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NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES
GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL

A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths
and the Founding of a Nation

COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLLAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.,
Historian of New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Author of "The Cutter
Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.

THIRD SERIES

VOLUME I

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ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1915

OTHER GENEALOGICAL PUBLICATIONS BY THE LEWIS
HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

"NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL;" "GENEALOGICAL
AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS, MASSACHUSETTS." ALSO SIMILAR SEPARATE WORKS
ON BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHQSETTS, WORCESTER COUNTY, AND MIDDLE
SEX COUNTY; "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT;" "GENEA
LOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF MAINE;" "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
OF VERMONT;" "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF NORTHERN NEW YORK,"
ALSO SIMILAR SEPARATE WORKS ON SOUTHERN NEW YORK, AND ON WESTERN
NEW YORK.; "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY," ETC., ETC.

FOREWORD

THE present work, "New England Families," presents in the aggregate a
great amount and variety of genealogical and personal information and
portraiture. It contains a vast amount of ancestral history never before
printed. The object, clearly defined and well digested, is threefold :
First: To present in concise form the history of established families of the
region. Second: To preserve a record of its prominent present-day people.
Third: To present through personal sketches, linked with the genealogical
narrative, the relation of the prominent families of all times to the growth,
singular prosperity and widespread influence of New England.
There are numerous voluminous narrative histories of this section, making
it unnecessary in this work to even outline its annals. What has been published,
however, principally relates to the people in the mass. The amplification neces
sary to complete the picture of the region, old and nowadays, is what is now-
supplied by these Genealogical and Personal Memoirs. In other words, while
others have written of "the times," the province of this work is to be a chronicle
of the people who have borne a conspicuous part in founding and developing a
nation. No other region offers so peculiarly interesting- a field for such research.
Its sons — "native here, and to the manner born" and of splendid ancestry — have
attained distinction in every field of human effort. An additional interest attaches
to the present undertaking in the fact that, while dealing primarily with the
history Of native New England, this work approaches the dignity of a national
epitome of genealogy and biography. Owing to the wide dispersion throughout
the country of the old families, the authentic account here presented of the con
stituent elements of her social life, past and present, is of far more than merely
local value. In its special field it is, in an appreciable degree, a reflection of
the development of the country at large, since hence went out representatives
of the historical families, in various generations, who in far remote places —
beyond the Mississippi and in the Far West — were with the vanguard of civiliza
tion, building up communities, creating new commonwealths, planting, wherever
they went, the church, the school house and the printing press, leading into chan
nels of thrift and enterprise all who gathered about them, and proving a power
for ideal citizenship and good government.
This work everywhere conveys the lesson that distinction has been gained
only by honorable public service, or by usefulness in private station, and that
the development and prosperity of the section of which it treats have been depend
ent upon the character of its citizens, and the stimulus which they have given to
commerce, to industry, to the arts and sciences, to education and religion — to
all that is comprised in the highest civilization of the present day — through a
continual progressive development.
Truly as heroic poems have been written in human lives in the paths of peace
as in the scarred roads of war. Such examples, in whatever line of endeavor, are

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of much worth as an incentive to those who come afterward, and such were never
so needful to be written of as in the present day, when pessimism, forgetful of
the splendid lessons of the past, withholds its effort in the present, and views
the future only with alarm.
The custodian of records concerning the useful men of preceding generations,
who aids in placing his knowledge in preservable and accessible form, of the
homes and churches, schools and other institutions, which they founded, and of
their descendants who have lived honorable and useful lives, performs a public
service in rendering honor to whom honor is due, and in inculcating the most
valuable lessons of patriotism and good citizenship. The story of the Plymouth
and Massachusetts Bay colonies lies at the foundation of the best there is in
American history, and the names of Brewster, Winslow, Bradford, Standish,
Alden, Warren, Howland — all of whom came in the "Mayflower" and were
prominent in the Old Colony, with Freeman, Gorham and Sears — all these of
Plymouth, and Winthrop, Saltonstall, Dudley, Wilson, Bradstreet, and others,
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, have an undying fame, and these names are
prominent to-day in the entire world. These early settlers erected an original
form of government, pledging themselves to maintain and preserve all their liber
ties and privileges, and in their vote and suffrage, as their conscience might them
move, as to best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body without respect
of person or favor of any man. Their heroism was exhibited in their conflicts
with savages. In statesmanship they builded better than they knew. Their code
of laws known as the "Body of Liberties" has been termed an almost declaration
of independence, opening with the pronouncement that neither life, liberty, honor
nor estate were to be invaded unless under express laws enacted by the local
authorities, and when this bold declaration led to the demand of the English
government that the colonial charter should be surrendered, the colonists resisted
to a successful issue. In later days Faneuil Hall became the cradle of American
Liberty, and from its platform were proclaimed the doctrines which bore fruit in
resistance to the Stamp Act, in the Boston Massacre, and the engagement of con
testing armed forces at Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill.
The above applies with equal force to the Providence, Hartford and New
Haven colonies, whose founders partook of the same character as those of Mas
sachusetts. In Providence we find the first colony founded on religious liberty,
and the story of the "Charter Oak" illustrates again the sturdy nature of the
Hartford colonists. From these pioneer settlements spread out a people whose
God-fearing lives and heroic struggles with a savage foe, while conquering the
forest wilderness, bore fruit in establishing a hardy nation and set an example for
succeeding generations.
When came the momentous question whether a free and liberal government
"of the people, by the people, and for the people," was to perish from the earth,
the sons of their illustrious sires were not found wanting in patriotism and devo
tion, but freely sacrificed comforts, property and life for the vindication of the
principles inherited from the fathers.
Here, too, were developed in highest degree the arts of peace. Religion, edu
cation, science, invention, labor along all the lines of mechanical and industrial
progress, here made their beginnings, and, while their ramifications extended
throughout the length and breadth of the land, the parent home and the parent
stock held their preeminence, as they do to the present day.
The work has had editorial supervision by an antiquarian and genealogist of

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high standing, Mr. William Richard Cutter, A.M., corresponding secretary and
historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, librarian emeritus
of Woburn Public Library, author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arling
ton," etc., etc. Efficient aid has also been given by the following named gentle
men: Wilfred Harold Munro, L.H.D., professor of History, Brown University,
president of Rhode Island Historical Society, ex-governor Society of Colonial
Wars ; Samuel Hart, D.D., D.C.L., dean of Berkeley Divinity School, president
of Connecticut Historical Society ; Ezra Scholay Stearns, ex-Secretary of State,
N. H., member American Antiquarian Society, New England Historic-Genea
logical Society, New Hampshire State Historical Society, corresponding member
Minnesota State Historical Society; John Ellsworth Goodrich, D.D., Latin Pro
fessor Emeritus, University of Vermont, vice-president of Vermont Historical
Society; Albert Roscoe Stubbs, librarian of Maine Genealogical Society; and
John Reynolds Totten, editor of "New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record," member of Mayflower Society, etc.
If in any case a narrative is incomplete or faulty, the shortcoming is usually
ascribable to the paucity of data obtainable, many families being without exact
records in their family line ; while, in some instances, representatives of a given
family are at disagreement as to the names of some of their forbears, important
dates, etc.
It is confidently believed that the present work will prove a real addition to
the mass of annals concerning the historic families of New England, and that,
without it, much valuable information would be inaccessible to the general reader,
or irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of custodians of family records
and the consequent disappearance of material in their possession.
The Publishers.

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The following critique was
MATHER prepared and read by invita
tion of the president by JVlr.
William. R. Cutter at the annual meeting of the
Rumford Historical Association in Woburn,
Massachusetts. This is its first appearance in
print. In character not always understood by his
contemporaries or by posterity Cotton Mather
probably accomplished more good than he is
often accredited with. He was born February
12, 1663; was graduated at Harvard College,
1678; was ordained a colleague with his father,
May 13, 1685 (aged twenty-two), and was a
precocious scholar.
The diary of Cotton Mather is a minute
record of his religious and personal experi
ences.* The actual interest in original docu
ments is the documents themselves ; and this
diary, as printed, is furnished with only a few
illustrative notes. It is fortunate that in our
communities there are societies with means and
ability enough to print such" valuable sources
of contemporary history from which we learn
what the people were thinking of and what
they were doing in remote times. In spite of
his egregious vanity and excessive egotism
Cotton Mather was the most eminent and
learned clergyman of his time in America,
pastor of the largest church in Boston, in the
habit of preaching to the largest congrega
tions wherever he went, having in his house
the largest library or collection of books to
be found on this side of the Atlantic, author
of more books and tracts than there were
days in the year, and vastly learned in ancient
and foreign languages. Benjamin Franklin
expressed his obligations to Mather's tract,
"Ways To Do Good," as one of his greatest
inspirations to usefulness. Mather had one
quality common to the New England clergy
man of former days — and that, too, not a bad
quality in itself — that of taking an interest in
relatives, even to those of a remote degree.
He died February 13, 1727-28, one day beyond
his sixty-fifth birthday. His life was, there
fore, shorter by twenty years than that of his
father, and shorter by about eight years than
that of his grandfather. His father was presi
dent of Harvard College for sixteen years,

•Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 7s vii Diary of Cotton
Mather, 1709-1724, Boston; published by the Society,
1912. (Diary, vol. 2).
NE— 1

and his grandfather was the third minister,
in succession, of the town of Dorchester. His
ancestors were both scholarly and influential.
His defects were largely due to the over
abundant nature of his qualities. He was three
times married, and had fifteen children by his
first and second marriages. His last wife,
like his second, was a widow at the time he
married her. She was uncritical as to his
faults, even when entreated to explain them,
but owing to an outbreak of insanity, which
appears to have gradually come upon her, she
became a source of great trouble in his family,
and almost drove him distracted himself. He
said: My glorious Lord has inflicted a new and sharp
chastisement upon me. The consort, in whom I
flattered myself with the view and hopes of an un
common enjoyment, has dismally confirmed it unto
me, that our idols must prove our sorrows. Now
and then, in some of the former years, I observed
and suffered grevious outbreakings of her proud
passions; but I quickly overcame them with my
victorious love, and in the methods of meekness
and goodness * * * I do not know that I have
to this day spoke one impatient or unbecoming
word unto her, though my provocations have been
unspeakable, and, it may be, few men in the world
would have borne them as I have done. But this
last year has been full of her prodigious paroxisms,
which have made it a year of such distresses with
me as I have never seen in my life before. When
the paroxisms have gone off, she has treated me
still with a fondness, that, it may be, few wives in
the world have arrived unto. But in the returns of
them (which of late still grow more and more fre
quent) she has insulted me with such outrages that
I am at a loss which I should ascribe them to—
whether a distraction (which may be somewhat
hereditary), or to a possession whereof the symp
toms have been too direful to be mentioned.
In the first place she took such an objection
against his writings (evidently of the diary
variety) that he was obliged to lay them where
he thought she could not find them. For fear
of what might happen he wrote not one dis
respectful word of this "proud woman" in all
the papers. But, nevertheless, by rummaging
she found them and hid them, and informed
him that he would never see them any more.
He offered to blot out with the pen whatever
she would not have there, but unavailingly.
She gave him to understand that she might
return the papers of the four or five preceding
years which she had got into her possession.
Mather claimed that they were of more value

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to him than any temporal estate he could pre
tend unto. He began to believe that before
another birthday (he was in his fifty-sixth
year) his life would be finished. His theme
was upon the article of "Good Devised," which
stood for it three hundred and sixty-five times
in a year. He concludes by saying that "while
those who destroyed Jeremiah's roll got nothing
by it, so this unhappy woman will get nothing
by what she does unto mine."
He was also in a continual anguish of ex
pectation that his wife, by exposing her mad
ness, would bring ruin on his ministry, and he
was also troubled about what might occur when
her own reputation was made public. His
family, too, were made unhappy by her furious
and froward conduct. He even resorts to the
use of the Latin and Greek languages to ex
press her unaccountable passions. They seemed
little short of Satanical, and on one occasion,
after unrepeatable invectives, he was compelled
by her to rise at midnight and retire to his
study ; while she, calling up two other persons,
went over to a neighbor's house for a lodging.
She told numberless lies, "which a tongue set
on fire of hell would make no conscience of."
He claimed that there was no other husband
who treated his wife with greater efforts to
please her and make her comfortable at home
and reputable abroad. She invented occasions
for outrages, and then at lucid intervals would
be filled with expressions of the most enamored
fondness. The poor husband, at last, when
rebuking her lying tongue, used terms which
he had not been used to. She was the most
heavy scourge that he had ever met withal.
But, at last, came the occasion of her recovery.
"In the evening of the day," says her husband,
"my poor wife, returning to a right mind,
came to me in my study, entreating that there
might be an eternal oblivion of everything that
has been out of joint, and an eternal harmony
ever afterwards."
Out of Cotton Mather's fifteen children, a
number of whom died young, there was one
son who was a very bad young man, who gave
his father much anxiety — an example of the
saying, "ministers' sons and deacons' daugh
ters." After a scandalous career he was re
ported lost at sea in the West India Islands.
His vessel had been out five months on a com
paratively short voyage and had not arrived.
An untrue rumor was brought to his father
that the son was yet living, but in a day or
two it was found that the news applied to an
other vessel. Surely the life of Cotton Mather
was very human!
In Cotton Mather's writings we discover co
incidences between his times and ours. He men
tions cold weather in winter and hot weather

in summer. He caught cold from going out
damp winter evenings. On one occasion he
was attacked by a painful malady which I
should diagnose as the tic-douloureux. He
wrote :
I have been for some time afflicted with grievous
pains in my head * * * A neighboring minister
last night asked me, whether the Dragon (that is
the Devil) might not be, by the wise permission of
Heaven, taking some revenge upon me, for some
notable mischief, which my head may have lately
done unto his kingdom. * * * All methods and
medicines for my cure fail me. I have used unguents,
and plasters, and cataplasms, and epispastics, and
sinapisms, and cathartics, and what not, but all to
no purpose.* My physicians are of no value. My
pains this morning are more violent than they use
to be. I lie down like a stag in a net, with a very
despairing discouragement. However, I thought I
would make one more experiment. (In his charac
teristic way, he commended his case to his Maker).
Behold, I had no occasion for any f*rther applica
tion. My pains immediately went off. And as yet
(I write the day following) I have no return of
them. After two or three days of unaccountable
repose, I suffered some return of my pain * * *
and I put on an epispastic, which suddenly and
mightily relieved me.
He was an admirer of the rainbow in the
sky, and preached a sermon and wrote a book
upon the subject. The fuel of the people was
wood, and the wooden city of Boston was sub
ject to conflagrations in which many buildings
were destroyed. His aged father was worried
because his people wanted to swarm into a
new church (people at that day, as well as
this, were desirous of a change) and he did
what he could to comfort him. For the re
straining of profaneness in a considerable num
ber of unruly children on the Lord's Day in
his congregation, he found a person to look
after them whom he accordingly employed and
rewarded for that service. In 1713 he wrote:
There are knots of riotous young men in the
town. On purpose to insult piety, they will come
under my window in the middle of the night, and
sing profane and filthy songs. The last night they
did so, and fell upon people with clubs, taken off
my wood-pile.
At about this time an epidemic of the measles
in Boston caused the deaths of five members
of his family, including his second wife. This
occasioned him to give a list of the names of
his children, and this mathematical calculation
upon their number: "Of 15, dead 9, living 6."

Some foolish and froward people
out about their seats. I must use
prudence and piety to manage such
ness. [We shall hear some more
ject of seating the meeting-house,
•In present day terms, unguents
cataplasms are poultices, epispasti
and sinapisms are cataplasms with a
client, 1. e., a mustard poultice

in the flock fall
the methods of
roots of bitter-
about this sub-
later on.]
are ointments,
cs are blisters,
mustard ingre^

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This day [August 14, 1716,] a singular thing be
fell me. * * * I was prevailed withal to do a
thing, which I very rarely do; not once in years.
I rode abroad with some gentlemen and gentle
women, to take the country air, and to divert our
selves at a famous fish-pond. [Spy Pond, now in
Arlington.] In the canoe on the pond my foot
slipped, and I fell overboard into the pond. Had
the vessel been a little further from the shore, I
must have been drowned. But I soon recovered the
shore, and going speedily into a warm bed, I re
ceived no sensible harm.
His wife, too, had premonitions "all the
former part of the day and all the day before"
that this "little journey" would have mischief
attending it.
I have discovered in writing the "History
of Arlington" that there was, at a very early
period, a house very near the shore of this
pond devoted to the public entertainment of
such visitors as might come to it. The deep
waters of this very dangerous lake have prob
ably engulfed, from Mather's day to this, more
drowned persons than any similar body of
water" in this vicinity.
I am very glad that I have had the oppor
tunity to examine closely the pages of these
memorial records of the experiences of Cotton
Mather. The process of examination has been
a mental stimulus, as well as recalling to my
mind certain religious beliefs which found
rigid followers in the days of my childhood.
Cotton Mather said on one occasion :
I feel a very sensible rebuke from Heaven upon
me, in shutting me out from the service of the
flock. On the last Lord's day I was compelled into
sitting still [his father and he were joint pastors of
the same church] out of a compliment to a person,
who had been asked by my father to preach for
him, and yet arrived not so soon, but that my father
fearing his failing had got another to supply his
room. The young man, to whom I thus, in civility,
gave way, was also one, whom for the vanity of his
character I did least of all desire to see in our
pulpit. This Lord's day I am arrested with a cold,
and a cough, and am withal so hoarse, that I am
laid by from all public ministrations.
Who is there who has not had differences,
certainly in opinion if not otherwise, with
the body of his numerous family relations?
Mather had certainly in his schemes of doing
good included them in the number of his bene
ficiaries. On one occasion he writes :
I am sorry that among my personal enemies, I
must now reckon some of my relatives. Unac
countable creatures! But I have a little penetrated
into their inexplicable character and conduct. I
must watch over my spirit, and study to carry it as
well unto them, as if they were better affected
towards me.
On another occasion he said:
I observe a great number of people in the flock,
whose employments are so circumstanced, that

while their hands are employed, their minds are
very much at leisure; and others, in whose business
both hands and minds are so. I would in a sermon
propose methods for these neighbors to redeem
this time.
People of this kind are not scarce now.
Cotton Mather also had a practice of writ
ing out his sermons fully, in order that the
copy might be used for publication, and he
sometimes wrote English sentences in the
Greek character, in which manner their mean
ing was obscured to the ordinary reader.
There is no more interesting part in the book
than that describing Cotton Mather's experi
ence during the terrible visitation of Boston
by the smallpox in the year 1721, a time when
vast numbers of the people were lying sick of
that loathsome disease, and an equally large
number died. The disease was apparently
brought by a vessel of war which lay in the
harbor, on board of which were two or three
men sick with the pestilence. Mather's life
was in extreme danger from the horrid venom
of the sick chambers, which he made it his
duty to enter on his pastoral visits. Mather
called the attention of the physicians of Boston
to the "new method" of inoculation for this
dire disease, used by the African people and
Asiatics in their own countries, which he had
read about in letters from Constantinople and
Smyrna, as published by the Royal Society in
London. As soon as his project was made
public a storm of opposition arose on the part
of the New Englanders. The chief moral
reason brought against inoculation was that
it was a heathen practice, and it was unlawful
to learn of the heathen, and, absurd as the
argument seemed, its defenders could only
point out in reply that all of the physicians of
antiquity were heathen and that the colonists
of New England had learned from the Indians
a corrective to snake bites and the practice of
smoking. Mather also prepared a little treatise on the
smallpox, first awakening the sentiments of
piety which it calls for, and then exhibiting the
best medicines and methods which the world
had yet had for the managing of it ; and,
finally, adding the new discovery to prevent it
in the way of inoculation. He instructed the
physicians in this new method used by the
Africans and Asiatics to abate the dangers and
infallibly to save the lives of those that have
the smallpox in the natural way. But a horrid
clamor was raised against him and a strange
possession from the evil one took possession
of the people on this occasion ; they raved, they
railed, they blasphemed, they talked not only
like idiots but also like frantics, and not only
himself but the physician who began the ex-

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periment were objects of their fury, their furi
ous obloquies and invectives. "This cursed
clamor of a people, strangely and fiercely pos
sessed of the Devil," he said, "will probably
prevent" the saving of the lives of Mather's
two children from the smallpox in the "way
of transplantation," another way of describing
the operation or process of inoculation. After
ten remarkable experiments in his own neigh
borhood it was decided that his son should
undergo the operation of receiving the small
pox in the new way; privately, if possibly the
child should die under it. So it was done, not
so skillfully as he had wished but successfully.
Thereupon, in the words of Mather:
The town became a hell on earth, a city full of
lies, and murders, and blasphemies, as far as wishes
and speeches can render it so; Satan seemed to
take a strange possession of it, in the epidemic
rage against that notable and powerful and success
ful way of saving the lives of people from the
dangers of the small-pox.
The situation grew still darker. "This miser
able town," said Mather, "is a dismal picture
and emblem of Hell." He arraigns the church
members as having a fearful share in the false
reports and murderous wishes, and the "rage
of wickedness among us" was "beyond what
was ever known from the beginning to this
day." Mather acknowledged in his own hand
that in his remarks on the folly and baseness
.of an absurd and wicked people that he used
"too bitter terms." Such terms as miserable
and detestable and abominable, as applied to
the town, seemed to fall easily and naturally
from his lips.
, He received a kinsman into his house who
was under the inoculation of the smallpox, to
whom he gave the use of his chamber. This
poor man in the night, as it grew towards the
morning, while lying in this room, narrowly
escaped being killed by a murderous bomb
which some malicious person threw through
the window intending it for the unpopular
Mather. The circumstances were these :
Toward three o'clock, in the night, some unknown
hands threw a fired (or lighted) granado (hand
granade) into the chamber where my kinsman lay,
and which uses to be my lodging-room. The weight
of the iron ball alone, had it fallen upon his head,
would have been enough to have done part of the
business designed. But the Granado was charged,
the upper part with dried powder, the lower part
with a mixture of oil of turpentine and powder, and
what else I know not, in such a manner, that upon
its going off, it must have split, and have probably
killed the persons in the room, and certainly fired
the chamber, and speedily laid the house in ashes
* * * The grenado, in passing through the win
dow, had by the iron in the middle of the casement,
such a turn given to it, that in falling on the floor!
the fired wild-fire in the fuse was violently shaken
out upon the floor, without firing the grenado.

When the missile was taken up there was
found a paper so tied with string about the
fuse, that it might outlive the breaking of
the shell, on which paper was written an
opprobrious and insulting message.
I have been requested by your president to
examine the second volume of Cotton Mather's
diary, lately issued from the press, to discover
further facts, if any, concerning the connec
tion of this celebrated man with Woburn. As
there was no index to the first volume, a com
prehensive index in the second volume covers
all the contents of the first. In the Woburn
Journal for August 4, 191 1, I attempted some
review of the first volume under the heading of
"Cotton Mather and Woburn," and described
certain events in the history of the Woburn
First Parish Church, whose early records of
those days are now missing, and may be re
garded as altogether lost. The substance of
what I found1 in Mather's record was a refer
ence to an evil spirit at Woburn (some refer
ence, perhaps, to the performance of a per
sonal devil, for our forefathers heartily be
lieved in such things) ; to an account of a ser
mon preached by Mather at Woburn in 1703,
forestalling the settlement of a new minister
there — a species of fast for that purpose — that
a desirable minister might be had, and an
account of an assault upon the action of Mather
in reference to the conduct of a wicked man
in the Woburn church — a man whom "the
church had censured for his impious conduct,
and who had applied to Mather to help him
out of trouble, and Mather had rendered a
decision against him. Next Mather was a
member of a council held at Woburn to settle
the disturbances and differences among the
brethren. In the second volume of the diary
we find an account of two visits which Mather
had made to this place to settle differences
among the rather violently disposed Woburn
people. Those who read Mather's reflections on vari
ous subjects will be more appreciative of their
real value if the person has had some experi
ence, however small, of the puritanical train
ing once accorded to persons residing in this
section. Puritanism is a fact whose conditions
can be traced to the early history of Greece
and Rome. Its conditions are the converse of
luxury and vicious living. It is found where
a people live the simple, dutiful life of their
ancestors, and mainly in the rural portions of
the land, away from the enervating influences
of the cities. The influences of New England
Puritanism existed in modified form in Woburn
until after 1840.
In justice to Cotton Mather, it was his inten
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whatever state and condition, and, in illustra
tion, note what he says at the beginning of his
fifty-first year, or at the opening of 1713:
. Not one day has passed without some contrivance
to do good, invented and registered; besides multi
tudes of such not entered in these poor memorials.
Not one day has passed without being able to say
at night, something of my small revenues dealt out
unto pious uses. Never any time spent with any
company without some endeavor of a fruitful con
versation in it.
No wonder such a man is said to have placed
the sign over his study door: "Be short"; he
was so busy about many things.
And now what did he say in his second
volume of diary about Woburn, volume two,
page 125. A^isit, November 4, 171 1 :
God has blessed my applications unto Woburn,
for the bruising of Satan, who had begun to raise
grievous contentions. It was thought that it would
be a confirming and finishing stroke on that good
work, if I would give a lecture unto that people. I
assign a time for it; purposing to preach as charm
ing things as I can unto them, on Romans, 15-14,
/ am persuaded you are full of goodness.
Wise Cotton Mather ! Three days after
wards, on Wednesday, November 7, 1711, he
writes : "This day I accomplished my purpose
for Woburn, and had many smiles of Heaven
on my journey. Some that were surprising
ones." A reference to Sewall's "History of Wo
burn," page 186, shows that the trouble had
some reference to the "disorderly seating of
many persons in the house of God."
On a second visit, volume two, page 167,
February 7, 1711-12, Wednesday,: "I preached
the lecture at Woburn on Rom. 15, 14. Being
Full of Goodness." An extension of the same
subject and on the same text. When the char
acter of the controversy is understood the im
plied sarcasm of the text is refreshing, show
ing that Mather was not slow in turning a
ridiculous situation into a lesson of enlighten
ment. Examining the work of Sewall we find that
at bottom the case was one arising from notions
of family rank and station brought over from
England, where distinctions of that kind had
long been created and cherished, and to which
our earliest ancestors here had attached an
inordinate importance, and were jealous of
any neglect of them by others. Thus the senti
ments with regard to rank and condition in
society held strongly, while other praiseworthy
qualities had been neglected. The superiority
of family was strong in many minds, and that
when seating the meeting house was done,
after repairs and enlargement had been made,
a change was made in the method which be

came very unpopular, which was explained by
the following petition from the town records :
Many inhabitants were much "aggrieved at
the disorderly seating of many persons in the
house of God, the ancient behind the backs of
the youth, which they apprehended not to be
according to the law of God, which requireth
the youth to rise up before the hoary head and
to honor the person of the old man." In this
case the seating had been done on this foolish
principle. Namely, to prefer those first who
had done the most by their contributions to
the building of the original house, and, second,
those who had contributed the most towards
its recent repairs and enlargements, and, finally,
those who paid the largest taxes. Thus the
front seats were awarded to the wealthy and
liberal, though young, before the aged mem
bers of the church and community who were
poor. Hence there resulted, and justly, much
murmuring and discontent, and a row also
resulted, which Cotton Mather's eloquence
seems to have quelled.

