a
Quaker. He married first, Mary Pierce, of
Bolton. He married second, intentions dated
November 22, 1817, Esther Myrick, of
Charlestown. She died March 29, 1824, and
he married third, intentions dated October 24,
1824, Sarah, born June 16, 1816, daughter of
James and Sarah (AVells) Lakeman (Lynn
records) . He was educated in the public schools
of Lynn, and learned the trade of shoemaker.
He built a shop of his own on High street, and
made shoes the remainder of his life, having
worked at a bench in the shoe shop, a period of
seventy years. He was a Whig in politics,
later a Free Soiler, and then joined the Repub-
Ican party, taking an active interest in city
affairs. Late in life he joined the Methodist
church. Children; i. Alary Pierce, born at
Bolton, October 19, 181 3, died October 4, 1835.
2. Esther, born at Lynn, October 3, 1823, mar
ried Walter Sisson ; one son, Walter. 3. John
Henry, born August 27, 1825, died September
13, 1825. 4. Andrew Clarkson, born August
28, 1826, raarried first, Lucy Jewett, of Ips
wich ; two children ; Ida and Alice. 5. Wesley
Fillmore, born March 27, 1828, mentioned
below. 6. Alice Lucilla, born September 10,
1830, died May 10, 1833.
(VII) Wesley Fillmore Chase, son of John
Chase, was born at Lynn, March 27, 1828, died
Noveraber 16, 1908. He was educated in the
public schools. He began to work with his
father at the shoemaker's trade at the age of
twelve years and continued in his eraploy until
he was twenty-four He then worked at shoe-
making for two years at Wood End, Lynn.
He returned to the city and was for seven
years eraployed in the boot and shoe factory of

B. F. Spinney and afterward in the factories
of Mr. KimbaU, of Joseph Davis for ten
years and Brewer & Parker, where he worked
until 1904, when he retired. In politics he was
originally a Whig, but was a Republican from
the time that party was organized until his
death, performing much active work. He
attended the Methodist church at Lynn. He
was identified with the hand tub firemen's
brigade, and was a member of the City of
Lynn Veteran Firemen's organization, besides
belonging to other fraternal organizations. He
married, June 27, 1852, Mary A. Parrott, of
Lynn, born August i, 1834, daughter of AVUl-
iam and Mary (Palfry) Parrott, of Salem.
Children, born in Lynn : i. John W., born
December 12, 1853, resides in Lowell, Massa
chusetts ; with the Goodale Drug Company of
that city; married Marie Wallace, of New
York. 2. Charles Wesley, June 10, 1855, died
aged six years. 3. Charles Wesley, March 30,
1866, died in infancy. 4. Addie Alay, May 29,
1867 ; married Frank Lewis Cass, of Rock
port, Massachusetts. Mr. Cass carae to Lynn
when young; he was educated in the public
schools ; learned the leather business with the
firra of John B. Alley & Corapany, of Boston.
Later he was in the employ of Frank Hilliard,
of Lynn. Since 1893 he has been a partner of
the firm of Breed & Cass, manufacturers of cut
soles, Lynn. In politics he is a Republican,
and in religion reared a Quaker. Children; i.
May W. Cass, born October 3, 1889. 2. Anna
S. Cass, April 2, 1891. 3. Charles F. Cass,
April 8, 1893, died May 25, 1894. 4. Hazel L.
Cass, February 12, 1897. 5. AVilliam R. Cass,
September 10, 1898. 6. Florence A. Cass, May
21, 1900, died January 8, 1901.

(I) John Willson, immigrant
AVILLSON ancestor of this family, was
one of the numerous Scotch-
Irish pioneers of this name who carae to New
England from the north of Ireland, after 1718.
He lived in Upton, Worcester county, near
the Scotch-Irish settlement of Hopkinton in
Middlesex, where many Scotch-Irish located.
Later in life he returned to the north of Ire
land, and died there Deceraber 29, 1774. He
raarried Jane (raaiden narae not known). Chil
dren; I. Robert, born February 2, 1729; men
tion below. 2. Jane, born March 18, 1730-1,
at Marlborough; niarried Joseph Stewart. 3.
John, Jr., born Deceraber 3, 1732, at Marl
borough ; settled at Putney, Verraont ; married
first, Lucy Stewart, May 10, 1757; second,
AloUy Grahara. 4. Joseph, born at Upton, Au-

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BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

gust 6, 1737. 5- Elizabeth, born March 24,
1739, at Upton; niarried Joseph Lyttle, Alay
29, 1764. 6. Mary, born at Upton, October
17, 1742; married Abraham Hunter, February
27, 1764.
(II) Robert AA'illson, son of John Willson,
was born in Ireland, February 2, 1729.
According to family tradition he came over
from Ireland when forty weeks old, with his
parents. He was a cordwainer (shoemaker)
by trade and a farraer, a sturdy, upright raan.
He was very anxious that his grandson should
become a minister, but died before his wish
was fulfilled. Both grandson and great-grand
son were preachers. Pie died at New Brain
tree, April 16, 1801, aged seventy-two years.
He lived in New Braintree for many years.
He raarried Martha Dunlap, a native of the
north of Ireland, who died July 9, 1808. Chil
dren, born in New Braintree; i. Joseph, Jan
uary 16, 1762 ; mentioned below. 2. Samuel,
January 8, 1764.
(Ill) Joseph WUlson, son of Robert Will-
son, was born in New Braintree, January 16,
1762, and died there June 3, 1844. Pie was
educated in the coraraon schools of New Brain
tree, and followed farraing there, and in the
adjacent town of Leicester, where he lived for
a short tirae. Pie was a member of the Con
gregational church (orthodox) and a useful
and influential citizen. He married, April 18,
1782, Sarah Alatthews, at New Braintree. She
was born October 3, 1763, and died June 16,
1802. Children, born at New Braintree: i.
Luther, mentioned below. 2. Alelissa, died
jVpril 21, 1795.
(IV) Rev. Luther Willson, son of Joseph
Willson, was born in New Braintree, April
26, 1783. Aluch of the matter relating to the
life of Rev. Luther Willson and his son. Rev.
Edmund Burke Willson, some of which will
be quoted, is taken frora a memoir of the latter
by Robert S. Rantoul, in the Essex Institute
Historical Collections for 1895. Luther Will-
son attended the public schools and Leicester
Academy, of which he becanie principal in
course of time, and frora which no less than
thirty of his descendants have received their
education in good part. He prepared for col
lege Governor Emory AVashburn, Judge
Charles Allen, and many other men who became
distinguished in later life. "But not content
to follow this career, he fitted himself for the
pulpit, and in due time received a license to
preach. He had been trained in the strict
morality and in the rigid dogma of the century
that had closed. But the period was one of

mental activity and growth, and Luther Will-
son was not long in finding qjit that to con
serve what was priceless in the former did not
require him to cherish what was worthless in
the latter. He had left his ancestral home for
the Congregational parish in Brooklyn, the
county seat of Windham county, in eastern
Connecticut, and here he had grown to be re
spected and loved. Upon the close of the war
of 1812-15 differences of dogma began to assert
themselves in the New England Congregational
polity, which culminated in a few years in the
liberal religious or so-called Unitarian move
raent. In 1817 Luther AA^illson was tried for
heresy and was convicted, against the protests
of a majority of his parishioners and of the
eminent theologians of the day who were in
sympathy with him. Aaron Bancroft, of Wor-
-ester, the historian's father, was among them.
Luther Willson was forced by the Consociation
of Churches of AVindham county to give up his
pulpit, and in 1819 found him established over
a broader and more independent congregation
at Petersham in his native county, but not
before he had accepted from Dr. Channing an
invitation to pay him an extented visit at the
famous parsonage in Boston, and had received
from the hand of the great reformer, in recog
nition of his sturdy manhood, the gift of a
watch which remains an heirloom amongst his
descendants." The fine old Lh-iitarian meeting
house at Petersham, still well preserved, is a
landmark of the town. Paul Revere's foundry
furnished the bell on the rim of which is cast
these lines : "The living to the church I call
and to the grave I summon all." He had a
long and eminently success,ful pastorate in
Petersham. He died there Noveraber 20, 1864.
"He was of that liraited order of raen rare
enough always — men of whom the world owes
its best — men who are able to make sacrifices
cheerfuUy in behalf of their convictions. Born
in the bracing air of the high table-land of
central Alassachusetts, at the close of the Revo
lution, and baptized in the spirit of those stir
ring times, Luther Willson seeras to have been,
like Jackson and Calhoun and Greeley and
many more of our conspicuous men, of Scotch-
Irish lineage." He married first, November
30, 1806, Sally Bigelow, born in Waltham,
Middlesex county, Massachusetts, daughter of
Abijah Bigelow, who was a soldier in the revo
lution in the battle of Lexington when but
nineteen years of age, and when eighty years
old went west, where he died twelve years
later, after founding with his family the settle
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ancestor of the Bigelow family was among the
early settlers of Watertown, of which Walt
ham was formerly a part. SaUy (Bigelow)
Willson died in Petersham, January 29, 1826,
and Luther WiUson married second, December
5, 1827, Fidelia Wells. Children of first wife ;
I. Martha Amelia, born November 20, 1807;
raarried Septeraber 4, 1831, Aaron Brooks, Jr. ;
children ; i. James "W. Brooks, born at Peters
ham, August 7, 1833; ii- John Brooks, April
29, 1836; iii. Abbie N. Brooks, August 4, 1839;
married John Fiske, the historian ; iv. Martha
AA^. Brooks, March 27, 1842. 2. William Cow
per, born at Leicester, Massachusetts, Decera
ber 29, 1809; married June 30, 1851, Sara O.
Hastings; children; i. WiUiara C., born at
Ogdensburg, New York, March 12, 1853; ii.
Charles H., April 21, 1857. 3. George Camp
bell, born in Leicester, December 16, 181 1;
raarried September 27, 1837, Arethusa Park
hurst ; children ; i. AViUiam P., born Decera
ber 28, 1838; ii. Juliana, August 19, 1841 ; iii.
Helen, August 20, 1845 > i"^- George L., Novem
ber I, 1848; V. Eugene B., October 18, 1852;
vi. Edmund B., June 16, 1855. 4. Sarah
Alatthews, March 24, 1814; died Deceraber
II, 1814, in Brooklyn, Connecticut. 5. Joseph,
born October i, 18 16, in Brooklyn, Connecti
cut ; niarried first, June 3, 1846, Elizabeth O.
Weed ; children ; i. Lucy A., born at Peters-
liara, April 13, 1847 ! ii- Edraund H., born at
Keene, New Hampshire, September i, 1849;
iii. Mary Jane, born at Bellows Falls, August
25, 1851; iv. Joseph Spencer, born at Peters
ham, March 21, 1856. 6. Zibiali Nelson, born
at Brooklyn, September i, 1818; married Au
gust 9, 1837, Joseph L. Partridge; children; i.
John N., born at Leicester, Septeraber 28,
1838 ; ii. Joseph L. Partridge, born at Leicester,
March 11, 1845 ! iii- Edward Lassell Partridge,
born at West Newton, Septeraber 27, 1853.
7. Edmund Burke, born August 15, 1820; men
tioned below. 8. Lucy Williams, born at
Petersham, August 27, 1822 ; married January
3, 1849, Charles C. Burr. 9. James, born at
Petersham, August 11, 1824, died young. Chil
dren of second wife ; 10. Frederick Matthews,
born at Petersham, April 17, 1830; married
April 17, 1856, Mary Arms. 11. Mary Bige
low, born at Petersham, April 7, 1832 ; mar
ried June 13, i860, George A. Southgate. 12.
Sarah Wells, born September 18, 1834; died
young. 13. Sarah, born March 4, 1837, never
raarried. 14. Catherine Wells, born Alay 3,
1 841 ; died young.
(V) Rev. Edraund Burke Willson, son of
Rev. Luther Willson, was born in Petersham,

August 15, 1820, and died at Salera, Alassachu
setts, June 13, 1895. "The scenes and duties
of school and farm-yard, the simple sports and
pastimes of rural New England, filled his open
ing years. No special event, destined to give
direction to the future, marked his young
career. An unconquerable diffidence, an affec
tionate temperaraent, a deep resentment of
wrong done to others, a lively appreciation of
music and a keen enjoyment of fun, a quick
moral sense, a tender, sympathetic heart, a
healthy, well-balanced raind, a raanhood that
never flinched, and a stalwart independence
of character which could by no means be sub
ordinated, for it was part and parcel of his
religious nature — these vi^ere the furnishings
with which Mr. Willson started out to make
his way in life His health was not robust.
This interfered with prospects opening before
hira both at Harvard and at Yale, and led -to
his retireraent frora the latter college, on his
father's injunction, when he had been there
but a single year. But ultimately, under the
rugged but congenial tutelage of a dairy farm,
his health became confirmed, and while he
wavered then, as he did later in life, between
the pulpit and the teacher's desk, he at last
betook himself under the influence of Henry
AA'are to the School of Divinity at Carabridge
and there received a degree in course with the
class of 1843. Ten years later he received
from Harvard the honorary degree of Master
of Arts, and at the annual visitation of the
Divinity School in June, 1874, Air. Willson
was selected as the essayist of the day, and
read an address before the Association of the
Alumni of the School which earned high praise.
He had entered the Divinity School in the sum
raer of 1840, a youth of twenty. An admir
ing classmate. Rev. Joseph H. Alien, D. D.,
has said of him as a student; "Candor, mod
esty and a clear intelligence ; a companionable
temper, genial and sunny, and a certain grave
maturity of character; a mental temperament
sound rather than robust, disclosing a rare
intellectual quality coupled with a still rarer
humihty of spirit and deep self-distrust — these
were traits as clearly written then on that win
ning face of his, we have read them in all the
decades since — traits perhaps favored by train
ing in a rural academy, which in some points
may compare to advantage with the hothouse
culture some immature natures undergo in col
lege life." Mr. Willson was ordained the first
week of January, 1844, at Grafton, Massachu
setts, as minister of the First Unitarian Church.
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teacher in Leicester Academy, Westford Acad
eray, in Littleton and Petersham, Massachu
setts, in Brooklyn and New Haven, Connecti
cut, and elsewhere, alternating teaching and
study. His first school was at Canterbury,
Connecticut, when he was but fifteen years
old, and was attended with the usual rough
experience looked for when a delicate and ara
bitious boy was set to master pupils older and
larger than he.
But from the time his pastorate at Grafton
began, he devoted his entire tirae and energy
to his duties. "Every faculty of his being was
consecrated to life-long ministrations of love
and peace," said Mr. Rantoul. "Self-distrust
seems, indeed, to have been recognized then
as always, by those who knew him well, as the
stumbling-block in his career. And, judging
from the frequency with which he was
approached with flattering offers throughout
his professional life, it would seem that the
public to which he ministered was much more
alive than he to the very exceptional fibre and
quality of his mind. His views of the pulpit
function, though never extrerae, were wholly
untrararaeled and soraewhat peculiar to him
self. No man should enter the pulpit, he
thought, who was not charged with an evangel
— conscious of a raessage. The society which
invited his rainistrations raust respect his earn
estness and trust his delicacy. It was not with
out a raeaning that we have built the pulpit
higher than the pews. If the utterances of the
pulpit were to be dictated by the judgment of
the pews, the preacher's highest value raust
fail of being reached."
His first publication was an historical ser
mon preached in December, 1846, based upon
a study of his parish records. In 1854 he was
orator at the exercises to celebrate the centen
nial of the incorporation of the town of Peters
ham. Of his address the Christian Examiner
said at the tirae of its publication : "It is
siraple, chaste and graceful in its diction ; full,
but not redundant in its raaterials ; as enthusi
astic as it ought to be for such an occasion
and fropi a son of the town. With prudent but
rather provoking discretion, he has refrained
frora sketching some characters which gave
him ample chance for humorous description."
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
made him a corresponding member at this
time; Bancroft, the historian, assured him in
an autograph letter of the pleasure he derived
from reading his address at Petersham, while
ten years later the New England Historic
Genealogical Register was holding up this rare

production of Mr. Willson's pen as a model
for future essays in local history.
Air. Willson remained at Grafton until 1852.
His years in that pastorate were active and
fruitful. He took a leading part in the great
and momentous struggle for the present free
school system of Alassachusetts. The pubhc
schools were assailed by the Calvinists, as they
have been later, by Catholics, because religion
is not taught in them. "It as a godless system,
so they thought, in that it leaves religion to the
horae, welcomes the children of the State as
the coramon progeny of that grand old raother
— our beloved Coraraonwealth^who counts
them neither Greek nor Jew, barbarian, Scyth
ian, bound or free, but only a precious brood
all given her to cherish and advance alike, and
which concedes to parents of whatever sect the
natural right to indoctrinate their offspring as
they will. From evangelical pulpits and from
lyceura platforras the advocates of the system
were ruthlessly denounced as atheists, as in
fidels, and as false lights, threatening to mis
lead the people they professed to serve. But
Air. AA'^illson never wavered in his course ;
neither at Grafton, where his position on the
school comraittee cost hira raany friends, at West
Roxbury where he becarae the superintendent
of schools, nor afterward at Salem, where he
was conspicuous in resisting the enforced ob
servance of Protestant rites in non-sectarian
schools as impolitic and unfair.'' The whole
school system was in its experimental stage.
Time has justified the stand of Mr. WiUson
and the system is now well intrenched in popu
lar favor. Scarcely a day passed that he did
not visit school in Grafton during term time.
The slavery issue was even raore incessant
in its call to disagreeable and discouraging
duties in the years before the war. Mr. "Will-
son stood in the foreraost rank of the foes of
slavery. "So clear were his utterances, so
searching his clarion tones, so unmistakable the
quality of his. courage, and his determination
to put the interests of the country before any
of his own that when Theodore Parker, a. few
years later, left West Roxbury for the wider
field he found in Boston, the inclination of
the parish turned toward Mr. WiUson, and a
successful effort was made to secure his ser
vice there. Other pulpits had before invited
him. On leaving the Divinity School he had
been called to Templeton in his native county,
and Meadville too, a seminary of Unitarian
theology — an appeal not easy to resist — had at
that time swung open her hospitable doors.
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pulpit aid and of the freedom of their rare
accumulation of books."
He began the West Roxbury pastorate in
1852, and found a congenial congregation.
Among other men of his flock of kindred ideas
of education, slavery and other questions of
the day, he found George R. Russell, who re
mained a lifelong friend. His sermon on "The
Rendition of Anthony Burns," the runaway
slave, was published and elicited widespread
praise from the anti-slavery carap, and con-
deranation from the pro-slavery element of the
country. Secretary William H. Seward, then
active in public life, in the United States
Senate, wrote to Mr. Willson; "Your serraon
carae to me this morning and was immediately
read, and it excited a glow of feeling such as
in early life the first draraatic picture of suf
fering virtue produces. Indeed, sir, although
it is without art, it is wonderfully, wonderfully
eloquent." Theodore Parker wrote ; "I thank
you heartily for your brave, noble words * *
I know what it costs to preach faithfully on
such matters." Dr. Gannett and Senator
Charles Sumner also commended the sermon.
He continued at West Roxbury, resisting all
other calls that came frequently, until in 1859
he accepted the call to Salem. Even then he
had to leave a congregation that raade a unani
mous appeal for him to reraain. He was in
vited to come to Hingham, to becorae colleague
of Rev. Dr. Dewey, Boston, and to help build
up the liberal faith at Albany, New York.
AVhen he left West Roxbury, where he had
been superintendent of schools, he received a
very flattering testimonial from the teachers.
After he was settled at Salem, he was content
to stay in that field of labor to the end of his
days, refusing to be persuaded to enter new
fields. In 1865 a determined effort was made
to have him come to Ithaca, New York, a point
of exceptional importance on account of Cor
nell University, but he stayed at his old post.
The anti-slavery feeling ran higher. After the
convictions of John Brown and his men, a pub
lic meeting was called at Salem to raise money
to pay the expenses of the trial and interment
of John Brown and his convicted raiders. Mr.
Willson was the only Salera clergyman to take
part. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John A. An
drew, James Freeman Clarke, John G. Whit
tier and Wendell Phillips were the other speak
ers. "Clergymen were not numerous at that
time who cared to test the hold they had on
the affections of their people by taking part in
a gathering like that. Neither this nor any
subsequent demonstration of his invincible pur

pose to be free in thought and act, whether
made in behalf of co-education in schools, or
against the compulsory requirernents therein
of religious forras, or on the selection of a
president, a governor or a mayor, or on any
other debated question, be it political, sectarian,
social or moral, which for the time being raight
disturb the public raind — themes on the most
stirring of which Mr. WiUson never hesitated
to be heard — nothing from that time forth ever
availed to interrupt, for a day, the perfect
accord between the pastor and his flock." When
the civil war broke out, he was a staunch sup
porter of the federal government, and when
he was chosen chaplain of the Twenty-fourth
Regiment Massachusetts A^olunteers, then at
St. Augustine, Florida, without his knowledge,
he felt constrained to accept the duty in the
field. In order that both he and his people
raight act without constraint he resigned his
pastorate, but instead of accepting the resigna
tion, his parishioners made up a generous purse
to facilitate his departure and bade him a tear
ful God-speed. He went by steamer from
New York, passing so near the beleaguered
city of Charleston that he could see the church
spires and the flashes of light as the cannons
were fired and the shells exploded. He went
ashore at Beaufort, South Carolina, in search
of men of his regiment in the hospitals there.
He found several and was welcomed by the
sufferers. Two on his list had died. He took
up his work at St. Augustine with zeal. On
the first anniversary of the Emancipation
Proclaraation he addressed the freedmen. His
quarters were in a shambling, two-story paro
chial school-house without stove or fire-place,
attached to a deserted Episcopal Church of St.
Augustine, rededicated to the service of the
Union army under the name of Trinity Parish
Church. In the early days of 1864 the regi
ment was bivouacked in the spring rains, in
a ploughed field within three hours march of
the rebel capital and operating against the rail
road, the telegraph and the turnpike wagon-
trains between Petersburg and Richraond.
Voices could be heard in the still night from
the Confederate rifle pits ; newspapers, coffee
and tobacco were exchanged between the
armies ; the spires of Richraond were in sight.
During an engageraent on May 24, Lieutenant
Clough of his regiraent was killed and many
were wounded and killed. He was under fire
for ten days or more. Picket duty and
incessant digging in the trenches as the line
advanced toward Richmond, when not actuaUy
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services and finding there was little for him
to do as chaplain, he finally resigned, and
came home, bringing the regiraental flag to the
State House, after running the gauntlet of the
rebel raid on General Frankhn.
"For the thirty years during which he sur
vived the war, Mr. Willson grew steadily in
the appreciation of his neighbors and, as the
generations raarched along, came to be re
garded as a Nestor and a Patriarch araong
men. No gathering was complete without his
presence ; no feast, no social function wholly
happy, without his blessing. Sects forgot their
dogmas in recognition of his noble manhood,
and when the national convention of the Meth
odist Episcopal body met in Salem, Mr. Will-
son was the choice of the Salem pastors to
extend their welcome. His was for years the
most potent voice in the county conference of
his own denomination, and there he received
that spontaneous homage which should attend
desert. When the Unitarian body, which had
achieved a vantage-ground by defying hier
archy in all its forms, and by insisting on the
right of private judgment, attempted to rid
itself of some obnoxious members whose pri
vate judgraent led thera to results unpalatable
to the sect at large. Air. AA-^illson stood like a
rock against the innovation and at the national
conference in 1872 which sat at Boston, and
planted hiraself in a position which he lived to
see adopted by the national Unitarian confer
ence of 1894 at Saratoga ; but which, when he
espoused it, cost him the criticism usually meted
out to men who dare to stand alone, and called
forth an expression of contempt from the New
England organ of the denomination itself."
Air. Willson's field of labor was always
larger than his parish. He served eight years
on the school board of Salem; was a meraber
of the board of control of the Horae for Aged
Women and for several years its manager ;
trustee for fifteen years of the Plumraer Farm
School — one of the only two clergymen ever
appointed to that board. He was one of the
corporators of the Salera Savings Bank. No
other man has been asked more than once to
deliver the Memorial Day oration at Salem,
but Mr. Willson was thrice honored in this
way. When the Salera Light Infantry Veteran
Corps in April, 1886, observed the quarter-
century of the departure for the field, he
accepted an invitation to march as chaplain
for the day, and he raarched as chaplain at
every subsequent parade until his death. Pie
had been a resident raeraber of the New Eng
land Historic Genealogical Society since 1859

and finaUy becarae its vice-president for Mass
achusetts. He had been president of the Salem
Athenaeum since 1886. He was a raember
of the Essex Institute frora the time of his
coming to Salem, and keenly interested in its
work. He contributed memoirs of John Lewis
Russell, John Clarke Lee and Charles Timothy
Brooks. He became president of the Institute
in 1893. He wrote an adrairable sketch of the
ecclesiastical history of Salem for Hurd's
"Essex County History," and a sketch of the
North Church and Parish printed by the
society in a memorial volume. Mr. Willson
was representative to the general court from
Salem in 1883-84, serving as chairraan of the
committee on education and of the comraittee
on parishes and religious societies, and exert
ing a large and wholesorae influence on legis
lation. He was an officer of raany of the local
charitable organizations.
"And so" says Afr. Rantoul, "this rare and
adrairable man rounded out his full half-cen
tury of duty in the church and on the thirty-
si-xth anniversary of his installation here — a
day to which, year after year, for a whole gen
eration, he had looked forward with a manly
pride — this noble man, gazing into the up
turned faces of the people he had served so
well — some born and grown, some mellowed
and grown older under his gracious charge —
raoved by the tender raeraories of those gone
before — and speaking at the altar -words of
benediction which he raeant to be his last —
faltered and fainted at his post and, lingering
a little, passed away. At his simple funeral
the needy and the hurable bore testiraony by
their presence that they had lost a friend, and
mourners of every station felt their kinship
for an hour at his bier. The clergy of the town
forgot their differing creeds and made known
their sorrow in a formal vote." "A conserva
tive by instinct, whose face was ever turning
toward the future ; a devotee of progress"
wrote Mr. Rantoul, "who adored and rever
enced the past ; hopeful without optimism, cau
tious without timidity; a balanced thinker,
broad enough to know that there is a reverse
to every shield, and that the sphere of truth
has sides beyond the ken of any single eye;
gentle with the erring; human nature could
not sink so low as to escape the recognition of
his yearning heart ; an ardent patriot, an un
flinching friend, a speaker who weighed his
words, a pastor whose every word was instinct
with the spirit of the man who spoke ; uttering
the fitting word, be it at the bed-side, at the
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demonstration of thought and feeling genuine ;
winning all trust ; walking in daily fellowship
with all that is fine and high in nature ; broad
as charity in all things ; keenly alive to the ter
rible deficiencies of the hour, but equally
assured of what Whittier has called 'the steady
gain of man,' Mr. Willson was the citizen, the
neighbor, the pastor, the friend, such as no
community can surrender without a pang."
"'¦" * "To me — to all of us — Salem will be a
little less than Salem, now that he is gone —
honor a little rarer — beauty and grace of soul
something less a tangible reality, something
raore an evanescent dream — the world without
his sunny sraile something poorer — life itself
something less worth living!"
We quote from the Christian Register: "Mr.
Willson was a man so fresh in his thought and
so youthful in spirit that it was difficult to be
lieve that he was seventy-five years old. Only
six of our ministers had longer settlements.
He kept himself always abreast of the new
thought and the new literature of his time.
He was one of the old-fashioned gentleraen,
kindly, courteous and unassuming in his de
meanor, but resolute in his purpose. During
the raany years of his ministry in Salem he
had grown to be an important part of the Hfe
of the city as well as of that of his parish.
Naturally, it happened in the changes which
passed over this old community that raany
raerabers of the older families drew together
under his administration ; and he came to
represent in a peculiar degree the old-fash
ioned, cultivated, self-respecting, dignified life
of one of the oldest cities of New England.
In a singular way, without conscious purpose
or ostentation, Mr. Willson carried on the
traditions of the older clergy."
AVe select from a multitude of tributes writ
ten and spoken after his death the beautiful
words of Rev. Francis Tiffany, who knew him
long and well ; "No lamp in an alabaster vase
ever shone through more translucently than
through his speaking eyes, mobile features and
responsive mien shone the vibrations of the
light and love within. As youth, mature man,
and in old age, he was dowered with the rare
gift of personal beauty, a beauty not only
lighting up his expressive countenance, but re
vealing itself in the delicate finish of limb and
overflowing in the exquisite courtesy of his
manners. Spared to the ripe age of seventy-
five, the beautiful Indian suramer of his life
was steeped in a rich, golden sunshine and
haloed with a poetic atmosphere that visibly
transfigured him into a living, breathing ex

emplar of the merit of the saints. His mere
passing along the streets had grown to be a
public benediction. A shrewd judge of char
acter, a keen and amused dissector of human
weaknesses, a sure discerner too of hidden
traits of excellence — business men enjoyed
talking over with him the events of the day and
the characteristics of leading politicians, edu
cators and divines. All the more they re
spected his spiritual appeals, for the force and
penetration of his practical, every-day sense.
Under the glove of silk there was the hand of
steel." Air. AVillson married. May 8, 1844, Martha
Ann Buttrick, born at Framingham, Massa
chusetts, July 20, 1817, died in Salem, Novem
ber 7, 1891, daughter of Stephen and Patty
(Wheeler) Buttrick. (See Buttrick faraily).
Children; I. Sophia Edgell, born in Grafton,
Alarch i, 1845; raarried Francis H. Lee; no
children. 2. Martha Buttrick, born at Graf
ton, November 3, 1847. 3- Lucy Burr, born
at Grafton, November 13, 1849 > never mar
ried. 4. Alice Brooks, born August 5, 1851 ;
never married. 5. Robert AVheeler, born at
West Roxbury, July 20, 1853 ; married Decem
ber 14, 1881, Annie Downing West; living in
Carabridge, Massachusetts. 6. Edward Rus
sell, born in AVest Roxbury, April 21, 1856;
raarried 1882, Anne LeMoyne Frost ; he died
September 9, 1906 ; children ; i. Amey L.,
born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 30,
1883 ; ii. Alartha Buttrick, born August 16,
1885.  (I) AA'lUiani Butter ick, irarai-
BUTTRICK grant ancestor, was born in
England, in 1617. The name
is spelled often Buttrick also. He came from
Kingston-on-Tharaes, county Surrey, erabark
ing May 9, 1635, with Rev. Mr. Bulkeley,
later the minister at Concord, Massachusetts,
and Thomas Brook, who also settled at Con
cord, on the ship "Susan and Ellen." He
stated his age as sixty-eight in 1684. He set
tled in Concord, was admitted a freeman May
26, 1647. He removed to Chelmsford, and was
one of the committee appointed to invite the
pastor of the church at AVenham to reraove to
Chelmsford, in 1654. John Hastings called
William Butterick his son-in-law, a term used
for stepson. His home at Concord was on the
west bank of the Concord river, in the upland
about a quarter of a mile from the North
Bridge. Having served as sergeant of mihtia,
at the age of sixty-five he petitioned to be ex
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aged about eighty-two years. His will, dated
March i, 1687, proved June 28, 1698, be
queathed to eldest son John a house he had
built in Stow ; to son Sarauel lands at Con
cord; to daughter Sarah Barrett and to chil
dren of aU three. He raarried first, 1646, at
Concord, Sarah Bateraan, died July 17, 1664;
second, February 21, 1667, Jane Goodnow, of
Sudbury, daughter of Thomas Goodnow. Chil
dren, all by first wife ; i. Mary, bom Septem
ber 19, 1648; died November i, 1648. 2. AVill
iam. 3. John, born Septeraber 21, 1653; mar
ried Mary Blood; settled in Stow. 4. Samuel,
born January 12, 1654-5 ; mentioned below. 5.
Edward, born January 6, 1656-7 ; died January
15, 1656-7. 6. Joseph, born October 29, 1657;
killed in the Sudbury fight with the Indians,
AprU 21, 1726. 7. Sarah, born July 27, 1662;
married John Barrett, of Chelmsford. 8.
Mary, born June 17, 1664; died AprU 21, 1665.
(II) Sarauel Butterick, son of William But
terick, was born at Concord, January 12,
1654-5, and died August 8, 1726. He suc
ceeded his father on the first homestead in
Concord. He was a soldier in King Phillip's
war, 1675-6, and his son Jonathan drew a lot
of land at Narragansett No. 6 (Terapleton,
Massachusetts) in payraent for his services,
granted by the general court June 24, 1735.
Samuel raarried, 1677, Elizabeth Blood. Chil
dren, all born at Concord: i. EHzabeth, Au
gust 25, 1679. 2. Sarauel, Jr., January 31,
1 68 1 -2; settled at Charlestown, New Hamp
shire; married Mercy Hett, born 1680. 3.
William, April 15, 1683; died September 16,
171 1. 4. Sarah, November 21, 1687; died
October 7, 1746; raarried May 7, 1713, John
Flint. 6. Deacon Jonathan, mentioned below.
(Ill) Deacon Jonathan Butterick, son of
Samuel Butterick, was born at Concord, AprU
24, 1690, and died there March 23, 1767. 'The
Butterick house stood near the North Bridge,
and is now or was lately owned by Major John
Butterick, his son. Before this old house and
to the eastward is Battle Lawn, lately so-called,
where the militia and the rainute-raen forraed
preparatory to the raarch to the bridge, and
near it the detachment of regulars under Cap
tain Parsons passed on the way to and from
the home of Colonel James Barrett. Battle
Lawn is marked by suitable inscribed tablets.
Deacon Jonathan was foUowed to his grave,
according to the inscription on his monument,
by his widow and thirteen well-instructed chil
dren. He raarried, 1717-8, Elizabeth Wood,
Children: i. Samuel, born November 16,
1718; died January 14, 1814; married, 1744,

Lucy Wheeler. 2. Mary, born April 18, 1720.
3. Captain Jonathan, born January 30, 1721-
2; died May 18, 1775; married July 14, 1756,
Mary Brown. 4. Joseph, born January 9,
1723-4; died December 29, 1803; married July
23,1751, Sarah Brown. 5. Nathan, born Sep
teraber 27, 1725; died December 25, 1812;
raarried Deceraber 12, 1757, Grace, daughter
of Joseph and Sarah Wheeler. 6. Elizabeth,
born August 21, 1727; raarried Deceraber 21,
1753, Charles Flint. 7. Abigail, born August
21, 1729. 8. John, born July 20, 1731 ; men
tioned below. 9. Rachel, born November 12,
1733. 10. Ephraira, born February 15, 1735-6;
died April 15, 1785, unraarried. 11. Daniel,
born April 3, 1738; died February 24, 1843.
12. Lois, born June 2, 1740; died April 27,
1783, unraarried. 13. Sarah, born August 10,
1742; died July 12, 1827. 14. Willard, born
Noveraber 12, 1746; married November 22,
1769, Esther, daughter of John and Esther
Blood. (IV) Colonel John Buttrick, son of Dea
con Jonathan Butterick, was born in Concord,
July 20, 1731, and died May 16, 1791. He
was a prominent citizen in town and military
affairs before the revolution, and held the rank
of major when the revolution began. He was
in comraand of the American forces at Con
cord, April 19, 1775. Shattuck, the historian
of Concord, says: "His name wiU be handed
down to posterity with distinguished honor for
the noble stand he took, and the bravery he
raanifested in leading a gallant band of railitia-
raen on to raeet the invading eneray at North
Bridge and for beginning the first forcible re
sistance to British arras. He returned the fire,
saying; 'Fire, feUow soldiers, for God's sake,
fire,' and discharged his own gun the same
instant.'' The inscription on his monument
reads; "In memory of Colonel John Butt
rick, who coramanded the militia companies
which made the first attack upon the British
Troops at Concord, North Bridge, on the nine
teenth of April, 1775, having with patriotic
firmness shared in the damages which led to
American Independence, he lived to enjoy the
blessings of it, and died May 16, 1791, aged
sixty years. Having laid down his sword with
honor, he resumed the plough with industry;
by the latter he maintained what the former
had won. The virtues of the parent, citizen
and Cilristian adorned his life and his worth
was acknowledged by the grief and respect of
all ranks at his death." During the summer of
1775 he was major in the regiment of Colonel
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missioned Heutenant-colonel of Colonel John
Robinson's regiment, August i, 1775; was col
onel of volunteers, acting as captain of a com
pany in Colonel Reed's regiment at the taking of
Burgoyne, serving from September 28, 1777, to
November 7 following, and his company was
detached from Colonel Brooks' regiment to re
inforce General Gates to the northward. He
was in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778,
when his regiment was detached to reinforce
the Continental army. His house was on the
hiU west of Flint's Bridge, and was occupied
lately by Captain Francis Jarvis. His gun is
still in the possession of the faraily, and his
tobacco box is at Antiquarian Plall, Concord.
He married, June 24, 1760, Abigail Jones.
Children, born at Concord ; i. Colonel John,
October 8, 1761 ; died September 11, 1825;
niarried first, Deceraber 10, 1795, Lydia
Wheeler; second, Deceraber 9, 181 3, Hannah
Wheeler. 2. Levi, October 11, 1762. 3. Jonas,
November 17, 1764. 4. Abigail, December 8,
1766. 5. Esther, August 8, 1768. 6. Anna,
Septeraber 19, 1770. 7. Stephen, August 25,
1772; mentioned below. 8. Phebe, October
17, 1774. 9. Horatio Gates, March 4, 1778.
10. Silas, May 15, 1780.
(A^) Stephen Buttrick, son of John But
trick, was born at Concord, August 25, 1772,
and died April 17, 1828. He settled first on
No. 3, third range, Hancock county, Maine,
and his three eldest children were born there.
He reraoved to Framingham, Massachusetts,
in 1814, and occupied the Wheeler farm. He
was deacon of the Baptist church. He married
Deceraber 6, 1801, Patty Wheeler, born De
cember, 1776, daughter of Abner Wheeler, of
Lincoln. She died May 6, 1827. Children :
I. Eliza W., born May 8, 1828; married Rev.
George Noyes, of Brookfield, and later a pro
fessor at Harvard College. 2. Rebecca, born
January 16, 1807; died unraarried. 3. Abner
W., born June 24, 1809; settled in Lowell. 4.
John A., born April 14, 1813; teacher in Med
ford, Massachusetts, 1834-38; settled in
Lowell, Massachusetts, March, 1839; was city
treasurer, 1843-47; cashier of the Appleton
Bank 1847-78; state senator 1855-6; repre
sentative to general court ; died March 3, 1879,
while an officer in the City Institution of Sav
ings in Lowell, Massachusetts; married Mar
tha Parkhurst, of Chelmsford. 5. Benjamin
W., born June 11, 1815; died November 4,
1836. 6. Martha Ann, born July 20, 1817;
married, May 8, 1844, Rev. Edmund B. WiU
son. (See Willson family). 7. Alden, born
January 22, 1820; settled in Lowell. 8. Har

riet Newell, born Alay 6, 1822; died August
20, 1825. The origin of this surname is
WYMAN Saxon or German, although the
American families are descend
ed frora English stock of ancient pedigree.
The English family Wymond is evidently of
the original stock, as the coat-of-arms is the
same. The Gerraan spelling was AVeymann,
and the spelling varies, some of the forms
being Wiman, Wymant, Wymond, AViraond,
etc. (I) Francis Wyman, the early English an
cestor, lived in the parish of Westmill, county
Hertford, where he died in 1658. He was a
farmer and a man of some property. His will,
dated September 15, 1658, proved February 14,
1659, bequeathed to wife Jane ; to sons Francis
and John Wyman, "who are beyond the sea,
ten pounds apiece of lawful EngHsh money"
to be paid to them if they be in want and come
over to demand the same. The sons never had
the legacies, both being prosperous citizens of
Woburn, Massachusetts. He also bequeathed
to his sister, Susan Huitt, widow. He left his
horaestead to his son Thomas, who was like
wise the residuary legatee. He married, at
AA'estmill, May 2, 1617, Elizabieth Richardson,
doubtless related to the three brothers who
with Wyraan were founders of Woburn. She
was buried June 22, 1630, and he married sec
ond, Jane  , who was buried in July,
1656. He was buried Septeraber 19, 1658.
ChUdren, all by_ first wife; i. Thoraas, bap
tized at Westraifl, April 5, 1618; married Ann
Godfrey ; settled in New England. 2. Francis,
baptized February 24, 1619; settled in New
England. 3. John, baptized February 3, 1621 ;
mentioned below. 4. Richard, baptized March
14, 1623. 5. WiUiam, baptized August 31,
1628; buried July, .1630. (See page 46, vol.
H, N. E. Register).
(II) John Wyraan, son of Francis Wyman,
was baptized at Westmill, Hertfordshire, Eng
land, February 3, 1621, and was the iraraigrant
ancestor. He was one of the early settlers at
Charlestown, in New England. His name
appears on the records as early as 1640, to
gether with his brother Francis, who is asso
ciated closely with him through life. He was
a subscriber at Charlestown in December, 1640,
to town order for Woburn, which was set off
from Charlestown. He removed to Woburn
soon after, and his name is on the county tax
list there under date of September 8, 1645.
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a freeraan Alay 26, 1647. He deposed in court,
December 18, 1660, that his age was about
thirty-nine years, which would make his birth
and baptism closely correspond. He died May
9, 1684. He married, Noveraber 5, 1644,
Sarah Nutt, daughter of MUes Nutt, an early
settler at Watertown who reraoved to Woburn.
She raarried second, Thoraas Fuller, of Wo
burn, August 25, 1684. Children; i. Samuel,
born September 20, 1646; died young. 2.
John, Jr., born March 26, 1648 ; died 1676. 3.
Sarah, born April 15, 1650; married December
15, 1669, Joseph AV"alker, of BiUerica; died
January 26, 1669. 4. Soloraon, born Febru
ary 26, 1651-2; died September 22, 1725. 5.
David, born April 7, 1654. 6. Elizabeth, born
January 18, 1655-6; died November 21, 1658.
7. Bathsheba, born October 6, 1658; married
Nathaniel Fay, of Billerica, May 30, 1677;
died July 9, 1730. 8. Jonathan, born July 13,
1 66 1. 9. Seth, mentioned below.
(Ill) Lieutenant Seth Wyman, son of John
AA^yman, was born in Woburn, August 3, 1663,
and settled there. He raarried, December 17,
1685, Esther Johnson, who died Alarch 31,
1742, daughter of Alajor AVilliara Johnson.
He died October 26, 1715. Children, born at
AA'oburn ; i. Seth, September 13, 1686; men
tioned below. 2. Esther, October 25, 1688.
3. Sarah, January 17, 1690-1 ; married Caleb
Blogget. 4. Jonathan, Noveraber 5, 1693 ;
died January 19, 1693-4. 5. Susanna, June 30,
1695. 6. Abigail, February 6, 1698-99; mar
ried January 19, 1725, Timothy Brooks; died
Alarch 16, 1780. 7. Love, February 14, 1701-
02 ; niarried Josiah Wyraan.
(IV) Ensign Seth AVyraan, son of Lieuten
ant Seth AA'yman, was born in AVoburn, Sep
tember 13, 1686, probably on the old AVyman
place, in what is now the west part of Burling
ton, a farm bequeathed to his father by the
immigrant ancestor Wynrnn. He was in the
famous Love well fight with the Indians in
1725, and had the conduct of his company
after the commander was shot. He was one
of the nine who escaped serious wounds out
of the thirty-three in the company. We quote
from the history of Woburn ; "At LoveweU's
fight he greatly distinguished himself by his
self-possession, fortitude and valor. All his
superior officers having been killed or mortally
wounded early in the engagement, he had the
coraraand of our raen almost the whole time of
its continuance, and by his prudent raanage
ment and courageous example was doubtless
mainly instrumental under God for preserving
so maii)^ of them as there were from being

utterly cut off. Seeing them in danger of becora
ing dispirited in the contest in view of greatly
superior nurabers and other advantages of the
eneray, he animated thera to action (it was
afterward reported by Eleazer Davis, who
was one of them) by assuring them that the
day would be their own if their spirits did not
flag, and so encouraged by these exhorta
tions and so briskly did they fire in conse
quence that several discharged their muskets
between twenty and thirty times apiece."
Immediately after the return of the survivors
AVyman was honored by Lieutenant Governor
Dummer, commander-in-chief of Massachu
setts, with a captain's coramission. He also
received frora his fellow citizens in testimony
of the public appreciation of his valor, a silver-
hilted sword, but did not live long to enjoy the
honors that came to hira. To encourage vol
unteers to enlist against the Indians, the gen
eral court offered four shillings wages per
day in addition to the bounty of one hundred
pounds for every scalp. Many enlisted and
marched under comraand of Captain AA'^yman
and others, but the extrerae heat and illness
effectuaUy stopped their progress. Several
died on their return, araong them Captain Wy
man, September 5, 1725, in his thirty-eighth
year. After his death his wife's father adopted
the children. Seth Wyman raarried, January
26, 1715-6, Sarah Ross, of Billerica, who died
Noveraber 5, 1727, daughter of Thomas Ross.
Children; i. Seth, born November 5, 1715.
2. Ross, born August 16, 1717; raarried first
 Jefts; second, April 10, 1751, Dinah
Taylor; third 1761, Sarah Haggett, widow.
3. Peleg, born August 20, 1719. 4. Hezekiah,
August 5, 1720; raentioned below. 6. Sarah,
Septeraber 20, 1722.
(V) Hezekiah Wyman, son of Captain
Seth Wyman, was born in AVoburn, August
5, 1720. He was a soldier in the French and
Indian war, and was in General Wolfe's army
at the battle of Quebec. Tradition has it that
he pointed out the secret path that led to the
Heights of Abraham, by which the British and
Americans were led to the plateau, met the
French on equal footing and conquered the
city. In recognition of his services in this
campaign he was granted a raanor in New
York, but never claimed his grant, and it was
finally taken up by squatters. When the revo
lution carae he marched with his company on
the Lexington alarra and took part in the fight
ing at Concord, April 19, 1775. When he died
he bequeathed outside his family the gun he
carried on that eventful day, but it is now in

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the possession of his grandson, Isaac Chauncy
Wyraan, of Salem. Pie was fifty-five years
old at the time of the battle, and hved but a
few years afterward. A picture of hira,
seated upon a white horse, is preserved in the
public library at Woburn. His horae was in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in later years. He
married Sarah Reed, of Woburn. Children,
born in AVoburn; i. Hezekiah, March 21,
1747. 2. Seth, Alarch 17, 1749; died young.
3: Seth, February 17, 1750; removed to Alaine
4. Daniel, March_6, 1752. 5. Sarah, May 12,
1754. 6. Isaac, mentioned below.
(V) Isaac Wyman, son of Hezekiah Wy
man, was born in Woburn, December 12, 1756.
Pie died about 1836, in Salera, Alassachusetts.
He was an active and influential patriot in
revolutionary days, and a distinguished raili
tary figure. He was with his father in the
battle of Concord, and rose step by step to the
rank of colonel of a cavalry regiment, or
horse troops, as they were called. After the
war he becanie a merchant in Boston for seven
years, then removed to Keene, New Hamp
shire, and for three years was engaged in man
ufacturing pearlash and dealing in lumber and
wood. He returned to Salera, Alassachusetts,
then the busiest seaport of New England, and
bought the property at Forest River, South
Salem, formerly owned by his wife's family,
the Ingalls of Salem. He demolished the old
buildings, including the house, the mill and
the dam, and constructed a new house
and flour and grain raills. He also engaged in
the raanufacture of dyestuffs. The logs for
his dyes were imported from the East Indies.
He also had a large trade in wool, buying this
commodity of the farmers, who had many
sheep at that time He had the wool sorted,
picked and baled for export to England. He
also went into the blacklead business, manu
facturing graphite, but after a tirae sold this
branch of his business to Colonel Frank Pea
body, who developed it to large proportions.
The graphite business that he founded is
known at the present time as the Forest River
Mills, and the excellence of the products of
the mill was well-known to the trade. The
founders of the Dixon Crucible Company, of
Jersey City, New Jersey, (Jule and Frank
Dixon) learned their trade in AA^'yman's raiU.
The narae of Dixon and lead pencils are asso
ciated together wherever writing is done.
Colonel Wyman acquired military habits of
arbitrary thought and action during the war,
and was rather austere and stern. In business
he commanded, and his word was law ; he

asked for no advice from his employees and
he took none from anybody. 'Phough he
never voted, he was a AVhig in sentiraent and
doubtless a Federalist in the day of that party.
He was public-spirited and a strong and influ
ential citizen of Salem. He had sound judg
ment and prospered in his affairs. In all his
varied undertakings he was successful and he
was enterprising, almost speculative in his
ventures, according to the ideas of his con
temporaries. He was essentially a constructor
of business, always a leader of men and affairs.
Like raost of the Continental array officers, he
was a Free Alason. He married, July 2, 1820,
Elizabeth Ingalls, born in Lynn, January
19, 1789, daughter of Henry Ingalls, an officer
at one time of the famous frigate "Constitu
tion." Her mother was Susan (Brown) In
galls (see Ingalls), a native of Salem. The
family is in some doubt as to whether the chil
dren were born in Salem or Marblehead, as
the farm extended into both places, and at the
time the children were born the process of
tearing down the old buildings and building
new ones was going on. Though sorae of the
children raay have been born in Marblehead,
none of the births are recorded. Children ;
I. Sarah, died in infancy. 2. Susan, died about
1888, in Salem. 3. Isaac Chauncy, born Janu
ary 30, 1827 ; mentioned below. 4. William
Burnett ; married Elizabeth Adams ; he was
educated in Bradford Academy and at the
Friends' School at North AA'^eare, New Hamp
shire ; fitted for the profession of civil engi
neer, but followed farming at Marblehead
most of his Hfe; was for about two years in
the produce business in Boston ; Republican in
politics and Episcopalian in religion ; died in
Alarblehead ; children : i. Elizabeth, raarried
Williara Stanley Phillips, now of Colorado ;
she is dead; ii. Susan B., raarried Daniel Dick
inson ; reside in Alarblehead.
(A^I) Isaac Chauncy Wyraan, son of Isaac
Wyraan, bom January 30, 1827, is not only
one of the few surviving sons of revolutionary
soldiers, but has the distinction of having had
his paternal grandfather of the revolutionary
service. He was educated in the public schools
and at Princeton University, where he was
graduated in 1848 with the degree of A. M.
Of the one hundred and four members of that
class but four survive (1908) — Rev. Dr. AVall,
of New York; Chancellor Pinckney, of New
Jersey; Roscoe Field, of Memphis, Tennessee ;
and Mr. AVyman. He studied his profession
in the Dane Law School of Harvard Univer
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to the bar the same year, and later admitted
to practice in the Federal courts. He began
to practice in Boston, raaking his horae in
Cambridge. He was associated with United
States District Attorney Benjamin F. HaUett,
who was once chairman of the Democratic
national committee While with him he prose
cuted the last case of piracy ever tried in
Massachusetts. The ship ""Wanderer," was
engaged in the slave trade between African
and Cuban ports, also running cargoes of
slaves into Alobile Her captain and owner,
Oakes Sraith, a native of Maine, and grad
uate of Bowdoin college, finally escaped from
prison and was never recaptured. At that
tirae the United States made no appropriation
for assistant district attorneys or for detective
work necessary in prosecuting criminal cases
successfully. Gathering evidence and all this
work devolved on Mr. Wyman, who acted as
assistant district attorney. He even went out
on the streets and did detective work in the
most lawless part of the north end, where his
life would have been in danger had his errand
been known. When Mr. HaUett's son took
oyer his father's practice, Mr. Wyman asso
ciated himself with Charles G. Thomas, one
of the old-fashioned lawyers, whom he in
duced to engage in admiralty cases. There
were but few lawyers making a special -study
and practice in this line of work at that tirae.
Plardy Prince, John C. Dodge, Judge Benja
min R. Curtis, and occasionally Sydney Bart
lett and Charles G. Curtis, together with Rich
ard H. Dana, Sr., had all of the business.
Judge Sprague was district judge at that time,
and Judge Woodbury was on the circuit bench.
This admiralty practice presented interesting
points of law and procedure, and Air. Wyman
followed it frora choice. His firra had a re
markable record of losing less than a half-
dozen cases out of two hundred. After leav
ing Mr. Thomas, Mr. AVyraan continued alone
with his office on School street, Boston. He
gradually drifted into the banking business,
and in course of tirae becarae president of the
Marblehead National Bank, an office he has
held for more than fifty years. He is also in
terested in real estate, not only in Massachu
setts but in divers sections of the country and
to some extent in mining property in Colo
rado. While he was in HaUett's office, the
Secretary of War came to consult Mr. Hal
lett about purchasing a new site for the United
States courts, and during the visit Mr. Wy
man purchased the old Masonic Teraple on
Teraple Place for $75,000. The proof of his

foresight in this speculation is- found in the
fact that some years later the property was
sold for four hundred thousand dollars. In
politics he is a Republican, but has never ac
cepted public office. In reHgion he is an Epis
copalian. He is a meraber of the Masonic
order. An interesting anecdote that he tells
is of his first meeting with an Indian. It was
during the last Sioux uprising in the eighties,
when he with a friend and a scout were on the
plains. The scout suddenly noticed an Indian
camp ahead. At this tirae the Sioux were
especially cruel and warlike', and the scout
turned to the party at once and advised a rapid
retreat. "Have they seen us?" asked Mr.
Wyman. "Yes," replied the scout. "Well,
my knowledge of human nature tells me that
to run would be to court trouble, so I ara
going on," said Mr. Wyraan. After futile
wrangling on the part of the scout, Mr. Wy
man and his companion insisted on proceeding.
After riding fifteen railes the party approached
the Indians. An Indian detached hiraself from
the camp and party and waved a red blanket,
a sign that he wanted one of the party to ad
vance alone. Wyman selected himself for the
task and found, instead of a war-Hke party,
only a camp of squaws and old men who were
scared more than the white raen. After mak
ing the Indians presents of tobacco and other
articles, Wyman and his party proceeded on
their way. The name of Ingalls is sup-
INGALLS posed to be of Scandinavian
origin, derived from IngisUd.
During the ninth century the Scandinavian
pirates often descended upon the east coast of
Great Britain, and in after years many of this
nationality settled here, especially in Lincoln
shire. The name appears in England as Ingall,
Engle, Ingolds and Ingles, and the following
coats-of-arras are recorded ; Ingles — Gules,
three bars geraelle or, on a canton argent five
billets en saltire sable. Crest, a lily springing
from a crown. Motto; Humilis ex corona.
Also, Ingle : Ar., two chevrons sable, on the
chief of the second a lion passant of the first
Crest, a hand erect issuing out of a cloud,
holding a sword, blade waved, perpendicular.
The earliest record found is that of a will of
Henry Ingalls, grandfather of Edmund the
immigrant, and made in i$55, he probably
having been born about 1480. The next record
is the will of Robert, the father of Edmund,
made in 1617. The name of IngaUs is still
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power of Thor." The Domesday Book
records a Baron Ingald, a tenant of King Will
iam at Rersbi and Elvestone, Leicestershire, in
1080. This Baron came from Normandy.
( I ) Edmund Iiigalls,-immgrant ancestor, son
of Robert and grandson of Henry IngaUs, was
born at Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, about
1598. He came to Salem, Alassachusetts, in
Governor Endicott's company in 1628, and
with his brother Francis and four others set
tled in Lynn, where they were the first settlers.
His name is found often on the records of the
town, and he was a prominent citizen. Once
he was fined "for bringing home sticks in
both his arms on the Sabbath day." In March,
1648, while travelling to Boston on horseback,
he was drowned in the Saugus river, owing
to a defective bridge. His wiU was proved
September 18, 1648. He married Ann  .
Children; i. Robert, mentioned below. 2.
Elizabeth, born 1622; died June 9, 1676; mar
ried Rev. Francis Dane, of Andover. 3. Faith,
born 1623 ; married Andrew Allen. 4. John,
born 1625 ; married Elizabeth Barrett. 5.
Sarah, born 1626; married William Bitnar.
6. Henry, born 1627 ; married first, Mary
Osgood ; second, Sarah Farnum. 7. Samuel,
born 1634; married Ruth Eaton. 8. Mary,
married John Eaton. 9. Joseph, died young.
(II) Robert Ingalls, son of Edraund In
gaUs, was born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, Eng
land, about 1 62 1, and came to New England
with his parents. He was a farmer at Lynn,
and inherited his father's farm. He was ad
mitted a freeman in 1691. On January i,
1685-6 he deeded raost of his estate to his
sons Robert, Nathaniel and Samuel, they to
support the widow and pay the other heirs.
He was buried January 3, 1698. He married
Sarah, daughter of William Harker. She died
April 8, 1696. Children; i. Hannah, born
September 20, 1647; died June, 1684; mar
ried May 2, 1673, Henry Stacey, of Salem. 2.
Robert, born February 9, 1649; married Re
becca Leighton. 3. Samuel, born September
22, 1650; married Hannah Perkins. 4. Sarah,
born July 4, 1654; died January, 1688-9. 5.
Elizabeth, born 1657; died November 2, 1681 ;
married, 1680, Samuel Hart, Jr. 6. Nathaniel,
born about 1660; mentioned below. 7.
Eleazer, born 1661 ; married Mary Hendley.
8. Ruth, born about 1663.
(Ill) Nathaniel Ingalls, son of Robert In
galls, was born at Lynn, about 1660. He re
sided at Lynn, and was a farmer. He married
Anne  . His will was dated July 12,
1735, and proved January 9, 1737. Children:

I. Nathaniel, born December 25, 1692; mar
ried Tabitha Lewis. 2. Sarah, born April 14,
1693; married Sarauel Ingalls. 3. Ruth, born
June 29, 1695; married, 1711, John Berry.
4. Joseph, raarried Rebecca Collins. 5. Will
iam, married Zeruiah Norwood. 6. Henry,
raentioned below. 7. Maria, raarried Samuel
Berry, of Salem. 8. Tabitha, raarried, 1723,
John Williaras. 9. Hannah, married, 1735,
Daniel Hitchings. 10. Jacob, married Mary
Tucker. (IV) Henry Ingalls, son of Nathaniel In
galls, was born at Lynn, and died there. He
married, Deceraber 26, 1734, Sarah Richards.
(V) Amos Ingalls, son of Henry IngaUs,
was born in 1739, at Lynn, and died there
October 20, 1819. His wUl was made in 181 1.
He married, March 31, 1768, Mary Ingalls,
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Tucker) In
galls. Children, born in Lynn; i. Henry,
raentioned below. 2. Abigail, raarried John
Watts. 3. Mary, married August 23, 1789,
Jaraes Bickford.
(VI) Henry Ingalls, son of Amos IngaUs,
was born in Lynn, where he lived and died.
He married April 5, 1790, Susanna Brown.
Children, born in Lynn: i. Amos, December
19, 1787. 2. EHzabeth (twin), January 19,
1789; married July 2, 1820, Isaac Wyman,
of Marblehead (see Wyman faraily). 3.
Jaraes (twin), January 19, 1789; married
Lorana Withey. Children of Henry and Sarah
Ingalls; 4. Sarah, born May 23, 1792; died
September 3, 1872; married October 11, 1812,
John Withey. 5. Charles, born November 19,
1799 ; married Hannah Shaw. 6. Mary, born
October 28, 1803 ; married September 28,
1819, John Mudge, of Lynn.

Members of this family still
DENNEN vary in the spelling of the sur
name The two prevalent
forms are Denning and Dennen. The first
iraraigrant of the name was William Denning,
who in 1634 was in the eraploy of WilHam
Brenton, of Boston. William Denning was
admitted to the church March 23, 1634, and
was a proprietor in Boston, December 14,
1635. He died January 20, 1653-4. His will,
proved January 31, 1653-4, bequeathed to
wife Ann, son Obadiah in England, and to
kinswoman, Mary Powell.
(I) Nicholas Dennen, immigrant ancestor,
born in England, 1645, died at Gloucester,
Massachusetts, June 9, 1725. He may have
been a nephew or a close relative of AVilHam
raentioned above. Both were doubtless raari-

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ners, and the surname is very uncomraon.
All the old Colonial farailies of this name may
be traced to this Gloucester progenitor. His
children were probably born before he came to
Gloucester and their raother may have died
in the old country. He married first, Erae,
daughter of John Browne, who was one of the
first settlers in Alaine, and was living in Pem-
aquid within three or four years after the
PUgrims landed at Plyraouth ; he was the first
man in New England to have an Indian deed
recorded, buying his land at Pemaquid frora
Samoset, the Indian, who said "Welcome Eng
lishmen," to the Plymouth settlers; the deed
is dated July "15, 1625. Nicholas Dennen mar
ried second, at Gloucester, Noveraber 25, 1697,
Sarah Paine Children ; Nicholas, Jr., Will
iam, and George ; all mentioned below.
(II) Nicholas Dennen, son of Nicholas
Dennen, was born about 1675. In 1724 he
had a grant of land where his house was then
located. He was doubtless a seafaring raan.
He married first, December i, 1699, Elizabeth
Davis ; second, January 4, 1732, Ann Fuller.
He, his wife Elizabeth, his daughters Marga
ret and Hannah, were baptized May 9, 1725,
inthe Gloucester church. Children; i. Eliz
abeth, born 1703; niarried Noveraber 7, 1723,
Daniel Gordon. 2. Nicholas, born 1706. 3.
Eme, 171 1. 4. Margaret, born 1714, married
November 9, 1736, Thomas Boffet. 5. Han
nah, 1717. 6. Nicholas, October 12, 1732.
(II) AVilliara Dennen, son of Nicholas
Dennen, was born about 1680. He settled in
Gloucester, and had a house west of Fresh
AA-^ater Cove. He niarried first, December 5,
1706, Hannah Paine, and second, Susanna
 . Children, born in Gloucester: i.
Sarah, baptized 1710. 2. AA'illiara, Jr., born
1713; died young. 3. Alary, 1715. Children
of second wife. 4. AVilliam, baptized 1727. 5.
Elizabeth, born August 9, 1729. 6. Samuel,
mentioned below.
(II) George Dennen, son of Nicholas Den
nen (i), was born about 1686. He was a sea
faring man, and was lost on a voyage to the
Isle of Sables, in .August, 1716, aged thirty.
Pie niarried, March 20, 1708, Hannah, sister
of Richard Byles. His widow lived in the
west precinct of Gloucester. Children; i.
Job, settled in Gloucester. 2. Jaraes, had chil
dren born in Gloucester. 3. George, married
November 21, 1738, Alary Eveluth ; had sons
Francis, George, Simeon and Joseph, who was
born Alay 6, 1752; married second, October
16, 1773, Molly HaskeU, and served throughout
the revolution. 4. Joseph. 5. Hannah.

(Ill) Sarauel, son of AVilliam Dennen, was
born in Gloucester, November 12, 1732, and
died 1798. As Sarauel Denning he appears
on return dated Gloucester, April 9, 1759, of
men enlisted or irapressed for his Majesty's
service in Col. AViUiara Allen's regiment to be
put under coraraand of Gen. Amherst, for the
invasion of Canada; age 26; residence Glou
cester; enlisted April 2, 1759; reported in
King's navy; took oath of fidelity, etc. (Alass.
Arch., vol. xcvii, p. loi). Also on muster
roll not dated, for seamen in His Majesty's
service on board "Neptune," discharged by
order of Vice Adrairal Saunders ; service from
April 2, 1759, to November 10, 1759; reported
in council warrant of January 19, 1760; ser
vice up the St. Lawrence", (ibid, vol. xcvii, p.
305). Samuel Dennen married, in Gloucester,
Alarch 14, 1754, Keziah Bray, of an old famUy
of that section. They resided in Gloucester
until late in life, when he reraoved to Poland,
Alaine, where both of thera died. Children,
all born in Gloucester; i. Abigail, 1756. 2.
Job, 1760; in the revolution, from Bakerstown,
Alaine. 3. Mary, 1762. 4. Sarah, 1764. 5.
George, 1769; raentioned below. 6. Siraeon,
1770. 7. AbigaU, 1774. The descendants re
siding in Gloucester have spelled the narae in
raany cases Dennen, while those in Poland
use raore often Denning.
(IV) George Dennen, son of Sarauel Den
nen, was born in Gloucester, in 1769, and died
April 26, 1833. He married, 1792, EUena Rol
lins, born 1770, died May 7, 1837. The rec
ords are from the family Biljle of J. K. Den
ning, who lives in the family homestead at
Alechanic Falls, Alaine. Children; i. Sam
uel, born September 26, 1793; mentioned be
low. 2. Stephen, November 28, 1794. 3.
Hannah, 1796. 4. Ruth, 1799; died young.
5. Ruth, born about 1800. 6. Bathsheba, 1801.
7. George, 1803. 8. Job, 1805. 9. Moses,
1806. 10. Rhoda, 1808. II. Jaraes, 1810. 12.
Jacob, 1812. Job had the horaestead at Po
land, which descended to his son, James K.
Denning, the present occupant.
(V) Samuel Dennen, son of George Den
nen, was born at Poland, Maine, September
26, 1793, and died June 17, 1864, at Oxford,
Alaine. He married, at Poland, March 27,
1816 Marion Mitchell, born October 11, 1796,
at Shirley, Maine, died September 22, 1872.
Children: i. Eleanor R., born February 23,
1818, died May 28, 1906. 2. Basheba, born
Alarch 22, 1819; married. 3. Emeline, born
April 3, 1821 ; married January 31, 1843, ^^¦
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ried; died November 6, 1874, at Springfield,
Massachusetts. 5. Britannia, born February
21, 1825; died young. 6. Job Cushman, born
June 18, 1826; mentioned below. 7. William
C, born May 20, 1829; married. 8. Hannah,
born February 11, 1831 ; married. 9. Augustus,
born November 9, 1833, at Shirley, Maine;
married, in Califomia. 10. Sarauel F., bom
August 16, 1836, in Shirley; married. 11.
John W., born July 16, 1838; married. 12.
Charles O., born March 16, 1841. 13. Eugene
L., born December 19, 1845, i" Greene, Maine ;
married. (VI) Job Cushman Dennen, son of Samuel
Dennen, was born in Poland, Maine, June 18,
1826, and died November 5, 1892. He was
a soldier in the civil war. He married first,
Martha Brewster, of Leeds, Maine ; second,
Harriet Low Berry, born 1842, at Leeds, died
February 24, 1904, daughter of Araos and
Mary (Curtis) Berry. Child of first wife : i.
Clara EUa; married Horatio Gammon. Chil
dren of second wife ; 2. Mary Jane, died
young. 3. Hollis Ellsworth, born at Braintree,
February 28, 1862. 4. Charles Russell, born
May 30, 1864; married first, Alice Stubbs,
of Yarmouth, Maine, and had Helen Al., Earl
and Paul; raarried second, Eliza Dwinnell,
widow. 5. Bertram.
(VII) Hollis EUsworth Dennen, son of
Job Cushman Dennen, was born at Braintree,
February 28, 1862. His childhood and youth
were spent in Oxford and Mechanic Falls,
Maine, and he received his education in the
public and high schools of the latter town. At
an early age he assisted his father in the man
agement of the farm, where he reraained until
the death of his father. He then reraoved to
Walthara, Massachusetts, and engaged in the
real estate and insurance business, which he
has conducted successfully up to the present
time. He is a Republican in politics, and has
served two terras as alderraan of Walthara.
He is a prominent Free Mason, a meraber of
Tyrian Lodge, at Mechanic Falls, Maine,
where he was raaster of the lodge for three
years. He is an active raeraber of the Meth
odist church, and has been superintendent of
the Sunday school several years. He married,
November 22, 1882, Mary Gertrude Harding,
born at Mechanic Falls, Maine, July 24, 1866,
daughter of Nathaniel and Helen A. (Perkins)
Harding. (See Harding). Children; i.
Ralph W., born May 18, 1884. 2. Barbara
L., July 6, 1890. 3. Doris H., January 9, 1901.

The surname Harding is de-
HARDING rived from the very ancient
personal name Hardin, of
Gothic origin, in use at a very early period in
Germany, Scandinavia and Britain, even before
the coming of the ancient feudal system. Sev
eral men bearing this name are mentioned in
Domesday Book (1086) and several localities
bearing this name or its derivities like Hard-
iiigton. There were no less than six irarai
grants of this surnarae in Massachusetts be
fore 1650 — Abrahara, who left raany descend
ants ; EHzabeth who settled in Boston ; George,
of Salem, of whora nothing further is known;
John, of Weyraouth; Robert, of Boston, who
left no issue in this country. Some connec
tions existed between the patentee of Alaine,
Captain Robert Gorges, and the Harding
family. A kinsman, Sir Robert Gorges, mar
ried Mary, daughter and heir of William
Harding. (I) Martha Harding, widow, the iraraigrant
ancestor, was in Plymouth as early as 1632.
She died in 1633, leaving her son Joseph to
the care of John Doane, probably her brother.
It is believed that her husband carae to Maine
in 1623 with Governor Gorges,, and when the
colony was abandoned he took refuge at Plym
outh, but he may have died before his faraily
removed to Plymouth. It appears that the
widow had previously coraraitted her elder
son, John, to the care of John Doane. Chil
dren; John, Phebe, raarried, 1634, John
Brown ; Winifred, niarried, 1639, Thomas
AA'hiton ; Joseph, mentioned below. '
(II) Joseph Plarding, son of Martha Hard
ing, was born about 1635. He was given into
the care of Deacon John Doane by his mother,
and lived with his guardian during his minor
ity, at Duxbury and Eastham, Massachusetts.
About 1650 he carae to Braintree, taking pos
session apparently of lands inherited frora his
father and frora time to tirae his name is
found in the probate records from 1650 to
1660. He married, April 4, 1660, Bethia,
daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (King)
Cook, of Eastham, formerly of Plymouth, and
grantee of Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Joseph settled early at Easthara. Children,
born at Eastham: i. Alartha, December 13,
1662. 2. Mary, August 19, 1665. 3. Joseph,
July 8, 1667. 4. Josiah, August 15, 1669. 5.
Maziah, Noveraber i, 1671 ; raarried Hannah
 . 6. John, October 9, 1673; died June
4, 1697, without issue. 7. Nathaniel, Decem-

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ber 25, 1674; mentioned below. 8. Joshua,
February 15, 1676; married June 26, 1702,
Sarah Smith. 9. Abiah, January 7, 1679-80-
married Septeraber 24, 1713, Rebecca Young.
10. Samuel, Septerber i, 1685; married Au
gust 28, 1707, Eli,-ibeth Eldred.
(Ill) Nathaniel Harding, son of Joseph
Harding, was born at Eastham, on C.^pe Cod,
December 25, ^674; married, Alarch 20,
1700-1, Hannah Collins; second, November
30, 1725, Hannah Young. His widow was
appointed administratrix August 12, 1741. He
settled in Truro. Children, born at Truro; i.
Thankful, April 3, 1703. 2. Nathaniel; men
tioned below. 3. Jonathan, died 1752; mar
ried Huldah  ; second, Abigail  ;
lived at Truro. 4. David (?), died 1742. 5.
Lot, born 1723; lived in Truro. 6. Ruth,
about 1724; died April, 1742. Children of
second wife : 7. Martha. 8. Sarah. 9. Jaraes.
10. Anna. 11. Mary.
(IV) Nathaniel Harding, son of Nathaniel
Harding, was born in Truro, about 1705. He
was a yeoman in his native town. His will,
dated February 9, 1748, bequeaths to wife
Mercy (executrix), and was proved July 7,
1748. The inventory amounted to 1,481
pounds, fifteen shillings. Children, born
Truro; i. Ephraim, mentioned below. 2.
Jesse, March 27, 1736. 3. Nathaniel, died
intestate, 1757. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Samuel. 6.
Hezekiah. 7. Nehemiah.
(V) Ephraim Harding, son of Nathaniel
Harding, was born in Truro, about 1734. He
had a large faraily of sons, sorae of whom re
moved to Bath and New Meadows, Maine.
Children; i. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 2.
Neheraiah, settled in Bath, progenitor of a
prorainent family there. And others.
(VI) Nathaniel Harding, son of Ephraira
Harding, was born in Truro, about 1760. He
raarried  Collins, of an old Truro
family, and lived in his native town. Chil
dren; I. Ephraira. 2. Nathaniel, mentioned
below. 3. Benjarain, died in truro. 4. Rich
ard, Jr., settled in Maine. 5. Jedediah, died at
sea, January i, 1810; children; i. Clarissa,
born 1799; ii. Hannah, 1801 ; in. Lydia, 1803;
iv. Sarauel Dyer, 1806, married Eliza Burr,
of Leicester, Alassachusetts; "v. Ephraim,
1808. (VII) Nathaniel Harding, son of Nathan
iel Harding, was born in Truro. His brother
Richard and perhaps Ephraira also settled in
Maine. He raarried Betsey Dyer. He was a
master raariner, and was lost at sea. Children ;

I. Jedediah, mentioned below. 2. Betsey, mar
ried Rev. Sargeant, a baptist minister.
(VIII) Jedediah Harding, son of Nathan
iel Harding, was born about 1810. He settled
in Andover, Oxford county, Maine. He mar
ried Dorcas Taylor. Children ; Harriet ; Joel ;
Nathaniel, raentioned below ; William ;
Charles; Lizzie; Alfred; Malinda; George;
Fred; Julia; Augustus.
(IX) Nathaniel Harding, son of Jedediah
Harding, was born in New Sharon, Maine,
October 27, 1839. He was a member of Com
pany A, i2th Maine Regiment, enlisted at An
dover, Maine, September 19, 1861, and re-en
listed in same company. New Orleans, in 1863,
and served until the close of the war. He
was wounded at the battle of Winchester, under
Sheridan, and was confined in a hospital at
Philadelphia almost a year. He was made
sergeant soon after enUsting, and continued
in that rank as long as he was in service. He
married Helen A. Perkins, daughter of Lewis
and EHza Jane Buxton (Waite) Perkins. His
wife was born April 13, 1845, and died Octo
ber 12, 1906. Children: i. Mary Gertrude,
born at Mechanic Falls, Maine, July 24, 1866;
married Hollis Ellsworth Dennen (see Den
nen). 2. Francis E., born April 4, 1874; mar
ried Ernest Tilton, of Everett, Massachusetts.
3. Edgar, born August 23, 1881 ; married
Blanche Rafuse.

(I) James War die, progeni-
WARDLE tor of this family, was an
Englishman. He married
Margaret  .
(II) James War die, Jr., son of James
Wardle (i), was born in England at Stayley
Bridge, near Manchester, in 1792-93, and died
at Valatie, New York. He came to America
about 1816 and settled at Valatie. He was
an expert cotton spinner and was one of the
first to engage extensively in the manufacture
of cotton goods in this country. He began as
a manufacturer in partnership with Mr. Ben
jamin Baldwin, of Valatie, and later he re
raoved to Stockport, New York, where he
manufactured cotton goods on a large scale
until 1841 when he met with reverses and went
out of business. He lived at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, for a time, but returned to Valatie
and died there. He raarried, at Ghent, Colum
bia county, New York, June 13, 1826, Mary
Swift Van Buren, born January i, 1804,
daughter of Abraham Van Buren, of Phila
delphia. (See Van Buren). Children: i.

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Robert Lawton, born June 6, 1828 ; mentioned
below. 2. Sarah Elizabeth, December, 1830.
(Ill) Robert Lawton Wardle, son of James
Wardle (2), was born in Valatie, New York,
June 6, 1828. He lived in New York state
until twelve years of age and then went with
his mother to live in Philadelphia, where he
received his education in the private schools
and under the tuition of his mother. He
worked at various trades during his active life,
principally wood-working, however, in which
he was especially skUlful. He is now living
with his son, Harry L. Wardle, at Dedham,
Massachusetts. He married Mary Caroline
Simson, born December 24, 1833, daughter
of George Washington and Caroline (AVeth-
ereU) Simson, of Boston. The Simson family
was one of the early famiHes of Massachu
setts. George W. Simson married CaroHne
WethereU, November 7, 1825 ; he died Febru
ary 2, 1832; he was a son of Benjamin and
Phebe (Todd) Simson, who were the parents
of seven children, as foUows ; AVarner,
Joshua, George W., Freeman, Mary, Almira
and Roxy Simson. Caroline (AVetherell)
Simson was the daughter of George and Lydia
(Hunt) Wetherell, and granddaughter of
George and Lydia (Phillips) Wetherell. The
Wetherell family is one of the oldest in Mass
achusetts ; direct descendant of William who
was the first settler, being of Norton, Massa
chusetts ; he was born in England and adraitted
a freeman at Plymouth in 1658. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Wardle: i. Minnie CaroHne,
born February 15, 1858, married, January i,
1884, Melvin N. Royal; children: Arthur
and Roselle A. 2. Walter Lawton, born May
4, 1859, married, March 31, 1884, May BeUe
McGregor, daughter Mabel. 3. Harry Leon
ard, mentioned below. 4. Alice M., born Oc
tober 26, 1875, married Harry H. Barrett;
daughter Beatrice Barrett.
(IV) Harry Leonard Wardle, son of Rob
ert Lawton AVardle (3), was born in Boston,
September 2, 1861. He was educated in the
public and high schools of Dedham and the
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Bos
ton. When he was sixteen years old he enter
ed the employ of B. F. Smith, druggist, in
Dedham as clerk and remained in his employ
until he came of age, when he bought the busi
ness of his employer and has carried it on
successfully to the present time, a period of
more than twenty-five years. Mr. "Wardle is
a leader in business circles, a citizen of much
influence and popularity. He is a past master
of Constellation Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac

cepted Masons; past high priest of Norfolk
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hyde Park
Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Cyphas
Commandery, Knights Templar ; Aleppo Tem
ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal church
of Dedhara. He raarried, June 26, 1884,
AuriUa F. Heath, daughter of William Welch
and Julia (Merrow) Heath. (See Heath
family herewith). Children; i. Robert
Heath, born September 18, 1888. 2. William
Heath, May 28, 1899.

(I) Bartholomew Heath, irami-
HEATH grant ancestor, was born in
England in 161 5 and died in
HaverhiU, Massachusetts, January 15, 1681.
He settled first in Newbury, but removed to
Haverhill about 1645. He was a proprietor
there in 1646. He deeded land March 12,
1668-69, to his sons John, Joseph and Josiah
Heath. He deposed in 1657 that he was about
forty-one years old. The inventory of his
estate was dated March 28, 1682. His brother,
John Heath, also of Plaverhill, died January
17, 1674-75, mentioning Bartholoraew in his
wiU, dated December 28, 1674. Bartholomew
married Hannah Moyce, daughter of Joseph
Moyce, the iraraigrant. She died at Haverhill,
July 19, 1677. ChUdren; i. John, born
August 15, 1643, raentioned below. 2. Joseph,
mentioned below. 3. Joshua, born Feb
ruary 12, 1646-47, died August, 1647. 4.
Hannah, born September 3, 1648, died Novem
ber 9, 1668. 5. Josiah, bom September 4,
1651. 6. Elizabeth, born March 19, 1653-54,
died January 28, 1654-55. 7. Benjamin, born
August 8, 1656, died June 29, 1657. 8. Eliza
beth, born September 5, 1658, died February
II, 1659.
(II) John Heath, son of Bartholoraew
Heath (i), was born August 15, 1643, at
Haverhill; married, November 14, 1666,
Sarah, daughter of William Partridge. He
died at Hampton, New Hampshire, September
21, 1706; his widow Sarah died there July,
1718. Children, aU born at Haverhill; i.
Bartholoraew, September 2, 1667, married,
January 23, 1690-91, Mary Bradley; killed by
the Indians, August 4, 1704; left five children
born 1691-1700 at HaverhUl. 2. Elizabeth,
March i, 1669-70, died December 9, 1683. 3.
Hannah, May 3, 1673. 4- John, March 14,
1674-75, mentioned below. 5. Martha, No
vember 3, 1677. 6. Nehemiah. 7. Rachel,
July 23, 1682, married Samuel Stevens. 8.
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(Ill) John Heath, son of John Heath (2),
was born in Haverhill, March 14, 1674-75,
married, January 12, 1696-97, Frances Hutch
ins. Their first child, Samuel, was born April
25, 1698.
(II) Joseph Heath, son of Bartholomew
Heath (i), was born in Haverhill, married,
June 27, 1672, Martha Dow; he died Decem
ber I or 18, 1672. She raarried second, De
cember 2, 1673, Joseph Page, son of John
Page (i), and third, March 19, 1688-89, at
Haverhill, Samuel Parker, son of Joseph (i).
Joseph Heath had but one child ; Joseph,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Joseph Heath, son of Joseph Heath
(2), was born March 23, 1673, and married,
in 1697, Hannah Bradley. They had nine chil
dren between 1698 and 1718 at Haverhill.
Among them was Sarauel, raentioned below.
(IV) Samuel Heath, son of Joseph Heath
(3), was born in Haverhill, September 8,
1698. He raarried EHzabeth  . Chil
dren, born in Haverhill: i. Moses, Novem
ber II, 1725. 2. Samuel, February 18, 1727.
3. Susanna, September 26, 1729. 4. Stephen,
May 4, 1731. 5. Daniel, February 25, 1733-34,
mentioned below. 6. Hannah, March 19, 1735
(twin). 7. EHzabeth (twin), March 19, 1735,
died April 9, 1735. 8. Elizabeth, Alarch i,
1736-37- (V) Daniel Heath, son of Samuel Heath
(4), was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
February 25, 1733-34. He settled in Plais-
tow. New Harapshire, the adjoining town, and
married, about 1753, Elizabeth Call. He was
a soldier in the revolution from Plaistow, in
Captain Jesse Page's company. Colonel Abra
ham Drake's regiment in 1777; also in 1778-79
in Captain Ezekiel Gile's company. Araong
his children was Daniel, born January 22,
1764, was also a soldier in the revolution,
enlisting from New Chester (now Hill) New
Hampshire, in 1780, and his age is given as
sixteen at that time. (Vol. 3, p. 96, N. H.
Rev. RoUs).
(VI) Daniel Heath, son of Daniel Heath
(5), was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire,
January 22, 1764, died in Enfield, July 4,
1828. He removed to New Chester, New
Harapshire, and Enfield. His revolutionary
service is given above. He raarried first, a
Miss March, of Newburyport, New Hamp
shire; children; Jonathan, Daniel, David,
Eben, Holland, Ichabod, Dorset, mentioned
below ; Lydia and Sarah. He married second,
Rhoda Black, a native of Newburyport, Mass
achusetts, by whom he had two children:

Rhoda and Charlotte. He married third,  .
(VII) Dorset Heath, son of Daniel Heath
(6), was born in Enfield, New Hampshire,
February 9, 1800, died there February 23,
1872. He was a farmer in Enfield. He mar
ried Sarah Welch, born July 8, 1804, in
Canaan, New Hampshire, and died January
24, 1883, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Chil
dren, born at Enfield; i. Augustus, married
Alelissa Babbett. 2. Olivia, married first,
AA'illiam Huse; second,  McMurry. 3.
Alzena, raarried WilHam Currier; children:
William, Elbridge, Nellie and Mabel Currier.
4. Horace, raarried JuHa Morgan; child,
Jennie. 5. Alvira, died young. 6. William
Welch, mentioned below. 7. AuriUa, died
young. 8. Ellen, died young. 9. BeUe, mar
ried Elbridge Currier. 10 and 11. Children,
died in infancy. ,
(VIII) William Welch Heath, son of
Dorset Heath (7), was born in Enfield, May
24, 1 83 1, died February 26, 1870. Married
Julia Merrow, born 1833 and died April 12,
1887, daughter of Reuben and PameUa (Wis-
wall) Merrow. Her father was born in Maine
in 1800, and her raother in the same year.
AVilliara W. Heath was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He came to Ded
ham, Massachusetts, in 1866, and was
eraployed for a number of years as conductor
on the Boston and Providence railroad, now
the New York, New Haven and Hartford.
Child: AuriUa F., born May 19, 1861, in
Lowell, Massachusetts, married, June 26,
1884, Harry Leonard AVardle. (See Wardle).

It was not a custom among
VAN BUREN the early Dutch settlers on
Manhattan island and in
New Netherlands to have recognized surnames
previous to the conquest of their possessions
in America by the Duke of York, soon after
the middle of the seventeenth century, except
in cases where by sorae special distinction one
was placed in a position of pre-eminence, and
then the patronymic assumed or acquired
usually had relation to the particular event
which placed the possessor in a raore exalted
station than his fellows or, which more fre
quently was the case, in allusion to the village
or municipality in which he lived or from
whence he came or the seat of abode of his
ancestors in Holland. And when family
names were assumed they usually were accom
panied with the prefix Van, which is Dutch
for of or frora. Thus doubtless it was with
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family, the progenitor of which was Cornehs
Maessen, Maes or Maas being the christian
name of his father, and the suffix sen or se
signifying son. This manner of patronymic
was the custom not only with the Dutch, but
with some other European peoples. To illus
trate: Marten, the eldest son of Cornehs
Maessen, made his will in 1703, and wrote his
name "Marten CorneUssen van Beuren,"
meaning Marten son of Cornehs from Buren.
(I) Cornelis Maessen, the immigrant, son
of Maes and ancestor of perhaps the oldest
family of the A^an Buren surname in this
country, probably came from the village of
Buren, in the province of Gelderland, Hol
land, or was a native of that place. In the
summer of 1631 he sailed for America in the
ship "Rensselaerwyck," with his young wife
Catalyntje Martense (daughter of Marten),
and brought with them at least one child, a
son Marten, who afterward raade oath that he
was born in Houten, a small village not far
from Buren. A second son Hendrick was born
on the passage. Cornelis Maessen settled on a
farm on the east side of Hudson river, a short
distance below Greenbush, at a place called
Papsknee, the land being leased to him by
Killian Van Rensselaer, who had large estates
granted him in the present counties of Albany
and Rensselaer, and to which had been given
the narae of Rensselaerwyck. The grant had
been raade on condition that the lands be occu
pied and iraproved by actual settlers. The
rental for the first few years was at about one-
tenth of the product raised by each settler,
and thus in 1644 Van Rensselaer received
from Cornelis Maessen one hundred bushels in
wheat, oats, rye and peas, indicating a yield
of about one thousand bushels. Cornelis
Maessen and his wife both died in 1648, and it
is recorded that they were buried on the same
day. He evidently died intestate and before
any of his children had attained full age, for
in 1657 they were under guardianship of
Tennis Dirksen (Van Vechten) and Cornelis
Teunissen (Bos), who also were appointed
trustees of the estate. The latter came over
in 1 63 1 with Cornelis Maessen as his farm
hand, afterward became a trader and at one
time was commissary at Fort Orange
(Albany). The estate of Cornelis Maessen
consisted in part of property in New York,
described as "a house and plantation at the
North River on the Island of Manhattan next
to Wouter Van Twiller and Thomas Hall."
This farm was purchased October 24, 1646,
from Volckert Evertsen, and afterward was

sold by the trustees to Rutger Jacobsen for
fifteen hundred guilders ($600). It was
located between Christopher and Fourteenth
streets and probably fronted North river.
Cornehs and Catalyntje (Martense) Maessen
had five children; i. Marten. 2. Hendrick,
born in 1631, on passage to America. It is
said that he lived "very quietly," on lands
inherited frora his father or in that vicinity.
During the Indian outbreak in 1663 he was a
soldier of the garrison at Fort Cralo, near
Papsknee. 3. Maes Cornelisse, who for some
reason adopted the name of Bloomingdael ;
and the Araerican Bloomingdales of the
present day trace their ancestry to this son of
Cornelis Maessen. 4. Styntje (Christina)
Cornelisse, raarried, 1663, Dirck Wesselse
(Ten Broeck) a merchant and trader, who
becarae prominent and rich ; was recorder of
Albany under the charter granted in 1686,
mayor, 1696-98, and major in Colonel Pieter
Schuyler's regiment, in 1700. 5. Tobias, sup
posed to have died without issue. It may be
said here that of the sons of Cornelis Maessen
all except Maes and possibly Tobias, of whom
little is known, adopted the surname of Van
Buren. (II) Marten Cornelise Van Buren, son of
Cornelis Maessen, and who for some reason
acquired the name of "Black'' Marten, deposed
in 1660 that he was born in Houten, in the
province of Utrecht, Holland, not far from
the town of Buren frora which the family
derives its name. He was bom in 1629 and
died November 13, 1703. In 1662 he owned
a house and bam, with some other property,
"this side of Bethlehera," which 'he afterward
sold to Gysbert Cornelise Van Den Bergh. In
1675 he leased half of Constapel's island, below
Albany, and in 1683 both he and his wife
were members of the Dutch Church in Albany,
having become merabers probably in 1682. In
1700 he was captain of a company of Colonel
Schuyler's regiraent. His will, dated April
10, 1703, was admitted to probate June 7,
1710. He married (first) Maritje, daughter
of Pieter and Marritje Quackenbosch, and
married (second) May 7, 1693, Tanneke
Adams, widow of Pieter AVinne Marten
Cornelise had seven children; i. Corneljs
Martense, raarried Septeraber 22, 1689,
Ariantje Gerritse (Van Der Bergh), and had
a son Tobias, ancestor of the A^an Burens of
Ulster county. New York. After the death
of Cornelis, his widow Ariantje married
Coenraad Elmendorf, of Kingston, New York.
2. Cornelia, married September 22, 1689, Rob-

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ert Teuwise (Van Deusen). 3. Pieter. 4.
Marritje, married (i) March 14, 1695, Jans
Teuwise (Van Deusen) ; (2) December 20,
1702, Cornelis Gerritse (Van Der Bergh). 5.
Marten, died October, 1740; was freeholder
at Rensselaerwyck in 1720; married (i) about
1700, Judikje Barentse; (2) July 14, 1719,
Alaria Van Der Bergh ; had seven children by
each wife. 6. Catalina, raarried Jonathan
Jans Witbeck. 7. Magdalena.
(Ill) Pieter Martense Van Buren, son of
Marten Cornelise Van Buren, was born about
1670, and died before 1743, when his four
eldest sons are mentioned as freeholders at
Kinderhook. In 1695 both he and his wife
were admitted to the Dutch Church in Albany
as from Kinderhook, where he probably set
tled at the time of his raarriage. The farm
he occupied there joined that of Pieter Vos-
berg, who had married Jannetje, sister of
Ariaantje Bernetse He was a freeholder at
Kinderhook in 1720. There is no record of
his will and it is probable that he died intestate.
He married January 15, 1693, Ariaantje
Berentse, daughter of Barent and Eytje (Ida)
Meindersen. The record of baptisra of their
nine children in the Dutch Church in Albany
is as follows: i. Cornelis, May 14, 1693;
raarried Septeraber 8, 1724, Alaria Litner. 2.
Barent, January 20, 1695 ; married December
29, 1719, Maria Winne. 3. Marritje, March
8, 1696; probably died unmarried. 4. Tobias,
November 7, 1697; married January 10, 1721,
Anna Goes. 5. Eytje, January 7, 1700; raar
ried October 21, 1719, Marten "Vosburg. 6.
Marten, Deceraber 28, 1701. 7. Cornelia, Au
gust 24, 1707. 8. Ephraira, March 11, 171 1.
9. Maria, Deceraber 18, 1715.
(IV) Marten Pieterse Van Buren, son of
Pieter Martense and Ariaantje Barentse
(Meindersen) Van Buren, was baptized in the
Dutch Church, Albany, New York, December
28, 1701, and married Noveraber 7, 1729,
Dirckje Van Aelstyne, born April, 1710,
daughter of Abrahara Janse and Alarritje
(Van Deusen) Van Aelstyne, who married
January 17, 1694. Marten and Dirckje (Van
Aelstyne) Van Buren had seven children: i.
Marritje, baptized January 18, 1730; died
young. 2. Pieter, baptized October 27, 1731 ;
died young. 3. Pieter, baptized July 22, 1733;
married 1766, Catharine Quackenbosch, and
were sponsors at the baptism of their nephew,
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the
United States. 4. Marritje, baptized April
6, 1735 ; died young. 5. Abrahara, baptized at

Albany, February 27, 1737. He owned a smaU
farm at Kinderhook, and in connection with
farming pursuits kept tavern in his large house.
During the revolution he was captain of a
corapany in Colonel Abraham Van Alstyne's
regiment of New York troops. He married
Maria Goes, widow of Johannes Van AUen,
and by her had five children ; Dirckje, born
1777, died October 18, 1865 ; Jannetje, bap
tized January 16, 1780; Martin, baptized De
cember 15, 1782, eighth president of the
United States; Lawrence, born Kinderhook,
1783, died July i, 1868, (farmer at Kinder-
book; major in the American army during the
war of 1812-15; presidential elector, 1852);
Abrahara, baptized May 11, 1788, lawyer at
Hudson, New York. 6. Ariaantje, baptized
March 4, 1739. 7. Marritje, baptized October
2, 1743. 8. Alarten, baptized 1748.
(V) Marten Van Buren, son of Marten
Pieterse and Dirckje (Van Aelstyne) Van
Buren, was baptized at Qaverack-on-Hudson,
in 1748. He married twice; first, September
10, 1761, Hendrikje Van Buren; raarried sec
ond, August 8, 1774. He had five children by
his first wife; i. Barent, born August 29,
1762. 2. Margarita, June 3, 1765. 3. Teunis,
Alay 3, 1769. 4. Maria, July 21, 1774. 5.
Abraham, April 16, 1782.
(VI) Abraham Van Buren, son of Marten
and Plendrikje Van Buren, was born near
Albany, New York, April 16, 1782, and
became a prominent and wealthy merchant of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married three
tiraes, and by wife Mary (Swift) Van Buren
had children; i. Mary Swift, born January
I, 1804; raarried in Ghent, Columbia county,
New York, June 13, 1826, James Wardle
(sometiraes written AVardweU) (see Wardle).
2. Philip. 3. Henry.

(For ancestry see Thomas Low i).
(II) John Low, second son of
LOW Thomas and Susannah Low, was
born probably in Ipswich, and died
there about 1695, leaving an estate inventoried
at about one hundred, sixty-five pounds. He
was a maister succeeding to the business for
merly carried on by his father, and continued
it until about the time of his death. He mar
ried first, Deceraber 10, 1661, Sarah, daughter
of John and Elizabeth Thorndike, of Beverly;
second, Dorcas  . By wife Sarah he
had five children, and one child by wife
Dorcas; i. John, born April 24, 1665. 2.
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January 26, 1669. 4. Dorcas, November 3,
1673. 5. Martha, September, 1679. 6. Han
nah, July 13, 1685.
(HI) John Low, sometimes called John, Jr.,
first son of John and Sarah (Thorndike) Low,
was born in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, April
24, 1665, and married, in 1690, Johannah
 ; children ; i. John, February 22, 1691 ;
married, 171 3, Anna Annable. 2. Thoraas,
March 5, 1692. 3. Hannah, February i,
1693-4. 4. Nathaniel, November 15, 1695;
married Abigail Riggs. 5. Johanna, January
4, 1698.
(IV) Thomas Low, son of John, Jr., and
Johannah Low, was born in Chebacco Parish,
Ipswich, March 5, 1692, and married (inten
tions) September 30, 1721, Abigail FeUows,
born 1688, youngest but one of six children of
Joseph Fellows, of Ipswich, who is mentioned
as entitled "to certain rights of commonage in
1664, and was a voter in town affairs in 1679,"
made freeman, 1682, and died in 1693. He
married August 19, 1676, Ruth  , and
had sons Joseph and AVilHam, and daughters
Mary, Ruth, Sarah and Abigail. Joseph Fel
lows was son of William Fellows, who was
granted coraraon rights in Ipswich in 1641,
and died before November 27, 1677. The
name of his wife does not appear, but he left
sons Ephraim, Samuel, Joseph and Isaac, and
daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail and Sarah.
Thomas and Abigail (Fellows) Low had chil
dren, and if more than two their names do
not appear in the Ipswich records. They had
Daniel, baptized January 16, 1725-6, and
Aaron baptized January 7, 1727-8.
(V) Daniel Low, son of Thomas and Abi
gail (Fellows) Low was born in Chebacco
Parish, Ipswich, and was baptized there Janu
ary 16, 1725-6. He married (published) Octo-
27, 1748, Ruamrai (or Ruarai) Andrews, who
was baptized in Chebacco Parish, August 31,
1729, daughter of Deacon John Andrews, born
Chebacco, February 2, 1675-6, and married
(published) January 4, 1706-7, Elizabeth
Story. Deacon John Andrews was son of
Ensign William Andrews, born about 1649, in
Chebacco, and married October 21, 1672, Mar
garet Woodward. Ensign Williara Andrews
was son of Lieutenant John Andrews, car
penter and yeoman, born in England about
1618, and was of Ipswich, (Chebacco) as
early as 1642. His wife's name was Jane.
Daniel and Ruamrai (Andrews) Low had
(Ipswich vital records) children; i. Daniel,
born September 13, 1749. 2. Ruami, Septem
ber 7, 1751. 3. Abigail, March 11, 1753; died

young. 4. Abigail, baptized March 17, 1754.
5. Simons (or Symonds), born May 27, 1756.
(VI) Daniel Low, son of Daniel and
Ruarami (Andrews) Low, was born in Che
bacco Parish, Ipswich, now Essex, September
13, 1749, and died in Salera. He married,
January i, 1774, in North Church, Salem,
Alary L.uscom, the ceremony being perforraed
by Rev. Dr. Thomas Barnard. They had six
children; Hannah, Polly, Abigail, Susan,
Richard and one other.
(A^II) Richard Low, son of Daniel and
Alary (Luscom) Low, was born in Salem,
about 1800. He raarried Margaret Brown;
eight children; Adeline, Sarauel, Mary and
Daniel, and four others who died young.
(VIII) Daniel Low, son of Richard and
Margaret (Brown) Low, was born in Salem,
February 13, 1842. He is a merchant, head
of the firm of Daniel Low & Corapany,
jewelers and silversmiths, the largest estab
Ushraent of its kind in Essex county, and one
of the raost extensive in all respects in New
England. Mr. Low raarried April 12, 1866,
Eliza J. Stevens, born in Searsmont, Maine,
October 7, 1842, daughter of Ebenezer and
Eliza J. (Currier) Stevens (see Stevens). Chil
dren; I. Seth Frederick, born Salem, July 17,
1867; raarried Florence, daughter of Daniel
Stevens, a native of Newburyport, Massachu
setts, and resident of San Francisco, Cali
fornia. 2. Harry Chamberlain, born August
5, 1870; married Mabel Chipman, had Daniel
Story and Carolyn Low. 3. Florence, born
Noveraber 28, 1875 ; married Harlan P. Kel
sey, had Harlan Low Kelsey, born November
I, 1904, and Seth Low Kelsey, 1906.

The Stevens family of the
STEVENS line here considered is not
belifved to have any connec
tion with those of Salisbury and Amesbury,
and appears to have been a distinct offshoot of
an English faraily of that surname which in
the first half of the seventeenth century
became seated in Gloucester on Cape Ann,
whence in later years its descendants migrated
to other parts, sorae of them to New Hamp
shire, others to Maine, and perhaps stiU others
to various towns east of the Hudson river.
(I) Williara Stevens, ship carpenter, was
araong the first perraanent settlers in Glou
cester, and became famous, for his mechanical
skill, his inflexible integrity, and his service
in various public capacities. He came to New
England before 1632 and probably lived for a
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'Salera in 1636, was raade freeman there in
1640, and in 1642 appears in Gloucester as
one of the coramissioners appointed by the
general court for ordering town affairs ; and
it is beHeved that because of his prominence
and influence and the efficient discharge of his
duties in whatever capacity he received the
unusual grant of five hundred acres of land
lying between Chebacco and Annisquam rivers.
He also had a grant of six acres on the "Meet
ing-house Neck," but his house was at the
"Cut, near the Beach," where he had eight
acres of land. He was selectman several years,
coraraissioner for ending sraall causes, town
clerk, and four years representative to the gen
eral court. He is said to have built a number
of vessels of superior quality, one of which
was the "Royal Merchant," "a ship of 600
tonus." He was a raeraber of the general
court in 1665, when the colonial government
made a strong protest against the action of the
comraissioners sent over by the king for the
purpose of directing legislation in the colony,
and because of his declarations at that time he
was arraigned for trial before the court in
Salera in 1677. According to the testiraony
of four Gloucester witnesses, he was shown to
have said "that he would bear no office within
this jurisdiction, nor anywhere else, where
Charles Stewart had anything to do ; that he
cared no raore for Charles Stewart than any
other man, as king ; and that he abhorred the
name of Charles Stewart as king." For this
offence of "lese majeste" he was punished
with a sentence of imprisonment for one
month, a fine of twenty-five pounds, besides
costs, and to be deprived of his privileges as
freeman. Soon afterward his wife in a peti
tion to the general court represented that he
was deranged and herself aged and having a
family. There is no record of his death or
the settleraent of his estate, for he again "grew
to poverty," having raortgaged part of his
lands in 1667 and never recovered them. This
took away the five hundred acres granted hira,
as is raentioned in a preceding paragraph.
Another portion of his lands, including a new
house, was deeded in trust to his sons James
and Isaac for the use and benefit of their
mother Philippa, who died August 31, 1681.
Besides these sons he had a daughter Mary,
who raarried John Coit, and a daughter Ruth,
who raarried William Glover.
(II) James Stevens, son of Wilhara, had a
grant of land on Town Neck, near Trynell
Cove, in 1658. He married Susannah, daugh

ter of Sylvester Eveleth, December 31, 1656,
and died March 25, 1697, leaving an estate
of nearly two hundred and forty pounds. It
is supposed that he was a shipwright,- and the
records show that he filled raany of the most
important offices in the town, deacon of the
church, officer of militia, selectman in 1667
and frora 1674 to 1691, and for ten years
represented Gloucester in the general court.
He had eleven children, of whom William,
Sarauel, Ebenezer, David, Jonathan, Mary
(raarried Francis Norwood) and Hannah
were living at the tirae of the death of their
father. His chUdren: i. WUliam, born March
10, 1658. 2. Jaraes, died young. 3. James,
February 4, 1661 ; died probably September
7, 1688. 4. Isaac, August 15, died December
20, 1664. 5. Sarauel, December 5, 1665. 6.
Isaac, died 1668. 7. Ebenezer, September 20,
1670. 8. Mary, June 13, 1672; married Fran
cis Norwood. 9. Hannah, April 9, 1675. 10.
David, November 5, 1677. 11. Jonathan,
March 7, 1679.
(Ill) Ebenezer Stevens, son of Deacon
Jaraes and Susannah (Eveleth) Stevens, was
born in Gloucester, Septeraber 20, 1670, and
is believed fo have been identical with Major
Ebenezer Stevens, of Kingston and Salisbury,
New Hampshire one of the foremost raen of
that province in his time and in whose honor
Stevenstown is named. "No narae was given
the granted township in the conveyance by the
Masonian proprietors, but the grantees with
one accord, without formal action, designated
it is 'Major Stevenstown,' which in the course
of time was abbreviated and called Stevens
town." In his "History of Gloucester," the
author, Mr. Babson, speaking of Ebenezer
Stevens says that he was born in 1670 and is
supposed to have raarried widow Mary Day
in 1723 ; that no children are recorded as hav
ing been born to hira, and that he died about
1757 ; but in his "Notes and Additions" to Mr.
Babsons's original work, Mr. Perley corrects
the error of the former writer in stating that
Ebenezer Stevens married and died in Glou
cester, Air. Babson having confused him with
another person of the sarae narae. Mr. Perley
hiraself says that he cannot trace Ebenezer
Stevens beyond 1699, when he was at sea. It
is very well known that several of Deacon
Jaraes Steven's sons went frora Gloucester to
New Hampshire and were prorainently identi
fied with the early civil and military history of
that region ; and there are many circumstances
which tend to confirm the belief that Major

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Stevens is identical with the son of Deacon
James and Susannah (Eveleth) Stevens, of
Gloucester and Cape Ann.
There appears to have been two persons of
the name Ebenezer Stevens among the grantees
of Stevenstown, the "Major" and the "Col
onel," while still another is mentioned in the
early records, although not as a proprietor;
and he was known as the "Captain." They
in fact represented three generations of the
same family, the "Major," his son the "Col
onel,"- and his grandson the "Captain." Major
Stevens was a very prominent man in Kings
ton history, for several years member of the
assembly, four or five years speaker of the
house, and a soldier of the early wars with
the French and Indians. In 1710, when Cap
tain Gilman went with a company in pursuit
of the Indians who killed Colonel Hilton's
men, Stevens was his guide, although in Col
onel Potter's narrative it is stated that "Ebe
nezer Webster, grandfather of Daniel Webster,
was the pilot" of the avenging party. Major
Stevens died November i, 1749. The place
and date of his birth are not mentioned in any
New Hampshire references, and in the "His
tory of Salisbury" the author says "we are
not able to ascertain the date or the place of
his birth," which statement tends to confirm
the belief that he was in fact a son of Deacon
James Stevens, of Gloucester. Major Stevens
married Deceraber 5, 1710, EHzabeth Colcord,
who died November 20, 1769; children: i.
Benjamin, February 3, 1713. 2. Colonel Ebe
nezer, June 14, 1715. 3. Hannah, June 25,
1718. 4. Mary, May 23, 1721. 5. Samuel,
Alay 21, 1724. 6. John, March 9, 1729.
(IV) Samuel Stevens, son of Major Ebe
nezer and Elizabeth (Colcord) Stevens, was
born in Kingston, New Hampshire, May 21,
1724, and is mentioned with his father and
elder brother Colonel Ebenezer, among the
proprietors of Stevenstown, in 1749. He mar
ried first, December 15, 1748, Shuah Fifield,
died January 30, 1 751, at the birth of her only
child; second, January 29, 1752, Hannah Mor
rell. He had children ; i-. Samuel, born Jan
uary 30, 1 75 1. 2. Ebenezer, December 4, 1752.
3. Benjamin, January 10, 1754. 4- Moses,
April 28, 1756. 5- Shuah, AprU 13, 1757,
died young. 6. Sarah, twin, March 27, 1759.
7. Shuah, twin, March 27, 1759. 8. Joshua,
November 3, 1761. 9. Daniel. 10. Hannah,
1764. II. Peter, 1766. 12. Edward, February
8, 1768.
(V) Ebenezer Stevens, son of Samuel and
Hannah (Morrell) Stevens, was born in

Kingston, New Hampshire, December 4, 1752,
and married Polly Stevens, born June 11,
1757. They had two children and probably
others whose names are not found. They had
Ebenezer, born November i, 1782, died Sep
tember 28, 1 85 1, and Benjarain, born April,
1788, died in Farraington, Maine, October i,
1835. His widow went to Belfast, Maine,
and was known to the family as "Aunt Ben,"
she married again a Mr. Palmeter.
(VI) Ebenezer Stevens, Jr., son of Ebe
nezer and Polly Stevens, was born in Gilman
ton, New Hampshire, November i, 1782, and
died in MontviUe, Maine, September 28, 1851.
He was one of the very first settlers in the
vicinity of MontviUe, and lived there raore
than forty years. He was universally esteemed
and will long be remembered for his many
excellent traits of character, especially for that
huraane and benevolent disposition which
made'him the friend and benefactor of those
around him in tiraes of mental distress or
pecuniary want. He married January 17, 1809,
Ursula Judkins, born March 7, 1789, daugh
ter of Benjamin and Ruth (Choate) Judkins
and granddaughter of Joel and Mehitable
(Calkins) Judkins. Ebenezer and Ursula
(Judkins) Stevens had ten children; i. Ebe
nezer 3d, born December 11, 1809. 2. Ruth,
October 29, 1811, died April, 1863. 3. Moses,
July 22, 1813. 4. Samuel S., January 14,
1815. 5. AbigaU G., January 22, 1818, died
1841. 6. Rhoda M., June 21, 1820, died Au
gust, 1853. 7. Daniel, died February, 1886.
8. Frederick A., May, 1825, died 1838. 9.
Ursula, June 2, 1827. 10. George W. August
4, 1830; raarried (i) Noveraber 30, 1857,
Harriet Shepley, (2) June 11, 1868, June Ste
vens. (VII) Ebenezer Stevens, 3d, son of Ebe
nezer Jr. and Ursula (Judkins) Stevens, was
born December 11, 1809, and married August
27, 1835, Eliza J. Currier. Their daughter,
Eliza J. Stevens, born Searsmont, Maine, Oc
tober 7, 1842, married AprU 12, 1866, Daniel
Low, of Salem (see Low).

The town of Kilmarnock, in
BROWN Ayrshire, Scotland, is situated
about twenty railes from the city
of Glasgow and lays of the Kilmarnock water.
For many years the town was famous for the
manufacture of "Kilmarnock cowls", and
afterward became noted for the superior qual
ity of its immense output of carpets. For
many years the town was a principal center
for skillful weavers and drew its population

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of workmen from all the country about and
also from the cities.
Among those who went to the factories of
Kilmarnock from Glasgow was one Robert
Brown, who was born about the year 1815
and died in 1854, at the age of thirty-nine
years. He was a carpet weaver, and after his
apprenticeship spent the reraaining years of
his life at his trade; but died when still a
young raan, and left a family of several chil
dren to the care of his widow. Her narae
before marriage was Margaret Glover, and
they were married in Kilmarnock. Both of
thera were devout Presbyterians and their
children were brought up in that faith. When
the children of the widow Brown were old
enough to work they were put out to learn
trades, and when they became practical work
men, capable of earning good wages, they set
about locating themselves in a place which
provided better living than the factories of
Kilmarnock and Glasgow, and thus it was that
Hugh Brown, second son and fourth child of
Robert and Margaret, left Glasgow and came
to Araerica about the year 1870. He was fol
lowed within a few years by others of the
family, and in 1872 the mother herself came
over with her youngest son and two of her
daughters, one daughter and one son having
died before she left Scotland for America.
Those of the children who came to New Eng
land may be raentioned as follows; i. Jaraes,
the eldest child, carae about 1872, and has
spent the greater part of his business life in
the vicinity of Providence, Rhode Island,
where he is a raachinist. 2. Janet, the eldest
daughter, carae in 1872. She raarried Edward
Bateson, who died, and she now lives with her
daughter in AVorcester, Massachusetts. 3.
Mary, the second daughter, came in 1872. She
married, in Glasgow, George Muir, and died
in Providence, Rhode Island, leaving children.
4. Hugh, the fourth child, came to this country
in 1870, and was the first of the family to
cross the Atlantic. In Scotland his home was
in Glasgow, and in New England he lived first
in AVorcester, then in Boston, later in Glou
cester, where he was employed by his youngest
brother, William G. Brown, and he died in
Everett, Massachusetts. He married Mary
Hair, and had children. 5. Margaret, the third
daughter, never came to America. She was
born in Kilmarnock and died in Glasgow, in
1869. She married David Tyndall, but had
no chUdren. 6. Robert, the next child in order
of birth, died when young. 7. WilHam Glover,
the Gloucester merchant, mentioned below.

WilHam Glover Brown, youngest chUd of
Robert and Margaret (Glover) Brown, was
born in Kirkfieldbank, Scotland, April 26, 1854,
and was an infant when his father died. After
his death his widow left Kilmarnock and re
tumed to Glasgow, and there William was
sent to the day school until he was about
twelve years old, when he was put in the office
of a tradesman as message boy, and later on,
as he grew more familiar with the work of
his employer, he went into the sales depart
ment as clerk, and worked there until 1872,
when he came with his mother and her two
daughters to New England.
Air. -Brown was a young man of eighteen
years when he arrived in New England, but
even then he had gained a fair understanding
of the dry goods trade and the duties of a
clerk in the sales department, and therefore
he easily secured a position with the house of
Callendar, MacAuslan & Troup, merchants,
of Providence, where he was employed dur
ing the next eight years ; and these were profit
able years for the young salesman and enabled
hira to gain a good knowledge of business
methods in a large New England raercantile
establishment, and also to lay by a small sum
of raoney with which to start in business for
himself. He proved himself a capable and
trustworthy employee, but even then had high
er ambitions than a future life behind the
counter in a salesroom, and shaped his course
to the end of being himself proprietor of a
mercantile house ; but it is a question whether
Mr. Brown then had any idea whatever that
he would become the head of an establishraent
so extensive as his great department store in
Gloucester, larger by far than any other on
Cape Ann, and one of the largest in Essex
county ; and this great business enterprise he
has built up within the last fifteen years.
Having worked as a clerk for his Provi
dence employers for eight years, Mr. Brown
opened a sraall dry goods store in Milford,
Alassachusetts, in partnership with Mr. J. S.
MacDonald. They remained together frora
1880 until 1883, when he bought out his part
ner's interest in the business and continued it
alone about two years raore. In 1885 he moved
his stock to Gloucester and opened a store in
a sraall building on the south side of Main
street. Five years later the demands of in
creasing trade raade it necessary to find raore
ample store space, and in 1890 he moved to
his present location on the north side of Main
street; but since then he has enlarged the ca
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his small dry goods shop of 1885 has develop
ed into an extensive modern department
house, and he himself to-day stands, at the
head of the most successful mercantile estab
lishment on Cape Ann, and this position the
result of his own personal effort and capable
business management. In Gloucester, Mr.
Brown is regarded as one of the leading busi
ness men of that city, one of its most enter
prising and public spirited citizens, and a man
of strict integrity of character and raoral
worth. He was brought up under Presby
terian influences and religious teaching, and is
a regular attendant at the services of the Con
gregational church of Gloucester. Mr. Brown
is a director in the City National Bank of
Gloucester; a vice-president of Gloucester
Co-operative Bank ; president of the Coramon
wealth Club of Gloucester ; vice-president of
the James H. Tarr Conipany of Gloucester;
director in the Snowden Mills Corporation of
Providence ; director in the Gloucester Fresh
Fish Company; director in the Adams Clock
Company of Boston; raember of various Ma
sonic bodies — the blue lodge, chapter and com
mandery; also of the Scots Charitable So
ciety of Boston, and of the Ancient and Hon
orable Artillery Company of Boston.
On October 31, 1884, Mr. Brown married
Minnie S. Russell, of "Worcester, Massachu
setts, daughter of James Russell, of that city.
Two children have been born of this raarriage ;
I. William Glover Brown Jr., born September,
1886, now a student at Dartmouth College.
2. Margaret Murdock, born September, 1888,
a graduate of Gloucester high school, now at
tending Rogers Hall School, at Lowell, Mas
sachusetts.

(For ancestry see Samuel Packard 1).
(VII) Colonel Abner B.
PACKARD Packard, son of WilHam and
Lucy (Turner) Packard (6),
born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Noveraber 21,
1821, died there October 17, 1902. He was
educated and reared to manhood in his native
town. He was early taught habits of industry
and economy by his parents. In 1842 he
founded the business of manufacturing vari
ous kind of type metals and refining dross,
etc., at Quincy. In this undertaking he met
with immediate and marked success. Pie was
sincere and punctual in all his affairs, and by
all with whom he had business dealings he
was regarded with high esteem, and it may be
correctly said that at the time of his death he
had left the impress of his individuality upon

a wide community, and to his family the price
less heritage of an honored name. Mr. Pack
ard was in the militia when a young man, and
was promoted through the various grades to
the rank of colonel. He responded to the first
call for troops when the civil war broke out in
April, 186], and served at the head of his
regiment, the Fourth Massachusetts Infantry.
During his long and useful career, he always
strove to do hjs duty as a citizen, and fre
quently gave of his time and substance to pro
mote the material as well as the social interests
of the town. He served as vice-president and
for many years was a member of the board
of directors of the National Mt. WoUaston
Bank, and was also vice-president of the
Quincy Electric Light and Power Company.
Politically he was a Democrat, and took an
earnest interest in public affairs, but never
sought or held public office. Colonel Abner B.
Packard raarried, October 31, 1849, Elizabeth
A. Newcorab, bom November i, 1830, daugh
ter of Lewis and Alary Elvira (Page) New
comb (See Page family). Children : i. Abner,
born September 20, 1850, died September 29,
1851. 2. Frank Clare, born June 6, 1852,
raentioned below. 3. Lizzie Lee, born August
3, 1854, died March 14, 1861. 4. Ella Marie,
born July 26, 1857, died March 12, 1861. 5.
Lucy Newcomb, born May 15, 1861, died
1861. 6. Walter Al., born June 23, 1862, men
tioned below.
(VIII) Frank Clare Packard, son of Col
onel Abner B. Packard (7), was born at
Quincy, June 6, 1852. His educational train
ing was obtained under private tuition. He
began early to take up the practical duties of
life, at the age of twenty became engaged with
his father in the manufacture of inks and ex
tracts. In this undertaking he met with well
merited success, and about 1900 he engaged
in the manufacture of extracts on his own ac
count at Quincy, continuing in this line of
pursuit until after the death of his father,
October 17, 1902, soon after which time he
became associated with his brother, Walter
M., in the type raetal raanufacturing business,
and the raanagement of his father's estate.
Not unlike his worthy sire, he is progressive
and enterprising, and is regarded as a good
and useful citizen. He is a member of Rural
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Quincy ;
St. Stephens Chapter, South Shore Command
ery, Knights Templar, Aleppo Temple, Mys
tic Shrine; Lodge No. 80, I. O. O. F., of
Quincy; the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
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tively identified with the fire department of
the town for over thirty-five years, and during
this time has served as assistant chief, and for
one year was chief of the department. He
married, March 31, 1875, Lucy C. Newcomb.
Their children are; i. Alice Gertrude, bom
July 7, 1879, rnarried, June 6, 1903, Henry P.
Miller ; one son, Clare Lewis Miller, born
Alarch 30, 1906. 2. Bertha Haskell, born
June 13, 1882, married, February 5, 1908, Jo
seph C. Morse.
(VIII) Walter M. Packard, son of Colonel
Abner B. Packard (7), was born in Quincy,
June 23, 1862. He acquired his early educa
tional training under the tuition of his aunt,
Lydia Savil, and after attending the Adams
Academy at Quincy for sorae time he entered
upon a four years' course in Harvard College,
after which he spent two years in the Harvard
Law School. He then became identified with
his father's manufacturing interests, and since
his death in 1902 has been associated with his
brother, Frank Clare, in the manufacture of
type metal and the raanageraent of the inter
ests of his father's estate. Politically he is a
Deraocrat. Walter M. Packard married,
Alarch 26, 1886, Carrie Fuller Litchfield, born
December 13, 1869, daughter of Elwood M.
and Clara Alice (Harris) Litchfield (see
Litchfield family). Children; i. Minnie, born
October 2, 1887, now a student of the class of
1907 at AA'^ellesley College. 2. Elvira Fran
cisca, born July 8, 1889, now a student at the
Boston University, class of 191 1. 3. Ruth,
born September 10, 1890, a graduate of the
Quincy high school. 4. Dorothy, born May
16, 1892, a student in the Quincy high school.

Nathaniel Page (i), immigrant aii-
PAGE cestor, was probably a brother of
Nicholas Page who settled in Plym
outh colony. He bought land and settled in
Billerica in the part now in Bedford, Massa
chusetts, by deed from George Grimes under
date of 1688. In the same year he was ap
pointed sheriff of Suffolk county by Govemor
Joseph Dudley. He married Joanna  .
He died April 12, 1692 ; his will is dated April
II, 1692, and was proved May 9, 1692. He
owned land at Dedhara, Squabauge, Worcester
and Billerica. ChUdren; i. Nathaniel, born
about 1679, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth,
married John Simpkins. 3. Sarah, married
Samuel HUl. 4. Jaraes, died- young. 5. Chris
topher, born 1690.
(II) Nathaniel Page, son of Nathaniel Page
(i), was born about 1679, probably in Eng

land, and died in Bedford in 1755. He raar
ried first, November 6, 1701, Susannah Lane,
born October, 1661, died January 17, 1714-15,
daughter of Colonel John and Susanna
(Whipple) Lane, who died August 4, 1713.
Colonel John was son of Job Lane, born 1620,
died August 23, 1697, and Hannah (Rayner),
his wife, who died April 30, 1704. Nathaniel
Page married second, in 1748, Mary Grimes.
Children, born at Bedford: i. Nathaniel, born
Septeraber 4, 1702. 2. John, born October
II, 1704, mentioned below. 3. Christopher,
born July 16, 1707. 4. Susannah, married
Samuel Bridge, of Lexington. 5. Joanna,
born 1714, raarried Josiah Fassett.
(Ill) John Page, son of Nathaniel Page
(2), born in Bedford, October 11, 1704, died
February 18, 1782. Although advanced in
years he took an active part in the battles of
Lexington and of Bunker Hill, and aided in
the capture of six regulars April 19, 1775.
He is credited on the state rolls with service
in Captain Abishai Brown's corapany. Colonel
John Nixon's regiraent (Fifth Middlesex) at
Carabridge in June, 1775; and with the same
company for a short time in 1776. He mar
ried, December 31, 1730, Rebecca Wheeler, of
Concord, who died July 12, 1755, aged forty-
three years. He married second, January 15,
1756, Amittai Fassett, who died December 25,
1771 ; third, June 3, 1773, Rachel Fletcher,
widow .of Joseph Fletcher. He was a raan of
large frame and stature, and a prominent citi
zen of Bedford. Children, born in Bedford;
I. John, born September 2, 1733, settled in
Hardwiek. 2. James, born May 12, 1735. 3.
Eben, bom June 3, 1737. 4. Susanna, born
1739, died young. 5. Timothy, born June 11,
1741. 6. Nathaniel, born June 20, 1742. 7.
Rebecca, born August 23, 1743, raarried Solo
mon Cutler. 8. Mary, died young. 9. Jo
anna, born June 15, 1746, married Samuel
Reed. 10. Sarah, born June 8, 1747, raarried
Josiah Beard. 11. Elizabeth, born August 3,
1748, raarried Alicah Reed. 12. Susanna,
born June 12, 1750, raarried Amos Haggett.
13. Samuel, born August i, 1751, resided in
New Hampshire. 14. Mary, died young.
(IV) Nathaniel Page, son of John Page
(3), born June 20, 1742, died July 31, 1819.
He was one of the minute-men of Bedford,
April 19, 1775, and cornet and standard bear
er at the Concord fight that day. He was
credited with service in Lieutenant Moses Ab
bott's company of Bedford rainute-raen. He
raarried, December 10 or 15, 1774, Sarah
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of James Brown. Children, born at Bedford :
I. Nathaniel, born October 25, 1775. 2. Sarah,
born May 22, 1777. 3. Timothy, born Janu
ary 29, 1779. 4. John (twin), born March 3,
1781. 5. Benjamin (twin), born Alarch 3,
1 78 1, mentioned below. 6. Christopher, born
December 10, 1784 (twin). 7. Thomas (twin),
born December 10, 1784. 8. Thaddeus, born
May I, 1788. 9. Ruhamah, married Jonathan
Lane. (V) Benjamin Page, son of Nathaniel
Page (4), born in Bedford, March 3, 1781,
died April 8, 1855. He settled in Boxbor-
ough, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. He
married, September 9, 1804, Mary Penniman,
who died July 25, 1805. Their daughter,
Mary Elvira, born February 25, 1805, married
Lewis Newcomb, who was born in 1800. Eliz
abeth A. Newcomb, daughter of Lewis and
Mary Elvira (Page) Newcorab, born Novera
ber I, 1830, died at Quincy in 1893 or 1894,
married Colonel Abner B. Packard (See
sketch of the Packard family herewith).

Lawrence Litchfield (i),
LITCHFIELD immigrant ancestor, was
born in England, and is
progenitor of all the old farailies of this narae
in America. He was a member of the Boston
Artillery Company as early as 1640, but soon
afterward .made his horae in Scituate. He
was on the list of men able to bear arms in
Barnstable in 1643. In 1645 he returned to
Scituate. His widow Judith married William
Dennis. She testified March 20, 1657-58, that
her husband on his death-bed consented that
John AUen, of Scituate, might adopt his son,
Josiah or Josias Litchfield. Children; i. Law
rence, resided at Barnstable and Scituate. 2.
Remembrance, married  Lewis. 3. De
pendance, born February 15, 1646, at Scitu
ate. 4. Josiah, born in 1647, mentioned below.
(II) Josiah (or Josias) Litchfield, son of
Lawrence Litchfield (i), was born in 1647 at
Scituate. He was given by his father at the
time of his death to John Allen who left him
a legacy in land at Scituate, June 2, 1663. He
married, February 22, 1671, Sarah Baker,
daughter of Rev. Nicholas Baker, pastor of
the First Church of Scituate. Josiah was a
leading citizen in town and church ; was dep
uty to the general court and held other offices
of trust and honor. Children, born at Scitu
ate: I. Hannah, born December 24, 1672. 2.
Sarah, born September 25, 1674. 3. Josiah,
born January 10, 1677, married, 1712, Mary
(.iriggs. 4. Nicholas, born February 7, 1680,

mentioned below. 5. Experience, born May
25, 1683. 6. Judith, born April 25, 1687. 7.
Samuel, born February 4, 1690, married, 1712,
Abigail Buck ; second. Fear Turner.
(Ill) Nicholas Litchfield, son of Josiah
Litchfield (2), was born in Scituate, February
7, 1680. He was a prominent citizen of his
native town ; deputy to the general court from
1738 to 1741. He married Bathsheba Clark,
daughter of Thoraas Clark, who came to Scit
uate from Plymouth about 1674, and probably
granddaughter of Thomas Clark, mate of the
"Mayflower." Children, born at Scituate; i.
Experience, born November 20, 1705, died
January 6, 1706-07. 2. Josiah, born Decem
ber 20, 1706, mentioned below. 3. Nicholas,
born March 10, 1707-08, died 1787. 4. Bath
sheba, born May 8, 1709. 5. James, born July
12, 1 71 1, died about 1734; married, July 12,
1732, Ruth Tilden. 6. John, born 1712, mar
ried, July 17, 1750, Lucy Cady. 7. Israel,
born 1714, married Penelope Burden, of Prov
idence, Rhode Island; second, Phebe Hunt, of
Hampton, Connecticut. 8. Eleazer, bom
1715, married Desire White. 9. Susanna,
born 1717. 10. Isaac, born 1719, married.
1743, Lydia Cowing; second, 1758, Hannah
Hersey. 11. Thomas, born 1721, raarried,
1750, Lydia Coe.
(IV) Josiah Litchfield, son of Nicholas
Litchfield (3), born December 20, 1706, raar
ried, July 4, 1732, Susanna Alorey. Children,
born in Scituate; i. Lot, born April 23, 1733
(narae changed later to Josiah). 2. James,
born November 12, 1734, raarried Rachel
Mansfield. 3. Jonah, born August 30, 1738.
4. Susanna, born March 24, 1740. 5. Daniel,
born March 7, 1742, mentioned below. 6.
Samuel, born February 14, 1744, raarried.
May 29, 1766, Sarauel Stockbridge, Jr. 7.
Penelope, born February 17, 1746, raarried
Ephraim Littlefield. 8. Bathsheba, born April
9, 1749. 9. Jacob, born March 12, 1750. 10.
Deacon Israel, born July 7, 1753, mentioned
below. II. Lot, born Noveraber 16, 1755,
raarried, 1777, Rachel Littlefield.
(V) Captain Daniel Litchfield, son of Jo
siah Litchfield (4), was bom in Scituate,
March 7, 1742. He was a prominent citizen
in the town and militia. He married, April
20, 1765, Sarah Whitcomb. Children, born
at Scituate; i. EHjah, born June 3, 1767. 2.
Bethia, born February 14, 1769. 3. Thank
ful, born October 23, 1772. 4. Silas, born
July 17, 177 — . niarried Polly Briggs. 5.
Azotus, born November 12, 177 — , married
Mercy Pratt. 6. Josiah, born March 6, 177 — ,

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married Abigail Litchfield. 7. Zintha, born
August 16, 1782. 8. Thankful, born July 18,
1785. 9. Daniel, born July 10, 1788, men
tioned below.
(V) Deacon Israel Litchfield, son of Josiah
Litchfield (4), was born in Scituate, July 7,
1753. He was a "rauch enlightened and re
spected" citizen. He was deputy to the gen
eral court in 1778; meraber of the state con
vention to frarae a constitution in 1779. He
was a soldier in the revolution, a sergeant in
Captain Samuel Stockbridge's company. Col
onel Bailey's regiment, on the Lexington
alarm; also clerk of Captain Hayward
Peirce's company. Colonel John Cushing's
regiment (Second Plymouth County) in the
Rhode Island campaign December, 1776. He
prepared a genealogical tree of the Litchfield
family and is credited with Rev. Abner Morse
with great accuracy in his work. He mar
ried, March 26, 1778, Sarah Cass. He died
in 1840. Children, born in Scituate: i. Sibyl,
April 6, 1780, raarried Hector Stockbridge.
2. Zoa, born February 19, 1782, raarried Paul
Merritt. 3. Festus, born October i, 1783,
raarried Penelope Stockbridge. 4. Enos, born
Deceraber 17, 1785. 5. Enos, born August
25, 1788. 6. Milton, born January 20, 1791,
mentioned below. 7. Harvey, born August 6,
1793, died young. 8. Sophia, born August,
1797) niarried Thomas Litchfield. 9. Serissa,
born April 14, 1803, raarried Rowland Bailey;
second,  Read. 10. Alfred, born No
veraber 8, 1804, married Mary Cole.
(VI) Captain Daniel Litchfield, son of
Captaiii Daniel Litchfield (5), was born July
10, 1788. He raarried Hannah Litchfield.
Children, born at Scituate; i. Priscilla Vinal,
born October 30, 1807, died young. 2. Seth,
born December 25, 1808. 3. Catherine, born
January i, 181 1, raarried Alfred Clapp. 4.
Priscilla, born Deceraber 24, 1812, raarried
Isaac Litchfield. 5. Liba, born February 21,
1815. 6. Josiah, born September 5, 1816,
married Harriet Pinson. 7. Lillie, born No
vember 7, 181 8, married Sumner Litchfield;
mentioned below. 8. Olive, born December
31, 1820, married Israel Barnes. 9. Daniel,
born August 28, 1823. 10. Otis, born March
15, 1826.
(VI) Milton Litchfield, son of Israel Litch
field (5), was born January 20, 1791, at Scit
uate. He married Abigail Otis. Children,
born at Scituate: i. Sumner, born January
15, 1 82 1, raentioned below. 2. Winnett At
kins, born September i, 1823.
(VII) Sumner Litchfield, son of Milton

Litchfield (6), was born in Scituate, January
15, 1821. He married LiUie Litchfield, men
tioned above, born November 7, 1818, daugh
ter of Captain Daniel and Hannah (Litch
field) Litchfield. Children: i. Sumner Otis,
who married Salome Stoddard and they had
one child, Frank Webster. 2. Milton Gray,
married Sarah W. Stoddard. 3. Elwood M.,
born May 8, 1847, mentioned below.
(VIII) Elwood M. Litchfield, son of Sum
ner Litchfield (7), was born on the old Litch
field homestead, May 8, 1847. He married
Clara AHce Harris, 'daughter of William F.
and Clara Clarissa Chapman. ChUdren: i.
Carrie Fuller, born December 13, 1869, mar
ried Waher Al. Packard (See sketch).
The narae Titcomb probably
TITCOMB originated from the parish of
Tidcombe, in county Wilts,
England. Some members of the family claim
the following coat-of-arms ; Or, a bend azure,
between two foxes' heads, erased gules. Crest,
a dexter arm couped above the elbow, armed
garnished or, the hand grasping a broken
lance gules.
(I) William Titcomb, iraraigrant ancestor,
came to New England in the ship "Hercules",
from London. Pie had taken passage on the
"Alary and John", which sailed March 24,
1634, but was detained and came a month
later. He settled in Newbury, and was one
of the original proprietors who had grants
of eighty acres or less. He was admitted a
freeman June 22, 1642 ; was selectman 1646,
and at other times ; representative to the gen
eral court, 1655. He took an active part in
the church controversy in Newbury, and was
fined four nobles for his action in supporting
Mr. Woodman, together with several others.
He died September 24, 1676, of "fever and
ague". In a will made six days before his
death he bequeathed to his wife and eldest
son. He married first, Joanna Bartlett, died
June 28, 1653, daughter of Richard Bartlett,
Sr., of Newbury; second, March 3, 1654, Ehz
abeth, probably widow of William Stevens,
and daughter of —  Bitsfield. Children
of first wife: i. Sarah, married Thomas
Treadwell, of Ipswich. 2. Hannah, died
young. 3. Mary, married John Poore, of New
bury. 4. Mellicent, died aged seventeen. 5.
Wilhara, died aged eleven. 6. Penuel, mar
ried Lydia Poore. 7. Benaiah, married Sarah
Brown. Children of second wife: 8. Eliza
beth, married Samuel Bartlett. 9. Rebecca,
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married first, Thomas Bartlett ; second, James
Ordway. 11. William, mentioned below. 12.
Thomas, married Alary Dam. 13. Lydia,
married Jonathan Clark. 14. Ann.
(II) Sergeant WUliam Titcomb, son of
WUliam Titcomb (i), was born August 14,
1659, and died February 4, 1740. He mar
ried May 15, 1683, Ann Cottle, died August
15, 1847, daughter of WilHam and grand
daughter of Edward Cottle, of Salisbury.
Children; i. Jedediah, married Elizabeth
Boardman. 2. Joanna, married Michael
Hodge. 3. Daniel, raarried January i, 17 18-9,
Ann Wingate; died 1758-9. 4. Sarah, mar
ried Deacon Moses Pearson. 5. EHas. 6. Jo
seph, mentioned below. 7. Benjamin, twin
with Joseph. 8. Moses, died young. 9. John.
10. Mary, 11. Colonel Moses, married Miriara
Currier. (Ill) Captain Joseph Titcorab, son of Ser
geant William Titcomb (2), was born March
30, 1698. He was a prominent man, and held
many offices in church and state. He married,
October 3, 1721, Ann Smith. Children; i.
Sarah, married John Ropes, of Salem. 2.
Henry, mentioned below. 3. Mary, married
 Lowell. 4. Benjamin. 5. OHver, mar
ried Anna Osgood. 6. Joseph, married first,
Hannah Hale;. second,  Wyatt. 7. John,
died young. 8. Anna. 9. Elizabeth, married
Ebenezer Lowell. 10. Eunice, married Jona
than Dole. II. John, married Sarah Titcomb.
12. Abigail.
(IV) Henry Titcomb, son of Captain Jo
seph Titcomb (3), married his cousin Mary
Titcomb. Children: i. Enoch, mentioned be
low. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Mary. 4. Lucy, mar
ried  Thompson. 5. Joseph. 6. John
Smith. 7. Henry, married Abigail Whitmore.
8. John -Berry.
(V) Honorable Enoch Titcomb, son of
Henry Titcomb (4), was born December 6,
1752, and died August 13, 1814. He was a
merchant in Newburyport. He was town
treasurer for twenty-eight successive years;
notary public, justice of the peace, a meraber
of the council that framed the state constitu
tion, a member of the state legislature during
the early days of the state, and senator for a
long term of years. He was in the revolution,
commissioned brigade major July 3, 1778, and
served in Rhode Island from July to Septem
ber under Brigadier General Jonathan Tit
comb. He was a deacon in the First Presby
terian Church. He married Ann, daughter of
Ephraim and Mary Jones, of Portland,
Maine. Children: i. George, mentioned be

low. 2. Luther, married Sarah Teel. 3. Ed
ward. 4. Nancy, married Moses Chase; had
son John. 5. Francis, died aged thirty-seven ;
married Sally Dodd ; was a sUversmith. 6.
Salina, went west; married Greenleaf Dole.
7. Fanny, married Moses Lord, who was post
master many years.
(VI) George Titcomb, son of Hon. Enoch
Titcomb (5), was born February 21, 1785, at
Newburyport, and died there December 4,
1863. He was educated in the public schools
of his native town and started to learn the
printer's trade. On account of trouble with
his eyes, he had to change his vocation, how
ever, and turned to teaching school, and fol
lowed that profession for a period of fifty
years. He was especially noted for his skill
in penmanship and his success in teaching the
art of penmanship. He had a night school
for writing, for many years, in addition to his
duties in the public schools. He was of the
strictest integrity and sterling character, kind
ly and charitable. He was active in St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, and for many
years warden. He was a Whig and later a
Republican in politics, and always keenly in
terested in the affairs of his native city, but
never sought public office. He married Cath
erine DeBlois Tracy, born at Newburyport,
November 12, 1794, died March 13, 1875,
daughter of John and Alargaret (Laughton)
Tracy. Children, born at Newburyport ; i.
Ann S., February 22, 1820; raarried George
W. Hale, of Newbury ; children : Catherine
A. ; Edward A., who is a box manufacturer
in Newburyport. 2. Catherine, born March
16, 1822; married Jacob F. Hodskins, born
1818, at Newburyport, died January 9, 1890;
a jeweler by trade ; child, Emily Agnes Hod-
skins, born 1851, died 1876, married Charles
F. Foy. 3. George J., born April 8, 1824,
served in the civil war in an artiUery company
under General Benjamin F. Butler; never was
heard from after the war, and must have been
killed. 4; Margaret, born September 23, 1826;
unmarried. 5. Mary, died in infancy. 6.
Elizabeth, died in infancy. 7. Patrick Tracy,
born 1834; died 1839. 8. Selina Jane, born
May 19, 1835, unmarried. 9. Henry L., born
June 24, 1837, died July 27, 1852.

Elder John Browne, Salem, was
BROWN admitted freeman there in 1637,
and joined the church the same
year. He was a man of substance and influ
ence, mariner and merchant, and carried on
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land and Virginia. On July 8, 1660, he was
chosen ruling elder of the church, then being
absent on a voyage, and he accepted the office
on condition that he be allowed to attend to
his business in Virginia during the following
winter. He was chosen to this office at the
special request of Rev. John Higginson, the
pastor elect, in his answer to a call to the
Salem church ; "There is but one thing I
would coraraend unto ye congregation that
you would think seriously of a Ruling Elder,
for though I should not be unwiUing to doe it
wt ye Lord shall enable me, yet I ara not free
to undertake church work without ye assist
ance of a Ruling Elder the place being great,
the people many, and ye work like to be much,
especially in such times as these". So Mr.
John Browne was nominated and after due
consideration "was chosen by the church by
general consent". In the church records for
March 3, 1661, it is written: "It pleased God
to return home our Elder Mr. Browne in safe
ty from Virginia in ye 3d mth, notwithstand
ing the casting away of his vessel and goods
to his great loss, and great danger he was in
afterwards by ye Indians -which preservation
& danger was related by himself and for
which solemn thanks were rendered to ye
Lord in ye congregation". And again; 1664.
5th, 4th mo. ; "Elder Browne, upon his return
from Virginia this Spring, finding by experi
ence his occasions such as he could not attend
to ye work of an elder with, the constancy
and expence of ye time yt ye work of it did
require, and professing a need of attending
his calling as a seaman, wherein he was to be
much absent frora ye Church, he desired ye
church yt they would dismiss him from his
office, yt he might with more freedora of
spirit attend the necessary duties of his call
ing, ye church after sorae tirae of considera
tion, consented to his desire, and accordingly,
on ye 5th day of the 4th rath, he was dismiss
ed from his office." In his "Annals of Salem''
Mr. Felt says that Elder Brown afterward
resuraed the office and held it until his death.
Elder John Browne and his sons — Jona
than, John and James — were large traders to
A^irginia and Alaryland, and had large posses
sions there, which were mostly lost by the un
timely death of his son James, and through
which Elder Browne becarae involved in some
trouble; yet he left a good estate at his own
death. The name of his wife does not ap
pear, and it is probable that she came with hira
from England. She was living in 1667 and
died before 1683. Elder John died before

Noveraber, 1685, the date on which his wiU
was probated. Jonathan, the eldest son, was
engaged in commercial trade with Maryland
and Virginia, but became financially involved
and died insolvent about 1667. John, the sec
ond son, was baptized in Salera July 16, 1638,
and was a raaster mariner. He married Han
nah, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hing
ham. (II) James Browne, youngest son of Elder
John Browne, was baptized in Salera July 4,
1640, and met death by violence in Maryland,
where he had a plantation and trading station.
The jury summoned to investigate the cir
cumstances of his death returned a verdict
that he had died by his own hand — felo de se
— but afterward it was discovered that he had
been raurdered by a negro. He raarried 5th
7rao. 1664, Hannah, daughter of Henry
Bartholoraew, one of the eminent men of the
colony, several tiraes deputy to the general
court, meraber of many colonial and town
comraissions, an officer of the troop of horse,
and a man of large property. He died in 1692,
aged ninety-two years. After the death of
James Browne, his widow married, March 8,
1679-80, Dr. John Swinnerton, a noted Salem
physician, and whose house adjoined that of
Elder Browne. By her second husband Han
nah had one child, Mary, born December 24,
1681. Children of James and Hannah
(Bartholoraew) Browne; Bartholomew, born
Alarch 31, 1667; EHzabeth, January 26, 1670;
Hannah, March 9, 1672 ; James.
(Ill) James Browne, son of James and
Hannah (Bartholomew) Browne, was born in
Salem, May 23, 1675. He was a mariner in
early life, and in 1717 bought of George
Trask, blacksraith, for forty pounds, land near
Browne's pond in Salem, now a part of South
Danvers, and became a husbandman. There
is a tradition in the faraily that Jaraes Browne
was once captured by Captain Kidd's pirate
crew, but escaped from the ship and swam
ashore. He married, February 22, 1698-9,
Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Nichols, and
daughter of John and Alice Pickering. She
was born 7 7th mo. 1674, and had a daughter
Elizabeth by her first husband. By Samuel
Browne she had sons James, Samuel, John
and William ; daughters Mary and Hannah.
(IV) Samuel Brown, son of James and
Elizabeth (Pickering-Nichols) Browne, was
baptized November 3, 1706. In 1728 he re
ceived from his father a deed of twenty acres
of land in Salem, including a dwelling house,
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grantee "shall duly improve the premise ac
cording to the rules of good husbandry, and
shall pay to his father and Mother Ehzabeth,
or the longest liver of them, during their nat
ural lives, the full half part of the produce,
and also pay to his sister Mary, wife of Sam
uel King, * * * within two years after
the decease of his Father and Mother, fifty
pounds, in good bills of the Province, or in
Silver money, at eighteen shillings pr. oz; on
failure the premises become the property of
his father and his heirs". Samuel Brown
married, January 7, 1728-9, Mary Porter, of
Salem (one record says Wenham) ; children
(dates of baptism) ; i. Edith, May 3, 1730.
2. Mary, November 15, 1730. 3. John, Feb
ruary 5, 1732-3. 4. Anna, February 2, 1734-5.
5. Huldah, January 25^ 1738. 6. Apphia, Alay
18, 1740. 7. Samuel, December 26, 1742. 8.
William, December 16, 1744. 9- Asa, Janu
ary 18, 1746-7. 10. Amos, May 14, 1749. 11.
Hannah, December 15, 1751. 12. Ezra, De
cember 8, 1754. 13. Nathan, August 28, 1757.
(V) Captain Asa . Brown, son of Samuel
and Alary (Porter) Brown, was baptized Jan
uary 18, 1746-7. He was Captain Asa Brown
of Beverly, who was sergeant in Captain Is
rael Hutchinson's corapany of minute-men
from that town that marched to Cambridge on
the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and
served two days. He married July 26, 1796,
Sarah Traske, died April 16, 1841 ; children ;
I. Saloma, baptized May 12, 1797. 2. Williara
Trow Trask, April 19, 1798. 3. Israel, Janu
ary 22, 1799. 4. Asa, March 19, 1801. 5.
John, April 18, 1803. 6. Sarauel, September
I, 1804. 7. Sullivan, April 21, 1806. 8. Han
nah, July II, 1808. 9. Amos, June 12, 1810.
(VI) John Brown, son of Captain Asa and
Sarah (Traske) Brown, was born in Beverly,
April 18, 1803, and was a farmer. He mar
ried, June 6, 1832, Sarah F., daughter of Cap
tain Samuel Wilkins ; children, (dates of bap
tism) ; I. Sarah Elizabeth, June 20, 1838;
married Ansel Web.ster. 2. Harriet Locke,
June 20, 1838, married Francis H. Hovey. 3.
Mary, June 20, 1838. 4. Martha. 5. Lucy
Masury, September 6, 1841. 6. John, died in
infancy. 7. John Adams, September 6, 1841.
8. Charles E. 9. George B.
(VII) George B. Brown, son of John and
Sarah F. (Wilkins) Brown, was bom in Bev
erly. Massachusetts, July 4, 1852, and received
his education in the public schools of that
town and in the famous Dummer Academy.
After leaving school he learned the trade of
a mason, and followed that occupation as a
iv-34

journeyman until 1878, when he removed to
Ipswich and for a nuraber of years carried on
business as a builder and contractor. After
the Boston fire he built and rebuilt raany
buildings in that city, and he also has erected
several substantial buildings in Lynn, Ames
bury and in other places. He was foreman of
construction work on the Danvers asylum. In
1881 Air. Brown changed his occupation and
started in business as a miller and. dealer in
flour and feed and is still so engaged. He
married flrst, Ada J. Dole, who died Septera
ber II, 1879, aged twenty-five years two
months ; second, Noveraber 29, 1883, Lottie
F. Lake, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, daugh
ter of Henry Lake. Air. Brown had three
children, all born of his first raarriage and all
now deceased, viz. ; i. Clarence W., born Feb
ruary 9, 1894, died sarae year. 2. Malcolm,
bom December 13, 1897, died May 22, 1898.
3. Elizabeth, born November 22, 1900, died
July 22, 1901.

Thomas Prior, so far as known
PRIOR the first of this surname in New
England, was in Scituate in 1634 ;
he died there in 1639. His sons, Daniel and
John, who came from England in 1635, set
tled in Duxbury, as also did his son Joseph.
Benjamin Prior, of a later generation of the
Duxbury family, raarried, December 9, 1697,
Bethia Pratt. Their .son Benjamin, of Dux
bury, who was a tanner by trade, raarried,
November 7, 1723, Deborah Weston; he died
Deceraber 3, 17(56. His son Benjarain, sec
ond, born October 23, 1740, raarried, January,
1765, Sarah Soule, daughter of Joseph and
Alercy (FuUerton) Soule. Joseph Soule was
a son of Jo.shua Soule (3), who was son of
John Soule (2), and grandson of George
Soule (i), one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims.
Their son Benjamin, third, raarried and was
the father of four sons: Jabez; John, was lost
at sea with his father in a severe storra, the
father being a fisherman ; Hiram and WiUiara,
the other two sons, were boys when their
father was lost at sea; they were "let out"
for sorae years, and Williara learned the trade
of ship carpenter.
William Prior, son of Jabez and Sarah
(Holmes) Prior, was born in 1805, died
March i, 1881. After working at the trade
of ship carpenter for a time, he was a raaster
of a fishing vessel, and was one of the pion
eers in the fish catching and raarketing trade
of Boston, having brought to this market with
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later years of his life were employed in agri
culture, upon the Myles Standish farm in
Duxbury. He married Amanthis Peterson,
born July lo, 1807, died January 2, 1894,
daughter of Daniel and Bethia (Weston)
Peterson, and granddaughter of Joseph and
Rebecca (Delano) Peterson, of Cape Cod,
living and dying, possibly in Duxbury.
Amanthis (Peterson) Prior was a woraan of
a rather high education for her day, and was
known locally for her more than ordinarily
bright mind ; in early life she was a Wesleyan
Methodist, but later became a .Spiritualist, in
the ranks of which sect her father and she
became very prominent and knew personally
some of its foremost followers. Children of
Daniel and Bethia (Weston) Peterson: i.
Daniel, married Phebe Moore, children : i.
Ellis F., niarried first, Alartha Parker and
had four children; Abbie, Emma, Sarah and
Charles ; married second, Julia Fitzgerald and
had two children; George and Emily, ii.
Sarah, married John Haskell, for years
a very well known theatrical man ; no
children, iii. Hannah, unmarried, iv. Stephen,
raarried Elizabeth Ray', of Nantucket ; chil
dren ; Lillian, Emma, Florence, Henry, v.
Seth, deceased, married Julia  , who re
sides in South Boston ; no children, vi. Je
rusha, raarried Lieutenant Fillbrick. vii. Al
exander, married but had no children, viii.
Elizabeth, married a Mr. Whitney, one daugh
ter, Mattie Whitney. Daniel and Phebe
(Moore) Peterson spent the early years of
their life in Duxbury, but in later years moved
to Boston, where their deaths occurred. 2.
Hannah. 3. Araanthis, aforementioned as the
wife of William Prior. 4. Jerusha. 5. George.
Children of William and Amanthis (Peter
son) Prior; I. Williara, Jr., married first, Ab
bie Torrey, three children ; i. William H.,
married Edna Walker, no children ; ii. Charles
Olden; iii. Harry, died young. 2. George
Peterson, see forward. 3. Bethia Weston,
died 1858; she was the wife of William K.
Turner, now of California; they had one
child, AVilliam J. Turner, who married Zilphia
E. Brewster, children; Sarah W., William P.,
Leslie C, Alarcia B., Bethia A., and Emily
and Edith, twins, the latter deceased. 4. Sarah
H., raarried Parron H. Prior, deceased ; left
children; Bethia I., Eunice E. and Parron H.
Jr. 5. Edwin, died April 15, 1877; married,
in Duxbury, AVealthy S. Freeman ; he left one
son, Arthur E., who married Edna E. Foster,
one child, Louise F. Prior.
George Peterson Prior, son of William and

Araanthis (Peterson) Prior, was born in Dux
bury, Mas.sachusetts, August 17, 1836, died
August 29, 1908. Leaving school at the age
of fourteen, he becarae cook on his father's
fishing vessel. Thereafter, taking his turn at
all the eraployraents of the crew of such craft,
he became a thorough seaman, and at the age
of twenty-one was master of a vessel. Hav
ing spent eighteen years in that occupation,
he obtained employment with Parron H.
Prior, who was then engaged in the wholesale
fish trade at 30 Commercial Wharf, Boston.
In 1884 he engaged in the same business as a
member of the firra of Prior & Ingalls. His
experience, acquired in fishing and in Parron
H. Prior's employment, enabled the firm to
advance rapidly and to prosper when other
firms failed. The house was successfully
conducted until 1899, when the National Fish
Company, in which Messrs. Prior and IngaUs
were important factors, was formed. This
corporation dissolving in July, 1901, the firm
resuraed their business under their former
narae. Prior & Ingalls. Mr. Prior was a very
public-spirited and generous man, contributing
liberally of his time and means to all worthy
causes. Mr. Prior was the owner of a hand
sorae house, equipped with everything neces
sary for the corafort of its inmates, and the
beauty of its surroundings, which bespeak the
exercise of a refined taste, add to the attrac
tiveness of the place.
Mr. Prior married Lydia Ann Sampson,
born in Duxbury, December 16, 1839, daugh
ter of Captain Elisha and Ann (AVeston)
Sampson, who were the parents of ten chil
dren, as follows: i. Lydia Ann, aforemention
ed as the wife of George P. Prior. 2. Lucy W.,
wife of Edgar Loring, of Duxbury; children;
Mabel, Fannie W., Harry B., Florence, Waldo
P., Edward W. and Albert O. 3. Laura J.,
wife of John A. Soule, of California; two
children : Fannie E. and Edward F. 4. Julia,
deceased ; was wife of George Atwell, of Dux
bury ; children : Amanda G., Elmer E., Hattie,
Grace and Florence. 5. Abbott, a resident of
Marshfield ; married Lydia Sampson and had
twins, dying in early infancy, and Anna, wife
of George Lane, of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
6. Clara, unraarried, residing with her sister,
Mrs. George P. Prior. 7. Silvia, wife of
Joshua Paulding, of Marshfield, Massachu
setts ; children. Ella T., John B., Arthur, CUf-
ton, Alphia, RusseU, Isabelle T. and Fred
erick. 8. Siraeon, unmarried. 9. Elisha, mar
ried Mary Bragdon and has two sons, Frank
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when a chUd five years old. Captain Sampson
was a well known seafaring man of the Gape,
being master of several trans-Atlantic liners,
among them being the good ship "iViarttia .
He sailed vessels in about every quarter of
the globe. He was successful in his pursuit,
following this occupation throughout the
greater part of his active career. His death
occurred at his home in Duxbury, 1876. His
wife, who survived him, died at the liome of
her daughter. Airs. George P. Prior, m Win
throp, 1898, at the age of eighty-one years.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Prior; i. Georgi
anna, residing in Newton, Alassachusetts;
widow of J. 'VV alter Hamilton ; children : Es-
teUe Louisa, Easter Locke and Easter Irving,
pupils of the public schools, and Georgianna,
died aged six years. 2. Cordelia, wife of Wil-
bert AVilson Freeman, a successful hardware
merchant; they are residents of Winthrop,
Massachusetts. 3. Anna Weston, wife of Wil
liam Munday ; children : Alice Abbott, Forrest
Prior and Georgia Leslie; of these Forrest
Prior Munday married Louisa Clark, of Win-
- throp, and have a child, Dorothy ; Mr. and
Airs. Munday reside in AVinthrop. 4. George
Herbert, married Fannie Frothingham Rob
bins, residents of Winthrop.
General Thomas Taylor was
TAYLOR born in Quincy, November 26,
1790, and died there January
I, 1838. He lived in that part of Braintree
known as The Farms. He was a prominent
member of the First Congregational Church
(Unitarian) at Braintree, and owned pew 48
in that structure. He commanded the ' East
Company of militia at Quincy, rose to the
command of his regiment, and finally received
a general's commission. He was active in
public aft'airs, and one of the best known and
most useful citizens of the town. He married
Ann Adams, bom February 11, 1800, died
Alarch 29, 1883, daughter of Thomas and Ann
(Capen) Adams; her father was baptized
August 2, 1772, died June 4, 1842, married
thrice ; her mother, Ann Capen, his first wife,
born 1776, died May 24, 1806. Deacon Ebe
nezer Adams, father of Thomas (6), was born
at Braintree, March 15, 1737, died 1791 ; mar
ried Mehitable Spear, bom 1737, died 1814.
Captain Ebenezer Adams, father of Deacon
Ebenezer Adams (5), was born December
30, 1704, died 1769; married Ann Boylston,
born 1706, died February 18, 1770. Joseph
Adams, father of Captain Ebenezer Adams
(4), was born at Braintree, 1654, and died

February 12, 1736-7; married Hannah Bass,
bom June 22, 1667, died October 24, 1705 ;
daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass^and
granddaughter of John and Priscilla (iVlul-
lins) Alden; and all their descendants are
eligible to the Mayflower Society. Joseph
Adams, father - of Joseph Adams (3), was
born in England, in 1626, died December 6,
1694; niarried Abigail Baxter, who died Au
gust 27, 1692. Henry Adams, father of Jo
seph Adams (2), was the immigrant. (See
Adams). Children of General Thomas and
.Ann (Adams) Taylor ; born at Quincy : i. Ed
mund Billings, born June 7, 1818 : mentioned
below. 2. Thomas, born May 4, 1820. 3.
Charles, born August 4, 1822, lives in Quincy.
4. Henry, born November 20, 1824. 5.
George (twin of Henry), born November 20,
1824 ; died August 10, 1825. 6. Annie A., born
May 18, 1828. 7. George Washington Beale,
born August 19, 1831. 8. Joseph, born May
26, 1837, died December 27, 1838.
(VIII) Edmund BUlings Taylor, son of
General Thomas Taylor (7), was born in
Quincy, June 7, 1818. He married, May 2,
1844, Abigail Billings Faxon (see Faxon
family). ChUdren of Edmund Billings
and Abigail BUlings (Faxon) Taylor: i.
Edmund Faxon, born February 7, 1845 ;
died May 31, 1902: married Sarah Brag
don Seward ; chUdren ; Edraund S. ; Mar
ion; Blanche M. 2. Joseph Adams, born
December 14, 1847; died Noveraber 8,
1871. 3. Maria Davenport, born October
12, 185 1, died 1854. 4. Abbie Frances,
bom November 11, 1853; married Thomas
Fenno, born June 29, 1855, in Quincy,
son of Thomas Glover and Elizabeth Hard
wiek Fenno. 5. Alice Maria, born January
14, 1858; married E. Frederick Carr, born
August 8, 1855, son of Joseph and Sarah Jane
(Frederick) Carr; children; i. Bradbury Tay
lor Carr, born September 29, 1880, died Oc
tober 27, 1880; ii. Florence Frederick, De
cember 6, 1881 ; iii. Janet Faxon, Alarch
12, 1883; iv. Sidney Taylor, June 18, 1884;
V. Wallace Bradbury, June 29, 1886. (See
Thatcher) .

(i) Thomas Faxon, immigrant
FAXON ancestor, born in England about
160 1 ; came to New England
with his wife Joane and three children,
before 1647. His name first appears at Ded
ham, when his daughter Joanna was married
to Anthony Fisher, Jr., September 7, 1647.
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was a prominent citizen there. He was select
raan in 1670-72, and deputy to the general
court frora Braintree in 1669. He raarried
second, September 5, 1670, Sarah, widow of
WiUiam Savill, of Braintree. He died No
vember 23, 1680. Children; i. Joanna, born
about 1626 in England; raarried, Septeraber
7, 1647, Anthony Fisher, Jr. 2. Thoraas, born
about 1628-9 in England; raarried April 11,
1652, Deborah, daughter of Richard Thayer.
3. Richard, raentioned below.
(II) Richard Faxon, son of Thoraas Faxon
(i), was born in England, about 1630. He
came with his parents to New England, and
married Elizabeth  . He died December
20, 1674. Children; i. Elizabeth, born March
26, 1655 ; died AprU 3, 1673. 2. Mary, born
Septeraber 7, 1656; died Septeraber 14, 1657.
3. Mary, born Deceraber 19, 1657. 4. Sarah,
born Alarch 13, 1659. 5- Josiah, born Sep
teraber 8, 1660 ; mentioned below. 6. Thomas,
born August 2, 1662; married Mary Blanch
ard. 7. Lydia, born Septeraber i, 1663; died
1663. 8. Hannah, born September i, 1663
(twin) ; 9. Ebenezer, born December 15, 1664;
died Alarch 27, 1665. 10. Richard, born June
21, 1666. II. John, born April, 1667; died
April 12, 1668. 12. Joseph, born August 26,
1669; he died before 1674. 13. Abigail, born
Septeraber 18, 1670.
(Ill) Josiah Faxon, son of Richard Faxon
(2), was born Septeraber 8, 1660, in Brain
tree. He raarried Mehitable Adaras, of Med
field, born March 20, 1665, daughter of Ed
ward and Lydia Adaras. ChUdren, born in
Braintree ; i. Josiah, bom May 23, 1690; mar
ried January 13, 1717, Deborah Thayer. 2.
Thonias, born February 8, 1692 ; married May
22, 1716, Ruth Webb. 3. Lydia, born Novem
ber 30, 1695; married Noveraber 20, 1722,
Benjarain Richards. 4. Mehitable born June
14, 1698; raarried April 3, 1733, Ebenezer
Whitraarsh. 5. Edward, born May 6, 1700;
raarried first, January 30, 1746, Hannah
Blanchard ; second, December 7, 1749, Mercy
Wells. 6. Elizabeth, born April 7, 1702 ; raar
ried May 12, 1722, Benjarain Hayden. 7.
Eliashib, born March 10, 1704 ; mentioned be
low. 8. Sarah born June 3, 1706; married
December 16, 1725, Joseph 'Thayer.
(IV) Eliashib Faxon, son of Josiah Faxon
(3), was born in Braintree, March 10, 1704,
and died in 1761. Pie niarried, February 17,
1726-7, Elizabeth Crane, born January 17,
1702, daughter of Ebenezer and Alary Crane
of Alilton, "Alassachusetts ; they were married
bv Rev. Peter Thacher, who was the first min

ister of Milton, Massachusetts. He was a
cordwainer and tanner. He and his wife were
members of the First Congregationalist church
of Braintree. He removed to Pembroke, Mas
sachusetts, where he died in 1761. Children:
I. Elisha, born November 10, 1727; mentioned
below. 2. Elijah, born November 24, 1731 :
married Deceraber 28, 1752, Beulah AVild.
(V) Elisha Faxon, son of Eliashib Faxon
(4), was born in Braintree, November 10,
1727. He removed with his father to Pem
broke, and later to Halifax, Massachusetts,
where he resided until his death in 1776. He
served in the early part of the revolution. He
married, April 12, 1749, Sarah Allen, who
died before 1774, probably daughter of Ben
jamin and Deborah .Allen. ChUdren; i. Eliza
beth, bom November 24, 1749; died young.
2. Sarah, bom 1751 ; married, 1770, Stephen
Washburn. 3. Elisha, born November 23,
1753 ; mentioned below. 4. Mary, baptized
June 6, 1756; married September 15, 1777,
Jonathan Curtis. 5. Samuel, born July 10,
1758; married December 11, 1783, Priscilla
Thomas. 6. AUen, born Septeraber i, 1761 ;
raarried October, 1791, Margaret Smith. 7.
Benjamin, born Alay 12, 1764; married first,
December 20, 1787, Ruth Bryant; second,
January 8, 1792, Rebecca Stone. 8. WilHam,
born 1769; raarried first, March 23, 1794,
AA'^ealthy W^atson ; second, October 16, 1803,
Phebe Lawrence. 9. Susanna, died young.
The last two children were probably born in
Halifax. (VI) Elisha Faxon, son of Elisha Faxon
(5), was born in Perabroke, Noveraber 23,
1753 and died July 17, 1826. He was a sol
dier in the revolution in Captain John Brad
ford's corapany. Colonel Theophilus Cotton's
regiraent, and served twenty-six days after
the Lexington alarra, April 19, 1775. He en
listed then in Captain AVadsworth's company
with the rank of sergeant. He was a farmer,
and was for some time captain of the Halifax
Light Infantry. He raarried Sarah Gushing,
born August 4, 1760, died October 27, 1845,
daughter of Noah Gushing, of Hingham, and
later of Halifax, Massachusetts. Children;
I. Sarah, born January 28, 1781 ; married Oc
tober 30, 1803, Abijah Haskell. 2. Sophia,
born November 11, 1782; died AprU 15, 1858.
3. Thomas Gushing, born November 2, 1784,
married September 16, 1817, Hannah E.
Hunt. 4. "Welthia, born January 29, 1787;
raarried June 12, 1806, Ichabod Howland.
5. Mercy, born October 9, 1788-1789; married
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ary 30, 1792; died November 27, 1794. 7.
Oren, born August 2, 1794; mentioned below.
8. Harriet, born May 7, 1797 ; married Moses
Standish. 9. William, born January 7, 1801 ;
married first, July 31, 1825, Mary Ann How
ard; .second, October 2, 1851, Clarissa Sea
man. VII) Oren Faxon, son of Elisha Faxon
(6), was born in Hahfax, Massachusetts,
August 2, 1794, and died March 14, 1873. He
married June 29, 1817, Theodora Billings
Mann, born August 12, 1795, daughter of
Nathaniel and Abigail (Billings) Mann, of
Scituate. Her mother was daughter of Ed
mund Billings of Braintree (See Billings)
and Theodora (Dyer) Billings. Theodora
Dyer was daughter of Joseph and Jerusha
(GuUiver) Dyer. Jerusha Gulliver was a
daughter of Jonathan and Theodora (Thatch
er) Gulliver, and who was a granddaughter of
Rev. Peter Thatcher. Rev. Peter Thatcher
was born at Salem, July 18, 1651, and was the
first minister at Milton. He niarried first,
Theodora Oxenbridge, daughter of Rev. John
Oxenbridge He married second, Frances,
only daughter of Hezekiah Woodward, vicar
of Bray, England. Rev. Thomas Thacher, of
Westham, county Sussex, England, father of
Rev. Peter, married first, Elizabeth, daughter
of Rev. Ralph Partridge, of Duxbury, Massa
chusetts. He married second, Margaret, daugh
ter of Henry Webb, and widow of Jacob
Sheafe. Pie was the first pastor of Old South
Church, Boston, installed February 16, 1670.
Rev. Thoraas Thacher was born May i, 1620,
son of Rev. Peter and Anne Thacher, was
descended frora John Thacher, sheriff of Eng
land. Children of Oren and Theodora Faxon; i.
Oren Jerorae, born October 15, 1818; mar
ried December 27, 1849, Alary Ann Matilda
Goodrich. 2. Abigail 13illiiigs, born April 24,
1820, at North Bridgewater, now Brockton;
married Alay 2, 1844, Edmund Billings
Taylor (See Taylor family). 3. William
Thomas, born March i, 1823; died Sep
tember 27, 1848. 4. Edward, born October
12, 1824, (twin) ; married first, June 9.
1850, Eliza Pope; second, June 22, 1870, Lu
cretia Porter. 5. Edwin, bom October 12,
1824, (twin) ; married Alarch 18, 1852, Han
nah L. Gaffield. 6. Maria Davenport, born
October 19, 1826; married January 13, 1848,
Edwin Wood, of Quincy, died May 9, 1851.
7. Harriet Minerva, born June 30, 1828. 8.
Theodore Gushing, born March 16, 1831 ;
married October 11, 1853, Margaretta A.

Little. 9. AHce, born January 11, 1835; mar
ried September 10, 1863, Charies E. Tileston.
10. Son, born and died March 10, 1836. 11.
Charles Gushing, born July 25, 1839; died
August 8, 1839.

"Thacher is a name of high
THACHER antiquity in the Isle of
Thanet, and this county,
Kent" (Ireland's "Plistory of Kent"). John
Thacher, married Alargarette, daughter of Sir
Goddard Oxenbridge, was son of John
Thacher, who was sheriff of the counties of
Surrey and Sussex, in the 36th year of Henry
VIII, son of Thoraas Thacher of Westham,
county Sussex, probably ancestors of Rev.
Peter Thacher, of Old Sarum, born 1588, died
1640. Rev. Thomas Thacher, his son, by
wife Anne (supposed AUwood), born May i,
1620, came to New England with his uncle
Anthony Thacher, in 1635 ; raarried first,
Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge,
of Duxbury, (May 11, 1641); married sec
ond, Margarette, daughter of Henry Webb,
and widow of Jacob Sheafe; installed first
pastor of Old South Church, Boston, Mas
sachusetts, February 16, 1670. His son. Rev.
Peter Thacher, by Elizabeth, was born at
.Salera, July 18, 1651, and became the first
settled rainister of Millton, Alassachusetts.
His wife was Theodora, daughter of Rev.
John Oxenbridge, by his second wife, Frances,
only daughter of Hezekiah Woodward, Vicar
of Bray. Rev. John's first wife was Jane
Butler, and his third was widow Susanna Ab
bott, who survived hira. Bathshua Oxen
bridge was doubtless daughter by his fir.st
wife. The children of Rev. Peter Thacher
and Theodora were ; " Theodora, Bathsheba,
Oxenbridge, (born 1680, died 1772), Eliza
beth, Mary, Rev. Peter of Middleboro, John,
Thomas, John 2d, Rev. Peter of Milton, raar
ried second, Susanna, widow of Rev. John
Bailey, and third, Elizabeth, widow of Rev.
Jonathan Gee. He died Deceraber 27, 1727.
Rev. John Oxenbridge, born January 30,
1609, son of Daniel Oxenbridge, Al. D., and
grandson of Rev. John Oxenbridge (and wife
Mary), "the preacher," a supposed descend
ant of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge. Sir John
Greshara married a Thacher. Rev. John Ox-
enbridge's descent from Edward III, is as
follows ; Son of Daniel Oxenbridge and
Katherine Harby, daughter of Thomas Harby
(son of William, son of Thomas) and Kath
erine Throckmorton, daughter of Cleraent
Throckmorton, (descended from John de

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Throckmorton, A. D., 1130), who was son
of Sir George Throckmorton and Katherine,
daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux, descendant
of Lord Harold de Vaux, A. D. 1066. Clem
ent Throckmorton's wife was Katherine Ne
ville, daughter of Sir Edward Neville, son of
Sir George Neville, son of Sir Edward Ne
ville and Lady EHzabeth Beauchamp, daugh
ter of Richard Beauchamp, Lord Abergar-
enny, and Isabel Spencer, daughter of Thomas
de Spencer and Constance Plantaganet, daugh-
of Edmund, Duke of York, and Isabel
(daughter of Peter, King of Castile), and
son of Edward III, Plantaganet, King of
England, and Phillippa, daughter of William,
Earl of Hainault, and Jane de Valois, de
scended from the kings of France.
On a broad gravestone in King's Chapel
burying ground, are the names and dates of
death of Revs. John Oxenbridge, John Cot
ton and John Davenport, all of whose homes
were on the opposite side of Treraont street,
Boston, between Beacon street and Peraberton
square, covered largely by Houghton and
Dutton's store. It is probable that Rev.
Thoraas Thacher, first pastor of the Old
South Church, and his second wife Margar
ette, are interred in the same ground. An
old portrait of him hangs under the sound
ing-board in the Old South Church, and in
the Old State House collection of relics is a
watch which was presented to Rev. Peter
Thacher of Milton by the maker, in London,
England, over two hundred years ago.
"This knightly faraily (Oxenbridge) of-
Sussex is heire by descent to (this) Aland of
Winchelsea, and beareth his arms" (Leland).
They first resided in the parish of Iden and
took their name from that estate. They rose
into importance in the early part of the four
teenth century."

(I) Roger Billings, immi-
BILLINGS grant ancestor, was born in
England, in 1618, and died
at Dorchester, Massachusetts, November 15,
1683 (gravestone), aged sixty-five years. He
settled early in Dorchester, and was a pro
prietor of the town and in 1640 a meraber of
the church. He was admitted a freeraan May
10, 1648. He was a carpenter as well as a
farmer. The widow Ann GiU caUs him
"brother" in a paper dated July, 1683. He
raarried first, Mary  , and second, Han
nah  , who died May 25, 1662. His
will is dated November 15, 1683, and Novem
ber 13, 1683, proved Deceraber 13, 1683, be

queathing to his wife; to Joseph, son of his
deceased son Joseph; to son-in-law James
Penniman ; daughter Alary who married Sam
uel Belcher; Nathaniel Wale's daughter Eliz
abeth ; John Penniman, Nathaniel AVale's wife
and Deacon Tomson's wife; daughter Mary
Meis; sons Ebenezer and Roger BiUings;
cousin Alexander Marsh and various grand
children. Child of first wife: i. Mary, born
August 10, 1643; died December 4, 1643.
Children of second wife: 2. Mary, married
 Meis. 3. Hannah. 4. Ebenezer. 5.
Roger, born November 18, 1657. 6. EHza
beth, born October 27, 1659. 7- Zipporah,
born Alay 21, 1662 ; died October 8, 1676. 8.
Jonathan, died January 14, 1677.
(II) Roger BiUings, son of Roger Billings
( I ) , was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
November 18, 1657. He married Sarah,
daughter of Stephen and Hannah Paine of
Braintree, January 22, 1678. Children, born
in Dorchester; i. Hannah, born January
21, 1679. 2. Joseph, born May 27, 1681.
3. John, born March 10, 1683; men
tioned below. 4. Roger, born January 9,
1684. 5. WiUiam, born July 27, 1686. 6.
Sarah, February 27, 1688. 7. Stephen, Au
gust 27, 1691. 8. Moses, November 20,
1696. 9. Ann, August 4, 1698. 10. AbigaU,
February 15, 1700. 11. Elizabeth, June il,
1702. 12. Isaac, July 9, 1703.
(Ill) Major John Billings, son of Roger
BiUings (2), was born in Dorchester, March
10, 1683. He was captain before 1731, and
raajor, according to the town records, in
1733. He married Mary  . Children,
born at Dorchester: i. Abigail, born Feb
ruary I, 1727-8. 2. John, born August 22,
1729. 3. Edmund, born May 30, 1731 ; men
tioned below. 4. Samuel, born August 26,
1733- (IV) Edmund BiUings, son of Major John
Billings (3), was born in Dorchester May 30,
1 73 1. He married Theodora Dyer; (see
Faxon ). He settled in the adjacent town of
Braintree, Massachusetts. Children, born in
Braintree: i. Joseph Dyer, born Alarch 23,
1759. 2. Edmund, born July 30, 1761, died
young. 3. Theodora, born February i, 1763.
4. Jerusha, born May 17, 1765. 5. Abigail,
born February 15, 1767; married June 5,
1786, Nathan Mann. 6. Edmund, bom July
I, 1769, raentioned below. 7. Jonathan Gul
liver, born October 24, 1775. 8. Eunice, born
November 30, 1777.
(V) Colonel Edmund BiUings, son of Ed
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July I, 1769. He was a prominent citizen of
Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts. He
did not marry and died on tlfe homestead in
Quincy.