John Alden, immigrant ancestor,
ALDEN was born in England in 1599..
He joined the Pilgrims on the
"Mayflower" at Southampton as the ship was
on its way to America. When the ship stopped
there for supplies he was hired as cooper. He
had not been with them at Leyden and was
probably not a member of the independent
church, but soon joined. He cast his fortunes
with the Pilgrims, after enduring the hardL
ships of that first terrible winter at Plymouth
when so many died. He was doubtless influ
enced in this decision by his love for Priscilla
Mullens, the story of which, with some em
bellishments, is told in the "Courtship of Miles
Standish." She was the daughter of William
Mullens, who came on the "Mayflower" with
his family. John and Priscilla were married
in the spring of 1621. When the common
property of the colony was divided in 1627,
Alden went with Captain Standish, Elder
Brewster, John Howland, Francis Eaton and
Peter Brown to Mattakeeset, the Indian name
of that territory now included in Duxbury,
Marshfield, Pembroke, Hanson and Bridge-
water, Massachusetts. For several years they
were obliged to return to Plymouth during the
winter season to combine all their forces against
possible Indian attacks. The residence at
Plymouth in the winter also gave them an
opportunity to attend worship, and the records
show a written agreement of Alden and others
in 1632 to remove their families to Plymouth
in the winter. In 1633 Alden was appointed
assistant to the governor, an office which he
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life, serving with Edward Winslow, Josiah
Winslow, Bradford, Prince and Thomas
Hinckley. From 1666 until his death he held
the office of first assistant; was often called
the deputy governor, and was many times
acting governor in the absence of the governor.
From 1640 to 1650 he was also deputy to the
colonial council from Duxbury. Winslow's
"History of Duxbury" says of him : "Hold
ing offices of the highest trust, no important
measure was proposed or any responsible
agency ordered in which he had not a part.
He was one of the council of war, many times
an arbitrator, a surveyor of lands for the
government as well as for individuals, and on
several important occasions was authorized to
act as agent or attorney for the colony. He
was possessed of a sound judgment and of
talents which, though not brilliant, were by no
means ordinary. Writers who mention him
bear ample testimony to his industry, integrity
and exemplary piety, and he has been repre
sented as a worthy and useful man of great
humility and eminent sanctity of life, decided,
ardent, resolute and persevering, indifferent to
danger, stern, austere and unyielding, and of
incorruptible integrity. He was always a firm
supporter of the church, and everything of an
innovating nature received determined opposi
tion." From the Puritan point of view Alden
was a model, if this description of his virtues
is truthful. He took his part in making the
lives of the Quakers at Plymouth colony in
tolerable. On the Alden farm stands the house
built by his son Jonathan, having been occu
pied by eight generations in direct line. It is
the oldest house in New England, with three
exceptions — the old fort at Medford, built in
1634 ; the Fairbanks house at Dedham, built in
1636, and the old stone house at Milford, Con
necticut, built in 1640. Here Alden spent his
declining years. He died in Duxbury, Sep
tember 1, 1686, aged eighty-seven years, the
last of the famous band of Pilgrim Fathers,
and the last of the "Mayflower" company.
John Alden had eleven children, only eight
of whom are known, namely : John, born about
1622, at Plymouth; Joseph, of whom further;
Elizabeth, 1625 ; Jonathan, about 1627 ; Sarah,
married Alexander Standish, son of Captain
Miles Standish ; Ruth, married John Bass, of
Braintree, from whom the Presidents Adams
descended ; Mary ; David, prominent man of
Duxbury. (II) Joseph, son of John Alden, was born
in Plymouth in 1624, died February 2, 1697.
He inherited land at Bridgewater, where he
settled, and also at Middleborough, Massachu
setts. He was admitted a freeman in 1659.
He married Mary, daughter of Moses Sim

mons Jr., who came in the "Fortune" in 1621
and settled at Duxbury. Joseph Alden's will
was dated December 14, 1696, proved March
10, 1697. Children: Isaac, married, Decem
ber 2, 1695, Mehitable Allen; Joseph, men
tioned below ; John, born about 1675 ; Eliza
beth, married, 1691, Benjamin Snow; Mary,
married, 1700, Samuel Allen.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Alden,
was born in 1667, at Plymouth or Duxbury,
died at Bridgewater, December 22, 1747. He
settled in South Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
He was deacon of the church and a prominent
citizen. His will was dated November 12,
1743. He married, in 1690, Hannah Dunham,
of Plymouth, daughter of Daniel Dunham.
She died January 13, 1748, aged seventy-eight
years. Children, born at Bridgewater : Daniel,
January 29, 1691 ; Joseph, August 26, 1693,
died December 9, 1695 > Eleazer, September
27, 1694; Hannah, February, 1696; Mary,
April 10, 1699; Joseph* September 5, 1700,
died October 5, 1700; Jonathan, December 3,
1703, died November io, 1704; Samuel, men
tioned below ; Mehitabel, October 18, 1707 ;
Seth, July 6, 1710.
(IV) Samuel, son of Joseph (2) Alden,
was born at Bridgewater, August 20, 1705,
died in 1785. He resided at Titicut, Bridge-
water. He married (first) 1728, Abiah, daugh
ter of Captain Joseph Edson. He married
(second) in 1752, a daughter of Josiah Wash
burn. Children, born at Bridgewater : Abiah,
1729; Mehitable, 1732; Sarah, 1734; Samuel,
mentioned below; Josiah, 1738; Simeon, 1740;
Silas, died aged twenty-one; Mary; Hosea,
killed by kick of a horse.
(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Alden,
was born in Bridgewater in 1736, died in 1816.
He was a carpenter and lived in Abington,
Massachusetts. He was a very worthy man
and was a member of the Baptist church in
Randolph, now East Stoughton, Massachusetts.
He married Hannah Williams, of Raynham,
Massachusetts. Children : Daniel ; Silas, born
1765; Joseph; Samuel; William., 1772; Hosea,
died young ; Hannah ; Seth, mentioned below ;
Hosea. (VI) Deacon Seth Alden, son of Samuel
(2) Alden, was born November 3, 1777, died
June 3, 1838. He was a deacon of the Bap
tist church. He was a carpenter of East
Stoughton, Massachusetts. He married (first)
January 11, 1802, Harmony, born in 1781, died
May 24, 1823, daughter of Perez Southworth.
He married (second) Betsey, born October
3, 1790, died January 28, 1842, daughter of
Nathaniel Littlefield. Children by first wife:
Lysander, born August 12, 1804, died Novem
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Azel, March i, 1809; twins, February 22, 181 1,
died same day; Lysander, January 21, 1812;
Samuel, September 12, 1814, Adoniram Jud
son, May 30, 1817, burned to death., Novem
ber 22, 1819 ; Adoniram Judson, November
25, 1819; Southworth (q. v.) and Seth, twins,
May 13, 1823. Children by second wife : Ann
Amelia, born August 3, 1826; Nathaniel Little-
field, June 13, 1828; Isaac, born December 10,
1830; James, September 7, 1835.
(The Brown Line).
(I) Chad Brown, immigrant ancestor, came
from England in the ship "Martin," which
arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1638.
He brought with him his wife Elizabeth, son
John, then eight years old, and perhaps younger
ones. A fellow passenger died on the voyage
and Chad Brown witnessed the will soon after
his arrival. He did not long remain in Massa
chusetts, probably because of his religious
views, but soon removed to Providence, where
he became at once a leader and one of the most
valued citizens of that colony. That same
year (1638) he and twelve others signed a
compact relative to the government of the
town. In the capacity of surveyor he was
soon after appointed on a committee to com
pile a list of the home lots of the first settlers
of the "Towne Streete" and the meadows
allotted to them. His own home lot fronted
on the "towne streete," now South Main and
Market Square, with the southern boundary
to the southward of College and South Main
streets. The college grounds of Brown Uni
versity now comprise a large portion of this
lot. In 1640 he served on a committee with
three others in regard to the disputed boundary
between Providence and Pawtuxet. That same
year he, with Robert Cole, William Harris and
John Warner, was the committee of Provi
dence colony to report their first written form
of government, which was adopted and con
tinued in force until 1644, in which year Roger
Williams returned from England with the first
charter. Chad Brown was the first of the
thirty-nine signers of this agreement. In 1642
he was ordained as the first settled pastor of
the Baptist church. In 1643 he was on a com
mittee to make peace between the Warwick
settlers and Massachusetts Bay, but their
efforts were unavailing. He died September
2, 1650, on which date the name of his widow
occurs in a tax list. Children: John, men
tioned below; James and Jeremiah, both of
whom removed to Newport, Rhode Island;
judah, or Chad, died May 10, 1663, unmar
ried ; Daniel.
(II) John Brown, son of Chad Brown, was
born 1630, and died about 1706. He married

Mary, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and Cath
arine Holmes, of Newport, Rhode Island. He
lived in Providence, at the north end, in a
house afterwards occupied by his son James.-
He served the town in various official capacities
juryman, commissioner on union of towns in
1654, surveyor of highways, 1659; was free
man in 1655 ; moderator, member of the town
council, deputy in legislature, assistant. He
took the oath of allegiance, May 31, 1666. In
1672 he sold the home lot of his father to his
brother James, of Newport, who resold the
same day to Daniel Abbott. Nearly one hun
dred years later a part of it was repurchased
by his great-grandsons, John and Moses
Brown, and by them presented to the College
of Rhode Island at the time of its removal
from Warren to Providence. The cornerstone
of University Hall, for many years the only
building, was laid by John Brown, May 31,
1770. Children: Sarah, married, November
14, 1678, John Pray; John, born March 18,
1662; James, born in 1666; Obadiah (q. v.) ;
Martha; Mary, and Deborah.

The lineage of a very large part
PUTNAM of the Putnams of New Eng
land is traced to John Putnam,
the immigrant, the ancestor of several promi
nent citizens of the early days of Massachu
setts. The name comes from Puttenham, a
place in England, and this, perhaps, from the
Flemish word putte, "a well," plural putten,
and ham, signifying a "home," and the whole
indicating a settlement by a well. The name
has also been connected with the family name
of Put, which is still in existence in certain
villages in Friesland, and which may very
possibly have been borne by some of the Fries-
land followers of Hengist and Horsa. Some
four or five years after the settlement of Salem,
Massachusetts, it became necessary to extend
the area of the town in order to accommodate
a large number of immigrants who were de
sirous of locating within its jurisdiction, and
as a consequence farming communities were
established at various points, some of them
being considerable distance from the center of
population. Several families newly arrived
from England founded a settlement which
they called Salem Village, and the place was
known as such for more than a hundred years.
It is now called Danvers. Among the original
settlers of Salem Village was John Putnam.
He was the American progenitor of the Put
nams in New England, and among his de
scendants were the distinguished revolutionary
generals, Israel and Rufus Putnam. Much
valuable information relative to the early his
tory of the family is to be found in the "Essex

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Institute Collection." In common with most
of the inhabitants they suffered from, the witch
craft delusion, but were not seriously affected.
(I) The first ancestor of whom definite
knowledge is obtainable is Roger, a tenant of
Puttenham in 1086.
(II) The second generation is represented
by Galo, of the same locality.
(Ill) Richard, born 11 54, died 1189, pre
sented the living of the church of Puttenham
to the prior and canons of Ashby.
(IV) Simon de Puttenham was a knight of
Herts in 1199.
(V) Ralph de Puttenham, a journeyman in
1 199, held a knight's fee in Puttenham of the
honor of Leicester in 1210-12.
(VI) William de Puttenham is the next in
line. (VII) John de Puttenham was lord of the
manor of Puttenham in 1291, and was a son
of William. His wife, "Lady of Puttenham,"
held half a knight's fee in Puttenham of the
honor of Wallingford in 1303."
(VIII) Sir Roger de Puttenham, son of
John de Puttenham and Lady of Puttenham,
was born prior to 1272, and with his wife
Alina had a grant of lands in Penne in 1315.
He was sheriff of Herts in 1322, in which year
he supported Edward II. against the Morti
mers. His wife, perhaps identical with Helen,
is called a daughter of John Spigornel, and
was married (second) to Thomas de la Hay,
king's commissioner, knight of the shire, in
1337, who held Puttenham with reversion to
the heirs of Roger Puttenham and land in
Penne in right of his wife.
(IX) Sir Roger de Puttenham was par
doned by the king in 1338, probably on account
of some political offense. The next year he
was a follower of Sir John de Molyns, and
was knight of the shire from 1355 to 1374.
He had a grant of remainder, after the death
of Christian Bordolfe, of the manor of Long
Marston in 1370-71. He had a second wife,
Marjorie, in 1370.
(X) Robert, son of Sir Roger de Putten
ham, in 1346 held part of a knight's fee in
Marston, which the Lady of Puttenham held.
He was living in 1356.
(XI) William, son of Robert de Puttenham,
of Puttenham and Penne, was commissioner
of the peace for Herts in 1377, and was called
"of Berk Hampstead." He was sergeant-at-
arms in 1376. He married Margaret, daughter
of John de Warbleton, who died in 1375, when
his estates of Warbleton, Sherfield, etc., passed
to the Putnams. They had children : Henry,
Robert and William.
(XII) Henry Puttenham, son of William
and Margaret (Warbleton) de Puttenham, was

nearly sixty years of age in 1468, and died
July 6, 1473. He married Elizabeth, widow
of Jeffrey Goodluck, who died in i486, and
was probably his second wife.
(XIII) William, eldest son of Henry Putten
ham, was in possession of Puttenham, Penne,
Sherfield and other estates. He was buried in
London and his will was proved July 23, 1492.
He married Anne, daughter of John Hamp
den, of Hampden, who was living in i486.
They had sons: Sir George, Thomas and
Nicholas. (XIV) Nicholas Putnam, third son of Wil
liam and Anne (Hampden) Puttenham, of
Penne, in 1534 bore the same arms as his elder
brother, Sir George. He had sons: John and
Henry. (XV) Henry, youngest son of Nicholas Put
nam, was named in the will of his brother
John in 1526.
(XVI) Richard, son of Henry Putnam, was
of Eddelsboro in 1524, and owned land in
Slapton. His will was proved February 26,
1557, and he left a widow Joan. He had sons :
Harry and John.
(XVII) John, second son of Richard and
Joan Putnam, was of Wingrave and Slapton;
was buried October 2, 1573, and his will was
proved November 14 following. His wife Mar
garet was buried January 27, 1568. They had
sons : Nicholas, Richard, Thomas and John.
(XVIII) Nicholas, eldest son of John and
Margaret Putnam, was of Wingrave and Stuke-
ley; died before September 27, 1598, on which
date his will was proved. His wife Margaret
was a daughter of John Goodspeed. She mar
ried (second) in 1614, William Huxley, and
died January 8, 1619. Children of Nicholas
and Margaret Putnam: John, Anne, Eliza
beth, Thomas and Richard.
(I) John, eldest son of Nicholas and Mar
garet (Goodspeed) Putnam, was of the nine
teenth generation in the English line and first
of the American line. He was born about
1580 and died suddenly in Salem Village, now
Danvers, Massachusetts, December 30, 1662,
aged about eighty-two years. It is known that
he was a resident of Aston Abbotts, England,
as late as 1627, as the date of the baptism of
the youngest son shows, but just when he came
to New England is not known. Family tradi
tion is responsible for the date 1634, and the
tradition is known to have been in the family
over one hundred and fifty years. In 1641,
new style, John Putnam was granted land in
Salem. He was a farmer and exceedingly well
off for those times. He wrote a fair hand,
as deeds on file show. In these deeds he styled
himself "Yeoman" ; once in 1655, "husband
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fifty acres, and was situated between Daven
port's hill and Potter's hill. John Putnam was
admitted to the church in 1647, s'x years later
than his wife, and was also a freeman the same
year. The town of Salem in 1644 voted that
a patrol of two men be appointed each Lord's
Day to walk forth during worship and take
notice of such who did not attend service and
Who were idle, etc., and to present such cases
to the magistrate; all of those appointed were
men of standing in the community. For the
ninth day John Putnam and John Hathorne
were appointed. The following account of the
death of John Putnam was written in 1733
by his grandson Edward : "He ate his supper,
went to prayer with his family and died before
he went to sleep." He married, in England,
Priscilla (perhaps Gould), who was admitted
to the church in Salem in 1641. Their chil
dren, baptized at Aston Abbotts, were : Eliza
beth ; Thomas, grandfather of General Israel
Putnam, of the revolutionary war; John, Na
thaniel, mentioned below ; Sara ; Phoebe ; John.
(II) Nathaniel, third son of John and Pris
cilla Putnam, was baptized at Aston Abbotts,
October 11, 1619, and died at Salem Village,
July 23, 1700. He was a man of considerable
landed property ; his wife brought him seventy-
five acres additional, and on this tract he built
his house and established himself. Part of his
property has remained uninterruptedly in the
family. It is now better known as the "old
Judge Putnam place." He was constable in
1656, and afterwards deputy to the general
court, 1690-91, selectman, and always at the
front on all local questions, whether pertaining
to politics, religious affairs, or other town
matters. "He had great business activity and
ability and was a person of extraordinary
powers of mind, of great energy and skill in
the management of affairs, and of singular
sagacity, acumen and quickness of perception.
He left a large estate." Nathaniel Putnam
was one of the principles in the great lawsuit
concerning the ownership of the Bishop farm.
His action in this matter was merely to pre
vent the attempt of Zerubabel Endicott to push
the bounds of the Bishop grant over his land.
The case was a long and complicated affair,
and was at last settled to the satisfaction of
Allen and Putnam in 1683. December 10, 1688,
Lieutenant Nathaniel Putnam was one of the
four messengers sent to Rev. Samuel Parris to
obtain his reply to the call of the parish. Parris
was afterwards installed as the minister of the
parish, and four years later completely de
ceived Mr. Putnam in regard to the witch
craft delusion. That he honestly believed in
witchcraft and in the statements of the afflicted
girls there seems to be no doubt ; that he was

not inclined to be severe is evident, and his
goodness of character shows forth in marked
contrast with the almost bitter feelings shown
by many of those concerned. That he should
have believed in the delusion is not strange,
for belief in witchcraft was then all but uni
versal. The physicians and ministers called
upon to examine the girls, who pretended to
be bewitched, agreed that such was the case.
There can be no doubt that the expressed
opinion of a man like Nathaniel Putnam must
have influenced scores of his neighbors. His
eldest brother had been dead seven years, and
he had succeeded to the position as head of
the great Putnam family with its connections.
He was known as "Landlord Putnam," a term
given for many years to the oldest living mem
ber of the family. He saw the family of his
brother, Thomas Putnam, afflicted, and being
an upright and honest man himself believed
in the disordered imaginings of his grandniece
Ann. These are powerful reasons to account
for his belief and actions. The following ex
tract from Upham brings out the better side
of his character : "Entire confidence was felt
by all in his judgment and deservedly. But he
was a strong religionist, a lifelong member of
the church, and extremely strenuous and zeal
ous in his ecclesiastical relations. He was
getting to be an old man, and Mr. Parris
had succeeded in obtaining, for the time, pos
session of. his feelings, sympathy and zeal in
the management of the church, and secured his
full cooperation in the witchcraft prosecutions.
He had been led by Parris to take the very
front in the proceedings. But even Nathaniel
Putnam could not stand by in silence and see
Rebecca Nurse sacrified." A curious paper
written by him is among those which have
been preserved : "Nathaniel Putnam, senior,
being desired by Francis Nurse, senior, to give
information of what I could say concerning
his wife's life and conversation. I, the above-
said, have known this said aforesaid woman
forty years and what I have observed of her,
human frailties excepted, her life and conver
sation have been to her profession, and she
hath brought up a great family of children and
educated them well, so that there is in some
of them apparent savor of godliness. I have
known her differ with her neighbors, but I
never knew or heard of any that did accuse
her of what she is now charged with." In
1694 Nathaniel and John Putnam testified to
having lived in the village since 1641. He
married, in Salem, Elizabeth, daughter of
Richard and Alice (Bosworth) Hutchinson, of
Salem Village. She was born August 20, and
baptized at Arnold, England, August 30, 1629,
and died June 24, 1688. In 1648 both Na-

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thaniel and his wife Elizabeth were admitted
to the church in Salem. Their children, all
born in Salem, were : Samuel, Nathaniel, John,
Joseph, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Mary.
(Ill) Captain Benjamin Putnam, youngest
son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hutchinson)
Putnam, was born December 24, 1664, at Salem
Village, and died at the same place about 171 5.
He was a prominent man in Salem and held
many town offices, being tithingman of the
village in 1695-96; constable and collector in
1700; selectman in 1707-13, and was often on
the grand and petit juries. He was chosen to
perambulate the bounds between the towns of
Salem and Topsfield, which was his last ap
pearance on the records, in 1712. He held the
position of lieutenant and captain ; served in
the Indian war and received the titles in 1706-
11. It appears that he was imprisoned at one
time, but for what cause does not appear,
Among the signatures to the certificate of char
acter of Rebecca Nurse appear the names of
Benjamin and his wife Sarah. Rev. Joseph
Green, in his diary, mentions calling on "Land
lord Putnam," and that he was very sick and
out of his head. December 30, 1709, he was
chosen deacon of the church of the village.
His will, dated October 28, 1706, was proved
April 25, 1715. He gives to his son (minister
at Reading) "one hundred and fifty pounds
for his learning." "Overseers, Uncle John
Putnam and Captain Jonathan Putnam." All
his children but Josiah are mentioned. He
was married. August 25, 1686, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Putnam (according to
Colonel Perley Putnam), but on the Salem
records the births are recorded as by wife
Hannah. His first wife died December 21,
1705, and he married (second) July 1, 1706,
Sarah Holton. His children were: Josiah;
Nathaniel; Tarrant; Elizabeth; Benjamin;
Stephen ; Daniel, mentioned below ; Israel ;
Cornelius. (IV) Rev. Daniel Putnam, sixth son of
Benjamin and Hannah (or Elizabeth) (Put
nam) Putnam, was born November 12, 1696,
in Salem Village, and died June 20, 1759, at
Reading, Massachusetts. His father left him
in his will "one hundred and fifty pounds for
his learning." In 1718 the north precinct of
Reading voted to give him twenty acres of
land if he would be their minister, also "to
build Mr. Putnam an house 28 feet long, 19
feet wide and 15 feet stud, a lenter on the back
side 10 feet stud, three chimneys from the
ground, and chamber chimney, and convenient
parlor and convenient well, in lieu of the 100
pounds, if Mr. Putnam finds nails and glass
for the house." He was not ordained until
1720, at which time the church had thirty-nine

members. He was their minister thirty-nine
years, and added one hundred and ninety-four
persons to the church, baptized four hundred
and ninety-one, and married one hundred and
eleven couples. He married, February 25, 1718,
Rebecca Putnam, born August 16, 1691. Their
children were: Rebecca; Daniel, mentioned
below; Aaron, died young; Sarah; Hannah;
Elizabeth; Mary; Joshua; Aaron; Bethia;
Susanna. (V) Deacon Daniel (2) Putnam, eldest son
of Rev. Daniel (1) and Rebecca (Putnam)
Putnam, was born November 8, 1 721, in Read
ing, died November 5, 1774, in the same town.
He was elected deacon of the church in North
Reading in 1754; was selectman of Reading in
1763-68-71, and in 1773 represented his town
in the general court. June 4, 1774, Hannah
Putnam, spinster, was appointed administratrix
on his estate. He married Hannah, daughter
of Henry and Hannah (Martin) Ingalls, of
North Andover, Massachusetts, who was born
September 12, 1723, and died May 11, 1761,
in Reading. Their children were : Henry,
mentioned below ; Daniel ; Joshua ; Rebecca ;
Aaron ; Sarah.
(VI) Henry, eldest son of Deacon Daniel
(2) and Hannah (Ingalls) Putnam, was born
May 7, 1755, at North Reading, and died No
vember 27, 1806, at the same place. He was
a man of influence in the community, and was
chosen deacon of the church in 1778. He
responded to the alarm of April 19, 1775, and
served nine days in Captain John Flint's com
pany. He married (first) November 9, 1775,
Mary Hawkes, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts,
who died January 21, 1794, (second) Lucy,
daughter of Peter and Ann (Adams) Tufts,
of Charlestown, who married (second) in June,
181 1, Jacob Osgood. She cared for James
Otis, the patriot, for many years, and he was
killed by lightning in her house.
(VII) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and
Mary (Hawkes) Putnam, was born June 28,
1778, died in January, 1827, in Brunswick,
Maine. He was graduated from Harvard Col
lege in 1802; served in many town offices in
Brunswick, and in 1808 was named as chair
man of a committee to petition the president
to withdraw the embargo act. He was repre
sentative from Brunswick in 1813. He married,
September 13, 1807, Catherine Hunt, daughter'
of Joseph Pease Palmer, of Roxbury, Massa
chusetts, who was born in 1783, and died De
cember 12, 1889. She taught school in Bruns
wick from 1807 to 1825, when she removed
to New York. Children: Henry, born 1808,,
died 1815; Catherine, 1810, died 1827; George
Palmer, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, 1816,
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(VIII) George Palmer, son of Henry (2)
and Catherine Hunt (Palmer) Putnam, was
born February 7, 1814, in Brunswick, Maine,
and died December 20, 1872, in New York.
He received his early training with his sisters
in his mother's school, a well-known and popu
lar institution of Brunswick. He enjoyed the
sports of the times and region, skating on the
Androscoggin river in winter and boating up
and down the same in summer. When he was
eleven years of age he was offered an appren
ticeship in Boston to the mercantile business
by the husband of his mother's sister, John
Gulliver. The latter's son, John Putnam Gul
liver, was of the same age as young Putnam,
and they became companions in the business
training and work of the store. This establish
ment was devoted chiefly to carpets, and its
owner was a man of strict puritanical views.
The boys slept together in the rear of the store
and were chiefly occupied in keeping the place
in order. There were few holidays and the
business day was a long one. The Sabbath
was observed with a full New England strict
ness, including morning and evening prayers
at home, Sunday school and two long church
services. No reading was permitted on the
Sabbath except works of a devotional char
acter, and there were very few books then
available to the young men. Young Putnam
had a strong taste for reading and in later
years he often referred to the "literary starva
tion" which he suffered in Boston, and also
referred to the compunctions of conscience he
experienced when surreptitiously reading a
volume of Miss Edgeworth's tales. This be
longed to the forbidden class of fiction and its
reading was looked upon as a frivolity.
He remained with his uncle in Boston about
four years, and decided in 1829 to try his
chances of securing a livelihood in New York.
Here he very soon became engaged in literary
work, and during the first years after his
arrival, when he was fifteen years old, he began
a historical manual which was completed in
three years' time. In 1833 he completed and
published through West & Trow a weekly
chronicle entitled the Publishers' Advertiser.
He undertook to review the current publica
tions which in that year included the first
volume of Bancroft's "United States," Ab
bott's "Young Christian," Mrs. Sigourney's
"Sketches," and Cooper's "Letters to My
Countrymen." His first introduction to the
book trade was made very shortly after his
arrival. He speaks of his first studies as
conning paragraphs in the papers beginning
"Boy Wanted." His second application was
made at a little book and stationery store on
Broadway, near Maiden Lane, where he en

gaged himself to do errands, sweep, etc., for
which he was to receive a wage of twenty-five
dollars per year and board in the family of his
employer, George W. Bleecker, who lived over
his store. For a short time he was engaged as
a canvasser in the interest of a quarto-monthly
published by Mr. Bleecker, which took him on
a cruise up the Hudson river. He was subse
quently employed as first clerk in the Park
Place House, an emporium of literature and
art, and still later was general clerk and mes
senger for Jonathan Leavitt, in a two-story
building at the corner of John street and
Broadway ,.Mr. Leavitt being the leading pub
lisher of theological and religious books.
About this time Daniel Appleton, founder
of the great house of D. Appleton & Company,
became connected with Mr. Leavitt. In that
era an edition of one thousand copies of a new
book was the average, and those of five hun
dred copies were as usual as any exceeding
two thousand. After Mr. Appleton had estab
lished his own business he and Mr. Leavitt
published jointly an edition of one thousand
copies, including some four hundred pages, pre
pared by young Putnam, entitled "Chronology,
an Introduction and Index to Universal His
tory." It had been prepared originally for his
own benefit as a reference. It was his^custom
in these times to repair to the Mercantile
Library, then recently opened, after the closing
of the store where he was employed, which
was usually after nine o'clock. He read almost
exclusively works of history. In the shop of
Mr. Leavitt he was advanced to two dollars
per week, and after a few months to four
dollars. With this large income he felt able
to rent a seat in the church. In 1833 he entered
the employ of Wiley & Long, publishers and
booksellers. In 1840 he became a partner, and
the firm was styled Wiley & Putnam, Mr.
Wiley being about one year the senior of Mr.
Putnam. At that time the Appletons and I. &
J. Harper were the leading publishers in New
York, and the principal retail booksellers were
Stanford & Swords. A very large portion of
the books then sold in New York were im
ported from England. In the firm of Wiley &
Putnam the publishing division was in charge
of the junior partner, while the senior gave his
attention chiefly to the selling. Mr. Putnam
held to the view that irrespective of nationality
or political boundaries contemporary authors
should receive the returns secured from the
publication of their works, and he became inti
mately associated with Bryant, Matthews, Hal-
leck, Cooper & Fay. In 1840 he made his first
business journey to England, in the effort to
establish a closer relation between the book
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a second journey to London and established a
branch. house in that city in Paternoster Row,
the old-time center of the London book trade.
The business of this agency was the sale of
American books and the purchase of English
publications for sale in the United States.
Thus began the great publishing house now
having a world-wide reputation and known as
G. P. Putnam's Sons, and which still maintain
a London publication office, The firm of G. P.
Putnam was established in 1848 and in 1853
began the publication of Putnam's Monthly.
In 1862 Mr. Putnam was appointed by Presi
dent Lincoln collector of internal revenue of
New York and this position he acceptably filled
for three years. His activities in connection
with the spread of literature and art were
numerous, and he was one of the founders,
and at the time of his death honorary superin
tendent, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1872 he was chairman of the American
committee on art at the Vienna Exposition.
His literary work was early recognized by
Bowdoin College, which conferred upon him
in 1853 the honorary degree of Master of
Arts. The career of Mr. Putnam furnishes an
excellent example of the fact that a liberal
education is not indispensable in the develop
ment of one's best powers, if he be an earnest
and painstaking student. He was accustomed
to refer humorously to the granting of this
degree as a reward for his service in spread
ing the alarm on one occasion when a fire broke
out in the college buildings at Brunswick while
he was a small boy.
Mr. Putnam organized in 1837 the earliest
of the American copyright leagues or associa
tions, and he was from that date until the year
of his death, 1872, the secretary and the work
ing man in the series of leagues and associa
tions which had for their purpose the bringing
of the United States into copyright relations
with Europe and securing for authors on both
sides of the Atlantic, irrespective of political
boundaries, the returns due to them for their
labor. He married, in May, 1841, in New York,
Victorine, born 1824, daughter of Joseph
Haven, and his second wife, Mary Parsons
Tuttle. Joseph Haven was a son of Samuel
Haven, a merchant of Boston, and was engaged
in the china trade of that city. He became
broken in health and died there while his
daughter Victorine was an infant. The chil
dren of George Palmer and Victorine (Haven)
Putnam were: Mary Corinna, born 1842, mar
ried, 1873, Abram Jacobi, M. D. ; George
Haven, mentioned below ; Edith G., born 1846;
John B., born 1848; Amy V., born 1850;

Irving, born 1852; Bayard, born 1854; King
man, born 1856; Ruth, born i860; Herbert,
mentioned below; Sidney, born 1869. Several
of the children were possessed of literary taste
and have contributed more or less to American
literature. Among the principal works issued by the
father were : "American Facts," London and
New York, 1846; "The World's Progress," a
manual of historical reference, New York and
London, 1832-1871 ; "Tabular Views of Uni
versal History." This constitutes the second
division of "The World's Progress," and has
been issued in successive editions from 1832 to
1908. The last edition is rewritten and brought
down to date. The elder son is the author of :
"The Question of Copyright," New York and
London, 1892 ; "Authors and Their Public in
Ancient Times," New York and London, 1898;
"The Artificial Mother," New York and Lon
don, 1884; "Books and their Makers in the
Middle Ages," New York and London, 1900;
"The Censorship of the Church, a Study of
the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes,"
with reference to their influence on the pro
duction and distribution of books, two volumes,
New York and London, 1906-07 ; "Authors and
Publishers," a manual of suggestions for be
ginners in literature (written in cooperation
with J. B. P.), 1899, New York and London;
"Abraham Lincoln ; the People's Leader in the
Struggle for National Existence," 1910. John
Bishop Putnam, the second son, co-author of
"Authors and Publishers," is also the author
of "A Norwegian Ramble." He is the founder
and president of the Knickerbocker Press.
Ruth Putnam is the author of "William the
Silent," two volumes, 1900, New York, Am
sterdam and London; "Medieval Princess,"
1905, New York and London; "Charles the
Bold of Burgundy," 1908, New York and Lon
don. Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D., who died
in 1905, had had a distinguished career as a
physician. She was the first woman to secure
admission to, and a degree from, the School of
Medicine in Paris. She was the author of a
number of medical treatises, and was a con
stant contributor to the scientific journals.
(IX) George Haven Putnam, Litt. D., eld
est son of George P. and Victorine (Haven)
Putnam, was born April 2, 1844, in London,
and was educated at Columbia University, New
York, _ at Gottingen and Paris. He enlisted in
1862 in the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth
Regiment New York Volunteers and was
promoted successively to sergeant, lieutenant,
quartermaster, adjutant, and was on retiring
commissioned major. He served in the Army
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ginia, and participated in the engagements of
the Red River campaign, and of Sheridan's
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1865
he was appointed deputy collector of internal
revenue and served until 1866. In 1866 he
was admitted a partner in his father's pub
lishing house, which is now incorporated under
the style of G. P. Putnam's Sons and of- which
he is head. The establishment occupies quar
ters extending from Twenty-third to Twenty-
fourth street, near Fifth avenue, and in the
Putnam building, in Forty-fifth street, near
Fifth avenue. Mr. Putnam has taken active
part in copyright legislation. He reorganized
in 1886 the Publishers' Copyright League, of
which he has since been secretary and working
member. He was interested in taking up the
copyright work that his father had originated,
and the league of which he was secretary was
finally able to bring about in 1891 the inter
national copyright legislation for which the
earlier Putnam had worked for forty years.
He is himself the author of numerous volumes
bearing upon the relations of author and pub
lisher, as well as of a memoir of his father,
which was printed in two volumes for private
circulation. He has received honorary degrees
from Bowdoin College, the University of
Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He
is a member of the Century Association, and
of the City, trfl* Authors' and the Economic
clubs of New York, and of the Legion of
Honor (France).
He married (first) in July, 1869, Rebecca
Kettell Shepard, who died in July, 1895. He
married (second) April 27, 1899, Emily
James, daughter of Judge James C. and Emily
(Adams) Smith, a graduate of Bryn Mawr,
and from 1894 to 1900 dean of Barnard Col
lege. His children by his first wife were:
Bertha Haven, Ethel Frothingham, Corinna
Haven and Dorothy Leslie. By his second
wife: Palmer Crosslett, born July, 1900.
(IX) Herbert Putnam, Litt. D., son of
George Palmer Putnam, was born September
20, 1 86 1, in New York City, and graduated
from Harvard College in 1883. He was
librarian of Minneapolis Athenaeum and Public
Library from 1884 to 1891 ; was librarian of
the Boston Public Library from 1895 to 1899,
and in 1899 was appointed librarian of con
gress, and was delegate to the International
Library Conference in 1897, and president of
the American Library Association in 1898. He
was admitted to the bar in 1886.
Mr. Putnam married, in October, 1886,
Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Charles W.
Munroe, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their
children are : Shirley and Brenda.

George Willis, the immigrant,
WILLIS was born in England in 1602.
He came to New England in
1636 or earlier and settled in Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts. He was a mason by trade and in
Cambridge engaged in the manufacture of
brick. In 1636 he was a proprietor of the town
of Cambridge, and he was admitted a freeman
of the colony, May 2, 1638. He petitioned
to be excused from training in 1662. He was
probably a brother of Michael Willis, cutler,
of Dorchester. There were at least seventeen
emigrants bearing the name of Willis in Mas
sachusetts and Plymouth colonies before 1650,
and it is, of course, impossible to trace the con
nection between them, if any existed. George
Willis acquired considerable land in Cam
bridge, Brookline, Billerica and vicinity. He
resided on the west side of the common in
Cambridge. In 1638 he was a deputy to the
general court. He married (first) Jane Pal
frey, widow, who had children John and Eliza
beth Palfrey. The son, John Palfrey, who
came to America and joined the church at
Cambridge, December 10, 1658, is the progen
itor of the Palfrey families in this country.
On joining the church in 1640 Jane Willis
spoke of formerly being in Newcastle and
Heddon, England. George Willis married
(second) Sarah  , who survived him.
He died September, 1690. Children of George
and Jane Willis : John, born in 1630; Nathan
iel, mentioned below ; George ; Thomas, born
December 28, 1638, at Cambridge ; Roger, in
1640, settled in Sudbury; Stephen, October
14, 1644.
(II) Nathaniel, son of George Willis, ap
pears to have left practically no record behind
him. He owned land in Dorchester. The
family history names as his children : Nathan
iel, mentioned below ; John, married Rebecca
Tufts ; Andrew, married Susanna  .
(Ill) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Willis, is believed to have had these children:
Charles, mentioned below ; James, Richard,
had a son William at Boston.
(IV) Charles, son of Nathaniel (2) Willis,
married, in 1727, Anna Ingalls, probably
daughter of John and Sarah (Russell) In
galls. Her will proved in 1765 mentions only
two children : Charles, mentioned below ;
Anna, born December 29, 1731.
(V) Charles (2), son of Charles (1) Wil
lis, was born in Boston, August 21, 1728. His
father appears to have died when he was a
child and he was brought up in Boston in the
bookstore of John Phillips and Nathaniel Bel
knap on Cornhill. He was a sailmaker. He
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daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Bailey)
Belknap, granddaughter of Joseph and Abigail
(Buttolph) Belknap and great-granddaughter
of Abraham Belknap, of Boston, ancestor of
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Belknap, of Boston, author
of "The History of New Hampshire." His
mother was daughter of John Bailey and
granddaughter of the gifted Rev. Thomas
Bailey, of Watertown. Children : Charles,
born 1753 ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Abi
gail, married, 1785, Lieutenant Isaac Collins.
(VI) Nathaniel (3), son of Charles (2)
Willis, was born February 7, 1755, died in
Ohio, April 1, 183 1.
He was a printer by trade. From June,
1774, to January, 1784, he published the Inde
pendent Chronicle, a Whig newspaper, in Bos
ton, printed in the same building in which
Benjamin Franklin had worked at his trade.
He was an active man, a fine horseman and a
leader of the patriots. He took part in the
Boston tea party and was adjutant of the Bos
ton regiment sent on an expedition to Rhode
Island under General Sullivan in the revolu
tionary war. In 1784 he sold his interest in
the Independent Chronicle and became one of
the pioneer journalists of the frontier. He
removed first, however, to Winchester, Vir
ginia, where he published a paper for a short
time; then to Shepardstown, where for a time
he published a paper, and thence in 1790 to
Martinsburg, Virginia, where he founded the
Potomac Guardian and published it until 1796.
In that year he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio,
and established the Scioto Gazette, the first
newspaper in what was then known as the
Northwest Territory. He was printer to the
government of the territory and afterward
held an agency in the post office department.
He bought and cultivated a farm at Chilli
cothe, where his death occurred.
He married (first) at New London, Con
necticut, Lucy Douglas, born September 22,
1755, at New London, daughter of Nathan
and Anne (Dennis) Douglas, granddaughter
of Thomas and Hannah (Sperry) Douglas
and great-granddaughter of Robert and Mary
Douglas, first of Ipswich, Massachusetts, then
of New London. She died in Boston, May 1,
17—- He married (second), January 18, 1789,
Mary Cartwell, at Winchester, Vir-ginia, born
September 7, 1770, died September 9, 1844.
Children by first wife: Andrew and Mary,
died young ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Re
becca, born July 28, 1782. By second wife:
Elijah C, born January 9, 1790; Sarah A.,
May 10, 1791 ; Mary A., February 12, 1793;
Eliza A., October 7, 1795; Catherine C, May
12, 1797; Martin C, February 19, 1799; Julia
A., March 29, 1801 ; Matilda, November 22,

1802 ; Henry C, February 5, 1805 ; James M.,
January 20, 1808; Madeline C, October 19,
1811. (VII) Nathaniel (4), son of Nathaniel (3)
Willis, was born in Boston, June -6, 1780, died
May 26, 1870. He remained there until 1787,
when he joined his father in Winchester, Vir
ginia, and was set to work folding newspapers
and setting type. At Martinsburg, a few years
later, he became postrider and with his time-
honored tin horn used to deliver the papers
from saddle-bags through the country round
about. A sketch of the old office of the Poto
mac Guardian, made by Porte Crayon is in the
possession of Richard Storrs Willis, of De
troit. At the age of fifteen Nathaniel returned
to Boston and entered the printing office of
his father's old newspaper, the Independent
Chronicle, working in the same pressroom in
which his father and the great Franklin had
worked in their day as- apprentices. He also
found time while in Boston to drill a militia
company, the Fusiliers. In 1803, at the request
of a Maine congressman and others of the
Republican party, he established at Portland,
Maine, the Eastern Argus. Party feeling was
vehement and the controversies in his news
paper soon involved Willis in costly libel suits.
After six years he sold the newspaper to
Francis Douglas. At this time, through the
influence of Rev. Dr. Edward Payson, the
editor turned his attention to religion. From
1810 to 1812 he made efforts to establish a
religious newspaper in Portland, but secured
no substantial support. In the meantime he
supported himself by publishing tracts and
religious books. In January, 1816, he started
the Boston Recorder, which he asserted to be
the first religious newspaper in the world. He
conducted this paper until 1844, when he sold
it to Rev. Martin Moore, and it still lives in
the Congregationalist and Boston Recorder.
Willis also originated the idea of a religious
paper for children. The Youth's Companion,
which he commenced in 1827 and edited for
about thirty years, was the first and remains
to-day perhaps the best and most successful
publication of its kind.
Charles Dudley Warner wrote of him :
The elder Willis, though a thoroughly good man
and good father, was a rather wooden person. His
youth and early manhood had been full of hardship;
his education was scanty, and he had the formal and
narrow piety of the new evangelicals of that day,
revolting against the latitudinarianism of the Bos
ton Churches. He was for twenty years deacon of
the Park Street Church, profanely nicknamed by
the Unitarians Brimstone Corner. * * * His
rigidity was, perhaps, more in his principles than in
his character, and his austerity was tempered by
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consist with the diaconate, namely, a sense of
humor — dry of course to the correct degree — and
an admiration for pretty women, or, in the dialect
of that day, for female loveliness.
Mr. Willis married (first) Hannah Parker,
who was a native of Holliston, Massachusetts,
"a woman whose strong character and fervent
piety were mingled with a playful affection-
ateness which made her to her children the
object of that perfect love which casteth out
fear." The testimony to her worth and her
sweetness is universal. The Rev. Dr. Storrs,
of Braintree, in an obituary notice written on
her death in 1844, at the age of sixty-two,
spoke of her as "the light and joy of every
circle in which she moved; the idol of her
family, the faithful companion, the tender
mother, the affectionate sister, the fast and
assiduous friend." She was born January 28,
1782, died in Boston, March 21, 1844, daugh
ter of Solomon and Elizabeth Parker, descend
ant of John Parker, a pioneer of Hingham.
Mr. Willis married (second), July 8, 1845,
Susan (Capen) Douglas, widow of Francis
Douglas. She was born October 11, 1790.
Children: ,1. Lucy Douglas, born May 11,
1804; married Josiah F. Bumstead. 2. Na
thaniel Parker, mentioned below. 3. Louisa
Harris, born May 11, 1807; married Rev. L.
Dwight. 4. Julia Dean, a talented writer in
her brother's paper ; never married. 5. Sarah
Payson, born July 9, 181 1 ; a prolific and suc
cessful writer for children under the name of
"Fanny Fern ;" married Charles Eldridge. 6.
Mary Perry, born November 28, 1813, died
unmarried, March 22, 1853. 7. Richard Storrs,
born February 10, 1819; editor of the Musical
World, author of "Our Church Music," a
poet and musical composer of note ; married
Jessie Cairns. 8. Ellen Holmes, born Sep
tember 23, 1821, died February 5, 1844; mar
ried, June 12, 1843, Charles F. Dennett.
(VIII) Nathaniel Parker, son of Nathaniel
(4) Willis, was born in Portland, Maine, Jan
uary 20, 1806. He began his school life under
the instruction of Rev. Dr. McFarland, of
Concord, New Hampshire. Afterward he
attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips
Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, and
Yale College, from which he was graduated
with high honors in the class of 1827. While
in college he began to write under the signa
ture of "Roy," and he published various reli
gious articles and won the first prize offered
by Lockwood, the publisher, for the best poem
contributed to his gift book, "The Album."
After leaving college he became the editor of
the "Legendary" and the "Token," a series of
sketches and tales, published by S. G. Good
rich, known as "Peter Parley." In the follow

ing year, 1828, he established the American
Monthly Magazine, and conducted it for two
years and a half, when it was merged with the
New York Mirror, and the interesting literary
partnership of the editors, Nathaniel P. Wil
lis and George P. Morris, began. Willis went
abroad as soon as the partnership was
launched and contributed to the Mirror the
piquant sketches called "Pencilings by the
Way," while traveling. He made a long and
interesting journey through all the countries
of the Continent. During his foreign resi
dence he wrote for the New Monthly Maga
zine the tales and sketches of "Philip Slings-
by." In 1837 Mr. Willis returned home and made
his home near the village of Oswego, New
York, at "Glenmary." The sudden loss of his
income by the death of his father-in-law and
the failure of his booksellers, five years later,
compelled him to return to the city. For a
time he was associated with Dr. Porter in the
publication of the Corsair, a weekly critical
journal. While in London soon afterward he
published a collection of stories, poems and
letters under the title of "Loiterings of
Travel," and another volume, "Two Ways of
Dying for a Husband," which contained his
plays, "Bianca Visconti" and "Tortesa the
Usurer," and when he returned he found the
Corsair had failed and he engaged with Gen
eral Morris in the publication of the New Mir
ror, first as a weekly, afterward as a daily.
The New Mirror passed into other hands while
Willis was sick abroad, and upon his return
he was again associated with General Morris
in the publication of a weekly, the Home Jour
nal. As editor and contributor in New York,
and at his second country place, "Idlewild," on
the Hudson, Willis toiled faithfully through
the twenty-one years of life that remained to
him. During the civil war he went to the
front as correspondent of his paper. He died
at "Idlewild," January 20, 1867.
A recent writer says of his early life;
He figured to some extent in the more fashion
able society of Boston, gave great care to his dress
and personal appearance, and drove a high-step
ping bay horse which he named Thalaba. For
frequenting the theatre and neglecting his duties
in Park Street Church, he was excommunicated
from the church. In England Lady Blessington
and other persons of less notoriety and perhaps as
secure position took him up and made much of him.
To women particularly, and often to older women,
he was here, as elsewhere, very attractive. He was
given the entree of the best clubs, and found it as
easy as it had been at New Haven to make himself
agreeable to everybody. No, not everybody, for
when his Pencilings were reprinted in England
there were those who took him roundly to task for
some the things he had said. He fought a duel
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He was unquestionably among the foremost
poets and writers in this country in his day.
No complete edition of his works has been pub
lished. Thirteen volumes published by Scrib-
ner contained a large part of his writings. A
bibliography is given in the biography written
by Professor Henry A. Beers, edited by
Charles Dudley Warner, and published in the
"American Men of Letters" series of the River
side Press in 1885. This list describes twenty-
nine books, besides nine others that he edited
and wrote in part.
He married (first) in England, Mary Leigh-
ton Stace, daughter of a British army officer
who won distinction in the battle of Waterloo,
commissary-general in command of the arsenal
at Woolwich. She was a woman of great
beauty, grace and sweetness of character. He
married (second), October 1, 1846, Cornelia,
an adopted daughter of Hon. Joseph Grinnell,
of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a congress
man from Massachusetts. She was born March
19, 1825, died in 1904. Child by first wife :
Imogene, born June 20, 1842. Children of
second wife: Grinnell, mentioned below; Lil
lian, born April 27, 1850 ; Edith, born Septem
ber 28, 1853; John Bailey, born May 30, 1857.
(IX) Grinnell, son of Nathaniel Parker
Willis, was born at 19 Ludlow place, New
York City, April 28, 1848. He attended the
public schools of New Bedford, Massachu
setts, and the Friends Academy of that city.
He is a partner of the firm of Grinnell Willis
& Company, merchants and agents of the
Wamsutta Mills, 44 and 46 Leonard street,
New York City. Mr. Willis has inherited the
literary tastes of his father and has written
some poetry, but his life has been devoted
mainly to business. He married, October 24,
1874, Mary Baker Haydock, born March 13,
1849, daughter of Robert and Hannah (Whar
ton) Haydock. Children: Hannah Haydock,
born in New York City, December 31, 1875;
Cornelia Grinnell, born in New York City,
August 31, 1877; Joseph Grinnell, born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1879.
The name of Norton is of an-
NORTON cient origin and the many dis
tinct families in America bear
ing it are undoubtedly descended from the
same source. Their lineage can be traced back
to Le Signr de Noruile (Norvile), who crossed
the channel with the Norman Conquerer and
subsequently served as the latter's constable.
This de Norvile married a lady of the famous
house of Valois. Dr. Norton, of London,
England, has made much research to discover
the earliest origin of the family and finds it
first in Norway, whence came a large portion

of the inhabitants of Normandy, France, the
original home of William the Conqueror. In
Norway it had its present form, but the influ
ences of the French language changed it some
what, being made Nordville and Norvile. A
few generations after its arrival in England
it was changed to the original form of Norton.
The senior William D. Norvile was chamber
lain of William the Conqueror at the time of
the conquest. A descendant of Cantable de
Norville in the sixth generation, anglicized the
name into its present form of Norton. Pro
fessor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard Uni
versity, is a lineal descendant of the constable
in the twenty-first generation. In addition to
Norton street, a prominent London thorough
fare, there are in England several important
rural communities of this name — Chipping
Norton, Sedbey Norton, King's Norton and
Phillip's Norton, all of ancient origin and
doubtless deriving their name from some
prominent family or individual. Several immi
grants of this name are mentioned in the early
colonial records of New England. Captain
Walter Norton arrived in America in 1630.
George Norton, of Salem, Ipswicli, and other
places, who came from London, was made a
freeman in 1634, and died in 1659. William
Norton, of Hingham and Ipswich, born in
England, 1610, came in the "Hopewell" in
1635, and took the freeman's oath the same
year. Rev. John Norton, brother of William,
born in 1605, probably in London, emigrated
to Massachusetts Bay in 1635, shortly after
graduating from Cambridge, and located in
Ipswich. In 1656 he became pastor of the
First Church in Boston, and was noted for his
piety and learning. Nicholas Norton, who is
thought to have come from the county of
Herts, was of Weymouth, Massachusetts, as
early as 1638, removed to Martha's Vineyard,
and his descendants are still found there. A
Francis Norton was admitted a freeman at
Weymouth in 1642. Major Peter Norton,
an efficient officer in the revolutionary war,
was a son of Ebenezer, grandson of Joseph,
and great-grandson of Joseph, the Martha's
Vineyard settler.
(I) Nicholas Norton was born in 1610, in
England, and settled in Weymouth, Massa
chusetts, among the pioneers. February 20,
1639, he bought of Richard Standerwick, of
Broadway, Somersetshire, a clothier, all the
cattle in the hands of Mr. Hull, in New Eng
land. He was a prominent citizen and held
various town offices. He removed to Martha's
Vineyard, and died there in 1690, aged eighty
years. Children: Joseph, mentioned below;
Nicholas; Isaac, born at Weymouth, May 3,
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(II) Joseph Norton, born about 1640, was
a son of Nicholas Norton, and may have been
a nephew of some of the other immigrants
mentioned in a preceding paragraph, though
no actual proof of relationship has been found.
He settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in the
vicinity of which the Nortons named above
settled. He took the oath of allegiance and
fidelity in 1677, and was a soldier against the
Indians in 1697. He died November 16, 1721,
at Salisbury. He married, March 10, 1662,
Susanna, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas
Getchell, who died his widow August 19, 1724.
Children, all born at Salisbury: 1. Son, 1662,
died young. 2. Samuel, October 11, 1663; a
soldier in service at Wells, Maine, in 1696.
3. Joseph, August 14, 1665. 4. Priscilla, De
cember 16, 1667; married John, son of Robert
Ring. 5. Solomon, mentioned below. 6. Ben
jamin, March 24, 1671-72, died October, 1693.
7. Caleb, June 25, 1675; married, March 6,
1699-1700, Susanna Frame; was a soldier in
1697-98, and subsequently removed to Bruns
wick, Maine. 8. Flower, November 21, 1677.
9. Joshua, October 13, 1680, died January 22,
1692-93. (Ill) Solomon, fourth son of Joseph and
Susanna (Getchell) Norton, was born January
31, 1670, in Salisbury, and resided in that
town, where he died May 2, 1721. His wife
bore the baptismal name of Sarah, and they
had children in Salisbury: Miriam, born De
cember 4, 1695 ; Benjamin, mentioned below ;
John, January 14, 1701 ; Maria, November 9,
1704; Gideon, August 1, 171 1.
(IV) Benjamin, eldest son of Solomon and
Sarah Norton, was born February 24, 1699,
in Salisbury, and settled in Newbury, where
he died February 27, 1756. He married (first)
in Newbury, June 14, 1722, Margaret Rich
ardson, born September 27, 1699, in Newbury,
daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Godfrey)
Richardson, and died there November 11,
1742. There were six children of this mar
riage: Judith, 1723; Joshua, November 4,
1728; Hannah, died young; Benjamin, August
11, 1734, died young; Hannah, March 5, 1737;
Miriam, August 6, 1739. Benjamin Norton
married (second) December 5, 1744, Mercy
Shute, born April 18, 1710, in Maiden, Mas
sachusetts, daughter of Richard and Lydia
Shute. Children recorded in Newbury : Mary,
born September 12, 1745; Benjamin, men
tioned below; Sarah, May 24, 175 1.
(V) Benjamin (2), third son of Benjamin
(1) Norton and second child of his second
wife, Mary Shute, was born January 16, 1747,
in Newbury, and died April 28, 1816, in New-
buryport. He was a private in the brigantine
"Freedom," commanded by Captain John
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Clouston, in June, 1776. He married, Novem
ber 26, 1775, in Newburyport, Sarah Wyatt,
born February 7, baptized February 8, 1776,
in the Third Church of Newbury, daughter of
John Wyatt, and died March 7, 1834, in New
buryport. Children: Benjamin, born July 21,
1777; Joshua, died young; Sarah, November
3, 1780; Hannah, August 11, 1782; Catharine,
February 27, 1784; Joshua, January 5, 1786;
Stephen, January 8, 1788; Mary Brown, Octo
ber 31, 1790; William, January 8, 1792; Eliz
abeth, February 18, 1794; Daniel, mentioned
below; Charles, May 4, 1798, the last not on
Newburyport records.
(VI) Daniel, sixth son of Benjamin (2)
and Sarah (Wyatt) Norton, was born Febru
ary 18, 1796, in Newburyport, and was engaged
in the sailmaking business during the greater
part of his active career. He removed to Bos
ton about 1830, and died at Melrose, Massa
chusetts, August 3, 1884. He married (first)
in Newburyport, August 19, 1819, Jane
Cheever, born there July 17, 1801, daughter of
John and Sarah (Hidden) Cheever, and died
October 2, 1820, in Newburyport. Their only
child, Jane, born September 9, 1820, died 1897,
married Samuel Francis Hunt, of Cambridge,
who died the same year ; they had four chil
dren : Charlotte Jane, born June 30, 1846;
Francis Edgar, June 20, 1848, married Re
becca Franklin Nickerson, January 15, 1885;
Abigail Elizabeth, died in second year; Alfred
Herbert, September 15, 1861, married, April
4, 1900, Kathryn Cecilia Kyle, of Brooklyn,
New York, and has children : Alfred Herbert,
born June 1, 1901, William Edgar, July 11,
1906, both in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Daniel Norton married (second) in Newbury
port, March 20, 1822, Mary Carr, born Sep
tember 3, 1800, on Carr's Island, Newbury
port, Massachusetts, daughter of Levi and
Mary (Putnam) Carr, and died in Charles
town, Massachusetts, August 2, 1877. Mary
(Carr) Norton was a lineal descendant of
George Carr, one of the Mayflower colony,
who was born about 1598-99 in England, and
was ship carpenter on the Mayflower. He
married (first) in England, Lucinda Daven
port, who came to America with him and was
one of the forty-one who died at Plymouth in
the succeeding winter. A few years later he
settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he
was found of record as early as 1633 and had
a house lot in 1635. He removed to Salisbury,
Massachusetts, where he received land in the
first division in that town in 1640-41-44, and
his name appears in most of the early lists of
citizens. In 1640 the town granted him Carr's
Island, and he established a ferry there in
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have a common right in Amesbury when any
of his sons came to live there, and he received
land in 1668. The records give him the title
of "Mr.," which was given in those days only
to the most prominent citizens. He agreed to
keep the ferry in Amesbury at Goodwin's
Landing in April, 1670. He died April 4,
1682, in Salisbury. He had married (second)
Elizabeth, supposed to have been a daughter
of Elder Thomas Oliver, of Boston, as James
Oliver, the latter's son, is spoken of in the
records -as a brother-in-law of George Carr.
She survived him, was a member of the Salis
bury church in 1687, and died May 6, 1691.
Her will was made March 18, 1684, and
proved June 30, following her death. Children :
Elizabeth, George, Richard (died young), Wil
liam, James, Mary, Sarah, John, Richard and
Anne. Daniel and Mary (Carr) Norton had
children : 2. Daniel, born June 4, 1823, died
March, 1900; married Hannah Higgins, of
Charlestown, who died in 1897; children: i.
Ellen Wade, died at the age of twenty-three
years; ii. Alice May, born May 22, 1857, mar
ried John Randall Heath, of Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, and had a son Donald, born
June 24, 1883 ; iii. Ada L., June 16, 1859, mar
ried Winthrop Messenger, of Melrose, Massa
chusetts, and has children : a. Winthrop Nor
ton, born October 1, 1883; b. Stuart, February
14, 1891 ; c. Hazel, September 17, 1893. 3.
Mary Elizabeth, June 29, 1826; married (first)
January 31, 1847, Allen F. Eastman, who died
March 6, 1890; their daughter, Mae Aphia,
died in her second year. She married (second)
December 18, 1902, John Mitchel Osgood,
who died October 14, 1908. 3. Clarissa Ann,
February 12, 1829, died June 24, 1909; mar
ried July 31, 1857, Edward John Norris, died
1906 ; children : i. Walter Eliott, died in fourth
month; ii. Webster, born October 20, 1859;
married Margaret Stetson ; iii. Clara Augusta,
November 21, 1861, married Arthur E. Rob
erts, and had daughters: Marjorie, born De
cember 27, 1890, and Emma Norris, died in
second year; iv. George Lincoln, January 11,
1866, married Rachel Parker; v. Walter
Henry, March 6, 1870, married July 6, 1897,
Effie Louise Shapleigh, and has children : a.
Elizabeth, born August 8, 1898; b. Katherine,
June 7, 1901 ; c. Edward John, March 21,
1908; d. Emerson Shapleigh, October 31,
191 1 ; vi. Emma Josephine, February 5, 1874,
died 1910. 4. Hannah Bartlet, August 24,
1832; married January 15, 1852, Thomas L.
Summers ; died January 16, 1854. 5. James
Carr, February 9, 1835, died at age of twelve
days. 6. Sarah, August 15, 1836; married
October 5, 1856, Thomas L. Summers, who
died January 11, 1886; children: i. Hannah