This surname is one of
HARRINGTON our old English pat
ronymics, and was
known in England several hundred years be
fore Robert Harrington crossed the Atlan
tic ocean and sat down in the plantation at
Watertown in the colony of Alassachusetts
Bay. From there his descendants have
spread out, increased and multiplied until now
they are a numerous family in almost every
state in the federal union. And there are de
scendants of this same immigrant ancestor
known by other names, for in the early par
ish and town records there are frequently
found the Harrington, Herington, Arrington
and Errington surnames, which are merely
different forras of spelling Harrington and
are due to the fact that our Puritan fore
fathers who kept the parish and town records
were not schooled in the art of spelling and
set down family naraes phonetically rather
than according to correct orthography.
(I) Robert Harrington, immigrant ances
tor of the family here considered, was born
in England, about 1616; sailed for New Eng
land in the ship "Ehzabeth" in 1634, and first
appears in the plantation at Watertown as one
of the proprietors in 1642 and 1644. He
took the oath of fidelity in 1652, was admitted
freeman in 1663, and was a miU owner, hav
ing lands given him by Deacon Thomas Hast
ings, with whom he came over and who by
reason of the interest he showed in the wel
fare of the young raan is believed to have
been a relative. Robert Harrington appears
to have been a person of considerable ira
portance in the town, was selectman fifteen
years and evidently a raan of substance as
well as influence. He died May 11, 1707,
aged ninety-one years. On October i, 1647
or 1648, he married Susanna, daughter of
John George, who died June i, 1647, and
Anna Goldstone, born 1632, died July 6,
1694. Their children: i. Susanna, born
August 18, 1649, married February 9, 1671,
John Cutting. 2. John, born August 24, 1651,
married November 17, 1681, Hannah Winter
and he died August 24, 1741. 3. Robert, born
August 31, 1653, died young. 4. George, born
November 24, 1655, killed by Indians at Lan
caster, 1675-76, during King Philip's war. 5.
Daniel, born November i, 1657, died April

19, 1728. 6. Joseph, born Deceraber 28, 1659,
admitted freeman April 18, 1690. 7. Benja
min, born January 26, 1661-62, died 1724,
8. Mary, born January 23, 1663-64, married-
John Bemis. 9. Thomas, born April 20, 1665,
10. Samuel, born Deceraber 18, 1666. i I.
Edward, born March 2, 1669. 12. Sarah,
born March 10, 1670-71, died Noveraber 28,
1710; married Joseph Winship Jr. 13. David,
born June i, 1673, died March 11, 1675.
(II) Edward Harrington, eleventh child of
Robert Harrington, was born in Watertown,
March 2, 1669, and was a farmer. He mar
ried first, March 30, 1692, Mary Occington,
and second, Alay 24, 1727, Anna Bullard,
widow of Jonathan Bullard, of Weston. His
children: i. Mary, born January 2, 1692-
93, raarried first, December 7, 1710, Daniel
Rogers, died Noveraber 5, 171 1, married sec
ond, January 3, 1716-17, Joseph Grant. 2.
William, born November 11, 1694, died Feb
ruary 27, 1751-52. 3. MindweU, born June
19, 1697, died October 14, 1700. 4. Joanna,
born August 16, 1699, married. May 25, 1720,
John Tainter. 5. Edward, born June 17,
1702, died Deceraber 6, 1792. 6. Samuel,
born August 3, 1704. 7. Nathaniel, born June
25, 1706. 8. Francis, born June 11, 1709. 9.
Susanna, born September 9, 171 1, married,
November 25, 1731, Samuel Barnard.
(Ill) Nathaniel Harrington— "Master"
Harrington — son and seventh child of Ed
ward and Mary (Occington) Harrington, was
born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 25,
1706, graduated from Harvard College in
1728 and was a noted teacher in his day and
generation. He niarried, first, August 4,
1747, Mary Keraball, died July 15, 1760,
daughter of Henry Clarke, descendant of
Uriah Clarke, who raarried Martha Pearce;
he was made freeraan in 1685 and he- raar
ried second, March 29, 1762, Rebecca Clarke.
Children, all of first raarriage : Mary, born
May 18, 1748, raarried October 6, 1773, John
Stirapson; Nathaniel, born August i, 1750,
graduated Harvard College in 1769, a phy
sician, died in Jaraaica ; Peter, born May 4,
1752, married February 9, 1775, Anna Ham
mond ; Catherine, born August 6, 1755 ;
Charles, born May 19, 1759.
(IV) Charles Harrington, youngest son and
child of Nathaniel and Mary (Kemball),
Harrington, was born May 19, 1759, and
died in 181 7. He removed from Watertown
to Salem, Alassachusetts, soon after the rev
olution. He was a tanner and currier by
trade and carried on that business with grat-

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ifying success during the early part of his
career. He also did a large and profitable
business as a packer of pork and opened a
large export trade in that line until the French
war, during which he suffered serious losses
in vessels and cargoes by French spoliations.
Mr. Harrington raarried Mary Bond, born
in Watertown, January 26, 1761, died July
24, 1827, daughter of Jonas Bond, farmer,
who lived on the old Bond horaestead place,
and who raarried in 1753, Ruth Harrington.
Ruth Harrington was daughter of Joseph
Harrington, born 1690, son of Daniel Har
rington, born 1657, and grandson of Robert
Harrington. Jonas Bond was a son of Jonas
Bond Esq., of Watertown, who married De
cember 4, 1718, Hannah, daughter of Na
thaniel, son of Henry Bright, born in Eng
land in 1609 and grandson of Thomas Bright,
of England, and Mary (Coolidge) Bright.
Jonas Bond last mentioned, born December
10, 1691, died in Septeraber, 1768, was ap
pointed justice of the peace by Governor
Shirley, and represented Watertown in the
general court frora 1738 to 1750, with the ex
ception of a single year. He was a son of
Colonel Jonas Bond, Esq. and Grace (Cool
idge) Bond, his first wife. Colonel Bond
held a justice's coraraission more than twenty-
four years and was frequently called "the
marrying squire" on account of the great
number of marriage ceremonies performed by
him during his term of office as justice of
the peace. He was a member of the military
expedition sent to Canada under Sir William
Phipps in 1690, and later was coraraissioned
lieutenant colonel of militia. Colonel Bond,
born^ 1664, died 1727, was a son of Captain
William Bond, the immigrant, born England
1625, died 1695, who settled in Watertown
before 1649-50, and whose first wife, the
mother of all of his children, was Sarah,
daughter of Nathaniel Biscoe, "the rich tan
ner" of Watertown. Charles and Mary
(Bond) Harington had children; i. Charles,
born January 29, 1782. 2. Artemus, Octo
ber 14, 1784. 3. Ruth, August 25, 1789. 4.
Jonas B., August 22, 1792. 5. Leonard Bond,
July 29, 1803.
(V) Leonard Bond Harrington, youngest
son and child of Charles and Mary (Bond)
Harrington, was born in Salem, Massachu
setts, July 29, 1803, and died in that city
March 6, 1889. His father having removed
to Salem after the close of the revolution, the
boy passed his school days in that city. At
the age of thirteen years he shipped for a

voyage to South Araerica, but an experience
with yellow fever and the horrors of a ship
wreck checked liis arabition for the life of a
raariner, and he went to Roxbury to learn the
trade of tanner and currier. He worked sev
eral years as a journeyraan, and in 1829 with
the raoney he had saved from his wages es
tablished hiraself in business in Salem and
quickly laid the foundation of what subse
quently became the largest and most success
ful leather manufactory in New England. He
devoted himself closely to business, and his
honor and industry were of the sterling old-
fashioned quality. He manufactured hea-vy
wax leather principally, and the hides never
were hurried in the process. During the civU
war his business interests became more
widely extended and increased immensely in
volume. For many years he kept a regular
patronage and he was one of the few manu
facturers who could afford to wait for and
get his own price. He acquired great wealth,
but his nature was thoroughly unselfish and
he was a man of broad and liberal generos
ity. He took a deep interest in Salem and his
opinion and advice were much sought. He
never aspired to public office, and in politi
cal preference originally was a Whig and
afterward a Republican. In religious faith he
was a Universalist and an influential member
of the church of that denomination in Salem.
During the later years of his life he attended
services at the First Unitarian church. He
always was a friend of the poor and ready
to give a struggling young man a friendly
lift. At the tirae of his death he was presi
dent of the^Bertram Home for Aged Men,
Salem, and a trustee of the Salem Public
Hospital, taking an active interest in both in
stitutions. He was a shrewd and able fi
nancier and for many years was president
of the Asiatic National Bank of Salem, vice-
president of the Salem Savings Bank and a
director of the Naumkeag National Bank.
He also was a director of the Mechanic HaU
Corporation, and for twenty or more years
was engineer of the Salem fire department in
the old days when brawn and muscle had
not been supplemented by steam and mechan
ical appliances. Mr. Harrington was a man
of most exemplary habits and of reraarkable
physical strength and energy. Until within
a very short time before his death he had
been regularly to his place of business in
Salera, and to the bank, and even in his
eighty-fifth year he continued his visits to
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ter about High and Congress streets. He was
one of the original founders of the "Salem
Senate," and informal association of Salem
leather manufacturers. On January 8, 1831,
Leonard Bond Harrington married Margaret
G. Hersey, of Roxbury, a superior woraan
and one who did much to encourage and as
sist her husband in his business plans and
operations. ChUdren: i. Henry, born Janu
ary 6, 1832, died June 18, 1898. 2. Mary,
wife of George Goodhue of Salem. 3. Leon
ard, born September 4, 1842. 4. Child who
-died in infancy.
(VI) Leonard Harrington, son of Leonard
Bond and Margaret G. (Hersey) Harrington,
was born in Salem, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 4, 1842, and died there March 4, 1888.
He was educated in the Salem schools and
from the time he raarried until his death he
always maintained a comfortable home in that
city. On September 15, 1862, at the age of
twenty-one years, he enlisted in Company A
of the Fiftieth Massachusetts Infantry, Salem
Light Infantry, for nine months, and served
¦one year under General Banks, and took part
in the siege of Port Hudson. In 1863, at the
end of one year in the service, Mr. Harring
ton was mustered out and returned to his
home in Salem. He had perforraed a sol-
¦dier's duty faithfully and fortunately escaped
without wound or serious illness while in
the array, but the hardships of soldier life in
the far south, in a region where climatic dis
eases were prevalent, affected his general
health in later years and proved a contribut
ing cause of his untimely death. His father
had urged him not to enlist and offered to
provide a substitute to take his place in the
ranks, but the young man felt it his duty to
go and share the fortunes of war with his
comrades of the Salem Light Infantry, many
of thera his corapanions of boyhood days.
When the raen of Company A took the train
for New York City, whence they were to sail
for the south, the elder Harrington went with
them and on Thanksgiving day, 1862, was
host of the entire corapany at a corapliraent
ary dinner, at which also a nuraber of mili
tary officers and a few invited guests were
present. But that was only one of the char
acteristic kindnesses for which the elder Har
rington was noted, and he always took much
pleasure in doing something that would con
tribute to the comfort" and enjoyment of
others. Leonard Harrington was like his
father in many respects, a capable, success
ful business man, and his life — all too abort at

best — was characterized by the same straight
forward honesty, good judgment and gener
ous spirit that marked his father's career and
gave him such prominence in trade circles
throughout the country; and Hke his father
the son was a raan of kind impulses, quiet
domestic habits, benevolent disposition, and
nowhere did his generous nature display to
better advantage than within the sacred
precincts of home, at the fireside, in his love
of faraily and unselfish devotion to their com
fort, and in his loyalty to friends, and in his
loose pursestrings for the relief of distressed
persons and the appeals of deserving charities.
Mr. Harrington was a comrade of Phil Sheri
dan Post, No. 34, Grand Army Republic, and
a member of the Colonial Qub. He fre
quently attended post meetings, occasionally
was seen at club, but he always felt that when
released from the cares of business his most
enjoyable place was home, with wife and
daughter, to both of whom he was entirely de
voted, and they to him in equal, generous
raeasure. In business life Mr. Harrington
was a raanufacturer and jobber of leather,
for raany years in partnership with John
Cummings, under the firra style of Jno. Curara-
ings & Co., with tannery and factory at Wo
burn and principal sales offices in Boston.
The destruction by fire of the firra's exten
sive plant at Woburn resulted in heavy finan
cial losses and removal to Boston in 1873, but
did not affect the stability of the concern in
business circles.
On December 4, 1871, Leonard Harrington
raarried Ellen Langmaid, a woman of ad
rairable qualities of raind and heart and whose
greatest pleasure is found in contributing to
the happiness of those about here. She was
born in Salera, daughter of John Pousland
and Rebecca Morrison (Taylor) Langraaid,
granddaughter of Thomas and Grace (Pous
land), Langmaid, and a descendant on both
sides of good old New England stock (see
Langmaid faraily). Mr. and Mrs. Harrington
had one daughter, Mable Curamings Harring
ton (now Mrs. Mabel Cox), born in Salem,
January 12, 1874.
(VI) Henry Harrington, son of Leonard
Bond and Harriet G. (Hersey) Harrington,
was born in Salem, January 6, 1832, and died
there June 18, 1898. He was given a good
education in the public schools, and after
leaving school apprenticed himself to the trade
of watchsmith and jeweler with Daniel Smith,
a famous old watchmaker and clockmaker of
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instead of continuing the business which he
had set out to learn, he readily agreed to his
father's request that he becorae associated in
the extensive leather business of which the
latter was the founder and principal head, and
raake that his vocation in Hfe. From that
tirae Mr. Harington was actively indentified
with the leather business in Salem and Bos
ton until the death of his father, in 1889, and
a little later on he retired from active pur
suits. He was a good business man and
gained an extended and favorable acquaint
ance in trade circles throughout the leather
raarkets of the east. He was a Repubhcan
and for two years a member of the city coun
cil of Salem, but he had no particular love
for politics and by far preferred the quiet
pleasures of home to any honors which pub
lic office might bring or to the social life of
the club. Both he and his wife were earnest
members of the First Unitarian church of
Salem and took a deep interest in the institu
tions of the society and its work. On Feb
ruary 7, 1877, Henry Harrington married
Lydia Frye Nichols, daughter of Daniel Frye
and Lydia Foster (Cheever) Nichols, of
Salem (see Nichols family). No children
were born of this marriage.
(V) Jonas Bond Harrington, son of Charles
and Mary (Bond) Harrington, was born in
Watertown, Massachusetts, August 22, 1792,
and died in Salem. According to the recol
lection of his son, he received his early edu
cation in the public schools in Watertown and
South Danvers and was a young man when
he removed to Salem, then the chief center
of comraercial activity in New England. Un
like sorae of his brothers he chose farraing as
his vocation and was hardly less successful
in accoraplished results, for he was an enter
prising, thrifty farmer and therefore gained
a competency. He became a man of influence
as well as of means, and while he never was
ambitious of political honors he was always
a firra advocate of the principles of the old
Whig party. The several raerabers of his
family were regular attendants at the services
and nearly all of them were members of the
South Congregational Church of Salem. Mr.
Harrington married Margaret Bishop, of
Salem, born February 6, 1792, died July 6,
J856. Children; i. Charles, born Septem
ber 28, 1815, died August 15, 1895. 2. Mar
garet, September 7, 181 7, died July 6, 1904.
3. William, August 9, 1819, died April 6,
1900. 4. Augustus, May i, 1822, died August
7, 1906. 5. George, December 29, 1823, died

January 3, 1897. 6, Ehza W., September 13,
1825, died August 19, 1841. 7. Samuel B.,
April 4, 1827, died November 11, i860. 8,
Richard D., February 13, 1829. 9. Francis,
September 20, 1832, died September 4, 1903.
10. Mary B., October i, 1836, died AprU 19,
1908. II. Jonas W., May 10, 1839, died Sep
teraber II, 1840.
(VI) Richard Downing Harrington, son of
Jonas Bond and Margaret (Bishop) Harring
ton, was born February 13, 1829, and as a
boy attended schools in South Danvers, as
then known, but which now is Peabody. In
1845, then being sixteen years old, he went
into a machine shop to learn the trade, -with
the view of making that his occupation in Hfe,
but in the course of a few years his attention
was turned into other channels and he took
to the sea ; but the years he spent at the bench
in the machine shop when only a boy served
a useful purpose and his knowledge of me
chanical work proved of much value to him
in later years. In 1849 Mr. Harrington's
father bought for him an interest in a deep
sea vessel for the merchant service and in
her he sailed a voyage to the Pacific coast
which took one hundred and eighty-five days
between Salera and San Francisco, by way of
Cape Horn. He stayed in California dur
ing the next three years, engaged in mining,
working as a clerk and for a time serving as
a raember of a vigilance committee, the latter
being perhaps the most strenuous duty he
was called upon to perform whUe on the
coast. But this act of generosity on the part
of his father Mr. Harrington never has for
gotten, and it always has seemed to him that
his father must have had it in mind that the
experiences his boy would receive in the part
ownership of a merchant ship and sailing her
for a six months' voyage to California at a
time when the "gold fever" was at its zenith,
would fumish him an education which never
could be gained in any school of whatever
grade or character; and so it proved, and
even to this day Mr. Harrington is conscious
of the fact that his life in California was the
most useful object lesson in practical exper
ience that he could have received, and that
he owes a debt of gratitude to the kind par
ent which should endure to his children and
grandchildren for generations to come. Mr.
Harrington retumed to Salem in 1852 and
soon afterward became partner with his
brother in the firm of Charles -Harrington &
Corapany, manufacturers of leather, doing
business on an extensive scale, with tanner-

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ies in Peabody and Salem and a large whole
sale house in South street, Boston. The firm
became in time one of the most widely known
concerns in the country and its business was
very heavy as well as highly successful; for
it is a fact that the name Harrington in con
nection with the manufacture and sale of
leather — and several of that name were so
engaged for more than half a century — al
ways stood as an equivalent for integrity and
character, and was so recognized in all busi
ness and trade circles throughout the country.
Mr. Harrington retired from the leather busi
ness in 1892, and since that tirae has devoted
his attention to the manageraent of his real
estate and other invested interests. He is
among the heaviest taxpayers of Salem, hence
naturally has always taken an earnest interest
in whatever best proraotes the growth of the
city and the welfare of its institutions in every
direction. In his earlier years he was a mem
ber of the Salem Cadets, that famous old mil
itary organization. He is a trustee of the Cor
poration of Harmony Grove cemetery, a mem
ber of Fraternity Lodge, No. 118, Independent
Order Odd Fellows, a Republican in politics,
and Unitarian in religious preference. His
leisure hours are devoted to reading, his tastes
inclining to historical subjects, and in his com
fortable home in Munroe street, Salem, may
be seen a valuable collection of relics and fam
ily treasures, each possessing its own inter
esting history and association.
In 1854 Mr. Harrington raarried Ellen,
daughter of Nathan and Ursula K. (Chap
man) MiUett, of Salera. Children: i. Ella
H., married Walter C. Harris, of Salem, and
has four children, Eleanor C, married Thomas
Sanders, of Peabody; Richard H., Sophia O.
and Mary B. Harris. 2. Caroline B.^ now
dead. 3. Mary, wife of J. T. Eustis.

In the Gaelic and Welsh, Iver or
IVES Ives means a "chief" or a "leader,"
and in the Danish Ives raeans
"zeal," "fervor." The surname Ives also
comes from the ancient town of St. Ives in
the county of Huntingdon, England. Ivar or
Iver, familiar to Scotchmen as Mac Iver,
came to the Normans from the northern lands
whence they were sprung, and with them into
England. Lyson in his "Environs of Lon
don" gives the families of Eve and Ive great
antiquity in the parish of Pancras, and men
tions that A. D. 1252 Henry III granted leave
to Thomas Ives to "enclose a portion of the
highway adjoining to his mansion at Kentef-

fetonne" He also says that in the church is
the tomb of Robert Eve and Laurentia, his
sister, daughter of Francis, son of Thomas
Eve, clerk of the crown.
In the "Index of Tenants" in the time of
William the Conqueror who held their lands
immediately from the crown, ordinarily
styled "tenents in capite" is found the name
of "Iveri, Rogerus de." "This Roger," says
the authority before quoted from, "was the
son of AA^alerande Ivery, who held one
knight's fee in the bailiwick of Tenechelbrai in
Normandy, by the service of cupbearer to the
duke, and three other fees within the said
hberty, as also eight fees and a half of the
town and castle of Ivery. He enjoyed the
sam.e honor of cupbearer to William, king of
England, which his father had done to him
while duke of Normandy."
The faraily of Rogerus de Ivery descended
frora one Rudulph, half brother of Richard
the first duke of Normandy, who killed a
raonstrous bear when hunting with his brother
the duke, and was by him rewarded for that
service with the castle of Ivery, on the river
I'Evre, and from thence comes the title of
de Ivreio. (Parochial Antiquities). x-Says
Bradsley's "English Surnaraes," "Ivo de Us-
gate was baiUff of York, 1271 ; now we have
the simple Ive or Ives, and the more pat
ronymic Iverson, Iveson, Ivison and Ison."
"John Ives, of Saham Tonye, was seized
of a manor called Woohhows manor, with its
appurtenances in Ovington, Saham Tonye,
Braddenhani, Carbrooke, Tottingham, Trax-
ton and Stanfforde in the county of Norfolk,
and after his death the premises descended
to Thoraas Ives as son and next heir. The
said John died October 23, loth EHzabeth
(1568), at Saham," and the said Thomas Ives
was nineteen years and nine months old and
no more." (Gleanings frora English Records
about New England Families, AVaters).
"Thomas Ives, yeoman, has livery," etc. ;
"Thomas Ives, yeoman, Ickford, Bucks, 30
October, 1653, proved 21 February, 1653 ;
wife Joane, sons Thomas, John, Robert,
daughter Joane Coales, niece Joane Lee, dau.
of Lettice Lee; John, Thoraas, W^illiam,
Zachary and Anne Ives, Richard and Thomas
Coles, my seven g  — ch'n ; Richard
and Thomas Coles, overseers." (Ibid).
(I) It is from out of these English fam
iHes of the surname Ives that doubtless came
the immigrant ancestor of the particular
branch of the Ives family proposed to be
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was in Salera, Massachusetts, for in that year
he was in court there, and gave his age as
twenty years ; hence he was born in 1648,
somewhere in England, and he died at Salem
in 1695, as letters of administration were
granted August 5, 1696, to his widow Eliza
beth, who was his second wife. He married
(first), AprU i, 1671, Martha Withe, and
(second), about 1679, Elizabeth Metcalf, born
Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1645, daugh
ter of Thomas and Abigail Metcalf, and
granddaughter of Captain Joseph Metcalf,
born in England, 1605, died in Ipswich, 1665,
and his wife Elizabeth, whom he married in
England. By his wife Martha Withe Thomas
Ives had three children and by his wife Eliza
beth Metcalf four children; i. Elizabeth, born
Salera, February 12, 1672, died July 21, 1673.
2. Thomas, born Salem, March 31, 1674, set
tled in Marblehead, Massachusetts. 3. De
borah, born Salem, December 8, 1675. 4. Jo
seph, baptized Alarch, 1683. 5. John, baptized
Alarch, 1683. 6. A daughter (Elizabeth) bap
tized Deceraber 4, 1687; married John Phil
pot, his second wife. 7. Benjarain, born about
1692, see forward.
(II) Captain Benjamin Ives, youngest
child of Thoraas Ives, was born in Salera
about 1692 and died in 1752. He was bap
tized in the First Church of Salera, August 9,
1702, and in his business life was a master
mariner and afterward a tanner. He was a
man of considerable consequence in the town,
the owner of a tract of land in the vicinity of
Very's plain, and appears to have accurau
lated a large property for his time, his estate
having inventoried at more than twenty-three
hundred pounds. On January 2, 1717-18
Captain Ives married Anne Derby, born De
cember ID, 1695, daughter of Roger Derby
and his second wife, Elizabeth (Haskett)
Derby. Roger Derby was born in Topsfield,
Devonshire, England, in 1643, and immi
grated to New England in 1671, arriving at
Boston on July 17, with his first wife, Lu
cretia Plilman (or Kilman). They afterward
removed to Ipswich, where in January,
1672-73, he bought two acres of land and a
dwelling house. In the deed of conveyance
from Philip Fowler he is mentioned as "Roger
Darby sope boyler." Captain Benjamin and
Anne (Derby) Ives had nine children; i.
Anne, born Alarch 20, 1719. 2. Benjamin,
born November 2, 1720, died December 26,
1767; married October 12, 1743, EHzabeth
Plale, daughter of Colonel Robert and Eliza
beth (Gilraan) Hale, of Beverly, Mass. 3.

Sarauel, born December 22, 1722, died about
1750; raarried July 4, 1745, Alary Berry. 4.
Elizabeth, born July 5, 172-, married Richard
Lee, his second wife, and after his death mar
ried Josiah Gilman, of Exeter, New Harap
shire. 5. Alary, born about 1728, died June
4, 1794; married, July 12, 1750, John Crown-
inshield, son of Clifford and Martha (Hillard)
Crowinshield, and grandson of Dr. John Kas
per Richter von Kronenshelt and Elizabeth
Allen his wife. 6. Abigail, mentioned in her
father's will, June 19, 1752. 7. John, born
about 1732, see forward. 8. Martha, married,
November 23, 1760, Daniel Cheever. 9. Ma,r-
garet, married Peter Cheever.
(Ill) John Ives, youngest son of Captain
and Anne (Derby) Ives, born in Salem, Mas
sachusetts, about 1732, died October 1801.
He married, Alarch 13, 1755, Sarah Ward,
born in Salera, Alarch i, 1734, died there Oc
tober 18, 1801. She was a daughter of Miles
and Elizabeth (AVebb) Ward, and grand
daughter of Joshua and Hannah (Flint)
Ward. Deacon Miles Ward was born in the
county of Kent, England, in the town of
Hurne, and probably came to America with
his father. John and Sarah (Ward) Ives had
three children; i. WiUiam, born in Salem,
Mass., November 25, 1756, see forward. 2.
Sarah, baptized in the Tabernacle Church,
Salem, October 2, 1757; married, about 1779,
William Brewer, mariner, born in 1750 and
died at sea in 1795. 3. John, baptized in the
Tabernacle Church, Salera, July 22, 1759;
married. May 19, 1781, Elizabeth NewhaU,
who survived him and married for her second
husband, August 11, 1785, Jeremiah Emmer
ton. (IV) Captain WilHam Ives, eldest son
and child of John and Sarah (Ward) Ives,
bom m Salera, Massachusetts, Noveraber 25,
1756, (town records) ; November 25, 1761,
(family Bible), but according to the parish
records was baptized in the Tabernacle
Church, Salem, Alay 2, 1756. He was a sea
faring man, became a member of the Salera
Marine Society, October 31, 1795, and died
at Savannah, Georgia, April, 1814. He raar
ried, Septeraber 12, 1790, Polly Bradshaw,
born Septeraber 14, 1768, died in Salem, De
cember 3, 1820, daughter of Stephen and
Polly (Mansfield) Bradshaw. Captain Wil
liara and Polly (Bradshaw) Ives had five
children, all born in Salera, Alassachusetts ;
I. AVilliam, bom February 15, 1794, died
there Deceraber 12, 1874; niarried, Alay 12,
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July 8, 1798 (perhaps 1799), died July 29,
1883 ; married, September 23, 1827, Lois Alley
Southwick. 3. Stephen Bradshaw, bom April
12, 1801, see forward. 4. Mary Mansfield,
born May 14, 1803, died January 21, 1887.
5. Benjamin Hale, born November 7, 1806,
(town records), 1805 (family Bible); died
Salem, January 26, 1837; married, October
29, 1833, Lydia Ann Harraden.
(V) Stephen Bradshaw Ives, third child
and third son of Captain William and Polly
(Bradshaw) Ives, born in Salem, Alassachu
setts, April 12, 1801, died in that city, July 31,
1883. He served an apprenticeship of seven
yeais to the trade of printer and bookbinder,
and on attaining his majority began business
on his own account. In January, 1823, he
formed a partnership with his elder brother,
William, and established the Salem Ob
server" and also "The Old Corner Book-
.store," both of which proved very successful
-> entures, and the latter of which survived for
more than three score years. Having dis
posed of his interests in Salem, he afterward
establis'ned a business in Boston for the im
portation and sale of fancy goods, and when
he finally retired from active pursuits this lat
ter business was turned over to his sons.
During the course of his business career he
was identified with various interests and in
stitutions of Salem, where he always made
his home Pie was a director in several cor
porations, took an active part in municipal
affairs, and frequently was connected with the
city government. In 1858 he was president
of the common council and at one time was
a member of the lower house of the state leg
islature. Air. Ives was married twice. His first wife,
whom he married May 16, 1826, was Alary
Perkins, who was bom in Salem, April i,
1825, and died there July 4, 1873. She was a
daughter of David and Harriet (Fabens)
Perkins, and a descendant of the seventh gen
eration of John Perkins, of Ipswich, Massa
chusetts, the immigrant ancestor of that
branch of the Perkins family of New Eng
land. For his second wife Mr. Ives married,
May 31, 1876, Harriet Perkins, a sister of his
first wife She was born in Salera, Novem
ber 26, 1808, and died in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, December 23, 1886. By his first
wife Mr. Ives had ten children ; i. Stephen
Bradshaw, Jr., born March 9, 1827, died Feb
ruary 8, 1884; married (first), in January,
1848, Alary Eliza Burnham; married (sec
ond) widow Constance (Telford) Farmdale,

of England. 2. David Perkins, born July 13,
1828, married, December 21, 1854, Sarah
Shreve Calef, daughter of John and Eliza
beth (Shreve) Calef. 3. Henry Perkins,
bom April 15, 1830, married, October 2,
1856, Adeline Simes Jones. 4. Edward Lang,
born October 13, 1832, died September 8,
1834. 5. Mary Elizabeth, born April 9, 1835.
6. Alargaret Perkins, born August 26, 1836,
married, in 1863, Charles SewaU, son of Levi
and Mary Ann Sewall ; children ; Grace Sew
aU, (twin), born September i, 1866; Alice
SewaU (twin), bom September i, 1866, died
the same year; Edward Lang Sewall, born
July 29, 1867, died July 22, 1876; Elizabeth
Sewall, born September 5, 1868, died Decem
ber 4, 1876; Stephen Ives Sewall, born No
vember II, 1876, died November 29, 1876;
Charles Sewall, Jr., born July 11, 1877. 7.
George Augustus, born September 13, 1839,
married, October 10, 1866, Clara Thorndike
Rand, of Beverly, Alassachusetts. 8. Caro
line Louisa, born Septeraber 10, 1842, died
August 7, 1844. 9. Cornelia Allen, born July
.27, 1844; married, June 29, 1871, Frederick
Alanton Osborne, and had two children :
Frederick Brace Osborne, born August 18,
1872 ; Ethel Bradshaw Osborne, born Alay
15, 1876. 10. CaroHne Louisa, born October
27, 1847; married, October 11, 1871, Frank
Augu.stus Langmaid, born in Salem, Novem
ber 5, 1847, and had six children (see Lang
raaid family).

(For first generation see Thomas Nichols i).
(II) Thomas Nichols, son of
NICHOLS Thoraas Nichols (i), was born
in Araesbury, October 16,
1670. He married first Jane Jameson, second
(published April 30, 1721) Judith Hoage He
had eight children by his first and two by his
second wife, all born in Araesbury: i. Anna,
Alay I, 1694 (or 1695) ; married, 1718, Sara
uel Colby. 2. Jonathan, Deceraber 13, 1697;
married (probably) January 16, 1718-19,
Alary Challis. 3. Mary, October 11, 1701 ;
married April 10, 1718, Ralph Blaisdell, Jr.
4. Esther, September 11, 1703; married Jan
uary 24, 1723-4, Ichabod Colby. 5. Thomas,
June 20, 1706. 6. David, October 26, 1709.
7. Rachel, March 10, 1712. 8. Stephen, No
vember 15, 1717. 9. Ebenezer (by second
wife) Alarch 28, 1722. 10. Benjarain, Oc
tober 8, 1723.
(Ill) David Nichols, son of Thomas and
Jane (Jameson) Nichols, was born in Ames
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in 1756. He married in 1730, Hannah Gas-
kill. The Gaskills were a notable faraily in
early colonial history, whose iraraigrant ances
tor was Edward Gaskill, the Salem ship car
penter and owner of a right of twenty acres
of land in that town in 1636. He had a wife
Sarah, and children ; Samuel, Daniel, Sarah
and Hannah, born between 1639 and 1648.
Sarauel Gaskill, son of Edward and Sarah,
was born in Salem in 1639, and was a Friend
(Quaker), perhaps one of the leaders of that
sect in the town, for he was instrumental
in the building of the first raeeting house for
the Friends in Salera, and for the "sin" of
being a Quaker he and his wife were pun
ished by Salem raagistrates, the charge
against thera being that they "did attend
Quaker raeetings." He also helped in erecting
the second raeeting house of his people in
Salera, in 1718. His wife was Provided
(Providence) Southwicke, whom he married
30 10 nio. 1662. Their children were Sarauel,
Hannah, Edward and Provided. Samuel
Gaskill, son of Samuel and Provided, was
born in Salem, 23 11 mo. 1663, and died
after Septeraber i, 1725. He owned four
rights of comraon land in the two lower par
ishes of Salera. He raarried Bethiah, daugh
ter of Thomas Jr. and Hannah Gardner ; chil
dren ; .Samuel, Nathan, Jonathan, Hannah
(married David Nichols), Content, Sarah, and
four others, names not raentioned. Children
of David and Hannah (Gaskill) Nichols;
David, Sarauel, Jonathan, Ichabod, Thoraas,
Nathan, ,Sarah.
(IV) Thoraas Nichols, son of David and
Hannah (Gaskill) Nichols, was bom prob
ably in Salera. He raarried Hannah Pope;
children; Stephen, blacksraith, born 1770,
died November 14, 1846; Ichabod, born 1772,
died March i, 1847; David, Hannah, Jona
than, Abigail and one other.
(V) Jonathan Nichols, son of Thomas and
Hannah (Pope) Nichols, was born in Som
ersworth, New Hampshire, 1781, and died in
Salem, September 25, 1848, aged sixty-seven
years. He raarried first, Lydia, daughter of
Daniel Frye ; second, EHzabeth Rodman.
(A^I) Daniel Frye Nichols, son of Jonathan
and Lydia (Frye) Nichols, was born in
Salem, and raarried there Lydia Foster
Cheever. Their children; Benjamin; George,
bom 1829; Daniel A., May 22, 1831, lives in
Salem ; Lydia Frye, married Henry Harring
ton (see Harrington faraUy) ; Jonathan, born
1842, died Noveraber 15, 1848; Henry Clay,
lives in Salem.

There is a tradition which
LANGMAID runs to the effect that
sometime during the first
half of the seventeenth century three Lang
maid brothers came to New England from
the mother country. Another tradition in the
faraily is that the Langmaids are of ancient
Scotch origin and the New England branches
are descendants of Scotch ancestors. Such
traditions, however, are not always well
grounded and while genealogists neither con
firm nor deny the tradition concerning the
"proverbial" three immigrant brothers, it ap
pears to be reasonably well settled that the
Langmaid faraily of the line here under con
sideration is of English ancestry. The sur
name Langmaid is classed with our English
patronymics which are derived from locahties,
and originally comprised the two words, lang
and mede, the former an equivalent for long
and the latter for meadow, from which an
tiquarians reason that the name was first ap
plied to a person or faraily whose habitation
stood in proximity to a long meadow ; and
hence Langmaid is only one of the modified
forms of Longraede, or Longmeadow, the
latter having becorae virtually obsolete.
(I) Williara Langmaid is believed to have
been the immigrant ancestor of the family
here treated, and although the ships' lists of
passengers from English ports do not men
tion his name, nor the naraes of either of his
supposed iraraigrant brothers, there is reason
to believe that he carae to America through
the agency of the Mason proprietary, under
which settlement on the Piscataqua river in
New Hampshire was begun as early as 163 1,
and was continued at intervals by later arriv
als for many years. It is not probable, how
ever, that "William Langraaid was living in
New Hampshire previous to 1675, for ac
cording to the best information obtainable he
must have been born about 1650. The names
of his wife and all of his children are not
known, but among the latter are found the
names of John and Samuel.
(II) Samuel Langmaid, son of WiUiam
Langmaid, is given by one of the descendants
of William as next in line, but no definite in
formation concerning him is obtainable. The
period of his life is believed to have been in
the last quarter of the seventeenth and the
first half of the eighteenth century. In 1696
he is mentioned in the list of ancient naraes
in New Castle and Sandy Beach for all male
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•wards" to take the appointed oath of al
legiance. (HI) Samuel Langmaid, son of Samuel
Langmaid, was born probably about 17 10, and
is supposed to, have lived in the vicinity of
Rye, Hampton and Chichester, although in the
towns last mentioned there is no record of his
family so as can be ascertained.
(IV) John Langmaid, son of Samuel Lang
maid, was born about 1745-50, and spent the
later days of his life in Chichester, New
Hampshire, which for more than a century
and a half has been a principal seat of resi
dence for families of that surname. No less
than five Langmaids were among the New
Hampshire men enlisted for service during
the revolution, and the records furnish the
names of Harvey, Henry, John, Joseph and
Stephen, who were in the American array
during that contest. A John Langmaid was
in Colonel McClary's regiment that went to
Bennington to join General Stark's army in
1777, and was paid six pounds, thirteen shil
lings, nine pence for that service. He also
was a private in Captain Sanborn's company
^of Colonel Thomas Evans' regiment at Sara
toga, and is credited with service from Sep
tember 8, to November 30, 1777. The town
records of Chichester are very imperfect and
not all of the old families are mentioned in
such books as are found, but among the chil
dren of John Langmaid were Richard and
Polly, twins, born September 3, 1777 ; WU
liam, December 5, 1779; Mehitable, January
21, 1782; Sarauel, May 26, 1784; Thoraas,
Septeraber 29, 1785.
(V) Thomas Langmaid, son of John Lang
maid, born in Chichester, New Hampshire,
Septeraber 29, 1785, died in 1845, aged sixty-
¦one years, having spent his entire Hfe on a
farm in that town. He married, April 5,
1812, Grace Pousland, of Beverly, Massachu
setts, who survived him and afterward went
to live in Pembroke, New Hampshire, where
¦she died in 1873, aged seventy-seven years.
They had thirteen children, aU born in Chi
chester ; I. Lucinda, April 2, 1813, died 1842,
aged thirty years. 2. EHza Ann, August 17,
181 5, died in Pembroke, 1867. 3. John P.,
April 24, 1817; 4. Thomas D., October 24,
1819, died in Chichester, 1848. 5. Mary M.,
August 24, 1821, died in Salem. 6. Hannah,
March 8, 1824, died Wayland, Massachusetts,
1899. 7. Alfred A., November 14, 1826, died
Ipswich, 1905, a soldier of the civU war.
8. Charles A., September 13, 1828, died Chi-
•chester, 1849. 9. James P., April 25, 1833,

died Granite FaUs, Minn., 1902. 10. George
W., February 4, 1835, died Salem; soldier of
the civU war. 11. Frank, 1836, died 1865,
aged twenty-nine years. 12. Ira W., Novem
ber 22, 1837. 13. Warren B., born 1840, vet
eran of the civil war, Hves in Cochituate, Mas
sachusetts. (VI) John Pousland Langmaid, son of
Thomas and Grace (Poulsand) Langraaid,
born in Chichester, Ne^v Harapshire, April 24,
1817, died in Salem, Alassachusetts, Decem
ber 24, 1904, after a business career of more
than forty years and one which was rewarded
with gratifying and well earned success. At
the age of sixteen years he left home and went
to Boston, where for about one year he was
employed at the State Reforra School. After
that he returned to Chichester, raarried, and
soon afterward started in mercantile business
in Concord, New Plampshire As a merchant
in the capital city of New Hampshire Air.
Langmaid soon found himself established in a
satisfactory business, but a disastrous fire de
stroyed his stock, at serious loss to hiraself.
.Soon afterward he reraoved to Salem and for
the next twenty years was an employee in
David Buff urn's planing raill. Having at
length accuraulated a small capital and a fair
knowledge of the lumber business he started
a lumber j'ard on Austin's dock on Lafayette
street, reraoving thence to Derby street, nearly
opposite Salera Hospital, and soon afterward
to what for alraost half a century has been
known as Langmaid's wharf in Derby street.
As his sons came of age they were taken into
partnership with their father, and for more
than thirty-five years the firm name of J. P.
Langraaid & Sons has been well known in
business and trade circles in Salem and Essex
county. In many respects Air. Langmaid was
a remarkable raan. Pie possessed splendid
courage and never yielded to obstacles or dis
appointments ; for had he been differently
constituted it is doubtful if his business hfe
would have been so successful after the loss
of his store in Concord and the twenty years
of hard daily work as a mill hand which fol
lowed before he had earned sufficient capital
to start in business again. And besides being
a tireless worker, even after he had gained a
competency, he also was a thoroughly honest
man, frugal in his habits, yet liberal in provid
ing for the comforts of home and family, and
for the education and business training of his
sons. He enjoyed a large acquaintance among
business men, and was respected wherever he
was known. During the later years of his

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life he withdrew from active connection with
the lumber business and turned its manage
ment over to his sons, knowing that its affairs
were in safe hands. For many years he was
a member of the Congregational church, a lib
eral contributor to its maintenance and also to
the charitable work of the society ; the beauti
ful memorial organ in memory of his father
and mother in the Wesley Alethodist Episco
pal Church is his voluntary and generous gift,
and he himself frequently attended services
in that church.
Air. Langmaid married Rebecca Morrison
I'aylor, who died in 1888. She was born in
Derry, New Hampshire, daughter of Robert
Taylor whose wife was Dolly Colby, daugh
ter of Isaac Colby. Robert Taylor was a son
of David Taylor, born August 10, 1735, raar
ried Alargaret Kelsey and had seven children.
David Taylor was the fourth son of Alatthew
Taylor and his wife Janet, who was one of the
first settlers of Londonderry, New Hamp
shire. It is probable that both of them were
born in Ireland, but they were of Scotch
descendants, their ancestors having been cora
pelled to flee from Scotland because of re
ligious persecution, being Protestants, and
found refuge in the north of Ireland. Alat
thew and Janet Taylor had six sons and two
daughters : John, Alatthew, Williara, David,
Adam, Samuel, Sarah and Janet. John Pous
land and Rebecca Al. (Taylor) Langraaid had
three children; i. Ellen L., married Leonard
Harrington (see Harrington family). 2. John
Henry, died in Paris, France, Alay 19, 1900
(see forward). 3. Frank A., see forward.
(ATI) John Henry Langmaid, son of John
P. and Rebecca M. (Taylor) Langmaid, was
born in Salem, and received a good early ed
ucation in the public schools of that city. Af
ter leaving school he began working with his
father, and when he attained his majority
was taken into partnership and given an in
terest in the lumber business. When his
younger brother carae into the firra the busi
ness was thereafter carried on under the style
of J. P. Langmaid & Sons, and was so con
tinued for the next thirty-five years, and after
the father had retired from active pursuits
the sons John H. and Frank A. succeeded to
the proprietorship and continued the business
as in former years. John H. Langmaid early
proved hiraself to be a capable business mari,
and his worth as a man of integrity and high
character was known in all business circles m
Salem; and besides that desirable recognition
he was one of the popular men in the city, not

in a political sense, for he had no ambition in
that direction, but rather as a genial compan
ion and local friend, interesting in conversa
tion of pleasing manner and appearance, al
ways ready to do a favor and lend a helping.
hand, and there was nothing in his nature
that was mean or narrow. And as he was in
this respect in his business and social life, so-
he was at home, and there perhaps, the pleas
ing traits of his loyal character were most.
clearly manifested, for he was entirely de
voted to his family, and in turn was almost
idolized by them. The death of his only
daughter in 1894 affected him so seriously
that to the day of his own death he had iiot.
becorae reconciled to his loss.
Air. Langraaid was not a clubman, nor mem
ber of any fraternal orders. In politics he
was a Republican, and in religious preference-
a Unitarian. In the early part of the year
1900 he went abroad and died in Paris on.
Alay, 1900. Plis wife, whom he married Sep
tember 5, 1 87 1, was Ella Webber Lambert,.
who was born in Salem, May 8, 1847, daughter
of Porter and Julia (Daland) Lambert, grand
daughter on her mother's side of Robert and-
Alary (Welcome) Daland,* and a descendant
of the seventh generation of Benjamiu-
Daland (soraetiraes written Deland and Deal-
aiid), who was an early settler in Beverly,
Alassachusetts. Robert Daland probably was-
a son of John Daland and EHzabeth Tucker,
his first wife. John Daland is mentioned in
several published works as "Capt. John Dal
and, master mariner," but this is a mistake,.
for he never followed the sea. He is men
tioned too as having married first, Hannah.
Dove; second, Elizabeth Tucker; third, Mary
Fowler. He in fact married first, Elizabeth
Tucker; second,  Rust, and third.
Alary Fowler. His father was Benjamin Dal-

*The foUo-wing letter is preserved: Salem, June 6, 1700.
To Robt. Deland. ^
Dear Sir: We are all well and are hoping to hear of-
your -welfare your Marm has beeu very muoh concerned
about your health for my part I hope you -will keep a good
heart and brave out every diiBculty, times is very dull here.
Write by every opportunity, take good care of yourself and
not lay about deck nights.
Should you have the misfortune to betaken shortletthat,
nor anything else trouble you that you could not avoid. Keep
up your spirits and do the best you can, be al-ways obliging
to your superiors and there is no fear but you will do well.
You will hear to the Captain in respect to your adventure as
he knows best what to bring home. I fain would write more
but have nothing to write upon a line from you would be
very acceptable much more so with your good health.
Should you receive these you certainly will write the first
opportunity. I conclude with all our best respects hoping-
you are well at this present time.
Your friend, Thorndike Deland.
P. S. My best respects to Capt. Osborn.
To Rob't Deland on board Sch. Molly— at Tunete Martin.
ique. per favor Capt Bachelor.

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and, who married Hannah Cook, and whose
father George Daland, of Beverly, married
Catherine, daughter of George Hodges of
Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Langmaid had one daughter,
Bertha Ray Langmaid, born, in Salem, Oc
tober 16, 1874, died in Clifton, Mas.sacliusetts,
September 19, 1894. She was of the fifth
successive generation of Dalands who were
members of the First Unitarian Church of
Salem. (VII) Frank Augustus Langmaid, son of
John P. and Rebecca M. (Taylor) Langmaid,
was born in Saltm, Noveraber 5. 1847, ^"d
received his education iii the public schools of
that city and also in Boston. He began work
even before leaving school, and about the first
remunerative work he found was to run er
rands, and later on he was giveii a place as
clerk in a store. When his father left Buf-
fum's planing raill and set up in the luraber
business, Frank A. -w^as giveii work in yard
and office at three dollars per week, later on
received five dollars per week, and when he
reached his majority he was taken into the
firm of J. P. Langmaid and Sons, of which he
is now sole surviving member, and sole pro
prietor of the business, except that his own
sons have a partnership there, but the old firm
name of J. P. Langraaid & Sons is .still re
tained. Like his father. Air. Langraaid is a
capable, reliable and straightforward business
raan, and as he hiraself was trained in
business raethods, .so in turn has he trained
his own sons who are associated'^iin business
with hini. He is a prudent man both in speech
and action, of quiet tastes, and much prefers
the companionship of family and his comfort
able home to the enjoyment of club associa
tions or the excitements of political activity.
Yet with all, he is counted araong the public
spirited and substantial citizens of Salera and
takes an earnest interest in whatever raeas
ures are proposed for the welfare of the city
and its people.
On October 11, 1871, Air. Langmaid mar
ried Caroline Louisa Ives, born in Salem,
daughter of Stephen Bradshaw and Alary
(Perkins) Ives (see Ives family). Six chil
dren have been born of this marriage: i.
Mary Perkins, born in Salem, February 22,
1873, educated in public and high schools ;
married, October 12, 1896, A. Lawrence Peir
son, of New York; children; Abel Law
rence, born August 3, 1897; Rebecca, born
August 5,L^ 1901 ; Charles Lawrence, born
January 3, 1903; EHzabeth, born August 12,
iv— 35

1907. 2. Harry Taylor, born in Salem, Aug
ust 24, 1874, educated in Salem public and
high schools ; engaged in business with his
father until he went to Sion, Canada, where
he is proprietor of a general merchandise
store; married, February 22, 1906, Corsia
Whittaker, born in Kentucky. 3. Ahce Ives,
born in Salem, February 8, 1876, died Febru
ary I, 1890. 4. John Frank, born in Salem,
February 7, 1880, educated in Salem public
and high schools, graduated frora Harvard
College, A. B., 1902; A. M., 1903; instructor
in chemistry at Harvard, also at Case School,
one year ; was chemist to Sun Oil Company
at Alarcus Plook, Pennsylvania, now with
father ; niarried, June 24, 1906, Sally, daugh
ter of Charles Odell, of Salera, and has one
child, John Frank, Jr., born April 24, 1907.
5. Stephen Ives, born in Salem, July 31, 1884,
graduated from Harvard College, A. B., 1906 ;
A. Al., 1907 ; now engaged in business with his
father. 6. Bradshaw, born in Salem, Decem
ber 21, 1889; Harvard student.

There were persons of distinc-
EATON tion among the English families
of the surname Eaton, and
araong the New England descendants of that
ancient house in every generation frora the
time of the immigrant ancestor there have
been men of distinction and high character
equal perhaps to that of their European for
bears, although on this side of the Atlantic
we find none of the narae who have placed
their chief reliance for character and worth
on the coat of arras "or a fret azure" so rauch
as on personal endeavor and individual
achievement. The family of the Eaton sur
name whose pedigree is traced here, begins
its history in New England with John and
Anne Eaton, the former of whom is raen
tioned in sorae chronicles as John Eaton of
Haverhill and in others as John Eaton of Sal
isbury, both in the colony of Massachusetts
Bay. He came of the old English family of
the sarae narae, and while there is room for
the belief that his ancestors were of the same
kin with those of Sir Peter, baronet, the fact
is not easily established. The iraraigration
registers and ship's lists of passengers give
no account of the departure of John Eaton
and his faraily from England, neither is it
known exactly when they arrived in this
country, nor the name of the ship in which
they took passage ; but they came, John Eaton
and his wife and si.x children, and sat down
in one of the plantations in the Massachusetts

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Bay colony, in or sometime previous to the
year 1639.
(I) John Eaton first appears on the pro
prietors' books of Salisbury in 1639-40, and
several grants of land to him were made be
tween 1640 and 1646. A tradition which has
run in the family for more than a century and
a half is to the effect that he had a brother
and a cousin in the colony about or soon after
the tirae of his arrival, but the researches of
more recent investigators seem to dispel the
theory. One of the grants of land to John
Eaton was that made on the "26th of ye 6th
mo. 1640, 2 acres, raore or less, for his house
lotte, lying between the house lotts of Mr.
Samuel HaU and Rolfe Blesdale" ; and m-
other was his "planting lotte," granted "the
7th of the 9th mo. 1640, containing pr estima
tion six acres more or less, lying uppon ye
great neck," and his house was built near the
"great neck bridge, on the beach road." It
is interesting to note in this connection that in
1890 the old homestead property was stiU
owned and in possession of descendants of
the immigrant. Late in 1646 John Eaton con
veyed the property to his son John, and then
moved with the other members of his family
about fifteen miles up the Merrimack to Ha
verhill, and there spent the reraaining twenty-
two years of his life. In 1646 he was chosen
grand juror, and also one of five prudential
men of Salisbury. He was a husbandman,
and the records mention that he also made
staves. He died in HaverhiU, October 29,
1668, aged about severity-three years, hence
he was born about 1595. He married Anne,
born about 1617, and all of their children
were born in England. She died February 5,
1660, and he raarried second, Noveraber 20,
1661, Phebe, widow of Thoraas Dow, of New
bury, Massachusetts. She died in 1672. John
and Anne Eaton had children: i. John, born
1619; married Martha Rowlandson, of Ips
wich, Massachusetts. 2. Ann, born about
1622, died in PlaverhiU, December 13, 1683 ;
married June 25, 1645, Lieutenant George
Brown, who raarried second, March 17, 1684,
widow Hannah Hazen of Rowley. 3. Eliza
beth, born about 1625 ; married December i,
1648, James Davis, of HaverhiU; ten children.
4. Ruth, born about 1628; married December
9, 1656, Samuel Ingalls ; lived in Ipswich. 5.
Thomas, born about 1631 ; married first, Mar
tha Kent; second, Eunice Singletery; lived in
HaverhiU. 6. Hester, born about 1634, died
young. (II) John Eaton, eldest child of John and

Anne Eaton, was born in England in 1619,
and died on the old homestead in Sahsbury,
Massachusetts, Noveraber i, 1682. He went
to Salisbury with his father in the winter of
1639-40, and when the latter reraoved to Hav
erhill, in 1646, he deeded his house and prop
erty "on the neck" to his son John who lived
there until his death. He was a planter and
cooper, as he describes hiraself in his will,
and he appears to have become possessed of
a large estate in lands which he gave to
his son, raaking ample provision for each,
the homestead going to his eldest son John.
About 1644 John Eaton married Martha,
daughter of Thoraas Rowlandson Sr., of Ips
wich, and sister of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson,
who graduated from Harvard college in 1652,
the only meraber of his class. The Rowland-
sons carae from England, and it is believed
that they were acquainted with the Eatons
before coming to this country. Martha, wife
of John Eaton, survived him about thirty
years, and died in July, 1712, "a woman of
great age and of great excellency of char
acter." Children; i. Hester, born August,
1645, died 1649. 2. John, born about 1646;
married Mary  ; lived in Sahsbury. 3.
Thomas, born January 17, 1647; married
Hannah Hubbard ; lived in Salisbury ; she was
a descendant of WiUiam Hubbard, "an emi
nent inhabitant" of Ipswich. 4. Martha, born
August 12, 1648; married first, Benjamin Col
lins, of Salisbury, second, Philip Flanders, of
Salisbury. 5. Elizabeth, born December 12,
1650; married January 7, 1673, Dr. John
Groth, who was admitted to practice medi
cine in 1679. 6. Ann, born December 17,
1652, died June 12, 1658. 7. Sarah, born Feb
ruary 28, 1655 ; married May 6, 1675, Robert
Downer, of Salisbury. 8. Mary, born De
cember 9, 1656, died January i, 1657. 9.
Samuel, born February 14, 1659; a mariner.
10. Joseph, born March i, 1661 ; married
Mary French; lived in Salisbury. 11.
Ephraim, born April 12, 1663 ; married Mary
True ; lived in Salisbury.
(Ill) Captain Joseph Eaton, son and tenth
child of John and Martha (Rowlandson)
Eaton, was bom in Salisbury, Alarch i, 1661,
and died there January 13, 1743. His house
was in that part of the town known as Sandy
hill, where his houselot comprised three acres
of land given hira by his father, but he had
much other land and is said to have bought
and sold land quite extensively for his time,
and to have gained an honest competency
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trade, and built many houses and other build
ings in the town, and he also was captain of
militia and a man of considerable influence in
public affairs. Captain Eaton was a famous
hunter and trapper, and at certain seasons of
the year went with companions as far east as
Brunswick, Maine, and on his return home
he would entertain his family and friends
with anecdotes of his frequent excursions.
These stories aroused an adventurous spirit
in his sons, and three of them afterward
sought their fortunes down in the wilds of
Maine. They were not adventurers, however,
but sturdy pioneers, men of courage and de
termination, Indian fighters in defense of
home and family, and one of them fell a vic
tim of Indian rapacity, while the son of an
other received a wound, and was made pri
soner and carried away into captivity. In
the history of Brunswick, Maine, it is written
as a matter of tradition that one Jacob Eaton
went there from Salisbury, Massachusetts,
about 1680, or earlier, with one Michael Mal
com, and were trappers and traders with the
Indians; that they bought lands from the In
dians which included the territory now com
prising the town of Brunswick, and laid claim
to title. The story is not without founda
tion, though essentially incorrect in many re
spects, and is the outgrowth of the hunting
excursions which furnished recreation for
Captain Eaton's hunting parties. If a pur
chase was made from the Indians, as might
be inferred if what has been termed as the
"Eaton claim" had any foundation in fact,
the grant doubtless was secured by Captain
Eaton himself rather than his son Jacob, and
at a period much later than 1680, for the cap
tain then was less than twenty years old and
his son Jacob was not born until 1703. What
ever truth there may have been in the story
that the Eatons ever seriously laid claim to title
to the lands of Brunswick is not now known,
but there is no evidence that an Indian deed
was ever executed, or presented as a founda
tion of the so-called claim; but if family tra
dition be true the worthy captain possessed a
sufficiently keen sense of humor to narrate to
his friends the story of having acquired title
to Indian lands by verbal cession, if such had
been the case.
Captain Eaton married first, December 14,
1683, Mary French, of Salisbury, who died
July 12, 1726, ten chUdren. The intentions
of his second marriage were recorded in No
vember, 1726, and he married soon afterward
Mary "Worster (or Worcester) of Bradford,

Alassachusetts, who died September 2, 1759.
His children, all born of his first marriage:
I. John, born August 23, 1684, died Decem
ber 12, 1684. 2. John, born October 18, 1685;
married Esther Johnson, of Kingston, New
Hampshire; lived in Salisbury. 3. Samuel,
born December 7, 1687; raarried Mary Mal
com; reraoved to Brunswick, Maine. 4. Jos
eph, born August 14, 1690; married Mary
French; Hved in Newbury, Massachusetts. 5.
Benjamin, born February 14, 1693 ; married
Sarah Merrill; lived in Salisbury. 6. Moses,
born May 18, 1695 ; was killed by Indians near
Brunswick, Maine, 1722. 7. Mary, born AprU
9, 1697; married January 14, 1715, Benjamin
True, of Sahsbury. 8. Nicholas, born Sep
tember 12, 1699; married Mercy Walton;
Hved in Salisbury. 9. Sarah, born May 20,
1701; raarried June 30, 1726, David Buswell,
of Bradford, Alassachusetts. 10. Jacob, born
AprU 16, 1703; raarried first, Sarah Pluraraer;
second, Sarah Malcora; lived in Topsham,
Maine. (IV) Samuel Eaton, third son and child of
Captain Joseph Eaton and Mary French his
first wife, was born in Salisbury, December
7, 1687, and is mentioned in the history of
Brunswick as having come from Salisbury
"early in the last century and built a house on
the corner of Bank and Alaine streets." But
the author of the history just raentioned is
mistaken in saying of this Samuel Eaton that
"one of his children, Samuel, was a soldier
in Fort George in 1722," for the Samuel
Eaton of Fort George and the colonial wars
was Samuel the elder son of Captain Joseph,
and the pioneer of the faraily in Alaine. He
inherited a love of exploration and "to gratify
it he plunged into the forests of Maine and
finally settled in what is now Brunswick."
He is the Samuel Eaton who figured so con-
spictiously in what has been caUed LoveweU's
war, which began in 1722, and it was he
whom Captain Gyles (or Giles) sent from
Fort George to Colonel John Harmon at
Georgetown, Massachusetts, with a letter tied
up in an eelskin and concealed in his hair.
AVhen it was unsafe for him to travel by land
he took to the water and swam, and thus
reached his destination in safety. During the
same war Moses Eaton, brother of Samuel,
was taken prisoner (June, 1722), tortured
aijd mutilated, and finally was carried to Point
Pleasant and was killed by his savage cap
tors. Samuel Eaton married, about 171 5, Mary,
daughter of John Malcom, first of Salisbury

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and afterward of Brunswick. John Malcom
was one of the corapanions of Captain Joseph
Eaton on his hunting expeditions from Salis
bury into Maine, and it was he who with
Eaton is said to have taken part in purchas
ing the Indian title to what now is Brunswick,
although the history of Brunswick ascribes
that action to one Michael Malcora. It is
not known that John Malcora took part in
the colonial wars, although one or more of
his sons entered the service. The naraes of
aU of Sarauel Eaton's children are not known,
but it is stated (on the authority of the late
Martin Eaton) that he had two sons, Enoch
and Daniel; and a daughter Mary. Enoch
Eaton was drowned when a boy.
(V) Daniel Eaton, son of Sarauel and
Mary (Malcom) Eaton, was born in Bruns
wick, Maine, in 1722, and through hira are
descended many of the Brunswick Eaton
farailies. Little is known of his family life
and there is no present record by which we
may learn of his marriage, the name of his
wife and their children, except John. But
there is a clear account of a part of the ser
vice of Daniel Eaton as a soldier of the
French and Indian war. Early in May, 1757,
while John Malcom and Daniel Eaton were
going to Maquoit for salt hay, they were at
tacked by Indians. Malcom escaped, but Ea
ton received a bullet wound in the wrist, was
captured and taken to Canada and held there
about a year. His captor was the Indian
chief Sabattis, who sold his prisoner for four
dollars. Many years after this event, about
1800, the old chief again visited Brunswick,
met his former prisoner and was shown the
mark of the bullet wound on his arm; and
seeing the scar Sabattis said, "That long time
ago ; war tirae too."
("VI) John Eaton was a son of Daniel
Eaton, but other than this fact little is known
of him, except that he married Jane Grant,
and had children, araong thera sons Martin,
John and David, and a daughter Jane.
(VII) Martin Eaton, son of John Eaton,
was born in Brunswick, Maine, in 1796, and
died in South Durhara, Maine, in 1888, hav
ing attained the remarkable age of ninety-two
years. He was a substantial farmer, living
first in Brunswick and afterward for raany
years in Webster, Maine, but later returned
to Brunswick in order that his children raight
have the benefits of the better schools of the
latter town. Mr. Eaton raarried, April 27,
1834, Phebe Winslow, of Durham, born Jan
uary 31, 1805, daughter of William Winslow,

founder of the town of Winslow, Maine, and
one of the foreraost men of his time in the
province. Children of Martin and Phebe
(Winslow) Eaton; i. Sarah Jane, born May
30, 1835, died June 8, 1906; married, Octo
ber 17, 1879, George P. Day, of South Dur
ham, Maine. 2. WiUiara Winslow, born May
20, 1836; raarried, July 12, 1865, Agnes H.
Magoun. 3. Rebecca Annie, born July 18,
1837; raarried, April, 1878, George Richard
son. 4. Abigail Stewart, born October 10.
1838, died July 13, 1839. 5- Martha Ellen,
born October 8, 1839, died February 4, 1872;
married, December 8, 1864, James Clark. 6.
Alonzo Jones, born January 10, 1841 ; a sol
dier of the civil war, and died August, 1905,
of disabilities contracted in service; married,
March, 1861, Elizabeth M. Lyon, who died
in 1906. 7. Lucinda Maria, born January 10,.
1841, died November 2, 1842. 8. Edward R.,
born May 29, 1843; died October 30, 1861,
while in service in the first year of the civil
war. (VIII) Dr. WiUiam Winslow Eaton, eld
est son and second child of Martin and Phebe
(Winslow) Eaton, was born in Webster,
Maine, May 20, 1836, and for more than forty
years has been prominently identified with
the professional and civil Hfe of Danvers, and
of Essex county, Massachusetts. When Dr.
Eaton was a boy Hving down in Maine his
father removed from W^ebster to Brunswick
that his children might have every opportunity
to gain a better education than was afforded
in the comraon schools in Webster, and WiU
iam attended the public schools in Brunswick,
and later finished the course of the high
school and was graduated. But this was not-
enough for him for he had determined to ob
tain a higher education and to that end fitted
hiraself for college, entered Bowdoin for the
classical course and graduated with the de
gree of A. B. in 1861 ; and best of all, he ac
complished this course wholly through his
own persevering effort, maintaining himself
and paying his own tuition rates from the
day of matriculation to commenceraent day
when the dean of the faculty handed hira his
coveted and honestly deserved diploraa. In
1865 he received the degree of M. A. from
the sarae institution. While making his course
in college Dr. Eaton had begun the study of
raedicine under the corapetent preceptorship
of Dr. Isaac Lincoln of Brunswick, but after
graduating he taught in the Bridgton high
school one year and at the sarae tirae con
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definitely than before, taking his first and
second courses of lectures in 1861 and 1862
in the Maine Medical School, although for
very good reason he did not receive his di
ploma in medicine until something like two
years later. The interval of years, however,
was not without value frora the standpoint of
practical medical and surgical experience, al
though for the time the young aspirant was
¦compelled to lay aside his text books and di
dactic studies for the more practical surgical
¦duties of the hospital tent and the battlefield.
On June 6, 1862, Dr. Eaton enlisted from
Brunswick, Maine, in the Sixteenth Maine
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and on June
27, 1862, was appointed hospital steward. He
was promoted to assistant surgeon January
25, 1863, and to surgeon, with rank of raajor,
November 25, 1864, having served as acting
surgeon frora May i, 1864. His regiraent
was organized at Augusta, Maine, and was
there mustered into the service of the United
States for a period of three years or during
the war, on August 14, 1862, Colonel Asa W.
Wildes commanding. The regiment left Au
gusta on August 19 for Washington City, ar
riving there August 21, and the next day
crossed the Long Bridge into A^irginia, being
assigned to Forts Cass, A¥oodbury and Till
inghast. On September 7 it was v/ithdrawn
from the forts and ordered to active duty in
Maryland. At Gettysburg onl}^ two officers
and fifteen men- remained able for duty at the
close of the three days' battle, out of 248 who
went into action. Surgeon Eaton was cap
tured there on July ist, and remained in
charge of the Lutheran Church Hospital until
July 4th, when after the advance of the Union
forces he rejoined his regiment. He was al
ways to be found at his post, performing the
arduous duties of an arm)^ surgeon in the field
with efficiency and skill, caring for the sick
and wounded of his coramand, often under
most unfavorable conditions, and achieving a
most creditable record, whether in camp, hos
pital, or on the field of battle. While a pris
oner he ministered to sick and wounded rebels,
as .well as his own comrades. In this connec
tion it may be noted that he still retains a frag
raent of his regiraental flag, which, when cap
ture was inevitable, was torn to pieces by the
color-bearer, and distributed araong the raen
to prevent it falling into the enemy's hands.
AVhile in winter quarters at Alitchell's Station,
in December, 1863, he received from Secre
tary of War Stanton a leave of absence to
admit of his completing his professional stu

dies in the New York Hospital and Aledical
School, receiving the degree of Al. D. from
New York University on March 4, 1864. Dur
ing this course he sat under the instruction of
the eminent D. Valentine Mott and other noted
physicians and surgeons. Surgeon Eaton was
honorably discharged from service at Augusta,
Alaine, June 5, 1865, by reason of end of war.
After being raustered out of service, Dr.
Eaton returned to his old horae in Brunswick,
where he married, but did not practice there.
Plis professional career was begun in South
Reading, Alassachusetts, (now Wakefield),
where he was induced to locate in answer to
the urgent request of his old regimental chap
lain, with whora he was visiting after return
ing frora the front. After two years' resi
dence in South Reading Dr. Eaton reraoved
to Danvers and has engaged in active and suc
cessful general practice in that locality since
1867, a period of raore than two score years.
He maintains an office in Salem as well as in
Danvers, although his home is in the latter
town, and his practice, while general, has its
special side and he is an electro-therapeutist
of wide reputation. It is doubtful if there is
any professional raan in Essex county with a
more extended and favorable acquaintance
than Dr. Eaton, and few whose endeavors in
professional life have been rewarded with bet
ter success or more substantial results. In
1865 he became a member of the Essex Coun
ty Aledical Society and the Alassachusetts
Aledical Society, and besides he holds mem
bership in various other organizations of men
of his profession, among them the Alaine Aled
ical Society, the American Aledical Associa
tion and the American Electro-Therapeutic
Society, of the latter of which he is a former
vice-president, and also he is ex-president of
the Essex South District Aledical Society, and
ex-vice-president of the Alassachusetts Aledi
cal Society. He became a raeraber of the board
of U. S. exaraining surgeons for pensions,
June, 1889, and still occupies that position.
He is an interesting but not prolific writer.
One of his best professional monographs is
one on "The Use and .Abuse of Alcohol," and
he is author of a "Plistory of the Physicians of
Danvers," which has been published ; and a
concise and accurate "History of the Sixteenth
Regiment Alaine Volunteer Infantrv," his old
command. Dr. Eaton is a Mason of long standing, hav
ing first become a member of Army Lodge,
No. 8, F and .A. Al., while in service at the
front in 1864. He is affiliated with -Amity

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Lodge, of Danvers; was a charter member
and past master of Mosaic Lodge, of Danver.s ;
is a charter raeraber of Holton Chapter, R. A.
M., of Danvers; also member of Salem Coun
cU, R. S. M., Winslow Lewis Commandery,
No. i8, K. T., of Salem, of which he has been
prelate for sixteen years ; and meraber of Sut
ton Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R., of
.Salem ; and Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine,
Boston. He is a comrade of Ward Post,
No. 90, G. A. R. ; was its second commander,
serving two terms ; and for thirty-eight years
has been annually installed in his present po
sition of surgeon. In his life in Danvers he
has been for raany years variously identified
with the best interests and institutions of the
community, and while he has never aspired
to political honors, he has taken an active part
in the interest of good citizenship and the
general welfare. He has filled several offices
of minor importance, and for fifteen years
served as member of the school comraittee,
of which he was at one time chairraan. He
was a trustee of the Peabody Institute; and
for twenty-two years has been president and
a trustee for twenty-seven years of the Wal
nut Grove Cemetery Corporation, still hold
ing both offices. He is a meraber of the
Danvers Scientific Society. He is one of the
organizers of the Danvers Improvement So
ciety, was its first vice-president,, and for
eighteen years president, whic;h position ¦ he
yet occupies. This Society was formed with
the idea of beautifying the roads; -walks,
shade trees, railroad station, etc., of the city.
The Society, without any raeans in the treas
ury, purchased for five thousand dollars, which
has been paid, a tract of land of twenty-five
acres, which is proposed to turn over to the
town as a beautiful park bordering on Porter
river for a quarter-mile wide, with landscape
scenery, river view, etc., all graded and beauti
fied, besides thousands of doUars expended in
improvements. This will be turned over to
the town, to be enjoyed as a public park for
ever. Dr. Eaton delivered the address at the
Meraorial Institute at the tirae of the death of
, General Grant, and has made addresses on
several Memorial Days.
On June 25, 1865, Dr. Eaton raarried Agnes
Hirst Alagoun, born in Carlisle, England, Jan
uary 5, i8-'i-2, who came to the United States
when a child. She died in Danvers,, July 14,
_igo4.. Children of Df., and,. Mrs. , Eaton : i.
Elbert, born August 8, 1866, died Alay 31,
. 1880. 2. Susan AVilhelmina, born April 2,
.1870. 3. Harold: P., born January 2, 1881^

died May 2, same year. 4. Marion Agnes,
born June 19, 1882. ,

(For preceding generations see Allen Breed I.)
(VII) Nathan Breed,
BREED-HACKER son of James and
Hannah (AUey)
Breed, was born January 28, 1794, died July
15, 1872. He was one of eleven children:
Pluldah, James, Hannah died young, Hannah,
Mary, Nathan, Content, Lydia, Keziah, Isaiah
and Sarah. From both parents he inherited
sterling qualities of character, and a Hking
for business frora his father, who was a tallow
chandler and maker of soaps, and whose house
was located about where the entrance of Bow
man place now leads from Broad street, being
called one of the oldest, and his shop stood
upon the site of the drug store across Bow
man place. Nathan Breed, who was the found
er of the shoe industry in Lynn, and for many
years one of its most prominent and extensive
ra.anu facturers, began business by purchasing
small pieces of stock of Micajah Burrill and
making them up into children's sizes of shoes.
The period of his activity included the years
from about 1830 to the introduction of .shoe
raachinery. The shoes were^notiactuallyimarie
at the factory, that is, put together^but the
soles were cut there and, likewise the uppers.
ThC' shoes were then put out to be bound- by
the women, and then raade by the menj sorti^-
tiraes the twb tasks being done by husband
and wife. This was the beginning Of the little
''ten-footer", shoeshops which as a result isoon
became abundant throughout 1 this arid I adja
cent towns, and the raakingrwas largely done
in thera, when not done in the kitchen, after
the fashion of an earlier 'day. The' making
was ^Iso put out to people in other states- as
well as I Alassachusetts, this. buUding up the
formerly well-known "shoe express" business,
the carriers taking large cases of • cut stock
away, and returning the made-up shoes. Mr.
Breed's product went into every state in the
Union and sometimes into Canada. : '•- ''^
One of Mr. Breed's foster industries was
located at St. Louis, where he assisted' a for
mer employee, John C. Abbott,' to go into
business under the firm name of Hoodi &
Abbott. They later extended; their sale busi
ness to Nashville, Tennessee -Mr. .BreM-TS
business was oneof suchextent that hecamie
in time to leave it largely to trusted assistants,
while he devoted his grand energies- to larger
interests: He would come to the factory in
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'iA^^H-^hu.^VirM checks, and, then depart for

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;btij-.ch5ise4 largely ii^ advance"!? hf did!''m
leafher/stbck-,' 'usuaUi^ attendiAg-%-"Mi^'l^^rf o^

•his, bu-^jiVess- ' in person.'- 'Likewise,-"Hfe-'

wo-

lyld

3^r ?i 1 V '^ 'f orkp-ien ''-eiiiplof^'d ' dl^niig • Ih'e 'duil
AVinter- 'season, 'and -e\^eii 'iolit'itetf'sajl'es 'frolh
^uvexs giving them the advantage of'fed^?c'k
;prrc^i afia extended, titne'' if they bou^ht'^d
'ffiMi-tf{^-aii^d€'dWgiA'dsi;'ni by which h'e
-P&W^We^ben'at by'a dire'-(:t''iiicrease;W'-b|s
:im^.° tfi%'Mye¥s^^mys c^^^^.lld'ihe tattoi^

^^m Seos^feshiai^' -wferif qhlir^ad'tb'sblitl
^4#^5^?ljA^as ;^ic;h a'tjijng k^'owii;?-'- ^'-"^^

as . feellfife

'SJP^Sn^pl^'^'^ M'l'i-'Breed. 6'ften'',adv^ri6'ed* nibhey
¦'0\x^l\6hieii;itMoj^ea' and.'fKends, fdi". the
U?cmHfH^8 ^M'smhg.;M^ihei which
jw'er;t'tl?en b^jhg introduced,- a^hd Mter^bn,. these
^^'^ri^ applied' 'to the' shheihblving ihdustfy fdr
Wi't'ch'irig bhfpqses, this. being a sdurceof 'id-
^flftife'iialj lacOm'e to the woraen eraployees who
"3'fM'-'!eft' theii- bank. books with Mr.. Rreed,
""sd fiiat' tbe' safe at* f:lie factory became a Sort
^Bf^"^fe1tri'a\'iHgs''hahk' repository. ¦.
"* M'^dlie course of time Air. Breed^desired to
^ul|i^feV himself a house suited to" his grow-
ifi|-'-'needs and public' spirit, and.' accordingly
frchased, from hi^father The property, apross
bgifl street, rei'tip-virigj'the anci^r^t hoinesteafl
¦te-'Sjlsbee' street, ''where it , now 'ftands .soiiie-

liatVkltered, arid giving his' father

a hfe'^tise

W-i^t;'-vv'ltii.Such:inconle as it mighjt brirtg,_an.d
¦a^sb'm another bquse, he. already owned ni^xt
^¥S^fr ^fhe'^h^Av-' house be 'biiilt :w'as the well
'^irjg'^\v'n'-"niahsion house" which stood back
-J?dtTi 'Broad street until removed to its present
^nd'Mss' 'influential site to' the ,rear ,of Boyy-
Waii place In if s prirhe it was a place of great
sbeaut-y, with a' famous ol^ garden. ,Af',,his
• niimss increased, Mf.. Breed ,,nvestecU^rgely
^1^ re'dr'estafe,' oVn'i7-g;:%,d 1" Lynp .Woods,
¦ ^1^0 bpohQiestniit , street where many |f the
-"ift/dp^'trees ai-e the wbrk'of hiS bea.hfyToying
i^S'mi^''m^''^>^'^^^ ^^ purchased
^Tkrid'^'W'h'ffini^'^ack from Union street at the
rear of the present Sagamore Hotel, and plant
ed it with mulberry trees, being interested in
the then craze for raising silk worms, there

being a silk mill at West Lynn. When the in
dustry waned, he cut a street through his land
and naraed it Mulberry street. He oWrte'd"a!t
.one time the "Quaker PaSli're''''T)ff-lI^fe'Vr^y-
'erit Uniqii street and''But-(ihst'da'a''pl'iKe,"ftc!iJv
fhi^kly settled' with d\^efliii|T ^i5d' b1i'^ife&
blocks, and when the cut"''Wlfe'Wa'a^"fW"th'e
.Eastern Railroad through " Smith's' 'F^W', Hfe
displayed his 'wisdora and sagaclij^'by' seduti'lifc;
th<? diggings to fill, in the ,],dv/''po'rt!io*pfe'"6f "-Sii
tract and thus iTi'ad.e; .it'bettef building' IKHi.
'AA^it'h hi^ brother' Ps'aiah he was ihstrihn'e'dt'Ell
fu' having -O^EfHf'd 'street cut through' tb^^'ifl^lt
^ttigh fii'feWMd'Wx^ benefited nOt^"'6hfyliifit-
-kM-'J^^^^^ thji^'i^cffipn.
'K'd ^^membe''r oT'th^ Sa'gamore Hotel Cdrpoi'a!-
¦Ki)'lT,'he IvitlWlfky .xi^H^Ji' he teamed, of th<^"i'i5-
teption' 't6""[^il;ybii^li' i' bar ih''-|:he 'hqye,/arfd
J^Hl<-'«?\\'fs''e'4\''ith'd"r6i-(v''frBrii'"the'iTi6vement to cut
Yh'rou'g'h'."Centi-a'a{^"(!!'bu'(t'\{'he'ii"be iearii'fd"ffiat
"^';'thratre' wji.f^ Wm^'tdWlnnW liJDon' thlfffld?-
'otighfar^,' "thhs^'^tek'ing4d .h'^f'tifiyie'iarnt'^lill-
ifegiance to pri'fttiplg.'''ab<5\^8''pi^Ofits.' 'fi¥''WSs
a^so ;'a ' 'Sterii; ^dppb'n&A'-WXW Mve;''trSdl^H^
iie\'ei- cared 'w/hether 'his''adVHr|afy''ifi ifi'ar^gii-
[nieiit ' uiiidh ' ffi'e'stib j'ect;\5;?a"s i' 'c^mhr^irl' ^M 'J^r
jD'rdapfctjve. ''' He i,ieyei^ Si'griWWy'i^^&l ''Estate
jDaper for .lep^or .leasa'ge''bu't"Vh'2t"he Had'the
clause included, .thaf the ,raiid^''or' buildings
fhereori' should never be. allovved. to hold" dr
harbor the .sale qf intoxicating liquors or .the
business of gambling or betting jri 'any ^i-ecog-
' nized form. ' 'For thiriy-six years Mr. B.reed
held' the bffice of director bf Lynn Mechg-ijics',
later'the First Nati.onal Bank, and the Essex
Tftist'ComPany';. Tor a. long period was. t,rus-
"t€^ 'oi the LyHri''''Institute .for Savirigsi 'df
^Wffich h^"'w"as on'e of/the founders; and direc
tor ofthe 'Lynn Gas Light Company, of whicjh
he'''\y'ds' 'dne"^ of the foiinders, "'five other, men
being assdcfated .\yith hira 'in "this enterprise,
which is at present _piie of the most extensive
111 Eastern Massachusetts. '^^ ^ ^' , '.
Air! Breed was^a niembg?''of the SpSety df
Friends and^ Slways took a deep in^t'CTest' .in
fee a'fF^ifs'bf \?iat dendfhiiiS'tion. "The '''^Read-
- liig 'ATe^tinls"' ^-wef'e" j:^ /ec^Wgfltlf ' lib'ld'^'at ' his
¦'hou'se." arid'Tih'de'r the ''^•ffldShc.^ 'of a^ goodly
"c'6h'ipa'hy""d'f 'dldef Friena'^',''t'he young folks
irsTto'eirib -T8acIi'rfg'^"~irora books written by
'Ft ieW' aufhoi-s,' or at least highly approved by
"Friends, and thought to be instructive as well
as entertaining. Scripture was read, and Mr.
Breed, with beautiful dignity, would call on
sorae elderly raan to offer prayer, and the lat
ter portion of the meeting was sometiraes en
tirely given up to religious exercises. Air.

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Breed was sterling and loyal to his convictions,
and though of great dignity and reserve, his
impression upon his generation was for last
ing good. The mansion which he built across
frora his shop and which cost ten thousand
dollars, was specially planned for the enter
tainment of Quaker guests, who were welcome
at all times, but who came in large numbers
from all parts of the country at the time of
the quarterly meetings. The house had seven
teen bed rooms, all of which were at the dis
posal of the guests. His charities were far
spread, but performed in a quiet and unosten
tatious raanner, known better by the recipients
than by the public. At his death he bequeath
ed fifty thousand dollars to establish a school
and asylum for the destitute children of Lynn,
a most noble and worthy philanthropy.
Mr. Breed was a man of quiet, unassuming
raanner, of even temperament, cordial and
considerate in his intercourse with his associ
ates and warmly attached to his friends. His
capacity for business was large and was in
creased by his systematic and quiet methods.
He was always master of hiraself, saw clearly
the end he had in view and pursued it with a
direct and persistent aim. He was a man of
clear judgment and raarked sagacity in affairs,.
prompt in action but not hasty in reaching
conclusions. While firm in his opinion he was
tolerant of the opinions of others, and his
whole life was an illustration of the refined
amenities which large experience and a wise
philosophy of living may produce in a bright
and kindly nature. To have known him well
one must have known him in his own home
and in the intimacies of private life. Those
who knew him there can never forget the sun
ny even temperament, the kindly nature and
the warm and generous instincts of the man.
Air Breed married, October 27, 1819, Alary
E. Sweet. Children: i. Moses Sweet, born
October 21, 1820, died February i, 1862; he
married, December 7, 1841, Deborah Phillips,
and had one son Charles, deceased. 2. Sarah
Swee't, born December 20, 1821. see forward.
3. Lucy Jones, bom ATarch 10, 182J, died Tan-
uary i, 1846; married, November 15, 1843,
Plenry M. Placker. 4. Alary Sweet, born
April T2. 1826, died Tanuary 26, 1907; mar
ried, December n,. 18-17. WiUiam Bradford,
the .great artist and explorer who was known
throiie-hout the world and was the first Ameri
can to lecture before the Enghsh Geographical
Society : his nictures were purchased by the
leading Americans and Europeans : one of his
largest paintings, representing the Arctic re

gions, which was twelve feet long and five feet
high, was purchased by the Duke of Argyle's
son. Lord Walter Campbell ; two children ; i.
Esther H., deceased; ii. Mary E., who now
resides in their home at Fair Haven, Massa
chusetts; Mr. Bradford died AprU 25, 1892.
5. James Edward, born September 14, 1827,
died May 7, 1828. '6. Hannah Emily, twin of
Janies Edward, died Noveraber 10, 1833. 7.
Catherine B., born Noveraber 7, 1830, mar
ried, November 17, 1847, Henry M. Hacker,
her brother-in-law ; children : Lucy B., Nathan
B., Henry Marriott Jr., Nathan, Arthur M.,
Charles, Katherine, Mary B. ; of these chil
dren the second, fourth, fifth and sixth are
deceased. At the tirae of the death of Nathan Breed,
1872, all of the papers of that day — The Lynn
Transcript, Lyww Record and Lynn Semi-
Weekly Reporter contained notices of Mr.
Breed in which they said ; "One of our raost
enterprising and successful business men has
passed away. He held for many years a prora
inent place in the business circles of the city,
and took an active part in all of its affairs of a
business and religious nature, and we mourn
the death of a raan who was a devoted friend
and safe adviser." The directors of the First
National Bank passed appropriate resolutions
in vvhich they said : "We learn with deep sor
row of the decease of Nathan Breed who for
nearly forty years has taken an active part in
the business affairs of this bank and done so
much to assist in establishing its credit as one
of the foremost banking institutions of East
ern Massachusetts".
(VIII) Sarah Sweet Breed, eldest daugh
ter of Nathan and Mary E. (Sweet) Breed,
was born December 20, 1821, died July 24,
1906, at the ripe age of eighty-four years. She
married, November 15, 1843, W. Alfred
Hacker, of Philadelphia; he was of a Salem
family, but had lived from early manhood in
the Quaker City. Later he reraoved to Wor
cester, Massachusetts, where he engaged in
the coal business, building up a large trade
and there spent the reraainder of his Hfe; he
died in 1877, aged sixty-two years. Children ;
I. William, died aged seventeen years, six
months, having a remarkable railitary recoird ;
he was captain in the military school in Wor
cester, later enlisted in the United States ser
vice as second lieutenant, was promoted to first
lieutenant, then captain and just previous to
his death was made lieutenant-colonel, the
papers having been made out. 2. Mary E.,
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E^dward H., who was a slipper manufacturer
in Lynn, later superintendent of a factory;
married, February 20, 1879, Elizabeth Strat
ton Ross; he died at forty-nine years of age.
4. Alfred Rowland, retired oil, stock and cot
ton broker, residing in New York City. 5.
Sarah H., a resident of Lynn.
It was characteristic of Mrs. Hacker that
when she came to woman's estate, she should
become an ardent Abolitionist like her father.
She threw herself into the moveraent and
when the war broke out she gave a son to the
cause. By this time she was a resident of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and there she did
true womanly service on the sanitary commis
sion. Soon after the war Mrs. Hacker re
turned to Lynn, and here took up her resi
dence. Her interest in her fellows was in no
way abated, and she was eager to lighten the
lot of her own sex. In 1869 she was the prime
raover in organizing the Woraen's Union for
Christian Work, of which she was vice-presi
dent for seventeen years and its inspiring
genius. In 1886-87 it became a part of the
work of the Associated Charities. Up to the
last Mrs. Hacker took an interest in the or
ganization, and at the present time her daugh
ter, Sarah H., fills her place. Early in the
seventies Mrs. Hacker, along with others,
sought to establish a hospital in Lynn. It was
carried on for several years, but owing to lack
of funds and the conflicting ideas of the two
schools of medicine it was given up, but it
served a valuable service, giving an impetus
to the raoveraent which resulted in establish
ing the present Lynn Hospital. She was
possessed of a b^rilliant intellect ; her moral
and spiritual qualities were equal to her intel
lect, and the service she rendered humanity
was a service of no mean significance She
was always a great reader, and the range of
her reading was wide and varied as became a
woman of her intelligence and interests. Books
of history and travel, works of biography and
belles-lettres, all good poetry and fiction, the
current magazines and the daUy papers, all
seeraed necessary to serve her taste. She did
not neglect religious works ; her habit was to
read a passage and then to think about it — to
turn it over and over in her mind until she had
got all the marrow out of it. These intellectual
spiritual interests she kept up to the very day
of her death, and in this way she learned the
secret of etemal youth. The following is from
the pen of the Rev. Samuel B. Stewart, who
had known her long and intimately ;
"The life she led was thoughtful, earnest.

beautiful in virtue. No one could meet her
but to feel one's self in the presence of a
woman of true refinement and culture. Her
bearing was that of a disciplined mind and
conscientious motive. She was as brave and
outspoken as she was tender, kindly and sym
pathetic. She seemed to rae to represent the
best that it is our privilege to aspire to and to
admire, not only in private but in public. In
raatters of religion she kept abreast the proph
ecy and the inspiration of the hour, true in
every sense to the best spirit of the venerable
body of Friends with which her early life was
intiraately associated, and to which she re
raained loyal. Aluch of the traditional theolo
gy was now to her a dead letter, and she was
frank in the expression of her dissent ; at the
same time she was appreciative of the feelings
by which the human family, in its various
divisions of belief, through education and as
sociation, is affected. Her raind and heart
were stayed by the spiritual realities that are
our comraon inheritance".
(VIII) Mary, third daughter of Nathan
and Alary E. (Sweet) Breed, was born in
Lynn, April 12, 1826. Like her sister Sarah,
the early life in the horae— where they met
men and women of distinction not only of this
country but frora abroad (for Nathan Breed's
hospitality was great, and the exciting time of
those anti-slavery days, as Nathan Breed's
house was one of the stopping places of the
"underground railroad" for the negro) — she
learned that broad outlook on life and helpful
ness for others that distinguished them both.
On December 12, 1847, she married M^illiam
Bradford, who afterwards became the "dis
tinguished artist of the frozen north," and
whose paintings are in many private horaes
and public institutions both in Araerica and
England. He was the first -American to lec
ture before the Royal Geographical Society
of England, and was introduced by Lyndall,
and spoke of his experiences in the far North.
It was during the Civil War that Alary Brad
ford, with Elizabeth Corastock, the Quaker
preacher, visited many of the camps and hos
pitals in the South, ministering alike to the
needs of the Blue and the Grey, comforting
the sick and dying, and taking raessages for
the wives and raothers of the poor wounded
soldiers. The quiet hour with the immortal
Lincoln at the White House, about three
weeks before his death, when they came from
the battlefield at \^^inchester at his request,
his great heart, his pity for the sorrows of
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God's blessing on the work he had to do, was
an experience never to be forgotten. While
she hated wrong, she had an intense syrapathy
for the wrongdoer, and did what she could to
bring thera to a right way of living. She was
always trying to help somebody, both in public
ways and individual cases. She accorapanied
her husband twice to England, where she met
many titled and distinguished people — the
Duke and Duchess of Argyle, Baroness Bur-
dett-Coutts, Lady Jane Franklin, Lord Alfred
Tennyson and others. Air. Bradford's studio
was in New York City, where he died in 1892,
but his horae was in the lovely old town of
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the horae of so
many artists. Here his wife spent the last
years of her life with her devoted daughter
Mary, and where the daugliter still lives. - "An
other daughter, Esther, died in childhdod.

"¦i-'j!. ;.-•-. ':¦ Thomas Whed-pn, irami-
'¦-'WHEDO-N- grant' aricestdr, born in Eng
land, -about i635,-;seems. to be
the -only early -irnmigranf of this surname,
sometiraes speUed Wheadofi. SOmJe -authdri-
ties think that W^^eedon and Wheaton wer'e of
the saiiie faTnilyrbiitrioy definite -proof is af-
'forded. Wheddri settled in New Haven, Con
necticut. He was a yoiirig nian at- the time of
liis coraing; '-and-' had -'jtist -entered an appren-
iiceship with John Aleigstd learn the trade of
Mariner, and came" with -Meigs from' England.
bailing from ^ South'arapton about 1647. He
TvalS-of age, aridtook tlie oath of^ fidelity and
a-ltegiance prescribed- by th-e -English cro-wn in
1657. He feih'oyedto'Branfdrdy Gdnhecticut,
"w^here he was one of the 'proprietors before
¦1667, and he joined the New'^Cdinpac't'of the
'settlement in heii of that^w'hi'ch' had governed
those 'vvho went away to fdrm'a new settl'e-
inent In New' Jersey, ;^Hei married, -May '24,
t66i, 'Alary Ann Harvey, and died in 1691,
leaving a widow and fi^ve children. C^i'dren ;
I. Thofnas,'born May 3T, 1663 ; mentioned be
low. 2. Sarah, born April 23, married Samuel
"Elwell. ^3; Esther, born Jariuary" 26, i658 ;
married at "Bi-anfdrd, Edward 'Johnson. 4.
John, born abdut 1671. 5. Hannah, born about
1675-  ' '. ' -' ', , '. ' .
CII) Thorrias Whedori, sdn of "rhornas
Whedon (i), was born in Branfd'rd, Connecti
cut, Alay 31', i66|. He was adraitted.to the
Branford church in i6gi. ' He married Han-
'riah — ¦ ' , who -was admitted to The churifh
March 7, 1687-S.' He 'vvas a farmer, arid aflifs
death about 1707" left" a goodly "estate. ' -Chil
dren, born at Branford : i . Hannali",' ' about

1686. 2. Abigail, about 1688. 3. Thomas,
169 1 ; mentioned below. 4. John, -1694, joined
church September 28, 1718. 5. Nathaiiiel,
1697. 6. Rebecca, 1701. 7. Jonathan, 1764.
8. Alartha (posthumous), 1706-7.
(Ill) Thomas Whedon, son of Thoriias
Whedon (2), was born at Branford, Connecti
cut, in 1691. His father died when he was a
boy of sixteen. He lived at Branford and
Easthampton, Connecticut. He married Eu
nice Servaine Elizabeth, who seems to have
been his second wife, died at Eastharaptori,
Septeraber 3, 1746. His children were":' Eu
nice : Dorcas ; Thomas ; Elizabeth ; Daniel, see
forward; Jehiel; Ephrairii.'-' '" ' --'.'-
(IV) Daniel Whedon, " son of 'Tbdrna-s-
Whedon (3), was born iri -1726. He married
Abigail Granger, and resided at EasthampfOri,
Connecticut. Children ; r. Sarah, raarried
Jedidiah Darrow. 2. Lucretia, married Sam
uel Root. 3". Grace, raarried Henry Hughes.
-4; ^Deni'son,'^ mentioned below. 5. Abigail,' mar'-
-ried —  Hopson. 6. Asenath. '
(V) 'Denison Whedon,- 'son pf. Daniel
'Whedon (4)-, -was born in Ea'sthariipton^ abotit
1756. He raarried Alary Parish' {a\s6 spelled
Pai-rish and Paris): His children werej Bet-
'sey ; Abigail ; Daniel, rnentidned beldw"^ -He
remdyed when a yourig nian tq;wliat was then.
"Charlotte "cdurify, New York; no-vvfin the .state
of Verrndnt, and settled in Bennington or" vi
cinity. In the New York State Reyolutionary
records we' find him' credited -with service in
the Charlotte" county regiment alotig with E-d-
TOund," Ariseh, David ' and -Efeniel' Whedori-
^Daniel -was doiibtless his father arid the others
his 'brdthers.' ' Edmii rid- Whedon settleff at
-Pa-(vlet, "yermdnt, in ¦i787Vand his d'esceridafits
are still living there ;" was a "ddnSfifuerit" merii-
bef of 'the Baptist" ch 11 rch7 -which -was .drgari-
ized^iri'his -hdiise in 1791 ; --vwas-' a' siibstaMial
citizen whd contributed much to th.e-iij^bmld-
;ing of the" -vUlage" of -West "Pawlet", bliiTdirig
.soine' df the first mills; -reriiidved to Cayuga
¦cdunfy;'Newy York; and li-ved to 'ari"adV£fti(^d
age^ " -Ansel 'V\''hed.dri, brother "of Edmtmd," "sol-
dfer" ill the'revdllitidii, set'tle"d"iii Paw.let,'Vef-
riiont ; died 1826, 'aged . sixty-'twd yeai-s'; his
'vv'Tddw ¦Racherifi i8-37;'aged'se-^&ify''"oiie ; chil
dren : 1. D"a"vid;'Jiadliis"uriele Edifturid's'hdine-
sfead; ii.-Aii.sel Jr;, -married Jaiie -AUen; 'ill.
John," 'riiar'ried' Ldvlce ,Harn'ddh";'-d^a'ughtef b'f
-JdsHua"; iv. Samfiel, niarried ariotte"r."da'iJghfer
df "'Joshua Harndpn, arid 'r eind ved- to TUilidiS;
V. Rachel; ftiarried ; ""WSsh"in§:o'ri "Z. ' Wait,^ o"f
Hebron, Ne-(V--Ydrlc; "vi." Ldfene, married Rev.
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(VI) Daniel Whedon, son of Denison
whedon (5), was born in that section of New
York, now Vermont, about 1775. He married
Qarissa Root. They resided in Hebron and
Munsville, New York. Children; i. Hiram,
mentioned below. 2. Alvah, father of Oscar
Whedon, of New York. 3. Daniel Denison,
the well known Alethodist divine, coraraen-
tarian and author, born in Geddes, near Onon
dago, March 20, 1808.
(VII) Hirara Whedon, son of Daniel
Whedon (6), was born in Hebron, New York,
in 1798, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Alay 28, 1881. He lived for a time in Stock-
bridge and Rorae, New York, but passed his
last years with his son Williara in Ann Arbor.
He raarried first, Alargaret Avery; second,
Flora Stoddard ; third, Abigail Lyman ; fourth,
Anna Parmalee Children of first wife : i.
Daniel Avery, born 1823. 2. Williara Wesley,
mentioned below. Alargaret Avery, first wife
of Hiram Whedon, was descended from Chris
topher Avery ( i ) , the emigrant, through Cap
tain James (2), John (3), William (4), John
(5), John, Jr. (6), Robert (7), who married
Lydia "White On the maternal side she wis
descended from WilHam ( i ) White, the May-
' flower PUgrim, through Peregrine! (2), (born
on the Alayflower); Daniel (3), Cornelius (4),
-Daniel (5), and Lydia (6). She was born
-January 27, 1763; died Alarch ;:24, .1847. -n-f:
(VIII) WUliam Wesley Whedon, -son of
Hiram' "VV'hedon, (7), was born in Rome, New
York, October 17, 1827. Pie removed to Anh
-Arbor, Alichigan, with his uncle in 1849. His
uncle. Rev. D.fD. Whedori,^ D. D., was one of
the four professors of the literary departraent
of the U^niversity of Alichigan. William en
tered the dry goods business as partner to
David Godfrey. In 1853 he embarked in busi
ness as a dry goods dealer at Chelsea, Michi
gan, and continued there for a period of
-twelve years. He was a' member of the Chel
sea Methodist Episcopal church, and an official
during his residence there. In 1865 he return
ed to: Ann Arbor and entered into a partner
ship with A; J. Sutheriand, nftder the firin
name of Sutherland arid Whedon, real estate
and insurance brokers. He was always active
, in town and church affairs. He-wd§ a prorai
nent raember Of ;.the Alethodist Church at Ann
Arbor, and held several offices in that parish.
He was;especiaUy interested in the education
of the young-,' arid for twenty-three years was
a member of the school board, diiring most'df
-the time b'ging secretary.- He died" March 24,
1907, at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He married

September 11, 1849, Helen Mar Turner, born
September 15, 1831, daughter of Robert and
Caroline (EUis) Turner. Her father, Robert
Turner, was born at Glastonbury, Connecti
cut, July 22, 1803, died at Saginaw, Michigan,
May 20, 1893 ; raarried, at North Orange,
Massachusetts, March 12, 1829, Caroline Ellis ;
children; i. Henry E. Turner, born April i,
1830; ii. Helen Mar, raentioned above; iii.
Alontilia R., born 1833, died 1834; iv. Susanna
AI. Turner, born October 11, 1835; v. Sarah
Turner, born January 21, 1843. Her mother,
Caroline Ellis, born September 11, 1807, died
at Saginaw, Michigan, Noveraber i, 1896,
daughter of Seth and Susannah (Cheney) El-
Hs, granddaughter of Seth and Elizabeth
(Rawson) and great-granddaughter of John
and Thankful (Baker) Ellis. John Ellis, born
1727, died 1814, his wife died in 1797. (See
Rawson sketch). Captain Williara Henry
and Mercy (Risley) Turner were the parents
of Robert Turner. Captain Turner was born
in 1764, and died July 25, 1810. His wife's
lineage isr Mercy;, (6.), Reuben Risley (5),
Jobi-Risley (4), Sarauel (3), born 168 1; raar
ried Rebecca Gaines; Richard Risley Jr. (2),
married Mary Plills'" ( -?) ; Richard' Risley (i-),
ftiarried Alary Steele ( P)^'- Children of;Cap-
tain William Henry, and Mercy' Turner ; i.
William H. Turner'; ii. James Turner ; iii.
Chatmeey Turner; iv. Alansou' 'Turner ; v.
Robert Turner, raentioned above ; vi. Sanford
'Turner; vii. George Turner; two daughters
died in infancy.' a Captain William Turner, a
fmaster mariner,- father of Captain William
Henry Turner, was drowned near Glaston
bury. Connecticut, s-s-^ '-^ j
The children of William Wesley and Helen
Mar (Turner) Whedon; i. Helen Margaret,
born 1852, died -i883;'>!marriedJ5Dr. "W. J.
Webb. 2. Caroline, bom 1854, died- in child
hood. 3. WiUiam Turner, born July 20', 1859;
raentioned below. 4. May, born 1863, married
1889, Dr. T. C.^ Phillips, of Caluraet, "Michi
gan, now residing 'in Alilwaukee, Wisconsin.
5. Susa, born 186S: raarried Charles W. Coan,
f^eJDtember 5, 1907, now residing in Brooklyn,
New York. 6. Sara; twin with Susa, instruc
tor in English ^iterat-ure^-high school, Ann
Arbor. f' '-¦«'¦ ¦¦"^- '"''
(IX) -William Turner Whedon, son of Wil-
-liam Wesley Whe'don (8), was born in Qiel-
sea, Alichigan, July 20, 1859." He attended the
.Ann Arbor public and high schools, and grad
uated from, the: University of Michigan with
the class of-'~i8Sr.' He then 'Came east and en
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sheepskin tanners and manufacturers, Boston
and Norwood, Massachusetts. In 1891 he
becanie a member of the firra. In 1901, when
his company was consolidated with the firm of
Winslow Brothers under the narae of Win-
slow Brothers and Sraith Company, he became
factory sales manager of the corapany, a posi
tion he has filled to the present tirae. Mr.
Whedon has been a trustee of the Morrill Me
morial Library of Norwood for a number of
years ; for nine years was secretary of the
Norwood Business Association and Board of
Trade, from 1896 to 1905, and was president
two years, 1905-7 ; also is a raember of the
executive council of the Massachusetts State
Board of Trade. Pie is vice-president of the
Norwood Literary Club, and president of the
Norwood Choral Society since its organiza
tion. He was editor and manager of the Nor-
zvood Reiiczv for several years, and is a regu
lar contributor to the columns of its successor,
the Norzvood Messenger. He is vice-president
of the Old Home Week Association. He is
a raeraber of the Congregational church. He
is prominent in the Alasonic order, a raeraber
of Orient Lodge, of Norwood ; of Hebron
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Norwood, and
for years its secretary ; of Cypress Conimand-
ery. Knights Templar, qf Hyde Park. He is
also a member of Lambda Chapter of Beta
Theta Pi college fraternity. He resides on
Bullard street, Norwood.
He niarried first, Mildred S. Knowlton, of
Ann Arbor, Michigan, daughter of Ernest J.
and Roxanna Knowlton. She was born in
South Lyons, Alichigan, i860, and died March
9, 1897, at Norwood. (See Knowlton sketch).
He raarried second, Florence (Barker) Loom
is, widow of Henry Loomis, daughter of Cap
tain Joshua P. Barker. She is a descendant
of a long line of Barkers who for several gen
erations were notable officers in the British
army, and on her grandmother's side is a di
rect descendant frora the English house of
Stuarts. She had one daughter. Elizabeth
Loorais, by her first marriage Children of
first wife; i. Helen Knowlton, born Alarch 2,
1891. 2. Florence Mildred, May 4, 1895.

(For preceding generations see Edward Rawson 1).
(Ill) David Rawson, son of
RAWSON William Rawson (2), was
born December 13, 1683. He
inherited the homestead at Braintree. He
was a persevering business man, with rauch
force of character. He died at Braintree
April 20, 1752. He married Alary Gulliver,

daughter of Captain John, of Milton. Their
graves are near that of President John Quincy
Adams, at Quincy, formerly Braintree. Chil
dren, born at Braintree: i. David, September
14, 1714, married Mary Dyer. 2. Jonathan,
December 26, 1715; raarried Susanna Stone.
3. Elijah, February 5, 1717; raarried Mary
Paddock. 4. Mary, May 20, 1718; raarried
Captaiii Joseph Winchester. 5. Hannah, April
2, 1720; died July 24, 1726. 6. Silence, June
12, 1721 ; died August 17, 1721. 7. Anne,
July 30, 1722 ; raarried Sarauel Bass. 8. Eliz
abeth, November 30, 1723 ; married Peter
Adams. 9. Josiah, January 3, 1727; men
tioned below. 10. Jerusha, December 21,
1729; married Israel Eaton. 11. Lydia, Jan
uary 17, 173 1 : married Samuel Baxter. 12.
Ebenezer, May 31, 1734; married Sarah Chase.
(IV)' Josiah Rawson, son of David Rawson
(3), was born at Braintree, January 3, 1727.
He settled first in Grafton, "Worcester county,
then in Warwick, Franklin county, Alassachu
setts. He died February 24, 1812. Children:
I. Josiah, born 1751; married Elizabeth Bar
rows. 2. Simeon, born 1753 ; married Ama
Holden. 3. Abigail, born November 14, 1755;
married Joshua Garfield ; lived at Royalston.
4. Alary, born November 23, 1757; married
David W. Leland. 5. Anna B., born October
II, 1759: married Thomas Leland. 6. Jona
than B., born 1761 ; raarried Livonia Robin
son. 7. Lydia, born 1763, died aged eighteen.
8. Elizabeth, born 1765 ; mentioned below. 9.
Lemuel, born January 18, 1767 ; married Sarah
Barrows. 10. Amelia, born 1769; (The Raw-
son Genealogy has her niarried to Seth Ellis).
II. Hannah, born 1771 ; died in \\^arwick. 12.
Secretary, born September 19, 1773; married
Lucy Russell.
(\') Elizabeth Rawson, daughter of Josiah
Rawson (4), was born in 1765, at Grafton
or Warwick, ?ilassachusetts. She raarried
Seth Ellis, and resided in Orange, Alassachu
setts. Caroline Ellis, daughter of his son Seth
Jr., married Alarch 12, 1829, Robert Turner,
at Winchester, New Plampshire, and their
daughter Helen Al., born Septeraber 15, 183 1,
at Claremont, New Plampshire, married Sep
tember 11; 1849, at Alunsville, New A^ork,
William Wesley Whedon. (See .sketch). On
her raother's side Caroline Ellis was sixth in
direct descent frora Williara Cheney, immi
grant ancestor from England in 1635 to Rox
bury, Alassachusetts, and her grandfather,
Ebenezer Cheney, fought in the revolution,
and in 1779 was stationed at Fort Ticon-
dero,ga.

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(I) Captain WiUiam
KNOWLTON Knowlton, immigrant au
cestor, was born in Eng
land, and was himself part owner of the ves
sel in which he came to this country. He died
on the voyage, and is said to have been buried
in what is now Shelburn, Nova Scotia. He
married Ann Elizabeth Smith. Their four
sons became prominent in early colonial his
tory in Massachusetts Bay: i. John, born
1610; married Margery Wilson; settled at
Ipswich; a shoemaker by trade. 2. WiUiam,
born 1615; mentioned below. 3. Deacon
Thomas, born 1622. 4. Samuel.
(H) WiUiam Knowlton, son of Captain
William Knowlton (i), was born in England,
in 161 5, and died in 1655. He was a brick
mason by trade. He settled in Ipswich, Massa
chusetts Bay, in 1641 and sold land in 1643.
The account of his estate was presented to the
court by his brother Thomas in 1678, accord
ing to Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts,"
but this account was probably that of his son's
estate. He was a raember of the First Church
of Ipswich. Children: i. Thoraas, born 1640;
niarried Hannah Green. 2. Nathaniel, born
1641 ; married Deborah Grant. 3. WUliam,
born 1642, removed from Ipswich to Norwich,
Connecticut. 4. John, born 1644; married
Bethia Carter. 5. Benjamin, born 1646; mar
ried Hannah Mirick. 6. Samuel, mentioned
below. 7. Mary, born 1649; married Samuel
Abbe. (Ill) Samuel Knowlton, son of WiUiam
Knowlton (2), was born in Ipswich, Massa
chusetts, in 1647; married Elizabeth Witt.
( IV) Rice Knowlton, son of Samuel Knowl
ton (3), was born in Ipswich, 1670, and died
1760; married Mary Dodge, of Ipswich, Jan
uary 2, 1699. Children; i. Paul, born 1703.
2. Rice, born January 27, 1705 ; mentioned be
low. 3. Bethia, 1709. 4. Mary, 1716. 5.
Churchill, 1720. 6. Deborah, 1723. 7. Abra
ham, 1725.
("V) Rice Knowlton, son of Rice Knowlton
(4), was born in Ipswich, January 27, 1705;
married Lydia Woodbury, of Ipswich, No
vember 25, 1727, ChUdren, born at Ipswich;
I. Benjamin, December 10, 1728; mentioned
below. 2. Francis, May 4, 1732. 3. Joseph,
August 12, 1734. 4. John, 1737. 5. Rice,
1740. (VI) Benjamin Knowlton, son of Rice
Knowhon (5), was born December 10, 1728,
at Ipswich. He raarried, at Westford, Massa
chusetts, 1750, Phebe "Wright. Children: i.
Phebe, born 1751. 2. Benjamin, born Septem

ber 26, 1753 ; mentioned below. 3. Henry, born
1756. 4. Lydia, 1758. 5. Esther, 1761. 6.
Sarah, 1764. 7. John, 1766. 8. Eunice, 1769.
9. Bethia, 1771. 10. Hannah, 1776.
(VII) Benjamin Knowlton, son of Benja
rain Knowlton (6), was born September 26,
1753; married AbigaU Wright. Children; i.
Abigail, born June 22, 1777. 2. Charlotte,
1778. 3. Benjamin, 1780; mentioned below.
4. Amos, 1783. 5. Lucy, 1786.
(VIII) Benjamin Knowlton, son of Benja
min Knowlton (7), was born in 1780; mar
ried at Sangerfield, New York, May 31, 1803,
Lucy Campbell. Children: i. Ursula, born
1804. 2. Charlotte, born 1806, died in infancy.
3. Benjamin, born 1809. 4. Charlotte, 181 1.
5. Emeline, 1813. 6. Oliver Jerome, born 1816.
7. Ernest J., 1818; mentioned below. 8.
Mariah, 1822.
(IX) Ernest J. Knowlton, son of Benjamin
Knowlton (8), was born in 1818; raarried at
Ypsilanti, Alichigan, March 17, 1850, Roxanna
A. Potter, born June i, 1831, at EUesburg,
New York, daughter of Ichabod and Amanda
(Streeter) Potter. Her father was the son
of Abel and Margaret (Green) Potter. Abel
Potter was a soldier in the revolution, and was
wounded in the Rhode Island campaign. Chil
dren : I. Jerome C, born 1850; married Adele
Pattengill. 2. Ida M., born 1853 ; married
Judge V. H. Lane. 3. Mildred S., born i860;
raarried WilHam T. Whedon. (See sketch).

Hon. Peter Morrell Neal, who had
NEAL the distinction of having served the
city of Lynn four consecutive years
as its war mayor, a faithful, patriotic citizen,
who had fairly earned the right to the title of
Honorable, and who was familiarly known in
the most respectful use of the sobriquet as
Lynn's "Grand Old Man", was born at Dough-
ty's Falls, North Berwick, Maine, September
21, 181 1, and died AprU 13, 1908, at the home
of his son, William E. Neal, of Lynn, thus
closing an unusually long and useful Hfe. He
was descended from hardy old colonial stock,
members of which have filled many places of
honor and trust in the gift of the people of the
Pine Tree State.
That the Neal faraily is of ancient origin in
England is attested by the fact that reference
is made to them in records of the reign of
Edward IV (1461-83), and among them was
Richard Neale, Knight, one of the justices of
common pleas and lord of Prestwould, who
died in 1485. The narae has been subjected
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of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire are
either descended from Sir Richard or from the
same source, as their coat-of-arms consisting
of "three greyhounds heads-erased-coUared-
and-ringed" was the same as that borne by the
judge just referred to. Thomas Neale (1519-
96) was professor of Hebrew at the Univer
sity of Oxford and a distinguished author.
John Neal, Esq., of Dean, Bedfordshire, mar
ried Anne, daughter of Henry Cromwell, the
latter a cousin of Oliver CromweU, lord pro
tector of England, and their son John, who
married Mary Lawes, of Norwich, emigrated
to New England, settling in Salem, Massachu
setts. He was a near relative, if not a brother,
of Francis Neale, who was appointed a magis
trate for Maine in 1660, and was a man of in
fluence in Concord and vicinity. In 1670 he
represented Falmouth in the general court. At
the breaking out of Indian hostilities in 1675
he removed to Salera, where he was admitted
to citizenship in the following year, and his
death occurred there subsequently to July,
1699. About 1670 he married EHzabeth,
daughter of Sarauel and Jane Andrews, who
were passengers in the "Increase" frora Lon
don in 1635. There is also a record stating
that Francis Neale raarried a daughter of Ar
thur Macworth, but whether or not this re
ferred to Francis Sr. or Francis Jr. cannot be
definitely determined. Francis Sr. had two
sons ; Francis Jr., died in 1693, and Samuel,
who survived hira. He also left two daugh
ters. Francis Neale Sr. was the ancestor of
raany of the Neals of York county, Maine.
(I) The ancestors of the Neal family here
under consideration were two brothers, John
and James, who carae to America and settled
in Maine, the former in the parish of Unity.
He raarried Joan  . Children: i. Mary,
married Samuel Miller, 1693. 2. Amy, in 1699
was taken captive by Indians ; after her re
lease she raarried, 1706, Samuel Johnson. 3.
Andrew, raentioned below. John Neal died
February 18, 1704.
(II) Andrew Neal, son of John and Joan
Neal, inherited the entire horaestead. He mar
ried, about 1694, Catherine, daughter of Will
iam Furbish. He died in 1739. Children; i.
Katherine, born December 4, 1695, married,
September 22, 1714, Nathaniel Austin, of Do
ver. 2. John, born October 18, 1698, men
tioned below. 3. Andrew, born May 4, 1701,
died 1757; married Dorcas Johnson. 4. Han
nah, born May 28, 1704, died young. 5. Re
becca, born January 20, 1706-07. 6. Mary,
born August 17, 1708, married, January 12,

1726, Benjamin HiU. 7. James, born May 4,
171 1, died August 31, 1730.
(Ill) John Neal, son of Andrew and Cath
erine (Furbish) Neal, was born October 18,
„ 1698, died in 1755. He married, intention pub
lished June 29, 1728, Patience Johnson, of
Hampton, born November 23, 1709, daughter
of Edmund Johnson. She survived him. Dow
says she married Ebenezer Godfrey, and he
may have been her second husband. Children ;
I. John, born August 25, 1729, died September
12, 1729. 2. Mary, born December 24, 1730,
died August 20, 1736. 3. Abigail, born May
23, 1732, married, November 28, 1757, Alden
"Warren. 4. Rebecca, born January 6, 1735,
died April 14, 1737. 5. Mary, born July 24,
1736, married, January 18, 1755, Tristram
"Warren. 6. Patience, born January 24, 1738.
7. John, born August 17, 1741, raarried, No
vember 27, 1765, Elizabeth Hubbard. 8. An
drew, born March 12, 1742-43. 9. James,
named in his father's will in 1752, mentioned
below. 10. Edmund, named in will; married
Jane Carae, of York, 1775.
(IV) James Neal, son of John and Patience
(Johnson) Neal, resided in Berwick, Maine.
He married, in Wells, Maine, Jean Hubbard,
intention published July 25, 1778. Children:
I. John, settled in South Berwick, in "the wilds
of Maine". 2. Elijah, mentioned below.
(V) Elijah Neal, son of James and Jean
(Hubbard) Neal, was born in North Berwick,
Maine, about 1785. He married, July 30, 1807,
Comfort Morrell, born January 3, 1788, daugh
ter of Peter and Hannah (Winslow) Morrell
(see Morrell family). They Hved at Doughty's
Falls, North Berwick, where their son, Peter
Morrell, raentioned below, was born, and
James. Elijah Neal was a blacksmith and '
ironworker by trade and manufactured car
riages. He spent his life in North Berwick
where he died at an advanced age.
(VI) Peter MorreU Neal, son of Elijah
Neal, was born September 21, 181 1. He re
ceived a part of his early education in the pub
lic schools of his native place, and at the age
of fifteen was enrolled as a pupil in the
Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island;
this was supplemented by attendance at the
North Berwick Academy, from which insti
tution he was graduated. In 1832 he opened
a private school in Portland, Maine, where he
remained until 1842, when he accepted the
principalship of the North Berwick high
school, a position which he held until 1850,
when, owing to ill health, he relinquished it
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lished his home. He built a house in what
was then Beech street, now Washington, where
he resided for several years, when he built
another in the adjoining lot where they re
sided until the death of Mrs. Neal, January
6, 1903. He became actively identified with
the business, social and political Hfe of the
city, and subsequently became its chief execu
tive. On coming to Lynn Mr. Neal formed
a partnership for the carrying on of the lum
ber business with Philo Clifford, which was
¦continued until 1859, ^r. Neal carrying on the
business alone until 1863, when he formed a
partnership with Nehemiah Lee, to whom he
sold out a year later. Shortly afterward he
built a new wharf on what is now Washing
ton street, opposite Tudor, and started in there
.as an individual. Here he continued until his
:retirement from active life in the latter
eighties. At the time of Mr. Neal's birth, Maine was
:a province of Massachusetts, and his first vote,
cast in 1832, was for Henry Clay, presidential
¦candidate for the Whig party. He afterward
joined the Free Soil party and later, upon the
formation of the Republican party, he was
its first candidate for the office of representa
tive. His political activity began soon after
¦coming to Lynn, when he was elected a mem
ber of the common council from ward four.
Later he was chosen a member of the school
-committee and was for a tirne chairman of that
body. On January 6, 1862, he was inaugu
rated mayor, and was re-elected to that office
the three following years, serving throughout
the civil war, and of all the famous war may
ors of Massachusetts cities none could take a
higher rank than he. Mr. Neal's record as the
•city's war mayor is one that will never be for
gotten. There were stirring times during his
.administration of the affairs of the city, and
his was a famUiar figure on the streets of
Lynn, and ever since that time his name has
been held in grateful remembrance by not only
the soldiers, but those who were associated
with him in the municipal affairs of his tirae.
He was constant in his devotion to the inter-
¦ests of the soldiers and their families, and
many times visited the army and the hospitals.
"His labor for the soldiers' and widows' pen
sions from the government, for which ser
vices he would never receive compensation, al-
-thougli many times urged to do so, was note
worthy. The Mexican, Civil and Spanish wars
i;ook place during his life and he took an ac-
-tive interest in them all. In 1870-71 he was a
anember of the house of representatives, and

in 1876 was a member of the state senate
from the first Essex district. It was a source
of great pride to Mr. Neal that his grandson,
Charles Near Barney, Esq., was nominated
and elected to the ofhce of mayor of the city
of Lynn in 1906, upon which occasion the
Hon. Peter M. Neal, although ninety-five years
of age, was the guest of honor and took an
active interest in all the proceedings.
After his retirement from active life, some
Mr. Neal for sorae time devoted his well
earned leisure to Biblical research which he be
gan in his schoolmaster days, and never wholly
abandoned during his mercantile career. He
also kept close track of the doings of the world
about him, and throughout the declining years
of his life manifested a keen interest in all
affairs pertaining to the city over which he was
once raayor. His last appearance in public was
at the recent anniversary of the Friends So
ciety on Silsbee street, when he was called
upon for a few reraarks, and though greatly
fatigued by the exertion of reaching the meet
ing house, spoke at some length in a reminis
cent vein that was highly entertaining to those
who heard him. He was revered and loved
by every citizen of Lynn, and it may truly be
said that he was one of nature's noblemen,
upright, honest and ever ready to recognize
the rights of others. In private and public
Hfe he was the soul of honor and often sacri
ficed much personal gain that his principles
might remain unprofaned. Too much cannot
be said of the splendid life of Mr. Neal, and
his name will go down in local history as one
to be held among those in the list of Lynn's
faraous raen. Mr. Neal was a raember of sev
eral societies, araong them being the Old Boys
of Ward 4, of which organization he was
elected' the perpetual president at the meet
ing held in Lynn Woods in the summer of
1904. He was also one of the trustees of the
Friends' school.
In September, 1836, while a schoolmaster in
Portland, Maine, Mr. Neal raarried Lydia
Cobb, the ceremony taking place in a little
Quaker raeeting house in Portland, Maine.
She was born March 26, 1815, at Parsonfield,
Maine, daughter of Edward and Phoebe
(Pope) Cobb, and a descendant of Henry
Cobb who came from England to Plymouth in
1629. Her parents moved to Parsonfield from
Portland temporarily, fearing that the Eng
lish soldiers would destroy that city as they did
at the time of the revolutionary war, but they
returned to Portland as soon as they believed
all danger to have passed. On her mother's

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side Airs. Neal traced her descent to Joseph
Pope, who came to Salem in the ''Alary and
John" in 1634. Edward Cobb joined the So
ciety of Friends when a young raan, and his
wife was born a Friend, thus their daughter
Lydia was a birthright raeraber of the Society
and all her life one of its active workers.
Airs. Neal was educated in Portland, and for
a short time was engaged in teaching in that
city. She always took a strong interest in
religious and educational work and in the var
ious activities of women in the city of Lynn.
She served for years on the coraraittee of the
Friends" school in Providence, Rhode Island,
and from time to time held various positions
of trust in the Society of Friends. She was
one of the charter raerabers of the Lynn Wo
raan's Club, and at the close of her life was
on the honorary list of that organization. No
younger woman took a more genuine interest
in the various activities with which she was
connected than did Mrs. Neal, but while al
ways willing to assist in any work she sought
no recognition or advancement and never de
sired office. The center of Mrs. Neal's Hfe
was always her own home. During the sixty-
six years of their raarried life there existed
between husband and wife that true corapan-
ionship which makes the real home life. Her
interest in her husband's activities, her wide
search for the knowledge to be gained from
reading and conversation and her kindly in
terest in the old and young, raade her, even to
the end of her long life, younger in spirit than
many women of half her years. Her death
occurred January 6, 1903, after an illness of
less than two weeks. Although in the eighty-
seventh year of her age, she was up to that
time in the full enjoyment of all her faculties
and possessed the same keenness of intellect
and graciousness of manner which charac
terized her in younger days and won for her
the love and admiration of all who knew her.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Neal were : Ed
ward Cobb, of Lynn; Mary Louise, wife of
WiUiam Mitchell Barney, of Lynn; Ellen AL,
wife of John E. Cheney, of Boston; Williara
E., raarried Harriet Louise Schofield ; one
daughter, Louise. Their grandchildren are:
Rev. Edward Mitchell Barney, Lydia Louise
Barney, of Lynn, forraer Mayor Charles Neal
Barney, of Lynn, Herbert Neal Cheney, of
Boston and Louisa Neal. Their great-grand
children are: Josephine Cheney, of Boston,
and Virginia and Stuart Neal Barney, daugh
ter and son respectively of former Mayor
Barney.

With siraple ceremony which coincided witb
his ideas of hfe and in accordance with the spir
itual devotion of the church of which he was
a member, the Society of Friends, the last
words were spoken over the remains of the
late Peter M. Neal and the body laid to rest.
The funeral services were held at the Friends"^
Church, Silsbee street. Besides the friends and
relatives of Mr. Neal there were present the
members of the Lynn city government, ex-
raayors of the city, raembers of the board of
alderraen, coraraon councU, school board, de
partment boards, many of the older residents
of the city, over eighty years of age, who had
been associated with the departed in business
and social life, and a large delegation from
General Lander Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the
Republic, many of whom were the "boys of
'61," who left Lynn in the defense of their
country under the first administration of Lynn's
war mayor. Reraarks in eulogy of the life and
work of Mr. Neal were made by Augustine
Jones, of Newton, a friend of Mr. Neal, and
who was formerly stationed in Lynn; JohiL
Elwood Paige, also a firm friend of Mr. Neal ;:
senior vice coraraander of the Grand Army
of the Republic ; and J. L. Parker, who spoke
in part as follows ; '"The death of Hon. Peter
AI. Neal brings to the comrades of General
Lander Post a profound sorrow. They recalh
his services to the raen who fought to pre
serve the Union ; his unfailing thoughtfulness
for the sick and wounded ; his ready helpful
ness for the farailies of those who went tO'
the front ; his tender syrapathies for those
called to mourn the loss of loved ones; how
he spoke words of encouragement when the
prospect of success was clouded; how he re
joiced when victory was perched upon the
Union banners. His devotion to his country
never faltered and his affection for those who-
stood between the loyal hearts he represented
and the enemies of their country never failed.
A fine example of sturdy manhood, governed'
by high virtues, patriotic in his devotion to
public duty, of unswerving rectitude in pri
vate life, ever the good citizen, recognizing his
responsibility and never shirking it, he has
gone to his reward, full of years and honors,
blessed with strength of days and the com
mendation of his fellow citizens." The Rev.
Alary E. Aliurs, pastor of the church, also
delivered a eulogy, which was in part as fol
lows : "The public life of Peter Al. Neal was
an open book, so clean it needs no words of
mine, indeed I can add no words to make it
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eration served the counsel of God, he fell
asleep." "Here lies God's noblest work— .\ man.
A friend to truth wllb asuul saiuei*-. A statesman.
Who broke no promise, ser.ved no private ead.
With honor clear, betrayed no tiieud".

(I) John Morrell, immigrant
AlORRELL ancestor, born 1640, settled
at Cold Harbor, now Eliot,
Alaine, in 1666. He had a grant of land in
1668. He was a mason by trade, and was li
censed to keep a ferry and ordinary in 1686.
He was living in 1720, when the last record
of him appears. He married Sarah, daughter
of Nicholas and Elizabeth Hodson. Children :
I. Nicholas, born 1667; married Sarah Frye.
2. Sarah, married first, August 4, 1701, George
Huntress ; second, Thomas Darling. 3. John,
mentioned below. 4. Edah, married April 27,
1702, Jonathan Nason. 5. Hannah, raarried
John Tidy. 6. Abraham, raarried Phebe
Heard. 7. Elizabeth, married February 3,
1698, Samuel Drown.
(II) John Morrell, son of John Morrell,
niarried December 16, 1701, Hannah, daughter
of Peter and Mary Dixon. His will was dated
in 1756 and proved in 1763. His wife died
December 20, 1765. Children; i. John, born
July 30, 1702 ; married Ruth Dow. 2. Thomas,
born August 20, 1705 ; probably died young.
3. Peter, born September 16, 1709; mentioned
below. 4. Jedediah, born August 29, 171 1;
raarried first, Deceraber 5, 1734, Elizabeth
Jenkins ; second, October 20, 1737, Anna Dow ;
third, January 28, 1762, Sarah Gould ; died
1776. 5. Richard, born Septeraber 23, 1713;
not naraed in will. 6. Keziah, married 
Roberts. 7. Alary, raarried William Gerrish,
of Berwick.
(Ill) Peter Morrell, son of John Morrell,
was born September 16, 1709, and died No
vember 11, 1801. He raarried first, October
10, 1734, Sarah Peaslee, of Hampton, who
died June 19, 1780; second, Elizabeth Sawyer.
He resided at North Berwick. Children; i.
Thomas, born February 19, 1733; married
February 25, 1754,  Johnson. 2. John,
born Alay 10, 1734; married September 24,
1757, Sarah Winslow. 3. Sarah, born March
2,3, 1736; killed by Indians, at North Berwick,
Alay 9, 1748. 4. Stephen, born April 10, 1737;
married October 27, 1761, EHzabeth Winslow ;
second, June 4, 1788, Sarah Austin. 5. Jacob,
born February 6, 1739 ; married October 27,
1760, Elizabeth Huston. 6. David, born De
cember 14, 1740; married December 31, 1766,
Sarah Lewis. 7. Jonathan, born July 9, 1742 ;

died June 15, 1743. 8. Ruth, born January 4,
1744; married Alay 24, 1762, Samuel "Win-
slow. 9. Peaslee, born September 25, 1748;
married first, July 14, 1768, Phebe Chad
bourne; second, .Peace Ricker; third, Jane
(Emery) Frost, widow. 10. Peter, born May
5, 1753; mentioned below.
(IV) Peter Alorrell, son of Peter Morrell,
was born May 5, 1753, and died January i,
1 819. He was a lawyer and farmer, at North
Berwick. He raarried, at Falmouth, February
26, 1776, Hannah Winslow, died October 3,
1807. Children: i. Elizabeth, born April 15,
1777; married May i, 1800, Jacob Sawyer. 2.
Lydia, born Alarch 29, 1779; married Alarch
I4> 1799. Oliver Austin. 3. Sarah, born April
4, 1781 ; married April 4, 1799, Thomas Stack-
pole 4. Theodate, born May 29, 1783 ; died
October 25, 1801, unraarried. 5. Hope, bom
August 16, 1785 ; raarried January 6, 1814,
Jaraes Harvey ; died March 22, 1865. 6. Com
fort, born January 3, 1788; raarried July 30,
1807, EHjah Neal (see Neal faraily). 7. Lo-
vina, born January 5, 1790; died Noveraber
14, 1872, unmarried. 8. Hannah, born March
21, 1792; died Alarch 14, 1870. 9. Guhela
Maria, born June 22, 1794; died August 8,
1794. 10. Benjamin, born July 14, 1795 ; died
March 23, 1796. 11. Peter Winslow, born
Alarch 12, 1797; married first, Lois Wliitne/;
second, Ruth (Hersey) Frothingill, widow.
12. .Asa, born June 3, 1799; married Cynthia
Dow.

The Newhall faraily of the
NEWHALL line here treated comes of
the English branch which
was seated in Cheshire, and was itself descend
ed from the ancient Newhalls so closely asso
ciated with events in the tirae of the Con
queror. All writers of Newhall genealogy
(and they have been raany) agree that Thomas
and .Anthony Newhall were the iraraigrant an
cestors in America, and that they landed in
Salera in the colony of Alassachusetts Bay in
the year 1630. It is with Thomas Newhall
and a single line of his descendants that we
have to deal in this place.
(I) Thoraas NewhaU, iraraigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came with his
brother, Anthony Newhall, to Lynn about
1630. Thomas Newhall married Alary  ,
who died September 25, 1665. He died at
Lynn, Alay 25, 1674. His wiU was dated
April I. 1669, and filed June 30, 1674; he be
queathed various parcels of real estate to his
children. He had land at Rumney Alarsh,

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Gaines Neck and Lynn. His son Thomas was
executor of his will. The estate was appraised
at one hundred and seventy-three pounds.
ChUdren; i. Susanna, born about 1624, died
February 7, 1682 ; married Richard Haven. 2.
Thomas, born about 1630, mentioned below.
3. John, married first, Ehzabeth Leighton;
second, July 17, 1679, Sarah Flanders. 4.
Mary, born about 1637, married Thomas
Brown. (II) Thomas Newhall, known as Ensign
Thomas, son of Thomas NewhaU (i), said to
have been the first white child born in Lynn,
died April 2, 1687. He raarried, December
29, 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Pot
ter; she was buried in Lynn, February 22,
1676-77. His executor, John Newhall, filed
his will in Suffolk county. His estate
was valued at six hundred pounds. He was
ensign in the inilitary company. His homestead
adjoined land of Benjamin Potter, bounded
on the coramon northerly and on the country
road or highway southerly. Children, born in
Lynn; i. Thomas, born November 18, 1653,
married Rebecca Greene, of Maiden. 2. John,
born December 14, 1655, died January 20,
1738; married Esther Bartrara, of Lynn. 3.
Joseph, born September 22, 1658, mentioned
below. 4. Nathaniel, born March 17, 1660,
raarried Elizabeth Symonds. 5. Elizabeth,
bom March 21, 1662, drowned in April, 1665,
in a pit near the father's house. 6. Elisha,
born November 3, 1665, buried in latter part
of February, 1686-87. 7. Elizabeth, born Oc
tober 22, 1667. 8. Alary, born February 18,
1669. 9. Samuel, born January 19, 1672, mar
ried Abigail Lindsey. 10. Rebecca, born July
17, 1675, raarried Ebenezer Parker, of Read
ing. (Ill) Joseph Newhall, son of Thomas New
hall (2), was born in Lynn, Septeraber 22,
1658, died January 29-30, 1705-06, while he
was on the road frora Lynn to Boston during
a great snow storra. He was a prorainent citi
zen, holding raany positions of honor and!
trust, was representative to the general court
in 1705-06, and was called Ensign Newhall.
Pie left a considerable landed estate. He raar
ried Susanna Farrar, born March 26, 1659,
daughter of Thoraas and Elizabeth Farrar,
of Lynn. Children; i. Jemima, born Decem
ber 31, 1678; married Benjamin Very. 2.
Thomas, January 6, 1680. 3. Joseph, February
6, 1683-84 ; married Elizabeth Potter. 4.
Elisha, November 20, 1686 ; married Jane
Breed. 5. Ephraira, February 20, 1688, raen
tioned below. 6. Daniel, February 5, 1690;
raarried Mary Breed. 7. Ebenezer, June 3,

1693; married Elizabeth Breed. 8. Susanna,
Deceraber 19, 1695 ; married Joseph Breed. 9.
Benjamin, April 5, 1798; married Elizabeth
Fowle. 10. Samuel, March 9, 1700. 11.
Sarah, July 11, 1704; raarried Thomas Bur-
:-age. (IV) Ephraim Newhall, son of Joseph New
hall (3), was born in Lynn, February 20,
1688, married there, December 12, 1716, Ab
igail Denmark, who died Septeraber 10, 1753.
(V) Ephraim Newhall, son of Ephraim
NewhaU (4), was born about 1718. He mar
ried, June II, 1745, Abigail NewhaU, who was
buried at Lynn, August 23, 1777. ChUdren,
born at Lynn : i. Rufus, mentioned below. 2.
John, married). June 22, 1790, Mary Bachel-
lor. (VI) Rufus Newhall, son of Ephraim New
haU (5), was born May 7, 1747, died Decem
ber 31, 1815. He married, December 26,
1787, at Lynn, Keziah Breed, who died there
Alarch 8, 1849, aged eighty-three Children,
born at Lynn; i. John, born August 22, 1788,
raentioned below. 2. Archelaus, July 23, 1790.
3. Keziah, August 13, 1792, died May 10, 1815.
4. Eliza, December 24, 1794, 5. Anna RoweU,
October 16, 1797, died September 27, 1815.
6. Rufus, October 16, 1800. 7. Abigail, Aug
ust 29, 1802. 8. Enos, August 27, 1804, raen
tioned below. 9. Clarissa Ingalls, October i,
1806, died January i, 1833. 10. Nathan
Beed, January 21, 1808, died May 12, 1847.
II. lames, July 27, 1810, died August 29,
1810. (VII) John NewhaU, eldest son of Rufus
Newhall (6), was bom in Lynn, August 22,
1788. He was called Junior to distinguish
him from other older John Newhalls. He was
a farraer in Lynn, residing at the corner of
what is now Broad and Atlantic streets, in a
house which is still standing. He was among
the substantial fathers of his day and tirae,
and in addition to his tillable land he owned
a large amount of wood land. He took an ac
tive part and interest in all agricultural mat
ters, and was for many years an active mem
ber of the Essex Agricultural Association. He
owned a large farm in the vicinity of Broad
and Atlantic streets, and the latter street was
by him cut through and laid out and he sold
a number of building lots on either side of it,
and he also owned and sold considerable land
on what is now the boulevard. He was for
merly a Whig and later a Republican in poli
tics, and held the office of overseer of the
poor. He also was one of the owners of the
two whaling ships — "Nimus" and "Com
modore Presle" — which for a number of

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years sailed out of Lynn. He was a member
of the Society of Friends. He married, No
vember 26, 1817, DeHa Breed, daughter of
Samuel and Theodate Breed, of Lynn. Chil
dren bom at Lynn: i. Ann, born August 29,
1818, died July 4, 1830. 2. Avis, January 28,
1820, died June 19, 1829. 3. Edward, July
22, 1822, died June 12, 1905. 4. Harriet, Aug
ust 20, 1824, died December 24, 1824. 5.
Charles, August 26, 1826, died October 20,
1867. 6. WUliam Oliver, November 9, 1828,
mentioned below. 7. Anna, August 15, 1831,
died September 30, 1833.
(VII) Enos NewhaU, son of Rufus New
hall (6), was born on Atlantic street, Lynn,
August 27, 1804, died 1870. He followed the
occupation of farming throughout the greater
part of his active career, and in all respects
proved himself to be an exemplary citizen.
He married Eliza Flanders, of Boscawen.
New Hampshire, whose death occured in
1894. Children: A child who died in in
fancy. 2. Franklin Enos, born December 9,
1835, mentioned below.
(VIII) William Oliver Newhall, young
est son of John (7) and Delia (Breed) New
hall, was born November 9, 1828, at the cor
ner of Broad and Atlantic streets, Lynn, died
April 4, 1908. He received his education in
the Lynn schools and the Moses Brown board
ing school in Providence, Rhode Island, of
which he was later a member of the school
committee for more than a quarter of a cen
tury. He left school at the age of eighteen,
and immediately began his business career in
a shoe factory, which line of work he foUowed
for a quarter of a century, and after his re
tireraent acted in the capacity of trustee of es
tates and in looking after his own property.
Pie developed a part of the old farm and built
some houses, among them being his late resi
dence on Atlantic street. He was the
first vice-president and tmstee of Lynn In
stitution for Savings, was for many years
treasurer of the Lynn Home for Aged
Women, holding that position at the time of
his death, and trustee of the Home for Aged
Men He was a life-long member, and a min
ister for many years, of the Society of Friends
in Lynn, and held a prominent position m its
councUs. He served as clerk of the New
England yearly meeting for twenty years or
more, and was one of the most widely known
and respected of this denomination. He was
a Whig and Republican in pohtics. He -was
a man of sterling integrity, and endeared him
self to his friends by his kindly interest and
ready sympathy. He had a wonderfully re

tentive memory of men and events, and a fund
of anecdotes qf the experiences of his early
Hfe. He married, at West Falmouth, on Cape
Cod, October 23, 1856, Mary Elizabeth Boyce,
daughter of Jonathan and Deborah (Dilling
ham) Boyce, and their chUdren are; i. Wil
liam -Boyce, born January 13, i860, is a florist,
having three greenhouses in Lynn ; he is a
yachtsman and is commodore of the Lynn
Volunteer Yacht Club. 2. Mary Alice, born
October 19, 1861, raarried Edraund F. Buf
fington, of Fall River, whd is engaged in the
coal business there; one child, Gertrude Eliz
abeth Buffington, born July 10, 1892. Mrs.
William O. Newhall died April 27, 1906.
(VIII) Frankhn Enos NewhaU, son of
Enos Newhall (7), was born Deceraber 9,
1835, in Lynn, in the old house built by his
father about the year 1832. He was educated
in public schools, and for many years fol
lowed the shoe trade, which proved highly
remunerative. He is now leading a retired
life, enjoying the rest and ease which should
follow a live of activity and usefulness. He
married Hannah Elizabeth Goldsmith, born
October 22, 1836, died April 9, 1895. She
was a native of Lynn. Their children were;
I. Frank E., born April 24, i860. 2. Fred W.,
mentioned below.
(IX) Fred W. Newhall, son of Franklin
Enos NewhaU (8), was born in Lynn, Decem
ber 29, 1864. He attended the public schools
of Lynn, completing his studies at the age of
sixteen. His first employment was in the
newspaper business, and for the past two dec
ades he has been engaged as a newsdealer,
conducting a stationery store at No. 224 Lewis
street, Lynn. He is a meraber of East Lynn
Lodge, No. 207, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; Lynn Encampment, No. 58; Saga
more Tribe, No. 2, Improved Order of Red
Men, and Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is
a Republican in politics, in which he has taken
an active part, having been a delegate to a
large number of conventions. He was a raem
ber of the city council four years. He mar
ried, in March, 1889, Alary E. Thomas, of
Swampscott, daughter of the late Henry and
Mary (Twining) Thoraas. One child, Lillian
G., born April 23, 1890.
(For ancestry see preceeding sketch.)
(IV) Samuel Newhall, son
NEWHALL of Joseph Newhall (3), was
born in Lynn, March 9,
1700. He married Keziah Breed, of Lynn,
December 8, 1724. She was the daughter of
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Newhall was adopted in his youth by an uncle,
Thomas Farrar, who in his wiU, dated June
5, 1730, proved January 11, 1733, bequeathed
the bulk of his estate to Samuel Newhall and
Richard Hood, another kinsman. Samuel's
will, dated July 28, 1768, proved October i,
1770, bequeathed to sons, Pharaoh, Abijah and
Daniel ; to daughters Anna Estes, Elizabeth,
Sarah, Lydia Johnson, Abigail Purinton, Re
becca Chase and Ruth NewhaU ; also his
brother, Elisha Newhall. His death is entered
on the Friends' records as October, 1770.
This record gives the date of his wife's death
as October 9, 1749. Children, born in Lynn:
I. Anna, October 27, 1725 ; married as his sec
ond wife, Matthew Estes. 2. Elizabeth,
March 7, 1727-8. 3. Sarah, August 20, 1730;
married Abner Jones. 4. Lydia, January 14,
1732-3 ; raarried Nehemiah ( ?) Johnson.
5. Pharaoh, February 15, 1733-4; raentioned
below. 6. Abijah, February 15, 1736-7. 7.
Abigail, March 4, 1738, married Samuel Pur
inton, of Danvers. 8. Daniel, February
4, 1740-1. 9. Rebecca, October 28, 1743; raar
ried Abner Chase, of Salera. 10. Ruth, Oc
tober 12, 1746.
(V) Pharaoh NewhaU, son of Sarauel New
hall (4). was born in Lynn, February 15,
1733-4; raarried, AprU 24, 1764, Theodate
Breed, born Deceraber, 1733. (See Breed fara
ily). He was a blacksraith by trade, and in re
ligion a Friend, as were many of the family of
earler and later date. His name is supposed
to have been a corruption of the surnarae
Farrar of his paternal grandraother. His
wife died in Lynn, September 9, 18 10, and
he died in September 15, 1821. His will,
wherein he is styled Pharaoh Newhall, of
Lynn, yeoman, dated December 30, 1816, and
proved October 2, 1821, mentions grandsons
Abner, Austin and Thoraas F. Newhall ; his
son Winthrop, to whom he gave a lot called
Leighton Field ; son Silvanus to whom he
gave a lot laid out to Joseph NewhaU; and
son Sarauel. Children born in Lynn: i. Sara
uel, born Alarch 9, 1765 ; married Sarah Phil
lips. 2. Abner, born Septeraber 24, 1767, died
August 8, 1769. 3. Winthrop, born June 6,
1769, raentioned below. 4. Abner, bom July
19, 1771 ; died .August, 1802, at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. 4. Silvanus, born July 18,
1773, married Lydia Gove. 6. Theodate,'born
February 6, 1776, married Manuel Austin.
7. Francis, bom Septeraber 23, 1778, died
November 29, 1787.
(VI) Winthrop NewhaU, son of Pharaoh
Newhall (5), was born in Lynn, Alassachu

setts, June 6, 1769, and died there August 19,
1852. He was a tanner by trade, and for
many years carried on a successful tanning
business, his vats and tanyard being located
on the west side of Market street, near the
present railroad crossing. He married, Jan
uary 12, 1794, Elizabeth Farrington. ChU
dren: I. Francis S., born April 30, 1795. 2.
Henry, March 10, 1797, mentioned below. 3.
Eliza, January 12, 1799, died young. 4. Eliza,
April 25, 1800. 5. Sophia, Alay 9, 1806. 6.
Lydia, January 10, 1810. 7. Horace, August
30, 1813.
(VII) Henry Newhall, son of Winthrop'
Newhall (6), was born in Lynn, Massachu
setts, Alarch 10, 1797, and died July 15, 1878.
In partnership with his brother, Francis New
haU, he continued his father's business, add
ing to it the manufacture of morocco of which
he made a specialty until he retired from ac
tive labor and business on account of failing-
health. He filled with ability and fidelity sev
eral raunicipal offices. He was a director of
the Leighton Bank, which became the Central
National Bank, from October 7, 1850, under
its two charters to January 11, 1876, the long
est continuous service on the board of direc
tors ; and on the death of his brother Francis,
succeeded February, 18581, to the office of
president, a position that he likewise held un
til he resigned January 11, 1876. His early
opportunities for schooling were liraited, but
he made the raost of thera, and through ob
servation and study acquired an excellent lib
eral education. Early in life he joined the
Unitarian church, which was incorporated in
1822. He raarried, Deceraber 8, 1829, Ann
Atwell, who was born February 26, 1809, and
died February 13, 1863. Araong their children
were; i. Sarah C, married Benjarain J.
Berry. 2. Henry Pickering. 3. Charles At
well. 4. Charles Henry.
Zachariah Atwell, father of Ann (Atwell)
Newhall, was born November i, 1779, and
died in January, 1847 ; married .A-una Bredeen,
of Alalden, Massachusetts, who was bom July
17, 1778, and died June 8, 1864. Zachariah
.Atwell, father of Zachariah (6), was born
October 9, 1755, and died November 6, 1836.
Williara Atwell (4), father of Zachariah
Atwell (5), was bom about 1730, and died
Noveraber 5, 1806; was a soldier in the revo
lution frora Lynn, a private in Captain Gal-
lusha's company. Colonel Benjamin R. Wood-
bridge's regiment, 1775 ; also in Captain John
Devereux's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's
regiment; discharged July 3, 1778. Nathan

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AtweU (3), father of WiUiam (4), married,
Noveraber 27, 1729, Anna Ramsdell. John
AtweU (2), father of Nathan (3), married,
June 19, 1693, Margaret Max. John Atwell,
father of John (2), was the immigrant; born
in England, settled first in Maine; married
there, and about 1690 removed with his faraily
to Lynn, Massachusetts.
Henry Newhall was one of the most prom
inent and intelligent citizens of his genera
tion in Lynn. He was associated in business
-yidth his older brother, Francis S. Newhall,
in the morocco trade and leather manufac
turing, in which they followed to sorae ex
tent in the footsteps of their father, who was
a tanner by calling. The business which the
brothers controlled was one of the largest in
the town, and they maintained head offices in
both Boston and Lynn, also for a short tirae
having a branch office in New York City. In
1850, owing to ill health, Henry Newhall re
tired from the firm and for several years spent
most of his time in travel, both in his own
country and abroad, in the hope of recupera
ting. When his brother Francis died, how
ever, he succeeded him in the presidency of
the Leighton (later the Central National)
Bank, established by himself and brother
Francis in the year 1858, and served as such
until he retired. He was a director of this
bank from 1850 to 1876, shortly before his
death. He was then nearly eighty years old,
and his long hold upon iraportant business
affairs was but one indication of the strength
and vigor of an intellect reraarkable in every
way. Many members of the faraily have been
noted for ability in the raanageraent of large
interests, and undoubtedly he inherited his
most marked traits from a line of ancestors
whose achievements were matters of pride
to those of the narae. His own qualities were
developed in the care of large business ven
tures, in which the fortunes of others as well
as his own were involved, in the discharge of
numerous public trusts, and in thoughtful
study of the questions of his day, to which
he gave much attention. He was not solely a
business man, but a student and philosopher
as well, and his influence in the coraraunity
was exercised in raany ways. He was a
very useful citizen, identified with everything
which concerned the life of the town, though
not so rauch as an office holder, but rather as
the promoter and encourager of worthy ob
jects. His friendly and genial disposition
made many things possible under his manage
ment which might have failed in the hands

of one less esteemed or less respected. Under
the old town government he held a number of
offices, and he was one of the first commis-,
sioners of the Lynn city hall and city debt
sinking funds. His advice was often solicited,
in business matters of various kinds, and
there were few of the progressive concerns of
the day with which he did not have some con
nection. Thus he was identified with and a
trustee of the Lynn Institution for Savings
and a director of the Lynn Gaslight Company,
the old Mechanics Insurance Corapany, the
Lyceum Hall Association, of which he was
president, as he was also of the Exchange
Hall Association, and he was one of the bene
factors of the Lynn PubHc Library.
Air. Newhall was an omniverous reader.
In fact, there was little of worth in the cur
rent literature of his day that escaped him,
and few men in active business life find as
rauch tirae as he did for his wide range in
the fields of history, politics, biography and
fiction. His interest was coraprehensive, his
understanding and appreciation of books un
usually keen, and his judgraent in culling and
retaining the best worthy of a profound
scholar. But most of his reading and study
was deterrained by his absorbing interest in
huraan life and affairs, the things that came
to hira in his daily intercourse with men.
While he fed his mind on the best in litera
ture he had that independence of thought and
spirit which made him hold to his own convic
tions, the results of his own experience, and
he lacked neither the raind to form those
opinions nor the language to express them.
But though he spoke with the earnestness and
sincerity which raade hira positive and plain
to a remarkable degree, his real kindliness of
heart and shrewd knowledge of human na
ture raade it irapossible for hira to give of
fense intentionally or to be guilty of riding
roughshod over the opinions of others, for
whora he was always considerate. His words
had weight and influence wherever he was
known, yet it -was a inatter of coraraon re
raark that he never thrust his opinions upon
others, nor atterapted to give advice unso
licited. His wide experience, reading and
travel, acting upon a mind naturally quick and
.strong, and a temperaraent optimistic in its
views of the inherent honesty and arabition
of human nature, made him a most agreeable
and interesting companion. His conversation
and society were welcomed everywhere.
Air. Newhall was very public-.spirited, and
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portant issues of the day. He was a strong
advocate of anti-slavery frora the beginning
¦ of the movement, and when that cause was
very unpopular. By nature he was prudent
and conservative, not cautious in upholding
principles which might win him personal un
popularity, but careful about adopting un
sound or inefficient doctrines until he had
weighed thera in his own raind and deterrained
their worth. He believed in progressive re
form, and was always willing to support
worthy raoveraents in that direction. Indeed,
he believed in fair play to all, and was anxious
to give others the same independence of
thought he claimed for his own right, listen
ing to arguments for honest causes, whether
they appealed to his sympathies or not. He
retained his activity of intellect and clearness
of judgraent to the last, and when sickness im
paired his physical abilities he raet the afflic
tion with all his old-time serenity and cheer
fulness, his patience and sweetness of dis
position then, as ever, drawing around him a
circle of adrairing friends. He was as com
panionable to the young as to the old, and
enjoyed the society of young people to an ex
tent which proved the youthfulness of his
spirit even to his last years.
Of Quaker descent, Mr. Newhall had rauch
of the gentleness and forbearance which
characterize that kindly sect, but his religious
convictions were not so rauch the effect of
tradition and early training as of conscience
and reasoning. He was one of the leaders in
the liberal moveraent in his town which even
tually brought about the forraation of the Uni
tarian Society, which he supported consistently
and liberally. His whole hfe was governed
by the principles of justice and honor which
are the highest expression of the Christian
faith, and which in hira found a worthy and
intelligent advocate.
(A^IIl) Charles Henry Newhall, son of
Henry Newhall (7), was born in Lynn, Janu
ary 18, 1846. He received his education in the
Lynn schools and the Chauncey Hall School,
Boston, and upon its completion he was for
some tirae connected with the firra of George
W. Keene, abandoning this business in order
to associate hiraself with several firras in the
financial world. For many years he was eC
director of the Lynn Gas and Electric Com
pany, and in 1882 he was elected its presi
dent : he was also vice-president of the Central
National Bank, a stockholder in the Lynn
News Publishing Company, a director and
meraber of the executive committee of the

Security Trust Company and a trustee of the
Five Cents Savings Bank. He was a director
of the Lynn Mutual Fire Insurance Company
frora June 7, 1887, until his death. At a meet
ing of the directors of this company called
shortly afterward, suitable resolutions were
passed. Air. Newhall was also a trustee of.
the Lynn Hospital, the Lynn Home for Aged
Women, the Lynn Horae for Aged Men,
Horae for Aged Couples, the Lynn Public Li
brary, the Pine Grove Ceraetery Association
and the Second Congregational Unitarian
Church. In addition to these he was identified
with a number of trust companies and savings
in.stitutions of Boston. Mr.~ Newhall, after
an illness of about eleven weeks, passed away
April 23, 1908. Plis will is an admirable tes
tiraony to his kindness. In it he bequeathed
one hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars
to charitable and other institutions and serv
ants who were long in his employ, the re
mainder being divided between relatives,
who were also generously remembered. He
married (first) Helen, daughter of John
Swasey, of Boston, and several years after
her death married (second) Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Nathaniel White, of Concord, New
Hampshire, who also passed away. By
neither marriage were there any children, the
only near relative surviving Mr. Newhall be
ing a sister, Mrs. Benjamin J. Berry.
Air. Newhall was undoubtedly the greatest
philanthropi.st the city of Lynn has yet pro
duced and his good works are beyond ac
counting. His purse was ever open for the
benefit of those in need, yet there was no
ostentation in his charity. The extent of his
private charities can never be known, as his
labor in behalf of others was so constant and
unremitting that it is a marvel that he found
the time to look after his large and ever in
creasing personal interests. Mr. Newhall was
an ideal citizen, broad-rainded, public spirited,
tactful and persistent, and he carried through
many projects where others would have failed.
Unselfishness was one of his chief character
istics : he was willing and ready to share his
personal prosperity with the citizens of Lynn
and he accepted every opportunity to give to
the public the benefit of any advantages which
his able raanagement has secured. Of a nat
urally open hearted and lovable disposition,
he unconsciously demanded from friends,
business_ associates and employes their respect
and admiration. His unfailing interest in the
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pubhc and private necessity wiU never be for
gotten.

(For ancestry see Thomas Newhall 1.)
(IV) Thomas NewhaU, sou
NEWHALL of Joseph and Susanna
(Farrar) Newhall, was born
in Lynn, January 6, 1680. He married, De
cember 12, 1707, Mary, (probably his cousin),
daughter of John and Esther NewhaU. He
married second, December 12, 1717, Elizabeth
Bancroft, of Lynn. Thomas Newhall was a
farraer, and in a deed of 1731 was called
"cloathier." He lived on the north side of the
Reading road, running from Salera through
Peabody and Lynnfield to Wakefield. He died
November 30, 1738. His children Jeremiah,
born November 4, 1708; Esther, September i,
1710; a daughter (stillborn) March 22, 1719;
Jonathan, September 13, 1721; Thomas, Feb
ruary 18, 1723-24; John, March 20, 1726;
James, October 29, 1729; Amos, March i,
1730-31 ; Asa, August 5, 1732.
(V) Asa Newhall, son of Thomas and Eliz
abeth (Bancroft) Newhall, was born in Lynn-
field, August 5, 1732, and lived to be nearly
eighty-two years of age, dying May i, 1814.
He raarried, November 21, 1769, Sarah, born
1746, daughter of Jonathan Tarbel Sr., of
Lynnfield. She survived her husband, and
died Noveraber 3, ¦ 1843, ^t the great age of
ninety-seven years, nine months and twenty
days. Asa Newhall in 1764 bought what was
forrrierly the farm of Jedediah Newhall, ly
ing on both sides of the road frora Lynn to
Lynnfield, a little below its intersection with
the Salem and Reading road, containing about
one hundred acres, which had once belonged
to Joseph Newhall, father of Jedediah, and
before him to the first Joseph Newhall, grand
father of this last purchaser. To this he added
by other purchases until he becarae the owner
of a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, be
sides nuraerous outlying lots. He was at the
battle of Concord, 1775, and also subsequent
battles. His children; Asa Tarbel, born
June 28, 1779; Sarah, July 7, 1781 ; Mary,
May 6, 1786.
(VI) Asa Tarbell Newhall, only son of Asa
and Sarah (Tarbell) Newhall, was born in
Lynnfield, June 28, 1779, died Deceraber 18,
1850. He raarried, (intentions published Sep
tember 20, 1807), Judith Little, of Newbury.
In August, 1807, he received frora his father
the farm above described, the father also con
veying to him a bill of the cattle and farra
equipments, the son in return giving his father

a bond for the possession of this estate dur
ing the natural life of the parent and for the
support of father and mother, and after the
father's death for the payment of certain
sums to his two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Sweetzer
and Airs. Mary Moulton. Mr. James S. New
hall has a copy of this document and all
through it the title "ray honorable father" and
"my honorable mother" is used. Mr. New
haU was bred a farmer, and followed his oc
cupation all his life. He was a close observer
of the operations of nature, and brought to
the notice of others divers facts of much bene
fit to the husbandman. He delivered one or
two addresses at agricultural exhibitions, and
published several papers which secured
marked attention and elicited profitable dis
cussion. His raind was penetrating, produc
ing a happy raingling of the practical and the
theoretical, and he had sufficient energy and
industry to produce results. He was liberal
in his views, courteous in his manners, and
by his sound judgment and unswerving in
tegrity secured universal respect. In his earl
ier manhood he was somewhat active in polit
ical affairs, and proved hiraself judicious and
trustworthy. He was a raeraber of the con
stitutional convention of 1820, and a senator
in 1826, and a representative in 1828. Pie
was master of Jordan Lodge of Danvers (now
Peabody), and presided at all stated meetings
of the lodge during the Morgan excitement
and was later district deputy grand raaster of
this district. This was the only lodge in the
state which did not surrender its charter at
this time He was the father of nine chil
dren ; who carae to raaturity; Joshua L.,
born Alay 18, 1808; Asa T., Deceraber 20,
1809; Thomas Bancroft, October 2, 181 1;
Hirara, born October 12, 1812, died AprU 25,
1813 ; Sallie M., born May 3, 1815; Eunice A.,
May 14, 1817; Judith B., Alay 17, 1819; Car
oline, October 5, 1821 ; Hirara L., August 5,
1824; Elizabeth B.
("\^II) Thoraas Bancroft Newhall, third
son of -Asa T. and Judith (Little) Newhall,
was born in that part of Lynn which is no^w
Lynnfield, October 2, 181 1. He was fitted
for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Alassachusetts, and Lynn Academy, and grad
uated from Brown University in 1832, the
year in which he carae of age. He studied
law in offices in Danvers and Boston, and at
the Harvard Law School, and was adraitted
to the bar at the March term of the court of
comraon pleas, 1837. Early in the next raonth
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soon drew to himself a large and influential
clientele. He continued in active practice for
a half century, and this occupation, with the
discharge of duties in public and private life,
with which he was honored, made his life
active, useful and honorable. He was a mem
ber of the first Lynn city government, was
appointed postmaster by President Harrison,
in 1842 ; in 1849, on the estabHshment of the
Lynn police court, received the appointment
of judge, and reraained in that office until
1866, when he resigned; served as a member
of the school board, and as chairraan of that
body ; also upon the water board ; and in 1853
was elected mayor, but declined to accept the
office. He served as coraraissioner for sorae
of the city's sinking funds, as city solicitor,
and for several years was a raeraber of the
state board of health. He was for years pres
ident of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank,
and for twenty-three years president of the
Lynn Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and
had also been a manager of the Home for
Aged Women. He was a member of the Lynn
Bar Association. For raany years he was a
trustee of the Unitarian church. Judge New
haU died Septeraber 25, 1893. He married.
May 10, 1842, Susan S. Putnara, of Salera,
and their children were; James Silver, born
August 13, 1843; Susan Agnes, born July 19,
1845, died August 29, 1845 ; Thomas Ban
croft, born Deceraber 12, 1846; died Septera
ber 15, 1847; Thoraas Little, born December
31, 1851, died September 2, 1862; Caroline P.,
born January 27, i860, married John A.
Heath, of Boston.
(VIII) Jaraes Silver Newhall, eldest child
of Judge Thoraas Bancroft and Susan S. (Put
nara) Newhall, was born in Lynn, August 13,
1843. He obtained his education in the pub
lic schools in that town, discontinuing his
studies when he was about seventeen years of
age. He then went to Hve with his grand
father, Jacob Putnam, and learned the leather
business with him and his uncle, G. F. Put
nam, of Salera, it being the old-fashioned
heavy leather business. He was so engaged
for thirteen or fourteen years, until he was
about thirty-two years of age, when he went
west. After three or four years absence he
returned, and engaged in the retail coal busi
ness in which he continued till 1899. He has
occupied various responsible positions in pub
lic life, and in semi-public institutions. He
was a member of the city government, in
Salem, for two years. On January i, 1905,
he was elected president of the Lynn Mutual

Fire Insurance Corapany, after having been
a director for several years ; and is one of the
vice-presidents of the Lynn Five Cents Sav
ings Bank, a director in both the Central Na
tional Bank and the Security Safe Deposit
and Trust Company. He is a member of the
Second Congregational (Unitarian) Church,
and has been its treasurer since 1881. In
politics he is a Republican. He is affiliated
with various Alasonic bodies ; .Starr King
Lodge, F. A. M. ; Washington Chapter, R. A.
M. ; and Olivet Comraandery, K. T. He is
a raember of the Lynn Historical Society,
Sons of the Araerican Revolution, and the So
ciety of Colonial Wars. He is president of
the Home for Aged Woraen, also Home for
Aged Men.
Mr. Newhall married, October 26, 1871,
Marion Wentworth Clarke, born in Sydney,
Australia, March 7, 1853, daughter of Fred
erick W. and Ellen Augusta (Brirablecom)
Clarke, formerly of Gilmanton Corner, New
Hampshire. Children of Mr. and Mrs. New
hall ; I. Ellen Augusta, born August 24, 1872,
married, November 22, 1900, Larkin E. Ben
nett ; reside in Wakefield ; children ; James
Stephen Bennett, born March i, 1905; Everett
Newhall, born August 23, 1907. 2. Susan
Putnara, born January 20, 1874, married, Oc
tober 7, 1 90 1, Williara Gerry Keene; resides
in Lynn ; one son, William Gerry Keene, Jr.,
born September 14, 1907.
Frederick W. Clarke, father of Mrs. New
hall, was born at Northwood, New Harap
shire, September 23, 1818, and died at Nether-
wood, New Jersey, February 19, 1892. He
was Araerican consul at Sidney, New South
Wales, appointed by President Pierce, and
held the office eight years. He was the son
of Jonathan Clarke Jr., of Northwood, and
grandson of Jonathan Sr. Joseph Clarke,
father of Jonathan Sr., was son of John
Clarke ( i ) . Ellen Augusta Clarke, mother of
Mrs. Newhall, was born in Lynn, May 16,
1818, daughter of Colonel Sarauel Brirable
com by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of
Jonathan and Mary (Perry) NewhaU. Sus
anna Lane, who married Jonathan Clarke Sr.,
in 1773, was born in Stratham, in 1750, daugh
ter of Deacon Sarauel and Mary (Jaraes)
Lane. Deacon Samuel Lane, a member of the
Fourth Provincial Congress, held at Exeter,
New Hampshire, May 17, 1775, was eldest son
of Deacon Joshua Lane (3), of Harapton, and
his wife, Bathsheba (Robie) Lane. Deacon
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setts, and Hampton, New Hampshire, and
grandson of WiUiam Lane (i), the immi
grant, who was in Boston as early as 1650.
Charlotte Johnston, who married Jonathan
Clarke Jr., was a daughter of Nathaniel John
ston, a soldier in the revolution, descendant of
Ensign Stephen Johnston, an early proprietor
and householder of Andover, Massachusetts.
Lineage: Nathaniel (5), Zebediah (4), Zebe-
diah (3), Francis (2), Stephen (i). Stephen
Johnston married, in 1661, Elizabeth Dane.
Their daughter Elizabeth was imprisoned six
months on a charge of witchcraft. Sarah
Hawke, who married Francis Johnston, was
tried for witchcraft and acquitted. Sarah Web
ster, wife of the second WiUiam Lane, was a
daughter of Thomas Webster, immigrant an
cestor of Daniel Webster, the orator. Mrs.
Newhall is also ninth in descent frora Thoraas
NewhaU (i).

(For ancestry see Thomas Newhall 1.)
(IV) Daniel NewhaU, son of
NEWHALL Joseph NewhaU (3) and
Susanna (Farrar) Newhall,
born in Lynn, February 5, 1690, raarried (in
tentions published Noveraber 20, 1713) Mary,
daughter of Allen and Elizabeth (Ballard)
Breed. His will proved November 27, 1752,
mentions his wife Mary and children Jacob,
Josiah, Elizabeth, Jemiraa, Allen, Daniel, Na
thaniel, Joseph, Mary and Rebecca. The wi
dow of Daniel died January i, 1775, in her
eighty- fourth year. In a notice of her death
published in the Esse.v Gazette, she is said to
have left eleven children, sixty-six grandchil
dren, thirty-two great-grandchildren — in all,
one hundred and nine descendants.
(V) Josiah Newhall, son of Daniel New
haU, born 1 717, married, Deceraber 24, 1740,
Hannah Newhall, born October 13, 1722, in
Lynn. Josiah is raade by the "History of
Lynn," to be a son of John, who is of uncer
tain father, but a grandson of Thomas New
hall (2). Josiah Newhall was a cordwainer,
and lived in that part of town now caUed
Lynnfield, where he died October 29, 1789, in
his seventy-third year. His wife Hannah
died January 27, 1806. Children; Daniel,
born November 15, 1741 ; John, October 29,
1743 ; Josiah, November 5, 1745 ; Hannah, Au
gust 28, 1747; Lydia, Septeraber 25, 1749;
WiUiam, May 22, 1751 ; Joel, February 19,
1753; Nathaniel, November 25, 1754; Mica
jah, October 18, 1756; Jacob, September 16,
1758; James, May 26, 1760; Hannah, July 30,
1762; Susan, August 3, 1764.

(VI) WilHam NewhaU, son of Josiah New
hall, born May 22, 1751 ; married, Septem
ber 2, 1773, Martha Mansfield; children:
Mary, born May 22, 1774; Martha, January
28, 1778; Hannah, September 6, 1780; EHza
beth, August 31, 1782; Nathaniel, July 18,
1784; William, August 3, 1786; Robert, Feb
ruary 17, 1788; Josiah, January 7, 1790; SaUy,
January 17, 1792; Frederick, August i, 1795.
(VII) Nathaniel NewhaU, third son of
William- and Martha (Mansfield) Newhall,
was born in Lynn, July 18, 1784. He was a
raanufacturing shoemaker in a small way, as
was usually the case in those days. He was
engaged in the express business, and is said
to have established the first express between
Boston and Lynn. He was a teacher of music,
and conducted what was known as the old-
fashioned singing school. He was a member
of and much interested in the South Street
Church and spoke much in its public meet
ings, and with rauch acceptance to the people.
He married, in Lynn, April 22, 1806, Patty,
daughter of Captain William ChadweU, an
officer in the revolution. Children: William
H., born August 11, 1807; Elvira, August 27,
181 1 ; Fletcher, November 15, 1816; Ezra
Mudge, July 4, 1819; Elliott, June 6, 1822;
Ruth ; Nathaniel Addison ; Martha Maria, No
vember 21, 1824; Sarah Ellen, October 17,
1831 ; the two latter are living.
(VIII) Elliott Newhall, son of Nathaniel
and Patty (Chadwell) Newhall, was born
June 6, 1822, in Lynn; he died February 25,
1904. He learned the shoemaker's trade, and
followed it in Lynn until he became station
agent of the old Eastern railroad, at the Com
mercial street station in West Lynn. He con
tinued in this position for sorae years, and then
became station agent at Saugus Center, under
Mr. Hornby, and here he continued for the
remainder of his active life, which carried
hira well up into the 70s. He was a member
of the South Street Church, Lynn. He mar
ried, June 8, 1845, EUen Handy. Their chil
dren : Henry Elliott, born August i, 1846;
Emma E., resides in Saugus in the old home
stead. (IX) Henry Elliott Newhall, only son of
Elliott and Ellen (Handy) Newhall, was born
in Lynn, August i, 1846. His primary school
ing was obtained at the Center street school,
under Master Upton and John Batchelder,
where he attended until he was about four
teen years of age, when he left school. In
i860 he entered the dry goods store of Cald
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He then went into the hardware and notion
store of Lucius H. Peck, where he reraained
for a few months only. Upon President Lin
coln's first call for three raonths raen at the
outbreak of the rebellion, he entered the City
Bank as clerk, taking the place of Richard
Nichols, who had responded to the call for
troops. Although a boy of only seventeen, he
did the work of his predecessor, in the bank,
with entire satisfaction to its officers. It be
carae a national bank, 1864, and raoved into
its news quarters, 1868, and he continued with
the bank until December, 1870, when he enter
ed Oberlin (Ohio) College, and was a student
there one year. In 1871, at the request of the
Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank, he returned
to Lynn and took the position of first clerk
in that bank, in which capacity, and when but
twenty-five years old, he practically took en
tire charge, and has so continued to the pres
ent time. He is one of the trustees of the
bank, and was elected treasurer in May, 1880.
During his connection with the bank he has
seen its assets increased frora one and three-
quarters raillions to six raillions dollars. Giv
ing his sole attention and best thought to the
institution of which he has been treasurer for
twenty-seven years, he has registered a dual
success in making the bank one of the most
substantial of its kind in eastern Massachu
setts, and for hiraself a successful career.
Mr. Newhall has never been active in politics.
While he has usually voted the Republican
ticket, his tendencies have been strongly
towards independence in his political action.
He married Florence Al. Davis, daughter of
Henry A. Davis, of Lynn. No children.

(For ancestry see Thoma» Newhall 1 )
(III) Lieutenant Thonias
NEWHALL Newhall, son of Ensign
Thonias and Elizabeth (Pot
ter) NewhaU, was born i8 9rao. 1653, re
moved to Maiden about the time of his mar
riage and bought a farm there He was a
weaver as well as husbandman, lieutenant of
the militia, selectman of Maiden in 1700 and
three times afterward. He died July 3, 1728,
and is buried in the old burying ground in
Maiden. In November, 1674, he married Re
becca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
(Plills) Greene, of Maiden. The father of
Thoraas Hills, (father of Rebecca) was Jos
eph Hills, Esq., of Maiden and Newbury, a
raan of much prorainence, representative,
speaker of the house, an active and ener
getic magistrate, elder of the church, and com

piler of the laws of the colony. Rebecca, wife
of Thomas NewhaU, died May 25, 1726, hav
ing borne hira nine children: EHzabeth,
Thoraas, Hannah, Daniel, Lydia, Samuel,
Martha and Elisha.
(IV) Daniel NewhaU, son of Lieutenant
Thomas and Rebecca (Greene) Newhall, was
born in 1685, probably in Maiden, where his
father married and died, and where several
of the Newhalls were settled about the begin
ning of the eighteenth century. He was an
innkeeper, a man of considerable consequence
in the town, and on one occasion showed him
self capable of defending the dignity of his
house as well as the safety of his person.
The history of Alalden contains several inter
esting incidents in connection with his life in
the town. He died in Maiden, February 23,
1760, aged seventy-five years. He married,
January 8, 1706-07, Sarah, daughter of John
Fosdick, of Charlestown. She was born June
II, 1686-87, died Deceraber 12, 1763, having
survived her husband about three years and
evidently continued the tavern forraerly kept
by him. Their children born in Maiden were :
Daniel, December 12, 1707; Sarah, November
27, 171 1, raarried Thoraas Burditt; John,
Alay 12, 1714, married Dorothy, daughter of
Thonias Newhall; Nathan, October 26, 1719,
married Tabitha Waite, of Maiden.
(V) Daniel Newhall, son of Daniel and
Sarah (Fosdick) Newhall, was born in Mai
den, December 12, 1707, and removed to Lei
cester, Massachusetts, soon after his marriage
with the daughter of Deacon Upham. He
bought land in the northeast part of the town
and is supposed to have spent the greater part
of his life there. He married, December 26,
1728, Tabitha Uphara, of Maiden, and by her
had several children, the naraes of five of
whora are known, although they may have
had others whose names are not found in the
soraewhat imperfect records. The eldest child
was born in Maiden and the others in Leices
ter ; Tabitha, September 28, 1730, raarried,
August 9, 1750, Nathanial Garfield; Daniel,
1734, niarried, April 17, 1755, EHzabeth Steb-
bens ; Elizabeth, Deceraber 15, 1737, said to
have raarried Stephen Proctor, of Danvers;
Phineas, Septeraber 28, 1742 ; Sarauel, August
15, 1744, raarried  Reed, of Conway.
(VI) Colonel Phineas Newhall, son of
Daniel and Tabitha (Uphara) NewhaU, was
born in Leicester, September 28, 1742, and
although he lived in that town until after the
revolutionary war, he probably died in Shel
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valley. Accounts concerning him are some
what meagre, but he is mentioned by one
writer as having kept tavern on the old North
County road in Leicester for many years. He
was a soldier of the revolution and won an
adjutant's commission in that war. His rec
ord as given in the public archives is about
as follows : Corporal in Capt. Thoraas New-
hall's company of militia which marched to
Cambridge, April 19, 1775 ; service seven and
one half days; March 28, 1776, raentioned
in list of officers chosen by the several cora
panies in Colonel Sarauel Denny's (First
Worcester county) regiraent of Massachusetts
militia; said Newhall recoraraended as ad
jutant of said regiment ; also official record of
the ballot by the house of representatives,
dated April 22, 1776, chosen adjutant of first
Worcester county regiment; appointed by the
governor's council and commissioned April 23,
1776. He was called colonel, probably by
reason of his connection with the state raiUtia
after the close of the war, but there is no
proof that he was raustered as such. His oc
cupation was that of tavern keeper, and he
appears to have lived in various localities, be
ing mentioned as of Conway and Shelburne
Falls. The history of Deerfield speaks of his
marriage in that town and mentions hira as
of Shelburne Falls at that tirae. He mar
ried, Septeraber 21, 1763, Lydia Wilson, who
died December 30, 1803, aged fifty-seven
years. He had a son Joseph born in 1765,
probably his eldest child, and Artemas and
Persis; and sorae accounts state that there
were other children than those mentioned,
born later than 1769, among them Phineas,
David, James, Nathan, Samuel, Esther and
Sally ; although we have no positive proof of
a son Phineas it is more than reasonably sure
that there was such a child in the faraily, born
in Conway or Shelburne or Deerfield.
(VII) Phineas Newhall, Jr., was born in
1776, in one of the Connecticut valley towns,
and Hved, according to one narrative, in Shel
burne and Conway, Massachusetts, and Wa
terbury and Stowe, Vermont. Other than this
little appears to be known of him except that
he was a farmer, and raised a large family.
In March, 1804, he married Wealthy Willis
Newcomb, born Deerfield, December 22, 1783,
died in May, 1855. She was a daughter of
Rev. Ebenezer Newcomb, whose wife was
Wealthy Willis, granddaughter of Benjamin
and Mary "(Everett) Newcomb, great-grand
daughter of Jonathan and Deborah Newcomb,
great-great-granddaughter of Peter and Sarah

(Cutting) Newcomb, and great-great-great-
granddaughter of Francis Newcomb, who was
born in England about 1605, came to New
England in 1635 with his wife Rachel and
lived first in Boston and later in that part of
Braintree which then was called Mt. "WoUas
ton and now Quincy. Phineas and Wealthy
Willis (Newcorab) NewhaU had ten children;
I. Relief, born Deceraber 30, 1804, raarried in
November, 1825, J. B. Bigelow, of Conway.
2. Emily, May 6, 1806, married, in 1829,
Emery Sherman. 3. Wealthy WiUis, Octo
ber 23, 1809, niarried, January 23, 1826, Ira
Hudson. 4. Anna, 181 1, married Charles
Field, of Conway. 5. Alvah O., March 23,
1815, died June, 1838. 6. Sarah, February 4,
1817, raarried, Deceraber, 1845, T. P. Sargent.
7. Joseph, March, 1819, raarried, 1842, Ruth
Dwinnell. 8. Artemas, March, 1821, married,
1848, Luceba Munn. 9. Solomon Newcorab,
Septeraber 12, 1824, see forward. 10. James,
October 30, 1827, married October, 1850,
Araanda Sargent.
(VIII) Solomon Newcomb Newhall, son of
Phineas and Wealthy Willis (Newcomb)
Newhall, born in Vermont, September 12,
1824, died Danvers, Massachusetts, April 12,
1876, after an active and useful but all too
short business life. His occupation was that
of a farmer, to which he gave close atten
tion for many years and in which he gained
gratifying success ; and he always was a man
of high character, strong convictions, and
there was that about him in his bearing, raan
ner and conversation which suggested the old
type of the Puritan whose highest ideal was
freedora of conscience, justice, and right.
His religion was carried into his daily life
and never was put aside for any other con
sideration whatever. He was a strong Meth
odist, a devout worshipper in the sanctuary
and a devoted christian husband and father
within the home circle ; among men his walk
was honest, and sincerity in all things was one
of his marked characteristics. Mr. Newhall
continued to live in A^ermont until after the
raarriage of his eldest daughter and then took
up his residence in Danvers. He married, Oc
tober 2, 1845, Clarissa H. Guptill, born Water-
bury, Massachusetts, September 18, 1828,
daughter of Thoraas and Olive (Goodwin)
Guptill. Five children were born of this raar
riage ; I. Fidelia Emily, born Stowe, De
ceraber 7, 1846. 2. Lurana B., born Stowe,
November 29, 1848, lives in Salem. 3. Alvah
T., born Stowe, October 29, 1851, married
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E., born Stowe, October 19, 1855, raarried
Clara Sraith and lives in Salera. 5. Milo A.,
born Stowe, January 8, 1866, raarried Joan
Turner and lives in Salera.
(IX) Fidelia Eraily NewhaU, daughter of
Soloraon N. and Clarissa H. (Guptill) New
hall, born December 7, 1846, married, Novem
ber 30, 1869, Matthew Robson. Four chU
dren were born of this raarriage.
Matthew Robson was born in Tyrone, Ire
land, February 22, 1833, son of Matthew and
Eliza (Beattie) Robson, and a descendant of
Scotch ancestors. His father was a raan of
superior educational attainraents, a pedagogue
of note and experience and a strict disciplina
rian. In April, 1854, having just attained his ma
jority, Matthew Robson, the younger, came to
America, landed at St. John, New Brunswick,
and after a year came to Salem. His im
raediate purpose at that time was to gain a
practical knowledge of the leather business
and his ultimate purpose was to engage in the
raanufacture of leather. Ten years later, in
1865, the Robson Leather Company began
operations in Salem, a small plant at first and
gradually increasing its capacity with the
growing demand for its product until it
ranked with the leading industries of its kind
in the east.
This brief narrative covers in a cursory
way the history of the Robson Leather Com
pany for a period of about thirty-five years,
but in this place it is hardly necessary to
speak of the success which has rewarded the
efforts of the man who started the business
with sraall means and coraparatively little
practical experience at the close of the late
civil war, built it up and grew up with it un
til the time of the merger in 1899, when it be
came a considerable factor in the operations of
the American Hide & Leather Company. Since
that consolidation of interests Mr. Robson's
ostensible relation to the greater corporation
has been that of resident raanager at Salem,
but by reason of the fact that he is recog
nized as one of the very best authorities on the
manufacture of leather in this country and
also on the leather trade in general, his act
ual service to the company is soraething raore
than local raanager. And besides his con
nection with the American Hide & Leather
Conipany he is variously interested in several
of the institutions of Salera, being vice-pres
ident and ai director of the Mercantile Na
tional Bank ; a trustee and raeraber of the in
vestraent committee of the Salera Five Cents
Savings Bank ; president for many years of

the Young Men's Christian Association, and
a generous contributor in its behalf and in
support of its work. He is a consistent mem
ber of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal
Church, president of its board of trustees,
and that society too has received substantial
benefactions at his hands as well as the var
ious charitable and benevolent institutions of
the city.
On November 30, 1869, Matthew Robson
married Fidelia Emily Newhall. Their chil
dren; John Caldwell, born August 21, 1871 ;
Arthur Lawrence, August 17, 1874, died No
vember 10, 1900; Alice, born February 6,
1880; Miriam, Noveraber 26, 1885.

(For ancestry see Thomas NewhaU 1 and Daniel NewhaU 4.)
(VII) Josiah H. NewhaU, son
NEWHALL ' of "VV^iUiara (6) , and Alartha
(Alansfield) Newhall, was
born in Lynn, January 7, 1790, died Novem
ber 7, 1842. He was a highly respected and
useful citizen, and for many years continued
to fill the most responsible offices in the town.
He was a representative, and a senator in
•1832-33. He lived and had his business at
the east end of the comraon. He was for
many years one of the most extensive shoe
manufacturers in the town, and in all his
business relations enjoyed the utmost confi
dence of those with whom he dealt. In man
ners he was dignified and courteous, and he
was excelled by none for integrity of charac
ter and purity of life. For raany years he
was a prorainent member of the First Aleth
odist Episcopal Church, and active in benev
olent enterprises. He was one of the charter
raembers of Mt. Carmel Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Alasons, of Lynn. He married (first),
March 19, 181 1, Lydia Johnson, who bore him
children: Robert, died in infancy. Elizabeth.
Alartha, died in infancy. Harrison, see below.
He m.arried (second), in 1832, Claris.sa Mar
tin, who bore him children ; Charles M., died
in infancy. Josiah H., who was a Methodist
clergyraan, died October 13, 1866; he mar
ried Anna Maria Lee Shepard, who was
the first white child born in Oregon, her
father. Rev. Cyrus Shepard, being a mission
ary among the Indians. Their daughter,
Clara Traxler, now resides in Eugene, Ore
gon. (VIII) Harrison Newhall, son of Josiah
H. Newhall, was born October 18, 1819. He
completed his studies in the common schools
of Lynn in 1832, and later this knowledge
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Academy, Bradford Acaderay and Wesleyan
Academy at Wilbraham. In 1840, after com
pleting his educational course, he engaged in
the .shoe business with Hon. Thomas P. Rich
ardson, and this connection continued until
the firm was dissolved in 1842. He continued
alone in the same line of business until 1870,
during this interval occurred the first strike in
the shoe shops of Lynn. He adraitted his son,
Israel Augustus, as a partner, in 1870, which
relationship continued until 1875. He was
prosperous in his undertakings and was
enabled to accumulate a competence for
his declining years. In 1849 he was the
last treasurer of the town and in 1850,
the first year of the city government for
Lynn, he served as a member of the
board of assessors, and in 1858 was elected
a member of the board of aldermen, and of
the 1858 board of aldermen he has been for
many j^ears the sole survivor. He served for
many years in the capacity of trustee for the
Lynn Institution for Savings, Lynn Five Cents
Savings Bank, and Wesleyan Academy of
Wilbraham, which he and all his children at
tended ; he was also a director of the Leigh
ton Bank, now Central National Bank, serv
ing for a period of fifteen years. For over
half a century he has been a member of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, and for
many years acted as chairraan of the board
of stewards. Although beyond four score
years and ten, the scriptural allotted terra of
man's life, he is in possession of most of his
faculties, and quite often is at the office of his
son. During his lifetirae he has witnessed
many changes, notable among which was the
unusual prosperity that marked the year 1836,
and the panic of 1857 when a large nuraber
of the great business concerns failed. Air.
Newhall has always resided in the house in
which his birth occurred, and in the com
munity he is justly esteemed for his sterling
integrity of character. He married, April 13,
1842, Alartha Mudge Perkins, who died Sep
tember 19, 1889. They were the parents of
three children ; Israel Augustus. Loranus
Campbell, see forward. Howard Mudge, see
forward. (IX) Loranus Campbell Newhall, second
son of Harrison and Martha M. (Perkins)
Newhall, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
June II, 1849. He attended the comraon and
high schools of Lynn, Chauncy Hall School
of Boston, and later Wesleyan Acaderay,
Wilbrahara. He began his business career
in the shoe business of his father, continuing up
to 1875, in which year his father retired from

active pursuits, when he assumed the man
agement of the business and continued to con
duct the same until 1890, when he turned his
attention to the life and accident insurance
business, which he still continues, with office
in Boston. He married, October 29, 1878,
Susan E. Felt, born in North Reading, Mas
sachusetts, July 18, 1857. Three children :
Ida N., married George "W. Russell, of Kear-
sage. New Harapshire. Walter H., a resi
dent of West Virginia, interested in coal busi
ness. Ralph P., student of Lynn high school.
(IX) Howard Mudge Newhall, third son
of Harrison and Martha M. (Perkins) New
haU, was born in Lynn, Alassachusetts, in
same house as his father. May 7, 1854. He
was reared in his native city, educated in its
high schools, and pursued advanced studies
at Wesleyan Acaderay, Wilbrahara, and Wes
leyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
Pie began his business career as superintend
ent of his brother's shoe factory, where he
continued until 1886, when he engaged in the
real estate and insurance business, his last
occupation. In addition to his real estate bus
iness he acted as trustee of estates. He was also
United States attorney for, and cashier of the
Baxter Leather Company, Limited, of Lon
don, England, with offices in Boston, Massa
chusetts. He was secretary of Lynn Historical
Society, clerk of Lynn Hospital, raeraber of
board of manageraent of Lynn Horae for
Aged Alen, also Lynn Horae for Aged Wo
men, member of Council of Associated Char
ities, one of the vice-presidents of the Lynn
Board of Trade, treasurer of Bay State His
torical League, and raeraber of Sons of Araer
ican Revolution. He raarried, January 20,
1880, Kittie May Knox, of Alethuen, Massa
chusetts, daughter of Otis and Martha (Fur-
bush) Knox, born October 9, 1855. Mrs.
Newhall is a raeraber of the Daughters of the
Araerican Revolution and of ladies' clubs and
charitable societies in Lynn. Mr. Newhall died
Deceraber 25, 1908.

(For ancestry see Thomas NewhaU 1 and Daniel NewhaU 4.)'
(VI) Micajah Newhall, son
NEWHALL of Josiah (5) and Hannah
(Newhall) Newhall, was
born October 18, 1756. He married, June 10,
1779, Joanna Farrington. Children; Josiah S.,
born November 10, 1780. Micajah, July 25,
1784. Paul, February 17, 1786. Otis, January
16, 1788. Sarah, August 17, 1789. EUis, Au
gust 17, 1791, died 1792. EUis (2d), Alarch
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April 8, 1797. Susanna, October 25, 1799.
WiUiam, January 13, 1802. Lydia, Septem
ber 2, 1804.
(VII) Paul Newhall, son of Micajah and
Joanna (Farrington) Newhall, was born Feb
ruary 17, 1786. He married, March 15, 1808,
Mary Mudge. -Children; Alden, born Jan
uary 30, 1809. Alary Ann, April 20, 181 1.
Joanna, April 19, 1814. Warren, born in
Bahiraore, Maryland, AprU 27, 1816. Lucy
Blish, born October 20, 1818. Lydia Mudge,
April 14, 1822. Lucian, October 13, 1824.
(VIII) Lucian NewhaU, youngest child of
Paul and Mary (Mudge) NewhaU, was born
at the corner of South Coraraon and Church
streets. West Lynn, October 13, 1824. He
was educated in the Lynn public schools and
acaderay, and on corapleting his studies en
tered the shoe manufactory of his father. He
later established a business of his own, 1847,
he being one of the first to locate in the cen
tral part of the city, and took as partner
Charles B. Tebbetts. The establishment was
located on the corner of Spring and Exchange
streets, where they built up an extensive bus
iness, the success being achieved entirely
through their own efforts and sagacious raan
agement. Having amassed a competency Mr.
Newhall retired in 1875. He was active in
coramunity affairs, served as director in the
Lynn Gas Company, and was interested in
various other enterprises. He was especially
interested in having the woods preserved for
the purpose of public parks, and assisted in
raising a fund for this purpose, to which he
gave liberally, and was later appointed by
Mayor Harwood one of the Metropolitan park
board, upon which - he served with great
energy until his death. May 17, 1898. He was
generous and public-spirited, assisting in all
good works. He was a man of strong con
victions and nobility of character. Before the
organization of the Republican party he was
an earnest opponent of human slavery, and
when that party came into existence he at
once identified hiraself with it and gave it his
earnest support. He was also a strong ad
vocate of the teraperance raoveraent. He was
a consistent Christian, and a devoted raember
of the Unitarian (Second Congregational)
church. He traveled extensively, having
crossed the Atlantic three tiraes. While in
England, on one of these trips, he obtained the
plans for the beautiful home which he after
ward built at the corner of Ocean and Nahant
streets, where his widow and daughter now
reside. He was a large owner of real estate
in the city of Lynn.

He married, first, in 1858, Esther Nichols,
of Maiden; she died in 1882. Married, sec
ond, December 11, 1884, Emma D. Ireson,
daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Choate)
Ireson, and one daughter was the issue, Mar
gery Choate, born October 29, 1885, now re
siding at horae. Benjamin Ireson was senior
meraber of the firm of Ireson & Ingalls, flour,
grain and lumber merchants, also built the
wharf, and was interested in agricultural pur
suits. He was born in Lynn and died there
in 1873, aged seventy- three. Benjamin and
Harriet (Choate) Ireson were the parents of
nine children, two of whom died in infancy.
Julia, the eldest, died at the age of sixty;
the surviving members of the family are ; H.
Isabel, resides with Mrs. Newhall ; Helen M. ;
Anna, who raarried Amos B. Tapley; Ade
laide, who raarried F. W. G. Lewis; Emma
D., who raarried Mr. Newhall, as stated
above ; Katherine Choate.

(For ancestry see Thomas Newhall 1.)
(VIII) Charies Newhall,
NEWHALL son of John (7) and Delia
(Breed) Newhall, was born
.August 26, 1826, and died October 20, 1867.
He was a farraer in Lynn all his life. He
raarried Noveraber 26, 1856, Hester C. Moul
ton. Children; John Breed, born Septeraber
17, 1857; died young; Hattie C, born June
15, 1859, died in infancy; Avis Ella, born
February, 1861 ; John Breed (2d), October i,
1862; Hattie C, September 7, 1864.
(IX) John Breed Newhall, younger son of
Charles and Hester C. (Moulton) NewhaU,
was born in Lynn, October i, 1862. He was ed
ucated in the Lynn gramraar and high schools,
graduating from the latter in 1880, at the age
of eighteen. He then entered Harvard, from
which he was graduated in 1885, and in 1888
graduated from the Harvard Law School.
After a year in the office of a leading Boston
lawyer he entered upon practice on his own
account. He has confined himself closely to
his profession, and has achieved a large raeas
ure of success. While his practice has been
of a general character, he has had rauch to do
with the settleraent of estates, and has acted
in the capacity of trustee for a nuraber of the
largest estates in and about Lynn. At the
same tirae he has rendered rauch service to
the community in various public and semi-
public capacities. He was for three years
(1890-92 inclusive) a member of the Lynn
comraon council, and during the last two
terms president of that body, and meraber of
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member of the Lynn school board in 1901,
1902 and 1903, and chairman in the latter
year. In 1893, 1894 and 1895 he was a rep
resentative from Lynn in the lower house of
trie legislature, in the first term serving on
trie rapid transit comraittee, and in the second
term on the committees on election laws and
rapid transit. For a number of years he has
been a trustee of the Lynn Institution for
Savings. He was secretary of the Lynn
Board of Trade in 1891, and a trustee of the
Lynn Public Library in 1891 and 1892. He
IS a Republican in politics, and was president
of the Young Alen's Republican Club of Ward
Four, Lynn, in 1897, and a raeraber of the
Republican Club of Massachusetts. He is a
member of the leading social club of Lynn,
the Oxford, the University Club of Boston,
and the Pi Eta fraternity of Harvard. He
is a member of the First Universalist Church
of Lynn. He raarried, Deceraber 6, 1893,
Gertrude J. Cutler, of San Francisco, Cali
fornia. Children; Hester Moulton, born Oc
tober 19, 1894; Avis E., Septeraber i, 1896;
Frances Ella, November 12, 1898 ; Charles
Boardman, June 8, 1902.

(For ancestry see Thomas Newhall 1.)
(VII) Archelaus NewhaU,
NEWHALL second son of Rufus (6)
and Keziah (Breed) New
hall, born July 23, 1790, died in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, about 1862. He was educated in the
schools of Lynn, acquiring thereby a prac
tical knowledge which qualified him for his
active career. In early life he was a fisher
man and farmer, later learning the trade of
shoemaker, which occupation he followed
throughout his lifetime. He was a member
of the old Whig party, very active in town
affairs, and was also a member of the old
Quaker church. He married Ann Brown, and
their children were: i. George, born in Lynn,
died in Lynnfield ; married Harriet Elsworth,
a native of Rowley, Massachusetts. 2. Lucy
Ann, born and died in Lynn ; married William
Henry Searles, of Rowley, Massachusetts. 3.
John Warren, see forward. 4. Samuel, born
Lynn, resides there unmarried.
(VIII) John Warren Newhall, second son
of Archelaus and Ann (Brown) Newhall, was
born in Lynn, Massachusetts. After com
pleting his education in the schools of Lynn,
he served an apprenticeship at the trade of
shoemaker, which line of work he followed
until the breaking out of the civil war, when
he enlisted as a private in Company F, Eighth

Alassachusetts Regiment, September 17, 1862,
serving until August 7, 1863. He re-enlisted
August 19, 1864, in Company L, Heavy Artil
lery, and was discharged June 17, 1865. Since
the war Mr. NewhaU has been unable to en
gage in any business, he having lost his eye
sight as a result of sunstroke received while
in the service. He attends the Universalist
church of Lynn, and casts his vote for the
candidates of the Republican party. He mar
ried, in Lynn, January 21, 1852, Mary S.
Skilton, of Lynn, daughter of Williara and
Sarah (Spinney) Skilton, of Lynn. Children:
I. Addie Maria, born Lynn, raarried James
A. Minor, of Milford, Massachusetts. 2.
George L., born Lynn, deceased; raarried
Harriet Pixley, of New Hampshire ; children :
Warren A., Sadie P., Addie; they had other
children who died young. 3. Sarah F., born
Lynn, raarried Thomas J. Ready, of Andover,
Alassachusetts ; chUdren ; Frank N., Her-
raonie, Reginald and Rayraond.

Rufus F. Newhall, a late
NEWHALL resident of Lynn, Massachu
setts, who for many years
prior to his decease was an invalid, also be
ing deprived of his eyesight, which afflictions
he bore with reraarkable patience, traced his
ancestry through eight generations to Thomas
Newhall, the iraraigrant of this narae, who
carae to America and settled in Lynn, Alassa
chusetts, in 1630; Thomas (2), the first white
child born in Lynn, 1630; Joseph (3), born in
Lynn, 1658; Thoraas (4), born January 6,
1680, who shortly afterward reraoved to
Lynnfield, where the succeeding generations
down to the father of Rufus F. NewhaU were
born, and which is consequently known as the
Lynnfield branch of the Newhall family.
Thomas (4) died in Lynnfield, Noveraber 30,
1738. His son Araos (5), born 1730, died
1765. His son Williara (6) born in Lynn
field, February 9, 1750, died 1823, was a sol
dier of the revolution. His son Araos (7),
born August 28, 1775, in Lynnfield, died Feb
ruary 18, 1821.
(VIII) Allen Breed NewhaU, son of Amos
(7), was born May 18, 1813, in Lynnfield,
where he obtained his early education and
learned the shoemaker's trade, which he fol
lowed in winter, and farming in suramer. In
1849, during the California gold fever, he
went to the Pacific coast, subsequently re
turning home, but again going to California,
and returning across the plains. He died in
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raarried, April 30, 1835, Augusta Viles, who
was bom in Lynnfield, and died December 10,
1893, in Lynn. Children; i. Helen Augusta,
born in Lynnfield, August i, 1836, died in
California. 2. Mary W., born July 12, 1836.
3. Elizabeth B., born May 19, 1838; raarried
Mr. Farrar, of Brooklyn, New York; now
deceased. 4. Hannah Viles, born October
5, 1840; raarried Eugene Putnam, of Lynn.
5. Rufus Franklin, born August 19, 1842; see
forward. 6. Caroline Elizabeth, born July 8,
1844; niarried Albert Mansfield, of Wake
field. 7. Allen Putnara, born May 10, 1849.
8. Charlotte Cox, born March 12, 1852 ; mar
ried George S. Monroe, of Lynnfield, now de
ceased. 9. Bertram Breed, born June 25,
1857- (IX) Rufus Franklin Newhall, fifth child
and eldest son of AUen Breed and Augusta
(Viles) NewhaU, was born in Lynnfield, Mas
sachusetts, August 19, 1842. He attended the
comraon schools of his native town, and com
pleted his studies at the seminary at Tops-
field, Alassachusetts. During his eariy raan
hood he took up his residence in Lynn, en
gaging in the grocery business with Eugene
A. Putnara, his brother-in-law. He subse
quently turned his attention to the railk busi
ness, which proved a profitable undertaking,
and continued in this until he relinquished
it in order to accept the position of f ore-
raan in the livery stable of L. B. Usher, in
which capacity he continued up to 1895,
when on account of faUing health he retired
frora active pursuits. He was a raan of sterl
ing character, faithful in the discharge of his
duties, both public and private, and in the
coraraunity in which he resided he was ever
held in the highest esteera. He was an attend
ant of the Universalist church, and his wife
of the Methodist church, both contributing
toward the support of those bodies and of
their various benevolences. He was a raeraber
of Bay State Lodge and Palestine Encarap
raent, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Air. Newhall married, April 2, 1888, in
Lynn, Mrs. Mary E. Buzzell, born in Alon
roe, Alaine, September 9, 1853, daughter of
John M. and Rhoda (Grover) Buzzell. Her
father was a native of Maine, and died at the
age of seventy-two years ; her mother was a
native of Salem, Massachusetts, and died in
Lynn, aged sixty-five years. Airs. Newhall
was the youngest of eight children, two of
whom are now (1908) living; Mrs. Newhall,
and Mrs. Alartha Rogers, widow of Lyraan
Rogers, of Lynn. Rufus F. Newhall died at
Lynn, May I, 1903.

William AUen Swain, a vener-
SWAIN able and representative citizen
of Lynn, honored by all who
know him, for his sterling integrity, upright-
character, executive ability displayed in the
management of his business, and high culture
and probity, was a native of Pittsfield, New
Harapshire, born October 27, 1823, son of
Rev. Williara Swain.
Rev. WiUiara Swain was born in Brent
wood, New Hampshire, where the faraily had
long resided, his grandfather, Dudley Swain,,
a tanner and currier, having lived there, dying.
an aged man. Rev. William Swain was
reared and educated in his native town, then
reraoved to Pittsfield, where he remained un
til 1827, when he removed to Chichester,
where he passed the remainder of his life. He-
cultivated a farm, upon which he resided, and
on Sundays preached three sermons, often
riding from six to ten railes on horseback to
the different sraaU towns where he rainistered.
He knew by raemory every word of the new
testaraent, and in a biography of hira it was
said ; "Should the New Testaraent be de
stroyed, the Rev. Williara Swain could be de
pended upon to corapile a new one verbatira
frora raeraory." He was prorainent in the
town, held the office of selectraan, also other
offices, and took an active interest in all town
affairs. He died at the age of seventy-seven
years. He raarried Sallie Drake, born in
Brentwood, a direct descendant of Sir Francis
Drake, and a daughter of Abrahara Drake.
She died a fortnight after her husband, and at
the same age. She reared twelve children, of
whom only two are now living : i . Susan, mar
ried E. Winslow Bowker, of Carabridge, who
is now deceased; her only child, a son, died
June II, 1908, aged forty-six years. 2. Mary
Ann, raarried Herbert Sanborn, now deceased ;
she resides in Chichester, New Hampshire ;
seven children.
Williara Allen Swain, son of Rev. Williara
and Sallie (Drake) Swain, when four years
of age, accompanied his parents to Chichester,
New Hampshire, where he passed his youth.
and acquired a practical education. Later he
learned the trade of carpenter, becoming an
expert in that line. In 1866 he removed to
Natick-, Massachusetts, where for a time he
followed the business of contractor, achieving
well merited success. In 1883 he visited Cal
ifornia, and spent three years in the south and
west, visiting all points of interest and note,
and deriving therefrom a vast amount of
pleasure and recreation. In 1886 he returned
to Natick, Alassachusetts, where he followed

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his trade and contracting until 1893, when he
removed to Boston, where he remained until
1895, engaged in the real estate and insurance
business. In 1895 he took up his residence in
Lynn, which was thereafter his home, taking
an active interest in all that pertains to its
welfare and progress. He retired from ac
tive business in 1906. During his residence in
New Hampshire he served for a tirae as jus
tice of the peace, under- appointment by Gov
ernor Gilmore; and in 1861 was recruiting of
ficer under Adjutant General Colby, serving
two years. In 1877, while residing in Natick,
Alas,s.achusetts, he served as a member of the
board of assessors. In Lynn he was nom
inated for school committee, alderman, coun
cilman, representative and senator. His nom
ination for the latter position was announced
in a circular by the senatorial district com
mittee, in which it was said : "This nomination
was wholly unsought or even unknown to
Mr. Swain. The convention gave him a unan
imous nomination by acclamation. A com
mittee was appointed to inform Air. Swain of
his nomination and ask him to accept the
same. With reluctance he has consented to
be our standard bearer. We cannot say too
much in his favor. He is a man of sterling
integrity, and one of long business career, pos
itive in views, and takes great interest in the
affairs of our city."
In politics, Mr. Swain was a Democrat. He
attended the Alethodist church for many
years, and served as a trustee of St. Luke's
Protestant Episcopal Church, Lynn. He
joined the fraternity of Odd FeUows in 1845,
and remained a member until his lodge lapsed.
On October 27, 1903, Mr. Swain celebrated
his eightieth birthday anniversary, having Hved
well past the scriptural alotted period of three
score years and ten. Upon that occasion he
was presented, by the members of St. Luke's
Church, a magnificent gold-headed cane, the
presentation address being made by James A.
EUiott, who said among other things, "The
head of this cane is of pure gold, a fitting syra
bol of your true character ; and its richness is
a fit token of that crown of glory which awaits
you in the other world." Mr. Swain died No
vember 8, 1908. Mr. Swain raarried, June
22, 1893, Lucy B. Newhall, of Lynn, daugh
ter of Isaac Newhall, who was a descendant
in the seventh generation of Thomas Newhall,
the immigrant (see Thomas Newhall i, and
Samuel NewhaU, 4).
(V) Daniel NewhaU, son of Sarauel New
hall (4), born February 4, 1740-1, died at
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Lynn, November 15, 1793. He was a Quaker
also. He was a cordwainer by trade. Plis will,
dated March i, 1785, proved December 3,
1793, bequeathed to sons Estes and Daniel, to
daughter Lydia the legacy given to his de
ceased wife by her father, William Estes; ap
pointed Pharaoh Newhall and Henry Oliver
guardians of his minor children. His widow
Elizabeth died February 18, 1822, leaving will
proved April 2, 1822, bequeathing to her sis
ters Priscilla Bowers, Hannah Adkins, De
borah Robinson, brother Elijah Dodge and
sons-in-law (i.e. stepsons) Estes and Daniel
Newhall and daughter-in-law Lydia Pope.
Daniel Newall married first, Hannah, daugh
ter of WiUiam Newhall. She died November
27, 1781, and he married second. May 20,
1789, Elizabeth Dodge, of Boston. Children
of first wife; i. Estes, born September 9,
1770, niarried Hepzibah Wing and Aliriara
Philbrick. 2. Deborah, born Deceraber 5,
1772, died August 17, 1783. 3. Lydia, born
Alarch 16, i775; raarried Jaraes Pope, of Sa
lera, Alarch i, 1794. 4. Daniel, raentioned be
low. (VI) Daniel Newhall, son of Daniel New
haU (5), was born in Lynn, November 21,
1778. In religion he followed the exaraple of
his ancestors and adhered to the Society of
Friends. He raarried, June 6, 1805, Mary
Bailey, of Hanover, Alassachusetts, at Pera
broke. She was also of Quaker -ancestry and
becanie an eminent preacher of that sect.
Children born at Lynn ; i . John Bailey, May
3, 1806. 2. George P., August 23, 1808. 3.
Hepzbiah, June 20, 1810. 4. Joseph, May 10,
1812. 5. Isaac, January 4, 1814; mentioned
below. 6. Henry, February 10, 1816. 7.
Alary Bailey, April 28, 1818; died June 17,
1845. 8. Lucy, November 15, 1820.
(VII) Isaac Newhall, son of Daniel New
hall, was born in Lynn, January 4, 18 14, and
died there February 22, 1879. He early en
gaged in the shoe business, becoming one of
the most extensive and successful raanufac-
turers in Lynn, and kept up with the progress
of the age along that line until he withdrew
and turned his attention to the real estate bus
iness, conducting his operations in his native
city. He becarae a large land owner in the
section where Mrs. Swain now resides, own
ing seventy-five acres now thickly covered
with buildings. He took an active part in all
the affairs of his day, and was instruraental in
advancing the welfare and prosperity of the
city, at all tiraes interested in its raunicipal
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of aldermen in 1851 and 1875. A nuraber of
the enterprises and institutions of Lynn are
due to his efforts, particularly the street rail
way built to Glensraere. During the last few
years of his Hfe he was a great sufferer frora
neuralgia, which he bore with reraarkable pa
tience and fortitude, no coraplaint ever fall
ing from his lips. He was twice married, and
at his death was survived by his widow and
five children.

Tradition has it that the
CALDWELL Caldwells have been seated
in England for several cen
turies, and that some of its later branches
drifted into Scotland and ultimately back
again into England, settling in the vicinity of
Nottinghara. For raany generations previous
to the iraraigration of any of its representa
tives to New England the surnarae was cora
raon in England, Scotland, Ireland and
France. In England, according to "Patro-
nyraica Brittanica," it is derived frora "Cold-
well," and the arraorial bearings are wells,
fountains, sea waves and fishes, each sugt
gestive of water. In the Scotch the narae is
written "Cold-wold," raeaning the hazelwood
or divining rod, the latter being a syrabol of
authority, and as such was hung for a long
tirae in a conspicuous place in the Bavarian
court rooms. In "Doraesday Book" the name
is spelled Cauldeuuelle
The Caldwells came to this country from
England, Scotland and Ireland in the early
times of the colonies, and located in New
England, New Jersey and the south. The
family of the particular line here treated
coraes of the English branch, and had for its
iraraigrant ancestor John CaldweU, born in
England, 1624, was in Boston in 1643 '^"d
settled in the plantation at Ipswich, in the
colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1654.
(I) John Caldwell's name first appears in
the records of the general court of Alassachu
setts in 1643, "when he was nineteen years old;
"October, 1643. Rich'rd CoUecot, Edward
Fuller, John Cauldwell and Richard Smith,
were appointed to fetch the Cattle from Prov
idence" He was a husbandman, although he
learned the trade of weaving, as did two of
his sons. He became possessed of several
tracts of land in Ipswich, some by purchase
and others by grant as the lands of the town
were divided among the inhabitants. He was
a commoner in 1664, admitted freeman in
1677, and in 1691 was appointed "searcher
and sealer and viewer of leather," but refused

that office "as not being capable threw busi
ness & otherwise." He made his wiU June
20, 1692, and died July 7, following. His
estate was inventoried at two hundred twenty-
one pounds sixteen shillings four pence. He
raarried Sarah Dillingham, born in Ipswich,
April, 1634, daughter of John and Sarah Caly
(Calley) Dillingham. Her father died when
Sarah was less than a year old and her
mother two years later, 1636, and she was
brought up under the care of Mr. Saltonstall
and Mr. Appleton, with the raaternal adraoni
tion that she be "religiously educated, if God
gave her Hfe." The Dillingharas were of an
old English faraily of yeomen, and John,
father of Sarah, carae from Leicestershire,
England, in 1630, with the younger John Win
throp. His narae was frequently written with
the prefix "Air.," indicating something of his
position in the colony. He was admitted free
raan 1 63 1, served as juror sarae year, was
appointed to hear and determine small causes
1633, and in 1634 received a grant of lands
in Ipswich. He becarae a man of influence in
that town, being frequently entrusted with ira
portant duties, and at his death gave to his
only child, Sarah, all of his estate in lands
and goods, except "such pticuler legacyes as
hereafter are naraed." Children of John and
Sarah (Dillingham) Caldwell; i. John, died
February 27, 1721-2; married May i, 1689,
Sarah, daughter of Deacon Jacob Foster and
Martha Kinsman, his first wife, and grand
daughter of Reginald Foster, who came from
the northem part of England in 1638, and
was an early inhabitant of Ipswich; children:
Alartha, born August 28, 1690; John, August
19, 1693 ; Jacob, February 26, 1694-5 ; Sarah,
July 16, 1696-7; AbigaU, May 14, 1700, died
November i, 1700; Anna, born January 18,
1702; WiUiam, January 17, 1708. 2. Sarah,
born AprU 2, 1658; married June 9, 1684, Jo
seph, son of Captain John Ayers ; children : Sa
rah, born August 5, 1685 ! Elizabeth, January
28, 1687; John, February 26, 1692-3 ; "WiUiara,
Septeraber 13, 1696; Benjarain, December 16,
1700. 3. Anna, born August 23, 1661, died Sep
tember 4, 1721 ; raarried John Roper, of Ips
wich, a man of considerable wealth and prom
inent in public affairs. 4. William, died Febru
ary 19, 1695 ; he was a cooper, and also follow
ed the sea. In 1694, "being bound to sea, and
calling to mind ye uncertain estate of this
transitory life," he raade a will disposing of
his property worth a little more than fifty-
six pounds. 5. Dillingham, born March 6,
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ber 18, 1669, died December 13, 1738; mar
ried February 12, 1703, Abigail Wallingford;
he was a weaver, and had a comfortable
horae, although he followed seven of his ten
children to the grave. Children: Abigail,
born November 8, 1705, died young; John,
born Noveraber 19, 1708. died Deceraber 19,
1792; Abigail, born July 7, 1710, died young;
Nathaniel, born October 3, 171 1, died Sep
tember 4, 1733 ; Abigail, born June, 1713, died
young; Sarah, born February 27, 1715, died
August 31, 1733; Mary, born May 26, 171 7;
Anna, born August 23, 1719; Martha, born
June, 1 72 1, died May 1722; Hannah, born
June, 1724. 7. Mary, born February 26, 1671,
died April 2, 1709; married, March 5, 1696,
Jacob Foster, son of Deacon Jacob and Abi
gail (Ix)rd) Foster, and grandson of Reginald'
Foster. Children : Jacob, born May 9, 1697 ;
WiUiam, May 11, 1699; Mary, March 9,
1701; Abigail, September 27, 1703; Israel,
Alarch 3, 1706-7. 8. Elizabeth, born Octo
ber 15, 1675, died May, 1752.
(II) Dillingham Caldwell, third son and
fifth child of John Caldwell, the immigrant,
born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 6,
1666, died there May 3, 1745, aged seventy-
nine years. He was a weaver, and tradition
says he was proficient at the trade, for on
May 14, 1691, he made an agreement with
William Parsons of Boston that he should be
taught by the latter the art of making sloas
and harnessess used in weaving. He was
twenty-five years old when learning his trade
in Boston and afterward in Ipswich was one
of the most influential men of the town. He
married first, Mary Lord, died October 21,
1698, having borne her husband two children ;
he married second, Mary Hart, born August
25, 1665, died September 19, 1748, eldest child
of Lieutenant Thomas Hart of Ipswich, and
Mary Norton his wife. Lieutenant Hart was
first a corporal and afterward a lieutenant of
the Ipswich company of foot, representative
in 1693-4, selectman, and one of the commit
tee appointed to obtain a plan and superintend
the building of a new meetinghouse in Ips
wich, 1700. He had six sons and two daugh
ters. He was the eldest of three children of
Thomas Hart of Ipswich and Alice his wife,
1641, and the elder Thomas Hart was a tanner,
his tanyard having been devised in his will
to his two sons, Thomas and Samuel. Dill
ingham Caldwell had two children by his first
wife and six by his second wife: i. Mary,
born November 3, 1695, died October 3, 1698.
2. Daniel, born August 30, 1698, died Octo

ber 23, 1698. 3. Mary, born June 9, 1700,
died July 7, 1700. 4. Daniel, born October
5, 1701; (see post). 5. Mary, born Septem
ber 28, 1703; married, March, 1725, Jeremiah
Lord, and had Mary Lord, Sarah Lord, Eliza
beth Lord (married John Potter), Jereraiah
Lord, Lydia Lord (raarried Benjarain Kira
ball) and Ebenezer Lord. 6. Sarah, baptized
July 8, 1705, died young. 7. Sarah, baptized
Septeraber 3, 1707; raarried August 13, 1737,
Nathaniel Hart, (3d), she being his second
wife; had by him two children; Mary; Sa
rah, born 1740, died January, 1805. 8. John,
baptized May 10, 1710, died young.
(Ill) Daniel Caldwell, eldest son and
fourth child of DiUingham and Mary (Hart)
Caldwell, born in Ipswich, October 5, 1701,
died there April 18, 1759. He was prorainent
in the public affairs of the town, and the re
cords frequently mention his name with "gen
tleman" added, indicating affluence as well as
influence. He also is styled sergeant and en
sign, showing his connection with the militia.
He held several town offices, being hayward
1734, hayward and fence viewer 1741, hay
ward and field-driver 1742, surveyor 1746
and 1748, and fence viewer 1752. He wor
shipped in the south parish meetinghouse, and
gave seventy-two pounds toward the erection
of the first church edifice there in 1747. His
estate was appraised at five hundred thirty-
two pounds fourteen shUlings eleven pence,
and was divided between the widow and their
sons Daniel and John, his only children that
survived him. He raarried (published) Jan
uary 17, 1723, Elizabeth Burley, born August
25, 1700, died Deceraber 29, 1769, daughter of
Cornet Andrew Burley and Alary Conant his
wife, the latter a great-granddaughter of
Roger Conant, the early planter of Glouces
ter and Salera, and one of the faraous char
acters of his time in New England colonial
history. Cornet Burley was impressed for
the expedition against the Narragansett In
dians in Noveraber, 1675, and in 1687 he had
land granted him for a brickyard at Jeffries'
neck. He was the eldest of three sons of
Giles and Elizabeth Burley, the former of
Ipswich in 1648, commoner in 1664, and died
before Septeraber 29, 1668. Daniel and EHz
abeth (Burley) Caldwell had eight chUdren:
I. Daniel, baptized February 7, 1724-5, died
December, 1798; married April 12, 1749, Han
nah Burley, his cousin, who died January 24,
1770; no chUdren. 2. EHzabeth, baptized De
cember 22, 1728, died February 13, 1729. 3.
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25, 1730. 4. Andrew, died September 25,
1738. 5. Alary, baptized July 20, 1735, died
August 8, 1735. 6. Mary, baptized Septeraber
26, 1736, died October 21, 1736. 7. John,
baptized October 5, 1740, (see post) . 8.
Andrew, baptized July i, 1744, died young.
(IV) John Caldwell, next to youngest child
of Daniel and Elizabeth (Burley) Caldwell,
born in Ipswich, October 5, 1740, died Feb
ruary 20, 1825. He was a blacksraith by
trade, and devoted rauch of his tirae to anchor
making, at which he did a considerable busi
ness. During the revolution he was frequently
drafted for service, but frora the fact that he
had a faraUy of nine sraall children at horae
he prudently procured and paid a substitute
to take his place in the ranks. The intention
of marriage of John Caldwell and Sarah Har
aden was published December 17, 1762. She
was a daughter of David Haraden, an early
settler on Cape Ann and progenitor of one of
the prorainent old farailies of the town of
Gloucester. John and Sarah (Haraden)
Caldwell had children; i. Sarah, born March
12, 1765, died October 13, 1838. 2. EHza
beth, born August 27, 1766, died November,
1770- 3- John, born May 20, 1768, (see post).
4. Daniel, born June 5, 1770, died November,
1804. He was one of the crew of twelve Ips
wich men lost frora brig "Sally," in a wreck
on Ipswich bar, Noveraber, 1804. He raar
ried, September 28, 1797, Eunice Lord; two
sons : Daniel, died at age of twenty years, and
buried with raiHtary honors by Denison Light
Infantry, of which he was a member ; and
David Haraden, born October 9, 1804, died
January 18, 1867. He was Captain Cald
well, and spent the later years of his life in
Danvers, Massachusetts. 5. Elizabeth, born
August 17, 1772, died January 6, 1838; mar
ried John Grow, of Marblehead; daughter,
EHza Grow, became wife of Charles Dodge,
of Ipswich. 6. Hannah, born October 18,
1774, died January 21, 181 1. 7. Mary, born
July 25, 1776, died January 26, 1861. 8.
Susanna, born August 11, 1778, died March,
1844. 9. Lucy, born Noveraber, 1782, died
AprU, 1868.
(V) John CaldweU, elder son and third
child of John and Sarah (Haraden) Caldwell,
born in Ipswich, May 20, 1768, died in Bur-
riUsville, Rhode Island, May 11, 1820. He
lived in various towns in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, and had children bom in Con
cord, Marlborough, Lancaster and Boston.
Pie raarried Susannah Robinson, born Decem
ber 24, 1768, died in Bolton, Massachusetts,

February 26, 1814. They had children: i.
John, born Concord, Massachusetts, October
13, 1788; married Sarah Whittles, of Dun
stable, New Hampshire. 2. James, born Marl
borough, Massachusetts, May 3, 1791 ; (see
post). 3. Mary, bom Septeraber 2, 1792;
married Septeraber 25, 1819, J. C. Harden-
burgh, of Providence, R. I. ; chUdren : Nancy
Hardenburgh, born September 24, 1820, raar
ried Horatio L. Holraes ; John Caldwell Hard
enburgh, born May 15, 1822; Fayette Harden
burgh, born August 3, 1824, married Anna
Clarke, of Providence ; Charles Hardenburgh,
twin, born May 21, 1826, married Abbie
Wing; Augustus Hardenburgh, twin, born
May 21, 1826; Willington Hardenburgh, born
August 14, 1828, married Abby Clarke; Frank
Hardenburgh, born December 22, 1830, mar
ried first, Anna Marshall, second, Emma
Emery; Mary Hardenburgh, born February
16, 1833, died December 4, 1869; Henry War
ren Hardenburgh, born Alay 4, 1836, married
Rebecca Smith. 4. Eunice, born September
29, 1794, died June, 1873 ; married Daniel
Ross, born February 4, 1781 ; chUdren:
George C, born June i, 1816; Levi S., Sep
teraber 24, 1817; Abby and Sarah, twins, Oc
tober 17, 1821 ; Charles, September 6, 1822;
Warren, June 24, 1825 ; Augustus, August 28,
1827; Harriet, February 14, 1830. 5. Daniel,
born November 10, 1796, died Broomfield,
Illinois, May, 1866; married Abigail Wallace
Goodwin, born Charlestown, Massachusetts,
1801 ; children: Rev. William Edward, born
June 6, 1825; Alabia Elizabeth, born 1828;
Martha Ann, and Francis Rhoades. 6. Sus
anna, born January 17, 1799; married Theo
dore Bigelow, of Boston. 7. Sally, born July
12, 1 80 1, died Burrillsville, Rhode Island, Au
gust 3, 1818. 8. Williara, born October 6,
1803, died young. 9. Lydia, born Lancaster,
April 3, 1806, died young. 10. Jeremiah, born
June 21, 1808, died Providence, Rhode Island.
II. Adaline, born Boston, March 11, 181 1,
died September 22, 181 1.
(VI) James Caldwell second son and sec
ond child of John and Susannah (Robinson)
Caldwell, born in Marlborough, Massachu
setts, May 3, 1791, died in Ipswich, November
10, 1874. His wife, Mary Kimball, was born
Alay 4, 1792, and died Febraary 8, 1873. She
was a daughter of Abraham -KirabaU, first hus
band of Mary Sutton (Mary Sutton's second
husband was Nathaniel Rust), was a daugh
ter of Richard Sutton and Elizabeth Foster,
his first wife, and a granddaughter of William
and Susanna Sutton. By her marriage with

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Nathaniel Rust, Mary Sutton becarae raother
of Rev. Richard Sutton Rust, DD., LL D
James and Mary (Kimball) Caldwell had
three cmldren to grow up ; i. Colonel Luther,
born September 17, 1822 (see post). 2. Su
san, born January 4, 1824, died January 5,
1895; marned James P. Jewett. 3. Mary
Elizabeth, born 1826, died July 5, 1843.
(A^II) Colonel Luther Caldwell, only son
and eldest child of James and Mary (Kim
ball) Caldwell, was born in old Ipswich, the
home of his ancestors for six generations
previous to his own, where his iraraigrant an
cestor settled nearly two centuries before he
was born, and died in AVashington, D. C, af
ter a long, brilliant and honorable career in the
varied fields of railitary life, jouriiahsra, Hter
ature, politics, on the rostrum and in official
station. In whatever capacity he was called
to serve he acquitted himself well, and fairly
earned a reputation which may well be called
national, for his was a familiar name and his
a familiar figure in governraeiital military cir
cles and national politics, on the platform in
his strong advocacy of temperance reform
throughout the states of the union and in Eng
land, where he went as an advocate and
speaker. His earlier years were spent in his native
town and he received his education during the
winter sessions and working out during the
summer raonths, and thus learning the lesson
of self-reliance and personal independence
He attended in turn the public schools in his
native town ; Breed's Hill Acaderay, Alaine,
Tilton (N. H.) Serainary; and Smitli Sisters'
School in Connecticut. On leaving school he
learned the trade of painting, and later gained
a practical knowledge of photography, when
that art first carae into existence, and practiced
it for some time. A little later he was a jour
neyman mechanic in the employ of the New
York and Erie railway corapany at Piermont,
New York, where he then lived, and there
fore it is not surprising that afterward, when
his own abilities had won for him a higher
station in the activities of life, he was ever
practically mindful of the interests of labor-
in-y men and was looked upon as their cham
pion and loval friend in the time of need.
Almost from the time when he first took
up'his residence in the "southern tier" in New
York State Colonel Caldwell became inter
ested in public affairs, and while going
throuo-h with the routine of daily labor was
very much alive to the raarch of events. He
possessed in unusual degree that strong New

England sense which always has had much to
do in directing affairs of governraent, and it is
not surprising that he aspired to a position
which would bring him more imraediately in
contact with public men and public events.
To the attainraent of this end he directed his
energies, and in 1858 we find him filling the
position of clerk in the office of the state en
gineer and surveyor, and in 1859 he was sec-
retar}^ of the commission for adjudicating the
claims of soldiers of the war of 1812-15.
These appointments, however, were the out
growth of others which preceded thera. In
1857 he had an appointment as deputy clerk
of the assembly, the annual session of the
lower house of the legislature, a temporary
clerkship which continued only to the close of
the legislative session, perhaps three or four
raonths. In the latter capacity he served dur
ing the sessions of 1857, 1859 ^^id i860, and
during the reraaining raonths of the year per
formed the duties of clerk first in the state
engineer's office and afterward with the com
mission before mentioned. But in this con
nection it is important to state that the office
of deputy clerk of the New York assembly
calls for the performance of far more than
mere clerical duties, and its incumbent is re
quired to possess an understanding of legisla
tive usages, parliamentary rules, and the man
ner and form of legislative bills ; and almost
daily he was called upon to read before the
house the full text of bills offered for passage,
and it so happened that Luther Caldwell was
found to be one of the most clear, accurate
and reliable readers who ever arose before the
house. It was the fortunate quality, together with
his known worth as a man of unquestioned in
tegrity and his sterling Republican principles,
and also his ability to uphold them on the plat
form, that won for him recognition in the
councils of the Republican party and placed
him among the leaders of that party in the
state. In 1859 he was reading secretary of
the Republican state convention, and per
formed the same duties in the convention of
i860, and afterward from 1865 to 1868, in
clusive. During- the intervening years he was
temporarily out of politics, but when he re
appeared in the state convention in the fall of
1865 he was greeted as Alajor Caldwell.
Colonel Caldwell was a delegate to the Re
publican national convention that nominated
Mr. Lincoln for the presidency in i860, and
next year he entered the Union array to raain
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which Air. Lincoln stood and for which he
was "raised up of God" to establish and raake
perpetual. In 1861, at the outbreak of the
war. Colonel Caldwell forraed one of the cora
panies of the Seventeenth New York In
fantry, the first regiraent that marched
through Baltiraore after the attack on the 6th
Massachusetts Infantry under Colonel (now
General) Jones, and the regiraent that cap
tured the first fieldpiece taken from the Con
federates by the Army of the Potomac, to
which the 17th was attached. On the organ-
zation of his company Colonel Caldwell was
coraraissioned lieutenant, subsequently was
proraoted captain, and still later received frora
Governor Reuben E. Fenton of New York,
the rank of raajor. In the array throughout
the two years' terra of enlistraent he was
prompt in the perforraance of every duty and
never ordered his corapany into any action
where he did not lead the raen.
In June, 1864, the I7tli Regiment was mus
tered out of service, and very, soon after Col
onel Caldwell purchased a half interest in the
Elmira Daily Advertiser, which soon becarae
the leading paper in the southern tier of New
A'ork state, a reputation it maintained for
raany years afterward. He later purchased
the entire plant of the Adz'ertiser and was ed
itor in chief several years and in the editorial
chair soon won recognition as an able writer
and newspaper man, indeed one of the strong
est in western New York ; and with his jour
nalistic career he soon again became closely
identified with state and national politics. In
1867 he was elected clerk of the assembly, in
1868 was readin.g secretary of the RepubUcan
national convention held in Chicago that nom
inated General Grant for the presidency, and
on that occasion it was his distinguished priv
ilege to call the roll of states upon Grant's
unanimous nomination. He also was second
on the committee of which General Hawley,
late of Connecticut, was chairraan, to inforra
General Grant of his noraination.
During these years of journalistic and po
litical activity Colonel Caldwell appeared upon
the platforra in every iraportant carapaign and
was regarded as one of the raost powerful and
effective speakers in the service of both the
Republican state and national committees ; and
it was because of his worth as an exponent of
party principles that he was chosen to fill the
important and difficult office of clerk of the
assembly in 1867. The office was worthily be
stowed in that year, and as evidence of the
ability with which he perforraed its duties we

may be permitted to quote an article which ap
peared in the New York Tribune soon after
the close of the legislative session of that
year : "Major Caldwell proved during the ses
sion just closed that as an executive officer
for a large body he is unexceUed. Thoroughly
posted in parliamentary rules he has, besides
a knack of doing business quickly and thor
oughly, a voice that would fill the largest hall
in that state, and any one at all acquainted
with the deliberations of a legislative body
knows how valuable this is to the raembers."
In the sarae connection the following letter
to the Rochester Democrat will be of interest:
"I cannot close this letter without paying ray
tribute of respect to the clerk of the house,
Major Caldwell, whose prorapt and efficient
discharge of his duties, coupled with his cour
tesy and kindness to merabers and to all with
whora he carae in contact, raade him not only
a raost popular officer with the raembers, but
also raade hira a host of warm and enthusiastic
friends araong outsiders at the capital. I doubt
whether a more accoraplished and popular
officer ever filled the clerk's desk at Albany.
That he is Hkely to be chosen clerk of the com
ing constitutional convention without competi
tion is a just and deserved tribute to his worth
as a gentleman and an officer." At the adjourn
ment of the legislature he received the thanks
of the house and a gold watch valued at $500
for the faithful and able performance of his
laborious duties.
But it was perhaps as secretary of the con-
.stitutional convention of 1867-8 that he be
came most conspicuously and widely known
as an efficient political raan and unsurpassed
as an assistant of deliberative bodies. The
duties of secretary of the convention he per
formed in a most prorapt and satisfactory
manner, and it was afterward said of him that
as chief clerk of a legislative body he was
without an equal in the state or the country.
From 1864 to 1870 Colonel Caldwell was
editor and proprietor of the Elmira Adver
tiser, and as was only natural during his resi
dence in that city he took an active part in
public matters and in connection therewith
was soon called upon to perform important
duties in the raunicipal governraent. In 1871
he was elected alderraan and served two years
as meraber of the comraon council. In 1872
he led the independent Republican raoveraent
in support of Air. Greeley's candidacy for the
presidency, and while actuated by motives of
right and honest convictions of duty he never
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republicanism which placed party advantage
above all other considerations. But in 1873
he entered the field as the mayorality candi
date of the Liberal Republicans and Democrats
of Elmira and contested successfully against
George M. Diven, concededly the strongest
nominee for that office that the republican
party had ever placed at the head of its city
ticket. Colonel Caldwell was elected over his
opponent and served as mayor of Elmira in
1873-4. During this tirae'he was a raeraber of
a number of clubs, including the Tuttle Club
of New York.
Later on he became prominently identified
with the cause of temperance reform under
what has been termed the Alurphy movement
and promulgated its doctrine throughout this
country and also in some parts of England ;
and no more powerful temperance Orator and
advocate than he ever appeared on the plat
form in that righteous cause in this country,
either before or after hira. In 1889 he was
appointed chief of the bond division of the
postoffice department in Washington and filled
that position until 1893. The reraaining years
of his life were devoted to Hterary pursuits,
travel and the enjoyment of the comforts earn
ed by years of honest and earnest endeavor.
Although the scene of his public career was
laid chiefly in localities outside of his native
state he never lost interest in old Ipswich and
the friends and acquaintances of earlier years.
In 1869 he erected there the substantial struc
ture since known as CaldweU, block, and so far
as possible he spent the summer seasons in
that vicinity and in the city of Lynn, where
he maintained his home His latest contribu
tion to literature was a meriiorial of Anne
Bradstreet, America's earliest poetess, which
was published in 1898.
Early in life Colonel Caldwell became a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church in
Ipswich, and never departed from the faith,
although he afterward united with the church
of the sarae denoraination in Lynn. While
living in Elmira he was identified with various
institutions of that city, and was a charter
raember and past commander of Post No. 6,
G. A. R. ; a trustee and liberal supponer of
the Southern Tier Orphans' Horae; a Alason
of high standing and at one time president of
the board of trustees charged with the erec
tion of a Masonic Temple in Elmira ; meraber
of the firm of Lorraore Bros. & Co., whole
sale grocers, and he also held a considerable
interest in the Wycoff Wooden Paveraent
Company, and himself was patentee of two of
its devices.

Colonel Luther Caldwell married first, Janu
ary 27, 1846, Almira Flint of Sudbury, Alassa
chusetts, daughter of Jeremiah FHnt. She was
born January 27, 1829, and died in Swansea,
Wales, February 3, 1888, while traveling with
her husband. She was the mother of all of
his children. He married second, December 11,
i8go, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sarah Maria New-
ball of Lynn, Massachusetts, daughter of Isaac
and Sarah (Graves) Newhall, of Lynn. (See
Swain and Newhall). His children; i. Susan
Velina, born (October 22, 1846 ; married Henry
Gushing, of Aurora, Illinois ; in Washington,
D. C. 2. Luther Sutton, born February 8,
1848, in Elmira, New York ; married Emeline
Goodwin, of Ipswich. 3. Louis Dillingham,
born April 22, 1850; married Eliza J. Sigison,
of Elmira ; resides there. 4. Mira Elizabeth,
bom February 11, i860, in Albany, New
York ; resides in Lynn, Massachusetts. Col
onel Luther Caldwell died January 17, 1903.

It is said by one of the recog-
FRAZIER nized authorities of the origin
of faraily surnames that the
names Frazier and Fraser are derived frora the
French "fraise", signifying a strawberry, and
hence "the well known heraldic object is ex
plained" The sarae authority also says that
"the French word probably was derived frora
the fragrance of the fruit, as was the Lat
in 'f ragaria'- ". (Charaber's Encyc.)
It will hardly be questioned that Frazier
and Fraser represent different ways of spell
ing the same surnarae, and while both raay
have corae frora the same root, it is not al
ways safe to attribute continental origin to a
narae so distinctively Scotch as that of Fra
zier (or Fraser), and one which has been
known in the history of that people for per
haps ten or raore centuries. Fraser is taken
raore frequently than Frazier as the form
of the name in ancient Scotch history, and
while there were several apparently distinct
families a sirailarity of arras — there were raany
of distinguished rank araong thera — leads to
the conclusion that originally they were of the
sarae house.
"Oliver Fraser , says "Burke's Peerage",
"i3tli Thane of Alan, married EHzabeth,
daughter of Henry, Thane of Glenlyon ; he
lived about mo". And again, "Sir Siraon
Fraser married King Robert Bruce's sister
Jane In the reign of Alexander III, Sir
Siraon, son of Sir Bernard Fraser, was ap
pointed, together with Sir Francis Fraser and
Williara Fraser, archbishop of St. Andrews
and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, auditors of

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the corapetition for the crown between Bruce
and Baliol". (Burke's Peerage.)
In the succession of those who came down
from Oliver Fraser, 13th Thane of Man, in one
-generation after another were many of the
christian name Hugh, but there is nothing by
-which we may connect the descendants of
Oliver with the ancestor of the branch of the
American family of Frazier s intended to be
treated in this place, although such connec
tion may have been possible notwithstanding
the different speUings of the surnarae.
The immigrant ancestor of the Frazier fam
ily here considered was Hugh Frazier (i), a
native of Boleskine, Inverness, Scotland, born
in the year 1761, the son of Scotch parents
and a descendant of Scotch " ancestors. He
was a soldier of the revolution, on the side of
the mother country, and came to America in
1775 with the Seventy-first Regiraent of In
fantry of his majesty's troops. His service
was continuous to the time he was taken pris
oner and held at Taunton, Massachusetts, un
til exchanged. He was discharged from the
British array in 1783, and next appears in
Taunton after the overthrow of the British
dorainion in Araerica, devoting hiraself to the
peaceful arts of his trade, for he was a black
smith. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal church. His wife. Prudence (Wil-
bore) Frazier, was born in 1764, died Decem
ber 24, 185 1, aged eighty-seven years. They
had one son, Hugh Frazier, Jr., see forward.
(II) Hugh Frazier, Jr., ^on of Hugh and
Prudence (AVilbore) Frazier, born Taunton,
August, 1790, died May 24, 1870, aged almost
eighty years. He was a farmer during the
early part of his life, and afterward was a
shoemaker in Lynn. He was an industrious,
thrifty man and acquired considerable prop
erty in lands in that part of Lynn which is
now Western avenue. In religious preference
he was a Baptist, and in politics a Republican.
He married, November 29, 1812, Delia Hud
son, born November, 1793, died April 14, 1878,
having borne her husband ten children: i.
John Hudson, born July 14, 1813, died Jan
uary 26, 1814. 2. George Washington, born
December I, 1814, died Deceraber 13, 1886;
raarried, April 17, 1836, Lydia Carl. 3. Delia
Al., born October 24, 1816, died May 30,
i860; raarried December i, 1840, William
Hoyt, who died June 25, 1864. 4. William A.,
born Septeraber 8, 1818, died January 6, 1885 ;
married, June 26, 1861, Sarah E. Carlton. 5.
Lyman Barney, born August 3, 1821, see for
ward. 6. Eliza Jane, born August 5, 1823. 7.

Harriet, born May 3, 1826, died November 9,
1893. 8. Charies' P., born October 20, 1829,
died November, 1874 ; married, September 18,
1856, Sarah A. Emmerton. 9. Louisiana, born
September 20, 1833, now hving in the old
horaestead. 10. Lydia E., born Septeraber 9,
died January 12, 1895.

(Ill) Lyraan Barney Frazier, fourth son
and fifth child of Hugh and Delia (Hudson)
Frazier, was a native of Lynn, Massachu
setts, and_ for raany years one of the leading
business nien of that city. He received his
early education in public schools, but left his
books when thirteen years old and went into a
shoe shop, where he gained a practical knowl
edge of the shoeraaking business in the work
shop and there laid the foundation of his later
successful career in the capacity of manufac
turer. In'the course of time he started a fac
tory and thereafter was identified with the shoe
industry of Lynn until 1872, when his works
were destroyed by fire. After this Mr. Frazier
turned his attention to other pursuits and be
carae a stockbroker, as sole proprietor at first
and afterward as senior meraber of the firra of
Frazier & Tewksbury, stock brokers, with of
fices in Boston, where he was a raeraber of
the stock exchange. Throughout the period
of his active business life he was variously
identified with the interests of Lynn and took a
coraraendable interest in public affairs. He
was a director in the City National Bank,
raeraber of the Unitarian church, and in poli
tics a firra Republican. But his interest in
political affairs was chiefly that of a citizen and
taxpayer, although at various tiraes he was
elected to office in the municipal government of
the city.
Mr. Frazier raarried three tiraes. His first
wife, whora he raarried Septeraber 29, 1846,
was Mary Elliott Ayer, daughter of John and
Sophia (Elliott) Ayer ; she was born in Haver
hiU, Massachusetts, October 29, 1825, died in
Lynn, Noveraber 24, 1855 ; he had by her three
children ; Mary E., Williara H., who raarried
Josephine Batchelder and had a son Charles,
and Lyraan Rhoderick, who raarried Caroline
Batchelder and had two children, Elliott and
Eraraa Frazier. His second wife, whora he
raarried June 28, 1858, was Eraraa E. Munroe,
daughter of Colonel Timothy Alunroe. She
died in Lynn, May 12, 1868. One child was
born of this raarriage; Elbridge Al., who
niarried Nellie Nichols and had four children
(Lyraan B., Donald Nichols, Emma Marjorie
and Kathleen Frazier). For his third wife
Mr. Frazier raarried Maria B. Newhall, who

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¦died February 25, 1908 ; she was a daughter of
Francis Stewart and Lydia (Burrill) NewhaU,
and granddaughter of Winthrop and Elizabeth
(Farrington) NewhaU, (see Sarauel Newhall
4).

(VII) Francis Stewart New-
NEWHALL hall, (see Winthrop Newhall
6), eldest son and child of
Winthrop and Elizabeth (Farrington) New
hall, born Lynn, April 30, 1795, died in that
city February 2, 1858. In many respects he in
herited the traits of his ancestors, who were
largely members of the Society of Friends,
and while he never sought to depart radically
from the teachings of his parents he himself
became Unitarian in relig^us affiliation. In
business hfe he was perhaps raore successful
than any other of the family in generations
before his own, and for many years was prom
inently identified with the business and indus
trial history of Lynn, and later on he engaged
in mercantile pursuits in the city of Boston,
¦dealing extensively in leather, his trade being
chiefly with the larger concerns. His business
career was begun as a tanner, and afterward
was continued at Market street, Lynn, in the
manufacture of morocco and other fine grades
of leather, at first as sole proprietor and later
in partnership with his brother Henry. How
ever, he eventually retired frora raanufacturing
and established himself as a leather dealer
in Boston, an undertaking which proved highly
successful and yielded hira a large fortune. In
Lynn he was variously identified with the best
interests and institutions of the city and- of his
means gave generously to worthy charities,
but always in such a way as not to attract at
tention to himself. Together with his brother,
Henry Newhall, he established the Leighton
Bank, and was president of it till his death.
This was one of the first institutions of its
kind in the city, and held a high place in
financial circles. In his business transactions
with men he always spoke directly to the sub
ject in hand and never in meaningless or idle
words. He was a good man in every sense and
made the best use of the talents with which na
ture endowed him, and he was greatly respect
ed in the city in wbich he Hved so long and in
which he died. On February 23, 1818, Mr.
Newhall married Lydia Burrill, born May 3,
1797, died March 30, 1881, daughter of
Thompson and Lydia Burrill, and by whom
he had six children: i. Eliza, born May 5,
1819, married John G. Warner, died 1897;
(see Warner family). 2. Persis, born Septem

ber 6, 1820, resides in Louisville, Kentucky;
married Jaraes E. Breed ; he died February
2, 1857. 3. Henry Francis, born January 15,
1823, died July 20, 1902. 4. Lydia Ann, born
June 12, 1825, resides in Lynn. 5. Alaria Bur
rill, born December 23, 1827, married, October
26, 1870, for his third wife, Lyman Barney
Frazier, she died February 25, 1908, aged
eighty years. (See Frazier family). 6.
George Thompson, born December 22, 1832,
mentioned below.
George Thompson Newhall, son of Francis
S. and Lydia (Burrill) Newhall, born Decem
ber 22, 1832, was reared and educated in Lynn.
He began as a clerk with his father, and later
the firra narae was changed to Francis New
hall & Sons. This continued for sorae years
when he retired from this business and was
later associated with the United States mar
shal's office for a tirae, after which he entered
the newspaper business in Lynn, which he fol
lowed till his death, July, 1897. He was ac
tive in the political affairs of Lynn, being a Re
publican, and serving a number of years in the
city council. He was a member of the militia,
captain of the Lynn Light Infantry, and April
I, 1861, when the war broke out, enlisted in
the three raonths service and was coraraission
ed as captain of Corapany D, April 19, 1861,
and after his discharge he re-enlisted in the
nine months service as captain. He was a con
stant attendant of the Unitarian church. He
married, 1859, Harriett C. Trask, born in New
Hampshire, daughter of John Trask, a shoe
maker by trade, who spent his last years in
Lynn, where he died an aged man. Mrs. New
haU is the only one living of three children.
She has had three children; i. Francis Stew
art, an assistant bank exarainer, with offices
in Boston. 2. Grace W., raarried Joshua B. F.
Breed, and resides in Louisville, Kentucky. 3.
Frederick, who was born, reared and educated
in Lynn, and has been for a nuraber of years
connected with R. L. Day & Corapany, bankers
and brokers of Boston.

Joseph Berais, iraraigrant an-
BEMIS cestor, born in England, 1619,
carae to Watertown, Massachu
setts, as early as 1640, and died there August
7, 1684. He was accorapanied by his sister
Mary, who raarried at Watertown, March 20,
1644-5, WilUara Hagar. Joseph Bemis was
selectraan of Watertown 1638-72-71;. He was
a blacksmith as weU as farmer. His will was
dated August 7, and proved October 7, 1684.
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divided November i8, 1712, soon after her
death. Children, born in Watertown: i. Sa
rah, born January 15, 1642-3; raarried John
Bigelow. 2. Alary, born Septeraber 10, 1644;
married Samuel Whitney. 3. Joseph, Jr., twin,
born October 28, 1647, buried Noveraber 4,
1647. 4- Ephraim, twin, bom October 28,
1647, buried November 4, 1647. 5- Alartha,
born Alarch 24, 1649. 6. Joseph, Jr., born De
cember 12, 1651 ; died at Westminster, August
7, 1684. 7. Rebecca, born April 17, 1684;
married John White, and second, Thoraas
Harrington. 8. Ephraira, born August 25,
1656, settled at Windhara, Connecticut. 9.
John. ( II) John Berais, son of Joseph Bemis, born
in Watertown, August, 1659, died October 24,
1732 ; married first, at Watertown, about 1680,
Mary, daughter of George and Susanna Har
rington, second, January i, 1716-17, Mrs. Sa
rah, widow of Jonathan Phillips, born Novem
ber 16, 1663, died February, 1703-4, daughter
of Nathaniel Holland (baptized 1638) and his
second wife, Sarah Hosier. The second wife
of John Berais was born in Watertown, No
veraber 30, 1662, and died before 1726. He
married third, at Watertown, May 30, 1726,
Judith (Jennison) Barnard, bom at Water-
town, August 13, 1667, died there, daughter of
Ensign Samuel Jennison, born 1645, died Oc
tober, 1701, and his wife, Judith Macomber,
who died March i, 1722-3. She was the -widow
of Jaraes Barnard. John Berais owned land in
Marlborough before April 26, 1701, when he
sold it. Children of first wife: i. Beriah,
born June 23, 1681 ; died in Weston, Febru
ary 10, 1701-2; niarried Daniel Child. 2.
Susanna, born December 24, 1682; died No
veraber 15, 1703; married John Hastings. 3.
Joseph, born November 17, 1684, died 1738.
4. John. 5. Mary, born Septeraber 24, 1688;
raarried Isaac Stearns. 6. Sarauel, born 1590;
died in Spencer, August, 1766. 7. Lydia, born
1692 ; married Jonathan Fiske. 8. Hannah,
born October 9, 1694; died October, 1700. 9.
Isaac, born 1696, probably died young. 10.
Jonathan, born November 17, 1701. 11. Ab
rahara, born November 26, 1703. 12. Susan
na, born December 3, 1705; married John
Vilas. 13. Hannah, born December 3, 1705;
raarried John Flagg.
(Ill) John Berais, son of John Berais, born
in Watertown, October 6, 1686; raarried first.
May 8, 1710, Hannah, born January 25, 1690-
I, daughter of Daniel Warren, born October
6, 1653, and his .wife, Elizabeth (Whitney),
bom June 9, 1656. He married second, April

2, 1713, Anna, born June 9, 1690, daughter
of Sarauel Liverraore, born 1640, died 1690,
and his wife, Anna (Bridge) who was born
1646 and died August 28, 1727. After John
Berais died, his widow raarried, December 5,
1769, Josiah Sraith. Child of John and Han
nah: I. John. Children of John and Anna
Berais: 2. Anna, born AprU 29, 1714; raar
ried Samuel Fiske and second Hopestill Bent.
3. Josiah, born February 9, 1715-6. 4. Abra
ham, born December 27, 1717. 5. Grace, born
November 5, 1719. 6. Lydia, born April 5,
1721 ; married Capt. Jonas Dix. 7. Abijah,
born March 16, 1722-3; died at Paxton, June
19, 1790. 8. Elisha, born March 20, 1725-6.
9. Elizabeth, born March 23, 1727-8. 10. Na
thaniel, born Alay 6, 1730. 11. Susanna, born
April 3, 1732; raarried Elisha Garfield. 12.
Phinehas, born March 24, 1734.
(IV) John Berais, son of John Bemis, born
at Watertown, February 11, 171 1-2; married,
February 16, 1731-2, Hannah, born April 28,
171 5, daughter of Capt. Daniel Warren, born
April 30, 1686, and wife, Hannah (Bigelow).
He was surveyor of highways, and a soldier
in the French war, 1656. Children, bom in
Watertown; i. John, born August 28, 1732.
2. Tiraothy. 3. Anna, Septeraber 30, 1736. 4.
Elizabeth, bom January 17, 1738-9; died July
16, 1750. 5. Lydia, born June 10, 1741. 6.
Abigail, born Septeraber i, 1743 ; died July 25,
1750; 7. Nathaniel, born March 12, 1745. 8.
Sarah, born September 27, 1748; raarried
Elisha Cox. 9.- Plenry, born January 28, 1750-
I. 10. Jeduthan, born June 10, 1753; married
Polly Staples, of Sudbury. 11. Alary, born
May 16, 1755'; raarried "WiUiara Corey. 12.
Daniel, born March 5, 1758; raarried Patty
Winch. (V) Nathaniel Berais, son of John, was born
in Weston, March 12, 1745. He was a soldier
of the revolution, private in Capt. Miles' com
pany of Col. Jonathan Teed's regiment, Octo
ber 4, 1743. He raarried a daughter of Elisha
and Anna Cox of Weston. They had six chil
dren ; I. Lucy, born August 5, 1766; married
Jonas Billings. 2. Nathaniel, May 8. 1770. 3.
Lot, August 5, 1772. 4. Polly, Noveraber 22,
1777. 5. Elisha, January 22, 1780. 6. Charles,
January 9, 1785.
(VI) Charles Berais, son of Nathaniel, was
born January 9, 1785, and spent probably
nearly all his life in Maine He was a car
penter by trade and afterward a successful
builder and contractor. He raarried, December
20, 1807, Betsey Jones, who was born Decem
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1756, died May 9, 181 1, (a revolutionary sol
dier) and who married Anna Brown. Charles
and Betsey (Jones) Bemis had children; i.
Emily Jones, born November 29, 1808; mar
ried William Dudley. 2. Charles Winslow,
May 15, 181 1 ; married first, April, 1835, Eliza
Hanley ; second, 1846, Lucy Heywood ; third,
November, 1850, Emily Coggen. 3. Dexter,
May 3, 1813; a farmer of HiUsboro, Alassa
chusetts; married Mary Jones and had Mary
J., Sarah E. and Abbie A. 4. EH Emery,
July 17, 1815. 5. Betsey Jane, December 24,
1 81 7; raarried Leander Ballard. 6. Royal,
October i, 1820; raarried Mary Ann Bond.
7. Luke, Noveraber 10, 1822, now dead ; was
a contractor and builder at Walthara, Massa
chusetts, and accuraulated a fortune. 8. John,
June 26, 1825.
(VII) EH Emery Bemis, son of Charles
and Betsey (Jones) Bemis, was born in Wes
ton, Massachusetts, June 17, 1815, on the old
Bemis homestead farm. He was an energetic
farmer and when not employed with the cul
tivation of his acres he turned his attention
to contract work. He was a man of quiet
habits, but he possessed remarkable energy in
business raatters, and was withal a public spir
ited and progressive citizen. He married
Eliza Leman ; children ; i . Emery Leman,
born in Weston and died there, aged sixty-five
years ; raarried Abbie Lind and had Jennie,
now dead, and Minnie. 2. Eliza Leraan, raar
ried  Parsons ; both dead. 3. Isidora
Ophelia, married Dennis Eldridge and owns
and occupies the old Bemis family homestead
in Weston. 4. John Leman.
(VIII) John Leraan Berais, son of Eli Em
ery and EHza (Leman) Bemis, was born on
the old horae farra in "Weston, July 28, 1844,
lived there until he became of age, then bought
a farm of his own and occupied it until 1872,
when he reraoved to Winthrop, Massachusetts,
where he now lives. When he settled in Win
throp he purchased a small tract of land near
the center of the town and set up in the milk
business, but after a few years sold out his
milk route and reraoved to Chicago to take the
position of purchasing agent for the Swift
Packing Company, with which concern he was
connected in one way and another and in one
place and another for the next ten years, four
years of which time was spent on the Pacific
coast, when he had intended to begin business
on his own account. However, having spent
about twenty years in Chicago and the west,
Mr. Bemis returned to Winthrop in 1891, and
has since devoted his attention to the railk bus

iness, selling his product in bulk. He has a
very pleasant horae and with his family en
joys the comforts of life and the fruits of
years weU spent. On November 27, 1866, he
married Frances Underwood, born in Lin
coln, Alassachusetts, April 27, 1847, daughter
of Moses and Sophronia ("Whitney) Under
wood, both born in Lincoln, her father in 1789
and her mother December 13, 1808. They
lived and died on the old Underwood house
farm, which had been settled by the Under
woods during the tirae of the colony. Moses
Lhiderwood was a soldier of the war of 1812-
15, and a man of great physical strength; and
it is said of hira that such was the power of
his voice that he could make hiraself heard a
full raile away. It is said too that when the
custom house in Boston was in process of erec
tion he was selected to drive the great team
of eighty yoke of oxen required to haul the
large granite columns from the quarries in
Quincy to the site of the building.
Mr. Underwood's father, Moses Under
wood, was one of the early settlers of Lin
coln, a minute-raan in 1775, who fought the
British at Arlington and Lexington and con
tinued in service two years. It is said that
his daring in battle was remarkable, always
in the thickest of the fight, and that on one oc
casion, when almost completely surrounded
he used his old musket with such effect that
he cut his way out and left several of the
enemy lying on the ground. His whole life
was spent in Lincoln, when he was a man of
rauch prorainence. His wife was Sarah Pierce,
who also carae of one of the old New England
colonial families. Moses Underwood, last men
tioned, was a son of Joseph Underwood, who
was born in Lincoln and married a Gage, and
Joseph Underwood was a son of Aloses Un
derwood, born in Lincoln and a son of Moses
Underwood the iraraigrant, who came from
England to Araerica in the first half of the
seventeenth century and was araong the early
planters of Lincoln. The lands set off to him
were cleared by his own hand and the farm
which he made to yield its first crop continued
in possession of his descendants through one
generation to another until the year 1902, when
its last reraaining acres passed into other
hands. The children of Moses and Sophronia
(Whitney) Underwood: i. Martha, died
young, result of accident. 2. Mary, raarried
Albert McCleary, and now is a widow. 3.
Aloses, lives in Walthara, Massachusetts, re
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whose family name was Hill ; raarried sec
ond, TUley Crane 4. Lydia, married Hiram
Garfield of Weston, and died by accident. 5.
Sarah, married Williara Harrington and now
is a widow, living in Minneapolis, Minneso
ta. . 6. Sophronia, married Frank Farnsworth
and lives in Waltham. 7. Frances, wife of
John Leman Bemis. 8. Addie Sophronia, died
ajt the age of six years.
John Leman and Frances (Underwood) Be
rais have two children. Their son, Clarence
Leraan, born in Winthrop, Septeraber 6, 1869;
lives in Chicago and is eraployed by the Swift
Packing Co. ; raarried Belle Byrnes, born Chi
cago, October 23, 1871, and has two children,
Clarabelle, born Septeraber 7, 1893, and Ruth
Leman, born August 4, li

Many of the family of this
RAWSON name have so demeaned thera
selves as to bring honor upon
themselves and those so fortunate as to bear
this cognomen. The industry and high char
acter of the Rawsons have always been con
spicuous virtues, and they have ever enjoyed
the respect and esteem of their contempo
raries. Their record is long and honorable,
telling of men moral to a remarkable degree,
independent in thought and action, patriotic
and brave, prominent in the communities
where they dwelt, and often leaders of their
fellows. (I) Secretary Edward Rawson, iraraigrant
ancestor, was born at DiUinghara, Dorsetshire,
England, son of David and Margaret (Wil
son) Rawson, the forraer of whom was a cit
izen and merchant tailor of London, England,
and the latter a sister of the Rev. John Wil
son, rainister at Boston. In 1637, at the age
of twenty-two, Edward Rawson left his na
tive land for the new world, settling in New
bury, Massachusetts, where he was one of
the grantees and proprietors. He was active
and prominent in public affairs, and served
in the capacity of second town clerk of New
bury; notary public and register, serving from
April 19, 1638, to 1647; "was selectman of the
town ; commissioner to hear and deterraine
small causes ; deputy to the general court
frora Newbury frora 1638 nearly every year
until 1650; clerk of the house of deputies
1645-46-49. He had a special grant for his
services to the general court — a tract of fifteen
hundred acres near the Narragansett country.
In company with Joseph Plills he revised the
laws of the province. He succeeded Increase
Nowell, who had been secretary of the colony

since the beginning in 1636. Edward Rawson
was chosen May 22, 1650, and after that made
his home in Boston, residing on Rawson lane,
so called until changed to Brorafield street, and
he owned sorae acres bordering on the Cora
raon. He was re-elected annually to his po
sition until 1686, a period of thirty-six yeans,
when Sir Edmund Andros carae into power.
Mr. Rawson and his wife were raerabers of
the church of which the Rev. John Wilson was
pastor, and after the death of the latter named
Mr. Rawson became one of the twenty-eight
disaffected persons who left the First Church
and united to form the Third or Old South
Church in Alay, 1669. He became the agent
or steward of an EngHsh Society for the Prop
agation of the Gospel among the Indians in
New England, in 1651. He countersigned the
warrant sent to Massachusetts for the arrest
of the regicides, Goffe, Whalley and Dixwell,
but the arrests were never raade. The one blot
on his good record was his participation in the
persecution of the Quakers, then a fashionable
custom. Plis salary as secretary was at first
twenty pounds a year, later sixty pounds. He
was subsequently elected recorder of Suffolk
county. His family Bible is now or was lately
in the possession of R. R. Dodge, of East Sut
ton, Massachusetts, having descended through
this line; John Rawson Young (6), Anna
(5), David (4), David (3), William (2), Ed
ward (i). Edward Rawson was an efficient
officer, and a useful and distinguished citizen.
He died August 27, 1693, and administration
was granted to his son William. The warrant
to distribute the estate was dated April 6,
1695; a partial account was dated January
14, 1722. Edward Rawson married Rachel,
daughter of Thoraas Perne, granddaughter of
John and  (Grindal) Hooker, the latter
of whom was a sister of Edmund Grindal,
archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. Children; i. Daughter, mar
ried and remained in England. 2. Edward,
graduate of Harvard, 1653 ; settled in Hors
monden, Kent county, England, 1655. 3.
Rachel, married, January 18, 1683, "WiUiara
Aubrey. 4. David, born May 6, 1644, went
to England. 5. Perne, born Septeraljer 16,
1646, raarried the Rev. Samuel Torrey. 6.
WilHam, born May 21, 1651, niarried, July
31, 1673, Anne Glover. 7. Susan, died in
Roxbury in 1654. 8. Hannah, baptized Octo
ber 10, 1653, died May 27, 1656. 9. Rebecca,
born October 19, 1654, died young. 10. Re
becca, born May 23, 1656. 11. EHzabeth, born
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ton. 12. ^ev. Grindal, born January 23, 1659,
mentioned below.
(II) Rev. Grindal Rawson, son of Edward
and Rachel (Perne) Rawson, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, January 23, 1659, died
February 6, 1715; a stone suitably inscribed
marks his laurial place in Mendon. He was
graduated at Harvard in 1678, and after re
ceiving his first degree. Bachelor of Arts, was
invited by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Samuel
Torrey, to come to his house and study divin
ity. He proved an apt pupil and was advised
to enter the ministry. He preached his first
sermon at Medfield, and for two months after
that was heard in various churches until Oc
tober 4, 1680, when he accepted the invitation
to fill the pulpit at Mendon, Massachusetts.
He preached there until April 7, 1684, when
he was perraanently settled as rainister of the
town. He married Su.sanna, daughter of the
Rev. John Wilson, of Medfield, sister of Dr.
John Wilson, granddaughter of the Rev. John
Wilson. They were distant relatives. She
died July 8, 1748. Children; i. Edward, born
November 21, 1683. 2. Edward, born 1684,
died May 26, 1685. 3. Susanna, born October
31, 1686, married, 1719, Benjarain Reynolds.
4. Edmund, born July 8, 1689. 5. Wilson, born
June 23, 1692, mentioned below. 6. John, born
October i, 1695, raarried Mercy Hayward. 7.
Mary, born June 22, 1699, raarried, April 9,
1724, Joseph Dorr. 8. Rachel, born Septera
ber 6, 1 70 1, married Sarauel Wood. 9. Da
vid, born October 25, 1703, died January 18,
1704. 10. Grindal, born September 6, 1707,
married Dorothy Chauncey. 11. Elizabeth,
born AprU 21, 1710.
Rev. Cotton Mather, classraate and friend of
the Rev. Grindal Rawson, in his preface to his
sermon preached at the funeral of the latter,
quotes the language used by President Urian
Oakes at Commencement in 1678 when he con
ferred degrees on the class of that year. Fol
lowing is a translation ; "The third somewhat
high-sounding, in Grindal Rawson, sprung
likewise from a most illustrious stock, for his
honored father holds a high place in the state ;
the very pious and orthodox John Wilson, a
truly Apostolic man, was his great-grandmoth
er's brother, and the Right Rev. Edmund
Grindal, sometime archbishop of Canterbury,
a most saintly raan and in the archbishopric
little less than a Puritan, his great-great-
grandraother's brother, and raay God grant
that in learning, holiness and excellence of
character he may resemble both Wilson and
Grindal". Mr. Mather himself said; "We

generally esteemed hira a truly pious man and
a very prudent one, and a person of temper
and every way qualified for a friend that
might be delighted in. We honored him for
his industrious oversight of the flock in the
wilderness which had been committed unto
hira and the variety of successful pains which
he took for the good of those to whora God
had therefore exceedingly endeared him. We
honored him for his intellectual abilities which
procured frequent applications to hira and
brought hira soraetiraes upon our raost con
spicuous theatres. And we usually took it for
granted that things would be fairly done where
he had an hand in the doing of them. We
honored him for his doing the work of an
evangelist araong our Indians of whose
language he was a raaster that has scarce an
equal and for whose welfare his projections
and perforraances were such as render om
loss herein hardly to be repaired. Such ser
vices are Pyramids". Dr. Metcalf said of him ;
"He was an exceUent scholar and eminent di
vine". His reputation as a theologian was of
such a character that the general court some
tiraes preferred grave and serious questions of
ecclesiastical polity to hira for decision. In
1698 he visited the Indian tribes of the Prov
ince with the Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Taun
ton. He was appointed chaplain to the forces
going to Canada. He wrote the paraphlet
entitled "Confession of Faith", published in
English and Indian. His Artillery Election ser
mon in 1703, and Election sermon May 25,
1709, were published. ,
(III) Wilson Rawson, son of the Rev.
Grindal and Susanna (Wilson) Rawson, was
born in Mendon, Massachusetts, June 23, 1692,
died December i, 1726. He was a farraer at
Mendon. He married Margaret Arthur, of
Nantucket, May 4, 1712 ; she died Noveraber
14, 1767. Children: i. Wilson, born August
13, 1713, at Mendon, raentioned below. 2.
Priscilla, born Deceraber 17, 171 5. 3. Mary,
born May 12, 1717, died June 22, 1717. 4.
Grindal, born July 13, 1719. 5. Edward, born
April 2, 1 72 1, married Mary Morse. 6. Ste
phen, born April 2, 1722. 7. Paul, born AprU
9, 1725, raarried Phebe Gardner. 8. John, born
January 23, 1727.
(IV) Wilson Rawson, son of Wilson and
Margaret (Arthur) Rawson, was born at Men
don, August 13, 1713, died at Upton, 1778,
where he had settled many years previously.
His will was dated July 5, 1778, and filed De
cember 2 following. He married Abigail Tem
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1737)- Children; i. Wilson, born October
24, 1738, died March 15, 1744. 2. Caleb, born
April 23, 1741. 3. Abigail, born June 9, 1743,
niarried  Whitney. 4. Joshua, born
April 12, 1746. 5. Mary, born March 2, 1748.
6. Wilson, born February 20, 1752, soldier in
the Revolution. 7. Joshua, born April i, 1755.
8. Artemas, born 1759, mentioned below.
(V) Artemas Rawson, son of Wilson and
Abigail (Temple) Rawson, was born at Up
ton, Massachusetts, 1759, died at Upton,
March 27, 181 5. He was a farmer in Upton.
During the Revolutionary war he served as
a private in Captain Ezra Wood's company on
the Lexington alarm ; _ also in Captain Ben
jamin Farrar's corapany, Lieutenant-Colonel
Nathan Taylor's regiraent, at the Rhode Island
carapaign of 1776. He raarried, November
25, 1779. Dorcas Bachelor, of Grafton. Chil
dren, born at Upton; i. Levi, born January
19, 1781. 2. Asenath (given Marcena in the
genealogy), born July 13, 1782. 3. Eraraa,
born January 25, 1784. 4. Artemas, born Sep
teraber 13, 1785, raentioned below. 5. Phila,
born May 11, 1787, (also given Philanda). 6.
Dorcas, born and died 1790. 7. Mark B., born
March 3, 1793. 8. Dorcas B., born March 2,
1795, raarried William Brooks. 9. Nathaniel
Ward, born April 11, 1797, died January 30,
1818. (VI) Artemas Rawson, son of Artemas and
Dorcas (Bachelor) Rawson, was born in Up
ton, Massachusetts, September 13, 1785, died
at Lynn, Massachusetts, November 29, 1869.
After completing his duties at the comraon
school, he aided with the work on his fath
er's farra and also served an apprenticeship at
the trade of shoemaking. For a few years he
followed his trade in his native town, then
moved to Paris, Maine, where he continued
to make shoes, after the custom of the times,
and also conducted a farm there, both occu
pations proving highly successful. Later he
reraoved to Ordway, Maine, where he pur
chased a sraall farra, and during the winter
raonths raanufactured shoes. In 1859 he re
moved to Arlington, Massachusetts, retiring
at that time from active labor and business.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church; forraerly a Democrat and later a Re
publican in his political views, and in early
manhood was a raember of the state militia.
He married, February 3, 1 816, at Paris, Maine,
Dorcas Rice, and lived there until 1832. Chil
dren ; I. Solon, born October 29, 1817. 2.
Aurelia P., born July 22, 1819. 3. Warren,
born July 18, 1821. 4. Mary, born October

18, 1823. 5. Williara, born May i,«i826. 6.
Dorcas B., born May i, 1829, died March i,
1891. 7. Miranda, born June 17, 1831. 8.
Ann E., born June 25, 1833, died August 26,
1 87 1. 9. Jaraes, born July 6, 1835. 10. Van
Buren, born July 17, 1839, died September 16,
1869. II. Elbridge M., born ,November 12,
1840, mentioned below. 12. S. Greenleaf, born
December 10, 1842, died March 5, 1865.
(VII) Elbridge MarceUus Rawson, son of
Artemas and Dorcas (Rice) Rawson, was born
at Oxford, Maine, Noveraber 12, 1840. He
received his education in the common schools
of his native town, working on his father's
farm. At the age of seventeen he came to
Lynn, Massachusetts, where he served a three
years' apprenticeship in the trade of carpen
ter with Daniel Hyde. At the breaking out of
the civil war, desirous of showing his patriot
ism and loyalty to country, he offered his ser
vices for the defense of the Union, and en
listed as a private in the Fifteenth Alassachu
setts Battahon, Corapany I, Captain William
D. Chamberlain. The company left Boston
May 10, 1861, for Fortress Alonroe, where the
corapany was later raerged into the Twenty-
nintJh Massachusetts Regiment, in Sumner's
Second Array Corps, Richardson's First Di
vision, Meagher's Second Brigade. The regi
raent reraained at Fortress Monroe until No
vember, 1 86 1, at which tirae General McClel
lan took command of the army, and the Twen
ty-ninth went into winter quarters at Newport
News, joining AlcClellan's forces in the spring
of 1862, just before the battle of Fair Oaks,
and was in the battle May 31 and June i, 1862.
He was through the Pennsylvania campaign
and marched to reinforce Pope, where the Sec
ond Corps covered his retreat. The regiraent
was in the battle of South Mountain, Septem
ber 14, 1862, and Antietam, the 17th. The
regiment soon went into winter quarters at
Fredericksburg, and the following spring
joined Burnside's Army of the Ohio, Potter's
Ninth- Army Corps, Ferraro's First Division,
Christ's Second Brigade, the regiment under
comraand of Colonel Ebenezer W. Peirce. The
corps went to Paris, Kentucky, when it was
ordered to reinforce General Grant at Vicks
burg, and while en route met Jackson and drove
hira out. The regiment later went to East
Tennessee and was at the siege of Knoxville.
Subsequently came to Annapolis, Maryland,
where the corps was reorganized, and later
was in the battles of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania, after which was sent back to
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out of service. While at the battle of the
Wilderness Mr. Rawson was wounded and
laid in hospital about six weeks.
After returning from the war Mr. Rawson
took up his residence in Lynn, Massachusetts,
where he entered the eraploy of his old era-
ployer, Daniel Hyde, as a journeyman car
penter, remaining several years. In 1872 he
removed to Boston, where he worked at his
trade for N. W. Morrison, and when the
Siraraonds block was erected he became super
intendent of that building, remaining in that
service twenty-nine years, discharging the du
ties pertaining thereto in a highly creditable
and efficient raanner, and thereafter led a re
tired life as far as active business pursuits
was concerned, enjoying to the full the con
sciousness of years well spent and duties faith
fully performed. In 1883 he erected a fine
residence in Brookline, in which he made his
home, and in 1886 erected another at No.
52 Harrison street (nearby). He was reared
in the faith of the Methodist church, but in
later years attended the Unitarian church at
Brookline. He was a Republican in politics.
Pie had the distinction of belonging to the
•oldest lodge of Masons in the country, St.
John's of Boston, having joined it in No
veraber, 1880. He was a member of St. An
drew's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, joining
in 1880; Boston Commandery, Knights Temp
lar, 1880; John A. Andrews Post, No. 15,
¦Grand Army of the Republic, at Boston. Mr.
Rawson married, October 5, 1878, Eraraa Rice
Vose, born Noveraber i, 1835, daughter of
Royal and Mary Ann (Sanford) Vose. Royal
"Vose was a mason contractor.

John Osgood (i), born in
OSGOOD WherweU, Hampshire, Eng
land, 1595, came to New Eng
land from Andover in the mother country and
was first of Ipswich, then of Newbury and be
fore 1645 was settled in Andover, Massachu
setts, being the second settler in that town.
He was made freeman in 1639, one of the
founders of the first church there in 1645, and
the first representative from Andover to the
general court in 1651. His wiU bears date
April 12, 1650, and was admitted to probate
November 25, 1651. His wife Sarah, whom
he married in England, survived him raore
than fifteen years, and died April 8, 1667.
Their chUdren were : Sarah, John, Mary, EHz
abeth, Stephen, Hannah, and perhaps Christo
pher and Thomas.
(II) Captain John Osgood, son of John and

Sarah Osgood, was born in England about
163 1 and carae to New England with his
parents. He was captain of the militia, select
man, representative to the general court, and
died in Andover in 1693. He niarried, No
veraber 15, 1653, Mary, daughter of Robert
Cleraent, who carae from Coventry, Warwick
shire, England, about 1652. Alary was charged
with witchcraft in 1692, indicted, but was not
punished. She bore her husband twelve chil
dren; John, Mary, Timothy, Lydia, Peter,
Samuel, Sarah (died young), Mehitable, Han
nah, Sarah, Ebenezer and Clement.
(Ill) Lieutenant John Osgood, son of Cap
tain John and Alary (Cleraent) Osgood, was
born in Andover, Septeraber 13, 1654, died
April 22, 1725. He -was a man of consequence
in the town, constable, 1684, selectman, 1685,
and seven times afterward, lieutenant of mi
litia, surveyor, 1693, deacon of the church
from 1719 until his death, 1725. He married,
October 16, 168 1, Hannah Ayers, born August
2, 1662, died September 6, 173S, daughter of
Peter and Hannah (AUen) Ayers. Their chil
dren were ; John, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Jere
raiah (died young), Jeremiah, Daniel, Wil
liam, Hannah, Benjarain, Samuel and Josiah.
(IV) Nathaniel Osgood, son of Lieutenant
John and Hannah (Ayers) Osgood, was born
January 6, 1686-87, and died in Salem in 1756.
He was a shoemaker and lived in Salem. He
married, March 27, 17 10, Hannah, "daughter
of John and Sarah (Pickering) Buttolph, and
granddaughter of John and Alice (Flint)
Pickering. Their nine children were ; Hannah
(died young), Hannah, Nathaniel, John, Ben
jarain, Mary, Jereraiah, William and Sarah.
(V) Nathaniel Osgood, son of Nathaniel
and Hannah (Buttolph) Osgood, was born in
Salera in 1716, and died June 6, 1799. He
raarried, October 6, 1745, Hannah Babbridge,
and had two children, Christopher and Polly.
(VI) Christopher Osgood, son of Nathaniel
and Hannah (Babbridge) Osgood, was born
in Salem, October 26, 1748, died March 4,
1828. He married, AprU 21, 1772, Mary
Shepard, born in Salem, February 23, 1750,
died May 9, 1832, daughter of Thomas and
Susanna (Pike) Shepard. They had eleven
children, all born in Salera; i. Nathaniel, Oc
tober 12, 1773, died February, 1776. 2. Polly,
October 5, 1775, died March 3, 1855. 3. Na
thaniel, July 6, 1777, died November 17, 1849.
4. Christopher, January 13, 1780, died July 21,
1798. 5. Sukey (Susan), September 8, 1781,
died July 16, i860. 6. John B., November 7,
1783, died December 27, 1853. 7. William B.,

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AprU 7, 1785, died April 2, 1834. 8. Henry,
January 29, 1787, died June 24, 1820. 9. Bet
sey, May 20, 1789, died 1834. 10. Jereraiah,
June 3, 1 79 1, master mariner, living in 1825.
II. Abigail P., June 11, 1794, died i\iarch 25,
1816. (VII) Betsey Osgood, daughter of Christo
pher and Mary (Shepard) Osgood, was born
in, Salem, Alay 20, 1789, died there in 1834.
She married Willard Williaras, who was born
in Salem and died May 21, 1835. They riad
three children: i. Henry Willard Williaras,
born Boston, 1821, entered the raedical pro
fession; studied abroad, and practiced many
years in Boston, where he has attained a high
rank in medical circles and is recognized as an
ophtholmologist of splendid experience and
rare skill. He raarried Elizabeth Lowe, of
Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. 2. Abigail Os
good Williams, born Boston, 1828, lives in Sa
lera. 3. Alary Elizabeth Williaras, born Bos
ton, 1830, died in Salera.
Willard Williaras was eraployed in a rainor
capacity in the Suffolk Bank, Boston, where
he was a young raan, and continued in the ser
vice of that great financial institution until the
close of his life, but he was advanced from
tirae to time through various grades of promo
tion to a position of responsibility and gave
faithful service in whatever capacity to which
he was appointed. He was a firm old-line
Whig, but had little tirae to devote to political
affairs. Pie was a pious man, an earnest raem
ber of the Congregational church and took
deep interest in proraoting the work and influ
ence of the society in general. His daughters,
Abigail Osgood and Mary Elizabeth, were edu
cated in select schools in Boston and early in
life show decided inclination for art studies
and work. They were encouraged in this and
previous to the death of their father applied
themselves diligently and intelligently to their
tasks under the instructions of the best artists
in Boston. After their father's death they
went abroad and lived in Italy for the next
sixteen years, studying, painting independently
from the best works of the most famous mas
terpieces, and also devoted considerable atten
tion to collecting rare art treasures, both for
exhibition and sale, and when at length they
returned to Boston their art studio was fur
nished with numerous valuable paintings from
their brushes and raany others which had been
selected with intelligent and scrupulous care
frora various parts of the old world. Plaving
lived raany years in Boston, the Misses Wil
liams reraoved to Salem and there continued

their work, but perhaps less zealously than in
earlier years; and since t^e death of Miss-
Alary EHzabeth her sister Abigail Osgood has
kept up her own work with occasional periods
of rest. She is a highly cultured and most in
teresting woman, and has surrounded herself
with-raany of the choicest gems of her art.

It is soraetiraes surprising whea
PAIGE searching the great genealogi
cal libraries of New England to-
discover how little has been written of sorae
of the most prominent tamilies of the region,
whose surnames have been known in all gen
erations from the early colonial period to the
present tirae. This appears to be true of the
family treated in this place, the immigrant
ancestor of which landed on the shore of the
new world within the next twenty years fol
lowing the landing of the Pilgrims on histor
ic Plymouth Rock.
(I) Nicholas Paige (Page), was the ances
tor of the famUy here considered. He was of
Welch birth and parentage and first appears
in New England history as one of the earliest
settlers in what now is Harapton, New
Harapshire, about the year 1638. This is-
about all that is known of him.
(II) Amos Paige was a son of Nicholas.
Paige, but there is no further account of him,
the period of his life, his raarriage, or the
names of his children, with one exception.
(Ill) TheophUus Paige, son of Araos-
Paige and grandson of Nicholas Paige the
iraraigrant, was born about the year 1707,
and spent perhaps the greater part of his.
life in Kensington, New Harapshire, where
he died June 12, 1782, aged seventy-five
years. He raarried Hannah Dow, who sur
vived hira and died ib 1786; children; i. Dan
iel; see forward. 2. Enoch, raarried Ruth
Peaslee ; settled in Berwick, Maine. 3. Na
than, married Molly (or Mary) Brown; lived
in Kensington, New Harapshire. 4. Sam
uel, niarried first. Patience Gove ; second,.
Alary Johnson, and died in 1769.
(IV) Daniel Paige, eldest son of Theo
philus and Hannah (Dow) Paige, was born
in Kensington, New Hampshire, and about
1772 reraoved thence to Weare, New Hamp
shire, where he afterward Hved. In the rec
ords of the latter town he is mentioned as a
Quaker frora Kensington who "settled on
law lot 23, range 6, Bear liiU." He died com
paratively young, leaving two sons and three
daughters. One of his grandsons became an
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lee, born in 1736, daughter of Joseph and
Martha (Hoag) Peaslee, and granddaughter
of John and Mary (Martin) Peaslee. John
Peaslee was a son of Dr. Joseph and Ruth
(Barnard) Peaslee, and grandson of Joseph
Peaslee, who with his wife Mary came from
England in 1638, settled first in Newbury,
Alassachusetts, and in 1641 was living in Col
chester (Salisbury) Massachusetts. In 1645
he was one of thirty-two landholders in Hav
erhUl, Massachusetts, which in 1641 was a
part of old Colchester, but now is wi'thin the
boundaries of New Hampshire. He is men
tioned in the old records as "a preacher and
gifted brother." and also as "a self-educated
physician of rauch repute." Daniel and Mary
(Peaslee) Paige had chUdren; i. Hannah,
married Moses Green. 2. Ruth, born 1765 ;
raarried Aloses Osborn. 3. Sarah, married
Joseph Hussey. 4. John, born" 1767, died'
1848; married Hannah Paige; eight children.
5. Daniel, born in 1772.
(V) Daniel Paige, youngest child of Dan
iel and Alary (Peaslee) Paige, was born in
Weare, New Harapshire, 1772, and died 1855.
He was a farmer, and in his religious views
appears to have departed somewhat from the
faith of his fathers, for he was one of the
men of Weare who were instruraental in
erecting the Universalist Church in that
town. He raarried Corafort Hoag, born
1775, died 1850. Comfort Hoag was a daugh
ter of Joseph Hoag, who settled in the south
part of Herkimer, New Hampshire, and who
married, 1768, Hephzibah Hoag, daughter of
Jonathan Hoag and Comfort Stanyan. Jo
seph Hoag was son of Nathan Hoag, who
married Alairtha Goodwin, grandson of Jo
nathan Hoag whose wife was "Ebenezer"
Emery, and great-grandson of John Hoag,
who was born in England or Wales in 1641,
and came to this country in 1643 with his
father's faraily, an account of which will be
found elsewhere in this work. Daniel and
Corafort (Hoag) Paige, had chUdren; r.
Sarah, born 1798 ; raarried Moses Wheeler.
2. Joseph, born 1801. 3. Anna, born 1804;
married George Nichols. 4. Daniel, born
1808; married first, Elizabeth Nichols; sec
ond, Mary Jones. 5. Jonathan, born 1812;
married first, Eleanor Locke; second, Mary
Willard ; third, Mary Shaw.
(VI) Daniel Paige, fourth child of Daniel
and Comfort (Hoag) Paige, was born in
Weare, New Hampshire, in 1808, and died in
1873. in Peabody. He married first, Eliza
beth Nichols, who died in 1838; second,
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Alary Jones, the mother of his chUdren; i.
James J., born in 1844. 2. Aloses B., bora
1846. 3. Martha L., born 1850.
(VII) Moses BaUey Paige, second son and
chUd of Daniel and Alary (Jones) Paige, was
bom in Weare, New Hampshire, in July,
1846, and for the last more than thirty years
has been actively identified with the business
life of the town of Peabody, Massachusetts.
When about ten years old he went from
Weare to Winthrop, Maine, where he re
ceived his education and afterward becanie a
farmer, which occupation he followed until
1872, when he removed to Peabody. Air.
Paige was a farraer in Peabody for a short
tirae after he went to live in that town, anti
afterward found employment in the pottery
and earthenware works of Charles Worthen.
In 1876 he himself became proprietor of the
works and at once proceeded to enlarge its
capacity and improve its facilities for produc
ing superior wares. Not only once, but sev
eral times during his personal ownership of
the plant, Mr. Paige made material improve
ments in and about the factory and placed it
on a foundation where in addition to the pot
tery wares he at first made, the works have
been made to produce an excellent quality of
crockeryware in general. Under his capa
ble management the concern becarae a high
ly profitable enterprise, and whatever the M.
B. Paige Corapany is to-day is the result of
his own effort and industry. In 1906 the Al.
B. Paige Corapany was incorporated, and
since that tirae Air. Paige has been its presi
dent and general raanager.
On July 18, 1893, Mr. Paige raarried Mrs.
Eliza "WUkinson, widow of Robert H. Wilkin
son (born January 29, 1854, died Septeraber
22, 1884), and daughter of Nathan Holt Poor
and AbigaU Alorrill, his first wife ; WUkinson
issue ; Edward Poor Wilkinson, born August
5, 1884, died October 16, 1884. Mr. and Mrs.
Paige have one chUd ; Jaraes Edward Paige,
born in Peabody, June 23, 1896.

The Rutter faraUy of England
RUTTER has an ancient and honored his
tory. Nicholas Rutter, prob
able ancestor of the Araerican eraigrant, bore
arras; Gules three garbs and chief a lion
passant argent or rauUet for difference. Nich
olas Rutter lived at Holcot, Gloucestershire.
The Rutter faraily of Kingsley Hall, county
Chester, bears similar arms : Gules three
garbs or, on a chief azure lion passant guard-
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Cheshire, Gloucestershire and Stratford-on-
Avon, county Warwick, has arras : Gules a
lion passant in chief and three in base argent.
But one other coat-of -arras of the Rutter
family is given by Burke, that of the family
at Exeter in Devonshire, and differing from
these just described.
(I) John Rutter, iraraigrant ancestor of the
Sudbury family of this surname, born in Eng
land, 1616, carae to America in the ship "Con
fidence," sailing from Southampton, April 24,
1638, with other passengers who settled in
Sudbury, Alassachusetts. Rutter was listed
with several other young men as "servants"
of Peter Noyes, who was raaking his second
trip, but tradition tells us that he was not
really in the eraploy of Noyes, though raany
young raen worked their passage and were
called servants in the ship's papers. Rutter
was a carpenter by trade. He settled in Sud
bury, and was a proprietor of that town in
1640. He contracted with the selectmen Feb
ruary 17, 1642, to "sett, sawe, hew & frame"
a house — the first meeting house. Several
acres were giveii him by the town in acknowl
edgment of services, perhaps in connection
with this contract. He was a selectman in
1675. He and his descendants resided for
many years on South street. East Sudbury,
(now Wayland) and the old homestead of
Joseph Rutter, which was a narae found in the
faraily from the earliest generation, was lately
occupied by James A. Draper. In this house
General Micah Maynard Rutter, was born in
1779, son of Joseph Rutter, Jr. Another
descendant of note was Dr. Joseph Draper,
graduate of Williaras College, principal of the
high schools at Saxtonville and Milford, sur
geon in the Union army in the civil war, prac
ticing physician in South Boston, who died in
1885. He was the son of Eunice (Rutter)
Draper, daughter of Joseph Rutter, Jr., and
Ira Draper. Dr. Draper well represented the
John Rutter faraily, which as a race was noted
for purity and uprightness of character. He
is buried in the old burying ground at Way-
land. Another grandchild of Joseph Rutter,
Jr., is Mrs. A. S. Hudson, (L. R. Draper),
forraerly principal of the Wadsworth Acad
emy at South Sudbury, and of high schools at
Lincoln, Wayland and Marlborough, Alassa
chusetts. John Rutter married, Noveraber i,
1641, Elizabeth Plyrapton, who carae in the
ship "Jonathan" in 1639, probably sister of
Thoraas Plimpton, of Sudbury, also called a
servant of Peter Noyes, who was killed by the
Indians in King Philip's war. She died May

5, 1689. Children; i. EHzabeth, born Octo
ber 6, 1642. 2. John, born February 7, 1645 ;
married March 12, 1690, Hannah Bush. 3.
Rebecca, born February 28, 1647. 4. Thoraas,
born April 6, 1650; raentioned below. 5.
Joseph, born May i, 1656; died March 17,
1 69 1, at Sudbury.
(II) Thoraas Rutter, son of John Rutter
(i), was born in Sudbury, April 5, 1650. He
raarried, October 15, 1689, Jemima Stanhope,
born June 24, 1665, died September 28, 1748.
he resided at Sudbury. ChUdren, born there:
I. Elizabeth, September i, 1690. 2. Mary,
April 7, 1693. 3- Jemima, December 2, 1695;
married Joshua Heminway. 4. Anna, May
22, 1698. 5. Sarah, May 3, 1701. 6. Joseph,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Joseph Rutter, son of Thomas Rutter
(2), was born at Sudbury, September 25,
1703. He rnarried (possibly second wife),'
April 28, 1743, Mary "Willard. Children, born
in Sudbury; i. Alary, April 8, 1744. 2.
Eunice, October 5, 1745; died June 17, 1764.
3. Thoraas, born February 14, 1748 ; raarried
June 24, 1773, Abigail Heard ; was a soldier in
the revolution. 4. Joseph Jr., raentioned
below. 5. Jemima, May 4, 1756.
(IV) Joseph Rutter, son of Joseph. Rutter
(3), was born in Sudbury, March 28, 1752.
He married Eunice Maynard, of an old Sud
bury faraily. He resided on the horaestead at
Wayland. Children; i. Micah Maynard,
raentioned below. 2. Eunice, raarried Ira
Draper. (V) General Micah Maynard Rutter, son
of Joseph Rutter Jr. (4), was born in East
Sudbury, March 4, 1779, and died at Wayland
(formerly Ea.st Sudbury) May 8,- 1837. For
many years he was a deputy sheriff of Middle
sex county. He served in the Massachusetts
militia raany years ; was colonel of First Reg
iraent, Second Brigade, Third Division, Mass
achusetts, 1816 to 1826 inclusive ; brigadier-
general Second Brigade, Third Division, 1829
to 1834 inclusive. He was a raeraber of the
Massachusetts house of representatives ten
years, and also served as state senator. He
was a raember of the Masonic fraternity,
receiving the degrees in Middlesex Lodge and
demitting to Monitor Lodge, and was exalted
in St. Paul's Royal Arch Chapter, April 22,
1828. He was a patriotic, public-spirited raan,
and interested in all raatters that concerned
the welfare of the town and comraonwealth.
He raarried, October 13, 1805, Nancy Plymp
ton. of Wayland. Children, born in Way-
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mentioned below. 2. Adelaide, never raarried.
3. Josiah, born March 2, 1813. 4. Susan,
married  Pierce ; children : Edward and
Charles Pierce. 5. Eliza Jane, never married.
6. Susan. 7. Nancy P. 8. Adeline.
The following appeared in a local paper at
time of the death of General Micah M. Rut
ter; "In Wayland, on Monday evening last,
Hon. M. M. Rutter died. Wayland, his
native town, will long feel a sincere regret for
his loss ; for he was benevolent and kind, indul
gent and upright in all his relations in life.
He was truly a friend to raankind in its broad
est sense. For more than twenty years he was
called by the voice of the^ people to represent
thera in one -or the other branches of our
state legislature, and his variety of acts and
transactions, both in private and a long public
life, will bear prominent and durable testiraony
to the integrity of his purpose, unbending and
unyielding from a steady course of unflinch
ing conscientious rectitude. In fact he was
one of the noblest works of God — an honest
man. His family to whora he was endeared
by the strongest ties of doraestic attachraent
survive to beraoan his loss from their familiar
and happy circle, though recollections of his
worth will long live and play in the meraory,
and cherish thera onward to join hira in
Heaven." (VI) Major Micah Maynard Rutter, eldest
son of General Micah Maynard Rutter (5),
was born at Wayland, May i, ,1806, died at
Newberne, North CaroUna, November 8,
1870. He raarried, May i, 1829, Harriette
Gibson, bom at Boston, June 6, 1810, bap
tized at HoUis Street Church, July i, 1810,
and died at Wayland, Noveraber 21, 1870,
daughter of John Gibson (see Gibson). Chil
dren; I. Micah Maynard, bom at Newton,
Massachusetts, June 25, 1830; raarried, Jan
uary 31, 1854, Martha Bartlett Glover, born
at Orano, Alaine, Alay 26, 1836, died at
Methuen, December 8, 1896. Children: i.
Jesse Maynard, born at Lawrence, Deceraber
31, 1858, married, March 4, 1897, Agnes
Walker, daughter of Archibald and Janet
(Walker) Gall, of Niel, East Lothian, Scot
land, ii. Clara Minta, born at Lawrerice, No
vember 6, 1 86 1, unmarried. 2. Harriet Gib
son, born at Newton, May 4, 1834, died at
Wayland, July 4, 1889; -married, Noveraber
28, 1854, George A. Rice, of Wayland, where
he was born August 21, 1822, died July 20,
1888, son of Samuel and Dorcas (Heard)
Rice, descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice,
who carae to Sudbury frora Barkharastead,

England, and was a pioneer of Sudbury in
1639, through Rice lineage: George A. (7);
Sarauel (6) ; Ezekiel (5), soldier in the revo
lution ; Eliakim (4) ; Elisha (3) ; Thonias (2) ;
Deacon Edmund Rice (i).
Eliakim Rice (4), son of Elisha Rice (3),
was born at Sudbury, February 27, 1709, and
lived there. He married. May 14, 1730, Mehit
able, daughter of Daniel and Mehitable Liver
more of Weston. Children, born in Sudbury:
i. Mehitable, born September 10, 1731. ii.
Daniel, born December 29, 1733. iii. Eliakim,
born April 4, 1736. iv. Betty, married Ebe
nezer Johnson, v. Ezekiel. Ezekiel Rice (5),
son of Eliakim Rice (4), was born in Sud
bury, Deceraber 21, 1742; died January 23,
1835, at AA'ayland, formerly East Sudbury.
He raarried, October 27, 1768, Eunice Cutting;
she died at Wayland January 3, 1833; chil
dren ; i. Susanna, born at Sudbury, Septem
ber ID, 1769. ii. Ezekiel, born August 16,
1771, at Sudbury, iii. Eunice, born February
27, 1778, at East Sudbury, iv. Samuel, born
August 12, 1783. V. Abel, born at East Sud
bury, August 16, 1788. Sarauel Rice (6), son
of Ezekiel Rice, was born at East Sudbury,
August 12, 1783, and Hved at Wayland, where
he raarried, June 15, 181 5, Dorcas Heard, who
died Deceraber 13, 1828; children, born at
Wayland: i. Samuel L., August 14, 1818;
died May 10, 1836. ii. George A., August 21,
1822. iii. Frederick D., Noveraber 13, 1827;
died April 26, 1852. George Alonzo Rice
(7), son of Samuel Rice, was born in Way-
land, August 21, 1822; niarried January 6,
1848, Mary Bent, died August 16, 1849,
daughter of Williara. He married second,
Harriet Gibson Rutter. (See Rutter faraily).
The only child of George A. Rice was
Nellie Rutter Rice, born at Wayland, April
22, 1856, married, August 20, 1890, David
FuUer Fiske, who was born in Dedham,
February 7, 1836, enlisted in the civil war
July 20, 1861, in Company H, Thirteenth
Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers, and was
mustered out August i, 1864; Mrs. Fiske is
regent of Wayside Inn Chapter, Daughters of
the Araerican Revolution. 3. Williara Fred
erick, bom August 31, 1836, mentioned below.
4. George Henry, born at Wayland, Noveraber
21, 1841, married (second), January 15, 1881,
Mrs. Olive Aleserve ; no children ; residence,
Franklin, Maine. 5. Helen Eliza, born at
Wayland, August 22, 1847, died at Boston,
March 14, 1879; married,^ January 3, 1864,
Essex Saunders Abbott, of Lawrence ; chil
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at Lynn, Alarch ii, 1870, unmarried, u.
A'ivian Irving, of Boston, born at Lynn, No
vember 2, 1871, unmarried. 6. Edward Ever
ett, born at AVayland, January 30, 1851 ; see
forward. 7. Hon. Charles Gibson, born at
Wayland, January 28, 1853 ; see forward.
The following obituary notice was published
in the Waltham Sentinel: "Micah M. Rutter,
who died in New Berne, North Carolina, on
the Sth instant, was a native of Wayland,
where he was born in 1806. Early in life he
commenced business in West Newton as a
trader, where he resided for a number of
years, and where he is still remembered by the
older inhabitants as a genial companion and an
active business man. He afterwards moved
to Cambridgeport. The discouragements inci
dent to an unsuccessful mercantile career in
tirae clouded his prospects and palsied his
energies. Since the close of the war he has
resided in Nortli Carolina, a few miles out of
New Berne, in a country thinly populated and
mostly by negroes. To them he made himself
(juite useful and received their confidence and
affection by his readiness to aid and advise
thera in their new duties and relations. His
friends and relatives here will be glad to know
that his 'last of earth' was cared for by the
Masonic Fraternity of which he was a raem
ber, who rendered to the dying and the dead
every needed service. The news of his death
reached his friends here on the day of its
occurrence by telegraph from the officers of
the Lodge at New Berne. It is pleasant to
know that there is one organization which
frora a fraternal sympathy and above all sec
tional and party ties can minister to the wants
of a stranger in a strange land."
Alajor Micah M. Rutter was a man of
excellent reputation, and respected by all who
knew him. He was generous, large-hearted
and benevolent, and raany were the deeds of
kindness performed by him. He exemplified
in his life and daily walk the characteristics
that make up the perfect man, and in all rela
tions, whether of a public or private nature,
faithfully perforraed the duties and obligations
devolving upon hira. Although his business
career was not successful from a financial
point of view, still he left behind him a name
for honesty and uprightness, which is far
better than great riches.
(VII) William Frederick Rutter, .son of
Major Micah Maynard Rutter (6), was born
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Augu.st 31,
1836. He was educated in the public schools,
and learned the trade of machinist. He entered

the employ of the Pemberton MiUs, Lawrence,
in 1858, and has lived since then in Lawrence.
In 1866 he left the Pemberton Company to
work for the Lawrence Gas Corapany. In 1 869
he erabarked in business on his own account, in
the plumbing and steara heating business, on
Appleton street, on the site of the old post-
office. He was prosperous and accumulated
a competence, retiring from active business,
April I, 1907. Air. Rutter is president of the
Broadway Savings Bank of Lawrence ; presi
dent of the BeUevue Ceraetery Association;
director of the Merchants' National Bank;
trustee of the Old People's Horae. In politics
he is a Republican ; in religion he and his
family are attendants of the Baptist church.
He is a man of sterling character, and is held
in the highest esteem by his townsmen. He
married, December 27, i860, Ann Maria
Turner, born at Ellsworth, Maine, November
II, 1839, daughter of Thomas and Margaret
(Lindsey) Turner, granddaughter of James
Turner; Children; i. WilHam Frederick,
-Jr., born June 29, 1863, died at Hope, Kansas,
January i, 1895; raarried, (first) Noveraber
5, 1885, Ida A. Peabody, born at Salera, New
Hampshire, March 2, 1866, died at Jackson
ville, Florida, March 23, 1890; one chUd, Wil
liam Peabody, born June 5, 1888 ; married
(second), November 10, 1891, Ina Eliza
Emery, born in Lawrence, July 30, 1869; chil
dren ; i. Sylvia Josephine, born December 19,
1892, died September 4, 1893. ii. Walter Fred
erick, born August 18, 1894. 2. Annie, bom
February 30, 1865, died July 5, 1865. 3.
Carrie Alaria, born November 14, 1866, raar
ried, Deceraber 18, 1888, Elias E. Criraes, of
Lawrence, Massachusetts, born September 13,
children ; i. Bertha Adeline, born

March 9, 1890. ii. Mildred Louise, born De
cember 20, 1892. iii. Carolyn R., born Novem
ber 6, 1902. 4. Adeline, born 1868, died same
year. (VII) Edward Everett Rutter, son of
Alajor Alicah Maynard Rutter (6), was born
in Wa}'land, Alassachusetts, January 30, 1851,
and spent his boyhood on the farm and was
educated in the public schools of his native
town. At the age of eighteen years he went to
Lawrence, Alassachusetts, to learn the plumb
ing and steam heating business in the eraploy
of his brother, WiUiam F. Rutter, who after
ward admitted hira to partnership, and the
firra continued until his death, July 23, 1902.
Pie died at his home in Lawrence, and is
buried in BeUevue Cemetery in that city. He
was a skillful raechanic and a business man of

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nation i^^^gment and strict integrity. In
erat T P°l'.ties Mr. Rutter was a Demo-
He wa" "^'^'"icipal affairs he was independent.
Red M ^ '"^"^^^'' °f the Winolancet Lodge of
vember ^^ °a Lawrence. He niarried, No-
NovemKr ^^°' Hannah Clara Rogers, born
Heste? A ^^;-'^54, daughter of Francis and
family) '^""j4°'^f,' R^g^'^^- (See George
vear/;i' T Rutter .spent her youthful
schonl f^""' ''r*^ ^''^' educated in the public
and ?i%°l. \7'.'^'^T°''' ''' Fayette Academy,
s V wl t^^'^"^ ^'^'°''^ °^ B°^ton Univer
sity where she was graduated in the class of
as Ln ^^^^'' ^° P''^'^*^'^^ he'- profession
XT fu^'' '^'"^ ^° Lawrence, March 5,
1879, and has continued to the present time
with the utmost success. She is a meraber of
the Gynecological and Surgical Society of
Alassachusetts, the Medical Society of Boston
the Homoeopathic Society of Alassachusetts,
and the Twentieth Century Society. Mr. and
Mrs. Rutter had two children, born in Law
rence : Everett, February 14, 1893, and Har-
net Esther, November 13, 1897.
Francis Rogers, father of Airs. Hannah
Clara Rogers, was born in Vermont in 1803,
and died in Iowa, November 23, 1879. He
resided in Lowell, Orleans county, Vermont,
removed to Fort Atkinson, Iowa, where he
was one of the first settlers, then to Alissouri,
returning to Iowa, where he passed the
remainder of his life. He married in
Lowell, Massachusetts, February 4, 1843,
Hester Ann George, daughter of Josiah
George Jr., of Sanbornton, New Harapshire.
(See George family). They were married by
Mr. Ebenezer Fisk. Children: i. Martha
George, born November 7, 1843 > rnarried
Warren Ripley, of Cambridge, Massachusetts;
she is now a practicing physician at Minneap
olis, Minnesota. 2. George Henry, born Au
gust 30, 1845; married, 1870, Mary Metcalf;
he is now a ranchman in Idaho, forraerly in
Audubon county, Iowa. 3. Benjarain Frank
hn, born Septeraber 15, 1850, a grocer at Law
rence, Massachusetts ; married June 24, 1880,
Harriet Frances Moulton. 4. Dr. Hannah
Clara, born November 27, 1854, raarried Ed
ward E. Rutter, of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
(See Rutter family). (VII) Hon. Charles Gibson
RUTTER Rutter, son of Major Micah
Maynard Rutter (6), was born
in Wayland, Massachusetts, January 28, 1853.
He was edflcated in the district schools qf his
native town, and his youth was spent on the

farm until he was seventeen years old, when
he left home and began an apprenticeship at
the raachinist's trade in the shops of Davis &
Furber, at North Andover, Massachusetts.
Two years later he found employment at Law
rence in the machine shops of the famous
Pemberton mills. He worked for eight years
in this position and acquired raost valuable
experience in the making and repairing of mill
machinery. He was for five years after that
in the employ of the Russell Paper Company
of Lawrence. He left to accept the position
of raaster mechanic for the Lippitt Woolen
Company at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, but
after a few years was called back to Law
rence by the Russell Paper Corapany to take
the position of foreraan and the superintend
ence of the steara plant of that corporation
He filled this position with signal ability, to
the entire satisfaction of his employers from
1887 to 1900, when he resigned.
Air. Rutter has had a notable public career.
While living in Woonsocket he was elected
chief of the fire department and filled that
office two years. Upon his retum to Lawrence
he was appointed a raember of the board of
fire engineers by Mayor Lewis P. Collins, and
in 1892 was reappointed for a terra of three
years by Mayor Henry P. Doe. Mr. Rutter is
a Democrat in politics and has been active in
his party. He was elected raayor of the city
for 1894 and again for 1895, and served with
ability. His adrainistration was clean, busi
nesslike and honorable. He resigned his posi
tion with the Russell Paper Company to
accept the office of chief engineer of the fire
department, a position for which he was
admirably fitted by training and experience, as
events have shown. He received his first
appointment frora Mayor James F. Leonard,
was reappointed by Mayor Grant, and has
been reappointed annually since by succeeding
mayors. He is a member of Monadnock
Lodge, I. O. O. P., and a past noble grand.
He and his family attend the Baptist church.
He married Opheha A. Frost, daughter of Ira
W. and Susan B. (Dunlap) Frost, of Canaan,
Maine. They have an adopted daughter,
Marion Stewart Rutter, born April 17, 1893.

John Gibson, iraraigrant ancestor
GIBSON of this distinguished faraily, was
born in England, 1601, and died
in Carabridge, Massachusetts, 1694. He carae
to New England as early as 163 1 and settled
in Carabridge. He was admitted a freeman
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the west end of the town, August 4, 1634. It
was located between Harvard and Brattle
Squares, in what is now an iraportant busi
ness district, and extended to the Charlea
river. Plis house stood at the end of what is
now Sparks street, not far frora Brattle street,
on the road to Watertown, and was built
before October 10, 1636. He was doubtless a
raember of Rev. Mr. Hooker's church, and
belonged later to the succeeding society of
First Church, February i, 1636, under the pas
torate of Rev. Thomas Shepard. He held
minor town offices. His wife and daughter
accused Winifred Holman, widow, and her
daughter of witchcraft, and the charge not
being sustained, they were sued for daraage by
the Holraans. For particulars of this interest
ing case, see "History of Holman Faraily."
The Gibsons paid a sraall fine. John Gibson
married first, Rebecca  , who was
buried December i, 1661, at Roxbury; second,
July 24, 1662, Joan, widow of Henry Pren
tice, a pioneer at Cambridge. Children, all by
first wife; i. Rebecca, born in Cambridge,
1635 ; raarried Charles Stearns, of Watertown;
thought she was bewitched by the Holraans.
2. Mary, born May 29, 1637 ; died at Rox
bury, Deceraber 6, 1674; married John Rug
gles. 3. Martha, born April 29, 1639; raar
ried November 3, 1657, Jacob Newell of Rox
bury. 4. John Jr., born about 1641 ; men
tioned below. 5. Samuel, born October 28,
1644; died at Carabridge, March 20, 1709-10.
(ll) John Gibson, son of John Gibson (i),
was born in Cambridge, about 1641, and died
October 15, 1679. He raarried, Deceraber 9,
t668, Rebecca Harrington, born in Carabridge,
daughter of Abrahara and Rebecca (Cutler)
Harrington (or Errington, as it was spelled
and perhaps pronounced). Her father was a
blacksraith, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng
land, and died in Carabridge, May 9, 1677.
Her mother died iri Cambridge, 1697. John
Gibson settled in Cambridge, on the horae-
^ stead deeded to him by his father, November
30, 1668. Pie also was involved in the trial
of his faraUy for calling the Holraans witches,
and had to acknowledge his error in court or
pay a fine. He took the cheaper course. He
was a soldier in King Philip's war, under Cap
tain Thomas Prentice. He was in the Swan
zey fight June 28, 1675, and in the Mt. Hope
expedition later; also in Lieutenant Edward
Oakes' troop scouting near Alarlborough,
Alarch 24, 1675-6, and in Captain Daniel
Henchman's company, September 23, 1676,-
which marched to Hadley in early summer

time. He was possibly the John Gibson in
Captain Joshua Scpttow's company at Black
Point, near Saco, Maine, September, 1677,
where the garrison was captured the following
month by the Indians. He was adraitted a
freeman October 11, 1670, and held a number
of minor offices. Pie died of sraall pox when
only thirty-eight years old. ChUdren of John
and Rebecca Gibson ; i . Rebecca, born at
Carabridge, October 4, 1669; died at Woburn,
June 10, 1698, unraarried. 2. Martha, raar
ried twice. 3. Mary, raarried at Concord,
October 17, 1700, Nathaniel Gate of Stow. 4.
Tiraothy, raentioned below.
(Ill) Tiraothy Gibson, son of John Gib
son (2), was born at Carabridge, 1679, and
died at Stow, July 14, 1757. His grave is in
the lower village graveyard in the eastern
part of Stow. He raarried first, at Concord,
Noveraber 17, 1780, Rebecca Gates, of Stow,
born in Marlborough, July 23, 1682, died in
Stow, January 21, 1751, daughter of Stephen
Jr. and Sarah (Woodward) Gates. He raar
ried second (published Noveraber 30) 1755,
Airs. Subrait Taylor, of Sudbury, died at Stow,
January 29, 1759, in her seventy-fifth year.
Both wives are buried by his side. Deacon
Gibson was brought up by Selectman Abraham
Holraan, of Cambridge, son of William and
AVinifred Plolman, who were involved in the
lawsuit with his parents and grandparents. In
1689 the Plolraans reraoved to Stow and he
went with thera, living in the family until 1703,
when they removed to the northwest part of
Sudbury and settled on the Assabet river, on
a sixty acre farm bounded on the west by the
Stow line, on the east by the road frora Con
cord to Jewell's mill. Holman died in 171 1.
Gibson was a prominent citizen of Sudbury and
owned land also at Lunenburg, laid to him and
his son Timothy. Neither ever lived at
Luenburg, however, but John, Arrington,
Isaac and Reuben, his younger sons, settled
there, and all were noted as men of great per
sonal prowess. He reraoved to Stow between
Deceraber 6, 1728, and February 24, 1731-2,
and was selectman there in 1734-35-36 and 39.
His horaestead in Stow lay on the south slope
of Pomciticut Hill and was deeded ten years
before his death to his son Stephen and was
passed down in the family until 1823. This
farm is now in the town of Maynard, which
was formed from Sudbury and Stow in 1871.
Children; i. Abraham, born 1701 ; mentioned
below. 2. Captain Timothy, born January 20,
1702-3. 3. Rebecca, born in Sudbury, March
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Farnsworth, of Groton. 4. Captain John, born
April 28, 1708; settled in Lunenburg. 5.
Sarah, born October 27, 1710; raarried first,
Thomas Willard, of Harvard. 6. Samuel, born
August 27, 1713; died April 11, 1746. 7. Ste
phen, born March 14, 1715; died young. 8.
Arrington, born March 22, 1717; died at
Luenburg, July 15, 1795, aged seventy-eight
years. 9. Deacon Stephen, born at Sudbury,
June 16, 1719, died at Stow, October 23, 1806;
married Sarah Goss. 10. Isaac, born at Sud
bury, April 27, 1721 ; lived at Stow and Fitch
burg, and Grafton, Vermont, (originally Tora
linson, New Harapshire and Verraont), where
he died June i, 1797. 11. Mary, born June
14, 1723. 12. Captain Reuben, born February
14, 1725; married Lois Smith; died July 27,
1800. (IV) Abrahara Gibson, son of Deacon
Thoraas Gibson (3), was born in Stow, 1701,
and died there November 8, 1740. He raarried
Mary Wheeler, born at Stow, Noveraber 5,
1707, died there January 15, 1793, daughter of
Deliverance and Mary (Davis) Wheeler. Her
father was born at Carabridge in 1663, and died
at Stow, February 4, 1716; raarried May 28,
169 1, Alary Davis, born at Concord, October
3, 1663, and died at Stow, June 27, 1748,
daughter of Lieutenant Siraon and Mary
(Blood) Davis. Children of Lieutenant Siraon
and Mary (Blood) Davis; i. Deliverance
Davis, born June 5, 1691 ; settled in Stow, was
selectraan, assessor and treasurer. 2. Thoraas
Davis, baptized June 27, 1697. 3. Ephraira
Davis, born 1702. 4. Mary Davis, above raen
tioned. Deliverance Wheeler was son of
Thoraas Wheeler, who died at Concord, De
ceraber 10, 1676 ; married Ruth Wood, daugh
ter of Williara and Mary Wood. He was cap
tain of the second troop of horse, and by order
he acted as escort July 27, 1675, to Captain
Edward Hutchinson into the Niprauck country.
He was wounded August 2, 1675, in the ambus
cade at Quaboag. He wrote an account of the
expedition. Children: i. Alice Wheeler, died
March 17, 1640-1. 2. Nathaniel Wheeler, died
January 16, 1676-7. 3. Joseph Wheeler of
Stow. 4. Ephraim Wheeler, died February 19,
1689. 5. Thomas Wheeler, died January 9,
1676-7. 6. Deliverance Wheeler, above men
tioned. Mary (Davis) Wheeler was descended
on her mother's side frora Simon and Dolor
Davis of Carabridge.
Abrahara Gibson was a naraesake of Abra
ham Holman, with whora his father lived so
raany years. He removed from Sudbury to
Stow. He was in Captain Nathan Bridgara's

company, 1725; was assessor, 1733-4; con
stable, 1735-6; selectraan 1732-33-39 and 40.
His widow raarried Deacon Daniel Hapgood,
who was a selectman of Stow. Children of
Abrahara and Mary Gibson, born at Stow ;
I. Mary, born August 20, 1725, raarried Eze
kiel, son of Deacon John and Abigail (Dud
ley) Davis (6), Ezekiel (5), Dr. John (4),
Dr. Siraon (3), Lieutenant Siraon (2), and
Dolor Davis (i). Among their children was
Captain Isaac Davis who was kiUed at Con
cord Bridge, April 19, 1775. 2. Rebecca, born
January 27, 1728; raarried Ensign Ephraim
Plapgood. 3. Abrahara, born August 26, 1730;
died young. 4. Sarah, born August 26, 1732;
raarried Peter Conant, of Stow. 5. Abrahara,
born June 25, 1735; mentioned below. 6.
Ephraira, born October 23, 1737; died young.
7. Lieutenant Ephraira, born January 21, 1740;
died at Ashby, 1825; married, 1761, Lucy
Wyraan, daughter of Ezekiel and Abigail
(AVyraan) Wyraan; soldier in the revolution,
in Captain Sarauel Stone's corapany. Colonel
Williara Prescott's regiraent.
(V) Lieutenant Abraham Gibson, son of
Abraham Gibson (4), was born at Stow, June
25, 1735, and died at Lunenburg, September 9,
1813. He resided at Stow, Concord and Fitch
burg. He married (intention published Jan
uary 13, 1760) Esther Fox, born at Concord,
July 23, 1743, baptized at First Parish Church,
July 24, 1743, and died at Rindge, New Hamp
shire, April 30, 1803, daughter of Thomas and
Rebecca (French-Carey) Fox. Thomas Fox
(4) housewright, was born at Concord, June
8, 1706, and died at Concord, July 30, 1759.
He raarried Airs. Rebecca (French) Carey,
who died at Concord, Noveraber 22, 1745,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Knight)
French, of Bedford, and widow of James
Carey. Samuel Fox (3) father of Thomas
Fox (4), was born at Concord, September 11,
1670, and died there January 15, 1734. He
married June 13, 1693, Ruth Knight, died at
Concord, September 21, 1741, daughter of Jon
athan and Ruth (AVright) Knight of Concord.
Eliphalet Fox (2), father of Samuel Fox (3),
died at Concord, August 15, 171 1. He raarried
October 26, 1665, Mary Wheeler, born at Con
cord, Septeraber 6, 1645, died December 24,
1678, daughter of George and Katherine
Wheeler, pioneers in Concord in 1635-8.
Thomas Fox (i) settled in Concord 1640 and
was adraitted a freeman there May 29, 1644.
See sketch of Fox family elsewhere.
Lieutenant Gibson was in early life a school
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to Stow to the horaestead. He afterward re
raoved to Concord and about 1768 to Fitch
burg. He resided on a farra of one hundred
and fifty acres on the east slope of Pearl Hill.
On March 25, 1786, he deeded part of the farra
to Jereraiah Kinsman, of Ipswich. Lieutenant
Gibson was a soldier in the French and Indian
war, in Captain Abijah Hall's company. Col
onel Willard's regiment, at Crown Point; also
in the revolution, in Captain Ebenezer Wood's
company. Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiraent,
April 19, 1775. ChUdren; i. Thoraas. 2.
Esther, bom at Concord, April 25, 1762; died
at Grafton, Verraont, Noveraber i, 1825. 3.
Mary, born February 2, 1764; raarried Williara
Wyman. 4. Rebecca, born Noveraber 15, 1765,
married John Priest. 5. Sarah Gardner, born
at Concord, Septeraber 5, 1767, married first,
 Rosendell ; second, Ebenezer Winter
Calef. 6. Abraham, born Septeraber i, 1769,
died July 10, 1816; raarried first, Frances
Davis; second, Mrs. Susan (Norcross) Spurr.
7. Lucy, born May 19, 1771 ; raarried June 30,
1795, Peter Adaras. 8. John.
(VI) John Gibson, son of Abrahara Gibson
(5), was born at Fitchburg, March 20, 1776,
and baptized at the First Church of Boston,
AprU 25, 1776. He died at Boston, July 14,
1825, and is buried on Boston Common, in a
tomb built by hirnself and his brother Abra
ham, "No. 89, Abraham and John Gibson's
Torab, 1800." He raarried at Boston, October
22, 1795, Phebe Low, baptized at HoUis Street
church, January 30, 1797, and died at Boston,
January 2, 1838, aged sixty-two. He was a
leading business raan of Boston, and was
highly esteeraed for his executive ability and
thorough business qualifications. He was a
distiller, and resided at No. 10, Warren street,
near Hollis Street Church, of which he was
a prorainent raember. Children; i. Esther
Fox, born January 14, 1797; raarried Warhara
Priest. 2. Phebe Low, born 1799; raarried
Robert Bradford. 3. Abigail Pope, baptized
July I, 1810; died October 8, 1818. 4. John
Fox, baptized July i, 1810; died young. 5.
Harriette, raentioned below. 6. Alary Ann,
born May 25, 1813; died in New York City,
January 10, 1853 ; married September 10, 1835,
Asa Stone Crosby, a native of Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts. 7. William Fox, born Decem
ber 19, 1815; lost at sea; unraarried.
(VTI) Harriette Gibson, daughter of John
Gibson (6), was born at Boston, June 6, 1810,
and baptized at the Hollis Street Church, July
I, 1810. She raarried May i, 1829, Major
Micah Maynard Rutter. (See Rutter faraily).

The surnarae was a personal narae,
GEORGE raeaning originally farraer or
earthworker in Greek, and has
been in use frora ancient times in England.
Gideon George (i), progenitor of this family,
sailed from England about 1680, with his wife
and son Gideon. He settled in Salem, Alassa
chusetts. One account says that he was from
Yorkshire, another that he was from the city
of Norwich, England. Children; i. Gideon.
2. John, born on the voyage ; raentioned below.
(II) John George, son of Gideon George
(i), was born on the voyage, about 1680. He
settled in Haverhill, Alassachusetts. He signed
the petition for a school house in the north
eastern part of the town in 171 1. He was
drowned while attempting to cross the Alerri-
mac river on the ice, February 27, 1715. He
married, about 1700, Ann Swadock, who died
February 7, 1763. Children; John Swadock,
raentioned below ; Williara ; Augustine ; Eliza
beth ; Gideon, born May 27, 1712, married,
April 14, 1737, Elizabeth Jewett, had grand
son naraed King.
(Ill) John Swadock George, son of John
George (2), was born in Haverhill, Deceraber
25, 1702. The middle name was then
extreraely rare, and the writer knows of no
other case as early as this in the colonies. Not
till after the revolution did the practice become
customary. One raust believe, therefore, that
the mother held her own faraily in high esteera.
John Swadock George raarried three tiraes.
His third wife was Sarah Ash, born in Haver
hiU, March 11, 1728. Children: Josiah, men
tioned below. Others by first and second
wives. Children of third wife: i. Austin,
born 1763; raarried Sally Bradbury. 2. Na
thaniel Ash, born October 16, 1769; raarried
Apphia Moores, of Haverhill; settled in part
of Greenfield now Bennington, New Hamp
shire. 3. Abigail, married Benjarain Moody.
And two others.
(IV) Josiah George, beHeved to be son of
John Swadock George (3), was born about
1740-50. He was a soldier in the revolution,
in Captain Richard Weare's corapany. Third
New Hampshire Battalion ; enlisted in the
Continental service April i, 1777, and died
Septeraber 20, 1778, then of Captain Isaac
Frye's company, Colonel Alexander Scam-
niell's regiment. This company was from
Haverhill and vicinity. George was of Hamp
ton in 1777, and perhaps proprietor of the
historical George Tavern at Hampton FaUs.
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house was burned. His son Josiah rescued
two sisters. The horae was at Hampton or
New Plampton, New Hampshire. Children:
I. Josiah, Jr., mentioned below. 2. Two sisters.
(V) Josiah George, son of Josiah George
(4), was born about 1765-70. He was appren
ticed to Nathaniel Piper, of Sanbornton, New
Hampshire, after his father's death. He mar
ried, about 1793, Peace Hodgdon, of North-
field, and they settled on a farm between the
turnpike and the old road to New Harapton,
lot 47, Second Division. He died of palsy,
March 25, 1847. His wife was born Novera
ber, 1774, was baptized by Rev. John Crockett,
in 1801, in the Free WUl Baptist Church, at
New Hampton, and died at the horae of her
son, Septeraber 13, 1858, aged eighty-three
years, ten months. Children, born at San
bornton; I. Charlotte, born September 24,
1792, (adopted) ; raarried Jonathan Cate, of
Canterbury. 2. Josiah, born Septeraber 9,
1794 ; raarried Eliza Hanaford ; second, 
Aliller, of Ryegate, Verraont. 3. Hannah,
born August 31, 1796; married Chase Hodg
don. 4. Polly, born AprU 3, 1799; died unmar
ried, Noveraber 30, 1850. 5. Edraund Hodg
don, born March 7, 1801. 6. Alehitable, born
February 23, 1803; married Josiah E. Morri
son, of Bridgewater. 7. King, born November
12, 1-804, farriier at Reading, Alassachusetts.
8. Olive, born Septeraber 15, 1806, died of
quinsy, August 23, 1818. 9. Benaiah Sanborn,
born July 11, 1808; died January 20, 1829.
10. Hester Ann, born January 19, 1810; raen
tioned below. II. Huldah S., born May 27,
1812; raarried John Pluraraer. 12. John
Kezer, born November 12, 1816; teacher in
Arkansas. (VI) Hester Ann George, daughter of
Josiah George, Jr., (5), was born January 19,
1810, at Sanbornton, New Hampshire. She
married February 4, 1843, Francis Rogers.
(See Rogers).

(For ancestry see John Rutter i).
(VI) Josiah Rutter, son of
RUTTER General Micah Maynard Rut
ter, born in Wayland, March 2,
1813, died September 3, 1876, in Waltham,
Massachusetts. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of his native town and at Harvard
College, where he was graduated. During his
boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and
after leaving college taught school for some
years in Wayland and Brighton. He was the
first teacher in the high school at Walthara.
In the raeantirae he studied law and was

adraitted to the Alassachusetts bar, entering
the legal practice in Walthara and Boston. He
was trial justice in Waltham for eighteen
years, and served twenty years on the
school committee of the town, fourteen years
of which he was chairraan of the board. He
was fleeted as representative to the general
court, and served two terms. He was active
in church work also, and was a meraber of the
First Parish Unitarian Church of Walthara. He
served on the parish comraittee for a nuraber
of years. He was a raan of considerable liter
ary attainraent, and naturally gifted in writ
ing, and his productions as an author were
reraarkable for their purity of style. On July
4, 1876, he delieved the centennial oration at
Waltham. He was a frequent contributor to
the local press. He married Abigail Eliza
Baldwin, born at Brighton, April 15, 1821,
died at Walthara, May 14, 1889, daughter of
Henry and  (Brackett) Baldwin. Chil
dren; I. WUhara B., born Noveraber 9, 1848,
died November 24, 1888. 2. Frederick Plymp
ton, born August 16, 1851 ; raentioned below.
3. Francis Josiah, born September 8, 1854,
died January 28, 1894; married Fanny Howe
and had Francis W. and Katherine. 4. Na
thaniel Plyrapton, born 1857, died July 9,
1907 ; raarried Elizabeth Lang, and had Rob
ert, Josiah and Elliott.
The following is an extract frora the obitu
ary notice of Mr. Rutter in the Waltham Free
Press: "Mr. Rutter has held raany positions
of public trust through a long series of years,
enjoying in large raeasure the confidence of
his fellow townsraen, who Hkewise frequently
turned to him in seasons of intellectual require
ment as to one whose ready pen and voice
could be depended upon. For raany of the
closing years of his Hfe Mr. Rutter was not
apparently closely connected with either of the
great political parties. Neither of them seemed
to have his full confidence and syrapathy, so
we judge in part frora the leading editorials
in the Sentinel, which have been understood
as frora his pen. But while evincing a lack of
confidence in sorae leading raen, his words
were ever for an honest governraent, and for
the subsidence of partisan feelings."
(VII) Frederick Plympton Rutter, son of
Josiah Rutter, was born at Waltham, August
16, 1 85 1. He was educated in the public and
high school of Waltham. He began his busi
ness career in the employ of Phineas Uphara
in the dry goods business. He was next
employed by the firm of Clark, Maynard &
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seven years. At this tirae he and his brother,
Williara B. Rutter, forraed a partnership and
engaged in the" coal business, later selling out
to J. A. Wellington & Company. Mr. Rutter
remained as manager for the Wellington Cora
pany for four years, when the business was
again sold to W. A. Hunnewell, who in turn
sold it to the Waltham Coal Company, incor
porated July 2, 1894. Air. Rutter has been
president of the corapany since its incorpora
tion. He has always been interested in town
affairs. He has served on the cemetery board
for seven years, four as chairman. In 1897,
when he was appointed as an assessor, he
relinquished his office on the ceraetery board,
and has reraained on the board of assessors up
to the present tirae. He is a raeraber of the
First Parish Unitarian Church, and of the
parish coraraittee He is past master of Moni
tor Lodge of Free Alasons, of Waltham. He
married Minnie Holden Uphara, born August
22, 1852, daughter of Sarauel O. and Sarah
(Maynard) Upham. (See sketch). Children;
I. Abby Baldwin, bora October 20, 1879. 2.
May, died young.

The surname Upham is derived
UPHAM from the Anglo-Saxon words
Up and Hame, signifying a
home, dwelhng or village. At first the final
"e" was used, but was finally dropped. The
first raention of the surname in England
occurs in a deed in 1208 of land to the church
of St. Maria de Bradenstock, by Hugo de Up
ham. Uphara is also a place narae giveri to
various villages and parishes in England and
Ireland. (I) John Upham, immigrant ancestor, was
probably of Somersetshire, England, and carae
to New England in the corapany with Rev.
Joseph Hull, known as Hull's colony, in 1635.
With hira were his wife Elizabeth, (probably
Webb) aged thirty- two; Sarah Uphara, prob
ably his sister, aged twenty-six, and his chil
dren — John, Jr., aged seven ; Nathaniel, five,
and Elizabeth, three. They settled at Wey
mouth, where he was adraitted a freeraan Sep
teraber 2, 1635. In 1636 he drew land at Wey
raouth, and added to it from time to time by
purchase and by drawing. He was a promi
nent figure in the colony from the outset, and
was one of the six who treated with the
Indians for lands at Weyraouth. He was
appointed a coraraissioner to try smaU causes.
He was selectraan in 1645-46-47, and a deputy
to the general court. He removed to Maiden
about 1648, and was elected selectraan there

in 1651-52-53. He was a commissioner also
for Alalden. In August, 1671, he raarried
second,  HoUand — probably Katheryn,
widow of Angeli Holland. He was raod
erator of town meetings in Maiden in 1678-
79-80. He was deacon of the church twenty-
four years. He and his son were interested
in the settlement of Worcester at the time of
King Philip's war. He died February 25,
1681, aged eighty- four years. Children: i.
John, born in England, 1627. 2. Nathaniel,
born in England, Alay 23, 1629-30; raarried
Elizabeth Steadraan, March 5, 1661-2; died
March 20, 1661-62 ; widow raarried, 1669,
Henry Thorapson. 3. Elizabeth, born 1632;
married Thomas Welch, and had thirteen chil
dren ; died January 12, 1705-06. 4. Phineas,
born probably 1635 ; mentioned below. 5-
Mary, married John Whittemore ; died June
27, 1677. 6. Priscilla, raarried Thoraas Cross-
well, and had twelve children ; died December
8, 1717.
(II) Lieutenant Phineas Upham, son of
John Upham, was born in 1635, at Weymouth,
or during the voyage from England. He
bought land in Maiden in 1663, and resided
there In 1673 he surveyed a road frora Mai
den to Carabridge, and in 1672 he first became
interested in the settlement of Worcester, with
other Maiden settlers. He drew a lot of fifty
acres July 8, 1673, in consideration of his ser
vices in proraoting the colony. The grant was
confirraed in April, 1675. He was corarais
sioned lieutenant in Septeraber, 1675, in King
Philip's war. The forces raet the Indians in
battle December 19, 1675. I" this fight, which
is known as the storming of Fort Canonicus,
or the battle of the Great Swamp Fort, he
was raortally wounded, and with other
wounded was carried to Wickford from the
field of battle. He was sent to Rhode Island,
January 6, 1675-76, and later was sent to his
home in Maiden. The march from Rhode
Island is called the "Hungry March." There
was much suffering from lack of food and
the horses were killed and eaten on the way.
In October, 1676, he died. The general court
raade a special appropriation to pay the cost
of his long illness and gave the widow ten
pounds, as she was left with seven sraall chU
dren to support. The Uphara genealogy says
of him; "In battle Lieutenant Uphara
exhibited the character of a brave raan and
patriot, purchasing with raortal wounds the
palra of victory, and the government was not
unmindful of his great sacrifice,' but bore testi
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services he did to the country and the great
loss sustained by his friends in his death." He
married, April 14, 1658, Ruth Wood, died
January 18, 1696-97, aged sixty, widow of
Edward Wood, who died in Charlestown, Au
gust 20, 1642. Children; i. Phineas, born
Alay 22, 1659. 2. .Nathaniel, born 1661. 3.
Ruth, born 1664, died Deceraber 8, 1676. 4.
John, born December 9, 1666; married Abi
gail Hayward, of Howard. 5. Elizabeth; mar
ried, October 28, 1691, Samuel Green. 6.
Thoraas, born 1668; raentioned below. 7.
Richard, born 1675.
(Ill) Thomas Upham, son of Lieutenant
Phineas Upham, born in Alalden, 1668, died
November 26, 1735, in his sixty-seventh year.
His gravestone marks his grave at Wakefield,
formerly Reading. He resided on the horae
stead in Maiden, which was annexed to Read
ing in 1727, and is now Wakefield. He raar
ried first, in 1693, EHzabeth Hovey, of Tops-
field, who died February 16, 1703-04, aged
Ihirty-two. He married second, October 2,
1704, Alary Brown, of Reading, who died
1707. Pie married third, Ruth (Cutler) Smith,
born 1688, died Alay 17, 1758, daughter of
Thomas Cutler, of Reading, who was a
descendant of John Cutler, of Hinghara, in
1637, and widow of John Sraith, of Charles
town. Children of first wife; i. Thoraas,
born 1694; raentioned below. 2. Elizabeth,
born 1695; raarried, 1726, Joseph Woolson.
3. Abijah, born 1698. 4. Nathan, born 1701.
Child of second wife; 5. Josiah, born 1705.
Child of third wife : 6. Joseph, born April
14, 1712.
(IV) Thoraas Uphara, son of Thonias Up
hara, baptized at Topsfield, Noveraber 18,
1694, died September 25, 1729-30. He and
his wife were members of the church at Mai
den in 1721. He was a miUer by trade, and
bought lands in Weston in 1724, near James
Spike's and the Four Mile Brook. He mar
ried first, Ruth Smith, daughter of John and
Ruth Smith. She died in Weston, in 1722,
aged twenty-eight. He married second, in
1723, EHzabeth Bullard, died 1753, widow of
John Bullard. Children of first wife : i.
Ruth, born August 31, 1716, at Charlestown,
baptized at Reading, October 4, following;
married, March 2, 1736, David Green; died
August II, 1755. 2. Thomas, born June 30,
1718; raentioned below. 3. Jabez, born at
AVeston, died 1720. Child of second wife ; 4.
Elizabeth, born 1723-24; raarried, 1753, Abi
jah Fisk; married second, 1775, Colonel John
Trowbridge.

(V) Thomas Uphara, son of Thomas Up
ham, was bom in Charlestown, June 30, 1718.
He resided in Weston and was a farmer. He
was a pious raan, and a deacon of the church.
It is said that it was his custom during a
thunder storra to asserable the farra help and
the faraily in the large kitchen of the house
and to read the Bible and offer prayer while
the storra lasted. He died on a coraraunion Sun
day, of apoplexy, October 17, 1780, aged sixty-
two. The following poem appears on his
gravestone ;
"Here the clay form in hope to rise,
of Dea. Thomas Upham lies;
Sixty-two years measured his race,
Thirteen of which in deacon's place.
With other trusts he did sustain;
But God ordains the -wise and just,
Like other meu must mix with dust."
Composed by his pastor,
Parson Kendall.
He married first, in- 1740-41, Ruth Ham
raond, of AA^altham, died June 2, 1749. He
raarried second, Alarch 18, 1750, Susanna
Myrick, who died January 22, 1772, aged
forty-five He married third, September 17,
1772, Alartha AVilliaras, of Newton, who died
at Perabroke, New Harapshire, aged ninety-
two. Child of first wife: i. Ruth, born -Sep
tember 3, 1742 ; married, April i, 1762, Noah
Norcross ; married second, Josiah Myrick.
Children of second wife ; 2. Susanna, born
Septeraber 21, 1751 ; raarried, May 20, 1773,
Joseph Russell. 3. Thomas, born July 21,
1762, died January 10, 1776. 4. Lydia, bom
February 7, 1765; married Micah Fisk, Feb
ruary 5, 1789. Children of third wife ; 5.
a\ athan, bom June 20, 1773 ; mentioned below.
6. Amos, born October 4, 1774, died unmar
ried, July I, 1803. 7. Jonathan, born January
4, 1776; married Alehitable AAHiiting. 8.
Thomas, born Alarch i, 1777; raarried, Octo
ber 7, 1800, Sarah Fanning. 9. Ephraira, born
November 3, 1778, raarried Hannah Cushman.
10. Patty (Alartha), born Deceraber 9, 1780
—posthumous — married Ezra Fuller.
(VI) Nathan Uphara, son of Thoraas Up
ham, born in Weston, June 20, 1773, died
June 16, 1812. He resided two years in Walt
hara, engaged in the raanufacture of paper,
and then returned to the horaestead at AVes-
ton. He raarried, Noveraber 22, 1798, Lydia
Dix, of AA^althara, who died in Framingham,
Augu,st 18, 1872. Children: i. Amos, born
in AValtham, June 18, 1800; raarried, March,
1825, Elraira Hobbs. 2. Charles, born in
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beth Curtis. 3. Otis, born about 1802, in Walt
ham ; mentioned below. 4. Nathan, born in
AVeston, April 27, 1804; raarried Mary R.
Bradlee. 5. Eliza Dix, born in Weston, June
ic, 1808; niarried Joseph Curtis; married sec
ond, Phineas Upham. 6. Thomas, born Au
.gust 14, 181 1 ; married Clarissa EUenwood.
(VII) Otis Upham, son of Nathan Uphara,
was born about 1802. He raarried Mary Cary.
Children; i. Sarauel Otis, bom January 21,
1824; raentioned below. 2. Mary Jane, born
Noveraber 10, 1825. 3. Martha Maria, born
August 26, 1828. 4. Charles Lewis, born Au
gust 12, 1831. 5. George Lewis, born Decem
ber 14, 1833. 6. Charles Frederick, born De
cember 17, 1836. 7. Esther Elizabeth, born
December 10, 1839. 8. Lydia Ann, born Au
gust 22, 1 841. 9. Henry Harrison, born May
12, 1843. 10. Edward Payson, born Decera
ber 19, 1845.
(ATII) Sarauel Otis Upham, son of Otis
Uphara, born in Walthara, January 21, 1824,
raarried, May 23, 1849, Sarah Maynard, at
Walthara, born Sudbury, March 6, 1824,
daughter of Warren Maynard. Children; i.
Frederick W., born May 6, 1850; raarried
Elizabeth Rice ; children ; Sarauel R. and
Roger M. 2. Alinnie Holden, born August 22,
1852; raarried Fred P. Rutter (see sketch).
3. Eraraa; married J. A. Higgins; child, Mil
dred Higgins. 4. Frank, born January 14,
1859; unmarried.

This family is one of the
OSBORNE oldest and withal one of the
most respectable of the many
that became seated in the ancient town of
Salera within the ten years next following the
landing of the Pilgrims ; and in the mother
country as well as in New England they who
bore the Osborne surnarae were noted for
respectability and high raoral character. The
Yorkshire Osbornes were also an ancient
people, and genealogists have given them
great antiquity in countries of Europe. In
various records the narae is found written
Osborne and Osborn in the same general fam
ily, the use or disuse of the final letter being
raerely a matter of taste.
In the records of Essex deeds (iii, p. 292)
is found the following conveyance which gives
sorae light in respect to the place of abode of
the Osbornes in England ;
"Alay 24, 1670. Bezaliell Osbourne of South
Hampton, within the precincts of East Riding
of "Yorkshire, Eng., attorney to Friswiel

Mulford of East Hampton of said riding (as
in an instruraent bearing date May 14, 1670,
raore fully doth appear) sendeth greeting;
That said Bezaliel Osborne in consideration of
a valuable sum paid by Antipas Newman of
Wenham, Mass., preacher of the word of God,
deed him a farra of 100 acres of upland and
10 of meadow, according to the grant of
Salem, many years ago unto William Osborne,
then husband of the said Friswiel Mulford,
lying in Wenham, Alass. — with consent of her
husband John Mulford — that the said Beza
liel Osbourne by virtue of his power of attor
ney frora Friezwood Mulford his raother and
John Mulford her husband has lawful author
ity to grant, etc.
Thomasin CoUacut, Joseph Osbourne, wit.

"Signed,

Bezaliel Osbourne."

(I) William Osborne, of Salera, colony of
Massachusetts Bay, Puritan, immigrant ances
tor of a notable family, first appears there in
1630, was made freeraan May 22, 1639, having
been granted on June 4, 1636, with Ananias
Concklane, an acre of land each for a houselot,
near Strongwater brook; and besides his
houselot WiUiam Osborne had another grant
of ten acres of land.
In speaking of WilHam Osborne, of Salera,
in his "Genealogical Dictionary," Savage says
that by wife called (in Felt's list of church
members, 1641) Frezwith or Freesweed, had
no children born there, but after his reraoval
to Dorchester the town records there mention
that by wife Frodisword he had Recompense,
born May 26, 1644, at six o'clock p. ra. The
sarae authority also states that this Recora-
pense Osborne graduated frora Harvard Col
lege in 1661 ; that at Braintree he had ; Han
nah, born August 24, 1646, Bezaliel, born
March 8, 1650, "and others afterward at
Boston, by wife called in the records Fred-
swith, and in the Providence records by wife
called Freesword, he had Joseph, born AprU 6,
1652, and Jonathan, born November 16, 1656.
Further, says Savage, he was a merchant and
died in middle life; that the inventory of his
property, made April 29, 1662, shows over one
thousand pounds, "well for that time" His
widow married John Mulford, of South Harap
ton, Yorkshire East Riding, and in 1670 "sold
to Rev. Antipas Newman, of Wenham, that
1 10 acres granted to Osborne."
Frora what is stated above it will be seen
that AVilliara Osborne left Salem sometime
after 1642, and lived in Dorchester at the date
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afterward he was in Braintree, where he had
children born, and still later was in Boston,
where, it is said, other children may have been
born. He ultimately removed to Rhode Island
and died there. It may be said, however, that
the foregoing record of the immigrant's chil
dren cannot be taken as correct in all respects
and that at least one of them, William, is not
mentioned there. Mr. Austin, author of "One
Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," hiraself
an Osborne by descent, gives Wapping, Eng
land, as the birthplace of Williara, and the
date about 1 640. It has been asserted that
AVilliara Osborne, the second, was a son
of WiUiara and Frizwiel Osborne, but it seems
impossible that he could have been born in
England about 1640 (or 1644, as sorae accounts
have it) for his father had then been ten years
in New England, and his places of abode during
the years subsequent to his landing in Salera
are satisfactorily shown — therefore the only
reasonable assuraption is that he was born in
Salem or possibly in Dorchester. (See foot
note, where Recompense is called eldest).
(II) AA-'illiam Osborne, son of AVilliara
Osborne, the iraraigrant, was born about 1640,
died in Salem January, 1728-29; will proved
February 5, 1730. He raarried, March 17,
1672, Hannah, born 1640, died about 1721,
daughter of Captain John Burton, of Salem,
who was a tanner there as early as 1637, and
according to well authenticated accounts came
from England to New England by way of the
Barbadoes, frora which it may be assumed that
he was transported to the island in one of the
ships sent there with political or religious pris
oners, and thence made his way to the colonies
in New England. Being a sympathizer with
the Friends, he evidently found little real com
fort or safe refuge from religious persecution,
for in 1658, charged with the "heinous" crime
of being a Quaker, he and Josiah Southwick
were arrested at Dedham while on their way to
Rhode Island to provide an abiding place for
their families in that locality. They were soon
released and went on to Rhode Island, reraained
Note — Probate Court, Suffolk Re_^stry of Deeds, Boston.
William Osburne, administration of his C'itate granted his late
wife and relict (26th August, 1662) in behalfe of her selfe and
five children. "10 Sept. 1662, on the motion of Mr. Richard
CoUecott in behalf of freesweed Osborne widow and her five
children it being alleadged that the fldest sonne Recompense
-was brought up in learning and had toolce one decree and
therefore desired that he might have but a single portion with
the rest.' The Court allowed that the widow shall, after all
debts be payd and satisfied, be aUowed one eleere third ijart of
the estate * * * and that the re.st of the estate tobe divided
amongst the five children part and parcel alike. (From "Pion
eers of Mass " by Popel (William Osborne, merchant, Hing
ham, propr 1635). William Osborne Salem propr., town officer,
freeman May 22, 1639; went to Braintree to become of the Iron
Works; son at Braintree [Recompense] born at Dorchester May
26, 1644, being born at the home of his brother.

there less than two years and then returned to
Salera. Children of William and Hannah
(Burton) Osborne; i. Samuel, born April 27,
1675, see forward. 2. John, August 27, 1677.
3. Hannah, October 2, 1679; married Novem
ber 26, 1701, John Trask, Jr. 4. William, May
3, 1682; married February 8, 1710, Margaret
Derby. (Ill) Sarauel Osborne, eldest child of Will
iam and Hannah (Burton) Osborne, was born
in Salera, April 27, 1675, and died about 1750.
He married first, Ellinor Southwick, who was
born June 25, 1674, died lorab. 26d. 1702,
daughter of Daniel and Esther (Boyce) South
wick, and granddaughter of Lawrence and
Cassandra Southwick. Lawrence Southwick
carae in the "Mayflower" in 1629; was made
freeman in Salera in 1639; had land given
him in 1637; was a glassblower by trade,
although a farmer by principal occupation. In
the sarae year the town made grants of land to
the "glassraen," and in 1641 the general court
voted that if the town of Salera would loan
the glassraen the sum of thirty pounds it would
be repaid out of the next rate and the glassraen
should repay the town the sura advanced thera
"if the works succeed, when they are able."
How long thi^ priraitive industry was raain
tained does not appear, but it was operated for
sorae tirae, and probably was the first of its
kind in the country. In 1658 Goodraan South
wick and his wife Cassandra and their son
Josiah were iraprisoned for being Quakers,
and were confined in the Boston jail twenty
weeks. They frankly admitted that they were
Friends, and were fined, but being unable to
pay were subsequently released and banished
frora the colony.
Samuel Osborne married second, 6rao. 3od.
1705, Sarah, daughter of Abraham Clark, of
Oyster River. He had four children by each
wife; I. Sarauel, born 2d rao. 4th d., 1697.
2. Elizabeth, ist rao. 14th d. 1699. 3. Hannah,
nth 1110. 14th d., 1700. 4. Joseph, loth rao. 26th
d., 1702. 5. Thomas, 4th rao. ist d., 1706. 6.
Sarah, nth rao. 4th d., 1707. 7. Mary, 7th rao.
27th d., 1709. 8. Isaac, 2d mo. 13th d., 1711.
(IV) Joseph Osborne, son of Samuel and
Eleanor (Southwick) Osborne, was born 8
mo., 26, 1702, and died after November 17,
1780, will proved Deceraber 4, 1780. He raar
ried first, Rachel Foster, died before 1734,
and second, Sarah Gardner. Children; i.
Joseph, born August 6, 1726; see forward. 2.
Rachel, baptized Septeraber 29, 1734. 3.
Ginger, baptized September 29, 1734, 4-
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Israel, baptized Alay 27, 1739. 6. Mehitable,
baptized Noveraber 15, 1741 ; niarried first,
February 9, 1764, Ezra Porter; second, Syl
vester Proctor. 7. Abel, baptized August 18,
1745, died young. 8. Abel, baptized November
9, 1746; married Lydia, daughter of Gideon
Foster, Sr. 9. Aaron, born November 15,
1742, died February 8, 1803; married March
24, 1774, Lydia Proctor.
(V) Joseph Osborne, eldest son of Joseph
Osborne, was born in Salera, 8 rao. 26, 1726,
and died July 9, 1804. He raarried January 6,
1756, Mary Proctor, born Deceraber 13, 1733,
died January 6, 1791, a descendant of John
Proctor, a witchcraft martyr. Children; i.
Joseph, born January 5, 1757, died August 27,
1829; married first, Mary Shillaber; second,
Judith Francis. 2. Sylvester, November 10,
1758, died October 2, 1845 ; niarried first,
Susanna Southwick ; second, Elizabeth Poole ;
third, Mrs. L. W. Sanders. 3. Rachel, Jan
uary 31, 1761, died December 27, 1813; mar
ried Jonathan Howard, born August 10, 1783,
died March 22, 1826. 4. Jonathan, August
30, 1763, died July 29, 1833 ; married Susanna
Sraith. 5. John, November 22, 1765; see
forward. 6. Daniel, Septeraber 10, 1768, died
February 11, 1826; niarried Mehitable Proctor.
7. Araos, AprU 2, 1773, died June 21, 1836;
raarried Nancy Fowler. 8. Alary, August 14,
1779, died June i, 1850.
(VI) John Osborne, fifth chUd of Joseph
and Mary (Proctor) Osborne, v/as born in
Danvers, (forraerly Salem prior to 1752,
Danvers until 1855, South Danvers until
1868, and since that Peabody), Massachu
setts, November 3, 1845. He married, March
22, 1784, Lydia Southwick, descendant of
Lawrence and Cassandra, born Novera
ber I, 1766, died January 7, 1834. Chil
dren; I. Betsey, born June 23, 1785, died
April 16, 1869; married November 3, 1805,
Jonathan Dustin. 2. Lydia, April 8, 1787, died
September 25, 1869 ; married May 23, 1807,
Samuel Stanley, died September 11, 1818. 3.
Henry, July 4, 1789, died December 23, 1855;
married February 4, 1810, Betsey Snow. 4.
Miles, May 16, 1792, died March 23, 1793. 5.
Miles, March 6, 1794, died January 30, 1873;
married first, December 17, 1820, Eliza Poor;
second, Sally Brown. 6. Kendall, July 22,
1796 ; see forward. 7. Polly, January 25, 1799
died November 28, 1800. 8. Polly, February
4, 1801, died September 13, 1879; raarried Oc
tober 27, 1822, Henry Poor. 9. Franklin, born
February 9, 1803, died December 16, 1883 ;
raarried October 2, 1828, Nancy Poor Jacobs,

born 1804, died Noveraber 17, 1885, daughter
of Benjamin and Sally (Poor) Jacobs. 10.
Susanna Southwick, May 22, 1805, died July
22, 1891 ; married July 31, 1827, Sarauel
Cheever, born Salera, December 8, 1799, died
Peabody, July 8, 1876, son of Samuel and
Deborah (Osborn) Cheever (Deborah Osborn
5, George Osborn 4, Williara 3, Williara 2,
AA^illiam i). Susanna Southwick (Osborn)
Cheever's children ; Serena Dustin Cheever,
born November 27, 1828, died July 4, 1850,
raarried June 18, 1849, Angevine Ferguson,
born October 9, 1822, died February 12,
1854; Eliza Sutton Cheever, born May 17,
1830, married May 4, 1851, Louis Osborn,
born January 5, 1829, died September 25, 1872 ;
John O-sborn Cheever, born February 10, 1835,
niarried Georgiana Perrin, November 5, 1867.
II. John, born July 18, 1807, died July 19,
1814. (VII) Kendall Osborn, sixth child of John
and Lydia (Southwick) Osborn, was bom
July 22, 1796, and died October 16, 1875. He
ma'-ried first, Sally Bushby, born July 17, 1798,
died February 19, 1849, daughter of Asa and
Lydia (Wilson) Bushby; second, June 5, 1851,
Susan, bora Deceraber 20, 1807, daughter of
Sylvester Osborn. Children : i. Sally, born
April 17, 1-825. 2. Caroline, March 18, 1827.
3. Kendall, May i, 1829. 4. Benjarain G.,
March 26, 1831. 5. Louisa, July 7, 1833. 6.
Lyraan, April 2, 1835.
(VIII) Lyraan Osborn, youngest child of
Kendall and Sally (Bushby) Osborn, was born
April 2, 1835. He raarried, January 6, 1859,
Maria T. Perley, born January 29, 1839,
daughter of Proctor Jefferson and Lydia H.
(Perkins) Perley (see Perley).
(IX) Lyraan Perley Osborn, only child of
Lyraan and Maria T. (Perley) Osborn, was
born Septeraber 22, i860, and raarried October
4, 1892, Elizabeth Cheever, daughter of Louis
and Eliza Sutton (Cheever) Osborn.
(Ill) John Osborne, second son and child
of WiUiara and Hannah (Burton) Osborne,
was born in Salera, August 27, 1677, died Au
gust, 1744. He raarried first. May 9, 1704,
Mercy, born 1676, daughter of Daniel and
Esther (Boyce) Southwick; second, May 7,
1713, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and Hannah
(Pope) Buffura, and granddaughter of Robert
and Taraasin (TThompson) Buffum of Salem.
Robert Buffura was a farmer and trader, and
both he and his wife were Friends, frequently
fined for not attending the regular established
church and were punished because they were
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2015

Esther, born March 27, 1705; married AprU
17, 1726, Jonathan Marsh, of Sutton. 2. John,
July 28, 1707, died August, 1760. 3. Mercy. 4.
Hannah, January 18, 1717; raarried March 21,
i735> Jonathan Southwick, of Mendon. 5.
Jacob, September 4, 1719.
(IV) Jacob Osborne, son of John Osborne,
was born September 4, 1719, at Salem (now
Peabody) , died between April 20 and Deceraber
6, 1773. He married Anna, daughter of Daniel
and Ruth Purington. Children; i. Elijah,
born 1747; married, October 13, 1770, Susan
nah Buffum. 2. Jacob, born March 29, 1750;
raarried Abigail Simpson ; removed to Epping.
3. Joshua, born 1756, died January 28, 1794;
married, February 7, 1778, Susannah Codner.
4. Micajah, born 1759. 5. Caleb, born Alay i,
1760; see forward. 6. John, born 1763, died
November 16, 1819; raarried widow Rebecca
Roberts, who died July 30, 1824. 7. Daraaris,
born Noveraber 5, 1767; raarried first, AViUiara
Endicott ; second, Sarauel Endicott, cousin of
AVilliam. 8. Nannie, never raarried.
(V) Caleb Osborne, son of Jacob and
Anna (Purington) Osborne, was born in Dan
vers, Alay I, 1760, and died there May 4, 1827.
He raarried, in Danvers, June 30, 1785, Han
nah Trask, born June 29, 1766, died Septeraber
28, 1844, daughter of Amos and Hannah
(Goldthwaite) Trask, and a descendant of
Thoraas Goldthwaite, Ezekiel Cheever the
schoolmaster. Captain Williara Trask, Edmund
Batters and Hannah, daughter of William and
Hannah (Burton) Osborne. Caleb and Hannah
(Trask) Osborne had children; i. Hannah
born Alay 26, 1786, died May 5, 1803. 2
Caleb, August 19, 1788, died June 18, 1789. 3
Abigail, February 10, 1790, died same day. 4
Mehitable, August 3, 1791, died October 26
1795. 5. Caleb, November 20, 1796. 6. Amos,
February 12, 1794; married Lavinia AVhite. 7
Hetty, June 3, 1800, died young. 8. Jacob
August 2, 1802, died November i, 1804.
(VI) Caleb Osborne, son of Caleb and
Hannah (Trask) Osborne, was born Novem
ber 20, 1796, and died September 5, 1872. He
raarried. May 25, 1820, Elizabeth Galeucia,
born Deceraber 13, 1799, died July 29, 1886,
daughter of Jacob and Sally (Newhall)
Galeucia, the former a son of Daniel and Han
nah (Lindsley) Galeucia. Hannah Lindsey
was daughter of Captain Eleazer Lindsey, a
descendant of Thoraas Maule Daniel Galen-
cia was lieutenant in Captain Lindsey's cora
pany, and on account of the ill health of the
latter officer he left the service and the cora
raand devolved on "Captain" Lieutenant Galeu

cia. Sally Newhall was born December 9,
1774, died April 18, 1846, daughter of Nathan
iel Newhall, a Revolutionary soldier (son of
Joseph 5, Joseph 4, Joseph 3, Thoraas 2,
Thoraas i). Caleb and Elizabeth (Galeucia)
Osborne h^d children; i. Caleb Warren, born
April 4, 1821, died June 5, 1894. 2. Hannah,
June 7, 1823, died February 10, 1889; married
October i, 1846, James Wilson. 3. Louis, Jan
uary 5, 1829, died September 25, 1872; mar
ried May 4, 185 1, EHza Sutton Cheever. 4.
Jacob, December 25, 1830; raarried July 31,
1853, Hannah Richards Ferrin. 5. Elizabeth,
July 7, 1835, died July 31, 1837. 6. Elizabeth,
Noveraber 10, 1839, died October 25, 1861 ;
married November 25, i860, Lieutenant
Charles Boardraan AA^arner, of Company H,
Nineteenth Massachusetts A^olunteers, killed
at battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, June 25,
1862, aged twenty-seven years three months.
(Ill) AVilliam Osborne, son of AVilliam and
Hannah (Burton) Osborne, was born Alay 3,
1682, and died Septernber 29, 1771. He mar
ried February 8, 1710, Margaret Derby, born
August 14, 1693, died July 11, 1765, daughter
of Roger and his second wife, Elizabeth
(Haskett) Derby. Children: i. AViUiam, born
August 18, 171 1, died July 6, 1712. 2. Ste
phen, October 16, 1712. 3. Elizabeth, Decem
ber 10, 1714. 4. Williara, February 12, 1716.
5. Benjarain, May 31, 1718. 6. Margaret, Sep
teraber 13, 17I9. 7. Jonathan, about 1722. 8.
Richard, died 1765. 9. Abigail, born 1733. 10.
Benjarain, June, 1735.
(IV) Williara Osborne, son of Williara and
Alargaret (Derby) Osborne, was born Feb
ruary 12, 1716, and died in 1765. He raarried
Noveraber 3, 1737, Elizabeth Tucker, born
1719, died January 17, 1809. Their children:
George, William, Margaret, Elizabeth.
(V) George Osborne, son of William and
Elizabeth (Tucker) Osborne, was born in
Salem, in 1738, and died there June 17, 1808.
He raarried Deborah Stearns, descendant of
Sarauel Appleton, Richard Jacobs and Siraon
Willard, and by her had children; i. Debo
rah, baptized 1771, died in infancy. 2. Debo
rah, born Noveraber 27, 1772, died June 4,
1850. 3. George, married, in 1795, EHza
Deland, and died October 16, 1800; lost at sea;
father of Dr. George Osborne, Sr., of Dan
vers, now Peabody.
(VI) Deborah Osborne, daughter of George
and Deborah (Steams) Osborn, raarried No
veraber 4, 1794, Sarauel Cheever, (his third
wife.) and bore hira children; i. Deborah
Cheever, born March 9, 1796; raarried Tira-

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othy WeUman. 2. Samuel Cheever, December
8, 1799, died June 8, 1876; married July 31,
1828, Susan Southwick Osborn. 3. Alargaret
Cheever, November 26, 1802 ; married David
Wright. 4. Rebecca G. Cheever, April 8, 1808,
married  Tirrell. 5. George Osborn
Cheever, July 4, 1804, died Deceraber 26, 1829.
6. Sarah Ring Cheever, January 13, 1806; raar
ried Joseph Hanson.

(I) Allan Perley, the irami-
PERLEY grant, was born in Wales, Eng
land, in 1608, and carae to
Araerica with Winthrop's fleet in 1630, settled
in the plantation at Charlestown, Massachu
setts Bay colony, reraoved thence to Ipswich,
where he died Deceraber 28, 1675. It appears,
however, that before settling in Ipswich he had
returned to England, and was there in 1635.
He was raade freeraan in 1642, grand juror in
1660, and evidently was a person of consider
able iraportance in the town, his raanner, char
acter and influence and his home with its fur
nishings indicating social position and gentle
birth. He married, 1635, Susanna Bokesen
(soraetiraes written Bokensen), who survived
him about sixteen years and died in Ipswich,
February 11, 1692; children; John, Samuel,
Thomas, Nathaniel, Sarah, Tiraothy and
Martha. (II) Thoraas Perley, third son and child of
Allan and Susanna (Bokesen) Perley, was
born at Ipswich in 1641. Prior to 1667 he
went to Rowley, where he was adraitted free
raan 1677, and in 1684 settled in Boxford,
where he becarae a prorainent resident. He
served as constable in 1688; selectraan 1690-
94-99, 1701-04-09; representative to general
court 1689-90-93, 1700 and 1702; served as
grand and petit juryraan and was frequently
chosen raoderator of town raeetings. He also
served on numerous town committees, notably
the one formulated in 1701 to receive the deed
of the town of Boxford frora the grandsons of
the old sagaraore, Masconnoraet, also those
appointed to organize the first religious society,
erect the first raeeting house, and he assisted in
establishing the boundary line between Box
ford and Topsfield. In addition to his exten
sive agricultural interests he aided in promot
ing the iron-moulding industry, which was
begun in Boxford as early as 1669. He was
also a meraber of the local railitia and attained
the rank of lieutenant. He died in Boxford
Septeraber 24, 1709. July 8, 1667, he raarried
Lydia Peabody, born 1644, daughter of Lieu
tenant Francis and Alary (Foster) Peabody,

of Topsfield, the former of whom was of
Great St. Albans, England, and emigated in
1635, being a fellow passenger with Allan
Perley on the latter's return from his visit to
the old country. Mary Foster (or Forster),
wife of Lieutenant Francis Peabody, was a
daughter of Reginald Foster, a representative
of a distinguished Scotch family raentioned by
Sir Walter Scott in both "Alarmion" and "The
Lay of the Last Alinstrel." Children of
Thoraas and Lydia (Peabody) Perley;
Thomas, Jacob, Lydia, Mary, Hepzibah and
Sarah. The raother of these children died
April 30, 17 1 5. She was admitted to the
church in Boxford by letter from the church in
Rowley, February i, 1702.
( III ) Jacob, second son and child of Thoraas
and Lydia (Peabody) Perley, was born
in Rowley, about 1670. He accorapanied
his parents from Rowley to Boxford, and
acquired possession of the estate located on
the north side of Baldpate pond, which in after
years was owned and occupied by Augustus M.
Perley. The original dwelling which he erected
stood a few rods north of the present barn, and
he lived there until 1736, when he removed to
Bradford, Massachusetts. In his will he is
mentioned as a housewright. In 1710 he with
others was granted liberty to erect and operate
a sawmill in Boxford, and while living there he
participated actively in local public affairs,
serving as constable in 1705; selectman 1708-
12-29-32; surveyor of highways 1706; raod
erator, 1729-31 ; also on various town corarait
tees, and was town treasurer from 1713 to
1 72 1. In 1705 he joined the local railitia cora
pany as sergeant, was proraoted to cornet in
1717; was coraraissioned lieutenant in 1724,
and served with credit in Captain LoveweU's
expedition against the Indians. He died at
Bradford, 1751. Lieutenant Jacob Perley was
three tiraes niarried, and it is a somewhat sin
gular coincidence that two of his wives were
named Lydia Peabody, which was also the
maiden name of his raother. On December 6,
1696, he raarried Lydia, daughter of Captain
John and Hannah (Andrews) Peabody, of
Boxford, born there March 9, 1673, and died
there in 1707-08, having been admitted to the
church with her husband sorae four years pre
viously. He raarried second, May 9, 1709, his
first wife's cousin, Lydia Peabody, born in
Boxford, February 4, 1683, daughter of Joseph
and Bethia (Bridges) Peabody. She died
April 30, 1732. He married third, in 1733,
Mrs. Mehitable Brown, nee Stafford, a widow,
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to John Hovey, and second to Ebenezer Brown
of Rowley. She died intestate at Bradford,
probably in 1754, as on March 22 of that year
her son Samuel Hovey was appointed her
administrator. Jacob Perley was the father of
seven children, namely ; Lydia, Jacob, Nathan,
Francis, Moses, Isaac and Hannah.
(IV) Jacob Perley, son of Jacob and Lydia
(Peabody) Perley, was born in Boxford,
Massachusetts, September 19, 1700, and died
in 1750. He married May 28, 1729, Sarah
Morse, born in March, 1708, died after 1763,
daughter of Benjamin and Susanna Morse of
Newbury ; children, all born in Boxford :
Isaac, Jacob, Benjamin, Sarah and John.
(V) Lieutenant Benjamin Perley, third son
and child of Jacob and Sarah (Morse) Perley,
was born in Boxford, February 10, 1735, and
died in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in 1816.
He then was eighty-one years old, vigorous in
body and raind, and he raet death in his own
house, which had taken fire, while he was
endeavoring to extinguish the flames. He was
a soldier and patriot of the revolution and at
the battle of Lexington was lieutenant of Cap
tain William Perley's company of minute-men.
In 1777 and again in 1780 he was a meraber of
the war coraraittee of Boxford to furnish and
equip raen for the service. In 1781 or 1782 he
removed frora Boxford to Topsfield, lived
there until 1789 then returned to his native
town and in 1791 reraoved to Dunbarton, New
Hampshire, where he died. He was a man of
considerable prorainence in town affairs, pos
sessed a good property, and in some records is
mentioned as "gentleman." He was hogreeve
in Boxford in 1765 and again in 1791, con
stable in 1770, selectraan and overseer of the
poor in 1774 and three tiraes afterward, moder
ator and warden in 1776, sealer of weights and
raeasures in 1767 and six years afterward,
tythingman in 1772 and twice afterward, one
of the comraittee of seven to regulate prices in
1779, and in 1781 was one of the two towns
men appointed to instruct the representative to
the general court regarding the duties of his
office. He married first, January 2, 1759, Han
nah Clark, born in Topsfield, May 9, 1735, died
about 1771, daughter of Jacob and Mary
(Howlett) Clark of Boxford; second, Octo
ber 12, 1773, Apphia Andrews, of Danvers.
He had six children born of each marriage:
Mary, Dorothy, Rebecca, Benjamin, Hannah,
Paul, Apphia, Anna, John, Sarah, Betty and
Jacob. (VI) Lieutenant John Perley, son and ninth
child of Lieutenant Benjamin and Apphia

(Andrews) Perley, was born in Boxford, May
29, 1779, and died in Salem, October 15, 1816.
He went with his father's family from Box
ford to Dunbarton, but afterward returned to
Massachusetts, settled in Salem, and was pro
prietor of a hotel at the corner of Essex and
Beckford streets. In 1810 he was chosen lieu
tenant of the Salem Artillery Company, and in
one record is mentioned as "late lieutenant in
the U. S. army." He married, Deceraber 6,
1801, Mehitable Proctor, born Deceraber 19,
1775, died August 31, 1852, daughter of Syl
vester (a descendant of John Proctor, witch
craft martyr) and Mehitabel (Osborn) (Por
ter) Proctor; children; Proctor Jefferson,
John Andrews, Mehitabel, Elbridge Gerry
(died in infancy), Eliza Ann, Elbridge Gerry
and Jacob.
("VII) Proctor Jefferson Perley, eldest child
of Lieutenant John and Mehitabel (Proctor)
Perley, was born in Salera, June 17, 1802, and
died there February 16, 1841. He was a
painter by trade. He raarried May 23, 1828,
Lydia Herrick Perkins, born in Essex, Mass
achusetts, Deceraber 6, 1804, and died in South
Danvers, (now Peabody), Noveraber 29, 1889,
having survived her husband alraost half a
century. She was daughter of Abrahara and
Alary (Burnhara) Perkins. Proctor Jefferson
and Lydia Herrick (Perkins) Perley had chil
dren ; Mary Wilder, Lucy Secorab, Elbridge
Gerry and Maria Taylor.
(VIII) Maria Taylor Perley, youngest child
of Proctor Jefferson and Lydia Herrick (Per
kins) Perley, was born in Peabody, January
29, 1839, and married there, January 6, 1859,
Lyraan Osborn, born in Peabody, April 2,
1835, son of Kendall and Sally (Bushby)
Osborn (see Osborne faraily).

The Upton family ancestry in
UPTON England is traced back to the
time of WilHam the Conqueror,
and the ancient raanuscript of the De Uppton
family of Cornwall is stiU in existence, though
partly illegible, at the ancient seat of the fara
ily in Westraoreland. The English branch of
the faraily traces an unbroken line of descent
frora John Uppeton de Uppeton, Cornwall.
The family has spread widely through AVales,
Scotland and Ireland, as well as England.
(I) John Upton, who canxe to New Eng
land about 1652, was the iraraigrant ancestor.
There is a tradition that he came frora Scot
land. He raay have been one of the Scotch
prisoners taken by Cromwell at Dunbarton,
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The last naraed battle was fought near the
town of Upton, England, the seat of the
ancient faraily. Cromwell took seventeen
thousand Englishmen and Scotchmen prisoners
in these two battles, and many of them were
sent to the American colonies. There is a tra
dition that the name of his wife was Eleanor
Stuart, and that she too was Scotch. He set
tled in Salera A^illage, now Danvers, Massa
chusetts. He seeras to have refused to join
the Puritan church, and that raay indicate that
he was Scotch and a Presbyterian. He did
not take the freeman oath until it had been
modified. He was adraitted a freeraan April
i8, 1691. The first record is of date Decem
ber 26, 1658, when he bought land of Henry
Bullock, some time of Hamraersraith (the
Lynn iron works at .Saugus). Pie paid four
pounds for forty acres in Salera. He bought
land of Daniel RuraboU of Salera, April 6,
1662, adjoining his farm. His homestead was
near the line of the present town of Danvers,
half a raile from the present line of Lynnfield,
one raile south of the Ipswich river, and two
railes west of the Newburyport turnpike. It
is two railes and a half frora the site of his
later residence in North Reading. His neigh
bors were the Popes, Gardners, Flints, Wal-
cotts and Sraiths. He bought and sold con
siderable land in the vicinity. Active, ener
getic and successful, he began with no capital
and accumulated a handsome estate. Araong
his holdings was a tract of land in West Pea
body which he purchased from the Indians,
and this at his death was divided between his
six children ; a portion of it is still owned by
his descendants. He died July 11, 1699, aged
about seventy-seven. The will was dated No
veraber 16, 1697, and proved July 31, 1699.
He used a fleur-de-lis for a seal, and in his
will tried to entail his estate, but the laws of
the colony effectually prevented him. Chil
dren; I. John, born 1654. 2. Eleanor, 1656.
3. William, 1658. 4. Jaraes, September, 1660.
5. Alary, 1661 ; died 1663. 6. Samuel, born
October, 1664; mentioned below. 7. Ann. 8.
Isabel, born January 3, 1666-7 '• died 1689. 9.
Ezekiel, born Septeraber, 1668. 10. Joseph,
April 9, 1670. II. Francis, July i, 1671. 12.
Mary. (II) Sarauel Upton, son of John Upton,
was born in October, 1664, and lived on the
horaestead in Danvers, which he had inherited
jointly with his brother WiUiara. For at least
half a century the two brothers occupied the
same house, on Wood Hill, and until 1708 they
held property together. At this time the real

estate was divided. He owned land in Dan
vers, North reading and Middleton. He and
his brother had a negro servant whom they
freed in 1717. They sat together in the meet
ing house, as did their wives. Their seats in
the raeeting house indicated that they were
both prorainent in the coraraunity. Sara
uel Upton conveyed all his real estate to his
son Benjarain, March 26, 1740, on considera
tion of nine hundred pounds in province bills.
His design was to carry out his father's pur
pose in entailing the estate. The property
was kept in the faraily as late as 1849, if "ot
to the present day. He raarried January 14,
1702-3, Abigail Frost, of Danvers, baptized
August 3, 1707, at the church in Danvers,
probably on owning the covenant. Children :
I. Sarauel, born June 30, 1704; raarried Ruth
AVhipple 2. Abigail, born 1705. 3. Nathaniel
(twin), baptized March 27, 1709; married
Mary Eaton. 4. Jemiraa (twin), baptized
March 27, 1709; married Israel Eaton. 5.
Anna, baptized April 6, 1712. 6. Benjarain,
baptized May 10, 1713; raarried Sarah Swin
nerton. 7. Eunice, baptized April 24, 1715;
married  Twist. 8. Amos, baptized
October 20, 1717; raentioned below. 9. Lois,
raarried  Mclntyre. 10. Noah, baptized
September 17, 1721.
(Ill) Deacon Amos Upton, son of Samuel
Upton, was baptized in Danvers, October 20y
1 7 17, and died October 6, 1780. He resided
in the north parish of Reading, about a mile
northeast of the present meeting house, in a
house still (or lately) standing. He was dea
con of the church there under Rev. Daniel
Putnam and Rev. Eliah Stone from February
18, 1762, until his death. He was a man of
great energy and stern Puritan principles. He
was frequently in offices of trust ; was surveyor
of highways in 1750-56 and 61 ; selectraan
1764-66 and 68; assessor and parish clerk in
1769; raoderator of North Reading parish,
1767-72-74 and 78. His will is dated May 24,
1780, and proved October 3, 1781. He mar
ried December 5, 1739, Sarah, daughter of
John Bickford of Salera. She was admitted
into full communion to the church at Danvers,
March 28, 1756, and died in North Reading,
November 17, 1818, aged ninety-nine years
seven months. ChUdren; 1. Araos, born Oc
tober 3, 1742 ; married first, Edith Upton ; sec
ond, Joanna Bruce ; third, Hannah Haskell. 2.
Benjamin, born May 7, 1745; mentioned
below. 3. Sarah, born Noveraber 22, 1748;
died young. 4. Eunice, born December 2.
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 Richardson. 5. Nathaniel, born No
vember 28, 1753; raarried first, Sarah Flint;
second, Jerusha Upton. 6. Sarah, born April
9, 1757; raarried January 10, 1782, Job Ban
croft. 7. Rebecca, born June 28, 1761 ; raar
ried February 24, 1785, Ephraira Pratt, of
North Reading. 8. Eliab, born 176 — ; died
young. 9. John, born June 12, 1768; raarried
Hannah Hart.
(IV) Benjamin Upton, son of Deacon Amos
Upton, was born in North Reading, Alay 7,
1745, and died there August 12, 1827, aged
eighty-two. He was a prorainent citizen ; was
justice of the peace, parish clerk in 1783, and
moderator to annual parish meeting sarae year ;
also raoderator in 1801 and for eleven years
following; was deputy to general court. Rev.
James Flint, in a letter written in 1844, says
of him; "Benjarain Upton, Esq., an able man,
that thought well of himself * * * some
what sterii and opinionated, of unquestioned
integrity, and held in respect by his fellow citi
zens," etc. He was rigorously orthodox in his
religious views and delighted in religious dis
cussion, always holding his own ground. Pie
married first, Deceraber 20, 1770, Rebecca Put
nara, born January 18, 1752, daughter of Dea
con Daniel Putnara. She died Septeraber 13,
1785, and he raarried second, Elizabeth
(White) Cowley, a descendant of Peregrine
White, who was born in November, 1620, the
first child of European parents born in New
England, son of AVilliam AVhite, one of the
"Mayflower"company. Children of first wife :
I. Benjarain, born May 12, 1773; raarried Abi
gail Kilhara. 2. Daniel Putnara, born August
12, 1775 ; raarried Hannah Bruce. 3. Re
becca, born 1778; died young. 4. Rebecca,
born September 22, 1780; married David
Preston. 5. Ebenezer, born January 14, 1783;
married Polly Putnara. 6. Elisha, born Au
gust 14, 1785; died young. 7. EHjah (twin),
born August 14, 1785 ; mentioned below. ChU
dren of second wife; 8. Elisha Cowley, born
January 14, 1788; married Irene Flint. 9.
Edward, born March 31, 1789; married Betsey
Davis. (A^) Elijah Upton, son of Benjamin Upton,
was born at North Reading, August 14, 1785,
and died March 25, i860, at Brattleborough,
Vermont. He was a tanner and currier by
trade, and in 1809 engaged in the manufac
ture of glue. In both departments he did a
large business and accumulated a handsome
fortune. He was an invalid for raany years
before his death, and reraoved on account of
his health to Brattleborough, A-^erraont. Elijah

Upton in his youth was apprenticed to Captain
Dennison Wallis and was in partnership at dif
ferent tiraes with Joseph Tufts and Caleb I.
Frost. He was the first man in town to manu
facture glue, and built up a large trade. He
had a great inventive faculty and was con
stantly making improvements in the manufac
ture and improving his plant. He dealt quite
extensively in real estate. He was a liberal
giver to public charities in which he was inter
ested, among the chief being temperance
reforra and raissionary work. He raarried
first, July 2, 1809, Phebe Wood, born in South
Danvers, March 23, 1787, died there July 12,
1821 ; second, Noveraber 9, 1821, Ruth (Har
rington) Downing, died June i, 1843. Child
of first wife; i. Elijah AA^ood, raentioned
below. (\T) Elijah Wood Upton, son of Elijah
Upton, was born February 24, 181 1, in Pea
body, formerly South Danvers, and died there
in 1 88 1. He received a good academical edu
cation and supplemented his studies by Euro
pean travel. Some years before his father's
death, Elijah Wood Upton took upon hiraself
the management of the glue business, as his
father was not in good health. In 1847. with
Theophilus and Nathaniel Walker, he built and
put in operation the Danvers Bleachery.
Lender his manageraent the business grew to
large proportions. He was president of the
AVarren Bank in Peabody, and dealt largely
in real estate. He raarried first, Septeraber 12,
1832, Louisa King, born in South Danvers,
October 27, 1809, died at Boston, January 15,
1847, daughter of Ebenezer and Betsey
(Upton) King; second, June 14, 1848, Lucy
Elizabeth Winchester, born in Danvers, Jan
uary 8, 1821. Children of first wife; i.
Maria Louisa, born August 4, 1833, raarried
Charles B. Farley. 2. George, born July 8,
1837 ; raentioned below. 3. Mary Annette,
born AprU 5, 1843 ; died April 23, 1843. Chil
dren of second wife ; 4. Phebe Wood, born
February 23, 1849; died May 12, 1849. 5-
Edgar Wood, born April 27, 185 1 ; raarried
January 28, 1873, Elizabeth G. Evans. 6.
Francis Robbins, born July 26, 1852. 7. Henry
Bancroft, born August 26, 1854; died Decera
ber 18, 1864. 8. Sarah Frost, born March 27,
1856. 9. Mary Ann, born July 22, 1861 ; died
August 25, 1868.
(VII) George Upton, son of Elijah AA^ood
Upton, was born in South Danvers, now Pea
body, July 8, 1837, and died January 26, 1883.
He was educated in the public schools and
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which his father and grandfather had been so
prominent and successful, and becarae a part
ner in the firra of Upton & Corapany, with his
father and D. Webster King. This firm was
afterward dissolved, and the original business
was continued by George Upton alone. He
inherited the business ability of his father, and
achieved even greater success, enlarging the
plant and facilities, and increasing the output
of the factories. He held a high position in
the manufacturing and comraercial world, and
was held in esteera as a farsighted, upright
and conscientious citizen. In politics he was
a Republican, and in religion a Unitarian. He
married, September 6, i860, Alarian Cloutman,
born in Boston, daughter of John and Mar
garet (McKay) Cloutman. Children: i.
King, born April 12, 1862, mentioned below.
2. Roger, born in- Peabody, September 15,
1873. He began his education in the horae
schools, and at the age of twelve went to
Europe, where he was a student until he was
seventeen. Retuming home, he completed his
studies at Harvard University. He is now
clerk and assistant treasurer of the American
Glue Company. He married, in 1899, Eliza
beth Phebe Key Lloyd, born in Maryland,
daughter of Colonel Edward Lloyd ; children ;
Lloyd, bora July 26, 1900; Edward, March
18, 1902 ; Dorothy, August 23, 1903.
(VIII) King Upton, son of George Upton,
was born in Peabody, April 12, 1862. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
town, and later in Paris, Allen's Academy,
Newton, Massachusetts, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He entered his
father's establishment, thoroughly learned the
business, and became associated with hira in
his various enterprises. On the death of the
father, in 1883, he becanie managing trustee
of the estate and acted as such until 1894,
when the estate was settled, and the business
passed into the ownership of Marian C. Upton,
King Upton and Roger Upton. A few months
later it was sold to the American Glue Com
pany of New Jersey, of which D. Webster
King was president, and King Upton vice-
president. This corporation, organized in
1894, took over not only the glue business of
the Upton estate, but that of the D. Webster
King Corapany, the Pennsylvania Glue Com
pany and the Illinois Glue Corapany, King
Upton being chief owner in the two last named
corporations. In 1900 the American Glue
Company purchased the Boston Flint Paper
Company, the Union Sand Paper Company,
and the sand paper business of Wiggin &

Stevens. Two years later it also acquired the
Cape Ann Isinglass Company, and in 1906 the
Araerican Glue Corapany, organized under
Massachusetts laws, took over from the New
Jersey corporation all the glue and other busi
ness owned thereby. As now constituted, the
American Glue Corapany of Massachusetts, of
itself or through subsidiary corapanies, owns
and operates nineteen different plants in
Alaine, New Hampshire, Alassachusetts, Con
necticut, New A'ork, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa, and has stores in Boston,
New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and St.
Louis, and is the largest corporation in the
country engaged in the raanufacture, pur
chase and sale of glue and gelatine, sand paper,
garnet paper and cloth, emery paper and cloth,
isinglass, hair and fertilizer. The business also
includes the mining of garnet and other rainer
als used in the raanufacture of its products.
The raain office of the corporation is in Boston,
and its officers are ; Jesse P. Lyraan, presi
dent and treasurer, who organized and suc
cessfully developed the G. H. Haramond Cora
pany and the Hamraond Packing Company,
and was a prirae factor in the formation of the
National Packing Company, of which he was
president for several years ; King Upton, first
vice-president, who is in charge of the raanu
facturing plants, and is recognized as orie of
the raost expert glue manufacturers in the
country ; Everett J. Stevens, second vice-presi
dent, ex-mayor of Maiden, and for several
years a raember of the Massachusetts legisla
ture ; Roger Upton, before mentoned, clerk and
assistant treasurer ; B. L. M. Tower, general
counsel. George Upton, son of King Upton, is
also connected with the business, in the tech
nical branch of the work. The present large
factory at Peabody is built near the site of the
original building, and is called "The Upton
Factory," or "Plant No. i." This (1908) is
the centennial year of the glue business owned
by the Upton faraily in Peabody, developed
frora small and unpretentious beginnings into
a large industry of national iraportance and
international fame. The utilization of by
products and waste materials has been a
remarkable incident in the growth of this busi
ness. Not only the concentration of capital,
but the production of new raachinery, the dis
covery of new chemical and raechanical pro
cesses, and the most raodern and econoraical
raethods of raanufacture and distribution, have
been iraportant factors in the great expansion
and prosperity of this establishraent.
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Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Washing
ton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and is a
member of the Eastern Yacht Club, the Boston
Yacht Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club, the
Portland Yacht Club, and the Chicago Ath
letic Association. In politics he is a Republi
can. He resides in Marblehead. He married,
in April, 1883, Annie Dane, born in Salem,
daughter of Joseph F. Dane. They have one
child, George, born March 23, 1884, raentioned
above.