Frances, born July 5, 1857; married March
26, 1890, William Merritt; ii. Arthur War
ren, May 21, 1859; married Mabel Bond, and
has children: Grace B., born March 31, 1897;
Arline W., December 7, 1898; Arthuf War
ren, April 18, 1902; iii. Mary Eunette, Feb
ruary 24, 1864. 7. Caroline Duntlin, August
2, 1839; married Thomas W. Griffith; chil
dren : i. Mary Eliza, born January 8, 1866,
married, August 12, 1890, James Arthur
Crawford, and had children : Allen F. E.,
died in sixteenth year; Phebe Hooper, born
March 12, 1896; ii. William Henry, December
13, 1868; married October 2, 1890, Abbie
Boston, and has children: Emory, born March
28, 1891 ; Florence May, January 23, 1893;
Harold, February 21, 1895; Ralph, December
21, 1898. 8. William Edward, mentioned
below. (VII) William Edward, youngest child of
Daniel and Mary (Carr) Norton, was born
June 28, 1843, m Boston, and was educated
in the public schools of Charlestown. For a
number of years he attended the Lowell Insti
tute science lectures and art classes, and was
one of the founders of the life classes at that
institute. Mr. George Hollingsworth and Mr.
Carleton, art instructors there, were Mr. Nor
ton's first teachers in art. He studied anatomy
under Dr. Rimmer, of Boston, and also pur
sued that subject in the Harvard Medical
School, the Royal Academy in London and the
Beaux Arts in Paris. When quite young he
learned the trade of house sign and decorative
painting, but his wonderful artistic talent fitted
him for more interesting and higher work.
When a mere boy he manifested a talent for
art and had a wonderful knack of drawing,
especially of horses and ships. In order to
satisfy his craving for knowledge of ships and
the ocean he went to sea as a sailor. Return
ing to Boston he studied painting under the
renowned George Inness, of that city, and took
a studio, soon becoming known as a marine
painter. He made two more voyages as a
sailor prior to going to London, England, in
1877, and in 1878 exhibited three pictures at
the Royal Academy, following which he went
to Paris for further study under Jacquesson
de la Chevreuse and A. Vollen, and at the
Beaux Arts. Some three or four years later
he visited Italy and other parts of Europe and
afterwards opened a studio in London, where
he lived until 1902. At the Salon in Paris in
1895, Mr. Norton received honorable mention,
and while in Europe he was a constant and
regular exhibitor in the Royal Academy in
London, in the Paris Salon, and in many of
the public art galleries of other countries. In
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gold medals for his work, besides two Osborne
prizes, $500 each, and the Jordan prize, $1,000.
Since 1902 he has been a resident of New
York City, his studio being located at No. 1931
Broadway. Mr. Norton's paintings have been
chiefly marine views and scenes pertaining to
and having to do with the sea and sailors.
One of his well-known paintings is "The Eng
lish Channel," which adorns the Chamber of
Commerce at Boston, and he also painted the
celebrated picture entitled, "Fight of the Ala
bama and Kearsage," which is owned by the
Historical Society of Portland, Maine. "Fish
Market, Dieppe, France," which hangs in the
public library at Maiden, Massachusetts, was
executed by him, as was also "Crossing the
Grand Banks," which is in the Abbot Hall,
Marblehead, Massachusetts. Essex Hall, Sa
lem, Boston Art Club, Boston Athletic Club,
and Black Heath Art Club of London own
examples of his work. Three more of his
famous pictures are : "The Thames from
London Bridge;" "Tranquillity;" "Midst Fog
and Ice." In political conviction Mr. Norton
is a stalwart Republican, and in religious mat
ters he is independent. He is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, having been made a
Mason in Winslow Lewis Lodge at Boston, in
1877. He is a member of the Salmagundi
Club of New York, and the Boston Art Club,
and was formerly a member of the Natural
History Society, Papyrus Club, and the Bos
ton Yacht Club of Boston. He is a member
of the National Geographic Society of Wash
ington, D. C.
He married, September 23, 1868, Sarah
Dorcas Ryan, of Grand Manan, New Bruns
wick, Canada, where he passed several sum
mers sketching the rugged and picturesque
scenery of that locality. Mrs. Norton was
born October 3, 1846, and died in New York,
May 15, 1904. Children: Gertrude Maud,
born October 27, 1871, in Charlestown, Mas
sachusetts; Florence Edith, July 1, 1879, in
Paris, France.

Joseph Richards married
RICHARDS Agnes  , who was bur
ied March 31, 1608. They
lived in North Leigh, Oxfordshire, England.
(II) William, son of Joseph Richards, was
baptized May 20, 1586. He lived in North
Leigh, Oxfordshire, England. His wife died
about July 18, 1632.
(Ill) Dr. Joseph (2) Richards, of New
gate, in the parish of Whitney and county of
Oxford, England, son of William Richards,
was baptized April 27, 1628, died in 1710-11.
He was the immigrant ancestor, and he settled
on five^ hundred acres of land near Chester,

Delaware county, Pennsylvania. His will is
recorded in Philadelphia, dated July 6, 1710-
11, proved February 16, 1711-12. In his will
he mentioned his children and grandchildren.
Pie was buried at Old Chichester, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania. He married Jane  .
Children : Joseph, married Mary  ; Na
thaniel, mentioned below; Ann, married (first)
Anthony Weaver, and (second) Humphrey
Scarlott; Susanna, married James Lowne, and
had four or more children.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Dr. Joseph (2)
Richards, died in 1700. His will was dated
December 26, 1699. He married Mary, daugh
ter of Richard Mason. Children: William,
probably died young; Nathaniel, mentioned
below; Elizabeth, married, about 1716, Roger
Kirk; Mary, probably died young.
(V) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Richards, was probably the only son in this
generation to continue the family name. He
died in 1730. He married Margaret, who died
December 5, 1796, aged ninety, widow of Wil
liam Carpenter. She left one hundred and
thirteen descendants. She was daughter of
Allen and Sarah (?) Wiley, and was born
about 1706. Children: William Richards, mar
ried (first) April 13, 1751, Joanna Jenkins,
and (second) May 10, 1759, Jane Miller; Na
thaniel ; Isaac, mentioned below.'
(VI) Isaac, son of Nathaniel (2) Richards,
was born in 1727, died in 1821, aged ninety-
four. He was only three years old when his
father died. He married (first) January 17,
1753, Mary Gregg, of Hockessing. She was
daughter of Thomas Gregg, who married, Feb
ruary 10, 1729, Dinah Harlan, and who died
September 1, 1748; Dinah was daughter of
Michael, died 1729, and Dinah (Dixon) Har
lan, married January, 1690; Dinah Dixon was
daughter" of Henry Dixon ; Michael Harlan
was son of James Harlan. Thomas Gregg was
son of John, born about 1668, died 1738; mar
ried, 1694, Elizabeth, daughter of  and
Elizabeth (Fox) Cocke; John Gregg was son
of William, who died July 1, 1687. Isaac Rich
ards married (second) November 10, 1763,
Rebecca Miller. Children by first wife: 1.
Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Nathaniel, born
September 21, 1756. 3. Isaac, born April 18,
1759, died June 22, 1854; remained on home
stead at Toughkenamon, Pennsylvania; mar
ried (first) Ann Pusey, and (second) Tamsen
Hoopes. 4. William, born January 17, 1761.
5. Mary, March 1, 1762. 6. Lydia, twin of
Mary. (VII) Thomas, son of Isaac Richards, was
born June 10, 1755, died February 8, 1837,
aged eighty-two years. He moved to Cecil
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1795. He married, September 27,, 1779, at
Uwchlan Meeting, Hannah Cox, born about
1753, died August 7, 1823, aged seventy years,
daughter of Lawrence and Sarah (Edge) Cox;
Lawrence Cox is said to have come from Eng7
land to Willistown, where he died about 1760;
he married at Middletown meeting, February
5, 1739, his second wife, Sarah, who died De
cember 6, 1805, daughter of John and Mary
(Smedley) Edge; Joha Edge was born May,
1685, died about 1734, married, August, 1709,
Mary, born February 3, 1690, daughter of
George Smedley, died 1723, and Sarah Kitchin,
married 1687; John Edge was son of John and
Jane Edge ; and this John who was born about
1646, died May 10, 171 1, was son of George
Edge. Children: 1. Sarah, born 1781, died
1828; married, May 18, 1797, William Moore,
born February 24, 1771. 2. Isaac, born 1783,
died December 15, 1832 ; married Lydia Wood,
born 1774, died June 19, 1839. 3. Hannah,
born September 19, 1785, died November 25,
1859; married, 1819, Samuel Taylor, born
April 2, 1768, died April 22, 1852, son of
Elisha and Elizabeth Taylor; children: Isaac
R., Samuel H., Sarah. 4. Thomas, mentioned
below. 5. Mary, born May 7, 1790, died Feb
ruary 14, 1828; married, September 15, 1819,
Abraham Metcalf, son of Abraham and Mary
Metcalf. 6. Jacob, born September 4, 1793,
died August 6, 1881 ; married, November 4,
1819, Sarah B. Taylor, of Kennett; died
March 7, 1868. 7. Rachel, born November 16,
1798; married, 1823, Mahlon McMillan, son
of Thomas and Ruth (Moore) McMillan.
(VIII) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Richards, was born November 11, 1787, died
October 9, 1868, aged eighty-one. He married,
April 14, 1814, Orpah Stubbs (see Stubbs).
Children: 1. Ruth Hannah, born May 20, 1816,
died February 3, 1909 ; married Amos Preston,
died August 27, 1875, and had two sons,
Thomas and Albert W., and a daughter Eliza
beth. 2. Isaac Stubbs, mentioned below. 3.
Joanna A., born July 10, 1822, died 1855 ; mar
ried Isaac Jackson.
(IX) Isaac Stubbs, son of Thomas (2)
Richards, was born September 7, 1819, died
April 19, 1864. He married, March 11, i84i,at
Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Mercy
Ann Reynolds, and their children were: 1.
Ruthanna, born 1843, died March 6, 1896;
married Joseph R. Coates, born May 12, 1834.
2. Joseph Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Louis
Henry, born 1847, died 1895 ; married, October
29, 1885, Rebecca Williamson; child, Arthur
Louis. 4. Isaac Stubbs, born 1848, died Au
gust 19, 1880; married, February 25, 1874,
Margaret Deal, and had no children. 5. Jacob
Granville, born 1851; married (first) Decem

ber 26, 1872, Jennie Elizabeth Langdon, and
(second) Mae V. Pennington; had four sons
by first wife, William, Harry F., Joseph T. and
Hampton, and three daughters and one son by
second wife, Mae Ruth, Josephine Mercy,
Granville P. and Margaret S. 6. William
Franklin, born January 12, 1855, died July 19,
J859- 7- Mercy Ann, born and died Septem
ber 24, 1859.
(X) Joseph Thomas, son of Isaac Stubbs
Richards, was born near Rising Sun, Mary
land, February 12, 1845. He was educated
largely at the West Nottingham Academy,
Maryland, Rev. S. A. Gayley, president, and
George K. Bechtel, a graduate of Princeton
College, principal, and finishing at Polytechnic
College of Pennsylvania, of which Dr. A. L.
Kennedy was then president. After mastering
the profession of civil engineering, he entered
the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany in 1869 as a rodman and transitman dur
ing the construction of the railroad shops at
Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was made super
visor of a division of the main line from
Harrisburg to Newport in 1870, leaving this
position in 1871 to become chief engineer of
the Kent County railroad, on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. After the construction
was completed the board of directors elected
him to fill the position of superintendent, secre
tary and auditor. He managed the railroad
for about one year, and returned to the Penn
sylvania railroad in 1873 as chief of locating
engineers for the surveys of three routes over
the Allegheny mountains, intended to form a
connecting link between the Bedford division
and the main line at Altoona and Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. After finishing the surveys, with
estimates of cost, the work was abandoned be
cause of a financial panic in 1874, and he re
signed and accepted the position of mining
engineer for the Cambria Iron Company at
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He returned to the
Pennsylvania railroad in 1875. He was for
one year supervisor of the main line from
Newport- to Granville, and early in 1876 was
promoted to be assistant engineer in charge of
constructing the system of tracks, bridges and
stations for the Philadelphia Centennial Ex
position. After the centennial year he was
appointed principal assistant engineer of the
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Com
pany, with office at Jersey City, New Jersey,
continuing in that position until 1883, when he
was made assistant to the chief engineer with
office at Philadelphia. In 1885 his title was
changed to assistant chief engineer. In 1893
the maintenance of way department of the rail
road was created and he was made the engi
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including all lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie
to New York and Washington, becoming chief
engineer of the department for the entire
system in 1903. This position made him the
operating engineer for the company and a staff
officer of the general manager, and besides
caring for the buildings and tracks he had
charge of such construction work as came
under the department of the general manager.
Mr. Richards has been deemed an authority
on railroad engineering, both in construction
and maintenance, for many years, and has
written quite extensively on the economy and
efficiency of this department of railroading.
His address to the American Civic Association
at the annual meeting in 1907 at Brown Uni
versity, Providence, Rhode Island, on "The
Railroad as a Factor in Civic Improvement,"
has been republished extensively throughout
the country. The efficiency of his organization
was exemplified in the repairs after the Johns
town flood in 1889, when he had about nine
thousand organized for the emergency work
of rebuilding the lost bridges, buildings and
roadbed. In the beginning of this disaster he
rebuilt eleven hundred feet of the railroad
bridge over the swollen waters of the Susque
hanna river at Montgomery, Pennsylvania, in
three days and a half, and the entire line from
Philadelphia to Johnstown was opened for
traffic in fourteen days. Another item of
efficiency work done under Mr. Richards'
direction was in 1897, when the old metal span
of 286.3 leet of double track bridge over the
Schuylkill river at Philadelphia was moved
twenty-seven feet, replaced by the new struc
ture moved the same distance, without inter
rupting the regular schedule of trains. The
longest interval between trains was thirteen
minutes, but the actual time taken to move the
old and new spans was but two minutes and
twenty-eight seconds. Mr. Richards, at the
request of President Frank Thomson, wrote
an account of this feat to answer the criticism
of an English technical journal, in which it
was called an incredible feat and described as
"credible, if credible," because "nothing of the
kind has ever been done." The journal pub
lished Mr. Richards' account, stating that it
was a case like Columbus' egg — easy enough
when you understand it. Mr. Richards was
for a number of years the designing and con
structing engineer for the new piers at New
York and Philadelphia for the International
Navigation Company. The steel pier No. 14
in New York, north of Cortlandt street, North
river, was, when finished, considered by a com
mittee of experts as the most complete in its
appointments for steamships of any building
in the harbor. He cooperated with the late

president, Alexander J. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, in planning much
of the construction work on the system during
his administration, and all the operating de
tails of stations and yards were entrusted to
Mr. Richards. The new station constructed
by the Terminal Company at Washington, D.
C, and owned jointly by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company, built to accommodate all
the main lines entering Washington from the
south, was planned by a committee of which
Mr. Richards was chairman. He was also
chairman of various committees of operating
officers in charge of the plans and construction
of the new Pennsylvania Railroad Station in
New York City. This station presented many
new problems, the tracks being forty-two feet
below the street level, with numerous supports
located at the track level for the station build
ing, and the tracks were arranged for opera
tion either by tunnel engines or multiple-unit
trains. The United States mail building was
constructed over the tracks also. In .such a
vast expenditure of money it was necessary to
secure the greatest possible efficiency and
capacity. The architects of the station reported
direct to the railroad committees, which had
to harmonize many differences of opinion be
tween architects and engineers. The perfect
order and train service at the opening of the
station demonstrated that every feature of the
great undertaking had been worked out suc
cessfully. Mr. Richards is first vice-president of the
West End Trust Company ; former president
of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia ; mem
ber of the Union League of Philadelphia, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers, the American
Society for Testing Materials, the American
Railway Engineering Association, the Amer
ican Forestry Association, the American Rail
way Association, and a member of the board
of trustees of the Jacob Tome Institute of
Port Deposit, Maryland. In national politics
he is a Republican ; in religion he is a member
of the Society of Friends, as his family has
been since early in the seventeenth century.
He married, November 26, 1873, Martha
Elizabeth Ernest, born December 5, 1848,
daughter of Henry Wooster and Mary Ann
(Walters) Ernest. Children: 1. Mercy, born
February 11, 1875; married, June 3, 1896,
Norman Sturgis Essig, D. D. S., born Novem
ber 6, 1869; children: Charles James Essig,
born March 12, 1898; Joseph Richards Essig,
January 14, 1902. 2. Mamie, October 18,
1876, died August 30, 1877. 3. Joseph Ernest,
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Catharine Louise Fletcher, born March 28,
1886; children: Philip and Herold, born Janu
ary 26, 1909, died next day ; Christine Louise,
January 11, 1910. 4. Amy, born September
12, 1883; married, February 2, 1909, Edwin
Oberlin Fitch Jr., United States navy, born
January 6, 1882; child, Susanna Fitch, born
November 3, 1910. 5. Martha, born February
20, 1888, died October 21, iP""

William Frothingham,
FROTHINGHAM immigrant ancestor of
all the colonial families
of this surname, was born in England about
1600, and came from the vicinity of Holder-
ness in Yorkshire, the ancient seat of the fam
ily, which probably came thither from Scot
land. The name spelled Fotheringham was
common in Forfarshire, Scotland, before 1300,
at the very beginning of the use of surnames.
In the ancient History of Scotland by John
Lesley, vol. i, p. vi., the family of Fodring-
hame together with Crychton, Giffert, Manlis,
Borthik "and others" are said to have come
from Wugre (Hungary) under Malcolm, King
of Scotland, with his wife Queen Margaret.
But Hailes raised a doubt of the accuracy of
the statement. Indeed, it seems that the final
syllable indicates a local origin of Fothering
ham, though the surname may have been a
place name taken by a Hungarian noble after
the custom of the time, eventually becoming
the family name.
William Frothingham came from England
in Winthrop's fleet, and was one of the pro
prietors of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in
1630. He was admitted a freeman, March 6,
1631-32. With his wife Anne he was admitted
to the church in Boston in 1630 and joined the
new church at Charlestown in 1632. He was
an adherent of Rev. John Wheelwright who
founded Exeter, brother of the celebrated
Mrs. Hutchinson, but Frothingham finally re
nounced his beliefs and remained in the estab
lished church of the Puritans at Charlestown.
His wife Anne died July 28, 1674, aged sixty-
seven years (see gravestone). He had a grant
of land from the town on the Mystic side
(Woburn) of ten acres. His house and four
acres of land were bounded on the north by
the Mystic river, east by homesteads of George
Bunker and Thomas Ruck; west by E. Mel
lows and Abraham Pratt. He had eight other
parcels of land on record. His will is dated
September 31, 1651, and was proved February
6, 1652. The document itself has been in the
possession of the family many years, though
the records show that it was proved properly.
He bequeathed his property to his wife, and
the inventory places a value of fifty pounds on

his house and orchard. His widow bought a
house and land in Charlestown in 1656 of
Grace Palmer. Her will, dated October 4,
1672, was proved October 6, 1674, bequeathing
to her son Samuel, J. Kettell, Peter and Na
thaniel Frothingham, and Thomas White, who
received her house, orchard and barn. Chil
dren, born in Charlestown : Bethia, born Feb
ruary 7, 1631; John, August 10, 1633; Eliz
abeth, March 15, 1635; Peter, April 15, 1636;
Mary, April 1, 1638; Nathaniel, mentioned
below; Stephen, November 11, 1641 ; Hannah,
March 29, 1642; Joseph, December 1, 1645;
Samuel. (II) Nathaniel, son of William Frothing
ham, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
April 16, 1640, died there December 12, 1688.
His gravestone is preserved. He died the
same day as his brother, Peter Frothingham.
He joined the church with his wife, January
22, 1670-71. He lived in Charlestown and
was granted two common rights there in 1681.
He owned land on what is now called Bunker
Hill. He was a legatee of the estate of Wil
liam Croft, of Lynn, in 1689, or rather his
eldest son was, together with the eldest chil
dren of his brother Peter. His estate was
divided in 1708. He married, February 6,
1667, Mary Hett, and she married (second)
in 1694, Samuel Kettell. Children : Mary,
born September 25, 1668, died January 9,
1679; Nathaniel, April 16, 1670, died July 28
following ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Han
nah, November 26, 1673, died young; Thomas,
December 2, 1675; Joseph, October 31, 1677;
Benjamin, December 26, 1679; Eliphalet, Sep
tember 5, 1681 ; Mary, November 14, 1682;
Hannah, May 30, 1685 ; Abigail, May 10,
1687; Abiel (daughter), May 26, 1689, died
June 5, 1689.
(Ill) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Frothingham, was born July 2, 1671. He was
admitted to the church with his wife, Febru
ary 17, 1705-06. He was a carpenter. His
name was on the tax lists of 1727 and 1729.
In 1696, with his father's heirs, he deeded
land to Kidder which had been inherited from
his father. He bought of his brothers Benja
min and Thomas, in 1702, one-half house join
ing the north end of his father's house and
land below, fifty-two feet broad, and in 1708
he bought of heirs of his father, one-third of
an orchard. There are recorded also many
other purchases made by him at different
dates. His will was dated June 16, 1725-26,
and proved August 24, 1730. He bequeathed
to his wife and three daughters all the estate
during his wife's life, and afterwards ii was
to be divided among all the children. On June
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executor of his estate. He married, April 12,
1694, Hannah Rand, who died April 23, 1760,
aged eighty-seven, according to her gravestone.
He died July 31, 1730, aged fifty-nine (grave
stone). Children: Hannah, born June 8, 1695,
died August 15, 1714; Elizabeth, January 20,
1696-97; Nathaniel, mentioned below; Mary,
January 19, 1700; Joseph, July 15, 1703;
Sarah, December 8, 1705; Benjamin, April 6,
1708; Thomas, January 3, 1709-10; Ruth,
August 10, 1712.
(IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2)
Frothingham, was born December 7, 1698,
died May 7, 1749, aged fifty, according to his
gravestone. He was taxed in 1727-48. In
1723 his father deeded to him a lpt of land,
and some purchases of other lands are re
corded, as well as land which he sold. He was
a painter. His widow was made administratrix,
May 22, 1749, and the inventory amounted to
one thousand four hundred and sixty-six
pounds. He married, July 27, 1721, Susanna
Whittemore. She married (second) Stephen
Badger, in 1756. Children : Nathaniel, men
tioned below; Joseph, born January 15, 1723-
24; Susanna, October 23, 1725 ; .Hannah, Oc
tober 17, 1727; William, October 16, 1729;
Jabez, July 23, 1731, died November 30, 1748;
Jonathan, August 15, 1733; James, August 22,
1735- (V) Nathaniel (4), son of Nathaniel (3)
Frothingham, was born June 2, 1722. He
lived in Charlestown and Boston and was a
coachmaker. In the shops at one period were
four of the family bearing the name Nathaniel,
each designated by some peculiar, significant
term. He was taxed from 1756 to 1773. In
1746 his father deeded to him one-half house.
In 1784 he deeded to his son Nathaniel a lot,
and in 1786 he bought a house of Nathaniel
and Hepzibah Rand. In 1788 he bought of
Nathaniel Prentiss a house and one acre of
land partly in Cambridge and partly in Charles
town. In 1796 his son Ebenezer with his heirs
sold land to Page ; Nathaniel Frothingham's
executors in 1798 sold land to Nathaniel Pren
tiss, and also to John Page, and to Richard
Frothingham in 1799. Nathaniel Frothingham
married (first) March 1, 1743-44, Mary Whit
temore, who died December 18, 1763, aged
forty (gravestone). He married (second) in
1765, Ruth Taylor, who died October 12, 1800,
aged sixty-one, and on the gravestone is writ
ten : "Husband and two wives were all buried
here." He died in West street, Boston, March
14, 1791, aged sixty-nine. Children: Nathan
iel, baptized February 24, 1744-45; Nathaniel,
mentioned below; Richard, March 15, '1748;
Mary, baptized July 14, 1754; Ebenezer, De
cember 13, 1756; child, December 11, died-De-

cember 12, 1758; Susanna, September 19,
1763; Katharine, May 14, died October 1,
1765; Thomas, November 30, 1767; Peter,
November 24, 1775.
(VI) Nathaniel (5), son of Nathaniel (4)
Frothingham, was born April 6, 1746. He
was a coachmaker in Boston. This Nathaniel
Frothingham was one of those patriots who
took part in the Boston Tea Party, and dis
guised as Indians threw the tea overboard in
Boston Harbor. In 1784 his father deeded
him land on Main street. In 1785 he bought
land with cellar of B. Bradish. He bought of
Ebenezer Frothingham his levy on Soley &
Stearns, and in 1801 he sold land to John
Larkin. He married (first) May 16, 1771,
Rebecca Austin. He married (second) De
cember 22, 1785, Mary Townsend, who died
October 12, 1800, aged forty-two (suicide).
He married (third) May 2, 1804, Lydia Ket
tell. Children: Nathaniel, born 1779; Re
becca, 1781 ; Samuel, mentioned below; Mary,
1789; Susanna, 1792; Ruth,' married John
Redman, builder ; others who died young.
(VII) Samuel, son of Nathaniel (5) Froth
ingham, was born at Charlestown, March 4,
1787, died in 1869. He located in Boston,
became cashier of the State Bank, and latterly
for many years the president of the institution.
He was one of the prominent citizens of Bos
ton, taking part in many civic activities. He
married, in 1810, Eliza Atkins, born in 1792,
died in 1850. Children : Samuel, Harriet,
Eliza, Theodore, of whom further; Henry;
Cornelia, married Joshua H. Wolcott.
(VIII) Theodore, son of Samuel Frothing
ham, was born July 5, 1818, in Boston. He
received his education in Boston, and after
leaving school went into the dry goods busi
ness in that city. In 1859 he removed to Phil
adelphia, continuing in the same kind of busi
ness of which he had already made a success,
and there he resided until his death. Mr.
Frothingham was one of the original members
of the Union League Club, and was a very
well-known and conspicuous citizen. He mar
ried, February 4, 1845, Mary Frances Wol
cott, who was from Litchfield, Connecticut.
She was born July 9, 1823, at Litchfield, died
April 10, 1898, in Philadelphia. Children: 1.
Mary Goodrich, born March 1, 1846; married
Charles A. Brimlay, died July 15, 1911. 2.
Theodore, mentioned below. 3. E. Cornelia,
born December 22, 1853. 4. Bessye Wolcott,
born January 15, 1857; married Percival Rob
erts Jr. 5. Harriet Wolcott, born December
28, i860; married Dr. Herbert Norris.
(IX) Theodore (2), son of Theodore (1)
Frothingham, was born in Boston, Massachu
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college under Reginald Chase, in Philadelphia,
and matriculated at Harvard College, joining
as sophomore the class of 1870. He graduated
with his cousin, Roger Wolcott. After he left
college he engaged in business in Philadelphia
as a ship broker and commission merchant
until the year 1886. He then became con
nected with the Solicitors' Loan and Trust
Company as secretary, and later as vice-presi
dent and treasurer; secretary and assistant
treasurer of the Schuylkill River East Side
Railroad Company since 1886; president of
the Commercial Trust Company from 1894
until 1900; vice-president and treasurer of the
Philadelphia Securities Company since 1898,
and secretary and treasurer of the Assets
Realization Company since 1900. He was
director of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation for a number of years, and was also
director of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hos
pital for many years, being for three years its
treasurer. He has been director of the Penn
sylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb for
the past ten years, and as director has been
connected with a number of other corporations.
He was vice-president of the Harvard Club
of Philadelphia from 1892 to 1895, and presi
dent from 1895 to 1898. He was second vice-
president of the New England Society of
Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1903, and president
from 1903 to 1906. He is a member of the
Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, Country and other
clubs. He married, May 22, 1888, Lucy Jaudon
Harris, of Philadelphia. They have five chil
dren : Theodore, born April 19, 1889; Thomas
Harris, April 5, 1891 ; Huntington Wolcott,
September 19, 1893 > William Bainbridge, Oc
tober 30, 1898; Dorothea, May 6, 1909.
Mrs. Theodore Frothingham was the daugh
ter of Captain Thomas Cadwalader Harris,
United States navy, and Mary Louise Bain
bridge Jaudon. She was born in Philadelphia,
December 23, 1866. The father of Captain
Thomas Cadwalader Harris was Dr. Thomas
Harris, born January 3, 1784, who was the
first surgeon-general of the United States
navy. He practiced for many years in Phila
delphia, and was a prominent man of his time.
The father of Dr. Thomas Harris was Wil
liam Harris, born in Chester county, Pennsyl
vania, in 1757, and was a revolutionary officer,
later serving as brigadier-general. He was a
member of the legislature during the years
1779-80, and 1810-11-12. He died September
4, 1812. This patriot was the son of Thomas
Harris, born in 1722, who came in 1747 from
Ireland, and settled in Chester county, Penn
sylvania.

Celtic in origin, the name
MORGAN Morgan in the principality of
Wales is older than the advent
of the Saxon race or language. The deriva
tion has not been conclusively determined, but
Dixon, an English authority on surnames,
says it means by sea, or by the sea, which is
probably as nearly accurate as any explanation
may be. The name is allied to the Scotch
ceann mor, meaning big headland. Another
possible derivation is from the Welsh more
com, meaning sea burn, which is not essentially
different from the former interpretation, by
the sea.
The name was common at the time of the
Conquest, and appears in the Domesday Book
and in the Battle Abbey Roll. Among the
Welsh, several sovereign princes and other
potentates of the Morgan stock were living as
far back as the year 300 or 400. One of these
princes, Morgan of Gla Morgan, in 725, is
said to have invented trial by jury, a procedure
which he called "the apostolic law." "As
Christ and the twelve Apostles are finally to
judge the world, so human tribunals should
be composed of the king and twelve wise
men." This institution preceded by a cen
tury and a half the time of Alfred the Great,
who is generally credited with the law.
In the latter part of the sixteenth century
the family from which were derived the ances
tors of the American branch, moved from
Wales to Bristol, England. The immediate
family of Miles Morgan, who came to Massa
chusetts, was of Glamorganshire, Wales, and
there is reason to believe that his father was
William Morgan. Among the early families
of the American pioneers there was a tradition
of a little book owned by James Morgan, the
brother of Miles Morgan, dated before 1600,
and inscribed with the name of William Mor
gan of Llandaff. Other evidence in the shape
of antique gold sleeve-buttons stamped "W.
M.," in the possession of James Morgan,
pointed to the same conclusion, and these were
said to have been an heirloom from William
Morgan of Llandaff.
Arms — or, a griffin segreant sable; crest —
a reindeer's head coupled or, attired gules;
motto — Onward and Upward.
(I) Miles Morgan, who founded the family
of his name in New England, was born prob
ably in Llandaff, Glamorganshire, Wales,
about 1 61 5. Accompanying his older brother,
James Morgan, who settled in New London,
Connecticut, and John Morgan, who went to
Virginia, he sailed from Bristol, England, and
arrived in Boston in April, 1636. His first
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believed he remained for some years. Sub
sequently he joined the company, which led
by Sir William Pynchon, had founded Aga
wam (Springfield) on the Connecticut river.
It is not an historical certainty that he was
with the first company which went inland
from Boston, or that he was one of the found
ers of Agawam. That place was established
in 1636, and the name of Miles Morgan ap
pears on the records in 1643, showing that he
was there before that time, but how long
before is not known.
He became one of the leading men of Aga
wam. He acquired an extensive tract of land,
and was also a trader, sailing a vessel up and
down the river. One of the few fortified
houses in Agawam belonged to him, and he
was one of the leaders of the militia, having
the rank of sergeant. In all the fighting in
which the little settlement was engaged to
protect itself from the attack of the surround
ing savages, he was much depended upon for
his valor and his skill as a soldier. When,
during King Philip's War in 1675, the Indians
made an attack on Agawam and nearly de
stroyed the town, his house was the central
place of refuge for the beleagured inhabitants.
His sons, following the footsteps of their
father, were two noted Indian hunters, and
one of them, Peletiah Morgan, was killed by
the Indians. In the "records or list of ye
names of the townsmen or men of this Towne
of- Springfield in February, 1664, written by
Elizur Holyoke," he appears as Serj. Miles
Morgan. In 1655-57, 1660-62-68 he was a
selectman. He served as constable one year,
and at different times as fence viewer, high
way surveyor, and overseer of highways, and
also on various town committees. He died
May 28, 1699. A bronze statue of a Puritan
soldier standing in one of the public parks
of Springfield enduringly commemorates his
fame. He married (first) in 1643, Prudence Gil
bert of Beverly, Massachusetts. The tradition
is that on the vessel on which he came to
Boston Prudence Gilbert was also a passenger,
and there he made her acquaintance. She was
coming to the new world to join members of
her family already located in Beverly. After
he had' settled in Springfield he sent word to
her and proposed marriage. She accepted the
offer, and the young man with two friends and
an Indian guide leading pack horses, marched
across Massachusetts from the Connecticut
river to the "land of the people of the east,"
where the two young people were married.
After the marriage the household goods of the
young couple were laden on the packhorses,
and the bride on foot tramped back to Spring

field, one hundred and twenty miles, escorted
by the bridegroom and his friends. She died
January 14, 1660. Issue: 1. Mary Morgan,
born February 4, 1644; married Edmund
Pryngrydays. 2. Jonathan Morgan, born No
vember 16, 1646, died 1714; married Sarah
Cooley. 3. David Morgan, born September
23, 1648, died May 30, 1731 ; married Mary,
daughter of John and Mary Clark. 4. Pelatiah
Morgan, born July 7, 1650, killed by Indians in
1676. 5. Isaac Morgan, born May 12, 1652,
died between 1706 and 1708; married Abigail,
daughter of Samuel Gardner of Hadley, Mas
sachusetts. 6. Liddia Morgan, born April 8,
1653 > married John Pierce. 7. Hannah Mor
gan, born April 11, 1655, died January 7,
1698 ; married Samuel Terry, Jr. 8. Mercy
Morgan, born July 8, 1658. He married (sec
ond) February 15, 1670, Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas and Margaret Bliss. Issue: 9. Na
thaniel Morgan, of whom below.
(II) Nathaniel Morgan, son of Miles and
Elizabeth (Bliss) Morgan, was born in
Springfield, June 14, 1671. He settled in
West Springfield, where he made his home
during his entire life and was a successful
farmer. He died August 30, 1752. He mar
ried, January 17, 1691, Hannah Bird, who
died June 7, 1751. Of the seven sons and
two daughters of this marriage, all the sons
and one daughter lived to be over seventy
years of age. Issue : Nathaniel, born Feb
ruary 16, 1692; Samuel, born 1694, died in
December, 1699; Ebenezer, born 1696; Han
nah, born 1698; Miles, born 1700; Joseph, of
whom below ; James, born 1705 ; Isaac, born
1708, died November 7, 1796; Elizabeth, born
1710. (Ill) Joseph Morgan, son of Nathaniel and
Hannah (Bird) Morgan, was born December
3, 1702. He lived on the paternal farm in
West Springfield. He died November 7, 1773.
He married, in 1735, Mary Stebbins, daugh
ter of Benjamin Stebbins ; she was born July
6, 1712, and died December 6, 1798. Issue: 1.
Joseph, of whom below. 2. Titus, died in in
fancy. 3. Titus, born July 19, 1740; married
Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer Morgan, a son
of David Morgan and a grandson of Miles
Morgan. 4. Lucas, born February 26, 1743;
married (first) Tryphene Smith, died Febru
ary 20, 1793; married (second) Betsy East
man, of Granby, Massachusetts, daughter of
William Eastman. 5. Elizabeth, born December
23, 1745, died April 12, 1782 ; married Thomas
White. 6. Judah, born March 22, 1749; mar
ried Elizabeth Shivoy. 7. Jesse, born March
22, 1749, died June 15, 18 10; married (first)
Mercy Stebbins, of Deerfield, Massachusetts,
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Hannah Stebbins, of Deerfield. 8. Hannah,
born November 29, 175 1 ; married John Legg.
(IV) Joseph (2) Morgan, son of Joseph
(1) and Mary (Stebbins) Morgan, was born
February 19, 1736. He was a captain of
militia, and in character as well as in physique
he was reckoned one of the staunchest men of
western Massachusetts. He married, Septem
ber 9, 1765, Experience Smith, born October
23, 1741. Issue: 1. Eurydice Morgan, born
November 28, 1765; married Russell Ely. 2.
Huldah, born November 27, 1767, died March
24, 1770. 3. Huldah, born April 18, 1770;
married Edmund Ely. 4. Nancy, born July
22, 1772. 5. Achsah, born August 16, 1774;
married (first) Samuel D. Chapin, died Octo
ber 25, 1801 ; married (second) Nehemiah D.
Beardsley. 6. Joseph, of whom below. 7.
Betsey, born July 4, 1782, died July 13, 1786.
(V) Joseph (3) Morgan, son of Joseph (2)
and Experience (Smith) Morgan, was born
January 4, 1780. Leaving home when he was
a young man he settled in Hartford, Connec
ticut, and became a successful and respected
hotelkeeper. He died in 1847. He married
Sarah Spencer, of Middletown, Connecticut.
Issue: 1. Mary, married Rev. James A. Smith,
a Congregational clergyman of Connecticut.
2. Lucy, married James Goodwin, president of
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany ; their son, James Junius Goodwin, was
a banker and broker in New York. 3. Junius
Spencer, of whom below.
(VI) Junius Spencer Morgan, son of Joseph
(3) and Sarah (Spencer) Morgan, was born in
West Springfield, Massachusetts, April 14,
1813. His early years were spent in Hartford,
Connecticut, where he was educated. When he
had grown to manhood he went to Boston and
entered the banking house of Albert Wells,
where he gained his first knowledge of that
business in which he afterward became success
ful and distinguished. In July, 1834, he moved
to New York, entering the banking house of
Morgan, Ketchum & Company. Remaining in
New York only about two years he returned to
his native city and there established himself in
business as a dry goods merchant in the firms
of Howe, Mather & Company and Mather,
Morgan & Company. Subsequently he went
again to Boston, and still continuing in the
dry goods business became a partner of J. M.
Beebe in the famous firm of Beebe, Morgan
& Company, which in its prime was one of the
largest and most influential houses in that
trade in the United States.
Mr. Morgan visited England in 1853, an(i,
upon the invitation of George Peabody, be
came associated with that great banker as his
partner in October, 1854. In ten years he

succeeded entirely to the business of Mr. Pea-
body, and established the house of J. S. Mor
gan & Company, which shortly became one of
the largest banking houses in the world. The
later years of his life were spent largely
abroad, but he never lost his love for his native
country, and during the civil war he gave sub
stantial assistance to the cause of the national
government. He was a man of generous in
stincts, and contributed handsomely to the sup
port of educational and public institutions.
His activity as a layman in the affairs of the
Protestant Episcopal church was noteworthy,
and among other institutions, Trinity College,
of Hartford, Connecticut, owed much to his
munificence. He died in Nice, France, in
1895, as the result of an accident. He mar
ried, in Boston, in 1836, Juliet Pierpont,
daughter of Rev. John and Mary Sheldon
(Lord) Pierpont. Issue: 1. John Pierpont,
of whom below. 2. Sarah Spencer, born De
cember 5, 1839; married George Hale Mor
gan, born February 14, 1840, son of George
Denison and Caroline A. (Hale) Morgan, of
Hartford, Connecticut, and New York City,
and a descendant of James Morgan, of New
London, Connecticut. 3. Mary Lyman, born
November 5, 1844; married in London, Eng
land, Walter H. Burus, of New York. 4.
Junius Spencer, born April 6, 1846, died
young. 5. Juliet Pierpont, born December 4,
1847; married John Brainard Morgan, son of
George Denison and Caroline A. (Hale) Mor
gan. (VII) John Pierpont Morgan, only son of
Junius Spencer and Juliet (Pierpont) Morgan,
was born in Hartford, Connecticut, April 17,
1837, died in Rome, Italy, March 31, 1913.
He was educated in the English High School
in Boston, and then studied in the Univer
sity of Gottingen, Germany, where he com
pleted a full course, returning to the United
States when twenty years of age. He engaged
in the banking business with Duncan Sherman
& Company, of New York City in 1857, and
there obtained a full knowledge of finance in
a house which at that time was one of the most
prominent in the country. In i860 he became
American agent and attorney for George Pea-
body & Company, of London, with which
house his father was connected, and in 1864
he engaged in banking on his own account in
the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Company. In
1871 he became a member of the famous bank
ing house of Drexel, Morgan & Company, the
name of which in 1895 was changed to J. P.
Morgan & Company. At the same time he
was also a member of the firm of J. S. Mor
gan & Company, of London, of which his
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of his parent, he succeeded him in that con
cern. Thus he was head of the greatest private
bank in America, and of one of the most influ
ential monetary institutions in England.
His preeminence as a banker and financier
was recognized for nearly a quarter of a cen
tury. In those respects he was one of the most
potent powers that the United States has ever
known, and rivalled even the strongest men in
Europe. In the wonderful industrial and
financial development which characterized the
closing years of the nineteenth century in the
United States, and especially in the develop
ment of that movement toward the consolida
tion of industrial enterprises, Mr. Morgan was
not only prominent, but it is not too much to
say that at that time he exercised the most
powerful and helpful influence ever displayed
by any man in the financial history of the coun
try. Particularly will his genius and inde
fatigable labors in the organization and de
velopment of the United States Steel Corpora
tion be long remembered as a masterly achieve
ment, and in the opinion of many, as laying
the substantial foundation for the great indus
trial prosperity of the country which followed
in the years immediately after this accomplish
ment. Mr. Morgan was connected with nearly all
notable financial undertakings of his time, and
his influence was always of the soundest char
acter and conducive to the public welfare as
well as to the investing interests. A list of the
important reorganizations of railroad com
panies, the organizations of loans, and the
underwriting of industrial enterprises which
have been handled by him would be long and
imposing. Also in public affairs were his
services to the country of inestimable value.
Especially in 1894 and 1895, and at other
times of threatened monetary stringency, he
contributed .substantially and effectively to
protecting the credit of the United States
treasury. Although, when the banking disturbances
in New York City in the autumn of 1907
threatened to overwhelm the entire country
with supreme disaster, he had been largely
retired from active participation in affairs,
Mr. Morgan came forward again to save
the situation. In the grave emergency which
then arose he took the lead in measures in
stituted to prevent the widespread destruc
tion of public credit and overthrow of indus
trial and financial institutions that was immi
nent. His leadership in those trying days was
unreservedly accepted by men who were fore
most in the financial world in New York City,
and as well throughout the United States.
Among his associates he was relied upon for

initiative and for powerful influence, and even
the national administration depended upon his
advice and assistance. After the battle had
been won and confidence restored it was every
where recognized that his financial genius and
masterly control of men and affairs had been
the main instruments in saving the country,
if not the world, from the worst disaster that
had impended for a generation. The great
masters of finance in London, Paris and other
monetary centers of Europe did not withhold
their warmest praise and indorsement of his
accomplishment, while his associates in the
American fields of finance and industry have
been profuse in acknowledgement of the pre
eminent service that he rendered to the coun
try. Mr. Morgan was also a large investor in the
great business enterprises of the country, and
a director in more than two score financial,
railroad and industrial corporations. Typically
foremost among the enterprises in which he
held important interests and exercised pro
nounced influence in the direction of their
affairs were the following: The United States
Steel Corporation, the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, the
First National Bank of the City of New York,
the General Electric Company, the Lake Erie
& Western Railroad Company, the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railway Company, the
Michigan Central Railroad Company, the Na
tional Bank of Commerce of New York, the
New York & Harlem River Railroad Com
pany, the New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad Company, the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company, the West
Shore Railroad Company, and the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
A man of broad culture and refined tastes,
Mr. Morgan did not confine himself to busi
ness affairs. He was particularly interested
in art, being one of its most generous patrons,
and one of the accomplished connoisseurs of
the world. Some of the finest works of the
great masters of olden times and of the present
were owned by him. His collection of art ob
jects is recognized as one of the largest, most
important, and most valuable ever brought to
gether by a single private individual. A con
siderable part of this great collection was
acquired during the ten years or so preced
ing 1908, and has been kept in Kensington
Museum, London, in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, in New York City, and in Mr. Mor
gan's private galleries in London and New
York. It consists not only of rare and valuable
paintings, but exquisite porcelains, marble re
liefs, bronzes, enamels, fabrics and other ob
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Mr. Morgan's New York residence was on
Madison avenue, and he had a country seat,
"Cragston," at Highland Falls, New York.
He also had a house at Roehampton, near
Wimbledon, a suburb of London, and one
near Kensington. Adjoining his New York
City residence he had a fine private art gallery
which contains many of his art treasures. He
was a member of the leading clubs of New
York City and London, and was one of the
founders and president of the Metropolitan
Club of New York, and was for several years
commodore of the New York Yacht Club.
Particularly interested in the Metropolitan
Art Museum, he was a generous benefactor to
that institution and was its president. He
arranged to erect in Hartford, Connecticut,
an art building in memory of his father, to be
called the Morgan Memorial ; the cornerstone
of this edifice was laid April 23, 1908. He
was one of the trustees of Columbia Univer
sity, a director or trustee of various other edu
cational and philanthropic institutions, a mem-
, ber of the Protestant Episcopal church, and
several times was a lay delegate from the dio
cese of New York to the general conventions
of that religious body.
Mr. Morgan married (first) Amelia, daugh
ter of Jonathan and Mary (Cady) Sturgess,
of New York City. She died, and he married
(second) in 1865, Frances Louise, daughter of
Charles and Louise (Kirkland) Tracy, of New
York City. Issue: 1. John Pierpont, born
1867; graduated from Harvard University,
class of 1889, and since then has been engaged
in the banking business of his father; he re
sides in Madison avenue, New York City, and
is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Uni
versity, Riding, New York Yacht and other
clubs ; he married, in 1891, Jane Norton Grew,
daughter of Henry Sturgis and Jane Norton
(Wigglesworth) Grew, of Boston; she was
born in Boston, September 30, 1868; they have
one son, Junius Spencer, born in 1892. 2.
Louisa Pierpont, married Herbert L. Satterlee.
3. Juliet Pierpont, married W. Pierson Hamil
ton. 4. Anne Tract.