Williara Tilton, iraraigrant an-
TILTON cestor, was born in England,
and settled first in Lynn, Mass
achusetts, prior to 1640. He was "freed frora
training, but to keep his arms fixed," accord
ing to an order dated April 30, 1646, indicat
ing that he was past middle age. He died in
the early part of 1653. His widow Susannah
presented his will for probate in Alay, 1653.
She raarried (second) Roger Shaw, of Harap
ton, New Hampshire, whither she took her
youngest son by her former husband, Daniel
Tilton. We find the record also of John Tilton at
Salem in 1641, when the wife of his son John
was presented to the court for opposing infant
baptism. Children of WUHam and Susannah
Tilton: i. Abrahara, raarried Mary Crara,
daughter of John. 2. Sarauel, raarried, De
cember 17, 1662, Hannah Moulton. 3. Dan
iel, mentioned below.
(II) Ensign Daniel Tilton, son of William
Tilton (i), was born in Lynn, 1646-47; raar
ried, Deceraber 23, 1669, Mehitable Sanborn,
daughter of WilHam and Mary Sanborn, of
Hampton. He settled on what is known as
the Akerraan place on Harapton Falls hill, and
died at Harapton, February 10, 1715. In 1667
the town of Harapton raade hira a grant of
land "in case he would sit down as black
sraith," and he and his descendants carried
on the blacksmith business continuously in
the town for one hundred and fifty years,
down to the tirae of the death of Captain
Stephen Tilton in 182 1. Daniel bore the title
of ensign of the militia in 1696, and was in
command of a garrison at Hampton. He
was a raember of the executive council and gen
eral asserably in 1693-95 and 1702, during his
last year being speaker of the house. He was
again member of the assembly in 1709-11
and finally in 1714, when he requested dis
mission "being infirm and antient." Daniel
was the progenitor of the Tiltons of New
Hampshire. Children of Daniel and Alehit
able: I., Abigail, born October 28, 1670,

raarried Christopher Shaw; she died October
4, 1759. 2. Mary, born Alarch 9, 1673. 3.
Samuel, bom February 14, 1675. 4. Joseph,
born March 19, 1677, raentioned below. 5.
Mercy, born May 25, 1679, married Samuel
Elkins, son of Eleazer. 6. Daniel, born Octo
ber 23, 1680. 7. David, born October 30,
1682, died Alay 26, 1729; raarried Deborah
Batchelder. 8. Mehitable, born October 2,
1687, married. May 14, 1708, Joseph Law
rence. 9. Hannah, born April 27, 1689, raar
ried Nathaniel Hedly. 10. Jethro, married
Mary  . 11. Josiah.
(Ill) Captain Joseph Tilton, son of En
sign Daniel Tilton (2), was born in Hampton,
March 19, 1677 ; raarried (first) Deceraber
26, 1798, Margaret Sherburne, and (second)
Elizabeth Hilliard. Children : Sherburne,
John, mentioned below; Alary, Margaret,
Jonathan, Joseph.
(IV) John Tilton, son of Captain Joseph
Tilton (3), was born in Hampton, January 4,
1702. He resided at Kensington, New Plamp
shire. Children ; John, raentioned below ;
Jereraiah, David, Nathaniel, Joseph.
(V) John Tilton, son of John Tilton (4),
born in Kensington, New Harapshire, 1736,
died January 21, 1818, aged eighty-two years.
He settled in that part of Gilraanton, now
Gilford, New Harapshire, near Meredith.
He married, Alay 19, 1761, Hannah Clifford,
who died March 28, 1824, aged eighty years.
Children bora at Gilmanton : Sarauel, Eliza
beth, Nathaniel, Judith, Hannah, AbigaU,
Mary, John, Richard, David, raentioned be
low ; Sarah, Dolly.
(VI) David TiltoUj son of John Tilton
(5), was born in Gilraanton about 1765. He
settled in GUford with his brothers, Nathaniel
and Sarauel. According to the federal census
of 1790 Nathaniel had a son over sixteen
and two feraales in his family; Samuel had
three sons under sixteen and seven females
in his family. David had two sons under six
teen and two females (doubtless wife and
daughter) in his faraily. He raarried Sarah
Foster, born Deceraber 30, 1767, daughter of
Hon. Abiel Foster, born Andover, Massachu
setts, August 8, 1735; married, May 15, 1761,
Hannah, Badger, daughter of General Joseph
Badger, of Gilraanton, New Hampshire.
Abiel Foster married (second) Mary Rogers,
born November i, 1745, died March 12, 1813,
daughter of Dr. Samuel and Hannah (Wise)
Rogers, of Ipswich, descendant of John
Rogers, of Dedham, England. Abiel Foster
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1756; was minister at Canterbury, New
Hampshire; chief justice of the court of com
raon pleas, Rockingham county; congressman
in 1789-91 and 1795-1803; once president of
the New Harapshire senate ; a raan of in
tegrity, virtue and great usefulness, having
the confidence and favor of all raen; a per
sonal friend of Washington who gave him a
rainiature of hiraself — a precious heirloom of
the faraily; died February 6, 1806. David
and Sarah Tilton settled in Meredith, New
Harapshire. Children ; Joseph Badger, born
July 3, 1788, died Septeraber 18, 1788. Joseph
Badger, raentioned below.
Captain Asa Foster, father of Hon. Abiel
Foster, was born at Andover, June 16, 1710;
raarried, October 26, 1732, Elizabeth Abbot,
born October 21, 1712, died July 4, 1758,
daughter of John. He raarried (second)
1763 Lucy Rogers AVise, of Ipswich, born
1723, died October 17, 1787, daughter of
Alajor Ararairuharaah Wise. Asa Foster was
a captain in the regiment of Colonel Ebenezer
Nichols in the French war, 1758; was on the
committee of safety and correspondence in
1776; owned one hundred and sixty acres of
land in Canterbury, New Harapshire ; a very
prominent citizen.
Williara Foster, father of Captain Asa Fos
ter, was born at Rowley, now Boxford, in
1670; raarried, July 6, 169 — , Sarah Kiraball,
born Septeraber 19, 1669, died Noveraber 6,
1729, daughter of John and Sarah Kiraball;
raarried Margaret Gould ; removed to And
over, Massachusetts, 1697-98, and died there.
Williara Foster, son of Reginald, father of
William just raentioned, was born in England
in 1633. Married, May 15, 1661, Mary Jack
son, born February 8, 1639, daughter of Wil
liara and Joanna. He lived at Rowley on the
site of the old Dean Andrews place.
Reginald Foster, the iraraigrant, has a
sketch elsewhere in this work.
(VII) Joseph Badger Tilton, son of David
Tilton (6), was born in Meredith, New
Hampshire, about 1790. He married, De
cember 22, 1819, at Gilford, New Hampshire,
Sally P. Robertson (or Robinson), of Mere
dith. (By Rev. William BlaisdeU). Child,
Daniel Larabert, raentioned below.
(VIII) Daniel Larabert Tilton, son of
Joseph B. Tilton (7), born in Meredith, New
Harapshire, in 1824, died in 1882. He raar
ried Ellen M. Jennings. They lived in Bos
ton. Children: i. Ella, raarried Frank B.
Roundy ; children, Grace E. Roundy, Anna M.

Roundy. 2. Walter Francis, raentioned be
low. (IX) Waher Francis Tilton, son of Dan
iel Larabert Tilton (8), was born in Boston,
April 26, 1857. Pie resided in Chelsea in his
youth and attended the public schools of
Chelsea and Boston. He began at an early
age as clerk in the wholesale raillinery store of
Sleeper, Fisk & Corapany, Boston, and was
advanced step by step to positions of greater
trust and responsibility in this concern. When
the firra was re-organized under the narae of
J. K. C. Sleeper & Corapany, he becarae a
partner. In 1892 he entered partnership with
Elraer E. Clapp and established the well-
known firm of Clapp & Tilton, wholesale
milliners. This firm occupies the quarters at
12 Suraraer street, Boston, formerly occupied
by the firm of J. K. C. Sleeper and Corapany,
and its business has grown until it ranks as
the largest and raost progressive concern east
of N"ew York in this line of business. Mr.
Tilton has always taken an active part in the
public affairs of the town of Norwood, where
he resides. He is an active an influential
Republican, serving raany years on the Re
publican town coraraittee and often being
elected delegate to the nominating conventions
of his party. He is a meraber of the executive
board of the Norwood Business Association;
is director of the Norwood National Bank.
He is a meraber of the electric light corarais
sion of Norwood. He is an active meraber of
the Norwood Universalist church, and has
served for a nuraber of years on its parish
committee He is a prorainent Free Alason,
belonging to Orient Lodge ; to Hebron Chap
ter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is treas
urer, and to Hyde Park Coramandery,
Knights Templar.
He married, April 26, 1883, Anna M.,
daughter of Francis E. and Emeline Francis
(Whiting) Colburn. (See AVhiting sketch).
Children; i. Mabel Frances, born April 29,
1886. 2. Arthur Colburn, born December 31,
1887. Elder Henry Cobb the "Alay-
COBB flower" passenger on her second
trip frora England, carae presum
ably from Kent, and was in Plyraouth in 1629,
in Scituate in 1633, where he was deacon in
the First Church of Scituate, Mr. John
Lothrop, rainister, and he removed with the
minister and sorae raerabers of his congrega
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tacheese on Cape Cod, and they there, under
authority of the colony court, given June 4,
1639, established the First Church of Barn
stable, of which he was a deacon up to April 14,
1670, when he was made a ruling elder, and he
was afterward known and his narae was written
Mr. Henry Cobb. He was an original grantee
of the town and was for several years deputy
to the colony court. He raarried Patience,
daughter of Deacon James Harch, in 1639,
and she died in 1648, after having had by him
seven children; he niarried second, Sarah,
daughter of Sarauel Hinckley, Deceraber 12,
1649, and by her had eight children. He died
in 1679. His children were; John, born in
Plyraouth, June 7, 1632; James, Plymouth,
January 14, 1634; Mary, Scituate, Alarch 24,
1736; Hannah, Scituate, October 5, 1639;
Patience, 1642 ; Gershom, January 10, 1444-5 !
Eleazer, March 30, 1648; Mehitable, Septera
ber, 1652; Sarauel, October 12, 1654; Sarah,
January 15, 1658; Jonathan, AprU 10, 1660;
Sarah, March 10, 1662-3 J Henry, Septeraber
3, 1665; Mehitable, February 15, 1667, and
Experience, Septeraber 11, 1671. Of these
children, John lived in Taunton and Plyraouth ;
Mary married Josiah Dunham, being his sec
ond wife ; Hannah married Edward Lewis,
May 9, 1661 ; Patience married Robert Parker,
1667; Gershom removed to Middleboro; Me
hitable (i) died in infancy; Sarah (i) died
in infancy; Sarah (2) married Deacon Sam
uel Chipman, Deceraber 27, 1686 ; Henry, born
1665, is referred to below; his elder brother
James married Sarah Lewis and becanie the
progenitor of the Sylvanus Cobbs and of Cy
rus and Darius Cobb, noted preachers, authors
and artists, the line being through James 3,
Jaraes 4, Sylvanus 5, Ebenezer 6, Rev. Syl
vanus 7, the writer; Sylvanus 8, Cyrus and
Darius (twins) 9, born August 6, 1834, the
forraer of whom is an artist.
(II) Henry Cobb, of Barnstable, youngest
son of Elder Henry and Sarah (Hinckley)
Cobb, was born September 3, 1665. He mar
ried, April 10, 1690, Lois Hallet; children;
Gideon, born April 1 1, 1691 ; Eunice, Septem
ber 18, 1693 '< Lois, March 2, 1696, and
Nathan, 1700. He removed to New London
county, Connecticut, and was prorainent in the
early history of the county. He purchased
land in the proposed society of Voluntown in
May, 1 7 19, and May 14, 1724, he petitioned
the authorities for a meeting house site and
was deacon in the newly organized church.
In 1 73 1 he purchased from Governor Salton
stall his large grant of land, which he divided

into farms and sold to settlers. Previous to
1740 he connected hiraself with the church
organized by the society of Mortlake, and his
wife also joined the society, and he was
assigned a prorainent pew in the new church.
His son Gideon was captain in the railitia and,
like his father, he took a prominent part in
chtirch affairs and was appointed on iraport
ant coraraittees at various tiraes to settle diffi
culties with the older neighboring societies that
disputed the rights of their domain, and he
was finally influential in securing the union of
the Plainfield and Windham associations. He
was appointed guager and packer, and also a
highway surveyor at the town meeting held in
1761 for the erection of the new society of
Hanover out of territory occupied by the Can
terbury Society. The Hne of ancestry is traced
through Gideon Cobb to Thomas Cobb, who
was a resident of Carver, Alassachusetts, and
he was father of Andrew B. Cobb, who was
born at Carver, married Lydia Morton Eddy,
granddaughter of Captain Joshua Eddy, a
revolutionary soldier, and a descendant from
Samuel Eddy, of Aliddleborough, Alassachu
setts Bay Colony, 1624. Air. and Mrs. Cobb
resided at Hartford, Connecticut.
Heni*y Eddy Cobb, son of Andrew B. and
Lydia Al. (Eddy) Cobb, was born in Hart
ford, Connecticut, June 21, 1839, died at his
home on Bellview avenue, Mt. Ida, Newton,
Massachusetts, February 2, 1908. He removed
with his parents to Newton, Massachusetts,
where he received his school training in the
best gramraar and high schools to be found in
the Coraraonwealth of Massachusetts, which
is synonyraous with the best in the English
speaking world. At the age of fourteen he
entered the Newton Bank in the capacity of
raessenger, clerk and general utiUty boy,
thereby gaining valuable experience which
aided hira in later years. He later entered the
office of Potter, "White & Bailey, wholesale
shoe coraraission raerchants in Boston, but
his inclinations led him to the financial rather
than the coraraercial, and he engaged perraa
nently in the business of banking, the exchange
of stocks, bonds and other securities. His
first connection was with R. L. Day & Cobb,
general bankers and stock auctioneers in Bos
ton, and he thus becarae a faraihar figure on
the floor of the Stock Exchange. This train
ing was an essential factor in the formation
of the firra of Brewster, Bassett & Corapany,
and later of Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook,
bankers and brokers, of which firm he was the
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frora active financial life in January, 1896. He
was no speculator in the general acceptance of
the terra, and the capital accumulated during
his business career and placed in well estab
lished conservative securities. He was a gen
erous distributor of the wealth he accumulated,
and while his charities were unostentatious,
they were liberal and continuous throughout
his entire lifetime.
The city of Newton, in which he was
brought up, and in whose schools and business
institutions he received his boyhood training,
was the especial object of his concern and his
first public service was on the board of edu
cation, on which he served one year. In i88j
he was appointed a member of the board of
aldermen to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Edward AV. Cate for the first ward,
and he was re-elected the following year. In
1896 he was elected the eleventh raayor of the
city of Newton and was re-elected the follow
ing two years, being the second mayor in
twenty-five years to receive a third term re
election to that office, his last two norainations
being made by the unanimous voice of the
convention. He was instruraental in the adop
tion of a new city charter which was put into
force in 1898, and it is largely due to 'his wise
forethought and untiring and i)ersistent efforts
that the construction of Commonwealth ave
nue through the city, the widening of Wash
ington street and the abolishing of all grade
crossings within the city limits were each
brought to a successful completion, and these
three improvements consuramated under his
administration were the principal raonuraents
to his successful official conduct of raunicipal
affairs. In 1898, on surrendering the office of
raayor to Hon. Edward B. Wilson, his asso
ciates in the City HaU- who aided hira in raak
ing his adrainistration so great a success, pre
sented hira with a silver pitcher as a slight
token of their regard and as an acknowledge-
raent of his successful inauguration of the
increased powers and responsibilities iraposed
by the city charter on the executive officer.
He was an early raember of the Newton
Club, and served as president frora 1890 to
1896. He also served as president of the
Newton Horae for Aged People, and is a
trustee of AA'ellesley College and of the New
England Conservatory of Music. Dartmouth
College conferred on hira the honorary degree
of Master of Arts by virtue of his interest in
educational matters and of educational insti
tutions in general. He held membership in
the Eliot Congregational Church of Newton,

his services being both faithful and helpful,
and was a raeraber of the Congregational Club
of Boston. His initiation into the mysteries
of the Masonic fraternity was through the
Winslow Lewis Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, and he was advanced to the Royal
Arch Chapter and Gethsemane Coraraandery,
Knights Templar, of Newton. His club and
Masonic positions as well as his official posi
tion in the city governraent raade hira infiu
ential in both civic and social life, and his
honors were carried with the instinct and bear
ing of the true gentleraan who raade hiraself
an equal with his associates in all walks of
life. His position as president of the Claflin
Guard Veteran Association of Newton raade
him a familiar figure in the counsels of that
railitary organization, and his railitary inherit
ance raade hira an honored raeraber of the
Sons of the Araerican Revolution.
Henry Eddy Cobb married May 11, 1864,
Hattie M. Cooley, of Norwich, Connecticut,
who is a direct descendant from Elder Brews
ter of the Mayflower Company, 1620. Chil
dren; Alorton Eddy, of Ne.wton Centre;
Lucy Ely and Helen Minerva.

(I) Captain Aaron Cook, immi-
COOK grant ancestor of this faraily, was
born in England in 1610. He set
tled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early as
1634; sorae authorities fix the date as 1630.
He was adraitted a freeraan May 6, 1635. He
had a grant of land in Windsor, Connecticut,
July 5, 1636, and in 1653 had a grant at Mas-
sacoe, on both sides of the river next above the
falls. He becanie discouraged by the contro
versy in the church, and in 1661 reraoved to
Northampton, Massachusetts, with others.
Thence he went to the adjacent town of West-
field, where he was a tavern keeper ; pro
prietor 1667 and afterward, deputy to the gen
eral court in 1668. He was a man of great
energy, a devoted friend of the regicide judges,
Goffe and Whalley, while they were in this
country, resided in his neighborhood. He was
captain of his company, and in 1653 ^^s
chosen coramander of ten Connecticut towns
in the war against the Dutch of New York.
In 1687 he was coraraissioned raajor by Gov
ernor Andros. He sat in the county court at
Springfield and heard the famous witchcraft
case against Mary Webster. He died Septem
ber 5, 1690. His inventory, filed December
26, 1690, in Connecticut, shows three hun
dred acres in Hartford, land at Windsor, etc.
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relative, may have been brother. Both left
many descendants in the vicinity of Hartford.
He married  Ford, daughter of Thomas ;
¦second, Joanna Denslow, who died April, 1676,
daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Denslow;
third, December 2, 1676, Elizabeth Nash, bap
tized January 3, 1647, died September 3, 1687,
daughter of Major John and Elizabeth (Tapp)
Nash. He married fourth, October 2, 1688,
Rebecca (Foote) Smith, born 1634, died at
Hadley, April 6, 1701, daughter of Nathaniel
and Elizabeth (Denny) Foote, of Wethers
field, and widow of Lieutenant Philip Smith,
of Hadley, Massachusetts. Children of first
wife; I. Nathaniel. 2. Joanna, baptized Au
gust 5, 1638. 3. Aaron, baptized February 21,
1640; niarried Sarah Westwood ; resided at
Hatfield, Massachusetts. 4. Joanna, baptized
February 21, 1640; raarried Siraon Wolcott.
5. Miriara, baptized March 12, 1642-3 ; raar
ried November 8, 1661, Joseph Leeds. 6.
Moses, baptized November 16, 1645; married
November 25, 1669, Elizabeth Clark; killed
by Indians at Westfield ; widow raarried Lieu
tenant Job Drake. Children of second wife;
7. Sarauel, baptized November 21, 1650. 8.
Elizabeth, baptized August 7, 1653 ; married
Samuel Parsons, of Northarapton. 9. Noah,
baptized June 14, 1657; died June i, 1699;
raarried Sarah Nash. 10. John, mentioned
below. And probably others.
(II) John Cook, of Middletown, Connecti
cut, was born as early as 1655, and died Jan
uary 16, 1704-5. While we have no record of
birth, the proof seeras sufficient to place hira
among the children of Aaron, rather than as
nephew or more distant relation. He settled
at Middletown, below Hartford, where he died
January 16, 1704-5. His estate was valued at
331 pounds, two shillings, three pence in the
inventory, March 5, 1704-5, raade by Thomas
AA^ard, William Ward and Joseph Johnson.
His will was dated August i, 1698, bequeath
ing to son John two hundred acres at Cocking-
change ; to Mary, silver spoons ; to son Daniel
his house and homestead ; to Sarah a feather
bed; and to an expected child one hundred
acres of land. His widow Hannah- was exe
cutrix. Children: i. John, was of age in
1704. 2. Mary, also of age in 1704. 3. Daniel,
born 1690; mentioned below. 4. Sarah, born
1692. 5. Ebenezer, born 1697-8.
(Ill) Daniel Cook, son of John Cook (2),
was one of the original grantees of Tolland,
Connecticut. The only other Daniel Cook in
that section was the son of Nathaniel, of
AA'^indsor, of about the sarae age. But we can

prove that this Daniel was not living (dying
without heirs) by the division of the estate of
a sister. Daniel Cook was grantee in the origi
nal deed frora the trustees of land at what
becarae the town of Tolland, dated May 11,
1709. His name was on a petition of inhabit
ants dated May, 1718. There were then but
three towns in what is now Tolland county —
Mansfield, settled in 1703; Hebron, settled in
1709; and Coventry, in 1 709. Tolland was
first settled about 1713, and adjoins Coventry.
Daniel Cook was appointed by the town to
take care of the ordination of the first minister.
Rev. George Steele, June 19, 1723. The farm
of Josiah Goodrich adjoined that of Cook,
who with two others was appraiser of' the
estate of Jacob Bacor (Baker) July, 1742.
The Cooks of Coventry were all doubtless his
descendants. Among his children we have
good authority for placing: i. Daniel, Jr.,
bora in Tolland. 2. Jesse. 3. Jonathan (?),
married Martha Woodward ; children, born
in Coventry; i. Stephen, December 24. 1743;
ii. Silas, February 17, 1745-6; iii. Jonathan,
June 13, 1748; iv. PCannah. 4. Josiah, men
tioned below. 5. Aloses. 6. Shubael.
(IV) Josiah Cook, son or nephew of Daniel
Cook (3), was born about 1730, in Tolland,
probably; died at Alstead, New Harapshire,
July 2, 1807. He raarried first, Huldah Bas
sett ; second, at Coventry, Connecticut, August
I, 1762 (as per town records) Lucy Deraone
or Deraan (generally Daraon, as now speUed).
Children, born at Coventry; Huldah, April
23, 1765 ; Lucy, June 23, 1767 ; Captain Josiah,
raentioned below.
(V) Captain Josiah Cook, son of Josiah
Cook, was born at Coventry, October 16, 1770.
He settled at Alstead, New Harapshire, and
became a prominent citizen and deacon of the
Alstead Congregational church. He married
Sarah Emerson, of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Children, born at Alstead ; i. John, October
9, 1792 ; mentioned below. 2. Arva, May 3,
1795; raarried Rhoda Willard. 3. Benaiah,
Noveraber 20, 1800; raarried Rebecca Har
rington. 4. Polly, July 3, 1798; raarried
Elisha Kittridge. 5. Sarah, February 15, 1803;
raarried Erastus Doolittle, of Boston.
(VI) Captain John Cook, son of Captain
Josiah Cook, was born in Alstead, New Harap
shire, October 9, 1792. He was a farraer and
stock raiser. Later he settled at Bellows
Falls, Vermont, where he died March i, 1872,
aged seventy-nine years. He rose to the rank
of captain in the state militia of New Hamp
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in politics an old-line Whig, as long as that
party existed. He married at Springfield, Ver
mont, Eunice Parker. Children: i. Philetta,
born March i6, 1819; died unraarried. 2.
Ezra Parker, mentioned below.
(VII) Lieutenant Ezra Parker Cook, son
of John Cook, was born in Alstead, January
18, 1820, and died October 31, 1881. He had
a comraon school education, and worked at
farraing in his youth. He became a stage
driver, and continued until the railroads were
built along the Connecticut river, when he
entered the eraploy of the railroad company as
baggage master between Boston and Burling
ton, Verraont. During his later years he held
a position as stationary engineer. He attained
the rank of first lieutenant in the state railitia
of Verraont in a regiraent known as the Green
Mountain Guards. He died in 1881, aged
sixty-one years, his wife, Mary Lucretia
Tracy, of Woodstock, Vermont, dying the
sarae year, aged fifty-four. He was a Uni
versalist in religion. In early life he was a
Whig in politics, but followed the raajority
of Whigs into the Republican party before
the civil war.
(VIII) George Ward Cook, only child of
Ezra P. Cook (7), was born at Plyraouth, Ver
raont, May 13, 1850. He attended the district
schools, the graded schools of Bellows Falls,
later Powers Institute, Bernardston, Massa
chusetts, and then took a coraraercial course
in Coraers's Coramercial College, of Boston.
He began his business career in the lumber
business of Tarbell, Tolman & Conipany, hav
ing charge of the locks and canals and later as
book keeper in the hardware store of Arms
& Wilson, Bellows Falls, Vermont. Then he
became connected with the Verraont Farra
Machine Company in 1872, being one of the
incorporators, and continued with that cora
pany until 1880, advancing - in the raeantirae
to the position of secretary and acting treas
urer. In 1880 he becarae bookkeeper for Hon.
Aloses How, in the manufacture of boots and
shoes in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and later
on his own account. He was employed after
ward as financial manager in the clothing store
of Warren Eraerson, PlaverhUl, Massachu
setts, and later established a store on his own
account. In 1876 Mr. Cook established the excursion
and ticket business that raade his narae faraous
all over the world. Wherever tourists go, the
name of Cook is known. He has an office in
Old South Building, Boston, and in other
leading cities of the country. Mr. Cook was

instrumental in securing the Massachusetts
exhibit at Jamestown, "Virginia, and also on
procuring the ten thousand dollar appropria
tion frora the states of New Harapshire and
Vermont for the sarae purpose. He is a raan
of public spirit, ready to co-operate in all
raoveraents to benefit the city of Haverhill, in
which he lives. He introduced the use of the
electric light in Haverhill, and organized the
present Board of Trade of that city. He has
invested extensively in HaverhUl real estate,
and built many houses in that city. He is a
member of the American Forestry Association,
the National Rivers and Harbor Congress,
also the National Good Roads Congress, being
one of its secretaries; and the Atlantic Deeper
Water Ways Association. He belongs to Miz
pah Lodge and Haverhill Encarapraent, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows; to many
Masonic bodies, up to the thirty-third degree,
Scottish Rite ; and is a meraber of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Corapany of Boston ;
the Verraont Association of Boston; and the
Hannah Dustin Association (of which he is
secretary), being a descendant of the Dustin
faraily. He is president and treasurcF of
Cook's Hotel and Tourist Corapany, and of
the Merriraac River Stearaboat Corapany;
president of the Merriraac River Iraprovement
Company, the Vermont Association of Haver
hill, and the New Hampshire Association of
Haverhill. He is the proraotor of the Boynton
Bicycle Railroad and other electric systeras,
also petitioner for charter for lock-dam and
canal at Mitchell's Falls, on the Merriraac
river, to benefit navigation to Lawrence and
create electric power. Air. Cook has an inter
national reputation, and is especially well
known and popular among the railroad men of
New England, and the travelling classes. He
is also known as a newspaper editor and pub
lisher, being interested in several publications.
He is also deeply infested in literary lines and
lectures. He brought the late Henry M. Stan
ley, African explorer, to Haverhill, to lecture,
and was a close friend of George Francis
Train. He is himself a lecturer, using screen
views to illustrate his public work, in forestry
and navigation. In pohtics he is a Republican,
and in religion a raeraber of the North Con-
grational Church. He served as justice of the
peace and notary public for many years.
Mr. Cook raarried June 30, 1877, Hattie
Berson Eraerson, born in Haverhill, August
2, 1856, daughter of Master Luther Emerson.
Their only child, Gladys Emerson, was born
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The Dennett .family is of
DENNETT Norman origin, and Hugh
D'Anet is said to have come
to England with William the Conqueror. The
Dennett family is numerous in England, and
there are many who can trace their lineage
back six centuries or more. One branch of
the family lived in the Isle of Wight, and
were farmers. Another family was the owner
of Woodmancote, county Sussex, holding an
estate of six hundred acres for several cen
turies. John Leighton AA'ade Dennet, born
May 24, 1802, was a late owner, and had a
son of the same name. This family had a
coat-of-arms. John and Alexander Dennet,
brothers, came from England to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, between 1660 and 1670.
John Dennet resided at Portsraouth, and was
a carpenter. He was admitted a freeman May
15, 1670, and died May 5, 1709. His wiU was
dated March 17, and proved August i, 1709.
He married Aray  . Children; i. John,
born December 15, 1675. 2. Aray, AprU 9,
1679; niarried John Adaras. 3. Joseph, July
10, 1681. 4. Ephraim, August 2, 1689.
(I) Alexander Dennett, iraraigrant ances
tor raentioned above, born about 1639, died in
Newcastle, New Harapshire, 1698. He carae
to New England with his brother John, and
settled in Portsmouth. Children; i. Alex
ander, raentioned below. 2. Mehitable, died
March 12, 1733. 3. Sarauel, died March 12,
1733. 4. Joseph, raarried Sarah Low, Novera
ber 6, 1734. 5. Annie, raarried Sarauel Jack
son, Deceraber 28, 1738.
(II) Alexander Dennett, son of Alexander
Dennett, was born about 1670. He settled in
1681 in what is now Eliot, Maine, where he
lived for a tirae, and had a grant of land in
1694. He raarried first, Mehitable, daughter
of Gabriel Tetherly; second, Esther Cross,
who raarried second, Anthony Rowe. He died
June 7, 1773, in Portsraouth. He was a black
smith by trade, and carried on business in
Portsmouth many years, accumulating con
siderable property for those days. At one time
it was said that he was the richest man in
Portsmouth, and the inventory of his estate
was but about fifty pounds. He died in Ports
mouth, in 1733. Children; i. Moses, raen
tioned below. 2. Sarauel, diedjuly 15, 1759.
3. Ebenezer, born about 1692 ; raarried Abi
gail Hill. 4. Susanna, raarried November 18,
1724, Joshua Downing. 5. Mehitable, married
 Stewart. 6. Elizabeth, raarried Enoch
Sanborn. 7. Sarah, raarried Joshua Wey
mouth, October 13, 1720.

(Ill) Moses Dennett, son of Alexander
Dennett, was born about 1690, in Portsmouth,
and died July 15, 1749. He married, Febru
ary II, 1723, Lydia Furnel, of Kittery, Maine.
Children; i. David, born March 15, 1727, in
Newington, New Harapshire; married, 1772,
Dolly Downing; died January 18, 1788. 2.
Charles, born April 21, 1729, raentioned below.
3. Lydia, born April 16, 1731 ; died Noveraber
13, 1736. 4. Anna, born August 2, 1733; died
May 5, 1736. 5. Elizabeth, born Deceraber
20, 1735; died Deceraber 11, 1736. 6. Moses,
born January 17, 1737 ; died Deceraber 27,
1739- 7- Lydia, born February 25, 1738; died
Deceraber 27, 1738. 8. Mary, born July 31,
1740; died January 5, 1746. 9. Ruth, born
1742; died January 5, 1748.
(IV) Charles Dennett, son of Moses Den
nett, was born April 21, 1729, and died April
6, 1763. He raarried, Septeraber 13, 1753,
Harriet Nutter. Children: i. Alary, born
1756; died January i, 1775. 2. Moses, born
1758; raentioned below. 3. Hannah, born in
Barnstead, New Harapshire, 1760; raarried
Jonathan Perkins, of Louden, New Harap
shire. (V) Moses Dennett, son of Charles Den
nett, was born in 1758, and died Deceraber 28,
1810, in Barnstead, New Harapshire. His
homestead at Barnstead was on high ground
looking towards Gilraanton. He reraoved
there frora Portsmouth about 1769, and was a
tailor by trade. His house of logs stood on
the spot now occupied by his descendants.
For a considerable time after raoving there he
brought all his provisions on horseback frora
Dover, following a blazed trail through the
forest. The house stood deep in the woods
and in his absence he usually left a sraall boy
with his wife. At one tirae the boy, becora
ing tired of the lonely life, ran away to his
horae in Dover, leaving Mrs. Dennett alone in
her cabin for several days and nights to be
entertained by the howling wolves and the
bleak storms of winter. Moses Dennett had
an excellent farm, which has descended for
four generations to the present occupants. He
was in the revolution, in Colonel Dike's regi
raent, enlisting Septeraber 8, 1777, discharged
Deceraber 15, 1777. He married Betsey Nut
ter. Children, born in Barnstead; i. Polly,
1782 ( ?), married Francis Blake ; died 1862, in
Dorchester. 2. Hannah, born 1784; married
John Nutter, of Stratham; died 1859. 3.
Annie, born 1786; died March 27, 1807. 4.
Charles, born November 8, 1788; raarried No
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died March 4, 1867. 5. Oliver, born Novera
ber 6, 1790; raentioned below. 6. Olive, born
February 6, 1793; married 181 2, WiUiara H.
Newell; died August 25, 1878. 7. Mark, born
Noveraber 5, 1795 ; died May 10, 1843. 8.
EHzabeth, born Noveraber 28, 1799; raarried
first, Abijah Ross ; second,  North ; died
in Lowell, Massachusetts, January 7, 1873.
(VI) OHver Dennett, son of Moses Den
nett, was born in Barnstead, Noveraber 6,
1790, and died there July 11, 1865. He was
brought up on his father's farra, and also
assisted hira in his work as a tailor. He
received his 'education in the district school,
and at the age of twenty-two went to fight for
his country in the war of 1812. After the war
he returned horae and took charge of the farm,
assisting his father at his trade as before. He
was very popular araong his townsmen, and
was for many years justice of the peace. He
served as selectraan, and was a Republican in
politics. He married April 11, 1810, Eunice
Seward, of Barnstead. Children, born in
Barnstead: i. Aloses, March 23, 1817; raar
ried October 7, 1839, Elizabeth Frank, of lUi
nois. 2. George Seward, Deceraber 7, 1818.
3. Mark Alexander, October 9, 1820; raarried
October 31, 1842, Hannah Foss, of Pittsfield;
died April 4, 1900, at Gilraanton. 4. Elizabeth
Ann, born October 3, 1822; niarried Deceraber
10, 1842, John Lyford Pickering. 5. Lucia A.,
born Noveraber 15, 1824, raarried August 23,
1849, Hiram Lee; died March 5, 1875. 6.
Charles, born October 15, 1826; married De
ceraber 29, 1863, Kate G. Wat.son ; died 1904.
7. Maria J., born July 27, 1828; raarried Sep
teraber 10, 1851, Lafayette Moore. 8. Miranda
E., born October 31, 1830; raarried April 19,
1854, Phileraon C. Parsons. 9. Mary W., born
October i, 1832; raarried December 25, 1850,
Freeman Higgins, of Gorham, Maine. 10.
Oliver Augustus, born March 7, 1837; mar
ried June 8, 1870, Fannie Hopkins of AA'"est
Lebanon, New Hampshire. 11. Laura, born
June 27, 1839, raarried June 22, 1862, James
Eraerson, M. D., of Gardner, Massachusetts.
12. John Plumer, bom May 27, 1841. 13.
Herbert Enos, born March 7, 1844; raentioned
below. (VII) Herbert Enos Dennett, son of Oliver
Dennett, was born in Barnstead, March 7,
1844. He raarried November 17, 1869, in
Gloucester, Massachusetts, AHce Ploward
Battles, bom at GraniteviUe, South CaroUna,
August 12, 1858, daughter of Benjamin Por
ters and Lucretia (Olds) Battles. Her father

was born in .Boston, and her mother in Nor
wich, Vermont. Benjarain P. Battles was a
cotton raanufacturer. Children of Herbert
Enos Dennett; i. Lyford Guy, born Decera
ber 6, 1871 ; raentioned below. 2. Oliver Max,
born March 27, 1874; raarried June i, 1893,
Mabel Hart, of Belmont; children; i. Ken
neth, bom November 22, 1898 ; ii. Helen, May
26, 1900; iii. Dorothy, November 2, 1901 ; iv.
Donald, Deceraber 23, 1903 ; v. Frances, Feb
ruary 10, 1905. 3. Roger Herbert, born July
21, 1876; graduated frora Harvard Medical
School ; is in practice in New York City ; April
12, 1905, he raarried Agena Villette Wheeler,
of Brooklyn, New York; two children; Alice,
born June 10, 1906; Nancy W., January 18,
1908. 4. Howard Scott, born in Boston, Oc
tober I, 1878; is a broker in New York City;
he married Alabel Haramond Brett, August
27, 1902; children; Margaret, born June 13,
1903 ; Mary Hamraond, Alarch 22, 1905 ; Cyn
thia, September 8, 1906. 5. Eunice, born in
Boston, January 16, 1880 ; raarried Clarence
Walton Eaton, October 16, 1907 ; resides in
New Bedford, Massachusetts. 6. Keith, born
in Boston, April 22, 1884, died Deceraber 29,
1887. 7. Minot Savage, born in Belraont,
Massachusetts, June 4, 1888.
(VIII) Lyford Guy Dennett, son of Herbert
E. and Alice Howard (Battles) Dennett, was
born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Deceraber 6,
1871. He attended the public schools of Bel
raont, Massachusetts, graduating frora the high
school. He studied his profession in the Law
School of Boston University, and was admit
ted to the bar at the age of twenty-two years.
He entered partnership with William P.
Foster, under the firm name of Foster & Den
nett, and continued until the firm was dis
solved on account of the ill health of the
senior partner, in 1904. Since then Mr. Den
nett has practiced alone. He has taken high
standing in the legal profession and is well
known in Suffolk and Middlesex county. He
resides in Waverly, Massachusetts, and has
offices in Boston. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and a Unitarian in his religion. He is a
raeraber of the Blue Lodge of Free Masons.
Pie raarried, Deceraber 6, 1894, Mabel Ellis,
who was born September 8, 1871, daughter
of Lucius and Grace Gurnsey EUis, of Bel
raont, Massachusetts. ChUdren; i. Jessie,
born in Belraont, September 14, 1897. 2.
Ellis Howard, born September 3, 1900. 3.
Theodore Norris, bom in Belmont, May 24,
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James Berwick, an active factor
BERAVICK in the growth and development
of Norwood, a member of the
Norwood Press Conipany, is a native of Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, born February 18, 1840,
son of Jaraes and Lucy Charlotte (Anderson)
Berwick, of Scotch ancestry.
Jaraes Berwick (father) was born at Ork
ney Islands, in 1808, son of William and
EUen Berwick. Jaraes Berwick was a sea
captain, and was lost at sea about the year
1852. He married Lucy Charlotte, daughter
of John and Margaret (Bauer) Anderson.
The parents of John Anderson were natives
of Glasgow, Scotland, frora whence they
carae to Araerica, settling in Pennsylvania,
near Philadelphia. John Anderson was
drafted into the Colonial array, but after a raid
by the Colonial array on his mother's property
she urged him to join the British array, which
he eventually did, and at the close of the war
he was retired as adjutant and drew land in
Nova Scotia, where he settled. He was a
friend of Major Andre. Four children were
born to Mr. and Airs. Berwick : William An
derson ; James, see forward ; Ellen Margaret ;
Eraily Lucy, died Noveraber 3, 1905, mar
ried Stuart C. Miller; children; Stuart B.,
Malcolm D., Mildred A. and Lawrence G.
MiUer. Jaraes Berwick was reared and educated in
Halifax, reraaining there until fourteen years
of age, when he carae to the United States and
settled at Carabridge, Massachusetts, where he
worked in the office of the Cambridge Chroni
cle for seven years. He then entered the
eraploy of John Wilson of the University
Press, later working for his son. For eighteen
years he was in the eraploy of the firra of Rock
well & ChurchUl, and in 1884 forraed a part
nership with George H. Smith in the printing
business and press work. In Deceraber, 1894,
they raoved their business to Norwood, Alassa
chusetts, in order to secure larger and more
adequate facilities for the conduct of their
business. In 1903 this was incorporated under
the name of Berwick & Smith Company,
printers. Its extensive plant comprises a build
ing four hundred and eight feet in length, and
eighty-one feet in width, one story in height,
except the central part, which is two stories,
projecting beyond the wing fronts, and sur-
raqunted by a tower. The waUs are fifteen feet
in height, and the nuraerous windows, of
unusual width, ascend to the ceilings. The
walls are of brick, and the floors of concrete.
All portions of the building are kept scrupu

lously clean. The presses are largely Huber
and Cottrell, but some other makes are also
used. Mr. Berwick supervises the printing
plant, while Mr. Smith occupies hiraself with
the office business. A spur track frora the rail
road leads to the doors of the establishment,
so that loading and unloading are readily
accoraplished. Mr. Berwick has organized for
the benefit of the employees of the house, an
athletic club and a benefit association. He is
chairman of the electric light coramissioners of
the town of Norwood. He is affiliated with
the Alasonic fraternity, and is an independent
in politics.
Mr. Berwick raarried, in 1865, Georgianna
Jones, who died in 1897, daughter of Benjamin
Jones. Children ; Walter J., born 1867, mar
ried Clara Rich ; Eraily Florence, married
Albert T. Olsen.

There are various traditions
HAYWARD in regard to the ancestry of
the New England Haywards
previous to the imraigration of Thoraas and
William Hayward, who appear to have been in
some raanner related, and one tradition is that
the ancestors of these immigrants went from
Denmark and settled in Ireland ; and another
tradition runs to the effect that the founders of
the families in this country were in sorae
manner induced to go on board a ship just
before sailing and were brought here and
bound out to farmers in order to secure pay
ment of their passage money. But whatever
may have been these old traditions the prob
able truth is that the Haywards are an Eng
lish faraily and raay have originated there with
the conquest of the Danes. In the records the
narae is found written Hawared, Haywood,
Heyward, Heywood, Haiward and Hayward,
and one branch of the faraily after raany years
frora the time of the ancestor changed its narae
to Howard.
(I) Thoraas Hayward, progenitor of the
nuraerous family of that name in Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, was of English birth and ances
try, and came to America from Aylesford in
the same ship with John Ames, and settled in
Duxbury, Massachusetts, before 1638. He was
raade freeraan there in 1646, and afterward
was one of the original proprietors and first
settlers of Bridgewater. He raade his will in
1678, died in 1681, and then was a widower.
He left children, but the records are iraperfeet,
because of lack of dates and correct spelling of
baptisraal naraes. However, so far as appears
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were sons Thoraas, Nathaniel, John, Joseph
and Elisha, and daughters Mary and Alartha.
(II) John Hayward, son of Thoraas, was
called "John of the Plain," to distinguish hira
frora John Haward, both of which naraes had
the pronunciation of "Howard." His home
was "on the plain between the late old Mr.
Jonathan Capeland's and the old powder
house," where his son-in-law, Nathaniel Brett,
afterward lived. His estate was settled in
1710. He raarried Sarah, daughter of Experi
ence MitcheU; children: i. Sarah, born 1663;
raarried, 1683, Nathaniel Brett. 2. John, 1667.
3. Joseph, 1669. 4. Alary, 1672 ; raarried 1698,
AA^illiara Ames. 5. Thoraas, 1674. 6. Benja
rain, 1677. 7. Susanna, 1680; married, 1702,
Thomas Hayward. 8. Elizabeth, 1683 ; mar
ried, 1717, Edraund Rawson. 9. Benoni, 1686;
married first, Hannah Gould, second, Hannah
Page. 10. Mary, 1687.
(Ill) Deacon Thoraas Hayward, son of
John and Sarah (Mitchell) Hayward, was born
in Bridgewater, in 1674, and lived on the
southerly side of Matfield river, within the
bounds of East Bridgewater, where his father-
in-law Brett lived before hira. In 1706 he
raarried Bethiah, daughter of Williara Brett,
and by her had five children; i. Alice, born
1707. 2. Bethiah, 1715; raarried, 1741, Arthur
Harris. 3. Mary, 1719; raarried, 1745, Sarauel
Dunbar. 4. Seth, 1721. 5. Phebe, 1725; raar
ried Josiah Washburn.
(IV) Seth Hayward, son of Deacon Thomas
and Bethiah (Brett) Hayward, was born in
1 72 1, lived in South Bridgewater, and died
there in 1778, He married, in 1748, Tabitha
Pratt, died 1789, daughter of Joseph Pratt,
Jr.; children; i. Azariah, born 1749. 2.
Sarah, 1752; raarried, 1774, Noah Whitraan.
3. Soloraon, 1754. 4. Bethiah, 1757. 5. Charity,
1760; raarried David Benson. 6. Ruth, 1764.
(V) Soloraon Hayward, son of Seth and
Tabitha (Pratt) Hayward, was born in
Bridgewater in 1754; raarried, in 1782, Zer
viah Washburn; children; i. Soloraon, born
1783 ; raarried, 1807, Betsey Bates. 2. Martin,
1784. 3. Joseph, 1786. 4. SUas, 1788. 5.
Naliura, 1790. 6. Seth, 1792. 7. Betsey, 1794.
8. Alraarine, 1796. 9. Lewis, 1798. 10. Lavi
nia, 1800. II. Luther, 1802.
(VI) Martin Hayward, son of Soloraon and
Zerviah (Washburn) PI ay ward, was born in
Bridgewater, in 1784, and while his narae
appears in the published records among the
children of Solomon and Zerviah, there is no
further account of him.
(VII) Captain Linus Hayward, son of

Martin, was born about 1821. In 1861, soon
after the outbreak of the civil war, he entered
the service and was coraraissioned second lieu
tenant of the Forty-eighth Massachusetts
Infantry, January 18, 1864; promoted first
lieutenant March 2, 1864; captain August 8,
1864; and was honorably discharged and mus
tered out of service July 14, 1865. He raarried
Ruth Alger ; children ; George E., Martin and
Susan Hayward.
(VIII) George E. Hayward, son of Captain
Linus and Ruth (Alger) Hayward, was born
in West Bridgewater, March 21, 1846, and for
raany years was engaged in raercantile pur
suits, first as a general grocer and grain dealer,
afterward becoraing a shoe cutter. He is now
retired frora active pursuits and devotes his
attention to his real estate interests, which are
quite large. Mr. Hayward raarried Susan A.
Holmes, who died in 1903. They had seven
children; Lillian, died in infancy; Merton E.,
Elraer C, George B., Walter E., Evelyn A.
and Carrie L. Hayward.
(IX) Walter Edwin Hayward, son of
George H. and Susan A. (Holraes) Hayward,
was born at Elrawood, Massachusetts, March
26, 1878, and was given a good education in
grararaar and high schools. In 1897, at the age
of nineteen years, he began his business career
as office boy and raessenger in the office of the
Brockton Street Railway Corapany. Four
years later, in 1901, he was made cashier of
the company in Brockton, and in 1903 was
advanced to the position of travelling auditor
and general cashier for the several lines oper
ated by the corapany. This office he filled to
the satisfaction of his eraployers and with
credit to hiraself until 1907, when he left the
corapany's service and on October i of the
sarae year became auditor of the Ipswich
Hosiery Mills, Ipswich, Massachusetts. In
November following he was made agent for
the operating company and still serves in that
capacity. In 1901 Mr. Hayward raarried Maud
Messick, daughter of Amos Messick, of Brock
ton.

(For first generation see John Symonds i).
(II) James Syraonds, son of
SYMONDS John Symonds, was born in
1663, probably in England.
He was a joiner by trade. He settled in the
section known as Northfields, Salem, near
Marblehead, and there his descendants Hved
for raany generations. He died intestate, and
his son John was adrainistrator. His farra at
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land of James Boyce, John King and Caleb
Buffum. He married, November 20, 1661,
Elizabeth Browning, daughter of Thomas.
Children: i. Mary, born Noveraber i, 1662;
married Deceraber 3, 1685, Edward Norris. 2.
Ruth, born February 19, 1664. 3. John, July
8, 1666. 4. James, October 14, 1670; died
young. 5. Elizabeth, March, 1673 ; died young.
6. Janies, April 14, 1674. 7. Benjarain. 8.
Thoraas ; mentioned below. 9. EHzabeth, died
young. 10. Joseph. 11. Sarah. 12. EHzabeth,
died young.
(Ill) Thomas Symonds, son of Jaraes
Symonds, was born in Salera, Northfields,
about 1680. He bought lands at Northfields,
inherited others ; bought raarsh land of Abigail,
only daughter of Joseph AVilliams, April to,
1719. Just before his death he deeded land to
his family, June 16, 1747, to Williain Lynde;
July 13, 1747, to Sarauel Syraonds, Sr. ; Au
gust 14, 1749, to Benjarain Syraonds, Sr., and
May 13, 1751 ; also October 26, 1751, and May
9, 1752, to son Nathaniel. All this land was at
Northfields. His will, dated February 27,
1752, bequeathed to wife Elizabeth and chil
dren, raentioned below. Children, born at
Salera: i. Thoraas, blacksraith, resided at
Reading, Massachusetts ; raarried Hannah
 ; conveyed his rights in his father's
estate at Northfields, Salera, to brother Na
thaniel, January 16, 1760, a fifth interest. 2.
Sarauel. 3. Benjarain, whose son John was
appointed his adrainistrator. 4. Joseph. 5.
Nathaniel, raentioned below. 6. Elizabeth,
raarried  Trask. 7. Mary, married
 Osgood. 8. Ruth, raarried 

Osgood. (IV) Nathaniel Symonds, son of Thomas
Symonds, was born in 1723, at Salera. He
was a potter by trade. His horaestead was at
Northfields, adjoining land of Benjamin
Osgood, Elizabeth Symonds and Jonathan
Syraonds. As raentioned above he was given
land by his father October 26, 1751, and May
9, 1752. He raarried Elizabeth  . He
deeded his homestead to his son William, Au
gust 8, 1781. Children; i. Nathaniel, 3d., (?)
soldier in the revolution. 2. William, men
tioned below. Perhaps other children. Nathan
iel Symonds was a soldier in the revolution
from Salem, a private in Captain Thomas
Barnes's company, Colonel John Mansfield's
(Nineteenth) regiment, under Lieutenant Colo
nel Israel Hutchinson, 1775-76.
(V) Williara Syraonds, son of Nathaniel
Syraonds, was born in Northfields, Salem,
about 1760. He died intestate in 1802. A

William Symonds of Salera served in the revo
lution on the brigantine "Massachusetts," Cap
tain John Fish, 1777, frora Salera. AVilliara
Symonds was a potter by trade, and lived at
Northfields. He married Elizabeth  .
(VI) William Phipps Syraonds, son or
nephew of Williara Symonds, was born in
Salem about 1780. He raarried Peggy Ropes,
also a native of Salem. Children; i. AVilliam
Phipps, Jr., niarried Nancy  . 2. Ben
jamin Ropes, raentioned below. 3. Tiraothy.
4. George, drowned in North River. 5. Mar
garet, died unmarried. 6. Calvin. 7. Ephraim.
8. Jaraes. 9. Joseph.
(VII) Benjarain Ropes Symonds, son of
Williara Phipps Symonds, was born in Salem,
1 80 1, and died there in 1862, aged sixty-one
years five months five days. He was educated
in the district schools of his native town and
learned the trade of shoeraaker. In later
years he established a retail grocery business
at North Salera, and was a successful and
prominent citizen. He was a raeraber of the
Tabernacle Congregational Church. In poli
tics he was first a Whig, later a Republican,
but held no public offices. He raarried Eliza
Shatswell, also a native of Salem, who died
in 1842. Children, born in Salera; i. Benja
min Ropes, November 22, 1829; raarried Sarah
C. Fillebrown; he died in 1890. 2. Thoraas S.,
born Deceraber 3, 1832; raentioned below. 3.
Joseph, born July 3, 1835 ; raarried Flora Kira
ball. 4. Eliza, born 1842 ; raarried Henry M.
Bixby. (VIII) Thoraas S. Syraonds, son of Ben
jarain Ropes Syraonds, was born in Salera, De
cember 3, 1832. He was educated in the public
schools of North Salem. At the age of fifteen
he went to sea on coasting voyages. In 1849
he drove a delivery wagon for his father's
grocery business. He again went to sea, and
in 1850 and 1851 made the voyage to the East
Indies and South America in the ship "Siara"
of Salera. Then he went to California in a
clipper ship, returning to Brooklyn, New York,
with a cargo of guano from South America,
then shipped on the barque "Argentine" of
Salem, Captain George Upton, to South
America. He shipped as second mate on
the ship "Juniper" on a voyage to Rio
Janiero, from Philadelphia, returning with
a cargo of coffee. Next he was second
raate of the ship "Derby," Captain Hudson,
raaking a voyage first to San Francisco, later to
Hong Kong and Calcutta, eighteen raonths
from home. He became first mate of the ship
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with a cargo of ice. He then engaged with his
brother Benjarain, who was a grocer. The
store was then at the corner of Bridge and
North .streets, and later was located at North
and Federal streets. In 1868 he bought his
brother's interests and continued the business
until 1906, when on account of failing health
he retired. He is one of the best known busi
ness men of the city. He attends the Univer
salist church. In politics he is a Republican,
and was a meraber of the comraon council of
Salera in 1890-91. He was for three years an
assistant engineer of the Salem Fire Depart
ment. He is a member of Essex Lodge of
Odd Fellows. He married first. May 6, 1858,
Eliza R. Jordan, born in 1837, died 1867;
second, 1869, Sarah F. Cross, born 1851,
daughter of Charles B. Cross. Children of
first wife ; i. Alice. 2. Annie G., married John
S. Ives, Jr. 3. WilHam A., lives with his
father. 4. Florence, adopted by Charles S.
Buffam and wife. Children of second wife;
5. Sarah, married Charles L. Smith. 6. NeUie
G., Hves with father. 7. Eva S., married Her
bert A. Stone. 8. Bessie, married George E.
Milktt. 9. Walter, died in infancy.

Bridget Very, born about 1600, was
VERY a meraber of the First church in
Salera, in 1648. She lived with her
son Sarauel, on the north side of Cedar pond,
and the brook running frora it, about sixty rods
from the almshouse in Danvers, where they
owned a large tract of land. There her
descendants lived for a century afterward, as is
shown by various deeds, wills, and other
records as well as by famUy tradition. Perhaps
the greater part of her descendants, however,
reraoved to Salem, leaving pursuits of hus
bandry to become seamen, for many of the
name have been shipmasters in Salera, famous
mariners some of thera. WhUe living in Salem,
Bridget Very married a second husband,
Edward Giles, who was admitted to the first
church in 1636, and by whom she had children,
Mehitable, Remember, Eleazer and John Giles,
who lived largely in Gloucester and Beverly;
the oldest stone in the South Danvers grave
yard is that which bears the narae of James
Giles, grandson of Bridget (Very) GUes.
Bridget Very died before 1680. Her children
born of her first raarriage were ; Sarauel,
1619; Mary; Thoraas, 1626, died 1694.
(II) Samuel Very, son of Bridget Very,
born 1619, died in 1683-84. He appears to
have been his mother's chief raainstay and sup

porter until her second marriage. He was a
soldier of King Philip's war and took part in
the historic Narragansett expedition. For his
services in that war he received a grant of land
on "Sowhegin" river, but it is not known that
he ever occupied his possessions there. His
farm in Salem was rauch larger than his
raother's which it adjoined. He left his home
stead to his son, Sainuel, who in 1769 gave it
to his wife, Abigail (Pepper) Very, and her
children. In 1793 John, George, Araos and
AVilliara Very sold to Nathaniel Nurse "all
their right to the estate of their honored
father, Samuel Very, deceased." Samuel Very
niarried Alice, daughter of John and Frances
AVoodice (AVoodis) and had children ; Sarauel,
bora before 1659; Thoraas; Jonathan, born
1659; died 1769; Joseph, 1661, died 1663;
Lsaac, 1663; Joseph, 1664, died 1694; Hannah,
1666 ; Mary, 1668 ; Benjarain ; John, died 1720 ;
Sarah ; Elizabeth.
(Ill) Jonathan Very, son of Samuel and
Alice (Woodice or Woodis) Very, born 1659,
died 1769. He was a cordwainer. He married,
in 1 7 18, Mary Syraonds, daughter of Jaraes
Syraonds, who was son of Jaraes Syraonds,
and the latter a son of John Symonds,
1636. Children of Jonathan and Mary
(Syraonds) Very; Mary, raarried a Syraonds;
Abigail, raarried a Cook; a daughter, narae
not found, raarried a Pratt; EHzabeth, raar
ried a Cheever ; Martha, raarried a Pickraan ;
Bethiah, married an Archer; Jonathan, Jr.
(IV) Jonathan- Very, Jr., son of Jonathan
and Mary (Syraonds) Very, was born in
Salera and died there, aged about seventy-
eight years. He was a tearaster and had his
house in St. Peter street, near the corner of
Church street. His house was taken down a
year before the "great fire of 1859." He raar
ried, Deceraber 19, 1745, Elizabeth Beckford
(soraetiraes written Bickford), born Salera,.
August 17, 1727, daughter of Deacon John and
Elizabeth (Hayward) Beckford. Deacon Beck
ford, bora September 15, 1702, died January
13, 1788, was a son of John and Rebecca (Pin
sent) Beckford. John Beckford, born in Mar
blehead, about 1674, was a son of George
Beckford, who lived in Marblehead and of
whom little is known other than that adminis
tration on his estate was granted June 28, 1678,
to his widow Christian, who according to her
own deposition was born in 1649. Jonathan,
Jr. and Elizabeth (Beckford) "Very had nine
children, all born in Salera: Elizabeth, 1747;
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James, 1752, died young; Nathaniel, about
1755 ; Samuel, 1759 ; Sarah, 1762 ; Jaraes, 1763 ;
Abigail, 1766.
(V) Sarauel Very, son of Jonathan and
Elizabeth (Beckford) Very, born 1759, died
January 21, 1832. He raarried (first). May
5, 1782, Abigail Crowninshield, born 1760, died
September 20, 1792. She was a daughter of
John and Mary (Ives) Crowninshield, and
grandson of Dr. John Kaspar Richter von
Kronenshelt, the latter the immigrant ancestor
of the family of his surname in America. He
came of an old Saxon family and it is said
traditionally that while a student at the College
of Leipsic he becarae involved in a quarrel
with a fellow student and was compelled to
flee to this country. He settled in Boston in
1688 and was a celebrated physician there and
in Lynn for many years. Among his patients
was Elizabeth Allen, of Lynn, daughter of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Clifford) Allen, whom
he raarried in 1694. He lived in Lynn a few
years and then returned to Boston. By his
marriage with Abigail Crowninshield, Samuel
Very had four children : Samuel, baptized
Alarch 5, 1785, died AprU, 1813; John Crown
inshield, baptized March 6, 1785; Abigail, raar
ried Theodon Eames ; Jonathan, married Susan
Peabody. Samuel Very raarried (second),
Septeraber 26, 1793, Mary, widow of Robert
Rantoul, and daughter of Andrew and Mary
(Larabert) Preston. Andrew Preston, born in
Beverly, was a son of Randall and Susanna
Preston. By his raarriage with Mary (Pres
ton) Rantoul, Sarauel Very had one child,
Williara Randolph, who was baptized in the
East Church (Unitarian), Salera, July 29,
1794. For his third wife Sarauel Very mar
ried. May 28, 1797, Martha Cheever, who was
baptized in the Tabernacle Church, Salera,
June 4, 1769. She was a daughter of Peter
and Martha (Osgood) Cheever. Martha was
Peter's second wife, his first wife, Margaret
Ives, being a cousin of Sarauel Very's first
wife (see Cheever family). By his wife
Alartha, Sarauel Very had five children ; Eliza
beth, married, Septeraber 28, 1826, John Felt ;
Nathaniel, raentioned below ; Harriet, died un
married ; Martha, married, August 30, 1827,
Nathaniel Plorton ; Mary Ann, raarried Joseph
Goraes. (VI) Nathaniel Very, son of Sarauel and
Martha (Cheever) Very, born Salem, about
1798, died there in 1848. He was a shipsmith
by trade, following that occupation all his life,
and he also appears to have taken considerable
interest in the affairs of the old Salem fire

department, serving raany years as engineer.
In political preference he was an old line
AVhig, and nothing could shake his faith in
that party and its principles. He was a raember
of the Unitarian (Barton Square) Church.
On September 9, 1821, Nathaniel Very mar
ried Esther Gilbert Ward, who died in Salem,
1868, daughter of Ebenezer B. AA'^ard, of
Salera. They had four children; i. Esther,
raarried George L. Page; both now deceased;
one child living, Florence Page. 2. Abbie W.,
married Samuel Smith, of Salem; both now
deceased ; three children living ; Mary, Sarauel
and Abbie Sraith. 3. Martha C, raarried Ben
jarain M. Perkins. 4. Nathaniel O., born
Alarch 9, 1838.
(A^II) Nathaniel Osgood Very, only son of
Nathaniel and Esther Gilbert (Ward) Very,
was born in Salera, March 9, 1838. He was
educated in the public schools of that city, and
began his business career as clerk in a dry-
goods store 111 Salera when he was about eigh
teen years old. About three years later, when
he attained his majority, he was given eraploy
raent by Mr. Lerauel B. Hatch in his coal office,
and with the exception of a few raonths during
the year 1862, he continued in that position
until 1885, when he hiraself succeeded to the
proprietorship by purchasing Mr. Hatch's
interest in the business. On May 27, 1862, Mr.
Very enlisted in the Salem Cadets and went
with that comraand to Fort AVarren, Boston
Harbor, where the Cadets we're on garrison
duty until discharged, October 11, 1862. Frora
1885 until 1905, when he sold out and retired.
Air. A^ery was actively engaged in business in
Salera. and even frora the time when he was
clerk for Air. Hatch and practically in charge
of his coal business, he has been looked upon
as one of the substantial, conservative and
thoroughly reliable business men of Salem.
He enjoys a wide acquaintance among business
raen and always has felt a deep interest in the
welfare of the city, and while he never has
taken an active part in political affairs, never
had a desire for public office of any kind, he
has always tried to do his full duty as a citi
zen and taxpayer in proraoting the interests
of his native city, its institutions and its people.
In politics he is a Republican, and in religious
preference is Unitarian.
Air. A^'ery raarried, Alarch 26, 1863, Eliza
beth Ann Hatch, born in Hanson, Plyraouth
county, Massachusetts, May 2, 1836, daughter
of Lemuel B. and Ann C. (Thomas) Hatch,
of Hanson (see Hatch family). Air. and Mrs.
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born Salera, August 14, 1865, raarried Caro
line L. Howarth, a daughter of Austin S. and
Miriam (Howard) Howarth. He entered his
father's coal office soon after leaving school,
and was connected with the coal business until
1905. He is a member of the Second Corps
Cadets (Salera, Massachusetts), and during
the Spanish-American war was stationed with
other raembers of his company and corps at
Marblehead, Alassachusetts. He is first lieu
tenant of Corapany A.

Elder William Hatch, of Sand-
HATCPI wich, Kent, England, was born
there, and a merchant, and was
of Scituate, Alassachusetts, before 1633. Soon
afterward he went to England, and returning
to this country in March, 1635, in the "Her
cules" of Sandwich, brought with hira wife
Jane, five children, six servants and rauch
goods of various kinds. He sat d|jwn again in
Scituate, where he was a raercbant, a man of
considerable consequence in the plantation,
ruling elder of the second church in Scituate,
1644, lieutenant of railitia, and otherwise a
raan of influence as well as substance. In 1637
he was presented at court for trespass, and the
punishment meted out to him therefor was that
he "reap the crop thereupon this year, and
leave the land." In 1638 he had granted hira
"an Island called the Old Island (afterward
Hatches island) lying on the southwest side
of the Nortli river, containing about 20 acres."
In 1638 he was a juror at the trial of three
raen charged with killing an Indian, in 1638-9
was surveyor of highways ; one of a coraraittee
to provide for war against the Indians, 1642 ;
elected lieutenant "for trayning their raen,"
1643. Elder Hatch died November 6, 165 1.
Pie raarried, in England, Jane  , who
survived hira and afterward married Elder
Thonias King, who succeeded Elder Hatch in
his church office Elder William Hatch had
children, all born in England ; Jane, Anne,
Walter, Hannah, William and Jereniiah.
(II) Jereraiah Platch, son of Elder William
and Jane, was raade freeman 1658; and fre
quently served on juries of inquest and trial;
was selectraan 1672 to 1675, and 1679 to 1686 ;
deputy to general court 1676, and five times
afterward; grand juror, 1657; commissioner
to assist in dividing common lands, 1662-3 '<
elected constable in 1674, but declined to serve.
He lived near his brother Walter, with whom
for a nuraber of years he carried on ship build
ing. His will is dated 1703-4, and was admitted
to probate Alarch 16. 1712-13. He married,

about 1657, Mary, daughter of John Hewes,
"the AA'"elshraan ;" children, all born in Scitu
ate; I. Mary, 1658. 2. Jereraiah, 1660. 3.
Joanna, 1662. 4. Alercy, 1665. 5. John,
1666-7. 6. Lydia, 1669. 7. Phebe, 1671. 8.
Thomas, 1672. 9. James, 1674. 10. Anna,
1677. II. Deborah, 1678-9. 12. Israel, died
before 1702. 13. Elizabeth. 14. Joseph, died
1748-9. (Ill) Jaraes Hatch, son of Jereraiah and
Mary (Hewes) Hatch, was born in Scituate,
Alay 4, 1674, and died May, 1741, leaving a
will in which provision is raade that his wife
Abigail shall have "all his indoor movables,
ten bushels of corn yearly during life, the
keeping of a cow winter and summer, the great
room in the house, and the keeping of a pig in
the pasture." He lived in that part of Scituate
which was set off to Hanover, and appears to
have owned considerable land and to have
bought and sold quite extensively, but it does
not appear that he was active in town affairs.
He married about 1696, Abigail  ; chil
dren; I. Janies, born Noveraber 19, 1698. 2.
Phebe, June 14, 1701, died young. 3. Abigail,
May 19, 1704. 4. Shadrack, May 26, 1706.
(IV) James Hatch, son of Jaraes and Abi
gail Hatch, was born in Scituate November
19, 1698, and lived in Hanover, where he was
a husbandman. Little else is known of him
except that he bought lands in 1741 and 1743,
married Anna  ; children; i. Jaraes,
born February 22, 1732. 2. Experience, born
1739, died 1820; raarried April 19, 1759, Seth
Freeraan. (V) James Hatch, son of Jaraes and Anna
Platch, was born in Hanover, February 22,
1732, and died in Perabroke, February 11,
1824. In Pembroke records he is caUed cap
tain, but the character of his military service
does not appear. He raarried first, January
27, 1763, Alary Moore, born Septeraber 17,
1746, died June 6, 1777, daughter of Thoraas
and Mary Moore, of Perabroke ; second, Janu
ary 29, 1784, Sarah Gushing. Children, all
born in Perabroke, and of his first raarriage;
I. Polly, May 27, 1764; married April 11, 1782,
Joseph Barstow; removed to Verraont. 2.
Phebe, May i, 1766, died April 5, 1799; raar
ried March 7, 1785, Joseph Torrey. 3. Char
lotte, March i, 1768, died February 11, 1831 ;
niarried May 28, 1786, Williams CoUaraore
4. Anna, October 11, 1770, died May 11, 1799.
5. James, November 3, 1773. 6. Betsey, May
12, 1774, died November 4, 1780. 7. Nathaniel,
Noveraber 12, 1777, died October 11, 1780.
(VI) James Hatch, son of James and Alary

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(Aloore) Hatch, was born in Perabroke, No
veraber 3, 1773, and died July 7, 181 1. He
IS called a "refiner of iron." He raarried, June
29, 1794, Orpah Bonney, born May 12, 1777,
died February 8, 18 10, daughter of Lerauel
and Lucy Bonney. Lerauel Bonney, born Jan
uary 15, 1737, died December 7, 1803, son of
Ezekiel and Hannah Bonney. Lemuel and
Lucy Bonney raarried Deceraber 3, 1761, and
had four children: Lemuel, born June 19,
1767; Luther, February 9, 1769; Lucy, Sep
tember 4, 1772; Orpah, May 12, 1777. Jaraes
and Orpah (Bonney) Hatch had children; i.
Jaraes, born March 3, 1796. 2. Luther, about
1798, died North Bridgewater, Noveraber 29,
1818. 3. Natbaniel, July 4, 1800, died July 2,
1864. 4. Calvin, December 11, 1803; lived at
East Bridgewater, and was a cabinet maker
and carpenter ; married June 4, 1829, Zelpha
AV., born March 14, 1809, daughter of Benja
min and Betsey (A\'illis) Palmer. 5. Lemuel
Bonney, twin, August 31, 1806. 6. Lewis,
twin, August 31, 1806. 7. Orpah Bonney, Feb
ruary 8, 1810; married Noveraber 5, 1830,
David R., son of David and Abiah Green.
(VII) Lemuel Bonney Hatch, son of James
and Orpah (Bonney) Hatch, was born in Han
son, Massachusetts, August 31, 1806, and died
in Salem, Massachusetts, March i, 1885. For
several years he was superintendent in a
woolen mill in- Hanson, and about 1840
removed to Salera and began a successful
career as dealer in wood and coal. He con
tinued in business many years and on retiring
was succeeded by his son-in-law, Nathaniel O.
Very. He also took an active and commend
able interest in public affairs in Salem and was
regarded as one of the leading men of the Re
publican party in the city. He served in vari
ous capacities, notably as overseer of the poor,
member of the board of aldermen, and although
earnestly urged to stand as the candidate of
his party for the mayoralty of the city he stead
fastly refused the proffered honor. Although
he was always a firm and unyielding Republi
can, Air. Hatch never felt any particular
desire for public office, but as a loyal citizen
and considerable taxpayer he regarded it a duty
to the city as well as his party to give some
service for the public welfare. This he did,
and whatever capacity he consented to serve
in the municipal government he perforraed the
duties of his office with the sarae scrupulous
care which always marked his business life in
respect to personal concerns; and he -was just
as honest as he was careful, and the entire peo
ple of the city without distinction of party

appreciated the man for his known character
and worth. Mr. Hatch raarried June 14, 1835,
Ann C. Thoraas, born November 2, 1812,
daughter of Ira and Betsey (Gushing)
Thomas; children; i. Elizabeth Ann, born
May 2, 1836. 2. Charles Francis, November
14, 1841. 3. Thomas Gushing, January 12,
1847. (V III) Elizabeth Ann Hatch, only daughter
of Lemuel Bonney and Ann C. (Thomas)
Hatch, was born in Hanson, Alassachusetts,
May 2, 1836, and raarried March 26, 1863, Na
thaniel Osgood Very, born March 9, 1838;
children, both born in Salem : i, Annie Osgood,
January 20, 1864, died July 31, 1864, 2. Na
thaniel Thomas, August 14, 1865 (see Very
faraily). (VIII) Charles Francis Hatch, son of Lem
uel Bonney and Ann C. Hatch, was born in
Salem, November 14, 1841. He received his
education in the public schools of that city,
enlisted there for naval service during the
civil war, and for the last thirty years has been
proprietor of the Nonpareil Oil Company, of
Boston. He lives in Everett, Massachusetts.
His naval record frora 1863 is written as fol
lows : "Was in the war of the rebellion; first
ordered to sloop-of-war "Savannah," then to
gunboat "Queen;" executive officer of the tin-
clad "Glide ;" pro tera duty on board raonitors
"Catskill" and "Ironsides;" at close of war
ordered to special duty as executive officer and
clerk of naval station at St. Paul de Leander,
southwest coast of Africa; resigned in 1869."
Mr. Hatch married January 17, 1865, Mary
Dodge, born August i, 1847, daughter of
Charles P. and Mary Dodge. Children; i.
Mary Frances, born January 18, 1867. 2.
Bessie Alberta, July 20, 1869.
(VIII) Thomas Gushing Hatch, youngest
child of Lerauel Bonney and Ann C. (Thoraas)
Hatch was born in Salera, January 12, 1847,
and died October 15, 1865. He was cavalryman
in the United States service in 1864, engaged in
duty on the Canadian border, and his death was
in a measure caused or hastened by hardships
and exposures encountered while on duty
there

(For ancestry see Henry Way i.)
(V) AVilliam Way, son of Ebe-
AA'AY nezer and Mary (Harris) Way,
was born in New London, May 15,
1720, and married May 3, 1765, Mary Lathrop.
(VI) George Way, son of WilHam and
Mary (Lathrop) Way, was born in New Lon
don, Connecticut, June 18, 1771. He married

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December 5, 1773, in New London, Sarah
Douglas, a descendant of the distinguished
faraily of Douglas of Scotland, whose repre
sentatives of that surnarae have for centuries
figured conspicuously in EngHsh, Scotch,
AVelsh and Araerican history. Sarah Douglas
was a cousin of the American statesraan, Ste
phen A. Douglas, and the late Arthur Truraan
Way, of Salera, Alassachusetts, grandson of
Sarah, is said to have borne a striking reseni-
lance to the famous statesman. The children
of George and Sarah (Douglas) Way were
(ieorge, Sally, Gordon, Rhoderic, Joseph, Lucy,
Emily, Christopher and Truman.
(VII) Truman Way, son of George and
Sarah (Douglas) AA'ay, was born in Lerapster,
New Plarapshire, February 22, 181 1, and came
to Salem, Massachusetts, June 30, 1849. On
Septeraber 20, 1857, he left that city and for
the next fifteen years was supervising engineer
in railroad construction in New York state,
Canada and the west. He lived several years
in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was con
nected with the operation of the Eastern rail
road, and died there Alarch 14, 1889. Mr.
Way was admitted to Essex Lodge, F. and A.
Al., July I, 1856, but had already taken his
degrees in Canada. He married Sarah L.
Boynton, of Cornish, Alaine ; children ; Eraily ;
Oliver D., ex-alderman of Salera, raarried
Lucy Varney ; Ellen, married Thonias Stewart ;
AVilliara, raarried Belle Crawford ; Arthur
Truraan. (VIII) Arthur Truraan AA'ay, son of Tru
man and Sarah L. (Boynton) Way, was born
in Salem, Alarch 21, 1855, and died in that
city Alarch 10, 1908. He was a child of less
than two years when his father went west, and
his youth was spent chiefly in Indianapolis,
Indiana, where he was educated in the public
schools and graduated frora the high school.
AAHien about sixteen years old he returned to
Salem, and there set out to gain a thorough
and practical knowledge of the leather busi
ness. Soon after 1890 he started in business
for himself, occupying the Riley, the Braden
and the Leonard Harrington factories, securing
the latter factory in 1895 and afterward carry
ing on an extensive and very successful busi
ness there. Mr. AA'ay was counted among the
most capable and successful business men of
Salem, and in social, fraternal and political
circles he Avas one of the most popular raen in
the city. But he was not a politician and never
sought political advanceraent, although he
served two years as raeraber of the board of
aldermen. In Freemasonry he attained the

highest degree conferred on craftsmen. He
was past master of Essex Lodge, F. and A. M. ;
past high priest of AA'ashington Chapter, R. A.
M. ; past illustrious raaster of Salem Council,
R. and S. M. ; past eminent commander of
AA'inslow Lewis Coraraandery, K. T., of Salem ;
and past thrice potential grand master of Sut
ton Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R. For
several years he was grand lecturer of the
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Alasons of the
jurisdiction of Alassachusetts, and deputy
grand high priest of the same body, and acting
grand high priest during the illness of the
incumbent of that office ; and he discharged the
duties of his position with dignity and rauch
credit. In 1907 he had the high distinction of
being deputy grand raaster of the Grand Lodge
of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and in
that capacit}- officiated at the laying of the
corner stone of the Pilgrira monument at Pro-
vincetown, assisted by President Theodore
Roosevelt. Air. AA^ay also was second lieuten
ant commander of Alassachusetts Consistory
(32) .A. A. S. R. .At the annual conclave of
the Suprerae Council of Scottish Rite Masons
of the northeni jurisdiction of the United
States, held in Septeraber, 1907, he was elected
a 33d degree Alason. He also was a raember
of the Ancient and Honorable ArtiUery of
Alassachusetts, an honorary member of the
Salera Cadets, and an active raeraber of the
Salem and Colonial clubs of Salera. On Octo
ber 12, 1886, .Arthur Truman AVay married
Sarah Pearson Nye, born October 17, 1855,
daughter of Joseph AA'arren and Susan Abbie
(Rhodes) Nye (see Nye). Airs. Way is a
woman of culture, refined tastes and social
position. Before her marriage she was for
fourteen years a teacher in the public schools
of Lynn, and for nine years a member of the
choir of the AVashington Street Baptist Church,
Lynn. Air. and Airs. AVay had two children —
Eleanor A^arney and Jessie Nye AA^ay.

For the origin of this ancient family
NYE we must look to Denmark, for
according to history and tradition
about the middle of the thirteenth century there
carae one who settled in Fredericksborg baili
wick and Slangerup parish, in the Sjelland sec
tion of Denmark, and who is said to have been
a descendant of Harold Blautand through his
daughter who raarried the famous Swedish
hero Styribiorn, son of Olaf, king of Sweden.
( T) Lave Nye, son of this descendant of the
royal house of Sweden, became bi.shop of
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(IT) Sveu Nye is mentioned in 1346 as the
heir of his father, the bishop of Roskilde
(III) Marten Nye was declared in 1363 the
heir of his father in Tudse.
(IV) Nils Nye, son of Marten Nye, is men
tioned in 1418 as possessing land in Tudse,
which he then deeded to his son.
(V) Bertolf Nye is mentioned in 1466 as
son of Nils Nye of Tudse. He had sons James
and Randolf, the former of whom on account
of a duel fled to England, accompanied by his
brother Randolf, and settled in AA^iltshire,
reraoving afterward to Harapshire.
(VI) Randolf Nye settled in Sussex, 1527,
and held land in Uckfield. His son AVilliam
is mentioned as having inherited land of his
father, Randolf of Uckfield.
(VII) William Nye, son of Randolf, raar
ried Agnes, daughter of Ralph Tregian, of
Ballance-PIorned, Hertfordshire, studied for
the rainistry, and became rector of the parish
church of Ballance-Horned.
(VIII) Ralph Nye, son of William, becarae
heir to his father in Uckfield and Ballance
1556; married, 1555, Margaret Merynge, of
St. Mary, AA'oolchurch, and had five children.
(IX) Thomas Nye, son of Ralph and Mar
garet, married, 1583, Katherine Poulsden, of
London, and had four children, the youngest
of whora was Thoraas Nye, father of the immi
grant ancestor and progenitor in America of
the faraily of this surnarae intended to be
treated in these annals.
(X) Thoraas Nye, son of Thoraas and
Katherine, niarried for his second wife, 1619,
Agnes Rye, and had two sons — Benjarain, the
iraraigrant, and Thoraas.
(I) Benjamin Nye, first son of Thoraas and
Agnes, was born at Bidlenden, Kent, England,
May 4. 1620, carae in the "AbigaU", to Lynn,
Massachusetts, in 1635, and went to Sandwich.
Massachusetts, in 1637. He is mentioned as
able to bear arms, 1643; contributed toward
building a mill. 1654, and toward building a
meeting house, 1655; surveyor of highways,
1655 ; took the oath of fidelity, 1657 ; grand
juror, 1658 and 1668; constable, 1661 ; trial
juror, 1662. He fulfilled other offices of
greater or less importance, and appears to have
discharged their duties with fidelity. He mar
ried, October 19, 1640, Katherine, daughter of
Rev. Thoraas Tupper, who carae in the "Abi
gail," 1635, and went to Sandwich. They had
children: i. Mary. 2. John. 3. Ebenezer. 4.
Jonathan, born Noveraber 20, 1649. 5. Alercy,
April 4. 1652. 6. Caleb. 7. Nathan. 8. Ben
jamin, killed by Indians at Rehoboth, in King
Philip's war, 1676.

(II) Jonathan Nye, son of Benjarain and
Katherine (Tupper) Nye, was born in Sand
wich, Noveraber 20, 1649; took the oath of
allegiance, 1678; served as grand juror, 1681 ;
selectraan, 1698. He raarried first, Hannah
 ; second. Patience Burgess ; children,
four by his first and ten by his second wife:
Jabez, Sarah, Joanna, Ichabod, Jonathan,
Patience, Joseph, Benjarain, Thoraas, Abigail,
Isaac, Alary, David, Zervia.
(Ill) Joseph Nye, son of Jonathan and
Patience (Burgess) Nye, was born in Sand
wich, November 16, 1675, and died before May
4, 1750. He lived in Sandwich, and probably
was a husbandman, for he was possessed of
considerable land as well as personal property.
He married December 10, 1741, Mary Bodfish,
of Barnstable, born June 17, 1719, daughter of
Joseph and Thankful (Glish) Bodfish; chil
dren, born in Sandwich ; i. Joseph, October
10, 1742. 2. Sylvanus, August 16, 1744. 3.
Samuel. (IA') Dr. Samuel Nye, son of Joseph and
Mary (Bodfish) Nye, was born in Sandwich,
Alarch 29, 1749, and died August 31, 18.34.
He graduated frora Harvard College in 1771,
and settled for practice in Salisbury, removing
thence to Newbury, and was there at the begin
ning of the revolutionary war. The military
records of the state mention his service as
follows - Samuel Nye, Newbury, doctor ;
descriptive list sworn to in Suffolk county,
June 9, 1780, of the officers and crew of the
ship "America," coramanded by Capt. John
Somes ; age 27 years ; stature, 5 feet 6 inches ;
complexion dark ; residence, Newbury. Under
his first coraraission as surgeon Dr. Nye served
frora June 18 to August 9, 1780, but frora Au
gust 16, 1778, to May 29, 1779, he was surgeon
on board the ship "Vengeance," Captain Win-
gate Newraan, coraraander. After the war
Dr. Nye returned to his practice in Newbury
and in connection with professional eraploy
raents served in various official capacities. In
1774 he was a meraber of the committee of
safety and correspondence, town clerk 1786-87,
and served as selectman of the town for ten
years. On April 22, 1783, Dr. Nye raarried
-Abigail Bachelder, who survived him and died
in Salisbury, Alay 22, 1848, aged ninety-four
years; children: i. Abigail, born March 21,
1784; married Alay 29, 1804, Fessenden Clark.
2. Samuel, AprU 24, 1785, died July 25, 1816.
3. Joseph Proctor, Noveraber 11, 1786. 4.
Clarissa, June 2, 1788. 5. Jaraes, August 17,
1792, died September 8, 1793. 6. Mary Ann,
October 4, 1794, died October 26, 1794.
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Abigail (Bachelder) Nye, was born in Salis
bury, Noveraber 11, 1786, and died there April
4, 1842. Little else is known of hira except
that his wife's narae was Sallie, and that their
children were all born in Salisbury; i. Joseph,
died October 31, 1822. 2. Samuel, died Octo
ber 13, 1822. 3. John P., died October 2.1,
1822. 4. Joseph Warren, born January 24,
1816. 5. Dr. Janies M., died April 21, 1872;
raarried June 29, 1842, Hannah C. Peasley, of
Araesbury, who died July 6, 1898. Dr. Nye
lived in Lynn.
(VI) Joseph AVarren Nye, son of Joseph
Proctor and Sallie Nye, was born January 24,
1816, at Salisbury Point. His mother died
when he was four years old, and he was
brought up in the faraily of her parents ; and
while living with thera he becanie acquainted
with Whittier, the poet. He learned the trade
of cabinet raaking with John AVoodbury, of
Lynn, his great-uncle, and in 1855 located at
East Princeton, Massachusetts, but after a few
years returned to Lynn and carried on busi
ness there until the time of his death, Novem
ber 21, 1901. He married June i, 1841, Susan
Abbie, daughter of Ezra Rhodes, of Lynn ;
children; i. Ezra Warren, born 1843, died
March 6, 1863. 2. Abbie Augusta, born
1848, died August 4, 1849. 3. Ida Frances,
raarried June 14, 1871, Christopher D.
Chadwell. 4. Annie Augusta, died September
30, 1908. 5. Sarah Pearson, born October 17,
1855 ; married October 12, 1886, Arthur Tru
man Way, who died March 10, 1908 (see
Way). 6. Eleanor Porter, born April 9, 1858,
died January 25, i860.

< (I) Richard Knowles, immi-
KNOWLES grant ancestor, was born in
England, and settled first in
Carabridge, Massachusetts. He removed soon
to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he died
February i, 1682. Very little is known of
hira. children; i. Jaraes, born at Carabridge,
November 17, 1648. 2. John, mentioned below.
(II) John Knowles, son of Richard
Knowles, was born probably in England, about
1638. He removed, according to Hampton
history, from Cambridge to Hampton, and
married there, July 10, 1660, Jemima, daugh
ter of Francis and Isabella (Brand) Asten.
He took the oath of allegiance in December,
1678, and died at Harapton (north), December
5, 1705. He bought of Giles Fifield a house
and lot of ten acres, and also six acres of
raarsh. His homestead is now or was lately
owned by his lineal descendants. He was blind

for ten years before his death. Children: i.
John, Jr., born February 6, 1661 ; raentioned
below. 2. Ezekiel, born August 19, 1663; died
December 11, 1666. 3. James, born November
20, 1665; died February i, 1682. 4. Simon,
born November 22, 1667; married Rachel
 ; second, Rachel Joy. 5. Joseph, born
June II, 1672, died young. 6. Sarah, born
April 17, 1676; married Robert Drake; died
June 8, 1742. 7. Hannah, born April 18, 1678 ;
died September 12, 1769; raarried AA''illiam
Locke. (Ill) John Knowles, son of John Knowles,
was born at Plampton, New Hampshire, Feb
ruary 6, 1661. He resided on the homestead
where his father settled. He married Sus
anna  , died October 17, 1745, aged
eighty-two years. Children; i. John, born
May 14, 1686 ; married Tryphena Locke. 2.
Ezekiel, born June 29, 1687; mentioned below.
3. Araos, born about 1689; raarried Abigail
Dowse; died February 24, 1746. 4. Reuben,
born 1691. 5. Abigail, born December 3, 1695 ;
married Ephraim Marston; died January 22,
1727. (IV) Ezekiel Knowles, son of John
Knowles, was born June 29, 1687, at Hampton,
and resided at Hampton and Rye. He mar
ried at Hampton, January 31, 1712, Mary,
daughter of David Wedgewood. Children,
born at Rye; I. Hannah, Alarch i, 1713. 2.
Nathan, baptized May 27, 1716; married Han
nah Clifford. 3. Alary, born Noveraber 2, 1718;
married John Lane. 4. Amos, Noveraber 4,
1722 ; mentioned below. 5. David, September
I, 1725; married Deborah Palmer.
(V) Araos Knowles, son of Ezekiel
Knowles, was born at Rye, New Hampshire,
November 4, 1722, and died at Candia, New
Hampshire, in 1809, aged eighty-seven years.
Pie settled at Candia, and was a farraer. He
raarried, October 11, 1744, Libby  .
Children, born at Rye or Candia; i. Nathan
iel, 1745; soldier in the revolution. 2. Lydia,
1747. 3. Ezekiel, 1749; in the revolution. 4.
Isaac, 1751. 5. Araos, 1755; in the revolution.
6. Elizabeth, 1755 ; died young. 7. John, 1759 ;
in the revolution. 8. Elizabeth, 1761 ; raarried
Benjamin Palraer. 9. David, mentioned below.
10. Seth, born at Candia, April 12, 1766; raar
ried June 14, 1789, Anna Emerson.
(VI) David Knowles, son of Amos
Knowles, was born in 1764, in Rye, New
Hampshire. According to the federal census
of 1790 he was living at Starling Plantation,
Maine, Lincoln county. He settled at Corinna,
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(VII) Loel Knowles, son of David Knowles,
was born at Corinna, Alaine, about 1801, and
died in 1886. He was a farmer, and lived the
greater part of his life in his native state, and
was one of the most enterprising and progres
sive raen of Corinna. He was an active and
consistent meraber of the Alethodist Episcopal
church. He married Rosaraond AVilkinson, a
native of Alaine also, daughter of AViUiam
Wilkinson, a farmer in Corinna. Children,
born at Corinna ; i. Flora, June, 1853 '< married
N. S. Johnson, of Corinna. 2. Lilly, Septera
ber 9, i860; died March 14, 1906. 4. Loel L.,
mentioned below. 5. Raymond L. The per
sonal names Loel and Lilley were coraraon
among the older families of Reading, Alassa
chusetts. (VIII) Loel L. Knowles, son of Loel
Knowles, was born at Corinna, Maine, July 4,
1855. He was educated in the public schools
of his native town. For many years he has
conducted a prosperous grocery business in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, established by him
in 1876. Pie stands high in the confidence of
business men in Haverhill and vicinity, and is
highly respected by his townsmen. He is a
raeraber of Alutual Relief Lodge of Odd Fel
lows. Pie niarried second, 1884, Flora E.
Clark, of Corinna. Child by first wife; i.
Arthur L., born February 11, 1880; lives in
Haverhill. Children of second wdfe : 2. Ray
mond L., born February 21, 1885; mentioned
below. 3. Edna B., September 4, 1891.
(IX) Raymond L. Knowles, son of Loel
L. Knowles, was born February 21, 1885. He
was educated in the public schools of Haver
hill, Alassachusetts. He was first eraployed
for a tirae in a broker's office in Boston. In
1904 he was appointed teller of the Pentucket
Savings Bank, and in 1905 he was chosen to
his present position of treasurer of the bank.
Mr. Knowles has the sort of personality that
is well fitted for a responsible and important
position. He has made raany friends by his
courtesy and kindness both for the bank and
f(-ir himself. He is a member of the Pen
tucket Club, of Haverhill. In politics he is a
Republican. Pie is unmarried.
Opinions are divided as to
SHEPPARD whether the She'ppards are
of Scotch or English ances
try: but they were among the earliest settlers
of this country, not only in the New England
states but also in the colony of New Jersey.
Shourds, in his "History of Fenwick's Colony,"
says that they emigrated from England prob

ably as early as 1683, and after remaining in
Shrewsbury for a few years finally located in
what is now Cumberland county, on Penn's
Neck, a small peninsula bounded on the north
by the Cohansey river and on the south by a
small creek named Back creek. Here, on Sep
tember 29, 1690, the three brothers James,
Thomas and John Sheppard bought of Jona
than AValling one hundred and fifty acres
apiece, on which they settled and in the region
of which their descendants have lived for cen
turies. Their brother David had previously
bought another place near there, and the
descendants of all four brothers are very nura
erous throughout all that part of New Jersey.
Jaraes Sheppard died in 1690, leaving two
daughters, and his brothers were his executors ;
David died in 1695, leaving a wife and seven
or eight children ; Thomas Sheppard appar
ently moved up into Alonmouth county ; John
Sheppard is treated below.
(I) Besides the one hundred and fifty acres
he purchased at first, John Sheppard bought
one hundred and fifty acres raore adjoining,
and then gave the whole of this property to
his eldest son Dickason Sheppard, at the sarae
tirae buying another three hundred and eighty-
five acres for hiraself "near Cohansey and
adjoining Edraund Gibbons." He died intes
tate in 1710, leaving seven children; Dicka
son, David, John, Enoch (died 1717), Job,
treated below ; Margaret, raarried Thoraas
Abbot ; and Hannah, who married first, Tim
othy Brook, Jr., and second, Obadiah Holmes.
(II) Job Sheppard, son of John, was born
1706, and died Alarch 2, 1757, of sraall-
pox, and was buried in Salera, having been for
raany years the first pastor of the Baptist
church at Mill Hollow. By his wife Catherine
he had thirteen children ; Elnathan, raarried
and lived in Hopewell township, near the old
Cohansey church ; Job, treated below ; Belbe,
1737 to 1764, who lived and died at AUoways
creek ; Elizabeth, died young ; Jerairaa, raar
ried, but died without issue; Daniel, married
and lived in Salem, and had one child, Daniel ;
Kerenhappuch, who lived in Lower AUoways
Creek township ; Rebecca, who becarae the first
wife of Jonathan Bowen, and had one child
that died in infancy : Catherine, died about six
teen years of age ; Curaberland, married Aray
Alatlack, of Gloucester county, and had several
children ; Martha, raarried Isaac Alulford, of
Hopewell township, and had one child ; Keziah,
raarried WUhara Kelsay, and went west ; Ruth,
died unraarried, about twenty-two years old.
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Sheppard, was born July 6, 1735, lived at
Hopewell, near Bowentown, Curaberland
county, and married Rachel, daughter of
Thomas Mulford, of Cumberland, and had
seven children, one of whom was Job, treated
below. (IV) Job, son of Job and Rachel (Mul
ford) Sheppard; served in the war of 1812,
and was buried at Red Bank, New Jersey. He
raarried Sarah, daughter of Williara Kelsey,
who was a captain and payraaster in the Amer
ican revolution. Among his children was AViU
iara Kelsey Sheppard, treated below.
(V) Williara Kelsey Sheppard, son of Job
and Sarah (Kelsey) Sheppard, was born in
Greenwich, Cumberland county, about 1810.
He was a farraer and resided in Greenwich
all his life, and owned a large farra there. He
married, in 1831, Sarah Ewing Fithian, born
1809, daughter of Charles Beatty and Mary
(Ewing) Fithian. Mary Ewing was daughter
of Enos Ewing ; and Charles Beatty Fithian
was son of Joel and Elizabeth (Beatty) Fith
ian, and grandson of Samuel and Phoebe Fith
ian. Elizabeth Beatty was daughter of Charles
and Ann, daughter of John Reading, a descend
ant of one of the earliest Quaker settlers of
Burlington : and granddaughter of John Beatty
and Christiana Clinton, a cousin of Governor
George Clinton, of New York. William Kel
sey and Sarah Ewing (Fithian) Sheppard had
children; Joseph; Jemima; Joel Fithian,
treated below ; Catharine ; Lewis, a colonel in
the civil war ; Ruth, niarried Mr. Evans ; Rob
ert ; William ; Belle, and Mary.
(VI) Joel Fithian Sheppard, son of Will
iam Kelsey and Sarah Ewing (Fithian) Shep
pard, was born in Greenwich, New Jersey,
1835. He was educated in his native town,
and apprenticed to a ship carpenter. Pie went
to sea, and later becarae master of a vessel, and
followed the sea for fourteen years. During
the civil war he twice ran the blockade of the
Potoraac. Plis brothers and first cousins
fought under the Stars and Stripes, while not
a few ^istant relatives were with the Confed
erates. In 1869 he went into the coal business,
locating in East Braintree, Massachusetts, and
later in Quincy. He is a Republican in politics.
and in 1870 was representative to the general
court. He was for a tirae president of the
Co-operative Bank. He is a raeraber and past
master of Delta Lodge of Free Alasons ; of
the Royal Arch Chapter, of which he has been
high priest ; and South Shore Coraraandery.
Knights Templar. Pie has always been inter
ested in church work, and has been an active

member of the Congregational Church, first at
Weyraouth, later at Braintree. He raarried in
1856, Hannah A. Wallen, born 1838, and has
children ; Charles G., raarried Mary Perkins,
and has one son, Willard Perkins ; Eben Wal
len, treated below; Ella AA^, married Dr. Will
iam Gallagher, and has one daughter, Rebecca
Gallagher ; Ida E., raarried B. H. Davidson,
and has one daughter, Irene Davidson.
(ATI) Eben "Wallen Sheppard, son of Joel
Fithian and Plannah A. (AVallen) Sheppard,
was bora in Greenwich, New Jersey, Alay 7,
i860. He was educated in the public schools
of Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1882 he carae
to Quincy to engage in the retail coal business
in partnership with his father and brother. He
is a well known and highly respected business
man of Quincy. Pie is a Republican, and was
representative from his district in the general
court in 1899, 1900 and 1901. He is a meraber
of the Union Congregational Church of Wey
mouth, but attends the Bethany Congregational
Church of Quincy. He is a director of the
Quincy Co-operative Bank. He is a raeraber
of Rural Lodge of Free Masons ; of St. Ste
phens' Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of South
Shore Coraraandery, Knights Templar ; and of
Aleppo Teraple, Order of the Mystic Shrine.
He raarried Fannie Al., daughter of Asa and
Alercy (Clapp) Pratt. Children; Joel Fithian,
graduate of Cornell University, class of
1907; Carl R., student in Cornell, class of
1908, niarried Charlotte B. A"an Buren ; OHver
Lcetli; and Alercedes. (See Pratt).

The surnarae Hanson is of
H.ANSON very ancient origin, and was
handed down by the Fleraings
to the English speaking people. The root of
the narae is Hans, which is only one of the
abbreviations of the original Johannes, and
from the latter we derive the familiar Han
sons, Plankins, Hankinsons, Hancocks and
others. The Hanson ancestry in the old world
has been traced back through the several gen
erations for centuries, even to the time of
Roger de Rastrich, 1251, reign of Henry III,
in the wapentake of Morley, Yorkshire, Eng
land ; and thence to Hugh de Rastrich ; thence
to John de Rastrich ; thence to John de Rast
rich ; thence to Plenry de Rastrich ; thence to
John de Rastrich, called "Henry's son" and
then Hanson ; thence to John Hanson ; thence
to John Hanson, whose son, John Hanson,
was an iraraediate ancestor of the particular
family of that surname in Araerica of which
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(I) Thoraas Planson, iraraigrant, was born
in "England, carae thence to New England, and
was at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1639. In
-1658-9 he had a grant of a hundred acres of
land near Salmon Falls, was made freeman in
1661, lived at Cochecho in 1664-5, ^"d died in
1666. "Old widow Hanson," as the record
reads, was killed by Indians, June 28, 1689.
The baptismal narae of his wife was Mary,
but her family name does not appear. Chil
dren being Thoraas, born about 1643 ; Tobias,
about 1640; Lsaac, born at Dover; and Tirao
thy. (II) Tobias Hanson, son of Thonias and
Alary Hanson, was born about 1640, and was
killed by Indians Alay 10, 1693. He lived in
Dover, and was taxed there from 1662 to 1672.
His wife, whose narae does not appear, was
made prisoner by Indians, June 28, 1689. Chil
dren ; Tobias, Jr. ; Joseph ; Benjamin.
(Ill) Tobias Planson, Jr., son of Tobias,
was born at Dover, about 1675, and was one
of the first of his family to espouse the faith
of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, as they
were called, and punished because they were
such. He married first, Lydia Cheeney; sec
ond, Ann Lord. He had two children by his
first and eight by his second wife; i. Benja
rain. 2. EHzabeth, raarried Samuel Buxton. 3.
Alercy. born August 4, 1699 ; married Stephen
A^arney. 4. Tobias, born 1702. 5. Judith,
February 7, 1703; married Sarauel Tworabley.
6. Joseph, January 10, 1704, died September
5, 1758; married first Rebecca Shepard; sec
ond, Sarah Scararaon ; third, Susannah Burn
ham. 7. Nathaniel. 8 .Isaac, married Susanna
Canney. 9. Samuel. 10. Aaron.
(IV) Tobias Hanson, son of Tobias and
Ann (Lord) Hanson, was born in Dover, in
Alarch. 1702, and died August 27, 1765. He
was a farmer and a devout Friend, and both
of his wives were Friends, as well as all of his
children. He married first, Deceraber 22, 1728,
Judith Varney, born April 11, 1710, daughter
of Ebenezer and Mary (Otis) Varney; sec
ond, October 21, 1750, Sarah Fry (Frye),
daughter of AA'^Uliara Frye ChUdren; i. Anne.
raarried  Cortland. 2. Mary, raarried
Jedadiah A''arney. 3. Elizabeth, raarried Reu-
jjen Tuttle. 4. Aaron, born about 1740.
reraoved to Rochester, New Harapshire, and
was one of the proprietors of that town. 5.
Patience. June 12, 1743; married Benjamin
Aleder. 6. Moses, February 3. 1744-5. 7.
Alercy. (V) Moses Hanson, son of Tobias and
Sarah (Frye) Hanson, was born in Dover,

February 3. 1744-5, and at the time of his
raarriage was living in Rochester, New Harap
shire. He raarried Alary Planson; children;
Timothy, Moses, Lydia and Catherine, and one
other child.
( \'I ) Moses Hanson, son of Aloses and
Mary (Hanson) Hanson, was born probably
in Rochester, New Hampshire, although the
record of his birth is not found. His brother
Tiraothy was born in 1787, and Moses is
believed to have been a year or two his junior.
He was a minister of the Society of Friends,
a very pious and exeraplary man and worthy
leader of the meeting. He married Alary Var
ney, and lived in Farmington, where both died.
Children, all born in Farmington; i. Jane,
married AVilliam Penn Hussey, of North Ber
wick, Alaine, and had AVilliam P. and Charles
F. Hussey. 2. Gilman, married late in life.
3. Huldah, raarried Horace C. Ware, of Salera,
Alassachusetts. 4. Job Varney, born Novera
ber 7, 1825. 5. John, born November, 1830;
married, i860, Isabella Whipple, born April 7,
1827, daughter of Joseph AVhipple, who at one
tirae was lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island,
and whose wife was Alice Knight. Mary Var
ney, who married Moses Hanson, was a daugh
ter of Caleb and Huldah (Hussey) Varney.
Caleb Varney was born in Rochester, New
Hampshire, but beforeyUiarriage purchased the
old Varney horaestead in Farmington, which
then contained eighty acres of land. His chil
dren were AA^illiam, Job, John, Mary (raarried
Moses Hanson), Hannah, and one other who
died in infancy. Caleb Varney was son of
Ebenezer A'arney, who raarried Mary Otis, and
was himself a son of Humphrey A^arney by his
second wife. Airs. Sarah (Starbuck) Austin.
She was a daughter of Elder Edward and
Catherine (Reynolds) Starbuck, and had mar
ried twice before she became the wife of
Huraphrey Varney. Huraphrey Varney was
eldest son of Williara Varney, who carae to
Araerica frora England about the middle of
the seventeenth century and settled at Ips
wich, Alassachusetts. He afterward lived in
Gloucester, removing thence to Dover. New
Harapshire, and still later to Salera, Massachu
setts, where he died leaving children — Humph
rey, Sarah, Rachel and Thonias.
(VI) Job Varney Hanson, son of Moses
and Alary (A^arney) Hanson, was born No
veraber 7. 1825, and for raany years was
engaged in extensive mercantile and milling
enterprises in Salera and Danvers. He carried
on business in partnership with his brother
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in Salem and a flouring and grain mill in Dan
vers. They were energetic, capable and
straightforward business men and enjoyed a
very high reputation in all trade circles. On
December 9, 1862, Job Varney Hanson raar
ried Jane Aloore, born Salem, Alay 12, 1827,
daughter of Robert Moore, who was born in
Northarapton, England, and who raarried
Philadelphia Pepper, also of English birth and
parentage. Mr. and Airs. Hanson had chil
dren; I. Horace AVare, born Salera, October
31, 1866; unmarried. 2. Annie Moore, born
Salera February 12, 1868; married October 16,
1889, Benjamin Franklin Nason of Salera, and
have four children ; David Varney, born Feb
ruary 27, 1891; Mildred, August 14, 1892;
Edith H., June 12, 1895; Mary M., October
30, 1903- AVarren Allen ( i ) was bom,
ALLEN lived and died in Cornish, Maine
where he followed farraing for
his occupation all his active years. He married
Mary Ann (Goodwin) Dinsmore. Children,
bom at Cornish; i. Franklin H. (Al. D.),
fitted for college in the public schools and
entered Bowdoin College, changing after a
year to Ann Arbor University, Alichigan,
where he studied one year ; then entered Bow
doin Medical School, where he was graduated
in the class of 1876 ; he began to practice raedi
cine iramediately in Farraington, New Hamp
shire, removing after one year to Ayers Vil
lage, where he was located several years ; set
tled finally in Haverhill, Massachusetts, how
ever, and continued in successful practice until
his death in Alay, 1904. 2. Atwood M., resides
in Springvale, Maine. 3. Jethro G., real estate
agent at Springvale, Maine. 4. Mary E.,
deceased ; raarried Henry C. Welch, of Spring
vale, Maine. 5. George Edwin, born May 10,
1863, mentioned below. 6. Charles Howard,
a merchant at Lynn, Massachusetts. 7. Jacob
S., died aged three years, nine months, nine
days. (II) Dr. George Edwin Allen, son of War
ren Allen (i), was born in Cornish, Maine,
May 10, 1863. He attended the public schools
of his native town, and studied for his profes
sion in the Boston Medical College, receiving
the degree of M. D. in the class of 1883. He
and his brother. Dr. Franklin H. Allen, both
studied also under Dr. Ivory Brook, of Spring
vale, Maine. After receiving his degree Dr.
George E. Allen located in Bradford, Massa
chusetts, since annexed to the city of Haver
hill, and he has been practicing in that place to

the present time, enjoying an excellent patron
age and standing high in his profession. He
is a meraber of the New Harapshire Medical
Society, Massachusetts Aledical Society,
Araerican Aledical Association, New England
Therapeutic Association and the American
Therapeutic Association. He is affiliated
with the Essex North District Medical Soci
ety. He is medical examiner for the Aletro-
politan Life Insurance Cbrapany and several
other insurance corapanies and orders. He
is a raember of the raedical staff of the
Haverhill City Hospital. He is a prominent
member of the Alasonic Order, belonging
to Saggahew Lodge, Free Alasons. of Plaver
hill ; Haverhill Council, Royal and Select Mas
ters ; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ;
Haverhill Commandery, Knights Templar. He
is a member and past noble grand of Mizpah
Lodge, No. 151, Odd Fellows, and past chief
patriot of Haverhill Encampment and has the
rank of major in the Canton Eagles. He is also a
raember of Palestine Lodge, Knights of
Pythias ; Passaquai Lodge, No. 27, Red Men,
the Essenic Club and the Junior Order of
American Mechanics. In politics he is a Re
publican ; he was superintendent of schools
while in New Hampshire and member of the
board of health of Bradford several years.
He married, Noveraber 8, 1885, NeUie M.
Sraith, of Auburn, New Hampshire, daughter
of Richard G. and Martha J. Bixby. Children;
I. George Edgar 2d., born January i, 1888,
now a student in Dartmouth College. 2. Mil
dred Beatrice, born February 7, 1891, of the
class of 1908, Haverhill high school.

It is said by distin-
CUNNINGHAM guished antiquarians
and others who have
raade exhaustive studies of the origin of our
European farailies that the Cunningharas of
England, Scotland and Ireland, and of course
of their descendants in Araerica, are all sprung
frora the ancient family of that surname whose
clansmen were seated in Ayrshire, Scotland, as
early as A. D. 1200. An ancient tradition runs
to the effect that the first Cunningharas who
eraigrated frora Scotland to Ireland were two
of six brothers who won farae in the wars
fighting under the standard of King James of
Scotland, who afterward became Jaraes I of
England. The records show several of that
surnarae araong the first grantees of estates in
Ireland through the favor of that raonarch.
.A.S early as 1610 John Cunninghara, of
Crawfield, Ayrshire, received a grant of one

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thousand acres of land in county Donegal, Ire
land, and in the sarae year James Cunningham,
laird of Glangarnocke, had two grants, one of
one thousand and the other of two thousand
acres, and Cuthbert Cunningham, of Glangar
nocke, a grant of one thousand acres, all in the
precinct of Portlagh, county Donegal ; and one
Alexander Cunningham, of Powton, gentleraan
of Sorbie, Wigtorishire, Scotland, had lands
granted hira by royal patent in the precinct of
Boylagh, county Donegal.
There is reason for the belief that Glangar
nocke in Ayrshire was the original seat of the
Cunninghams, and history furnishes rauch that
is interesting concerning the emigration and
settlement of these ¦ Scotch Cunninghams full
three c^enturies ago. They were there raany
long years before others of their countryraen
sought refuge in the north part of Ireland
under the compulsion of religious persecution;
and after the end of about another century
many of their descendants came to America.
In the course of time too the descendants of
these Scotch eraigrant brothers becarae scat
tered throughout the counties and precincts of
Ireland, and by frequent interraarriages in gen
erations one after another they ultimately came
to be regarded as of the native families of that
country. The Cunninghams are frequently
spoken of as a Scotch-Irish family, Scotch by
ancient ancestry, and Irish by long continued
residence, interniarriage and adoption of
national custoras.
(I) The particular Cunninghara faraily
under consideration here is descended frora
one of the three Scotch brothers raentioned in
preceding paragraphs, although by reason of
lapse of centuries there probably is no certain
raeans by which to trace that descent through
the many succeeding generations to the tirae of
the earHest ancestor of the faraily of whora we
have a definite knowledge. He was Michael
Cunninghara, of Killalo, county Clare, who was
undoubtedly a descendant of one of these three
brothers. He was a sturdy tiller of the soil,
and a raan of good repute in the precinct.
(II) Daniel Cunningham, the immigrant,
son of Michael Cunningham, of county Clare,
was born in Killalo in 1835, and came to this
country in 1861. Pie landed at New York,
came to Boston and afterward settled in
Saugus, Massachusetts, where he was a farmer
all his life. He died in that town December
20, 1904. He raarried Alary Kehoe, daughter
of Alaurice Kehoe, of Carlow, in the county of
Carlow, and Katharine (Cavanagh) Kehoe, of
Carlow, descendant of the Cavanaghs of House

of Bonus in that county. They had three chil
dren ; I. John Al., died at Saugus. 2. Mau
rice F., see forward. 3. Alary R., who married
Henry A. Coniack.
(Ill) Maurice F. Cunninghara, son of
Daniel and Alary (Kehoe) Cunninghara, was
born in Saugus, November 8, 1869, and receiv
ed his early education in the public schools of
that town, graduating from the high school
with the class of '84. In connection with his
later business life he took up the study of law
and made the course of the Young Men's
Christian Association Evening Law School,
Boston, then passed the prescribed exaraina
tion, and in February, 1907, was adraitted to
practice in the courts of this coraraonwealth,
and in 1908 was adraitted to practice in United
States courts. He is a raeraber of the bar of
Suffolk and Essex counties. During the ten
years preceding adraission to the bar, Mr. Cun
ninghara has been junior raeraber of the real
estate and insurance firm of Stokes & Cun
ningham, of Saugus, through whose enterprise
and stirring business qualities the beautiful
village of Cliftondale has been built up and
made one of the raost desirable places of resi
dence in the suburbs of the raetropolitan dis
trict of the city of Boston. Air. Cunningham
is a meraber of the Nanepasheraet Club of
Saugus, Maiden Lodge, No. 965, B. P. O. E.,
Santa Maria Council, No. 105, K. of C, of
Maiden, Massachusetts, and raeraber and first
master workman of Benoni Lodge, No. 169, A.
O. U. W. In 1904 he married Henrietta F.,
daughter of John J. Donahue, of Maiden, and
has two children ; Charles Carroll, born June
30, 1905, and Helen Frances, born September
30. 1907- 
This surname is coraraon in
TAPLEY England, though there are many
variations in spelling, such as
Tapleigh, Topley, Topping, Toppan, Tapling
and Topling. It is believed to be derived
from a place name in Cheshire, England.
Branches of the faraily lived in Marldon and
Paignton, near Exeter, England, in the early
part of the seventeenth century. The earliest
record of the faraily found is dated 1553, of a
John Tapley, of Dawlish, England. There are
two Tapley coats-of-arras ; Gules on a fess
between three escallops argent a lion passant
azure. Also ; Gules on a fess between three
crosses crosslet fitchee argent a lion passant
azure. (I) Gilbert Tapley, iraraigrant ancestor, was
born in England, 1634; died in Salera April 17,

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1 714. He settled first at Salera before 1665.
Like raost of the settlers on the north shore of
Alassachusetts at that time, he was a fisherraan.
He was in Beverly, Massachusetts, as early as
1676, when he bought a house and half an
acre of land of Lieutenant Thoraas Gardner,
of Peraaquid, by deed dated Noveraber 26 that
year. His wife was adraitted to the church in
Beverly, January 6, 1674, and their three chil
dren were baptized in that town January 3,
1674. He removed to Salem very soon after
ward. He was called of Salem in a deed dated
Deceraber 7, 1677, when he bought of Major
Thoraas Savage, of Boston, half an acre of
land "on ye neck of land neire Winter har
bour" (Salera). The deed mentions a stone
wall enclosing the lot. He bought a house and
land December 13, 1678, of Henry Barthol
oraew, located near the causeway to Winter
Island. He lived for many years afterward on
this property, at the site of the old Juniper
house on Salera Neck, near the causeway to
AVinter Island. The settleraent at this point
was the first raade in the town. The cattle of
the pioneers were pastured on AVinter Island
on the Sabbath. In 1680 he was one of the
petitioners for a new church at Salem ; in
1 68 1 was constable, and in 1686 a juryman.
From 1690 to 1714 he kept an ordinary, or
tavern and doubtless gave up the sea and fish
ing. His tavern was sold when the estate was
settled by his grandson Joseph Tapley, and
became the property of John Abbot. He mar
ried Thomasin (Tamsin)  ¦ — , born 1632,
died at Salem, November 6, 1715. Children;
I. Gilbert, born August 26, 1665; mentioned
below. 2. Joseph, March 10, 1668; died before
his father. 3. Mary, April 4, 1671.
(II) Gilbert Tapley, son of Gilbert Tapley,
was born at Salem, August 26, 1665, and died
at Salcrn, in 1710. He married first, April
ro, 1686, Lydia Sraall, of .Salera; second, Au
gust 21, 1707, Sarah Archer, of Salera. His
widow Sarah was appointed adrainistratrix of
his estate, Noveraber 6, 1710. Children, born
at Salera; i. Alary, born November 4, 1689.
2. Joseph, born July 30, 1691 ; mentioned
below. 3. Lydia, born March 10, 1696-7. 4.
Gilbert, born July 13, 1699, baptized at the
First Church, of Salem, November 19, 1699.
(Ill) Joseph Tapley, son of Gilbert Tapley
(2). was bom at Salem, July 30, 1691. He
succeeded his grandfather as tavern-keeper in
Salem, and continued for a number of years.
From 1718 to 1735 he was not taxed for real
estate. He was engaged also in the fishing
trade. The records indicate that for raany

years before his death he was an invalid. He
raarried, Noveraber 27, 17 12, Alargaret
Masury, of Salera. Children : i. Gilbert, born
May 6, 1722 ; raentioned below. 2. John, born
about 1728. 3. Lydia, raarried a French or
British officer, and went to England, according
to family tradition. 4. Elizabeth (?).
(IV) Gilbert Tapley, son of Joseph Tapley,
was born in Salera, Alay 6, 1722, and died at
Danvers, Alay 6, 1806. He is buried m the
old Preston burying ground at Danvers. -At
the age of twenty-five he reraoved to Danvers,
forraerly Salem Village, and was the progen
itor of all the Danvers faraily and of the Lynn
farailies of this surname. He was a house
wright by trade. His house on Buxton Lane
which he- bought of Joseph Subley in 1767
with sixty-seven acres of land, is still standing.
He was constable in 1765, highway surveyor
1766-78-79-80-82. He was an active meraber
of the First Church of Danvers, and in 1785
was on a committee to propose plans for the
new. meeting house. He was one of the found
ers of the Social Library, the predecessor of
the public library, in 1794. He owned land in
Andover, Middleton, Lynn, Danvers, and had
large tracts in Fitchburg and Sterling in
AA'orcester county from 1775 to 1800. He sold
his pew in the north parish church in 1800.
A characteristic story is told of him in the
Essex county history. AA'hile driving a heavy
load of ship timber with three yoke of oxen in
the west part of Danvers, after a heavy fall of
snow that raade turning out difficult, he met a
character famous in his day as "King" Hooper.
"Turn out !" shouted Hooper. "Can't do it ;
the load's too heavy,'' said the old man, "let
your raan take one of these shovels and we'll
soon make room." "No, half the road's raine
and I'll wait till I get it." "All right," was the
complacent answer, and slipping the pin out,
he unhitched his team and drove his oxen
home, leaving the loaded sled effectually block
ing the narrow road. He was a soldier in the
revolution, lieutenant in Captain John Put
nam's company that marched to Lexington,
April 19, 1775, and he was again on the alarm
list in 1778. He served on various iraportant
town coraraittees during the revolution. His
will was proved June, 1806. He married first,
June 6, 1747, Phebe Putnam, died Alay, 1770!
daughter of John and Lydia (Porter) Putnam]
and sister of Dr. Araos Putnara ; second, Alarch
IT, 1771, Mri. Mary (Flint) Smith, widow of
Nathaniel Smith; third, June 6, 1799, Airs.
Sarah .Abbott Farrington, of Andover, where
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Danvers; i. Amos, October 15, 1748; men
tioned below. 2. Daniel, Deceraber 6, 1750;
married May 5, 1774, Alary Tarbell. 3. Phebe,
August 20, 1753. 4. Joseph, AprU 10,^56. 5-
Aaron, January 25, 1758; died December 18,
1776, soldier in the revolution. 6. Asa, Sep
tember II, 1761. 7. EHjah, December 14,
1765. Child of second wife; 8. Sally, born
October 19, 1771.
(A') Amos Tapley, .son of Gilbert Tapley,
was born at Danvers, October 15, 1748. He
was one of the most active and prominent citi
zens of Danvers, serving on the school commit
tee from 1787 to about 181 1 ; highway sur
veyor 1777-9 1-93-1 802-3- 12-16; selectraan and
assessor 1787-88-89-9 1-97-99- 1805-7-8-9; tax
collector 1787-88-89; tithingman 1780. He
was a member of the standing comraittee of the
First Church of Danvers, and built his pew in
the raeeting house. He was a soldier in the
revolution, sergeant on the Lexington alarm, in
Captain Sarauel Flint's company. Colonel Tim
othy Pickering's regiment, and later in 1775;
second lieutenant in Captaiii John Pool's com
pany. Colonel Jonathan Cogswell's regiraent,
1776; second lieutenant in Captain Asa
Prince's company. Eighth Essex Regiment;
first lieutenant in 1778, resigned May 4, 1778.
He built the present Joel Kiraball house at
Danvers Center, in 1784. He died intestate
Septeraber 6, 1835, and was buried in the old
Preston burying ground, where a tablet to his
meraory was erected by his grandson, Araos
Preston Tapley. James Berry administered
his estate. He raarried May 9, 1772, Hannah,
daughter of Lieutenant John and Hannah
(Putnam) Preston. Children, born in Danvers
and all baptized in the First church; i. Han
nah, born April 26, 1773. 2. David, born May
6, 1775- 3- Phebe, bora August 28, 1777. 4.
Eunice, born June i, 1780; died Deceraber 24,
1 781. 5. Amos, born November 4, 1782, raen
tioned below. 6. Moses, born Noveraber 8,
1784. 7. Betsey, born May 14, 1787. 8. Aaron,
born July 6, 1789. 9. Daniel, born July 14,
1791. 10. Philip Preston, born July 22, 1793;
died on voyage from New Orleans to Boston,
June 8, 1819. II. Ede, born August 17, 1790;
raarried April 23, 1839, Dr. D. A. Grosvenor.
12. Rufus, born October 16, 1800.
(VI) Araos Tapley, son of Araos Tapley,
was born at Danvers, Noveraber 4, 1782 ; died
at Lynn, September i, 1830. He was a house
wright by trade. He married, February 24,
1 814, Elizabeth Lye, born at Lynn, March 9,
1788, died May 30, 1841. Children, born at
Lynn; I. Eunice Ann, March 14, 1815; died

April 3, 1837. 2. Amos Preston, March 25,
1817; mentioned below. 3. Henry Massey,
March 3, 1820.
(VII) Amos Preston Tapley, son of Amos
Tapley, was born March 25, 1817, at Lynn,
and died in Boston, March 18, 1905. He was
educated in the Lynn public school. His busi
ness carreer began when he was fourteen in
the boot and shoe house of Joseph Pierce,
Broad street, Boston. Here he continued as
clerk for a few years, when, in partnership
with Daniel Binghara, the bookkeeper, he pur
chased the business and continued it under the
name of Bingham & Tapley until the btrsiness
depression made it necessary for the firm to
compromise with its creditors. In 1846 Mr.
Binghara retired and Mr. Tapley continued the
business, and, although under no legal obliga
tion to do so, he surprised his creditors after a
tirae by paying frora his own resources the
balance of the firm's indebtedness, covering the
difference between the dividend paid and the
araount of the original claira, including interest.
Subsequently Mr. Tapley adraitted his son,
Henry F. Tapley, into partnership, under the
narae of Amos P. Tapley & Company, and the
business still continues under that narae. Mr.
Tapley was one of the strong financiers of
Lynn, and for years a vital force in the boot
and shoe jobbing trade, his house being one of
the oldest if not the oldest jobbing house not
only in Boston but this country. Although
nearly eighty-eight years of age he was at his
office every day until one week prior to his
death. Air. Tapley was one of the organizers
of the City Bank of Lynn, chartered by the
state in 1854, and was the guiding spirit in this
bank until 1858, when upon the resignation of
John C. Abbott, Mr. Tapley became its presi
dent and continued in that position for thirty-
five years, during which tirae the bank was
removed to its present quarters and its name
changed to the National City Bank of Lynn.
His resignation as president of the bank was
reluctantly accepted January 10, 1893. He
was for many years one of the comraissioners
and chairman of the board of Pine Grove cem
etery, and an officer in the Lynn Five Cents
Savings Bank, and in addition to his other
responsibilities, he acted as trustee for a
number of large estates. He was at one time
interested in the lumber business at the old
Commercial street wharf. In connection with
the shoe trade, Mr. Tapley exercised a pro
gressive spirit and was interested in the adop
tion of the AlcKay sewing machine, and during
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the executive comraittee. At the tirae of his
death he had been connected with the whole-
,sale shoe business continuously longer than any
other raan in the country. Mr. Tapley was
brought up in the First Congregational Church
of Lynn, but the Unitarian faith early appealed
to him and he becarae connected with the First
Church of Boston, then under the pastorage of
the Rev. Nathaniel L. Frothinghara. AVhile
residing in Lynn, 1844-87, he attended the
Second Congregational ("Unitarian) Church,
but upon his return to Boston becarae connected
with the First Church. Charitable, without
ostentation, his benefactions were liberal and
widely scattered ; inspiring confidence and
affection, his friendships were lasting. He
possessed rare good sense, and his advice and
counsel were often sought and freely given.
Absolutely faithful, confidential positions of
great responsibility carae to hira unsolicited.
Air. Tapley married first, at Lynn, Deceraber
15, 1842, Adeline E., daughter of Jaraes and
Betsy Fuller; she died in Lynn, December 19,
1851. Married (second), June 23, 1856, Anna
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet
(Choate) Ireson. Child by first wife ; Henry
Fuller, born Boston, Noveraber 2, 1843. Child
by second wife : Alice Preston, born Lynn,
May 27, 1857.
(VIII) Henry Fuller Tapley, son of Araos
Preston and Adeline E. (Fuller) Tapley, born
Boston, Noveraber 2, 1843. Reraoving at an
early age with his parents to Lynn, he has
since resided there. He was educated in the
schools of Lynn, and after corapleting his
studies in 1862, entered the Boston store of his
father, becoming later a partner, and since the
death of his father he has conducted the busi
ness alone. Active, energetic and progressive,
he is connected with the following Lynn insti
tutions ; Vice-president of Five Cents Savings
Bank; director of Central National Bank;
director of Security Safe Deposit & Trust
Company ; director of Mutual Fire Insurance
Corapany; director of Manufacturers' and
Alerchants' Alutual Fire Insurance Cora
pany ; trustee of Public Library, Hospital,
Plorae for Aged AVomen, Home for Aged
Alen ; commissioner of Pine Grove ceme
tery; vice-president of New England Shoe and
Leather Association ; a former vice-president
of National Shoe AA'holesalers' Association of
the United States ; was also forraer president
of the New England Shoe Wholesalers' Asso
ciation. By birth a Unitarian, he has continued
in that faith and is prominent in the counsels
of his home church. The strenuous life of

raodern tiraes requires relaxation ; present civil
ization is showing the value of a fad. Among
those appealing to Mr. Tapley is the gathering
of a fine private library and the collecting of rare
prints. Much of his leisure is devoted to this,
and raerabership in the leading private, histor
ical and coUecting clubs of the country has
raade possible the acquireraent by him of many
limited editions, scarce volumes and prints.
He married, in Lynn, June 26, 1867, Ida
Jane, born in Lynn, July 22, 1844, daughter of
Joseph N. and Eliza A. Saunderson. Children :
I. Adaline Elizabeth, born May 18, 1869, mar
ried, February 26, 1896, Charles Henry Steph
enson ; resides in Lynn ; children ; i. Preston
Tapley, born November 6, 1897; ii. Ruth, July
8, 1900; iii. Henry Dexter, Septeraber 5, 1901.
2. Edith, born October 23, 1870; married, April
14, 1897, George Richardson Beardsell, for
merly of Hudson, Michigan ; resides in Lynn ;
chUdren; i. Editha, born January 13, 1899;
u. George Richardson, Jr., February 26, 1900;
iii. Barbara, August 15, 1906; iv. Henry Tap-
ley, October 30, 1907. Joseph N. Saunderson,
father of Airs. Tapley, was born in Medford,
January 25, 1801, passed away 1871. At an
early age he removed to Lynn, and Hke all
boys of his generation early learned a trade,
which in his case was that of shoeraaker. Mas
tering the raechanical part, he becarae a suc
cessful shoe raanufacturer, and so continued
for many years. At the age of fifty, obliged
by failing health to give up the confinement of
an indoor Hfe, he took a long rest and partiaUy
recovered his health ; he then devoted a portion
of his tirae to the care of estates as executor.
He was for many years connected with the
Lynn Institution for Savings, of which he was
president. He was also a director of the First
National Bank of that city, and first secretary-
treasurer of the Lynn Gas Corapany. In reh
gion he was a Unitarian, and was always a
church goer. Abel Pluse (i), immigrant ances-
Hl.^SE tor, was of AA^elsh ancestry. He
came from London in 1635 ; set
tled among the pioneers at Newbury, Alassa
chusetts, and was admitted a freeraan Alay 15,
1642. He raarried first Eleanor  . He
raarried second, Alay 25, 1663, Alary (Hil
ton, alias Downer) Sears, widow of Thomas
Sears, of Newbury. Mr. Huse died at New
bury, March 29, 1690, aged eighty-eight years,
being born accordingly in 1602. Children of
second wife; i. Ruth, bora February 25,
1664. 2. Abel, born February 19, 1665; men-

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tioned below. 3. Thomas, born August 9,
1666, married Hannah  ; children; i.
Mary, born Alarch 23, 1691 ; h. Israel, born
October 23, 1693; "i- Ebenezer, born January
16, 1696; iv. James, born June 29, 1698; v.
Hannah, born November 5, 1700; vi. Ruth,
born February 14, 1703. 3. AViUiara, born
October, 1667 ; raarried, 1699, Anne Russell;
children; i. Anne, born May 22, 1700; ii.
AVilliam, born October 30, 1701. 4. Sarah,
born October 8, 1670. 5. John, born June 20,
1672. 6. Aray, born Septeraber 9, 1673; died
Alay 18, 1675. 7. Ebenezer (a daughter
according to the town records), born August
10, 1675. 8. George, of Salisbury; perhaps
son of first wife; married Alary Alien; chil
dren; i. AViUiam, born June 27, 1672; ii. Solo
mon, born January 2, 1674-75; married Mary
Calef, of Boston, in 1700.
(II) Abel Huse, son of iAbel Huse, was
born in Newbury, Massachusetts, February 19,
1665. He married Judith Emery, born Feb
ruary 5, 1673, daughter of John and Mary
(Webster) Emery, and granddaughter of
John Emery. Abel Huse, died in Newbury,
March 11, 1758, aged ninety-three Children;
I. John, bora October 31, 1694. 2. Abel, born
November 18, 1696. 3. Stephen, born Novera
ber 16, 1702; graduate of Harvard College
in 1728; raarried Judith Eraery, widow of
Daniel Eraery; reraoved to Haverhill, Massa
chusetts. 4. Samuel, born March 30, 1705.
5. Judith, born February 13, 1709. 6. Sarah,
born March 29, 1712, raarried Caleb Kiraball.
7. Mary, born March 16, 1716; married Enoch
Davis. 8. Nathan, mentioned below.
(Ill) Dr. Nathan Huse, son of Abel Huse,
was born in Newbury, Alassachusetts. He
became a well-known physician of Araesbury,
Massachusetts, "who practiced a great many
years in the West Parish." He died April 23,
1809, in his ninety-third year. He married,
December 5, 1738, Rachel Sargent, born Feb
ruary 23, 1721, daughter of Joseph and Eliza
beth (Carr) Sargent, of Araesbury. Her
father was a raeraber of the "Snowshoe'" raili
tary corapany. Thoraas Sargent, father of
Joseph Sargent, born 1643, was lieutenant in
the train band, son of AVilliam Sargent, the
iraraigrant, of Salisbury. Children of Dr.
Nathan Huse, born in Araesbury: i. Sargent,
born August 22, 1739, soldier in the revolu
tion. 2. Elizabeth, born February 25, 1741.
3. Hannah, born January 12, 1742. 4. Nathan,
born February 13, 1747, died young. 5. Jo
seph, born Alarch 2, 1749, mentioned below.
6. Ebenezer, born December 25, 1750. 7-

Rachel, bora Alay 6, 1755. 8. Sarah, born
February 19, 1757. 9. John, born December
31, 1758. 10. AVilliara, born August 22, 1760.
II. Nathan, born August 8, 1769.
(IA') Joseph Huse, son of Dr. Nathan
Huse, was born in Amesbury, March 2, 1749.
He reraoved to Sanbornton frora Amesbury
before 1782, and was the first of the brothers
who located in that town. His house was
northeast of the square, lot 41, first division.
He was a soldier in the revolution. He mar
ried first, Abiah  ; second, Mrs. Pease,
daughter of Daniel Morrison, and widow of
the first settler on the Dearborn Taylor place
(No. 26, second division) where he finally
settled and died July 10, 1827, aged seventy-
eight. His wife died Deceraber 12, 1824. Mr.
Pluse built and owned the first raills at North
Sanbornton and bequeathed thera to his
nephew. His mill house stood near the house
of Thomas Webster, lately the postoffice. His
only child was John, Jr., raentioned below.
(V) John Huse, Jr., son of Joseph Huse,
was born in Sanbornton. He raarried Alary
Carter, of New Harapton, New Harapshire,
October 4, 1796. He resided at Sanbornton
several years where the late Jonathan Taylor
lived, west of his father's house. He removed
to Littleton, New Hampshire Children: i.
Simeon, resided in Coventry, Vermont. 2.
Joseph, went west. 3. Daniel, raentioned
below. (A'^I) Daniel Huse, son of John Pluse, Jr.,
according to the best authority available, raar
ried Sarah Day. He was certainly descended
frora these ancestors. They settled in Enfield,
New Harapshire and had five children, among
whom was Timothy, mentioned below.
(VII) Timothy Huse, son of Daniel Huse,
was born in Enfield, New Harapshire, Septera
ber 18, 1821. He was educated in the public
schools, and learned the trade of carpenter.
He engaged in business as a carpenter and
builder when a young raan, and followed that
caUing all his life, with rauch success. He
settled in Plaverhill, Alassachusetts, and built
raany iraportant buildings in that city. His
death occurred there Air. Huse was a Repub
lican in politics. He was a prominent and
active member of the Congregational church
of Haverhill, a raan of high character and
unusual ability, of strict< integrity and wide
influence for good in the city in which he Hved.
He married in 1844, Angeline Gordon, daugh
ter of Jesse and Harriet (Connor) Gordon.
She survives him and lives at the old home in
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by her many friends and neighbors. ChUdren ;
I. Frank G.. born August 24, 1846. 2. Ed
ward E., born July 20, 1848. 3. George H.,
born July 11, 1850, died September 8, 1850.
4. Harriet S., born June 30, 1851, died August
14, 1851. 5. Mary S., born February i, 1854.
6. Walter L., born April 6, 1855. 7. Charles
Herbert, born February 12, 1858. 8. George
Johnson, born April 3, 1862; died August 24,
1862.

This narae is also spelled in the
BLANEA' early records of Essex county
Blaner, Blano, Blany and Blar
ney. The first of this narae in Araerica was
John Blaney (i), born about 1630. He was
a planter, and Hved in Salera as early as 1659.
He raarried first, Hannah King, of Lynn, alias
Salera, being that part of Lynn which is now
Swampscott, July 11, 1660; she died about
1676. He raarried second, Elizabeth, widow
of Thomas Purchase, of Lynn, Noveraber,
1678; she died before 1696. He was living as
late as 1709. Children, born in Salera; John,
Daniel, Henry, Hannah ; Joseph, raentioned
below ; Elizabeth and Sarah.
(II) Joseph Blaney, son of John Blaney,
was born in Salera, October 2, 1670. He was
a shipwright, and lived in Hinghara until 1697,
when he settled in Lynn. Pie raarried, Janu
ary 16, 1693-94, Abigail Andrews, of Hing
hara, born January 6, 1669-70, died Deceraber
10, 1765. He died January 16, 1726-27; in
his will he gave to the poor of the First Parish
in Lynn twenty pounds, to be distributed by
the deacons. ChUdren ; Joseph, Hannah,
Benjamin, Jedediah; Jonathan, mentioned
below ; and Ambrose.
(Ill) Jonathan Blaney, son of Joseph and
Abigail (Andrews) Blaney, was born in Lynn,
January 6, 1703-04, died Septeraber 8, 1757.
He was a yeoraan, and Hved in Lynn. He
raarried Hannah Gray, of Lynn (published
October 7, 1736). Children; Joseph, raen
tioned below ; Mary, Abigail and Plannah.
(lA^) Joseph Blaney, son of Jonathan and
Hannah (Gray) Blaney, was of age in 1765.
Pie was a yeoraan, and lived in Lynn. He
raarried first, November 24, 1763, Anne Cox,
of Salera; second, Plannah Planford, of Salera
(published November 12, 1797). Children ;-
Jonathan, Martha, Anne, Joseph, mentioned
below. Joseph Blaney died Alarch, 1826, in
Lynn. (V) Joseph Blaney, son of Joseph and
Anne (Cox) Blaney, was born May 9, 1777,
died April 20, i82(5. On July 12, 1830, Jo

seph Blaney, with three others, left Swamp
scott in the schooner "Finback," for a fishing
trip. When about twelye railes southeast of
Alinots Lodge they anchored, and each taking
a dory left the vessel, and when sorae distance
apart began to fish. In a short time their
attention was attracted toward Mr. Blaney
who was standing up in his dory waving his
hat. They saw that a Hugh shark was in the
dory and was making vigorous efforts to get
back into the water ; suddenly the boat was
overturned, and Mr. Blaney, boat and shark
disappeared. The boat soon came to the sur
face bottom up, but Air. Blaney was never
seen afterward, and it is .supposed he was
devoured by the shark. The old Blaney house,
situated on Pluraphrey street, Swarapscott,
near B'ack AVill's cliff, was built by Captain
Ral; h King in 1641, and was occupied by John
Blaney in 1660. Joseph Blaney raarried Octo
ber 29, 180,3, Ruth Phillips, who died June 23,
1854. Children; i. Benjamin, born August
9, 1804, died January 8, 1847 ; married Sarah
Abbott. 2. Alice, born Septeraber 9, 1805 ;
married Nathaniel Blanchard. 3. Jonathan P.,
born Alarch |20, 1808; married Sally Rhodes.
4. Ann, born December 11, 1810, died January
26, 1890. 5. Joseph Ingalls, born July 22,
181 3. 6. James Phillips, born December 11,
181 5. 7. Elbridge G., mentioned below.
(VI) Elbridge G. Blaney, son of Joseph
and Ruth (Phillips) Blaney, was born in
Swampscott, February 3, 1822, died October
29, 1902. He raarried, August 25, 1850, in
Marblehead, Anna A''. Bessom, born December
II, 1831, in Marblehead, daughter of AViUiara
and Alaria (Van Blunk) Bessom. Children;
I. Elizabeth B., born September 21, 1851, mar
ried first, July II, 1867, Benjamin H. Phillips,
of Marblehead ; one son, Amos ; raarried sec
ond, Plenry Ireland, of Nashville, Tennessee,
her cousin ; one child, Susie, born September,
1881 ; married third, in Brooklyn, New York,
John Ellison, of Lynn, a native of Sweden. 2.
Araos P., born July 9, 1853, died October 24.
1854. 3. Elbridge G., born July 21, 1856, died
October 31, 1858. 4. Elbridge G., mentioned
below. 5. Annaurilia, died aged four years.
(A' II) Elbridge G. Blaney, son of Elbridge
G. and Anna V. (Bessom) Blaney, was born
in Swampscott, December 4, 1859. He
attended the coraraon schools of his native
town, after which he learned the trade of wood
worker with the firra of Stephen N. Breed &
Conipany of Lynn, where he was employed
until the great Lynn fire, Noveraber 12, 1889,
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destroyed. He then took up the business of
florist at his home on Burrill street, S'wamp-
scott, where he has resided since the age of
four years, and where he is still conducting a
very successful business. He is a meraber of
Swampscott Lodge, and Palestine Encamp
ment, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He raarried, March 28, 1881, Jessie F.,
daughter of Jonathan and Sarah J. (Winch)
Leach. One child, Harold C, born April 4,
1883, raarried, Septeraber 19, 1900, Susie G.,
daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Gordon)
Stone, of Alarblehead. Children; i. Jessie
E., born Alarch 15, 1902. 2. Edith G., June 6,
1903- 
The Araerige family, repre-
AAIERIGE sented in the present genera
tion by Dr. Charles W. Araer
ige, a practicing physician, a specialist, with
offices in the city of Boston, was founded in
this country by Morris Araerige (i), a native
of Gerraany, who eraigrated to this country at
the age of fifteen, shipping as cabin boy, he
thinking that there were greater possibUities
for advanceraent in the new than in the old
world. He settled in Boston, and two of his
brothers, who came to this country about the
sarae tirae, settled in Philadelphia; they be
came lawyers and gained renown for thera
selves along the line of their profession.
Morris Araerige was a sugar refiner by trade,
gaining a lucrative livelihood for his faraily.
He niarried Sarah Brown, of Saugus, Massa
chusetts. Children: i. George, went to Cali
fornia in 1849, was raarried but left no chil
dren ; died in San Francisco, California. 2.
William, went to China, was a sail maker and
mate in a vessel, made raany trips back and
forth; he was a bachelor; died in Necco,
China. 3. Charles, worked in a tinshop in
Boston ; died at the age of eighteen. 4. Mary,
married John Odion and (second) Charles
Bond ; by. the latter she had one son, Charles
H. Bond, who died July 3, 1908. 5. Henry,
~ married three times ; by his second wife had
two children, both of whom died; by his third
wife had five chUdren; Ella, George, Alfred,
Hattie and Edward. 6. Francis, see forward.
(II) Francis Araerige, youngest son of
Morris and Sarah (Brown) Amerige, was
bom on Prince street, Boston, August 16,
1820. He worked as printer on the Boston
Post when a young man, and later went to
Saugus and learned the art of raaking shoes
with his uncle, Soloraon Brown, and he fol
lowed this trade in a shop on his premises until
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he retired at the age of seventy, since which
time he has enjoyed a well-earned rest. He
is at the present time (1908) eighty-eight
years of age, having lived far past the script
ural allotted time of three score years and
ten. He married Belinda Burrill, whose birth
occurred in Maiden, Massachusetts, and who
died in Saugus, January, 1896. She was one
of five children, the other raerabers of the
family being Warren, who served his country
in the war of 1812; Charles; Ellen, married
Stephen Danforth, of Saugus, but raoved to
Goffstown, New Harapshire, and died there;
EHza, raarried Henry I. Fisk, of Walthara,
Massachusetts, and died there. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Amerige; i. William H., mar
ried Lina Lockwood ; resides in Lynn ; served
three years in the civil war under General
Grant; is now eraployed in the navy yard. 2.
Judge George M., graduate of the Boston Uni
versity of Law ; judge of the district court for
fourteen years; was with the Boston Marine
Underwriters for forty years, serving as their
secretary at the tirae of his death, January 17,
1905 ; he raarried Mary L. Hawkes, who sur
vived hira as did also two sons, George M. and
Henry. 3. Frank W., raarried Lizzie King
and died leaving one son, George. 4. Henry,
raarried Mary Babbitt and died leaving two
children, Edith and Arthur; Edith raarried
A'^arnura Merrithew, died April 27, 1908, leav
ing two sons, Leslie and Henry Alerrithew, all
reside in Saugus. 5. Charles W, see forward.
(Ill) Dr. Charles W. Araerige, youngest
son of Francis and Belinda (Burrill) Amerige,
was born in Cliftondale, town of Saugus,
Alassachusetts, May 27, 1855. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Saugus, and
graduated frora the Indiana College of Medi
cine, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1882. He has
been a practicing physician since his gradua
tion, a period of twenty-six years, and is now
a specialist, with offices at No. 74 Boylston
street, Boston. Previous to becoraing a physi
cian he was engaged in the real estate business,
contracting and building, and sorae of the
finest and most costly buildings in Saugus, both
pubhc and private, stand as monuments to his
skill and ability along that line. He served
the town of Saugus in the capacity of building
inspector one year and as assessor three years,
acting as chairman two years and secretary
one year. He was brought up in the Meth
odist faith, and attends the church of that
denomination. He was a charter meraber of
Cliftondale Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
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a raeraber of the Grand Lodge of the sarae
order of the state of Massachusetts, also the
Knights of Pythias and Red Alen.
Dr. Amerige married, June 27, 1903, Lida
\\'. Briggs, born in AVest AA'infield, Herkimer
county, New York, February 7, 1862, daughter
of Daniel Bowen and Ruth "AA^. (Scott) Briggs,
granddaughter of Archibald and Harriet
(Aloulton) Briggs, and great-granddaughter
of James Briggs, who with his two brothers
fought in the revolutionary war. Her grand
parents were pioneers in settling New York
state, coining from AA-'^illimantic, Connecticut^ in
a two-horse lumber wagon with their furniture
in the spring of 1816 and settling on what is
now known as Briggs Hill in the town of Win-
field. Her father was the proprietor of a
bookstore at Utica, New York ; he died April
13, 1907, at the residence of Dr. Araerige, at
the age of nearly eighty- four; he aijd his wife
were the parents of four children ; Lida W.
(Mrs. Araerige) ; George B. Briggs, a produce
dealer in St. Louis, Missouri; he raarried and
is the father of two chUdren ; Harry and Zoe
Briggs ; Mrs. Hattie M. Peter, of Butte, Mon
tana, mother of three children ; Ira, Cora and
Ruth Peter ; Mrs. Zoe C. Johnson, of Mace-
don, New York, who is the mother of one
child, Halford H. B. Johnson. Airs. Amerige
received her education in the district school
and academy of West Winfield, and later in
New York City, where she graduated from the
Normal College in June, 1881. She has been
a teacher and writer, being author of the novel
"Words That Burn" and contributor of articles
and short stories to various papers. She is a
raeraber of the League of American Pen
Woraen, of AA'ashington, D. C.

Thoraas Cole, iraraigrant ancestor,
COLE in England, is beHeved to have
come in the ship "Mary and John,"
sailing March 24, 1633. He settled in Salem
as early as 1649. The will of AVilliara Cole,
of Harapton, New Hampshire, perhaps a
brother, was filed at Salera, proved April 14,
1663. Thoraas Cole bought a house and land
at Marblehead Neck, February 14, 1665, of
Philip Cromwell. The will of Thomas Cole
was dated December 15, 1678, and proved
April 27, 1679. The will of his widow, Ann
Cole, was dated Noveraber i, 1679, and proved
May 2, 1681. Children; Abraham, mentioned
below ; John.
(II) Abraham Cole, son of Thoraas and
Ann Cole, was born in Salera about 1645, died

1715. He signed the Salera protest against
imposts in 1666. He reraoved to Hampton,
but returned to Salera. He was a tailor by
trade He raarried, at Salem, June 11, 1670,
Sarah Davis, who was accused of witchcraft
during the delusion in 1692, but was never
tried. Her will was dated July 2, 1717. His
will was proved December 31, 171 5. Chil
dren, born at Marblehead; i. Samuel, born
Alay II, 1671, died June, 1671. 2. Sarah, Au
gust 29, 1672. 3. Abraham, Jr., January 6,
1674, died young. 4. Isaac, June 6, 1677, died
young. 5. EHzabeth, raarried  Jeffords.
6. Samuel, May 19, 1687. 7. Thomas, men
tioned below. 8. Abraham.
(Ill) Thoraas Cole, son of Abrahara and
Sarah (Davis) Cole, was born about 1689.
He raarried (first), Noveraber 4, 1706, Sus
anna Sikes, of Beverly; second, June 10, 1710,
 ; third, January 5, 1718-19, Elizabeth
Mathews or Mahews, of Marblehead. Chil
dren; I. Elizabeth, baptized Noveraber 29,
1819. 2. Williara, raentioned below.
(IV) Captain William Cole, sori of Thoraas
and Elizabeth Cole, was born about 1730. He
purchased land of Eben Hawkes, of "Windraill
HiU, Marblehead, May 29, 1758. He raarried,
at Marblehead, December i, 1757, Ruth Lee,
died July 23, 1798; died in 1774. Children.
bora at Marblehead; i. Williara, raentioned
below. 2. Richard, baptized February 15,
1761. 3. John, baptized Septeraber 15, 1765.
4. Elizabeth, baptized Deceraber 13, 1767.
(V) Captain William Cole, son of Captain
WilHam and Ruth (Lee) Cole, baptized Janu
ary 14, 1759, died, according to his gravestone,
August 12, 1808. He raarried, February 12,
1788. Elizabeth Tutt, died October 30, 1850,
aged seventy years. Children, born at Marble
head ; I. Williara, baptized Deceraber 7, 1788,
lost October i, 1830, frora schooner "Panther,"
on the Grand Banks. 2. Richard, raentioned
below. 3. Elizabeth, baptized June 19, 1792.
4. John, baptized June 28, 1795. 5. "Sarauel
Horton, baptized December 13, 1801, died Feb
ruary 24, 1817.
("VI) Richard Cole, son of Captain William
and Elizabeth (Tutt) Cole, was baptized June
19, 1 79 1. He raarried, Deceraber 12, 18 15,
Abigail Call, died July 29, 1830, aged thirty-
eight; second, October 17, 1830, Miriam CaU.
Children, born at Marblehead: i. Child, died
October 6, 1826. 2. Child, died aged thirteen
months. 3. John, born September 25, 1827,
mentioned below. 4. Benjamin, born 1831,
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5. Richard, bom 1834, died Deceraber 4, 1835,
aged one year, four raonths. 6. Richard, died
November 30, 1839.
(VII) Captain John Cole, son of Richard
and Abigail (Call) Cole, born at Marblehead,
September 25, 1827, died July 22, 1902. He
was educated in the public schools of his native
town. AVhen a young raan he learned shoe
raaking, like raost of the youth of his day. He
also followed the sea in seasons of fishing,
sailed around Cape Plorn in' 1849 ^^d landed
in California at tirae of gold fever, and rose
to the rank of master raariner. He became
captain of the merchant vessels "Aberdeen"
and "Hollyhead," commanding the forraer
when only twenty-one years old, and later he
comraanded the ship "Blackwall." In 1879 he
abandoned a seafaring life and settled in his
native town. He established a coal and wood
business there in 1882 and becanie a prosper
ous merchant, continuing up to his death. In
politics he was a Republican ; for three years
served as selectman of the town and chair
man of the board one year. He was a meraber
of Philanthropic Lodge, F. A. Al., many years,
and its treasurer frora 1880 until his death;
a meraber of Washington Chapter, R. A. M.,
of Salera ; Atlantic Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Nep
tune Lodge, Knights of Pythias. In religion
he was a Unitarian. He raarried, in 1855,
Sarah Trefry, born in Marblehead, daughter
of Thoraas Trefry. Children, born in Marble
head ; Hattie Bishop ; Richard Thomas, men
tioned below.
(A^III) Richard Thomas Cole, son of Cap
tain John and Sarah (Trefry) Cole, was born
in London, England, January 6, 1870. He
crossed the ocean when six weeks of age, and
landed in Alarblehead at the age of eight
weeks. He again sailed with his father, start
ing at age four, and after visiting England,
Australia, South America, Gerraany and prin
cipal seaboard cities of America, come to Mar
blehead at the age of nine. He attended the
public schools there and Hickock's Short
Hand School and Business College, Boston.
He began work for the American Radiator
Company as bookkeeper and continued five
years. He was then for several years travel
ing salesraan for the firm of E. T. Burrowes
Company, of Portland, Alaine, manufacturers
of screens. In 1906 he returned to Marble
head, Massachusetts, and since then has been
engaged in the coal and wood business under
the name of the Gilbert & Cole Company. He
is a member of Philanthropic Lodge, Free and
Accepted Alasons. He raarried, September 12,

1897, Jane Green AA'ilson, born in Alarblehead,
daughter of Francis B. and Alary Jane AVilson.

John Pilling, son of Alarma-
PILLING duke Pilling, and descendant of
an ancient English faraily of
this name, was born in Yorkshire, England,
March 11, 1838. He was educated in his
native place. In 1857 he carae to Araerica,
working first in Delaware, removing thence to
Salem, New Plampshire, where he learned the
trade of shoemaker in the factories. He rose
to places of responsibility, and in 1867 was in
a position to begin manufacturing on his own
account, which he accordingly did in the old
AAHiite building on AA'ashington street, Haver
hill, Alassachusetts. Later he established his
shoe business in a brick building which he
erected for his use, and built up a large and
flourishing business. The building was
destroyed by fire February 19, 1882, but Mr.
Pilling imraediately rebuilt and forty days
later was again manufacturing shoes. He was
a leading raanufacturer in one of the foremost
shoe towns of New England, and was one of
the best known and most highly respected busi
ness raen of the city of Haverhill for sorae
twenty years. He reraoved his business to
Lowell in 1888, which was continued in the
city until his death, July 8, 1903 ; he still
resided at Haverhill. He was succeeded by
his sons, who continued the business. He
invested extensively in Haverhill real estate
and built and acquired a large araount of rent
ing property. Air. Pilling was generous with
his wealth and set an excellent exaraple in his
benevolence. He gave liberally to every char
ity and raoveraent that appealed to him as
worthy, and none knew the full extent of his
giving. He was a raan of strictest integrity
and exemplary character, and was a useful
citizen and a public benefactor, both in Haver
hill and Lowell. He was a raeraber of the
Alerriraac Lodge of Free Masons, and an
active member and liberal supporter of the
Christian Church of Haverhill. He was a
steadfast Republican in politics. Pilling street
was named in his honor.
Mr. Pilling raarried Eliza E. (Alesser) Pet-
tengill, born at New London, New Harapshire,
February 5, 1829, daughter of Frederick Mes
ser, and widow of Horace Pettengill. After
the death of Air. PiUing she resided in the old
home at Haverhill until the property was
bought by the city for school purposes, when
she removed to "Bartlett street, Mt. Washing
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Christian Church, for raany years a teacher in
its Sunday school, and in every respect a
woraan of the finest Christian character. At
her death she donated the Bartlett street prop
erty to the Christian Church of Haverhill,
for use as a parsonage, the new dorraitory to
the Young Alen's Christian Association, and
gave liberally, in sympathy with her husband's
wishes, to many other charities. The children
of Mr. and Mrs. Pilling are: Eugene, born
January 30, 1861, died 1889; John B., born
February 16, 1863; Fred A., born February 5,
1868; Ernest, died in infancy.
John B. Pilling was educated in the common
schools at Haverhill, after which he entered
his father's shoe factory and there learned
every detail of the business. He raarried, No
vember 6, 1888, Delia I. Kelley. To thera
was born, Septeraber 3, 1894, one daughter,
Ruth E.
Fred A. Pilling niarried, April 15, 1890,
Martha Rapp, now deceased. To them was
born April 25, 1891, one son, John AV. After
ward he married December 24, 1894, Belle V.
Buchanan, his present wife.
When the Pilling shoe business was moved
to Lowell, it was incorporated under the laws
of Massachusetts as John Pilling Shoe Cora
pany, John Pilling being its first president and
treasurer, he, together with John B. and Fred
A. Pilling, constituting its board of directors.
Upon the death of John Pilling, John B. Pill
ing becarae its president and treasurer, and has
since served in that capacity. At the present
tirae (1908) John B. and Fred A. Pilling, are
in active raanagement of the John Pilling shoe
business at Lowell, having one of the most
modern factories in this section of the state.
The brothers are thoroughly practical business
men and have inherited the sterling business
qualities so forcibly effectuated by their father,
and to this is largely due the success which has
continually crowned their efforts.

The first ancestor of this family
CLARK of whom we have information
was Jonathan Clark, grandfather
of AViUiam Paige Clark, who was born in Hop-
kuiton. New Plampshire, 1779, died 1825, aged
forty-six years. He was a farmer at "\Veare,
New Hampshire. He married Sarah Paige,
bora 1785, of North Weare, who died, his
widow. May 8, 1883, aged ninety-eight years.
ChUdren: i. Lois, born 1803. 2. John P.,
1805. 3. William, 1810, niarried Delia Puring
ton. 4. Martha, 1812. 5. Jacob, 1817. 6.
Sebastian S., 1820.^ 7. Bailey, died in Ohio

when a young man. Sarah (Paige) Clark
traced her ancestry to John Paige (i), born
in Dedham, England, 1586, came to New Eng
land in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massa
chusetts. Sarauel Paige (2), son of John and
Phebe Paige, born in 1633, lived in Salisbury,
Massachusetts. Joseph Paige (3), eldest son
of Samuel Paige, was born in 1667, married
and had sons. John Paige (4), son of Joseph
Paige, was born June 17, i6g6, married Mary
AVinslow, 1720, and they lived in South Hamp
ton and also in Salisbury, Alassachusetts. Col
onel Samuel Paige (5), son of John and Mary
(AVinslow) Paige, served in the revolutionary
war. Captain Nathan Hutchins's company,
Colonel Joseph Cilley's regiraent ; it was the
first New Plampshire regiment in General John
Sullivan's brigade and saw service under
AVashington at Trenton and Princeton; was at
Ticonderoga four months and twenty-four
days. He married Eleanor Stevens. John
Paige (6), son of Colonel Samuel and Eleanor
(Stevens) Paige, also served in the revolu
tionary war ; he married Plannah Barnard,
and they were the parents of Sarah Paige,
aforeraentioned as the wife of Jonathan Clark.
(II) William Clark, son of Jonathan and
Sarah (Paige) Clark, was born at North
AA^eare, New Hampshire, 1809, was burned
fatally, -August 25, 1835, at the early, age of
twenty-six years. Pie followed the occupation
of farming in his native town. He married
Delia, born 1808, died 1889, daughter of Eli
jah and Delia (Brown) Purington, in Weare,
New Hampshire. Pier grandfather and great
grandfather, both named Elijah Purington,
lived in Weare on land settled by her great
grandfather who was born in Hampton, New
Hampshire, 1730, and who raarried Dolly
Green, sister of Isaiah Green, who also settled
in Weare. They belonged to the Society of
Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were the parents
of one child, William Paige, see forward.
(Ill) William Paige Clark, only son of
William and Delia (Purington) Clark, was
bom in North Weare, New Harapshire, Alarch
17, 1834, died April 12, 1896, very suddenly, in
Lowell, Massachusetts. He accompanied his
mother to Pelham, New Hampshire, 1837, and
there acquired his education. In 1852 he went
to Lowell, Massachusetts, and was there
engaged as clerk in a store. Pie removed to
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1863, and there
engaged in the .wholesale country and produce
business, continuing until his decease. He
was also president of Lawrence National Bank
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taiiiging thereto with ability and efficiency, his
long and active career as merchant thoroughly
qualifying him for this position of trust and
responsibility. He was a meraber of Trinity
Congregational Church, and in politics was a
Republican, serving as alderraan of Lawrence
in 1876. Mr. Clark married, June 3, 1866, at
Lowell, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Atwood,
born February 28, 1838, in Pelham, New
Hampshire, daughter of Alvah and Lydia (At
wood) Gage, the forraer of whora was born
1796, a farraer in Pelham, New Hampshire,
and the latter born 1802. Air. and Mrs. Gage had
three children ; Lydia, bom 1831 ; Betsey,
1833; Elizabeth, mentioned above. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Clark; i. Kate Alarion, born
October 25, 1869, married, January 24, 1893,
George Warren Harablet, born at Dracut,
Massachusetts, May 4, 1865; children; i.
Helen Elizabeth, February 22, 1894; ii.
Marion Clark, Deceraber 10, 1896; iii. Theo
dore Cleraent, October 30, 1898 ; iv. Katherine
Gage, September 6, 1900; v. George AVarren,
Jr., January 17, 1904; vi. AVilliam Paige Clark,
January 17, 1907. 2. Alice Gage, born July
24, 1871. Anthony Colby, founder and
COLBY Araerican ancestor of one of the
prolific farailies in New Eng
land, carae in Winthrop's fleet in 1630 and his
narae appears as ninety-third on the list of
raerabers of the church. He carae frora the
eastern coast of England, and was driven by
religious persecution to seek a horae in the
new world. He appears in Carabridge, Massa
chusetts, in 1632, on his marriage with Sus
annah Sargent, but in 1634 reraoved to Salis
bury, and thence in 1647 to the west side of
Powow river, in what now is Araesbury.
He was recorded as a planter and received land
in the first division in 1640 and 1643. He was
one of the first commoners in Araesbury, had
grants of land in 1654 and 1658, and his
widow in his right in 1662 and 1664, he having
died in Salisbury, February 11, 1661. His
widow, Susannah, raarried, in 1663, William
Whittridge or Whitred, and was again a
widow in 1669. She died July 8, 1689.
Anthony Colby's children were ; John, Sarah,
Samuel, Isaac, Rebecca, Mary, Thoraas, and
one other died young.
(II) Sarauel Colby, of Amesbury and Hav
erhill, planter and innholder, was born in 1639.
He was a soldier of King Philip's war and
served under Captain Turner in the Falls fight,
Alarch 18. 1676. He married, before 1668,

Elizabeth, daughter of Williara Sargent. Sara
uel Colby had a grant of land in Araesbury in
1659, again in _ 1662 ; was townsraan then in
1660; lived in Haverhill in 1668, 1672, 1674,
and probably in 1677, although he was in
Araesbury in 1676, perhaps for the safety of
his faraily during the war in which he took
part. He took the oath of aUegiance and
fidelity in Araesbury in Deceraber, 1677, and
was representative from there in 1689. His
will bears date July 2, 1716. His widow Eliz
abeth died February 5, 1736-37. According
to the Amesbury records they, had five chU
dren; I. Dorothy, born about 1668; raarried
WilHam Ployt. 2. Elizabeth, June i, 1670,
died young. 3. Samuel, March 9, 1671. 4.
Daughter, April 2, 1672. 5. Philip, probably
niarried, May i, 1703, Annie Webster.
(Ill) Sarauel Colby, son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Sargent) Colby, was born in Ames
bury, March 9, 1671, was called "junior" be
fore 1 716, and afterward was called "senior."
He raarried Dorothy Arabrose, who was
appointed, Septeraber 29, 1746, adrainistratrix
of his estate, which was divided about 1748-
50. They had eleven children, born in Ames
bury; I. Elizabeth, Deceraber 7, 1694, mar
ried John Rowell. 2. Keziah, May 11, 1697,
raarried first David Currier ; second, Jacob
Bagley. 3. Sarauel, April 19, 1698, "oldest
son." 4. Arabrose, May 11, 1700. 5. Enoch,
November 7, 1702; removed to Chester, New
Harapshire. 6. Susanna, August 15, 1705,
married Micah Hoyt. 7. Obadiah, July 15,
1706. 8. Dorothy, May 25, 1708. 9. Hezekiel,
Alarch 25, 1710. 10. Ruggles, June 10, 171 1.
II. Abigail, April 29, 1713.
(IV) Samuel Colby, of Amesbury, son of
Sarauel and Dorothy (Arabrose) Colby, born
Araesbury, April 19, 1698, married there Octo
ber 23, 1718, Anna Nichols, born Alay i, 1694-
95, daughter of Thoraas and Jane (Jameson)
Nichols, and granddaughter of Thomas and
Mary Nichols, the former of whora was in
Araesbury as early as 1665 (see Nichols
faraily). Children; i. Sarauel, Deceraber 30,
1720. 2. Moses, June 26, 1723, niarried Mary
Sargent. 3. Aaron, October 13, 1726. 4.
Gideon, May 13, 1729. 5. Barzilla, October
22, 1731, raarried (first) Elizabeth Pluraraer,
(second) Miriam Worthen. 6. Lydia, June
26, 173S-
(V) Gideon Colby, son of Sarauel and
Anna (Nichols) Colby, born Araesbury, May
13, 1729, was by trade a carpenter and joiner.
He was a soldier of the colonial array during
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part in the campaign of that year and again
during the year 1758. He married, April 29,
1747. EHzabeth Tucker, of Amesbury, who
died May 9, 1792. They had eight children,
all born in Amesbury; i. AA^inthrop, October
19, 1749, married, 1778, Abigail Nichols. 2.
Aaron, October 15, 175 1. 3. Gideon, August
9, 1753, soldier of the revolution. 4. Sarah,
Alarch 25, 1758. 5. Ehzabeth, AprU 24, 1760.
6. Anna, June 8, 1762, died young. 7. AloUy,
June 5, [767. 8. Anne, December 9, 1774.
(VI ) Aaron Colby, son of Gideon and Eliz
abeth (Tucker) Colby, born Amesbury, Octo
ber 15, 1751, was a cooper by trade. He also
was a soldier of the revolution, his service rec
ord being as follows : Private in Captain
Alatthias Hoyt's company of minutemen that
marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775; served nine days; private in Captain
Timothy Barnard's company of Colonel Moses
Little's seventeenth regiment ; muster roll
dated August i, 1775; enlisted June i, 1775;
service eight raonths five days ; also mentioned
in conipany return dated October 9, 1775, age
twenty-three years ; private Captain Eliphalet
Badwell's company of Colonel Edward
Wigglesworth's regiment ; pay abstract for
raileage frora Albany home in December, 1776 ;
also return of men enlisted to serve in the con
tinental array from Essex county, credited to
Amesbury, February 11, 1778; residence
Araesbury ; joined Captain Blaisdell's company
of Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment for terra
of eight raonths to expire January 10, 1778;
also served in same corapany and regiraent by
enlistraent May 24, 1777, one month seven
days ; reported as having been referred pay
ment of wages due previous to July i, 1777,
by Jonathan Trumbull, paymaster general at
Albany, on account of not joining the regiment
at Peekskill before said date ; roll certified at
Boston. Aaron Colby married. May 2, 1776,
Mary Hoyt, daughter of John Hoyt (John 4,
Joseph 3, John 2, John i), by whora he had
five children, born in Araesbury: i. AloUy,
(Mary) August 5, 1777. 2. Anne, April 16,
1779- 3- John, 1780. 4. Thoraas, Noveraber
29, 1 78 1. 5. Aloses, .April 17, 1786.
(VII) Deacon John Colby, son of Aaron
and Alary (Hoyt) Colby, born Araesbury,
1780, died Salem, where the greater part of his
life was spent. He was a ship caulker by trade
and also could turn his hand to ship carpentry,
and there found profitable eraployraent so
long as he was able to work. He was a very
pious man, for many years deacon of the Sec
ond Baptist Church, .Salem, a conservative old-

line Democrat in political affiliation, and at one
time was a selectman in Salem. He had eight
children, all born in Salera; i. John B., who
was lost overboard from the steamship "Rhode
Island" while on a voyage from New York to
San Francisco. 2. William, born Alarch 8,
1816, married Su.san S. Roberts. 3. Francis
AV. 4. James T. 5. Sarah AL, married Edward
Dalton. 6. Eliza Ann, raarried George W.
Bruce. 7. Caroline, niarried David Ruff. 8.
Ella, raarried Daniel Lord.
(AMII) Janies T. Colby, .son of Deacon John
Colby, born in Salera, died in San Jose, Cali
fornia, where he was owner of a fruit farm.
His young life was spent in Salem, where he
attended the town school, and afterward
worked for several years in his father's ship
yard. In 1849 he followed the tide of west
ward eraigration to the Pacific coast, at the
time when the so-called "gold fever'' was
attracting thousands of adventurous young
men to that far distant region. He continued to
live in California, and at the time of his death
was soraewhat extensively engaged in fruit
raising. Like his father. Air. Colby was a firra
Deraocrat, and in religious preference was a
Baptist. His wife, Elizabeth (Clemraons)
Colby, was born in Salem and died there. They
had four children, all born in Salera; i.
Sarah, raarried Freeman Baston and removed
to California ; one child. Freeman Baston, Jr.
2. Rebecca, niarried Lawrence Palmer and
removed to California. 3. John Anderson, of
Salem. 4. William, now dead, raarried a
daughter of Hezekiah Sleeper, of Salera.
(IX) John Anderson Colby, son of Jaraes
T. and Ehzabeth (Clemraons) Colby, was born
in Salera, February 19, 1846. He was only
a child when his brothers and sisters went to
live with their parents in California, and then
he was taken into the family of John Ander
son, his uncle, by whom he was brought up,
educated and put to useful and profitable era
ployraent. Air. Colby remembers with kindest
regard his uncle and aunt, both of whora
treated hira with affectionate and almost par
ental consideration. 4 They set him in the right
pathway in life and provided for his comfort
ill every way. Air. Colby always has raade his
own way in business life, having early learned
glue-making and has always followed that
occupation, with satisfactory results to himself
and his family. Pie is a Republican, but not
an active partisan, and for many years has
been a raeraber of Corapany H, Eighth Regi
raent, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Mr.
Colby married Annie Fitzpatrick, of Salem,

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and has two children; i. Annie, bom Salera,
October 15, 1885, married L. W. Tate. 2.
Mary, born Salem, March 24, 1887, lives with
her parents.
John Anderson, referrred to above was born
in Alarblehead, April 12, 1812, and died Au
gust 8, 1900. He resided in his native town
until 1857, there receiving his education in the
coramon schools, and then located in Salera.
He learned the business of glue and soap raak
ing, and carried it on very successfully in Mar
blehead, on a street which still bears his name
Upon locating in Salera he erected a large glue
factory at 90 Highland avenue, which he suc
cessfully conducted for several years. He was
at one time engaged in the shoe business with
John AV. Reynolds, the firm name being Ander
son & Reynolds. While a resident of Marble
head he was captain of the Glover Guards.
In Salem he was a meraber of the coraraon
council in 1872, and for raany years a director
in the Mercantile National Bank. He was
prorainently connected with the Universalist
Church of Salem. He was an Odd Fellow,
having joined Fraternity Lodge on April 26,
1859. On May 8, 1836, he married Rebecca
Clements, a native of Salera, but at the tirae of
her marriage was living in Marblehead. This
union was childless, but Air. and Airs. Ander
son adopted a nephew, John Anderson Colby.

(For early generations see preceding sketch).
(IV) Ensign Enoch Colby, son
COLBY of Sarauel and Dorothy (Ara
brose) Colby, born Noveraber 7,
1702, died in Chester, New Harapshire, be
tween January 5, 1779, and August 30, 1780.
He is said to have been of Harapton, but his
narae appears on the tax Hst in Harapton Falls,
1727. He was a meraber of the railitia cora
pany and its ensign (lieutenant) and possibly
may have been out in the early French wars.
His first wife was Abiel, daughter of Benja
min Sanborn, one of the grantees of Chester,
son of Lieutenant John Sanborn. In 1723
Benjamin Sanborn, of Hampton, in considera
tion of affection conveyed to Enoch Colby, also
of Hampton, one half of his right in Chester,
with the house on said right. Enoch Colby
married (second), 1748, Sarah Sargent. En
sign Colby removed to Chester about 1728,
and his name first appears on the records as
surveyor of highways in 1730. He died before
.August 30, 1780, the date his will was admitted
to probate. Enoch Colby had ten children ;
I. Enoch, born probably in Hampton. 2.
Sarah, died Alay 30, 1810; married AA''illiam

Turner, one of the earliest settlers in Candia,
New Harapshire. 3. Dorothy, born January
5, 1730, died 1816; niarried (first) David
AVorthen, (second) Jacob Chase. 4. Jethro,
born Alay 8, 1733, married EHzabeth Bartlett.
5. Susannah, born .August 22, 1735, married
 Blake. 6. Abiel, born July 10, 1741.
7. Abigail (by second wife), born December
19, 1749, married Jaraes Towle 8. Mary,
born November 9, 1756, married Benjarain
Long. 9. Elizabeth, born June 27, 1758, raar
ried John AVilson. 10. Judith, born August
10, 1760, married Joseph Long.
(V) Enoch Colby, eldest son and child of
Enoch and Abiel (Sanborn) Colby, was born
probably in Hampton, and settled in Candia^
New Harapshire, on the south end of lot 39
(third division). He married Abigail Blais
dell, and of their sons three were soldiers of
the revolution. They had eight children; i.
John, a soldier of the revolution, died at Valley
Forge. 2. Jethro, soldier of the revolution,
served in Rhode Island ; died after his return
home, on the "dark day'" in 1780. 3. Enoch,
soldier of the revolution, raarried Lydia
Worthen and settled in Thornton, New Hamp
shire ; was representative, senator and coun
cillor five years, 1813-1817. 4. Nehemiah, died
1840; lived on the old homestead; raarried
Alary Rowe. 5. .Abner. 6. Sarauel. 7. Abi
gail, married John Colby, of Araesbury. 8.
Mary, died 1780.
( A'I) Sarauel Colby, son of Enoch and Abi
gail (Blaisdell) Colby, born in Chester, New
Hampshire, died in Vermont, probably in
Derby. He married Ruth French and soon
afterward settled in Thornton, New Hamp
shire, where sorae of their children were born,
probably Neheraiah, Sarah, Moses, Ruth and
Eraily. In 1798 Air. Colby and his wife started
out to make a new home in Vermont, both rid
ing on the same horse, Ruth mounted behind
her husband. They went to Derby and were
araong the earliest settlers there, and at least
one son was born there or in the vicinity.
From Derby the faraily becarae much scattered,
one son, Moses, going to Stanstead county,
Canada. (VII) Samuel Colby, son of Samuel and
Ruth (French) Colby, was born in Vermont,
perhaps in Derby, although possibly in Putney
or Brattleboro, for reliable data of the faraily
in that region are indeed raeagre He raar
ried Rebecca Eaton, who was born in Boston
(north end) and whose raother was a Revere
(of the sarae faraily as Paul Revere, on -whose
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sat). Leaving his Vermont home when he
was a young raan, Mr. Colby went to Boston
and for a short time engaged in the grocery
business, but soon abandoned mercantile pur
suits for the sea. As a seaman he soon demon
strated his ability to handle a vessel, and being
a young raan of good habits and thoroughly
rehable he was made chief mate and sailed -as
an officer until 1835, when he applied for and
received a license as pilot for Boston harbor.
At the time of his death he was one of the old
est pilots in point of years of service engaged
in guiding vessels in and out of the harbor,
and as proof that he was not wanting in either
skill or courage, it may be stated that in March,
1840, he rescued the "Newburyport" frora a
very perilous position and during a heavy gale
ran her between Egg Harbor Ledge and the
Boston Light, through that narrow channel
where only light craft were atterapted to be
sailed ; but he took the chance — the only chance
left hira — and brought her through safely into
the harbor. For this daring piece of seaman
ship Air. Colby was presented with a raagnifi
cent solid silver service by the underwriters of
Boston. Sarauel and Rebecca (Eaton) Colby
had five children; i. Adelaide, now Mrs. Au
gustus Hooper, of Soraerville, Massachusetts.
2. Walter C, now of Everett, Massachusetts.
3. Samuel K., deceased. 4. Eben Clarence.
5. Simeon, lives in Everett.
(VIII) Eben Clarence Colby, son of Sam
uel ^nd Rebecca (Eaton) Colby, was born in
Boston, July 17, 1852. He graduated from
the Elliott school. July 21, 1868, and later on
took a course of practical study in Eaton's
Business College, Boston, and for the next
several years was employed in clerical work in
Boston. On returning to Boston he became
connected with the wholesale house of Claflin,
Larrabee & Corapany, dealers in dry goods,
reraained there six years and then, having a
decided preference for outdoor life, he became
proprietor of a railk route in Everett and de
veloped it into a large and successful business
enterprise. He engaged in the milk business
frora about 1875 to 1900, then sold out and
was appointed railk inspector of Everett. This
office he .still holds, having been reappointed
for another terra ; and during his incurabency
of office Air. Colby has succeeded in effecting
the removal of many evils of long standing and
by his conscientious work has earned the grati
tude and appreciation of the people of the city
in which he lives. He had sorae knowledge of
raunicipal affairs in Everett before taking his
present office, and in 1894-95-96, was a mem

ber of the city council. He is a Republican in
politics, and meraber Republican city cora
raittee, ward 5, and being a citizen and con
siderable property owner he appreciates the
fact that whatever best proraotes the public
welfare naturally advances his personal inter
ests. Air. Colby is an influential raeraber of
the Universalist church (Broadway), a past
grand of Howard Lodge, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Charlestown ; ex-governor of
the Order of Pilgrira Fathers ; and a raeraber
and for twenty-two years financial secretary
of Franklin Lodge, Ancient Order of United
Woodraen. He niarried Hattie Speary Martin, born in
Wayne, Maine, daughter of Jerome D. Alartin,
born in Craftsbury, Vermont, and Alraira
Townsend (Foss) Martin, his wife, born
Leeds, Alaine, daughter of Ephraim Foss, who
raarried Harriet Townsend. Mr. and Mrs.
Colby have one son, Fred Martin Colby, born
Everett, in June, 1884, married Bertha Fran
ces Reilly, and has one daughter, Constance
Colby, and a son, Parker Alartin Colby, born
June, 1908. Fred AI. Colby is connected with
the Araerican Loan and Trust Company, Bos
ton, transfer clerk. He was a member of Ever
ett comraon council two years, 1905-06.