The surnames Gardner and
GARDNER Gardiner are identical and
the two spellings have been
in use by members of the same family for
many generations. According to an old family
Bible in a record made in 1790, George Gard
ner, the immigrant ancestor, was a son of
Joseph Gardner, of England, grandson of Sir
Thomas Gardner or Gardiner, Knight. George
Gardner was evidently a man of education.
He was admitted an inhabitant of Newport in
1638, and in 1640 was present at a general

court of election, and from that time until
1677, when he died, his name is often in the
public records. Gardner and Gardener were
more common spellings in the earliest records
than Gardiner. George Gardner, it is thought,
was related to Thomas Gardner, who died in
Roxbury, Massachusetts, in November, 1638,
and whose grandson, Caleb Gardner, son of
his son Thomas, also settled in Newport.
About 1640 George Gardner married (first)
Herodias (Long) Wickes. She made the
statement that she was married to John Wickes
in London without the knowledge of her
friends, when she was between thirteen and
fourteen years old. Soon after coming to
Rhode Island the Gardners separated and he
went to New Amsterdam. She was divorced
and married John Porter, who had also been
divorced from his wife. She was a Quaker
and once walked to Boston with a young child
in her arms to receive a whipping to which she
had been sentenced by the Quaker-baiting
Puritan authorities there. George Gardner
married (second) Lydia Bolton, daughter of
Robert and Susannah Bolton. Children by
first wife: Benoni, born 1645-47, died in 1731 ;
Henry, died 1744; George, married, February
13, 1670, Tabitha Tafft ; William, born in 1651,
died in 171 1 ; Nicholas, mentioned below; Dor
cas, born 1654, married John Watson; and Re
becca. Children by second wife : Joseph, mar
ried, November 30, 1693, Catherine Holmes;
Lydia, married, April 4, 1684, Joseph Smith;
Mary; Peregrine; Robert, died in Providence
in 1690; and Jeremiah.
(II) Nicholas Gardner, son of George
Gardner, was born in Newport, Rhode Island,
in 1654. He was given a large farm by his
wealthy stepfather, John Porter, and settled in
Kingstown, Rhode island. He took the oath
of allegiance in 1671, and died in 1712. He
married Hannah  . Among their chil
dren was Nicholas, mentioned below.
(Ill) Nicholas (2) Gardner, son of Nich
olas (1) Gardner, was born in Kingstown,
Rhode Island, about 1680. He married there,
October 13, 1709, Mary Eldred, daughter of
Thomas Eldred, of Kingstown. Children,
born at Kingstown : Nicholas, born December
6, 1710; Ezekiel, mentioned below; Sylvester,
August 3, 1714; Hannah, September 2, 1717;
Amey, June 17, 1723; Susannah; Thomas,
October 1, 1729; and Dorcas.
(IV) Ezekiel Gardner, son of Nicholas (2)
Gardner, was born September 29, 17 12, at
Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married, Au
gust 29, 1734, Dorcas Watson (Rev. Ephraim
Gardner officiating). Among their children
was Ezekiel, mentioned below.
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(1) Gardner, was born about 1740, in Kings
town, Rhode Island, or vicinity. He married,
May 17, 1763, at North Kingston, formerly
pai^t of Kingstown, Sarah or Susannah Cong
don (Elder Samuel Mayo officiating). Her
name is given as Sarah in the marriage records
and as Susannah in the birth records of her
children. Children, born at North Kingston :
David, born August 6, 1764; Mary, March 3,
1766; Ezekiel, mentioned below; Hannah,
March 6, 1770; Dorcas, February 3, 1772;
Susannah, April 28, 1774; Ann, March 15,
1776; Elisha, January 28, 1778; William, Octo
ber 15, 1780; Palmer, April 29, 1783; Oliver,
May 20, 1785 ; Jesse and Almy, March 7, 1789;
and Jeffrey, October 21, 1791.
(VI) Hon. Ezekiel (3) Gardner, son of
Ezekiel (2) Gardner, was born at North
Kingston, Rhode Island, January 19, 1768.
He was for many years a magistrate and was
commonly called Judge Ezekiel Gardner. He
married Ruth Tillinghast. Among their chil
dren, born at North Kingston, was George,
mentioned below.
(VII) George Gardner, son of Hon. Eze
kiel (3) Gardner, was born at North Kingston,
Rhode Island, on the farm on Congdon Hill.
He followed farming in his native town and
died there. He was buried in Elm Grove
Cemetery. He married Mary A. Burlingame,
who died in North Kingston and was buried
by his side. Children: Frances Ann, married
Hon. William W. Congdon (see Congdon
VII) ; George Henry, mentioned below ; Ruth
Emeline, died unmarried, and Mary Esther,
who died unmarried.
(VIII) George Henry Gardner, son of
George Gardner, was born at North Kings
ton, Rhode Island. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Lapham
Institute. He started in his business career
in the wool business, and learned the details
of wool manufacture in the employ of the late
Edward Harris, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
He began to manufacture blankets in Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, and still resides in that
city. He is now retired, having acquired a
competence in business.
He married (first) Nancy Gardner Greene,
who was born in Providence, daughter of Wil
liam Ellery and Abby (Peckham) Greene.
They had two children: George, who died
May 26, 1913, unmarried, was postmaster of
Wickford; Abbie Peckham, who for many
years made her home with her uncle, Hon.
William Washington Congdon, of Wickford,
where she now lives. George Henry Gardner
married (second) Rachel Francenia George,
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they have

three children : Francis Murray, Ada Joseph
ine and Harriet Langworthy.
(The Congdon Line).
(I) Benjamin Congdon, the immigrant an
cestor, was born about 1650, and settled as
early as 167 1, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
He bought two hundred and thirty acres of
land at Kingstown, Rhode Island, September
20, 1 67 1, and removed thither a few years
later. He was admitted a freeman in 1677.
In 1683 he was a planter of Portsmouth and
he was one of the eighteen purchasers of seven
thousand acres of vacant land in Narragansett
in 1710. He married Elizabeth Albro, who
died November 15, 1720, daughter of John and
Dorothy Albro. Benjamin Congdon died June
17, 17 18. According to family tradition he
was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and came
with his brother John to this country. His
father's name, it is said, was also John and
his mother was a daughter of the earl of Pem
broke. Children : William, mentioned below ;
Benjamin and John, settled in North Kings
town ; James, in Kingstown ; Elizabeth and
Susannah. (II) William Congdon, son of Benjamin
Congdon, lived at South and North Kingston.
He died at North Kingston in 1761. His will
was dated June 1, 1754, and proved February
9, 1 761. His second wife Margaret died about
1754. Children : Joseph, William, mentioned
below ; Margaret, Elizabeth, Abigail.
(Ill) William (2) Congdon, son of Wil
liam (1) Congdon, was born at North Kings
ton, Rhode Island, January 25, 1698. He
married, March 30, 1732, Ann Gifford. He
lived at North and South Kingston. The rec
ord of birth of his children has the names
missing in South Kingston. The dates are
given, as follows : Ann, born February 28 or
29, 1733; Plannah, March 25, 1735; William,
mentioned below;  > — , January 11, 1739;
 ¦ — , March 28, 1741 ;  , February 24,
T743;  . August 24, 1744; , April
3°,  ;  . May 17,  ;  ¦ Janu
ary 20,  ¦.
(IV) William (3) Congdon, son of Wil
liam (2) Congdon, was born at South Kings
ton, Rhode Island, December 29, 1736. He
married Abigail  . Children, born at
North Kingston: Rebecca, born July 22, 1757;
Mary, October 22, 1758; William, March 24,
17 — , died September 6,  ; Gideon, born
February 12, 176 — , died young; Abigail, Feb
ruary 5, 176- — , died same year; Abigail, June
17, 1770; Daniel, mentioned below; Frances,
born September 27, 1775, died September 8,
1777. Following these births are dates rang-

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ing from 1768 to 1782 without names, that are
doubtless the dates of births and deaths of
other children, whose names have been oblit
erated by time on the old record.
(V) Captain Daniel Congdon, son of Wil
liam (3) Congdon, was born at North Kings
ton, Rhode Island, November 1, 1772. He was
a farmer in the village of Hamilton, North
Kingston. According to the vital records he
married, January 24, 1797, Hannah Thurston,
of South Kingston. Thurston may be an error
of reading for Stanton or she may have been
a widow. He certainly married Hannah Stan
ton, born January 13, 1776, died December 31,
1853, at South Kingston, and he died there
March 20, 1854, in his eighty-third year. Ben
jamin Stanton, her father, was born Septem
ber 4, 1740, died October 20, 1787; married,
in 1763, Renewed Carpenter, born July 8, 1746,
died at South Kingston, August 23, 1810,
daughter of Daniel and Preserved (Smith)
Carpenter. John Stanton, father of Benjamin
Stanton, was born April 22, 1674, at Newport,
died February 22, 1762; married (first) Feb
ruary 9, 1697-98, Elizabeth Clarke, born 1680,
died November 10, 1730. John Stanton re
moved to Westerly in 1733, and married (sec
ond) October 16, 1734, Susanna Lamphere,
born 1716, died September 25, 1807, aged
ninety-one, having married (second) Decem
ber 14, 1763, Peter Boss. By his first wife
John Stanton had twelve children and by his
second thirteen children. John Stanton, father
of John Stanton, was born at Newport, Rhode
Island, August, 1645, died June 8, 1728. He
married (first) 1667, Mary Horndale, born
July 6, 1647, daughter of John Horndale, of
Plymouth, and (second) Mary Clarke, born
1642, died April 7, 171 1, daughter of Jere
miah Clarke, and widow of Governor John
Cranston, who died March 12, 1680. By his
first wife John Stanton had seven children
and by his second one child. Robert Stanton,
father of John Stanton, and the pioneer in this
country, was born in 1599 in England, settled
at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1638; was a
admitted a freeman of Newport; was sergeant
in 1655; buried at Newport, June 29, 1672;
had children by wife Avis : Sarah, Mary,
John, Daniel. Children of Daniel Congdon:
Benjamin, Daniel, John, William, Stanton W.,
mentioned below ; Abby, Mary Ann, Sarah,
Gideon. (VI) Stanton W. Congdon, son of Captain
Daniel Congdon, was born at North Kingston.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town. When a young man he followed
farming, and afterward he was proprietor of
a hotel at Wickford and another at Natick,
Rhode Island. In politics he was a Whig. He

was a member of the Baptist church. He mar
ried twice, his first wife being Izett Hammond,
by whom he had the following children : Wil
liam Washington, mentioned below ; Daniel,
now deceased, who married Ruth Gardiner,
and had one son, Walter B. ; Izett Frances,
now deceased, who married Cassander
Thomas, and had one son, William W. Stan
ton W. Congdon married (second) Lucy Bur-
lingame, and to this union was born children,
namely: Zachariah, living in Providence;
Henry S., living in Wickford; Laura, now
deceased; Annie, living in Wickford.
(VII) William Washington Congdon, eld
est son of Stanton W. and Izett (Hammond)
Congdon, was born on the Hammond farm,
in the south part of the town of North Kings
town, Rhode Island, February 22, 1831. He
acquired his educational training in the dis
trict schools of his native town, and upon
leaving home went to Providence, in which
city he served for two years as an apprentice
to the carpenter's trade. His career in Provi
dence was terminated in 1854, however, on
account of the illness of his father, and he
returned to Wickford and purchased the livery
business which his father was then conducting.
In connection with the livery business Mr.
Congdon also established a line of coaches
from Wickford Junction to Wickford, which
he successfully conducted until the opening of
the Newport and Wickford branch railroad.
The opening of this railroad resulted in his
abandoning the stage line, and he was offered
the position of conductor with the railroad,
which he accepted, becoming the first con
ductor on this road. After filling this position
for a period of fifteen years, with efficiency
and ability, Mr. Congdon resigned the posi
tion. Mr. Congdon had for many years taken an
active and interested part in the affairs of his
native town, and in 1894 he was elected to
represent his town in the general assembly of
the state, and served as a member of that body
for a period of four years. In 1898 he was
elected a member of the state senate and con
tinued as an influential member of the upper
house of the general assembly until 1903, when
on account of failing health he declined re
election. During his service as a member of
the general assembly he served on various im
portant committees.
In political faith Senator Congdon was a
stalwart Republican, and always took an active
interest in the affairs and success of that party.
For a number of years he was a member of
the town council of his native town, and for
several years was deputy sheriff of Washing
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tist, attending the First Baptist Church at
Wickford. Mr. Congdon was a member of
the board of trustees of the Wickford Savings
Bank, and a director of the Wickford Na
tional Bank for many years, up to the time
of the latter's absorption by the Industrial
Trust Company of Providence. He was one
of the most prominent members of Beacon
Lodge, No. 38, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Wickford, of which he was past
grand, and he was always deeply interested
in the affairs of that order.
Senator Congdon was united in marriage to
Frances Ann Gardner, daughter of George and
Mary A. (Burlingame) Gardner (see Gard
ner Vll). To this union was born one daugh
ter, Grace Congdon, who died in infancy. Sen
ator and Mrs. Congdon took into their home
their niece, Abbie P. Gardner, whose mother
died when she was three months old, who con
tinued to make her home with them and ten
derly cared for them during their declining
years. Senator Congdon was possessed of an affa
ble and genial manner, and being of a sym
pathetic and charitable nature won and held
the friendship of a large circle of friends and
acquaintances. He passed away at his home
in Wickford, Rhode Island, August 23, 1905,
in the seventy-fifth year of his age, honored
and respected by his fellow townsmen as well
as by all who knew him.

The Peck family is ancient and
PECK numerous in New England, and
was prominent and influential
through the Colonial period, and as well
through the history of a number of common
wealths, which have come out of the older col
onies. In Rhode Island and in that part of
Massachusetts nearby, they have been a con
tinuous family and for more than two hun
dred and fifty years the Bristol County (Rhode
Island) Pecks have been among the large land
owners of their several towns.
Seekonk, afterward Rehoboth, Massachu
setts, and still later Barrington, Rhode Island,
was the early home and seat of the Pecks with
which this article deals — the Barrington Pecks.
Their lands, obtained from the Indians, by the
"Original Proprietors," were a part of the
purchase which was in the area of country
now partly Swansea, Rehoboth, Bristol, War
ren and Barrington. Joseph Peck, the emi
grant settler, while at Hingham, represented
the town in the general court a number of
times and took an active part in the business
of the town, being selectman, justice of the
peace, etc., and upon his removal to Seekonk
his name continually appears on the records

of the town in its management of affairs. His
Barrington descendants have guarded well the
family name and reputation, and played well
their parts as active and progressive citizens.
Lieutenant and Deacon Nathaniel Peck, a
grandson of the settler, was also one of the
prominent men of the town, frequently hon
ored with public trust. During the Revolu
tion, not less than nine of the Peck name from
Barrington entered the service of their coun
try, among them being several officers ; and in
the late civil war a number of the name were
found in the ranks, some of whom never re
turned. Amos, Benjamin, David, Major Ebe
nezer, Joel, Lewis, Major Nathaniel, Captain
Solomon and Nicholas Peck, all of Barring
ton, fought for American independence;
while Edwin B., Lloratio, John H. and Noah
A. Peck were among those going from the
town in defence of the Union, 1861-65.
Among the town's substantial men prominent
in public life, useful in citizenship, may be
mentioned Hon. Ebenezer Peck, who after
honorable service in the Revolution for a num
ber of years represented the town in the state
assembly ; Joel Peck ; Sebea Peck ; Bela Peck ;
Learned Peck ; Nathaniel, Ellis, Edwin F.
Peck, Asa Peck, and his son Leander R., late
president of Asa Peck & Company, Inc. ;
Walter A. Peck, Albert H. and Horace T.
Peck. (I) Joseph Peck, baptized in Beccles, Suf
folk county, England, April 30, 1587, died on
Seekonk Plain, December 23, 1663. He was
a son of Robert Peck, and a descendant in the
twenty-first generation from John Peck, of
Belton, Yorkshire, settled at Hingham, Nor
folk county, England. Joseph Peck married
(first) May 31, 1617, Rebecca Clark, who died
in October, 1637. He married a second time.
Children: Anna, baptized March 12, 1618;
Rebecca, May 25, 1620; Joseph, August 23,
1623; John, about 1626; Nicholas, April 9,
1630; these were baptized in Hingham, Eng
land. Samuel, baptized in Hingham, Massa
chusetts, February 3, 1638-39; Nathaniel, of
further mention; Israel, March 4, 1644.
(II) Nathaniel Peck, son of Joseph Peck,
was born in Llingham, Massachusetts, where
he was baptized, October 31, 1641, died young,
and was buried August 12, 1676. He removed
with his father and family to Seekonk, and
there settled upon the lands given him and his
brother Israel, in what is now the town of
Barrington, Rhode Island, near what was later
the residence of Leander R. Peck. These
lands were a part of those purchased by the
proprietors of Osamequin, and his son Wam-
setta. They had been known by the name of
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or Sowamsit, are now partly in Bristol, War
ren, Swansea, Rehoboth and Barrington. The
lands given to Nathaniel and Israel by their
father remained undivided, the most of them
at least, until after the son of Nathaniel came
of age. After the decease of Nathaniel they
are referred to as the lands of Israel and the
heirs of Nathaniel, and afterwards, as the
lands of Nathaniel and his Uncle Israel. Na
thaniel Peck married Deliverance  , who
was buried May i, 1675. He had three chil
dren, and left at his decease, as appears by the
Massachusetts Colonial records, two children,
a son and a daughter. Two of his children
were : Nathaniel, of further mention ; Elisha,
born April 19, 1675, died April 30, 1675.
(Ill) Lieutenant Nathaniel (2) Peck, son
of Nathaniel (1) and Deliverance Peck, was
born July 26, 1670, died August 5, 1751. He
settled on the lands left him by his father,
was a prominent man, and filled various public
offices. For several years he is called Lieu
tenant Nathaniel on the records, then Deacon
Nathaniel. He married (first) March 8,
1695-96, Christian Allen, of Swansea, who
died June 8, 1702; he married (second) July
18, 1705, Judith Smith, of Rehoboth, who died
November 10, 1743. Children: Ebenezer,
born April 24, 1697; Nathaniel, July 10, 1699;
Thomas, October 4, 1700; Daniel, July 28,
1706; David, November, 1707; Abigail, July
12, 1709; Bathsheba, January 15, 1711; Solo
mon, of further mention; ¦  , July 1,
1714; John, February 29, 1716.
(IV) Solomon Peck, son of Lieutenant Na
thaniel (2) and Judith (Smith) Peck, was
born November 12, 1712, died December 8,
1776. He settled on a part of the homestead.
He married, December 29, 1737, Keziah
Barnes, who died July 18, 1792. Children:
Solomon, of further mention; Keziah, born
August 2, 1740; Hannah, February 4, 1743;
Samuel, December 30, 1744; Benjamin, June
3, 1747; Amos, May 1, 1749; Esther, May 18,
1751 ; Daniel, March 24, 1753; Hannah, Octo
ber 17, 1755; Nathaniel, December 7, 1759;
Ebenezer, December 11, 1762.
Five of these sons were patriots of the
Revolution, namely: Captain Solomon and
Major Ebenezer Peck; Amos Peck was a
member of Captain Thomas Allen's company
and appears on the Alarm at Bristol, April 1,
1776, and also served as a member of Captain
Viall Allen's company in 1780; Colonel Ben
jamin Peck; Major Nathaniel Peck, who
served in Captain Samuel Bosworth's com
pany of artillery, and was one of the guard
appointed by Colonel Nathan Miller, June 5,
1777, to serve on Rumstick for fifteen days,
and who served on the militia guard of Bar

rington from April 5 to May 20, 1778, and
who later held a major's commission.
(V) Captain Solomon (2) Peck, son of
Solomon (1) and Keziah (Barnes) Peck, was
born October 29, 1738, died August 22, 1814.
He was a resident of Barrington, Rhode
Island (place occupied in i860 by his grand
son, Asa Peck, and now known as Osanequin
Farm). Captain Peck was a patriot of the
Revolution. He acted as clerk of the Barring
ton Militia as early as March, 1776, and was
also clerk under Captain Viall Allen in 1778.
He was sent as sergeant to warn the militia
draft for the Second Division, to release those
on duty, to appear at Colonel Nathaniel Mar
tin's house, Saturday, June 21, 1777. On May
12, 1778, he was commissioned captain of the
senior class company of militia of Bristol
county by Governor John Collins. He mar
ried, December 8, 1763, Widow Abigail Bar
ney, who died June 16, 1821, a daughter of
Nathaniel Peck. Children: Abigail, born
May 12, 1765; Keziah, September 10, 1766;
Solomon, February 13, 1769; Darius, June 25,
1772; Ellis, of further mention; Bebee, born
June 1, 1777.
(VI) Ellis Peck, son of Captain Solomon
(2) and Abigail (Peck) (Barney) Peck, was
born August 2, 1774, was a resident of Bar
rington, and died July 27, 1854. He married
(first) December 10, 1801, Sarah Hill, who
died June 3, 1817, a daughter of David Hill;
he married (second) in March, 1818, Lucy
Bliss, who died December 9, 1853, a daughter
of Jacob Bliss. Children : Sarah, born Sep
tember 10, 1802; Abigail, March 29, 1804;
Ellis, May 11, 1806; Hannah D., June 17,
1810; Asa, of further mention; Hannah, May
26, 1815; William H., May 8, 1817.
(VII) Asa Peck, son of Ellis and Sarah
(Hill) Peck, was born April 7, 1812, on the
farm which he later inherited from his father,
and which went to his son, Leander R., and
became a drover and cattle broker. Descended
from a long line of Puritan ancestors of sturdy
character, he inherited and transmitted to his
posterity those traits which in his life reached
their fullest development, and have produced
sons and daughters of the highest standing in
their various spheres of activity. He received
the usual common school education obtainable
in those days, and early in life became a tiller
of the soil, which occupation he followed
during the whole of his busy life, and for
many years of it in connection with his other
enterprises. He began the business of buy
ing cattle in the early fifties, and followed it
until the formation of the firm of Asa Peck &
Company. In the purchase of his cattle he
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he went to the state of New York, Long
Island sound territory being one of his prin
cipal fields. This was at a time when cattle
were transported on foot and Mr. Peck would
collect a herd of about one hundred and fifty
and drive them to Brighton, Massachusetts,
where they were disposed of. In this line, his
keen business instinct stood him in good
stead, and he prospered, so much so that in
this occupation he laid the foundation of what
afterward came to be a large fortune. In 1866
Mr. Peck became the senior member of the
firm of Asa Peck & Company, his son, Lean
der R., being the other partner. This firm was
organized for the purpose of handling wool
wastes, etc., and he continued as a member of
the firm until some years prior to his death.
In its fullest sense Mr. Peck was a typical
self-made man. The predominant trait of his
character was industry, combined with a perti
nacious adherence to the single purpose in his
business life. His honesty is best illustrated
by a saying of his grandson : "Grandfather
would'go as far to pay a debt as to collect one,
and while he expected a payment to the last
cent in any debt due him he was equally in
sistent in the payment of the last cent where
he owed another." It is said that Mr. Peck,
making a liberal translation of the motto on the
Peck coat-of-arms — Honesty before Riches, —
instilled that principle most thoroughly into
the minds of his children. While not a mem
ber of any church, he was probably a Univer-
salist in his religious belief. He was always
interested in public affairs in the town of Bar
rington, but being a Democrat, and his party
in the minority, he had little experience in
public office. He was, however, a member of
the town council for many years, and also for
some time a member of the school committee.
Another of Mr. Peck's characteristics was his
charity, which manifested itself in giving
where help was most needed and without
ostentation. No weary wayfarer ever asked
of Asa Peck a night's lodging and food in
vain; holding, as he did, that the unfortunate
were entitled to such consideration, he gave
wherever he could, and ungrudgingly. His
cheerfulness and fondness for the society of
the young was also characteristic. In his wife
he found a helpful consort, the loving wife, the
devoted mother, the true and consistent friend,
the high-minded Christian woman, and one
.who endeared herself to all by her gracious
virtues of heart and mind.
Mr. Peck married, March 4, 1839, Lucretia
S., a daughter of Enoch Remington, of Bar
rington. Children: Adelaide Eliza, born
March 22, 1840, married George Lewis Smith;
Leander Remington, of further mention;
ne— 3

George Asa, born August 22, 1846, died in the
same year; Juliet Lucretia, born November 7,
1848, married Manuel F Seymour; Walter
Asa, born July 19, 1854; Ida Estelle, born
January 10, 1857, married James S. Aborn.
(VIII) Leander Remington Peck, son of
Asa and Lucretia S. (Remington) Peck, was
born February 12, 1843, died in Providence,
at his residence, January 28, 1909, and is
buried in Princess Hill Cemetery, Barring
ton. He was educated in Barrington, at the
high school in Warren under Professor Cady,
and at East Greenwich Academy. When sev
enteen years of age he came to Providence,
February 14, i860, and took a clerkship in a
fancy dry goods and millinery store of his
uncle, Jeremiah S. Remington, remaining with
him in this capacity three or four years. In
1866, in association with his father, the firm
of Asa Peck & Company was formed, for the
purpose of purchasing and selling wool, wool
waste, shoddies and flocks. At this time this
particular line of business was new to Rhode
Island, and some efforts to make a success of it
had failed. Mr. Peck, however, had gained
some insight into the business, and had be
come thoroughly imbued with the idea that,
properly conducted, it could be made a success.
The first year or so of the business was experi
mental, and its success was uncertain. But
from the expiration of that period, its success
became assured. The firm of Asa Peck &
Company, the oldest of the kind in the state,
long ago also became the leading one, and is so
at the present time. It is no disparagement to
anyone else connected with the firm in the past
or present to say that to Leander R. Peck
more than to anyone else is due its large meas
ure of success. He directed its policy and
assumed those duties which were most largely
administrative. The members of the firm were
Asa Peck, the father, and Leander R., until
1878, when Walter A., the other brother, be
came a member. The father retired from the
firm some time prior to his death, and Walter
A. retired in November, 1899. The firm was
incoporated, January 1, 1903, under the name
of Asa Peck & Company, Incorporated, the
officers at the time being: Leander R. Peck,
president and treasurer; Frederick S., his son'
assistant treasurer and secretary; G. Howard
Smith, his nephew, vice-president ; W. W. H.
Cannon, auditor; and Walter F. Seymour,
another nephew, director.
Leander R. Peck was president of the Law-
ton Spinning Company, and at one time a
director and vice-president of the Union Trust
Company, of Providence. He was also in the
directorate of many other financial corpora
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mercial life of the county and state. His own
success was ample guarantee of his ability
that his connection with any enterprise gave it
stability and standing. In politics he was an
Independent Democrat, and was in the Provi
dence City council four years and the Bar
rington town council at the time of his death.
Although he always took a keen interest in
politics he was not active in this field* He
was essentially a business man and typified the
best element of that class. He picked out the
site, purchased the ground, and was among
those who started the Pomham Club, and in
its early days was for some years chairman of
its executive committee, and later its presi
dent. He was also a member of several other
clubs and societies.
Mr. Peck had his winter home in Provi
dence and his summer home in Barrington,
the latter having been the home of his father,
and where he and his brothers and sisters were
born. The farm on which this house stands is
known as the Osamequin Farm, and has never
been out of the family since it was set off to
them by the "Original Proprietors," to whom
it was deeded by the Indians in 1653. It now
consists of more than five hundred acres and
may well be termed a model farm. The soil is
rich and productive, the fields are inclosed
mostly with board fences painted white, the
buildings, which Mr. Peck tried to keep as
nearly as possible in their original form, are
also white, and the grounds around the house
are spacious, consisting of several acres beau
tifully lawned and covered with a great pro
fusion of foliage and flowering plants, the
whole presenting a most pleasing effect. The
greenhouse contains many specimens of
orchids. Mr. Peck's farm was one of his
enthusiasms along with some fine trotting-bred
and trained horses which he owned. He kept
and sped these for pleasure only. In the home
was the finest private collection of silver and
copper lustre in the United States, consisting
of seven hundred pieces of all designs and
descriptions. Mrs. Peck commenced her col
lection in 1899 with a small piece left her by
an aunt, and one which had belonged to her
husband's grandfather. There are also many
pieces of antique Delft ware and Wedgewood
lustre ; old and antique cologne bottles and
snuff boxes of various designs ; several vases
more than one hundred years old ; and two val
uable candelabra. In one room, which Mrs.
Peck called her museum, there is to be found
but one piece of modern furniture, a tall stand
ard lamp. "Early lustre wares were chiefly
products of the New Hall pottery, at Shelton,
England, where in 1814, Peter Warburton,

took out a patent for an invention for deco
rating china with pure unadulterated gold, sil
ver, platina or other metals, fluxed or lowered
with lead or any other substance. We are told
that copper lustre was brought over in the
'Mayflower.' At a much earlier date the
Waleans were masters of the art of producing
lustre of rare beauty."
Mr. Peck married, September 3, 1866,
Sarah Gould Cannon, whose line of descent
from the "Mayflower" ancestor will be found
in connection with this. Children : Frederick
Stanhope, of further mention ; Edith Remi lg-
ton, born March 14, 1874, married, November
15, 1898, Frank N. Phillips, president of the
American Electrical Works, East Providence,
and has a daughter, Charlotte, born January
3, 1903, and a son, Donald Kay, born June 2,
1912. (IX) Frederick Stanhope Peck, son of
Leander Remington and Sarah Gould (Can
non) Peck, was born in Providence, Rhode
Island, December 16, 1868. He was educated
in the public schools, and upon leaving them
became associated with his father in the firm
of Asa Peck & Company, continuing thus until
the death of his father, when he became presi
dent of Asa Peck & Company, Incorporated, a
position he is still filling. He is also vice-
president of the National Exchange Bank, of
Providence; vice-president of the Lawton
Spinning Company and of the Eastern Coal
Company. Like his father he is a man of
enterprise and progressive ideas, a man of
substance and honorable dealing. In public
life he is a Republican, and served as a mem
ber of Barrington town council in 1909; as a
member of the state central committee since
1907 ; was elected a member of the state legis
lature from the town of Barrington in 1910;
was a member of the committee on finance;
was again elected to the legislature in 1912,
serving during the sessions of 1913-14, and
was a member of the same committee. His
beautiful home, "Belton Court," adjoining
Osamequin Farm which is also owned by him,
in Barrington, Rhode Island, is one of the
finest in that section of the state. He is a
member of the following organizations : Bay
Spring Volunteer Fire Company, Bristol
Reading Room, National Association of Wool
Manufacturers, Rhode Island Historical Soci
ety, Rhode Island School of Design, Sons of
the American Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, Society of Mayflower Descendants,
Boston Wool Trade Association, Bank Clerks'
Mutual Benefit Association, and the following
clubs : Barrington Yacht, Barrington Grange,
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Pomham, Providence Art, Providence Cen
tral, Rhode Island Country, Squantum Asso
ciation, Turks Plead, and West Side.
Mr. Peck married, June 6, 1894, Mary Roth-
well Burlingame, born June 30, 1873, whose
ancestral line will be found in connection with
this. They have one child, Plelen, born De
cember 22, 1895.
(Mayflower Descent of Mrs. Leander R. Peck).
(I) John Howland was one of the Pilgrims
who came over in the "Mayflower" in the fam
ily of Governor Carver, from Leyden, Hol
land. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Tilley, who came on the "May
flower," at the same time.
(II) Desire, daughter of John and Eliza
beth (Tilley) Howland, married Captain John
Gorham. (Ill) Desire, daughter of Captain John and
Desire (Howland) Gorham, married Captain
John Hawes.
(IV) Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John
and Desire (Gorham) Hawes, married 
Fitch. (V) Keziah, daughter of  — and Eliza-
— Osborne.
and Keziah

beth (Hawes) Fitch, married
(VI) Ann, daughter of

(Fitch) Osborne, married Captain Peter
Pease. (VII) Mary, daughter of Captain Peter
and Ann (Osborne) Pease, married Captain
Rufus Fisher.
(VIII) Mary P., daughter of Captain Rufus
and Mary (Pease) Fisher, married Charles
Cannon. (IX) Sarah Gould, daughter of Charles and
Mary P. (Fisher) Cannon, married Leander
R. Peck (see Peck VIII).
(The Burlingame Line).
(I) Roger Burlingame appears first at Ston-
ington, Connecticut, in 1654, and at Warwick
in 1660, and settled in the part of Providence,
now Cranston, in the western portion, known
as Meshanticut, before 1670. He was elected
deputy to the general assembly in 1690, but on
account of some question as to the legality of
the election was not accepted. He died Sep
tember 1, 1718, and his wife, Mary, died in
the same year. Inventory of property, one
hundred and ninety-nine pounds, thirteen shil
lings and eight pence.
(II) John Burlingame, oldest son of Roger
and Mary Burlingame, born August 1, 1664,
married Mary Lippitt, daughter of Moses
Knowles Lippitt, date unknown. She was the
granddaughter of John Lippitt, one of the
original settlers of Providence, one of those to
whom was assigned a house lot and a six-acre

lot in 1638. On July 27, 1640, he signed the
agreement for a form of government. On
May 16, 1647, he was chosen with nine others
by the town of Providence to meet with com
missioners from three other towns to form a
government under the charter. (See Colonial
Records of Providence).
(Ill) Roger (2) Burlingame, second son
and child of John and Mary (Lippitt) Bur
lingame, lived in Cranston, and died April 1,
1768. He married Sarah  .
(IV) Jonathan Burlingame, second son and
child of Roger (2) and Sarah Burlingame,
was born in Cranston in 1715, died June 24,
1778. He married Phebe  .
(V) Benjamin Burlingame, fourth son of
Jonathan and Phebe Burlingame, was born in
Cranston, June 26, 1751, and settled in Kil-
lingly, Connecticut, about 1780, with two
brothers. He married three times.
(VI) Samuel Burlingame, eldest son of
Benjamin Burlingame and his second wife,
was born January 27, 1791, died April 26,
1862. He lived in Killingly, Connecticut. He
married Randilla Preston, born April 11, 1795,
died March 4, 1867.
(VII) Erastus Nelson Burlingame, eldest
son and child of Samuel and Randilla (Pres
ton) Burlingame, was born in Killingly, Au
gust 19, 1812, died January 18, 1864. He
lived in Cranston, and married, in September,
1835, Lydia Wood, born in 1807, died March
30, 1880.
(VIII) Edwin Harris Burlingame, only
child of Erastus Nelson and Lydia (Wood)
Burlingame, was born in Warwick, August
13, 1836, died in Ossipee, New Hampshire,
August 4, 1912. Plis boyhood was spent in
various mill villages of Rhode Island, as his
father was connected with different cotton mill
properties. He was a student at Lyon and
Friezez's School, also at Barre Academy,
Barre, Vermont, where his preparation for
entrance to college was completed in 1855. He
had intended to matriculate at Brown Univer
sity, but financial reasons compelled him to
enter business life instead, and he started with
H. F. Walling of New York in the surveying
for, and the making of, county maps. In Feb
ruary, 1857, he became a partner of Mr. Wall
ing, but the panic of 1857 brought about the
dissolution of the firm, and for the next five
years he was variously employed as school
teacher, draftsman and surveyor. During the
civil war he served as second and then first
lieutenant in the Eleventh Rhode Island Regi
ment. In 1864 he went to Pottsville, Pennsyl
vania, as manager for the Norwegian Coal
Company, and spent three years there. That
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bles. In 1867-68 he was president of the Pot
ter County Lumber Company, operating in the
northern part of Pennsylvania. In the latter
part of 1868 he went to Williamsport, Penn
sylvania, and was engaged in engineering work
there until 1881. He built the water works
for that city, two bridges across the Susque
hanna river, and developed the hotel and cot
tage property at Minnequa Springs, famous
as a summer resort thirty years ago. He
organized, built, and for years was treasurer
and general manager of the Williamsport
Rubber Company, to-day one of the important
plants of the United States Rubber Company.
Business reverses came, and in 1881 he went
to New York as engineer on the construction
of the first Hudson river tunnel. Since 1885
he had been chiefly interested in water works
construction. Among the many plants he built
are those at Waterford, New York ; West
Troy, New York; Carthage, New York;
Weston, Massachusetts ; Salisbury, North
Carolina ; Spartanburg, South Carolina ; Jack
son, Mississippi ; Clinton, Missouri ; Trenton,
Missouri ; Peoria, Illinois. During the last
few years of his life he gave up active work
and concerned himself chiefly with genea
logical and botanical study. He was a mem
ber of Prescott Post, Grand Army of the Re
public; Massachusetts Commandery of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion; New
England Botanical Club of Boston ; Rhode
Island Horticultural Society, of which he was
president for several years ; Rhode Island His
torical Society ; Providence Franklin Society.
Mr. Burlingame married (first) Mary Russ,
of Queechy, Vermont, who died in 1862. He
married (second) June 6, 1865, Eliza, born
June 13, 1836, died November 22, 1908, a
daughter of the late Judge Eli Aylsworth.
(IX) Mary Rothwell, only daughter of
Edwin Harris and Eliza (Aylsworth) Bur
lingame, married Frederick Stanhope Peck
(Peck IX).

The Wightman family is
WIGHTMAN said to be of Saxon origin.
The lineage is traced in
England to Thomas Wightman, of Burbage,
who died about 1400, and was of the landed
gentry, according to Burke.
(I) Rev. Edward Wightman, ancestor of
the American family, was condemned to death
and burned at the stake, April 11, 1611, be
cause of his Baptist faith. He was of the
parish of Burton-on-Trent, diocese of Coven
try and Litchfield. He is said to have been
the last to suffer death in England on account
of religion.

(II) John Wightman, said to be son of Rev.
Edward Wightman, had five sons emigrate to
America. Of these we have trace of three —
Daniel, settled at Newport, Rhode Island, one
of the twenty constituent members of the Sec
ond Baptist Church formed in 1656, and for a
long time a preacher and assistant pastor;
Valentine, of Warwick, Rhode Island and
Providence, member of the general assembly;
George, mentioned below.
(Ill) George Wightman, son of the immi
grant ancestor, John Wightman, was born in
June, 1632, died in January, 1722. He settled
in Kingstown, Rhode Island, and in 1669 he
with others was arrested and kept in jail at
Hartford for some time because they owned
allegiance to Rhode Island. He took the oath
of allegiance, May 20, 1671, and was made
freeman, May 6, 1673. He was one of the
petitioners, July 29, 1679, to the king, praying
that he would put an end to the troubles in the
colony concerning government, as they were
"fatal to the prosperity of the place." He
was constable in 1686 and on the grand jury
in 1667, and for some years a member of the
town council. In 1687 he was on the tax list.
On February 19, 17 12, he and seventeen others
bought seven thousand acres of the vacant
lands in Narragansett ordered bought by the
assembly. He and his wife Elizabeth sold to
William Gardner twenty-seven and a half
acres of land. His will was proved February
12, 1722-23. His sons, Daniel and Valentine,
were executors, and his friend, John Jones,
was overseer. He married Elizabeth Updike,
born 1644, daughter of Gilbert and Katharine
(Smith) Updike. Children: Elizabeth, born
July 26, 1664; Alice, December 29, 1666; Rev.
Daniel, mentioned below; Sarah, February 26,
1671 ; George, January 6, 1673 ; John, April
16, 1674; Samuel, January 9, 1676-77; Rev.
Valentine, April 16, 1681.
(IV) Rev. Daniel Wightman, son of George
Wightman, was born January 2, 1668, died
August 31, 1750, buried in the Newport Ceme
tery. He was ordained as a minister and
made assistant to Rev. James Clarke, pastor
of the Second Baptist Church at Newport, and
in 1736 succeeded Mr. Clarke in the pastorate.
For nearly fifty years he was identified with
this same church. He married (first) Cath
erine Holmes, born in 1671, daughter of Jona
than and Sarah (Borden) Holmes, and she
died September 8, 1699. He married (second)
Mary  , born in 1669, died November 4,
1732. He married (third) Catherine, born in
1673, died October 28, 1758, widow of Joseph
Gardiner and daughter of John and Frances
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by the first wife. By second wife: George,
mentioned below; Elizabeth; Daniel, born
1707. (V) George (2) Wightman, son of Rev.
Daniel Wightman, was born about 1703.
Among his children was George, mentioned
below. (VI) Colonel George (3) Wightman, son
of George (2) Wightman, was born Novem
ber 4 (or 2), 1726. He was called Colonel
George. He married, December 21, 1746,
Elizabeth Wait, of Exeter, Rhode Island, and
she died in February, 1796, aged about seventy
years, according to her tombstone in. the old
Wightman burying ground in North Kings
town, Rhode Island, where several of this
family are buried. Children: Holmes, men
tioned below ; John, born March 4, 1749 ; Eliz
abeth, October 23, 1750; Frederick, September
13, 1752; George, January 19, 1756; Mary;
Asa ; Valentine ; Daniel.
(VII) Holmes Wightman, son of Colonel
George (3) Wightman, was born January 6,
1748, died Tanuarv 18, 1817. aged seventy years.
He married, April 12, 1768, Comfort Bullock,
of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and she died Feb
ruary 19, 1818, aged seventy-two years. They
were buried in the Wightman cemetery at
North Kingstown. Among their children was
John, mentioned below.
(VIII) Captain John (2) Wightman, son
of Holmes Wightman, was born about 1789,
died July 21, 1836, aged forty-seven years.
He lived at Quidnesett Neck. He married
Mary Wightman, who died October 27, i860,
aged seventy-seven years. Children: Henry
Holmes, mentioned below ; Josiah ; Almira ;
John. (IX) Henry Holmes Wightman. son of
Captain John (2) Wightman, was born De
cember 14, 1805, died November 27, 1866,
accidentally killed on the Stonington railroad
when nearly sixty-one years of aee. He mar
ried, December 14, 1829, Emilv Greene Chad-
sey, born April 2, 1809. in Warwick. Rhode
Island, died March 28,- 1868, aeed nearly sixty.
She was daughter of Jeremiah Greene and
Avis (Wi.erhtman) Chadsey, who were mar
ried August 6. 1804; he was born December
2, 1780, died May 26, 1872 ; his wife was born
October 7, 1780. He was son of Jabez Chad
sey. who was born January 31, 1754, died Sep
tember, 1820; married, September 30, 1779,
Hannah, daughter of Jeremiah Greene, a direct
descendant of John Greene, surgeon, one
of the founders of the Providence Plantations,
who came from Salisbury. Wiltshire, Eng
land, in 1635 ; the line was through James and
Jabez Greene; Tabez Chadsey served in the
revolution in Sullivan's expedition at New

port, for which his widow was pensioned; he
was son of Jabez and Honour (Hiding) Chad
sey, and great-grandson of Captain Alexander
Hilling, of North Kingstown. Children of
Henry H. and Emily G. (Chadsey) Wight-
man: William Henry, born December 25,
1830; George Chadsey, January 4, 1833; Avis
Maria, August 9, 1834; Jeremiah Chadsey,
July 27, 1836; Joseph, July 24, 1839; Charles
Lippitt, July 20, 1840; Hannah Smith, May 1,
1842; Mary Comfort, March 12, 1845; J°hn
Albert Chadsey, mentioned below ; Alexander
Wilson, April 22, 1848, twin; Waity Wilson,
April 22, 1848, twin ; Emily Frances, January
28, 1850.
(X) John Albert Chadsey Wightman, son
of Henry Holmes Wightman, was born March
1, 1847, 'n North Kingstown. He attended
the public schools of his native town and at
Boston, Massachusetts, and during his boy
hood assisted his father on the farm. He left
home in 1868 and began his career as clerk in
the grocery store of Canfield & Son, of Woon-
socket, Rhode Island. In the following year
he was employed as clerk in the store of
Standish & Wightman, grocers. In July of
that year he became a partner in the firm of
Young & Wightman, grocers, and after a
dozen years became sole proprietor of the busi
ness. He next established a wholesale and
retail grain business in Woonsocket and also
operated a grist mill. In 1884 ne S°W his
grain business and grocery and became a part
ner in the firm of Gilbert & Wightman, under
takers, buying the business of I. B. Phillips.
In this business he was uniformly successful.
All his business ventures, in fact, had been
prosperous and he took rank among the fore
most business men of the city. In public
affairs he had taken a prominent part and he
had held various offices of trust and honor.
In 1872 he was elected to the town council of
Woonsocket and in 1875 he was elected presi
dent of the council, serving as such until 1878,
when he was elected representative to the gen
eral assembly of the state of Rhode Island.
After the town was incorporated as a city he
served in the common council and board of
aldermen for ten years. He was also a school
trustee and for three years highway commis
sioner. For many years he was a director of
the Producers National Bank of Woonsocket.
He was a prominent member of the First Bap
tist Church, of which he was a deacon for
more than thirty-five years and treasurer for
nearly twenty-five years ; superintendent of the
Sunday school for ten years, chairman of the
finance committee from- 1870 to the end of his
life. In 1891 he was chairman of the build
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present edifice of the Baptist church. He
gave to that church a beautiful memorial win
dow for his son Chester. In 1900 he had
charge of building the Congregational church,
given by Mrs. Harriet R. Ballou, and in 1903
he built for Mrs. Ballou the Old Ladies' Home,
which she dedicated and gave to the corpora
tion and is now known as the Ballou Home for
the Aged. He was also active in the Young
Men's Christian Association, of which he was
president for a number of years. He served
as executor and administrator of numerous
estates and trustee of various funds for thirty
years. He died December 14, 1910, after a
short illness at his home in Woonsocket, and
was buried at River Side Cemetery, Pawtucket.
He married, November 7, 1871, at North
Kingston, Clara E. Pierce, daughter of Calvin
Pierce (see Pierce VII). She continues to
reside at the homestead on Woodland road.
She was born in North Ashburnham, Massa
chusetts, and was educated in the public
schools and the East Greenwich Seminary.
Before her marriage she taught school in
Providence for three years. She has been
prominent in church and social life. She is a
charter member of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in Woonsocket and has
been its president for the past seven years.
She has been very active in the temperance
movement. She is a member of the First
Baptist Church and Has been a teacher in the
Sunday school. She is a charter member of
the Fortnightly Club of Woonsocket. She
was appointed in 1905 by Governor Utter a
member of the State Board of Charities. Mr.
and Mrs. Wightman had one child, Chester,
a promising boy, who died at the age of three
years. (The Pierce Line).
The genealogist of the Pearse, Pearce, Peirce
or Pierce family, descending from the pioneer
Richard in this country, claims that twenty
generations of ancestry have been traced in
England. From Galfred, to whom the famous
English family of Percy (identical with Pearse,
Pierce, etc) traces its ancestry, the American
lineage is given as follows: Galfred (1) ; Wil
liam (2) ; Alan (3) ; William (4) ; William
(5); Agnes (6); Henry (7); William (8);
Henry (9) ; Henry (10) ; Henry (11) ; Henry
( 12) ; Henry ( 13) ; Henry ( 14) ; Henry ( 15) ;
Ralph (16).
(XVII) Peter Percy or Pearce, son of
Ralph Percy or Pearce, had a son, Richard.
Peter was standard bearer to Richard III. at
the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
(XVIII) Richard Percy, son of Peter Percy
or Pearce, founded Pearce Hall in York, Eng
land, where he lived and died.

(XIX) Richard Pearce or Pearse, son of
Richard Percy, changed the spelling to Pearce
or Pearse. He resided on the homestead of
his father, and had sons, Richard and William.
(XX) Richard Pierce, son of Richard
Pearce or Pearse, was born in 1590 in Eng
land. He was the American immigrant and
will be numbered (1) in the American pedi
gree that follows.
(I) Richard Pierce, mentioned above as
Richard (XX) in the English line, married in
England, Martha  . He resided in Bris
tol, England, and came to America in the ship
"Lyon" from Bristol, commanded by his
brother, William Pierce. William was killed
by the Spaniards, July 13, 1641, at Providence
Islands, Bermuda, as he was taking a load of
colonists from Massachusetts to that island.
He settled in Boston in 1632 and was a promi
nent citizen there. He is credited with the
authorship of the first almanac published in
North America (1639). He was a distin
guished master mariner in his day. For the
sake of uniformity the spelling used by the
particular branch of this family described be
low will be used hereafter in this sketch. The
variation in spelling this name seems to have
been a family habit ever since surnames were
in use. The more common forms have been
mentioned, and while Pearse and Pearce are
perhaps more common among the descendants
of Richard, all kinds of spellings may be
found at the present time, as well as in the
early records. Among his descendants bear
ing the surname Pierse or Pearse are many
prominent men in Rhode Island history. Cap
tain Nathaniel Pearse commanded an artillery
company at the burning of Bristol, Rhode
Island, by the British in the revolution. The
name has always figured prominently in the
general assembly of the state; Hon. Dutee J.
Pearse was a congressman from Rhode Island
for more than a decade. Edward Pearse was
a prominent merchant in Bristol and his sons
after him. At the present time many of the
name are prominent in business and public
life. Of Richard Pierce, the immigrant, little is
known. He may have returned to England,
leaving his sons to settle in Rhode Island.
(I) Captain Michael Pierce, brother of
Captain William, John and Richard Pierce,
according to various authorities, was born in
England about 1615, and was killed by the
Indians, Sunday, March 25, 1676, in King
Philip's war. He settled at Hingham, and
afterward at Scituate. His first wife died in
1662, and he married (second) about 1663,
Hannah James, a widow, having a son, Mark
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ried Charles Stockbridge, born in 1638, son of
John Stockbridge. Plis house was on the Co-
hasset road, a mile from the present North
meeting house. He was in the Narragansett
fight in December, 1675. He was commis
sioned captain by the general court in 1669
and had been an ensign and lieutenant before
that. In the spring of 1676 he commanded
an expedition against the Indians under
Canonchet, was attacked near Pawtucket by
a superior force and his command nearly anni
hilated. The story of the fight, related by
Mather and others, is well known history.
Captain Pierce fell early in the fight. Fifty-
five of the sixty-three Englishmen were slain
and ten of the twenty Indian allies. The
Indians were commanded by Nanuntenoo,
better known as Canonchet, and the place
of battle is now called Quinsniket. Cap
tain Pierce's will was dated January 15,
1675. "Being now by appointment of God
going out to war against the Indians." He
assisted in building the first saw mill in the
colony, burned by the Indians, May 20, 1676.
Children: Persis, baptized in 1646; Benjamin,
1646; John, married Patience Dobson; Eph-
raim, mentioned below; Eliza; Deborah;
Anna ; Abiah ; Ruth ; Abigail, married John
Holbrook. (II) Ephraim Pierce, son of Captain Mich
ael Pierce, was born about 1650. He married
Hannah Holbrook, daughter of John Hol
brook, of Weymouth, and removed from Wey
mouth to Warwick, Rhode Island. He died
September 14, 1719, and his will was dated
July 18, 1718, proved at Warwick, September
23, 1 719. Children: Izricum or Azrikim, men
tioned below; Ephraim; Michael, 1676;
Rachel, 1678; Hannah, 1680; Experience,
1682; John, 1684; Benjamin, 1686.
(Ill) Azrikim Pierce, son of Ephraim
Pierce, was born January 4, 1671. He mar
ried (first) December 31, 1696, Sarah Hey
ward (Howard), born March 2, 1676, died
August 12, 1712; married (second) May 6,
1713, Elizabeth Esten, born April 8, 1683,
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Martin)
Esten. He died May 18, 1718. They lived
at Warwick, Rhode Island, and Rehoboth,
Massachusetts. Children : Azrikim, Decem
ber 3, 1697; Sarah, born October 2, 1707;
Samuel ; Joseph, mentioned below ; Hopestill
and Elizabeth, twins, August 14, 1716; Ta-
bitha, August 27, 1717; Benjamin; Isaac. The
order of birth is not known.
(IV) Joseph Pierce, son of Azrikim Pierce,
was born April 7, 1714. He was deacon of the
church at Rehoboth. He married, October 3,
1734, Mary Martin, born in 1718, died Octo
ber 16, 1803. He died May 5, 1787, and his

will was proved January 5, 1787. Children:
Nathaniel, born July 9, 1736; Stephen, men
tioned below; Elizabeth, January 21, 1742;
Mary, February 23, 1743; Ann, June 10, 1746;
Noah, February 11, 1752; Joseph, December
1, 1752; Amy, November 19, 1754; Rhoby,
February 17, 1757; Joseph, December 5, 1759;
Hannah, April 18, 1762; Rhoda, August 18,
1764. (V) Stephen Pierce, son of Joseph Pierce,
was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, August
7, 1739. He married, March 20, 1758, Anna
Wheeler, born October 15, 1737, died in June,
1824, daughter of James Wheeler. He died
January 28, 1805. Children : Ruth, born De
cember 7, 1758; Mary, August 23, 1760;
Zilpha, September 15, 1762; Anna, January
1, 1764; Stephen, June 24, 1766; Backus,
March 13, 1768; Asahel, April 7, 1771 ; Noah,
January 26, 1773; Martha, April 22, 1775;
Calvin, mentioned below; Rhoda, February 5,
I783- (VI) Calvin Pierce, son of Stephen Pierce,
was born at Rehoboth, December 2, 1780, died
September 15, 1829. He married Constant
Bulroomb, born 1765, died September 30,
1837. They had sons: Calvin, mentioned be
low ; Asahel, who died in young manhood ;
Barnum, who was a well-known manufacturer
of Woonsocket.
(VII) Calvin (2) Pierce, son of Calvin (1)
Pierce, married, November 25, 1828, Nancy
Taft, born January 5, 1810, died February 19,
1875. He died July 19, 1883, at Potowomut,
Rhode Island. He resided at Springfield,
Massachusetts, and Woonsocket, Rhode
Island. For many years he was a mill super
intendent. Children: Calvin B., died in in
fancy; Martha A., died in infancy; Asahel T.,
born June 30, 1832, married, November 25,
1863, Sarah F. Stephens, of Pawtucket, both
now deceased; Nancy M., married Horatio H.
Valentine, of Providence, and she is now de
ceased ; Mary E., married Nicholas N. Under
wood, of North Attleborough, both now de
ceased; Clara E., married John A. C. Wight-
man (see Wightman X).

Captain Samuel Chester, the im-
CHESTER migrant ancestor, was doubtless
born about 1625 in England. In
1663 he was in Boston, Massachusetts, evi
dently a man of substance, and in the prime of
life. He was commander, owner and factor in
the West India trade there. He removed soon
to New London, Connecticut, where he was
admitted a freeman, being of course a member
of the church, in 1669. He continued to carry
on some business in Boston for several years.
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liam Condy, who removed to Boston. In a
letter dated June 14, 1688, Condy authorized
his uncle, Captain Chester, to sell a hundred
and fifty acres of land at New London. Cap
tain Chester was skilled in surveying as well
as navigation, and was of great service to the
colony in laying out grants of land and in other
civil engineering in the new settlements. We
are told that he was a trustworthy, faithful,
just, loyal, judicious and worthy citizen. He
had visited many foreign ports and traded in
foreign climes. He owned large tracts of land
on the east side of the river at what is now
Groton, Connecticut, covering the land where
Fort Griswold and the Groton monument
stand. He also acquired large tracts to the
north and south of Groton Point, now East
ern Point, on which Abraham, John and Jona
than Chester, sons or grandsons, settled. Uncas,
the Indian Sachem, deeded to him several
thousand acres of land at Colchester, Con
necticut, June 13, 1683. The family of his son
Samuel, it appears to the writer, has been con
fused with that of the father. Children, bap
tized at New London : Samuel, mentioned
below; John, baptized in 1670; Susannah, bap
tized in 1670; Mercy, baptized in 1673.
(II) Samuel (2) Chester, son of Captain
Samuel (1) Chester, was born probably in
1660 or soon afterward. He was doubtless
the Samuel whose will, dated April 23, 1708,
proved March, 1709-10, bequeathed to children
Abraham, John, Jonathan and Mercy Bar
rows. His inventory amounted to nearly three
hundred pounds. He seems also to have been
a master mariner, and in 1689-90 to have been
too old to go to sea, and in fact to have settled
down to a merchant's life at New London,
owning but probably not sailing ships himself.
It is not known that his father was living in
1690. Children: John, born about 1690;
Child, baptized May 29, 1692 ; Hannah, bap
tized March 25, 1694, died young; Abraham,
mentioned below ; Jonathan, baptized March
21, 1697; Mercy, married  Barrows.
(Ill) Abraham Chester, son of Samuel (2)
Chester, married and became father of several
children, among whom was Christopher, men
tioned below.
(IV) Christopher Chester, son of Abraham
Chester, was born October 26, 1757, died June
6, 1831. He served in the Revolution, enlist
ing in December, 1775, as a private under
Captain Gallup and Colonel Parsons, of Con
necticut, for twelve months. In April, 1777,
he enlisted for six months under Captain
Smith and Colonel S. Warner, of New Hamp
shire, and later for three months he was under
guard duty at Groton, Connecticut. He was
engaged in the capture of Burgoyne. On