The surnarae AVilson is one of
AVILSON the most common and wide
spread in England, Scotland
and Ireland. It is derived, of course, from
JVill and son, in the same way as Johnson,
Jackson, Davidson, etc., and, like those sur
names, there were doubtless hundreds of pro
genitors of unrelated families that assumed
the surname when the custora became general
in the twelfth century or earlier. Many of this
name have won distinction. There are numer
ous coats-of-arms borne by WUsons of the
higher classes. In Scotland the Wilsons were
numerous in Renfrewshire, Elginshire, Fife
shire, Lanarkshire, and were found in other
counties also at an early date. During the
frightful persecution of the Scotch Presbyter
ians, one of this family suffered martyrdom.
In 1685 James II, an avowed Roraan Catholic,
becanie king of England, sworn to raaintain the
Established Church (Episcopal), but his ac
cession brought no relief to the persecuted Co
venanters in Scotland and Ireland. An Epis
copal farmer named Gilbert AVilson had two
daughters— Agnes, aged thirteen, and Alarga
ret, aged eighteen. These girls attended con
venticles and had become Presbyterians. Ar
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succeeded in procuring the pardon of the
younger by paying one hundred pounds ster
ling, but the elder, and an old woraan named
Margaret AlacLaughlin, were bound to stakes
on the seashore that they niight be drowned by
the rising tide. After the old woman was dead
and the water had passed over Margaret Wil-,
son's head, the latter was brought out, restored
to consciousness, and offered life if she would
take the abjuration oath. But she said: "I
am one of Christ's children, let me go." She
was then once more placed in the sea, and her
sufferings ended by death.
Ill the nortli of Ireland the crown granted
to AViUiam AVillson, of Suffolk, England, two
thousand acres of land in the precinct of
Liffer (barony of Raphoe) county Donegal,
about 1610. In 161 1 WUlson bought two
thousand acres granted to Sir Henry Knight.
Plis residence is given as Clarye, in Suffolk,
and his Irish agent was Chris. Parmenter. He
brought over some English settlers. This Eng
lishman may never have settled there hiraself.
In 1 61 9 we find a Scotchraan naraed Stephen
AVilson (also AA-'oolson), a tenant of John Cun
ningham, precinct of Portlough, county Done
gal, Ireland. There were doubtless other
Scotch from time to time settling in Ulster.
Few surnames are raore numerous than Wil
son in Ireland. In 1890 there were 366 births
of children of this narae, 287 being in the Uls
ter counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Ty
rone, Londonderry and Fermanagh, indicating
a population of about 18,000 of this name in
Ireland at the present time. In 1689 one of
these Scotch AA^ilsons living in Enniskillen be
came faraous. July ist. Lieutenant MacCar-
iiiick, in whose company James Wilson was
a soldier, raade a stand against the Duke of
Berwick, an illegitimate son of King Jaraes,
at the head of a detachment of Irish, six hun
dred dragoons on foot and two troops of horse.
Governor Harailton, his superior officer, failed
to keep his proraise to support MacCarraick,
and his little company was fairly cut to pieces,
his son slain at his side, and he was taken pris-
onen But thirty escaped. Among these was
a brave soldier named James AA^lson. Sur
rounded by a number of dragoons he was
assailed by all at once, some of them he stab
bed, others he struck down with his musket,
and several he threw under the feet of their
own horses. At last wounded in twelve places,
his cheeks hanging over his chin, he fell into
a bush. There a sergeant struck him through
the thigh with a halbert ; but Wilson, exerting
all his strength, pulled it out and ran it through

the sergeant's heart. By the assistance of this
halbert he walked ba^k to Enniskillen. He
was afterwards cured of his wounds and sur
vived for thirty years." Whether descended
from him or not, the AA'ilson faraily of Ennis
killen, raentioned below, raay well pride in this
exploit. (i) John Wilson was born in the parish of
Enniskillen, county Fermanagh, Ireland. He
became a wealthy farmer, and was always
known familiarly among his townsraen as
"Jack" Wilson. He was a citizen of prorain
ence, and a strict Episcopalian in religion. He
raarried Catherine Wilson. Araong his chil
dren were; i. Jaraes Alexander, mentioned
below. 2. Alexander. 3. John. 4. Andrew.
(II) Jaraes Alexander Wilson, son of John
AVilson (i), was born in Enniskillen, Ireland,
in 1783. He attended the parish school and
was well educated for his day. About 1800
he carae to America, and was eraployed at
first in Philadelpllia, and in New Jersey.
After he had accumulated some means he re
turned to his native land and bought a large
farra. Later he bought raore land and settled
each of his sons on farms. He was a success
ful farpier and becarae a leading cattle trader
in the county, araassing considerable wealth.
He raised flax and farra produce. His farra
was at AAliite HUl, a part of the township of
Enniskillen. He left a large araount of prop
erty, which his children inherited. He was
called "Yankee"' AA'ilson, after he returned
frora Araerica, a narae which clung to hira the
rest of his life. He was a raeraber of the par
ish church and brought his faraily up in the
Episcopal faith. He raarried first,  ¦
Arrastrong ; second, Mary, daughter of AVil
liam Johnson, of Enniskillen. Children; i.
John, a farraer at Enniskillen ; raarried Cath
erine Lettiraer, born 1825, died Deceraber 2,
1898, daughter of George and Dolly (Mor-
fitt) Lettiraer, of Enniskillen ; children ; i.
Jaraes, bom March 3, 1855, married March
15, 1880, CaroHne Maria McManus, of Ar
lington, Massachusetts, and had Hattie, born
March 3, 1881 (married September 21, 1904,
Henry F. Ireland), George Lattimer, born Oc
tober 4, 1883, AA'illiam Andrew, bom Decem
ber 8, 1889; ii. George, born April 3, 1857,
niarried October 7, 1885, Ellen Sproul, died
October 2, 1892, daughter Of Jaraes and Sophia
(Robinson) Sproul, and had John Alexander,
born Alarch 14, 1887, Florence, born Decera
ber 19, 1888, died January 3, 1890, (twins),
born June 22, 1890, died July 13, 1890, Henry
(twin), born June 22, 1890, died August 4,

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1890; iii. John, born August 3, 1859; iv. AA'il
liam Plenry ; v. Robert, born October, 1865 ;
vi. Andrew, born August 18, 1868, married
December 25, 1896, Nellie King, of Arlington;
vii. Alary Jane, born Alay 14, 1873, married
February 10, 1908, C. A. Cheney. 2. Kath
erine, married Thonias Hodgdon, of Ennis
killen ; had Mary Ann Hodgdon, raarried John
Morfitt of Enniskillen. 3. Frances, raarried
Thonias Alorfitt, of Enniskillen ; children ; i.
Mary Morfitt. ii. Catherine Morfitt; iii. Lat-
ishie Alorfitt ; iv. Frances Ann Morfitt ; v.
Margaret Alorfitt; vi. Becky Jane Morfitt. 4.
Williara, born June 11, 1832, raentioned below
5. Ann, married Robert Johnson ; children ; i.
John Johnson, married Maria Sheridan, of
Enniskillen, and had Robert, Ann Jane, Mar
garet, AA''illiani, Thoraas, John and James John
son ; ii. Alary Johnson, raarried WiUiara Rey
nolds, of Swanland Bar, Ireland, and had
Samuel, Annie, Robert, Hugh, John, Alargaret,
Jaraes, Jane, Eliza and Williara Reynolds. 6.
Alexander, born Alarch 20, 181 5. 7. Robert,
married EUen Sheridan, of Enniskillen, and
had Mary Ann, Margaret, Tilly, WiUiam,
James and Robert AVilson. 8. Jaraes, married
first Alary Jane Farley of Arden Moore, Ire
land ; second  Johnson.
(Ill) William AVilson, son of Jaraes Alex
ander Wilson (2), born at AVhite HiU, Ennis
killen, Ireland, June 11, 1832, died at Arling
ton, Alassachusetts, November 27, 1891. He
-was educated in the parish school of his native
town and worked at home until he becarae of
age. He carae to America, landing in Boston
July I, 1854. He found employment at mar
ket gardening with Henry Frost, of Belraont,
where he remained a year. He was next era
ployed by Josiah Locke of Winchester, driv
ing a raarket wagon to Boston, for five years.
About the tirae he was raarried he bought of
Dr. R. L. Hodgdon thirty-two acres of land
in the northwest part of Arlington. He was
employed by Dr. Hodgdon for three years as
foreraan on his farra, and then engaged in
market gardening on his own farm. Until
1880 he conducted his farm with great success,
when he leased it to Robert Dinsmore, and
bought the Childs farm at East Lexington,
and was associated with his son Jaraes in the
sarae business. In his later years his eyesight
was inpaired, and about two years before his
death he retired and lived on his farra there,
where he died November 27, 1891. He was a
faithful raeraber of St. John's Episcopal
Church at Arlington, serving as vestryraan and
warden, was one of the charter raerabers and

largely instrumental in its erection and a gen
erous contributor to its charities. He was a
raan rauch respected in the community and be
loved by his family. In politics he was a Re
publican. He niarried, in Boston, January 22,
1858, -Ann Irwin, born at Enniskillen, Ireland,
Alarch 19, 1822, died at Arlington, October 3,
1899, daughter of John and Jane (Johnson)
Irwin, of Florence Court, county Fermanagh,
Ireland; Children; i. James Alexander, born
November 5, 1859; mentioned below. 2. Mary
Jane, born January 25, 1861 ; raarried Septera
ber 9, 1891, Joseph Dickson, of Arlington;
children ; i. Thomas AVilson Dickson, born
Noveraber 23, 1892 ; ii. Annie Dickson, Jiily
12, 1894; iii. Eliza Dickson, April 4, 1896; iv.
AA'illiara Henry Dickson, September 6, 1897; v.
Margaret Jane Dickson, August 25, 1898; vi.
Ralph AVardlaw Dickson, October 9, 1900.
(IV) Jaraes Alexander Wilson, son of
AA'illiara AVilson (3), was born at Arlington,
November 5, 1859. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town and in the
Cotting high school. He remained with his
father in Arlington, and a year in East Lexing
ton, and subsequently accepted a position as
salesman for the commission house of A. L.
Andrews. After two years he engaged in the
grocery business at Arlington Heights fdr
three years. At this time he returned with his
father to the farra and spent the next eight
years at market gardening, then leasing the
place to Archibald McCoy. The following
three years Mr. AVilson was the buyer for the
wholesale produce house of R. P. Puffer, 3
Richmond street, Boston, and travelled
through all parts of the United States and
Canada, on business for the firm, which had
a large Alontreal trade. Being anxious to
return to farraing again, he returned to Ar
lington and resuraed work on the place, where
he has since reraained. He is a successful
gardener, cultivating about twenty of the
thirty-two acres, making a specialty of lettuce.
He is a member of St. John's Episcopal
Church, and has served as vestryman and
treasurer of the society. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a raeraber of Shawmut
Tribe, No. 4, I. O. R. M., having been trans
ferred from Pomona Tribe, No. 7, of Arlino--
ton. He is also a raember of the Men's Club
of Arlington. He married, Alarch 24, 1885,
Lillie Flora EUiott, born at Montreal, Canada!
November 26, 1864, daughter of James and
Annie (McLean) Elliott. Children; i. Annie
Rebecca, born December 29, 1885; married
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of Arlington; had Frank AA'ilson Needham,
born Alay 7, 1907. 2. Williara Elliott, born
July 22, 1887; died August 24, 1897. 3. Edna
Gertrude, born October 22, 1891 ; died April
2, 1895. 4- George Skermish, born November
30, 1894. 5. James Norman, born November
2, 1896; died November 22, 1897. 6. Walter
Bolton, born September 11, 1899. 7. Ernest
Irving, December 17, 1901. 8. LiUie Flora,
May 10, 1905. 9. Grace AlcLean, September
4, 1907- 
(For first two generations see James A. Wilson 2).
(Ill) Alexander AVilson, son
WILSON of James Alexander AVUson
(2), born at White HiU, En
niskillen, Ireland, March 20, 181 5, died at
Tewksbury, Alassachusetts, October 9, 1901,
aged eighty-six years. When a young raan he
carae to Araerica and remained a short tirae,
then returning to his native town again. After
a short stay he returned to Boston and was
employed in the hostelry of Charles Adair as
foreraan. He made another trip to Ireland
with his wife, but soon came back to Boston
and was employed at the Tremont House as
butler, being in that position for about eight
years. Later he had a simUar position at the
Revere House. He always retained the confi
dence of his employers, and did everything
well. He was ever thoughtful of others, arid
generous to a fault, an upright and honorable
citizen. He was a raember of St. John's Epis
copal Church at Arlington. He raarried
Alartha Alonahan, born at Enniskillen, Alay
4, 1833, died at Lexington, Massachusetts,
Noveraber 25, 1889, daughter of John and
Martha (Willis) Mpnahan, of Enniskillen.
Children-; i. John E., born Deceraber 4, 1855;
died February 14, 1889; raarried September 6,
1885, Ellen Frances Goff, of Arlington ; chil
dren ; i. Albert Everett Goff, born February i,
1886; h. Herbert Sumner Goff, April 11, 1887;
2. Mary Frances, married first,  Eld-
rige; second, John Murphy. 3. James Alex
ander, born March 8, 1859 ; mentioned below.
4. WiUiam Henry, born November 5, 1865 ;
married February 29, 1899, Alice A. Frybe, of
Sussex, New Brunswick ; children ; i. Martha,
born October 13, 1899; ii. Albert Edward,
January 27, 1901 ; iii. WilHam Henry, June
13, 1903; iv. Kathleen, February 8, 1905; v.
Francis Robert, October 6, 1907. 5. Robert,
born January 9, 1869; married October 3,
1893, Jennie M. Edraunds, of Alilwaukee,
Wisconsin ; had Kathlyn Scott, born January
23, 1903-

( IV ) Jaraes Alexander Wilson, son of Alex
ander Wilson (3), was born at Enniskillen,
Ireland, Alarch 8, 1859. He attended the
parish school of Enniskillen, living with his
grandfather on the farm, and working there
until hc was eighteen years old. He then came
to Araerica and was employed at market gar
dening by his uncle AVilliam at Arlington,
where he remained until he was of age. He
leased the farm of Dr. Francis Brown, in East
Lexington, and began raarket gardening on
his own account. The venture was successful
frora the start, and the business steadily, in
creased. He soon bought the fifteen acre
farra of the Itrown heirs, February 27, 1903,
and has conducted it successfully ever since
He makes a specialty of celery. Air. AVilson
has built up a large and lucrative business, and
is counted one of the most successful in his
line. He belongs to St. John's Episcopal
Church of ArUngton, and has been a vestry
man. He is a meraber of the Boston Alarket
Gardeners' Association, and has served on
various coraraittees of the organization. In
politics he is a Republican. He raarried, No
veraber 16, 1887, Alargaret Chambers, born at
Huntington, Canada, December 16, 1862,
daughter of James and Jane (Heuston)
Chambers. Children; i. AA'^alter Harrison,
born October 3, 1888. 2. Alartha Jane, June
28, 1 89 1. 3. James Ernest, Septeraber 25,
1893. 4. Williara Stanley, August 22, 1897.
5. Doris Elizabeth, May 10, 1900. 6. Marion
Chambers, Alay 14, 1907.

(I) William Johnson was
JOHNSON born in Enniskillen, Ulster
province, county Fermanagh,
Ireland. He died on his farra there about
1836. He was brought up on his father's farra
and educated in the nearby district school. Pie
becarae a prosperous farraer and owned a
farra of twenty or thirty acres in the south
east part of the township, it being free land.
He raised' large amounts of oats, barley, flax
and farm produce selling his grain in the
nearby towns of Irwinstown, Pettigoe, Dun-
quin and Enniskillen. His cattle, horses and
sheep which he raised also were raarketed in
these towns. He was a man highly respected
in the community, of positive opinions but
sound good sense. He belonged to the Epis
copal church and to the Order of Orangemen.
In pohtics he was a Liberal. He raarried Ro-
sanna Aluldoon, daughter of John Muldoon,
of Corlaught, Ireland. Children; i. Joseph,
married Katherine Sullivan; chUdren; i.

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Alary Plannah, married, September 22, 1880,
Charles E- Aleade, of Greenwich, Connecti
cut ; ii. AVilliara ; iii. Jane ; iv. Elizabeth ; v.
AHce Meade. 2. John, died young. 3. Irving,
born April 16, 1835 ; mentioned below. 4.
AVilliam, unraarried ; resided in Ireland.
(II) Irving Johnson, son of AVilliara John
son ( I ) , was born at Corlaught, Ireland, April
16, 1835. He attended the district school
until he was fourteen years old, walking a
mile and a half to the school house, which was
situated in the nearby parish of Adneveigh.
At the age of fifteen he came to Araerica,
where his brother Joseph had already settled,
having corae some tirae previously. After a
forty-two days voyage on the ship "Castelian,"
he arrived in New York City August 4, 1850,
and went to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he
joined his brother, who was eraployed by Silas
D. Meade on his farra. Here he reraained
two years, and then worked for Silas Husted
on his farm for a year, and the following
eight raonths for a Mr. Savage. Going to
New York city, he was employed on the estate
of James Donaldson on Fifth avenue. For
two years he worked for the street raUroad in
New York as conductor, and then entered the
dry goods establishraent of Stebbins, Hoyt &
Co. at 43 Barclay street. He remained with
them until 1858, when he carae to Boston, and
was eraployed at raarket gardening by Will
iara Adaras on his farra at Winchester. After
wards he worked for Sarauel Butterfield, a
prominent raarket gardener of Arlington, and
was his foreraan for ten years. At this time
his employer died, and Air. Johnson managed
the farra four years for the widow. He then
leased the Williara HiU farra of thirteen
acres at Belmont, and engaged in raarket gar
dening on his own account for five years. He
reraoved to ArUngton and leased the Butter
field estate on which he had worked, and con
ducted it up to 1897. He purchased his pres
ent farra in Lexington, October 15, 1897, re
raoving his faraily there the following De
cember. He bought also an eighty-acre farra
in the town of Stonehara, known as the Rich
ardson estate, and his son Joseph had the care
of this place. He later sold this property to
Captain Marcus B. Buford, a retired naval
officer. Air. Johnson conducts a successful
business at raarket gardening, making a spec
ialty of lettuce, celer}' and onions, with spring
growth of cucumbers under glass. His pro
duce is sold to Allen Hurd & Conipany, cora
mission merchants of Boston, his son, Fred
erick AV. Johnson, being the selling agent.

Air. Johnson is a man of sterling character
and is highly esteeraed by his townsmen. He
is of the Episcopal faith and served as vestry
man at St. John's Church at Arlington. He
is a Republican in politics, but never held
office. He married, Septeraber 13, 1855, Esther
Irwin, born in Enniskillen, Ireland, June 6,
1830, died at Lexington, July 29, 1907, daugh
ter of John and Jane (Johnson) Irwin; (see
Irwin family sketch herewith). Children; i.
Sarah Jane, born June 19, 1856, died Septem
ber II, 1857. 2. AVilliam James, born March
23, 1858, died April 4, 1858. 3. Harriet Eraily,
born March 14, 1859, unraarried. 4. Joseph
Henry, born Septeraber i, 1861, unraarried.
5. Frederick AVilliara, born August 25, 1863,
raarried, August 12, 1889, Jennie Charabers,
of Huntington, Province of Quebec, and had
Alice M., born December 12, 1890, died April
19, 1901 ; Frederick AVilliam, Jr., born Jan
uary 5, 1892. 6. Annie Irwin, born July i,
1865. 7. Everett Plale, born January 16,
1868, died June 29, 1869. 8. Jennie Esther,
bom February 3, 1870, niarried, April 12,
1893, Nelson Hayden, of Ferrisburg, Ver
mont, and had Irving Nelson Hayden, born
January 7, 1897.

The Irvine, Irving or Irwin
IRAA'IN family of Scotland, Ireland and
England, is descended from Wil
liam de Irwin whom Robert Bruce appointed
arraor bearer and on whora he conferred, be
sides a grant of land comprising the forest of
Drura, his own coat-of-arms when Earl of
Garrick; the three holly leaves now found in
the coats-of-arras of aU the Irwins, Irvines
and Irvings, of this faraily, his descendants.
Frora the Irvines of Drura, county Aberdeen,
Scotland, we find the late chief Alexander
Irvine, the Irvines of Lenturk, Hilltown,
Kingcausie, Fortrie, Murthill Cutts, etc., all
being descendants. Some branches of the
family in Ireland retain the old spelling Irwin,
others use the raore coramon Irvine. Sir Ger-^
ard Irvine was created a baronet (29 Charles
II) of Castle Irvine, county Fermanagh.
Burke says of the Irwin faraily in Ireland;
"The Irwins of Tauragoe have raaintained
a position of great respectability araono-st the
gentry of the county of Sligo, since their
settleraent in Ireland, but frora which branch
of the Scottish Irwines or Irvings they de
scended has not been ascertained." The pe
cuhar narae of Crinus borne by raerabers of
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nin Abethnae, second husband of the raother
of Duncan, King of Scotland, to whora and
his descendants that monarch granted the
privilege of bearing a thistle as a crest. John
Irwin, who married a daughter of Colonel
Lewis Jones, of Ard-na-glass, held a commis
sion in the parliamentary army in which his
father-in-law also served, and accompanying
Cromwell to Ireland, settled at Sligo.
Alexander Irwin, son of John Irwin, lived
at Sligo ; married a sister of  Griffiths,
Esq., of Ballincar, and aunt of Colonel Grif
fiths, who was father of Anne, countess of
ITarrington and of Lady Rich. Of their six
sons all died without issue except the eldest,
John, mentioned below.
Colonel John Irwin, son of Alexander
Irwin, born about 1680 in Sligo, died in 1752.
He married (first) Lady Alary Dilkes, widow,
of county Cork, and had no children. He mar
ried (second) Susanna Caddeii, of the ancient
Gavan family, and had children ; i . Levvis
Francis, raentioned below. 2. Letitia, raarried
Captain Thoraas Webber, of the Fourth Plorse,
and had a son and daughter. 3. Margaret,
niarried Robert Browne, Esq., of Portland,
county Sligo.
Lewis Francis Irwin, son of Colonel John
Irwin, resided at Tauragoe, county Sligo, Ire
land, where he was born in 1728 and died in
1785. He raarried, in 1766, EHzabeth Harri
son, only sister of the late John Harrison,
Esq., of Norton Place, Lincolnshire, England.
She died in 1815, aged eighty-two. Children;
I. John, raentioned below. 2. Crinus, took
holy orders; becarae archdeacon of Assoy;
raarried, in 1807, Amy, eldest daughter of
Air. Justice Charaberlain, judge of the King's
bench in Ireland ; two sons ; John Lewis and
Lewis Charaberlain. 3. Elizabeth, died in
1822; niarried Robert Jones, of Portland. 4.
Mary, married Rev. Schuchhurgh Upton, of
Templeton family. 5. Beatrice Susanna, raar
ried Benjamin Agar, Esq., of Brockfield,
Yorkshire. John Irwin, son of Lewis Francis Irwin,
born about 1770, succeeded his father at
Tauragoe, Calloony. He was colonel and
high sheriff in 1822. Of the county Fer
managh family raentioned above, we find at
present the representative is John Arthur Ir
win, Esq., of Derry Gore. He was high
sheriff in 1887; justice of the peace. He was
born January i, 1854, son of Edward Irwin,
who was high sheriff in 1863; justice of the
peace; raarried Hannah Baynes. The seat of
this faraily has been and is Derrygore, Ennis

killen, county Fermanagh, Ireland. The coat-
of-arms, a mural crown gules between three
holly leaves proper; upon the escutcheon is
placed a helmet befitting his degree with a
mantling gules, double argent. Crest ; upon
a wreath of the colors a mailed arm fessways
holding in the hand a thistle and a holly leaf
all proper and charged on the arras with a
crescent gules. The raotto ; Nemo rae impune
lacessit. (No one attacks me with impunity).
Similar coats-of-arras are borne by Thoraas
Angelo Irwin, justice of the peace, county
Curaberland, England, born April 10, 1832.
Practically the sarae arras are borne by the
Irvines, of Banshaw frora the remotest period.
The Irvines of Castle Fortagh, Scotland, and
in fact most of the farailies of this name bear
arms with the holly; crest with the thistle
somewhat varied but much alike and establish
ing- kinship clearly enough.
(I) John Irwin, progenitor of the family
recorded below, was of the Fermanagh family
as described above, and resided at Florence
Court, county Fermanagh, Ireland. He was
probably born about 1720.
(II) John Irwin, son of John Irwin (i),
was born at Florence Court, county Ferma
nagh, about 1760; was educated there in the
parish schools, and was brought up on a farra.
He becarae a prosperous farraer in his native
place, owning a sixty acre farra in free land,
raising sheep, cattle and horses, large quanti
ties of flax and all kinds of produce, and em
ploying many hands. He was accounted a
raan of wealth at the tirae of his death. He
was a raeraber of the Royal Order of Orange
men in Florence Court. He niarried (first)
Esther Bracken; (second) Margaret Brown.
Children of first wife: i. John, raentioned
below. 2. Richard, raarried Annie Carr. 3.
Thomas, died unmarried. 4. Jane, married
John Belford. Children of second wife : 5
Jaraes, raarried Mary Montgoraery. 6. Ed
ward, niarried Alargaret Graden. 7. Christo
pher, raarried Katherine Jones. 8. Sarah,
raarried Robert Manley. 9. Mary, married
Thomas Burley.
(HI) John Irwin, son of John Irwin (2),
was born at Florence Court in 1788. He re
ceived his education in that parish and was
an apt student. He worked during his youth
on his father's farm. After his marriage he
leased a twenty-five acre farm of the Lord
of EnniskiUen and lived upon it all the re
mainder of his life. He raised general farm
produce and much flax; horses, cattle and
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EnniskiUen. His children, Alargaret and
Richard Irwin, after his death conducted the
farra until they left for America in 1865. John
Irwin was of large and powerful physique ;
jovial and araiable in disposition; making
many friends. He served in the raiHtary cora
pany under Lord Enniskillen. He died in
1856. He was a faithful parishioner of the
Church of England ; member of the Royal
Order of Orangemen.
He raarried Alargaret Johnson, who died
in 1865, daughter of AViUiara and Jane (Wil
son) Johnson. Her father was a farmer and
weaver. Children ; i. John, niarried, Febru
ary 6, 1858, Airs. Jane (Armstrong) Price, of
Arlington, Massachusetts ; both deceased ; no
children. 2. AVilliam, born at Enniskillen. 3.
Ann, married William H. AA'ilson. 4. Esther,
married, Septeraber 13, 1855, Irving Johnson
(see sketch of the Johnson faraily herewith).
5. Jaraes, married Mary Lunney. 6. Thomas,
died young. 7. Henry, died young. 8. Jane,
died young. 9. Margaret, married, July 30,
1865, George S. Druraraond. 10. Richard.
II. Thomas, married Mary Jane Clark and
had AVilliam and Alary.

The surname Graham is used
GRAHAAl interchangeably with Graerae
in Scotland, and the history of
the faraily would fill a volume of itself. The
name is also spelled Graemes, Graharaes, and
Grimes. According to Scotch genealogists,
who, as Camden tells us, "think surnames as
ancient as the moon," this illustrious patro
nymic is derived from Greme, who was regent
of Scotland during the minority of Eugene II,
commencing A. D. 419, and had many engage
ments with the Britons, and by forcing that
mighty rampart they had reared up between
the rivers Forth and Clyde immortalized the
name so much that to this day that entrench
ment is called Graham's Dyke. Collins, who
gravely states this, finds no record however of
the family earlier than the time of King David
I, about 1 125, when the name was written De
Graeme, which shows local origin — that is, the
surname was taken from a place named Gra
ham or Graerae. Graeme indeed is merely
the Scotch pronunciation, spelled simply. The
termination shows the word to be of old Eng
lish origin, and the family in Scotland is traced
to AVilliara de Grahara, who settled in Scot
land in the twelfth century. The only place
of the name in South Britain is near Kesteven,
Lincolnshire. The narae is found in the Hun-
-dred Rolls (vol. i, p. 288) in England in the

twelfth century. But the narae is one of the
most distinguished and prolific in Scotland.
Of the forty-six Grahara coats-of-arras, all but
one are Scotch, and the other is borne by a
Scotch family settled in Ireland. Many of the
Scotch armorials are like this ancient one ;
Argent on a chief sable three escallops. The
Duke of Montrose uses it quartered with
others. The Irish family bears : Argent an
escallop sable on a chief of the last three
escallops of the first. Crest ; A hand in fesse
couped proper holding a fleur-de-lis or. Be
fore 1 1 50 the family is found in Linlithgow
shire, Forfarshire, Perthshire, Stirlingshire,
and Dumfriesshire The family possesses the
dukedom,'' marquisates and earldora of Alon-
trose ; marquisate of Graham and Buchanan ;
earldoras of Airth, Kincardine, Monteith and
Strathern ; viscountcies of Dundas, Dundee
and Preston; lordships of Aberuthven, Kil-
point, etc. ; barony of Esk, etc. Hanna says
the faraily is of reputed Norraan origin, which
agrees with the statement of the local origin
of the name and that the progenitor came
through England.
The Irish branch of the family was founded
by Sir George Grahara and Sir Richard Gra
hara, knights, who received a grant of two
thousand acres of the confiscated lands of the
Irish Catholic precinct ofTuUaghah, county of
Cavan, in 1610, by the English crown. In 1619
we find an Archibald Grahara in the precinct
of Fewes, county Arraagh, in Ulster, a tenant
of John Harailton; also in precinct of Stra-
bane, county Tyrone, John and Thoraas Gra
ham (Gryme) as tenants. In 1619 we find
that Sir George and Sir Richard Graham (then
spelled Grimes ) had a stone "bawn" buiU, con
taining a little house. The family became
numerous and is still numerous in the Protest
ant counties of Ulster— Antrim, Down, Ty
rone, Armagh and Monaghan, as well as in
many other sections of the country. It is esti
mated that there are ten thousand of the
name in Ireland in 1908, of whom about seven
thousand are in the counties named.
(I) Andrew Grahara, of this Scotch-Irish
family, was bora, lived and died in county
Donegal, Ireland, province of Ulster. He was .
a prosperous farmer. He was a member of
the Established Church, and a man of very
strong .religious convictions. Children; i.
Andrew, married Sarah Lytle; had Richard
Andrew, AViUiara, Margaret and Mary. 2. John',
Dinsmore; second. Alary

married first.

Scott, of Kellymard, Ireland; children by first
wife; 1. Jane, married George Johnson; ii.

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John ; children of second wife : iii. Robert ; iv.
Jaraes; v. EHzabeth, raarried Edward Leslie;
vi. Mary, raarried AVilliara Crowley ; vii. Cath
erine ; viu. Williara; ix. Isabel, raarried Rich
ard Love. 3. Isaac, had child Margaret, mar
ried Robert Plawks. 4. James, born Alarch,
1801 ; mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, married
David Ray; had Margaret and Richard Ray,
and a daughter died young. 6. Richard, was a
prorainent Free Alason in his native county;
raarried Ann Love ; children : i. John, mar
ried Sarah Colvin; ii. WiUiam; ui. Richard,
niarried Isabel Grahara; he lost his Hfe by
accident while horseback riding, 1866; iv.
Robert, married Sarah Graham; v. Alargaret,
niarried John Colvin ; vi. Mary Jane, married
 Love. 7. Catharine, married Thoraas
Knox ; one child.
(II) James Grahara, son of Andrew Gra
ham ( I ) , born at Lackan, Donegal county, Ire
land, March, 1801, died August 20, 1887. He
was brought up on his father's farm, and at an
early age learned the trade of blacksmith, serv
ing an apprenticeship of seven years, in the
nearby parish of Lackey. After he had be
come proficient in his trade he returned to his
native town, bought a farra of eleven acres,
and erected a blacksraith shop. He followed
his trade all his life, and in later life his son
A'\ illiara worked with hira. He carried on the
farra and raised the usual farra produce and
fiax. He raade plows at his shop for aU the
surrounding country, and was a good carriage
smith, wheelwright and an expert chain raaker.
He was an enterprising raan, and his good
nature and deraocratic character were factors
in his business success. He was a raeraber of
the Episcopal church, and conscientious and
upright in all his dealings. He was a Liberal
in politics. He was a raeraber of Donegal
Lodge, thirty-second degree. Masons. He
married Alargaret, daughter of Richard Free-
borne, of Lackan. ChUdren; i. Richard,
married Isabel Erwin, of Drimlask; had Ann
Jane and Margaret. 2. AVilliam, born 1828 ;
died December 9, 1901 ; married Bess Patter
son, of Tiraraond, Ireland; children: i. James,
married Frances Spence, and had Charlotte
and one other child ; ii. Margaret, married Ad
dison Twining, of Wintersport, Maine; ui.
Alary Ann, born April 7, 1867, died May 31,
1904. married Williain Haramond, and had
Alary Hammond, born October 4, 1888; iv.
Robert, raarried Christina AVatson ; v. Eliza
beth, born July 12, 1871, married October 3,
1890, Henry Barrett, of AVoburn, Alassachu-
.setts, and had Lillie Maud Barrett, born Oc

tober 3, 1891, WilHam Jaraes Barrett, born
August 25, 1892, Florence Graham Barrett,
born March 24, 1894, Ida Pearl Barrett, born
February 28, 1896, Alice EHzabeth Eilna Bar
rett, bom Septeraber 19, 1901, Henry Roose
velt Barrett, born Septeraber 16, 1904, and
Robert Barrett, born May 26, 1906, died
young; vi. WiUiam, born August 30, 1877,
married April, 1904, Jessie Sterling. 3. Eliz
abeth, died aged eighteen. 4. Alargaret, died
aged two. 5. Margaret, raarried Andrew Ray,
of Arnagassan, Ireland; children; i. Andrew
Ray, Jr., raarried Jane Love ; ii. Alargaret
Ellen Ray, married Andrew Corrigan, and had
Alargaret Ellen, Henry, Richard, Robert, An
drew, Alfred, Elizabeth, Ernest, Ernest Given
and Matilda Corrigan ; iii. James ; iv. Robert
AVellington. 6. James, born November 15,
1840; mentioned below. 7. John, raarried first,
Sarah Ray ; second, Ann Love ; children by
first wife ; i. Jaraes, raarried first, Margaret
J. Grahara, and had Robert, raarried second,
Jennie B. McCue, and had Jaraes AA'arren,
Thelma Boyd, and two other children ; ii'. An
nie, married Frank Turner, of AA'oburn, Mass
achusetts, and had Edna Alay and Margaret
Knowd Turner; iii. Joseph, married Isabella
Grahara, and had Mabel Jane ; iv. Alargaret ;
children of second wife ; v. John. vi. Jane ;
vii. Alexander ; viii. AViUiara ; ix. Isaac. 8.
Isaac, raarried Katherine AlcCue ; children ;
i. Jaraes AA^illiam, raarried Alabel McCrea; ii.
John, raarried Isabel Grahara ; iii. George ; iv.
Alargaret Jane, raarried Jaraes Grahara, of
Woburn, and had Robert ; v. Sarah ; vi. Cath
erine, raarried Benjarain Davey and had two
children. 9. Sarah, raarried Robert Graham,
of Aloyen, Ireland ;, children ; i. Annie, mar
ried John Ray and had Sarah, Robert, James
and Ray, and an adopted daughter, Lilly Ray ;
ii. Alargaret, niarried Jaraes Kee. 10. Frank,
raarried Alaria A. Arthur ; children : i. Jaraes
Freeborne, married Flora AlcDonald ; ii.
Frank Hood, married Rebecca Graham ; iii.
John Edward, raarried Elizabeth B. Haw
thorn, of Maiden, and had one child. 11. Alary
Ann, raarried Deceraber 21, 1874, Adara Bus-
teed of Woburn, and had one child, Lillian
Alay, born April 19, 1877, married July 8,
1902, Edward D. Hart, of Woburn, and had
Edward Dexter Hart, born September 16,
1903, and Charles AA'ard Hart, bom April 27,
1907. (Ill) Jaraes Grahara, son of James Gra
ham (2), was born at Lackan, county Done
gal, Ireland, Noveraber 15, 1840. He attended
the oarish school at the Httle stone schoolhouse

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at TuUynaught, under Alaster Robert Max
well, an old pensioner of the crown. At the
age of fifteen he began to drive a team for his
father, carrying luraber frora Donegal to Pet-
tigo. At the age of twenty-one he carae to
-America, landing at New York city, and wa"s
employed in a brick yard at Newburg, N. Y.,
remaining there three raonths. He subse
quently carae to AA'oburn, Alassachusetts, and
was eraployed on the farm of John Cumraings,
and for a nuraber of years was engaged at
training high-bred horses for the leading turf
men of New England. Mr. Graham many
times drove trotting horses in the races at
Lexington and Concord; and also had charge
of marketing produce in Boston, and later be
came superintendent of the market gardening
for Air. Cumraings. He also had charge of
the milk raising, and was in his employ for
thirty-eight years. In the fall of 1897 he re
tired frora active labor and bought his present
property on Main street, North Woburn,
known as the old Chadburn place. Mr. Gra
hara is a type of the sturdy, upright, conscien
tious Scotchmen that have corae to America
and helped to build the nation. Honest, open-
hearted and kindly, he has the confidence and
esteera of his neighbors to a raarked degree.
He is zealous in support of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, of which he is a raeraber
and for raany years has been a vestryraan. In
politics he is a Republican. He was raade a
raeraber of Mt. Horeb Lodge of Masons, at
Woburn, April 2, 1879, and is a raeraber of
True Blue Lodge, No. 119, Loyal Order of
Orangemen, at Woburn. He niarried, Janu
ary 31, 1863, Elizabeth Given, born August
27, 1844, daughter of Robert and Eleanor
(Porter) Given. Children; i. Williara Gage,
born Deceraber 25, 1863 ; raarried, at Woburn,
April 2, 1884, Louise H. Plartwell; children:
i. Jaraes Ephraira, born October 12, 1884; ii.
Ruby Wyraan, November 22, 1886; iii. Eliz
abeth Given, Noveraber 21, 1888; iv. Jose
phine Louise, January 16, 1893. 2. John
Given, born May 23, 1867 ; raentioned below.
3. Elizabeth Given, born May 14, 1873; died
April 22, 1876. 4. Jaraes Robert, born Sep
tember 15, 1877: married November 9, 1897,
Agatha Anderson, of Bridgton, Nova Scotia ;
children ; i. Janies ; ii. Elizabeth Marion, born
July 26, 1901 ; iii. Jaraes Raymond, October 6,
1907. 5. Sarah Cumraings, born Noveraber 8,
1880; raarried John Thoraas Davey, of Prince
Edward Island, and had Jaraes Grafton Davey
and Victor Graham Davey.
(IV) John Giveii Graham, son of James

Graham (3), was born at Burlington, Alassa
chusetts, May 23, 1867. He received his edu
cation in the public schools, graduating from
the Curamings grammar school and attending
AVarren Academy for one year. He was em
ployed by his father on the John Curamings
farra, of which he was superintendent, and
continued until he was thirty years old, becom
ing an expert gardener. In 1887 he embarked
in business on his own account. He bought
the old Thurston farra on Burlington street,
Lexington, consisting of fifty acres, with
house and other buildings. Pie has thirty acres
under cultivation, using five hundred or rnore
sash in starting his plants. He raised all kinds
of produce, finding his raarket in the coramis
sion houses of Boston. His land has a south
ern exposure, and is very favorably situated
for this sort of cultivation. Mr. Graham has
also a fine dairy consisting of twenty-five head
of Holstein cattle. Though quiet and retiring
in manner, Mr. Grahara is well known and
highly respected in the community. He is a
raeraber of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of Our Redeeraer, Lexington. In politics he
is a Republican. Pie is a raeraber of Mount
Horeb Lodge of Free Masons, Woburn ; of
True Blue Lodge No. 119, Loyal Order of
Orangeraen, Woburn, and holds the office of
director in that body. He was formerly a
raeraber of Woburn Phalanx, Company G,
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, of which he
was corporal and sergeant. He married, De
ceraber II, 1889, Catherine Graham, born
February 24, 1868, daughter of Richard and
Isabel (Grahara) Grahara. Her father was
a fanner at Lackan, Ireland. Children, born
at AA'obum ; i. Jaraes Plarold, born May 26,
1891. 2. Isabel EHzabeth, born November 13,
1892. 3. John Cummings, born August 4,
1894, in Lexington. 4. Sarah, born May
10, 1899, died August 8, 1899. 5. Catherine
Dorothy, born May 27, 1905
(I) Afr. John Plumphrey.
PIUAIPHREY immigrant ancestor, was a
member of the Massachu
setts Bay Colony. Winslow says in his history ;.
"July, 1634, Mr. Plumphrey and the lady
Susan, his wife, one of the Earl of Lincoln's
sisters, arrived at Boston, bringing military
supplies, sixteen heifers given by Mr. Richard
Andrews to the plantation, one for each of
the niinisters and the rest to the poor, etc., and
raessages frora people of quality who desired
to come over." He had a grant of land at
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guished magistrate He brought with him
two thousand pounds, but died poor in 1653.
He was called a very useful ruler by Governor
AVinthrop. He was admitted a freeman May
25, 1636. He had a sad experience in regard
to sorae of his children in 1641 ; was appointed
by the general court, June 2, 1641, sergeant
major general. Administration was granted
to his son Joseph, Deceraber 13, 1661. The
court gave hira a grant of three hundred acres
which he sold. In 1662 there was litigation
over his estate in the Essex Court, some of the
Humphrey grants, as stated in the Marble
head history, were in what is now Marble
head. The general court voted May 6, 1635,
"to iraprove the land between Clifte and Forest
River and dispose of it to the inhabitants of
Marblehead as they stood in need of it, the
only charge to the purchaser being enough to
recompense him (Mr. Huraphrey) for the
labor and costs bestowed upon it." In March,
1636, the general court agreed that Mr.
Huraphrey's land should begin at the Clifte in
the way to Marblehead, which is the boundary
between Salera and Lynn, and "so along the
line between the said towns to the rocks one
mile by estimation, to a great red oak from
which the said marked tree all under and over
this rock upon a straight Hne to the running
brooke by Thomas Smyth's house all the
which said ground we allow him (Huraphrey)
for his owne and soe frora Thoraas Srayth's to
the sea." The site of the village of Marblehead
was selected near his farra. He was granted
land beyond Forest River. In 1636 the gen
eral court appropriated four hundred pounds
for the erection of a college, and Huraphrey
was on the committee and the site was selected
at Marblehead. But later the coUege site was
fixed at its present location in Cambridge.
Children ; i. Theophilus. baptized January 24,
1636-37. 2. Thomas, baptized August 26,
1638. 3. Joseph, baptized April 5, 1640. 4.
Lydia, baptized April 25, 1641. 5. Dorcas,
born about 1632. 6. Sarah, born about 1634.
(Ill) Elizabeth Humphrey, wife of 
Humphrey (probably Edward, son of Joseph),
was a meraber of the Marblehead church, and
as such her children were baptized without
mention of the name of her husband, who was
unquestionably grandson of John Humphrey
(i), and son or nephew of Joseph Humphrey
(2) Children, baptized in Marblehead: i.
Edward, Alarch 11, 1687-8; raarried Eunice
 . 2. Henry, March 11, 1687-8. 3.
Stephen, died young Alay, 1688 ; baptized same
date as two preceding. 4. AA'illiam, baptized

Septeraber 23, 1688. 5. Coombs, mentioned
below. (IV) Coombs Huraphrey, son of  ¦
and Elizabeth Huraphrey (3), was baptized at
Alarblehead, Alassachusetts, April 16, 1693.
He raarried, .April 4. 1717, Bethia Poland, of
Ipswich (by Rev. Sainuel Wigglesworth).
Children, born at Alarblehead; i. Bethia, Oc
tober 30, 1718. 2. Williara, baptized April 22,
1722 ; mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, baptized
October 4, 1724, died young. 4. Samuel, bap
tized July 17, 1726. 5. Elizabeth, baptized
June 29, 1729.
(V) William Plumphrey, son of Coombs
Humphrey (4), was baptized at Marblehead,
April 22, 1722. He was a meraber of the
Second Congregational Church (now Unita
rian). Pie raarried, September 26, 1745, at
Alarblehead, Rebecca Brown. Children, born
in Alarblehead; i. Rebecca, baptized July 20,
1746; died young. 2. AA'illiam, baptized July
17, 1748; raarried February 11, 1772, Miriara
or Alary Le Crow. 3. Benjarain, baptized
Alarch 4, 1750; niarried April 28, 1775,
Jemima Gale 4. Samuel, baptized Alarch 15,
1752- 5- John, baptized Noveraber 11, 1753;
raentioned below. 6. Rebecca, baptized No
vember 14, 1756. 7. Amos, baptized June 13,
1760; married October 24, 1782, Martha Hale.
8. Bethia, baptized AToveraber 21, 1762; mar
ried November 20, 1783, Sarauel Gale. 9.
Sarah, baptized March 31, 1765; raarried Feb
ruary 12, 1785, Charles Florence.
(VI) John Humphrey, son of Williara
Humphrey (5), was baptized at Marblehead,
November 11, 1753. He was a soldier in the
revolution, a corporal in Captain William
Hooper's conipany, July 17, 1775, at Marble
head, and again in 1776, February 29 to Alarch
31, on coast duty. (See p. 497, vol. 8, Alass.
Soldiers and Sailors). Pie was a benefactor
of the acaderay with Samuel Sewell and others
in 1778-9. He married twice and both wives
are buried by his side, all three having grave
stones in the Green Street burial ground, Alar
blehead. He raarried first, February 26, 1776,
Alary Caswell, died February 8, 1786, aged
twenty-nine years; second, Mercy (or Alarcia)
Eaton, Alay 25, 1786. She was born in 1768,
daughter of Israel and Mary Eaton. He died
August 18, 1 80 1, aged forty-seven years,
according to the gravestone, and his widow
died July 13, 1803. Children; i. John, born
Alay 25, 1787; died February 14, 1848; mar
ried first, Eliza Doliber, August 5, 1826 ; she
died August 24, 1827, and he married second,
Noveraber 11, 1830, Hannah D. Bridges, who

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died March 7, 1881 ; child of first wife: i.
Caroline E., born June 15, 1827; died Septem
ber 16, 1827; children of second wife; ii.
John, born September 25, 183 1 ; iii. George B.,
September 23, 1833 ; iv. CaroHne E., October
16, 1838; V. Edward B., Septeraber 6, 1842,
died October 22, 1843 ; vi. Henry, Septeraber
II, 1845, died Septeraber 24, 1845. 2. Mary,
Alay 13, 1789; died July 22, 1874. 3. Marcia,
born June 25, 1791 ; married WiUiam Orne. 4.
SaUy, born July 2, 1793; died June 18, 1858.
5. Louisa, born August 28, 1795; died August,
1881. 6. Harriet, born Septeraber 5, 1797;
died November 22, 1858. 7. George Washing
ton ; raentioned below.
(VII) George Washington Huraphrey, son
of John Humphrey (6), was born in Marble
head, January i, 1800, and died August i,
1875, at Needham, Alassachusetts. He mar
ried Betsey Hill Devereux, born May 8, 1798,
Alarblehead. Children; i. George H., born
June 17, 1822; mentioned below. 2. Eliza
Ann, Leach, born Deceraber 22, 1824; married
Charles Merriara. 3. John Devereaux, born
January 22, 1828; raarried Hannah Rogers, of
Marblehead, daughter of John Rogers ; chil
dren ; Hannah Eliza, Mary Ellen, John D.
4. Joseph, born January 8, 1830; died October
II, 1873; raarried June 26, 1854, Charlotte
Elizabeth Vaughan, of New York ; children ;
i. Joseph Vaughan, born Septeraber 23, 1855,
in New York, and died October 26, 1856; ii.
Richard V., born May 20, 1857, in Brooklyn,
died April 20, 1880; iii. George W., born Au
gust 14, i860, at Brooklyn ; iv. Charlotte
Bauscher, born October 17, 1862; v. John Van
Cleve, born February 5, 1864, died March,
1865 ; vi. Arthur Vaughan, born April 30,
1867. 5. Mary E., born March 27, 1832. 6.
William Eaton, born March i, 1836, died June
22, 1866.
(VIII) George H. Plumphrey, son of George
Washington Humphrey (7), was born June
17, 1822, at Marblehead, died Deceraber 12,
1898, at Needham, Massachusetts. He was
by occupation a bookbinder. He married
Clarinda T. Noyes, born in Alinot, Alaine,
April 17, 1828, daughter of Daniel and Rachel
(Simmons) Noyes. Children: i. George Wash
ington, born November i, 1848, raentioned
below. 2. Mary Eliza, born October 25, 1852,
at Roxbury. 3. Henry Devereux, born June
20, 1861, mentioned below. 4. Anna AValker,
born March 17, 1863.
(IX) George Washington Humphrey, son
of George H. Pluraphrey (8), was born No
vember I, 1848. He was educated in the public

schools of Roxbury and Carabridge. When
he was thirteen years old he went to work
as clerk in the shoe store of Thomas Aloseley,
for whom he worked a year. He then worked
two years in the Suffolk National Bank of
Boston. In July, 1866, he entered the eraploy
of Roberts Brothers, publishers, and continued
for thirty-four years. After leaving the
Roberts firm he worked as bookkeeper for
Hardy, Pratt & Company. In 1901 he started
in business for himself, with a book store on
Brattle street, Boston, his present business.
Pie raarried Ellen Thatcher FoUansbee, born at
Brooklyn, New York, March 29, 1851, daugh
ter of Alonzo and Nancy Sherman (Mcintosh)
FoUansbee Children: i. Ralph Devereux,
bora Noveraber 7, 1882, died July 4, 1904. 2.
Alarion Louise, born Alarch 5, 1886.
(IX) Henry Devereux Huraphrey, son of
George H. Huraphrey (8), was born at Jamaica
Plain, West Roxbury (now Boston), June 20,
1 86 1. He was educated in the public and high
schools of Dedham. He established his present
real estate and insurance business, and has
been very successful in the sarae. In politics
he is a Republican, and he has been representa
tive from his district to the general court three
years, 1894-5-6; member of board of assessors
three years, 1898-99-1900; raember ol the
board of selectraen of Dedhara for five years,
and its chairraan four years. In 1906 he was
elected treasurer of Norfolk county, an office
he now holds. Mr. Humphrey has been secre
tary of Constellation Lodge of Free Alasons
for raany years. He is president of the Ded
ham Board of Trade, and of the Ancient
Society in Dedhara for Apprehending Horse
Thieves, raerabership in which is valued at
present entirely for social reasons. Air.
Humphrey is a member of the Dedhara Con
gregational Church. He married first, Lena
R. Witham, of Gloucester. Massachusetts,
daughter of Sidney and Susan Witham ; sec
ond, Margaret Davidson, of SomerviUe, Mass
achusetts. Children: i. Edith, born Septem
ber 19, 1900. 2. Alargaret, born June 20, 1903.
(For early generations see John Humphrey ,, and William
Humphrey 5.)
HUMPHREY s*„':,'*f,^rLgzjl;;?:
,, , was born at Marblehead,
Massachusetts, 1760, and baptized there No-
Z uVu^°.^-'^l°- ^^ ^^^ ^ soldier from
Marblehead in the revolution, a private in Cap
tain John Devereux's corapany. Colonel Jacob
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1778, at Winter Hill, in Captain Simeon
Brown's company. Colonel Gerrish's regiment.
He married, October 24, 1782, Martha Hale,
born June 6, 1764, died June 20, 1849. Chil
dren, born at Alarblehead ; i. Amos, Jr., June
12, 1784; died August 27, 1857. . 2. Martha,
August 27, 1786, died May 3, 1814. 3. WiU
iara, Alay I, 1791 ; died July 14, 1868; raar
ried December 28, 181 5, Lucy GaUison, died
August I, 1843; children; i. WiUiara, born
October 2, 1816, died AprU 10,  ; ii. Lucy,
born Noveraber 10, 1818; iii. Martha, born
Septeraber 17, 1821. 4. Edward, born July 26,
1793; died March 19, 1877. 5. Rebecca, born
August 27, 1795; died April 19, 1876. 6.
Richard, mentioned below.
(VII) Captain Richard Humphrey, son of
Amos Humphrey, born February 11, 1809, at
Marblehead, died there April 26, 1880. He
married Margaret Thorapson, who died in
1883. He was a raaster mariner for many
years. Children, born at Marblehead; i. Ed
ward T. 2. Richard, raentioned below. 3.
Samuel T. 4. Sarah.
(VIII) Richard Humphrey, son of Richard
Humphrey, born in Marblehead, 1835, died
July 2, 1870. He was a heel contractor in the
shoe manufacturing business in Marblehead
for a number of years, and afterward for
many years superintendent of the boot and
shoe factory of William H. Boynton. He
was a Democrat in politics and a Congrega
tionalist in religion. He raarried Mary E.
Hooper, born in Marblehead, 1840, died No
veraber 24, 1881, daughter of John P. Hooper.
Children, born at Marblehead; i. Martha B.,
1859. 2. Richard, Jr., 1861. 3. Herbert, men
tioned below. 4. Mary A., 1867. 5. Richard,
Jr., September, 1870.
(IX) Herbert Humphrey, son of Richard
Pluraphrey, was born at Marblehead, February
2, 1863. He attended the public schools of his
native town, leaving when but eleven years
old to earn his living in a shoe factory. He
returned to school for a short tirae, and then
worked in the shoe factories of Marblehead
until 1884 when he went to Beverly, where
he followed his trade in the shoe factories of
that town until 1897. Since then he has re
sided in Marblehead and been engaged in busi
ness on his own account. In partnership with
John D. Paine, under the firm name of
Huraphrey & Paine, he started to manufacture
boots and shoes, and their business grew rap
idly to large proportions. In 1906 the part
nership was dissolved, and since then Mr.
Humphrey has continued manufacturing alone.

He has just erected one of the largest and best
equipped factories in this country, and is at
present turning out five thousand pairs of
shoes daily. Even in the heart of the shoe
manufacturing world this output is reraark
able, placing Mr. Humphrey araong the lead
ing raanufacturers of the country. He stands
high in the business world, having shown ex
traordinary business ability, energy, integrity
and uprightness. He affords an excellent ex
araple of the self-raade raen of New England
and illustrates the possibilities in the field of
raanufacturing for the youth of to-day. In
politics he is an Independent, and a Congre
gationalist in religion. He is a raeraber of the
Order of Araerican Mechanics ; of Atlantic
Lodge, No. 55, Odd Fellows ; of Philanthropic
Lodge of Free Masons ; of Salem Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; of Salem Council, Royal
and Select Masters ; and of Winslow Lewis
Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a
trustee of the Alasonic building fund, which
is soon to be used to erect a Masonic building
in Salera to cost $250,000. He raarried, March
25, 1884, Martha W. Graves, born in Marble
head, daughter of John and Caroline S.
Graves. Children: i. Gerald, born May 13,
1885 ; died June 19, 1885. 2. Leonard, born
July 2, 1886; now superintendent of his
father's shoe factory. 3. Bert, born July 16,
1888; died November 24, 1900. 4. Beatrice
Mae, born AprU 3, 1891. 5. Herbert, Jr., born
October 24, 1899. 6. Gordon Hale (twin),
born October 3, 1901. 7. Gertrude H., (twin),
born October 3, 1901.

The surnarae Lane is of the same
LANE class as Woods, Pond, Field, HUl,
coming into use as a surnarae at a
very early date. The personal narae raodified
by the designation "In the Lane," "By the
Lane," "In Lana" "Ad Lanara" may be found
in medieval docuraents. The Lane faraily of
Kings Broraley clairas to be of Norraan origin,
descending from a Sir Reginald de Lane of the
Twelfth century. Alany of the EngHsh
branches of the Lane faraily have coats-of-
arms. (I) Williara Lane, iraraigrant ancestor, born
in England, came probably from the western
part of England. He was a resident of Dor
chester, Massachusetts, as early as 1635. He
received grants of land there in 1637. His
will, proved July 6, 1654, mentions children,
but no wife. Children, all probably born in
England : i. EHzabeth, married Thomas Rider.
2. Mary, married first Joseph Long; second.

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Joseph Farnsworth. 3. Auis, or Avith, married
Thomas Lincoln. 4. (jeorge, mentioned below.
5. Sarah, niarried Nathaniel Baker ; died at
Hull, August 19, 1695. 6. Andrew.
(II) George Lane, son of AA''illiam Lane
(i), was an early settler in Hingham, and at
the first division of land, September 18, 1635,
was granted a house lot of five acres ; also had
a grant of ten acres at "Nutty HiU" and thir
teen shares in the common lands. He was a
shoemaker, and resided on what is now North,
near Beal street. He was selectraan in 1669
and 1678. He died June 11, 1689. His will
was dated October 16, 1688, and proved Au
gust 20, 1689. He married Sarah Harris, died
at Hingham, Alarch 26, 1694-5, daughter of
AA'alter and Mary (Frye) Harris. Her fathe'r
came to Weymouth in 1632. Children,- all bora
in Hingham; I. Sarah, born Alarch, 1637-8;
married, 1655, James Lewis. 2. Hannah, born
February 24, 1638-9; married December 23,
1665, Thoraas Humphrey. 3. Josiah, bora
Alay 23, 1641. 4. Susannah, born June 23,
1644; married December 23, 1665, AViUiam
Robbarts. 5. Elizabeth, born 1646; married
AValter Poor. 6. John, born January 20,
1647-8. 7. Ebenezer, born August 25, 1650;
raentioned below. 8. .Mary, born April 11,
1653; married  Ellis. 9. Peter, born
July 21, 1656.
(Ill) Ebenezer Lane, son of George Lane
(2), was baptized in Hingham, August 25,
1650, and died Deceraber 12, 1726. He resided
on the horaestead, and was called yeoman. He
was assigned the second seat in the west
gallery of the new meeting house, January 5,
1681-2. He was one of Captaiii Johnson's
company in King Philip's war. His will, dated
January 8, 1722-3, proved Deceraber 27, 1726,
mentions wife Hannah, sons Ebenezer and
Peter as joint executors, daughters Sarah
Leavitt, Susannah Lane, and grandson Abra
ham Leavitt. He married, December 27, 1688,
Hannah Hersey, born February 13, 1668-9,
died Alarch 31, 1745, daughter of AA^illiara and
Rebecca (Chubbuck) Hersey, of Plinghara.
ChUdren, born in Hinghara; I. Plannah, Feb
ruary 13, 1689-90; married, .August 23, 1714,
Abraham Leavitt. 2. Sarah, December 4,
1692: married January 24, 1712-3, Elisha
Leavitt. 3. Ebenezer, December 11, 1694;
mentioned below. 4. Peter, Alay 25, 1697. 5.
Susanna, December 4, 1699; married, Decem
ber 31, 1724, Jonathan Studley.
(IV) Ebenezer Lane, son of Ebenezer Lane
(3), was bora December 11, 1694, in Hingham,
and died Alay .30, 1777. He was a farmer.

and resided on High street, Hinghara, near
Nutty HiU. In his will, dated August 3, 1774.
proved July 4, 1777, he bequeaths to wife
Alary; to son Ebenezer house and land at
Cohasset, and to son Josiah the horaestead at
Hinghara; to daughters Mary French, Delight
Lincoln and Sarah Stodder. He raarried, the
intention published November 16, 1717, Alary
Leavitt, born February 18, 1695-6, died Sep
teraber II, 1777, daughter of Israel and Lydia
(Jackson) Leavitt, of Hinghara. Children,
all born in Hinghara; I. Ebenezer, June 24,
1720. 2. Alary, June 16, 1723; married, Janu
ary 3, 1744-5,. Daniel French. 3. Sarah, April
20, 1726; married, October 22, 1744, Siraon
Stodder. 4. Lydia, August 29, 1727 ; died Au
gust 25, 1746. 5. Abigail, baj)tized Septera
ber 8, 1728. 6. Delight, born Alay 16, 1734;
married, January 4, 1757, Elijah Lincoln. 7.
Josiah, July 6, 1736; raentioned below. 8.
Elizabeth, July I, 1739; died .August 15, 1746.
( A' ) Lieutenant Josiah Lane, son of Ebe
nezer Lane (4), was born in Hinghara, July 6,
1736, and died August 13, 1813. Pie was a
farmer, and resided on High street, Hinghara.
Pie was a soldier in the revolution, second
lieutenant in Captain Enoch AA'hiton's cora
pany, -April 19, 1775, on the Lexington alarm;
also in Captain Byram Lincoln's company
Alarch 4, 1776. His will was dated April 8,
1805, and proved September 6, 1813, his sons
Leavitt and Josiah being executors. Pie mar
ried, November 27, 1760, Lucy Tower, born
February 17, 1741-2, died December i,' 1807,
daughter of Peter and Patience (Gardner)
Tower, of Hingham. Children, all born in
Hingham; i. Leavitt, Alay 26, 1761 ; raen
tioned below. 2. Lucy, April 22, 1767; raar
ried, November 29, 1787, Stephen Alarsh, Tr.
3. Lydia, November 2, 1768; raarried, Alarch
24, 1788, Benjamin AVilder. 4. Peter, July 13,
^^772.^ 5- Josiah, baptized May, 1776.
(AT) Captain Leavitt Lane, son of Lieuten
ant Josiah Lane (5), was born in Hinghara,
Alay 26, 1761, and died at Hanover, Massachu
setts, July 15, 1840, aged seventy-nine years.
He was a soldier in the revolution, private in
Captain Baxter's corapany, in the Rhode Island
carapaign of 1778 ; also in Captain Joseph Bax
ter s company. Colonel Alclntosh's regiment
General Lovell's brigade, in secret expedition of
1778 to Rhode Island: he was iu Continental
army 1780 and 1781. He was also a ship
master ,n the service during the revolution.
He marned Xovember 9, 1786, Elizabeth,
daughter of J,^b and Judith (AVhiton) Loring
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and died at Hudson, New A'ork, October 17,
1^34. aged sixty-eight years. Pie resided on
the paternal homestead. High street, Hingham.
Children, all born in Hingham; i. Betsey,
April 5, 1787 ; married, March 2, 1809, Samuel
Torrey, of Weymouth, and died 1870, aged
eighty-three years. 2. Leavitt, October 15,
1788, was master of schooner "Independence,"
and was lost at sea in the summer of 181 2 on
a return voyage from Lisbon. 3. Lydia, De
cember I, 1790; married, December 26, 1810,
Lebbeus Stockbridge, of Hanover; she died
1869, aged seventy-eight. 4. Quincy, January
16, 1793. 5. Sarah, September 12, 1795; died
unraarried, at Weymouth, January 12, i860;
aged sixty- four. 6. Lucy, October 7, 1797;
married December 23, 1818, WilHam Gordon,
of Hudson, -New York. 7. Alarcus, April 10,
1800. 8. Andrew, born March 3, 1803, removed
west ; resided at Cattaraugus county. New
York. 9. /Alfred, born March 3, 1803, settled
in Poughkeepsie, New York. 10. Peter, born
October i, 1805; mentioned below.
(VII) Captain Peter Lane, son of Captain
Leavitt Lane (6), was born October i, 1805,
and died December 26, 1886. He was for
many years master of his own vessel, owned
a number of whaling crafts, and was well
known in marine circles. He niarried, January
2, 1831, Deborah Gushing, bora January 24,
1813, died Septeraber 13, 1884, daughter of
Seth Gushing, born January 18, 1769, raarried
September 18, 1794, Joanna Gushing, of Hing
hara, who was born September 19, 1773. Chil
dren of Peter and Deborah Lane; i. Edwin,
died at sea. 2. AVebster, niarried first, Char
lotte Portington, of New York ; second, Sarah
Jane Hagan. 3. Seth Gushing, mentioned
below. 4. Joanna Alden ; married Frederick
Cate ; children ; i. Frederick AV. ; ii. Dora L. ;
iii. Hawthorne A.; iv. Harold AV. ; v. Law
rence. (VIII) Seth Gushing Lane, son of Captain
Peter Lane (7), was born in AVeymouth, Alass
achusetts, September 29, 1838, and died Alarch
14, 1879, at the comparatively young age of
forty years and some months. \'et his life
was one of conspicuous usefulness and highly
honorable. He was educated in the Weymouth
schools, and under the private tutorship of
Principal Z. L. Ferris, of the high school, by
whora he was instructed in mechanical engi
neering. For three years he was an apprentice
under Samuel Flagg, of AA'orcester, and there
gained a thorough and practical knowledge of
mechanics. In 1862 (the second year of the
civil war period) he passed a highly satisfac

tory examination before the examining board
of the navy departraent, in Philadelphia, and
was assigned to the steamer "Alichigan," on
Lake Erie, on which he served one year ; he
served for some time on the U. S. S. "Cini-
eroiie" and "South Carolina." He was then
transferred to the monitor "Montauk," engaged
in blockading service off Charleston harbor.
South Carolina, and also bombarding Forts
Sumter and Aloultrie and other of the rebel
defences on twenty-eight different occasions.
Later he was assigned to special duty^at the
Charlestown (Massachusetts) navy yard. At
the close of the war he resigned, having then
the rank of third assistant engineer, under
warrant from Hon. Gideon AVelles, secretary
of the navy. In 1867 he located at Ellsworth,
Kansas, during the construction of the Pacific
railroad, there erecting the United States
Hotel, and otherwise devoting his enterprise
to the upbuilding of the embryo town. After
a residence there of three years he went to
Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he engaged in
a wholesale and retail business in partnership
with J. H. Willis, formerly of Weymouth,
Alassachusetts. He gave himself to the cares
and responsibilities of this important business
so closely that the confineraent sowed in his
system the seeds of disease, and after a period
of Seven years he returned to his father's
home in 1877, and where he resided during the
remainder of his life. Primarily devoted to
his naval and business duties during his active
years, he developed qualities which well fitted
hira for public life, and while, a resident of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, he served raost credit
ably and efficiently as a member of the board
of councilnien. AA'ith his family he attended
the Universalist church, and while in Bridge
port he served for some years as a member of
the board of trustees. He was a highly regarded
member of the Alasonic fraternity, and his
lodge attended his funeral, sent resolutions of
condolence to the bereaved faraily, draped its
charter, and inscribed a page of its record book
to his raemory. His pastor. Rev. Anson Titus,
who conducted the funeral services, raade
special reference to the noble and generous
characteristics of the deceased, which raade
him friends in whatever circle he raoved ; to
his service for his country during the war
days ; and emphasized the fact that in all his
relations with his fellows he left the precious
legacy of a useful and honorable life.
Air. Lane niarried, October 18, 1867, Sarah
Eleanor, daughter of David Radcliffe and
Eleanor Alaria (Brown) Cloudraan, of Gor-

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hara, Alaine (see Cloudraan). Children: i.
Georgianna Gushing. 2. Carleton Gushing,
raarried, Deceraber 15, 1905, Susan Godfrey,
daughter of Samuel Adams and Jessie (God
frey) Morse, and they have one child, Eleanor,
born July 26, 1908, at Brookline, Massachu
setts.

(I) Captain John Part-
PARTRIDGE ridge lived in Navestock,
England. Although he
may never have lived in this country, he had
an account in the general court October 17,
1649, with Captain Clarke (see Pope). ChU
dren; I. John, born 1620; mentioned below.
2. AVilliam, 1622. 3. Margaret, 1628.
(II) John Partridge, son of Captaiii John
Partridge (i), was born in Navestock, Eng
land, 1620. He was the iraraigrant ancestor.
He carae to Medfield, Massachusetts, frora
Dedhara, in 1653, probably accorapanied by
his brother William and his sister Margery.
He had a share in the division of land in Ded
ham, March 7, 1652. John and WiUiam Part
ridge had house lots in Medfield, on "The
Bachelor's Roe," now North street, and both
signed the proprietor's agreeraent. John was
selectman, and clerk of the market in 1672.
His house and barn, with a quantity of grain
and several head of cattle, were burned at the
tirae of the Indian raid in 1676. He married,
Deceraber 18, 1655, Magdalen Bullard, died
Deceraber 27, 1677, daughter of John and
Alagdalen Bullard, early of Watertown and
later of Medfield. He died May 28, 1706, and
his will was proved June 25 following. Men
tion is raade of sons John, Eleazer, Sarauel
and Zachariah; daughter Rachel, wife of
Theophilus Clark, and three grandchildren,
Eleazer and Obadiah Adaras, and Hannah
Rockwood. Children: i. John, born Septera
ber 21, 1656; raentioned below. 2. Hannah,
April 5, 1658; died March 8, 1680; raarried,
April 2, 1679, Joseph Rockwood. 3. Deborah,
August 16, 1662; raarried April 4, 1681, John
Adaras. 4. Eleazer, February 20, 1664; died
Noveraber 8, 1736. 5. Abiel, June 13, 1667;
died July 2, 1667. 6. Experience, June 13,
1667 (twin) ; died July 5, 1667. 7. Rachel,
July 12, 1669; died Deceraber i, 1717 ; niarried,
.September 25, 1670, Theophilus Clark. 8.
Sarauel, February 22, 1671 ; died December 12,
1752. 9. Zachariah, July 2, 1674; died Sep
teraber 23, 1716. 10. Mary, died February 15,
1677. (Ill) John Partridge, son of John Partridge
(2), was bom in Aledfield, September 21, 1656.

He settled in 1681 in that part of Medway
which is now Millis. He was one of the first
to take up his residence in that part of Med
field lying west of the Charles river, and was
active in having it set off as Aledway in 1713.
In 1710 he was chosen master of a school
established for residents of the west side ; was
interested in church affairs, and chosen deacon
of the Medway church. He was present at
Deerfield when news was received of the return
of the captives taken at the Deerfield massacre,
and is said to have himself raade a copy of
Benjamin Waite's letter announcing their
arrival at Albany, which, in corapany with
John Plympton, Jr., he brought to Medfield
and delivered to Rev. John Wilson, by whom
it was forwarded to the governor of the colony.
He niarried first, Deceraber 24, 1678, Elizabeth
Rockwood, born in Medfield, April 3, 1657,
died July 22, 1688, daughter of Nicholas and
Alargaret (Holbrook) Rockwood; second Eliz
abeth Adaras, born in Medfield,March 18,1666,
died August 14, 1719, daughter of Jonathan
and Elizabeth (Fussell) Adams; third, April
17, 1 72 1, Hannah Sheffield, born in Sherborn,
April 18, 1663, died July 19, 1754, daughter
of Williara and Mary Sheffield. He died in
Medway, Deceraber 9, 1743. His will was
proved September 4, 1744. Children by first
wife; I. Elizabeth, born Septeraber 13, 1679;
died April 25, 1706; niarried, Deceraber 22,
1 701, Ebenezer Daniel. 2. Alary, February
26, 1681 ; died February 14, 1754; raarried
November 25, 1706, Ebenezer Lawrence, of
AA^rentham. 3. John, about 1683; died Sep
tember 6, 1756. 4. Benoni, May 25, 1687;
mentioned below. Children of second wife;
5. Jonathan, November 25, 1693. 6. Hannah,
March 16, 1696; died October 12, 1751 ; raar
ried Alay 7, 17 1 3, Jereraiah Daniel. 7. Debo
rah, March i, 1698; died August 30, 1740;
raarried February 21, 1703, Israel Kieth. 8.
Jaraes, October 8, 1700; died Alarch 9, 1769.
9. Sarah, January 8, 1702; married Alarch
13. i723> George Adams. 10. Stephen, April
16, 1706; died March 10, 1742.
(IV) Benoni Partridge, son of John Part
ridge (3), was born in Medfield, (now AlUHs)
May 25, 1687, and died Deceraber 26, 1769.
He was one of the proprietors of the town at
its incorporation in 17 13, and resided in the
new grant which becanie AVest Medway, and
his children were born there. The farm was
divided equally between his sons Timothy and
Moses. He was a member of the first church
of Medway. He raarried July 14, 1708, Me
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10, 1689, died January 20, 1761, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Kendrick) AVheelock, and
granddaughter of Ralph Wheelock, founder of
Medfield. Children; i. Preserved, born
March 13, 1709; mentioned below. 2. Thoraas,
November 28, 171 1. 3. Seth, March 17, 1713,
died August 5, 1786; married Ruth Holbrook.
4. Joseph, August 22, 1715; died 1753. 5.
David, May 22, 1718; died August 4, 1741.
6. Mehitabel, April 24, 1720; died August 4,
1741. 7. Samuel, June 24, 1722; died Sep
teraber 7, 1741. 8. Sarah, Septeraber 27, 1724;
raarried, March 24, 1756, Samuel Fiske. 9.
Timothy, January 18, 1727; died September
18,1787. 10. Eh, June 3, 1729. 11. Moses,
August 28, 1733; died October 6, 1804.
(V) Preserved Partridge, son of Benoni
Partridge (4), was born in Medfield, March
13, 1709. Soon after his marriage he settled
in HoUiston, and was also in Milford as early
as 1750 and as late as 1754. He removed as
early as 1761 to Cumberland county, Maine,
and settled near Gorham. In 1764 his name
appears as a tax payer of Stroudwater, now a
suburb of Portland. He was in the colonial
service in 1755. He raarried Noveraber 10,
1737, Catherine Armstrong. Children; i.
Nathan, born August 3, 1738; died in West-
brook, Maine, 1786; was in the revolution;
married January i, 1781, Anna Conant, of
Falmouth. 2. Bathsheba, born August 19,
1740; raarried 1761, Uriah Nason, of Gorhara,
Alaine. 3. Jesse, born August 29, 1742; died
Deceraber 21, 1795; was in the revolution;
niarried first, Lydia Bailey; second Rebecca
 . 4. Catherine, born August 26, 1744;
died March 24, 1832; raarried 1766, Tiraothy
Cloudraan (see Cloudraan). 5. David, born
January 26, 1747; married Mary Conant; was
in the revolution. 6. Jotham, baptized July 27,
1750; was in the revolution; raarried 
Bailey. 7. Azuba, baptized Deceraber 18, 1752 ;
niarried Joseph Quiraby. 8. Rosina, raarried
Nathan Quiraby. 9. Zipporah, born 1757;
raarried Eliphalet AVatson. 10. Rhoda, died
unmarried.

(I) Thomas Cloutman (or
CLOL^DMAN Cloudraan, as the narae is
coraraonly spelled at the
present tirae) was the iraraigrant ancestor.
Th "History of Gorham, Maine," (McClellan)
states that he and his brother John came in
Septeraber, 1690, to America from the high
lands of Aberdeen, Scotland, landed at Ply
mouth and settled at Marblehead, where they
worked as ship-carpenters for about ten years.

Tradition says also that "the brothers were
noted for their strength and stalwart forms,
also for their large Roman noses, were raera
bers of the Society of Friends, of strict integ
rity and sound christian character." But the
vital records of Salera give the birth of a
daughter of Thoraas and his wife as early as
1681, and we fail to find anything of the
brother John. But Thomas had a son John,
born according to the records at Salera, named
perhaps for an uncle. The wife of Thomas
Cloutman was Elizabeth. Children : i . Ed
ward; mentioned below. 2. William, went to
Dover, New Hampshire. 3. Mary, born Au
gust 12, 1681, at Salem, died young. 4.
Thoraas, born January 23, 1683, the first set
tler at Marblehead ; married there October 3,
1723, AVidow Mary MuUy; children, born at
Alarblehead ; i. Mary, baptized October 20,
1709; ii. Thomas, born August 22, 171 1; iii.
John, baptized May 23, 1714; iv. Joseph, bap
tized March 30, 17 18. 5. John, born June 14,
1685, doubtless the John presumed to be an
iraraigrant in the history of Gorhara, 6. Mary,
born at Salem, Alay 13, 1691. 7. Joseph, born
Septeraber 19, 1693, at Salera.
(II) Edward Cloutraan (Cloudraan), son of
Thoraas Cloutman (i), was born possibly in
Scotland, about 1670. He settled early in life
ill Dover, New Hampshire, and married there
April 22, 1698, Sarah Tuttle, of a celebrated
Dover family. Araong their children was Ed
ward, raentioned below.
(Ill) Edward Cloudraan, son of Edward
Cloudraan or Cloutraan (2), was born in
Dover, New Hampshire, February 15, 1714-
15. He removed to Falraouth at the age of
twenty-two years, and there raarried April 16,
1738, Anna Collins, who carae from Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, she was a daughter of
Tiraothy and Sarah Collins. After his raar
riage he went to Presuinpscot Lower Falls,
where he had charge of the first saw raill ever
built there. The mill was built by Colonel
Westbrook, Samuel AValdo and others in 1735.
Air. Cloudraan is said to have been a tall and
very strong raan, weighing about two hundred
and twenty pounds. It is said that he was
accustoraed to throw all the boards frora the
raediura sized pine logs to the brow of the raill
and over, and that he was able to break off
pieces of pine board "like chunks of cheese."
He was accustomed to run the raill at night,
and one night in 1741 when alone, he saw an
Indian, who twice attempted to fire at him.
Cloudraan hurled the bar used for placing the
log on the carriage at the Indian, kiUing him

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instantly. He then threw the body into the
wheel pit and went home. The next night the
Indians burned the mill. Cloudraan and his
wife and son packed their goods in a canoe
and paddled down the river to what is now
.Stroudwater. In 1745 he went to Gorham and
bought the thirty acre lot No. 7, where the late
Daniel Billings lived, near Fort Hill. Early
in the raorning of .April 19, 1746, a party of
Indians entered the settlement and after killing
AA'iUiani Bryand, they surprised Mr. Cloud-
man as he was sowing wheat in his field, and
after a hard struggle overpowered hira and
took him to Canada, where he was placed in
the fortress at Quebec. He and a raan named
Robert -Dunbar planned to escape. They saved
a part of each day's rations, and one storray
night raade good their escape, October 23.
This is the la.st that is known of thera. They
never reached home, but were probably
drowned crossing Lake Charaplain, as the next
summer two skeletons with their clothes on
Iheir backs were washed ashore. In the
pocket of one was a compass, identified as
belonging to Cloudman. His widow married
second. Abraham .A.nderson, of Windham,
Alaine; she was for seven years a resident in
the C"rorham garrison. Edward Cloudraan had
children: I. Tiraothy, raentioned below. 2.
Sarah, born February 5, 1742; raarried, April
20, 1760, Eli AA'ebb, of Gorham.
(IV) Timothy Cloudman, son of Edward
Cloudraan (3), was born at Presunipscot
Lower Falls, and after his mother's second
marriage lived with her at AA^indham. He
\vas like his father strong and daring, and was
accustoraed to go in neighborhood scouts
against the Indians. He was with Anderson
ar.d a boy named Winship when Manchester
shot the famous chief, Poland. He was at that
tin-ie a boy of fifteen, and fired at the Indians
with the gun his father had picked up in the
saw mill, when he killed the Indian. He raar
ried, July 24, 1766, Catherine Partridge, died
Aiarch 24, 1832, aged ninety-one, probably of
Alarblehead. They settled on the farm at
Gorhara, and built a log house and a "hovel"
for the cow. The house stood a little east of
the present house, and the uneven ground still
marks the site of the cellar. The place pro
duced only hay enough to winter one cow.
Timothy worked often in the saw mill at Horse
Beef Falls, and his wife used to send the two
little boys down the river with their father's
dinner, armed with a razor for protection from
Ihe Indians and wild beasts. Timothy Cloud-
mar died October 22, 1830, aged ninety-one

Chiliiren: i. Betty, bora Alay 3, 1767, mar
ried, November I, 1789, Barnabas Bangs, and
had a daughter Susan Bangs, and two sons,
Barnabas and Thomas, who joined the Shakers,
Barnabas became an elder of their church. 2.
Nancy, born May 7, 1769, died 1779, she mar
ried a Air. Alaxfield. 3. Edward, born July
5, 1771, went to New Hampshire, he raarried
 Johnson. 4. Nathan (twin), born July
29, 1773, raarried Eunice .Sweet in 1802 and
removed to Stetson. 5. Jesse Partridge (twin),
born July 29, 1773, mentioned below. 6. John,
born February 20, 1776, married first, July 2,
1800, Elizabeth Cobb ; second Sarah Cobb, sister
of his first wife. 7. Polly (Mary) born July
13, 1779, raarried, Deceraber i, 1808, Caleb
Graffam. 8. William, born September 16, 1780,
married, 1804, Sarah Hamblen, daughter of
Hannah (AAJiitney) Harablen. 9. Thoraas,
born August 20, 1783, raarried, 1808, Martha
Gilpatrick. 10. Soloraon, born Deceraber 4,
1785, was a Baptist preacher in Cornish,
Alaine. 11. David, born September 16, 1788,
resided in Portland ; married Susan Greenleaf,
of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
(A') Jesse Partridge Cloudman, son of
Timothy Cloudman (4), was born in Gorham,
Alaine, July 29, 1773, and died January 25,
1848. He Hved on a hill near the river, a little
east of the house where his sons Soloraon and
Edward now reside. He raarried, in March,
1798, Hannah Swett, of Standish Neck. She
died .August 7, 1815, and he niarried second,
August 22, 1822, Mrs. Sarah (Bacon) Burton,
who died Alarch 23, 1869, aged eighty-two,
widow of Thomas Bacon, and daughter of
AA'illiam Burton. Children of first wife; i.
Nathan, bora August 12. 1799; married Alarch
29. 1826, Elizabeth Gallison, born January 27,
1802, died June 8, 1877, daughter of John and
Abigail ( AA'inslow) Gallison, the latter born in
the house built by Governor Edward AA'inslow ;
she died in 1836 ; she was a daughter of Hendri
and -Abigail (Bourne) AVinslow, and she
resided in Alansfield, Alassachusetts; Nathan
Cloudman died in AVindham, June 17, 1869.
2, David Radcliffe, raentioned below. 3. Eu
nice, born July 7, 1801, died unmarried, Feb
ruary 27, 1885. 4. Sarah, born February 20,
1803, marned, December, 1826, Aloses Stiles;
died in AA'estbrook, Alarch 10, 1859. 5. John
Tying Smith, born November 24, 1805, mar
ried in Saco, Alaine, December, 1827 Alary G
AA'aterhouse ; died in AA'estbrook, Alaine Janu
ary 15, 1852, had one child, George H 6
Susan, born August 12, 1807, married, 1830'
Bartholomew Johnson, o'i Pownal. 7. Josiah'

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born June 10, 1809, raarried first. May, 1833,
Susan Babb, of Sacarappa, Maine; second,
Noveraber, 1840, Huldah Estes, of Gorham,
Maine, died in Westbrook. 8. Abraham A.,
born February 14, 181 1, died in 1897, raarried
Deceraber, 1840, Betsey Smith, of Standish,
Maine. 9. AVilliam, .born May 13, 1813,
unmarried ; Hved in California, died 1898. 10.
Daniel B. (twin), bom August 6, 1815, raar
ried in Bath, Alay, 1853, Martha Spencer, of
Turner, Maine; died Deceraber 15, 1853, i"^
AA'estbrook. 11. Aloses (twin), born August
6, 1815; died October 19, 1815. Children of
second wife; 12. Hannah Swett, born May
30, 1823, died Alarch 18, 1897; married, Feb
ruary 25, 1849, Levi Estes, who died October
13, 1907, aged eighty-six years. 13. Lucretia
A., born January 13, 1826, died July 17, 1826.
14. Solomon B., born Alarch 27, 1827, raarried
first, November 22, 1854, Lucy Sweetser, of
A'armouth, Maine; she died October 17, 1880,
aged fifty-six years ; niarried, second, Alaria
Trott : she died .April 9, 1900, aged fifty years.
15. Edward T., born Deceraber 29, 1829, mar
ried, June 3, 1868, Sarah J. Haskell, of AVind
ham, Alaine, who died Noveraber 26, 1904,
aged sixty-seven years.
(AT) David Radcliffe Cloudraan, son of
Jesse Partridge Cloudman (5), was born in
Gorhara, May 19, 1800, and died January I,
1877, at Little Falls, Maine. He niarried Jan
uary, 1832, Eleanor Alaria Brown, of Charles
town, Massachusetts, born August 10, 1813,
died July 15, 1896, daughter of Captain WiU
iara and Eleanor (Alann) Brown. Her father
was born January 6, 1777, and died January
30, 1853 ; married February 19, 1809, Eleanor
Alann, born December 5, 1783, died August 4,
1827; he raarried second, October 9, 1823,
Sarah Brackett, who died Septeraber 8, 1855.
Araos and Elizabeth (Babb) Brown were the
parents of Captaiii AVilliara Brown. Children
of David R. and Eleanor Maria (Brown)
Cloudraan; i. Eliza Ann, married Lewis H.
Kingsbury, of AA'ellesley (forraerly Needham),
Alassachusetts : children ; i. Ella L., niarried
Joseph Peabody ; ii. Harry AL, niarried Cath
erine Carey ; iii. Albert L. ; iv. Mary Eleanor;
2. Andrew Haralin, born Noveraber 16, 1834,
died January 28, 1835. 3. Alarcellus Cope
land, raarried Helen W. Bates, of AA'eymouth;
children; i. Helen A., raarried Ralph Sweet-
land, of Natick. Alassachusetts, where they
now reside; ii. Alarcellus Eraraons; iii. Harry
Radcliffe, married Ida Fisk. 4. Sarah Eleanor,
niarried Seth Gushing Lane (see Lane). 5.
AA'illiam Henry, married Alargaret J. Sayres ;

children ; i. Alortimer AL, married Maud
HanUin ; children ; Carolyn, Eleanor and Mar
garet ; ii. Belle W., married Guy A'assar Dick
inson ; iii. AVilliara Henry, Jr.

In the early parish and town rec-
FLOYD ords the surnarae Floyd is found
variously wj"itten Floid, Flood,
Fludd and Finds, as well as Floyd, but it can
not be said that those who now bear the sur
viving names Floyd and Flood are descendants
of a single immigrant head. The records show
several Floyds having the baptisraal name John
who were settled in New England previous
to the "year 1650, and who raay be regarded as
contemporaries in respect to the periods of
their Hves. Later researches have cleared away
much of the obsecurity which surrounded the
identity and relationship of the several Johns,
and our present records of descendants of one
of these John Floyds may be accepted as estab
lished beyond reasonable question of doubt,
although it is now irapossible to assert that
Captain John Floyd of Ruraney Alarsh was
the son of John and Anne Floyd of London
and Boston of whom the ''Aspinwall Notarial
Records" says ; "1646. John and Anne Floyd of
Scituate niercht granted a tre Atturney to Air.
Chr; Rogers head of the New Iiine hall in Ox
ford & Air. John Ffreeraan of London inercht
lo take all Legacies well are or slialbe due unto
his wife by the decease of any of her brethern
or trends. Also to receive a debt of six
pounds due from Sarauel Greaves & to cora
pound &c ; & to appeare before al Lords &c to
doe say pursue iraplead pesecute &c.'' Savage
says John Floyd of Scituate, 1640, was of
Boston, 1653, and next year was fined five
shillings for receiving Airs. Pacey (Governor
Dudley's daughter) into his house as an
inraate, had a son Nathaniel, "as Deane says,
but he strangely raistakes hira for a raember
of the London Society for Propagating the
Gospel in Foreign Parts."
The first definite knowledge we have of the
immigrant ancestor of the family here under
consideration is that he was of Lynn, where
also lived Joseph Floyd, 1635, who sold out
his possessions there 1666, and removed to
Chelsea, and frora the fact that John Floyd
also lived first in Lynn and afterward in Chel
sea it is fair to assurae that they mav have
been of kin ; but when they carae into the coun
try no record furnishes any clear light and a
search of the emigration books in which are
supposed to be found the ships Hsts of irarai
grants does not reveal their names.

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In speaking of John Floyd of Scituate, raer
cbant, to whora reference has been raade, the
recent work, "Pioneers of Massachusetts,"
says : "John Floyd, citizen and haberdasher
of London; his wife Anne gave power of
attorney, 28 6ino 1640, for the care and raain
tenance of their son Thoraas, apprenticed to
Arthur Howland af Duxbury, planter. He
came to New England and resided at Scituate.
Gave letters of attorney, 4 9rao 1646, for col
lections in England. Released his servant,
Jane Douglas, October 26, 1647; reraoved to
Bostori ; sold his house and lands Noveraber
28, 1655."
(I) Captaiii John Floyd, progenitor of the
faraily here considered, lived in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, where the births of five of his chil
dren are recorded. Savage says that he owned
rauch land and was distinguished for his ser
vices as captaiii against the Indians in 1690.
In a- deposition made in 1680 his age is given
as "44 yeers or thare abouts," from which it
appears that he was born sometirae between
1634 and 1638. He was taxed in Chelsea in
1681, and is raentioned as grantee in the sec
ond Indian deed of lands in 1685. He took
the oath of fidelity in 1674, and was constable
for Rumney Marsh in 1681. He is mentioned
as a raan of intelligence and an officer of raerit
in the Indian war of 1690, where "he sailed
against the eneray at the eastward," an account
of which appears in the narrative of the Indian
troubles at York, Maine. Alay 27, 1690, Cap
tain John Floyd was ordered to gather the
troops under his coraraand and advance toward
Piscataqua, and June 10 sixty soldiers were
added to his coramand and stationed at Ports
mouth, New Harapshire. On July 6 his force
fought the Indians at AVheelwright's pond
(then Dover, now Lee, New Harapshire) but
was corapelled to retire with a loss of sixteen
men. He engaged the eneray again at Casco
(Portland), Maine, in Septeraber, 1690. In
King Philip's war he was lieutenant under
Captain Henchman, 1676, and was credited
to Maiden. The records are full of accounts
of his railitary services, and in 1689 he received
a letter from Governor Andros in relation to
the mutinous conduct of the troops in his com
mand. The governor said: "fforasmuch as
you have given me to understand that SeveraU
of yr Souldiers undr yor Comraand have in
a Alutinous Manner contrary to yor Ordr left
& Deserted their Service & Station att Saco
River & are raarching towards this place,
* " * A'ou are therefore forthwith to Re-
])air to yr sd Station & by the AA'ay to Cora

raand & Alarch back any of yr sd Souldiers
you shall meete with" and "there Remain till
further Ordrs." On March 14, 1700-1, the
general court resolved "That Twenty Pounds
be granted in full of Accts of Capt. John
Ffioyd." for his services "during the time of
Sr. Edmond Andros's Governraent."
In June 1692, Captain John Floyd was
brought under the fanatical accusation of
witchcraft. A warrant was issued for his
arrest and testiraony was given against hira
at Salera, but it does not appear that he was
tried on this purely imaginary charge :
"Phelpses daughter complayned her (AbigaU
Faulkner of Andover) afflicting her : but she
denyed that she had any thing to doe with
witchcraft ; she sd Ffalkner had a cloth in her
hand, that when she squeezed in her hand ye
afflicted fell into grevous fits as was observed :
ye afflicted sayd Dan'U Eames and Captain
ffioyd was upon that cloth when it was upon
ye table."
Captain Floyd was surveyor in Ruraney
Alarsh, 1681 and 1698; surveyor, 1684;
tythingman, 1685 and 1695. He married
Sarah, daughter- of John Doolittle, who died in
1 68 1, and whose name appears on the tax list
of Rumney Alarsh for 1674, he being the
largest taxpayer in the district. He was con
stable 1653 and 1671; surveyor 1663; tything
man 1680. His name is found on a Lynn
petition in 1643, and in 1658 he received a
smaU legacy under the will of Edward Hol
yoke ; was overseer of the raill of WiUiam
Burnell of Pullen Point in 1660 and held other
offices of trust. In 1667-8 he bought thirty-
five acres of land, with "a new house," on the
Alalden side of the line. He died in 1701, and
Sarah, his widow, died June 16, 1717. Chil
dren: I. Sarah, born 24 12m 1661. 2. Hugh,
born 10 7m 1663. 3. John, born 20 i2ra 1664.
4. Joseph, born March 15, 1666. 5. Joana,
January 3, 1668. The foregoing is taken from
the Lynn vital records, and differs somewhat
with the record printed in the recent hi.story of
Chelsea, which is as follows: Hugh, born
Septeraber 10, 1663, died November 17, 1730;
John, born 1665, died January 7, 1723-4; Jo-^
seph; Noah, 10 mo. 1670; Daniel, born 28
lomo 1675. He also left two daughters, Sarah
wife of Nathaniel Uphara, of Maiden and
Airs. Jonathan Hawkes, wife of Jonathan
Hawkes who kept the tavern in the house now
standing and lately occupied by Mr. Tewks
bury. (II) Ensign Hugh Floyd, son of Captain
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Lynn, Alassachusetts, September 10, 1663, died
in Chelsea, November 17, 1730. He was a
yeoman, and with his mother administered his
father's estate. He inherited lands from his
father and acquired other tracts by purchase
and in time possessed a large property. He
and his wife were members of the Maiden
church, and in 1724 took letters to the church
in Rumney Alarsh. He was constable 1688
and 1709; surveyor 1694; tythingman 1705
and 1712. In his wUl, dated August 28, 1730,
provision was made for his wife Elinor (Elea
nor), and after bequests to his daughters his
real estate was divided among his four sons.
His negro man Richard was to serve each of
the sons in turn a year and then receive his
freedom. He raarried Eleanor  , but
the date of their raarriage does not appear,
nor the dates of birth of their children. Chil
dren ; I . Joanna, raarried by Rev. Cotton
Mather, June 11, 1706, to Edward Tuthill. 2.
Sarah, raarried by Rev. Thomas Cheever,
March 25, 1713, to Francis Leath, Jr. 3. Eli
nor, married May 30, 1717, John Leath. 4.
Benjamin, married by Rev. Thoraas Cheever,
November 28, 1726, to Sarah Eustice. 5.
Sainuel, married February 8, 1727-8, Johanna
Floyd. 6. Hugh, see forward. The Maiden
records mention two other children of Hugh
and Eleanor: Ebenezer, born February 21,
1690, and Alary, born July 22, 1698.
(Ill) Hugh Floyd, son of Ensign Hugh
and Eleanor Floyd, born May 13, 1704, died
in Septeraber, 1789. He was a farmer, and
acquired several considerable tracts of land.
In 1746 he sold a forty-two acre tract of pas
ture land for two thousand pounds (old tenor)
and in 1749 he and his wife joined in a convey
ance of sixty acres of improved land, with
mansion house and other buildings, wherein
the consideration was raentioned in the deed
as eleven thousand (old tenor). The records
of deeds and other instruments relating to land
transactions show his name more frequently
perhaps than that of any other raeraber of his
family be fore hira, yet at the tirae o f his death he
was not a man of large means, having no lands
in Chelsea, while the total value of his prop
erty as shown by the inventory made by Joshua
Cheever and James Stowers was only a little
raore than eleven pounds. In 1724 Hugh Floyd
and his wife Mary were disraissed from the
Alalden church tothatat"Rumney-marish,"and
were received into full coraraunion. He raade
valuable donations to the church in Chelsea, and
appears to have proraised a similar gift to the
Alalden church, but the latter was not carried

out according to the original intention of the
donor. He married, April 29, 1729, in Boston,
Mary Baker, born May 19, 1706, daughter
of Thoraas and Mary (Lewis) Baker, of Lynn,
granddaughter of Thoraas and Mary Baker,
and great-granddaughter of Edward and Joan
Baker, of Lynn. Hiigh and Mary (Baker)
Floyd had children (record in Chelsea) ; i.
Mary, born 5 3 rao 1730. 2. Eleanor, born 27
8rao 1731. 3. Hugh, Jr., born 2 2rao 1732. 4.
Peter, born 6 6mo 1734. 5. Plannah, born 27
i2rao 1735. 6. Susannah, born 26 iirao 1737.
7. William, born 27 6mo 1739. 8. Stephen,
baptized Noveraber 22, 1741. 9. Andrew, bap
tized December 25, 1743.
(IV) Hugh Floyd, Jr., son of Hugh and
Alary (Baker) Floyd, born in Chelsea, 2d 2d
mo, 1732, died there August 6, 1800. He was
a farraer, and in 1798 lived on the so-called
Cogan farra in Chelsea. He was a soldier of
the revolution and in Alay, 1781, was voted
bounty by the town to enter the Continental
array under General AVashington. The rec
ords show that June 5, 1781, the town gave a
note of eighty pounds to the father of Hugh
Floyd, Jr., in part payraent of his enlistment,
and on June 8 paid the elder Floyd ten pounds
more. His military services included four
enlistments — private in Captain Sprague's
corapany frora Chelsea that marched on the
alarm of April 19, 1775, and served until May
16, 1775. Name enrolled with soldiers frora
Suffolk county for nine raonths frora date of
arrival at Peekskill, New York, agreeable to
resolves of congress, .A^pril 20, 1778; returns
as received of Jonathan AVarner, coraraissioner,
by Captaiii John Santford, of Colonel Mal-
colra's regiment ; also Hst of men returned as
mustered by Henry Rutgers, Jr., deputy raus-
ter raaster at Fishkill, August i, 1778; reported
as arrived at Fishkill, June 27, 1778. Private
in Captain Perez Cushing's corapany. Colonel
Craft's regiraent of artillery; service forty-
seven days ; company reported as Boston militia
stationed at HuU, July 26 to Septeraber 11,
1777. Private in Captain Robert Davis's cora
pany of Colonel Freeman's regiment; service
thirty-seven days ; company raised for a secret
expedition to Rhode Island ;, service to Decem
ber 4, 1777. In 1759 Hugh Floyd raarried
Rachel Floyd, born 1739, daughter of Samuel
and Joanna (Floyd) Floyd, and granddaugh
ter of Hugh and Eleanor Floyd. Nine chil
dren were bom between 1760 and 1780, among
thera Hugh, born April 23, 1760; raarried,
1785 (published) Abigail Fern (or Fairn) of
Lynn. Rachel, born July 25, 1762 ; admitted

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to full coniniunion in the church in 1783.
David, see forward.
(A') David Floyd, son of Hugh and Rachel
Floyd, born in Chelsea, June 7, 1767, died in
AVinthrop, Alassachusetts, August i, 1842. In
1807 he bought of Sarauel Sewall, of Alarble
head, for $1550, a tract of twenty-siX: acres of
upland and raarsh on the west side of the
Salera turnpike, and in 1848 conveyed the
same with five acres of additional to his own
son David, receiving therefore $2500. He
was a farmer by principal occupation, an active
and energetic raan in whatever he undertook.
In 1825 he reraoved to AA'inthrop and after
ward lived in that town. In both towns he
took a prorainent part in the public affairs.
Ill Chelsea his horae was iu North Chelsea
(now Revere), Alassachusetts, and there
he was selectraan from 1804-06, 181 1, 1815-
19, and again 1821-22. In AA'inthrop he
held the sarae office frequently between the
years 1826 and 1841. Air. Floyd was an
upright man and consistent raeraber of the
church in Chelsea and also in AVinthrop, hav
ing been adraitted to communion March 30,
1817. He married, November 6 (December 6)
1798, Plannah Tewksbury, baptized 1779,
daughter of John, Jr., and Anna (Bill) Tewks
bury (see Tewksbury family). Of this raar
riage there were born six sons — Deacon David,
Henry, John, Thonias, Edward and Philip
Payson ; and three daughters — Hannah, Lucy
and Alary Hall.
(A''I) Deacon David Floyd, eldest son of
David and Plannah (Tewksbury) Floyd, was
bora iu Revere, 1808. He was reared to young
manhood in the section now known as Win
throp, and then became a successful farmer
and large land owner, having secured pos
session of that valuable property known as
AVinthrop Highlands which at the present tirae
(1908) is mostly covered with beautiful and
substantial houses. His foresight was not only
marked by this particular possession, but by
others as well in that beautiful seabound town
of AA'inthrop. In 1852, when the town was
Set off frora Revere and the organization was
effected, he took an active interest in its organ
ization, at once becoraing prominently identi
fied with its official Hfe, having been elected
one of the first selectmen and serving on this
board for many years. He was also for a
number of years a meraber of the board of
school commissioners. His political faith was
of the raost marked and decided nature, being
a Republican frora the organization of that
party, having previously voted with the AA^higs.

If there was one thing that marked his life s
history more than another, it was his very
liberal and generous nature combined with
strong spiritual uprightness. For over half a
century he was a pillar in the Congregational
church of Chelsea, serving all these years as
one of its deacons, and of his substance he
gave unstiiitingly to both the church and needy,
frequently being imposed upon by the unscrup
ulous but never aUowing this to change his
sweet and generous temperament. The latch-
string of his house was always out to his
friends, and his purse strings were always
loosened to those who appealed to hira for
raaterlal aid. When on May 14, 1905, Deacon
Floyd died, there were many who felt his loss
in the town, church and the comraunity in
general, as "Uncle Floyd" was a man who had
no enemies and his friends were legion.
Deacon Floyd raarried, in AA^inthrop, Sallie
Tewksbury, born in the town of Revere, now
AA'inthrop, August, 1814, died Deceraber, 1893,
daughter of AVashington and Hannah Beiiard
(Floyd) Tewksbury, and granddaughter of
Jaraes and Alary (Sargent) Tewksbury. The
Tewksbury family was one of the oldest in that
section of the state. James Tewksbury was
born on what is known as Pullen Point about
1744, died there November 7, 1800. He raar
ried Alary Sargent, a native of Alalden, Mass
achusetts, who lived to be over ninety years
of age, dying in AA^inthrop, daughter of John
Sargent, one of the very early settlers of AVin
throp and prorainent in his day. Jaraes and
Mary (Sargent) Tewksbury were the parents
of seven children, naraely ; Jaraes, John,
Samuel, AA'illiam, Sally, Polly and Washing
ton. AVashington Tewksbury, father of Sallie
(Tewksbury) Floyd, was born in what was
then North Chelsea or Revere, now AA'inthrop,
1784, died 1857. When a young raan he went
to sea and for sorae years was ap active sea
faring man, but later he decided to lead a more
quiet and domestic life, and accordingly aban
doned the romance of the ocean and took up
the occupation of farraing in AA'inthrop, at
which he continued up to the time of his death,
meeting with great success in his undertaking.
Pie niarried Hannah Benard Floyd, a native of
AA'inthrop, born 1779, died in August, 1857.
They were the parents of children; i. George
AA'ashington, born 1810, died in August, 1894;
niarried Jane AA'aite, of Alalden, who died in
1904. 2. Sarauel, married Catharine KimbaU,
of Salera, who died in 1898. 3. Sallie, afore-^
raentioned as the wife of Deacon David Floyd.
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Thomas Belcher, of AA'inthrop. Deacon David
and Sallie (Tewksbury) Floyd were the par
ents of the following children, although prob
ably not in the order of their birth; i. A'^iola,
died in infancy. 2. Lucius, born November 18,
1834, was a carpenter and builder, now retired
from active labor; he was a prominent figure
in Winthrop, having held about aU the public
offices in the gift of the people, which he filled
with much satisfaction. He married first, Airs,
Eliza Cro.sby, nee Treeworthy or Trueworthy,
who died in middle life; she was the mother
of one child by her forraer marriage, Charles
Crosby, now a carpenter in AVinthrop ; married
second, Alary Richardson, of New York, who
bore hira one daughter, Alma, wife of Robert
Cobb, a carpenter of AVinthrop. 3. Plenry Otis,
born in AA''intlirop, Septeraber 18, 1836, died
1881, respected by all the citizens of the cora
raunity ; he married first, Philena Proctor, who
died a comparative young woraan and left one
daughter, Carrie, now wife of  Parker,
and they reside in AA^inthrop. 4. David Albert,
born October 15, 1838; see forward.
5. Philip Payson, born October 13, 1840, died
in AA^inthrop, Alarch 24, 1902, leaving many
close friends among the best families of Win
throp ; he was a mechanic ; was for many years
foreman for the forestry department of the
Standard Oil Conipany ; he married Abbie F.
-Alien, a native of New Plarapshire, sister of
the wife of D. Albert Floyd ; she died in AVin
throp, February 14, 1897, leaving two children :
Charles Payson, who is connected with the
firm of Rhoades & Ripley, merchants of Bos
ton ; he married Edna Richardson, four chil
dren ; Walter, Leland, Myrtle and Allen R. ;
Millie, wife of Ernst Griffin, a carpenter and
builder of Winthrop ; one child, Sidney R.
Griffin. 6. Benjamin Tappan, see forward. 7.
AVillard Frank, a prorainent citizen of Melrose,
California, where he is associated extensively
in business, also officially; raarried Maggie
Ling, one child, Chester. 8. Ephraim Buck, a
carpenter and builder of AVinthrop ; niarried
Sarah AVyman, of Point Shirley, three chil
dren : George E., Frank, Ella, died at the age
of eighteen years. 9. Alma V., widow of
Edward Durhara, who died in 1890; Mrs.
Durhara resides on Locust street, AVinthrop ;
she has one son, Howard Durhara. 10. SaUie
Levina, died at the age of two and a half years.
(ATI) David Albert Floyd, son of Deacon
David and Sallie (Tewksbury) Floyd, was
born on the old homestead in AVinthrop, Octo
ber 15, 1838, and was reared and educated
there. At the age of eighteen, the sea having

a great fascination for him, he engaged in that
line of work, continuing for a period of five
years, during which time he had a varied"
experience. He then accepted a position which
was offered hira by the Beacon Oil Corapany
(later absorbed by the Standard) and was
with thera several years, but not approving of
the cutting down systera of the Standard Oil
Corapany he resigned from his position and
accepted one in the office of Sheriff Seavy of
Suffolk county, and was attached to that office
in the county court house for eighteen years,
chiefly as watchman, and during this period
became closely acquainted with a large circle
of people having business at court, and held a
very high place in the estimation of his super
iors and also made many friends araong the
people he met. LTpon his resignation from the
sherift''s office, he accepted a rainor position
with the Lynn & Revere Beach railroad. In
connection with this work he serves in the
capacity of town constable, having been ap
pointed to this office thirteen years ago, 1895,
and acts as an adrainistrator of a large estate,
which iraportant duties occupies a great portion
of his time, they being perforraed in a highly
creditable and efficient manner. Air. Floyd is
a meraber of the Blue Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, of AA''inthrop. He attends
the Baptist church of which his wife is a
raeraber. Air. Floyd niarried, in Hillsboro, New
Hampshire, October 29, 1863, Carrie Augusta
Allen, born in AA'est Aledford, Massachusetts,
November 17, 1839, removing to Hillsboro
when five years of age. She is a daughter of
John and Susan (Teele) Alien, both natives of
Hillsboro, who led exemplary lives and who
lived to a ripe old age; John Allen (father)
was a farraer by occupation ; he was a son of
John and  (Danforth) Allen, also
natives of the state of New Harapshire. John
and Susan (Teele) Allen were the parents of
the following naraed children: i. Abbie,
deceased, who was the wife of Philip Payson
Floyd, a resident of Winthrop. 2. Carrie
Augusta, wife of D. Albert Floyd. 3. Jaraes,
resident of Dorchester, Alassachusetts, engaged
with Rhoades & Ripley, Boston raerchants :
married Hattie Teele. 4. Charles PL, died at
the age of forty-five 5. Alary G., wife of
Ellis J. Pitcher ; resides in AVeymouth, Alassa
chusetts. 6. Florence, wife of M. Austip
Belcher, a successful contractor of Winthrop.
Air. and Mrs. D. Albert Floyd have two sons ;
I. James A., bora May 31, 1870, unmarried,
resides at home. 2. EUis A., born July 23,

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1874. unmarried, now engaged with the Boston
Belting Company.
(VII) Benjarain Tappan Floyd, son of Dea
con David and Sallie (Tewksbury) Floyd, was
born in AVinthrop. He was for raany years a
successful market gardener of Winthrop, and
a man in whom every person who knew him
held in highest respect, and who is still closely
allied with the interests of the place as one of
its representative citizens, having in later life
been engaged in contract work for the town
and state. He married, in the town of Revere,
Adaline Pierce, a native of Revere. She has
been a woman who has raade her good influ
ence felt and who is still very energetic and
active, both physically and raentally. Their
children are as follows : i. Nelson, see forward.
2. Alvira, unraarried, resides at the old home
stead. 3. Emma, unraarried, for some years
has been connected with the Clark Publishing
Corapany of Boston. 4. Florence, a book
keeper with the Araerican Soda Fountain
Corapany of Boston. 5. Everett, died at the
age of two and a half years.
(VIII) Nelson Floyd, son of Benjarain
Tappan and Adaline (Pierce) Floyd, was born
on the old horaestead in Winthrop, November
24, 1866. He was reared and educated in his
native town. He married, in AVinthrop, No
veraber 29, 1893, Edith L. Crosby, a native of
Charlestown, born 1872, coraing to Winthrop
when young with her parents, Elijah E. and
Abbie (Tarbox) Crosby, the former of whora
Avas born on Cape Cod and the latter in Maine ;
they now reside in AVinthrop. Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd have had two children: i. Everett N.,
born May 14, 1895, died January 9, 1897. 2.
Alildred, born January 25, 1900.
(VI) Thoraas Floyd, fifth son of David (5)
and Llannah (Tew.skbury) Floyd, was born
in Revere and later moved on what was then
known as Floyd's Hill, the farra being a part
of what has becarae the government barracks
and known as Fort Banks. This property was
known as the old David Floyd estate, and was
marked for its beauty of location and marine
scenery, also the scene of many of the births
of this large and interesting family. He was
reared to raanhood on the old farra, and was
probably best known as a famous gunner, his
marksraan.sliip being unerring. He was known
as the Daniel Boone and Kit Carson of Mass
achusetts. Pie raet in Boston Hannah Bourne
Sturgis, who some time afterward became his
wife. She was the daughter of Sarauel and
 (Bourne) Sturgis, raerabers of well
known Boston farailies. One of the daughters

of Sarauel Sturgis becarae the wife of the well
known and wealthy Joshua Bates, of the firm
uf Baring Brothers, bankers, London, Eng
land, and in whose honor Bates Hall of Bos
ton was named. Air. and Airs. Floyd became
active citizens of the town of AVinthrop, and
lived to enjoy life araong their friends there
for many years. They were closely allied with
the Alethodist Episcopal church, and of their
substance contributed hberally toward any
worthy cause. They were the parents of the
following named children; i. Alraira, born
in AA'inthrop, April 9, 1833, becarae the wife
of Lorenzo Chamberlain Tewksbury, bom in
Winthrop, August 16, 1823, who is living at
the present time (1908), the oldest native resi
dent of the town as well as the oldest Hving
member of the Alethodist Episcopal church in
A\'iiithrop, and who, except for his hearing, is
in good health of mind and body ; his wife
Almira died 1907. 2. Captain William B., a
retired seaman; married Augusta Wilson, of
Alalden ; they are both hving and enjoying life
in AA'inthrop. 3. Thomas, Jr., see forward.
(A'TI) Thoraas Floyd, youngest son of
Thoraas and Hannah B. (Sturgis) Floyd, was
born in Winthrop, November 3, 1838. His
carly life was spent in Winthrop, and his
education was that acquired in the public
schools. He inherited one of the characteristics
of the family, love of the sea, and his brother
being a sea captain, he directed his energies
to that line of work and accordingly joined his
brother, who was sailing coasting vessels, and
wcrked his way up from man before the mast
until he became a second mate, in which capac
ity he served for some time, after which he
turned his attention to farming, achieving
therein a large degree of success, and accumu-
latirig a large landed property. In addition to
his agricultural pursuits, he has buUt up a
substantial real estate business, disposing not
only of his own property at advantageous
prices, but creating a demand for the property
of others, and thus working for the general
welfare and advancement of the town. AVhen
the war broke out he responded nobly to the
caU for troops to suppress the rebeUion, join
ing Company I, Sixtieth Regiment, Massachu
setts A^olunteer Infantry, Captain D, H. Boyn
ton, at HaverhiU, Alassachusetts, and went to
the front, but after a short period of tirae
inipaired health compelled him to abandon the
hfe of a soldier and he was honorably dis
charged. He served in the capacity of town
collector twelve years, as assessor fifteen years
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and irapartial judgraent of values has made
him a valuable officer. He was also for a
term a member of the board of selectmen; in
187 1 he was sent to the state legislature, and
again in 1881-82, and served with earnestness
and fidelity on a number of coraraittees, in
cluding fisheries, pubhc buildings and woraan
suffrage He is a raember of 'Theodore Win
throp Post, No. 35, Grand Army of the Re
public, of Chelsea. His beautiful home, located
on the crest of Floyd's Hill, overlooks beauti
ful Fort Banks and the bays around Boston,
and the charm of scenery is enhanced by the
liberality and hospitality of its owner.
Mr Floyd raarried, January i, 1861, in Re
vere, or what was then known as Nortli Chel
sea, Alary Pierce, who died December 21,
1897, aged fift3'-nine years and eight months,
after many years as an invalid frora paralysis,
since which tirae Mr. Floyd has led the life of
a widower. Mrs. Floyd, who was a raember
of the Alethodist Episcopal church, was a
daughter of Royal and Alary (Hall) Pierce,
early residents of North Chelsea, where they
led pure, upright lives and where their deaths
occurred. Air. and Airs. Floyd had three chil
dren, naraely; i. Edgar Lincoln, died at the
age of three and a half years. 2. Thomas Sturgis,
born P-)eceinber 20. 1869, educated in the
schools of Winthrop, learned the trade of car
penter and builder, and since attaining raan
hood has conducted business on his own
account to sorae extent and with a certain de
gree of success. He is unraarried. 3. May L.,
born December 29, 1873, unraarried, was from
childhood interested in music, and after grad
uating from the New England Conservatory
of Altisic and also frora a rausical school in
Germany, she became an instructor and has
devoted her life to her art; she has taught
many classes in the east and west and is highly
successful in her line of work.
(VI) Edward Floyd, son of David and
.Hannah (Tewksbury) Floyd, born in Chelsea,
Alassachusetts, 1809, died in AVinthrop. He
was about sixteen years when his father
removed from Chelsea to Winthrop, and in
after years he became one of the leading raen
of the town, filHng with credit a nuraber of
offices of local iraportance and throughout his
life enjoying the respect of all of his fellow
townsmen. He raarried Lucretia Tewksbury,
born in Winthrop, daughter of John W., and
granddaughter of Andrew Tewksbury, both
prominent raen and descendants of good old
New England revolutionary stock. Children
of Edward and Lucretia (Tewksbury) Floyd;

I. Adelaide AL, lives in AA'inthrop. 2. Char-
lotee, now Airs. Scoville, of Alalden. 3. David ;
David ; see forward. 4. Lucy A. 5. Harriet.
(ATI) David Floyd, son of Edward and
Lucretia (Tewksbury) Floyd, was born in
AVinthrop, Massachusetts, and for more than
forty years has been closely identified with the
civil and business life of his native town, and
since 1889 has been senior member of the
firm of Floyd & Tucker, real estate dealers in
Boston and Winthrop., A native of Winthrop,
educated in the public schools there and widely
acquainted throughout the town, he naturally
has always taken an active and earnest interest
in whatever might tend to proraote the public
welfare, and indeed it raay be said that in
all raeasures proposed for the proraotlon of
local interests and institutions he generally has
been one of the leading spirits in each enter
prise and a valuable factor in accomplishing
the desired result. His own business interests
are large and have been built up on founda
tions laid by himself, and as he has been abun
dantly successful in personal enterprises, so too
has he been called upon by his fellow towns
men to serve in various official capacities in the
interest of the public welfare ; and he has given
freely to this end of both his time and means.
He is a Republican in politics, loyal in his
allegiance to the party and one of its most in
fluential adherents in Suffolk county. He
served eleven years as town treasurer of Win
throp, six years as assessor, two years, 1877
and 1878, as representative to the general court,
and for the last twenty-five years has been
treasurer of the sinking fund coranission of the
town. Air. Floyd is a meraber and present chair
raan of the board of trustees of the Dean Win
throp House, an historic landmark of the town
and which recently has been occupied by the
AA''inthrop Improvement and Historical Society.
He was largely instrumental too in the preser
vation of the "old Bill house," another of
the historic old houses of Winthrop. He is a
trustee of Chelsea Savings Bank, the AA'inthrop
Co-operative Bank, and is a Royal Arch Mason
and a raeraber of the Royal Arcanura.
David Floyd raarried, in AVinthrop, Belle A.
Seavey. Her great-grandfather, Joseph Floyd,
born in Rye or New Castle, New Hampshire,
served in the revolution in Captain Parsons's
company, doing duty largely in Alassachusetts,
with the rank of sergeant. Children of Ser
geant Seavey: i. Sarauel, born 1783, came to
New Harapshire when a young raan ; was a
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sixty-five years ; he was twice married ; by his
second wife, Nancy Stevens, he had children:
i. Theodore H., twice raarried ; ii. Adonirara
B., married  ; iii. Gilman S. ; iv. Charles
L>ed, father of Mrs. David Floyd; v. Augusta.
2. AA'illiam Seavey, born 1791, spent most of
his life in East Boston, where he was a promi
nent ship carpenter and a man of affairs.
Charles Fred Seavey, son of Samuel and
Nancy (Stevens) Seavey, was bora in 1821,
on his father's farm, East Concord, New
Hampshire. On reaching manhood he came
to Boston, and engaged in his trade as car
penter and builder. About 1863 he settled in
Carabridge, where he died in 188 1. He was
widely and favorably known in Boston and
vicinity. He was a Deraocrat in politics. He
married Emily Eastraan Fernald, born in Cam
bridge, who survived her husband, and died at
the home of her son. Sheriff Seavey, April 28,
1908. She was great-granddaughter of Cap
tain Ebenezer Fernald, of revolutionary farae ;
granddaughter of Jacob Fernald, and daughter
of Joseph Fernald, a soldier of the war of 1812.
Children of Charles Fred and Emily Ea.stmaii
(Fernald) Seavey: i. Belle A. Seavey, be
came wife of David Floyd. 2. Fred PL, born
April I, 1854. He was liberally educated, and
from early manhood has been prominent in
public affairs, having been elected as a Repub
lican four times to the high office of sheriff
of Suft'olk county — a most notable distinction.
(ATI) Sumner Floyd, son of Philip Pay-
son Floyd (6), was born in Winthrop, Novem
ber 14, 1845. He received such education as
was afforded by the public schools, and frora
the time he attained raanhood his association
has been continued with his native town, and
his interest in the welfare of the community
has never waned. His occupation is that of
undertaker and embalnier. He has rendered
valuable service in various iraportant posi
tions — for twenty-one years he was town clerk,
his service beginning when the town had one
hundred and fifty voters, increased more than
tenfold when he retired from that office ; was
elected tax collector when twenty-one years of
age; and served a terra of six years on the
school coraraittee, and a like period on the sink
ing fund coraraittee He raarried first, in Glou
cester. Alassachusetts, Alelissa J. Fleming,
born in Gloucester, where she was reared, hav
ing come of parentage who had been identified
with New England and Massachusetts for
many years. AA'hile yet in the prirae of life
she died, in 1884, aged thirty-two years. She
left two children : i. Carl Sumner, born No

veraber 8, 1878, lives in AVinthrop; is chief
clerk of eighth division, Boston Elevated rail
way; married Alay Perry. 2. Lulu M., wife
of AA^iley S. A'ouiig, treasurer and head book
keeper for Richards & Company, Sudbury
street, Boston ; children ; Suraner Edward,
Dorothy Elsie. Suraner Floyd raarried second,
in Carabridge, Ada Estelle AA'hicher, born in
Alfred, Alaine, February 27, 185O; no children.
Air. Floyd is a Republican in politics, and he
and wife are Alethodists in religious belief.

This surname is a place name
BUCKLEY of ancient English origin, and
was originally spelled, in the
time of King John, in i [99, Buclough, and
later Bulclough. It signifies "a large moun
tain." There have been many and are still
variations in spelling. Bulkeley is the one
most comraonly used, other forms being Bulk-
ley, Bulkly and Buckley.
Baron Robert de Bulkeley ( i ) lived in the
time of King John (1199-26). Baron AVilliara
de Bulkeley (2) raarried a daughter of Thoraas
Butler. Baron Robert de Bulkeley (3) raar
ried Jane, daughter of .Sir Williara Butler.
Baron AVilliara de Bulkeley (4) niarried, 1302,
Aland, daughter of Sir John Davenport. Baron
Robert de Bulkeley (5) raarried Agnes  .
Baron Peter de Bulkeley (6) raarried Nicola,
daughter of Thoraas Bird. Baron John de
Bulkeley (7), of Houghton, married Arderne
Fitley. Baron Hugh de Bulkeley (8) niarried
Helen, daughter of Thomas Wilbrahara. Baron
Humphrey de Bulkeley (9) niarried Grisel
Aloulton. Baron WiUiara de Bulkeley (10),
of Oakley, raarried Beatrice, daughter of Will
iam HiU. Baron Thomas de Bulkeley (11)
raarried Elizabeth, daughter of Randelle Gros
venor. Rev. Edward de Bulkeley (12) was
born at AA'are, Shropshire, England. He was
admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge,
-April 6, 1560, and was curate of St. Mary's,
Shrewsbury, in 1565; prebend of Chester;
prebend of Litchfield about is8o; rector of
.AU Saints. Odell, in the HundVed of AVilley.
Bedfordshire, where he died and was succeeded
by his eldest son Peter, mentioned below. He
married Alraark Irlby (or Islby), of Lincoln
shire. ^(NITI) Rev. Peter Bulkeley, son of Rev.
Edward Bulkeley, was born January 31.
1582-3, at Odell, Bedford.shire, England. He
entered St. John's College, Cambridge, at the
age of sixteen, Alarch 22, 1604-5; fellow 1608,
with Al. A. degree, and "said, but on doubtfui
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ity." He succeeded his father as rector of
Odell. He was known to be a non-conformist,
but "the Lord Keeper Williams, formerly his
diocesan, and his personal friend, desired to
deal gently with his non-conformity" and con
nived at it, as he had at his father's for twenty
years, but when Loud becarae primate of Eng
land in 1633, Mr. Bulkeley was silenced and
with no hope of reinstatement. He therefore
sold his estate and sailed for New England in
1635, at the age of fifty-two, with his children,
on the ship "Susan and Ellen." His wife
Grace, aged thirty, was enrolled on the ship
"Elizabeth and Ann," but it is probable that
she sailed with her husband. There is a tradi
tion in the family that while on the voyage, the
wife Grace apparently died. Unwilling to have
her body buried at sea, the husband pleaded
with the captain to keep it until they reached
port. As no signs of decay appeared, he con
sented, and on the third day syraptoras of vital
ity appeared, and before land was reached ani
raation was restored. Though carried frora the
ship an invalid she recovered and lived to a good
old age. Rev. Peter Bulkeley settled first in
Carabridge and the next year with twelve
others began the settlement of Concord. Three
years later he received a grant of three hun
dred acres of land at Cambridge. He was
teacher of the church at Concord of which
Rev. John Jones was pastor, and was installed
pastor April 6, 1637. He is always spoken of
as the first rainister of Concord. He brought
with hira frora England about six thousand
pounds, most of which he spent for the good
of the colony. He was a learned and pious
raan. He wrote several Latin poeras, sorae of
which Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia,"
quotes, as a part of the sketch of his life. He
also published a volurae in London in 1646,
entitled "The Gospel Covenant," raade up of
serraons preached at Concord, and an elegy on
his friend. Rev. Hooker. He was among the
first to instruct the Indians, and the singular
immunity of Concord frora Indian attack was
largely credited, by tradition, to his sanctity
and influence. He died at Concord, March 9,
1658-9. There is a large tablet to his memory
near the open square at Concord. His will,
dated April 14, 1658, with codicils of January
13 and February 26 following, was proved
June 20, 1659. Before his death he gave many
books to the library of Harvard College. He
married first, about 1613, Jane, daughter of
Thomas Allen, o__f Goldington. She died at
OdeU, in 1626, and he married second, about
1634, Grace Chetwoode, born 1602, daughter

of Sir Richard and Dorothy (Needham) Chet
woode, of Odell. She died April 21, 1669, at
New London, Connecticut, at the home of her
son. Children of first wife, born in England;
I. Edward, June 17, 1614; came to New Eng
land before his father; died January 2, 1696.
2. Mary, baptized August 24, 1615; died
young. 3. Thomas, born April 11, 1617; raar
ried Sarah Jones; settled in Fairfield, Con
necticut. 4. Nathaniel, born November 29,
1618; died 1627. 5. Rev. John, born Febru
ary II, 1620; graduated at Harvard with the
first class. 6. Mary, born Noveraber i, 1621 ; died
1624. 7. George, born May 17, 1623. 8. Daniel,
born August 28, 1625. 9. Jabez, born Decem
ber 20, 1626; died young. 10. Joseph (prob
ably), born 1619. II. WUliam, of Ipswich, in
1648. 12. Richard. Children of second wife,
born in New England: 13. Gershom, Decem
ber 6, 1636; raentioned below. 14. Elizabeth,
born probably 1638, married Rev. Joseph
Emerson. 15. Dorothy, August 2, 1640. 16.
Peter, August 12, 1643.
(XIV) Rev. Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, son of
Rev. Peter Bulkeley, was born at Concord, De
cember 6, 1636, and died December 2, 171 3.
He graduated at Harvard College in 1655, as
a fellow of the college. In 1661 he became
the rainister of the Second Church at New
London, Connecticut, and in 1666-7 removed
to Wethersfield, where he was installed as
pastor. In 1676 he asked for disraissal on
account of irapaired health, and he thereafter
devoted hiraself to the practice of raedicine and
surgery, in which he achieved rauch success
and reputation. He was an ardent student of
chemistry and philosophy, and master of sev
eral languages, and was also an expert sur
veyor. During his pastorate in 1675 'he was
appointed surgeon to the Connecticut troops
in King Philip's war, and placed on the council
of war. The court gave orders to have him
taken especial care of. At one time the party
to which he was attached was attacked by a
number of Indians near Wachusett Hill, Mass
achusetts, and in the fight he received a wound
in the thigh. His raonuraent in the Wethers
field ceraetery says of hira: "He was honor
able in his descent, or rare abilities, excellent
in learning, master of raany languages, exqui
site in his skill, in divinity, physic and law,
and of a most exemplary and Christian life."
His will was dated May 28, 1712, and proved
December 7, 1713. He married, October 26,
1659, Sarah Chauncey, born at Ware, Eng
land, June 13, 1631, died June 3, 1699, daugh
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Plarvard College. Children; i. Catherine,
born about 1660; married Richard Treat. 2.
Dorothy, born about 1662 ; raarried, July 5,
1693, Lieutenant Thoraas Treat; died I757-
3. Dr. Charles, born about 1663. 4. Peter,
niarried, March 21, 1700, Rachel Talcott; lost
at sea. 5. Edward, born 1672; raentioned
below. 6. Rev. John, born 1679.
(XV) Captain Edward Bulkeley, son of
Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, was born in 1672, and
died at AA'ethersfield, August 27, 1748. His
tombstone contains a rough sketch of the
Bulkeley coat-of-arms. He was collector 1703;
selectman 1708; was adraitted an attorney in
June, 171 1. He raarried, July 14, 1702, Doro
thy Prescott, who died November 30, 1760, in
her eighty-first year, daughter of Jonathan
Prescott. Children; i. Charles, born March
25, 1702-3. 2. Elizabeth, born January 24,
1704-5 ; married Joseph Smith. 3. Sarah, born
February 8, 1706-7; raarried Joseph Stowe.
4. Rebecca, born February 2, 1708-9; married
Isaac Treat. 5. Peter, born '1710-11; died
young. 6. Peter, born Alarch 11, 1711-12;
mentioned below. 7. Gershom, born July 28,
1714. 8. Dorothy, born September 11, 1716;
married Thoraas Curtis. 9. Jonathan, born
Septeraber 11, 1718. 10. Abigail, born 1720;
married John Alarsh. 11. Lucy, born 1723;
married Charles Butler.
(XA^I) Peter Bulkeley, son of Captain Ed
ward Bulkeley, was born Alarch 11, 1712, and
died April 4, 1776. Pie was appointed justice
of the peace for Plartford county in May,
1775, and resided at AVethersfield. He mar
ried first, April 2, 1741, Abigail Curtis, who
died November 27, 1762, in her fifty-fifth year ;
second, January 26, 1769, Christian Smith,
who died (probably) December 22, 1802. Chil
dren; I. Joseph, born January 28, 1742. 2.
Abigail, born April 13, 1743; raarried Nathan
iel Miller; died April 14, 1834. 3. Oliver,
born December 5, 1744; died at sea, April,
1776. 4. Solomon, born March 21, 1747; men
tioned below. 5. Dorothy, born July 17, died
28, 1749. 6. Justus, born December 24, 1752.
(XVII) Solomon Bulkeley (or Buckley),
son of Peter Bulkeley, was born at Wethers
field, March 21, 1747, and died Alarch 4, 1790,
aged forty-three He married, June 6, 1776,
Martha "Williams, daughter of Aloses AVill
iaras. She raarried second, March 6, 1796,
Elizur Goodrich. Solomon was in the revolu
tion, and a pensioner in Hartford county, 1832 ;
was in Captaiii Hart's company. Colonel Eras
tus Walcott's regiraent, 1776, which was one
of three regiraents to guard the lines at Boston

until the Continental array was established ;
was in Captaiii John Chester s conipany at the
tirae of the Lexington alarra, April 19, 1775-
Children: i. Sally. 2. Jaraes, perhaps the
Jaraes who died January 11, i860, aged
eighty-two. 3. Oliver, raentioned below. 4.
George. 5. Alartha. 6. Nancy. 7. Brazilla.
(XA'III) Oliver Buckley, son of Soloraon
Buckley, was born in AA'ethersfield, Connecti
cut, about 1780-90. He reraoved to Alaine, and
settled in what was then the town of West
brook, now part of the city of Portland, Alaine.
He was a raanufacturer. He married Sally
Humphrey. Children; i. Nancy G., born
1806; died 1904, aged ninety-eight years; mar
ried  Stevens ; their son Alfred A.
Stevens resides in Portland. 2. Mary Ann.
3. Charles S., mentioned below. 4. Oren.
(XIX) Charles S. Buckley, son of Oliver
Buckley, was born in AA^estbrook, Maine, about
1810; died in 1866, aged fifty-six years. He
was educated in the public schools of his
native town. He was in business for many
years at Augusta, Maine, and afterward at
Chicago, Illinois, where he died. His body
was brought home and buried in Pine Grove
Cemetery, Portland. He was a pioneer in
sending out the very popular and profitable
tin-peddler outfits. These carts were owned
by itinerant merchants. They were huge red
carts devised with Yankee ingenuity to hold
everything used in the household. The interior
was devoted to tinware ; the outside to
brushes, brooms, raops, pails and huge bags in
which the peddler stored the rags collected of
thrifty housewives in payraent for the tin
ware. The rags, especially in war tirae, were
in great demand for raaking paper and the bus
iness was developed greatly in that tirae, and is
still conducted in rural sections of the country.
At one tirae Air. Buckley had sixty carts on
the road. He raarried, and had chUdren ;
Laura; Charles M., raentioned below; Henry;
Oliver ; Suraner ; Sadie.
(XX) Charies Al. Buckley, son of Charles
S. Buckley, was born in AA^estbrook, Maine.
He received his education in the public schools
of his native town and at AVestbrook Semi
nary at Deering, Maine. In the early days of
gold discoveries in that section he went to the
Black Hills, Dakota, and prospected there for
several years, suffering the hardship and
dangers of frontier life. He had varying suc
cess in mining. After a few years he returned
to Alaine, thence to Chester Harbor, Nova
Scotia, near Halifax, where he established a
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with marked success for a nuraber of years.
His knowledge of the tinsmith trade, acquired
in his youth, stood him in good stead in this
business, in which a practical knowledge of
raaking and sealing the cans is essential. After
he retired from this business he came to Boston
to live with his son and spent his last years
there. He died in February, 1902. In politics
he was a Democrat. Pie was a meraber of the
Alasonic Blue Lodge and Clarke Lodge of
Nova Scotia. He had superior business ability
and achieved great success in his undertakings.
He was universally respected by all who knew
hira, and esteemed alike by business asso
ciates and employees. He married, at Port
land, Alaine, Carrie Johnson, born in Port
land, 1845, died at Portland, aged fifty-four
years, a descendant of one of the old and esti
mable colonial farailies of New England; of
Scotch descent, being closely related to George
B. McClellan. ChUdren; i. WUhara A., born
June 25, 1863, mentioned below. 2. Paul E.,
November 9, 1865, resides at Alton, New
Hampshire, where he conducts a stove and
tinware business; is unmarried. 3. Son, who
died in infancy.
(XXI) William A. Buckley, son of Charles
M. Buckley, was born in Portland, Alaine,
June 25, 1863, died in Winthrop, Massachu
setts, June 5, 1908. He was educated in the
public schools of Portland and at the Elliot
Business College of Burlington, Iowa. During
his boyhood he worked as clerk in the gents
furnishing store of Charles Curtis, of Port
land, and followed this line of work until about
1882, in which year he took up his residence
in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was era
ployed as traveling salesman for C. B. Young,
a merchant in upholstering supplies, serving in
that capacity until 1889, when he resigned to
engage in the life insurance business in part
nership with his uncle, O. H. Buckley, con
tinuing under the firm name of O. H. & W.
A. Buckley until 1894, when AA'. A. Buckley
purchased the business and became general
raanager of New England for the Provident
Savings Life Assurance Company of New
York. About 1902 he was raade assistant
superintendent of agencies for the United
States. For the past seven years he resided in
Winthrop, with office at 24 Milk street, Boston.
He was well and favorably known to the insur
ance men of New England and his ability was
universally recognized. He was prepossessing
in appearance, attractive in personality and
winning and persuasive in his speech and
manner. He knew human nature well ; he

attracted friends and enjoyed good society. Of
strict integrity and honor in business, of strong
character and decided opinions, he was a
natural leader among men. In politics he was
a Republican, but he never sought office. Mr.
Buckley was a prominent Free Alason, a mem
ber of Charity Lodge, the chapter, council and
coraraandery of Knights Teraplar; and Aleppo
Temple, A. A. O. N. Al. S. He was
also a member of Winthrop Yacht Club, New
York Club, Arkwright Club and Republican
Club of New York City. His beautiful resi
dence was on AA'ashington Avenue overlooking
Chrystal Bay, in AVinthrop, where he had
invested largely in real estate, and had a prin
cipal part in the development and progress of
the town.
Mr. Buckley married, Deceraber 25, 1888, in
Burlington, Iowa, Mary E. Mellinger, born in
that city, 1862, daughter of Sarauel E. and
Eraeline A. (Marshall) Mellinger (see Mel
linger sketch herewith). Her parents were
born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. She
was educated in the public schools of her
native place and of Geneva, Illinois, where she
raade a study of the fine arts. Her horae shows
raany speciraens of her skill. Her raother
belonged to the faraily raade faraous by the
great chief justice of the suprerae court, John
Marshall. Children; i. Ruth Virginia, born
Deceraber 20, 1889. 2. AVilliam A. Jr., De
cember 24, 1894. They reside with their
mother in AA'inthrop.

The surname Alellinger is
AlELLINGER of Gerraan origin. The
iraraigrant ancestor carae
araong the early settlers of Pennsylvania, and
for several generations the faraily continued
to speak and write the Gerraan language.
According to the federal census of 1790, nine
farailies of this name were living in the prov
ince of Pennsylvania, all doubtless related.
The heads of these farailies were Abrahara,
Anthony, Benedict, Frederick, Jacob Esq.,
John. Alartin. Alelchior and "AVilliam. The
principal seat of the faraily was in Lancaster
county; Abrahara Mellinger lived in 1790 in
Warwick township, and AVilliam and John in
Cocalico township. Lebanon county was set
of from Lancaster county at a later period, in
1 816. At that time even the German language
still prevailed.
(I) John Alellinger, son of John or Williara
Alellinger, mentioned above, was born March
4, 1790, in Lancaster, now Lebanon county,
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tongue, but attended an English school for
three months. He learned the trade of weaver
and becarae an inventor and proraoter. He had
a patent on the loora on which coverlets were
raade. He was a Deraocrat to the timeof the
civil war, afterwards being a staunch and faith
ful Republican. He enlisted in the war of
1 8 12 as a druraraer boy frora Baltimore, Mary
land. In reHgion he was connected with the
Dunkards in early life, but after his removal
west in 1836 was a Methodist. He married,
in Lebanon, Barbara Rohland, a native of that
town. Children; i. Maria, mentioned below.
2. Susannah ; married John Miller. 3. WiUiam
S., married Jane Black; settled at Mononga-
hela City, Pennsylvania ; drilled a mUitary
corapany when a youth ; is said to have served
in the Mexican war ; served throughout the
civil war and rose to rank of raajor ; was killed
after the war; was state senator of Pennsyl
vania. 4. Lydia S., raarried WUhara M. Patten,
of Butler, Pennsylvania. 5. John J. R., raar
ried Elizabeth Patten, of Butler City, Penn
sylvania; enHsted frora that town as private -in
the civil war. 6. Jeremiah A., raarried Marga
ret Johnson ; lived at Butler ; raised a corapany
and coraraanded it in the civU war.
(II) Maria Mellinger, daughter of John
Mellinger, was born in 181 1; married George
Eba, born April 11, 1808. George Eba was of
old German stock. The narae is also spelled
Eby and Eaby, and the family is descended
frora the iraraigrant Theodorus Eby, a Men-
nonite in religion, born in Switzerland, took
refuge in the Palatinate and finally carae to
Araerica, about 171 5, settling on Alill Creek.
George Eba was a carpenter and contractor ; a
raember of the Gerraan Lutheran Church in
early life, later of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ; Deraocrat in politics until 1840, Whig
until that party went to pieces, and afterward
a Republican; enHsted in 1861 and went to
Pittsburg to be raustered in, but was rejected
on account of his age. Children ; i. Mary Ann
Eba, died young. 2. William Henry Harrison,
raentioned below. 3. Mary Ann Eba. 4. Mel
linger Winfield Scott Eba; served in Eighth
Iowa Regiraent ; killed under General Lyon in
Alissouri. 5. Mary Anna Eba, died young. 6.
George Washington Eba; was a raember of
the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment ; was
.wounded in the Seven Days Fight before
Richmond, taken prisoner, exchanged, but died
of his wounds and the exposure. 7. Thomas
Jefferson Eba; served in One Hundredth
Pennsylvania under General Benham, at James
Island, South Carolina.

(Ill) WUHam Henry Harrison Eba, son of
George and Maria (Mellinger) Eba, was born
Noveraber 5, 1831, at Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
He moved with his parents in 1836 to Monon-
gahela City, Washington county, same state,
and was educated in the coramon schools and
Monongahela Academy. He began to work in
a cigar factory, but after a year concluded to
learn stove and hollow-ware moulding. He
served four years' apprenticeship at this trade,
receiving in wages five dollars a month the
first year; eight dollars a month the second
year, twelve the third year and twenty the
fourth. A few months before his time expired
the works were destroyed by fire. He found
eraployraent as second clerk on a stearaboat
plying between Pittsburg and Wheeling, West
Virginia. In July, 1852, he removed to Ken
tucky, landing at Catlettsburg, July 3, and
becoming salesraan there in the general store.
In 1892 he reraoved to Ashland, Kentucky,
where he is now living. For fifteen years he
was a book-keeper for the A., C. & I. railroad,
in the machine shop department. He was
originally a Whig, now a Republican. He
was mayor of Ashland one term; is at present
city truant officer. He enlisted in Company I,
Fifth West Virginia Regiment; was promoted
sergeant-major, March, 1862; fir.st lieutenant.
He declined the post of adjutant after being
acting adjutant two months. He was coni-
raissioned a month later by Governor Pierpont
captain of Conipany F, sarae regiment. Ninety
or more of the men of his company were born
in Wayne county, AVest Virginia, while two
were from North Carolina. He was in various
engagements, but none of the great battles of
the war. Once his shoulder-strap was shot off,
but he was never wounded. He is a member
of the Good Fellowship Brotherhood and of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He mar
ried, October 9, 1856, at Catlettsburg, Greenup
(now Boyd) county, Kentucky, Amanda Lydia
Henderson, born July 18, 1832, in Cabell
county, Virginia, daughter of Duncan and
Mary (Wentworth) Henderson. Children; i.
Charlotte Culver, born July 14, 1857; died
October 20, 1857. 2. Amelia Maria, born Feb
ruary 15, 1859; died June 18, i860. 3. Edward
Everett, born March 31, 1861; died AprU 25,
1882, graduate of the high school in 1879.
(I) Williara Mellinger, brother of John
Alellinger, was born in Lebanon county Penn
sylvania, 1798, and died June 22, 1869, at Bur
lington, Iowa. He had a coramon school edu
cation. He was a tin and iron merchant In
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a Alethodist. He raarried Elizabeth  ,
born September 8, 1802; died February 20,
1880, in Burlington. Children; i. Mary, born
December 15, 1825; died September 8, 1899,
at Burlington, Iowa. 2. Sarah, bom May 13,
1825; died April i, 1899. 3. Samuel E., born
October 10, 1827; mentioned below. 4. Lydia,
born August i, 1830; died June 21, 1898, at
Burlington. 5. Louisa, born February 14,
1834; lives in Burlington. 6. William, born
March 4, 1837 ; lives at Keithsburg, Illinois. 7.
Henry, bom February 18, 1842; died October,
1894, in Keithsburg.
(II) Samuel E. Mellinger, son of WilHam
Mellinger, was born October 10, 1827, at Sha-
ferstown, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. He
lives in Burlington, Iowa. He was educated in
the comraon schools and the Annville Acaderay
at Annville, Pennsylvania. He began his busi
ness career in 1845 and has continued to the
present tirae. He raanufactured tin, iron,
stoves and hardware He becarae the owner
of various woolen raills, paper raills and
luraber raiUs, a wheel factory and tannery. In
later years he has had an extensive ranch and
raised horses and cattle. He has invested in
real estate all the way from Texas to Canada
and at the present tirae has large holdings. ' He
was first a Whig, then a Republican in politics.
He is a raeraber of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He and his family attend the
Methodist and Congregational churches. He
raarried at Annville, Pennsylvania, April 14,
1852, Emeline Araanda Marshall, born June
23, 1828, at Annville, daughter of Dr. John
Gloninger and EHzabeth (Behra) Marshall.
Dr. Marshall, his father and two of his sons,
were graduates of the Philadelphia Medical
CoUege ; also his brother Jacob Marshall, of
Reading, Pennsylvania, who was rainister
plenipotentiary of the United States on a
foreign raission at one tirae. Dr. AlarshaU and
his son each raised a corapany in the civil war
— one at Lebanon, the other at Annville. The
children of Samuel Alellinger were all edu
cated in the Burlington high school. Children ;
I. Mary Jane, born January 10, 1853; now
deceased. 2. Frank Marshall, born .Septera
ber 25, 1854; lives in Burlington; engaged in
real estate and ' insurance business ; married
Lulu .^nn Stubbs, of Alount Pleasant, Iowa ;
children : Frank Stubbs, born December 2,
1864; Mabel Emeline; Grace Sarah; DeHa
Alarie. 3. Marshall Eba, born November 27,
1857; lives near Boise. Idaho, a farmer; raar
ried Ida Yaley ; children : Clarence ; Ida May ;
Alary A^iola. 4. Elizabeth Barbara, born De

ceraber 31, 1859; raarried Clarence Lincoln
Waggoner, of Decatur, Illinois, banker; chil
dren ; Arthur Waggoner ; Carl Waggoner ;
Park Waggoner; Marshall Waggoner. 5.
Alary Emma, born May 28, 1862; raarried
Williara Albert Buckley, of Boston (see Buck
ley family). 6. Ida Belle, born December 2,
1864; niarried WUliam Henry Sheldon, Perci
val, Iowa, grain buyer and dealer in farra ira
pleraents ; no children. 7. Charles Gloninger,
born Deceraber 11, 1867; lives at Anaconda,
Montana, book-keeper ; raarried Grace Bos
worth, of Boston ; children ; Marion ; son un-
naraed, married.

The Quin or Quinn faraily is of
QUINN ancient Irish origin. Aeneas
(or Aongus) Ceannathrach, a
younger brother of Blad, one of the royal
faraily of O'Brien, (see No. 92 p. 108 of the
third edition of O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees),
was the ancestor of O'Cuinn or Muintir Guinn,
of Munster ; anglicized O'Quin, Quin, Quain,
and Quinn. The Earl of Dunraven is a de
scendant and the raost prorainent raeraber of
this large and widely distributed faraUy. The
lineage is traced without a break in this branch
of the faraily, according to O'Hart, for one
hundred and thirty or raore generations, and
is well authenticated apparently for more than
a thousand years.
(I) Peter Quinn was born in Pound Town,
county Clare, Ireland. He was a farraer all
his life He raarried and araong his children
was Martin, mentioned below.
(II) Martin Quinn, son of Peter Quinn
(i), was born in Pound Town, county Clare,
Ireland. He was a farraer all his life. He
married and had children ; i . Peter, was in
this country for sorae tirae and went back
unmarried. 2. John, never came to this country.
3. Martin, lives in Lawrence and is a motor-
man. 4. Mortimer, see forward.
(Ill) Mortimer Quinn, son of Martin
Quinn (2), was born in the parish of Pound
Town, county Clare, Ireland, July 16, 1871.
He was educated in the schools of his native
parish and spent his youth there. He left
home in March, 1890, and came to Andover,
Massachusetts, where for the next six years he
worked in the raill. Then he carae to Law
rence, Massachusetts, and engaged in real
estate and is the owner of several nice proper
ties. He has been prosperous in business. He is
an independent Democrat in pohtics, and a
Roraan Catholic in religion, attending St.
Mary's Church. He married, April 18, 1900,

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Mary Riley, born May 4, i860, daughter of
John and Ann (McCaffery) Riley. They have
no children. Children of Air. and Mrs. Riley;
I. John, died aged twenty-one, in Ireland. 2.
James, came to Lawrence at twenty-six years
of age ; is unraarried. 3. Mary, born i860,
raentioned above. 4. Patrick, born 1869,
working in Boston as a brewer ; raarried Miss
A. Riley ; children ; Annie, Lucy, Margaret.
5. Annie, unmarried. 6. Barnard, residing in
Bqston. 7. Bennie, residing in Boston. 8.
Frank, was a farmer all his life.

Edward Goggin, well known as
GOGGIN a contractor and builder in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, and
vicinity, is a descendant of an honored family
of Ireland. Patrick Goggin, father of Edward
Goggin, was a farraer in Ireland.
Edward Goggin was bom in county Cork,
Ireland, 1856, and worked on the farra of his
father for sorae years. He was also employed
on a steamer for a time. At the age of six
teen years he eraigrated to the United States,
and carae to Lawrence. He found employ
ment in the Pacific Mills, where he reraained
for some time. He then entered into a busi
ness partnership with Thomas John Parrel, in
the building and contracting Hne, in which they
met with a good share of success. For the
last five years, since the death of Mr. Parrel,
Mr. Goggin has been carrying on the business
alone. His political affiliations are with the
Democratic party, and he is a meraber of the
Catholic church. He married, February 7,
1891, Catherine O'Brien, born in Waterford,
Ireland, February 6, 1872, and carae to this
country in September,.i886. She is the daugh
ter of Walter O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Goggin
have had children ; Patrick William, January
14, 1893; Edward Walter, October 16, 1894;
John Joseph, born November 8, 1896; Mary
Ellen, August 30, 1898; Rose Anna, January
14, 1901 ; Agnes Catherine, October 25, 1903,
died August 14, 1905 ; Frances AHce, twin of
Agnes Catherine.

Michael Dooley, for many
DOOLEY years identified with business
affairs in Lawrence and its
vicinity, now living in retirement, represents
the second generation of his family in the
United States.
Michael Dooley, father of Michael Dooley
mentioned above, was born in Ireland and died
in Lawrence, Alassachusetts. In Ireland he
had followed the occupation of farraing. He

eraigrated to Canada with his faraily, settling
for a tirae in Quebec, then migrating to Law
rence, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Children; i. James, resides in North An
dover; married Etta Ryan, of North Andover;
children; Helena and Jaraes. 2. Bridget,
raarried Charles A. Bradley, of Lawrence,
real estate dealer. 3. John, of Lawrence. 4.
Alichael, see forward.
Michael Dooley, whose narae heads this
sketch, was bom in county Liraerick, Ireland,
Septeraber 25, 1831. He was about sixteen
years of age when he carae to this country
with his parents, and after living five raonths
in Quebec, Canada, came to Lawrence, where
he obtained a position as a hat finisher, he hav
ing learned that trade. After a tirae he turned
his attention to building, and followed that line
for a nuraber of years until he retired frora all
active business life. Politically he is a Derao
crat, and he is a raeraber of the Catholic
church. He married Anna Edith Ryan, born
in Ireland, February 7, 1837, carae to this
country in 1855, daughter of Thoraas Ryan, a
farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dooley have
had children; i. Jaraes Joseph, born August
10, 1864. 2. .Annie Alaria, January 10, 1866.
3. Mary Frances, February 12, 1868. 4.
Bridget Helena, Septeraber 29, 1869. 5. Ellen
Maria, Deceraber 4, 1871. 6. John Joseph,
AprU, 1874. 7. Anguin Xavier, June 18, 1877.
Mrs. Dooley died October 28, 1907.

John Murley, son of Daniel
MURLEY and Ellen (Kenney) Murley,
and grandson of Martin Mur
ley, was born Septeraber 5, 1842, in the city
of London, England. Pie is descended from an
ancient Irish family. Plis father was born in the
city of Cork, Ireland, came to America from
England, and died in 1862, in Lawrence, Alass
achusetts. John had a coraraon school educa
tion and learned the trade of plasterer when
a young man. He was eighteen years old
when he came to America, landing at New
York city, where he worked for three years at
his trade. He removed to Lawrence, Massa
chusetts, in March, 1865, and has lived there
ever since. He has been in business as a
plasterer and mason, and is araong the success
ful raen of his line. He invested his savings
frora time to time in Lawrence real estate, and
since he retired from active business in 1900,
has been occupied with the care and improve
ment of his real estate. He owns and rents a
number of houses. Air. Murley is distinctly
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societies and organizations. He has been a
member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
for thirty-five years, and is also a member of
the Father Matthew Total Abstinence Society.
He is a firm and consistent advocate of total
abstinence,- and he has exerted a good influ
ence upon the community in his stand for
temperance and raorality.
Mr. Murley married. September, 1878,
Helen O'Hearn, who was bom in county Cork,
Ireland, July 8, 185 1, daughter of John O'
Hearn, a native of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs.
Alurley have no children. They are devout
and loyal raerabers of the Iraraaculate Roman
Catholic church, and liberal contributors to
their parish. Their home is at 10 Lexington
street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

E., educated in the public and high schools of
Plaverhill and in the State Norraal school ; mar
ried John Gorraan, of that city. 3. John S., born
November, 1886, educated in the Haverhill
schools, eraployed at present at his trade of
leather cutter, HaverhiU.

Owen Leonard was born in
LEONARD England of an ancient Eng
lish family. He married
Anna Smith, who was bom in England, the
daughter of Edward and Mary (Lynch)
Sraith. The family came to America about
1850 and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
where they resided the reraainder of their
days. (II) Owen Leonard, son of Owen Leonard
(i), was born in England. He carae to
Araerica in his youth, landing in 1857 in New
York city, wdiere he learned the trade of mar
ble cutter. Frora New York he carae to Bos
ton and thence about 1867 to Plaverhill, Mass
achusetts. Here he entered the employ of
Calvin Weeks, the marble cutter, and remained
in this concern for a period of eighteen years.
He was industrious and frugal, and wisely in
vested his savings in real estate in the city of
Haverhill. His property increased in value
with the growth of the city, and under his care
ful manageraent produced for him an ample
competence For the past fifteen years the
care and development of his real estate had
engrossed all the time of Mr. Leonard, who is
looked upon as an expert judge of the value
of real estate. He is a useful citizen of ster
ling character, enjoying the respect and con
fidence of his townsmen to an unusual degree.
In politics he is a Republican, but has taken
no active part. In religion he is a Roraan
CathoHc. He raarried Mary E. Carney, born in Ire
land. Children; i. Mary E., born June, 1883,
educated in the public and high schools of
Haverhill and the State Norraal school, and
has been for the past four years a teacher in
the public schools of her native city. 2. Alice

Peter Dignam, late an esteeraed
DIGNAAl resident of Lawrence, Massa
chusetts, was born in Ireland,
October 8, 1821, and received his education in
his native land. His father died when he was
very young, and he found his way to England
where he learned the art of nail sorting, in
which he acquired great proficiency. Later he
eraigrated to Araerica, settling in Lawrence,
where he was one of the first workers in the
Pacific Mills. He was active in business life
until about five years prior to his death, when
he retired., His political affiliations were with
the Democratic party, in whose affairs he was
an active worker. He was an earnest and
prorainent church raeraber, of the Catholic
persuasion, and took a great interest in finan
cial raatters. His death, which occurred Jan
uary 30, 1898, was a particularly affecting
one. Pie had left his horae to attend Mass,
and as he entered his pew in the church, laid
down his glasses and prayer book and knelt
in prayer, and while thus engaged his spirit
passed away. His death was deeply deplored.
Mr. Dignara married, February 20, 1851,
Catherine Masteison, of Woonsocket, who was
also a native of Ireland. They had children ;
Edward, born August, 1852, died 1895 ;
Michael, born Noveraber 27, 1853; Jaraes,
born August, 1855, raarried Delia Landers, of
New Bedford ; Joseph T., born February 7,
1857, married Mary McCarthy, of Valley Fall,
Rhode Island ; Sarah Ann, born May 14, 1859;
Catherine, born November 29, i860, married
John H. Parant, died 1895 ; Peter, Jr., born
Noveraber 30, 1862; Francis, died young.

Gereraia Carapopiano, son
CAMPOPIANO of Joseph and Maria-
Giavanna Carapopiano,
grandson of Doraenico, and great-grandson of
Joseph Carapopiano, was born Septeraber 27,
1863, in Marzanoa Appio, Provincia-di-Cas-
erta, Italy. He received his education in the
schools of his native place, and during his
youth worked with his father on the farm.
He joined the tide of immigration for America
July 9, 1888, and upon reaching this country
raade his horae first in Providence, Rhode
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foundries. He removed to Lawrence, Massa
chusetts, August 4, 1893, and found eraploy
raent there in the great Washington mills. He
embarked in business on his own account in
1903 as a real estate and insurance broker in
Lawrence, and received from the governor of
the comraonwealth an appointraent as notary
public. He prospered and Deceraber 23, 1905,
extended his business by engaging in the
wholesale and retail liquor trade in Lawrence,
continuing to the present time. He is one of
the most influential and capable Italian-Ameri
can citizens of the city of Lawrence. He was
the founder of the Christopher Colurabus So
ciety of Lawrence, June 10, 1895, and was its
president for the first five years. He is a
raeraber of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In religion he is a Roraan
Catholic. He raarried, August 18, 1892, in Providence,
Benedetta Leonardo, born January 29, 1872,
daughter of Angelo Leonardo. Children; i.
Giro, born May 6, 1893. 2. Joseph, born Jan
uary 30, 1894. 3. AVilliara, born August 25,
1896. 4. Consiglia, born August 23, 1898.

The surname Slee, or Sly, is identi-
SLEE cal with Sleigh, according to
"Patroniniica Britannica." Origin
ally it was doubtless a nicknarae, and iraplied
unusual ability and cleverness, in accordance
with the ancient meaning of the word sly.
Shakespeare used Sly as a surnarae in "The
Taming of the Shrew." The name appears
as early as 1273 in the Hundred Rolls, at least
twice — Richard Sie and John le Siege. The
seat of the family in ancient times down to the
present was Ashe, in Derbyshire. The coat-of
arms of the Derbyshire family : Gules a chev
ron between three owls or. Other branches of
the Sleigh family bore sirailar arras. One
coat-of-arnis belongs to the family spelling the
name Slee ; Vert a one-raasted galley with
oars in action saUs furled or flags gules.
Crest ; A chapeau sable with a plume of three
ostrich feathers in front. A family of Sley
lived in Derbyshire, bearing the similar arms
to the Sleighs of that county. A Slie faraily
also bore the sarae arms.
(I) Samuel J. Slee, a descendant of the
ancient English Slee, or Sly, family, was born
in Liverpool, England, and was eraployed
there during his active life as an officer in the
British custora house. He niarried Alice Ivy.
Children, born at Liverpool: Sarauel J., raen
tioned below; Richard B. ; Edwin; WilHam
Henry ; Emily ; Alice ; Lily.

(II) Samuel J. Slee, eldest son of Samuel
J. Slee, was born in Liverpool, England, May
22, 1827. He began early in life to follow the
sea, and in course of tirae rose to the rank of
raaster raariner and becarae owner of the ves
sel he sailed. After coraing to this country he
lived at Salera, Massachusetts, and at PhUa
delphia, Pennsylvania. He raarried Lydia
Anderson, born March 17, 1833, in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, daughter of James H. Ander
son, a native of Scotland. She died July 21,
1892, and he died May 21, 1876. Their first
two children were born in Salem, the others in
Philadelphia; i. Sarauel J. 2. Lydia L., mar
ried at Salera, George W. Barnes, then of
Philadelphia, now of Washington, District of
Columbia. 3. Alice L. A., married Harry J.
Bright, of Washington, D. C. ; she is de
ceased. 4. Richard Boardraan, resides in
Washington. 5. Jaraes Henry, resides in
Washington. 6. Charles Ackley, raentioned
below. 7. Annie E. ; married Dr. E. K. Harri
man Gerow, of New York City. 8. Lillie A. ;
married Roscoe Wall, of AVashington. 9.
Amy A. ; raarried Clarence Shraeder.
(Ill) Captain Charles Ackley Slee, son of
Sarauel J. Slee, was bom in PhUadelphia, Au
gust 9, 1867. He was educated in the public
schools. He reraoved to Massachusetts and
learned the drug business, and remained in
it until 1891, when he entered the fire insur
ance office of the Hon. W. D. T. Trefry, of
Marblehead, and has continued to the present
time in this line, having assisted in building up
a large business. He has also established a
real estate agency in Alarblehead, and by close
application and strict attention to detail has
developed an extensive and prosperous busi
ness. His thorough knowledge of the value
of property in Marblehead and vicinity, his
personal integrity and special attitude for this
line of work, his wide acquaintance and popu
larity, have brought him to the front rank of
fire insurance and real estate men of Essex
county. He has taken a lively interest in
public affairs, and has been honored with vari
ous positions of trust and responsibility. He
was a member of the Marblehead school com
mittee frora 1904 to 1908 and its secretary for
two years and a half. He was a raeraber of
the building committee in charge of the erec
tion of the Samuel Rhoads, Jr., school house.
Pie is a Deraocrat in politics, and has been sec
retary of the town coraraittee and delegate to
various norainating conventions of his party.
He is a raeraber of Philanthropic Lodge of
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¦chusetts. He is a member of St. Michael's
Protestant Episcopal Church, has been vestry
man, and since the death of Hon. Samuel
Rhoads, Jr., has been the parish clerk. His
inilitary career is as follows : On January 9,
1891, he enlisted in the Second Corps of
'Cadets, and was discharged August 11, 1892.
He was later in Corapany C, Eighth Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, of which he
was elected second Heutenant, September 11,
1893; first lieutenant, March 27, 1896; and
¦captain, October 30, 1896. He resigned his
coraraission Noveraber 8, 1897. While- he was
in coraraand, the Marblehead corapany had the
pleasure of entertaining the officers of the
IJnited States cruiser "Marblehead." In raili
tary circles, in the Masonic order, in the
church, in public life. Captain Slee has raade
many friends through his characteristic kindli
ness, courtesy and good nature. He raarried,
Septeraber 5, 1889, Bella H. Gilley, born in
Alarblehead, daughter of Eben and Marietta
Winslow Gilley, of Alarblehead. Their only
'Child is Ackly Roads, born June 14, 1892.
(See Hill family elsewhere in this work).
The Hill family was among the
HILL first settlers of Madbury, New
Hampshire, forraerly part of Dover,
where the family was established very early
by John Hill. AVilliara Hill, Jr., the first in
Aladbury, was a taxpayer there as early as
J 743. He raarried, August 21, 1729, at Dover,
Patience Drew. His father, AVilliam Hill,
born 1679, in Dover, married before 1723,
Judith  .
(I) Joseph Hill, descendant of John Hill,
of Dover, and of AVilliam Hill, of Madbury,
New Hampshire, mentioned above, was born
at Madbury, New Hampshire, AprU 10, 1782.
He niarried Sally Perkins, born in Dover,
April 16, 1790. He settled in Newfield, Maine.
Children; Joshua Perkins, born April 15,
1810, mentioned below; Joseph Shephard,
John Quincy, Moses, Morris S., Rebecca,
Huldah, Sarah, Almira, Aaron.
(II) Joshua Perkins HiU, son of Joseph
HiU (i), born in Newfield, Maine, April 15,
1810, died May 24, 1904, at Methuen, Massa
chusetts, aged ninety-four years, one month
and nine days. He settled in Pelham, New
Hampshire. He married, in Pelham, March
17, 1836, Marian Richardson, who died in
Methuen in i860. He married, second, at
Lynn, Massachusetts, December 25, 1862, Car
rie A. Gowen. Children of first wife: i.
Joshua Eliot, born in Rockport, Massachusetts,

May 16, 1838, carpenter, residing in Medford
Hillside, Massachusetts; raarried, in Medford,
Massachusetts, February 23, i860, Sarah
Louise Osgood. 2. Joseph Shepard, born
April 2, 1844, at Methuen, Massachusetts, a
hatter by trade; died unraarried in 1903. '3.
Thoraas Curaraings, born in Alethuen, October
15, 1845, a carpenter by trade, residing in
Methuen ; married, in 1869, JuHa Pressey, who
died July 4, 1871 ; raarried, second, Decem
ber 25, 1871, Mrs. Elizabeth Merrill, who
died February 27, 1880. 4. John Quincy
Adaras, born June' 11, 1848, raentioned below.
Children of second wife: 5. Charles P., born
in Methuen, Septeraber 28, 1863, raeraber of
the city fire departraent. Providence, Rhode
Island; married, September 15, 1886, in Med
way, Massachusetts, Frances Ruthford. 6.
Carrie M., born in Alethuen, April 15, 1865,
unmarried. 7. Sarah E., born in Methuen,
February 18, 1867, married, June 16, 1888,
Arthur G. Hopkins, of Worcester, Massachu
setts. 8. Morris S., born in Alethuen, Febru
ary 28, 1869, resides in Pleasant Valley, Meth
uen ; a farraer; raarried, January i, 1896,
Mabel Shetler. 9. Mary P., born in Methuen,
Septeraber 8, 1871, raarried, at Lawrence, De
ceraber, 1891, Orren Everett Lowell. 10.
Dolly Ann, born in Methuen, July 6, 1875,
raarried June 22, 1907, in Lowell, Frank Davis.
II. Eben, born in Methuen, January 20, 1878,
resides with brother Morris ; married, Octo
ber 26, 1904, in Providence, Clara Butler. 12.
Sherburne, born February 22, 1882, married,
September 26, 1907, Alartha  , in New
York City.
(Ill) John Quincy Adains Hill, son of
Joshua Perkins Hill (2), was born in Meth
uen, June II, 1848. He was educated in the
district school of Methuen. At the age of
eleven years he began to work for his father
on his railk route, and at the age of sixteen
enlisted in Corapany C, Fifth Regiraent, Alass
achusetts Volunteer Militia, under Captain
George F. Bames, and served his term
of enlistment in the civil war. Soon
after the war he engaged in the teaming
business, established an ice business on
Mystic pond, and with the exception of
two years has been in the ice business to the
present tirae. At present he is in partnership
with his nephew, Bennie E., son of his brother,
Thomas Curaraings Hill. Air. Hill has been
a dealer in wood and lumber for many years.
He has cut much timber in Salem, New Hamp
shire, an adjoining town. Mr. Hill is also a
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Alinnesota, and is a director and vice-presi
dent. He is a meraber of Hope and of Re-
bekah lodges of Odd Fellows ; Hancock Lodge
of Free Alasons, of which he is a past raaster;
Colonel Williara B. Greene Post, No. loo.
Grand Array, of which he has been cora
raander ; Knights of Pythias of Alethuen ;
Alethuen Grange, Patrons of Husbandry;
Association of A'eteran Firemen; of the Horae
Club. In politics he is a Republican. He is
an attendant of the Universalist church. He
married, Deceraber 13, 1871, Sylvia Cordelia
Crofut, born November 8, 1849, at New Fair
field, Connecticut, daughter of Nathan B. and
Julia (Brisco) Crofut. Her mother was a
native of Newton, Connecticut. Her father
was bom November 12, 1800, in Danbury,
Connecticut, and died July 23, 1877. Mr.
Crofut was a hatter by trade, a maker of fur
and wool hats. He spent nine years in farm
ing in Illinois, returning to Alethuen in 1871,
and followed his trade until within three years
of his death, when his health prevented hira.
Pie was a LIniversalist in religion, and a faith
ful raember of the church and regular attend
ant upon its services.

Sarauel Allen Johnson, sheriff
JOHNSON of Essex county, Massachu
setts, has served in that posi
tion continuously since 1892, and has been
connected with the sheriff's office altogether
for over thirty years. His erainent fitness for
its duties has been deraonstrated in the dis
charge of raany iraportant commissions. He
is a native of Salem, born July 31, 1847, son
of Samuel S. and Elizabeth (Alien) Johnson,
and is descended on both sides frora old New
England stock.
On the paternal side Air. .Johnson belongs
to the Johnson family of Stafford Springs,
Connecticut, the progenitor of which in Araer
ica was John Johnson, who was frora Boston
or vicinity in the county of Lincoln, England,
coming to this country with Governor Win
throp. He brought with hira his wife and
family, and settled in Roxbury, in which town
he became a man of considerable distinction.
In 1630 he was chosen constable, was raany
times a representative in the Colonial Assem
bly, etc. Isaac Johnson, son of the settler,
carae with his father to this country and to
Roxbury; was raade a freeraan in 1635; was
captain of artillery company; representative,
etc. He was killed in the great Swamp fight,
Dcember 19, 1675. He niarried EHzabeth Por
ter. Nathaniel Johnson, son of Isaac, born in

1647, married in 1667, Alary Sraith. He became
one of the first settlers of what is now Wood-
.stock, Connecticut, which town was settled by
Roxbury farailies in 1686-87, and was then
called New Roxbury, and was prorainent in
the affairs of the new town. It is likely that
Samuel Allen Johnson, of Salera, is descended
from this source.
One Aholiab Johnson, son of John, and
descendant of the eraigrant, born March 18,
1762, was twice raarried — first, Septeraber 22,
1785, to Hannah Bacon, who died in Staf
ford, Septeraber 15, 1796; second, AprU 19,
1798, to Dolly Converse, of Stafford.
The Johnson faraily of Stafford, Connecti
cut, it is said originated in Scotland, and
through every generation frora the first in the
town has displayed those traits which have
contributed to the success of the native-born
of that country in every locality and position
in which they are found. AVe have further
record of these Johnsons, as follows:
One Nathaniel Johnson raarried first, Huldah
Haramond (marriage of Vernon town rec
ord) ; second, Martha AVashburn, daughter of
Solomon and Martha (Orcutt) AA'ashburn, of
Bridgewater, Alassachusetts.
Ebenezer Johnson, son of Nathaniel, born
in Stafford, Connecticut, AprU 9, 1759, died
there April 2, 1817. He raarried Alary Ed-
son, born June 22, 1767, who died January 5,
1848. They were farraing people of Stafford,
and reared a large family, which became con
nected by marriage with many of the oldest
and best families of New England. Their
children were : Clarissa, born February 7,
1785: Celia, Septeraber 23, 1787; Mary, Octo
ber 26, 1788; Cyril, July 24, 1791 ; Alarcia,
November 20, 1793; Selinda, December 29,
1798; Nathaniel, October 15, 1801 ; Tiraothy
Edson, June I, 1804; Louisa, August 27, 1807;
Ebenezer Joy, Alay 28, i8to. (N. B. It is
likely Nathaniel first naraed descended frora
John, of Roxbury).
On the raaternal side Sheriff Johnson is
descended from Chester Allen, son of one of
the first settlers of Sturbridge, and Anna Rice,
of Belchertown. Of the Allen faraily we have
the following record ;
fl) Jaraes Allen carae to Dedhara about
1637, and took the freeraan's oath in 1647.
He went to Aledfield with the first thirteen
settlers, and drew his house lot on South street.
In 1638 he married at Dedham, Ann Guild,
who died in 1673. He died in 1676.
(II) Joseph AUen lived in the north part
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in 1673, and then had a grant of land. He
married, in 1673, Hannah Sabin.
(Ill) Daniel Allen, born in 1681, .settled in
Pomfret, Connecticut, and his brother David,
born in 1683, settled in Ashford, Connecticut.
(Ill) Joseph Allen (2), born in 1676, set
tled on North street, in Medfield. In 1701 he
married Aliriara Wight.
(IN) Moses Allen, son of Joseph (2), born
in 1708, went to Sturbridge, as did also his
brother Aaron, who was born in 171 5. He
was in Sturbridge in 1740. He had previ
ously lived in Dedhara.
(Ill) Nehemiah Allen, son of Joseph and
grandson of Jaraes, was born in 1699, and
niarried Mary Parker. They were in Sher
born, 1723-1741, and in Sturbridge in 1745.
The town of Sturbridge was originally set
tled by a company of emigrants, chiefly frora
Medfield and a few other towns in that vicin
ity, and in about 1729, as a grant was raade
frora its settleraent in September of that year.
This was for a time called New Aledfield.
There were forty-two original proprietors to
the town when the grant was made, and soon
thereafter Neheraiah and Moses Alien were
among others admitted into partnership.
Sarauel Allen Johnson received his literary
education in Wisconsin, attending the public
schools of Beloit, and fitting for college
at the Beloit College Preparatory School.
Pie also took part of a course at that coUege,
as a member of the class of 1869, but was
obliged to relinquish his plan of pursuing the
full course because of failing: eyesight. Soon
after leaving college, Mr. Johnson began the
study of law in the office of Todd & Converse,
¦ in Beloit, continuing thus for about a year,
after which for two years he traveled in the
far west and in Europe. In the auturan of
1870 he returned to Salera, and again took up
the study of law, with Hon. Williara D. North-
end, being admitted to the bar of Essex county,
October 3, 1871. After that he remained in
the office with Air. Northend, untU May, 1872,
when he formed a partnership with Dean Pea
body, at that time one of the leading practi
tioners of Lynn, Massachusetts, for legal prac
tice. Air. Peabody has since served raany
years as clerk of the courts of Essex county.
Air. Johnson was in practice in Lynn until
Alay, 1875, when a severe and prolonged iU
ness caused his withdrawal from professional
labors, and he sought health and strength in
Colorado, where he remained until July, 1876.
Returning to his old horae in Salera, he decided
to abandon his profession on the advice of his

physician, who told hira it would not be wise
to atterapt to follow his chosen calling if he
expected to keep his health. The following
December he took an appointment as deputy
sheriff, serving as such until he was elected
sheriff in 1892. He was engaged much of the
tirae as special sheriff, and his record of ser
vice has been irreproachable and highly satis
factory to all concerned. He has held no
other elective office, nor has he ever sought
such preferraent.
Mr. Johnson was lieutenant colonel and
coraraander of the Second Corps of Cadets of
Salera, of which body he was a raember for
over twenty-five years, having joined in April,
1874. He has passed through all the various
grades up to the rank of lieutenant colonel,
being retired with the rank of colonel, given
him unsolicited by Governor AVolcott. He is
also an active member of various fraternal
organizations, being especially well known in
the Masonic order as a raember of Essex
Lodge, Washington Royal Arch Chapter, AVins
low Lewis Coraraandery, and Sutton Grand
Lodge of Perfection, all of Salera, as well as
Aleppo Teraple, Alystic Shrine, of Boston. He
also belongs to Essex Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, also having been a
raeraber of Naurakeag Encarapraent ; to John
Endicott Lodge, Ancient Order United Work
raen ; and to Naurakeag Tribe, Improved Order
of Red Alen. In political connection he is a
staunch Republican.
On November 17, 1872, Mr. Johnson was
raarried to Eliza A. Fitz, daughter of Daniel
P. Fitz, of Salera. She passed away Febru
ary I, 1885, the raother of two children ; NeUie
M., born September 2, 1873, raarried Alfred J.
Paul, of Boston, a wholesale jeweler, meraber
of the firra of Paul & Corapany, they have one
child Barbara ; Chester Allen, born March 28,
1879, raarried Florence AA^'ebb, of Saratoga
Springs, New York, he is receiving teller of
the old Colony Trust Conipany, Boston. On
October 5, 1886, Air. Johnson raarried (sec
ond). Miss Lily J. Shannon, of New York
City, and they have one child, Mary Hilda,
born January 30, 1891.

The surnarae Rowe or Roe is
ROAVE very ancient, derived in the sarae
way as Doe, Stagg, Hinds, and
frora the use of John Doe and Richard Rowe
as anonymous legal persons, it is likely that the
name was pretty coraraon at an early date.
(I) John Rowe, immigrant ancestor, born
in England, came to Gloucester, Massachu-

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setts, before 165 1, and settled in that part
known as the farms. He bought land there in
165 1 of Thoraas Drake, and was the first set
tler in a lonely and isolated spot. He had
difficulties with his townsraen, however, and
seems far from satisfied with his farra, for
June 26, 1656, he was presented in court for
"saying if his wife were off his raind he would
set his house on fire and run away by ye light
and ye devil should take ye farrae and speak
ing the sarae a second tirae added he would Hve
no longer araong such a company of hell
hounds." For thus relieving his mind he was
fined twenty shillings and ordered to raake a
confession at the next town meeting in Glou
cester. He died March 9, 1662. His inven
tory araounted to two hundred and five pounds
sixteen shillings ten pence. His widow Bridget
married November 14, 1662, William Cole
man; she died May 2, 1680. Children: John,
Hugh. (II) John Rowe, son of John Rowe, was
born about 1640; died at Gloucester, Septem
ber 25, 1700. He inherited part of his father's
horaestead, and lived there. He raarried first,
Septeraber 27, 1663, Mary Dickinson, who
died April 25, 1684, daughter of John Dickin
son, of Salisbury; second, Septeraber, 1684,
Sarah, daughter of Abrahara Redington, who
mentions her in his will. She died at Glou
cester, February 15, 1701. Children, born at
Gloucester : i. John, April 6, 1665, died No
vember, 1680. 2. Janies, born Deceraber 25,
j666. 3. Thoraas, November 26, 1668; raar
ried January 8, 1696, Sarah Brown. 4. Mary,
February 11, 1670. 5. EHzabeth, Alay 21,
1673. 6. Stephen, Noveraber 26, 1675; raen
tioned below. 7. Samuel, March 26, 1678. 8.
Ebenezer, August 19, 1680; died September
24, 1692. 9. Andrew, born December 31,
1683; died August 15, 1700. 10. Benjarain,
born August i, died October 24, 1685. 11.
Sarah, born March 28, 1689, died August 21,
1700. 12. John, born December 20, 1691 ;
died August 29, 1700. 13. Rebecca, born July
21, 1694.
(Ill) Stephen Rowe, son of John Rowe,
was born in Gloucester, Noveraber 26, 1675;
raarried there, July 6, 1699, Martha Low, who
died December 4, 1718; second, April 28, 1731,
Elizabeth Cumey, who lived to a great age.
Of his fifteen children, eleven were living at
the time of his death. Children, born at Glou
cester ; I. Susanna, married August 19, 1717,
William Millbury. 2. Sarah, died young. 3.
Stephen, died young. 4. Martha, married No
veraber 29, 1723, Benjarain Boynton. 5. Sarah,

raarried December 7, 1735, John Winnery. 6.
John, died young. 7. Stephen, born December
25, 1709; married Deceraber 31, 1731, Mercy
Day. 8. EHzabeth. 9. John, mentioned below.
ID. Thomas. 11. Joseph. 12. Benjamin. 13.
David. 14. Jonathan.
(IA') Lieutenant John Rowe, son of Ste
phen Rowe, was born in Gloucester, June 28,
1 714; died October 2, 1781. He settled at
Sandy Bay, Gloucester. He was a lieutenant
of the Gloucester company in 1755, and served
in the French and Indian war. He married
first, November 11, 1736, Mary Baker, died
about 1752, daughter of Jabez Baker; second,
June 16, 1752, Abigail Langsford, who died
of sraall pox, Deceraber 15, 1779. Some
accounts say he had sixteen children, and Bab
son states that the births of ten are to be
found on the town records. Those given and
known are: i. Ebenezer, died young. 2. Jabez,
died young. 3. Daniel, raentioned below. 4.
Jabez, born July 1740. 5. John, born 1747;
captain in the revolution; was with his son
John in battle of Bunker Hill; was taken
prisoner during the revolution; afterward
raajor of railitia. 6. Ebenezer, born August
13, 1750, resided at Georgetown, Maine. 7.
Isaac, born December 31, 1751. 8. Lucy, bap
tized at Boxford, Noveraber 16, 1752 (resi
dence of parents, John and Abigail, given as
Cape Ann).
(V) Daniel Rowe, son or nephew of John
Rowe, was bom at Gloucester, and lived in
that part now the town of Rockport, Massa
chusetts. He appears to be the Daniel Rowe
^,^'ho served in the revolution in the Continental
array for nine months, enlisting Deceraber 8,
1779, and credited to the town of Gloucester,
the return being dated at Boxford, near which
Rowe seeras to have lived. He was also in
Colonel Alichael Jackson's regiment (Eighth
Essex County). He raarried Mary Knutch
ford, born in Rockport, daughter of Stephen
K. Knutchford, a native of London, England,
who died in Rockport, then Gloucester, mar
ried Alary Andrews. The family tradition has
it that the father of Stephen Knutchford was
sn English lord, and that Stephen, the eldest
son, was bought a coramission in the English
navy. He carae to America on the admiral's
ship, and when the vessel was at Gloucester
was ordered by the admiral to go ashore and
forage for vegetables and fruit. Knutchford
refused to obey, and by order of the admiral
had his shoulder straps cut off and was rowed
ashore slern first— a signal disgrace in the
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and at the first house he inquired for the Con
tinental army, and received his reply from the
gill whom he married subsequently. He en
listed and fought to the end of the revolution
in the American array. After the war he re
turned to Gloucester, cleared a small farm
there, raarried and for raany years taught the
village school. The story is a charraing bit
of colonial romance, and doubtless correct in
the essentials. In his garden Knutchford had
an excellent orchard of fruit trees and he
raised fowls. Plis children were; i. Thoraas
Knutchford ; ii. John Knutchford ; iii. Stephen
Knutchford; iv. William Knutchford; v. Mary
Knutchford, married Daniel Rowe, raentioned
above; vi. Sallie, raarried WiUiara Tarr; vii.
daughter, raarried  Dennison. Daniel
Rowe was a raeraber of the Congregationai
church. He was a fisherraan by trade, and was
in the eraploy of one man for a period of forty
years. Child:-en of Daniel and Mary (Knutchford)
Rowe; i. Daniel, married Sophia Poole; lived
in -Boothbay, Maine ; followed the sea, going
on foreign trips in winter and on fishing trips
in summer; died at sea. 2. Mary, married
George Wainwright, of Rockport. 3. Lucy.
niarried Nathaniel Foster. 4. Susan, married
first, Huston Oakes ; second, Thomas O. Mar
shal. 5. Charlotte, married Moses Poole. 6.
Stephen Knutchford, raentioned below.
(VI) Stephen Knutchford Rowe, son of
Daniel Rowe, was born in Rockport, forraerly
Sandy Bay, in Gloucester, lived and died there.
He married Hannah Poole. He was educated
in the common schools of his native town.
He foUov/ed the sea in his younger days, on
fishing trips mainly. He kept a general store
in Rockport, and in his absence the business
was manap^ed by his wife. He learned the
trade of carpenter, and stone cutter, but ill
health prevented him following either trade.
Pie was a well-known and very infiuential citi
zen, a Democrat in politics, tax collector many
years. He was one of the founders and prin
cipal i-'upporters of the Universalist church at
Rockport, though his wife remained a member
of the Congregational church. Children: i.
Charlotte, died young. 2. WiUiam Turner,
mentioned below.
(VII) AVilliam Turner Rowe, son of Ste
phen Knutchford Rowe, was born in Rock
port, January 26, 1840. He was educated for
the most part in Ezekiel Bradstreet's school in
his native town. He began at the age of
twelve to follow the sea as a fisherman, sum
mer and winter. In 1880 he removed to Bev

erly and took up the trade of shoemaking, not
wishing to have his sons become fisherraen. He
has worked in the various shoe factories of
Beverly to the present tirae. He is interested
in public affairs, a Jeffersonian Deraocrat, in
political belief, holding to the righteousness of
a tariff for revenue only. He is a Unitarian in
religion. He has held no public offices aad de-
longs to no lodges or secret organizations. He
resides in North Beverly. He raarried, in 1863,
Mary ^Augusta Griffen, born at Annisquam,
daughter of Aloses L. and Sarah E. (Butler)
Griffen. His wife died at Beverly June 2,
1905. Children; i. William Augustus, born
Jul^'. 1865, at Lanesville, on Cape Ann; edu
cated in public schools of Gloucester and Bev
erly ; went lo live with his grandfather in Lynn
at an early age; was for a time in the bicycle
and hardware business, now in the automobile
business in Beverly; a Congregationalist in re
ligion: n-iarried first, Alice Ayres of Lynn;
second, Etta Alexander; residing at North
Beverly; child of first wife, Alice. 2. George
Ellis Rowe, raentioned below.
(VIII) George Ellis Rowe, son of WUliam
Turner Rowe, was born September 23, 1867,
in Lanesville, and educated in the public
schools of Gloucester and Beverly. He learned
the trade of shoemaker. He was eraployed by
the firm of AliUett, Woodbury & Corapany, the
largest shoe manufacturers of the town of
Beverly, rose to a position of responsibilitv in
the busmess and was finally adraitted to part
nership. He is interested in raunicipal affairs,
a Republican in national politics and a citizen
of influence and public spirit. He is a raember
of Liberty Lodge, Free Masons, of Beverly,,
of the Chapter, Council and Comraandery.,
Afr. Rowe raarried, Noveraber, 1889, Alartha
Ellen BeU, daughter of Samuel and Mary
Elizabeth (Pickett) Bell, of Beverly, and
granddaughter of John Bell, also of Beverly.
Children, born at Beverly; i. Martha Pickett,
born September 7, 1890. 2. Phillip Kendall,,
born March 16, 1898. (See Bell).

Robert Bell, iraraigrant ancestor,.
BELL carae to Beverly, Massachusetts,
when a young raan and married
there Noveraber 7, 1717. But one child is
recorded, Sarauel, raentioried below, but he
vvas doubtless the father also of John BeU, of
Beverly. (H) Sarauel Bell, son of Robert Bell, was
bora at J'everly, Massachusetts, April 27,
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was bora April 2, 1795. He raarried, Decem
ber 1, 1814, Betsey Friend, who died Febru
ary 12, 1849. Children, born in Beverly i.
Elizabeth, April 5, 1815, raarried November
3c, 1837, Luther AVallis. 2. Mary, February
26. 1817; married, Alay 6, 1843. 3. Caroline,
Febi'uar)' 27, 1819 ; died June 20, 1827 or 28.
.|. John, I'ebruary 10, 1823; married Novem
ber 21, 1 841, Alary Ann Baker; children; 1.
John AA'iUiam, born Alarch 24, 1842; ii. Enime-
linc, born January 17, 1847; ''i- Caroline, born
October 17, 1849. 5- Augusta, born March
23. 1823; married August 12, 1845, Elnathan
Dodge, of New Boston, New Harapshire. 6.
Ann Alaria, born Alarch 14, 1825. 7. Samuel,
born June 8, 1827; died June 21 following. 8.
Samuel, born July 21. 1828, raentioned below.
9. George "VA'alcott, born January 9, 1831. 10.
Caroline, born July 27, 1833 ; died October 3.
1849. II- William Henry, born July 27, 1S35.
12. Caroline, baptized July 2, 1837. 13. Clar
issa P'ricnd, born October 9, 1838.
(A^) Samuel BeU, son of John Bell, was
born at Beverly, July 21, 1828, and died m his
native town. Pie married Alary Elizabeth
Pickell, bora 1832, at Beverly, daughter of
Josiah and Alary (Cressey) Pickett. Pier
mother was born September, 1799, and died
June 9, 1879. He was a shoemaker by i.rade.
He attended the Pirst LTniversalist Church
Death cut short his promising career and he
was sincerely mourned. Children of Josiah
and Alary Pickett: i. General Josiah Pickett,
born November 21, 1822, distinguished in the
civil war; postmaster of AA'orcester; died
1907; ii. John AVilliam, born Deceraber 30,
1824, married Susan PI. Tucker; iii. Charles,
born December 12, 1826; iv. Alary Ploward,
born February 3, 1830, died Septeraber 25.
1833 ; V. Sarah Frances, raarried Dewing
Southwick ; vi. Mary Elizabeth, raarried Sam
uel Bell, mentioned above ; vii. Alartha, mar
ried Jaraes H. Kendall ; viii. George .Augus
tus, married Agnes C. Alunsey ; Lx. Hepzibah
Ann, niarried Charles L. Woodbury and
Charles Friend.
Thomas Pickett, father of Josiah, was born
at Beverly, June 27, 1750; sailmaker by trade:
raarried Aliriara, daughter of Samuel and
Alary Striker ; she died in Beverly, August
2.-^, 3839. Thoraas Pickett (3) father of
Thoma'; Pickett (4), was baptized July 17,
i7i<)-20. ami was lost at sea about 1753; mar
ried Sfxi-ah Trevett, granddaughter of Henry
Trevett, of Alarblehead, the immigrant ances
tor. John Pickett (2), father of Thomas (3),
was born about 1680; died Alay 1763, a fish

erman and shoreman, of Alarblehead; married,
January 17, 1704, Elizabeth Kelley, daughter
of John and Grace Kelley; second, October 31,
1 72 1, Elizabeth Savory. The iraraigrant ances
tor of the Pickett family was Nicholas Pickett,
who came to Marblehead as early as 1670;
married a daughter of John Northay.
Children of Sarauel and Alary Elizabeth
(Pickett) BeU; i. Charles. 2. Alary Ella, died
aged twenty-one years. 3. Frank. 4. Arthur,
raarried Alary Gately. 5. Frederick, born July
17, 1864; married Lucy F. Slater, June 9,
1887; she was born March 14, 1865, and died
March 9, 1889; child; i. Mary Elizabeth;
he married second, September 30, 1890, Eliz
abeth K. Slater and had : ii. Lucy Slater, born
August I, 1891 ; iii. Bessie, married Edwin
Dodd ; iv. Sadie, deceased ; v. Martha, mar
ried George E. Rowe (see Rowe) ; vi. Willis,
married  Caldwell ; vii. Samuel P., mar
ried Cora Flanders.

Ira Vaughn (i), with whom
A'AUGHN this narrative must begin, and
of whom no other record ap
pears, is said to have been born in New Vine
yard, Maine, and was a wheelwright by trade,
owner of a gristraill, and a reasonably success
ful raan in a business way. It is said too that
he was a rausician of considerable talent for
his tirae and generation, one who could make
a good instruraent as well as good rausic ; a
bass viol raade by him a century or raore ago
is still in the possession of one of his descend
ants. The narae of the iraraediate ancestor of
Ira A^aughn has been a source of perplexity to
genealogists as well as to various of his de
scendants, and various theories and sugges
tions have been offered respecting the subjects.
By reason of circumstances, residence and vari
ous relationships it has been assumed that he
was born in New Vineyard, but this raay be
an error, and whether so or not there is reason
for the opinion that he raay have been born in
Vermont and of kin to the three brother,s —
Benjamin, John and James Vaughan, the fam
ous soldiers of the revolution, the first of
whom enlisted in Shoreham, 1778, in Captain
Gideon Ormsby's conipany. Colonel Ira Allen's
regiraent. In 1781 all three of these brothers
were in Captain Jacob Odell's company. Col
onel Allen's regiraent. If this theory is cor
rect Ira Vaughn was a grandson of Christ
opher Vaughan, Jr., who was born in East
Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1710, son of Christ
opher Vaughan, born in England, about 161 5,
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and afterward of Providence, Rhode Island.
Ira Vaughn niarried first, Abigail Luce John
son, who died Alay 21, 1830; second, January
18, 1 83 1, Emely Johnson, by whora he had one
son, Joseph AVarren Vaughn; raarried third,
Mary Cutts, born July 22, 1810, and by her
had two children; i. Elisha Cutts, born in
New Vineyard, December 6, 1840, went to
Tacoma, "Washington; married in 1862, Mary
L., eldest daughter of Captain Williara Took,
a "49er on the Pacific coast, and one of the
pioneer traders on the Columbia river and
Puget Sound. 2. Ira, Jr., born in New Vine
yard or Farmington, Alaine.
(II) Joseph Warren Vaughn, only son of
Ira and Eniely (Johnson) Vaughan, was born
in New Vineyard or Farraington, and died in
Salera, Massachusetts. He changed the faraily
name from its original form of Vaughan to
A'aughn, after his reraoval to Peabody. He
was a natural raechanic, and his inventive
genius ultlraately gained hira a fortune, al
though when he first carae to Massachusetts
he was for sorae tirae proprietor of a grist mill
in Peabody. After leaving the mill he turned
his attention to raechanical pursuits, chiefly to
the invention of appliances and machines de
signed to overcome certain difficulties con
stantly raet with in the manufacture of leather,
and which he believed could be removed by
raechanical devices. His first notable success
in this direction was in the construction of a
putting-out raachine, the returns frora which
enabled hira to establish the Vaughn Machine
Company, of Peabody, which afterward under
the capable raanageraent of his sons was devel
oped into an industry of large proportions and
ultlraately passed to the ownership of the
Turner Tanning Machinery Corapany. But
this is only a single one of Mr. A-^aughn's sev
eral patented devices which gave hira a wide
reputation and yielded a fortune in return for
his patient and intelligent efforts, and as well
had the effect to practically revolutionize the
leather manufacturing process. He seeraed to
enjoy the successful operation of his raachines
fully as much as their substantial returns, and
while he came to be recognized as an inventor
of remarkable genius, his prominence never
had the effect to raake hira vain of his achieve
raent, and he always was the same agreeable
companionable raan as in the days when he
worked at the bench to gain a livelihood. Dur
ing the civil war he served a nine months' en
listment in a Maine regiment, and was a com
rade of the Grand Array of the Republic. In
religious preference he was a Baptist, in poli

tics a Republican, and a raeraber of Nortli Star
Lodge, F. and A. Al., of New Portland, Maine.
Air. Vaughn married first, Alartha Cutts,
daughter of George and Anna (Metcalf) Cutts
(see Cutts) ; second, Dolly C. Robbins, of
Pittston, Alaine. Children, all born of his
first raarriage; i. Alary Eraily, November 19,
1857 ; married Alelville AA'oodbury ; lives in
Beverly. 2. Alaria Frances, born in North
Portland, Maine ; niarried John Rollins, and
had Oliver PI. Rollins. 3. George Cutts, born
in Anson, Alaine ; raarried Annie Groce, and
had Dwight AV., G. Parke and Gordon; raar
ried second, Bessie Dane, and had two chil
dren. 4. Ira. 5. Charles Parker ; married
Fannie AA^. Thoraas, and had Catherine Nel
son and Barbara Thonias. 6. Alartha.
(Ill) Ira A'aughn, more frequently known
in military circles as Major Vaughn, is a native
of New Portland, Alaine, born August 9, 1864,
son of Joseph AA'arren and Alartha (Cutts)
A'aughn. His younger life was spent chiefly
in Peabody, Alassachusetts, where he attended
the public schools, and where after attaining
his majority he acquired an interest in the
business of the A'aughn Alachine Company,
and after the death of his father the company
and its plant passed to the ownership and
management of his sons and continued in suc
cessful operation until 1901, when it was sold.
.-About the same time Alajor A'aughn and his
brother Charles purchased the Dungan Hood
& Company leather manufacturing establish
raent in Philadelphia, and have since operated
its extensive business, with principal offices
and sales department in Boston. Alajor
Vaughn is a thorough business man, with a wide
acquaintance in leather manufacturing and
trade circles in general, and he also enjoys a
large acquaintance araong officials of the ad
ministration department of the state govern
raent, especially in connection with affairs of
the Alassachusetts volunteer militia. As aide-
de-camp on the staff of Governor Guild, with
the rank of major, he has been always a partici
pant in the functions which fall to the lot of
staff officers of rank on public occasions. He
was reappointed November 30, 1908, by
Governor Draper. For many years he was a
member of the Second Corps Cadets, Salera,
first as quartermaster, then paymaster and
afterward as captain of Corapany C. He is a
32d degree Mason ; meraber of Essex Lodge
"F. and A. M., past high priest, AVashington
Chapter, R. A. AI. ; past master, Salem Coun
cil, R. and S. AI. ; past commander, AVinslow
Lewis Coraraandery. No. 18, K. T. ; member

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of Sutton Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R. ;
raeraber of the Salera Club, and raeraber and
president of the Colonial Club. On October
9, 1890, Mr. Vaughn married Hannah Nelson
Thomas, of Peabody, Massachusetts. Their
chUdren; i. Joseph Warren, born in Salem,
Noveraber 9, 1892, died April 27, 1900. 2.
Olive, born in Salera, Noveraber 3, 1901.

(I) Robert Cutts, one of three
CUTTS iraraigrant brothers— John, Rich
ard and Robert — carae to Araer
ica frora England with their sister Anne be
fore 1646. Robert went first to the Barbadoes,
AVest Indies, and sailed thence for New Eng
land, where he lived for a time at Great Island
(Portsmouth), New Hampshire, and frora
there removed to Kittery, Alaine. Im the West
Indies he married Mary Hoel, a young Eng
lish woraan, and by her he had children : Rich
ard, EHzabeth, Bridget, Sarah, Mary, Robert.
(II) Richard Cutts, son of Robert and
Mary (Hoel) Cutt, married, 1686, Joanna,
daughter of Thomas and Lucia (Treworgye)
AVills; children; i. Robert, born Noveraber
13, 1687. 2. Elizabeth, Noveraber 25, 1689.
3. Mary, February 18, 1697, died young. 4.
Thoraas, April 15, 1700. 5. Bridget, Decera
ber 13, 1702. 6. Lucia, April 23, 1705. 7.
Edward, July 9, 1707. 8. Samuel, Septera
ber 21, 1709. 9. Joseph, April 22, 1713. 10.
Joanna, AprU 14, 1715.
(Ill) Deacon Thonias Cutts, son of Rich
ard and Joanna (WUls) Cutt, was born April
15, 1700. He was the first deacon of the Con
gregational church in the raiddle parish of Kit
tery, v/hich was built in 1749; and he outlived
half of his children, dying in 1795, aged ninety-
five years. His descendants are spoken of as
the Spruce creek branch. He raarried, April
23, 1724, Dorcas, daughter of Judge Joseph
and Hannah (Stover) Hararaond: children;
I. Mary, born April 30, 1726. 2. Lucy, May
26, 1728. 3. John, August 28, 1730. 4.
Thomas, Noveraber 23, 1732. 5. Robert, Sep
teraber 19, 1734. 6. Joseph, August 2, 1736,
7. Hannah, April 23, 1740. 8. Sarauel, Sep
teraber 20, 1744.
(IA'') Samuel Cutts, son of Deacon Thomas
and Dorcas (Hararaond) Cutts, was born Sep
tember 20, 1744, and married October 15, 1767,
Sarah, daughter of Judge John and Mary
(Plaisted) HUl; chUdren : i. Mary, born July
30, 1768, died September 17, 1855 ; raarried
first, Enoch Billings; second, Jabez Bradbury.
2. Sarah, March 23, 1770, died Deceraber 21,

i860; married Deceraber 5, 1803, WiUiam
Stevens. 3. Hannah, July 11, 1772, died No
veraber 17, 1854; married first, Robert Clark;
second, Philip Fowler. 4. Thomas, born
Alarch 30, 1775. 5. Samuel, August 2, 1777,
died October i, 1853; married November 2,
1806, Catherine AVoodward. 6. Elisha, Au
gust I, 1780, died 1841 ; raarried, 1802, Han
nah Hooper. 7. Robert, Noveraber 14, 1782,
died December 23, 1810. 8. Betsey, January
20, 1785, died July i, 1869; niarried April 23,
1807, Joseph Flitner. 9. Dorcas, August 23,
1787, died July 3, 1879; raarried July 8, 1816,
Isaac Laphara. 10. Abigail, Septeraber 23,
1790, died April 25, 1870; raarried October
20, 1810,  Jackson.
(V) Thoraas Cutts, son of Samuel and
Sarah (Hill) Cutts, was born March 30, 1775,
and died March 2, 1857. He married, No
vember 30, 1797, Sarah, daughter of Oliver
and Alargaret (Burns) Colburn; chUdren: i.
Sarauel, born October 21, 1798, died 1864;
raarried Deceraber 26, 1823, Dolly Bray. 2.
Thoraa.s, July 3, 1800, died June 2, 1819. 3.
Dorcas, May 15, 1802; raarried December 29,
1824, Joseph Luce. 4. William, August 19,
1804, died September 27, 1850; raarried Sep
teraber 12, 1830, Rachel Jackson. 5. Abigail,
May 31, 1806: raarried Deceraber 11, 1823,
Sewell Rand. 6. George, May 24, 1808. 7.
Jaraes, August 11, 1810; raarried January 28,
1834, Olive Colburn. 8. Sarah Ann, August
12, i8t2, died June 2, 1888, married February,
1834, Oliver Robbins. 9. Oliver, March 5,
1815, died February 16, 1885; raarried August
4, 1840, Hannah Cutts.
(VI) George Cutts, son of Thoraas and
Sarah (Colburn) Cutts, was born May 24,
1808, and raarried April 2, 1829, Anna, daugh
ter of John and Sarah (Fletcher) Metcalf;
children ; George B., John, Oliver, Sarah and
Alartha. (VU) Martha Cutts, daughter of George
and Anna (Metcalf) Cutts, raarried Joseph
AA^arren Vaughn, his first wife (see Vaughn).
(V) Elisha Cutt.s, son of Samuel and Sarah
(HUl) Cutts, was born August i, 1780, died
October i, 1853, and raarried, in 1807, Han
nah Hooper; children: i. Robert, born Au
gust 24, 1804; raarried Anna Dorr. 2. Enoch
Billings, October 4, 1806; married Lucretia
Gray. 3. AVilliam, May 16, 1808; married
Elizabeth Aldrich. 4. Mary, July 22, 1810.
5. Sarah Ann, October 5, 181 5, married' Oliver
Cutts. 7. Elisha, January 21, 1819; raarried
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(VI) Alary Cutts, daughter of Elisha and
Hannah (Hooper) Cutts, was born July 22,
1810, and married Ira A^aughn (see Vaughn).

This family name is de-
WASHBURN rived from two simple
words — wash, which ap
plies to the swift raoving current of a streara,
and burn or bourne, a brook or small .stream.
It has been said of the famUy, whose origin
is in England, carrying a coat-of-arms, that
the posterity of John Washburn, who was the
first emigrant to locate in New England in
1632, "will seldom find occasion to blush upon
looking back upon the past lives of those from
whom they have descended. Fortunate indeed
may the generations now in being, esteem
themselves, if they can be sure to bequeath
to their posterity an equal source of felicita
tion." In this iUustrious family have been
found some of our nations's greatest char
acters, in public and private life, statesraen
and military raen in all of the American wars.
Maine, A^erniont, Alassachusetts and Wincon-
sin have all had governors frora the Wash
burn faraily, and three brothers served as con
gressmen -from three states at the same tirae,
and all with rauch ability. Authors and col
lege graduates raay be found to a score or
raore, who have left their impress upon the
world. In England a John Washburn was the
first secretary of the council of Plyraouth, and
was succeeded in office in 1628 by Williara
Burgess ; but it is not known that he was
identical with John Washburn, of Duxbury,
in 1632 ; nor is it known that the New England
Washburns, the descendants of John, were of
kin to AA/'ilHara, Daniel and John AVashburn
who had land on Long Island as early as 1653,
but whose naraes soon afterwards disappeared
frora the records there.
(I) John Washburn, iraraigrant ancestor,
settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in
1632. In that year he had an action in court
against Edward Doten. He was a taxpayer
in 1633. In 1634 he bought of Edward Bora-
]-'asse a place beyond the creek caUed Eagle's
Nest. He with his sons John and Philip were
on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643.
He and his son John were among the original
fifty-four proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645.
They bought the lands of the old Sachem,
Massasoit, for seven coats of one and a half
yards each, nine hatchets, twenty knives, four
moose .skins, ten and a half yards of cotton
cloth. The transfer was signed by MUes
Standish, Samuel Nash and Constant South-

worth. He died at Bridgewater in 1670.
John AVashburn married Margery —  .
Children: i. John, mentioned below. 2.
Philip, born 1624, died unmarried.
(II) John Washbum, son of John Wash
burn, was born in England in 1621, and mar
ried Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Exper
ience Mitchell, as shown by a letter from
Thoraas Mitchell, who made his will in 1686,
dated Arasterdara, July 24, 1662, to his Uncle
Experience. John Washburn sold in 1670
his house and lands at Green's Harbor, Dux
bury, which his father had given hira. His
son John was executor of his will in 1679,
and John Torason and Edward Mitchell were
overseers. Children; i. John, raarried Rebecca
Latham. 2. Thoraas, mentioned below. 3.
Joseph, niarried Hannah Lathara and resided
in East Bridgewater. 4. Sarauel, married
Deborah Packard. 5. Benjarain, died on the
Phipps expedition to Canada ; nuncupative will
executed in 1690. 7. Mary, married, 1694,
Samuel Kingsley. 8. Elizabeth, raarried first,
Jaraes Howard ; second, Edward Sealey. 9.
Jane, raarried William Orcutt Jr. 10. James,
married Mary Bowden. 11. Sarah, married,
1697, John Ames.
(Ill) Thomas AVashburn, son of John
AA'ashburn, resided in Bridgewater near the
present site of the Bazell & Perkins works.
He raarried, first, zAbigail Leonard, daughter
of Jacob Leonard. He married, second,
Deliverance Packard, daughter of Samuel
Packard. His will was raade in 1729. Chil
dren; I. Nathaniel. 2. Thoraas. 3. Tiraothy,
mentioned below. 4. Hepzibah, married,
1708, John Hutchinson. 5. Patience, died
before 1708. 6. Deliverance, married, 1719,
Ephrairii Jennings. 7. Elizabeth, niarried,
1701, Jos-iah Conant.
(IV) Tiraothy AA'ashburn, son of Thomas
AA'^ashburn, was a tanner by trade. He resided
in Bridgewater and bought land in 1720 at
Poor Meadow of Ebenezer AA^ashburn Jr. He
niarried Hannah  . Children, born at
Bridgewater; i. Tiraothy, mentioned below.
2. Hannah, born 1724. 3. Alary, born 1725.
(V) Timothy Washburn, son of Tiraothy
AA'ashburn, was born in Bridgewater, 1721,
and went in 1740 to Kennebunkport, Maine.
He settled in that part of the town which is
now Arundel. He raarried Sarah Miller.
Children, born at Kennebunkport; i. David,
raentioned below. 2. Alexander, lost at sea.
3. Joseph, raarried Mary Aliller. 4. Sarah,
raarried Arani Hooper. 5. Margaret, raarried
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Lord. 7. Sarah, married George Hooper.
Perhaps other children.
(\'I) David AA'ashburn, son of Timothy
AA'ashburn, was born in Kennebunkport,
Alaine, about 1750-60. Pie had a son Tiraothy,
mentioned below.
(VII) Timothy AVashburn, son of David
AA'ashburn, born about 1780-90, raarried Jane
 . Children; i. David AVashington, born
January 3, 1818, mentioned below. 2. Sarah
Ann, Alay 19, 1819. 3. Mary Jane, Septem
ber 14, 1820. 4. Ralph E., AprU 17, 1822. 5.
Thoraas, April 17, 1824. 6. Tobias AA'., Alay
29, 1827. 7. Francis "VA'., February 4, 1831.
8. Susan E., Noveraber 3, 1832. 9. Francis
Al., AprU 4, 1835. 10. Harriet E., July 26,
1836. (A^III) David AA'ashington AA ashbuni, son
of Tiraothy Washburn, was born in Kenne-
buiik, Maine, January 3, 1818, died in Soraer
ville, Massachusetts, June 3, 1886. He went
to Soraerville when a young raan, and there
becarae a practical brick raaker. In a few
years he started in business for hiraself at first
in Soraerville and later in Everett, and car
ried on a constantly increasing and successful
business all his life. He is reraerabered as a
straightforward raan in his deaHngs with
others, and he held the respect of all. In pol
itics he was first a Whig and later a Republi
can. He and his family attended the Congre
gational Orthodox church. He raarried Eliz
abeth Green, of Otisfield, Maine. Children,
born in Soraerville; I. Charles Francis, died
young. 2. George Franklin. 3. Charles
Francis, mentioned below. 4. Wilbur David.
( IX) Charles Francis AVashburn, son of
David W. AA'ashburn, was born in Somerville,
.April 7, 1855. After leaving school he began
work in his father's brick yard, and later
acquired an interest in the business. At his
father's retirement from business, he and his
brother, George Franklin AVashburn, becanie
sole owners, and have since carried it on with
gratifying success. Air. AVashburn has taken
considerable interest in political affairs, and
has served on the board of aldermen and the
board of public works in Everett. He is pres
ident of the Everett Co-operative Bank, and
a raeraber of the Glendon Club. He is a raera
ber of the Free Masons, Knights Teraplar,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Red
Alen. By religious preference he is a Univer
salist. He raarried, June 16, 1879, Lucy M.
Littlefield, born in Lyraan, Alaine, April 20,
1851, daughter of Israel and Henrietta (Kim
baU) Littlefield, of Lyman. ChUdren; i. Lucy

AL 2. Octavia A., died aged three. 3. Etta.
4. Chester A., mentioned below.
(X) Chester A. Washburn, son of Charles
P. AVashburn, was born in .'soraerville, Alay
10, 1881. He attended the public and high
schools of Everett and fitted for college at the
Frye School, Boston. He began to study
raedicine at Tufts Aledical School, but left
after a time on account of ill health. He
resumed his study of raedicine in Boston
LIniversity Aledical School and finally at the
Hahneraann Medical College, of Chicago, lUi
nois, where he was graduated with the degree
of AI. D. in the class of 1908. He has taken
a year's course at Harvard Medical School in
the class of 1909. Pie raarried, April 8, 1908,
.Albertha AI. Hopkins, at Chicago, daughter of
Fred and Catharine AI. Hopkins, of Lowell,
Massachusetts.

Captaiii Elias Harry Day, one of
DAY the faraous old mariners of New
England who sailed for many years
frora Alaine seaport towns, was born in Free-
port, Alaine, in 1792, and died there about
1866. He was a descendant of Anthony Day,
immigrant, a passenger in the ship "Paule,"
which sailed from London, England, in 1635,
bound for A'irginia. Where he spent the first
ten years after landing in this country never
has been made clear, but in 1646 he appears in
Gloucester, Alassachusetts, where he bought
lands, spent the remaining years of his life and
died in April, 1707, aged ninety years. His
wife, Susan (Machette) Day, bore hira six
sons and one daughter. In 1736 four descend
ants of Anthony Day, grandsons or possibly
great-grandsons, went frora Gloucester to
Alaine and were araong the founders there
of the town of New Gloucester. They were
Ezekiel, Eliphalet, Timothy and Pelatiah Day,
and from thera have sprung nearly all of the
Days of Maine ; but the most careful examin
ation of published records fails to reveal the
narae of Captain EHas Day's father, while the
researches of raerabers of his faraily have
yielded no satisfactory results.
Captain Elias H. Day early took the sea
and was raaster of a ship sailing from Port
land at the age of seventeen years. Pie was a
deep sea sailor and during the thirty years of
his life as mariner he visited nearly every
iraportant European port. Finally he quit
the sea, purchased a farra at or near Freeport
and there spent his remaining years. He raar
ried Sarah Randall, who survived him and
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dren were ; Elias H., Augusta A., Enos E.,
Alaria S., Elizabeth E., Rebecca A., Ellen E.
and Susan F., only one of whom, Mrs. Ellen
E. Stoddard, of Deering, Maine, is now
living. Captaiii Elias H. Day, son of Captaiii Elias
H. and Sarah (Randall) Day, was born in
Freeport, Maine, in 1835, and died in Wilming
ton, Massachusetts, January 28, 1908. Like his
father, he was a master mariner and followed
the sea thirty-five years, sailing from Port
land. He was placed in coraraand of a vessel
when only seventeen years old and was about
fifty-five when he followed his father's exara
ple and took to farming, although he took up
his home in AVilmington. Pie raarried Sarah
J. Morse, of Livermore FaUs, Maine, who
survived hira and by whora he had six chil
dren ; WiUiara H., of Portland, Maine ;
Frank E., of Everett, Alassachusetts; Ernest
.A., of Boston; Mary S., now Airs. Berry, of
Curaberland Alills, Maine ; Alinnie R., now
Mrs. Black, of Everett, Alassachusetts ; Eu
genie A., now Mrs. Chandler, of East Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
Frank Edward Day, son of Captain Elias
Henry and Sarah J. (Morse) Day, was born
in Freeport, Alaine, Deceraber 25, 1868,
received his education at Westbrook high
school, Westbrook, Maine, and was a boy of
eighteen years when he left horae for Boston
to raake a start in his business career, his only
available capital at the tirae being his bicycle,
which was turned into cash, and thirty-five
dollars. However, he made a start, by open
ing a lunch room, later sold out to good
advantage, then bought a larger establishment
of the same kind, sold that and soon became
engaged in a rather extensive business in buy
ing and selling restaurants and dining rooms
and lodging houses in the city. Still later he
becarae proprietor of an office and sign clean
ing business operating with modern raachines
and apparatus, and this he has carried on
with excellent success for the last fifteen years.
In 1897 Air. Day took up his residence in the
suburban city of Everett, where he now lives
and is one of its large taxpayers. He is a
Republican in politics but takes no active part
in public affairs, for he is a very busy raan
with his large property and other business
interests. He raarried Maud Coleraan, of
Centerville. Cape Cod, daughter of John F.
and Eraraa F. (Nickerson) Coleraan, and
granddaughter of Captain F. AV. .Coleraan, of
Centerville. Mr. and Mrs. Day have four
chUdren; Alinnie F., born Boston, Septem

ber 16, 1894; Lillian AL, born Boston, January
26, 1896; Frederick Edward, born AVilming
ton, June 30, 1901 ; Frank Coleraan, born
Everett.. June 7, 1906.
Mr. Day and his wife have for several years
been interested in church work and Mr. Day's
name can be found on the list as one of the
large contributors toward the building fund
for a new Methodist church, of which he is at
present one of the trustees.

Dennis Downing, iraraigrant
DOAA'NING ancestor, was born in Eng
land about 1615-20. He set
tled in Kittery, Maine, and was one of the
signers of the subraission to the jurisdiction
of Massachusetts in 1652. He was a black
smith by trade. He was Hving in 1690. Chil
dren; I. Dennis Jr., killed by the Indians at
Kittery, July 4, 1697, the sarae tirae as Major
Charles Frost whose body was dug up by the
Indians and suspended frora a stake the night
after his burial ; he had a grant of land March
16, 1694, laid out Deceraber 21, 1709, to his
brother, Joshua Downing, at Beaver Dara. 2.
John, raentioned below. 3. Joshua, born
1644, married, 1675, Patience Hatch, daugh
ter of Philip and Patience Hatch; second,
Rebecca Trickey, widow of Joseph Trickey
and daughter of AVilliam and Rebecca Rogers ;
children ; i. Joshua, married Sarah Hall ; ii.
Elizabeth, raarried Jonathan AA^oodraan ; iii.
Sarah, married Jonathan Mendura ; iv. Alice,
raarried Richard Downing, April 24, 1709.
(II) John Downing, son of Dennis Down
ing (i), was born about 1635. He was before
the court 1653 for disobeying his father. An
Elizabeth Downing, possibly his wife, deposed
.August 8, 1738, then aged eighty-eight years,
that she had lived at Scarborough sixty-four
years before, viz; in 1674. From various
deeds and documents we have the naraes of his
children; i. Benjarain. 2. Richard, of Ports
mouth, 1697. 3. John, raentioned below. 4.
Anne. 5. Alice. 6. Joanna.
(Ill) Captain John Downing, son of John
Downing (2), was born in 1658-59, died Sep
tember 16, 1744. He had a seat in the Ports
mouth raeeting house in 1697 and with his
brother Richard and son John, was October 26,
1715, a charter raeraber of the church at New
ington, New Hampshire, where they set
tled. He was chosen elder of the Newington
church, January 19, 1724. He married Sus
anna Aliller, daughter of John Aliller, of
Arundel, Alaine. He and wife Susanna deed
ed Septeraber 10, 1725, land at Cape Porpoise

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to son Benjamin. Their son John was raen
tioned. By a quitclaim deed April i8, 1720,
the heirs of John Miller deeded their interests
in his estate to John Downing Sr., April 18,
1720. The deed is signed by Benjamin and
Jeremiah Miller, Daniel and Hannah
Q  (IV) John Downing, son of Captain
John Downing (3), was born about 1690.
He had a seat in the Newington raeeting-
house in 1715 and was one of the organizers
of the church. He raarried Elizabeth Harri
son, of Newington, daughter of Nicholas and
Alary (Bickford) Harrison. She owned the
covenant and was baptized' Alay 15, 1740, at
Newington. He was a representative in the
legislature in 1756 and served on a corarait
tee to adjust the boundaries of Newtown.
Children; John, called Tertius (third), men-
toned below; Alice, baptized April i, 1722;
Ruhama, born July 27, 1718; perhaps others.
(V) John Downing, 3d, son of John Down
ing Jr. (4), was bora about 1715. He joined
the Newington church in full communion,
March 28, 1736. He was a trooper in Cap
tain Joseph Hanson's company, August 5,
1745, in the old French and Indian war, com
manding a squadron of scouts. He married
Patience  . Children, bom at Newing
ton ; I. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarauel,
baptized January 4, 1740-41.
(VI) John Downing, son of John Down-
'"g (5); "was born about 1739 in Newington.
Pie married, August I, 1765, Alary Downing.
He owned the covenant in the Newington
church in 1767. Pie lived in Newington and
.Somersworth. There is a tradition that he
had a brother in Salem, Massachusetts, and
another in Dowington, Chester county, Penn
sylvania. Children; i. John, baptized in
Newington, January 11, 1767. 2. Alice, bap
tized Alay 22, 1768. 3. Elizabeth, baptized
July 15, 1770. The three preceding were
born at Newington. 4. Samuel, mentioned
below. Perhaps others born at Somersworth.
(VII) Samuel Downing, son of John
Downing (6), was born about 1782 in Somers
worth, New Plampshire He settled in Mid
dleton. New Harapshire. Pie raarried Alary
Ann Davis, daughter of Zebulon Davis, of
Alton, New Hampshire Children; i. John.
2. Patience, raarried Peter Cook and lived
at AVakefield, New Harapshire. 3. Samuel H.,
born 1814, mentioned below. 4. Maria, raar
ried  Pike. 5. Jereraiah. 6. George.
7. Adeline, married Andrew Green and lived
in Alaine.

(ATII) Samuel H. Downing, son of Sam
uel Downing (7), was born at Middleton in
1814 and died in 1904. He married, in 1836,
Eliza A. AVhitehouse, born 1818, died 1875,
daughter of Araos AVhitehouse. He was a
farmer in Middleton. Child, Araos Warren,
mentioned below.
(IX) Araos Warren Downing, son of
Sarauel H. Downing (8), was born in Middle-
ton, New Harapshire, March 31, 1838. He
received a coraraon school education in his
native town. He reraoved to Haverhill, Mass
achusetts, where he is at present engaged in
the fire insurance business. He is president of
the Haverhill Co-operative Bank. He is a
member of the Saggahew Lodge of Free
Masons of Plaverhill; of the Royal Arch
Alasons; Royal and Select Masters and of
Haverhill Coramandery, Knights Teraplar. He
is independent in politics and has held the
office of overseer of the poor in HaverhiU
for two terras. He and his family attend the
First Baptist Church of Haverhill. He raar
ried, October 30, 1859, Susan Abigail Grace,
bora 1835, daughter of Captain Robert Grace,
of New Durham, New Harapshire. Children.
born at Haverhill; i. NeUie Grace, August
24, 1862, died young. 2. Irving G., June 20,
1866, married, December, 1896, Eva Lucretia
Bartlett; child, Rachel Downing, born March
i> 1904. 3. Albert AA'arren, Alay, 1869, died
Noveraber 29, 1872.

The surnarae Caswell is ideii-
C.ASAA'ELL tical with Cassell and is also
spelled Casewell. Many of
the early Alassachusetts families of this name
were descendants of Thonias Caswell, of
Taunton, a settler in that town before 1643,
when his narae appears on the list of men able
to bear arms; died in 1697, leaving a large
family of children. The surnarae is of ancient
English origin. About the same time that
Siraon Caswell appears in Marblehead we find
a Williara Caswell settled at Kittery, Maine,
also a port that attracted sea-faring men ; AVil
liara raarried Alary Alitchell, daughter of Rob
ert and had six or raore children at Kittery.
He may have been brother ; it is likely that he
was a near relative of Simon, mentioned be
low. (I) Simon Caswell, immigrant ancestor
was doubtless born in England. Henry Cas-^
well, probably a brother, possibly his father'
was a merchant of Boston and Marblehead '-
bought land with buildings of Abraham How
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and February lo, 1741, and had other deeds
and mortgages of land in Marblehead. Simon
was a fisherman at Marblehead. Among his
children were; i. John, mentioned below. 2.
Grace, baptized August 4, 1728. 3. Thomas,
baptized August 23, 1730. 4. Samuel, mar
ried, December 21, 1748, Remember Greeley.
(II) John CasweU, son of Simon CasweU,
was born probably in England about 1715.
He carae with his father Siraon and settled in
Marblehead. He niarried, Noveraber 29,
1742, at Marblehead, Elizabeth Savage. He
was a fisherraan and shoreman. He was a
member of the Puritan Church and deeded
pew 55 in the new meeting house — a wall pew
on the southwest side of the church, December
31. 1773. to his son, Simon Caswell. He
"bought land of Mary Yakley including the
mansion house of the late John Yakley, of
Alarblehead, and half the orchard. Children,
born at Marblehead and date of baptism; i.
Siraon, August 17, 1744. 2. John, October 20,
1745, raarried, February 8, 1767, Elizabeth
Seavey. 3. Sarauel, Septeraber 27, 1747, men
tioned below. 4. Tabitha, October i, 1749. 5.
Richard, November 18, 1750. 6. Tabitha,
October 22, 1752. 7. EHzabeth, October 15,
1754. 8. Hannah, August 8, 1756. 9. Grace,
October 22, 1758. 10. William, November
16, 1760, died intestate 1800-01.
(HI) Samuel Caswell, son of John Cas
well, was baptized September 27, 1747, at
Marblehead. He was a soldier in the Marble
head company in the revolution, served in
the continental array and late in life was
granted a pension. He died at Beverly in
1804. He niarried first, Sarah  , and
secorid, Hannah Legrow, January 31, 1779.
She drew a pension as his widow ($65.33 P^^"
annum), and at her death, July 4, 1849, l^ft
four children — ^John, William, Robert R. and
Thomas M. ChUdren; i. Anna, baptized at
Marblehead, May 28, 1780, buried July 7,
1805, at Beverly, aged twenty-four. 2.
Thomas M., baptized at Marblehead, February
16, 1783, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, bap
tized September 12, 1784, died at Gloucester
in 1847. 4. John, baptized November 4, 1787.
5. Philip, born November 29, 1789. 6. "WU
liam, baptized September 4, 1791, cordwainer,
died 1868. 7. Robert R., raentioned in probate
records. (IV) Thomas M. Caswell, son of Samuel
Caswell, was baptized at Marblehead, Febru
ary 16, 1783. He settled at AA'"eiiham. He
raarried, November 27, 1798, Sally Porter, of
AA''enham, who died fs^overaber 5, 1848, aged

seventy- four years, at AVenhara. Children:
I. Mary, born December 23, 1799. 2. Ebenezer
Porter, born January 13, 1804. 3. Joseph D.,
raentioned below.
(A') Joseph Dodge Caswell, son of Thoraas
M. Caswell, was born in Wenhara, Massachu
setts, 1822. Pie was a tailor, wheelwright,
shoemaker and farmer in Wenhara and Bever
ly, Massachusetts. He raarried, April 23, 1843,
Eliza Hull, who died April 2, 1890, aged sixty-
eight years, four raonths, twenty-four days.
Children; i. Joseph AV., born June 13, 1844.
2. Edward P., December 17, 1845, died De
cember 30, 1907. 3. Winfield Scott, January
29, 1848, mentioned below. 4. Julia A., April
19, 1850, died October 23, 1850. 5. Augusta,
September 30, 1851. 6. Caroline, February
14, 1853, died September 3, 1866. 7. Otis,
August 9, 1855. 8. Pierce, July 17, 1857,
died Septeraber 10, 1866. 9. Sarah E., July
14, i860, died October 20, 1861. 10. Sarah
E., Alay 17, 1863, died August 26, 1866. 11.
Nelson, Alay 3. 1865, died May 24, 1865.
(A'I) AVinfield Scott Caswell, son of Joseph
Dodge Caswell, was born at AVenhara, January
29, 1848. He attended the public schools of
Wenham, completing his studies at the age of
sixteen. In 1864 he enlisted in Corapany E,
Second Unattached Infantry, Massachusetts.
Volunteer Militia, and was discharged in
Beverly, November, 1864. He then engaged
in farming and shoemaking until about 1883,
and then began the raanufacture of shogs in
Alarblehead under the firm narae of Phillips
& Caswell, continuing until 1889, and since
that tirae has been engaged in looking after
his property interests. He raarried, March i,
1870, 'Harriet A., daughter of Andrew J.
Bowden, of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Chil
dren ; I. Frederick P., born July 3, 1871, men
tioned below. 2. Nellie, April 4, 1874, raar
ried John H. Sraith, of Marblehead. 3. Louis
B., AprU 8, 1876, raarried Ida Melzard, of
Marblehead. 4. Annie, born October 8. 1882,
died April 29, 1891. 5. H. May, bora Novera
ber 20, 1883, niarried Ernest Cronk, of Maine.
(VII) Frederick P. Caswell, son of Win-
fiel^d Scott Caswell, was born at Marblehead,
Massachusetts, July 3, 1871. He was edu
cated in the public schools of his native town
and at Bryant and Stratton Commercial Col
lege, Boston. Ill 1894 he became a clerk and
bookkeeper for Huraphrey & Twisden Coal
Corapany of Marblehead and filled this posi
tion with such fidelity and efficiency that he
was made general raanager of the Huraphrey
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with Louis D. AA'eber he becarae one of the
owners of the business in July, 1907. The
conipany carries on a large retail business
in wood and coal, and is in a flourishing con
dition. Mr. Caswell is a raeraber of Neptune
Lodge, No. 31, Knights of Pythias; raaster of
Elbridge Gerry Coraraandery, Knights of
Alalta, and raeraber of the M. A. Pickett Asso
ciation. In politics he is a Republican, and is
a prorainent raeraber of the Republican Club
of Marblehead.

Ralph Blaisdell first ap-
BLAISDELL pears in York, Maine, about
1637-40, and reraoved
thence to Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he
had land granted him in 1640-41 and again in
1644-45. Ll 1642-43 he bought the rights of
John Harrison, and died somewhere between
1648-50. He was a tailor by trade and appears
to have filled some rainor town offices. His
wife was Elizabeth  , who survived hira
and administered his estate. She died in Sal
isbury, "about ye middle of August, 1667."
Children; i. Henry, born about 1632. 2.
.Sarah, 17 7rao. 1640, in Salisbury. 3. Mary, 5
inio. 1641.
(II) Henry Blaisdell, only son of Ralph
and Elizabeth Blaisdell, was born about 1632
and died between 1705 and 1707. He was a
tailor and husbandraan and lived in that part
of Salisbury which was set off to forra Araes
bury. He took oath of fidelity in 1667, was
raade freeraan in 1690 and had several grants
of land. Pie raarried, first, about 1656, Mary
Haddon, who died in 1690 or 1691 ; married,
second, before 1702, Elizabeth  . He had
nine children, all born of his first raarriage; I.
Ebenezer, 7 8mo. 1657, died August 10, 1717;
married Sarah Colby. 2. Mary, Alay 29, 1660,
married Robert Rawlins. 3. Henry, mentioned
below. 4. Elizabeth, about 1665, raarried
John Huntington. 5. Ralph, about 1667, died
1691. 6. Lieutenant John, May 27, 1668, died
1733; niarried widow Elizabeth Hoyt. 7.
Sarah, Noveraber 11, 1671, married Stephen
Flanders. 8. Jonathan, October 11 , 1676,
died before November 28, 1748 ; rnarried Plan
nah Ginison (Jameson). 9. Samuel, died Octo
ber ,3, 1683.
(Ill) Henry Blaisdell, son of Henry and
Mary (Haddon) Blaisdell, was born in Salis
bury, April 28, 1663, died before March 11,
1707-08. He was a tailor and Hved in Ames
bury, where he had a garrison house which
was used by the settlers as a refuge against
Indian attacks. He married, first, before

1686, Mary  ; raarried, second, about
1691, Hannah Colby, widow of Thoraas Colby,
and whose faraUy narae was Rowell. She died
August 9, 1707, and he raarried, third, October
23, 1707, Dorothy Martin, who survived and
niarried, March 7, 1709-10, Thomas Ayers, of
Haverhill. Henry and Mary BlaisdeU (first
wife) had three children, all born in Araes
bury; I. Henry. 2. Alary, raarried Sarauel
Clough, husbandraan, of Araesbury. 3. John,
born February 4, 1686-87, raentioned as "sec
ond son."
( IV ) Henry Blaisdell, son of Henry and
Alary BlaisdeU, was first a cordwainer and
after 1713 is mentioned as a "doctor of
Physics." About 1715 he removed frora
Araesbury to Chelrasford and was progenitor
of Chelrasford Blaisdells. He died in the
winter of 1735-36, his will dated January 7,
1735-36, being probated Alarch 18, following.
He married, first (published) May 7, 1709,
Martha Bartlett, of Haverhill ; married, sec
ond, before 1720, Lydia Parker, who sur
vived hira and raarried, before 1739, 
Spaulding. Henry Blaisdell had nine children,
two born in Amesbury and seven in Chelms
ford : I. Henry, April 11, 1710. 2. Martha,
September 22, 1713, died young. 3. Mary,
August 27, 1720, married, about 1741, Dr.
Jonathan Stednian. 4. Lydia, May 7, 1723,
raarried Henry Gould, of Concord. 5. Anna,
April 7, 1725, raarried John Ball. 6. Ann,
Alarch 3, 1727, married Oliver Hildreth, of
Andover. 7. Sarah, March 23, 1729-30, mar
ried Joseph Haywood. 8. John, Noveraber
23, 1732. 9. AA'iUiara, June 6, 1735.
(V) Plenry Blaisdell, son of Henry and
Alartha (Bartlett) Blaisdell, was born in
Amesbury, April 11, 1710. He was a "ship
wright" and "caulker" and after 1739 lived
in Boston. He is supposed to have died Sep
tember 17, 1794, and although no record of
his marriage is found, he is believed to have
been the Plenry Blaisdell who by wife Sarah
had daughter Sarah, born in Chelmsford, Feb
ruary 10, 1735-36, and other children probably
born in Boston.
(A') John Blaisdell. son of Henry and
Lydia (Parker) Blaisdell. was born in Chelms
ford, November 23, 1732, and died in the
".Army of the Havannah." He raarried, Aug
ust 5, 1756, Alary Sawyer, of Newbury, who
survived hira and raarried, second, Benjarain
AA^allingford, of Rowley, west parish. John
and Alary (Sawyer) Blaisdell had one "son,
John Sawyer Blaisdell, born Chelrasford, No
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Boxford ; niarried Jane Adains, of Rowley,
and had two children, both daughters who died
very young,
(V) WiUiara Blaisdell, son of Henry and
Lydia (Parker) BlaisdeU, was born in
Chelmsford, June 6, 1735, and lived in that
town. He married Sarah  , and had
several children, two sons having served dur
ing the revolutionary war. His children
whose births are recorded in Chelmsford as
follows; I. AA^iUiani, Noveraber 30, 1756. 2.
Henry, November 23, 1760. 3. Aaron, No
veraber 2, 1762, probably raarried, November
29, 1787, Olive Byam. 4. Lydia, Alay 13,
1768. 5. Isaac, May 17, 1770.
(VI) Henry Blaisdell, who may have been
the son of Henry BlaisdeU (5), the "ship
wright" and "caulker," who went from
Chelmsford to Boston, or the son of Williara
Blaisdell (5) last above raentioned, was born
in Chelmsford and spent his life in that town
and Boston, although no account of him is
found in any of the published records, which
are incomplete and imperfect, and information
from raerabers of the faraily is very uncer
tain. (A'TI) JaCob Clough Blaisdell was born in
1822, in Chelrasford or Boston, and died in
the latter city after an active and successful
business career of about twenty or twenty-
five years. As a boy just out of school he
first found employment as apprentice to one
Gurney of South Abington, Massachusetts, a
manufacturer of tacks, steel shanks and rail
road spikes, which then were worked out by
hand at the anvil. Having served out his term
he continued with Gurney for sometime after
ward and then went to Somerville and began
business on his own account. And it appears
that he was soraething of a raechanical genius
as well as a practical workman, for he soon
invented a machine for heading and pointing
spikes, the first device of its kind in use and
one which was found to work satisfactorUy
to the great advantage and profit of its invent
or who soon found himself engaged in an
extensive business as senior partner of the
firra of Blaisdell & Page and still later of the
successor firm of Blaisdell & Tobey. In 1866
Mr. BlaisdeU went to Bath, Maine, and started
in business in that city, but in the course of a
few raonths he was corapelled by sickness to
return, and he died in Boston during the same
year, in the prime of his life. His wife, whora
he niarried in Boston, was Margaret C,
daughter of John Lawler, and who died in

that city in 1871, having borne her husband
two children; i. Alary Elizabeth, born Som
erville ; niarried  .Sarger and lives now
in Fall River, Massachusetts. 2. Jaraes M.,
now of Lynn, Alassachusetts.
(VTII) Jaraes Munroe Blaisdell, son of
Jacob C. and Margaret C. (Lawler) BlaisdeU,
was born in Soraerville, Massachusetts, in
1861, and as a boy was sent to the public
schools in Boston and afterward found oppor
tunity to attend an evening school in the city,
for he was only about nine years old when it
became necessary for him to do some kind of
work for his own support. His first work was
in the Jordan Alarsh Conipany, then as cash
boy afterward in the same capacity with Shep
ard, Norwell & Conipany, then with A. Stow
ell, jeweller, and still later with M. C. War
ren, hardware dealer at Dock square. He
next found eraployment with John Peck &
Son, undertakers, with whom he continued as
assistant for some time and then for the next
three years worked for the Union Casket Cora
pany. In 1882 he left Boston and engaged in
business with J. AA'. Darcey, undertaker and
funeral director in Lynn. In 1892 Air. Blais
dell became himself proprietor of an under
taker's business in Lynn and has so continued
to the present tiilie. He is a capable business
man and takes a commendable interest in pub
lic affairs in the city, having served continu
ously for eight years as member of the school
committee. He is a Republican in politics,
member of the Alethodist Episcopal church.
Golden Fleece Lodge, F. and .A. Al., Kearsarge
Lodge, No. 217, I. O. O. F., Fraternity En
carapraent, No. 17, P. AL, and of Peter AVood
ward Lodge, No. 72. K. P.
Air. Blaisdell married Eraeline L. Downing,
of Lynn, daughter of George H. and Emeline
S. (Call) Downing, of Salem. Air. Downing
came frora Baltimore, Maryland, to Lynn
raore than half a century ago and was for
man)' years a skilled workman in making
"hand turned" shoes in the best shoe factories
of the city. He married Eraeline Call and
had five children, all, of whora were born in
Lynn and still live there. They are Williara,
George, Eraeline L., Phebe and Abbie Down
ing. Jaraes Al. and Emeline L. (Downing)
Blaisdell had eight children, all born in Lynn ;
I. Maud, died young. 2. Harold C, died aged
nine years. 3. Lawrence C. 4. Leonard C. 5.
Florence G. ^ 6. Arline 7. James Reginald.
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(For early generations see Philip Pevear i).
(IV) Joseph Pevear, son of
PEA^EzAR Daniel Pevear (3), was born
at Harapton Falls, New Harap
shire, about 1795. He was a farraer in his
native town, and after his death his premises
were occupied by Sarauel L. Pevear, son of
Sarauel, and he finally sold it to Alexander
Short, who came from Newburyport. Chil
dren, born at Hampton Falls; i. Mark, set
tled at Lynn. 2. Stephen, settled in Lynn.
3. Sewell Brown, raentioned below. 4. AVar
ren B., resided at Hampton Falls. 5. Sylves
ter, settled in Brentwood, New Harapshire ;
was a soldier in the civil war and was severely
wounded, losing the sight of one eye; was in
the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment with
his brother, Sewell B.
(V) SeWell Brown Pevear, son of Joseph
Pevear (4), was born in Harapton Falls, New
Hampshire, 1840. He was educated there in
the public schools, and raised on the farm of
his father. He enlisted in the civil war in
Corapany I, Eleventh New Hampshire A'olun-
teer Infantry, served under General Burnside,
and was detailed to guard duty in front of
General McClellan's tent on the night that the
order was received relieving him (General
McClellan) of conimand, he being superseded
by General Burnside. He served three years
and was discharged at the close of the war.
He settled after the war in Lynn, and was
engaged extensively in the leather business in
that city until his death in 1901, in Alassachu
setts. He was a raember of the Bay State
Lodge, I. O. O. F., also of the I. O. R. AL ;
he attended the Boston Street Methodist Epis
copal Church ; was a member of no clubs, find
ing his enjoyment in his home with his wife and
children. He raarried Sarah Plelen Stephens,
born in Rayraond, New Hampshire, daughter
of John Stephens. She died in 1907. Chil
dren; I. Everett Sewell. 2. Eveline Florence,
married Charles de Chantell, born Boston, July
2, 1866, in business with Mr. Pevear; chil
dren ; Charles Sewell, died young ; Charles
SeweU. 2d., born 1895. 3. Helen Al., married
John Newhall ; resides on Lincoln avenue,
Saugus. 4. Norman AA'., at sarae address.
(VI> Everett Sewell Pevear, son of Sewell
Brown Pevear (5), was born in Harapton
Falls, New Hampshire, in the old Pevear
homestead February 7, 1863. He removed
with his faraily to Lynn in 1865, when he was
a child, and attended the public schools of
Lynn. Until he was twelve years old he spent
his suraraers on his grandfather's farm in

Hampton Falls. At the age of fifteen he left
school to begin work for his father, who was
engaged in the leather business at Lynn. He
followed that until 1889, when Mr. Pevear
established himself as a contractor in Lynn,
building bridges, sewers, mason work of all
kinds. He first acted as a superintendent and
had charge of the work on the Hawks Brook
Reservoir for the city of Lynn water works.
He then on his own account built four railes of
sewers for the town of Wakefield, Massachu
setts, did the rock excavation for the Salera
line of the Boston & Northern railroad, and
he built for the city of Lynn the Little river
conduit frora Stony Brook to Saugus branch
railroad. Since that time his business has
steadily increased and he has at times kept as
many as two hundred men, being one of the
largest contractors in Lynn. Araong his other
work he has constructed nearly all the sewers
in the city. He keeps frora thirty to forty
horses and has a coraplete equipraent for all
work in his line. He is an attendant of the
Boston Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
In politics he is an active member of the Re
publican city comraittee from ward five. He
is a member of Kearsarge Lodge, No. 217,
Odd Fellows ; Fraternity Encampment, also
the Montowampate Tribe of Red Men. He
is one of the best known and most substantial
men in his line of business in the city of Lynn,
and is highly esteeraed by his townsraen for his
public spirit, business ability, success and
exeraplary character.
Air. Pevear raarried, Deceraber 2, 1884,
.Abbie Helen Crocker, born in Taunton, Alass
achusetts, daughter of Elbridge and Alraeda
AA'arren (Spencer) Crocker. Her father was
bora in New Bedford, Alassachusetts, and
died in Taunton ; he was foreman in an iron
foundry in Taunton for raany years Her
mother died in North Dighton, Massachu
setts ; she was a daughter of Thoraas Spen
cer, who carae to Araerica from England and
settled in Taunton, where he married Alraeda
Alerriam Blanchard, a native of New Harap
shire, who lived to the ripe old age of eighty-
six. Air. and Airs. Pevear have no children.

(For first geneAtion see John Swan il.
(II) Ebenezer Swan, son of John
SAA'-AN Swan (i). was born November
14, 1672, died July 27, 1740. He
niarried, March 2, 1698, Elizabeth Bruce, of
AVoburn. Children: i. Elizabeth, bora March
29, 1699, raarried, January 8, 1724, Ezra Skin
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1701, married, December 14, 1727, Ephraira
Cook, of West Cambridge, Massachusetts,
died March 24, 1748. 3. Ebenezer, born
March 23, 1704, mentioned below. 4. Mary,
born March 4, 1706-07, died 1750, unmarried.
5. Samuel, born April 5, 171 1, raarried Sarah
Patten; died June 19, 1750. 6. WilHam, born
January 31, 1713-14, married, April 13, 1743,
Ruth PoUey, of Medford, Massachusetts;
niarried (second)  at New London,
Connecticut. (Ill) Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer
Swan (2), was born Alarch 23, 1704, and died
April 23, 1752. He raarried, September 12,
1728, Bathsheba Grant, of Watertown. Chil
dren; I. Peter, born January 6, 1729. 2.
Ebenezer, born November 18, 1730, men
tioned below. 3. Benjamin, born April 20,
1733- 4- Joseph, born February 16, 1735-36,
raarried, January 26, 1764, Jannet MacCloud.
5. Bathsheba, born February 15, 1737-38,
died August 26, 1805, unmarried. 6. Mary,
born January 29, 1738-39, died July 22, 1740,
7. Joshua, born June 28, 1743, married, July
20, 1762, Sarah Cutler; died in April, 1777. 8.
Mary, born AprU 3, 1745, died August i,
1747. ^
(IA') Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer
Swan (3), was born Noveraber 18, 1730, and
died' August 8, 1798. He raarried in January,
1757, Mary Mansur, of AVatertown. Chil
dren; I. Peter, baptized February 19, 1758,
died young. 2. Ebenezer, baptized January
25, 1761, mentioned below. 3. Peter, born
Alay 12, 1763, chairmaker, died February 21,
1822, unmarried. 4. Gershom, born March
18, 1766, chairmaker; niarried, January 4,
1787, Cherry Hill; died October 10, 1827. 5.
Timothy, born August 16, 1769, raarried
Lydia Munroe, of AVest Carabridge ; died De
ceraber 12, 1813.
(V) Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer
Swan (4), was born at West Cambridge,
Massachusetts, (Menotomy) and baptized
January 25, 1761. He was brought up on his
father's farm and received the usual education
of a farmer's son of that period. Pie con
tinued farming all his life. It was his house
that his grandsons, Henry and Harrison
Swan, moved to the rear of the present Swan
block when it was built in the seventies. He
was a soldier in the Revolution, being a pri
vate in Captain Alexander Foster's company,
Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, in
Rhode Island in the summer of 1778; also in
Captain Joshua Walker's company. Colonel
Samuel Denny's regiraent, in 1779, three

raonths to reinforce the Continental army;
also in Captain Abraham Andrew's company.
Colonel Cyprian Hows's regiment, July 27,
1780, to October 30, 1780, detached from
Aliddlesex county for the same purpose. He
was a stern man, very strict in the manage
ment of his home. Pie was a raeraber of the
First Church. Pie died February 3, 1814.
He raarried, October 9, 1791, Sally Adaras,
of^ AA'"althani, Massachusetts. They had one
child, Henry, born 1792, mentioned below.
(VI) Henry Swan, son of Ebenezer Swan
(5), was born at West Carabridge, Massachu
setts, 1792, and died March 15, 1846. He was
educated in the district school, going during
the winter raonths, and helping his father on
the farra, where he stayed until he was of age.
He early started in the poultry business. Na
than Robbins, afterwards a leading poultry
dealer, worked for hira. He carried on this
business all his life. In thbse days, before
vessels could be supplied with ice, live stock
was carried to be killed en route. He raade
a business of supplying outgoing vessels with
poultry and hogs, some of which was fur
nished by nearby farmers. His house was on
a three acre plot, which was his share of the
Swan property. He was a raan six feet tall,
of slender build, and like his father was very
stern and decided. He was an Orthodox
¦ Unitarian, and a Whig in politics. He was
in the AVar of 1812, and served at Fort Inde
pendence. His widow received a pension
during her life. He died of consuraption
Alarch 15, 1846.
He raarried, August 27, 181 5, Elizabeth
Parker, of AVest Carabridge, born in 1793,
died October 29, 1884, daughter of David and
Elizabeth (Tufts) Parker. Children; i. SaUy
Ann, born 1816, raarried (first), September
II, 1842, Daniel Peirce, of Lexington, and
(second), Frederick Fiske, of HoUiston; died
without issue in 1889. 2. EHzabeth, born
Alarch 23, 1818, died October 22, 1878; raar
ried, Septeraber 4, 1842, Eli Siraonds, of Lex
ington ; children ; i. Alice Parker Siraonds,
born June 8, 1843, married, April 6, 1871,
Jaraes H. AA'right, of Concord, and had Harry
Siraonds Wright, born Noveraber 5, 1885,
who was niarried June 6, 1905, to Harriet
Alartha Roberts and had Harry Siraonds
AVright, born July 2, 1907. ii.' WiUiara Henry
Siraonds, born Noveraber i, 1844, married
(first), May 3, 1877, Jenny Garty, of Concord,
Alassachusetts, who died March 20, 1891 ; he
married (second), July 14, 1892, AA'inifred B.
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the first wife, Frank Herbert Simonds, born
April 5, 1878, married, December 25, 1902,
Mary Gledhill, and had Katharine Garty
Simonds, born Noveraber 26, 1906 ; children
of the second wife ; Alargaret Siraonds, born
July 31, 1895; Ruth Thorndyke Siraonds, born
Alay 31, 1897. iii. Frank H. Siraonds, born
Alay 12, 1848, died Pebruary 22, 1878, raar
ried, Alarch 23, 1877, Eliza Maria Eraery, of
Lexington, and had Gertrude Naorai Si
monds, born October 31, 1877. 3. Henry,
born August 24, 1822, mentioned below. 4.
Hannah Adaras, born Alay 19, 1824, died Au
gust 8, 1891 ; married, March 24, 1841, John
J. Brown, of Lexington ; children ; i. Henrietta
Brown, died young; ii. Plenry Brown, died
young; iii. Ida Florence Brown, born Novem
ber 7, 1849, married, Septeraber 9, 1868, Frank
E. Richardson, of Arlington, Alassachusetts,
and had .Alice Brown Richardson, born Au
gust 3, 1872, who married, December 2, 1900,
Dr. Charles AV. AV. Aliller, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania ; iv. Charles Adaras Brown, born
December 2, 1851, died March i, 1907. 5.
AA'illiam Parker, born February 24, 1827, died
August 24, 1848. 6. Benjarain Franklin, born
1829, mentioned below. 7. Harrison, bom Jan
uary 9, 1832, mntioned below. 8. Gershom,
born June 19, 1834, died August 2, 1893 ; mar
ried, June 9, 1864, Alary AVard Harrington, of
Lexington, who was born Noveraber 24, 1834,
and died September 6, 1884; children; i.
Charles AA'ard Swan, born July 24, 1866 ; ii.
Elizabeth Bowen Swan, bora November 16,
1869, died July 22, 1870. 9. Ellen Parker,
born Alarch 3, 1838, died Alarch, 1906 ; raar
ried, June 4, 1865, AA^iUiani Alullet, of Brigh
ton, Alassachusetts. 10. Ebenezer Willard,
born August 4,  ; died June 9, 1891 ; mar
ried (first) Octavia Bragdon, of East Boston,
Alassachusetts; (second), in 1850, Emily
Hutchins, of Nortli Kennebunk, Alaine ;
(third), Caroline Gushing, of Framingham,
Alassachusetts; (fourth), Nellie E. (Hallett)
Tidd ; children of the second wife : i. Emma
Hutchins Swan, born September 25, 1852,
married, Alarch 22, 1875, Jaraes S. Southgate,
of AA'orcester, Massachusetts, and had Freddie
.Swan Southgate, born February 29, 1876, died
February 26, 1877; Edna Southgate, born July
10, 1877; Alfred AVillard Southgate, bora Sep
tember 27, 1878; Herbert Ralph Southgate,
born December 22, 1879, raarried, Alarch 20,
1907, Plelen Alay Trira ; Stewart Swan South-
gate, born July 15, 1887. Children of the third
wife; ii. -Allston DeAA'itt Swan, married

Hattie Alorse; UL Harry Everett Swan; i"^-
Dr. Roscoe AVellesley Swan, raarried Elizabeth
Prentice ; v. Bertha Gushing Swan, married
John Kennedy.
(VII) Henry Swan, son of Henry Swan
(6), was born at West Carabridge, August 24,
1822, and died October i, 1895. He was edu
cated in the West Cambridge common schools
until sixteen years of age, assisting his father
on the farm until early manhood. He then
entered the employ of Joshua Robbins, a poul
try dealer, where he remained until about 1846,
doing much of the selling for Robbins. Then
he started a business of his own, having good
success, selling poultry in the Boston raarket.
After a tirae he opened a stall. No. 18, in Fan
euil Plall market, where he was associated with
Sullivan B. Newton under the firm name of
Swan & Newton, afterwards Swan, Newton
& Co., where he continued up to the time of his
death. The firm continues under the same,
the present partners being Kidder, Richardson
and Newton. Sullivan B. Newton died Sep
tember 30, 1907. In 1876 the general appear
ance of Arlington Center was improved by the
reraoval of the old Swan house and erecting
on a portion of the lot the westerly half of
Swan's block by Henry and Harrison Swan,
owners of the property. Two years later
another and larger section was added, the
upper part being finished as a public hall.
AA^ithin a short time this was leased to the trus
tees of the Robbins Library, and was used as
a library and reading room until the new
library was built.
Henry Swan and his brother Harri.son were
associated in the real estate business in Arling
ton, buying out the heirs of the old Swan
horaestead, which had been held by the Swan
family since 1650. The old house bore many
evidences of its extrenie age. It was made of
cedar tirabers, and when it was taken apart
for removal, several bullets were found em
bedded in the tirabers. Henry Swan was a
man who enjoyed the confidence of his fellow
citizens to a remarkable degree. Upright and
honorable, his word was as good as his bond,
and he had many friends. He was a meraber
of the L'niversalist church, serving on the
parish coraraittee, and was superintendent of
the Sunday-school for twenty-two years. He
was a public-spirited man, and held several
town offices. He was a Republican, and had
held the offices of selectman and overseer of
the poor. He was a member of the school
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to Hiram Lodge of Alasons, the Boston Chara
ber of Coraraerce, and was also a director of
the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank.
He married, Alay 10, 1846, Lydia Ann Frost,
daughter of John and Lydia (Win.sliip) Frost,
of West Cambridge, who was born March 19,
1825, and died August 21, 1904. Children; i.
Henry Oscar, born .August i, 1848, died Octo
ber II, 1851. 2. Lizzie AL, Alarch 16, 1851,
died July 18, i860. 3. .Annie Florence, July
3, 1853, died September 30, 1900, unmarried.
4. Nellie Hortense, January 18, 1858, married,
April 29, 1885, Rev. Charles .Arthur Knicker
bocker, of Arlington, and had Henry Swan
Knickerbocker, born June 5, 1888. 5. Gracie
Greenwood, October 3, 1859, married, April
22, 1 89 1, Shirley C. Ingraham. 6. Harrie,
May 6, 1863, died March 12, 1864.
(VII) Harrison Swan, son of Henry Swan
(6), was bora at Arlington, Alassachusetts,
January 9, 1832. He -was educated in the
common schools of his native town, attending
school until he was seventeen years of age, the
last four years going only during the winter
months. He then entered the employ of his
brother Henry, who was a poultry dealer, and
becarae a salesman for him until about 1854.
Then he went to Lowell, Alassachusetts, and
became a salesman for the wholesale provision
house of Smith & Waite, at Fletcher & Dutton
streets, remaining about two years. After
returning and working for his brother another
year, he started in business for himself, raaking
daily trips to Boston market with his poultry
untU Septeraber 25, 1871. At this tirae he took
stall. No. I, baseraent. No. 3, New Faneuil
Hall raarket, in corapany with Nathan A. Fitch,
under the firra name of Swan & Fitch. The
firm continued the business successfully until
January 12, 1885, when Mr. Fitch sold his
interest in the firm to Mr. Swan, and bought
out the business of George C. Boynton, at stall
No. 10. Mr. Swan then admitted George H.
A^alpey to the business under the narae of
Swan & A'alpey, poultry and garae. Air. A^al-
pey remained in the firm four years, retiring
September 29, 1888, later acquiring the busi
ness of George H. Scoville, stall No. 8, butter
and eggs. Since the retirement of Air. Valpey
Mr. Swan has conducted the business alone,
occupying the sarae stall in which he began
business in 1871. Mr. Swan has been a raera
ber of the Arlington First Baptist Church
since 1867, and has served on its standing
committee. He is a Republican.
He married, January 29, 1857, Rebecca
Alonroe AA^alton, born at Lexington. Alassa

chusetts, October 23, 1834, daughter of Jona
than and Eliza (Locke) Walton, of West Cara
bridge. Children; i, Hattie Maria, born No
vember 27, 1861, raarried, September 18, 1882, ,
Wesley E. A. Legg, of Boston ; children ;
Plarry AVesley, Alarion Edith, Vera Mildred,
Edward Raymond Legg. 2. Elizabeth AA'alton,
born June 17, 1864, died April 17, 1865. 3.
Alildred Eliza, born April 17, 1867, raarried,
I'ebruary 17, 1897, Rev. Jonas Harailton
AVoodsum, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, native
of Bo-ston; children; Mildred Munroe, born
May 5. 1902; llarailton Swan, Alarch 5, 1905, '^>
died September 25, 1906. '^
(\'Il) Benjarain Franklin Swan, son of
Plenry Swan (6), was born at Arlington,
Alassachusetts, in 1829, and died at San Fran
cisco, California, January 9, 1900. He had a
coraraon school education in Arlington, and
assisted his father in the poultry business. He
went to work for Nathan Robbins, a poultry
dealer, driving his teara to Boston, and gather
ing stock from farmers of the district. When
he was twenty years of age the gold fever
broke out, and he was one of those early
"Forty-niners" who braved countless dangers
to go overland to California. AVhen he had
accumulated quite a fortune, he retumed and
married, taking his wife to California with
him, by way of the isthmus. In 1866 he re
turned to Arlington, where he lived several
years, but finaUy returned to Califomia. Like
all "Forty-niners" money carae easily and went
as it carae, and he raade and lost three large
fortunes. He was for a long tirae interested
in stocks, and was a raember of the Pacific
Stock Exchange at San Francisco for years.
During his last few years he suffered from a
severe kidney trouble, which terminated in a
heart affection, causing his death, January 9,
1900, at San Francisco. He was a man of
strong qualities and superior intellect.' ener
getic in business. He was a member of the
Congregational church at Arlington. In poli
tics he was a Republican. He was a raeraber
of Hirara Lodge of Masons, at Arlington. He
married, April 8, 1863, Elizabeth Thaxter, of
Arlington, who died June 25, 1885, aged thirty-
nine years, nine months. Children; i. Benja
min Franklin, mentioned below. 2. James
Thaxter, born .April 4, 1867 ; married October
9, 1889, Alice Gertrude Tappan, of Arlington,
Alassachusetts. Benjamin Franklin Swan, son of Benjamin
Franklin Swan, was bom at San Francisco,
California, August 14, 1864. AA'hen he was
quite young his parents reraoved to .Arling-

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top, Alassachusetts, their former home, where
he received his education in the comraon
schools, graduating from the grararaar school
and going two years to the Cotting high school.
During these two years he worked after school
hours in Dodge's Pharmacy. Then his desire
to learn the business impelled him to give up
school and after spending two and one half
years in the Pharmacy, he entered the whole
sale drug business of Gilman Brothers, 50
Franklin street, Boston, as clerk. Strict atten
tion to business soon led to promotion, and
today he occupies a position of trust, being
buyer and salesraan for the firm. Gilraan
Brothers is one of the old established firms
in Boston, and went .through the big fire in
1872. Mr. Swan purchased in 1892 a house at
68 Evans street, Dorchester, where he resides
with his family. Since 1906 he has been a
member of the Church of the Epiphany (Epis
copal) in Dorchester. Pie was one of a cora
raittee of five to start that society, and has
always been a leader in the church, and is
treasurer of the society. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a raeraber of the church
club. He was forraerly a meraber of the Ar
lington Boat Club, being captain of the first
club bowling teara that was entered in inter-
club competition. He married, October 11,
1892, Sophia Priscilla Rudolf, of Dorchester,
born May 8, 1864, daughter of John George
and Priscilla Couch (Collings) Rudolf, of
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Her father was a
sea captain and a prorainent Free Alason, a
descendant of the old family of A'^on Rudolphs,
of Germany. Children; i. Franklin Rudolf,
born February 22, 1897. 2. Ernest Thaxter,
August 6, 1900; died Septeraber 22, 1900. 3.
Evelyn Elizabeth, born September 14, 1903.

Major Merrill, a descendant of
MERRILL one of the leading families and
earHest settlers of Salisbury
and Amesbury, Massachusetts, was born in
Lewiston, Maine. He was educated in the
comraon schools, and followed farraing during
his active years. He married Sarah Stevens,
born at Auburn, Maine. Children, born in
Auburn ; Stephen Stetson, Samuel Parker,
Samuel Parker, George Henry, Seba Stevens,
raentioned below; Major B., AVilliara T., Sarah
M., Carrie, Martha.
(II) Seba Stevens Merrill, son of Major
Merrill, was born in Auburn, Maine, Decem
ber 22, 1843. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, and learned the
trade of shoemaker. He worked for the firra

of Roak & Packard, manufacturers of boots
and shoes at Auburn, for a period of twenty
years. In 1870 he carae to Lynn and from
1883 to 1899 was in the eraploy of Alark J.
Worthley, manufacturer of boots and shoes of
that city. In 1899 he established the summer
hotel at Middleton known as Alaplehurst, and
has conducted it with great success to the pres
ent tirae. The hotel has twenty-one roonis
and its dining roora seats fifty or more. It is
located on a forty acre farra which has apple,
peach and pear orchards and various sraall
fruits. Besides the hotel there is a cottage
used as an annex, containing twelve beds. The
hotel is extremely popular, the surrounding
country is very attractive, and the boating and
bathing excellent. Air. Merrill is a meraber
of the Odd Fellows, and has taken all the de
grees of the order outside of the Grand Lodge.
He is also a member of Alount Carrael Lodge,
Free Masons; Sutton Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Olivet Corrimandery, Knights Terap
lar; Aleppo Temple, Alystic Shrine, of Bos
ton; Middleton Lodge, Improved Order of
Red Alen. In politics he is a Republican, and
has been selectraan of the town of Middleton.
He is a member of the Congregational church.
He is fond of travel and has visited all parts
of the United States. In 1908 he made a trip
to Cuba.
Air. Alerrill married Alraeda Conant Mitch
ell, daughter of Benjamin Mitchell, of Auburn,
Maine. Three children, two died in infancy ;
the surviving child is Clara Etta, born at Au
burn, raarried AValter N. Durgin, of North-
wood, New Harapshire ; child, Bessie L., born
Septeraber 19, 1887.

Hon. John Breen, son of Pat-
BREEN rick and Margaret (Heffernan)
Breen, was born in Tipperary,
Ireland, June 20, 1842. His parents were in
comfortable circurastances at the tirae of his
birth, but four years later were evicted from
their farm, owing to religious and political dis
turbances that presaged the troublous times of
the Irish raoveraent in 1848. The faraily came
to America in 1847, and after temporary resi
dence in various places settled in Lawrence,
Alassachusetts, in April, 1853. ^i'- Breen at
tended the public schools and was fitted for
college in a private school. He entered St.
Charles College, EUicott MiUs, Maryland, but
on account of ill health had to abandon his
college course before graduating. Afterwards
he attended a private school and Comer's Cora
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astic Fenian, and after graduating from
Comer's, while employed as a bookkeeper in
the commission house of E. H. Walker &
Company, he was ordered to Ireland by Gen
eral Thomas F. Burke, a leader in the Fenian
organization. He went in December, 1867,
and, evading the detectives and police reached
Liverpool, and followed his instructions faith
fully in Manchester and in Dublin, where he
went to prepare the people of Ireland for their
part in the insurrection already planned. The
treachery of Curydon, the informer, rendered
all his plans abortive, and after persistent
efforts and raany hazardous atterapts to re
lease a companion imprisoned in Dublin (Dan
iel Donovoii, of Lawrence, Alassachusetts), he
gave up further efforts and in 1868 returned
to America. Soon afterward he engaged in
the undertaking business in Lawrence with a
very limited capital, but he made up in energy
and self-sacrifice what he lacked in money, and
was soon well-established and prosperous in
business. Mr. Breen has been active in politics and a
man of large influence and usefulness in the
Democratic party. He was a member of the
coraraon council in 1876-77, resigning during his
second year to accept an appointraent on the
board of fire engineers. He was elected mayor
of Lawrence for the years 1882-83-84, thus en
joying the distinction of being the first Roraan
Cathohc or Irish-born mayor of any city in
New England. Notwithstanding raany adverse
circumstances causing a general business de
pression during his term of service. Mayor
Breen's three years of administration were
conspicuous for efficient management of muni
cipal affairs. He has been rightly designated
one of the raost energetic and successful ex
ecutives the city has had. Mr. Breen is one of
the vice-presidents of the Irish National
League. He was elected to the board of water
coramissioners in 1884, and was for raany
years chairman. He was regimental inspector
of rifle practice in Twelfth Company, Ninth
Regiment, National Guard, intending to go to
Cuba, but was notified that inspectors were
not acceptable. He then iramediately raised a
company of volunteers, caUed the Twelfth
Massachusetts Provisional Corapany. On the
24th day of June, 1898, he was commissioned
captain by Governor Roger Wolcott. On July
17, 1899, "was coraraissioned quartermaster of
the Ninth Regiment Infantry, Second Brigade.
On April 15, 1899, was honorably discharged
from the Provisional Company. Air. Breen
has been and is a meraber of the school board

for twenty-five years, is vice-chairman of the
school board, and in 1907 was elected for three
more years; he has handed all his children
their diplomas.
He married, in Boston, April i, 1872, Nancy
Jane Brackett, daughter of Daniel G. and Rox
anna (Tuttle) Brackett, of Danville, New
Hampshire Her great-grandfather was in the
War of 1812, and was governor, as was also.
her other great-grandfather. Governor Tuttle.
Her grandfather, AVilliara Planover Brackett,
served in the civil war. She is a descendant of
Hannah Dustin. ChUdren of Hon. John and
Nancy J. (Brackett) Breen are; i. Charles
Francis, born April 15, 1874, raarried Louisa
Bruns. 2. John Joseph, October 24, 1875. 3.
Arthur, died at the age of eight raonths. 4.
Alargaret Alary. 5. Louise Patrick, died in
infancy. 6. Helena C.

Knowles is an ancient Eng-
KNOAVLES lish surnarae, soraetiraes
spelled KnoUys, and branches
of the faraily are found in many of the Eng
lish counties. During the period of the Com
monwealth Thoraas Knowles carae frora Eng
land to Killeighy and Knockabowlea in the
county of Cork, Ireland, and raarried Dorothy
Busteed of that county and they becarae the
ancestors of a large family of KnoUes and
Knowles in Ireland. Several immigrants came
frora England to Araerica before 1650. Rich
ard Knowles settled in Plyraouth. Rev. John
Knowles, a Puritan rainister, was in Boston as
early as 1638 ; was sent to Virginia with Rev.
AA'^illiara Thorapson to plant churches of the
New England type there ; returned to Bristol,
England, before 1655.
(I) David Knowles was bom in Bradford,
Yorkshire, England, May i, 1824. He was
educated and learned his trade in his native
town. He carae to Araerica and followed his
trade as jeweler.
(II) David Benjarain Knowles, son of
David Knowles (i), was born June 26, 1864,
at Lawrence, Alassachusetts. He was educated
in the public schools of his native town and
then learned his trade as jeweler in his father's
store, Essex street, Lawrence. He becarae
associated in business with his father and suc
ceeded to the business when his father retired.
He is a well known and successful business
raan. In politics he is independent and he has
devoted all his time to business, preferring not
to mix politics and business. He is a member
of the Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of
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Protestant Episcopal church. He niarried,
October 3, 1891, Josephine Brackett, born
March 12, 1873, in Maine, daughter of John
and Adeline (Hanson) Brackett. Her father
is a farraer. Children, born in Lawrence: i.
Clifford, born July 15, 1893. 2. Helen, March
15. 1895. 3. RusseU, March 28, 1899. 4. Les
lie, September 14, 1901.

the mother of two children : Henry Rufus,
and Helen, who is the wife of Irwin AA'ilder
Sargent, a well-known attorney at law of
Lawrence.

Rufus Stanley entered nier-
STANLEY cantile life in Portland,
Maine, became a prosperous
grocery merchant and was one of the raost
prorainent business men of that city.
Charles Rufus Stanley, son of Rufus Stan
ley, was born in Portland, August 10, 1845.
His prelirainary studies were pursued in the
Portland public schools, including the high
school, and he corapleted his education at the
West Brook (Alaine) Serainary. His business
training, began in his father's store in Port
land, was continued in Boston, where he re
raained for two years, and returning to his na
tive city he succeeded the elder Stanley in the
wholesale grocery business, which he con
ducted successfully for a number of years.
Selling his Portland estabHshment he reraoved
to Lawrence, and purchased in corapany with
his brother the brewery on Oxford street of
George Bilbrook, and an extensive and profit
able business was built up under the firra name
of the Stanley Brewing Company. That con
cern continued in business until 1890, when
the brewery was sold to an English syndicate
and Mr. Stanley retired from active business
pursuits. His death, which was both sudden
and untimely, occurred January 24, 1893, and
its announcement was received with sincere
regret by his business associates, who held him
in high esteera. A Democrat in politics he
occupied a prominent position in the councils
of his party, by which he was regarded as an
eligible candidate for some of the most import
ant city offices, including the mayoralty. Pie
was a Master Alason and a Knight Templar ;
also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protec
tive Order of Elks, and as a leading meraber of
the Home Club he raanifested his interest in
the welfare of that organization by the pre
sentation of a raagnificent picture at the dedi
cation of its new quarters in the Odd Fellows
Block. In his religious belief he was an Epis
copalian and attended Grace Church. Mr. Stan
ley niarried Nellie Maria Swett, daughter .of
John R. Swett, of AVindham, Maine, who was
the father of two other children ; Frank
Howard and Alary Louise. Mrs. Stanley is

Tradition relates that the pro-
PRATT genitor of this family was John
Plat, or Piatt, who fled from
France from sorae political persecution, and
became an armor-bearer to the King of Eng
land, and his name was subsequently speUed
Pratt. Both names have the same significance
derived from the Latin root word Pratum, a
meadow. (I) Henry Pratt, the progenitor was a non
conformist rainister, and for preaching the
Gospel contrary to the rules of the Estab
lished Church was iraprisoned at the sarae
tirae that over four hundred religious teachers
were confined in damp and glooray jails in
England for the same offence. While thus
incarcerated he managed to communicate with
the distressed family by writing to them with
blood drawn frora his arra for the purpose.
AVhether he died in jail, as raany of these de
vout and wretched prisoners did, or was re
leased. Araong his children were : i. Joshua,
carae to Plyraouth in ship "Anne," 1623 ; was
adraitted a freeman in 1633 ; constable and
messenger January i, 1633-4; juror and cora
raissioner ; adrainistration granted to widow
Bathsheba, October 5, 1633-4; widow raarried
August 29, 1667, John Daggett. 2. Phinehas,
raentioned below.
(II) Phinehas Pratt, son of Henry Pratt
( I ) , was Jhe iraraigrant ancestor. He was
one of a corapany of about sixty sent to Alass
achusetts to found a colony by Thoraas
AVeston, a London raercbant, who was first a
friend and chief proraoter of the Plymouth
Colony, and then a rival. Pratt with nine
others sailed from England in the ship "Spar
row," arriving at Daraariscove Island in Alay,
1622. He with others left the vessel in a
shallop, and after touching at several places on
the coast landed in the latter part of Alay at
Plyraouth. About July ist, the ships "Char
ity" and "Swan," two other vessels sent out by
AVeston, also arrived ; and subsequently a party
left Plymouth in the "Swan" and coninienced
the settleraent at AA'essaguscus, in the present
town of Weyraouth. Pratt was one of this
corapany. The head raan of the colony was
Richard Greene, a brother-in-law of AVeston,
but he, dying in a subsequent visit to Plyraouth!
was succeeded by John Sanders. These set
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applied themselves to planting of corn, nor
taking of fish, more than for their present use ;
but went about to build castles in the air and
making of forts, neglecting the plentiful time
of fishing. When winter carae their forts
would not keep out hunger, and they having
no provision beforehand, and wanting both
powder and shot to kill deer and fowl, many
were starved to death, and the rest hardly
escaped." The survivors of the little colony
were then really in the power of the Indians ;
and they were indebted to the courage, adroit
ness and endurance of Phinehas Pratt for their
deliverance and their lives. In the winter of
1623 the Indians matured a plan to cut off the
English, both at Wessaguscus and Plymouth,
in one day. Pratt, then about thirty-two years
of age, had seen sorae of his corapanions die
of starvation ; and learning in his intercourse
with the Indians of this scherae of massacre
for the rest, resolved to send intelligence of it
to Plyraouth. When all others had refused to
go he deterrained to go hiraself. He was
closely watched by the Indians, but by a sub
terfuge effected his escape. He was closely
pursued and narrowly escaped capture, reach
ing Plyraouth, March 24, 1623, wellnigh ex
hausted. His story corresponded with the in
telligence received frora Massasoit, and hence
Captain Myles Standish and his party started
on their expedition to kill Pecksuot and AVitte-
waraut. Standish was successful, and though
his act was siraple raurder, it was effective.
The head of the Indian chief decorated a pole
at Plyraouth, and the plot was frustrated by
the death of the two sacheras. Pratt was too
exhausted to return with Standish. On re
gaining his strength he went to Piscataqua and
was in skirmishes with the natives at Agawam
and at Dorchester. He says ; "Three times
we fought with thera; thirty railes I was pur
sued for my life, in a time of frost and snow,
as a deer chased by wolves." Pratt settled at
Plyraouth when the Wessaguscus colony broke
up. His brother was also an inhabitant, and
he shared in 1624 in the distribution of cattle
and of lands in 1623, being classed with the
settlers who carae with his brother on the ship
"Ann." He was a joiner by trade.
In 1648 Pratt purchased the place at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, on which he lived
the rest of his life. In 1658 he shared in a
division of lands. In 1662 he presented to the
general court of Massachusetts Bay what he
terraed "An History," called "A Declaration of
the Affairs of the English People that first
inhabited New England." This narrative is

preserved in the publications of the Massachu
setts Plistorical Society, and is of .surpassing
interest. Under the date of May 7, 1658, is
the following record of the general court : "In
answer to the petition of Phinehas Pratt of
Charlestown, who presented this Court with
a narrative of the straits and hardships that the
first planters of this Colony under went, in
their endeavors to plant theraselves at Plyra
outh and since, whereof he was one, the Court
judge it raeet to grant him three hundred acres
of land, where it is to be had, not hindering
a plantation." This land was laid out in the
wilderness on the east of the Merrimack river,
near the upper end of Nacooke Brook. In
October, 1668, Pratt, then nearly .eighty, pre
sented another petition to the general court,
in which he states that he "was the remainder
of the forlorn hope of sixty raen," that he was
now lame ; and he requested aid "that raight be
for his subsistence the reraaining tirae of his
life." The Court refused to grant his petition.
The Charlestown records a few months later,
show the following charitable, January 25,
1668-9 ¦ "Ordered constable Jon. Hayman to
supply Phineas Pratt with so rauch as- his pres
ent low condition raay require'' At this tirae
Pratt was regarded with uncoraraon interest.
AA^inslow's "Relation," which had been in print
for forty years, referred to him as one of
AVeston's men who came to Plymouth "with
his pack on his back," and "raade a pitiful nar
ration of their lamentable and weak estate and
of the Indian carriages;" Morton's "Memo
rial," printed in 1669, stated that Pratt had
"Penned the particulars of his perilous journey
and some other things relating to this tragedy"
of AVeston's Colony; Hubbard and Increase
Alathcr mention his service. Pratt's will is dated
January 8, 1677, bequeathing an estate valued
at forty pounds sixteen shillings to wife Mary
and son Joseph. He died April 19, 1680.
His gravestone is still preserved. On the
right of a centre design is the figure of a
spade and pickaxe crossed, and on the
left hand a coffin and crossbones. The manu
script of Pratt's Declaration, for many
years lost in the state archives, was found
and published by Richard Frothingham in
1858. It consists of three folio sheets sewed
together, one half of which appears to have
been torn off after they were thus arranged.
Hence a portion is lost. The manuscript is
torn at the edges and portions of the writing
are obliterated. He married Mary, daughter of
Diggory Priest and his wife Sarah, who sur
vived her first and second husbands and raar-

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ried third, Cuthbert Cuthbertson, or Godbert
Godbertson, as he was sometiraes called, a
pious Hollander who joined Robinson's church
at Leyden, and came to Plymouth in the ship
"Ann." Priest died in the "great sickness,"
January i, 1621. He was one of the signers
of the compact on board the "Alayflower," hav
ing left his wife and children behind. His wife
Sarah was a sister of Isaac Allerton, who was
chosen assistant governor with Bradford, 1621-
24, and was perhaps the wealthiest as he was
one of the most influential of the Plyraouth
colony. Priest raarried her when she was a
widow. Pie was adraitted a citizen of Leyden,
Holland, in Noveraber, 161 5, Isaac Allerton
"guaranteeing for hira" upon his adraission to
civic rights in that city. During 1619 Priest's
deposition was taken there, in which he says
he was forty years old. Sarah, widow of Dig
gory Priest, had two daughters by hira — Sarah
and Alary. The daughter Sarah raarried John
Corae (or Coombe) who is styled "gentleman"
in the Old Colony records ; her name is fre
quently spelt Sara, or Zara. Cuthbertson was
a widower when he niarried Mrs. Sarah Priest,
who had twice been a widow, her first hus
band's narae being Vincent, of London. Cuth
bertson had a son Samuel by a previous mar
riage. The historians are raistaken in assert
ing that Pratt raarried a daughter of Cuthbert
son ; she was his stepdaughter. Hence all the
descendants of Pratt are of "Mayflower" stock
by descent from his wife. The proof is un
questionable. Pratt was on the list of those
able to bear arras in 1643. His wife survived
hira about ten years. Children ; i. John. 2.
Sarauel, slain in the Pawtucket fight, March
26, 1676. 3. Daniel. 4. Peter, died before
1738- 5- Joseph, raarried February 12, 1674-5,
Dorcas Folger; died Deceraber 24, 1712, at
Charlestown. 6. Aaron, born about 1654, raen
tioned below. 7. Mary, probably wife of John
Swan; she died February 1,1, 1702-3. 8.
Mercy, niarried  Perry, f L uX—*. \^''\A-tiU> ¦¦>
(II) Aaron Pratt, son of ^Phinehas Pratt
(i), was born about 1654, in Charlestown, and
died February 23, 1735. He was a farraer,
and about Noveraber 28, 1685, reraoved to that
part of Hingham known as the first division
of land of Conohasset, consisting of eighteeri
acres of upland. He built a house two stories
high, with gable roof, the lower story of stone,
the upper of wood. The windows were of a
small diaraond pattern of glass known as "quar
rels" — inserted in leaden sashes. The farm has
always reraained in the faraUy. He raarried
first, Sarah Pratt, born May 31, 1664, died

July 22, 1706, daughter of Joseph and Sarah
Pratt; second, September 4, 1707, Sarah Cum
mings, widow, daughter of  Wright.
She died December 25, 1752, aged eighty-four
years, "lamented by all who knew her." ChU
dren ; I. Henry, a blacksmith, settled in New
ton. 2. Daniel, blacksraith, settled in Need
hara. 3. Aaron, born March 21, 1690; men
tioned below. 4. John, a tanner, settled in
Taunton. 5. Jonathan, a farraer, settled in
Cohasset. 6. Moses, a raariner. 7. Sarah,
married  AA^'eebs. 8. Mercy, married
Sarauel Orcutt, of Hinghara.
(Ill) Aaron Pratt, son of Aaron Pratt (2),
was born March 21, 1690, and died March 28,
1767. Pie was a farmer, and resided in Co
hasset, and built his house in 1729. He left
his heirs one thousand acres of land in Hing
hara, and three hundred in the province of
Alaine. He raarried Alary Whitcorab, who
died Septeraber 3, 1776. Children; i. John,
born 1729; married August 19, 1775, Bethia
Tower. 2. Aaron, married  Collier. 3.
Thomas, raentioned below. 4. Joseph. 5.
Sarauel ; died unraarried. 6. Mary, married
Job Tower. 7. Sarah, niarried Jessaniah
Nichols. (IV) Thomas Pratt, son of Aaron Pratt
(3), was born at Cohassett, November 25,
1736, and died October 18, 1818. He resided
at Cohasset. He was a soldier in the revolu
tion, in Captain Peter Cushing's company, Col
onel Solomon Lovel's regiraent, IDeceraber,
1776; corapany raised in Hinghara and Co
hasset ; served at Hull. Pie raarried his cousin
Sarah, daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Abigail
(Pratt) NeaL Children, born at Cohasset; i.
Benjamin, December i, 1766; died Septeraber
25, 1855. 2. Abigail, February 17, 1768; died
February 9, 1856. 3. Sarah, January 25, 1769;
died March 6, 1835 ; raarried Benjarain Briggs.
4. James, October 22, 1770; died January,
,1795 ; married Ehzabeth L. BurriU. 5. Thoraas.
'died young. 6. Thonias, April 25, 1773; died
November 20, 1865 ; niarried Lucy Turner. 7.
Betsey, August 4, 1775; niarried Caleb Mann.
8. David, Alay 7, 1777; died Septeraber 15,
1812, unraarried. 9. Alice, July 18, 1778, died
November 14, 1867 ; niarried Captain William
Kilburn. 10. Job, Deceraber i, 1779; died
January 7, 1853; married first, 1801, Lucretia
Oakes; second. Patience Cole; third, 1841,
Alary Howe. 11. Henry, born October 16,
1781 ; died September 25, 1852; raarried, De
cember 2, 1818, Clara Stockbridge. 12. Phine
has. born January 23, 1783; mentioned below.
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gust 21, 1849; married October 16, 1808, Mary
Jones. (V) Phinehas Pratt, son of Thomas Pratt
(4), was born at Cohasset, January 23, 1783,
and died at Boston, February 7, 1825. He
was a housewright, and reraoved to Boston
about 1800. Children : i. Phinehas Neal, bom
September, 1808; died April 14, 1886. 2.
Sarah, died young. 3. Sarah Ann, married
 Woodbury. 4. William Henry. 5.
Maria Alice. 6. CaroHne Elizabeth. 7. Asa
Thomas, mentioned below.
(VI) Asa Thomas Pratt, son of Phinehas
Pratt (5), was born December 10, 1820. He
married Mercy Clapp, born in Weymouth, Au
gust 25, 1820. Among his children was Fannie
M., who married Eben W. Sheppard. (See
Sheppard). The coramon ancestry of most
CHEEVER of those who are known to
have borne the surname
Cheever in New England in colonial tiraes is
most clearly shown by the public records, and
may be briefly referred to here. Bartholomew
Cheever, of Boston, cordwainer, in his will
dated October 21, 1693, probated Deceraber 28,
1693,- mentions his brother Daniel and his
cousins Ezekiel Cheever, schoolmaster, and
Richard Cheever. Daniel Cheever, of Cara
bridge, husbandman, in his will dated April
30, 1698, admitted to probate June 21, 1704,
speaks of his brother Bartholomew Cheever,
of Boston, deceased. Peter Cheever, of Salera,
glover, in his will dated July 15, 1699, probated
August 7, 1699, calls Samuel Cheever, of Mar
blehead, (son of Ezekiel) his cousin. Adrain
istration on the estate of Abrahara Cheever, of
Boston, was granted to Joshua Atwater, 1669-
70, his brother Bartholomew Cheever having
declined to act.
(I) Peter Cheever, of Salem, glover, whose
will was admitted to probate August 7, 1699,
was a cousin of Rev. Sarauel Cheever, of Mar
blehead, whose father was Ezekiel Cheever;
and frora this it is clear that the father of
Peter Cheever was a brother of Ezekiel, al
though the name of Peter's father is not
known ; neither is it known whom this Peter
married. The Salem records give an account
of the raarriage of a Peter Cheevers and Lydia
Haly, February 19, 1669, and of that marriage
there was born Peter and Samuel Cheevers,
twins, October 29, 1678. It is known, how
ever, that Peter Cheever, of Salem, glover,
did marry and have children, one of whora
was a son Peter.

(II) Peter Cheever, son of Peter Cheever
last mentioned, was born probably in Salem,
but little else is known of him. He lived in
Salem, raarried and had children, and it is pos
sible that he may have been the Peter Cheevers,
who raarried June 29, 1695, Mary Mackraallin,
although there is no satisfactory proof of the
identity of these two Peters. The records
show that Peter and Mary had a son Jaraes,
born in Salera May i, 1696, but none other of
their children are recorded there. The "Driver
Family" genealogy gives the succession of
these Peters from Peter, of Salem, glover,
from whom we raay be assured of the correct
ness of the line of the faraily here under con
sideration; but the compiler of that work does
not assume to give the names of wives
of the Peter Cheevers of the first and second
generations. It is known, however, that Peter
Cheever (2) had a son Peter, and it is prob
able that he had other children besides hira.
(Ill) Peter Cheever, son of Peter last raen
tioned, was born probably in Salem, and is the
sarae Peter Cheever who in 1746 bought of
Benjamin Lynde, Esq., a piece of land which
frora the description of its boundaries raust
have been at the corner of what now is Brown
and Winter streets, where his son Sarauel
afterward built a tannery. According to
"Driver FaraUy," Peter Cheever married Mar
garet, daughter of Captain Daniel and Marga
ret (Luscomb) Caiton, and araong their chil
dren was a son Peter.
(IV) Peter Cheever, son of Peter and Mar
garet (Caiton) Cheever, was born about 1735,
and died about 1801, and then was of Andover,
Massachusetts. He raarried (first) Margaret,
daughter of Captain Benjarain and Anne
(Derby) Ives; married (second) Deceraber
23, 1762, Martha, daughter of Samuel and
Martha (Walker) Osgood. He had two chil
dren by his first wife and seven children by
his second wife; i. Anna (Nancy), baptized
December 9, 1759; married (first) Samuel
Cook; (second), AVUHani Merriara. 2. Mar
garet, January 3, 1762 ; raarried John Flynt.
3. Peter Osgood, Alarch 18, 1764. 4. Sarauel,
Septeraber 8, 1765. 5. Martha, June 4, 1769;
raarried Sarauel "Very, of Salera. 6. AbigaU,
raarried Jaraes Perkins, of Salem. 7. James,
baptized Deceraber 22, 1771. 8. Benjarain. 9.
Nathaniel. (V) Jaraes Cheever, son of Peter and Mar
tha (Osgood) Cheever, was born in Lynn,
Massachusetts, in 1767, and was a farmer, liv
ing during at least a part of his life in that part
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forra the town of Saugus. He married May
19, 1 791, Margaret Willson, and by her had
eight children, born as follows; i. Lucy,
March 29, 1792. 2. Williara, October 24, 1795.
3. Lois, March 4, 1797. 4. Jaraes, October 16,
1803. 5. Benjarain, August 6, 1806. 6. Elma,
July 16, 1808. 7. Asa, Septeraber 12, ,1812.
8. Lot, October 22, 1814.
(VI) Lot Cheever, son of James, was born
October 22, 1814, and died January 2, 1892.
He was a cordwainer, and is so mentioned in
the record of his raarriage with Olive Dale
GuUford, of Saleni, born Septeraber 6, 1820.
Children ; i. David H., born May 19, 1838. 2.
Edward N., July 1843, died SepteraJier follow
ing. 3. Francis AVilson, July 13, 1843, died
April 4, 1844. 4. Margaret, March i, 1840,
died August 17, 1840. 5. Charlotte, July 23,
1847, died January 7, 1894. 6. Fernando
Wood, Deceraber 18, 1854. 7. Mary L., July
14, 1861, died July 16, 1862.
(VII) David H. Cheever, son of Lot and
Olive Dale (Guilford) Cheever, was born in
Saugus, Massachusetts, May 19, 1838, and Hke
his father was a cordwainer, or shoeraaker,
and for several years was foreraan of a factory
for the raanufacture of shoes. He enlisted in
1861, at Maiden, as private in Corapany K,
Seventeenth Massachusetts A^olunteer Infan
try, was promoted sergeant, and served an
enhstment of three years. He was mustered
out of service in 1864, then returned to his
former home and resumed work as shoemaker.
He raarried, January i, i860, Mary E. Poland;
children: i. Frederic C, born November 8,
i860. 2. Josephine A., December 16, 1867,
married Henry C. Russell, forraerly of Lynn
field, now of Maiden, and a produce raercbant
of Boston ; has one child, Eugene Russell, born
Deceraber 8, 1905. 3. Archie C, Noveraber
26, 1872; married Alice Cowdrey, of Lynn,
and has one child, Frederic H., born January
15, 1904.
(VIII) Frederic C. Cheever, son of David
H. and Alary E. (Poland) Cheever, was born
in Saugus, Massachusetts, November 8, i860,
and received his education in the public schools
of that town, afterward taking a business and
commercial course in Boston. For the next
five years he was bookkeeper in a Boston
wholesale house, and in 1884 left that position
to becorae proprietor of a laundry in Lynn.
In the following year he went to Wakefield,
Massachusetts, and in corapany with Charles
H. Cox established a steara laundry in that
town, continued the business until 1890, when
the firm dissolved. Mr. Cheever then returned

to Lynn, and has since carried on a large laun
dry establishment in that city. He is a well-
known figure in fraternal circles, member of
Williara Sutton Lodge, F. and A. M., of Sau
gus; Sutton Chapter, R. A. M., of Lynn; Mt.
Olivet Coraraandery, K. T., of Lynn; and
Aleppo Temple, A. A. N. M., S., of Boston;
he is a meraber of the Nanepasheraet Club, of
Saugus; the Sons of Veterans, of Saugus;
Danvers Country Club, the Oxford Club, of
Lynn, and of the Bay State Automobile Club
of Boston. Since 1904 he has been a member
of the Saugus board of water commissioners,
and he also is a member of the finance commit
tee of the sarae town.
Mr. Cheever raarried, June 9, 1885, Kate
M. Hasty, born in West Durham, Maine, Janu
ary 6, 1864, daughter of Daniel Hasty, born
Scarboro, Maine, Noveraber, 1818, died March
28, 1864; raarried Catherine Moses, born West
Durham, December 31, 1823, died May, 1895.

Samuel Woods was one of the
WOODS first settlers in the region which
includes the present towns of
Shirley, Groton and Pepperell in Massachu
setts, and was the ancestor of a nuraerous line
of descendants who in later generations became
scattered throughout the New England states,
notably Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Maine. Samuel Woods was living in Shirley
as early as 1662, and was one of the pro
prietors of that town, having a grant of eleven
acres of land. By his wife AHce, whose family
name does not appear, he had six children
whose names are found recorded: i. Thomas,
born March 9, 1663. 2. Elizabeth, September
17, 1665. 3. Nathaniel, March 27, 1667-8. 4.
Mary, August 2, 1670. 5. Abigail, August 19,
1672. 6. Hannah, July 18, 1674, died Septem
ber 29, 1703.
(II) Nathaniel AVoods, son of Samuel and
Alice Woods, was born March 27, 1667-8, and
raarried about 1693, Alice  . Their chil
dren: I. Nathaniel, born October 19, 1694.
2. Daniel, August 10, 1696. 3. John, March 4,
1698. 4. Isaac, February 20, 1699-1700. 5.
Bathsheba, AprU 5, 1702. 6. Hannah, March
16, 1704. 7. Phebe, February 13, 1705-6, died
young. 8. Aaron, May 26, 1707. 9. Moses,
July 6, 1709. ID. Reuben, April 11, 1711. 11.
Phebe, March 13, 1713. 12. Jonathan, June 4,
1716. (Ill) Jonathan Woods, youngest son and
child of Nathaniel and Alice Woods, was born
June 4, 1 7 16, and probably was among the
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province of New Hampshire, although the
year of his emigration and the place of his
settlement in that region are not known. With
others he took up his abode in a new and
sparsely settled region at a time when un
friendly Indians were frequently devastating
the new settlements, and to escape their dep
redations the settlers were compelled to seek
safety in the vicinity of well defended towns.
ChUdren; i. Mary, born January 31, 1738-9.
2. Jonathan, April 3, 1741, died young. 3.
Phebe, February 14, 1742. 4. Joseph, Alay 4,
1745. 5. Rachel, March 30, 1746. 6. Jonathan,
Alay 5, 1749. 7. Alice, February 14, 1750.
8. Levi, born May 10, 1753.
(IV) Joseph AVoods, son and fourth child
of Jonathan and Mary Woods, was born May
4, 1745, and is raentioned as one of the early
settlers of Mason, New Hampshire, where dur
ing the period of his residence he appears to
have been a person of considerable importance.
He eventually went into the adjoining province
of Maine, and it is probable that he may have
lived there before settling in Mason. He mar
ried Mary Waugh; children; i. Joseph, born
October 27, 1782. 2. Samuel, October 6, 1784.
3. Polly, May 27, 1786, died young. 4. Sally,
AprU 19, 1790. 5. Polly (Mary), March 7,
1792. 6. Betsey, April 19, 1798.
(V) Joseph "Woods, eldest child of Joseph
Woods, is believed to have been born in Stan
dish, Maine, and he died October 6, 1840. Ac
cording to family recollections his occupation
was farraing, but the history of North Yar
mouth in noting some of the principal events
of that region mentions a serious fire that de
stroyed the old Jenks tavern and several other
buildings. In speaking of Joseph Woods the
writer of that history has this to say : "Joseph
Woods' cabinet shop and dweUing house in the
rear were consumed. He probably was the
most industrious man in the town. Early and
late he might be found in his shop. He manu
factured mahogany furniture and made the
coffins for the dead. During his life the fash
ion was changed of painting coffins black to a
light red color. He was an ardent pioneer of
the abolitionists and an active member of the
Baptist church."
It may also be said that Mr. Wood was more
than an "ardent pioneer of the abolitionists;"
he was a man who advocated strict temper
ance in all things, and he practiced in his
daily life the principles he so earnestly pro
fessed. It is said of him that he never ate
white bread, never drank tea or coffee, but
throughout the period of his usual life ate

only brown bread, pork and baked potatoes
and drank only sweetened water.
On one occasion the neighbors assembled at
the "raising" of his barn, and then he shattered
the old established custora of opening the cask
of rum which always had been considered an
indispensible requisite of the raising; but not
withstanding the absence of the liquor the
frame was raised, for the people of the town
knew the upright character of the man and
respected his adherence to principle regardless
of traditions or customs. Besides being a tem
perate man Mr. Woods was a very pious man
and one of the pillars of the Methodist Epis
copal church. His wife was Elizabeth (or
Lydia) Radcliffe, who survived her husband
more than twenty-five years. The town rec
ords raention her death in these words ; "Eliz
abeth Woods, widow of the late Joseph AVoods,
died February 10, 1875, aged eighty-six years,
eight raonths." Their children were; Chand
ler, Joseph, AVesley, John, Benjarain, Green
leaf, Mehitable, Lydia, Betsey, Amanda, Ann,
child, name unknown.
(VI) Benjamin Woods, fifth child of Jo
seph and Elizabeth (Radcliffe) Woods, was
born in Unity, Maine, January 24, 1828, and
when twenty-one years old was attracted to the
gold fields of California, having the honor of
being a "forty-niner" and one of the pioneers
of placer mining at Sacramento on the Pacific
slope, where he remained several years. Upon
returning to Maine he became a farmer and
was one of the prorainent raen of the town.
He served as selectraan of Unity, and like his
father was a devout raember of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He married Angeline
Holmes, born in Freedora, Maine, July 11,
1837, daughter of George Holraes, of Free
dora. Children: i. Lindley R., born October
16, 1856. 2. Wesley F.. October 7, 1859. 3.
Franklin B., August 23, 1861. 4. Laura Jane,
June 7, 1865 ; lives in Everett, Massachusetts.
5. Lyrtle B., November 13, 1873 '< married Will
iam B. Pickering; lives in Everett, Massachu
setts. (VII) Franklin Benjamin Woods (baptized
Benjarain Franklin AVoods), third child and
third son of Benjarain and Angeline (Holraes)
Woods, was born in Unity, Maine, August 23,
1861, and for the last nearly forty-five years
had engaged in raercantile business in Everett,
Massachusetts. In 1878, when less than seven
teen years old, he left home and began work
ing for his cousin, John W. Plaisted, with
whom he learned plumbing, sheet-iron working
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later, in 1888, he went to California and work
ed at his trade about one and one-half years
in Los Angeles and Pasadena, and returned to
Everett in April, 1890. Four years later he
began business on his own account and since
that tirae has been nurabered with the sub
stantial raen of the town. Mr. Woods is a
raeraber of the congregation of the Congrega
tional church, is a raaster Mason, an Odd Fel
low, and in politics is a Republican. He also
is one of the trustees of the Everett Savings
Bank. He married, 1889, Desdemona Hunt,
born in Ivesboro, Maine, daughter of John
Hunt, whose home was on Acre Island, off
Lincolnville Mr. and Mrs. Woods have two
children; Angeline and Helen, both born in
Everett.

John Browne, of Burrough
BROWN Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng
land, was chief magistrate of the
city, 1 376- 1 377. John Browne (2), son of
John, lived in Stamford and had children.
John Browne (3), son of John (2), was a
draper and merchant at Calais, was alderraan,
chief magistrate of the city, and on his death
in 1442 was buried in AU Saints' Church,
which he built for the parish at his own cost.
John Browne (4), son of John Browne and
Alargaret his wife, was born in Stamford,
about 1410, and was a draper and merchant,
alderman three years, and died before 1470.
His wife was Agnes. Christopher Browne
(5), son of John Browne (4), was born in
Stamford, lived there and at 'Toltborpe. He
married first, Grace Pinchbeck; second,
Agnes  , of Bedingfield, Norfolk;
third, Elizabeth  . Christopher Browne
(6), son of Christopher, was born about
1460-70, and lived at Swan Hall, Hawke-
don parish, Suffolk, England, and was
church warden, 1564. Christopher Browne"
(7), son of Christopher, was born at Swan
HaU, about 1490, was church warden there
in 1564, and his children were born there.
Thoraas Browne (8), son of Christopher, was
born at Swan Hall, about 1510-20, and mar
ried Joan  .
(I) Abrahara Browne, the iraraigrant, son
of Thoraas (8) and Joan, was born at Swan
Hall about 1590, and was one of the first plant
ers at AVatertown, Massachusetts, in 1631-2,
where he was selectman 1636-43. In 1634 he
and Robert Selley were appointed to survey
all the lots that were granted, and they were
made conservators of all the timber trees, none
of which could be cut without their consent.

He was one of seven freeman who in 1635,
were appointed "to divide every man his prop
erty of meadow and upland that is ploughable,
the rest to be comraoan." He was highway
surveyor the sarae year, and laid out many of
the highways, sorae of which are still in use.
He was appointed, October 7, 1641, on a com
mittee to lay otit a thousand acres granted to
the raiHtary corapany of Boston at its organiza
tion. His will was proved October i, 1650.
His first .horaestall was east of Mt. "V"ernon,
between the present town of Watertown and.
Harvard Square. His second horaestall was
bounded by the present Harvard street. Main
street and Pleasant street, and was lately and
may be now the only case where land granted
to the first settlers in Watertown is still held by
Hneal descendants. There is an engraving of
the old house published in Bond's Watertown
history. His widow Lydia married, November
27, 1659, Andrew Hodges, of Ipswich. She
died at AVatertown September 27, 1686. Chil
dren of Abrahara and Lydia Brown : i. Sarah,
born in England, married December 16, 1643,
George Parkhurst, Jr. 2. Mary, born in Eng
land ; raarried AprU 10, 1650, John Lewis, of
Charlestown and Maiden. 3. Lydia, born at
AA'atertown, March 22, 1632-3; raarried Lieu
tenant William Lakin, Jr., of Groton. 4. Jona
than, born Watertown, October 15, 1635. 5.
Hannah, born Watertown, died March 5,
1638-9, an infant. 6. Abraham, born March
6, 1639-40, died 1667: bought land at Groton;
raarried February 5, 1662-3, Mary Dix, who
raarried second, in 1668, after Abrahara's
death, Sarauel Rice, of Sudbury.
(II) Jonathan Brown, son of Abraham
Browne, was born October 15, 1635, at Water-
town, Alassachusetts. He married, February
II, 166 1-2, Mary Shattuck, daughter of the
iraraigrant, Williara Shattuck, of Watertown.
She was born August 25, 1645, and died Octo
ber 23, 1732, aged eighty-seven years. She is
buried in the Waltham graveyard. His wiU
was dated February 19, 1690-91, and proved
April 7, 169 1. Up to this generation Bond
says that the name generally was spelled witb
the final "e" The sons of Jonathan dropped
this letter. Children of Jonathan and Mary
Brown ; i. Mary, born October 5, 1662 ;. mar
ried May 22, 1682-3, John Warren; married
second, Samuel Harrington. 2. Elizabeth, born
September 19, 1664; married March 25, 1687,
Daniel Benjamin. 3. Jonathan, born October
25, 1666, died young. 4. Patience, born March
6, 1668-9; married March 5, 1686-7, Jaraes
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died November 27, 1729. 6. Samuel, bom Oc
tober 21, 1674. 7. Lydia, born March 31, 1677;
married January 18, 1698-9, Benjamin Well
ington. 8. Ebenezer, born September 10, 1679.
9. Benjamin, born February 27, 1681, died in
I7S3- 10. AVilliam, born September 2, 1684;
¦died October 28, 1756.
(Ill) Deacon Benjamin Brown, son of Jon
athan Brown, was born at Watertown, Febru
ary 27, 1681, and died March 11, 1753. He
married February 27, 1702-3, Ann, daughter
of Captain Benjamin Garfield, son of Edward
Garfield, Jr., of Watertown. They settled at
Watertown Farms, now Weston, in the part
that subsequently became Lincoln. He was
¦deacon of the church there, elected April 20,
1715, and was an influential man in church and
town affairs. Children of Deacon Benjarain
Brown; i. Anna, born March 2, 1703-4; mar
ried Deceraber 24, 1724, Josiah Jones, Jr. ; set
tled in Stockbridge. 2. Benjamin, born Feb
ruary 10, 1705-6. 3. Elizabeth, born January
13, 1707; raarried Deceraber 29, 1726, John
BiUings, of Concord. 4. Mary, born January
10, 1709-10; raarried December 6, 1730, Na
than Upham. 5. Mehitable, born February 9,
1711-12, died AprU 22, 1725. 6. Ephraim,
born 1714. 7. Lydia, born February 23, 1715-
16; married February 18, 1738-39, Joseph Up
ham, of Reading. 8. Joseph, "born AVeston,
February 17, 1718. 9. Deliverance, born No
veraber II, 1720, married Alarch 31, 1743;
Daniel Fiske, of Sturbridge. 10. Tabitha,
born August, 1723, died September, 1723. 11.
Timothy, born December 18, 1724; married
Rebecca Farrar.
(IV) Ephraim Brown, son of Deacon Ben
jamin and Anne (Garfield) Brown, was born
April 8, 1 714, and was admitted to the church
in Spencer October 6, 1754- He married Feb
ruary 21, 1755, Hannah Edmunds, who died
in 1799.
(V) Ephraim Brown, son of Ephraim and
Hannah (Edmunds) Brown, was born Febru
ary 8, 1763, and died March 28, 1842. He
married Elizabeth Boardman, born July 27,
1768, died October 2, 1824. Their children:
I. Increase Howe, born January 16, 1793, died
in November 1869. 2. Ephraim, born Novem
ber 12, 1795, died February 28, 1851. 3. Asa,
born October 31, 1797, died April 7, 1868. 4-
Elizabeth, born January 13, 1800, died AprU
6, 1878. 5. Thomas, born July 16,- 1802, died
Alarch 24, 1889. 6. Rhoda, bom October i,
1805, died March 4, 1892.
(VI) Increase Howe Brown, son of Eph
raim and Elizabeth (Boardman) Brown, was

born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, January 16,
1793, and married June 8, 1820, Eliza (or EHz
abeth) Harris. (The records mention that on
October 28, 1830, Increase Howe Brown mar
ried Mary W. Gerry, and it is possible that she
may have been his second wife). Mr. Brown
was engaged in business in Marblehead. The
Marblehead records show that he had three
children born in that town ; Increase Howe,
baptized 1824; John Harris, baptized August
5, 1827 ; child, died January 8, 1837, age seven
teen days.
(VII) Increase Howe Brown, son of In
crease Howe and Eliza (Harris) Brown, was
born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and was
baptized there July 4, 1824. For a time he was
in the dry goods business in partnership with
his father, later was in Boston, and still later
received an appointment in the treasury depart
ment at Washington, D. C. His wife Cath
erine T. was a daughter of Major Joseph W.
Green, of Marblehead. They had two chU
dren. (VIII) Henry Brown, son of Increase
Howe and Catherine T. (Green) Brown, was
born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Noveraber 26,
1847, and received his early education in the
public schools at Melrose, Massachusetts.
When only a boy he began working in the rail
linery establishraent of W. Heckle & Corapany,
of Boston, running errands and doing such
other work about the store as a boy of his
years could do, but it was a real beginning at
useful eraployraent and soon led to something
more profitable in the way of returns. In the
course of tirae he was given a clerkship in the
store, and in 1865 went to Providence, Rhode
Island, and for the next five years filled a
StiU more responsible position as salesraan In
1870 he returned to Boston and became con
nected with the importing house of H. C. Cook,
and two years later, in 1872, he was made
foreign buyer for the house. In connection
with the duties of his position of buyer of im
ported goods Mr. Brown went to various
European cities twice each year to study
foreign manufactures and goods in his line and
also to make purchases for the house he rep
resented. However, in 1880 he himself be
came proprietor of the business in Boston and
has since carried it on with gratifying success.
On August 22, 1871, Mr. Brown married EUen
M. Hawkins, daughter of Albert M. Hawkins,
of Providence, Rhode Island. Children; i.
Henry E., born August 4, 1872, now appraiser
in United States custom house, Boston. ,2.
Frank, born November 29, 1873. 3- Maud E.,

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born August 7, 1875. 4. Robert, born January
19, 1877. 5. Carl, born Septeraber 22, 1879.
6. Williara O., born February 23, 1881, died
December 10, 1883. 7. Hope, born April 17,
1887. 8. Kenneth, born June 5, 1889.

Patrick Sweeney, deceased,
SWEENEY for many years well and fav
orably known in the business
and social world of Lawrence, Massachusetts,
was a descendant of an honored family of Ire
land His father, John Sweeney, was a farraer
in Ireland.
Patrick Sweeney was born -in county Cork,
Ireland, in 1841, and died in Lawrence, Mass
achusetts, July 22, 1899. He was about twenty-
five years of age when he carae to this country,
where for a tirae he foUowed the occupation
of stone dressing. Considerations of health
corapelled hira to abandon this occupation and
he becarae a cloth dresser in the Pacific Mills.
For eight years prior to his death he was the
proprietor of a store which he conducted very
successfully. He was a Deraocrat in politics,
and his religious affiliations were with the
Catholic church, of which he was a devout
meraber. He was also a raeraber of a nuraber
of the church organizations. He married, No
veraber 28, 1882, Elizabeth Ann Sullivan, born
in 1862, daughter of Colanus and Margaret
(Collins) Sullivan, who were the parents of
seven children. Colanus SuUivan carae to
Lawrence from Ireland, and worked as a
dyer for five years preceding his death in
1887. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney had children:
Joseph Henry, born January 15, 1885; Jere
miah Francis, Septeraber 11, 1886; George
Cornelius, July 27, 1890; Mary Constance,
April 5,. 1893 • and Elizabeth, who died Decem
ber 18, 1896.

The Slevin faraily is one of the
SPAVIN ancient Ulster farailies. O'Hart
in his Irish Pedigrees gives the
family of Sleven, as it is sometimes spelled
as among th numerous farailies that trace their
descent frora CoUa da Chrioch, raost of whora
are Protestants in the north of Ireland. CoUa
da Chrioch was one of the three sons of
Eochaidh Dubhlen, so-called frora the fact
that he was brought up in Dublin. The father
of Eochaidh was Cairbre-Lifeachar, the 117th
Monarch of Ii;eland, son of Cormac Art.
O'Hart gives his pedigree to the remotest
antiquity, including the 117 kings. Branches
of the Slavin faraily settled in Scotland, but
the seat of the faraily reraains to day in Ulster.

In 1890 eleven Slavins were born in Antrirn
county, Ulster and but three in all the rest of
Ireland, while most of the Slevens also lived in
Ulster. (I) William Slavin, the progenitor, was
born in Scotland and lived there all his life.
He was a Protestant in religion.
(II) Blyth Slavin, son of WiUiam Slavin
(i), was born in Scotland. He was educated
in his native parish and learned the trade of
weaver. When a young man he came to Amer
ica and settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
where he found employment in the famous
Pemberton Mills, at his trade as weaver. He
married Marion Morrison. Children: Agnes,
Marion, William, Mary, Margaret, Marion,
Hugh, Isabel.
(Ill) WiUiam Slavin, son of Blyth Slavin
(2), was born in Scotland, July 17, 1837, and
died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 17,
1899. He received his schooling in his native
town and learned the trade of painter. He
carae with his father and the faraily to Law
rence in 1855. He followed his trade as a
painter, as journeyraan and contractor all his
life He was successful in business, careful,
prudent and shrewd. In 1862 he enlisted in
the Fourth Massachusetts Regiraent of Volun
teers in the civil war, in Captain Roland's com
pany, and served his term of enlistment. In
politics he was a Republican, in religion a
meraber of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He raarried, September, 1857, Margaret Coch
ran, who was born in Scotland, October 9,
1834. She coraes of an ancient Scotch family.
The Cochranes were located in Renfrewshire
and Ayrshire before A. D. 1300, and this fam
ily possesses the earldora of Dundonald and
the lordship of Cochrane. Children of Wil
liara and Margaret Slavin ; bom in Lawrence :
I. Williara, October 27, 1858; died October
27, 1858. 2. Christina, born February 6, i860.
3. Margaret, July 27, 1861 ; died July 8, 1864.
4. Marion, born February 12, 1863; died 1905.
5. Mary, born March 4, 1865. 6. Albert M.,
October 15, 1869. 7- Thomas, 1870. 8. Charles
Henry, October 24, 1874.

The surname Johnson repre-
JOHNSON sents one of the oldest New
England family names, and
has been known in English history since a
period antedating the Norman conquest.
Araong those who bore it in sorae of the gen
erations preceding and following the plant
ing of the English colonies on this side of
the Atlantic ocean were persons high in the

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royal favor, men famed in the wars and of
the nobility, with coats-of-arms, titles and
other evidences of high position. But all of
these things were put aside when the tide of
emigration set toward the new world to begin
anew the settlement and development of an
other region.
(I) The particular branch of the Johnson
family intended to be treated in this place
begins with Richard Johnson, the immigrant,
who was born in England in 1612, came to
Araerica with Sir Richard Saltonstall in 1630,
and settled in the plantation at Watertown,
Massachusetts, where he was made freeman
in 1637. In the same year he moved to Lynn
and located on a farm at the eastern end of
the common, a part of the land then owned
by him being the site of the city hall. He
died August 26, 1666, aged fifty-four years.
The name of his wife was Alee, probably
Alice, and it may be assumed that he married
after coming to New England, for at that
tirae he was only about eighteen years old.
Savage mentions his children as Samuel, Eliz
abeth, Abigail, Daniel.
(II) Lieutenant Samuel Johnson, son of
Richard Johnson, the immigrant, was a sol
dier in King Philip's war, serving as cornet,
1676, and won the rank of lieutenant. For
his services he received in 1685 a grant of
land from the general court, and lived to en
joy his possessions until 1723, having attained
the age of eighty-two years. He was rep
resentative to the general court in 1703 and
1708. He raarried, January 22, 1664, Mary
CoUins, and she had nine children: i. Mary,
born January 11, 1665, died at the age of three
months. 2. Samuel, born November 18, 1666,
died young. 3. Mary, born May 25, 1669.
4. Hannah, born May 15, 1671. 5. Elizabeth,
born Deceraber 16, 1672. 6. Richard, born
November 8, 1674, mentioned below. 7. Ruth,
born March 6, 1676. 8. Samuel, born March
18, 1678. 9. David, January 31, 1689.
(Ill) Deacon Richard Johnson, second son
and sixth chUd of Lieutenant Sarauel and
Mary (CoUins) Johnson was born in Lynn,
Massachusetts, November 8, 1674, died Sep
tember 26, 1754, and his will was dated
March 8, 1753, proved October 7, 1754. He
was prominently identified with town affairs,
town clerk in 1722 and for several years after
ward, representative to the general court from
1720 to 1724, and afterward in 1731 and 1732.
For many years he was a leading member of
the church known as the Tunnell Meeting
House, and at the time of his death and for
several years previous one of its deacons.

Deacon Johnson married Elizabeth New
haU, July 3, 1705, who was born in Lynn, May
12, 1678, died March 8, 1749-50. She was a
daughter of John NewhaU, born Lynn, Feb
ruary 14, 1655, died January 20, 1738, and
his wife, Esther Bartrara, born Lynn, April
3, 1658, died September 28, 1728. He was a
bricklayer and was generally known as John
NewhaU Tertius. Plis father, Thomas New
haU, is said to have been the first white child
born in Lynn (1630). He raarried, Decem
ber 29, 1652, Elizabeth Potter, and of their
ten children John was second in order of
birth. Thomas NewhaU was the elder of two
sons of Thoraas Newhall and his wife Mary
 , the last mentioned Thomas being the
iraraigrant ancestor of a prorainent branch of
the faraily of that surnarae in New England,
Richard and Elizabeth (Newhall) Johnson
had four chUdren: i. Mary, born February
and who settled in Lynn in 1630. Deacon
25, 1706-07, raarried, 1727, Solomon Newhall.
She died September 28, 1743, having borne
her husband seven children: Richard, born
October 14, 1727, married Lydia WiUiams;
Ezra, born January 5, 1729-30, married De
ceraber 12, 1 75 1, Elizabeth Peck; Hulda, born
July 18, 1732, raarried June 26, 1753, Jacob
Alley; Timothy, born September 15, 1735;
Jerusha, born October 17, 1737, died Febru
ary 23, 1738; Elizabeth, born August 2, 1742;
Soloraon, born September 28, 1743, died Feb
ruary 7, 1744. 2. Samuel, born March 17,
1708-09. 3. Joseph, twin, born May 20, 1715.
4. Benjamin, twin, born May 20, 1715, died
May 24, 1 716.
(IV) Joseph Johnson, third child of Dea
con Richard and Elizabeth (NewhaU) John
son, was born in Lynn, May 20, 171 5- In
1736 he raarried Ann Legree, whose family
name is raentioned in the town records as
Legree, Legory and also Legery. Their chil
dren ; I. Benjarain, born August 13, 1737,
died October 15, 1740. 2. Mary, bom No
veraber 9, 1739. 3. Benjarain, born Novem
ber 21, 1745. The naraes of these children
are taken frora the published vital records of
Lynn. (V) Benjarain Johnson, third child of
Joseph and Ann (Legree) Johnson, born in
Lynn, Noveraber 21, 1745, died there Novem
ber 12, 1810. He was an earnest raan in all
that he undertook to accomplish and his en
ergies were always directed in right channels.
To him perhaps more than to any other per
son belongs the credit of planting the first
seeds of the Methodist Episcopal society in
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raade an acquaintance of the Rev. Jesse Lee,
the faraous apostle of Methodisra, and it was
through the urgent request of Mr. Johnson
that Mr. Lee was induced to visit Lynn and
proclaim to the townsraen there the teach
ings of the new doctrine. Mr. Lee began his
preaching in Benjarain Johnson's barn in the
latter part of 1790 and gained so many
followers and converts to his faith that
February 20, 1791, a Methodist Episco
pal society was formed in Lynn. The
first meeting house of the society was
raised on June 21 following, and on
June 26 the new edifice was dedicated.
Throughout the entire tirae during which this
preliminary work was in progress Mr. John
son was earnestly engaged in all that took
place and it was largely through his efforts
and influence that the house of worship, the
first of its denomination in Massachusetts,
was erected ; and until the day of his death
he was one of the chief supporters of the
church of which he was the principal founder.
Air. Johnson married first, January 3, 1764,
Lydia Richards, who died October 19, 1773;
children: i. John Legree, born March 30,
1766; see forward. 2. Benjamin, born Decem
ber 4, 1767. 3. Joseph, born August 11, 1770.
Mr. Johnson married second, January 27, 1774,
Lydia Breed; she died March 23, 1776; chil
dren ; 4. Lydia, born June 23, 1775. 5. Holton,
born July 5, 177 — . Mr. Johnson married third,
Septeraber 29, 1776, Rachel  , who died
August 22, 181 1, aged fifty-nine years; child,
Rachel, born September 6, 1780.
(VI) John Legree Johnson, eldest son and
child of Benjamin and Lydia (Richards)
Johnson, born in Lynn, March 30, 1766, died
there November 20, 1829. He married, first,
Septeraber 11, 1791, Anna Burch.stead, who
died May 2, 1794, having borne her husband
two chUdren. He raarried, second, Septera
ber 28, 1794, Sarah Rogers and by her had
five children. His chUdren were as follows:
I. Anna, born Noveraber 8, 1792, died Oc
tober 29, 1793. 2. Benjarain Burchstead,
born April 25, 1794. 3. John Rogers, born
June 29, 1795. 4. Legree, born May 17, 1796.
5. Anna, born AprU 15, 1797. 6. Sarah, born
May 20, 1798. 7. Holton, born October 19,
1801. (VII) Benjamin Burchstead Johnson, sec
ond child and only son of John Legree and
his first wife, Anna (Burchstead) Johnson
was born in Lynn, April 25, 1794. He mar
ried, first, April 30, 1818, Harriet Newhall,
who died April 15, 1879. He married, sec

ond, Rebecca  , who died October 24,
1848. His children; i. Mary Ann, born
March 20, 1819, married Captain Joseph M.
Rowell. 2. Harriett, born February 21, 1821,
raarried Williara Wright. 3. Henry A., born
August 10, 1823. 4. Sarah Rogers, born May
9, 1825, died young. 5. Edwin Holton, born
Alay 21, 1826. 6. Sarah Rogers, born Sep
teraber 27, 1829, niarried S. S. Ireson. 7.
Ruth Maria, born August 30, 1832, marned
Isaac Call. 8. Almira, born AprU 20, 1838.
9. Antoinette, born October 22, 1839, married
M. N. Warren Page. 10. Horace Lyman,
born January, 1842. 11. Benjamin Legree,
born October 12, 1844.
(VIII) Edwin Holton Johnson, eldest son
of Benjarain Burchstead and Harriet (New
hall) Johnson, his first wife, born in Lynn,
May 21, 1826, died at his horae in that city,
March 22, 1894, which latter event marked
the termination of a business career as suc
cessful as it was honorable, and all the de
served result of his own personal effort and
industry. Mr. Johnson was educated in the
Lynn public schools and graduated from the
grararaar school in 1842. After leaving
school, being sixteen years old at the time,
he secured employment in a shoe factory and
soon became a practiced workman, having a
good understanding of the raechanical part of
the work in the shop and a fair knowledge of
the raanagement of the business in general.
In 1854, after twelve years in the capacity of
employee, he .started in business on his own
account and soon became proprietor of a shoe
manufactory that gave eraployraent to two
hundred workmen. Frora the outset his bus
iness life was successful, and at its close he
was possessed of a corapetence and, still bet
ter, he enjoyed the respect and confidence of
a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
But while always a busy man, Mr. Johnson
was not selfish with his time and means, and
for many years took a commendable interest
in public affairs in Lynn and was identified
with several of the best institutions of the city.
In 1867 he represented the sixth ward in
the board of aldermen, and while in that office
was largely instrumental in securing much
needed improvements in the old Lynn burying
ground. He had little inclination for political
office, but as a loyal citizen ^nd large taxpayer
willingly contributed his share of service for
the public welfare. At the time of his death
he was secretary of the Lynn Mutual Fire
Insurance Company. He seems to have in
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•something of his loyal devotion to the Metho-
¦dist Episcopal church and its institutions and
charitable dependencies, and throughout the
period of his business life it was his invariable
custom to set aside one-tenth part of his an
nual income for charitable and benevolent
purposes. He was a member of the board of
trustees of Wilbraham Academy, an educa
tional institution of high standing at Wilbra
ham, Massachusetts, conducted under the
management of persons of influence in the
Methodist Episcopal church. He was a trus
tee also of the corporation of Boston Univer
sity, and of the First Methodist Episcopal
¦church in Lynn. Each of these institutions at
various times were made recipients of unsoli
cited gifts from his hands, and the society
¦of his church in Lynn wiU ever reraeraber him
with gratitude on account of the handsome
parsonage which stands near the church edi
fice which was erected at his personal ex
pense In addition to these benefactions he
.gave freely from his purse for various worthy
¦causes of which the public at large never
heard, and he also voluntarily assisted a num
ber of young men in obtaining an education,
those especially who sought to enter the min
istry of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Air. Johnson raarried twice. His first wife,
whom he married Noveraber, 1857* was Grace
Oliver, of Maiden. She died in 1887, and he
niarried, second, August 23, 1893, Lizzie
Bishop, of Bristol, New Hampshire. One
child, Margaret, who died in infancy.

The surname Warner is of an-
WARNER cient English origin, and the
family has had many distin
guished representatives for raany years in
England. More than twenty families of the
name in England have coats-of-arms. Im
portant branches of the Warner family have
had their seats in Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk,
AVarwick and Yorkshire, England, Ayrshire,
Scotland, and in Ireland.
(I) William Warner, immigrant ancestor
of this branch of the Warner family, is be
lieved to be son of Samuel Warner, of Box-
stead, county Essex, England, and was doubt
less born in England as early as 1580. He
settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and was a
proprietor as early as 1635. He was a plant
er; was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638.
The date of his death is not known, but he
was living October 29, 1654. Children; i.
Daniel, married Elizabeth Dane. 2. John,
mentioned below. 3. Abigail, born in Eng

land, raarried Thomas Wells; died July, 1671.
(II) John Warner, son of WilHam Warner
(i), was born in England about 1615; he
erabarked on the ship "Increase" from Lon
don in 1635, giving his age as twenty. He
settled in Ipswich; he was one of the first
settlers of Brookfield in 1670, was one of three
who took the Indian deed for the town De
cember 19, 1673, was one of the principal cit
izens, removing in 1676 on account of the war
to Hadley, where his son Mark had already
settled. He probably died at the home of some
of his children in 1692. John Warner mar
ried first,  ; second, Priscilla, daughter
of Mark Syraonds, about 1655. Children of
first wife; i. Sarauel, born about 1640. 2.
John, born about 1643, mentioned below. 3.
Mark, born 1646, died at Northampton,
Massachusetts, May 31, 1738, aged ninety-two.
4. Nathaniel, boril about 1650, was a resident
of Brookfield in 1673, died in Hadley, Janu
ary 15, 1714. 5. Daniel, born about 1653, died
in Ipswich, June 8, 1659. Children of second
wife: 6. Joseph, born August 15, 1657, died
June 18, 1658. 7. Mehitable, born April 16,
1659, died at Hadley, June 12, 1678. 8. Dan
iel, born April 16, 1661, died 1668. 9. Eleazer,
born Noveraber 13, 1662, died at Hadley, May
8, 1729. 10. Priscilla, born 1664, married
Thoraas Curaraings, of Dunstable, Massachu
setts, Deceraber 19, 1688.
(Ill) John Warner, son of John AVarner
(2), was born about 1650 in Ipswich, and
settled when a young man in Springfield,
Alassachusetts, removing from Hadley where
his eldest child was born. He was a soldier in
King Philip's war and was wounded in bat
tle. He was a deputy to the general court.
His will was dated 1718. He married first,
April 2, 1674, Lydia Boltwood, daughter of
Robert Boltwood; she died January 26, 1682.
He married second, August 31, 1683, Sarah
Warner, who died January 24, 1687. He
niarried third, January 24, 1688, Sarah Ferry,
who died July 25, 1689. He raarried fourth,
Noveraber 26, 1691, Rebecca Cooley, widow of
Obadiah Cooley, Jr.; she died October 18,
1715. John Warner died January 21, 1725.
Children; i. Lydia, raarried Josiah Beeman.
2. Priscilla, born April 4, 1677, married Ed
mund Beraent. 3. John, born February 22,
1678, resided in Enfield and Suffield, Connec
ticut. 4. Ebenezer, born February 16, 1681,
mentioned below. 5. Mary, born January 15,
1682, died January 29 foUowing. Children of
second wife; 6. Nathaniel, born August 19,
1684. 7. Child born October i, died October

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i8, 1685. Child of fourth wife; 8. Child
born May 2, 1695.
(IV) Ebenezer Warner, son of John Warn
er (3), was born in Springfield, February 16,
1681. He had a grant of twenty acres of land
on the south side of the Little AVachogue path
on South End hill, Wachogue, Springfield,
March 9, 1724-25. He was at various tiraes
hogreeve, tithingraan, and held other town of
fices. He married, about 1720, Mary  .
Children, born in Springfield; i. Mary, born
Septeraber i, 1721. 2. John, born November
19, 1723. 3. Lydia, born February 28, 1726-
27. 4. James, born July 21, 1731. 5. Lois,
born March i, 1733-34. 6. Ebenezer, born
July II, 1736, mentioned below.
(V) Ebenezer Warner, son of Ebenezer
Warner (4), was born in Springfield, July 11,
1736. He removed to Marblehead, where he
died May 15, 1790, the records stating his
place of birth, and giving his age as fifty-
five. He was a seafaring man. He married,
at Springfield, October 8, 1761, Elizabeth
Cook, who died December 11, 1800, aged
fifty-nine years, four months, at Marblehead.
Araong their children were John, raentioned
below. Hannah, born September, 1767-68,
died July 23, 1787, at Alarblehead, aged nine
teen years ten months.
(VI) Captain John Warner, son of Ebe
nezer Warner (5), was born about 1770. He
was a mariner and was lost at sea in the
schooner "Jachin" which was last heard of
when she sailed from Alarblehead, January
23, 1822. He raarried, October 24, 1805, Re
becca Patten, who died 'August 27, 1825, aged
thirty-five At the death of both father and
mother, the son Richard was adopted by Dea
con Richard Homan. Children; i. James
Madison, baptized January 15, 1809. 2. John
Cook, born November 23, 1806, died January
12, 1810. 3. WilHam, was adopted by Cap
tain Williara Story. , 4. John Gerry, born No
vember II, 181 1, mentioned below. 5. Child,
name not given in records, died October 25,
1 82 1, aged five years. 6. Richard Homan,
baptized Septeraber 4, 1825. 7. Elizabeth, mar
ried John Florence. Of the above naraed
James M., Williara and Richard raade their
horaes in the west.
(VII) John Gerry Warner, son of John
Warner (6), was born Noveraber 11, 181 1,
baptized in Marblehead, December i, 181 1.
He was educated in the district schools of his
native town and learned the trade of shoe
maker. He removed to Boston and engaged
in the wholesale boot, shoe and leather trade.

conducting a large and fiourishing business to
the time of his death, in 1847, at the early
age of thirty-six years. He married Eliza
Newhall, who died in 1892, aged seventy-five
years, daughter of Francis Stewart and Ly
dia (BurriU) NewhaU, and a descendant in
the ninth generation of Thoraas Newhall (see
Newhall faraily). Her raother was a descend
ant in the seventh generation frora George
Burrill, iraraigrant, who settled in Lynn,
Massachusetts, in 1630. Children of John
Gerry and Eliza (Newhall) Warner: i. Hel
en Story, born 1839, died 1897, unmarried.
2. Eliza Frances, born November 13, 1842,
married Howard Perley, of Lynn. 3. John
Gerry, raentioned below.
- (VIII) Captain John Gerry Warner, son of
John Gerry "Warner (7), was born in Boston,
Septeraber 27, 1846. He attended the pubHc
schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, completing
his education at the Chauncy Hall School,
Boston. He began his business career as clerk
for the firra of John B. Alley & Corapany,
leather dealers, Boston. Afterward he was
salesraan for various firms in the leather and
shoe finding business in Boston, and finally
with the firra of Dunbar, Hobart & Whidden,
later raerged into the Atlas Tack Company,
raanufacturers of tacks, nails, etc. He was
with this house for a period of twenty-one
years. In 1898 he erabarked in business in
partnership with Albert and Percy F. Munsey
in the Alunsey Shank and Counter Company
for the manufacture of leather board, steel
shanks, etc., with a factory in Lynn. In com
pany with Albert J. Lyons and Percy F. Alun
sey Mr. Wamer incorporated the Lyons
Counter Company, January i, 1901, for the
manufacture of sole leather moulded count
ers. In 1905 Mr. Warner organized the
AA'arner -Robertson Company, of which he was
elected president, and his son, Stewart C.
AA^arner, secretary. This company manufac
tures moulded counters, turns, welts and box
toes for shoe raanufacturers, with factory in
Lynn. The high standard of their goods and
the enterprising raanageraent of the company
have corabined to put this concern araong the
leading dealers in shoe findings. Mr. Warner
has been singularly successful in his. business
ventures. He has not only a thorough knowl
edge of his business, but the good judgment,
industry and persistence necessary to conduct
a manufacturing concern successfully.
In November, 1864, when but eighteen years
of age, he enlisted at the tirae of the civil war
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ritt. Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infan
try, Colonel B. F. Peach, Jr. He continued
in this company and regiment, being promoted
through the various grades until he became
captain of his company in 1875. In 1878 he
resigned his commission as captain and ac
cepted the appointment of paymaster of the
regiment, a position he held until 1896 when
he resigned and was placed on the retired Hst.
He has been a member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston since
1896 and held various offices in that body. He
is also a member of the Oxford Club of Lynn,
the Lynn Historical Society, the Howard
Council, Royal Arcanum, of Boston, the Sons
of the American Revolution and the Old
Guard of Massachusetts. He is a member of
the Unitarian church, in the work of which
he takes an active part. In politics he is a
Republican. Captain Warner married, October 5, 1875,
EUen Louisa Kettell, born in Worcester,
Massachusetts, January 10, 1843, daughter of
Deacon John P. and EHzabeth F. (Wheeler)
KetteU. Children: i. Winthrop Kettell, born
September 23, 1879, died at the age of seven
years. 2. Stewart Gerry, born AprU 21, 1881,
member of class of 1904, Lawrence Scientific
School, Harvard University ; now secretary
of the Warner-Robertson Company; married
Florence E. Bartol, of Lynn, descendant of
the Bartol family of Marblehead ; child. Mar
guerite, born May 16, 1907.

The surname Hyne, Hine, Hinds
HINDS is variously spelled. It is derived
from the trade or occupation, like
many other EngHsh surnames. A Hyne, Hine
or Hind was a tiller of the soil, peasant farm
er. The surnames Haynes, Haines, Hine and
Hinds, may have had different origins, but
for a long time the spellings were used inter
changeably in England and America, and it is
not possible to separate the families by the
surnaraes. In fact, nine different -ways of
spelling their name are still found among the
descendants of James Hinds, the immigrant
mentioned below.
(I) James Hinds, the first settler, born in
England, came to Salem, Massachusetts, as
early as 1637. About the same time came
also two brothers, William and Richard, of
Hinds, many of whose descendants spell their
names, Haines, Haynes, Haine and Hayne.
They owned a farra together, selling it in
part June 29, 1648, and William gave a letter
of attorney November 25, 1647, to Thomas

Haynes, merchant, of London, for collection
at Danes Balie, Bedfordshire. Jaraes and
these two were believed to be related, perhaps
brothers, and the records indicate London and
Bedfordshire as the English home of the fam
ily. He was adraitted a freeraan, March,
1637-8, and sold land in Marblehead in 1649.
He was a meraber of the Salera Church April
25, 1637. He removed to Southold, Long
Island, New York, and died there March,
1652-3. He was a cooper by trade. His widow
Mary raarried second, June, 1656, Ralph Day
ton, of Southold. Hinds raade his will March
I, 1652-3, bequeathing to wife Mary, eldest
son John, and other children not naraed in the
wiU. Children: i. John, born August 28,
1639; raentioned below. 2. Jaraes, born Au
gust 2, 1641. 3. Benjarain, baptized August
26, 1643. 4- Mary, baptized February 19,
1646. 5. Jaraes, baptized Deceraber 27, 1647-
8. 6. Jonathan, baptized AprU 11, 1648. 7.
Sarah, baptized April 11, 1648, (twin). 8.
Thoraas, baptized Alarch 4, 165 1.
(II) John Hinds, son of Jaraes Hinds, was
born August 28, 1639, and died at Lancaster,
Massachusetts, March 20, 1720. He resided in
Lancaster, removing there frora Woburn in
1676, or soon afterwards, and his house was
a garrison house under John Moore, April 20,
1704. For a short time he lived in Brook
field, but went back to Lancaster, where he
died. His will was dated March 8, 1719-20,
in Lancaster. He raarried first  ; sec
ond, February 9, 1681-2, Mary Butler. Child
of first wife; i. Jaraes, resided at Lancaster.
Children of second wife ; 2. John, born Jan
uary 19, 1683, raentioned below. 3. Jacob,
born at Brookfield, 1685. 4. Hannah. 5.
Hopestill, born October 22, 1713. 6. Deborah.
7. Enoch, born October 30, 171 7. 8. Experi
ence, born Noveraber 18, 1718.
(Ill) John Hinds, son of John Hinds, was
born in Brookfield, January 19, 1683, and died
there October 10, 1747. He raarried Mrs.
Hannah (Whitaker) Corliss, of Haverhill,
born September, 1691. She married third,
June 18, 1749, Oliver Heyward, who died at
Brookfield, Septeraber 24, 1764. She was the
heroine of a historical incident in Haverhill
while living in the horae of Mr. Rolfe, in
which she saved the lives of his children. At
her death she left thirteen children, all by John
Hinds; eighty-two grandchildren, and seven
teen great-grandchildren. John Hinds was on
a coraraittee of five, January 23, 1728, to di
vide Brookfield into four parts. He built a
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1738, and sold it to his son Seth. He was in
Captain Thoraas Buckrainster's corapany in
August, 1748, in the garrison at Fort Dum
mer. He made his wiU May 10, 1749, and
mentions nine children. He resided at Lan
caster until 1719, and in Brookfield afterward.
Children: i. Anna, born June 10, 1710. 2.
John, born August 31, 171 1. 3. Frances, born
Deceraber 14, 1713; married Seth Bannister.
4. Mary, born February 12, 1716; married
November 20, 1734, Joseph Bannister. 5. Seth,
born April 3, 1718. 6. Jonathan, born Octo
ber 23, 1720; died July 6, 1738. 7. Dinah,
born October 14, 1722. 8. Corliss, born April
28, 1724; raentioned below. 9. Rachel, born
August 25, 1726; died July 31, 1738. 10.
Tryphena, born April 23, 1728, married Ed
ward Wright. II. Cornelius, born March 17,
1730; died July 7, 1738. 12. Subrait, born
July 27, 1732; died August i, 1738. 13. Sus
annah, born Deceraber 17, 1733.
(IV) Corliss Hinds, son of John Hinds, was
bom in Brookfield, April -28, 1724, and died
there in 182 1. He was constable in 1768, and
on the Coraraittee of Safety frora 1780 to
1789. Frora March to Deceraber, 1756, he
was a raeraber of Captain Soloraon Keys's
corapany, and was also a raeraber of Captain
Nathaniel Wolcott's company. He married
first, Septeraber 6, 1742, Janet McMaster, of
Brookfield. He raarried second, in 1809, Jen
nie McCuUar. Children, all by first wife: i.
Cornelius, born Alarch 17, 1743. 2. Anna,
born October 7, 1744. 3. Rachel, born May
26, 1746. 4. CorUss, born April 10, 1748. 5.
Susannah, born March 15, 1750. 6. Subrait,
born April 18, 1752. 7. Howard, born March
6. 1755 ; mentioned below. 8. Forbes, born
May 25, 1759. 9. Catherine, born April 15,
1760. 10. Jesse, born Septeraber 7, 1764.
(V) Howard Hinds, son of Corliss Hinds,
was born in Brookfield, March 6, 1755, and
died at Worcester in 1850. During the last
years of his life he was afflicted with blind
ness. He raarried, April 8, 1778, Anna Paine
Hinds, born 1759, died Noveraber 19, 1821.
Children; i. Molly, born July i, 1779; died
August 22, 1782. 2. Anna, born Septeraber
12, 1780. 3. Calvin, born June 30, 1783,
raentioned below. 4. John, born January 23,
1786. 5. PoUy, born July 17, 1788. 6. War
ren, born August 10, 1790. 7. Lydia, bom
May 22, 1793. 8. Cheney, born June 29, 1796.
9. Zenas, born February 11, 1799; died Feb
ruary 20, 1800. 10. Achsah, born May 15,
1801. (VI) Calvin Hinds, son of Howard Hinds,

was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts,
June 30, 1783, and died at Holden, October
21, 1857. He raarried first, at Barre, Decem
ber I, 1805, Susannah Clark, born May 31,
1785, died September i, 1820, daughter of Jo
seph and Phebe (Rice) Clark. He raarried
second, Deceraber 8, 1826, Mrs. Betsey (Lyon)
Woodward. He was killed by the falling of a
tree while cutting wood. Children, aU by first
wife: I. Lucretia, born April 29, 1806. 2.
Dorothy Quincy, born February 23, 1808. 3.
Lowell Leland, born January 5, 1810. 4. Alan-
son Gibson, born February 26, 1812. 5. Eliza,
born January 15, 1814. 6. Martin, born Sep
teraber 24, 1815. 7. Calvin P., born Septem
ber i, 181 7. 8. WiUiam Augustus, born April
2, 1819; mentioned below.
(VII) Williara Augustus Hinds, son of Cal
vin Hinds, was born in Barre, AprU 2, 1819,
and died at Worcester, January 21, 1876. He
was a veteran of the civil war. He raarried
in Boston, October 25, 1841, Rebecca Lougee,
born March 10, 1818, died April 29, 1892,
daughter of Hugh and Betsey (Parsons)
Lougee, of Parsonfield, Maine. Chilrden: i.
Annie Jeanette, bom May 25, 1842 ; raarried
George H. Gregg (see Gregg faraily). 2.
Eraraa Augusta, born July 25, 1844. 3. Cal
vin Parkman, born April 10, 1848. 4. Will
iara Augustus, born January 21, 1850; died
December 20, 1852, in Boston. 5. Frank Clark,
born April 23, 1852. 6. William Herbert, born
June 6, 1856. 7. Ida Josephine, born July 11,
1859; died young.

The surnarae Gregg, or Greig, is
GREGG ancient Scotch origin, and the
family is found in the early his
tory of Scotland in Fifeshire and other coun
ties. Among the Scotch Presbyterian rainis
ters sent to Ireland in 1645 to preach to the
Scotch settlers in Ulster was Mr. John Greg,
who was located at Carrickfergus. In July,
1648, he represented the Irish Presbytery in
the Asserably of Scotland as commissioner;
the asserably returned an answer by him and
appointed to supply the pulpits in Ireland four
more clergymen. Syraon Greig was a member
of the Scotch Parliaraent from Cupar as early
as 1478. The first of the family in Antrim,
Ireland, of whom we have record is William
Gregg of Glenarm Barony in 1653. One of
the "Ejected Ministers" on the list dated 1661
as published by Dr. Reid was John Gregg of
Newtown Ards, County Downs, a Scotch Pres
byterian. Early in 1670 this sarae rainister who
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the first to preach Presbyterianism in Ire
land, was requested by his brethren in the min
istry "to endeavor the composing a History of
the Beginning and Progress of the Gospel"
in the north of Ireland; but he died in July
of the sarae year and the task devolved on Rev.
Andrew Stewart Kirkpatrick, in his "Presbyte
rian Loyalty" says: "Mr. John Greg, Presbyte
rian minister in Newton, and Mr. Andrew
Stewart, Presbyterian minister in Donaghadee,
were men of great sagacity, judgment and
veracity, as many yet alive can testify."
(I) Captain James Gregg, immigrant ances
tor, was born about 1670, in Ayrshire, Scot
land, and was twenty years old when his par
ents removed to Ulster Province, Ireland, and
settled in the parish of Mulasky, county An
trim. He had been apprenticed at the age of
fourteen to learn the trade of tailor and had
just completed his tirae when he reraoved to
Ireland with his father's family. There he
imraediately established himself in business
and was very successful as a linen draper. One
day Janet Cargill came to his shop to order
her wedding dress. The romance that fol
lowed, embellished perhaps by sorae iraagina-
tive details of tradition and the author, is thus
described in an article published half a century
ago in the Nashua (New Harapshire) Ga
zette: "When she came into the shop he
recognized her as a person he had seen, but
had no particular acquaintance with her ; he
saw at once that she was very beautiful and
interesting person, and had a most captivating
smile on her countenance, and at the same tirae
discovered that there was a shade of melan
choly, which plainly told that sorae unseen af
fliction was preying upon her mind." After
taking her measure and receiving her instruc
tions, she very politely bade him adieu, and
turned to go out of the door when he spoke
to her in a tremulous tone of voice and said:
"My dear friend, I am almost tempted to envy
Mr. Lindsey his happiness." This unexpected
salutation came upon her like a shock of elec
tricity, and suddenly an effusion of tears burst
from her eyes, while the tumult in her bosom
choked her utterance, and she was silent a few
moments until her emotion had somewhat sub
sided. At length she mustered fortitude
enough to reply and said: 'My dear friend,
if I could have my wishes realized, Mr. Lind
sey would be the envious man and you would
be the person envied.' This modest reply was
too plain to be misunderstood, and it broke
the ice at once and opened the way for a full
explanation. Then they conversed freely on

the subject, when she told him her story very
candidly and said to him: 'I am now pub
lished to Mr. Lindsey, an old gentleman who
is said to be respectable ; he is three score and
ten and I am eighteen. My father, Mr. Car-
gill, is under pecuniary embarrassment and is
indebted to Mr. Lindsey to a large amount
and he has taken advantage of this circum
stance to induce me to accept his hand. My
parents are intiraidated and see no way to ex
tricate theraselves from this situation but by
consenting to an unhallowed connection. Con
sequently, they had been worried with their
pressed circumstances, I have with painful re
luctance given my consent. And now, ray dear
friend, if you feel willing to relieve rae from
ray deplorable situation, with honor both to
yourself and me, I will cheerfully consent to
any raeasures which you may think proper.'
The result of this interview was the firm agree
ment to elope under cover of evening shadows
and have the raarriage performed by a curate
in a neighboring parish, which was done to
their mutual joy and satisfaction. Mr. Gregg
and his young wife settled in the parish of
Mausky where he pursued his business to
good advantage; went extensively into the
business of bleaching linen cloth and in the
course of a few years accumulated a handsorae
property. In the year 17 18 Mr. Gregg, with
fifteen families frora the sarae place, erabarked
on board a vessel coraraanded by Captain
Crowningshield, of Salera, bound for Araeri
ca. They landed late in the season at Casco
Bay, where they tarried the winter, and in tlie-
raonth of April carae to Nutfield, now Derry,.
where they raade a permanent settleraent."
Janet Carhill was doubtless sister of Marion.
(Cargill) wife of Rev. James MacGregor, the
minister, and of David Cargill who was one
of the most iraportant figures in the colony of
Nutfield, subsequently the town of London
derry, New Harapshire, owning the first saw
mills, fulling mill and grist miU, a raan of rauch
ability, and property, honored frequently with
positions of trust and responsibility. Captain
Gregg and wife carae with the first Scotch-
Irish in accordance with the petition to Gov
ernor Shute frora the Presbyterians of the
north of Ireland and was with the party from
this corapany who atterapted a settleraent at
Cape Elizabeth, Casco Bay. He returned to
Massachusetts, in the spring, and became one
of the first eighteen settlers of Nutfield. Dur
ing the winter there was much suffering from
cold and lack of food and many of his poorer
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and generosity of Captain Gregg. He was
chosen captain of the first military company
of Londonderry, and was one of the foremost
citizens of the town as long as he lived. He
held various town offices. Children; i. Wil
liam, a surveyor, married Janet Rankin; chil
dren ; James, Hugh, Naorai and Frances. 2.
John, raentioned below. 3. Sarauel, raarried
Mary Moore; children: Jaraes, John, David,
Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. 4. Thoraas,
raarried Ann Leslie. 5. EHzabeth, raarried
Jaraes Moore.
(II) John Gregg, son of Captain James
Gregg, was bora in Antrim, Ireland, about
1700. He married Agnes Rankin, also of
Scotch Irish stock. Children, born at London
derry : I . Jaraes, raarried Mary McCurdy ; had
five sons and three daughters. 2. Hugh, raar
ried Sarah Leslie, sister of wife of Deacon
Jaraes McPherson (or Ferson) ; settled in
New Boston, New Harapshire. 3. John. 4.
Williara, married Barbara Aiken; children:
Ebenezer, WiUiara, Jane, Rosanna and Eliza
beth. 5. George. 6. Samuel, mentioned below.
7. Joseph, raarried Susanna Aiken ; children ;
John, Nathaniel, Joseph, David A., Anne,
Margaret, Barbara, Susanna, Elizabeth, Jane
and Sarah. 8. Benjamin had children — John,
James, Lettice and Jane. 9.10. Elizabeth,
Janet, twins.
(Ill) Major Sarauel Gregg, son of John
Gregg (2), was born iri Londonderry, in 1738.
He was a substantial citizen. Besides farming
he raanufactured spinning wheels and flax
wheels. He was selectraan of Peterborough
1768 to 1 77 1, and later, and was on the com
raittee of safety in 1779, during the revolution.
He resided at Londonderry untU about 1760,
afterward at Peterborough. He was sergeant
in the French and Indian war in 1759, and
fought at Montreal under General Wolfe. He
was coraraissioned raajor when the revolution
carae, and with two hundred raen whom he
enHsted hastened to Bo^ston, arriving the day
after the battle of Bunker HiU. He married
Agnes Smiley, born 1743, died February 2,
1803, aged sixty years. ChUdren, born at Lon
donderry: I. John, February 23, 1764. 2.
Hugh, November 22, 1765 ; mentioned below.
3. Sarah, November 7, 1769; married General
David Steele. 4. Samuel, October 25, 1772.
5. George, March 15, 1775; married Sally
Moore. 6. Ann, November 14, 1778; married
 Gregg. 7. Mary, January 27, 1782. 8.
Elizabeth, October 21, 1785; married "William
Hutchins. (IV) Hugh Gregg, son of Major Samuel

Gregg, was born in Londonderry, November
22, 1765. He (or his son or nephew of the
sarae narae) settled in Watertown, Massachu
setts, when a young man. He married Betsey
Howe, whose father was a cooper in Boston.
Children ; Charles, Mary Ann, Alexander.
(V) Alexander Gregg, son of Hugh Gregg,
was bom in Watertown, June i, 1816. He
married, December 8, 1839, Anna Maria Full
er, daughter of Eben Fuller. He was for years
engaged in the cabinet making and fur
niture trade, and finally engaged in the
undertaking business at Watertown. Chil
dren, born at Watertown. i. Celia, 1841,
raarried Frank Pattee. 2. Charles, mar
ried Eraraa L. Leonardson; child: Waldo H.
3. George H., June 19, 1845 ; raentioned belo-w.
4. Alice, married Warren L. RockweU; chil
dren ; Winthrop and Abbott Rockwell. 5. Al
bert, raarried Fannie Gill (deceased).
(VI) George Herbert Gregg, son of Alex
ander Gregg (5), was born at Watertown,
June 19, 1845. He received his educational
training in the public schools of his native
town, and under the careful guidance and
tuition of his father; he was reared to habits
of industry and economy. During his early
manhood he acquired a thorough knowledge
of the cabinet making trade and the undertak
ing business, in his father's establishment at
Watertown, and not unlike his worthy Scotch
ancestors, he acquired to a marked degree
traits of fearlessness, nobility, modesty, un
tiring industry, and astute business judgment,
which stood him in good stead during his ac
tive and useful career. He did much by his
enterprise towards advancing the material as
well as the social interests of his native town.
He was public spirited and took an active in
terest in the town affairs, though he never held
or sought public office. His acts of benevolence
and kindness were many, and given with un
stinted liberality. He was broad and forbear
ing in his religious views, and always had a
kindly and sympathetic word for all. Mr.
Gregg was prominent in Masonic circles. He
was a member of Pequossette Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, at Watertown ; of New
ton Chapter Royal Arch Masons; the Royal
and Select Masters ; of Gethsemene Command
ery, Knights Templar; of Aleppo Temple,
order of the Mystic Shrine; also of Pequos
sette Lodge, American Mechanics, of Water-
town, and Watertown Lodge, Ancient Order
of United Workmen. He was a member of
the Newton Club, the Watertown Club, the
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taker's Association, and an honored member
of Isaac S. Patten Post No. 51, Grand Army.
During the civil war Mr. Gregg proved his
loyalty and patriotism, and for some time was
on duty at the Watertown Arsenal at Water-
town, New York. He was a valued citizen, a
loving husband, and an indulgent father. He
died at his home in Watertown, February 6,
1907, and it has been correctly said that he left
the impress of his individuality upon a wide
comraunity, and the priceless heritage of an
honored name to his faraily. In his religious
beliefs he was an Episcopalian, and he was one
of the organizers of the church of the Good
Shepherd, at Watertown, of which he was a
member and served for a number of years as
its first treasurer.
George Herbert Gregg married, June 19,
1873, Annie Jeanette Hinds, born May 25,
1842, daughter of Wilhara A. and Rebecca
(Lougee) Hinds. Children; i. Maud Geor
gette, born October 14, 1874, died October 27,
1874. 2. Frances A., born June 7, 1876, died
Noveraber 30, 1876. 3. Walter Hinds, born
Deceraber 17, 1881 ; see forward.
(VII) Walter Hinds Gregg, son of George
Herbert Gregg (6), received his eleraentary
educational training in the private school of
Miss Spear, at Newton, and at a private school
at Belraont, where he attended for sorae time.
He then entered Phillips Exeter Academy.
where he was prepared for college. He did
not however enter upon a college course, and
instead entered his father's office and under
taking establishment at Watertown, and under
the parental tuition learned all the technical
as well as the practical features of the busi
ness. Since his father's demise, in 1907, he has
succeeded to the management of the enter
prise, which is the leading one of its kind in
Watertown, and the high standard of efficiency
which his father had so thoroughly established
has been well maintained by the son. He is an
active member of Pequossette Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Newton Royal Arch Chap
ter; Gethsemene Commandery, Knights Tem
plar ; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine ; and La
fayette Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, at Watertown.

Henry Smith, the ancestor of this
SMITH branch of the Smith family, came
to America from England in 1637
with his wife Elizabeth and his two eldest
sons. He settled first in Dedham where, as
stated in the records of that town, he was
burned out in 1641. He went to Medfield,

Massachusetts, in 1651-52, and took up his
house lot on South street. He served on the
board of selectmen for thirteen years. He died
in 1687 and his wife in 1670. Children; i.
John, born in England, was in Dedham in
1660; later went to Medfield where he owned
a house on Canal street; in 1667 he is men
tioned as being in Taunton, and later in Marl
boro ; he raarried Lydia  . 2. Seth, born
in England, died in 1682; married, 1660, Mary
Thurston. 3. Daniel, born 1639. 4. Samuel,
see forward. 5. Joseph, born 1643, died 1661.
(II) Samuel Smith, fourth son of Henry
and Elizabeth Smith, was born 1641, probably
in Dedhara. He inherited his father's house
lot and property in Medfield. He raarried, in
1669, Elizabeth Turner, who was killed by the
Indians in an attack upon the town. He mar
ried, second, Sarah, widow of John Bowers.
He died in 1691 and his widow in 1704. Chil
dren by first wife : i. Elizabeth, born 1670, died
1671. 2. EHzabeth, born 1671, died 1704;
raarried, 1692, Eleazer Partridge. 3. Sarauel,
see forward. Children by second wife: 4.
Sarah, born 1678, died 1769; married, 1701,
Alatthias Evans; raarried, 1726, Henry Hard
ing. 5. Henry, born 1680, died 1743 ; raarried,
first, 1703, Deborah Pratt, who died 1706;
raarried, second, 1708, Mary Adaras, who died
1725; married, third, 1730, Ruth Barber. He
served on the Aledfield board of selectraen in
1737. 6. Daniel, born 1682, died 1704. 7. Na
thaniel, born 1684, married, first, 1705, Mary
Clark, who died 1717; raarried, second, 1717,
Lydia Partridge. 8. AbigaU, born 1686, died
1725; raarried, 1705, John Fisher. 9. Mary,
born 1688, married first, 1706, Henry Plimp
ton; raarried, second, 1732, Jabez Pond, of
Dedham; married, third, 1750, Joseph Wright.
10. Prudence, born 1691, raarried, 171 1, Joseph
White, of Mendon.
(HI) Samuel Smith, eldest son and third
child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Turner)
Sraith, was born in 1674. He was deacon of
the church, and filled many other positions of
trust in Medfield. He served twenty-one years
on the board of selectmen, nine years as town
clerk, and some time as town treasurer. He
was also a representative to the general court.
He raarried, in 1695, Elizabeth Adams. He
died in 1742 and his widow in 1753. Children;
I. Eleazer, born 1696, died 1768; married,
1729, Sarah Turner, who died 1763. 2. John,
born 1699, died 1699. 3. Sarauel, see forward.
4. Hannah, born 1703, died 1744; married,
1725, Benjamin Plimpton; married, second,
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died 1785; married, 1727, Nathaniel Cutter, of
Medway. 6. Jonathan, born 1708, died 1708.
7. Elisha, born 1710, died 1710. 8. Lydia, born
1712, died 1795, unraarried.
(IV) Sarauel Smith, third son of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Adams) Sraith, was born in
1700. He served six years on board of select
raen in Aledfield. He raarried Silence  .
He died in 1763 and his widow in 1778. ChU
dren; I. Keziah, bom 1722, died 1777; raar
ried, first, 1738, Isaac Boyden; raarried, sec
ond, 1772, John Cutter. 2. Abigail, born 1724,
married, 1747, Sarauel Allen, of Wrenthara,
son of Eleazer Allen. 3. George, see forward.
4. Silence, born 1728, raarried, 1750, John
Turner. 5. EHzabeth, born 1730, raarried, 1751,
Moses Hartshorn. 6. Sarauel, born 1732, died
1778, probably unraarried. 7. Hannah, born
1732, died 1732. 8. Abel, born 1734. 9. Seth,
born 1736, died 1786; raarried, 1759, Drusilla
Lyon, of Walpole, daughter of Peter Lyon;
she died 1816.
(V) George Sraith, eldest son of Sarauel and
Silence Sraith, was born in Medfield in 1726.
He received frora his father, during his life
time, some portion of his estate. He was con
stable in 1752. He raarried, in 1751, Mercy
Metcalf, of Wrenthara. He died probably in
1798. Children: i. Eliphalet, born 1751. 2.
Susanna, 1753. 3. George, 1755. 4. Silence,
1757- 5- Titus, see forward. 6. Lydia. 7.
Rogers, 1761, in Wrenthara. 8. Sarauel, 1764,
in Wrenthara.
(VI) Titus Sraith, second son and fifth child
of George and Mercy (Metcalf) Smith, was
born in Medfield in 1759, died 1805. He mar
ried, 1782, Atarah Hamant, who died in 1856.
Children; i. Titus, born 1783, died 1789. 2.
Lucretia, 1785, died 1867; married, 1805, Seth
Chenery. 3. Polly, 1787, died 1813; married,
1806, Jaraes Clark. 4. Olive, 1790, died 1880;
married, 181 1, David Clark. 5. Asa, 1792, died
1793. 6. Clark, 1795, married, 1821, CaroHne
Morse, who died in 1878. 7. Atarah, 1797,
died 1865; married, 1824, Marcus Gilraore.
8. Thoraas, 1799, died 1878; raarried, 1825,
Eliza Wadsworth, of Dover, Massachusetts.
9. Abigail, 1801, died 1829. 10. Titus, 1803,
died 1843; married, 1832, AbigaU Bennett, of
Roxbury, Massachusetts. 11. George M., see
forward. (VII) George M. Sraith, youngest son of
Titus and Atarah (Hamant) Smith, was born
in Medfield, 1806, died in 1883. He married
Joanna Plarding in 1830. Children: i. Jason,
see forward. 2. AngeUna E., born 1835.
f ATII) Jason Sraith, son of George M. and

Joanna (Harding) Smith, was born in 1832
and died in April, 1870. He was reared in
Medfield and afterward moved to Milford,
Massachusetts, where he became a machinist.
He was very prominent in Masonic circles
and in the Knight Templar Commandery of
that town. He was a member of the Univer
salist church. He raarried, first, Elizabeth
Alason Heath; raarried, second, Frances Isa
bella Murdock. Child by first wife ; George-
Harding, see forward. Child by second wife:.
Charles House, married Hannah Elizabeth;
 ; children: Isabella Frances, bora
June, 1894, and Ethel Maud, January, 1899.
(IX) George Harding Smith, son of Jasom
and Elizabeth M. (Heath) Smith, was born:
at Milford, Massachusetts, February 18, 1859..
He was reared in Medfield and educated in
the public schools. He was for a number of
years engaged in the furniture business, act
ing in the capacity of bookkeeper and confi
dential clerk of a large furniture house in-
Boston. In 1884 he entered into partnership.
with Jaraes Berwick, a sketch of whom ap
pears in this work, in the printing business,.
Air. Berwick being an excellent pressman,.
serving his tirae in Cambridge, and afterward
being employed in good offices in Boston.
They selected as a site for their plant the pret
ty village of Norwood, fourteen railes south
east of Boston, to which place two firras of
Boston printers, J. S. Gushing & Corapany and
Berwick & Sraith, determined to remove, there-
establishing an office with more light and bet
ter sanitary conditions than they could obtain
in the city, and in a town where workmen
and workwomen could live at less cost and in
a better way than would be possible in any-
raetropolis. The necessary buildings completed
the two firms removed their presses and other
material thither, and began work under new
conditions. The building is of brick, one story
high except in the middle. Its length is four
hundred and eight feet and its width eighty-
one feet. The central part is two stories, with-
a tower still higher, which also projects from
the front of the building. The north wing
is appropriated by J. S. Gushing & Company,
and the south wing is occupied by Berwick &
Sraith, who confine theraselves to presswork.
Air. Berwick, a master of his art, attends to
the problems of the printing department, while
Mr. Sraith who is a man of excellent business
qualifications, is occupied with financial mat
ters. To carry on business in the way they
intended the two firms were organized as a
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entitled the Norwood Press, for the purpose
of holding real estate and buUdings in the
town of Norwood for their rautual benefit;
otherwise, the concerns will continue to op
erate their respective businesses as heretofore.
Air. Smith married, December 2, 1886, Lau
ra Huntington Brown, daughter of Henry
Sanders and Lucretia Richardson (Janes)
Brown. Children; i. Dorothy Ehzabeth, born
April 2, 1888. 2. Henry Sanders, October 20,
1889. 3. George Harding Jr., January 17,
1894. 4. Laura Huntington, March 5, 1898.
Mrs. George Harding Smith is descended
through her grandmother, Laura Huntington
Sanders, from the Rev. Dr. David C. Sanders,
born in Sturbridge, 1768. Her father and
mother were both of Medfield, Massachusetts,
stock, though residents of Sturbridge before
their marriage. His father was Michael, son
of Daniel Sanders, who married in 171 5 Sa
rah Metcalf, bom 1683, daughter of Alichael
and EHzabeth (Bowers) Aletcalf. Michael
Metcalf was born 1650 and was son of John
Metcalf, who was born at Norwich, England,
1622, and fled to this country from religious
persecution, settling in Dedham, where he was
the founder of the Metcalf faraily. Michael
Sanders married Azubah Clark, and died in
1773- Rev. Dr. David C. Sanders graduated from
Harvard College in 1788. In 1789 he was made
preceptor in the Carabridge high school. He
studied theology with Dr. Prentiss, of Aled-
- field, taught the North school there in 1790,
and was licensed to preach in the sarae year
by the Dedham Association. He married
Nancy, daughter of Dr. Jabez Fitch, of Can
terbury, Connecticut. He was ordained pas
tor of the church in Vergennes, Vermont, in
1794. In 1798 he preached the election ser
mon. He was elected president of the Uni
versity of Vermont in 1800, and received the
degree of D. D. frora Harvard College in
1809. In 1814, the buildings, being occupied
by the American troops, his faraily left Burl
ington, Alay 14, the British flotilla appearing
before the town and bombardment being ex
pected. In September of the same year he
came to Aledfield. He was a meraber of the
convention for the revision of the constitu
tion in 1820-21. The first historical sketch of
that town was prepared by hira and delivered
as a sermon in 1817. After the division of the
church and the organization of the Orthodox
Congregational church he resigned his rainis
try. He was representative to the general
court in 1832-33-34-35, served on board of
iv— 16

selectmen repeatedly, and was on the school
committee for a number of years. He died in
1850, and his wife in the sarae year.
The following are taken frora a sermon
preached by the Rev. John Arthur Savage, of
the First Congregational Church of Medfield,
on the occasion of the two hundredth and fif
tieth anniversary of the incorporation of the
town of Aledfield, Massachusetts. "Sorae ten
months after the death of Dr. Prentiss, pastor
of the Congregational church at Medfield, a
call was unaniraously extended to the Rev.
David C. Sanders, D. D., to becorae pastor of
this church. The call was accepted and Dr.
Sanders was installed and began his rainistry
here in May, 1815. Pte was a raan of erainent
learning and talent, and his pastorate in Med
field raarks an epoch in the history, not only
of this church, but of the whole religious life
and Congregational faith of this town. Dr.
Sanders was forty-seven years of age when
he settled here, and had been the pastor of
Congregational churches in the cities of Ver
gennes and Burlington, Verraont. In October
of 1800 he had been raade president of the
University of Verraont, which position he
held sorae fifteen years, and until in the course
of the War of 1812 the Araerican troops took
possession of the college buildings as winter
quarters, thereby necessitating the suspension
of the work and practices of the institution.
Dr. Sanders was then in the prime of raiddle
life and manly and scholarly strength. He had
already published one book and sorae twenty
discourses, and Harvard, his alraa mater, had
honored him with the doctor's degree. But
the breaking up of the coUege in Burlington
was a great interruption in his career and a
heavy blow to his ambitions. He left Burling
ton with his faraily and, as has been said, set
tled here in the spring of 181 5. His parents
and grandparents had originated in this town ;
here in his youth he had studied divinity un
der the venerable Dr. Prentiss ; here he had
preached his first serraon after being licensed
as a minister by the Dedham Association in
1790. Dr. Prentiss had baptized him and ad
mitted hira to coraraunion. Naturally enough
his heart and hopes turned this way when, af
ter the disaster that had come to the college in
Burlington, your ancestors invited hira unan
iraously to becorae the successor of Dr. Pren
tiss. "He entered vigorously upon his work in
this pulpit and parish, and was soon faraous
as a preacher in all this region of country.
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installations, and on nearly all public occa
sions of importance. But the ministry of Dr.
Sanders in this place had fallen upon evil
tiraes. The very year in which he settled here
was the year that witnessed the breaking out
of the controversy in the Congregational
churches of New England between Trinitari
ans and LTnitarians. That year Dr. Morse
read the copy of Belshaw's 'Life of Lindsey'
that had been sent frora England to Harvard
College, and 'the vail was torn away'. In
less than four years frora the time John Lowell
had written and published his vigorous
paraphlet entitled 'Are you a Christian or a
Calvinist'? Dr. Channing had preached his
famous Bathraore serraon, and the first par
ish in Dedhara, raother of this church and
here at your side in the neighboring town, had
been rent in twain in a raanner peculiarly ex
asperating. Controversy and division were
in the air and in the pulpits and in the hearts
of the people. It was inevitable that Medfield
should breathe the spirit of the hour and enter
strenuously into the conflict. Dr. Sanders
foresaw the coming strife and division, and
worked faithfully and anxiously to prevent
controversy and ward off a schism in his
church. And as a matter of fact, the actual
division did not come until after Dr. Lyraan
Beecher had in May, 1827, visited the town
and preached a sermon in this pulpit at the
request of the deacons and 'without the con
sent of the pastor'. Dr. Beecher's avowed
purpose was the defense and promotion of a
stricter orthodoxy. There were at that tirae
raany disciples of Channing in this parish, as
the sequel plainly proved. On the other hand,
there were also a goodly nuraber of zealous
and conscientious evangelical believers. Dr.
Sanders, appreciating the situation and wishing
to allow freedora of thought and to raaintain
peace and union, avoided controversial themes
and always used the time-honored church
covenant, in receiving merabers, that had been
used by Dr. Prentiss and his predecessors. But
all these precautions and efforts to harraonize
conflicting eleraents were unavailing, and not
long after Dr. Beecher's visit the actual and
permanent division of the parish occurred.
Seventeen merabers withdrew from the church
of the First Parish, and Febmary 6, 1828, or
ganized the Second Congregational Church of
this town. Those were foUowed by nineteen
others that same year among whom were
some of the best raembers in the church, in
cluding, with others, the widow and two
daughters of Dr. Prentiss. The large raajority

that reraained in the First Church and Parish
then seeraed to insist that the preaching and
the covenant should be raore distinctly Uni
tarian. In this Dr. Sanders did not sufficient
ly coraply with their wishes, and on March
2, 1829, a vote was passed by the parish dis
solving the pastoral relation at the request of
the pastor himself. This vote took effect on
the 24th of the following May".
Children of Rev. Dr. David C. Sanders: I.
Laura H., born 1798, died 1870; married,
1818, Slade D. Brown, of New York, who
was born in Porter, Rhode Island, January
10, 1794, son of David and Mercy (Slade)
Brown. David Brown was born in Swanzey,
Massachusetts, 1769; his wife was born there
October 19, 1767. Mary Brown, sister of
Slade D. Brown, was born in Hartford, New
Harapshire, August 27, 1795. Slade D. and
Laura H. Brown had two children : Henry
Sanders, see forward. Helen Maria, raarried
Robert Roberts, died 1876 in Fraraingham. 2.
Miranda W., raarried, 1822, Araos Parker, of
Concord, New Hampshire. 3. Henry P., born
1804, was a physician, died 1835. Besides
these one son and four daughters died in
childhood. Henry Sanders Brown, son of Slade D. and
Laura Huntington (Sanders) Brown, was
born May 27, 1820. He raarried, October 2,
1848, Lucretia Richardson Janes, born 1826,
died 1879, daughter of Walter and Lucretia
(Richardson) Janes. Children: i. AValter
Janes, died young. 2. Helen Sanders, unmar
ried, resides on old Sanders homestead in
Aledfield. 3. Laura Huntington, married, De
cember 2, 1886, George Harding Smith.
Gregory Stone, immigrant an-
STONE cestor, was baptized in Great
Bromley, county Essex, England,
April 19, 1592. According to his own depo
sition, made September 18, 1658, he was born
in 1591 or 1592, his age at that time being
given as about sixty-seven years. His age
at death, November 30, 1672, was given as
eighty-two. He was born, therefore, in all
probability, in 1591, and was the son of Da
vid and Ursula Stone, grandson of Simon
and Agnes Stone, all of England. His fath
er was not Rev. Timothy, as formerly sup
posed. He had a brother, Simon, who also
emigrated to America, sailing in the ship "In
crease", AprU 15, 1635; settled in Watertown;
was admitted freeman May 25, 1636; was a
town officer and deacon; died September 22,
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been erroneously supposed to be brothers of
Gregory. Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hartford,
Connecticut, was not a brother.
Gregory Stone was admitted a freeman with
his brother Simon, May 25, 1636. He was a
proprietor of Watertown, but resided most of
his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had
some famous orchards for his day. His farm
was on the present site of the Botanic Gar
dens of Harvard University. He was one
of the most prominent men of his day ; deputy
to the general court ; was deacon of the church
and served thirty-four years, being the last
survivor of the original membership; was a
civil magistrate and one of the governor's
deputies. His will, proved December 14, 1672,
mentions his wife Lydia, and her children by
a former husband — John Cooper and Lydia
Fiske; his sons, Daniel, David, John and
Samuel; daughter Elizabeth Porter; daugh
ter Sarah, wife of David Merriam; grandson
John, son of David Stone. Gregory Stone mar
ried in England, July 20, 1617, Margaret Gar-
rad, born December 5, 1597, died August,
1626, in England. He married, second, Ly
dia Cooper, widow, who died June 24, 1674.
Her son by her former husband was John,
married Anne Sparhawk ; her daughter Lydia
married David Fiske. Children of Gregory
and Margaret Stone; i. John, born July 31,
1618, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, baptized
July 15, 1620, settled in Cambridge, Alassa
chusetts; married Mary  ; was a phy
sician. 3. David, baptized September 22,
1622, resided at Cambridge; married thrice
— Elizabeth  , Dorcas  and Han
nah  . 4. Elizabeth, born 1624, baptized
October 3, buried in Nayland, England. Chil
dren of Gregory and Lydia Stone. 5. Eliza
beth, baptized March 6, 1628, married An
thony Porter. 6. Samuel, baptized February
4, 1630, died September 27, 1715; resided at
Watertown; married, second, June 7, 1655,
Abigail  . 7. Sarah, baptized February
8, 1632, died 1677; married, July 12, 1653,
Joseph Merriam. The foregoing were all bap
tized in the church at Nayland, England.
(II) John Stone, son of Gregory Stone
(i), was baptized at Nayland, England, July
31, 1618, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
May 5, 1683. He removed to Sudbury with
the early settlers ; was a proprietor there and
shared in three divisions of the comraon lands.
He bought of the Indians at Natick, May 15,
1656, ten acres of land on the south side of
the Sudbury river, and his purchase was con
firmed by the general court in 1656, together

with another grant of fifty acres of land for
special services, etc. He added to the tract
that he already owned in what is now the vil
lage of Saxonville, in Framinghara, until he
owned a very large stretch of land. He built
his house where the present railroad station is
located in Saxonville. He also built the first
house in the present village of Cochituate,
then part of Sudbury, now in the town of
Wayland. He built in all six houses in Sud
bury and Framinghara, and built the first raill
in Fraraingham, in 1659, at the falls now
known as Stone's Mills; a cord raill, and his
son Daniel, built there the first saw raill. He
was elected fence viewer in 1654; town clerk
in 1655 ; and was adraitted a freeman in 1665.
In 1645 he sold his house in Sudbury to John
Aloore and was the first to build his house in
Fraraingham. He located also without having
a grant, at Otter Neck, on the west side of
Sudbury in 1646-7. He married in 1638 Anne
Howe, born in England, daughter of Elder
Edward and Margaret Howe, both natives of
England. Children; i. Hannah, born June
6, 1640, married, July i, 1658, John Bent. 2.
Alary, married, first, Isaac Hunt ; second, April
30, 1 68 1, Eliphalet Fox. 3. Daniel, born Au
gust 31, 1644. 4. David, October 31, 1646,
married Susanna  . 5. Elizabeth, 1650,
married, 1678, Samuel Stow. 6. Margaret,
October 22, 1653, married, January 11, 1695,
William Brown. 7. Tabitha, May 20, 1655,
married, November 3, 1674, John Rice 8. Sa
rah, September 2, 1656, raarried Jacob HiU.
9. Nathaniel, May 11, 1660. raentioned below.
10. John, non compos mentis. 11.  ,
died young. 12.  , died young.
(Ill) Nathaniel Stone, son of John Stone
(2), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts,
May II, 1660. He lived near the present site
of the Saxonville MiUs. He was a prorainent
citizen; selectraan for several years and hon
ored with other positions of trust and respon
sibility. He died in 1732. He married, April
25, 1684, Sarah Wayt, of Maiden. Children:
I. Nathaniel, born October 15, 1685. 2. Eb
enezer, April 16, 1688. 3. Jonathan, March
24, 1690. 4. Isaac. 5. John, April 13, 1702,
maried Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Samuel
Stone, of Sudbury, and resided at Rutland. 6.
Mary, Deceraber 19, 1705, married 
Coggin. 7. Sarah, October 12, 1708, married
 Carter. 8. Hezekiah, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain Hezekiah Stone, son of Na
thaniel Stone (3), was born in Framingham,
Massachusetts, Alarch 5, 1710-11. He was a
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He received from his father the horaestead
"Bridgefield" and his interest in Baiting Brook
Meadow. He lived near Major J. Stone's, a
cellar hole there raarking the location. He
held the office of selectraan and other places
of trust. He reraoved to Oxford, Massachu
setts, where he died July i8, 1771. He raar
ried Ruth Howe, of Sudbury. She raarried,
second, Deacon Bancroft,, of Ward (now Au
burn). Children; i. Eliphalet, born De
cember 5, 1735, mentioned below. 2. Jesse,
September 28, 1737. 3. Hepsibah, July 8,
1 74 1, married Jereraiah Belknap. 4. Ruth,
February 10, 1743, raarried John Earaes. 5.
Sarah, February 24, 1746, married  Da
vis, of Oxford. 6. Lois, August 3, 1749, mar
ried Uriah Stone, of Oxford. 7. Israel, Jan
uary 2, 1752, died in Ward. 8. Hezekiah,
May 27, 1755.
(V) Eliphalet Stone, son of Hezekiah Stone
(4), was born in Fraraingham, Massachusetts,
Deceraber 5-, 1735. Married Lydia Goddard,
born Septeraber 4, 1737, daughter of Williara
and Keziah (Cloyes) Goddard, of BerUn,
Massachusetts. They reraoved to Marlbor
ough, New 'Harapshire, in 1771, and he be
carae a leading citizen; deacon of the church
and town officer. He purchased of his broth
er-in-law, Moses Goddard, a lot of land near
Stone Pond, now comprising the farra owned
by Clark. Hill and the one adjoining, lately
owned by Curtis F. Hunt. He was a soldier
in the revolution in Captain Jaraes Lewis's
company of Marlborough; Colonel E. Hale's
regiment to reinforce the northem array.
He died February 9, 1817; his wife March
18, 1821. Children; i. Calvin, born in Fram
ingham, January 11, 1761. 2. Beulah, born in
Fraraingham, raarried Jonathan Frost, of
Marlborough. 3. John, mentioned below. 4.
Shubael, born December 14, 1765. 5. Cyn
thia, born 1768, married, March 29, 1796,
John Farrar, of Marlborough. 6. Ruth, born
in 1770, niarried, March 15, 1796, Silas Ray
raond, of Rindge, New Hampshire. 7. Abi
gail, born in 1772, married Phinehas Farrar.
8. Luther, born November 17, 1775, died in
New Orleans in 1806, unraarried. 9. Patty,
born January 13, 1777, drowned in Stone
Pond, July 25, 1784. 10. Asa, born December
I, 1779, died April 14, 1785.
(VI) Captain John Stone, son of Eliphalet
Stone (5), was born in Fraraingham, Massa
chusetts, in 1764, reraoved with the family
when a young boy to Marlborough, New
Plampshire. His farra was north of Stone
Pond, the line between Dublin and Alarlbor

ough running through the center of his house.
He was captain of the militia company and a
citizen of prorainence. He raarried first, Eliz
abeth Stanley, who died November 4, 181 3;
he married, second-, Mrs. Rebecca. (Coolidge)
AVard, who died October 24, 1856. He died
April 18, 1849. Children of Captain John
and EHzabeth Stone: i. John, born May 20,
1788, died November 29, 1804. 2. Polly, No
vember 22, 1789, rtiarried Seth Fisher and re
moved to Prancestown. 3. Betsey, October
2, 1791, married Jesse Worsley; died 1833.-
4. Abigail, November 15, 1793, married, Jan
uary 15, 1815, Robert Hardy; removed to.
Rutland. 5. Andrew, October 11, 1796,.
married Hannah Shirtleff, of Water-
town, New York; died 1833. 6- Martha,.
January 19, 1798, raarried Socrates Fay;
removed to Framingham. 7. Silas, Jan
uary 12, 1800. 8. Aaron, February 28, 1802,.
mentioned below. 9. Mahala, February 20„
1804, died October, 1804. 10. Mahala, Au
gust 8, 1806, raarried, Jnne, 1831, Ftancis-
Coolidge; removed to Framingham. Ii. Ly
dia, June 4, 1808; married, April 13, 1830,.
Benjamin Alcott, of Keene. 12. Emeline, May
8, iSio, married, June, 1831, Peter Lawson;;
removed to Lowell, Massachusetts. 13.
Louisa, January 14, 1812, died January 14,
1867. Children of Captain John and Rebec
ca Stone; 14. John C, August 22, 1819. 15.
CaroHne E., August 28, 1821, married, Febru
ary 15, 1849, William J. Logan, of Bellows
Falls, Verraont. 16. Ruth Helen, February
24, 1824, married Fred Rogers, of Bellows
Falls. 17. George H., December 21, 1825,
married Mrs. Starkweather,, of Walpole, New-
Hampshire; reraoved to BeUows Falls.
(VII) Aaron Stone, son of Captain John
Stone (6), was born in Marlborough, New
Harapshire, February 28, 1802, married, June
12, 1828, Mary Ward, daughter of Reuben-
and Rebecca (Coolidge) Ward. The latter
married his father, as his second wife. Chil
dren, born in Marlborough: i. Ellen R., De
cember 16, 1830. 2. Eliza Ann, January 4,
1833. 3. Mary Jane, December 7, 1836. 4.
Andrew C, mentioned below.
(VIII) Andrew Coolidge Stone, son of"
Aaron Stone (7), was born in Marlborough,
New Hampshire, March 16, 1839. He was.
educated in the public schools of his native
town and attended sundry terms in the
academies of Meriden and Ipswich, New
Hampshire, Westminster, A/'ermont, graduat
ing at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hamp
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teaching school in Walpole, New Ipswich,
Keene and Peterborough, New Hampshire,
but having chosen the law as his profession
commenced to study in the office of Hon. Dan
iel Saunders, of Lawrence, in 1861. Upon
the breaking out of the civil war he postponed
his legal studies for the duty of the hour and
enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers, served with credit
to the close of the war. Then he resumed his
study of law in the office of Hon. L. Sherwin
at Ashtabula, Ohio, and was adraitted to the
bar in 1867. Iraraediately afterward he estab
lished himself in the practice of his profession
at Lawrence, Massachusetts, and speedily won
and held an honorable position as a lawyer.
Mr. Stone's ambition has not led him much
into political life and therefore he has never
sought public eraployment. The first public
office that he held was that of member of the
coraraon council of Lawrence, of which body
he was president. He is a Republican and for
a number of years was an active and influen
tial member of the Republican state central
¦committee of Alassachusetts. He was chair
man of the Republican city committee in 1884
and delegate to the Republican National con
vention at Chicago in 1884. He holds the ju
dicial commission of master in chancery. He
was elected state senator from his district for
1880 and 1882 and served with credit on the
judiciary and railroad committees. In 1885
he was appointed city solicitor and in 1887 re
ceived the appointraent to his present position
as justice of the police court of Lawrence. He
is prominent in the Masonic Order, being past
raaster of Phenician Lodge of Lawrence;
meraber of Mount Sinai Royal Arch Chapter ;
raeraber of Bethany Coramandery, Knights
Templar ; past senior grand warden and per
manent member of the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts. In the Grand Army he was
commander of Post 39, at Lawrence, in 1881,
and judge advocate on the staff of the com
mander of the Department of Massachusetts
for 1888. He is a member of the Horae Club
of Lawrence and has been its president. He
¦married at Ashtabula, Ohio, January 19, 1869,
Mary F. Hulbert, daughter of Joseph D. and
Lucinda (Hall) Hulbert of that place. They
have no children.

Thomas Pinnock (i) was a
PINNOCK wool sorter in Durssey,
Gloucestershire, England, and
was born there, in that ancient shire from
which came the first colony of adventurers

who in 1623 planted a settlement on Cape
Ann, within the limits of the present city of
Gloucester in Massachusetts. Thomas Pin
nock came to America in 1827, settled first in
Lowell, and about two years later removed to
North Billerica, where he died at the age of
about forty years. He was industrious and
hardworking, and was rauch respected in the
town in which he lived. He raarried Sarah
Lewith, also a native of Dursey, and who Hved
to. attain the reraarkable age of ninety-six
years. She bore her husband two children.
The elder child, Sarah, was born in 1814, and
was thirteen years old when she carae with
her parents to Araerica. She married first a
Mr. Collins, by whom she had a large family
of children, six of whom grew to maturity.
Her second husband was a Mr. Culinana, by
whom she had two children. She died in 1906,
aged ninety years.
(II) Thomas Pinnock, son of Thomas and
Sarah (Lewith) Pinnock, was born in old
Gloucestershire, England, in 181 7 and died
in Salem, Massachusetts, October 22, 1877.
He was a boy of ten years when he came to
America, and when old enough was appren
ticed to the trade of slate roofing. Afterward
he worked as a journeyman roofer until 1857,
when he went to Salera and set up in busi
ness for hiraself. He continued as sole pro
prietor until 1872, when his son Thoraas be
came partner in the business and the firra
narae becarae Thoraas Pinnock & Son. Mr.
Pinnock died October 22, 1877, having been
in active business in Salera for a period of
twenty years. He was the pioneer in his line
of trade in. the city, and under the proprietor
ship of his father and son in succession the
business has been carried on for more than a
half century without interruption and with
gratifying success. Mr. Pinnock was a raan
of quiet habits, a Republican in politics, but
not active in that field. He was brought up
under the influence of the Church of Eng
land, but in Salera he attended services at the
Tabernacle Church (Congregational). He
presented the Essex Institute with the oldest
edition (St. James) of the Bible on exhibi
tion there. He raarried Ann Lewis, born in
Hyde, Lancashire, England, April 18, 1827,
daughter of Widow Mary Lewis, who carae to
this country about 1835, her children foUow
ing soon afterward. Air. and Airs. Pinnock
had two children, Elizabeth and Thoraas
Goodwin. Elizabeth was born February,
1849, and lives with her brother. She never
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(Ill) Thomas Goodwin Pinnock, only son
of Thoraas and Ann (Lewis) Pinnock, was
born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Noveraber i,
185 1, and was a boy of six years when his
father reraoved to Salem. He attended the
public schools and afterward was a pupil in
the Salera grararaar school, but left early to
learn the trade of slate roofing with his fath
er. On reaching his raajority his father took
hira as partner in the firra of Thomas Pin
nock & Son, and five years later, upon the
death of the senior partner, he becarae sole
proprietor. Thus it is by the succession of
the son to the interest of his father that May
or Pinnock is proprietor of the oldest business
concern of its kind in Salera, and both father
and son were self-made men in every respect.
The mayor himself never owned a dollar that
he didn't earn, and about the first money he
did earn was thirty-five cents paid him for
picking up onions when he was a little boy.
It may be said without any enlargement of
fact that forraer Mayor Pinnock is probably
one of the raost widely acquainted raen in Sa
lera, and if it were perraissible to pay hira a
corapliraent here, it might be said with equal
truth that he probably is one of the most pop
ular men in Salem today, and that notwith
standing the fact that he has been more or less
active in city politics for the last ten or fif
teen years. Mayor Pinnock did not enter Sa
lera raunicipal politics because of any desire
for public office, nor even for the eraoluraent
thereof, for during the years he was in the
raayor's chair his expenditures were consid
erable in excess of his salary. He was mera
ber of the board of aldermen in 1899 and
1900, was elected raayor in the fall of 1905,
re-elected in 1906, but declined to stand as a
candidate for a third term. At the tirae of his
first candidacy he consented to take the nora
ination only after rauch urging on the part of
pro.minent business men who knew hira to be
well fitted for the office, and the same con
siderations again were presented a year later ;
and during both terras he acquitted himself
well and to the entire satisfaction of the best
eleraent of the taxpaying population of Salem.
He is a mason of high degree and raeraber of
many other fraternal, benevolent and philan
thropic bodies of the city. In 1879 he was
made a raember of Essex Lodge, F. and A.
M., and has been at the head of that and all
other of the subordinate bodies of the craft;
he is possessor of an interesting collection of
past officers' jewels. Besides the lodge he
is a meraber of Washington Chapter, R. A.

Al., Salera Council, R. and S. M., and Aleppo
Teraple, A. A. O. N. M. S. ; member of Essex
Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Naumkeag Encampment,
P. M. ; raeraber and past chancellor of North
Star Lodge, K. P. ; past president and pres
ent treasurer of the Salera Mechanics Charit
able Association; member of Salem Lodge,
B. P. O. E., the Essex Institute and of the
Salera Board of Trade.
On January 18, 1878, Mr. Pinnock married
Emma Augusta, daughter of Thomas Little
field, of Kennebunkport, Maine. Of this mar
riage four children have been born: i. Ha
rold, died when only a few days old. 2. A
son, died in extreme infancy. 3. Thomas
Wellington, born Salera, April 18, 1891, stu
dent at Salera high school. 4. Lorna, born
Salem, January 18, 1894. Thomas Welling
ton and Lorna Pinnock, son and daughter of
Thoraas Goodwin and Emma Augusta (Lit
tlefield) Pinnock, are descendants of the sixth
generation of Williara Pinnock, of London,
England, once a faraous scholar and writer of
school and other books. He was a great-uncle
of Thoraas Pinnock, the wool sorter, who
came to this country in 1827.
As raight be expected
FOLLANSBEE frora present variations
in spelling of the sur
name FoUansbee, or FoUansby, the early rec
ords fumish an unusual variety of spellings.
Falambee, Falansby, Folansbe, Folensbie, Fo-
lansby, Folinsbe, FoUansbe, FoUensbee, Fol-
lensbury, FoUensby, FoUingbe, Follingbee,
FoUingsby, FolUnsbee, FoUisbee, FoUinsby,
FoUnsbe, Fallonsbee and Folnsby; while in
England the spelling showed as many varia
tions, but for the past century has been spelled
Foliambe and Foljarabe The "s" sound
seeras to have been added in America. It is
doubtless a norraan family, dating back in
England to the Conquest in 1066. When the
mania for discovering great estates in Eng
land for Araerican heirs becarae a profitable
enterprise, a FoUansbee estate was conjured
up, an association formed, and an agent set at
work in England. Judging from the report
there was not even a family of importance
using the spelling in vogue in America. A
few wills were presented and one parish or
village named FoUansbee was discovered in
Durham. The coat-of-arms of the Foliambe family of
Croxdon, county Stafford, England; Sable a
bend between six escallops or with a bordure
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.quarterly or and sa., spurred of the first on
the thigh a fesse indented gules, the arms and
crest charged with a crescent for difference.
This family is a branch of the following, and
as there is but one coat-of-arms the American
family seems entitled to use it. The family in
Walton, Linacre Hall, Derbyshire, and Ald-
wark, county York, spells the narae with a "j".
The progenitor was Sir Thomas Fuljarabe, of
Oberton, bailiff of High Pearth, Derbyshire,
in 1272, soon after the beginning of the use of
surnaraes in England. The original arras he
bore were; Sable a bend between six escal
lops or. Another branch of the family in
Yorkshire uses, according to Burke, the same
device. (I) Thomas FoUansbee, immigrant ances
tor, born in England, about 1640, came to
America when a young man and settled at
Newbury, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. He married first, before
1672, Mary  , and second, Sarah —  ,
who died probably November 4, 1683, at New
bury, and he married third, April 4, 1713, at
Newbury, Jane Mossman, of Boston. He was
of Portsmouth in 1665 and 1671 ; of Newbury
in 1677 and later. He was the ancestor of all
of this name in America, so far as discovered.
He was living as late as 171 3 and probably in
1 72 1. Children; i. Rebecca, born about
1660; married November 22, 1677, Thomas
Chase (2). 2. Anne, married, November 10,
1684, Aloses Chase; she died before 1713. 3.
Mary, born about 1667 ; married December i,
1686, Robert Pike; second, about 1691, Will
iam Hooke. 4. 'Thomas, born about 1671 ;
mentioned below. 5. Francis, born October
22, 1677. 6. Hannah, born April 10, 1680.
(II) Thomas FoUansbee Jr., son of Thom
as Fallansbee (i), was born in Newbury,
about 1 67 1. He was an innholder and a
housewright. He married first, June 19, 1694,
Abigail Rolfe; second, after 1724, Mary —
 . His v.'iU was dated July 30, 1753, and
proved June 23, 1755. Children, born at New
bury: I. Mary, AprU 24, 1695; married,
April 17, 1712, Philip Chase. 2. Thomas,
March 26, 1697; married January 5, 1715-6, at
Newbury, Hannah March. 3. Francis, raen
tioned below. 4. William, March 14, 1701,
married 1722, Mary Robinson, of Exeter, New
Hampshire. (Ill) Francis FoUansbee, son of Thomas
Follansbee (2), was born in Newbury, June
13, 1699; married there, December 15, 1719,
Judith, daughter of Thomas Moody (3). His
will was dated January 23, 1747-8, and proved

February 15 following. Children, born in
Newbury : i. Judith, November 2, 1720; raar
ried  Spofford. 2. Anne, November 6,
1722; married  Noyes. 3. Francis, No
vember 10, 1724. 4. Abigail, February
28, 1726. 5. Moody, November 6, 1729;
soldier in revolution. 6. Hannah, born after
^730. 7. John, mentioned below. 8. Sarah,
(lA^) John Follansbee, son of Francis Fol
lansbee (3), was born in Newbury about 1732.
(V) Benjamin FoUansbee, son or nephew
of John Follansbee (4), was born in New
bury about 1760, removed to Salisbury, and
thence to Pittston, Maine. He was a prom
inent ship-builder in his day. He was a soldier
in the revolution, a private in Captain Henry
Alorrill's corapany. Colonel Caleb Cushing's
regiraent, on the Lexington alarra. He was a
taxpayer in Pittston in 1803. ChUdren: i.
Child, born 1788, died at Salisbury, March
26, 1797, aged eight and a half, drowned. 2.
Benjarain, raentioned below. 3. John. 4. Sam
uel. 5. Daniel. The last three paid poll taxes
in Pittston, Maine, in 1803.
(VI) Benjamin Follansbee, son of Benja
min Follansbee (5), was born in Newbury or
Salisbury, Massachusetts, about 1780. He
was a minute-raan in the war of 1812. He
followed in his father's footsteps as a ship
builder. He was but eleven years of age when
the faraily located in Pittston, and he spent
his active life in that town. He raarried Eliz
abeth, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Ken
ney, a native of Maine. He was a devout and
prominent meraber of the Congregational
church, and for many years was a deacon.
Children, born at Pittston: i. Alonzo, raar
ried Mary Mcintosh. 2. Benjarain A., men
tioned below. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jaraes Crow
ell. 5. George, died young. 6. Emeline, mar
ried Eliphalet Lapham. 7. George, settled in
California. (VII) Benjamin A. FoUansbee, son of Ben
jamin Follansbee (6), was born in Pittston,
Maine, in 1816, and was educated in the
schools of that state. When a young raan he
shipped before the mast and for many years
he followed the sea, rising to the rank of
master raariner. He sailed for the raost part
from New York City to Calcutta, China, Ja
pan and the east. He was lost at sea in 1872,
aged fifty-six. He raarried Apphia A. R. Ty
ler, born at Georgetown, D. C, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Pillsbury) Tyler. She
is a Congregationalist in religion. Airs. Fol
lansbee survives at an advanced age, residing
with her daughter in Amesbury, Massachu-

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setts. Children: i. Williara T., married An
nette Pettingill. Their only child was ; Ellen
W. 2. Alice C, raentioned below.
(VIII) AHce C. Follansbee, daughter of
Captain Benjamin A. FoUansbee (7) was born
Amesbury, Alassachusetts. She was educated
in private schools at Amesbury and at Brad
ford (Massachusetts) Acaderay, where she
was graduated in 1873. She has lived in the
old horae at Amesbury with her mother, who
is now eighty-six years old (1907). Miss Fol
lansbee is librarian of the Araesbury Public
Library. Her assistants in the management of
this institution at present are Miss Alice D.
Brown and^ Miss Ruth E. Osborne. The
library is well equipped and conducted along
modern lines. AJiss Follansbee is a raeraber
of the Congregational Church of Amesbury.

This name dates back to the be-
CHILD ginning of the use of surnaraes.
It was spelled in raany ways —
Childe, Chyld, Chylde, etc., — ^but seldora with
an "s" added. Sorae branches of the ChUd
faraily in Araerica use the foUowing coat-of-
arms. Gules, a chevron engrailed ermine, be
tween three eagles close argent. Crest, an
eagle wings expanded enveloped with a snake
proper. Motto, "Iraitare quam invidere".
(I) WiUiam Child, one of the early emi
grants to the Massachusetts colony, appears
to have been the brother of Ephraim Child,
who settled in Watertown, and to have corae
with his brother or shortly before him. He
was made a freeraan in 1634, and was a raan
of some landed estate. He married probably
in England, and his eldest son was probably
born there. His widow is mentioned in the
wiU of Mrs. EHzabeth (Palmer) Child, wife
of Ephraira, who left to her some of her ward
robe. William's sons were also raentioned in
the wiU of Ephraira Child. Children; i. Jo
seph, born about 1629; married 1654, Sarah
Piatt. 2. Richard, born in Watertown, Massa
chusetts, 1631 ; married first, March 30, 1662,
Mehitable Diraick; second, January 16, 1678,
Hannah Traine. 3. John, raentioned below.
(II) John Child, son of Williara Child (i),
was born in Watertown, in 1636. He was a
prominent man in the colonies, and was rep
resentative to the general court. By a nun
cupative will witnessed by his brother Rich
ard and two others he left to his eldest son
John his "dwelling house with its lot of
twelve acres, also some meadow land, and
the reversion of all lands upon the little
plains" His youngest son Daniel received the

farm lands. He died October 15, 1676, aged
forty. He married first, Mary  ; sec
ond. May 29, 1668, Mary Warren, born No
vember 29, 1651, granddaughter of John War
ren, who carae to Araerica in the "Arabella"
with Governor Winthrop in 1630. She mar
ried again, and died May 12, 1734, aged
eighty-three Children ; i . Mary, born Jan
uary 8, 1663. 2. John, born April 25, 1669;
married, October 5, 1693, Hannah French. 3.
Eliza, born July 24, 1670. 4. Daniel, men
tioned below.
(Ill) Daniel ChUd, son of John Child (2),
was bora June 5, 1677, and died in 1724. He
married January 29, 1702, Beriah Bemis. She
niarried second, August 12, 1736, Joseph
Pierce, and died aged eighty-eight. Children:
I. Sarah, born Septeraber 14, 1702; married,
June 13, 1734, John Fisk. 2. Susanna, born
March 6, 1705. 3. Elizabeth, born February
18, 1707; married, July 21, 1725, Deacon
Isaac Stearns, of AA'althani, Massachusetts. 4.
Daniel, born April 9, 1709; raentioned below.
5. David, born Deceraber 27, 171 1, married
first, October 23, 1737, Grace Brown; sec
ond, Mehitable Richardson. 6. John, born
December 2, 1713; raarried August 15, 1758,
Ruhanna Pierce. 7. Joshua, born March 2,
1717; married .April 30, 1741, Grace Bemis.
8. Samuel, born February 7, 1719; raarried
first, October 19, 1745, Mary BaU; married
second, Esther  ; married third, April
8, 1799, Airs. Elizabeth Stirapson. 9. Elisha,
bom February 16, 1721 ; married first, Mary
 ; second, Alehitable Garfield. 10. Mary,
born June 10, 1722; niarried Alarch 11, 1743,
Joseph AA^hitney of AA'eston.
(IV) Daniel Child, son of Daniel Child
(3), was born in AA^aterfown, April 9, 1709.
Pie raarried January 13, "1729, Mary, daughter
of Nathaniel Bright. He was a selectraan of
Waltham, where he settled. Children, born in
Waltham; i. Anna, July 6, 1730. 2. Daniel,
April 26, 1732; died May, 1733. 3. Abijah,
January 12, 1734; mentioned below. 4. Dan
iel, February 21, 1736. 5. Lydia, February
25- 1738; raarried October 26, 1758, William
Flagg. 6. Sarah, August 11, 1740; married
January 2, 1760, WUliam Benjamin. 7. Jonas,
Septeraber 30, 1743; raarried January 11,
1770, Hannah Sanderson. 8. Mary, October
14, 1745; married October 6, 1763, William
Hagar of Walthara. 9. Bettie, March 9, 1748;
died September 24, 1751. 10. Josiah, June 17,
1750; died Septeraber 24, 1757. n. Ephraim,
baptized June 30, 1754.
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was born in Waltham, January 12, 1734. He
was captain in the Twenty-Fifth regiment.
Continental army, in the revolution, in 1775.
He was selectman of Waltham in 1774-5 and
1787. He married first, December 15, 1759,
Beulah Harrington; second, December 2,
1790, Ann Bemis. Children, born in .Wal
tham, all by first wife; i. Ephraim, July 26,
1760; married November 6, 1784, Lydia Liv
ermore 2. Abijah (twin), January 14, 1762;
¦died young. 3. Beulah (twin), January 14,
1762; married February 16, 1786, WiUiam
Benjamin. 4. Sarah, June 2, 1764; died July 14,
1769. 5. Daniel, July 3, 1766; married Jan
uary 7, 1787, Phebe Parks. 6. William, May
14, 1768; mentioned below. 7. Phebe, No
vember 4, 1769. 8. Edward, January 12, 1772.
9. EHzabeth, December 8, 1773 ; married No
vember 23, 1802, Antepas Alaynard. 10. An
na, November 8, 1775; married April i, 1791,
Nathaniel Carter. 11. Abijah, January 25,
1779; married 1807, Polly Sanderson.
(VI) William Child, son of Abijah Child
(5),' was born May 14, 1768, and died about
1820. He removed to Maine with the family
¦of David Marshall, and settled iri what was
then called Sudbury, Canada, now Bethel,
Maine. Attacked by the Indians, the inhab
itants were compelled to flee, and this family
located in Minot, Maine. Here he raarried,
about 1790, Anna Washburn, and reraoved to
Livermore, Maine, where he settled upon a
farm. He was a man of liberal religion. Chil
dren: I. Lewis Washburn, born 1793; ship
ped in Decatur's fleet in 1815, sailed to the
Mediterranean, and was never afterwards
heard from. 2. Joseph, born January 5, 1795;
married first, 1816, Olive Woodsum; second,
1841, Dorcas Andrews. 3. Williara, born
April, 1797; raarried 1816, Lucinda Wood-
sum. 4. Anna, born 1799 ; married John Per
ham. 5. True Woodman, born 1802 ; raarried
 Smith. 6. Elisha, born 1804; drowned
when about twenty years of age. 7. Gran
ville, born 1806; married Esther Godding. 8.
Marshall, born 1808; mentioned below. 9.
Aurelia, born 1810; raarried EHjah Farring
ton. ID. EHza, born 1813; married Sulivan
Andrews. 11. Adelphia, born 181 6; married
first, WiUiam Bradford ; second, John Gor
don. (VII) Marshall Child, son of William
Child (6), was born in Livermore, Maine,
January 25, 1808. He received a common
school education, and when a young man set
tled in Livermore, Maine, where he took up
some land and built a sraall house. Here he

reraained until i860, when he moved to Peru,
Oxford county, Maine. In 1867 he returned
to Livermore and died in the winter of 1889-
90. He was a Universalist in religion and a
Republican in politics, being a worker for his
party, though he would never accept office.
He was a Mason. He married first, in 1830,
Olive Stetson of Hartford, Maine; second,
Sarah Haskell. Children of first wife, born
in Liverraore, Maine; i. Martha, January 2,
1834; died March 24, 1864. 2. Hirara, Au
gust 18, 1835. 3. Asa, born August 14, 1837;
a soldier in the Union service. 4. Horaer,
September 2, 1839. 5. Martha P., April 21,
1841. 6. Harriet E., May 26, 1844. 7. Em
erson (twin). May 11, 1846; died in United
States service. 8. Elihu (twin). May 11,
1846; died in United States service. 9. Al
bert, February 17, 1849; died AprU 20, 1864.
10. Elmer P., Deceraber 12, 1850; died De
cember 19, 1865. II. Francis O., March 13,
1854; died. July 23, 1855. Child of second
wife; 12. Albert M., raentioned below.
(VIU) Albert M. Child, son of Marshall
Child (7), was born in Peru, Maine, January
2, 1867. He received his early education in the
public schools of Livermore, Maine, graduat
ing frora the high school in 1885. He taught
school for a time and then worked at the trade
of shoemaker in factories in Mansfield, Salem
and Haverhill, Massachusetts, for a period of
sixteen years. He has resided in Haverhill
since 1890, and May i, 1904, was elected sec
retary of the Haverhill Board of Trade, a po
sition he has since filled with conspicuous
credit. He is a Republican, and has been ac
tive in the raanageraent of the party and in
the support of its candidates. In 1902 he was
elected to the comraon council from Ward
Two, and re-elected the, following year and
chosen president of the council for 1903. He
was the candidate at the Republican caucus for
raayor of the city in 1904, and made a good
run. He was elected overseer of the poor
January i, 1904, and continues to hold this
office. He is a raember of the Lincoln Club
of Haverhill. Mr. Child has demonstrated
unusual executive ability, and possesses those
qualities of mind and character that attract
the confidence and friendship of raen. Few
raen in the city are better known or raore pop
ular with all classes of people. He married,
February 18, 1892, Celia G., born Naples.
Maine, daughter of George P. and Abbie
(Lord) Gamraon. Children, born in Haver
hiU; I. Frank M., December 10, 1892. 2.
Roscoe, February 22, 1894.

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According, to the authorities on
TOBIN surnames, Tobin is an Irish sur
narae raodified frora the ancient
English St. Aubyn to St. Tobyn, to Tobyn and
Tobin. The family has been prominent in Ire
land since the reign of Edward III, especially
in county Tipperary. A writer in the Quarter
ly Review in i860 cited as instances of naraes
hibernicized, Fitz Urses, which becarae Mac-
Mahon, and Sf. Aubyn, which becarae Dobbin
or Tobyn. O'Hart, in the "Irish Pedigrees,"
gives the following account of the faraily :
"Geoffrey, one of the princes of Scotland, sid
ing with the Irish raonarch, Brian Boru,
fought at the battle of Clontarf in 1014, and
his descendants settled in Ireland. The faraily
of Betagh, Beattie, Beatty or Beytagh, is di
rectly descended frora this Geoffrey."
The lineage; i. Geoffrey or Jaffrey. 2.
Conhgall, one of whose sons, Malcolm, was
ancestor of the Beatty faraily, the name being
assumed by John of the sixteenth generation.
3. Constantine. 4. Philip. 5. Thoraas. 6.
Jaraes. 7. John. 8. David. 9. Robert. 10.
Christopher. 11. John. 12. Jeoffrey. 13.
Jaraes. 14. John. 15. John. 16. Pierce. 17.
John Tobin, who assumed the surnarae and all
after hira continued it.
Another line of the faraily; i. Walter Mor
Tobin, of Kelaghy, county Tipperary. 2.
Thoraas. 3. Walter. 4. Edmund. 5. John.
6. Walter P. 7. Edraund, of Kilvegsgonah,
county Tipperary, raarried Alargery, daughter
of Edraund Tobin, of Kelaghy ; died August
8, 1638. 8. Thoraas Tobin, raarried Joanna,
daughter of Williara Butler, of Polichiny,
county Tipperary ; children ; John, Richard,
Joar, Elin, Alary and Anastasia.
Tady Tobin, of this Irish faraily, was born
in the year 1830. He was a nail raaker by
trade. He raarried Margaret McCarthy, who
was born in Kinsale, county Cork, Ireland,
about 1830, and died in Alethuen, Alassachu
setts, in 1882. Mrs. Tobin had five brothers,
four of whom served in the British army. Her
uncle, Michael McCarthy, sent raoney for her
brothers to corae to America, but they being
in the army, the money was transferred to
her. She came with her infant son, and soon
afterward her husband started also to make
his home in this country, but the vessel on
which he sailed was wrecked off the coast of
Nova Scotia, in June, 1853, and all were lost.
He was but twenty-three years old at the time
of his death. Their only child was John, raen
tioned below.
John Tobin, son of Tady Tobin (i), was

born in the city of Cork, County Cork,
Ireland, March 10, 1853. He was but
three raonths old when his mother brought
him to the Ihiited States. She lived first
in Lowell, Massachusetts, but after a few
years went to live with relatives in
Tewlcsbury. In i860 the family removed to
Lawrence, and John attended school there un
til he was tfen years old, when he began to earn
his own living in the Pacific Mills. His fol
lowing occupation was in a hat factory in Bal-
lardvale, but in 1865 he returned to Lawrence.
For some years he worked out for W. E.
Stevens, A. H. Harris and S. W. Williams,
farraers of Methuen, attending the district
school during the winter terms. In 1869 he
clerked for A. A. Lamprey and James R.
Simpson in the grocery business in Methuen,
and later worked in the Everett Mill of Law
rence. In 1871 he started to learn the trade
of plasterer in the employ of Rufus Page, of
Alethuen, completing his time in the employ
of D. Al. Prescott & Company of Lowell,
Alassachusetts. He worked at his trade in
various places, but retumed to Lawrence and
in 1876 started his present business in a store
on Coraraon street, dealing in paints, oils, wall
paper, etc. His business constantly increased,
and after a few years he was compelled to
seek more comniodious quarters, removing to
his present location. He is the largest con
tractor in his line in the city, employing from
ten to thirty men as plasterers and decorators.
Mr. Tobin is a prominent Democrat, and is at
present alderman of the city of Lawrence. He
is a meraber of Lawrence Lodge of Elks, No.
65 ; local Aerie of Eagles, No. 216, of which
he has been treasurer since its organization;
Knights of Columbus ; Lawrence Board of
Trade ; Real Estate Owners' Association ; St.
Alary's Holy Narae Society and of the Roraan
Catholic Church ; he is a resident and generous
supporter of St. Mary's parish, Lawrence.
Air. Tobin raarried, August, 1871, at LoweU,
Ann Alaria Bush, born November 29, 1850,
daughter of Francis Joseph and Ellen (Mc
Carthy) Bush. Francis Joseph Bush was bom
in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Lowell,
Massachusetts, 1873; he removed to Salem;
followed the life of a sailor, serving in that
capacity during the civil war, and was a gun
ner in Adrairal Farragut's fleet. Children of
John and Ann Maria (Bush) Tobin: i. Jo
seph P., born in Lowell, 1872 ; member of the
Lawrence police force; married Ellen Mc
Guire, of Lowell ; children : Walter J. and
Marion J. 2. John, born March, 1873, at Low-

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ell, died aged five months. 3. Frank J., born
August, 1875, died aged four years. 4. Mar
garet, born at Lawrence, died aged two years
and a half. 5. Charles, born at Lawrence,
died aged five months. 6. John, born at Law
rence, died aged four months. 7. Mary Ellen,
born at Lawrence, died aged five years. 8.
Albert H., born January 3, 1884, served five
years in the American navy, and is now work
ing fo» his father; married Lillie Fraze. 9.
Gertrude Frances, died in infancy. 10. Ger
trude Frances, born 1890, student in the public
schools.

Lloyd is a well-known Welsh
LLOYD personal name — sometimes
corrupted to Floyd and Flood.
As ari hereditary surnarae it does not date
beyond the sixteenth century, yet many of
the farnUies bearing it are of great antiquity
as, for exaraple, — Lloyd of Bronwydd is
twenty-third lord of the Barony of Keraes,
County Pembroke, in hereditary descent
from Martin de Tours, a companion of WU
liam the Conqueror. Lloyd of Plyniog clairas
descent from Marchudd ap Cynan, who
flourished in the ninth century and founded
the eighth noble tribe of North Wales, and
Powys ; King- Henry A^II sprang frora this
faraily. Lloyd of Ashton springs frora the
royal house of Powys. Lloyd of Dan-yr-allt
descends from Cadivor ap Dyfnwall, Lord of
Castle Howell, time of Henry II and Lineal
ly sprung from Rhodri Alawr, King of
"Wales. Lloyd of Coedmore clairas descent
from an ancient prince of Ferlys. Lloyd of
Clockfaen springs from the great Tudor Re-
vor in the tenth century. Lloyd of Pale frora
Held Molwyrogg, a chieftain of Denbighland
founder of the ninth noble tribe of North
Wales and Powys. In proof of the proini
nence and number of the Lloyd farailies in
the Gentry, it may be noted that more than
thirty different coats-of-arms are ascribed to
this narae. A branch of the famUy in Mary
land from Wales bears ; Azure a lion ram
pant guardant or. Crest: A demi-lion ram
pant guardant or supporting in his paws an
arrow in pale argent.
Burke in his General Armory says ; "Ply-
mog. County Denbigh ; Gwerclas and Kym-
meryn ; Edeirnion, County Merionett, and
Bashall Hall, county York. This very an
cient famUy, is one of the most distinguished
in the principality, derives in common with
the royal house of Tudor the Bulkeley-WU-
liams, baronets. Lord Mostyn and other em

inent Welsh houses from Alarchudd, Lord of
.Abergellen and Brynffenige in Carnarvon,
Founder of the Eighth Noble Tribe of North
AVales and Powys, living in the middle of the
ninth century. The immediate ancestor of
the Lloyds was Kenrig, Lord of Creuthyn-
yn-Yale in Denbighland, third son of Ednyfed
Vychan, Lord of Brynffenigl, chief counselor,
chief justice and general of lorwerth. King
of North Wales, tenth in descent from Mar
chudd. The Lloyds were seated at Plymog
for many centuries." The coat-of-arras of
Ednyfed Vychan ; i. Gules a chevron ermine
between three Englishmen's heads in profile
proper quartering the bearings of Iwfa ap
Kendrig, Lord of Christianydvl ; u. Rhys ap
Griffith derived from Ynyr, Lord of Yale; iii.
Davies of Denbigh, derived frora Ednor AVan
Bendew, Lord of Tegaingle, founder of the
Eighth Noble Tribe of North Wales; iv.
Hughes of Gwerclas, barons of Kymmer-yn-
Eideirnon; v. Walrasley of Cold Coates HaU,
County Lancaster, and Bashall HaU. Motto :
"Heb Dduw heb ddyin Dduwadygan."
(i) The progenitor of the American family
of this sketch lived in Birmingham, England,
and among his children were; i. Noah, died
in Birmingham ; married a woraan of wealth
and position. 2. John, raentioned below. 3.
Thomas. 4. Edward; his son Edward was a
music-publisher of London.
(II) John Lloyd, son of  Lloyd, was
born at Birmingham, England, and died at
East Carabridge, Massachusetts. His school
ing was brief and elementary and raost of his
education he gained by reading and through
contact with the world. His early years were
spent in Birminghara Heath, a suburb of the
city. He learned the trade of glass-raaker in
the glassworks in Birminghara and followed
his trade there until about 1827, when he
carae with his brother, Thomas Lloyd, and
other glass-makers to work for the New
England Glass Corapany at East Carabridge,
Alassachusetts, being induced by the com
pany's agent who was sent to Birminghara to
secure skilled workmen. After his first year
in this country, he sent for his family, who
came in the sailing vessel, "Rodney of Ells
worth", the voyage lasting three raonths. He
was an expert glass-worker and he continued
in the eraploy of the same house the remain
der of his life. The work in a glass factory
is continuous and in those days the men
worked six hours off and six hours on. The
heat and the physical strain tested the endur
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only a clever glass-worker, but he was gifted
with raechanical skiU and gave evidence of it in
raany directions. He was confirmed in the
Church of England, but after he carae to
America attended the Methodist Episcopal
church at East Cambridge. He was a model
of piety and religious zeal, strong in his faith,
vigorous in supporting his beliefs, and inclined
to austerity, always upright and honest in word
and deed. He married, in England, Ann Brid-
gins, born in England and died at East Cam
bridge. She inherited a considerable estate,
but was defrauded of it by a near relative, af
ter she carae to Araerica. Children; i. Jane,
died at East Carabridge; raarried, November
8, 1842, Charles Benjamin Stevens, of Bos
ton; children: i. Mary, unmarried; ii.
Charles Stevens, born 1846; iii. Henry Ste
vens, bom October 24, 1848; iv. Frances Ste
vens. 2. Matilda, died at East Carabridge, un
raarried. 3. Emma, died at East Cambridge,
unraarried. 4. Alfred, died at East Cambridge.
5. Henry, died at Brighton ; married Mary
Thwing, of Brighton (now Boston), Massa
chusetts, daughter of Reuben Thwing; chil
dren ; i. Reuben ; ii. Walter ; iii. Grace, married
George Simpson. 6. William, mentioned be
low. (Ill) William Lloyd, son of John Lloyd,
was born at Birminghara, England, July 30,
1821. He was seven years old when he carae
with his raother to East Carabridge. Here he
attended the public schools until he was fifteen
years old, working from tirae to tirae, when
not in school, for the New England Glass
Company, where later he learned the trade of
glass-making. He also learned the trade of
carpenter in his youth, serving an apprentice
ship of four years and he worked at this trade
for a number of years in the vicinity of Bos
ton. Altogether, however, he spent ten years
in the glass-making trade, six years in the New
England Glass Corapany's works and four at
the works of the South Boston Glass Cora
pany. He was employed for raany years in the
car-shops of the Boston & Albany railroad,
Albany street, Boston, and he becarae super
intendent of the planing mill there He gave
up work in the carshops on account of the
failure of his health. Early in the seventies he
retired, however, and since then has lived with
his son, WUhara E. Lloyd, at Arlington
Heights. Mr. Lloyd inherited a talent for
rausic and for some years played the clarionet
in the best bands in Boston. He is a loyal
and earnest meraber of the Park Avenue Con
gregational Church, of which he is a deacon.

and he has served on various committees and
as teacher in the Sunday school. In politics
he is a Republican. He married AHce Maria
Mooney, of Pittston, Maine, born September
22, 1827, died of endocarditis at ArUngton,
February 4, 1884, daughter of Patrick and
Nancy Mooney, of Boston and Pittston. Her
father was a farraer. Children: i. William
Edwin, bom March 2, 1847, mentioned below.
2. Alfred, born June 8, 1849, died September
26, 1851. 3. Charles Augustus, born Septem
ber 25, 185 1, died at Cambridge, August 14,
1876 ; eraployed in the Boston Five Cents Sav
ings Bank. 4. George Alvin, born January 11,
1854, raarried, February 2, 1883, Jennie An
derson, of Carabridge, Massachusetts; chil
dren; i. Constance; ii. Mabel Alice, married
Ray Van Norraan. 5. Mary Alice, born April
10, 1856, raarried, September 6, 1877, Joseph
Crowell Holraes, treasurer of the Boston Five
Cents Savings Bank, born September 16, 1851,
son of William and Susan (Farris) Holmes,
of Marshfield, Massachusetts; children: i.
Charles Lloyd Holmes, born September 3,
1878, clerk in the Boston Five Cents Savings
Bank, raarried, September 6, 1904, Edith Thay
er Capen, of Dorchester, and had Virginia
Capen Holmes, bom June 16, 1905, Alice
Holmes, born October, 1906, and Charles
Lloyd Holraes, Jr., born February 15, 1908;
ii. Joseph Edwin Holmes, born February 11,
1880, unmarried. 6. Gilbert, born June 25,
1858, died November 24, 1862.
(IV) Captain Williara Edwin Lloyd, son of
Williara Lloyd, was bom in Boston, Alarch 2,
1847. He received his education in the Boston
public schools, graduating from the Quincy
gramraar school at the age of fourteen. Early
in life he acquired habits of industry. He was
taught at horae that an early start in the world
of business was a great advantage, and when
he left school he began at once to work in. the
office of the Old Colony railroad on Beach
street, Boston. After three years there, he
was eraployed one year in the ticket office of
the Boston & Albany railroad. He then took
a trip through the west to see the country.
Upon his return, he becarae a clerk in the
indexing departraent of the registry of deeds
of Middlesex county, at East Carabridge, in
1866. He took the contract later for indexing
the oldest records of the city of Cambridge.
In 1880 he accepted the position of teller in
the Cambridge National Bank, and for the
next eight years discharged the duties of that
responsible office with credit. He was elected
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Bank in 1889, a position he has efficiently filled
to the present tiine. He is also a trustee of
this bank. He resides at 154 Park avenue,
Arlington Heights, a place he purchased in
October, 1-874. In politics he is independent,
thougji formerly an active Republican, serv
ing that party as delegate to county and other
nominating conventions. He is a prominent
member of. the Union Church (Unitarian) of
ArUngton Heights and' has been the treasurer
and collector of the society. He enlisted in
Company B, Fourth Battalion, which became
a part of the First Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteer Militia, and rose through the various
ranks to that of captain. He resigned in 1883.
Captain Lloyd is treasurer of the WUlard Hos
pital of Bedford, Massachusetts, and is inter
ested in various other charities. He is a mem
ber of the Savings Bank Treasurers' Club of
Massachusetts, and of the Ancient Order of
Uriited Workmen. He is much interested in
music and is now the president of the "Singers
Club" of Arlington Heights.
He married, January i, 1879, Mary Eliza
beth Haggens, born at South Berwick, Maine,
January 13, 1843, daughter of Major Edmund
and Mary Ann (Hamilton) Haggens, of
South Berwick. Her father was a merchant
in Charleston, South Carolina. Children; i.
George Hamilton, born June 3, 1880, of the
Cambridge Trust Company, Carabridge; mar
ried, April 26, 1906, Dora Abbott Parsons, of
Arlington Heights ; child, Charlotte, born
September 2, 1907. 2. William MiUett, born
October 4, 1882, now with W. O. Gay, broker,
24 Congress street, Boston ; married, AprU 22,
1907, Amy Gorham, of Arlington. 3. Edward
Haggens, born March 4, 1886.
The surnarae Arch-
ARCHAMBAULT ambauh is of very an
cient origin, and many
of the family have been distinguished in civil,
ecclesiastical and military life. The Paris
family has this coat-of-arms; D'argent au
saut d'azure ch. de cinq etoiles d'or ; a la bord
denchee de gules. The Archambaults of Or
leans : D'azure a trois Hons de'or sur le toiit
d'argent au pal de gules ch. de trois flanchis
d'or. (I) Jacques Archambault, the immigrant to
America, was born in France. He settled in
the Province of Quebec, probably, though the
records give little about him and he may have
remained in. France. We know that he had a
son born in France in 1634, mentioned below.
(II) Laurent Archambauh, son of Jacques

Archambault, was born in France in 1634, and
was the progenitor of the family in Canada
where he died February 15, 1688. He came to
Quebec when a young raan and married, at
Montreal, January 7, 1660, Catharine Mar-
chand, born 1634, died February 25, 1713, at
Pointe aux Trembles. Children, born in Que
bec: I. Laurent, born 1668, died March 31,
1749; raarried, October 21, 1686, Anne
Courteraanche. 2. Pierre, born March 24,
1669, married, November 21, 1701, Marie La-
combe, born 1681. 3. Jacques, born March 27,
1671, married, February 15, 1694, Francoise
Aubuchon; he died October 9, 1725, at Longue
Pointe. 4. Francoise, born August 29, 1681,
married, November 20, 1697, Toussaint Bau-
dry. 5. Jean, born October 6, 1683, mentioned
below. 6. Alarie Madeleine, born Septeraber
2, 1685, married Gilles Galipeau.
(Ill) Jean Archambault, son of Laurent
Archambault, was born in Montreal, October
6, 1683, died before 1748. He married, June
4, 1708, Cecile Lefebvre, born 1688, daughter
of Jean Baptiste Lefebvre. (See sketch of
Lefebvre). Children, born at or near Mon
treal; I. Jean Baptiste, born Deceraber 31,
171 1, at Pointe aux Trerables, raarried, Jan
uary 12, 1733, Denisse LabeUe at St. Francois,
I. J. 2. Louis, born June 20, 1714, raarried
Marie Charlotte Froget; he died November
24, 1766, at Repentiguay. 3. Andre Jacques,
born October 21, 171 — , raarried Angelique
Lorion. 4. Gervais, born January 8, 1718,
raentioned below. 5. Jean Baptiste, born June
12, 1720. 6. Marie Anne, born April 18, 1722,
died July 26, 1724. 7. Pierre, born June 8,
1724, raarried, Noveraber 7, 1746, Marie La
beUe at St. Vincent de Paul. 8. Joseph, raar
ried, January 29, 1748, Agathe Baudry. 9.
Cecile Annable, born 1730, raarried, October
16, 1752, Joseph Galipeau. 10. Charles, raar
ried, February 15, 1751, Marie Charlotte Li
moges at Terrebonne.
(IV) Gervais Archambault, son of Jean
Archambault, was born at Montreal, January
8, 1718, died July 9, 1787, at Repentiguy.
He raarried Alarie Charlotte Touin, born 1721,
died June 4, 1781. Children; i. Alarie The-
rese, born about 1743, raarried, October 10,
1768, Joseph Gabriel Picard. 2. Marie Char
lotte, born 1745, raarried, November 11, 1771,
Michael Chaput. 3. Marie Joseph, married,
October 5, 1772, Antoine Archambault. 4.
Gervais, mentioned below. 5. Jean Baptiste,
married, in 1774, Angelique Lebeau; chil
dren: i. Jean Baptiste, born Alay 20, 1775,
at Repentiguy; ii. Antoine, born Noveraber

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II, 1786, died August 17, 1789; in. Marie
EHzabeth, born October 10, 1790; iv. Marie
Charlotte, born October 10, 1790, died March
30, 1791 ; V. Marie Joseph, born January 30,
1 79 1. 6. Louis, married, January 31, 1780,
Alarie Agathe De Sautels; chUdren; i. Ma
rie, born and died September 13, 1781 ; ii.
Marie Agathe, born January 3, 1786; iii. Jean
Baptiste, born January 7, died July 25, 1787;
iv. Alarie Catherine, born August 12, 1789; v.
Jean Baptiste, born July 23, died August 19,
1791. vi. Angelique, born October 5, 1792;
vii. Alexis, born June 18, died August 9, 1794;
viii. Louis, born October 22, 1795.
(V) Gervais Archambault, son of Gervais
Archambault, was born at Longue Pointe,
Quebec, Canada. He married, February 22,
1775, Alarie Judith de Sautels, daughter of
Nicolas de Sautels. (See sketch of De Sau
tels family herewith). Children: Gervais,
mentioned below, Francois, Narcisse, Joseph,
Elise, Annable.
(VI) Gervais Archambault, son of Ger
vais Archambault, was born in the Province
of Quebec, Canada, died about 1878 in Michi
gan, whither he removed and engaged in the
lumber business. He lived at St. Alexis, Que
bec, Canada, before coming to the United
States. He raarried Julie Martin de Bernabe,
who was born about 1820 in the Province of
Quebec, and died about 1874 in Michigan.
Children; i. Julienne, raarried John Moore. 2.
Cleraent. 3. Joseph; raentioned below. 4.
Celestine, raarried Joseph Gravelle 5. Valerie,
deceased. 6. Honorine, unmarried.
(VII) Joseph Archambault, son of Gervais
Archambault, was born at St. Alexis, Province
of Quebec, Canada, July 16, 1847. He at
tended the local schools. About 1865 he came
to Massachusetts and found employment in a
saw mill at Lowell. There he leamed the
trade of carpenter. Frora Lowell he went to
Fitchburg, and thence to Fraraingham, Massa
chusetts, locating finally in Waltham, where
he engaged in business as contractor and build
er. He was a skillful craftsman hiraself and
demonstrated exceptional business ability. His
affairs prospered and he built many of the
fine residences of the city of Waltham. His
standing araong business men was always of
the highest. He retired from active business
in 1906 and now devotes, his time to the care
of his real estate in which he has invested
extensively in Walthara.
Mr. Archarabault raarried, at Saxonville,
Massachusetts, May 6, 1880, Nellie Rock, born
Noveraber 27, 1853, at SaxonviUe, daughter of

WilHam and Anne (Kane) Rock. Child:
Laura L., born October 11, 1884; the moth
er, Nellie (Rock) Archambault, died July 24,
1897. Mr. Archambault married second, July
II, 1906, Jennie (Greenlaw) Crafts, widow,
born June i, 1866, at Briston, Maine, daugh
ter of Nathaniel and Susan (Poole) Green
law.

Jean Baptiste Lefebvre (i),
LEFEBVRE imniigrant ancestor, was
born in 165 1 and died AprU
27, 1 71 5. He married, January 14, 1676, at
Alontreal, Cunigarde Gervaise, born 165 1, died
February 16, 1724. Children: i. Jean Bap
tiste, born October 26, 1676, died July 18,
1703. 2. Geoffry, born December 27, 1677,
raarried, June 30, 1704, Marie Madeleine Mi
chaud. 3. Louis, born February 26, 1679, died
November 14, 1707. 4. Marie Anne, born
July 22, 1681, married, October 28, 1697,
Jacques Picard; she died May 10, 1717. 5.
Nicolas, born August 12, 1686, married, Feb
ruary 9, 171 1, Marie Ann Ducharme 6. Ce
cile, born September 9, 1688, married Jean
Archambault. (See sketch of the Archam
bault family herewith). 7. Urbain, born July
19, 1691, married. May 17, 1716, Louise Cath
erine Rivard at Batiscan; died March 9, 1729,
at Repentiguy. 8. Charles, born August 20,
1692, married, February 8, 1717, Francoise
Gaudry. 9. Cunigarde, born December 2, 1694,
married, April 6, 1717, Joseph Descarry. 10.
Jean Baptiste, born February 2, 1697, mar
ried, September 19, 1723, Agnes Lafond ; died
January 5, 1752. 11. Jacques, born February
6, 1698, married, 1737, Jeanne Suzanne Picard.
12. Jeanne, born October 13, 1700, married,
November 4, 1721, Jean Baptiste Descarry;
raarried, second, April 19, 1728, Paul Tessier.
Pierre de Sautels ( i ) , im-
DE SAUTELS migrant ancestor, was
born in France in 1631,
died in Canada, November 19, 1708. He mar
ried first, January 11, 1666, Marie Remy, born
1646, died November 11, 167 — . He married,
second, November 23, 1676, Catherine Lorion,
born 1636, daughter of Mathurin Lorion and
widow of Nicholas Millet. She died April 20,
1720. Children, born at Montreal: i. Pierre,
born September 13, 1677, mentioned below. 2.
Gilbert, born December 17, 1679, married,
January 30, 1708, Chariotte Etienne at Pointe
des Trembles.
(II) Pierre de Sautels, son of Pierre de
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1677, died August i, 1753, at Longue Pointe.
He married,- January 12, 1699, at Montreal,
Therese Angelique Thuillier, daughter of
Jacques Thuillier (i). She was born in 1683,
died January 20, 1.765. Children: i. An
gelique, born December 25, 1699, married, Jan
uary 8, 1720, Simon Sicard. 2. Louis, born
August 3, 1703, married first, February 15,
1734, Agathe Bandreau; second, April 20,
1739, Marie Anne L'archeveque, who died
April 5, 1782. 3. Marie Francoise, born July
15, 1705, raarried, February 2, 1729, Joseph
Patenote. 4. Jean Baptiste, born March 14,
1707, married, February 17, 1738, Marie Fran
coise Lefebvre. 5. Marie Joseph, born Oc
tober 14, 1709, married, November 4, 1732,
Nicolas Patenote. 6. Francois, born March
II, 1712, married first, February 6, 1747, Ma
rie Marguerite Vinet; second,- January 15,
1753^ Marie Ann Bazinet. 7. Joseph, born
AprU 10, 1714, died January 12, 1729. 8.
Laurent, born February 16, 1716, died Decem
ber 30 following. 9. Nicolas, born March 5,
1718, mentioned below. 10. Jacques, born No
vember 22, 1720. II. Anthoine, born May 6,
1722. 12. Charles Basile, born March 30,
1724. 13. Marie Anne, born 1726, died March
¦27) 1730. 14. Catherine, married, 1748, Jean
Baptiste Chatel.
- (Ill) Nicolas de Sautels, son of Pierre de
Sautels, was born March 5, 1718, died Feb
ruary 17, 1783. He married, February 6,
1741, Marie Catherine Dufresne, daughter of
Jean Baptiste Dufresne. Children; i. Marie
Angelique, born November 20, 1741, died AprU
15, 1742. 2. Marie Catherine, married, Janu
ary 30, 1764, Joseph Picard. 3. Marie Mar
guerite, born March 23, 1743, married, Feb
ruary II, 1 77 1, Joseph Brunei. 4. Jean Bap
tiste, born August 17, 1744. 5. Marie Louise,
bom January 10, died August 3, 1746. 6.
Marie Marguerite, born May 11, 1747. 7.
Marie Judith, born January 4, died May 26,
1749. 8. Marguerite, born May 13, died July
-25, 1750, 9. Marie Judith, born November
II, 1 75 1, married, February 22, 1775, Gervais
Archambault. (See sketch of Archambault
family). 10. Amable, born March 29, 1753,
niarried, September 30, 1782, Catherine Vali-
quet, at Terrebonne. 11. Nicolas, born De
cember 9, 1754. 12. Joseph Marie, died No
vember 6, 1769. 13. Marie Monique, born
July II, 1758, married, July 18, 1785, Pierre
Descaris. 14. Marie Agathe, born November
28, 1760, married, January 31, 1780, Louis
Archambault, brother of Gervais. 15. An
toine, born June 2, 1762. 16. Marie Made
leine, born July 23, 1766.

Frederick Bitzer, the earHest an-
BITZER cestor of the Bitzer faraily of
whora there is definite informa
tion, was born at Durrwangen, Wurtemburg,
Germany, 1778, died there 1855. He was
brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the
usual education of a farmer's son at that pe
riod. He becarae proficient in his studies, and
when a young man was the schoolma.ster of
the district for a number of years. Subse
quently he purchased a hostelry which he con
ducted a number of years. He became later
a trader of horses. On account of his wife's
health he gave up the hotel, and entering the
trading market was successful in that line of
business. He was also the owner of a farm,
which he conducted in a successful manner,
raising products for his own consumption.
He was of raediura height, broad and pow
erful, and very industrious. He was the fath
er of fifteen children, araong them a son John,
who was the father of Jacob Bitzer.
John Bitzer, son of Frederick and Regina
Bitzer, was born at Durrwangen, Wurtemburg,
Gerraany, Septeraber 7, 18 18, died at ArUng
ton, Alassachusetts, August 9, 1879. He re
ceived his education in his native town, at
tending until fourteen years of age, when he
was confirraed in the Lutheran church, this
being the custora at that time after that period
of school. He was brought up on his fath
er's farm, continuing until he was apprenticed
to the trade of raillwright, serving until he at
tained his raajority, under Herr Murlbach. At
the age of twenty-one he was drafted for the
array, in which he served eighteen months in
the infantry, at the expiration of which time
he was discharged but not allowed to marry
until twenty-seven years of age, being held in
reserve for the army until that age. He con
tinued at the trade of millwright until 1845,
when he was married and then becarae a mill
wright in his own behalf, contracting and mak
ing gear wheels for overshot water wheels and
raachine work. He continued at his trade up
to 1854 when, owing to a depression in busi
ness, he decided to seek his fortune in the
United States. After arriving at Boston he
secured eraployment in the Ellis furniture fac
tory at Cambridgeport, and was one of the
workraen employed on the furnishing and
chairs for the then new Boston Theatre. Af
ter eighteen months in the above named fac
tory he entered the employ of Everett & Com
pany at South Dedham, furniture makers,
where he had charge of the moulding machine
until i860, in the spring of which year he re
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his trade of wheelwright, remaining there
eight years. He returned to Boston in May,
1868, and entered the employ of Charles
Schwamb, a raaker of picture mouldings, run
ning a raoulding raachine until 1875, when he
retired frora active business. He resided at
No. 49 Forest street up to the tirae of his
death, August 9, 1879. ^^ 1874 he built the
homestead. In 1868 he purchased a tract of
land on Forest street, which he divided into
thirds, selling one lot to his son, John F. ; one
to his son-in-law, Gottlieb Rau, and retaining
the other, on which he built in 1874. He was
a man of very retired nature, very domestic,
greatly endeared to his faraily, a raan of strict
ly upright and honest principles, of a sunny
disposition, very well read and well informed.
He was a member of the Lutheran church,
and a Republican in politics. He married,
1845, Dorothea Beck, born August 26, 1822,
died at Arlington, April 26, 1906, daughter
of Andrew and EHzabeth (Jetter) Beck, of
Zillhausen, Wurtemburg, Germany. Andrew
Beck was a horseman and trader. Children ;
I. Elizabeth D., born May 2, 1846, married,
September 14, 1868, Gottlieb Rau, of ZiU-
hausen, Gerraany. Children : Annie E., Fred
erick, Christina Dorothea Elizabeth, Williara,
Eraily and Gottlieb. 2. John Frederick; see
forward. 3. Christina, born July 29, 1853,
died Noveraber 24, 1906; raarried, 1872, Ja
cob Dornbach, of Roxbury, Massachusetts;
children: Eraraa, Bertha, Charles, Frederick.
4. Dorothea, born April 6, 1861, died February
8, 1907. 5. Jacob, see forward.
John Frederick Bitzer, oldest son of
John and Dorothea (Beck) Bitzer, was
born at Durrwangen, Wurteraburg, Bolin-
gen county, Gerraany, February 19, 1850. Pie
was educated in his native town in the cora
raon schools, attending until fourteen years of
age, when he was confirraed in the Lutheran
church. He then went to Balingen, a nearby
town, where he learned draughting and design
ing. He later was apprenticed to his father
for three years at his trade of raillwright, and
worked at his trade until he carae to the
United States, leaving his native land March
23, 1867, arriving at New York, May 2, 1867.
He then carae to ArUngton, Massachusetts,
entering the eraploy of Charles Schwarab in
his picture frarae factory, serving an appren
ticeship of two years duration. He remained
in the employ of Mr. Schwamb for thirty-six
years, having charge of the manufacturing de
partment of the business for a number of
years. In 1903 he severed his connection with

the business of Mr. Schvvamb, entering the
employ of the Theodore Schwamb Company,.
having charge of the moulder, which position
he now holds. Mr. Bitzer and family attend
the Unitarian church at Arlington. He is a
Republican in pohtics. He was formerly a
meraber of ArUngton Fire Departraent, 1874-
75-76, and is a raeraber of Bethel Lodge, No.
12, I. O. O. F:, at Arlington, and served that
body as noble grand in 1890; was also treas
urer and chaplain for four or five years. Mr.
Bitzer raarried, March 19, 1870, Louisa Emily
B'assing, of Arlington, Massachusetts, born in
Newton, Massachusetts, February 23, 1853',.
daughter of Jacob and Gertrude (AVagner)
Bassing, of Newton. Jacob Bassing was a
farmer and caseraaker. ChUdren: i. John
Frederick, Jr., born January 3, 1871, married^.
Septeraber 19, 1906, Caroline AVinterhalder, of
Shelburn Falls, Alassachusetts. Children: i.
John Frederick (3), born January 6, 1907; ii.
Helen Louise, Alarch 14, 1908. 2. Gertrude
D., born June 12, 1873, died September 25,
1873. 3. Henrich, born July 23, 1874, died
Septeraber 6, 1874. 4. Charlotte Elizabeth,
born July 18, 1875. 5. Robert, born March 29,
1878, raarried, Noveraber 24, 1906, Elizabeth
Tucker, of Soraerville, Massachusetts. 6.
Dorothea Louise, born April 5, 1884. 7. Ger
trude, born February 28, 1886. 8. Oscar, born
July 31, 1888, married, Septeraber 25, 1906,
Ethel Hawthorn Moore, of Dorchester, Mass
achusetts. 9. Bertha, born May 26, 1890. lo.
Eliza Houstetter, born Deceraber 24, 1892. 11.
Infant, born and died March 14, 1895.
Jacob Bitzer, youngest son of John and
Dorothea (Beck) Bitzer, was born at Durr
wangen, Balingen county, Wurteraburg, Ger
raany, January 16, 1865. He reraained in his
native town until eight years of age, attend
ing the coramon schools two years, and then
came to the United States with his mother and
sister Dorothea to join the father and other
merabers of the family who had settled at Ar
lington, Massachusetts. Here Jacob attended
the Cutter school, graduating in 1879. He
then entered the eraploy of VVelch & Griffiths,
saw works in Arlington, serving a six years
apprenticeship, at the expiration of which time
the concern failed. Air. Bitzer then entered
the employ of Theodore Schwamb. a manu
facturer of piano cases, starting as a mill hand
on irregular moulding raachine. Mr. Bitzer
served in the various branches of the business
of piano case working and mill work, and
when the present business (1897) of Theodore
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zer became a stockholder and clerk of the cor
poration, ;a position he now holds. He is also
assistant superintendent of the business, hav
ing charge of the mill department. The Theo
dore Schwamb Company was originally start
ed- by Jacob Schwamb, a cabinet maker, who
came to Boston in 1838 and established him
self in business. Charles Schwamb came to
West Cambridge in 1848. and apprenticed him
self to Paul F. Dodge to learn the trade, at
what is now 1171 Alassachusetts avenue, later
going .into:! business with /Mn Dodge. Peter
Schwamb came to West Carabridge in 1850
and; learned ¦• the trade at their shop, and in
1853 Theodore and I the younger Jacob came
also. The two elder i brothers entered into
partnership, and at this 1 time Theodore started
in his apprenticeship. They made pianos and
did turning and sawing.. Theodore served his
time and then was journeyman for two years,
when he and his brother Peter were admitted
into, -the, firm under the firm name of Charles
Schwamb & Brothers. They occupied the old
Dodge mill site and continued in business until
1862 when the firm dissolved. Charles and
Frederick continued the business and Jacob
established himself in Boston. Theodore then
began) themanufacture of piano cases back in
the^ old J-lobbs railldara where 1093 Alassachu
setts avenue now is, and continued at this lo
cation until 1872 with great success. Iii 1871
he purchased the Stephen Cutter raill prop
erty, and, the following year reraoved his bus
iness- there. It was the original site of the
Schwamb Brothers mill, and water power was
available there. In 1881 steam power was in
stalled, and in 1886 extensive additions were
made to the /buildings and plant, then employ-
ingitwenty men. The corporation of Theodore
Schwamb Company was formed in 1897 with
Theodore I Schwarab as president, Peter
Schwamb as secretary and treasurer, and Phil
ip Eberhardt and Jacob Bitzer as directors.
Both Mr. Eberhardt and Mr. Bitzer had been
actively engaged in the business for a nura
ber of years; the former was appointed su
perintendent in the factory, and the latter as
sistant superintendent, having charge of the
mill department. The business increasing, in
1901 other additions were raade, nearly doub
ling the former floor space, and in 1905, ow
ing to the crowded condition of the plant, still
further additions were made; desirable land
was purchased in the rear of the buildings,
giving access to the railroad and permitting
the construction of a spur track for the con
veniences of the delivery of lumber. A lura-
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ber storehouse and brick factory sixty by
eighty feet were built in 1905, and in 1906
drying houses and a new boiler plant were
added. About sixty-five raen were eraployed,
and the finest case work is raanufactured at
the plant. Alany of the oldest piano makers
in the country are customers of the corapany.
Mr. Bitzer purchased his father's old horae
stead at 49 Forest street of the heirs, where
he resided, and in Noveraber, 1906, purchased
the Charles Schwarab estate at 11 30 Massa
chusetts avenue, 'where he now resides, it be
ing one of the raost valuable properties in'^
that section. Air. Bitzer is an attendant of the
Unitarian church, and Republican in politics.
He served on the committee of twenty-one on
town appropriations; raeraber of Republican
town coraraittee since 1890, serving for two
years as secretary and chairman of sarae ; and
served his party as delegate to National con
vention at iChicago, 1904. He is a raeraber of
Bethel Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O. F., joining in
1888, -and served that body 1 as noble grand in
1892. He is a raeraber of Arlington Veteran
Firemen's Association. Air; Bitzer is unmar
ried.

John Woods was born in Ire-
WOODS land and died in Newburyport,
Massachusetts, in 1882, aged
seventy-five. He came to Araerica in 1862.
He raarried, in Ireland, Esther Byrnes. Chil
dren; I. Ellen, deceased; raarried AVilliara
Walsh, of New York City. 2. Mary, deceased;
raarried Thoraas Lynch; child, Mary J. 3.
WiUiara, born August 15, 1838, mentioned be
low. 4. John, married Ann Kelley; children;
WilHam S., Esther E., Elizabeth A., Theresa
M., John J., Alary and Jennie. 5. Theresa
married Bernard Doran. 6. Jane, married
John Kelley ; children : John and Esther.
William Woods, son of John Woods, born
August 15, 1838, in the county of Dublin, Ire
land, died at Newburyport, Massachusetts,
Septeraber 17, 1904. He was educated in the
old country. At the age of eighteen he carae
to America, landing in New York City and
finding eraployraent in a comb factory in New
ark, New Jersey. After working there for
several years and becoraing a skiUful crafts
man in this trade, he reraoved to Newbury
port where he worked for the Carr Brown
Company, corab manufacturers. Several years
later he left this concern to engage in busi
ness with his brother John as retail dealers in
groceries, etc., with their store in Newbury
port. The firm was very successful and the

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brothers continued in business there for the
remarkably long period of thirty-two years.
William AVoods then retired frora active bus
iness and devoted hiraself to the care of his
property. He had invested extensively in real
estate, and at the time of his death was the
owner of ten tenement houses. He held to
the religious faith of his fathers and was a de
voted Catholic. In politics he was a Demo
crat. He was a raeraber of the Father Len-
non Benevolent Society of Newburyport. A
raan of upright character, one of best known
and raost popular citizens of Newburyport, his
death was sincerely raourned.
Williara Woods raarried. May i, 1873, Mary
Ann Henry, born Noveraber 4, 1854, at New
buryport, daughter of Patrick Henry, born in
Ireland, 182 1, died August 22, 1873, and An-
astatia (Grangel) Henry, born 1834, at New
foundland, died June, 1906, at Newburyport.
Children of Patrick Henry and wife ; i. Thora
as F. Henry, raarried Ann Bonner; children:
AHce, married a Mr. Howard; Charles and
Harold, ii. Mary Ann Henry, mentioned
above; iii. Catherine Elizabeth Henry; iv.
Margaret E. Henry, died aged twenty-one
years ; v. John J. Henry, a corab manufac
turer by trade ; raarried Annie L. Doyle ; three
children ; Eugene, John and Edna ; vi. Agnes
Henry, raarried Frank J. Leonard, captain of
the Lynn (1908) baseball club; children; Lu
cy, Jaraes, Ruth and Philip ; vii. Lucy Henry ;
viii. Lizzie Henry, raarried John Bryan, of
Newburyport. Children of William Woods
and wife; i. Esther E., unmarried. 2. Will
iam H., married Sarah A. Savery; children;
Sarah A. and William S. 3. Edward P., a
plumber, unmarried.

The Holland family has an
HOLLAND ancient and honorable history
in Ireland where the surname
originated. Flanchadh (Flancha), brother of
Cobthach of the ancient O'Madden family
(No. IOO of the Connaught pedigree as given
in O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees), was the ancestor
of the Holland faraily. The Irish speUing O'h
Uallachan has been raodified after this family
was dispossessed of their lands in Hy-Maine
in Connaught, settling in Dublin, Galway, Kil
dare, Kilkenny, King's County, Mayo, Aleath
and Westmeath, into the foUowing rather be
wildering variety of surnames : Colaghan,
Coolacan, Coolaghan, Halahan, Halegan, Hal-
ligan, Holahan, Holhane, Holhgane, Holig-
han, Holland, HoUighan, Hoolighan, Hoola-
ghan, Hoolaghane, Hoolahan, Houlaghan,

Houlaghane; Houlahan, Howlegan, Hulegan,
Huolaghane, Olehan, Oulahan, Oulaghan,
OuUahan, Woolahan, and Merrie, Merry,
FitzAlerry, AlacMerry, Nolan of Connaught,
Noland in England, Proud, Proude, Soople,
Suple, Supple, Vain, Vane, Whelton and AVil-
ton. Uallachan is derived from uallach, Irish,
meaning proud, haughty, merry, supple, vain.
This lineage is traced from the earliest Irish
kings to the present time in the Kildare
branch, which spells the name Holahan.
(I) Jereraiah HoUand, the first of the name
of whom we have definite information, mar
ried Johannah Daley, and their children were :
I. Philip, born Ireland, died in New York. 2.
Timothy, born Ireland, lived in Australia. 3.
John, born Ireland, mentioned below. 4.
Kate, the superior of the St. Joseph Convent
of the Notre Dame order in England. 5.
Margaret, raarried Williara Connell ; she never
carae to this country. 6. Norah, married John
Cocklin; six children. 7. Minnie, married
(first) WilHam Ragan; (second) a Mr.
Burke; she was the raother of seven children.
8. Hannah, married  , resided in Jersey
City. (II) John Holland, son of Jeremiah and Jo
hannah (Daley) Holland, was born and died in
Lisballard, county Cork, Ireland. He was a
farraer. He married Ellen Collins, a native of
the sam'e place, whose death also occurred
there Their children, all natives of Lisbal
lard, were: i. Jeremiah. 2. Philip J., men
tioned below. 3 Mary, married Joseph Kean.
4. Tiraothy. 5. Michael, died in Boston. 6.
Hannah, unraarried. 7. Dennis, died Boston.
8. Norah, lived in Boston. 9. John, lived in
Lawrence. 10. Patrick, lived in Lawrence. 11.
Kate, lived in Ireland. 12. Margaret, lived in
Ireland. (Ill) Philip Joseph Holland, son of John
and Ellen (CoUins) Holland, was born Feb
ruary 21, 1868, in county Cork, Ireland. He
was educated in the parish schools of his na
tive place. When he was twenty years old he
left his horae and came to Lawrence, Alassa
chusetts, where he was first employed at St.
Mary's Church. He learned the trade of tool
sharpener and followed his trade for a num
ber of years. With his savings he started in
business as a teamster and general contractor,
excavating, making stone work of various
kinds a specialty. He has built up an exten
sive and flourishing business, and is counted
among the raost substantial and reliable men
in his line of business. Although a Democrat
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fairs and has held no offices. He is a member
of the Knights of Columbus and of Lodge No.
65, Order of Elks. He raarried, October 18,.
1895, Julia Frances McAuliffe, born Decem
ber 28, 1836, daughter of John and Ann (Scol-
lard) McAuliffe, both natives of Ireland.
Children born in Lawrence ; Alary J., John
Joseph, Philip A., Ann Catherine, Frank and'
Augusta.

James Phelan, long an honored
PHELAN citizen of Lynn, Massachusetts,
and numbered among its most
active and enterprising manufacturers and
men of affairs, was a native of Ireland, born
November 9, 1833, son of Edmond Phelan,
who was a farmer, and lived and died in Ire
land. James Phelan attended school at his native
home, and assisted in farm work until he was
about sixteen years of age, when he came to
the United States, first landing in Boston.
Shortly after his arrival here he went to Yar
mouth, Maine, where for about a year he
lived with Professor Wood, principal of an
academy, for whom he served as chore boy,
and in return received such instruction as gave
him a fair educational equipment. Young
Phelan then returned to Boston, and thence to
Appington, where he began to learn the shoe
trade. After he had made considerable prog
ress, he went to Lynn, where he completed
his trade, working for several years in various
leading factories. Owing to declining health
he was obliged to lay aside his work, and he
made a voyage to Australia and an extended
tour through that country. Returning invig
orated and with freshened ambition, he again
went to Lynn, resuming work in the shoe fac
tories. In 1861 he made his modest begin
ning on his own account, in a small upstairs
room in a building on Monroe street. Success
attended his effort, and he soon found his ac
commodations inadequate for his increasing
trade, and removed to a larger building in the
rear of the old Lynn railway station. His
business continuing to expand, he was again
obliged to seek larger quarters, and removed
to Central Square, where he occupied more
than one-half of a large factory on the site
of what is now the Powers furniture store,
and here carried on business with gratifying
success until the building was destroyed by fire.
This calamity drove Mr. Phelan to seek a
new location, and he purchased a factory
building on Monroe street. After several
years, during which his business continued to

expand, he built a factory of his own on Sea
street;, and which bears his name at the pres
ent time. Soon after entering upon the occu
pancy of this edifice. Air. Phelan took his sons
into partnership, they having thoroughly
learned the trade and business under the mas
terly direction of the father. After a time Mr.
Phelan practically retired from the business,
yet still making almost daily visits to the es
tablishment, advising and counselling with his
sons as occasion ' arose, and affording them
the advantage of his intiraate acquaintance
with every detail of the business, both raechan
ical and managerial. It was on the occasion
of such a visit, on February 7, 1906, that he
was taken suddenly ill, and died before aid
could reach him.
While most widely known as the founder
and raanager of an extensive manufacturing
establishment, Mr. Phelan 'was ever active in
other enterprises, and ever gave his aid to all
raoveraents for the advanceraent of the city.
He was independent in spirit and action, using
his vote and influence in behalf of men of abil
ity and energy, with little if any regard to their
political creed or standing. Without ambi
tion for distinction, he gave to the people ser
vice as a member of the common council dur
ing the administration of Mayor Bubier, and
so efficiently that he was elected alderman in
the following year. He was a director in the
Five Cents Savings Bank, and had occupied
a like position in the Lynn Safe Deposit and
Security Bank frora the day of its organiza
tion. He was a coraraunicant of the Roraan
Catholic church, and a liberal contributor to
its support and its various charities. He" was
a member of no secret orders, but was con
nected with the Park Club and the Oxford
Club. In all relations with his fellows he was
regarded with esteem and confidence.
Mr. Phelan married, in Lynn, November
I, 1861, Rebecca Griffin, a native of Ireland,
who came to America with her parents when
she was about four years old. Her father,
John Griffin, was born in Ireland, and after
finishing his schooling learned shoemaking.
He came to the United States with his faraily
about 1848, settling in Lynn, where he con
ducted business until retireraent, and where
he died about 1877. He was a Roraan Cath
olic in religion, and a Deraocrat in politics.
His wife, who was Mary Ann McCarty, also
born in Ireland, is still living in Lynn, at the
advanced age of eighty-five years. The chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Griffin' were: Mary
Ann; Rebecca, who became the wife of Mr.

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Jaraes Phelan; Michael; Hannah; Kather
ine Frances; Michael; Gerald; Theresa;
Elizabeth ; Jaraes, and John. Mrs. Griffin has
thirty-five grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
James Phelan, all born in Lynn, were: i. Ed
mond Joseph, married May Chisolm, of
Gloucester, Massachusetts; children: Priscilla
and Jaraes. 2. John Andrew, died 1905. 3.
Mary Ann, died 1898. 4. Jaraes Peter, mar
ried Helen Dempsey, of LoweU. 5. Katherine
Frances, died 1891. 6. Michael Francis, mar
ried May Van Depoele (see sketch else
where), of Chicago, lUinois; child, Louis, 7.
Joseph Charles, married Adeline Van Depoele ;
one child, John J. 8. WiUiam Henry, at home.
Of the above children Joseph C. and Jaraes
P. conduct the forraer business of their father,
now one of the largest of its kind in the city.
Michael F. is an attorney in Lynn.

(For ancestry see Jeremiah Belcher 1.)
(VIII) Henry M. Belcher,
BELCHER youngest child of Thoraas Jef
ferson and Hannah (Tewks
bury) Belcher, was born in Winthrop, Massa
chusetts, March 23, i860, and for more than
a quarter century has been closely identified
with the business life of the town, and by his
own native industry and enterprise has con
tributed his full share to the growth and pros
perity of that municipality. After completing
his education in the public schools he served
an apprentice's term to the carpenter trade,
and became a great master builder, taking con
tracts on his own account and increasing his
operations as his raeans would perrait until
he becarae one of the raost extensive building
contractors in the town; and not only that,
by reason of a certain quality and reputation
he possessed for being a business man of the
highest integrity, he exacted honest and faith
ful service frora his own employees, with re
sult that his contracts were always carried
out according to the spirit as well as the let
ter, hence his finished work always was of the
best character, and the ultimate result of his
years of business endeavor is a competency
fairly earned and richly deserved. During his
active career Mr. Belcher was builder of sev
eral of the most substantial structures in Win
throp and araong thera may be raentioned the
fire departraent building, the Winthrop Yacht
Club house. Constitution hall and the Lewis
block, although our list raight be continued al
raost indefinitely. And in connection with a
large general contract work during the period

referred to, Mr. Belcher acquired considerable
tracts of land, iraproved them by the erection
of attra'ctive residences and then sold them to
purchasers who sought comfortable homes in
the pleasant suburban town of Winthrop. In
this manner he has been a considerable dealer
in real estate in the town and is still possessed
of rauch valuable property in lands and build-
¦ While he has not at any time regarded him
self as being a public man in Winthrop, Mr.
Belcher has generaUy been found identified m
sorae prorainent raanner with the several move
ments for promoting the pubhc welfare. He
is a Republican, but not a rabid partisan in
political preference, and the several offices he
has filled he has been induced to take more be
cause the electors and taxpayers of Winthrop
wanted hira rather than because he wanted of
fice. For the last six years he has been one
of the town assessors, and is a trustee of the
Winthrop Co-operative Bank and chairman of
its investment committee ; raember of Win
throp Lodge, F and A. M. ; Crystal Bay
Lodge No. 133, I. O. O. F., and of Winthrop
Lodge No. 153, D. R., of which latter order
his wife also is an active and useful member.
On December 2, 1885, Mr. Belcher married,
in Winthrop, Amelia J. Cobb, who was born in
Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island, Octo
ber 20, 1863, and came to live in Winthrop in
1881. Her father, Sarauel Cobb, was born in
England and came with his father's family to
America .and settled on Prince Edward Is
land when Samuel was a child. The elder
Cobb was a hard working farmer, an honest,
thorough-going raan and was much respected
in the locality in which he lived. Samuel Cobb
married Mary Brakey, who was born in the
nortli of Ireland and came of a long line of
Scotch ancestors. Samuel and Mary (Bra-
key) Cobb had six children: i. Amelia J.
(twin with Annie Elizabeth), born October
21, 1863; wife of Henry M. Belcher. 2. An
nie Elizabeth (twin with Amelia J.), married
EUsworth Burr; live in Winthrop, and have
daughter, Laura M. Burr. 3. Andrew, who
met death by accident. 4. M. Leah, wife of
Dr. H. J. Soule, of Winthrop; two children,
Horatio and Nadene Soule. 5. Robert B.,
builder and contractor in Winthrop; married
Alma Floyd, and had Edgar, Lewis and Ed
son Cobb. 6. Maud, living in Winthrop. Mary
Brakey, wife of Samuel Cobb, is a daughter
of the late Andrew and Mary (McKern)
Brakey, who carae to this country soon after
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land. They spent their lives on a farm near
Charlotte Town, where both attained the age
of more than four score years. They had nine
children: i. Robert, now dead; was a suc
cessful farraer and business man and accu
mulated a comfortable fortune. 2. James, mar
ried Betsey Curry and is a farmer on Prince
Edward Island. 3. Jane, died in Winthrop
at the horae of her niece, Mrs. Belcher ; never
married. 4. Sarah, married and reraoved to
Iowa. 5. Elizabeth, married Alexander Mc
Kenzie and went west. 6. Mary, married Sam
uel Cobb ; is now a widow living in Winthrop.
7. Martha, married Jaraes Houston and lives
at Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island.
Two others, names not known.
Henry M. and AmeHa J. (Cobb) Belcher
had three children, born in Winthrop ; Harri
son Otis, July 10, 1893 'i Mildred, died in in
fancy, and Ellsworth, died aged about six
years.

Robert Newsholme,
NEWSHOLME father of Alfred News-
holrae, was born and
died in Yorkshire, England. He belonged to
the yeoraan class, and the faraily trace their
ancestry to The Conquest. Robert Newsholrae
(father) was a stone raercbant during his ac
tive life. He raarried Phoebe Binns, who was
born in England, and died there November
30, 1904. Their children were; Alfred, see
forward; Robert, George H., Arthur and
Mary. Alfred and George H. were the only
members of the family who came to the
United States.
Alfred Newsholrae, son of Robert and
Phoebe (Binns) Newsholrae, was born in
Haworth, England, June 23, 1849. He re
ceived his education in England under the in
struction of his uncle Williara Binns, who was
a college professor and who taught high school
at Derby, England. He served an apprentice
ship to the wool trade, and was afterwards a
wool dealer in Bradford ten years. In 1881 he
carae to this country and entered the eraploy
of the United States Bunting Company of
Lowell, Massachusetts, as wool sorter, from
which position he rose to that of wool buyer,
which position he held up to his death. In
1895 he moved to Methuen, where he was in
strumental in establishing the Ariington
Heights district of that town. He bought up
much of the land, and later sold it at very
reasonable rates that a new settlement might
be made. This section is now one of the most
thickly populated districts in the town. Land

upon which the church in this district stands
was generously given by Mr. Newsholme. He
was elected selectraan in 1900, and two years
later was elected to a three years' terra as
water coraraissioner. He was a raeraber of
John Hancock Lodge of Free Masons ; Sons
of St. George, of Lowell ; Methuen Grange,
P. of H. ; and the Congregational church.
He was honest and faithful in the discharge
of his duties, and respected by all who knew
hira. Air. Newsholrae was twice raarried, his first
wife being Sarah Agnes Pratt, who was born
and died in Bradford, England. Their chil
dren were ; i. Agnes Aland, born in Bradford,
England, in 1879, died in 1890. 2. Robert H.,
born in 1880, a contractor and builder in Me
thuen. He married second, Eraraa Craven,
born near Bradford, England, February 20,
1855, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Wood) Craven. Her father was bom in.
Yorkshire, England, January 18, 1823. Chil
dren of Alfred and Eraraa Newsholrae; 3.
Arthur H., bora in 1883, educated in the pub
lic schools of Methuen, a wool sorter by trade.
4. George H., born in 1885, died in 1890. 5.
Alary E., born in 1887, educated in the high
school of Methuen, and the Lowell State Nor
raal School. 6. Charles E., born in 1890, at
tended the high school of Methuen. 7. Henry
G., born in 1892. Mr. Newsholrae died at his
horae in Methuen, Noveraber 14, 1905.

(The ancestry of the Irish
BEIRNE Kings given under the Hart ped
igree and elsewhere in this
work brings the ancestry of the O'Beirne
faraily down to Milsius of Spain (36) and his
son Hereraon, to whora raost of the leading
families of Ireland trace their ancestry.)
(I) Patrick Beirne, a descendant, as are all
of this narae, of Beirin (103), was born in
county Cork, Ireland, and married Nancy
Smith, of the sarae county, parish of Rath-
weny. Araong their children were: i. Patrick,
raentioned below. 2. Mary. There were seven
in aU.
(II) Patrick Beirne, son of Patrick Beirne,
was born in Corcrea, Ireland, married Anna
Callahan, of StickeUen, county Meath, Ire
land. Children, born in Corcrea, Ireland, i.
Michael, mentioned below. 2. Ann, raarried
Peter Murray, a native of Ireland, at Stone
hara, Massachusetts. 3. Matthew, raarried
Alary AlcGough, at Ireland; children;
Michael, Thomas, Peter, Mary, Rose, Ber
nard. 4. Mary, married Peter MuUen, of

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Stonehara, Massachusetts ; children, born in
Woburn; Mary, Margaret, Thoraas, Kath
arine, Anna, and Peter. 5. Peter, died -at
Stonehara, aged thirty-four years. 6. John,
died in Cork. 7. Patrick, married 
Donohue, of Donegal, county Galway, reside
at Chelsea, Massachusetts. Patrick Beirne
was educated in his native town and in his
youth worked on the farra of his uncle. He
learned the carpenter's trade in Dublin, serv
ing his apprenticeship under a builder naraed
Qarkane. He became a skillful craftsman and
a trusted employee. Before his death Mr.
Clarkane provided for Beirne by procuring
for hira a position with the AlcKeel firra of
builders. But the young raan decided to try
his fortunes in the United States. He found
eraployraent with F. L. Whitcorab, a carpen
ter and builder, Soraerville, Massachusetts,
_ and after a few years engaged in business
there on his own account. He was very suc
cessful in business and becarae one of the
leading builders of Soraerville.
(Ill) Michael Beirne, son of Patrick
Beirne was born in Corcrea, Ireland, Febru
ary 21, 1844, and carae with his parents to
America when a child. He was educated in
the Soraerville schools. While a young raan,
he learned the carpenter's trade of his
father, at which he worked as a journeyraan
for a tirae and later took up contracting and
building which he followed raany years, build
ing raany fine horaes in Backbay, Boston,
Soraerville, Woburn, and surrounding towns,
eraploying at tiraes as raany as forty raen.
Mr. Beirne was an architect as well as a
builder, and furnished his own plans for many
of his buildings. He was a man highly re
spected by his friends and neighbors, a man
of sterling character and integrity, his word
was his bond', and though a selfraade raan in
every respect, commencing life a poor boy,
with Httle or no financial aid from others he
accumulated a fine property owning several
buildings in SomerviUe and AVoburn. In pol
itics he was a Democrat, and in religion, a
Roman Catholic, a meraber of the parish of
St. Joseph. He died June 4, 1904, and he
leaves a widow and three children to raourn
his loss; they reside at 154 Linnwood street,
Somerville. He raarried in Boston, Novem
ber II, 1872, Marion Kuirk, born at Rath-
weny, Ireland. His children: Patrick Henry,
(see forward) ; Katharine, bom in Somerville,
Deceraber 10, 1880, graduated from high
school, SomerviUe; Mary Elizabeth, born
1883, graduated from high school, Soraerville.

(IV) Patrick Henry Beirne, son of Michael
Beirne, was born in South Boston, July 21,
L876. He was educated in Soraerville, grad-
. uated from the grammar school, and later at-
.tended Comer's Business College of Boston.
When fifteen he entered the shop of Blake,
Bell & Co., to. learn the trade of brass-finisher
and -tool-maker, where he served an appren
ticeship of four years. In 1896 he entered the
United States postal service, where he is stiU
employed. In religion he is a Roman Catho
lic. Though a young man, he is well known
and respected, and since his father's death
has been a great help to his mother and sis
ters in looking. after his father's property.
It has been said that
VAN DEPOELE genius rarely finds full
appreciation and fre
quently receives little reward; and again, that
reward of true genius is fame, wealth and
due appreciation. The man who conceives
and develops new ideas, and brings them into
practical use, generally lives in advance of his
time, frequently meets with discouraging ob
stacles, and sometimes finds himself so beset
with opposition and ridicule that his greatest
aims never attain full fruition ; but when
genius in man is accorapanied with the proper
spirit of determination, fortitude sufficient to
oppose adversity, courage enough to brave the
clamor of opposition, and power of mind to
defend a sound and rational principle in sci
ence, success arid ultimate reward are almost
sure to corae.
These principles are illustrated raost
clearly in the life and achievenients of one
who laid no claira to a long and entirely re
spectable Araerican pedigree, one who was his
own ancestor in this country, and whose span
of life measured less than a half century of
years ; but notwithstanding the fact that he
was of foreign birth and ancestry, and was
hedged about with raany erabarassments,
lacked money for the early development of the
scientific principles which originated in his
mind, Charles J. Van Depoele at length pro
vided the means with which to carry out his
purposes and attain the full fruition of his
hopes and receive the araple reward of his
genius, farae and appreciation. The story of
his life is his best eulogy.
Charles J. Van Depoele was born in Lich-
tervelde, Belgiura, April 27, 1846, died March
18, 1892. His father was chief engineer on
a railway, and it was there that young Van
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later learned his first lesson in the science of
electricity. When only a child he began ex
perimenting by using ink wells obtained at
school for batteries, and later, when still only
a boy, having become greatly interested in the
elementary principles of electricity and steam
valves, he earned sufficient money to purchase
a couple of battery cells. From that time he
was constantly engaged in experimental work,
using for that purpose all the money he could
earn. When about sixteen years old, he be
gan to learn the trade of fancy wood carving
in Paris, at the sarae time continuing his ex
periraents evenings and frequently far into the
night before laying aside his study and toil.
At eighteen he began contracting the raaking
of church altars and employing workmen to
assist him, taking the contracts from large
concerns to finish their work, raaking among
others an altar for a cathedral in the Chinese
Empire. In 1868 he came to the United States
and located in Detroit, Michigan, where he
started a shop for the making of church furni
ture, and continued this successfully for
twelve years, employing finally upwards of
two hundred skilled raechanics. During this
tirae he was devoting every moraent he could
spare to the perfection of his various electri
cal devices. Among these was an electric
light; first in a primative way with only two
candle power lights with which he lighted
Forepaugh's Circus ; that was the result of his
first attempt, and his next was the lighting of
the Detroit Opera House.
His plans and undertakings were opposed
by his father and friends to such an extent
that they called a raeeting with the intention
of inducing him to abandon them, but he was
determined, and instead of doing as they re
quested he placed his father at the head of
his business, and erected a building for the
especial purpose of producing his commodi
ties and continuing - his experimental work.
In 1880 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where
he organized the Van Depoele Electric Light
Conipany, and during the following suramer,
to demonstrate their idea, lighted sorae of the
streets of that city without charge to the mu
nicipality. This experiment was of course
expensive, but it resulted in several large con
tracts to the company which yielded a good
profit. To this was later added the manufac
ture of electrical appliances for various struc
tures, electric lights and general electrical ap
pliances. This still continues as one of the
largest of its kind in the country. Soon after
ward, in the face of opposition, including that

of Air. Stiles, president of the corapany, Mr.
A'' an Depoele^ suggested the idea of operating
street railways with electric raotive power,
and in 1883 he built a short experimental line
of road running out of Chicago for the pur
pose of deraonstrating his principle. As a re
sult of this Air. Stiles was convinced of the
practical value of Mr. A^an Depoele's sugges
tion and offered no further opposition to his
plans. In 1884 he constructed a conduit road at
the Toronto, Ontario, exposition, and fol
lowed it in 1885 with an overhead trolley sys
tem in the same city. During the following
three years he was engaged in developing and
improving upon his former work, taking out
patents, and in building electric railways in
Toronto, Canada ; South Bend, Indiana ; Min
neapolis, Minnesota ; and other large cities.
In 1888 the Thompson-Houston Company of
Lynn, Massachusetts, secured by purchase all
of the Van Depoele railway patents, and from
that time until his death Mr. Van Depoele
was identified with the extensive operations of
that corapany in the capacity of electrician and
inventor. Mr. Van Depoele also perfected the
electric percussion drill, having begun his ex
periments in 1882. Believing that electric
power could be used in the operation of mines,
he consulted with Mr. Stiles in regard to the
subject, and was immediately offered money
sufficient to perfect a drill for that especial
purpose. On being tested it was found to be
powerful enough to crush large stones to
pieces. Mr. Van Depoele continued to im
prove these machines, and the results of his
work can now be seen in the output of the
Thorapson-Van Depoele Electric Mining Com
pany, which was recently purchased by the
Thompson-Houston Electric Company. At
the tirae of his death this becarae the General
Electric Corapany which, while it has enorra
ous works in Lynn, Alassachusetts, has in ad
dition branches in all the large cities of the
United States, being the largest concern in
the world. Though rauch interested in all
branches of electrical raechanism, Mr. Van
Depoele's most profitable inventions are the
electric railway and electric reciprocating de
vices, both the result of his intelligent appli
cation of the principles of electrical science.
.At the time of his death he was developing
and improving his earlier inventions, and had
he Hved he would have carried them to a point
of perfection far in advance of any thing now
known. Mr. A^an Depoele was well known
in scientific and electrical circles in Detroit,

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Chicago, Boston, New York, Lynn and other
large coraraercial centres, and his farae as an
inventor was world-wide. His life was de
voted to hard work. As a student and in
ventor he displayed wonderful ability and uii-
fiagging zeal, and had few equals in his .special
field of endeavor, and in his death the electri
cal and scientific world lost one of its most
capable and useful men. The papers said his
greatest fault was his generosity.
Mr. Van Depoele married, November 22,
1870, Ada Mina Van Hoogstraten, born in
South Holland, at the village of Achthuizen,
daughter of Cornelius Van Hoogstraten, born
in North Brabond, died Deceraber 3, 1906,
aged ninety years. He was a cabinet raaker
by trade; he carae to the United States in
1866, and spent the remainder of his days in
Detroit, Michigan. He raarried Cornelia
AVevers, who bore hira four children, two of-
whom died young, and the reraaining two
were; Cornelia A., raarried Peter Dinginan,
of Detroit, a well known sash and door raan
ufacturer, and Ada Mina, wife of Mr. Van
Depoele. The raother of these children died
in 1884, aged seventy-two years. Air. and
Mrs. Van Depoele were the parents of nine
children, the following Hving at the present
time (1908) ; i. Alatilda, married John Griffin,
of Lynn ; two children ; Charles "A^an Depoele
and Helen Theresa Griffin. 2. Alaria P., mar
ried Alichael Phelan ; one child, Lewis H.
Phelan. 3. Adehne, raarried Joseph Phelan,
one child, John Joseph Phelan. 4. Prudence,
resides at home. 5. Henry M., now in Bilt-
more. North Carolina, at the school of for
estry.

James Williara But-
BUTTER WORTH terworth, sexton of
the Episcopal church
in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a descendant
of an honored faraily of England. His father
was John Butterworth, and his grandfather
Williara Butterworth.
Jaraes William Butterworth was born in
Roachdale, England, June 10, 1859, and was
educated in his native country. He came to
the United States with his parents who settled
in North Andover, Alassachusetts. Heservedas
an apprentice at Ballard Vale, Massachusetts,
where he learned his trade of wool sorter ; for
a time worked in the Pacific Mills, and later
worked in the Arlington. At present and
for a nuraber of years he has been a dealer
in real estate, and he raade a success of this
line of business. He is a stanch upholder of

the principles of the Republican party, but
has neither sought nor held public office. He
was one of the officers of the Episcopal
church. He is a raeraber of the Royal Ar
canura. He raarried Martha Kay, born in
England, June 2, 1852, who came to this
country with her raother and four sisters, the
husband and father having preceded them by
a number of years and worked in the shoddy
mills of Lawrence in order to prepare a home
for their reception. Mr. and Mrs. Butter
worth have had children: i. Ellen, born July
4, 1882. 2. Carrie, October 20, 1884. 3.
John Alfred, May 24, 1886. 4. Philip Kay,
May 29, 1890.

Among the principal families
COTTER of county Cork for many cen
turies we find the Cotters,
though the family is found in many other
counties of Ireland at the present time and
also in various parts of America. It is sup
posed that this faraily is allied to the English
Cotter or Cutter family. One Robert Cotta
settled in Salem, Massachusetts, before 1636,
coraing frora England.
In Gibson's History of Cork the Cotter
family is stated to be of Danish origin. The
name Cotter, also spelled Kotter, is coraraon
through Denmark and northern Europe; and
so far as this family was concerned, was in
Ireland anciently written Mac Cottyr, Mac-
Cotter and AlcCottin. Sometimes the name
was written in Irish McCoithir, as well as
MacCothir. The head of the family in the
Coraraonwealth period was Williara Cotter,
son of Edraond, of Coppingerstown Castle
near Middleton, in County Cork. William
forfeited his estates under attainder, conse
quent on his taking part in the Irish war of
1 641. It would appear that for the same
cause William Catter of Gearigh, in the bar
ony of Iraokilly, county Cork, then also for
feited his estates; which inclines us to believe
that the two WiUiara Cotters were identical;
as there is no other Williara Cotter or Catter
mentioned in the list of the "Forfeiting Pro
prietors in Ireland under" the Cromwellian
Settlement." Edmond Cotter, (son of Garrett
Cottir of Innismore; son of William Cottyr
of Innismore; son of WilHam Cottyr of the
reign of Edward IV), the kinsman and con
teraporary of William Cotter of Coppingers
town Castle was the ancestor of the Cotters
of Rockforest, Mallow, county Cork. That
Edraond Cotter held considerable property,
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idence, and situated near Carrigtwohill ; he
also had property in Innismore, where he held
a great part of the site of the Queenstown (o*-
"The Cove of Cork"), and land in other sec
tions. (For his descendants see p. 613 in
Irish Landed Gentry When Cromwell came to
Ireland. O'Hart). James Cotter, of Ann-
;grove, son of Sir James Cotter, born August 4.
1689, was for his devotion to the Stuarts ex
ecuted May 7, 1720. The family has had
many distinguished men in the church and in
public life.
(I) Thomas Cotter, a native of county
¦Cork, Ireland, was one of four brothers, the
names of the others having been John, Ed
ward and Jaraes; John died while on his way
to this country, and his two children — John
.and Mary — who had preceded him, settled his
estate ; the son John fought in the civil war.
Edward and James, the other two brothers,
remained in their native land. Thomas Cot
ter was a farmer, devoting his time and atten
tion exclusively to that occupation. He mar
ried Mary A'Hern, and they were the par-
.ents of the following naraed children; i.
Bridget, raarried Patrick Ormond, of county
Cork, Ireland, parish Youghal; they came to
this country accompanied by their three chil
dren in the year 1878. 2. 'Thomas, deceased.
3. Patrick, married Elizabeth Murphy, no chil
dren; he came to North Andover, Massachu
setts, 1850, and was a railroad man and fore
raan. 4. Mary, married Dennis O'Brian, of
Lowell, Massachusetts. 5. John, died in
Wales. 6. WilHam, see forward. 7. Thomas,
went to Minnesota and there died; he left
two children. 8. Margaret, married Thomas
O'Brien, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; they
settled in North Andover, Alassachusetts. 9.
 , raarried Maurice Murphy; settled in
North Andover.
(II) William Cotter, son of Thoraas and
Mary (A'Hern) Cotter,, born in Fennoy,
<;ounty Cork, Ireland, 1820, died 1885. He
was educated in the common schools, and be
ing a great reader he acquired considerable
knowledge along various lines, collecting and
forming a good library which is in the pos
session of the family at the present time. He
was engaged for some tirae in the iron works
of South Wales, and in 1853 eraigrated to the
United States, landing in New York. In the
same year he went to Boston, Massachusetts,
where he took out his naturalization papers,
and from there went to Lawrence and was
employed for some time in the Lawrence Ma
chine (Iron) Shops. The following year he

returned to Boston and for seven years was
employed as foreraan in the Sraith & Felton
Iron "Works. He then took up his residence
in North Andover, secured eraployraent with
the firra of Davis & Ferber, and remained un
til the fall of 1863, when he went to Missouri,
where he remained a few months. He then
returned to Lawrence, Massachusetts, secur
ing employment as a blacksmith with the
Everett Corapany, with whom he reraained
until 1877, in which year he retired frora bus
iness. He purchased a home in Lawrence in
which he resided until his death, June 24,
1885. He was a devout raeraber of St. Mary's
Church, Lawrence, to which he contributed
generously of his raeans, and was a firra ad
herent of the principals of Deraocracy, cast
ing his vote for the candidates of that party.
He raarried, in St. Mary's Church, Lawrence,
1854, Bridget O'Callaghan, a native of the
sarae parish and county in Ireland as her hus
band; her death occurred April 30, 1890; she
was a daughter of Tiraothy and Mary
(O'Keefe) O'CaUaghan, who were the par
ents of eight children as follows : Elizabeth,
Johanna, Ellen, Bridget, mentioned above;
Catherine, twin of Bridget; Mary F., Mar
garet and Daniel ; four of these children came
to the United States, namely; Bridget, Mary
P., Catherine and Daniel. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Cotter; i. Mary A., born 1855,
unmarried, resides in Lawrence. 2. Thoraas,
born 1856, died in Boston, March, i860. 3.
Margaret, died in childhood. 4. Catharine,
born 1859, Boston, died there the following
year. 5. Thoraas Francis, see forward. 6.
Williara Joseph, born November 20, 1863, re
sides with his sister Mary A. ; he is unraar
ried; eraployed as blacksraith with D. J. Fur
ber ; he is the owner of a large three-story
teneraent house and a carap at Chrystal Lake •
a Deraocrat in politics, and a raember of the
Foresters of America. 7. Catherine, born
July, 1865, in North Andover, died 1874 in
Lawrence. 8. John, born 1865, is a govern
raent printer in Washington, D .C.
(Ill) Thoraas Francis Cotter, son of Will
iam and Bridget (O'Callaghan") Cotter, was
born in North Andover, Alassachusetts, Alay
29, 1861. He was educated in St. Mary's
parochial school in Lawrence, and later
learned the trade of iron moulder. After
serving six years at his trade, he erabarked
in business as proprietor of a retail shoe store
in Lawrence, which business he continued
with much profit and success for a period of
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estate. Becoraing convinced that the real es
tate business demanded all his time, he ac
cordingly disposed of his shoe business in
February, 1905, and since then has given his
entire attention to real estate ventures and
the development and care of his property.
Mr. Cotter is one of the raost substantial and
highly respected citizens of Lawrence, in the
interests of which he is an active factor. He
is an active raeraber and liberal supporter of
St. Mary's Roraan Catholic Church of Law
rence, and in politics adheres to the principles
laid down by the Deraocratic party.
Mr. Cotter raarried, October 7, 1891, Alary
Elizabeth Shea, bora May 12, 1869, daughter
of John and Mary (Hopkins) Shea. John
Shea was bora in county Cork, Ireland, 1840,
learned the trades of tailor and cutter in Lon
don, England, frora whence he came to the
United States-' in early raanhood, landing in
New York city. The greater part of his life
was spent in the city of Boston; he died in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1900; his wife was
born in county Cork, Ireland, 1844. They
were the parents of three children, all of
whom were born in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts ; Margaret, married Timothy Alc-
Carthy, of Haverhill, Alassachusetts. Samuel,
raarried Mary MuUins ; one child, Samuel E.
Mary Elizabeth, aforementioned as the wife
of Mr. Cotter. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Cotter, born in Lawrence ; William H., Sep
tember 6, 1892. Samuel E., April 5, 1896.
Thomas F., December 8, 1900. Augustine H.,
June 4, 1903.

Abel Durant of Dorchester,
DURANT England, was bom of English
parents, a descendant of an
cestors who lived in that kingdora for many
generations one after another, and with the
exception of a single intermarriage with a
French family the Durants of the line here
treated were of pure English blood. Abel
Durant was a mason, plasterer, a workman
who is said to have been skiUed in his trade,
which he learned by a regular apprenticeship
covering several years. Having reached
middle age he removed with his family to the'
Isle of Jersey, and both he and his wife lived
there frora 1853 to the time of their deaths,
both well on in years, devout Methodists and
rauch respected persons in the coraraunity in
which their lives were spent. His wife's name
was Jemiraa Strickland.
Job S. Durant, son of Abel and Jerairaa
(Strickland) Durant was born in Dorchester,

England, Deceraber 16, 185 1, and learned the
trade of his father as soon as he was old
enough to work. In 1869, being then not
quite eighteen years old the young man came
to America, landed at Boston and soon after
ward took up his residence in Maiden. He
not only was able to and willing to work, but
he was a superior workman, hence had little
difficulty in finding eraployraent; and what
was of equal importance, he was a young man
of good character, frugal in his habits and
had the good sense to save his wages for fu
ture use. In the course of a few years he
was employed to do some work at his trade in
AA''inthrop, and while there determined to
make an investment in real estate in that
growing town. In 1877 he bought a lot of
land on Revere street and afterward erected
a large combined business and apartment
building. He then moved to Winthrop and
later on gave up his former trade and becarae
a painter, and dealer in paints and jiainters'
supplies. Frora the beginning his business
was successful and he continued it until his
death, June 13, 1905.
Air. Durant is reraerabered as a capable and
reliable business man and one who deserved
all of the success which was the reward of
his industry. He was a Master Mason, a
meraber of the Alethodist Episcopal church,
and in politics a Republican. He raarried
February 10, 1890, at Alargaretville, Annap
olis county, Nova Scotia, Addie Fales, who
was born in Alargaretville, April i, 1863,
daughter of Hirara and Hepzibah (Downie)
Fales, both parents being native Nova Sco-
tians, both devout raerabers of the Baptist
church, and highly respected persons in the
town in which they live. Mrs. Durant is their
only child, and with her adopted daughter,
Addie Beatrice, born January 2, 1891, divides
her time between her own horae in Winthrop
and the horae of her aged parents in Nova
Scotia.

The surnarae MuUer in Ger-
AlILLER many, an ancient and honor
able family name, is the equiva
lent of the EngHsh surnarae Miller, having the
same origin and raeaning.
Gottfried Mulier was born in Saxony, Ger
many, July 22, 1823. He was educated in the
common schools, and followed the occupation
of farming in his native place until he came
to the United States, in 1870. The following
year he settled in Methuen, Alassachusetts,
and purchased a farm. But his life in Amer-

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ica was short. He died Alarch 19, 1875, at
his horne in Methuen. He was a Lutheran
in religion, a man of sturdy character devoted
to his family, indu.strious, frugal and upright
in all his dealings. His wife, Mary, born iri
Germany, November, 1824, died at Methuen,
April, 1896. Children, born in Germany; i.
Emeline, October 31, 1850, died December i,
1907; married Herman Kress, of Lawrence,
Alassachusetts. 2. Herman, January 22, 1852 ;
farmer and coal dealer. 3. Emma, April 11,
1854; married William Kress, of Lawrence.
4. Frederick, August 4, 1856; mentioned be
low. 5. Augusta, November 24, 1858, (twin) ;
died, aged twenty-eight years. 6. Minnie,
twin with Augusta; died at age of twenty-
eight years, within ten months of the date of
death of her twin sister.
Frederick MiUer, son of Gottfried Aliller
(as he spelled his name after coming to this
country) was born in Saxony, Germany, and
educated in the comraon schools of his native
town. He was fifteen years old when he came
with his parents to Lawrence, Massachusetts,
and for the first eight months worked in a mill
in that city. When his father bought the farm
in Methuen he went to work with him and
continued until he was twenty-one He
bought a small place in Methuen after he came
of age and built a house and barn. He sold
it in 1900 and bought a farm of seventy acres
on Pleasant street, in Alethuen, bulding a
new barn and later a new house, and estab
Ushing a large milk route in Lawrence and
vicinity and maintaining a large dairy for the
production of milk for his customers. The
milk route he has turned over lately to his
son Frederick William Miller. The farm
supports thirty-five head of cattle. He de
votes his attention mainly at present to gen-
,eral farming. About 1892 he started in the
wood business in Lawrence and continued suc
cessfully for ten years, selling out to advan
tage at the end of that period. His place of
business was at the comer of Vine and Pros
pect .streets. He has invested in real estate in
. the suburbs of Lawrence and has built and
sold no less than seventy-five dwelling houses.
He has amassed a competence and is still pur
suing his varied lines of business activity with
great success. His natural ability and energy
have won him a position of prominence in
business and public life. He has been ap
pointed assistant street commissioner of the
town of Methuen and is held in high esteem
by his townsmen. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He married, January 3, 1884, in Me

thuen, Eraraa Lena Mulier, born Alarch, 1864,
in Saxony, Gerraany, daughter of Moritz Mul
ier not related to his faraily. Children, born
in Methuen; i. Frederick 'AVilHam, October
16, 1884; educated in the schools of his na
tive town, now manager of the railk route and
living with his parents, Alethuen. 2. Arthur,
June, 1886, educated in Alethuen, assist
ing his father on the horaestead. 3. Eddie,
January 13, 1888; died February 10, 1888. 4.
Emma H., born Augu.st 24, 1891, .student.
5. Walter Herbert, Alarch 29, 1899.

The earliest known raember of
EA^ANS the faraily of which WiUiara F.
Evans, of Bradford, is a repre
sentative, was John Evans, a native of Rath-
carberry, in the north of Ireland, where he
died in 1843, aged about seventy years. He
was a large land owner, and was considered
a very wealthy raan for those days. He and
his wife were raerabers of the Congregational
church, in the affairs of which they took an
active interest. He raarried Martha Weir,
who was of Welch descent ; children : Mar
garet, Mary, Sally, Jane, David W., John,
Robert. David AVeir Evans, eldest son of John and
Martha (Weir) Evans, was born in the nortli
of Ireland, Deceraber, 1801, died Noveraber
4, 1879. He was a linen raanufacturer, the
greater part of his goods being hand-made.
He was also the owner of many horses and
fox hounds, deriving great enjoyment from
that sport. In 1848, accompanied by his wife,
Agnes (Ferguson) Evans, who was born at
or near Warren Point, Ireland, died January
21, 1898, and eight children, he eraigrated to
the United States, the voyage being made
on the sailing vessel "Constitution," landing
in New York. Their children were; i. Sarah,
bom April 19, 1830. 2. Eliza, April 13, 1833,
deceased. 3. Martha, April 25, 1835. 4.
Robert, February 25, 1837, died August 25,
1863. 5. John "W., June 19, 1839. 6. Mary
J., December 23, 1841, died AprU 15, 1863.
7. Margaret, August 28, 1844, died in 1900.
8. William F., August 30, 1846, see forward.
9. Agnes, August i, 1849. lO- Viola, July 2,
1852, died April 10, 1863. 11. David H., Sep
teraber 5, 1855, died January 29, 1879.
William Ferguson Evans, third son of
David W. and Agnes (Ferguson) Evans, was
born in Belfast, Ireland, August 30, 1846.
He received a common school education in
his youth, and in early life came to Haverhill,
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later a raanufacturer of shoes, reraaining as
such for a period of thirty years, from 1872
to 1902, retiring after the death of his wife,
and since then has conducted a retaU shoe
store in Haverhill. He has invested exten
sively in real estate in Haverhill and in the
stock of its various banks. He is a meraber
of the Baptist church of Haverhill, and of the
Saggahew Lodge of Free Masons of Haver
hill. In politics he is a Republican. He raar
ried Eraraa Frances Robinson, born in Au-
giLSta, Maine, daughter of Captain Williara
Robinson, of Augu,sta. Children; i. Hattie V.,
unmarried. 2. WilHam R., married Bessie Dur
gin, of Haverhill, Alassachusetts. 3. Alfred
W., raarried Mary Brooks. 4. Mildred, un
raarried, resides at horae.

Among the residents of
CAAIPBELL Lynn raay be raentioned
Thoraas Carapbell, a native
of Ireland, born in county Fermanagh, Oc
tober 22, 1 84 1, son of Williara and Jane
(McCoy) Carapbell, of county Fermanagh,
Ireland, and grandson of James Campbell, a
native of the same place. William Campbell
(father) followed farming in Ireland; he
came to the United States in 1873, locating
in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he died in
1874, aged seventy-three years. His wife
died aged sixty-four years. William and
Jane (AlcCoy) CarapbeU reared a family of
nine children, seven of whora are still living,
namely : James, now deceased ; Thomas, see
forward ; Alexander, a resident of England ;
Margaret and AVilliam, residents of Australia ;
Annie Eliza, died in 1905 ; Phoebe, a resident
of Northampton, New Hampshire ; married
Charles Orriii Stevens ; Mary Jane, raarried
Alexander Patterson ; resides in Lynn ; Fran
cis, a resident of Texas.
Thoraas Carapbell acquired a practical edu
cation in the schools of his native land, and
in 1866, at the age of twenty-five, emigrated
to the United States, settling in PhUadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He followed the trade of car
penter in that city, having learned the same in
Ireland prior to his emigration. In Alarch,
1867, after a short residence in the "City of
Brotherly Love," he reraoved to Lynn, Massa
chusetts, and there followed his trade for
about eighteen raonths, after which he engaged
in the building business in a small way, grad
ually increasing until at one tirae he employed
over sixty men, being araong the largest build
ers in the city, and erecting a large number

of the finest and largest buildings, including
shoe factories, churches and dwelling houses ;
among the latter may be raentioned the resi
dences of Mr. C. A. Coffin, B. F. Spinney, Dr.
C. A. Lovejoy, Dr. J. G. Pinkham and Waldo
Pevear; also the Oxford Qub house and the
Episcopal church. He continued this line of
work with marked success until his retirement
in 1906, being then one of the oldest builders
in the city, when he was succeeded by his
sons— Williara A., Robert S. and Frederick
J. — under the firm name of Campbell
Brothers, contractors and builders. Their
shop is located at Nos. 34 and 38 Suffolk
street, and their offices at Nos. 99 and 10 1
Sagamore street, Lynn, and by their honor
able business principles and straightforward
raethods of conducting affairs have raaintained
the reputation established by their father.
Thoraas Carapbell was prorainent in the
ranks of the Republican party, having been
elected to the offices of city councilraan, 1884-
85-92, and raember of the board of aldermen,
1895-96, in which capacities he served faith
fully both the people and his constituents. He
is also president of the Lynn water board,
being elected in 1908 to serve five years, and
is discharging his duties in that oifice at the
present tirae. He is a raeraber of Bay State
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ;
he is also a raember of the Order of Free and
Accepted Masons, affiliating with Golden
Fleece Blue Lodge, William Sutton Chapter,
Olivet Commandery, through the Scottish Rite
bodies, including Aleppo Temple of the Mystic
Shrine up to thirty-second degree, and of
the Massachusetts Consistory. ' He is vice-
president of Commonwealth Savings Bank, in
which he is serving as trustee, being appointed
at its incorporation, and as a meraber of the
investraent coraraittee He is a meraber of
the Episcopal church, Oxford Club and Cabin
Club. Thoraas Carapbell raarried, in 1862. Emily
Crozier, a native of county Fermanagh, Ire
land, daughter of Arrastrong Crozier, a con
tractor and builder in county Fermanagh.
Seven children, all of whora are now (1908)
living and residing in Lynn, were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Campbell, namely: i. Williara A.
2. Thoraas Henry, married Sophia Haines,
two children ; Helen Geneva and AHce Mar
ion. 3. Lizzie Maria. 4. Robert Spence, mar
ried Edith "E. Roberts, two children ; Dorothy
and Arline. 5. Laura Jane. 6. Eraily Crozier.
7. Frederick Jaraes, raarried Harriet Cunning
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Thomas Herlihy, now living
HERLIHY in retirement in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, is a f^e ex
ample of what can be accomplished by thrift,
industry and perseverance, although they have
not been backed by an extensive education.
John Herlihy, father of Thomas Herlihy, was
a native of Ireland, where he was employed
as a tailor. He married Ellen Mead.
Thomas Herlihy was born in county Cork,
Ireland, in 1837. He emigrated to the United
States, landing at Boston, May 6, 1873. From
thence he came to Lawrence as a laborer, en
tering the employ of the Lawrence Lumber
Company, for whom he worked for the long
period of twenty-three years. He was frugal
and determined and in the course of years
amassed a competence on the interest of which
he is now living in comfort retired frora active
labors. He is the owner of a nuraber of fine
large tenement lupuses. He came to this coun
try alone, but in the course of two years had
saved a sufficient fund to enable him to have
his wife and faraily follow hira. He is a
Deraocrat but has never taken an active part
in political affairs. He is a raeraber of the
Catholic church. He married Ellen Sweeny,
of county Cork, Ireland, and they have had
children; i. Ellen, married J. Kiley Law
rence. 2. Honora, deceased. 3. Mary, mar
ried, February 2, 1888, Dennis Shine; chil
dren: i. Julia, born November 20, 1888,
graduated frora St. Mary's Convent and a
coraraercial college, resides with parents; ii.
Agnes, born March 10, 1892, now attending
school; iii. Helen, born January i, 1894, died
September 29, 1894, aged nine months; iv.
Timothy, born October 15, 1896; the family
reside in Lawrence. 4. Bridget, twin of
Mary, married Matthew Reynolds. 5. Anna.
6. Alargaret, a nun; she was about eighteen
when she entered the Notre Dame Convent in
1887, and at present (1908) is in East Bos
ton. 7. John, died in early hfe.

John Leonard was born in
LEONARD Ireland, 1835. He spent his
early youth in his native land
and acquired the rudiments of an education
there. When he was fourteen he followed
the exodus from his native land to America.
He began to work in the mills at Lawrence,
Massachusetts, and after six months was ap
prenticed to a marble cutter. He worked in
Lawrence as marble cutter and maker of mon
uments and all kinds of cut stone work, con
tinuing until 1900 when he retired from busi

ness on account of failing health. He was
very successful in a financial way and had a
reputation second to none for excellent and
artistic work. He himself was an expert
craftsman and his work was always in great
demand. Upright, honorable, fair-dealing,
Mr. Leonard has the respect and confidence
of all with whom he has done business and
with all his townsmen, and has been free to
help others in need. In his active years he was
one of the raost industrious and hard-work
ing raen in business in the city. To the re
gret of many friends he has for raany raonths
been confined to his roora by iUness. In his
family the father has the right to take great
satisfaction. All his children have been given
liberal educations and all have evinced unusual
ability. Three are priests, one a physician
and one a musician of note.
Mr. Leonard married Ellen Walsh, born in
Forest Hill, Massachusetts. Children, born
in Lawrence: i. Williara, died in 1890; was
a noted rausician and composer. 2. Rev. Dan
iel, educated in St. Mary's Roman Catholic
school at Lawrence and at St. Thomas Col
lege, Villinova, Pennsylvania; is a priest of
the St. Augustinian Order. 3. Rev. Augus
tine, educated in the sarae school and college
as his brother, but died on the threshold of
his career as a priest in 1894; was ordained
in Rorae. 4. Thomas P., educated in St.
Mary's school, Lawrence high school, St.
Thoraas College and New England Conserva
tory, took musical instruction under private
teachers ; is now a teacher of music with an
office on Essex street, Lawrence, and organ
ist of St. Mary's Roraan Catholic Church. 5.
Rev. John B., a graduate of Lawrence high
school, was a student at St. Mary's school and
St. Thomas College; is a priest of the St.
Augustinian Order and a curate of St. Mary's
Roraan Catholic Church of Lawrence. 6.
Dr. Andrew, a graduate of public school of
Lawrence, St. Mary's school. Holy Cross Col
lege and Baltimore Medical College. 7. Loy
ola, whose only daughter graduated at the
convent of St. Mary's and joined the order
of Notre Dame nuns.

John Hayes was a shoemaker at
HAYES Alton Bay, New Harapshire, and
from that town removed to
Georgetown, Massachusetts, where he died
August 23, 1896. He was a native of Ireland
and a descendant of sturdy Irish ancestors.
He was a young man when he came to this
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over and went to Wisconsin, then a new and
coraparatively wilderness region. They were
railroad raen, Thoraas having charge of con
struction work on the line of road which was
built through the present city of Janesville
The other brother was Jaraes, and both are
now dead. John Hayes went to live in
Georgetown that he raight improve his con
dition in domestic life, educate his children
and give thera a start in useful vocations. All
of them except one were graduated from the
Georgetown high school. He was an in
dustrious, honest man and was much re
spected in the town in which he lived. He
raarried Catherine Mahoney, who died in Au
gust, 1903, having borne her husband six
sons and one daughter. Their children ; i .
James A., a railroad man in the employ of
the Boston & Northern Railroad Company. 2.
Francis E., died in Washington, D. C, in No
veraber, 1895 ; never raarried. 3. George H.
W., lawyer of Ipswich, Massachusetts. 4.
Joseph A., lives in Boston and is manager of
the National Produce Company; married,
but has no children. 5. David B., an em
ployee and assistant raanager of Danvers
Electric Lighting Corapany. 6. Bernard, died
when two years old. 7. Catharine, married;
her husband an employee of the E. E. Gray
departraent store, Boston.
(II) George H. W. Hayes, son of John
and Catherine' (Mahoney) Hayes, is a native
of Georgetown, Massachusetts, horn March
16, 1871, and received his literary education
in the Georgetown grararaar and high schools,
graduating from the latter. After leaving
school he took up the study of law, later ma
triculated at Boston University School of
Law, completed the course there and gradu
ated LL.B. in 1895. Having been admitted
to practice in the courts of this state, Mr.
Hayes began his professional career in Ips
wich in February, 1896, and for more than
twelve years has been numbered with the cap
able and rising merabers of the Essex bar.
In legal circles he is looked upon as a good
trial lawyer and an excellent advocate at the
bar of the court and before the jury. His
raethods are careful but not laborious, and he
never goes half prepared into the trial of a
case. He takes a coraraendable interest in
public affairs and the institutions of Ipswich,
and during his residence in the town has been
chosen in various official capacities. In 1904-
05 he was a raeraber of the school committee
and since 1904 has served as meraber of the
water and electric lighting boards. He is a

raeraber of Carrolton Council, No. 498,
Knights of Columbus, recording and financial
secretary of Agawan Aerie, No. 1588, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, and member and
keeper of the records of Chebacco Tribe, No.
93, Improved Order of Red Men.
Air. Hayes married, April 30, 1901, Helen
O'Brien, daughter of WiUiam F. and Sarah
(Dunn) O'Brien, and by whom he has four
chUdren; i. Althea V., born June 13, 1902.
2. WiUiam F., February 15, 1904. 3. Zelda
M., May 26, 1905. 4. George M., July 23,
1907.

The surname Dick is merely the
DICK diminutive form of the personal
name Richard, and was undoubt
edly commonly used as a personal name be
fore becoming a faraily name. The family of
Dick was located in Edinburghshire, Peeble-
shire, Orkneys and other parts of Scotland
before A. D., 1300, and the family is reputed
to be of Danish origin, dating back to the in
vasion of the British Isles by the Danes. A
branch of the Scotch faraily of Dick is located
in Ulster province, Ireland, chiefly in county
Antrim. (i)David Dick, of this ancient Scotch fam
ily, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, where
he was educated in the common schools, and
lived aU his days. He learned the trade of
mason, which he followed during his active
life. He died at the age of sixty-three. He
was an enthusiastic and active Free Mason.
He belonged to the established church of
Scotland. He married Margaret Wilson, born
in Scotland, died aged seventy-six years.
Children, born in Perthshire; i. John, resided
at Providence, Rhode Island, where he died.
2. George M. 3. Robert, resides at Sandiego,
southern CaUfornia. 4. David. 5. Alexander
Wilson, mentioned below. 6; Peter. 7. Mary.
8. Euphemia. 9. Margaret.
(II) Alexander Wilson Dick, son of David
and Margaret (Wilson) Dick, was born -in
Perthshire, Scotland, May 5, 1852. He re
ceived his education in his native land. When
he came of age he decided to leave home and
try his fortune in America. At the age of
twenty-one he sailed in the ship "Columbia."
He settled first in Springfield, Massachusetts,
where he found employment as clerk in the
dry goods house of Forbes & Smith. After
working there two years he went to Boston
as clerk in the store of ChurchiU, Gilchrist,
Smith & Company, dealers in dry goods, at
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&. Smith to become a partner in the Boston
firm, and Mr. Dick came with him. In 1880
Mr. Dick established himself in the dry goods
business at Lynn, Massachusetts, in a store
in Alarket Square. A year later he forraed a
partnership with Mr. Dawson under the firm
name of Dick, Dawson & Company and con
tinued in the dry goods business on Market
street. Mr. Dick bought out his partner two
years later and becarae sole proprietor. In
1884 he sold his Lynn business and purchased
the business of the firm of Zean, Leach &
Company at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the
dry goods trade. He conducted it two years,
and the following two years was engaged in
the same line of business at Westfield, Massa
chusetts, buying out the firm of Towell &
Buckton. In 1888 Mr. Dick returned to Lynn
arid started another dry goods and millinery
store in one end of what was called the Bos-
cabel Block. His business prospered, and at
the end of ten years he purchased one-half of
this block and occupied it with his business
which grew rapidly. At one time he had
three stores, one on Market street, one on Fed
eral square and one on Market square. He
¦continued with the utmost success in the dry
j;oods business in Lynn until 1904, when he
retired, and since then has been occupied in
the care of his real estate in Lynn and other
investraents. Air. Dick is a Republican in pol
itics. He is a raember of the lodge and Fra
ternity Encampment of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Lynn, and of the
Scots Charitable Society, established in Bos
ton in 1654, the oldest Scotch organization in
America, and of Clan McLan, of Boston, the
Highland Dress Association, Burns Memorial
Association and the Lynn Caledonian Club.
Pie is a member of the Presbyterian church
at the corner of Columbus avenue and Berk
ley street, Boston.
Mr. Dick married, in Lynn, June, 1879,
Maria Lawson, born in Sherbrooke, Canada,
daughter of William and Lucy (Carver)
Lawson, both of Sherbrooke, later of Lynn.
William Lawson was born in Sanguher, Scot
land, was a shoemaker by trade, which line of
work he followed until late in life, when he
was employed by the Boston & Maine Rail
road Company in Lynn. Mr. Lawson settled
for a time in Montreal, Canada, removed to
Sherbrooke, Canada, and finally to Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, where he spent his last years, and
where both he and his wife died; they were
buried in Pine Grove cemetery. Their chil
dren were: Mary, Susan, Maria, Rebecca,

WiUiam, Nancy, Lucy and Jaraes Lawson.
Air. and Airs. Dick are the parents of one
child, Margaret Alay, born in Lynn, June 17,
1881, resides at horae with her parents.

The Hogan family of Ireland is
HOGAN traced to one Ogan ( meaning in
Irish, a youth), son of Aitheir,
and gradson of Cosgrach, brother of Cineidh,
of the O'Brien faraily. Kings of Thoraond.
(See O'Brien faraily in this work). O'Hogan
is the anglicized spelling of the name. Later
generations in Ireland and America have pre
ferred the spelling Hogan. The family is now
well scattered through the counties of Ire
land. (I) Patrick Hogan lived in county Queens,
Ireland. He married and araong his children
was George, raentioned below.
(II) George Hogan, son of Patrick Hogan
(i), was born January 14, 1797, in King Tall-
amore county, Ireland. He received a com
mon school education, and learned his trade,
serving an apprenticeship of seven years at
Kilraunura, in the woolen raills. In 1826 he
came to America, and in 1837 settled at North
Andover, Alassachusetts. where he worked in
the Stevens Mills. He died Noveraber 8, 1870,
at Lawrence. He raarried, at Leeds, Ann
O'Rielley, born April 7, 1805, died September
12, 1888, at Lawrence. Children: i. Thoraas
A., born February 17, 1835. 2. James, born
May 25, 1837, died July 10, 1864. 3. EHza
beth, born June 30, 1839, raarried Williara H.
Harrison. 4. John Francis, born September
19, 1841, raentioned below. 5. Annie Al., born
July 22, 1843, unraarried. 6. George E., born
February 28, 1846, raentioned below. 7. Jos
eph A., born August 8, 1848, died 1851. In
politics he was a Democrat. He was a mem
ber of Division i, Ancient Order of Hibern
ians, and of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Children, Minnie, Nellie, Dr. Joseph A.,
George. (Ill) John Francis Hogan, son of George
Hogan (2), was born in North Andover,
Massachusetts, September 19, 1841. He vvas
educated in the public schools of his native
town. He began to work in the mill of Moses
T. Stevens, at North Andover, when he was
only ten years old. He enlisted in the Union
army in 1861, but after three months of drill
ing, his company disbanded without enter
ing the service. He re-enlisted in the Sixth
Massachusetts Regiment in 1862 and served
nine months in Virginia. When he returned
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Brothers, Lawrence, as overseer of the spinn
ing roora and continued for three years.
Then he engaged in business on his own ac
count in partnership with two others oper
ating a woolen mill in New Hampshire under
the firm narae of Henry H. Wyraan & Com
pany. They invested sixteen thousand dol
lars in the plant and prospered for four years,
when they lost their plant by fire with inade
quate insurance and were unable to resume
business afterward. In 1870 he went into
partnership with his brother George E. in the,
milk business in Lawrence, and in 1872 es-.
tablished a retail grocery business. It proved
successful, and in 1875 he adraitted his
brother George E. to partnership and they
were ui business together for a period, of four
teen years when he retired, selling his inter
ests to his partner. Since then he has in
vested freely in real estate in Lawrence,, has
built raany houses and bought and sold mucb
real estate. He has demonstrated expert
knowledge of the value of property in Law
rence and has profited largely by his deals and
investments. In politics Mr. Hogan is a Dera
ocrat ; raeraber of coramon council 1876-77,
and has been on the board of overseers of the
poor frora ward three. He is treasurer of
St. Patrick's Aid Society; of the Holy Narae
Society and of the funds of the Post, Grand
Army of the Republic. He is vice-president
of the Real Estate Association of Lawrence.
He married (first) Mary Rerawich, born
January 7, 1842, died June, 1873. He raar
ried (second) Hannah CaUahan, daughter of
Thoraas Callahan, a raason and contractor of
Lawrence. He raarried (third), Alay 26,1891,
Josephine McCarthy, born January 10, 1864,
daughter of Joseph J. McCarthy. Children of
John F. and Mary Hogan; i. Alary Frances,
born March 17, 1868, died March 9, 1886. 2.
George P., born AprU 23, 1870, died June 12,
1873. 3. John, born April 12, 1872^ died
April 14, 1872. Children of John F. and
Hannah Hogan; 4. Thoraas, born February
4, 1880, died June 8, 1884. 5. Francis Xavier,
born Noveraber 8, 1886, graduated frora the
Lawrence high school at the age of fifteen;
he then took a special course at Harvard ;
now teaching in the Lawrence high school.
Meraorial Day, May 30, 1908, he delivered the
oratorical address in the City Hall, Lawrence,
which was very good and highly appreciated
by all. Children of John F. and Josephine
Hogan; 6. Agnes R., born March 14, 1892.
7. John J., born Deceraber 7, 1893. 8. Mary
P., born March 17, 1895. 9. George, born

July 5, 1899. 10. Margaret, born AprU 15,.
1906.. (Ill) George E. Hogan, son of George Ho
gan (2), born February 28, 1846, died Oc
tober 14, 1907, at Lawrence. He removed to-
Lawrence when eighteen years old and fol
lowed the trade. of iron raolder, later having, ^
a retail railk business and finaUy engaging in.
the grocery business on Common street. His
business increased and he removed his grocery
to the corner of Broadway and HaverhUl
street. Subsequently he engaged in the liquor
business at 501 Broadway, continuing- . until
a year before his death, when on account of
failing health he sold out. He served as .
overseer of the poor for the city of Lawrence 1
for a period of three years. In politics he
was a Deraocrat. He was a raeraber of Di
vision I, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and.
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He mar
ried, in May, 1869, in Lawrence, Sarah Claf-
fay, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, . in Au
gust, 1842, youngest daughter of Thomas and
 Claffay, who reared seven daughters.
Mrs. Hogan died in Lawrence, August, 1890,
at the age of thirty-eight years. She left four
children ; Mary, a bookkeeper at the Arling
ton mills. Dr. Joseph A., a practicing phy
sician of Lawrence, office corner of Franklin
and Essex streets. Nellie, a resident of Law
rence. George E., Jr., a druraraer for the
Essex Brewing Company of Bradford, and a
resident of Amesbury.

Tt is impossible to distinguish
McLAIN between the surnames MacLain
and MacClain. The variations
of spelling of the two clans- are infinite. The
prefix Mac or Mc (meaning son of) is often
dropped and many of the Lane families are
of these Scotch clans, especially those of the
state of Maine. The MacClean faraily was in
Ayrshire, Moray and MuU county, Scotland,
from tirae iraraeraorial, and the McLean or
McLaiie in Argyle and AluU before the year
1300. One branch of the McLane or Mc
Clain faraily is found in Prancestown, New
Harapshire, descendants of Maleolra McLane,
who came there in 1784. He was born in Lear
Castle, county of Argyle, Scotland; landed in
Boston, in the fall of 1773, and resided at Lon
donderry and New Boston, New Harapshire.
His raother was Molly Beaton, his father
Daniel McLane, who was in the army of
Charles the Pretender at the battle of Cul
loden, April 16, 1746, and clairaed descent
frora a younger branch of the faraily, as son

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of Sir John McLane. The clan McLane was
located on Loch Buoy. Malcolm married Isa
belle Livingston, born in Scotland, daughter
of John and Jenny (Carmichael) Livingston.
Malcolm's parents both died in Scotland, but
a brother Hugh, who died unmarried came
with him. Aialcolm died January 19, 1831 ;
his wife November, 1809; Hugh in 1859 at
the age of ninety-six. Captain Obadiah Mc
Lane, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was a
clansman but not a near relative; he was a
prominent officer in the revolution.
(I) Alexander McLain coraes of one of the
McLain pioneers who came about the time of
the revolution. Malcolm McLane mentioned
above had a grandson Alexander who removed
to Vermont and the general similarity of
names suggests relationship. But this Alex
ander Hved at Appleton, Maine, where his
father is said to have been a pioneer. He was
a farmer in that town, but died when still
young, leaving a widow and young children.
He married Alary Barker. They were mera
bers of the Universahst church. Their chil
dren ; I. Henry. 2. Oscar. 3. Charles O.,
born August 12, 1840, mentioned below. 4.
Fergus, deceased. 5. Fergus, deceased. 6.
Furgus. 7. Nancy. 8. Elizabeth.
(II) Charles O. McLain, son of Alexander
McLain (i), was born in Appleton, Maine,
Augu.st 12, 1840. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of his native town, and worked at
farming during his youth. When he was sev
enteen years old he came to HaverhiU and
worked at the trade of shoeraaking for several
years. At length he established his own busi
ness as a manufacturer of boots and shoes
and gradually increased the volume of his pro
duction until he had one of the most extensive
factories in the city and eraployed several
hundred hands. He retired frora business in
1889, after a long and honorable as well as an
exceptionally successful career. His health
failed at that time and he died May 24, 1899.
He was a member of Saggahew Lodge of Free
Masons. In politics he was a Republican and
served one term in the comraon council of
Haverhill. He was a man of public spirit and
alive to the interests of the city in which his
business was located. He invested of his sav
ings in real estate and did rauch to upbuild and
develop HaverhiU. He built for investment
ten dwelhng houses, still owned by his
widow. He was an active raeraber of the
Universalist church. He was a veteran of
the civil war. He enlisted in Corapany G,
Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment of No\-

unteers, and was wounded in the battle of
Antietam. He was a member of Alajor Howe
-Post, Grand Array, HaverhUl. He was of
sterling character and large influence in busi
ness and society, having the friendship of
many men and the esteera of everybody who
knew him.
He married, October 13, 1866, Martha A.
]3rown, born March 10, 1846, daughter of
Henry and Ann (Simmons) Brown. Henry
Brown, her father, was born in Bremen,
Maine, and followed the sea for a livelihood ;
was a Methodist in religion. Her raother
raarried, fir.st, Samuel Jones, by whora she
had two children, Ann and Sarauel Jones.
Children of Henry and Ann Brown : Alartha
A., mentioned above; Susan, Henrietta,
George Brown. Children of Charles O. and
Martha A. McLain ; i. Frank I., born June 24,
1868, resides at home; unmarried; a shoe cut
ter by trade. 2. Henry G., born August 12,
1870, died July 20, 1898. 3. Jesse, born Jan
uary I, 1872, married Qarence Dean. 4. Taf-
ton, born April 29, 1877. 5. George T., born
January 21, 1879, died August 5, 1879.
John Daley, prorainent in the
DALEY business world of Lawrence,
Massachusetts, for raany years,
traces his descent to an old and honored fam
ily of Ireland.
(I) Tiraothy Daley was born in county
Cork, Ireland, and spent his Hfe in that coun
try. (II) John Daley, son of Tiraothy Daley,
was born in Ireland, and died in this coun
try, April 15, 1875. He eraigrated to the
United States with other raerabers of the fam
ily in 1848. He married Ellen O'Neil, born
1797, died January 5, 1899.
(Ill) John Daley, son of John and Ellen
(O'Neil) Daley, was born in Ireland and
came to the United States with his family in
1848. He was the father of six children:
Mary, Kate, Ellen, William, John and Tim
othy. (lA^) John Daley, son of John Daley, was
born in Glandore, county Cork, Ireland, July
18, 1840. He was eight years of age when
he came to this country with his parents, and
his school education was acquired in Law
rence. He was ambitious and persevering,
and his earnest efforts enabled him to rise to
an enviable position in the business world.
He worked for a time in a mill, then in the
leather business, and is now the owner of a
grocery and raeat market. He has amassed

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a considerable fortune and owns a large block
in South Lawrence. He raarried, January i,
1867, Alargaret Barry, died Septeraber 27,
1906, daughter of Andrew Barry. Children:
I. Jaraes, died Septeraber 9, 1869. 2. Williara
H., died April 12, 1873. 3.-'Mary. 4. Timothy
J. 5. Thomas, died at age of ten years. 6.
EHzabeth, married George Kerrigan, of Haver
hill, Alassachusetts 7. Catherine, raarried
Benjamin Devine, of Salera, Massachusetts.
8. Ella. 9. Margaret. 10. John. 11. Anna.
12. Josephine.

John Holt, born January 14,
HOLT 1841, in Lancashire, England, is
son of Jaraes and Sara (Cropper)
Holt, and grandson of Richard Holt, who
lived and died in England. Janies Holt
,( father) and his wife were natives of Roch
dale, Lancastershire, England ; they were the
parents of seven children: Sarah, born 1839,
raarried James Jepbron; John, see forward;
Harriet,.- rlied young; Robert, unraarried;
Thomas, living ; Williara, deceased ; Jane, raar
ried Thoraas Giendrod.
John Holt was educated at a mill school,
beginning to work in the woolen mill at the
age of nine, and learning the trade of spinner.
He worked for a tirae as fireraan and sta
tionary engineer. In 1869 he carae to the
United States and raade his home in Law
rence, Massachusetts. He Hved with Air. J.
Barnes. He worked at his trade in the Sut
ton Mills, Alarland Mills and North Andover
Mills. He was one of the first traveling men
on the road for the Peter McGovern oper
ating jack, setting them up and operating
them. After two years he gave up his po
sition. Later he was first overseer of the
spinning roora of the Sawyers new raill, at
Dover, New Harapshire, a position he held
for a year and a half, and he held a similar
position for eight years in the Peraberton
Mills, Lawrence, Alassachusetts. When he
left the spinning roora he purchased two
boarding houses and conducted thera eight
years, under the Pemberton Corapany. Pie
then accepted a position as overseer in the
woolen raills at North Andover and held it
for nine years and a half. He went to the
Marland Mill, where he held a sirailar posi
tion for eleven years and six weeks. Pte is
now living in Lawrence, and is engaged in the
Stanley Manufacturing Corapany of that city.
He is a raember of Blue Lodge of Free Ma
sons, one of the oldest Free Masons in Law
rence. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Holt raarried (first), in England,

Alaria Fielding, born 1841, died July 11, 1864,
in England. He raarried (second), in 1865,
in England, Alice Stuart, born October 26,
1840, died 1902. Child of first wife: Robert,
born Alarch 26, 1864, died aged one and one
half years. Child of second wife ; Alice Maria,
born 1873, raarried Moses Marshall, of Law
rence, register of deeds of that city; children:
John Stuart and Alice Catherine Marshall.

Thoraas Keating, son of
KEATING Thomas andBridget (Brophy)
Keating, born in town of Old
.Beg, parish of Borris, Edron East, Carlo
county, Ireland, 1836, died at Melrose, Alas
sachusetts, January 4, 1894, aged fifty-nine
years. He received his education in the
common schools of his native parish. He
left home at the age of thirteen, 1849,
coming with the great raoveraent of pop
ulation from Ireland to America. He obtained
employment as a gardener in Melrose, Alas
sachusetts, and passed the -remainder of his
life in that town. He invested his savings
in the livery stable business, during his early
manhood, and built up a flourishing estabhsh
ment from a hurable beginning. His stable
was located near the AVyoraing station, and
he becarae known as an expert judge of
horses, being a careful buyer and trader. Mr.
Keating was a Democrat in national affairs,
independent in municipal affairs, and never
sought or held political office.
Thoraas Keating raarried (first), 1858, at
Sacred Iraraaculate Conception Church, Alal
den, Massachusetts, Rose Powder, and their
children were; i. Thomas H., born Alay 10,
i860, at Alelrose; piano maker; Eraerson
Piano Conipany of Boston; married, October
25, 1881, Rosahe M. Beh, of Boston; reared
a large faraily ; resides at Roslindale, Massa
chusetts. 2. James P., born March 14, 1864,
at Alelrose, afterwards resided in New York
City. Thomas Keating married (second),
1868 at "Toraray's Rock" St. Joseph's
Church, Boston, Ann Fleming, born in Bor-
radagh, parish of Ballinoe, Cork county, Ire
land, daughter of Thomas and Mary" (Mc-
Enery) Fleraing, the latter being a native of
Ballylusky, parish of Ballinoe, Cork county,
Ireland. Children : 3. AViUiara E., born Sep
teraber 24, 1869, at Alelrose, raarried, June 29,
1898, Jennie D. Prior, of Randolph, Massa
chusetts ; four children : Joseph, Alary, Mar
guerite and Josephine; William E. is an elec
trical superintendent of Boston & Northern
Railroad. 4. John J., born AprU 2, 1871, in
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November 26, 1874, at Melrose, raarried,
July 21, 1903, Agnes McSweeney, of Revere,
Massachusetts; has one son, Paul Sylvester,
born December 31, 1907; Philip S. is engaged
in the livery business.
(II) John Joseph Keating, son of Thomas
and Ann (Fleming) Keating, was born in
Alelrose, Massachusetts, April 2, 187 1. He
was educated in the public schools of Alel
rose, graduating frora the high school. He
started upon a mercantile career as clerk in
the store of Hawley, Folsom & Martin, of Bos
ton, wholesale dealers in men's furnishing
goods, and continued with the concern for
four years. The following seven years he
served as clerk for the firm of Farrar & Se-
lee in the sarae line of business at Melrose.
In 1898 he embarked in business in clothing
and furnishing goods for men in a store in the
Post Office block. He was successful from
the first and his store prospered. In 1900 he
had outgrown the original store and concluded
to take larger quarters; accordingly he re
moved to his present location at Nos. 510-512
Alain street. He carries a large stock of raen's
furnishing goods and clothing. He is inde
pendent in politics. He is a member of "the
Young Men's Catholic Lyceum and was its
first president, serving three years, and was
formerly a director of the Melrose Cycle Club
in its palmy days. He is a charter fourth de
gree raeraber of Melrose Council, Knights of
Colurabus, and has held in succession all the
offices in that body, including that of grand
knight. He is a raember of Melrose Lodge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
a Hfe member of the Melrose Athletic Club.
He is a charter member and vice-president of
the Melrose Board of Trade, was formerly its
secretary for five years and active in the work
of the board. Air. Keating has devoted rauch
time and energy to the matter of encouraging
home industries as much as possible. He is
fond of outdoor sports and a leader in ath
letics in Alelrose, having served as chairman
of Old Home Week and July 4th athletic com
mittees many times. He is one of the most
popular and best known of the younger busi
ness men of the fity.
He niarried, at Melrose, February 24, 1908,
Adah Marie, daughter of Mrs. Helen A. Nel
son, of New Plaven, Connecticut.

The first of this name that we
BEEDE have any definite imformation of
was Charles Beede, whose birth
occured in or near Rumney, New Hampshire,
and who faithfully performed the duties of

citizenship. He married twice, one wife hav
ing been Sarah Flanders, who was probably
a native of Boston, Massachusetts.
William Dustin Beede, son of Charies
Beede, was born in Ruraney, New Harapshire,
June 24, 1859. After acquiring a practical
education in the schools of his native town,
he went to AA^althani, Massachusetts, working
for a time in the Waltham watch works.
Later he changed his place of residence to
Manchester, New Harapshire, and worked in
the shoe factories there, after which he went
to Lynn, Massachusetts. Shortly afterward,
when the great fire swept the city, he removed
to Newburyport, Massachusetts, but in the
course of a few months returned to Lynn and
engaged at his trade as a shoe laster, which he
followed to the time of his death which oc
curred in August, 1893. He was a man of
excellent character and strict integrity, and
won and retained the esteera of all with whom
he was brought in contact. He attended the
Methodist church. In politics, he - cast his
vote for the candidate who in his opinion was
best qualified for office, and although no office
seeker or office holder took an active interest
in the affairs of his adopted city. He raar
ried Emma P. Wood, born in Lynn, Febru
ary, 1857, daughter of Louis D. and Mary
P. (Dickerson) Wood. There were no chil
dren of this raarriage.
Louis D. Wood, father of Mrs. Beede, was
born in Canada, November 20, 1830. He
carae to Lynn, Massachusetts, at an early age,
and shortly afterward turned his attention to
the trade of shoeraaker. He had a sraall shop
in the rear of his home on Franklin street and
there manufactured shoes for many years
previous to the introduction of shoe raachin
ery to any extent in Lynn. In his later years
he engaged as a shoe cutter, and worked at
that trade until his retirement from active
pursuits, since which he has enjoyed a life
of ease, the fruit of many years of ceaseless
activity. He is an adherent of the principles
of the Republican party, but has always de
clined to take any active part in political af
fairs. He has always been an attendant of
the First Methodist Church in Lynn, to the
support of which he has been a wiUing con
tributor. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in
the civil war, serving for a period of nine
raonths; he is now a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic Post in Lynn. He
married, in Lynn, June 6, 1852, Mary F. Dick
erson, born in Lynn, June 20, 1832, daughter
of Edward A. Dickerson, born probably in
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brated the fiftieth anniversary of their mar
riage, at which tirae they received the con
gratulations and good wishes of their children
and friends. . At the present time (1908) they
are both enjoying good health and take an
active interest in all matters. Children of
Louis D. and Mary F. (Dickerson) Wood:
I. William L., bora in Lynn, April 6, 1853,
died August i, 1857. 2. Henry Eugene, born
Lynn, September 20, 1855, died March 19,
1856. 3. Emma Frances, born Lynn, Febru
ary 27, 1857, widow of WiUiam D. Beede,
mentioned above. 4. Cora A., Born Lynn,
October 2, i860, raarried first, January 17,
1883, Charles Bancroft; second, George
BaUey, of Maine, who left his home and went
to Lynn when a young man, remaining there
a nuraber of years. About 1900 he removed
to Beverly, where he was engaged as foreman
in Woodbury's shoe factory. He later opened
a restaurant in Beverly and has successfully
conducted the sarae to the present tirae. 5.
William L., born Lynn, April i", 1866, re
ceived his education in the schools at Lynn,
and was first employed as clerk in a shoe
store. When about twenty years of age he
removed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, con
ducted a shoe store one year, when he re-
to South Berwick, where he had interests in
a livery stable, and during his stay there he
was also employed in the stitching roora in
one of the shoe factories. Sorae tirae later he
returned to Beverly, opening a business of his
OWH for stitching shoes and continued in same
for a number of years. Subsequently he pur
chased a shoe business in Lynn, which he re
moved to Beverly and afterward sold. About
1897-98 he becarae interested in the insur
ance and real estate business, continuing to
the present tirae, having his office in Beverly.
Mr. Wood raarried first, Ida Whittier, of
Danvers ; second, Ruth Allen, born in Everett,
who bore him three chUdren : Rowland Louis
and Robert Many, twins, born December 19,
1900, and Philip Allen, born March 8, 1903.
6. Frank, born August 26, 1868, resides in
Lynn.

Patrick Charles Dempsey,
DEMPSEY one of the large real estate
holders of Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, is descended from Irish ancestry.
His parents were John and Susan (Seaton)
Dempsey, natives of Ireland, the former of
whom was a successful farmer in Ireland.
Their children were; i. Patrick Charles, born
1842, mentioned below. 2. John, was a con

tractor and plasterer; retired; owner of real
estate in Boston; resides on Washington
street; married  ; children: William,,
Annie, Fred, Walter, Maggie, Harold. 3..
Daniel, died in Haverhill; unmarried. 4..
Tiraothy, died in Boston ; unmarried. 5'
Mary, deceased, married John Fallow, of Clin
ton. 6. Josephine, died in Clinton ; unmarried.
Patrick Charles Dempsey was born in Cork,.
Ireland, 1842, and was educated in the dis
trict schools. He emigrated to the United
States, coming to Pepperell, Massachusetts,.
Jupe 20, 1850. From there he located in Shir
ley, Massachusetts; from there removed to
Clinton, Massachusetts; from there to Law
rence, Massachusetts, February 11, 1865, and
worked in the Pacific Mills for three months.
He left the Pacific Mills for a period, but
finally returned and secured employment again
in Pacific Mills; he left again in 1870, going.
to Palraer, Massachusetts, and upon his re
turn to Lawrence secured employment in the
Pacific Mills where he remained until 1881,.
when he accepted a position as second hand.
in the Arlington Mills, cotton department,-
which position he holds at the present time.
He married, in 1884, Mary E. Shortwell, bom
in Exeter, New Hampshire, 1850, died Janu
ary 22, 1885. He remained single six years-
and then raarried (second), 1891, Nellie Ken
nedy, born in Killarney, county Kerry, Ire
land, April 10, 1870. Two children born, one
Hved to be sixteen raonths old and the other
died at tirae of birth.

In New England colonial history
LYLE the surname Lyle was known as.
early as the first half of the eight
eenth century, when Daniel Lyle came from
the south and settled at Augusta, Maine, in
'^737- This Daniel Lyle, according to well
authenticated family tradition, was one of
four brothers — Daniel, Jaraes, John and-
Matthew — who carae frora the north of Ire
land about or soon after the year 1700 and
settled in Rockbridge county, "Virginia.
It raay be said, however, that none of these
Lyles were of Irish stock or blood, although
all of the four brothers raay have been born
in that country, a region which for raany years
and perhaps for several generations was the
safe temporary refuge sought out by thous
ands of EngHsh and Scotch famiHes that they
niight be free frora the persecutions to which
they had been subjected on account of their
religious convictions. The ancestors of these
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there, but because they were Scotch Presby
terians and refused to yield to the domination
of the ruling church they were driven out of
the country by the Earl of Montrose and
sought safety in the north of Ireland. Such
is the accepted tradition, so well grounded in
the established events of history during the
period of religious persecution that it has
come to be recognized as absolute truth. But
far back of that period the patronymic Lyle
was known in English history at the time of
the conquest, and it is claimed with much rea
son to have been of Norman extraction from
an ancient French root.
The original seat of the Lyle families on
this side of the Atlantic ocean was in that part
of Timberridge valley which was known as
New Virginia, and there they dwelt for some
time, although in later years they became scat
tered, some going farther south, others to new
settlements in Virginia and still others coming
to the New England provinces. Daniel Lyle
found his way into Maine, and was progenitor
•of a considerable branch of the family there.
One chronicler says that he settled there as
early as the year 1737.
James Lyle carae north soraetirae previous
to the revolution, and frora a New England
port sailed to Nova Scotia, accompanied by a
number of slaves. In Virginia he had been a
planter, a raan of raeans and rauch influence.
In Nova Scotia he fixed his abode in the
Straits ot Canso, now Middle Milford, Guys-
borough county. There he married a Miss
Martin, and by her had two sons, James and
David, and one daughter, Nancy Lyle.
James Lyle was a son of James and 
(Martin) L)de, born at Middle Milford, Nova
Scotia, and spent his life in that region, where
he was a farmer and owner of large tracts of
land. He married Lydia Carter, who bore
him fourteen children: David, James, Jer-
-emiah Woo,d, John, Joseph, Bruce, Elizabeth,
Caroline, Alaria, Rhoda, Susanna, Nancy,
Margaret and Lydia Lyle. Something like a
half a century ago the families of David, Jer
emiah and John Lyle came to Hve in New
England, David taking up his residence on
Cape Ann.
David Lyle, born March 22, 1819, at Middle
Milford, Nova Scotia, died in Gloucester, Mas
sachusetts, in 1886. He settled in that town
in 1867, and was a cooper by trade, but his
sons, with the exception of one or two, were
engaged in the fisheries. He married, De
cember 3, 1844, Susan A. Procter, born May
17, 1826, daughter of James Procter and Har

riet Jane Grant. When Sir John and Sir Ed
ward Hamilton left HaUfax, Nova Scotia, to
return to England, they left aU of their prop
erty to John Procter, and Procter Square in
that city is named in allusion to him in mem
ory of the good he wrought for the inhabit
ants of that municipality. John Procter raar
ried NeUie Derby, and their children were
Robert, John, Jaraes, Michael, Alexander,
Nancy, Alary, Betsey and Susan. Of these,
Jaraes Procter married Harriet Jane, daughter
of Lewis Francis Grant and his wife, whose
name before raarriage was Susan Grant. The
children of James Procter and Harriet Jane
Grant were Susan, died young; Ann, James,
Susan, John, Eliza, William, Alexander, Rob
ert and Francis Procter.
Lewis Francis Grant and his wife Susan
Grant were both descendants of Alatthew
Grant, who came with his wife to Araerica in
1630 in the ship "Alary and John," and set
tled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He
was made freeman there in 1631, and in 1635
was one of the colony of Dorchester settlers
who founded a new plantation at Windsor,
Connecticut. He was a land surveyor there,
town clerk and also kept the records of the
church. President Ulysses Simpson Grant
was a descendant of the eighth generation of
Alatthew Grant of Dorchester and Windsor.
David Lyle and Susan A. Procter had
children ; i. Harriet W., born Septeraber 17,
1845 ; married September 3, 1872, Isaac Patch
of Gloucester, Massachusetts. 2. Joseph
B., born Alay 24, 1847, died October 10, 1850.
3. Jaraes Jereraiah, born October 9, 1850 ; raar
ried Alary Macfarlane ; children, Jaraes Mac-
f arian e and Alexander Gordon Lyle. 4.
David W., born Septeraber 10, 1852; raarried
Laura Jane Withara; two children, Eraeline
B. and Harriett C. 5. Alexander A. G., born
August 12, 1854; drowned at sea. 6. Alraa
Swan, born April 25, 1856; married David
Frederick Scranton ; lives in Carabridgeport,
Massachusetts. 7. Joseph A. C, born January
ID, 1858; raarried Hannah Nagle, lives in
Gloucester. 8. Elizabeth F. N., born Decera
ber 25, i860; raarried Frederick Boyer. 9.
Sirapson AV. A., born June 28, 1861 (see
post). 10. Margaret J. M., born January 30,
1866; raarried Charles S. MiUer; now a
widow living in Gloucester.
Sirapson W. A. Lyle, son of David and
Susan A. (Procter) Lyle, was born at Steep
Creek, Aliddle MUford, Guysborough county,
Nova Scotia, June 28, 1861, and was a boy of
five vears when his father reraoved with his

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faraily to Gloucester. He was brought up to
farra work on the old Patch farra, now the
property of his sister and her children, while
his own horae and suraraer hotel, the Delphine,
stand on a part of the original farra tract. In
1894 Mr. Lyle became proprietor of the Del
phine, succeeding its former owner. It is one
of the most corafortable and pleasantly situ
ated suramer hotels on Eastern Point, a local
ity noted for its many attractions and the
number of its sumraer resorts and cottages.
It has a capacity for one hundred guests. Mr.
Lyle is a capable business and hotel raan, a
raember of the various subordinate masonic
bodies of Gloucester and frequently an officer
of some of thera, and with his faraily occupies
a prominent position in the social life of the
city of Gloucester. January 5, 1887, he mar
ried Edith Withara ; children ; Susan J^yle,
born in Gloucester, August 11, 1889; Harris
K. Lyle, born in Gloucester, Alay 27, 1895.

(1908) eraployed in the real estate office of
A. E. Mac, of Lawrence; he is a resident of
Lawrence. Annie Maria, unmarried, also a
resident of Lawrence.

John Smith, a native of St. John,
SMITH New Brunswick, carae to the
United States, and for a nura
ber of years was a resident of Lawrence,
Massachusetts. He married Julia O'Leary, of
that city, who was bora in Cork, Ireland, Feb
ruary I, 1837. She carae to this country when
a young woman and located in Lawrence, and
by her exertions accumulated sufficient capital
to purchase two large properties in that city,
from which she derived a goodly income. Be
ing a woman of great business ability, energy
and perseverance, when left with the care of
four small children, she turned her attention
to the management of a corporation boarding
house, which she conducted for a nuraber of
years successfully, and in this raanner pro
vided a comfortable home for her children
and was enabled to give thera excellent edu
cational advantages. In addition to her raany
excellent traits, Mrs. Sraith was exceedingly
charitable, giving liberally of her raeans to
alleviate the sufferings of others, and in addi
tion to the care of her own children she
adopted a child, to whora she gave a raother's
loving care. Mrs. Sraith had a wide circle of
friends, who adraired her for her ra'anyworaan-
ly qualities, and her death which occured in
Lawrence, Deceraber 13, 1904, at the age of
sixty-seven years, was sincerely raourned not
only by her family but by all who had the
honor of her acquaintance. Two of her chil
dren — Julia and Elizabeth — died in early life.
The surviving members of the family are :
Jaraes Robert, unraarried, at the present tirae

John Dowbridge ( i ) , lived
DOWBRIDGE and died in Trieste, prov
ince of Kustenland, Aus
tria, although doubtless he was of EngHsh
birth and ancestry, and went over to the con
tinent to take part in the wars and married
there and ever afterward made his horae in
that country.
(II) Andrew Dowbridge, son of John Dow
bridge, was born in Trieste, Austria, but spent
little even of his younger life in that city. At
the age of ten years he ran away frora horae
and shipped as a cabin boy on board one of
the numerous vessels that sailed from im
portant seaports on the Adriatic sea. In the
course of his life on the high seas the cabin
boy becarae a sailorman, and it so happened
that the ship in which he saUed raade port at
Salera, Massachusetts. Frora that tirae to the
end of his days Andrew Dowbridge followed
the sea, and he died in Salera, February 8,
1885. He married Mary, widow of John
Alartin, and whose family name was Gard
ner. She bore hira four chUdren; Andrew,
who settled in Maine and died there; Lucy,
who raarried Charles Briggs and died in
Salera; Henry F., now dead; Mary, who be
carae wife of Hugh Munsey and lives in
North Beverly.
(Ill) Henry Francis Dowbridge, son of
Andrew and Alary (Gardner-Martin) Dow
bridge, was born in Salera and died there July
20, 1899, after an honorable and highly suc
cessful business career. As a boy he was
sent to the pubHc schools, but his opportun
ities of acquiring an education were quite
liraited. When old enough to work he learned
the mason's trade, and from a journeyman he
developed into a contracting and building ma
son, for besides being a competent workraan
he possessed native business qualities which
served hira well and yielded hira a comfort
able fortune. For many years Mr. Dow
bridge was a well known figure in business
circles in Salem, and always was recognized
as a man of high character and strict integ
rity. Araong the many large structures
erected by hira there may be mentioned the
raills of the Naurakeag Steam Cotton Com
pany, the Salem Fire Department building and
scores of others were it necessary to enumer
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member of the board of directors ot the
Salem Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He
was a member of old Essex Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons and the Essex Institute. In
politics a Republican and in religion prefer
ence was a Universalist. On Noveraber i,
1855, Mr. Dowbridge niarried Joanna Frances
Adaras, born in Salem, May 23, 1836, daugh
ter of Charles Hodgdon and Elizabeth
(French) Adams (see Adains family). One
daughter was born of this marriage, Clara
Louise Dowbridge, born in Salem, June 21,
1856. She raarried (first) Archibald Nettles,
and by him had one son ; married ( second )
Stephen W. Abbott, of Beverly. Henry D.
Nettles, son of Archibald and Clara L. (Dow
bridge) Nettles, was born AprU 8, 1882, mar
ried Rita Viola Derby, of Beverly, and had
three children: Clara D. Nettles, born Oc
tober 8, 1900; Gladys D. Nettles, born No
veraber, 1901 ; Lucille Dorothy Nettles, born
Septeraber 5, 1907.

(I) Henry Adaras, of Braintree,
ADAMS was one of the earliest planters
in the locality known in colonial
days as Mt. WoUaston and which in 1640 was
incorporated as Braintree He was born in
England and carae to New England about
1632-33, with his wife, eight sons' and one
daughter, and in 1640 had a grant of forty
acres of land at "the raount," which seeras to
have been the allotment for his family of ten
members. The name of his wife does not
appear, nor the date of her death, but Henry
died in Braintree in 1646. He was a maister
and yeoman. Of his sons several bore raili
tary titles won in early colonial wars, and one
of thera fulfilled the office of deacon of the
church. They were Lieutenant Thoraas, Cap
tain Samuel, Deacon Jonathan, Peter, John,
Joseph and Ensign Edward.
(II) Joseph Adams-, son of Henry Adams,
immigrant, was bom in England in 1626, and
was a maister and yeoman; was made free
man in 1653, served as selectman in 1673, and
died in 1694. He married, Noveraber 26,
1650, Abigail, daughter of Gregory and Mar
garet. (Paddy) Baxter, of Boston. She died
in 1692, having borne her husband twelve
children: Hannah, Joseph, John (died
young), Abigail, Captain John, Bethea, Mary
(died young), Sarauel, Mary, Captain Peter,
Jonathan and Mehitable.
(Ill) Joseph Adaras, son of Joseph and
Abigail (Baxter) Adams, born in Braintree,
December 24, 1654, died there February 12,

1737- He was a soldier of King Philip's war,
1676, and selectman of Braintree three years.
He raarried (first), February 20, 1682, Mary
Chapin, born August 27, 1662, died June 14,
1687; raarried (second) Hannah Bass, born
June 22. 1667, died October, 1705, daughter
of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass; raarried
( third ) Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Hobart,
of Braintree She died February 13, 1739.
B}' his first wife Joseph Adaras had two chil
dren, Mary and Abigail; by his second wife
he had Rev. Joseph, Deacon John, Sarauel,
Josiah, Hannah, Ruth, Bethia and Captain
Ebenezer; and by his third wife he had son
Caleb. (lA-^) Rev. Joseph Adams, son of Joseph
and Hannah (Bass) Adaras, and uncle of
the second president of the United States, was
born in Braintree, January 4, 1688, and died
in Newington, New Harapshire, May 21,
1783. He graduated frora Harvard College
in 1 7 10, was ordained and settled at Newing
ton, Noveraber 16, 1715, and was pastor there
for the next sixty-six years. He raarried
(first), October 13, 1720, Mrs. Elizabeth Jan-
verin, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Knight) Janverin of Newington. She died
February 10, 1757, and he married (second),
January 3, 1760, Elizabeth Brackett, of Green
land, New Hampshire. Rev. Joseph Adams
had children, all born of his first marriage :
Elizabeth, Dr. Joseph, Deacon Benjamin, and
a daughter. (A') Dr. Joseph Adaras, son of Rev. Jos
eph and Elizabeth (Janverin) Adams, born
in Newington, New Hampshire, January 17,
1723, died in Barnstead, New Hampshire,
Alarch 22, 1801. He graduated frora Har
vard College in 1745, and entered the profes
sion of medicine against the' expressed wishes
of his father. He settled first in Newington
and in 1792 removed to Barnstead, where the
last nine years of his life was spent. His wife
was Joanna Gilman, daughter of Major Ezek
iel Gilraan, of Exeter, who coraraanded the
New Harapshire forces at the capture of
Louisburg in 1745. Dr. Joseph and Joanna
(Gilman) Adams had twelve children; Ezek
iel Gilman, Captain Joseph, Ebenezer, Dudley,
Gilman, AVilliara, John, EHzabeth, Abigail,
Benjamin, Nathaniel and Polly.
("A-'I) Nathaniel Adams, son of Dr. Joseph
and Joanna (Gilman) Adams, was baptized in
Barnstead, New Hampshire, March 31, 1770,
and died there in 1853. He was farailiarly
known as "Uncle Nat." He raarried Olive,
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had five children, all born in Barnstead: i.
Abigail, August, 1798, died Septeraber 4,
1874; married (first) David Chase, (second)
Sarauel Chase. 2. Charles Hodgdon, 1803. 3.
Joanna, about 1805-06, raarried (first) Coffin
Colcord, (second) Elbridge Earl; lived in
Salera and died there in 1876. 4. Frances D.,
January 16, 1808, died in Portsraouth, New
Hampshire, June 8, 1890; married Josiah,
son of Nathan Webb and EHzabeth (Cole)
Adaras. 5. Mary Ann, April 26, 1812, died
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, January 7,
1887; married, Deceraber 22, 1830, Isaac Har
low, of Beverly, Massachusetts, who died Au
gust 10, 1858.
(VII) Charles Hodgdon Adams, son of
Nathaniel and Olive (Hodgdon) Adaras, born
in Barnstead, New Harapshire, 1803, died in
Salera, Massachusetts, March 4, 1869. He
raarried Elizabeth French, of Salera, Massa
chusetts, and had nine children, five born in
Barnstead and four in Salera: i. Joseph P.,
AprU 2, 1827, died May 10, 1827. 2. Eliza
beth H., July 25, 1828, died Septeraber 10,
1828. 3. Elizabeth Ann, November 6, 1829,
raarried Williara B. Wyman, of Marblehead.
4. Alary Jane, Deceraber 6, 1831, died unraar
ried Deceraber 11, 1855. 5. Charles Henry,
March 11, 1833, died March 19, 1835. 6.
Caroline P., Noveraber 2, 1834, died about
1875 ; raarried B. Frank Bartlett. 7. Joanna
Frances, May 23, 1836, raarried, Noveraber
I, 1855, Plenry F. Dowbridge (see Dow
bridge faraily). 8. Clara Louisa, July 25,
1837, died Noveraber 11, 1855. 9. Charles H.,
born July 27, 1840, raarried, March 5, Isabelle
Kelley, born Noveraber i, 1842.

The surnarae Alickel is of
MICKEL Dutch origin. The pioneer of
this faraily came frora Holland
and settled at an early date in Nova Scotia.
(I) John Alickel, a descendant of the Nova
Scotia iraraigrant, Hved and died in Seneca
county. New York. His father lived at Sar
atoga Springs and near Albany, New York.
John Alickel raarried and was the father of
five daughters and three sons, of whom Ben
jamin Al. is mentioned below. The raother of
Williara Moore, of Interlaken, Seneca county.
New York, was another of the children.
(II) Benjamin M. Mickel, son of John
Mickel, born near Mecklenburg, New York,
August II, 1835, died May 31, 1872. He
raarried Hannah E. AA''olcott, born November
7, 1836, died April 18, 1890. Araong their

children, born at Sand Lake, New York was :
Orin Elijah, raentioned below.
(Ill) Dr. Orin EHjah Mickel, son of Benja
min M. Mickel, born in Sand Lake, New
York, August 11, 1859, died at Haverhill, Jan
uary 12, 1902. He was educated in the public
schools, and began at an early age to study
dentistry in Troy, New York, in the office of
Dr. Charies Gabeler. From 1887 until the
time of his death in 1902 he practiced his
profession in HaverhiU, Massachusetts, with
marked success, having previously had offices
for a short time at Pittsfield and Northamp
ton, Massachusetts. He was a member of
Pythian Castle, Knights of Pythias; Council,
Royal Arcanum ; and of Mutual Relief Lodge
of Odd FeUows. He was a Republican in
politics and took a keen interest in public af
fairs. He served the city of Haverhill in the
coraraon council In religion he was a Con
gregationalist. Pie raarried, October 8, 1886,
Emma Brunell, born i860, daughter of Louis
and Phillis (Carpenter) Brunell, of Troy,
New York. She was a native of Three Riv
ers, Canada, in the Province of Quebec. Her
great-grandfather, Balfour by narae, changed
his narae at the time of his marriage, to that
of his wife, Brunell. Dr. and Mrs. Mickel had
one child, Orene Jennie, born January 2"2,
1890, now living with her widowed mother in
the home, 26 Park street, Bradford, Massa
chusetts.

William Jaraes Taylor, a re-
TAYLOR spected citizen of Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, for nearly fifty
years, was born in Bladen county. North Car
olina, 1840, son of William Taylor, who was
bora and reared in Bladen county, where he
afterward remained a number of years, re
raoving in later years to Samson county and
raaking his home there until shortly after the
close of the civil war, when he returned to his
native part of the state and there spent the
remainder of his life. His wife was Jane
Taylor, of Bladen county, both dying there ;
and they were the parents of seven children :
Thomas, Sarah, Mary Jane, Julia, WilHam
James, EHza and Lucy. His wife Jane
after his decease married Jaraes McCoy and
they had children : James and two that were
twins, the only surviving ones of the family
being William James and Lucy, who reside in
Lynn. WiUiam Taylor was oldest son of
Thomas McKitcham Taylor, who was also a
native of Bladen county where he lived during
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"f^nty having reared children: WiUiam,
Arthur, Gabriel, Hagar, Eva, Penny and Ma
tilda. William James Taylor remained in his na
tive state and town until he was about twenty-
two years of age, when he left the south and
went from there to Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, and soon after went to Boston, Massa
chusetts, but after remaining in Boston a few
months, he removed to Lynn in the year 1862.
After settling in Lynn he found eraployraent,
working at odd jobs, and about a year after
bis arrival entered the lumber mill of James
Buffum, where he remained nearly seven
years, when he met with an accident and was
completed to give up work for several months.
The year following he was interested in the
sale of fresh pork, buying and raising his
stock. Mr. Taylor built the next year a small
building where he conducted a small variety
and grocery business. His trade, however,
soon demanded larger quarters and he erected
another building, removing into same where
he carried on the grocery business about
twenty-five years. He converted his former
place of business into a dwelling house and
at that time became interested in real estate,
and in the following years, by constant pur
chase of land and buildings, his success in real
estate warranted his resigning frora the gro
cery business about 1893, that his entire in
terests might be devoted to the care of his
property which he had accumulated, and it
may be said that he has since continued as
dealer in real estate successfully.
Mr. Taylor married in 1864, Harriet Rob
inson, of Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of
Henry and Mary Ann Robinson, of Boston.
Their children were: i. Louis E., employed in
¦General Electric Company, Lynn, married
Charlotte Jacobs, daughter of Alichael and
Katherine Jacobs, and have two children,
Issoline and Jesline; residing in Lynn. 2.
Viola Jane, died at age of five years in Lynn.
The McManus or Mac-
McMANUS Manus family is of very an
cient Irish origin. O'Hart in
his Irish Pedigrees states that Manus, brother
of GioUaiosa, of the ancient Maguire family,
was the ancestor of MacManus. Manus was
son of Dun Mor Maguire. MacManus was
a numerous clan in Fermanagh (chiefly in
Tirkennedy) who had the control of the ship
ping on Lough Erne, and held the office of ,
hereditary chief manager of the fisheries un
der Maguire. The surname Manus is derived

from the Irish word mainis (lance or spear)
(main; Irish, "the hand"; Latin manus) and
O Hart translates the name McManus as "the
son of the man who could wield a spear."
(I) Dennis McManus was born in Ireland.
He married Mary McMurray, also a native of
Ireland. He carae to America a few years after
his marriage, landing in New York city at old
Castle Garden, March 5, i860, after a' voyage
lasting nine weeks, five days, bringing with
him his son Tiraothy and two daughters. His
wife followed a few years later. The faraily
settled in Lowell, Massachusetts.
(II) Tiraothy McManus, son of Dennis Mc
Manus (i), was born in Ireland, November
22, 1846. He was fourteen years old when he
came ^to America with his father and two sis
ters. The father started in the new world
without capital, and the son began to work at
gardening at twelve dollars a raonth. Soon
afterward he began to work in the Fitchburg
paper mill, at the rate of eighty cents per day,
later at the Lawrence paper mills, operated
by WiUiam A. Russell, and continued in vari
ous positions for the period of twenty-six
years, when he retired to devote his tirae to
the care of his real estate in which he had in
vested his savings. He now owns several
large teneraent houses and is possessed of a
corapetence. He is independent in politics.
He is a devout raember and liberal supporter
of the Roman Catholic parish in which he re
sides. He married (first) 1867, Rose Riley,
born January 12, 1845. He raarried (second),
July 4, 1877, Annie Gouldon, born 1848, in
Ireland, daughter of Daniel Gouldon. His
only child died soon after birth in 1868.

Frank Bake, son of Frank and
BAKE Grace (Butler) Bake, was born in
England, December 15, 1842, and
died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, February
II, 1907. His father was born February 20,
1808, and his mother July 24, 1806. He re
ceived his early education in the common
schools in his native town. He learned a
trade and worked in the raills in England un
til he came to Araerica. He came to Law
rence, Massachusetts, and found employment
in the mills there. He followed his trade and
had the fuUest confidence of the employers
and employees. He retired in 1903 for a well
earned rest and leisure. He was a quiet un
obtrusive man, prudent, careful and upright.
By his habits of industry and thrift and care
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corapetence. He was not interested in poli
tics, preferring his horae life to any other.
He was a raeraber of the Odd Fellows in Eng
land, and was transferred to the Manchester
Unity Lodge of Lawrence after he came to
this country.
He raarried December lo, 1864, first, Sarah
Ann Butler, born October i, 1843. Children;
* I. Francis, born February 16, 1866, died
March 6, 1866. 2. Emily, born July 4, 1867.
3. Annie E., Alarch 17, 1869. 4. Herbert,
February 29, 1872. 5. Frank, March 7, 1879.
He married second, October 5, 1893, Mrs.
Mary Barlow, born Alay 30, 1850, daughter
of Sarauel and Susan Lord. She had raar
ried first, Thomas P. Barlow, September 23,
1870, and the fololwing children were born to
them; i. Rhoda B., June 30, 1874. 2. Susie,
October 22, 1875. 3- John E., June 12,
1878. 4. Wilfred, August 10, 1882.

John William Alton Hayes was
HAYES born at Ipswich, Alassachusetts,
Alay 21, 1866, son of John W.
Hayes and Bessie Alton, his first wife John
Hayes, Sr., was a native of England, born in
Derby, in 1834, son of John Hayes. He came
from England in 1866, and settled in Ipswich,
Alassachusetts, where he found eraployraent
in the Ipswich raills, becoming raanager of the
finishing department. Later on he was su
perintendent of a hosiery mill in Ipswich and
still later becarae proprietor of a restaurant.
He died in 1892. He was a member of Syra
cuse Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He married
first, Bessie Alton, by whom he had children ;
Thomas, Eliza, Ellen, Annie, Arthur, John
William Alton, Elizabeth and Frank. His
wife died in 1875, and he married second,
,Ann Daly, by whora he had two children: I.
Annie became the wife of Dr. Ames, of Ips
wich. 2. .Arthur, died young.
John William Alton Hayes received his ed
ucation in the public and high schools of his
native place, Ipswich, and was there engaged
in business until he retired from active pur
suits in 1903. For eighteen years he was in
the hotel business and became well known as
a host in that long period. He is a raeraber
of Chebacco Tribe of Red Alen, Lodge No.
93, and of Syracuse Lodge No. 30, Knights of
Pythias. Air. Hayes raarried Alarch i, 1892,
Alary C. Ryan, daughter of Williara Ryan, of
Norwich, Connecticut, and has one child.
Alary Aladeline Carrol Hayes, born Deceraber
23, 1892.

The Gates are an old, nuraerous
GATE and highly respectable family in
New Harapshire, where various
of its representatives have hved through sev
eral generations frora the time of the ances
tor. In town and church records the name is
written both Cate and Gates. Of the par
ticular branch of the family her-e treated the
earHest one of whom we have any reliable
account is Alpheus D. Cate (i), grandfather
of Edgar Alpheus Cate.
(I) Alpheus D. Cate was born in Tamworth,
New Hampshire, April 19, 1810, spent his
young years in that town and in the course of
a few years after his raarriage reraoved with
his wife to Portsraouth, New Harapshire,
where he died August 29, 1872. He married
Alargaret Shannon, of the old New England
family of that surnarae which has been raade
the subject of an exhaustive genealogical
record. (II) John Shannon Cate, son of Alpheus
D. and Margaret (Shannon) Cate, was born
in Tamworth, New Harapshire, March 25,
1839, and went when a child with his parents
to Portsraouth, where he was educated in the
public schools, later attending the acaderay at
Hampton, New Hampshire. After leaving
school he worked for a tirae with his father,
and on leaving home went to Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts, and found eraployment with the
firm of Chapman & Soden, Boston, raanu
facturers of and dealers in roofing material
and supplies. He proved to be a corapetent
employee and the interest he showed in the
business of the firm was rewarded with his
advanceraent to raore responsible positions,
first to that of superintendent of the raanu
facturing departraent and afterward to that of
general raanager of the extensive business
operations of the firm. Air. Cate retired frora
active business pursuits in 1889, but after
ward took, as he had done before, a cora
raendable interest in public affairs in the town
and subsequently city of Everett, where he
Hved frora 1877 until the time of his death,
October 11, 1906. During the almost thirty
years of his residence in Everett he was
counted among the foremost men of that mu
nicipality, arid having acquired considerable
real estatethere he naturallytook much interest
in its growth and welfare. He was an earn
est Republican in his political preference, and
as the candidate of his party was elected rep
resentative from Everett to the general court
of Massachusetts in 1890. He was for two
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Everett before the incorporation of the town
as a city, and he was mayor of the city in
1895 and 1897. In 1893 and 1894 he was a
member of the board of aldermen of the city.
Mr. Cate was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, a member of Palestine
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Everett,
Chelsea Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of
Palestine Coraraandery, Knights Teraplar, of
Chelsea. He also held raerabership in the
Ancient Order of United Workraen, the
United Order of Pilgrim Fathers and the
Knights of Honor. On November 2, 1862,
Mr. Cate married Lydia B. Witham, born in
York, Alaine, December 3, 1840, daughter
of Thomas Witham, a farraer of York,
and Catherine (Moulton) Withara, his wife.
Of this marriage two children were born; i.
Lucy Jane, born September 23, 1863, in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, died in infancy. 2.
Edgar Alpheus Cate, born September 8,
1875- (III) Edgar Alpheus Cate, son and only
surviving child of John Shannon and Lydia
B. (Withara) Cate, was born in Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts, Septeraber 8, 1875. He was about
two years old when his father removed with
his family to Everett. He was educated in
the public schools of that city and in Bryant
and Stratton's Business CoUege in Boston, and
since 1897 has been clerk in the office of the
water commissioners of Everett. He mar
ried, October 16, 1901, in Everett, Mertie L.
White, born in Oldtown, Maine, November 6,
1876, daughter of Avery White, a native of
Oldtown, and his wife, Alraeda (Ellis)
White, born in Belfast, Alaine. Two children
have been born of the raarriage; i. Alarjorie
Shannon, born Everett, Septeraber i, 1903. 2.
Irene Frances, born Everett, January 2, 1906.

The Peront family settled
PERONT early in Canada. Daniel Per
ron, son of Francois and Alarie
Perron, came from P.a RocheUe, France, in
1664. The narae is variously spelled in the
early records.
(I) Cyriacque Peront was born at St. Hya-
cinthe, province of Quebec, 1805, died
January 7, 1885. He always lived there. He
was a farmer and druraraer for wagons and
plows. He raarried Morion Julie, born 1808,
died August 3, 1867. They were the parents of
twelve children, eight of whom are living in
St. Hyacinthe, Canada.
(II) Clement Peront, son of Cyriacque
Peront, was born at St. Hyacinthe, province

of Quebec, February 24, 1841. He was edu
cated in the schools of his native parish, and
worked during his youth on his father's farm.
He then learned the trade of mason. He came
to Lawrence, Alassachusetts, in 1865, and since
then has made his home in that city. He has
followed his trade as journeyman and con
tractor to the present time. He has been era
ployed on many of the houses and buildings
erected in Lawrence during the past forty
years. He has invested his savings in Law
rence real estate, and is at present the owner
of six large double tenement houses. In pol
itics Air. Peront is a Republican. He is a
Roman Catholic and a generous contributor
to the parish in which he hves. He is a raem
ber of a number of Catholic organizations and
fraternal societies.
He raarried, February 12, 1866, Deliraa
Lestage, born Augu.st 12, 1845. Children: i.
Eliza, born St. Hyacinthe, province of Quebec,
February 5, 1867, married, July 26, 1886,
 , who was a wool sorter in Pacific
Mills ; two children : Clement and Edward. 2.
Emelia, born Septeraber 10, 1868, died March
6, 1873. 3. Joseph E., bom July 31, 1870. 4.
Anna, born May 15, 1872; she is a nun, en
tered Alarch 27, 1894. 5. Joseph H., born
April 23, 1874, raarried, August 15, 1899,
 . 6. Eraraa, bora October 6, 1876, mar
ried, Noveraber 20, 1901, Henry Burke. 7.
Mary, born March 25, 1878, married, Febru
ary 4, 1902, a Mr. Perre. 8. Arthur, born
July 2, 1880, niarried, Septeraber 15, 1903,
Victoria Guenette ; children ; Arthur and Le-
onne 9. Cleraent, bom July 4, 1882, raarried,
June 8, 1903, Alary Johnes ; child, Cleraent.
10. Helen, born Noveraber 8, 1883, died April
29, 1885. II. Bertha, born June 2, 1885, died
Deceraber 9, 1885. 12. Arraond, born June 3,
1886, died March 10, 1888. 13. DeUma, born
June 24, 1888, died August 18, 1888.
Julius Wessel, prominently
WES SEL identified with the financial,
coramercial and social interests
of Lawrence, Alassachusetts, traces his ances
try to that land of thrift and industry, Ger
many. (I) Henry Dietrich Wessel, father of
Julius Wessel, was a native of Gerraany,
where he was occupied as a tailor. He raar
ried, and was the father of thirteen children.
One' of his sons, Fritz, eraigrated to America
in 1868 or 1869.
(II) Julius AVessel was born in Germany,
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in the district schools of his native land. He
carae to the United States in 1873, and settled
in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he becarae
an apprentice in a sausage shop. From there
he went to the Iver Johnson Firearms Com
pany, with whom he was employed from 1874
until 1877. His next venture was in the west,
where he found eraployraent in St. Louis,
Missouri, frora which city he went to Harris
burg and Philadelphia, and finally to the New
Hartford Arms Corapany of New Haven,
Connecticut. His next position was with the
Sraith and Wesson Firearms Company, return
ing to Worcester in 1882, and accepting a po
sition with the Araerican Arms Company, re
maining with them until 1886. He then estab
lished the Tonic Bottling Shop in East Bos
ton, a business he conducted until he sold it in
1892. While residing in Worcester he was a
meraber for three years of Battery B. He was
then engaged in the hotel business for some
time in Lawrence, giving this up in favor of
the Cold Spring Brewing Corapany, in which
he was eraployed in the bottling departraent
until the present time as manager. For the past
eight years he has been a director and stock
holder in this corapany, and at the sarae tirae
conducts a restaurant in Park street. He is a
stanch upholder of the principles of the Dem
ocratic party, and a meraber of the Free and
Accepted Masons and the Order of Haruigari.
He raarried, March 25, 1885, Matthes Au
gusta, daughter of Fritz Augusta, who came
to Lawrence in 1854 and worked in the old
Bay State raill as a wool sorter. Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Wessel have had the following
naraed children : Julius, Albert, Carl, Augusta, '
Catherine, Henry, Lena, Bertha, Ella, Minnie,
and two who died in infancy. Of these,
Henry, Lena, Bertha and Ella are now living.

David Robinson (i), farm-
ROBINSON er, a native of Ireland, who
lived and died in county
Downs, town of Scarvia, was a descendant of
those English Protestants who followed in the
wake of the EngHsh array and settled in the
north of Ireland after the conquest of the
country by the British forces. In his religious
faith he was a Presbyterian.
(II) David Robinson, son of David Robin
son, was born in the town of Scarvia, Ireland,
1821. At the age of twenty-three years he
set forth frora his native country with two of
his brothers, Williara and John, to seek his
fortune in Araerica. He landed at the port of
Boston in 1844, and having knowledge and

previous experience in the culture of the soil,
he turned his attention to landscape garden
ing, working throughout the region of Boston
in eastern Massachusetts. He had success in
that line and in the year 1876 established him
self in Chelsea, Massachusetts, as landscape
gardener, which business he conducted pros
perously until the tirae of his death, which
occurred October 29, 1902. Of the two
brothers who accompanied him to America,
WilHam went west and became a prosperous
ranchman in Nevada. He was killed by In
dians. He had twelve thousand sheep on the
prairies, which the Indians were stealing; he
threatened thera, they heard of his threat and
swooped down upon him in his tent and rid
dled him with bullets, going so far as to shoot
off every finger, eyes and raouth; that was in
Montana; his descendants are living in Cali
fornia. John Robinson remained in Massachu
setts and settled in Charlestown, where for
forty-two years he had charge of the grounds
of Bunker Hill monument, being familiarly
known as "Monument John".
David Robinson married Mary McCarley,
of Boston, daughter of John and Rosie
(Aloore) AlcCarley, -who were the parents of
eleven children, as follows : James and Ann,
twins, died in infancy ; David, Thomas, Wil
liam John, Robert, Jane, Alexander, Martha,
Mary, wife of David Robinson, and Rosie.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson: i. John,
born in Charlestown, died young. 2. David
Alexander, born July 11, 1865, see forward.
3. John, born in Chelsea, January 19, 1868;
meraber of Robert Lash Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons ; raarried Frances White ; no
children. 4. Francis H., born in Chelsea, Au
gust, 1870; meraber of Robert Lash Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; raarried Gladys
White ; one child, Francis H., Jr. 5. WiUiam
Moore, born in Chelsea, July 21, 1875, attend
ed the public schools, including the high, and
the AVorcester Acaderay; was an athlete of
Araerican reputation by- running hundred yard
dash, ten seconds, at three hundred yards, in
door raeet at Mechanics Building; held record
four years ; then won inter-scholastic meet at
Madison Square Garden, New York City,
fifty yards ; was star football player Chelsea
high school and Worcester Academy; he is
connected with the Boston mercantile house
of MacArthur & Corapany ; was meraber of
board of alderraen four years, and member of
house of representatives two years ; member
of Robert Lash Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
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one child, Marion Alargeson Robinson. 6.
Charles S., born in Chelsea, November 16,
1879, was known as a record bicycle rider,
winning local road and track races, and re
ceiving many prizes ; he is a physician, a grad
uate of BeUevue Hospital ; served one year on
the training ship "Enterprise" ; member of
Robert Lash Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons; married Catherine Hogan; resides in
"Chelsea. All of the brothers are of an athletic
build. (Ill) David Alexander Robinson, second
son and eldest surviving child of David and
Mary (McCarley) Robinson, was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, July 11, 1865.
He was brought up in the vicinity of Boston
and attended Carter school at Chelsea, Massa
chusetts. He was taken into the business es
tablished by his father, which has become
widely and honorably known throughout Bos
ton and outlying towns. He is a Mason, mem
ber of Robert. Lash Lodge, and an Odd Fel
low ; politically a Republican, but takes no
especial personal interest in public affairs. In
his religious faith he is a Congregationalist.
He married, July 25, 1902, Emmaline Tilden,
born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, May 21, 1868,
daughter of Coleman and Eliza (Howard)
Tilden, the latter a daughter of Charles How
ard, and a descendant of Dr. Coleman Tilden
of the prominent family of that • surname.
Four children have been born of this mar
riage: I. Helen Tilden, born April 29, 1903.
2. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 3. Dorothy, died
in infancy. 4. Alice Moore, born Deceraber 4,
1906. •

The origin of the ancient
DRISCOLL Irish surname DriscoU seeras
to be a mystery. It raay have
been a local name, originally,, perhaps of
French origin. The family of Driscoll was
numerous in Ireland as early as the sixteenth
century. (I) John Driscoll was born in county Cork,
Ireland, about 1768, and died in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, where his son had located, at
the phenomenal age of one hundred and five
years. He married in Ireland, Honora Har-
. rington. Children, born in Ireland ; i. Patrick,
came to America, and had a son John killed in
the civil war. 2. Jeremiah, mentioned below.
3. John.(II) Jeremiah DriscoU, son of John Dris
coU (i), was born in county Cork, Ireland, in
1814, and died in March, 1906, at Lawrence,

at the advanced age of ninety-two. He came
to America in 1849 with the great tide of
Irishmen seeking a better opportunity in the
world. He worked in Lawrence at various
occupations. During the later years of his
life he was employed on the Lawrence dam,
of the Essex Company. He was prudent and
saving. He finally bought a house and some
land in North Andover and worked on his
place to the time of his death. He married in
Lawrence, Mary Driscoll, daughter of Patrick
DriscoU, of Ireland. Children: i. John A.,
mentioned below. 2. Patrick, born 1856; a
mason and brick layer; resides at the horae
stead in Lawrence; has a daughter Mary. 3.
EUen, born 1858 ; raarried  Harrington.
4. Catherine, died young. 5. Michael, resides
in Lawrence.
(Ill) John Ambrose Driscoll, son of Jere
miah Driscoll (2), was born in Lawrence,
May 8, 1855. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, and went to Boston
in 1870 to begin to learn his trade as brick
layer and mason. He served his apprentice
ship of four years and returned to Lawrence,
working as journeyman under Captain Chat-
burn on the Arlington mills and other con
tracts. In 1884 he established hiraself in busi
ness. He was in partnership one year with
Mr. Collins, and since then has been a mera
ber of the firm of Driscoll & O'Brien. This
firra has been very successful, handling many
of the largest masonry contracts in the city of
Lawrence and vicinity. In raany cases the
firm takes the contract for the entire work on
buildings and sub-lets the carpentering, plumb
ing, etc. They have the contract for the Chel
sea high school, and erected raost of the large
brick or stone buildings of recent years in this
section — the Rowling high school. Prospect
Hill, Lawrence; the Lawrence high school;
Pluraraer Block, of Lawrence ; Halligan Block,
Lawrence; Ancient Order of Hibernians
Building; the Kidd Block; the John Breen
Block, etc. Mr. Driscoll is a raember of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Like his father and grandfather, he was a
faithful Catholic, a generous supporter and
constant attendant of the church in St. Augus
tine parish, North Andover. He married, No
veraber, 1877, EUen Crowley, born in Law
rence, daughter of Alichael and Ann (Cough-
lin) Crowley. Children: i. Jereraiah, married
 McGee ; children ; John and EUen. 2.
Ann, a school teacher. 3. Mary, lives at home
with parents. 4. John, works for his father.
5. Catherine. 6. Daniel.

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Seth Frank Dawson, a well-
DAWSON known and influential citizen
of Lawrence, Alassachusetts,
residing at No. 8 Jackson Terrace, traces his
ancestry to an old faraily of England. His
father, Williara Dawson, was a native of Eng
land, where he was a worker in one of the
large raills. He married  , and had chil
dren ; Williara Henry, Jennie, Sirth, Anna and
.Seth Frank.
Seth Frank Dawson was born in Hudders
field, England, July 19, 1847. He was but an
infant when he carae to Araerica with his
father and the others of the faraily, and they
settled in Lawrence, Alassachusetts, where
young Seth Frank was educated. The first
step in his business career was in the meat
and grocery line, but eighteen years ago he
established hiraself in the leather board busi
ness, in which he has successfully been en
gaged since that tirae. He is also an extensive
dealer in real estate and has done much to ira
prove and increase the real values of the town
ship. He has taken an active part in the
councils of the Republican party, has served
as councillor two terms and as p#esident of the
school board two terras. He is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
Pilgrim Fathers, and trustee and superinten
dent of the Alethodist Sunday school. He
niarried, October 26, 1876, Lizzie Abigail,
daughter of Daniel Darius and Harriet Spears
(Standridge) Cutting, who were the parents
of three daughters and two sons. Daniel D.
Cutting was a farraer in Standridge, Canada,
and came to the United States in 1854. He
settled in Verraont where he had purchased a
farra and cultivated the same ten years. He
then removed to the state of New "Y"ork. Seth
Frank and Lizzie A. (Cutting) Dawson had
children; i. Rose Edith, born November 3,
1877; raarried Arthur Barker; has three chil
dren. 2. Seth Frank, Jr., born June 17, 1879.
3. Florence Cutting, Noveraber 20, 1887.

Bartholoraew Murphy ( i )
AlURPHY was born in Ireland. He
came to America when a
young raan and settled in Newburyport, Mas
sachusetts, later removing to Merrimack, Mas
sachusetts. He was employed there in a wheel
factory connected with the carriage manufac
turing industry of that city. He married
Catherine Cleary. They were members of the
Catholic church at Merrimack. Children, born
in Ireland and Merrimack; i. Patrick. 2.
Frances, raarried Cornelius O'Shea. 3. Mich

ael, 4. Jaraes, born in 1839, mentioned below.
5. John J. 6. Elizabeth, niarried Frank Le-
fevor, of Merriraack.
(II) Jaraes Murphy, son of Bartholomew
Alurphy (i), was bora in Dungarven, county
AVaterford, Ireland, 1839. Pie carae to Amer
ica when a mere child with his parents and
their children, and he received his education
in the public schools of West Araesbury,
where he lived the remainder of his life. He '
took up the trade of body maker in the car
riage factories of Araesbury. When quite a
young lad he ran away from home and enlist
ed in the United States navy on the ship "Ni
agara" under the assumed narae of Jaraes
Kiraball, and served three years, the period of
his enlistment. In 1861 he enlisted under his
own name and served two years and a half in
Company D, Seventeenth Regiraent of Massa
chusetts Volunteers. He was discharged on
account of disability frora a wound received
in battle, from which he finally died December
16, 1875. While in civil war he participated
in the battle of Kingston, While HaU, Golds
boro, Blount Alills and Winton, North Caro
lina, and at the latter place is where he re
ceived the wound that was the principal cause
of his death. He was fearless in the discharge
of his duty, impulsive and generous, would
dare the displeasure of his superior officers
when prompted by principles of huraanity.
The wound was a gun shot, passing entirely
through the body.
He raarried Bridget McCarron, born in Ire
land, but came to America when two years old
with her family. ChUdren: i. William An
drew, born February 15, 1868, mentioned be
low. 2. Charles B., died in childhood. 3.
Annie E., born 1870. 4. Charles B., born 1872,
resides in Petersburg, Michigan. 5. Mary
Olive, born 1874, educated in the public
schools, bookkeeper for Chase & Parker, Bos
ton. (Ill) William Andrew Murphy, . son of
James Murphy, was born February 15, 1868,
in Merriraack, then South Amesbury, Massa
chusetts, a village near Amesbury, and was
educated there in the public and high schools.
After leaving school he worked two years as
clerk in the grocery store of Senator James D.
Pike, of Merrimack. He was then with John ,
S. Payen & Company for ten years in the sale
of carriage findings, and for about ten years
with the firra of A. N. Perry & Corapany of
Araesbury. After a year with the firm of
Gray & Davis he was appointed postmaster of
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of four years. He is a member of Bethany
Lodge of Free Masons of Merriraack ; of
Wonnesquam Club and of the Powow Canoe
Club and Sons of Veterans. In politics he is
a Republican. He is interested in public af
fairs ; and as postmaster is perhaps the best
known citizen of the younger generation. He
has given eriiinent satisfaction to the people
in this position and coraraands the confidence
and esteem 01 his townsmen, regardless of
partisan or other lines. He married Helen
Erskine F. Drummond, daughter of Robert
-and Jennet (Plenderleith) Drummond. They
have no children.

Richard Paul Barry, of Lynn,
BARRY Alassachusetts, who enjoys the
high distinction of having been
the first Roman Cathohc layman ever elected
a member of the school committee of that
city, serving for a period of six years, and
who also enjoys a wide acquaintance through
out the commonwealth of Massachusetts by
reason of his prominent connection with the
state board of conciliation and arbitration, and
his efficient service as a meraber of that body
¦during the last more than twenty years, is a
-native of Ireland, grandson of Edmund Barry
(i), a man of character and ability, who was
.a land steward in Ireland. By his wife, Ellen
(Ahearn) Barry, also a native of Ireland, Ed
mund Barry had sixteen children, among them
a son Matthew.
(II) Matthew Barry, son of Edmund and
EUen (Ahearn) Barry, was bom in Ireland,
and was also a land steward for Sir William
Richard Beecher. Sir William fell in love
with and married Miss O'Neil, a celebrated
actress, known as the Mary Anderson of the
London stage, and one of the raost faraous
:actresses of that period, winning great renown
not only for her histrionic abihty but for her
lofty standards of raorality. As Lady Beecher
she became mistress of Crea House, the sum
mer -home of Sir WiUiam — a great mansion
located at Crea, in the western part of county
Cork, looking toward Cape Clear, and it was
¦over this vast estate that Alatthew Barry had
supervision, collecting rents, etc., and the man
sion itself was supervised by his wife, she hav
ing charge of the numerous retinue of ser
vants. It was in this mansion that Richard P.
Barry was born, and shortly after that event
Alatthew Barry gave up his stewardship and
located in the town of Fermoy, county Cork,
where he engaged in general business, includ
ing exportation of products to English mar

kets. Later he came with his family to the
United States, settling in .Alabama, where he
resided seven years, coming thence to Lynn,
Massachusetts, where he passed the remainder
of his life with his son, Richard P. Barry,
and dying there at the age of seventy years.
He married Catherine, daughter of Williain
Boylson, of Tipperary, Ireland, and araong
their chUdren were; Edmund Boylson, who
settled in Lynn, 1850, and raarried Mary Bow
man, an Irish girl; Richard Paul, of whom
further; and Elizabeth T. and Williara E.,
both of whora died )'ouiig.
(Ill) Richard Paul Barry, son of Matthew
and Catherine (Boylson) Barry, was born
January 6, 1834, at Crea House, and spent his
boyhood days in the town of Fermoy, county
Cork, on the Black AA'ater, frequently called
the "Iris Rhine," a notable stream. He was
educated in private and public schools. His
intention was to prepare for the CathoHc
priesthood, but circumstances forbade. Hav
ing corapleted a course in English and raathe-
raatical studies, at the age of twelve and a half
years he took up languages and classics, to
which he devoted about five years. At the
age of nineteen, in 1853, he carae to the United
States, joining his brothers and sisters, who
had preceded him, and locating in Lynn, Alas
sachusetts, which has since been his horae.
Air. Barry worked raany years in different
local shoe factories. In 1877 he was elected a
member of the school board, and served two
terms of three years each. It was during this
period and by his persistent effort that, against
tremendous opposition and considerable prej
udice, the first Irish Catholic school teacher
was appointed, and she is yet serving in that
capacity. As a workman, Mr. Barry proved hiraself
faithful and corapetent, and by reason of his
intellectual attainments and just appreciation
of the rights and mutual obligations of em
ployer and employee soon gained an extended
acquaintance and healthful influence in the
councils of his fellow-workmen, and when in
pursuance of an act of the legislature the state
board of conciliation and arbitration was es
tablished, he was, entirely without solicitation
on his own part, appointed by Governor Rob
inson, in 1886, an original member of that
body, and has served to the present time, being
the only one of the original raerabers now
serving. In this capacity he has been called
upon frequently to adjust differences between
eraployers and their workraen, settle strikes,
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workraen who felt themselves aggrieved at the
hands of corporate and individual proprietors,
and nowhere in all the varied experiences of
his official position was his wise influence and
sound judgment raore clearly shown than in
the settlement of the disturbances which arose
in labor circles when international trouble was
threatened on the occasion of the so-called
Venezuela controversy during President
Cleveland's administration. In that case Mr.
Barry and one other raeraber had sole charge
of the settleraent of the strike by the ship
building workraen, and raade such satisfactory
adjustment of existing differences that the
progress of the work of construction on ship
No. II (the "Marblehead") and some sraaller
craft, suffered very little delay. This was only
one of a large nuraber of iraportant cases
which have occupied the attention of this
board, during the nearly quarter of a century
of its existence. Scores of disputes between
employers and eraployees have been satisfac
torily settled, and thousands of raen have re
suraed work. Although Mr. Barry has passed
the allotted age of three score years and ten,
he is still in possession of aU of his faculties,
and is acknowledged to be the raost active
raeraber of the board.
Air. Barry raarried, in St. Mary's Church,
Lynn, on May 28, 1868, Mary Ann Griffin,
who was born in Dripsy, near historic Blarney
Castle, on the river Lee, county cork, Ireland,
and carae to this country in childhood. ChU
dren : I. Mary EHzabeth, raarried Janies Clar
ence Mangan, of Lynn ; children ; Mary Re
gina, Charles Jaraes Mangan. 2. Williara J.,
in general real estate and insurance business,
Lynn ; raarried Jennie Baxter ; child ; William
Paul Barry. 3. John M., graduate of Lynn
high school, Bryant & Stratton's Business Col
lege, and Boston University Law School ; is a
lawyer in active general practice, in Lynn ;
served two ternis of three years each on school
comraittee, and as chairraan the last years. 4.
Richard Paul, Jr., received early education in
Lynn public schools, graduating frora high
school ; took up study of rausic and follows
that profession as teacher, and organist of St.
Mary's Church. 5. Joseph Lewis, attended
public schools of Lynn, including high school,
Lynn Business College, and Boston Law
School ; now a practicing lawyer in Lynn. 6.
Edraund Augustine, attended public schools
of Lynn, graduating from high school, and
from Harvard University ; holds clerical posi
tion in First National Bank of Lynn.
For raany years Mr. Barry and his family

have taken a prominent part in all matters
connected with the Catholic church. It was-
through his efforts that the first Catholic Sun
day school was started in Lynn, in a small
frarae building in West Lynn, where the Cath
olics of Lynn, Swarapscott, Saugus and Na
hant worshipped. This was known as St..
Mary's Church, and, owing to Mr. Barry's.
change of residence and the burning of the
church edifice, he with a nuraber of others-
forraed the society which later erected the-
magnificent St. Joseph's Church on Uniom
street, in which Mr. Barry and his family have
taken a prominent part for raany years. Mr.
Barry was for many years superintendent of
its Sunday school, and president of its Holy
Narae Society. In addition, Mr. Barry has.
been connected with many charitable and!
benevolent organizations, including the Hi
bernian Benevolent Association, Land League,.
Horae Rule Association, and the Citizens'
Association, the latter being formed for the
purpose of securing representation for Irish'
Catholics in the city councils. Mr. Barry has-
been president or treasurer of all these bodies.

Adolph G. Boehm was born in.
BOEHM Gerraany, Deceraber 19, 1852,.
and was educated in the public
schools of the fatherland. At the age of sev
enteen he sought his fortune in Araerica. His
first eraployraent was in a textile mill at Man
chester, New Hampshire. A few years later
he removed to Lawrence, Massachusetts,,
where he lived the rest of his life. He worked.
for several years there in the raiUs. In 1885
he established the business in which he achiev
ed great success and acquired a competence.
He had a thorough knowledge of the restau
rant business, and his ability to please his cus
tomers came largely frora his ingenuity in de--
visiiig unique and unusual bills-of-fare, etc..
He had one of the best equipped restaurants-
in New England, and the service was unex
celled. Of late years his restaurant was a.
favorite stopping place in Lawrence for auto
mobile tourists. Air. Boehm knew how to
please his customers with both raeat and drink.
Personally he could not help being popular.
He was ideal as "Mine Host" — jovial, cheer
ful, witty and kindly to all. He had a host of
friends in Lawrence, and raany throughout
New England. Mr. Boehm was for a time
raanager of, the Cold Spring Brewery of Law
rence. In politics he was a Republican. He
was very prorainent and popular in the Law
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of Elks, which had charge of his funeral. He
was a member of the Ancient and Plonorable
Artillery Company of I^)OSton ; of the Harui-
guri Society, the German Central Plall Asso
ciation, the Bavarian Club, the Turn Verein,
the Lyra Singing Society, the Arion Singing
Society, and various Alasonic bodies — Ger
mania Lodge, of Boston, Chapter, Council,
and the Comraandery to the thirty-second de
gree, and was a noble of the Mystic Shrine
Owing to ill health he undertook a trip to
Germany in company with Daniel F. Conlon,
of Lawrence. He had a hemorrhage while at
Hamburg, Germany, and died suddenly, Sep
teraber 19, 1907. The body was brought horae
on the steamer "Blucher." The funeral was
held October g, 1907, at Lyra Hall, Lawrence,
and was one of the largest ever held in the
city. Deputations and friends came from
Boston, New York, Alanchester, Haverhill,
Alethuen, Andover, North Andover and else
where. The body lay in state in the hall from
eleven until two, and thousands paid a visit
of respect and farewell. The bearers were ;
Edward I. Koffman, Gustav Weigel, Rein-
hardt G. Knuepfer, G. P. Tliuram, Daniel F.
Conlon, Anton AVeidner, Charles H. Rowe, of
AVest Kennebunk, Ale, and William Stoehrer,
of Plaverhill. The hall was draped in mourn
ing, and flags were at halfmast on the various
lodge buildings. The service of the Elks was
conducted by ExaUed Ruler Henry J. Koel-
len. A brief eulogy was delivered by .August
Soiitag. Alasonic services were held at BeUe
vue Cemetery. The floral offerings were ex
treraely elaborate and numerous, a substantial
evidence of the great affection in which he was
-held by men and women in all walks of life.
Mr. Boehm married Elizabeth Scheer,
daughter of Gottlob. She died, and he raar
ried -A-nna C. Wagner, daughter of August F
AVagner. His wife survives hira. Child born
of the first union, Gertrude, niarried Louis
Alatthes, of Lawrence and has one child,
Adolph Louis, child born of the second union,
Oswald Adolph, born July 26, 1888,
The O'Briens were for many
O'BRIEN centuries the royal family of
Ireland. Corraac Cas,
brother of Owen Mor, of the AlcCarthy Alor
faraily, was the ancestor of O'Bnaui^ angli
cized O'Brien, Bernard, Btjan and Bryant.
The place of inauguration of the O'Bnens as
Kings and Princes of Thomond, was at Alagh
Adhair, a plain in the barony of Tullagh,
County of Clare; and their battle cry was
iv— 49

Lanihlaidir An Uachdar, which means The
Strong Hand Uppermost. On their armorial
ensigns were three lions rampant which were
also on the standards of Brian Boru, borne
by the Dalcassians at the battle of Clontarf.
In modern times the O'Briens were marquises
of Thomond, Earls of Inchiquin and barons of
Borren, in the county of Clare ; and many of
thera were distinguished comraanders in the
Irish Brigades in the service of France under
the titles of earls of Clare and counts of Tho
mond. Brian Boroimhe (Boru) the 175th
Alonarch of Ireland, younger son of Cineadh,
born 926; slain on the battlefield of Clontarf
on Good Friday, AprU 23, 10 14, was the an
cestor of O'Briain of Thoraond, anglicized
O'Brien. The narae means in Irish very great
strength. Brian is represented by the old
Irish annalists as a raan of fine figure, large
stature, of great strength of body and un
daunted valor ; and has been always justly cel
ebrated as one of the greatest of the Irish
monarchs, equally conspicuous for his mental
endowments and physical energies ; a man of
great intellectual powers, sagacity and brav
ery ; a warrior and legislator; and, at the same
tirae, distinguished for his munificence, piety
and patronage of learned men thus combining
all the elements of a great character, and
equally eminent in the arts of war and peace ;
a hero and patriot, whose memory will always
remain faraous as one of the foremost of the
Irish kings, in wisdora and valor. Brian lived
at his palace of Cean Cora (Kincora) /in a
style of regal splendor and magnificence un
equalled by any of the Irish kings since the
days of Cormac Afac.Art, the celebrated Alon
arch of Ireland in the third century. The
more prominent branches of the O'Brien fam
ily trace their ancestry for more than a hun
dred generations through the royal family, as
given by the ancient Irish annalists. (See
Irish Pedigrees by John O'Hart. Dublin,
1881). (I) Thomas O'Brien was born in Ireland,
a descendant of the ancient O'Brien family
mentioned above, and was a farmer. He mar
ried in Ireland, Hellen Burns, and in 1853 carae
to Araerica with his wife and eldest children .
The family settled in Lawrence. Children ;
Alaurice, Honora, Alargaret, Thomas, Mich
ael, Catherine.
(II) Alichael O'Brien, son of Thomas
O'Brien (i), was born in Ireland in 1852.
When he was about a year old his parents
brought hira to Araerica and settled in Law
rence, Alassachusetts, where he was educated

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in the public schools. He entered the employ
of William E. Heald, and continued with hira
until he sold out his business in 1877 to Kurn
and Joyce. Since then he has continued with
the firm, and is one of the best known and
most popular men in his line of business in
this section.
In politics Air. O'Brien is a Democrat, but
has never been active in public or political af
fairs. He is a devout Catholic, and a lib
eral contributor, to the benevolences of his
church. He is a raeraber of no clubs or soci
eties, being devoted to his home life. He
married, June, 1875, at Andover, Massachu
setts, Elizabeth Ohearn, born January 5, 1854,
daughter of Eugene and Alary (Ohearn)
Ohearn. Children, born in Lawrence; i.
Alary A., Alay 11, 1878. 2. Charies A., Oc
tober 13, 1879; died November 23, 1906. 3.
Helen R., born April 30, 1884. 4. Eugene W.,
born September 26, 1887. 5. Thoraas P., twin
with Eugene W. 6. Joseph P., born Septem
ber 28, 1890. 7. Elizabeth, twin with Joseph
F.

Stephen Brown, of old Quaker
BROWN stock, was born on Turkey Hill,
AA^est Newbury, Alassachusetts,
and was a farmer.
(II) John Brown, son of Stephen Brown
(1), was born on Turkey Hill, AVest New
bury, January 14, 1784, and died September
12, 1855. Pie was educated in the coraraon
schools, and was a farraer in his native place
during all his active life. He raarried first.
Ruth Green, born 1782, died August, 1817;
second, Mary Pillsbury, born January 20,
1795, died August 21, 1872. Children by
first marriage; i. Alary, born August 18, 1810,
died October 10, 1887. 2. James N., born Oc
tober, 1813, died December 21, 1816. 3.
James, Alay 8, 1814. By second raarriage: 4.
Joseph P., born September 21, 1819, died Oc
tober 12, 1820. 5. George F., born Alarch 31,
1821, died July 10, 1898. 6-7. Susan Al. and
Susan P., twins, born July 27, 1823 ; Susan
L. died August 29, 1823. 8. Alarian AL, born
Alay 15, 1825. 9. WiUiara P., January 28,
1827. 10. Elizabeth C, March 19, 1829. 11.
Sarah A., November 16, 1836. Those whose
deaths are not noted, are living.
(Ill) Janies Brown, son of .John and Ruth
(Green) Brown, was born in West Newbury,
Alay 8, 1814. He had a coraraon school edu
cation, and during his youth worked on his
father's farm at West Newbury. Pie hiraself

becarae a farmer in West Newbury, and like
most of his neighbors learned the trade of
shoeraaking and raade shoes during the winter
when work was slack on the farm. In later
years he reraoved to Lynn, where he died
June 14, 1906. In early life he was of the
Society of Friends, like his ancestors for
many generations, but in later years he at
tended the Congregational Church. In poli
tics he was a Republican. He raarried Han
nah Alorse. Children ; Alary Jane, Charles
AVarren, mentioned below, Ella, AUen,
Arthur, all are deceased. All were born and
died in West Newbury except Charles War
ren. (I\^) Charles Warren Brown, son of James
Brown (3), was born in West Newbury, April
28, 1847. He attended the public schools of his
native town and also of Lynn, whither the
family raoved when he was a young raan, in
1868. He learned the trade of shoeraaker,
and worked for various eraployers at this
trade in Lynn until 1873, when he reraoved
with his faraily to Hampstead, New Hamp
shire, and bought a farra. After nineteen
years of farraing he left Harapstead to return
to Lynn, where for a few years he resuraed
his forraer trade of shoeraaking. In 1898
he entered the employ of General Electric
Company at Lynn and rose to the position of
foreman of one of the departraents, a posi
tion he held until his death. He was in the
electric business for eight years. Air. Brown
was a capable mechanic and a resourceful man
in any situation. He had the force of charac
ter and integrity of a race of Quakers and
commanded the respect and esteem of all who
knew hira. He served the town of Hamp
stead on the school committees and various
other offices of trust and responsibUity. He
was a loyal Republican in politics. He served
in the army during the latter part of the civil
war. He was a member of Bay State Lodge
of Odd Fellows. In religion he was a Con
gregationalist. He married, in Lynn, October
1868, Anna Ruddock, born in West Newbury,
daughter of Charles and Lottie (Brock) Rud
dock, all of English birth. Her father came
to .America when a young man and foUowed
his trade of shoeraaker until his death, in the
])riiiie of life, aged thirty-eight years. Chil
dren of Charles and Lottie (Brock) Ruddock ;
i. Anna Ruddock ; ii. Alercy Ruddock ; raar
ried Frank Balch, of Groveland, Alassachu
setts ; iii. Lovina, married John Melzard, of
.Swampscott (deceased) ; iv. Clara Ruddock
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deceased) ; v. Addie, died in infancy; vi. Etta
Ruddock, married Charles Willey, of the
General Electric Company.
Children of Charles Warren and Anna
(Ruddock) Brown; i. Arthur Allen, born in
Lynn, December 12, 1869; at present pur
chasing agent for the General Electric Com
pany. 2. AValter Scott, born in Lynn, August
5, 1871 ; died in Salem, New Hampshire, Feb
ruary 13, 1905; married Ella Grover, born
in Sandown, New Hampshire ; children ; i.
Hazel Eva, born AprU 7, 190 1 ; ii. Ethel
Grover, born August 29, 1902. 3. Herbert
Austin, born in Hampstead, Alay 12, 1876;
resides in Lynn, and is connected with the
General Electric Company.

The surname Thomas is said
THOAIAS by genealogists and antiquar
ians to be of ancient Welsh
origin, and while raany bearers of the narae
carae to this country frora various parts of
Wales, the Thoraases have been seated in Eng
land for centuries and thus have come to be
regarded as an English family. The particu
lar family here under consideration is doubt
less of VV'"elch ancestry, as were very nearly
all of the Tlioraases who settled in the Vir
ginias, Alaryland and Pennsylvania during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
David Thoraas, with whom this narrative
begins; was bom in Ohio, about 1826, and for
many years previous to his retirement from
active pursuits was proprietor of a pottery
at Roseville, Ohio, near Zanesville, where he
now lives. In his younger life he himself was
a practical potter and stood raany years at the
wheel in turning earthenware. Later on he
set up in business for himself,, and having a
thorough knowledge of the trade and possess
ing, moreover, an excellent business capacity
his later endeavors were rewarded with grat
ifying success, hence he retired in 1886 and
has since lived in comfort, enjoying the fruits
of years of honest effort and earnest endeavor.
He' niarried Alary Bagley, who was born in
Ohio, and died there Septeraber 15, 1907, aged
seventy-two years. Both her husband and
herself were devoted raeraber of the Baptist
church, and took an earnest interest in ad
vancing its growth and influence. Her hus
band, surviving her, is yet a zealous church
worker and has done rauch both in precept
and example for the welfare of the commun-
ityin which his life has been spent. Children ; i.
AVilHam, deceased. 2. Charles Benjamin, de
ceased. 3. Emma, unmarried. 4- Herbert,
niarried, ' 5. Florence, unmarried.

Charles Benjamin Thoraas, second son and
child of David and Alary (Bagley) Thomas,
was born in ZanesviUe, Ohio, January 11,
1851, and died there suddenly, June 14, 1907,
while on a visit to his oldhome and the scenes
of his boyhood life. He was educated there
and after his school days were over he was
eraployed in and about his father's factory
and thus becanie well acquainted with the bus
iness generally. Having attained his majority
and possessing energy, capacity and a good
character, he soon found a desirable position
as traveling salesraan for S. A. Weller, an
extensive raanufacturer of earthenware and
crockery, and for the next more than twenty
years represented that concern in the New
England states. In his capacity of sole repre
sentative in this region Air. Thoraas found it
desirable to take up his residence in this state
and establish his house near Boston, living in
the suburban town of AVinthrop. As raan
aging salesraan for an entirely reliable and
reputable manufacturer. Air. Thomas gained
an extensive acquaintance with trade through
out New England greatly to the profit of his
principals and much to his own advantage, for
his success commanded for hira a high salary,
and at the same tirae placed him among the
most substantial business men of the region.
More than that, he was a raan of the highest
character and strictest integrity, straightfor
ward in every business transaction, taking no
unfair advantage, and always the sarae can
did, genial and companionable man, whether
in affairs of business or social life. His un
expected taking off in the very prirae of man
hood was felt in his home town, and it seemed
as if the entire community there had met with
an unfortunate loss.
In Zanesville, Ohio, June 6, 1895, Air.
Thoraas raarried Ana AI. Reed, born in Prince
ton, New Jersey, July 17, 1866, daughter of
James and Clara (Dillintash) Reed, and who
"lived in Princeton until about two years be
fore her marriage. Pier father, James Reed.
was born in New Jersey, and died in 1866.
about two months before the birth of Mrs.
Thomas, who was his only child. Her raother
afterward raarried Charles Hulmes, whom
she survived, and still lives in Princeton.
Airs. Thomas is a communicant of the Protes
tant Episcopal church in AA^inthrop, taking an
eamest interest in parish work. Having no
children, she is sole possessor of one of the
most comfortable houses with which that
town abounds, and among its interior decora
tions are many much prized vases, jardinieres,
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gest pleasant raeraories of her husband's bus
iness life.

John France, son (.)f Alathew
FR-ANCE and .Ann (Delniar) France,
one of the prominent residents
of Lawrence. Alassachusetts, was born in Ash
ton, England, November 9, 1830. His father,
was a tailor. AVhen John France was a young
led there were iiO laws regulating the employ
ment of child labor, and he commenced active
work as a wage earner at the early age of
nine years. He attended school at the same
time as was the custom of the day. He erai
grated to the LInited States about 1854, set
tling in the state of New York, where he lived
for one year, then went to Lawrence, Alassa
chusetts, where he has since made his home.
He engaged in the work of a spinner, and in
the course of years rose to the rank of boss
and Avas very successful. Pie has taken an
active part in the political a'ffairs of his city,
having served two terras in the council and
one terra as alderman. He is one of the oldest
members of the Episcopal church, and is affil
iated with a number of organizations, among
them being the Free and Accepted Alasons,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, .A''eteran
Massachusetts Firemen, of which latter he is
president. He niarried, first, Ellen Ward, native of
Ireland, by whom he had two chUdren ; Ed
ward AVilHam, born August 6, 1859, and an
infant; mother died at sarae tirae as infant.
He married, second, Harriet Alaria Goodwin,
native of Alaine, and had children : Edwin N.,
deceased. John AA'estley, born August 26,
]'867. Harriet, born March 5, 1869, married
John Denniston, of Lawrence. He married,
third. Airs. Alice Alarcroft, whose maiden
name was .Squibbs, native of England.

John Cross (i) was born in
CROSS Cheshire, England, in 1804, and
died in Liverpool, England, in
1883. On his father's side he came of a long
line of English ancestors, his surname being
distinctively English and one of great an
tiquity, according to the deductions of stu
dents of our English patronymics ; on the ma
ternal side his ancestors were of AVelch stock.
On both sides the families were noted for
longevity, his father having attained the re
markable age of within three months of one
hundred years, his raother less than four
raonths of a century, while he hiraself lived
to the age of almost eighty years.

.As a young man John Cross early becarae
connected in a clerical capacity with a railroad
and canal com])any, and after several years
of faithful service he was giveii the more re
sponsible office of general raanager of the
Shropshire Union Railroad & Chester Canal
Conipany, which duties he perforraed with sat
isfaction to his employers and much credit to
himself. While serving as the company's
manager he made his house in EUsmereport,
but afterward removed to Liverpool, where
the latter part of his life was spent. Pie mar
ried in Cheshire, Elizabeth Shone, born in
Arding, AA'ales, but whose life was chiefly
spent in Cheshire, where her father was a sraith
and farrier, a superior workraan at his trade
as also was her brother Edward, -who for
manv years was smith and farrier of the
famous Ro}'al Guards in his majesty's service.
John and Elizabeth (Shone) Cross had chil
dren, nine of whom grew to maturity and five
of ^\¦honl are still living; John, AVilliam, Rob
ert, George, Thomas H., Clement (died
young), Clement Rider, Christopher Clement,
Susanna, Clementine, Wilhelmina, Henrietta,
and one other who died in infancy.
(II) Thomas H. Cross, son of John and
Elizabeth (Shone) Cross, was born in EUs
mereport ( Creshire, England, April 10, 1840,
and was sent to a private guild school prepar
atory to raore thorough education in marine
engineering. After that he served an ap
prenticeship with Faucett, Preston & Co., and
becanie a practical raarine engineer. Frora
that time he was in the service of John Ladd
& Corapany until 1862, and in that year be
came engineer in the service of the Cunard
Stearaship Corapany, and is still in the employ
of that great trans-Atlantic corapany, although
not now in the capacity of engineer, for he
proved himself worthy of a higher position
and was advanced according to his merit. In
1871, after nine years of service as engineer.
Air. Cross was promoted in the company's
service to the position of superintendent of
engineers at the Cunard hne docks in East
Boston, and the duties of that position he has
filled for raore than thirty-seven years. Few
raen have a raore extended acquaintance than
he in raaritirae circles in this country, and
few indeed are they who are so well known
for rugged honesty and unquestionable integ
rity as Thonias H. Cross. The duties of his
position have frequently called hira into busi
ness transactions which require soraething be
yond mere practical knowledge of marine en
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company which have called for the exercise of
sound business judgment, a knowledge of
men as well as of affairs, but in whatever ca
pacity he has been called upon to act he has
acquitted himself weU. In 1893 Air. Cross
took up his residence in the town of Win
throp, where he has acquired valuable prop
erty interests, and where he is looked upon as
one of the sub.stantial men of the town. His
interest in local affairs is earnest and unselfish ;
and while frequently importuned he has con
sistently declined service in public office, al
though his counsel has been given freely in
raunicipal affairs and the engineering corps of
AVinthrop has received substantial assistance
at his hands. Pie is a Alaster and Royal Arch
Mason, and a charter member of Crystal Bay
Lodge, I. O. O. P., of Winthrop.
Mr. Cross niarried first, in Liverpool, Eng
land, July 16, 1867, Jane Robinson, born Alay

23, 1842, died in AVinthrop, July 9, 1897. Pie
raarried second, in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1900,
Airs. Alargaret Hill Grain, whose faraUy name
was Hill. She was born in. Nashua, New
Hampshire, and afterward removed to Bur
lington, A'ermont, where she married AVilliam
H. Crain, who died at St. Albans, A'ermont, in
1896. from the effects of wounds received in
battle during the civil war. Airs. Cross had
two children by her first husband ; Henry C.
Grain, now in the service of the N. Y. N. H.
& H. R. R. Co., and living in Boston, and
Daisy Crain,'wife of Rev. Williara Babbitt, a
clergyraan of the Protestant Episcopal church,
now living in the state of New York. Rev.
AA^illiani and Daisy (Crain) "Babbitt have four
children ; AViUiara, Edward, Alargaret and one
other who died in extrenie infanc}-. Air.
Cross has no children.

ERRATA AND ADDENDA.

The following errata and addenda were received after the narrative pages had gone to
press ;
Pope, p. 109, generation III, second Hne; for Fogler read Folger. In this and
preceding paragraph, for Bethseda read Bethesda.
Bacon, p. 202, 2d col., ninth line from bottom of sketch; for Georgette read Georgi
etta. Horsford, p. 261, 2d col., i6th line; for Katherine read Katharine.
Rand. p. 642, 2d col, last line; birth date of A^ernon Waterman Rand should read
October i, 1852.
Brooks, p. 653, 2d col.; in connection with marriage of Reuben Brooks (5), see Cleave
land Family.
Shepard, p. 702, 2d col. ; Rev. John William Shepard is of generation VI, instead of
IA'. Edward Olcott Shepard is of generation ATI, instead of V.
Joint, p. 724, 2d col., five lines from bottora ; for Jaraes C. Crutcheon read Cutcheon.
Morse, p. 778, last paragraph of sketch; Nathan Tingley Morse is of generation
VIII, not IX.
Pattillo, p. 820, 2d col., 6th line ; children of Alexander Alanton PattiUo ; Carlton Perkins,
born January 15, 1886, died January 4, 1888; AHce Manton, born March 13, 1889; Gil
bert Sayward, born Septeraber 26, 1890; George A., born October 17, 1894, died July .10,
1905. Hills, p. 908 ; in connection with inilitary service of Albert Sraith Hills and Albert Perkins
Hills: Total nuraber raen enrolled in 23d Alassachusetts Regiraent, 1380; kUled in battle,
49; died of wounds, 28; died of disease, 79; died in rebel prisons, 39; died otherwise, 7;
prisoners, 253 ; wounded, 200.
Bancroft, p. 923, 2d col.; raarriage date of Thonias Bancroft (VII) should be June i,
1815. His only living child is Caroline A. Bancroft.
Berry, p. 945, 2d col., ist line, 2d parag. ; Air. Berry raarried Lorana Milton Ferrin.
Belcher, p. 1084, 2d col., ist parag.; a daughter was born to Alphonso W. Belcher,
November 7, 1908.
Palmer, p. 145 1, cols, i and 2, for WiUiara Henry Palraer (VI) read Williara Hardy
Palraer. WilUara H. H. Palraer (VII) ifought in the civil war, in Company A, 50th Massa
chusetts Regiment; he was enrolled September 4, 1862, and was discharged August 24, 1863,
by reason of expiration of term of service ; he served in siege of Port Pliidson frora the
beginning to the end.
Ingrahara, p. 1525, ist col., 2d parag.; George Henry Ingraham, who niarried Helen
Alaria Ballard, was born in SaxonvUle, Alassachusetts, Noveraber 12, 1848, son of Augus
tus and Harriet A. (Atwood) Ingrahara; he is a druggist in West Newton; all his children
were educated in the public schools except Grace, who attended Allen's private school,
AA^est Newton.
AVhiting, p. 1665, 2d col, 2d parag. ; Williara H. H. Whiting was selectraan one year
and park commissioner four years, in town of Revere ; his wife's father, A. J. Wilkinson,
was a cotton manufacturer, a descendant of the Wilkinsons ofi the earlier days of cotton
raanufacturing in Rhode Island. His children were ; 1-2. Died at birth. 3. Mary Tower,
born Alarch 4, 1879, died December 9, 1887. 4. George AValcott, born Deceraber 20,
1881, died Deceraber 23, 1887.
, Moses B. Paige, p. 2001, last parag.; Robert Henry Wilkinson, born January 14,
1855, died September 22, 1884; married, April 18, 1883, Eliza Harris Poor, daughter of
Nathan H. Poor; a son, Edward Poor AA''ilkinson, born August 5, 1884, died October 10,
1884. .Anderson, p. 2055, ist col, 5th line from top ; for John Anderson read John Alitchell
Anderson.

INDEX

Abbot Ancestry, 1406
Asa, 1406
Caleb, 1406
Timothy, 1406
Abbott Ancestry, 451, 535
George, 535
Nathan, Dea., 535
Orlando, 452
Paschal, 536
Stephen -W.,2167
Timothy, 451
.A.born Ancestry, 226
Charles H., 228
Frederick, 227
John, Dr., 227
Samuel, 226
Adams Ancestry, 447, 588, 1629
1738, 1850, 1871
Artemas, 1173
Charles, 1851
Charles P., Hon., DL.D., 591
Charles H., 2168
Daniel, Capt., 1738
Ed-ward, 450
Ed-ward, 1630
Bd-ward, Bns., 1629
Ed-ward. Ens., 1871
Henry, 588
Henry, 1630
Henry, 2167
John, 447
John, 1851
John, 1851
John, Dea., 449
John, Dea.. 590
John Jr., 449
John, Pres., 590
John Q., Hon., LL.D., 590
Joseph, Capt.. 1738
Joseph, Dr., 2167
Joseph, Lieut., 448
Joseph, Rev.. 2167
Nathaniel, 2167
Reuben, 1871
Seth. 1630
William, 1173
William, 1850
William, Capt., 449
Aiken Ancestry, 1032
Bd-ward, 1032
Bd-ward, Dea.. 1033
Harry W., 1034
.lames, Judge, 1033
James R.. 1033
-William A., 1034
Ains-worth Ancestry, 778
Artemas, 780
Daniel, 779
Joseph F., 780
Allen Ancestry, 240, 622, 1360,
1899, 2042, 2090
Aza, 1900
Benjamin L., 247
Franklin H., M. D.. 2042
George E., Dr.. 2042
George F.. 245
Henry, 623
Isaac, 1360
Jacob A., 1360
James, 2090
Jeremiah, 623
John P,, 244
John P., Jr., 247
Joseph, Capt., 622
Milo L., 1361
Nathan, 244
Nathan, Dea., 243
Nehemiah, 2091
Robert, 1899
-Walter B., 1900
-Walter O., 1361

Warren, 2042
WUliam, 240
William, 622
.\lley Ancestry, 973, 1724
Addie H., 1726
Charles A., 1726
Hugh, 973
Hugh, Jr., 973
Hugh Sr., 1724
Joseph, 973
Timothy N., 1726
-¦Mlyn Ancestry, 490
Alfred W., 490
Caroline C. 491
William, 490
Amerige Ancestry, 2049
Charles 'W.. Dr., 2049
Francis, 2049
Anderson Ancestry, 179
.lames. 179
John M.. 2055, 2182
Luther S.. 179
Luther W., 179
Andre-ws Ancestry, 436, 880, 116
1456
Albert C. 880
Albert -W., 880
Ebenezer, 1456
Ed-win P.. 1168
Eliza J., 436
Flora B.. 1169
Israel, Rev.. 437
Israel W-., 437
John, 1168
John, Dea., 116S
.John. Lieut., 1456
.John. Lieut., 437
Randall, 1456
Robert, 436
-WnUiam, 1168
Angler Family, 151
Annis Ancestry, 1750
Curmac. 1750
John, 1751
.Tohn, 1751
John. Capt.. 1751
.\ppleton Ancestry, 1494
Daniel, 1496
Hooper A.. 1497
Isaac, Ma.i.. 1495
Samuel. 1494
Thomas, 1497
Archambault Ancestry. 2141
Gervais, 214Z
.Jacques. 2141
Jean. 214]
Joseoh. 2142
Arnold Ancestrv, 304
Alvah. .105
Frank T. Jr.. 306
Frank T. Sr., 305
Isaac. 304
Arrington Ancestry. 1721
James, Capt., 1721
James, Capt., 1721
James, Capt., 1722 '
Philip P. P., 1722
Atkinson Ancestry, 1765
Ichabod, Dea., 1765
Joseph, 1765
Joseph A.. 1765
Thomas, 1765
-¦^ttwrill Ancestry, 1727
Alfred M., 1728
Gustavus, 1727
Gustavus, 1728
John, 1727
John D.. 1727
Richard L, 1728
Austin Ancestry, 797. 1004
Charles. 797

George W., 1005
Jeremiah, Col., 1004
John W., 797
Lucius A., 1006
Robert, 1004
Thomas, 797
Wilbur C, 1004
William O.. 1005
Ayer, Ebenezer, 1292
Babb, George L., 1620
William, Capt., 1621
Babcock Ancestrv, 1561
David, 1563
James, 1561
Joshua, 1562
Joshua, Capt., 1562
Babson Ancestrv. 655
Eliza G.. 588
.Tames. 655
John J., 657
.John Lo-w, 588
William. 659
Bacheller Ancestry, 143J, 1436,
1438
Aaron N., 1438
Breed. 1435
Bd-ward L., 1438
Eliza J., 1436
George A., 1436
Harriet A,, 1437
Henry B., 1435
James, 1438
John. Sergt., 14 34
Joshua, 1434
Samuel. 1436
Stephen, Rev.. 1434
Bacon Ancestry, 199. 989
Arthur L.. 201
Francis B.. 1570
George, 199
Georgietta, 202, 2182
I Grimaldus, 989
Henry J., 202
Jesse P.. 200
Jonas, 991
T^evi, 991
. Michael, 990
Reuben. 200
Simeon, Capt.. 199
Bailey Ancestry, 515, 759, 1044
Cornelia W.. Mrs., 1046
Dudley P., 762
Dudley P., Rev., 761
Isaac H., 761
.Tames, 515
John, 759
Joshua, 1046
Richard, 1044
Richard. Elder. 1044
Samuel G., 517
Samuel H.. 517
Stephen, 1046
William. Col., .-,17
Baird Ancestry. 1538
Andre-w, 1539
Jacob, 1539
Thomas, 1538
William, 1540
William L.. 15 tO
Bake. Frank, 2169
Mary, 2170
Baker Ancestry, 14T2, IFpSc
Cornelius, 1472
Ed-ward, 1557
Francis M.. 1558
.Toel M., 1558
Jonathan, 1473
Joseph H.. Dea.. 1473
William F., 1558
Baldwin Ancestry, 61
Benjamin F., Col., 68

(2183)

2184

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Clarissa, 73
George R., 74
Henry, 61
James F., 72
Loammi, 69
Loammi, Col., 66
Samuelj Capt. 65
Balkam Ancestry, 1866
Alexander, 1866
Alice B„ Mrs., 1869
Gilbert, 1867
John, Gen., 1867
Stephen B.. 1868
Ballard Ancestry, 1521
Francis E., 1525
Francis G., 1524
John, 1522
John, 1523
John F.. 1526
Walter C, 1526
William, 1522
William H., 1526
Bancroft Family, 150
Bancroft Ancestry, 923
Caroline A., 923
Joseph, Lieut.. 923
Thomas, 923, 2182
Thomas F., Dea., 923
Bangs Ancestry. 1076
Edward, 1076
Edwin G., 1077
Harry N., 1077
Jonathan, Capt., 1076
Nathan, 1077
Barker Ancestrv, 688
Catherine M., 689
Jacob, 689
John, 689
John, 688
Richard, 688
Barlow Ancestry, 1271
James, 1271
John W,, 1271
Richard R., 1272
Samuel S.. 1272
Barnard Ancestry. 1158, 1476
Currier, 1476
Jeremiah, Rev., 1160
Robert, 1158
Robert M., 1161
Robert M., 1161
Thomas, 1158
Thomas, 1476
Barrett Ancestry, 1883
Albert B„ 1884
Amos R., 1884
Charles D., 1884
Prank S., 1885
Fred S.. 1885
Samuel S. W.. 1884
William. 1883
Barrv. Matthew, 2175
Richard P., 2175
Bartlett Ancestry, 440, 1066
Albert L,, 442
Henry P., 1067
.Toseph, 1651
Richard, 440
Richard, 1066
Stephen A.. 1067
Thomas, 441
«'illiam, 1067
Barton, Edwin W., 543
Helen B., 543
Bass Ancestrv, 1054, 1119
David, 1054
Jonathan, 1120
Lewis, Capt., 1120
Samuel, 1119
Samuel, Dea., 1054
Samuel W., 1055
Baston Ancestry. 1226
Andrew G., 1228
Andrew S.. 1228
Frederick S,. Dr., 1228
Thomas. 1226
Winthrop, 122S
Batchelder Ancestry, 372, 1038
Benjamin, Lieut., 374
Francis, 376
George H., 1039
Henri, 375
John C, 374

John M., 375
John S.. 1039
Nathaniel, 373
Samuel, 1038
Stephen, Rev., 37 2
Baxter Ancestry, 388
Edwin W., 389
Lemuel, 389
Lemuel, 389
Thomas, Capt., 389
Beach Ancestry, 1445
Irving B., 1446
Luraudus, 1445
Luraudus, Jr., 1445
Richard, 1445
Beal Ancestry, 236
Ezra W., 236
George R., 237
Joseph, 236
Beale Ancestry, 1882
Benjamin, 1882
Benjamin, Lieiit., 1882
Jonathan, 1882
Joseph S.. 1882
Beals Ancestry. 1889
Erl v.. 1891
John, 1889
Levi, 1891
Morell B., Dr„ 1891
Bearce Ancestry, 1294
Asa, 1295
Asa, 1296
Austin, 1294
Beckett Ancestry. 1018
Benjamin, 1021
Benjamin, 1022
Caroline A., 1021
John, 1018
John, 1019
Joseph, 1021
Thomas, 1018
Beckford Ancestry, 1853
Benjamin, Capt., 1853
Benjamin, Capt., 1853
George, 1853
John. Dea.. 1853
Beede Ancestry, 1696
Charles, 2163
Charles O., 1699
Eli, 1696
Emma P., 2163
Solomon. 1699
William D., 2163
Beetle Ancestry, 1515
Benjamin, 1515
Benjamin P., 1516
Walter P., 1516
Beirne Ancestry, 2149
Michael, 2150
Patrick, 2149
Patrick H.. 2150
Belcher Ancestrv, 1078. 1086. 2148
Alphonso W., 1084, 2182
David, 1081
Francis N.. 1086
Prank N., 1087
Frederick W., 1082
Henry M,, 2148
Jeremiah, 1078
John W., 1083
Joseph, Ens., 1079
Joseph Jr., 1080
M. Austin, 1083
Samuel, 1081
Thomas J., 1082
Warren, 1080
Bell Ancestrv, 2093
John. 2093
Robert. 2093
Samuel, 2094
Bemis Ancestry. 1993
Eli E., 1995
John L., 1995
Joseph, 1993
Bennett Ancestrv, 315, 415, 554,
' 1589
Alvah, 554
Anthony, 415
Decatur R,, 417
Elisha, Capt., 316
Frances S., 417
Frank P,, 320
Hannali (Robinson), 555

James G., 320
.Teremiah W., 417
John. 1589
Josiah C, 1590
Moses, 315
Richard P., 416
Samuel. 316
Simon. 1590
Stephen, 1589
Stephen B., 319
Winthrop, 416
Berrv Ancestry, 910, 944
John McN., 945, 2182
John W., 910
Joseph, 910
Lorana M.. Mrs., 945
Susanna (Wetherell), Mrs.,
912
William, 944
Berwick, James, 2029
James, 2029
Bevington Ancestry, 1270
Alice B., 1271
Thomas, 1271
Thomas, 1270
William, 1270
Bicknell Ancestry, 452
Edmund, 454
Maurice, 1511
Ralph E., 455
Susan B.. 462
William P., 1511
Zachary, 452
Bigelow Ancestry, 1466
John, 1466
Jonathan B., 1468
Richard, 1466
Walter K., 1468
Billings Ancestrvi 1942
Edmund, 1942
Edmund, Col., 1942
John, Maj,, 1942
Roger, 1942
Bills Ancestry, 232
Charles C, 234
John, 233
Jonathan D., 234
Vesta, Mrs., 235
Bisbee, Elijah, 1876
Bishop Ancestry, 1687
Amos, 1688
Charles S., 1691
Joel P., 1688
John, 1687
Bitzer Ancestrv. 2143
Frederick, 2143
Jacob, 2144
John, 2143
John P., 2144
Black Ancestry, 481
Annie, 483
Daniel, 481
Gardner M,, 482
Josiah. 482
Mehitable P., 1125
Nathaniel, 1126
Nathaniel W., 1125
Porter M., 482
Blair Ancestry, 1660
Isaac, 1662
James, 1661
Robert, 1660
William, Capt., 1661
Blaisdell Ancestry, 2102
Henrv. 2103
Jacob C. 2103
James M.. 2103
Ralph, 2102
Blake Ancestry, 157
Jacob, 157
John, 157
John, Capt., 157
Blaney Ancestry, 1437, 2048
Elbridge G., 2048
Elbridge G., 2048
John, 1437
John, 2048
Joseph. 204S
Philip. 1438
William, 1438
William, Capt., 1437
Boardman Ancestry. 457, 1195
Daniel, 1195

BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASS.ACPIUSETTS.

:l8:

Daniel, Capt., 1197
Giles, 457
Isaac, 455
Isaac C, 458
John, Capt,, 1196
Joseph, 458
Mary, 460
Thomas, 1195
William, 458
-William, Maj., 457
Bodine, Emma P., 1013
William B., 1013
Bodwell Ancestry, 1805
Henry, 1805
Sarah D., 1807
Stephen B., 1806
Stephen B.. 1806
Zadock, 1806
Boehm, Adolph G., 2176
Anna C, 2177
Bonelli Ancestrv, 1709
Andre, 1709
-Edward H., 1709
Louis H,. 1709
Bosson Ancestrv, 1380
Albert D., Judge, 1383
George C, 1382
Jonathan D., 1381
-William, 1380
William, Rev., 1380
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 25
Bowers, Hannah B., Mrs, 603
Wilder T., 602
,Bo-wman Ancestry, 1305
Eliza P., 1308
John, 1307
John, 1308
Nathaniel, 1305
Robert, 1305
Boyden Ancestry, 517
James P., 519
.James L., 519
.Jonathan, Capt., 518
Thomas, 517
Boynton, Joseph, 1571
Bradford Ancestry, 714
Andrew, Capt., 715
Emma S.. 718
George R., 717
John, Capt.. 716
Richard, 716
-William, 1961
Bradley Ancestry, 239
Enoch Jr., 240
,Toseph, 239
Joseph, Dea.. 239
Maria G., 240
Samuel P., 240
Bradstreet Ancestry, 123
Anne, 42
Anne D., 44
Dudley, 126
Dudley, Capt., 126
John, 127
John, Maj., 126
Josiah, 127
Simon, Gov,, 124
Simon, Rev.. 123
Breed Ancestry. 706. 1041, 1098,
1100, 1732, 1958
Allen, 706
Allen, 1042
Allen, 1098
Allen, 1732
Alice M,,. Mrs., 1100
Amos, 1732
Amos F,, 1732
Amos P. Jr., 1733
Asa, 1099
Daniel, 1100
George H., 1101
Holton J.. Capt., 1042
Isaiah, 707
James, 707
Joseph. 1041
Joseph J., 1099
Nathan, 1958
Rogers J., 1099
Samuel, 1098
Samuel, 1100
Thomas A„ 270
-William N.. 1101

Breen, .Tohn, Hon., 2108
Patrick, 2108
Brewster Ancestry, 1392
Jonathan, 1393
Love, 1393
William, 1392
William, Elder, 1392
Wrestling, 1393
Bridges Ancestry, 1012
Daniel, 1013
Edmund, 1012
Elisha F,, 1013
Isaac, 1013
Jane, 1013
Bridgham Ancestry, 1296
Henry, 1296
John, 1297
John, Capt., 1297
Joseph, Dr., 1296
Briggs Ancestry, 806, 1606
Cornelius, Capt., 1606
-Elisha, 806
Enos, Lieut., 1607
Robert, 807
Samuel, 1608
Walter, 806
Walter, 1606
Brock Ancestry, 396
John, Rev., 396
Lemuel M., 396
Stephen, 396
Brooks Ancestry, 55, 382, 652, 1157
Caleb, Capt., -55
Ebenezer, Capt., 55
Henry, 382
Henry, 652
John, 652
John. 1157
John, Gov,, 56
Martha J., 383
Reuben, 653, 2182
Reuben, 654
Reuben, Dea., 653
Samuel, 1157
Thomas, 55
Walter, 383
Broughton Ancestrv, 1052
Daniel, 1053
Daniel T. H., 105 4
George W,, 1054
John, 1052
John, Capt., 1053
Thomas, 1053
Brown Ancestry, 237, 404, 576,
813, 894, 1238, 1265, 1674,
ISll, 1929, 1935, 2116, 2178
Abraham, 237
Abraham, 2116
Albert S-, 1242
Ambrose J.. Capt., 1267
Amos S., 405
Anna, 2178
Asa, Capt,, 1937
Asa N, 576
Benjamin, Dea., 2117
Chad, 1811
Charles, 1675
Charles W., 2178
Charles D.. 814
Daniel, 813
Daniel, 1674
Earl N., 576
Ebenezer, 1266
Edward, 1238
Edwin, 894
Elvira H,, 1675
Prank, 1266
George, 239
George B„ 1937
George D., 813
Harriet E., 576
Harry B., 1241
Henry, 2117
Increase H,, 2117
Jacob, Lieut., 1239
James, 2178
John, 237
John, 404
John, 1674
John 1937
John B., 1240
John, Capt., 1265

.John, Elder, 1935
Jonas Jr., 238
Joseph B., 1604
Joseph E., 894
Joseph G., 1813
Manasseh, 1239
Uichard, 237
Robert, 1930
Samuel, 1812
Simon, 405
Simon, Capt., 404
Simon, Lieut,, 404
Smith, 1812
Stephen, 2178
Thomas, 1266
Thomas, Sergt., 1239
William, 894
William, 1265
William, 1266
William G.. 1930
Browne Ancestr\-. 237, 1870
George E., 1870
Hopestill, Lieut., 1870
Israel H., 1870
Theodore L., 1870
William, 1870
Bruce Ancestrv, 1847
Benjamin P. P., 1847
Katharine M., 1848
Orsamus B.. 1847
Bubier Ancestrv, 1617
Christopher, 1618
Edward T., 1619
.Toanna A.. 1619
Joseph, 1617
Joseph. Capt,, 1618
Josephine A., 1619
Mary A,, 1619
Samuel A,, 1619
Samuel M.. 1618
Sylvester H,. 1619
Buckley Ancestrv, 2080
Charles M.. 2082
Charles S.. 2082
Edward, Capt., 2082
Gershom. Rev. Dr., 2081
Oliver, 2082
Peter, Rev. 2080
William A., 2083
Buffington, Edmund F,, 1971
M. Alice, 1971
Buftum Ancestrv, 1347, 1616
Caleb, 1347
Charles, 1617
Charles S.. 1348
Jonathan, 1616
Joshua, 1347
Joshua, 1348
Robert, 1616
Burckes Ancestrv. 1832
Martin, 1832
Martin, 1832
Thomas M., 1832
Burdakin Ancestrv, 607
Catherine E., 608
James, 607
John C, 607
John H,, 608
Burley Ancestry, 1897
Daniel S., 1898
Frederick P., 1898
Giles, 1897
Jacob, 1898
Burnham Ancestry. 342, 659
Albert S., 344
Andrew, 343
John, Dea., 342
Jonathan, Capt., 660
Leonard, 661
Leonard A., 661
Robert, 342
Thomas, 660
Thomas, Lieut.. 660
Burns. Catherine, Mrs., 741
Martin, 741
Burrill Ancestrj-. 1724
George, 1724
John, Capt.. 1724
Bushby Ancestry. 110
Horace. 112
Robert. Ill
William, 112
William, 112

2i86

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Buswell Ancestry, 734
Isaac, 734
Joseph B., 735
Joseph B., 735
Buller Ancestry, 100
Ben I., 108
Benjamin F., Gen., 102
John, Capt,, 100
John, Capt,, 101
Nicholas, 100
Zephaniah, Capt, 101
Butterworth, James W., 2152
Buttrick Ancestry, 1913
John, Col,, 1914
Jonathan, Dea., 1914
Stephen, 1915
William, 1913
Buxton Ancestry, 579, 967
Anthony, 967
Benjamin, 579
Henry, 968
Henry H., 969
Horace P., 969
Hulda G., 969
James, 579
Joshua, 968
Joshua Jr., 968
Mary .1., 969
Mary P., 968
William P., 580
Buzzell Ancestry, 289
Isaac, 289
John, 290
John G., 290
Oscar W., 290
Cain, Abby I., 413
George B., 413
James R., 413
Caldwell Ancestry, 1986
James, 1988
John, 1986
Luther, Col., 1989
Sarah M, N., Mrs., 1991
Campbell Ancestry, 1377
Charles A,, 1378
Jeremiah, 1378
Jeremiah, 1379
John, Rev,, 1377
Thomas, 2156
William, 2156
Campopiano, Geremia, 2087
Capen Ancestry, 612
Adelaide A., 612
Bernard, 6,12
George, 613
John, Capt., 612
Samuel H,, 613
CHrd Ancestry, 1093
John, 1094
Joshua K., Capt., 1094
William, Capt., 1093
Carder Ancestry, 1104
Lydia J., Mrs., 1105
Richard, 1104
Samuel S., 1104
William, 1105
Carleton Ancestry, 1070
Edward, 1071
Edward P., 1072
Frazier, 1072
Harriet E., Mrs., 1072
Henry P., 1072
Carr, Alice M., 1939
E. Frederick, 1939
Carter Ancestry, 996, 1392, 1517
Albert D„ 1518
Artemas, 1392
Ephraim, 996
George H., 1519
James, Capt., 1392
John, 1518
John, Col., 996
Josiah, Col., 1392
Nathaniel, 996
Ruby A., 1519
Samuel, Rev., 1392
Thomas, 1617
Thomas, Rev., 1392
Cass, Mrs. P. L.. 1907
Caswell Ancestry, 2100
Frederick P., 2101
Simon, 2100
Winfield S., 2101

Cate Ancestry, 2170
Alpheus D., 2170
Edgar A., 2171
John S., 2170
Chadwick Ancestry, 689
Jonathan G., 691
Thomas, 690
Chamberlain Ancestry, 7S0
Isaac, 781
Isaac E., 781
Moses, 781
William, 780
Chandler Ancestrv, 758, 1327
John, 1327
John, 1328
Joseph D., 1328
Thomas, 759
William, 758
William Jr., 758
Chapman Ancestry, 640
James, 640
John W., 640
Nicholas, 640
Chase Ancestry, 568, 1225, 1545,
1906
-A-bel, 1225
Abel W. 1225
Alice B., Mrs., 1545
Amos B., 570
Aquilla, 1545
Charles C, 1225
Ellen P., 570
Eunice B,, 570
John, 1907
Philip A,, 1545
Rufus L., 570
Thomas, 1545
Wesley P„ 1907
William, 1906
Cheever Ancestry, 469, 2113
David H., 2114
Frederic C, 2114
Horace W., 470
John, 470
Lot, 2114
Minnie S.. 471
Peter, 469
Peter, 2113
Chenery -Ancestry, 1363
Charles B., 1371
Charles H., 1368
Cornelius, 1372
Cyrus E., 1373
David Jr., 1366
Edmund L., 1372
Elihu, 1369
Elisha, 1368
Franklin M., 1370
Franklin W., 1366
George H, 1366
George H.. 1370
George W., 1370
Henry C, 1373
Horace 1372
Isaac H., 1365
-James P., 1371
Jefferson W. Jr., 1372
John A., 1373
,John B., 1372
Lambert, 1364
Leonard, 1372
Nathaniel T., 1373
Richard, 1371
William E,, 1369
William H., 1370
Winthrop H., 1368
Winthrop L„ 1367
Winthrop W,, 1367
Chever Ancestry, 825
Charles G., 825
Ellen W., Mrs., 825
James W., 825
Peter, 825
Cliild Ancestry, 2136
Albert M., 2137
Marshall, 2137
William, 2136
Choate Ancestry, 919
Humphrey, Ensign, 920
John, 919
Rufus, 19
Thomas, Capt., 919

Chubb Ancestry, 751
Clara E,, Mrs., 751
Harry N, 751
Churchill Ancestry, 541
John, 543
John, 541
John T,, Col., 543
Clapp Ancestry, 952, 1746
Asa, 1748
Asa B., 1748
Elmer E., 1748
George, 954
Nicholas, 1747
Thomas, 952
Thomas, 1747
William A,, 954
William C, 954
Clark Ancestry, 696, 2052
Elizabeth A. G.. 2053
Frederick B., 699
Jacob, 697
Jonathan, 2052
Joseph, 696
Solomon, 698
-William, 2052
William E., 698
William P., 2052
Clarke Ancestry, 408, 506
Daniel, 409
Edmund, 408
Edmund Jr., 409
Edward, Capt,, 409
Frederick W., 1976
Greenleaf, 508
Nathaniel, 506
Philip E., 410
Clement Ancestry, 851
George C, Dr.,' 854
James H., 853
Jesse, 852
.John, Lieut., 851
Robert. 851
Cleveland (Cleaveland) Ancestrv.
148,3
Ebenezer, 1484
Josiah, 1484
Moses, 1483
Cloudman (Cloutman) Ancestry,
2071
David R,, 2073
Jesse P., 2072
Thomas, 2071
Timothy, 2072
Clough Ancestry, 705
Abbie M„ 706
Charles B„ 705
John, 705
Cobb Ancestry, 1219, 2022
Austin, 1219
Frederic C„ 1221
Henry, Elder. 2022
Henry B., 2023
Jonathan, 1220
Jonathan H„ 1220
Cochran, Joseph, 1478
Joseph Jr., 1478
Cogswell Ancestry, 526, 903, 1252
Aaron, 1254
Addison, 905
Albert, 1253
.Albert B., 1253
Elvira D., Mrs 905
George, Dr., 528
John, 526
John, 903
John, Lieut., 527
Jonathan, Dea,, 1253
Nathaniel, 527
Sarah P., 529
William, 528
William, 904
William, 1252
Colburn Ancestry, 462
Howard, 464
Mary E, G,, 463
Nathaniel, 462
Waldo, Hon,, 463
Colby Ancestry, 574, 2053, 2055
Anthony, 574
Anthony, 2053
Eben C, 2056
Enoch, Ensign, 2055
James T,, 2054

BOSTON AND EASTERN MAS.SACHUSETT.^.

2187

John A., 576
John A„ 2054
John, Dea,, 2054
John Q. A., 575
Mary A., 879
Samuel, 2055
Cole Ancestry, 553, 2050
Ephraim F,, 553
John, Capt., 2051
Joseph P,, 554
Kimball, Lieut,, 553
Richard T., 2051
Thomas, 553
Thomas, 2050
William, Capt,, 2050
William, Capt. 2050
Collins Ancestry, 1691
Benjamin, 1691
Jerome E., 1692
Regina L., Mrs., 1692
Thomas, 1691
Conant Ancestry, 401, 787
Benjamin, 402
Benjamin, 789
John, 401
John, 402
Margaret S., 402
Roger, 7S7
Samuel, 789
Conner Ancestry, 1051
Cornelius, 1051
James H., 1052
James W,, 1052
Jonathan, 1052
Cook Ancestry, 964, 2024
Aaron, Capt,, 2024
Adams B., 965
Charles P., 966
David, Dea., 965
Ezra P., Lieut, 2026
George W,, 2026
.John, Capt, 2025
Josiah, Capt,, 2025
-Walter, 964
Coolidge, Flavei, 254
Coombs Ancestry, 946
Anthony, 946
Jesse, 946
Corliss Ancestry, 637, 1567
Benjamin H,, 1568
Ebenezer, 1568
Ephraim, 638
George, 637
George, 1567
John, 1568
John S., 638
Thomas, 638
Cotter Ancestry, 2152
Thomas, 2153
Thomas P,, 2153
William, 2153
Crafts Ancestry, 1630
Griffin, Lieut, 1630
Joseph, 1632
Joseph, Lieut, 1632
Moses, Lieut, 1631
Samuel, Lieut, 1631
Crandon Ancestry, 1869
John, 1869
Joseph, 1869,
Philip, 1869
Crane Family, 149
Crane Ancestry, 694
Ebenezer P,, 695
Henry, 694
Martha C, 695
Nathan Jr., 695
William, Lieut, 695
Cressy Ancestry, 339
Frederic O., 341
John, Capt,, 340
Joseph, 341
Mighill, 339
Cromwell Ancestry, 1340
Robert, 1340
Walter, 1340
Crosby Ancestry, 1488
Ebenezer, 1488
Forman A., 1488
Gilbert R., 1488
Joseph, 1488
Lemuel, 1488
Crosman, Mrs, Charles S., 1768

Cross Ancestry, 1263, 2180
John, 2180
Joseph W., Rev., 1264
Nathaniel, Capt, 1264
Robert, 1263
Robert M„ Maj., 1264
Thomas H., 2180
Crowell Ancestry, 632
Caroline, Mrs,, 637
John, 632
John, Dr,, 634
Jonathan, 634
Samuel, Lieut, 633
Crowninshield Family, 149
Crummett Charles H, 723
Ann, 723
Lucy T., 723
Cummings Ancestrv, 1067
Anna B.. 1069
Henry, 1068
Isaac, 1067
Isaac, Dea.. 1067
Joshua, 1068
William H., 1069
Cunnin,gham Ancestry, 2042
Daniel, 2043
John, 2042
-Vlaurice P., 2043
Michael. 2043
Currier Ancestry, 498
Alsina A., 600
Isaac H, 499
Richard, 498
Thomas B., 500
Curtis Ancestry, 583
Richard, 684
Samuel, 585
Cushing Ancestry, 684
Caleb, 34
Charles, Col., 686
George W., 687
Josiah S,, 687
Matthew, 685
William, 686
Cutcheon, James C, 742, 2182
Cutler Ancestry, 202
Clarence H., 205
Manasseh, 44
James, 203
Thomas, 204
Thomas E., 205
Cutter Ancestry, 283, 450, 1286,
1876
Ammi, 284
Charles K., Dr., 1878
David B.. 1286
Ebenezer P., 1287
Elizabeth. 283
Fitch, 1878
Gershom, 450, 451
Nathaniel, 1286
Samuel H.. 1878
Samuel. Lieut, 1877
Sarah B., 1287
William, 1876
William R., 283
Cutts Ancestry, 2096
Elisha, 2096
George, 2096
Robert, 2096
Thomas, Dea,, 2096
Daley Ancestry, 2161
John, 2161
Timothy, 2161
Dalton Ancestry, 763
Edward, 763
Eliza J„ 766
Harry P., 767
Joseph A,, 765
Joseph P., Col., 766
Samuel, Gen., 765
Dame Ancestry, 1485
Benjamin, 1486
John, 1486
John, Sergt,, 1485
John M., 1487
Dana Ancestry, 168, 753
Benjamin, Capt, 158
Caleb, 754
Charles, 755
Francis, 158
Francis W., 755

Richard, 158
Richard, 753
Dane, Nathan, 27
Daniels Ancestry, 1627
Charles H,, 1628
Jeremiah, 1628
John, 1628
Robert 1627
Joseph, Sergt, 1628
Davis Family, 160
Davis Ancestry, 391, 1763,
Alfred H., 438
Alpheus, 394
Daniel C, 394
Edwin A., 438
Francis, 392
Frank B., 394
Prank E., 625
John, 438
John, 1763
John L., 624 \.
Joseph, 1763
.Toseph. Hon., 1763
I-^ydia C, 1764
Martha G., 438
Simon, 1805
Dawson, Seth P., 2174
Day Ancestry, 141
Alice (Chamberlain) 143
Anthony, 141
Elias H., Capt, 2098
Elias 'W., 142
Frank B., 2099
John W., 143
Deland Ancestry, 1069
Benjamin, 1069
Dempsey, Patrick C, 2164
Dennen Ancestry, 1919
Hollis E.. 1921
Job C, 1921
Nicholas, 1919
Samuel, 1920
Dennett Ancestry, 2027
Alexander, 2027
Herbert B., 2028
Lyford G., 2028
Oliver, 2028
DeSautels Ancestrv, 2142
Nicolas, 2143
Pierre, 2142
Dick Ancestry, 2158
Alexander W., 2158
David, 2158
Dewhirst Ancestry, 629
• Charles, 629
James, 629
Dickerman, John, 491
Sarah, 491, 492
Thomas, 491
Dickinson Ancestry, 321
Darius, 322
John L., 322
Josie A., 322
Lewis, 322
Thomas, 321
Dignam, Peter, 2087
Sarah, A., 2087
Dillon Ancestry, 558
Edward, 558
John, 558
Mary P., 558
Doak Ancestry, 1344
Benjamin F., 1345
Francis G., 1345
John, 1344
Samuel, Rev., 1344
Doble Ancestry, 1138
Aaron, 1139
Charles P,, 1140
Enoch H„ 1139
Ernest E., Dr., 1139
Tobias, 1138
William, 1139
William H., 1140
Dodge Ancestry, 223, 984, 1474
Abba (Gott), 226
Albert 226
Cornelius, 1475
Jesse, 1475
John, 984
John, 1474
John, Capt, 1475
Mark, 225

2n

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Richard, 224
Richard, 984
Richard, Dea., 986
Simon, 985
William, 1474
Doggett Ancestry, 1221
John, 1224
Samuel, 1224
Thomas, 1222
Dole Ancestry, 310
George H„ 312
Henry, 312
Richard, 310
Dolliver Ancesrv, 619, 625
Edward, 627
Edward, S. L., 627
Paul. 620
Samuel, 625
William, Capt, 626
Dooley, Michael, 2086
Do-w Ancestry, 581
Henry, 681
John, 581
Salmon, 583
Salmon A., 583
Do-wbridge Ancestry, 2166
Henry F., 2166
John, 2166
Downing Ancestry, 184, 1169,
2099
Amos W., 2100
Benjamin, 1170
David, 184
Dennis, 184
Dennis, 1169
Dennis, 2099
George, 46
John, 1170
John, Capt, 1169
John, Capt. 2099
Leverett H., 185
Samuel, 185
Samuel, 2100
Samuel H,, 2100
Drake Ancestry, 751
Daniel, Capt, 752 v
George W., 752
Thomas, 751
Drew Ancestry, 991, 1030
David F„ M, D., 1031
Frederick P., Dr., 993
John, 1030
Olivia G., 1031
Stephen, M. D.. 1030
Thomas, 1030
-Vincent. 992
Wallace, 993
Driscoll Ancestry, 2173
Jeremiah, 2173
John, 2173
John A., 2173
Drown Ancestry, 1215
Celia A., 1218
Francis P., 1217
Leonard, 1216
Richard W., 1217
Samuel, 1216
Dudley Ancestry, 43, 121, 1419
Josiah, Ens,, 1420
Roger, Capt, 1419
Samuel, 1420
Samuel, Hon., 1420
Samuel, Rev., 1419
Thomas, Gov., 43, 121, 1419
Dummer Academy, 176
Dummer Ancestry, 172
Joseph N, 175
Nathaniel, Capt,, 173
Nathaniel N, 174
Richard, 173
Richard, Capt, 173
Duncan Ancestry, 960
Caroline, 961
George, 960
James, 960
James H., Col., 960
Durant Ancestry, 2164
Abel, 2164
Addie 2154
Job S„ 2154
Duston Ancestry, 1422
John, 1423
Thomas, 1422
Timothy, 142:!

Dutton Ancestry, 249
Benjamin P., 252
Ephraim, 252
Hodard, 249
John, 250
Dwinell Ancestry, 228
John W., 230
Micha:el, 228
Willard A., 230
:>yeT Ancestry, 460
Anthony, 461
George, 462
Ruth A., 462
William, 460
William, Dr., 461
Eames Ancestrv, 621
Daniel, Capt, 621
Daniel, Capt., 654
Blona M., 623
Harry M., 1405
John, 654
Nathan, 654
Robert, 621
Robert, 654
Thomas P., 622
Eaton Ancestry, 329, 1256, 1953
Benjamin, Rev,, 330
Ebenezer, 330
Ebenezer, 1257
Elisha, 1257
James H,, 330
Jesse, Maj., 330
John, 1256
John, 1954
John D., 1257
Joseph, Capt, 1954
Martin, 1956
William, 330
William W., Dr., 1956
Eavrs Ancestry, 1001
Henry, 1002
Moses, 1001
Moses, 1001
Eba, George, 2084
William H, H., 2084
Edgett George W., 423
Edmester Ancestry, 341
Elijah B., 342
James C. 341
Jonathan, 341
Edwards Ancestry, 1118, 1326
Benjamin, 1327
Benjamin P., 1157
James, 1118
James, 1118
James L,. 1119
John. 1327
John Brooks, 1157
Rice, 1326
Eldredge Ancestry, 424
Perley G., 424
West D., Capt, 424
William W., 424
Elliott Ancestry. 1057
Andrew, 1058
Andrew, 1059
Israel, 1059
Israel M., 1059
William, 1058
Ellis Ancestry, 539, 883, 1829
Amos, 540
Arno, 883
Bldora, 883
Elisha, 1831
Ellen G., 541
Horatio B, 883
John, 539
John, 1829
Linda M., 1831
Nathan, 540
Nathan, 541
Nathan C. 1831
Thomas, 1831
Ellison Ancestry, 1061
Prank D., 1064
Henry M.. 1063
Josiah. 1063
Lawrence, 1061
Ely Ancestry, 154
Frederick D., Hon., 156
Nathan, 156
Nathaniel. 154
Emerson Ancestry, 95, 157, 483,
914

Enoch, 158
Jacob, 916
Jacob, Hon., 916
James, 157
John, 157
Joseph, 483
Joseph, Capt, 484
Joseph W., 484
Luther, Dr„ 484
Lyman, 158
Michael, 915
Ralph W., 96
Thomas, 483
Warren, 485
William, Rev., 95
Emery Ancestry, 1446
Elizabeth, 1449
Gideon, Capt, 1165
John. 1446
John, Sergt, 1446
Louisa J., 1449
Nathaniel, Lieut, 1449
Rufus E., Rev. 1450
Samuel M., Rev., 1447
Stephen, Col., 1447
Stephen, Bns.. 1446
Endicott Ancestry, 133, 1162, 1333,
1657
Aaron. 165 7
Alice T., 1655
Augustus B., 1163
Charles, 1164
Charles, Capt, 1657
Elijah, 1163
Gilbert, 1162
Henrv, 141
Henry, 1164
James, 1163
John, 134
John, 1333
John, Gov.. 133
Joseph, 1657
Mary E., 139
Robert R., 140
Samuel, 1334
Samuel, Capt, 137
William, 138
William, Jr., 139
Zerubbabel, Dr,, 136
Ensign, Dwight W., 255
Estes Ancestry, 1388, 1513
Clarence W., 1515
Isaac H., 1516
Robert, 1388
Robert, 1513
William, 1388
William, 1514
Evans Ancestry, 2155
David W„ 2166
John, 2155
William P., 2155
Everett Ancestry, 605
Ebenezer, Capt, 606
George, 607
Richard, 605
Richard B., 607
Willard, Dea., 606
Fairbanks Ancestry, 1022
Abbie L., 1026
Abner, 1024
George W., 1025
Joel, 1025
Jonathan. 1022
Fales Ancestry, 408, 650, 807
Aaron C, 649
Ambrose, 408
Clara A., 649
Eliphalet, Capt, 650
Eliphalet N, 651
Frank A., 651
Henry E., 649
Henry N., 651
Ira, 408
James, 408
James, 650
James, 807
Stephen, 808
William, 808
Faneuil Ancestrv, 108
Peter, 108
Parley Ancestrv. 350
George E., 362
Jabez, Adjt,, 361
Michael, 350

BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

2i8y

IVlichael, Gen,, 361
Nathaniel R.. -352
Tarn.sworth Ancestry, 398, 467
.\aron. 468
--\mos, 398
Edward M., 399
James D., Rev., 399
Jeremiah H., 468
Matthias. 467
Sylvester P., 468
Vincent, 399
Farrar Ancestry, 113
George, 113
John B., 114
John, Maj., 114
Kimball, 114
Sarah E., 115
Farrington Ancestry, 160 9
Annah M., 1610
Charles W., 1610
Edmund, 1609
George P., Dr., 1608
Susan B., Mrs., 1608
William, 1610
Faxon Ancestry, 1939
Blisha, 1940
Oren, 1941
Thomas, 1939
Felch Ancestrv, 1284
Daniel, Dr., 1284
Henry, 1284
John, 1285
John T., 1285
Pelt Ancestry, 306, 1087
Artemas, 1088
George, 306
George, 1087
George R., 307
George R,, 308
John, Capt, 307
John, Lieut., 307
Fenno Ancestry, 379, 1679
Charles P., 1682
Dana G, (Grafton), 380
Edward A., 1682
John, 1680
John, Dea., 1681
John W., 379
Joseph, 379
Joseph, 1681
Minot D., 1682
Ferrin Ancestry, 945
James, 946
Jonathan, 945
Moses, 946
Field Ancestry, 196, 1728
Bohan P., 1730
Bohan P., 1731
George P., 1731
Jeremiah S., 198
John, 198
John, Rev,, 197
Samuel, Sergt., 1729
William, 198
Zachariah, 1729
Fielden Ancestry, 1279
Andrew H., 1280
Joshua, 1279
Samuel J., 1280
Fisher Ancestry, 165, 256, 840
Anthony, 256
Anthony, 840
Charles E., 718
Daniel, Capt, 165
BraUy C, 842
Frederick L., 842
George, 257
Jabez, 256
Joshua, 166
William C, 842
Fishlock. Herbert W., 1748
Fiske Ancestry, 1587
Francis, 1588
Henry P., 1588
Samuel, Dea., 1588
Symond, Lord, 1587
Fitts Ancestry, 464
John, 464
Joseph, 46 6
Mary F., 467
Flanders Ancestry, 1761
Anna D,, 1762
Frank B.. M. D., 1762

Stephen, 1761
Walker, 1761
Flint Ancestry, 266
George, Sergt, 267
Thomas, 266
Thomas, Capt., 267
Floyd Ancestry, 2073
David, 2076
David, 2079
David A., 2077
David, Dea., 2070
Edward, 2079
Hugh, 2075
Hugh, Ensign, 2074
Hugh, Jr., 2075
John, Capt,, 2074
Nelson, 2078
Sumner, 2080
Thomas, 2078
Thomas, 2078
Fogg Ancestry, 1036
Ebenezer K., 1037
Francena S.. 1038
Jeremiah. 1037
Samuel, 1036
Folger Ancestry, 1497
Barzillai, Capt, 1498
Barzillai, Gen., 1498
Benjamin P., 1498
David J., 1498
John, 1497
Peter, 1497
Follansbee Ancestry, 2134
Alice C 2136
Benjamin, 2136
Benjamin A., 2135
Thomas, 2135
Folsom Ancestry, 1555
Enhraim, Maj., 1556
John, 1555
Louis M., 1567
Lucretia C, 1557
Roger, 1555
Foote Family, 149
Forbes Ancestrj', 217
John, 218
John P., Rev., 218
Tjaban P.. 218 '
Roger S., Rev.. 218
Forbush Ancestry, 1625
Daniel, 1625
Samuel, 1625
Samuel, Capt,, 1625
Samuel, Capt, 1625
Foster Ancestry, 628, 720, 782, 927,
1776, 2021
Abbie L., 784
Abiel, 2021
Allen, 1455
Asa, Capt, 2022
Charles, Dea.. 1454
Daniel, 783
Ephraim, 1455
Henrv P. W., 1776
Horace K., M. D. 929, 1455
Jacob F., Dea., 1461
John, Corp., 720
John P., 1454
John H., 1777
John, Hon., 721
John, Maj., 721
John O.. Capt, 1776
John P_, 929
John P., 1454
Jonathan, Capt, 929
Jonathan, Col,, 928
Jonathan, Col., 1453
Joseph, 628
Joseph, Dea,, 1452
Reginald, 782
Reginald, 928
Samuel, 1776
Sarah P., 1454
Stephen, 722
Thomas, 783
Thomas, Capt, 783
Timothy, Capt,, 721
William, 1453
-wrilliam, 2022
William, A., 1452
William A., Dr., 1453
Foster Familv, 1721
Ezra T„ 1721

Jacob, Dea., 1721
Joseph, Dea., 1721
Fowle Ancestry, 270
George, 27U
James, Capt, 271
Pox Ancestry, 1002
Charles K., 1003
Charles L., 1003
John, 1003
Thomas, 1002
France, John, 2180
Frazier Ancestrv, 999, 1991
Frederick A,, 1000
Gtorge, 999
Hugh, 1992
Hugh, Jr., 1992
Isaac, Capt, 999
Isaac, Jr., Capt, 999
Louisiana, 1992
Lyman B., 1992
Maria B., Mrs., 1992
Freeman Ancestry, 848
George T., 1136
James, 849
James E., 850
John D.. 1136
Paulina, 850
Samuel, 848
French Ancestry, 280, 1250, 1278
Alfred J., Dr., 282
Charles, 1250
Ebenezer C. 282
Edward, 1279
John, 1250
John, 1279
Samuel, 1250
Samuel C, 1261
Sarah A., 2 S3
William, 280
William, Sergt,, 281
Fi-othingham Ancestry, 919
Edward G., 951
Edward G., 952
William, 949
Fry, Charles C, Brig.-Gen., 1901
Frye Ancestry, 194, 1055
Daniel P., Dr,, 1056
Ebenezer, 1055
Herman, 195
James, Capt., 196
James, Col., 196
John, 194
Newton P., 195
Peter J„ 1056
Fuller Ancestry, 1766
Charles S., 1768
Edward, 1766
John, Dr., 1767
John, Lieut, 1767
Mary C, Mrs,, 1768
Matthew, Capt,, 1766
Nathaniel, Capt, 1767
Sylvester B., 1767
Furness Ancestrv, 956
David, 986
Thomas, 986
Gage Ancestry, 798
Benjamin, 799
P. H., Mrs., 228
John, 798
Joseph B., 799
Gale Ancestry, 1505
Bezaleel, 1505
Edmund, 1505
Eli, Capt., 1505
Jacob, 1505
Gardiner Ancestry, 1213
James T., 1214
John, 1213
Harry K,, 1215
Thomas W., 1214
Gardner Ancestry, 829
Abel, Lieut, 830
Edson P., 834
Prank A., Dr., 833
Lucy M., 833
Stephen W„ 832
Thomas, 830
Thomas N„ 832
Garfield Ancestry, 993
Daniel, 994
Edward, 993

2190

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

iWose.s B.. ^i>i
Moses H, 994
(jjai-land Ancestry, 936
George P., 939
Jonathan, Dea., 938
Joseph, 939
Joseph E., Dr., 940
Peter, 936
Roy, Dr., 941
Gates, Hannah M., 1604
Gay Ancestry, 1620
John, 1620
Mary M., Mrs,, 1620
Walter C, 1620
William, 1620
George Ancestry, 2008
Gideon, 2008
Josiah, 2008
Josiah, 2009
Lewis B,, 975
Willis W„ 976
Gerry, Elbridge, 47
Gibson Ancestry, 2005
Abraham, 2007
Abraham, Lieut, 2007
John, 2005
John, 2008
Gilbert Ancestry, 1342
Humphrey, 1342
John, Dea., 1342
John, L. 1344
Moses, 1343
Gilchrist Ancestry, 193
Erastus, 194
Samuel, 193
Samuel, 194
Gile Ancestry, 438
Erastus, 440
John, Maj., 439
Samuel, 439
Sarah M., 440
Gleason Ancestry, 877, 1759
Frederick B., 1760
Isaac, Capt., 878
Josiah B., 1760
Kimball C. 878
Mary H., Mrs.. 1760
Thomas, 877
WUliam, 1769
<Uover Ancestry, 1203
John, 1203
John, Gen,, 1204
Jonathan, 1204
Goggin, Edward, 2086
Goldthwait Ancestry, 417, 1803
Eben, 418
Ebenezer, 418
Ezekiel, 1803
John, 1804
Moses, 1804
Nathaniel, 417
, Nathaniel, 417
Gold-' 'waite Ancestry, 410, 415
Ebenezer, 412
Ezekiel, 415
Moses, 415
Samuel, 411
Thomas, 410
William H., 412
Goodell Ancestry, 1636
Abner C, 1637
Abner C. Jr., 1637
Robert, 1636
Zina, 1637
Zlna, 1637
Coodhue Ancestry, 918, 1669
Abel, 918
Abner, 1670
George C, 1670
Joseph, 1669
Mary E., Mrs., 1670
William, Capt, 918
Goodrich Ancestry, 691
Annie E., 694
Daniel, 693
John, 693
John, Col.. 693
Massena, Rev., 693
William, 692
Goodridge Ancestry, 1778
Bailey, 1779
Georgianna F. Mrs., 1780
Micajah N, 1779
William, 1778

Goodwin Ancestry, 1234. 1611
Anson, 1613
Charles, 1236
Charles C„ 1614
Charles H., 1235
Christopher, 1234
George C, 1614
Henry A., 1236
Hooper R„ 1235
Ozias, 1611
Gorham Ancestry, 586
John, Capt, 586
John, Col., 586
John, Col., 587
Shubael, Col., 586
Goss Ancestry, 1264
Edward, 1254
George E., 1266
George S., 1255
Michael R., 1255
Gott Ancestry, 866
Ada K„ 870
Addison, 870
Charles, 866
John, 870
Samuel, 869
Gove Ancestry, 152, 1384
John, 152
John, 1384
John, 1384
John R., Capt, 154
Levi, 1385
Robert, 154
William H., 1386
Gould Ancestry, 166, 773
John, 168
John, Capt, 167
John, Ensign, 167
Mary E.. 16S
Samuel. 167
Solomon, 775
Solomon, 775
Solomon. Ensign, 168
Thomas, 166
Thomas, 773
Graham Ancestry, 2062
Andrew, 2062
Elizabeth G., 2064
James, 2063
John G., 2064
Graves Ancestry, 730, 1363
Isaiah, 731
Nathaniel, 1363
Nathaniel, 1363
Samuel, 730
Samuel, 731
Thomas, 1363
Green Ancestry, 974
Israel, 974
John, 974
Greenleaf Ancestry, 638
Caleb, 639
Edmund, 638
Timothy, 639
Greenwood, John, 1297
Gregg Ancestry, 2124
Alexander, 2126
Annie J., 2127
George H., 2126
James, Capt, 2125
Samuel, Maj., 2126
Waller H,, 2127
Gregory Ancestry, 1854. 1856
Edgar, 1856
James J. H., 1855
John H., 1856
Joseph, 1854
Joseph, 1856
Joseph, 1867
Griffin Ancestry, 509, 511, 1666
Amos H., 511
Anson L., 512
Arthur E,, 1668
Benjamin K,, 511
Enoch H,, 510
Humphrey, 1666
Joseph, Sergt., 510
Lawren A., 613
Matthew, 509
Richard, 509
Sidnev E., 1668
Sidney H., 1667
Thomas, 1667

Grimes Ancestry, 600
James P., 601
Loring, 602
Grover Ancestry, 402
Annie M., Mrs.. 403
Charles S., 403
James J., 403
John M., 402
Guilford Ancestry, 1101
Prank C, 1103
Samuel, 1102
Samuel A., 1102
Guptill Ancestry, 857
Hervev B., 858
Isaiah, 867
Stillman, 867
Hacker Ancestry, 1958
Catherine B., 1960
Sarah H., 1961
W. Alfred, 1960
Hadley Ancestry, 894
Edward L., Mrs,, 1844
George H., 896
William P., 894
Hale Ancestry, 422
Ezekiel, 422
Ezekiel, 422
Ezekiel J. M., 216, 422
Hall Ancestrv, 1015, 1141, 1218,
1886
Alfred S., 1017
Atherton, 1888
Charles H„ 1218
Edward, 1888
Enoch, 1142
George E., 1888
Hatevil, 1142
John, 1015
John, 1141
John, 1886
John, Dea., 1887
Joseph, Dea.. 1887
Richard. 1218
Sarah B., 1219
Seth, 1218
Stephen, 1016
Stephen A,, 1017
Stephen, Lieut, 1016
W^illiam, 1016
Ham Ancestry, 1059, 1647, 1571
Caroline H., 1550
Ellas, 1548
Ellas, 1551
George, 1572
George, 1573
George, ,Ir„ 1572
Gilman A.. 1060
John, 1059
William, 1060
William, 1547
William, 1548
William W., 1061
William. 1571
Woodbury A., 1549
Hamlin, William, 1169
Hammond Ancestry, 188
David, 190
David I., 190
Thomas, Lieut, 189
William, 188
Hanson Ancestry, 2040
Job v., 2041
Moses, 2041
Thomas, 2041
Hapgood Ancestry, 432
David, 434
Shadrach, "432
Thomas, 432
Harding Ancestry. 1921
Jedediah, 1922
Martha, 1921
Nathaniel, 1922
Hardy Ancestrv, 295, 889, 890
Cyrus W.. 300
David, 890
George W., 890
Henry P., 299
Isaac W.. 299
John. 295
John K.. 298
John L.. 300
Lewis T.. 891
Martha E., 299
Nahum, 296

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

2191

Samuel, 890
Thomas, 889
William, 891
Harlow Ancestry, 549
James, Capt, 549
Philander C, 550
-William H., 550
Harnden Ancestry, 679
Benjamin, Lieut, 679
George W., 680
Jesse, 680
Lottie A„ 680
Harrington Ancestry, 1164, 1423,
1943
Clara W., 1428
Daniel, 1164
Daniel, 1426
Ell«n L., 1946
George L., 1428
Henry, 1945
Jonas B., 1946
Larkin, 1427
Leonard, 11'64
Leonard, 1945
Leonard B., 1944
Luther, 1166
Luther T., 1165
Lydia F., 1946
Nathaniel, 1427
Richard D., 1946
Robert, 1425
Robert, 1943
Robert, Ensign, 1425
Harris Ancestry, 1837
Aiberton, 1839
Franklin E., 1839
Lyman, 1838
Simeon L., 1838
Thomas, 1837
Hart Ancestry, 610
Ann, 610
John D., 610
Malachi, 610
Haskell Ancestry, 677, 1672
Edward H., 677
Mark, 1672
Thomas, Capt, 1673
Thomas C, 1673
Haskins Ancestry, 1146
Edward, 1147
Frederic C. 1148
Isaac H., Col,, 1146
Lemuel, 1146
Maria B., Mrs., 1148
WiUiam, 1146
William, 1147
, William C, 1148
Hastings Ancestry, 276, 1507
Augusta A.. 1509
Charles, 1608
Charles H., 1509
Francis, 278
Francis H, 279
Francis W., 279
Hastings & Sons Pub. Co., 1509
Horace N., 1608
Jonas, 278
Josiah, Capt., 277
Thomas, 1507
Thomas, Dea., 276
Wilraot R,, 1509
Hatch Ancestry, 2034
Charles F., 2035
Lemuel B.. 2035
Thomas C. 2035
William. Elder, 2034
Hathaway Ancestry, 310
John, 310
John. 310
Hawkes Ancestry, 287
Adam, 287
Nathan D.. 287
Nathan M.. 287
Hawks Ancestry, 367
Adam, 357
David, 357
Esther H., Dr.. 369
John M., M. D., 358
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 37
Haves Ancestry, 496, 1018
' Charles H., 498
Edward P., 1018
George, H, W.. 2158
George S.. 497

John, 496
John, 1018
John, 2157
John W., 2170
John W. A., 2170
Luther, 497
Hayward Ancestry, 647, 2029
Amariah, 649
George B., 2030
Jacob, 648
Linus, Capt, 2030
Samuel W., 649
Thomas, 2029
Thomas, Dea., 2030
Walter B., 2030
William, 647
Heath Ancestry, 1923
Bartholomew, 1923
Daniel, 1924
Dorset, 1924
William W., 1924
Herlihy, Thomas, 2157
Hersey Ancestry, 820
Caleb, 822
Caleb W., 822
Mary S., 822
William, 820
Hichborn Ancestry, 771
David, 771
Philip, 772
Philip, Adm., 772
Robert, 772
Hickok Ancestry, 1591
Gideon, 1592
Gilman C, 1592
Samuel, Capt, 1591
William, 1591
Higbee Ancestry, 1693
Charles, 1693
Charles, 1694
Lemuel, 1694
Hill Ancestry, 1247. 1658, 1749
1849, 1903, 2089
Abner, 1904
Amos, 1903
Charles B., 1760
Daniel, 1750
Don G., 1248
Edwin L„ 1904
George, 1248
Hugh, Capt, 1849
James, 1849
James, Gen., 1749
John, 1749
John B., 1849
John F„ 1850
John Q. A.. 2089
Joseph. 1903
Joseph, 2089
Joshua P., 2089
Nathaniel R., 1750
Samuel, 1247
Samuel, Lieut, 1247
William, 1658
William A., Capt, 1658
Hills Ancestry, 905
Albert P.. 908, 2182
Albert S.. 907, 2182
Joseph, 905
Hilton Ancestry, 1813
Andrew, 1818
Edward, 1813
James M.. 1819
Richard, 1815
William, 1814
Winthrop. 1816
Hinds Ancestry, 2123
Calvin, 2124
Howard, 2124
,Tames, 2123
William A.. 2124
Hoag Ancestry, 1360
Benjamin, 1351
John. 1360
Joseph, 1361
Joseph H.. 1352
Hobson Ancestry, 215, 1301
Henry, 1301
,Tebez. 1302
John L., 216
Joseph, 1302
Nathan, 216
-U'illiam. 215

William, 1301
William P„ 216
Hogan Ancestry, 2169
George, 2169
George B., 2160
John P., 2159
Patrick, 2159
Holder Ancestry, 1823
Christopher, 1824
Harriet B., 1827
John, Capt, 1824
Nscthaniel, 1826
Thomas, 1825
Holland Ancestry, 2146
Jeremiah, 2146
John, 2146
Philip J., 2146
Holmes Ancestry, 97
Abiel, Rev., 97
Joseph, 1294
Oliver W„ 97
Oliver W., 100
Holt, James, 2162
John, 2162
Holyoke, Edward A.. 32
Hood Ancestry, 1706
Abner, 1707
(Benjamin, 1707
George, 1708
Richard, 1707
Homans Ancestry, 1511
Edward, 1511
Francis W., 1512
William, 1512
William A., 1512
Hopkinson Ancestry, 572
Micheal, 572
Paul, 573
Samuel, Ensign, 573
Samuel 'W., 573
Horne Ancestry, 1245
Converse P., 1246
Robert, 1245
Samuel, 1245
William, 1245
Horsford Ancestrv, 258
Cornelia, 261
Daniel, Capt, 259
Eben N, Prot, 260
Jerediah, 260
Katharine, 261, 2182
William, 259
Houghton Family, 150
Howe Ancestry, 476
Abraham, 476
Elijah, Jr., 477
Julia A., Mrs., 478
Oliver H., Dr., 478
Howland Ancestry, 1859
Charles A„ 1862
John, 1869
Southworth, 1861
Southworth A.. 1862 ^j,-
Hoxie Ancestry, 1029
Joseph, 1030
Joseph, 1030
Lodowick, 1029
Hoyt Ancestrv, 389
Joel W., 391
John. 389
Samuel. 391
Hume Ancestry. 1646
Alexander, 1646
George, 1650
James, 1650
Patrick, 1649
Patrick, Sir, 1646
Humphrey Ancestry, 1272, 2064,
2066
-Vmos, 2066
Bennett B., 1274
George H., 2066
George W., 2066
George W,, 206(6
Henry D., 2066
Herbert, 2067
John, 1274
John, 2064
Jonas, 1272
Jonas, Dea., 1273
, Richard, 2067
Richard, Capt, 2067
Samuel, 1274

2192

BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

Hunking Ancestry, 1183
Caleb D., 1184
Charles D., Dr., 1184
John, 1183
Thomas, 1184
Hunkins Ancestry, 1185
Frank G,, 1186
.Maynard, 1186
Robert, 1185
Hunt Ancestry, 479
Ezekiel, 479
Oliver, 479
Oliver, 481
William, 479
Hunting Ancestry, 1389
Israel, 1389
John, 1389
Julia M., 1391
Nathaniel S., Dr., 1391
Sylvan S., Rev,, 1390
Huntting Ancestry, 1397
Benjamin, 1397
Gilbert C„ 1397
Nathaniel, Rev., 1397
Samuel, 1397
Huntington Ancestry, 109, 708
Benjamin, 110
Enoch, 709
Jacob, 110
Jacob R., 709
Simon, 109
Simon, 708
Huse Ancestry, 2046
Abel, 2046
Angeline, Mrs., 2047
Daniel, 2047
Nathan, Dr„ 2047
Timothy, 2047
Hutchinson Ancestry, 325, 1439,
' 1904
Abijah, 327
Barnard, 325
Barnard, 1439
Benjamin, 1440
Daniel P., 1442
Daniel P., 1444
James A., 1906
Merrill, 1442
Nathaniel C, 1904
Osgood, 1441
Richard, 326
Richard, 1440
Robert, 327
Samuel C„ 1905
W. I-Toward, 1905
William H., 1905
Hyde Ancestry, 1056
Blisha G, 1057
Samuel, Rev., 1056
William L., 1057
Ingalls Ancestry, 1918
Amos, 1919
Edmund, 1919
Henry, 1919
Ingraham, Geo. H.. 1525, 2182
Irwin Ancestry, 1741, 2060
John, 1742
John, 2061
John, 2061
Robert G., 1743
Samuel G., Capt, 1743
Ivers Ancestry, 1717
Gregory, 1717
Samuel, 1718
William, 1717
William H., 1718
Ives Ancestry, 1947
Benjamin, Capt. 1948
Stephen B., 1949
Thomas, 1948
William, Capt, 1948
Jacobs Ancestry, 957
Andrew N., 959
Benjamin, Capt, 959
Joseph, 959
Jaciues Ancestry, 1836
Addison B., 1836
Eliphalet, Master, 1836
Parker, 1836
Jelly Ancestry, 1610
William, 1610
William, 1610

Jenkins Ancestry, 558
Albert H, 559
.\lfred A., 559
Samuel, 558
Jenks Ancestr^-, 728
Darius B., 730
David, 730
Joseph, 728
Louisa J., 730
Nathaniel, Capt,, 729
Stephen, Capt, 729
Jenness Ancestry, 384
Ella A., 385
William W., 384
Jepson Ancestry, 1181
Eli, 1182
Herbert O.. 1182
Mary E., 1183
William, 1181
Jewett Ancestrv. 349, 941
Ed-v\'ard, 349
Henry C, 943
James, 350
Joseph, 941
Moses, Capt, 942
Samuel, 350
Sewall P., 943
Johnson Ancestry, 268. 747, 896,
972, 1277, 2090, 2118
Anna L., 269
Benjamin B., 2120
Edmund, 747
Edward, Capt, 1278
Edwin H., 2120
Eleazer, Capt, 1278
Eleazer A., 1278
Enoch, 268
Enoch S., 268
Hiram L., 896
Irving, 2000
James, 972
John, 896
Jonathan, 972
Jonathan Jr., 972
Jonathan S., 749
Joseph, 973
Joseph, Jr., 974
Lizzie B., 2121
Maurice, 1277
Nicholas C, 896
Otis. 268
Otis S., 270
Richard. 268
Richard, 2119
Richard, Dea,, 2119
Samuel, 972
Samuel A., 2090
Samuel, Capt, 268
Samuel, Lieut, 2119
Thomas C, IMrs., 1203
Warren, 748
William, 1277
William, 2059
Joint Lavinia, 724
William, 724
Jones Ancestry, 1430
Oliver O., 1430
Oliver O., Capt, 1431
Robert, 1430
Jordan Ancestry, 665, 1346
Charles, 1346 '
Dominieus. 667
James. 1346
John, 1346
Rishworth, Maj., 668
Robert, Rev., 665
William K., 669
Joslin Ancestry, 291
George C, 294
Thomas, 291
Joslyn Ancestry, 291
Elias, 293
John, 292
Ka>' Ancestry, 1214
Cyrus, 1214
T-Teating, John J., 2163
Thomas. 2162
Kelsey Ancestry, 1704
James, 1705
James H, 1705
John. 1705
William, 1704

Kempton Ancestry, 710
Amos, 712
Ephraim, 710
Eugene J., 713
Judson, 712
Kendall Ancestry, 171, 301, 308
Francis, 172
Francis, 301
Francis, 309
Francis E., 304
' Francis P., 309
Jacob, 308
John, Capt, 172
John W. S., 304
Lucius H., 303
Melissa, 303
Ozi, 172
Kenison Ancestry, 734, 1675
Jeremiah, 1676
* John, 1675
Joseph, 1676
Orrin "W., 734
Stephen J., 734
Keniston, Henry, 1676
Kennard. Harrv D., M. D., 266
Jennie M„ 266
ICent Ancestry, 1682
Abel W., 1684
Edward P.. 1685
Frank P., 1684
John, 1682
Kimball Ancestry, 425, 1189, 1317,
1320, 1322, 1324
Alfred, 1191
Alfred, 1319
Alfred R., 1318
Andrew, 1324
Benjamin, 1317
Caleb, 1189
Charles H., 1324
Charles H., 1322
Charlotte C. 427
Daniel B., 427
Edward A., 1324
Eleanor H.. 428
Hiram, 1324
,Tames W., 1191
Jeremiah, 1189
Joel, 1321
Joel. 1322
John, 1318
John, 1322
Josiah, 1190
Nathaniel S., 1323
Richard, 426
Richard, 1320
Robert, 1292
Robert, 1323
Robert S.. 1323
Rufus, 1190
Warren, 1319
Kittredge Ancestrv. 791, 1258
Charles, 1261
Charles P., 1262
Charles P.. 1261
Fred A.. 1262
John, 791
.John, 1258
John, Dr., 792
John, Dr., 1259
Joseph, Dr., 793
Joseph, Dr., 793
Sarah, 793
Stephen, Dr., 1260
Thomas, Dr., 792
I-Cnowles Ancestry, 2038 2109
David, 2109
David B., 2109
Loel, 2039
Loel L., 2039
Raymond L., 2039
Richard, 2038
Knowlton Ancestry, 1965
Benjamin, 1965
Ernest J., 1965
William, Capt, 1965
Lambert Ancestry, 1109
Horace P.. lill
John, Capt., 1110
Jonathan P., im
Porter R., 1111
Thomas, 1110
Lamprey Ancestry, 662
Alfred A., 664

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

2193

Henry, 663
Matilda A., Mrs., 664
•-¦ane Ancestry, 2067
Josiah, Lieut, 2068
Leavitt Capt, 206S
Peter, Capt, 2069
Seth Cushing, 2069
William, 2067
Lang Ancestry, 1309
Alfred, 1310
Henry, 1310
John, 1309
William A., 1311
Langmaid Ancestry, 1950
Ella W., 1952
Prank A,, 1953
John H., 1952
John P„ 1951
Thomas, 1951
William, 1950
LE,rcom Ancestry, 1655, 1671
Andrew, 165 6
Andrew, 1672
Cornelius, 1672
David, 1655
John, 1672
John H., 1672
Mordecai, 1655
Rufus, Dea., 1656
Lawrence Ancestry, 1745
George, 1745
Jacob, 1746
John, 1745
Phineas, 1746
Phineas, Dea., 1746
Leach Ancestry, 364
Benjamin, (iapt, 366
Benjamin, Capt, 367
Henry C, Hon., 367
Henry R., 368
La-wrence, 365
Osborne, 368
Leadbetter Ancestry, 1510
Henry, 1510
Isaac S., 1510
James, 1510
Learned Ancestry, 996
Abby A., 999
Benoni, Dea., 997
Charles A.. 999
David, .998 -
William, 996
William N, 998
Leavitt Ancestry, 1301
Joseph, 1301
Thomas, 1301
LeFavor Ancestry, 982
David D., 984
Phillip, 983
Thomas, 983
Thomas, 984
Lefebvre, Jean B.. 2142
Leonard, Daniel, Rev., 2157
John, 2157
Owen, 2087
Lewis Ancestry, 544
Aaron, Dea., 645
Rodney, 545
Stephen S., 546
Williarn, 544
, Lindsay Ancestry, 1840
Alexander, 1843
John, 1840
John A„ 1843
William, 1842
Lindsey Ancestry, 1578
Benjamin, 1679
Benjamin J., 1580
Christopher, 1578
,Ioseph, Capt, 1579
Nathaniel, Capt,, 1578
Nathaniel, Capt, Jr., 1679
Litchfield Ancestry, 1933
Daniel, Capt, 1933
Daniel, Capt, 1934
Blwood M., 1934
Israel, Dea., 1934
Lawrence, 1933
Milton, 1934
Sumner, 1934
Littlefield Ancestry, 833, 1844
Abraham, Capt., 1845
Edmund, 1844
Edson L., 834
Horace. 1845

James, Capt, 1845
John, 833
William B., 1845
T,jloyd Ancestry, 2139
John, 2139
William, 2140
William E., Capt,, 2140
Locke Ancestry, 757, 1282
Alpheus C, 1283
David, 1283
Edward, 1282
John, 767
Jonathan Jr., 757
Nathaniel C, 1283
Longfellow Ancestry, 92
Charles A.. 94
Henry W„ 93
Samuel, Rev., 93
Stephen, 93
William, 92
Lord Ancestry, 147, 908, 921
Alice M., Mrs., 1170
Asa, 922
Cyrus W., 1170
Daniel B., 148
Ezra W., 909
Nathaniel, 921
Philip, Lieut, 148
Robert 147
Robert, 908
Thomas H., 922
Walter E., 909
T-joring Ancestry, 211, 285
Arthur G., 286
Jonathan, 213
Judah, Dea., 286
Matthew, 214
Mercy B., 214
Thomas, 212
Thomas, Dea., 285
Lothrop Ancestry, 741
Isaac, 742
-ulewellyn D., 743
Mark, 741
Loud Ancestry, 1703
Solomon, 1703
Lovejoy Ancestry, 1349
Albert W., 1349
Alfred W., 1349
Eben F., 1349
John, 1349
Lovett Ancestry, 1242, 1638, 1641
Anne, 1639
Ebenezer, 1642
Ebenezer, Capt. 1642
Francis S., 1243
James A., 1641
John, 1638
Jonathan H., 1640
Jonathan H„ Capt, 1640
Joseph, 1641
Josiah, 1242
Josiah, Capt. 1243
Solon, 1642
William H., 1641
Low Ancestry, 587. 1008. 1926
Caleb. 1009
Caleb, Maj,. 1009
Daniel, 1927
David, Sergt, 1008
John, 588
John, 1926
John, Capt, 587
John, Col., 587
Richard, 1927
Stephen, 1009
Thomas. 1008
T-,owell Ancestry, 96
Charles. 96
James R., 96
Percival, 96
Ludden Ancestry, 1846
Jacob, 1846
John M.. 1846
John S.. 1846
William B.. 1846
Lunl Ancestry, 838
Daniel, 839
Ezra, 839
Ezra, Capt, 838
Henry, 838
IjVle Ancestry. 2164
¦ Daniel, 2164
David, 2165
James, 2165

Lewis P., 2165
Simpson, W. A., 2165
Lyman Ancestry, 725
Benjamin, Lieut,, 726
Jabez, Dr., 727
John, Lieut, 726
Lucy D., 728
Richard, 725
McAllister Family, 273
Isaac, 273
John, 273
Richard, 273
McCollester Ancestry, 272
John Q, A., Dr., 274
Samuel, 273
Silas, 274
Sullivan H„ Rev., 274
McCollom, Alexander, 246
.McDonald Ancestry, 1827
Charles, 1828
Jerome, Capt, 1828
Ronald, 18^27
Mclntyre Ancestry, 1155
Nathaniel, 1155
Philip, 1155
William S., 1165
McKean, Alexander, 895
Alexander Jr. 895
McLain Ancestry, 2160
Alexander, 2161
Charles O., 2161
Martha A.. 2161
McManus Ancestry, 2169
Dennis, 2169
Timothy, 2169
Mackintosh Family, 151
Mann Ancestry, 1461
Ebenezer, 1462
James B.. 1464
James ^Y., 1464
Richard, 1461
Marquand Ancestry, 1533
George, 1534
Henry, 1533
Henry, 1533
Henry G., 1533
Josephine, 1534
T-,emuel C, 1533
Marsh Ancestry, 1493
Ezekiel, Ens., 1493
Ezekiel, Lieut, 1493
John, 1493
Marshall Ancestry, 916, 1178
Edmund, 1178
Hannah C, 920
John, 916
John, 1179
John A., 1179
Joseph, 918
Mary J., Mrs., 917
Moses, 920
Thomas, Dea., 1179
William, 917
William, 917
William, 1492
Martin Ancestry, 1506, 1832
Alice G., 1507
Augustus B.. 1506
Ebenezer, 1833
Newhall, 1506
William, P. M.. 1833
Mason Ancestry, 1585
Isaac W., 1586
Isaac 'W. Jr„ 1586
John, 1586
Jonathan B., Capt, 1586
Matchett Ancestry, 1392
John, 1392
William P., 1392
Maynard Ancestry, 1626
Charles P., 1627
Ebenezer, 1626
.Tohn, 1626
Phineas, 1627
Mayo Ancestry, 766
Andrew, 756
Frederick D., Mrs., 1646
John. Rev., 756
William B., 756
Meader Ancestry, 397
John, 397
Lemuel, 397
Mears Ancestry, 1479
George, 1480

2194

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

John, 1480
Robert, 1479
>;ellinger Ancestry, 2083
John, 2083
.Maria, 2084
Samuel B., 2085
William, 2084
.Merrill Ancestry, 396, 947, 1481,
1777
.Alexander B., 947
Alphonso T„ 1482
Annie, 1778
Charles G. G., 1778
Daniel, 1481
Daniel, Sergt, 395
David J., 1778
Ebenezer S., 1482
Ellas T., 396
Ellen M., Mrs., 948
Henry, Dea.. 1777
Jacob, 947
John, 395
John, 1777
Joseph S., 14S2
Major, 2108
Nathaniel, 395
Nathaniel, 947
Seba S, 2108
.Messenger Ancestry, 1534
Ebenezer, 1535
Henry. 1535
Lawi^ence, 1535
Meserve Ancestry, 1299
Clement 1299
IVlickel Ancestry, 2168
Benjamin M., 2168
Emma, 2168
John, 2168
Orin B., Dr.. 2168
;\Iiller Ancestry, 555, 2154
Benjamin, Gov., 555
Frederick, 2155
Gottfried, 2154
Ichabod, Dea., 655
Isaac R., 556
Louisa, 556
.MiUett Ancestry, 1403
Jonathan, 1405
Joseph R,. 1405
Thomas, 1404
i\lills Ancestry, 994
Henry J., 996
Samuel, 995
Thomas, 994
Thomas C, 995
Mitchell, George, 893
Hannah, 893
Seth, 893
Moddv Ancestry, 328
Enoch, 328
Horace, 329
Horace J., 329
'V illiam. 328
;\lo,-.?e, Arthur S.. 924
Helen B.. 924
Hugh, Capt. 1292
Morrell Ancestry. 1969
John. 1969
Peter, 1969
Peter, 1969
.Morrill Ancestry, 115
Abraham, 115
Edward H.. 117
George H, 117
George IT., Jr., 118
Samuel, 116
Jlorrison Ancestry, 550
Harriet A. W., 552
John, 550
Robert P., 552
Samuel, Dea., 651
Samuel, Lieut, 651
Morse Ancestry, 181, 185. 520,
777, 1231, 1558
Abbie R.. 520, 521
Anthony, 181
Charles P., 184
Curtis G., 1559
Ellen Florence, 521
Ezra, Capt, 1658
George A., 183
George H., 521
John, 183
John, Dea., 777

Joseph, 621
Joseph, 777
Joseph, 1231
Joseph C 1233
Joshua, 185
Josiah, Capt, 521
Nathan T., 778, 2182
Oliver, 1559
Samuel, 520
.Stephen, 1232
Stephen, 1232
Stephen P., 778
Thomas, Dea., 182
Morss Ancestry, 185
Jacob W., 187
Samuel, 186
Morton Ancestry, 1583
Ephraim, Hon., 1583
George, 1683
George W, 1585
Joseph, 1584
William S., Hon.. 1584
.Moses Ancestry, 1084
George W., 1085
John, 1084
Joshua F,, 1086
.Moulton Ancestry. 383, 1152, 1574
Cutting, 383
Daniel, 1153
Daniel, 1575
Daniel B., 1575
Edwin H., 1153
George L., 1153
Joseph, 383
.Martha A., 1575
Thomas, 1574
\^ illiam, 383
William, 1162
Mudge Ancestry, 1267, 1519
Aithur B., Dr., 1268
F.liza A., Mrs.. 1521
Ezra, Hon., 1267
Ezra W., 1268
John, Dea., 1520
John I., 1520
Kate G., M. D., 1268
Orrin B., 1521
Thomas, 1519
Wallace O., 1521
.Munroe Ancestry, 261, 1373, 1516
Charles, 1517
George, 1376
George, Sergt., 1375
Howard M., 1376
John, 1516
John, 1517
.Jonas, Lieut, 1517
Luther S.. 264
Nathan. 1517
William, 262
William, 1374
William C, 264
William P., 265
.Murley. John, 2086
.Murphj- Ancestry. 896
Bartholomew. 2174
James. 2174
John, 896
John W., 897
Patrick J., 896
William A., 2174
Nason, Annie M.. 20')2
Benjamin P., 2042
James, 689
.Vauss Ancestry. 670
Benjamin, 670
Loren B., Capt. 670
Tjoren H. 672
Neal Ancestry. 1965
Elijah, 1966
James, 1966
John, 1966
Peter M., Hon., 1965
William E., 1965
Neale, Abigail. 757
William, 757
William L., 758
Xesmith Ancestry, 1761
James, Dea.. 1761
Jonathan. 1762
Thomas D., 1762
Kevins Ancestry-, 976
David, 977
David, 976

David Jr., Capt, 976
David Jr., 978
Thomas, 976
Xewcomb Ancestry, 799, 924
Andrew, Capt, 799
.\ndrew, Lieut, 800
Belinda B., 801
Francis, 160
Francis, 924
Jesse S., 801
Jesse S., Capt, 801
John Day, 926
Simon, 80i
Thomas, 926
Thomas, Capt, 925
Newhall Ancestry, 271, 1969, 1971,
1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981,
1982, 1983, 1993.
Allen B., 1983
Archelaus, 1983
Asa T., 1975
Benjamin, Capt, 271
Charles, 1982
Charles H, 1974
Daniel, 1977
Daniel, 1985
Elliott, 1977
Emma D,, 1982
Enos, 1971
Francis S., 1993
Franklin B., 1971
Fred W.. 1971
George T., 1993
Harrison, 1980
Henry, 1972
Henry B., 1977
Howard M., 1981
Isaac, 1985
Tsaiah, 272
James S., 1976
John B., 1982
Joseph, 1492
Josiah H„ 1980
Loranus C, 1981
Lucian, 1982
Mary S., 1983
Micajah, 1981
Paul; 1982
Phineas, Col.. 1978
R. Prank, 1984
Rufus S., 1983
Samuel, 1971
Solomon N, 1979
Thomas, 271
Thomas, 1969
Thomas, 1975
Thomas, Lieut, 1978
Thomas B„ 1975
William O,, 1971
-Winthrop, 1972
Newsholme, Alfred, 214 9
Emma, Mrs., 2149
Robert, 2149
Xewton Ancestry, 405
Curtis, 406
Elizabeth, Mrs.. 406
Henry H., 406
Richard, 405
Stephen, 405
William C, Dr.." 406
Nichols Ancestry, 248, 901, 1176,
1428, 1686, 1949
Algernon P., 248
Augusta, 1587
Charles E. O., Rev.. 90 2
Daniel F.. 1950
David, 1176
George, 1176
Ichabod S., 1587
John B., 1176
.Tohn B.. 1429
Jonathan, 1429
Jonathan, 1960
Moses, 902
Moses, 1586
Moses G., 902
Mvron A., 249
Nicholas, 248
Nicholas, Capt, 248
Richard, 1428
Stephen, 1587
Thomas, 901
Thomas, 1949
Trueworthv. 248

BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

2195

107

Norris Ancestry
David, 1074
George S., 107 4
John L., 1075
Joseph, 388
.Moses, 387
Moses, 388
Nicholas, 1073
Norton Ancestry, 485, 1738
Benjamin, 1740
Benjamin John, 1741
,, David, 486
f David T., 487
I, John Benjamin, 1741
9 John H., 1740
:¦, Joseph, 1739
Alary H., Mrs., 487
Simon, 486
Thomas H., 1741
Nourse Ancestry, 1489
Daniel. 1490
Francis, 1489
John W., 1491
Warren, 1491
Noyes Ancestry, 532, 1553
Enoch, 1554
George W„ 534
Horace N., 1555
James, Rev., 532
Raymond, 534
Somerby C, 1554
Somerby N., 1554
William, 1553
William, Rev,, 532
Nutter Ancestry, 385
Hatevil, Elder, 385
William, 386
William, 386
Nutting Ancestry, 608
Bbenezer, 609
John, 608
Joseph, 609
Nye Ancestry, 2036
Benjamin, 2037
Joseph, 2037
Joseph W., 2038
Lave, 2036
Samuel, Dr., 2037
Oakes Ancestry, 230
Edward, 230
Elizabeth, 232
Jonathan, Capt,, 231
Thomas, 230
Uriah, Capt,, 232
Uriah, Dea., 232 "
O'Brien Ancestry, 2177
Michael, 2177
Thomas. 2177
Oliver Ancestry, 822
Daniel, Rev., 823
Henry K.. Gen., 824
Ordway Ancestry, 371
Aaron, Dr., 371
James, 371
Mary B., 372
Stephen, 371
Osborne Ancestry, 368, 1692, 2012
Caleb, 2015
Bllinor L., 1693
George, 2016
Henvv, 371
John, 2012
Jonathan, 1693
Lyman, 2014
Lyman P.. 2014
Richard, 1693
Richard A.. 1693
Samuel, 1692
Stephen, 370
William, 368
William, 371
William, 2012
William S., 1693
Osgood Ancestry, 1357, 1402, 1999
Christopher, 1999
Davis S., 1403
Freeraan D., 1403
John, 1357
John, 1999
John, Capt, 1999
John, Lieut, 1999
John, Lieut, 1358
Joseph B. P.. 1357. 1359
Sarauel, 1403
WiUiam. 1402

-William, Capt, 1359
William H., Capt, 1359
Ostrander, Adelbert, 1661
Albert, 1551
Nancy D., 1651
Oswald, William, 879
Packard Ancestry, 1880, 1931
Abner B., Col., 1931
Elisha, 1881
Elisha, Jr., 1881
Prank C, 1931
Samuel, 1880
Walter M., 1932
Page Ancestry, 560,781,1290,1932
Benjamin, 1933
John, 560
John B., 782
Joseph, 561
Joseph, 782
Nancy M., 782
Nathaniel, 1932
Nathaniel, 1932
Nehemiah, 1290
Thomas, 781
William H., 561
Paige Ancestry. 2000
Daniel, 2000
Daniel, 2001
Eliza, Mrs., 2001, 2182
Moses B., 2001, 2182
Nicholas, 2000
Paine Ancestry, 1298, 1337
Anthony, 1337
Henry, 1339
Henry, 1339
John D„ 1339
Phineas I.. 1300
Richard, 1300
Richard, 1299
Thomas, 1298
Thomas, Sir. 1337
Thomas T., 1338
Thomas W., 1339
Palmer Ancestry, 1450
Asa, Capt., 1451
William, 1450
William H., 1451, 2182
William H. H., 1451, 2182
Parker Ancestry, 158, 443, 1107,
1113, 1246, 1466, 1864
Abraham, l457
Abraham, Lieut, 1459
Albert H., 1108
Benjamin, 168
Bradstreet, 1460
Charles H., 1461
Ebenezer, 1114
Elsie L., 1114
Ebenezer, Dea., 445
Edward H., 1461
George A., 1460
George S., 1461
Hananiah, Lieut, 443
Henry A., 1108
Horace R., 1116
James, 1864
John, Col., 1246
John L., 1116
¦Jonathan, Dea., 1866
Joseph, 1247
Moses, 1113
Nathan, 1246
Oliver, 1865
Thomas, 443
Thomas, 445
Walter B., 446
Warren S., 159
William, 159
William, 1107
William, Hon., 1108
Parran Ancestry, 876
Alexander. 877
Sarah E., 877
Parsons Ancestry, 1211
Aaron, 621
Benjamin, 1212
Bbenezer, 1212
Jonathan, 1212
Theophilus, 23
Thomas, 1213
Winthrop, 621
Partridge Ancestry, 2070
Benoni, 2070
David, 157
Jerusha B., 157

John, Capt. 2070
Preserved, 2071
Patch Ancestry, 219
Cyrus, 220
Frank S., 220
Nicholas, 219
Timothy, 220
Pattillo Ancestrv, 817
Alexander, 819, 820.
James W., Capt,, 819
Paul Ancestry, 697
Ebenezer, 698
Richard, 697
Peabody Ancestry, 474, 930, 1197.
1328, 1331, 1334
Alfred, 1334
Benjamin, 932
Ebenezer, Lieut, 932
Francis, 1334
Francis, Col., 1331
Francis, Dea., 1329
Francis, Lieut,, 931
Frederick 'W., 476
George, Col., 1328
George, Col., 1330
George A., 1331
Henry W.. 1334, 1335
Isaac, 1197
Jacob, 1197
John, 474
John, 1334
John, Capt, 931
John E., 1333
John P., 1198
Joseph, 1329
Moses, Dea,, 1334
Nathan, 1334
Samuel B., 1331
Thomas, Lieut, 932
Walter S., 476
Pearce, Charles H„ 843
Frank C, 843
Pearson Ancestry, 769, 1902
Benjamin C, 770
George H., 1903
James M.. 770
John, 769
John, Capt, 769
John, Dea., 1902
Joseph J., 1902
Peirce Ancestry, 1802
Abraham, 1802
IsEiac N, 1802
-Vi^illiam, 1802
Pendleton Ancestry, 459
Bryan, 459
James, 459
Thomas, Capt, 459
Penniman Ancestry, 487
Annie B., 490
Bun y an, 488
George P., 489
James, 487
John B., 489
Nathan, Dea., 488
Peter, Capt, 488
Sarah E., 490
Perkins Ancestry, 1040, 1191, 1851
Anna P., 1041
Benjamin, 1852
Benjamin F., 1853
Frederick W., 1193
Jacob, Corp., 1040
John, 1040
John, Quartermaster, 1040
John W„ 1193
Joseph, Capt, 1040
Joseph, Capt,, 1041
Josiah, 1876
.Moses B., 1193
Nathaniel B., 1041
Nehemiah, 1192
Robert, 1192
Robert, Capt, 1192
Robert, Capt, 1040
Thomas, 1851
Thomas, Dea.. 1191
Perlev Ancestrv, 1064, 2016
A"llan, 1064
Allan, 2010
Benjamin, Lieut, 2017
Humphrey, 1065
John, 1064
John. Lieut, 2017

2196

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS,

Proctor J,, 2017
Sidney, 1065
Peront Ancestry, 2171
Clement 2171
Cyriacque, 2171
Perry Ancestry, 406
Anthony, 406
John, Capt, 406
John, Dea., 406
William S., 407
William S., 407
Pevear Ancestry, 1540, 2101
Burnham, 1541
Everett S., 2104
George K., 1542
Henry A., 1542
Joseph, 2104
Philip, 1640
Sewell B., 2104
Pew Ancestry, 206
Charles H., 210
Clara Loring, Mrs., 211
John, 209
Thomas, Col., 207
WiUiam, 207
William Jr., 208
William A., 209
William A, Jr., 210
Phelan, James, 2147
Rebecca, 2147
Phelps Ancestry, 887
Caroline A., Mrs., 889
Henry, 887
Henry, 888
William H., 889
Phillips Ancestry, 834, 1200, 1559
Amos, 1560
Augustus O., 1660
Benjamin P., 1203
Bbenezer B., 1200
Esther A., 1660
.Tames, 1200
John, Capt, 836
John G., 1202
.lonathan, 1659
Leonard H., 1202
Nathan C, 837
Nathan D., 836
Nathan H., 836
Sewall A., 1560
Walter, 1559
Pickering Ancestrv, 1581, 1723
George W., 1683
John, 1581
John, 1724
John, Lieut, 1582
Joseph, 1582
Timothy, 21
William, 1582
William, 1723
Pickett, Josiah, 2094
Thomas, 2094
Pierce Ancestry, 1477
Abel, 1479
Anne (Longfellow) Mrs., 95
Charlotte, 1478
James, 1478
Levi, Dr„ 762
Thomas, 1477
William, 1478
William, 1478
William, 1479
Pilling Ancestry, 2051
Eliza E., 2051
Fred A., 2052
John, 2051
John B.. 2052
Pinkham Ancestry, 399. 1386
Daniel, 1387
Isaac, 1387
.Tames, 1386
Richard, 399
Thomas, 400
-Vincent, 400
Pinnock Ancestry, 2133
Thomas, 2133
Thomas G., 2134
Pitcher Ancestry, 664
Frederick, 665
Herbert F., Dr., 665
William. 664
Plaisted Ancestry, 681
Benjamin S., 683
George W., 683

John, 683
Roger, Capt, 681
Plummer Ancestry, 1552
Enoch, 1553
Francis, 1552
Tristram, 1553
William, 1553
Poland Ancestry, 1300
Benjamin, Capt,, 1300
Pond Ancestry, 844
Charles E., 846
Charles T., 845
Daniel, 844
Robert, Capt, 844
Pool Ancestry, 743
Abraham, Dea., 745
Calvin W., 746
John. 744
William, Col.» 745
Poole Ancestry, 1352
Ebenezer C, 1353
John, 1362
Samuel G., 1356
Willard C, 1355
Willard G., 1354
Poor Ancestry, 143, 529, 1090,
1092, 1236, 1238
-Abraham. Lieut., 1236
Albert, 1237
Albert P., 147
Benjamin, 531
Benjamin P., 1093
Benjamin H,, 1093
Benjamih K., 1092
Charles A., 1091
Daniel, 143
Elmer M., 147
George A., 146
James, 1091
James, 1237
James C. 1237
John, 529
John, 1090
John, 1092
John McC, 631
Jonathan, Capt, 1092
Joseph, 144
Joseph, 1237
Joseph W., 1238
Nathan H., 145
Nathan H„ 146
Sarah E., 532
Thomas, 1236
William, 1238
William G., Rev., 1238
Poore Ancestry, 892
Daniel, 892
Gates M., 892
Samuel, 892
Pope Ancestry, 108. 1754
Eleazer, 109, 2182
Jasper P., 1755
Jasper R., 1756
Joseph, 108
Joseph, 1754
Miriam, Miss, 1756
Nathaniel, 1755
Porter Ancestry, 1009
Edward H., 1011
John, 1009
Joseph C, 1011
Powers Ancestry, 1756
Larned, 1758
Samuel, 1758
Samuel L.. 1758
Walter, 1756
Pratt Ancestry, 1576, 2110
Aaron, 2112
Asa T., 2113
Daniel, Ens., 1576
Henry, 2110
John, 1576
Oliver. 1577
Phinehas, 2110
Phinehas, 2113
Thomas, 2112
Thomas, Ens., 1676
William J.. 1577
Prescott Ancestry, 161
Abram, 162
Eben, 164
Fannie A., 164
Frank P.. 163
George W., 163

James, 161
James, 164
John W., 164
Presson Ancestry, 873
Alfred, 874
David S., 876
John, 873
Leonard J., 874
William, 874
Preston Ancestry, 1673
John, 1673
John, 1674
John, Lieut, 1673
Mary E., Mrs., 1674
Thomas, 1673
Priest Ancestry, 1768
Henry P., 1772
Jacob, Capt, 1769
Jacob, Capt, 1770
John, 1769
John P., 1771
John T., 1772
Prior Ancestry, 1937
George P., 1938
Thomas, 1937
William, 1937
Procter Ancestry, 1710, 1715
Francis, 1713
Francis E., 1712
George, 1710
George H., 1714
John, 1710
John, 1710
Joseph, 1714
Joseph, 1715
Joseph J., 1715
Joseph 0„ 1715
Joseph O., 1717
Robert, 1710
Publicover Ancestry, 112
Jacob, 113
Jacob, 113
Williara A., 113
Pullen Ancestry, 845
. James, 846
Jonathan, 846
Sumner B., 847, 848
Putnam Ancestry, 1229
Charles L., 1231
John, 1229
John, 1230
Marion V.. 1231
Samuel, 1231
Samuel, Dr., 1230
Quincy Ancestry, 592
Edmund,, 692
Edmund, 596
Edmund, Col., 593
Edmund, Judge, 593
Henry P., Dr., 697
Josiah, 694
Josiah, Col., 694
Josiah, Pres., 595
Quinn Ancestry, 2085
Martin, 2085
Mortimer, 2085
Peter, 2085
Raddin Ancestry, 1751
Benjamin B., 1752
Charles, 1762
Joseph A., 1752
Joseph Arthur, 1753
Thaddeus, 1751
Rand Ancestry, 641
Alvinza, 642, 2182
Prank N., 643
Robert, 641
Ttawson Ancestry, 376, 1964, 1996
Artemas, 1998
David, 1964
Edward, 376
Edward, Sec, 1996
Elbridge M., 1998
Grindal, Rev., 1997
Josiah, 1964
Liberty, 378
Simon, 378
William, Capt, 378
Ray Ancestry, 1699
Chai-les W., 1600
Fred N., Dr., 1600
Henry S.. Capt. 1 600
William. 1599

BOSTON AND EASTERN AlASSACPIUSETTS.

2197

Tiea Ancestry, 1501
Charles S., 1503
Daniel, 1501
Samuel, Capt, 1502
Samuel G., 1502
Kedman Ancestry, 1863
Benjamin R., 1863
John, 1863
Ralph W„ 1864
Robert, 1863
Reeves Ancestrv, 548
Andrew, 549
Peter, 548
Richard, 548
Remick Ancestry, 1262
Christian, 1262
Enoch M., 1263
Henry, 1262
Jacob, Sergt., 1262
Revere Ancestry, 87
Jean, 87
Paul, Col., 88
Sally, 90
Rhodes, Williara, 924
Ricard, Hubert 1627
Mary M,, 1627
Rice Ancestry, -598, 2003
Edmund, 598
Edraund, Dea.. 2003
Eliakira, 2003
George A., 2003
George E., 600
H. Eugene, 600
Richards Family, 151
Richardson Ancestry, 513, 564,
866, 1120, 1166, 1167
Albert J., 1166
Caleb, 567
Christopher C, 856
Cora M., 1166
Edgar B., 515
Ezekiel, 865
Frederick A., 867
James A., 1166
Jasper, 515
John, 1120
John, Capt, 1167
Jonas, 515
Lewis B., 1121
Lewis W., 1121
Manly, 1166
Phineas, Rev., 1167
Rufus, Capt, b66
Sarauel, 513
Samuel, 564
Samuel P., 1167
Susan R., 1167
Thoraas, 513
Wendell B., 1136
-William, 1166
William P., 568
Richraond Ancestry, 784
Araaziah. Capt, 786
Frederick M., Dr., 787
.Tob, Capt, 786
John, 784
Lauriston A., Dr., 786
Ricker, Eliphalet, 1183
Riggs Ancestry, 793
Andrew, 795
Fitz E., 796
Thoraas, 793
Robinson Ancestry, 191, 672
Abraham, 673
Albert 192
Andrew, Capt, 191
David, 2172
David, 2172
David A,, 2173
David I., 676
James P., Capt, 192
John. 675
Hanse, Maj., 193
Mason, 193
Moses, Capt. 193
.Moses, Dr., 191
Sylvanus, Capt.. 192
Robson, Matthew, 1980
Rogers Ancestry, 352, 587, 775,
1643
Charles M., 777
Charles N., 777
Daniel, 587
Elizabeth, 587

Francis, 2006
Hamilton E., 1646
Henry W., 1645
John, 353
John, 1643
John, Rev., 353
John, Rev., 355
John, Rev,, 587
John, Rev., Dr., 354
Joseph, Lieut, 776
Nathaniel, Rev., 363
Nathaniel, Rev., 356
Thomas, 775
Warren, 1645 '
Uowe Ancestrv, 2091
George B., 2093
John, 2091
John, Lieut, 2092
Stephen K., 2093
William T., 2093
Rowell Ancestry, 1114, 1324, 1537
-Dustin, 1114
Enoch P., 1325
Frederick, 1538
Joseph M., 1325
Philip, 1324
Thomas, 1114
Thomas, 1537
Rudd Ancestrv, 1393
Edward H., Rev., 1396
Edward P., 1395
George R„ Rev., 1395
Jonathan, 1393
Nathaniel, 1395
Nathaniel, Maj., 1395
Zebulon, 1394
Rumford Ancestry, 75
Benjemin T., 75, 76
Russell Ancestry, 1530, 1680
-¦^mos, 1631
Daniel, 1581
George, 1681
Henry, 1580
Herbert H., 1532
John H.. 1632
Marcus M., 1533
William, 1530
William H„ Dr., 1581
Rust, William, 1904
Rutter Ancestry, 2001, 2009
Charles G., Hon., 2005
Edward B., 2004
Frederick P., 2009
Hannah C. R., M. D., 2005
John, 2002
Josiah, 2009
Micah M„ Gen., 2002
Micah M., Maj.. 2003
William P., 2004
Ryder Ancestry. 1668
Blisha D.. 1669
John, Capt. 1668
John, Col., 1668
Jonathan, Capt, 1669
Samuel, Lieut, 1668
R-\-erson Ancestry, 235
Charles, 236
Luke, 236
William, Col., 236
Sampson Ancestry. 1875
Abrahara, 1875
Isaac, 1875 -
Jonathan, 1876
Sanders, David C, Rev. Dr.. 2129
Sanderson Ancestry, 169
Alonzo, 169
Carrie M., 170
Edward, 169
Howard K., 169
Sargent Ancestry. 863. 1206, 1275,
1280, 1499
.\raos, 1501
Bailey, 1277
Benjamin P., 1281
Benjamin P., 1280
Christopher. 1280
Daniel, 1208
Edmund N. 1276
Epes, 1208
Epes, Col., 1207
Fitz Williara, 1209
George W., Dr,, 865
Irving W., 866
John, Capt, 1500

Jonathan A., 1501
Jonathan B., 1276
Paul D., 1208
Porter, 1277
Robert, Capt, 1500
Seneca, Dr., 865
Thomas, 1276
William, 863
William, 1207
William, 1500
Winthrop, 1210
Winthrop, 1211
Winthrop, Dr., 1211
Winthrop, Gen., 1209
Saunders Ancestry, 322, 858
Caleb, Lieut. 862
Charles W., 862
Daniel, 860
Daniel, 862
Edward H.. Capt, 325
George T., 325
James, 860
John, 858
Mary, Widow, 323
Thomas, 324, 325
Thomas, Capt, 32 4
Sa\'ille Ancestry, 127
David, 129
T-jConard A., 130
Thomas, 128
William, 127
Sawyer Ancestry, 617, 1780
Abraham, 619
Charles H., 1783
Howard M., 1782
James, 617
James Jr., 618
Jeremiah, 1781
Lawrence T., 1783
Mary H., 1783
Rachel. 619
Ralph U.. 1784
William, 1780
Schwab, Emil, 1636
Searl Family, 150
Seavey Ancestry, 789, 1233
Clarence H., 791
Enoch, 790
Gilman S.. 1234
Nathaniel, 790
Samuel, 1233
Thomas, 1233
William. 789
Sewall, Levi. 718
Samuel, 718
Shackley Ancestry, 519
Aaron, 520
John. 520
Richard, 519
Shattuck Ancestrv. 118
Charles P., 120
Edmund, 120
Edmund J.. 120
Eraraa L. (Mrs.). 121
Jereraiah, 119
William, 118
Slieldon Ancestrv, 1835
Emily E. (Mrs.), 1836
Isaac, 1835
Joseph H.. 1836
Samuel. 1836
Shepard Ancestry, 701
Edward O., 702. 2182
John, 701
John W., Rev., 702, 2182
Mary C, 703
Sheppard Ancestry, 2039
Eben W.. 2040
Joel P.. 2040
John. 2039
William Tv.. 2040
."Sherman Family, 151
Shirley Ancestry, 556
Dana P., 558
,Tannes, 657
.lames, Capt,, 557
John A., 557
William, Lieut. 557
Shorev Ancestry. 1127
John L.. 1128
Joseph, 1128
Samuel, 1127
Silsby Ancestry, 736
Edward, 737

2198

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

George E., 737
Henry, 736
Silver, Mrs. Geo. A., 632
Sim Ancestry, 948
.\rthur W., 949
Charlotte E.. 949
Charles E., 949
Peter, 948
Peter A., 949
Simonds Ancestry, 263
Caleb, 263
Thomas E.. 1621
William, 263
Skinner Ancestry, 420
Benjamin S., 421
John, 421
Mary E., 422
Thomas, Sergt, 420
Slavin Ancestrv, 2118
Margaret, 2118
William, 2118
Slee Ancestry, 2088
Charles A., Capt, 2088
Sarauel J., 2088
Samuel J., 2088
Sleeper Ancestry, 749
Gilman L., 750
Joseph, 750
Thomas, 749
Smiley Ancestry, 571
John, 671
Julia P., 572
William, 572
Smith Ancestry, 418, 524,
808, 933, 1176, 1311, 212'
Allen, 809
Annie M., 2166
Charles, 677
Christopher, 1177
David, 419
Frederick B., 1313
G. Howard, 1178
George H., 2128
George M., 2128
George S., 117^
Henry, 1311
Henry, 2127
James, 677
James B., 526
Jarvis, 1312
Jarvis E., 1313
Jason, 2128
John, 524
John, 676
John, 1176
John, 1178
John, 2166
John, Capt, 1177
.Fohn M,, 525
Leverett E.. 809
Peter. 524, 525
Robert, 418
Samuel E.. 677
Sylvanus, Capt, 935
Thomas, 808
Thornton A., 419
William, 933, 934
Snow Ancestrv, 187, 1175, 12
Abbott L., 187
George K,, 1244
Heman, 1244
John P., 1175
Mark, 1244
Nathaniel H.. 1175
Nicholas. 187
Prence, Lieut, 1244
Samuel, 1175
Thomas, 187
Walter B.. 1245
Willis, 187
Somerbv Ancestrv, 1013
Abiel, 1014
Anthony, 1014
Daniel, 1014
John, 1014
Ralph, 1013
Spalding Ancestrv, 576
Edward. 577
Isaac. Capt, 578
Josephine M., 579
William R., 578
Sijaulding Ancestrv, 951. 9,9,
Charles P.. 982
naniel. 1156

1156

Edward, 955
Edward, 979
George W., 981
Henry, 1156
John L.. 980, 981
Solomon, Lieut, 980
Stephen, 956
Willard, 1156
Winchester, 956
.Sjiear Ancestry, 1170
Elijah, 1171
George, 1170
Horace, B., 1172
Horace F., 1172
Seth, 1171
Spinney Ancestry, 703
Benjamin, 704
Benjamin P., 704
Thoraas, 703
.Si^offord Ancestry, 311
Daniel, Col., 311
John, 312
John, Capt, 312
Moody, 311
.^Prague Ancestry, 1809
Benjamin, 1811
Edward, 1809
TrTenry B„ 1811
Preserved, 1811
William, Capt, 1810
Slacey Ancestry, 971
Benjamin, 971
Hannah M.. 972
Thomas, 971
Stacv Ancestrv. 362
Eli, 363
George O., 364
Samuel A., 364 '
Simon, 362
Thomas. 362
Slandish Ancestry, 1871
Alexander, 1875
Myles, Capt, 1874
Stanley. Charles R., 2110
Rufus, 2110
Thomas, Capt, 1833
Stanton, Samuel, 1297
Stan-wood Ancestry, 407
David, Sergt. 407
Ebenezer. Lieut, 407
Philip, 407
William, Col.. 407
Starbuck Ancestry. 1622
Alexander. 1624
Edward. 1622
Frederick G., 1623
Nathaniel. 1622
Staten Ancestry, 1566
Charles A., 1667
Daniel P., 1566
Edward, 1566
Henry, 1566
Sarah H. (Mrs.-). 1567
Stearns Ancestrv, 738, 988
Charles. 988
Daniel, 989
George, 989
Isaac, 738
John, Lieut, 7 38
Josiah, 740
.Tosiah. Rev.. 739
Samuel. 740-
Stetson Ancestry, 177
A. Warren, 178
Amos, 178
Dexter, 1708
Helen L., 1708
Robert, 177
Stevens Ancestrv. 413, 881, 1119,
1391, 1807, 1927
.¦Vugustus, 414
Charles C, 1161
Cora A., 883
Ebenezer, 1928
Ebenezer, 1929
Ebenezer, Jr.. 1929
Estella M.. 1161
Frank D. S.. Dr., 1087
George O., 882
James, Capt. 1391, 1807
James. Ensign. 1391
John, 881
John. 1391

John, Capt, 414
John G., 414, 415
Jonathan, 1391
Martin -Van B., 1087
Moses T., Hon., 1808
Nathaniel, 1391
Nathaniel, Capt, 1807
Nathaniel G., 1150
Thomas, Col., 1149
William, 414
William, 1927
Stickney Ancestry, 814, 1720
.Tames, 816
Samuel, Lieut,, 1720
Stephen, 816
William, 815
Williara, 1720
William, Dea., 1720
Stimpson, George, 342
Stocker Ancestry, 1180
Ebenezer, 1180
John, 1181
John M., 1181
Marchal, Capt, 1180
Nancy G., 1181
Sione Ancestrv. 1409, 1685, 1718,
1822, 2130
Aaron. 2132
Andrew C, 2132
Caleb, 1685
Ephraim, 1410
Frank E., Dr., 1823
Gregory, 2130
Isaiah, 1089
Isaiah, 1822
James, 1686
James, 1720
James, 1822
John, 1718
John, 1822
John, Capt, 2132
.loseph, 1410
Joseph M., 1412
.1. H., 1419
Tjydia, Mrs., 1720
Mary H., 2133
Samuel. Dea., 1410
Symond, 1409
William, 1686
Story, Joseph, 30
Stratton Ancestry, 253, 1361
Aaron S., 1362
Amelia M., Mrs.. 1362
Ezra G.. Dr.. 1362
Flavei C, 255
Tra. 254
John, 1361
Samuel, 253
Shubael C. 254
Stephen, 1362
Sumner Ancestry, 1885
Benjamin C. 1886
John W.. 1886
Roger. 1885
Samuel. 1886
Swain. Lucy B., 1985
Wniiam A., 1984
Swan Ancestrv. 220. 210 4
Benjamin P., 2107
Charles, 222
Charles P.. 222
Ebenezer, 2104
Harrison. 2107
Henry, 2105, 2106
John, 221
Swa.'^ey Ancestrv. 603, 1489
Ezra, 1489
Joseph, 603
Joseph. 1489
Otis W.. 604
S. Fannie. 604
-William, 604
Sweeney. Patrick, 2118
Sweetser .\ncestry, 1592
,Tohn A., 1599
Seth, 1593
Seth, Rev.. 1595
Swett Ancestrv, 1652
Jackson B., 1653
.lohn, 1652
Philip C, 1654
William, 1653
William, Capt, 1653

BOSTON AND EASTERN AlASSACPIUSETTS.

2IC

Symonds Ancestry, 1006, 1186,
2030
Benjamin R,, 2031
Jacob P., Capt,, 1187
James, 2030
John, 1006
John, 1187
T^ucy L., 1008
Nathaniel, lOOS
Samuel, 1007
Stillman L„ 1187
Thomas S„ 2031
Walter E., 1188
William P., 2031
Tapley Ancestry, 434, 969, 1753,
2043
Amos, 2045
Amos P,, 2045
G. Arthur, 1753
George A., 1763
Gilbert, 969
Gilbert, 2043
Henn' P., 2046
John, 434
John, 969, 970
John, 1753
John M., 1753
John W., 971
Mansfield, 970
Peletiah, 435
Warren, 970
William S., 436
Tasker Ancestry, 1199
Jeremiah, 1200
William, 1199
William, Capt,, 1200
William O., 1200
Tay Ancestry, 333
Samuel, 336
Samuel B., 337
Samuel, Maj., 336
William, 333
Taylor Ancestry, 504, 1695, 1939
Abigail R. H.. 434
Charles H.. 434
Dorothy. 752
Edraund, 1695
Edmund B., 1939
Eugene S., 1696
Ezra W. B., 506
Harum F., 753
James H., 1696
John I., 434
Levi, 606
Levi, 1695
Matthew, 606
Thoraas, Gen.. 1939
William, 1695
William J., 2168
Tebbetts Ancestry, 1773
James, 1773
Jeremiah H. W.. 1775
Kate P.. Mrs., 1776
Noah, 1773
Tewksbury Ancestry, 471, 1677
Andrew, 1677
Andrew, Jr., 1678
Charles S., 1678
Ensign K., 1679
Henry, 1677
James. 1677
John, 1677
John W., 1678
Joseph, 471
Robert H., 471
Thomas, 471
Thacher Ancestry, 897
Isaiah C, Rev.. 900
John. Hon.. 898
Lydia W., Mrs., 901
Mathews, 899
Thatcher (Thacher) Ancestry,
1941
Peter, Rev,, 1941
Thomas, Rev.. 1941
Tliaver Ancestry, 500
Alfred L, Dr., 1107
Christopher, Dea., 1106
Eliakim, 1687
Elihu, 1107
George, 1107
Ida M., 1107
Jesse, 1687
Otis l^^, 501

Richard, 1686
Thomas, 500
Thomas, 1105
Tyler, 501
Thomas Ancestry, 1871
.\ndrew, Capt, 1872
Anna M., 2179
Charles B., 2179
David, 2179
John, Capt, 1871
John W,, Col., 1873
Thompson Ancestry, 842
Annie C, Mrs,, 843
William P., 842
Tilton Ancestry, 884, 2021
Andrew J., 886
Daniel, Ens., 2021
Daniel L., 2022
David, 2021
George O., 887
John C, 885
John W.. 886
.Toseph B., 2022
Joseph, Capt, 2021
Walter P., 2022
William, 884
William, 2021
Timberlake Ancestry, 1140
Henry, 1140
James, 1141
Tisdale Ancestry, 719
Edward, Capt., 720
Israel, Jr„ 720
Israel, Col., 720
John, 719
Titcomb Ancestry, 1934
Enoch, Hon., 1935
George, 1935
Margaret, 1935
Wniliam, 1934
William, Sergt, 1935
Tobin Ancestry, 2138
Geoffrey, 213?
John, 2138
Tady, 2138
Walter M., 213S
Tolman Ancestry, 986
Florence M., 988
John A„ 988
John B., 988
Sarah P.. 988
Thoraas, 986
Tower Ancestry, 1791
Julia, Mrs., 1794
Jonas, 1792
Oren, 1792
Richard G., 1795
Robert, 1791
William A., 1793
Towne Ancestry, 1194, 1564
Alfred P., 1194
Benjamin, 1194
Benjamin B., 1194
Harriet R., 1194
Jacob, 1194
John, 1665
.Tohn H.. 1195
Samuel, 1565
William, 1564
'I'owns Ancestry, 1198
Caroline P., 1199
Edraund, 1198
George, 1199
John, 1198
Trask Ancestrv, 767
Job, 768
Thomas, 768
William, Capt., 768
Trefry Ancestry, 1867
Henry, 1857
Samuel S., 1859
Thomas, 1858
William D. T., 1859
True Ancestry, 1042
Edward L.. 1043
Henry, 1042
Joseph, 1043
Lewis P„ 1043
Tucker Ancestry, 610, 912, 1820
Aaron B., 611
Bbenezer, 913
Frank B., 1821
John, 1820
John A., 1821

Lewis, 1820
Morris, 912
Robert 610
Samuel, 611
William E,, M. D. 914
Tufts Ancestry, 970, 974, 1722
Aaron, 1723
John, 975
Peter, 974, 975
Peter, 1722, 1723
Samuel, 970
Samuel, 975
Tuttle Ancestry, 1834
Anna M., 1834
Calvin B., 1834
Timothy, 1834
Twombly Ancestry, 502
Charles A., 504
James B., 503
Ralph, 502
Underbill Ancestry, 1035
Jay T., 1036
Josiah, 1035
Sampson, 1035
Samuel G., 1036
Underwood Ancestry, 1995
Moses, 1995
Upham Ancestry, 2010
John, 2010
Phineas, Lieut, 2010
Samuel O., 2012
Upton Ancestry, 2017
Amos, Dea., 2018
Elijah -W., 2019
George, 2019
John, 2017
King, 2020
Valpey Ancestry, 1406
Abraham, 1407
Richard, Capt,, 1407
Samuel S., 1407
Van Depoele, Charles J., 2150
Van Buren Ancestry, 1924
Abraham, 1926
Cornelis M., 1926
Marten, 1926
Marten P., 1926
Van Ness Ancestrv. 1302
John P., Hon.,' 1302
Joseph, 1303
Sarah B., 1305
Vaughn, Ira, 2094
Ira, 2096
Joseph W., 2095
Veasey Ancestry, 1464
Arthur D.. 1465
Dennis, 1465
George, 1464
Very Ancestry, 2032
Bridget, 2032
Jotiathan, Jr., 2032
i-Jathaniel. 2033
Nathaniel C, 2033
Vittum Ancestry, 713
Joseph W„ 714
Williara, 713
William, 714
Vose Ancestrv, 837
Edward, 837
Robert, 837
William, 837
Waite Ancestry, 1173
John Q. A., 1174
Otis P., 1174
Richard, 1174
Walcott Ancestry, 1600
Charles, 1604
Harriet A., 1606
John, 1601
Jonathan, Capt, 1601
Robert, 1603
Willard, 1605
William, 1601, 1602
Ward Ancestry, 623, 1314, 1610,
1723
Aaron, 624
Andrew. 1723
Benjamin. 624
Benjamin, 1315
Ebenezer, 1611
Henry, 1610
John, 1723
Joseph, 1315
Miles, Capt, 1610

22O0

BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Samuel, 1314
William, 623
William D., 1317
\\-ardle Ancestry, 1922
Harry L., 1923
Jaraes, 1922
Robert L., 1923
AN'arner Ancestrv, 2121
John, Capt, 2122
John G., 2122
John G., Capt, 2122
William, 2121
Warren Ancestry, 1568
John, 1668
John, Ens., 1669
Nathan, 1670
Neheraiah, 1669
Washburn Ancestry, 2097
Charles P., 2098
Chester A., 209S
David W., 2098
John, 2097
Timothy, 2098
-Way Ancestry, 131
Alonzo A., 133
Arthur T., 2036
Clara A., 133
Henry, 131
Truman, 2036
William, 132
-Winiam, 2035
Weare Ancestry, 1279
Nathaniel, 1279
Weber Ancestry, 1705
John L., 1706
Nicholas, 1705
AVebber Ancestrv, 614, 1026, 1047,
1111
Benjamin, 1028
Benjamin D.. 1028
Jefferson. 1048
John, 1027
John, Gen.. 616
John S., 616
Michael, 614
Paul, 1113
Samuel, 1113
Thomas, 1047
Thomas, 1112
Thomas G., 1049
William G., 1048,
Winslow L., 617
Wolfert 1111
Webster Ancestry, 338, 630, 810,
1573
Amos, 1573
Amos N, 632
Henry K., 1674
Isabella J. M., 339
John, 630
John, Maj., 1573
Joshua, 812
Newell, 812
Richard, 338, 339
Samuel, 632
Stephen, 630
Stephen, 1573
Thomas, 338
Thomas, 810
Weir Ancestry, 1560
Charles, 1561
Daniel P., 1561
Eliza M. I., 1561
Welch Ancestry, 646
Cyrus B., 647
John, 547
Philip, 546
Weld Family, 150
Wellington Ancestry, 1784
Austin C, Col., 257
Benjamin, 1785
Benjamin, 1786
Charles A., 1790
Cornelius, 1789
Henry W., 1788
Henry W., 1790
Lydia D„ 1789
Peter, 1787
Roger, 1784
Sarah C, 267
Tiraothy, 1785
Wentworth Ancestrv, 492, 1050,
1896
Eli, 1897

Ephraira, 1896
Ezekiel, 494
Ezekiel, 495
Ezekiel, 1060
George W., 496
Gershom, Dea., 1051
Gershora, Ens., 1051
Ichabod, 1896
Ichabod H., 1897
Isaac, 496
Reginald, 492
William, 1896
-W'illiam, Elder, 493
Wessel Ancestry, 2171
Henry D., 2171
Julius, 2171
-West Ancestrv, 312, 559
Abbie P.. 315
Charles T., 314
Daniel, Capt, 313
Ezra T., 314
Gilman, 313
John, 312
Orestes, 560
Richard H., 560
Thomas, 559
^Veston, John, 1295
-\A-etherbee Ancestry, 1795
Eliphalet S., 1801
Eliza M., Mrs., 1801
John, 1795
Luther. 1800
Thomas, 1799
Whedon Ancestry, 1962
Hiram, 1963
Thomas, 1962
William T., 1963
William W., 1963
Wheeler Ancestry, 1491
Alfred P., 1492
John, 1492
Thomas, 1491
Walter E., 1492
Whitaker Ancestrv, 1 120
Abraham, 1420
Harrison, 1422
John, 1422
Joseph, 1421
Peter, 1422
Whitcher Ancestry, 1526
Bradley C. 1529
Miranda, 1629
Sargent 1628
Thomas, 1527
AA'hitcomb Ancestry, 961
Amasa A., 963
John, 961
Myron L., 963
White Ancestry, 732. 1153, 1350
Charles N, 1350
Franklin, 1154
James W., 1350
John, 1350
Joseph, Dea., 1154
Joseph, Dea., 1154
Nelson J., 1350
Peregrine, 1153
Samuel, 733
W'illiam, 732
William, 733
William, 1163
Whiting Ancestrv, 871, 1663
Elkanah, 1664
Ira, 872
Isaac, 872
Jesse, 1664
Nathaniel, 871
Nathaniel, 1663
William B., 1665
William H. H., 1666, 2182
Whitney Ancestry, 1397
Arthur H.. 1401
John. 1399
Leonard, 1401
Thomas, 1399
Turstin, 1397
\\-hittem Ancestry, 384
Joseph, 384
Joseph W^, 384
Whittemore Ancestrv. 1700
Abram, 1703
Amos, Maj., 1702
Francis L., Rev., 1703
Jeremiah, 1298

John Mark, 1703
John Marshall, 1703
Thomas, 1701
Whittier, John G.. 40
AViley Ancestry, ISO
Eliza R.. 181
John. 180
John A., 181
Nathaniel, 181
^^-ilkins Ancestry, 1636
Albert 1537
Bray, 1536
Hezekiah, 1636
Samuel H., 1537
Wilkinson Ancestry, 1670
Charles I., 1671
George W., 1670
James, 1670
William P., 1671
Willard Ancestry, 1733
Elisha W., 1737
Henry, 1736
John H., 1737
Josiah, Col., 1735
Josiah, Col., 1735
Josiah, Maj.. 1736
Richard, 1733
Simon, Maj., 1733
Williams Ancestry, 1339
Abigail O., 2000
Clarence I., 1342
George, 1340
Henry W., 2000
Howell, 1340
Jonathan, 1341
Stephen W.. 1341
Willard. 2000
William B., 1342
-U'illson Ancestry, 1907
Alice B., 1913
Edmund B., Rev.. 1909
John, 1907
Joseph, 1908
Luther, Rev., 1908
-Wilson Ancestry, 160, 2056, 2059
Alexander, 2059
Annie E., 1874
Charles W.. 1874
James A., 2057
James A., 206S
James A., 2069
John, 1874
John, 2057
Robert, 160
Samuel, 161
William, 161
William, 2058
Wilson Family, 149
Winchester Ancestry, 825
Agnes L., 828
John, 825
John, 828
John, Capt 826
Perez L.. 828
Perez L., 829
William, Lieut, 827
Wingate Ancestry, 522
Charles B., 523
John, 522
Moses, 623
Moses, Capt, 523
William, P. M., 523
Winkley Ancestry, 536
Alonzo, 63S
Marv B.. 538
Samuel, 636
"Winslo-w Ancestr^•, 643
John M., 647
Kenelm, 644
Kenelm, 645
Martha D,, Mrs., 647
Richard E., Dr., 647
Winthrop Ancestry, 51
Adam, 51
Adam, 52
John, 52
John, Gov., 51
Wood Ancestry, 562, 1129, 1142,
1313
Alfred, 1143
Edward, 1131
Eli, 1314
Elkanah, 1313
Harold B., 1138

BOSTON AND EASTERN AIASSACHUSETTS.

220 1

Harry, 114 4
Isaac, 1144
James, 1142
James, 1142
Josiah, 1130
Justin R., 663
Leonard, 1132
Louis D., 2163
Nathaniel, 1313
UoKwell L., 564
Stephen B., 1135
Thomas, 562
Wniliam E., 1136
' William T., 1134
Woodbury Ancestry, 1122, 1123,
1126, 1469, 1563
George A., 1564
Humphrey, 1123
James, 1472
John, 1122
John, 1469
John P., 1122
John, Rev,, 1122
Joseph, 1564
Levi, 1126
Levi J., 1126
Louisa, 1472
Mark, Capt, 1125
Mark, Capt. 1125
Melville, 1127
Peter, 1471
Peter, 1472
Peter, Dea.. 1470
Stephen, Capt., 1563
William. 1563
Woodman Ancestry, 1049. 1288
Archelavis, 1049
Archelaus, Dea., 1289
Daniel, 1049

Daniel, 1050
Edward, 1049
Edward, 1288
Flavins M., 129S
Isaiah, 1291
John, 1290
John, 1291
Paul, 1049
Richard, 1288
Willard W., 1293
Woods Ancestry, 344, 1095, 2114
Benjamin, 2115
Edwin, 1096
Ephraim, 345
Frank B., 2116
George B., 1097
George H„ Lt. Col., 345
Harding P., 1096
Henry, 1096
Henry D., 1097
James, Dea,, 1096
James, Dea., 1096
John, 1095
John, 2145
Joseph, 2115
Joseph, 2115
Marv A., 2146
Prince T., Dr., 348
Samuel, 31-1
Samuel. 2114
William, 2145
AVoi-then Ancestrv. 1603
EdAvard S., 160-1
Ezra, 1504
John, 1603
AA'orthington Ancestry, 802, 1892
Elizabeth P. B.. 806
Erastus, 804
Erastus. 805

Erastus, 807
Jonathan, 1892
Jonathan, 1893
Nicholas, 802
Roland, Hon,, 1894
Wright Ancestrv, 348, 428
Addie P., 431
Azariah, Capt, 429
Eliezer, Ijieut, 428
John, 348
John B., 430
Joshua, Capt, 349
Samuel, Dea., 428
Uriah, 394
AVyman Ancestry, 966, 1251, 1570,
1915
Adelaide S., ]Mr,«., 1252
Asahel, 1251
Benjamin, 1571
Daniel, 967
Francis, 966
Francis. 1570
Francis, 1915
Isaac, 1917
Isaac C. 1917
James, 1251
Seth, Ens,. 1916
Timothy, 967
A'ales Ancestry, 1633
Charles H., Ifi3,-i
Francis, 1633
Joseph H., 1635
V.iung Ancestry, 1208
Jonathan, 1269
Levander J., Dr., 1 27it
(,-)liver H. P.. 1270
Rowland, 1268

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