April 1, 1818, he. applied for a pension, which
was granted. He married, January 3, 1779,
Martha Chase, born March 27, 1753, died Jan
uary 1, 1828. Children, recorded in Westerly,
Rhode Island: Martha, born January 16,
1780; Christopher, June 4, 1781, died October
6, 1785; Lemuel, January 5, 1783; John
Chase, July 8, 1785; Christopher, mentioned-
below. (V) Rev. Christopher (2) Chester, son of
Christopher (1) Chester, was born in West
erly, Rhode Island, February 24, 1792 (or
1794), died in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, No
vember 10, 1877. He spent his boyhood and
early school days in Westerly. When a young
man he was a carpenter by trade, but later was
ordained as a minister of the Seventh Day
Baptist Church. He preached in Rhode
Island and also had charge of a church near
Rome, Oneida county, New York. He mar
ried, December 9, 1813, Olive Burdick, born
in Stonington, Connecticut, June 16, 1795, died
December 31, 1883. Children: Christopher
N., born November 7, 1814; Benjamin F.,
mentioned below ; John H., November 28,
1818; George D., March 27, 1821 ; Olive B.,
September 27, 1823; Martha C, July 18, 1826;
Oliver B., January 16, 1829; Daniel C, Sep
tember 2, 1831 ; Susan M., March 1, 1835;
Sarah E., July 2, 1837.
(VI) Benjamin F. Chester, son of Rev.
Christopher (2) Chester, was born September
13, 1816, died January 22, 1889. He lived in
Hopkinton all of his life except for one year
which he spent in Mystic, Connecticut. He
was engaged in the manufacture of cotton bat
ting in Hopkinton, but was a tanner and cur
rier by trade. In politics he was a strong
Whig and was active in public affairs. He
was a lieutenant in the militia. He married
(first) September 15, 1839, Susan Lang-
worthy, daughter of Amos Langworthy, and
she died March 26, 1880. He married (sec
ond) July 19, 1882, Mary Ann Carey. Chil
dren : Albert Langworthy, mentioned below ;
Gilbert S., December 3, 1844, died June
11, 1903, unmarried; Amos F., born Novem
ber 28, 1846, living in Westerly; Chris
topher C, September 14, 1850, died February
14, 1851; Lois Ann, September 14, 1850, died
October 20, 1850.
(VII) Albert Langworthy Chester, son of
Benjamin F. Chester, was born in Hopkinton,
Rhode Island, October 10, 1841. He attended
the public schools, the Hopkinton Academy
at Ashaway and the Berwick Academy at Ber
wick, Maine. Afterward he was a teacher in
the public schools of Westerly, Rhode Island.
He enlisted, September 16, 1862, in Company
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and was clerk of his company. He took part
in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13,
1862, and in other engagements. He was mus
tered out at the expiration of his term of en
listment, July 29, 1863. In April, 1868, he
came to Westerly, and for a period of twenty-
five years was engaged in the cotton and wool
waste business. Afterward, he was in the
hardware, real estate and insurance business.
He took a prominent part in the public affairs
of the town, and was elected to the house of
representatives of Rhode Island in April, 1879,
serving until December 20, 1882, when he was
elected to the state senate to succeed Samuel
H. Cross, resigned, and he was reelected in
April, 1883, and again in April, 1884. For
two years he was a member of the town coun
cil of Westerly and from 1891 to 1894, inclu
sive, was a member of the board of assessors.
In politics he was a Republican of prominence,
serving as delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1884 and at St.
Louis in 1896. He was a member of the
joint committee of the States of Rhode Island
and Connecticut, appointed April 22, 1885, to
ascertain and fix the boundary between the
state in the waters of the Pawcatuck river,
Little Narragansett bay and the sea, a matter
that had been in dispute for more than two
centuries. He was a director of the Washing
ton National Bank of Westerly, and a trustee
of the Westerly Savings Bank from 1880 to
the end of his life and vice-president of both
banks from 1888 until he became president.
He was also president of the Washington
Trust Company, into which the two banks
were merged. He resigned the presidency,
January 1, 1906, but continued as director and
member of the executive committee. He was
also an incorporator and trustee of the West
erly Memorial and Library Association and its
vice-president; president of the Westerly Gas
and Electric Light Company until 1903, and
treasurer and secretary until 1900 of the West
chester Gas and Electric Company, Westches
ter county, New York, of which he was one of
the organizers ; president of the Nichols &
Langworthy Machine Company of Hope Val
ley and of the New York Safety Steam Power
Company. He served as commander of Bud-
long Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and
was a member of Franklin Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Palmer Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, and Narragansett Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Westerly. He was mas
ter of Franklin Lodge and a member of the
Grand Lodge, and served as district deputy.
In religion he was a Seventh Day Baptist, and
member of the missionary board, of which he

was treasurer from February, 1884, to Janu
ary 1, 1896, and until his death a member of
the financial board for investment of the per
manent funds of the society. He died June
29, 1906.
He married, November 17, 1866, Elizabeth
Ross York, daughter of Benjamin and Pru
dence (Bliven) York (see York and Bliven).
She is a charter member of Phebe Greene
Ward Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, her mother having been the daugh
ter of a Revolutionary soldier. She has been
delegate to various state and national con
gresses from her chapter. She is active in the
work of the Seventh Day Baptist Church and
was one of the organizers of the Westerly
Historical Society. (The York Line).
(I) James York, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in 1614, died in 1683, aged sixty-nine
years. He came to this country in 1635, when
he was twenty-one years of age, in the ship
"Philip," which sailed June 20, 1635, from
Gravesend, England, for Virginia. If they
landed in Virginia, James York did not remain
there long. He doubtless came north soon
after his arrival, for the first record found of
him is in Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1660
he settled in Stonington, Connecticut, when it
was under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts
and called Southerton. He settled on grants
of land which included the present farm of
Gideon P. Chesebrough, east of Anguilla or
Wequetequock brook, also the farm of Eras
tus D. Miner and the Simon Rhodes place ;
he built a house on the north side of the Indian
path, now known as the old Post road, and
there he lived the remainder of his life. He
married Joannah  , about 1637, and she
died in 1685. Children : Abigail, born about
1638 or 1639; James, mentioned below.
(II) James (2) York, son of James (1)
York, was born June 14, 1648, died October
26, 1676. He doubtless came to Stonington
with his father when a boy, as his name is
mentioned in several records before 1672. In
that year he sold his estate in Boston, where
he had been engaged in business, and settled
in Stonington. On January 15, 1667, one hun
dred acres of land were laid out to him, and
he also received land for services in the Indian
wars. He was made freeman in Connecticut
in 1673. He married, in Stonington, January
19, 1669, Deborah Bell, daughter of Thomas
and Anne Bell. She married (second) March
12, 1679, Henry Elliot, and had seven chil
dren. Children of James and Deborah (Bell)
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died February 21, 1672; James, mentioned be
low; William, July 26, 1674; Thomas, Octo
ber 14, 1676.
(Ill) James (3) York, son of James (2)
York, was born December 17, 1672, died in
1759. He married, November 13, 1695, Han
nah Stanton, daughter of Joseph and Hannah
(Meade) Stanton, of Quonacontaug, now
Westerly, Rhode Island. Children : Hannah,
born March 28, 1697; Joannah, December 31,
1699; James, mentioned below; Anna, Janu
ary 21, 1704; Edward, June 21, 1706; Stan
ton, March 14, 1708; Thankful, February 26,
1710. (IV) James (4) York, son of James (3)
York, was born September 6, 1702. He was
made freeman in Westerly, Rhode Island,
March 1, 1727, and on June 5, 1738, was
chosen constable. He married, January 11,
1728, Elizabeth Case, of South Kingston,
Rhode Island. She was born in Charlestown,
Rhode Island, and died in South Kingston,
March 27, 1784, in her seventy-eighth year.
Children: Edward, born April 18, 1730;
Elizabeth, February 11, 1732; Stephen, May
24, 1735; Hannah, February 28, 1738; James,
November 25, 1740; William, mentioned be
low. (V) William York, son of James (4) York,
was born January 20, 1742, died February 29,
1834. He served in the war of the Revolution,
and for two years was sergeant in Captain
Congdon's company, Colonel Noyes regiment
of Massachusetts troops. He received a pen
sion for his services. He married, November
15, 1766, Anne Peckham, daughter of Daniel
and Mary Peckham. She was born September
20, 1742. Children : Benjamin, mentioned
below; Hannah, born November 15, 1770;
James, April 4, 1776; Isaac, April 4, 1776;
Augustus, July 28, 1778; William, October 15,
1780; Elizabeth, March 5, 1785; Anna, Au
gust 24, 1788.
(VI) Benjamin York, son of William York,
was born September 25, 1767, died June 7,
1850. He married (first) November 4, 1790,
Zilpha Crandall, daughter of Caleb and
Patience Crandall, of Charlestown, Rhode
Island, and she died August 8, 1794, aged
twenty-seven years. He married (second)
January 21, 1801, Desire Saunders, daughter
of Joshua Saunders, of Charlestown, and she
died November 29, 1863, aged eighty-five
years. She was a direct descendant of Tobias
Saunders, who was one of the first settlers
of Westerly. Two children by first wife died
young. The children given below are by the
second wife: Saunders, born October 30,
1801 ; Isaac, June 24, 1804; Welcome, Febru
ary 6, 1807, died young; Mary Ann, October

21, 1808; Asenath, March 1, 1812; Codding-
ton, drowned; Benjamin, mentioned below.
(VII) Benjamin (2) York, son of Benja
min (1) York, was born September 20, 1819,
died April 27, 1899. He married, January 9,
1842, Prudence Bliven, daughter of Captain
Nathan and Mary Bliven, of Westerly, and
she died January 14, 1892 (see Bliven IV).
He made his home in Westerly and took a
prominent part in public affairs. During the
Civil war he was provost-marshal of Rhode
Island, and for many years served on the
police force of Westerly, and during part of
the time he was chief of police. For sixty-
two years he was a public auctioneer. In his
younger days he followed farming until 1855.
He made his home on Beach street. He was
a member of Franklin Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, and of the Westerly Business
Men's Association. Children: Isaac Frank
lin, born February 8, 1843, died in the Con
federate prison at Andersonville while in the
service of the government; Halbert Gladding,
May 17, 1844, married Jane Larkin; Court-
land Davis, April 17, 1846, died young; Caro
line Davis, twin of Courtland Davis, died
young; Elizabeth Ross, November 22, 1848,
married Albert L. Chester (see Chester VII) ;
Mary Ann, November 20, 185 1, married Ed
ward C. Brown, and had Bertha May, Novem
ber 30, 1878, and Jessie Edna, April 16, 1884;
Francis Carpenter, twin of Mary Ann, mar
ried Lillian Hawkins ; Alice Maria, September
11, 1855, died July 1, 1913, married George F.
Wells. (The Bliven Line).
(I) Edward Bliven, the immigrant ancestor,
settled when a young man in Westerly, Rhode
Island. In some of the vital records his name
is given as John, doubtless a clerical error.
He married at Westerly, October 2, 1691, Isa
bel Maccoon, daughter of John Maccoon, a
native of Aberdeen, Scotland. Children, born
at Westerly: Joan, May 1, 1692; Edward,
mentioned below ; Rachel, March 19, 1697 ;
James, October 27, 1702 ; John, January 22,
1707. (II) Edward (2) Bliven, son of Edward
(1) Bliven, was born at Westerly, Rhode
Island, August 5, 1694. He married there,
May 12, 1719, Freelove Swaros. Children,
born at Westerly: Freelove, born December
20, 1719; Joshua, March 21, 1720; Edward,
May 30, 1722; Isabel, October 22, 1723; Pa
tience, June 3, 1725 ; Peter, February 21, 1727;
John, September 22, 1730; Nathan, mentioned
below; Mary, February 16, 1734; Sarah, May
26, 1736.
(Ill) Nathan Bliven, son of Edward (2)
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married, March 15, 1755, Elizabeth Lewis,
born July 16, 1731, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Lewis) Lewis. Children, born at
Westerly: Elizabeth, August 4, 1756; Na
than, mentioned below; Mary, February 15,
1764; Henry, November 27, 1766; Freelove,
June 16, 1770; Abigail, November 3, 1774;
Joseph Lewis, May 5, 1778.
(IV) Captain Nathan (2) Bliven, son of
Nathan (1) Bliven, was born -at Westerly,
Rhode Island, April 17, 1761. He married,
February 1, 1798, Mary Taylor, of Charles
town, born December 16, 1775, died May 21,
1846, daughter of Nathan and Prudence (Wil
cox) Taylor. He died September 12, 1843.
He was a soldier in the Revolution and after
ward a captain of militia. Their daughter
Prudence married Benjamin York (see York
VII).

The surname Sweet is identical
SWEET with Swett, Sweat and Sweete,
and is variously spelled in the
early records. The Sweet family is of ancient
English lineage, and has produced many dis
tinguished men. The Rhode Island family has
had many prominent surgeons, not only in that
state but in Massachusetts and New York.
The family is noted for its "natural bone-
setters," exhibiting to a remarkable degree
hereditary skill in this line of professional
work. (I) John Sweet, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came early in life
to Salem, Massachusetts. He was doubtless
related to John Sweet or Swett, who settled
in Newbury among the pioneers, and whose
descendants have mostly spelled the name
Swett. It is very doubtful as to which of the
Johns killed the famous wolf dog of Governor
John Endicott. He left Salem in 1637 and
settled in Providence, Rhode Island. He had
a grant of land that year, and also died that
year. Afterward his widow received another
grant of land there. Rev. Hogh Peters, of
Salem, wrote in a letter dated July 1, 1639, of
the widow and certain others, that they had
"the great censure passed upon them in this
our church, and that they wholly refused to
hear the church, denying it and all churches in
the Bay to be true churches," etc. John
Sweet's widow married (second) Ezekiel
Holliman. Her will, dated July 31, 1681, gave
among other bequests all her interest in the
house at Warwick to her son-in-law, John
Gereardy, and her daughter Renewed. Chil
dren: John, born about 1630, died 1677;
James, mentioned below; Renewed, married
John Gereardy.
(II) James Sweet, son of John Sweet, was

born in England, in 1622, and died in Kings
town, Rhode Island, in 1695. He lived at
Warwick and Kingstown. He was admitted
an inhabitant of North Kingstown, June 5,
1648; was commissioner, 1653-55-58-59. Pie
was admitted a, freeman in 1655, and was a
juror in 1656. He deeded various parcels of
land to his sons. To Benoni he gave land in
Mashantatuck in 1686. He married Mary
Greene, born 1633, daughter of John and Joan
(Tattersall) Greene. Children, born at North
Kingstown: Philip, July 15, 1655; James,
May 28, 1657; Mary, February 2, 1660;
Benoni, of whom further; Valentine, February
14, 1665; Samuel, November 1, 1667; Jere
miah, January 6, 1669; Renewed, July 16,
1671 ; Sylvester, March 1, 1674.
(Ill) Benoni Sweet, son of James Sweet,
was born at North Kingstown, Rhode Island,
March 28, 1662. He married Elizabeth  .
Children, born at North Kingstown : James,
of whom further ; Margaret, September 22,
1687; Margaret, September 22, 1689; Benoni,
March 28, 1692; Mary, December 8, 1696;
Elizabeth, February 22, 1700; Thomas, Au
gust 17, 1703. Probably others.
(IV) James (2) Sweet, son of Benoni
Sweet, was born at North Kingstown, Rhode
Island, May 28, 1686. The town records of
North Kingstown were damaged by fire, and
the record of births of children of James are
lacking in dates. The name of his wife is
missing. A James Sweet married, July 6,
1734, Ann Weeden, of Newport, but if this is
the James, son of Benoni, it was a second mar
riage. Children, born probably from 17 10 to
1740: Benoni, Eber, Mary, James, Elisha,
Freelove, Job, of whom further ; Elizabeth,
Margaret. (V) Job Sweet, son of James (2) Sweet,
was born December 1, about 1730. He mar
ried at North Kingstown, 1753, Sarah Kings-
ley, daughter of John Kingsley. Children,
born at North Kingstown: Gideon, James,
Benoni, Jonathan, Margaret, Lydia, Hannah,
Rufus, of whom further; Sarah — all men
tioned in the partly destroyed records, and
others. According to the state census of 1774,
Benjamin, Samuel, James, Jeremiah and
Henry were heads of families in East Green
wich, and several at North Kingstown.
(VI) Rufus Sweet, son of Job Sweet, was
born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, De
cember 6 (about 1760, though the printed rec
ord has been 174 — ; the parents were not mar
ried until 1753). Rufus and others of the
family went to Beekman, Dutchess county,
New York, about the time of the revolution,
probably earlier. In the census of 1790 there
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two sons under sixteen ; Thomas, with one son
under sixteen and two females ; Samuel, with
four sons under sixteen, and five females ;
John, with six sons under sixteen, and one
female ; Elnathan, with three males over six
teen, one under that age, and five females ;
David, no children ; Amos, with four sons
under sixteen, and three females. In an old
history of Dutchess county it is stated that the
Sweet family came from Long Island, but it
is certain that this should have read Rhode
Island. Beekman was established as a precinct
in 1737. According to family records, Rufus
was born at Beekman, April 24, 1765, died
July 16, 1847, aged eighty-two years, eleven
months and twenty days. This birth date does
not correspond with that found in the North
Kingstown records, but there is obviously an
error, whether in calculating the age at death,
or in calculating the date of birth from the
age. (VII) Rufus (2) Sweet, son or grandson
of Rufus (1 ) Sweet, was born in North Kings
ton, Rhode Island, and was educated there in
the public schools. He made his home in
Wickford, Rhode Island, where he engaged in
business as a tailor and clothier and general
merchant. He died in his native town and
was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery at Wick
ford. He married Mary A. Congdon, of
North Kingston. Children: 1. Abby F., born
June 26, 1835; married Frank Reynolds, of
Providence ; no issue. 2. Samuel C, born
October 28, 1836; married Jane Bennett, and
they left one son, Frank W., who married
Julia Yost. 3. Elizabeth, born December 16,
1837, died young. 4. Daniel Congdon, men
tioned below. 5. Hannah S., born August
31,' 1844; married Charles H. Church, of
Wickford, and they left one daughter, Julia
Church. 6. James, born March 4, 1843, de
ceased, unmarried. 7. Alexander, born Au
gust 16, 1845, died young. 8. Seraphine, born
July 29, 1846, resides in Boston, unmarried.
9. Rufus, born February 2, 1850, died young.
10. Mary E., born December 7, 185 1 ; married
Frank Raynolds, of Newark, New Jersey, and
they left one son, Rufus Raynolds. 11. Julia,
born November 2, 1854, died young.
(VIII) Daniel Congdon Sweet, son' of
Rufus (2) Sweet, was born at North Kings
ton, Rhode Island, February 11, 1840. He
received his early education in the public
schools of Wickford and at the East Green
wich Academy at East Greenwich, Rhode
Island, from which he graduated. After leav
ing school he was associated with his father
in the mercantile business for a time, and
afterward entered the employ of J. B. Barnaby,

whose store was then located at the corner of
College and Main streets, Providence. He
left this position to become a clerk in the
freight office of the New York, Providence &
Boston Railway Company under Mr. Nixon,
of Providence. About a year later he became
a clerk in the insurance office of Snow &
Barker, and later in the office of Addison H.
White, where he became familiar with every
detail of the insurance business. After a time
he started in the insurance business on his own
account in Wickford and achieved a large
measure of success, extending his business to
every section of Washington county. He also
was in partnership with Herbert Shove and
Charles Dyer for a time, later becoming asso
ciated with C. W. Beach, conducting a large
insurance business in Providence under the
firm name of Beach & Sweet. In 1898 Mr.
Sweet sold his interests in the Providence
business to his partner and devoted his entire
time to his business in Wickford, continuing
actively in business there to the end of his
life. He died April 22, 1904, at his home in
Wickford and was buried in Elm Grove Ceme
tery in that town.
Mr. Sweet was a member of Washington
Lodge, No. 5, Free and Accepted Masons, and
of Beacon Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Wickford. In politics he was a
Democrat, but he uniformly declined all op
portunities for holding public office. He was
an influential and useful citizen, however,
public-spirited and aiding every movement for
the public welfare, the progress and develop
ment of the town of Wickford. In business
he was singularly upright and just, holding
fast to the Golden Rule as his guide in all his
relations with other men, in business as well
as in private affairs and in social life. He
made many friends and enjoyed a high degree
of popularity in the community where he was
known. He married, November 29, 1880, Harriet
M. Arnold, born at Exeter, Rhode Island,
daughter of James B. and Elizabeth S.
(Arnold) Arnold (see Arnold XI). Mrs.
Sweet was educated in the public schools of
Wickford. After which she learned telegraphy
and became an operator for the Stonington &
Providence, now the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company at Kingston.
After two years at that station, she was trans
ferred to the station at Wickford Junction,
a position she filled with skill and efficiency
for a period of eight years. She is a com
municant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church of Wickford.

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(The Arnold Line).
The family of Arnold is of great antiquity,
having its origin among ancient princes of
Wales, according to the pedigree recorded in
the College of Arms. They trace from Ynir,
king of Gwentland, who flourished about the
middle of the twelfth century, and who was
paternally descended from Ynir, the second
son of Cadwalder, king of Britons. The name
is derived from Arn, an eagle, and holt, a
grove. One Thomas Arnold married Agnes,
daughter of Sir Thomas Gammage, lord of
Cpytey, and his son, Richard Arnold, married
Emmate, daughter of Pearce Young. Richard
Arnold died in 1595, and his son, Thomas,
married Alice, daughter of John Gully.
(IV) William Arnold, son of Thomas and'
Alice (Gully) Arnold, was born at Chesel-
bourne, Dorsetshire, England, June 24, 1587,
and married Christian, daughter of Thomasine
Peck, and had children in Leamington, War
wickshire, England, as follows : Elizabeth,
born November 23, 161 1 ; Benedict, mentioned
below; Joanna, born in 1617; Stephen, born
December 22, 1622. They were followers of
Roger Williams' party and landed in Hing
ham, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1635, and
joined Williams on his expedition to Rhode
Island and became original proprietors of the
colony of Providence Plantations in 1637, and
founders of the First Baptist Church in Amer
ica. (V) Governor Benedict Arnold, eldest son
of William and Christian (Peck) Arnold, was
born in December, 1615. Pie became one of
the early settlers of Newport, and in 1637 he
became one of the thirteen heads of families
who signed the agreement for majority rule.
In 1654 he was made assistant for the town of
Newport, and in 1657 joined Coddington in
the purchase of Quodnoquat Island, and the
same year he was elected president of Rhode
Island as successor to Roger Williams, who
had resigned the office, and he was reelected
in 1662-63. Under the royal charter he be
came the first governor of the colony of Rhode
Island, 1663-66, and was reelected to that office
four times successively, and under his admin
istration, 1669-78, friendly relations were re
established with the Providence Plantations.
He married, December 17, 1640, Damaris,
daughter of Stukely Westcott, of Salem, Mas
sachusetts. She was born in 1592, died in
1679. Governor Benedict Arnold died June
20, 1678. Their children were: Josiah, Bene
dict Jr., Godsgift, Freelove, Lester, Caleb,
mentioned below; Damaris, Priscilla, Pene
lope, John Golding, Elizabeth, Absalom.
(VI) Caleb Arnold, son of Governor Bene
dict Arnold; was born December 19, 1644, died

February 9, 1719. He was a physician and
surgeon. He was deputy to the general as
sembly in 1671, 1680, 1684, 1706 and 1707.
He was captain of a military company and
served on a court-martial for the trial of In
dians in King Philip's war in 1676 at New
port. His will was dated July 7, 1716, proved
March 9, 1719. Pie resided at Portsmouth.
He married, June 10, 1666, Abigail Wilbur.
Children: William, born May 31, 1667; Pene
lope, August 3, 1669; Josiah, December 26,
1671 ; Peleg; Samuel; Oliver; Joseph, men
tioned below ; Sarah.
(VII) Joseph Arnold, son of Caleb Arnold,
was born about 1675. Among his children was
Joseph, mentioned below.
(VIII) Joseph (2) Arnold, son of Joseph
(1) Arnold, lived at Exeter, Rhode Island.
Pie married (first) Patience  , (second)
Hannah — •  : Children, born at Exeter by
first wife : Abigail, January 24, 1733. By
second wife: Joseph, born February 3, 1738;
Stephen, April 20, 1739; Samuel, January 16,
1741 ; Josias, December 31, 1743; Patience,
July 16, 1745; Mary, October 9, 1747; Peleg,
February 15, 1749; Oliver, mentioned below.
(IX) Oliver Arnold, son of Joseph (2)
Arnold, was born at Exeter, Rhode Island,
October 15, 1750. He married Phebe  .
Children, born at Exeter: Oliver, mentioned
below; Amy, June 15, 1785; Mercy, July 16,
1787; Dorcas, March, 1790; James, August
4, 1796.(X) Oliver (2) Arnold, son of Oliver (1)
Arnold, married Dorcas Phillips. Among
their children was James B., mentioned below.
(XI) James B. Arnold, son of Oliver (2)
Arnold, was born at Exeter, Rhode Island.
He was a railroad man, and for many years
was division master of the Stonington rail
road, now part of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company. He married
Elizabeth S. Arnold, daughter of William T.
Arnold. Children: 1. Benjamin F., born Au
gust 30, 1845; was a soldier in the civil war,
drowned while returning from the service ;
married Ann Weeden and had one child, Ida,
who married William Lanphear. 2. Harriet
M., born January 7, 1847 ; married Daniel
Congdon Sweet (see Sweet VIII). 3. James
E., born December 7, 1859, of Bellville, Rhode
Island ; married Mary Smith and had one
child, Daisy, who married Robert Reynolds
and resides in West Haven, Connecticut.

Nicholas Utter, the immigrant
UTTER ancestor, lived in Kings Town
and Westerly, Rhode Island, and
in Stonington, Connecticut. On November 6,
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Town) and August 28, 1709, he joined in the
"Shannock Purchase" at Rochester. On April
28, 171 1, with about twenty others he pur
chased two tracts of land in Westerly, one of
two hundred and eighty-six acres and the other
of one hundred and fifty-six acres. On July
29, 171 1, he sold his son Nicholas two hundred
and eighty-six acres of land on the Pawcatuck
river, and he died at Stonington or near there
in 1722. His will was dated July 5, 1722, and
proved October 17, 1722, the executors being
Peter Crandall, John Maxson and John Rich
mond, and he mentioned in it his wife, his
daughter-in-law Eleanor, wife of Matthew
Randall (evidently a step-daughter), his friend
John Richmond, sons Jabez, Thomas, Nicholas
and William, daughter Millicent Yeomans and
children of daughter Sarah Forman ; the son
Thomas received a double share because of his
taking care of his father in his old age. He
married (first)  ¦ — , and he married (sec
ond) Elizabeth — - — — , widow, who died after
1722. Children: Jabez, married Mary

Thomas ; Nicholas ; Millicent, married John
Yeomans ; William ; Sarah, married 
Forman. (II) Thomas Utter, son of Nicholas Utter,
was born about 1670. He lived in Westerly,
Rhode Island, and among other children had
John, mentioned below.
(Ill) John Utter, son of Thomas Utter,
was born January 29, 1703, at Westerly, Rhode
Island. Children, born at Westerly : Abra
ham, mentioned below ; Eleanor, born Febru
ary 10, 1733, married Nathaniel Kenyon;
Isaac, born January 4, 1736-37; Jemima, born
1738 ; Thankful, married Thomas Weeks.
(IV) Abraham Utter, son of John Utter,
was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, Novem
ber 18, 1732. He married (first) November
22, 1759, Hannah White, daughter of Roger
White. She died and he married (second)
October 14, 1769, Hannah Burdick, daughter
of Hubbard Burdick. Among his children were :
John ; William, mentioned below. He lived in
Hopkinton. According to the census of 1774
he lived at Westerly or Hopkinton, and had
in his family two males over sixteen, one
under that age, three females over sixteen and
four females under sixteen. In the census
of 1790 we find as heads of families in New
York state, Isaac, John, Joseph, Josiah, Sam
uel, Solomon, William and James, all doubtless
of the Rhode Island family. William Utter
was living in Northeast, Dutchess county, and
another William at Southeast, an adjacent
town. (V) William Utter, son of Abraham Utter,
was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, about
1795. He removed to Whitesboro, New York.

He married Dolly Wilcox, of Whitesboro.
They moved to Plainfield, Otsego county, New
York. Among their children was George Ben
jamin, mentioned below.
(VI) Rev. George Benjamin Utter, son of
Benjamin and Dolly (Wilcox) Utter, was born
in Plainfield Center, Otsego county, New York,
February 4, 18 19. He received a common
school education at his home at Unadilla
Forks and at the Whitesboro Academy until
he was thirteen years of age. Pie then learned
the trade of printer and worked two years in
Homer, and two in Schenectady, New York.
In Schenectady he became a member of the
Apprentices Library Association, and it was
while studying and reading there that he
formed the purpose of classical study. He
read many of the library books and took part
in the literary exercises and debates of the
society. He entered the Oneida Institute at
Whitesboro in 1836, and was graduated in
1840. He then began study at the Union
Theological Seminary of New York City,
from which he was graduated in June, 1843.
Three weeks before graduation he was or
dained as a minister of the gospel at a meeting
of the Seventh Day Baptist Eastern Associa
tion. Soon afterwards he was sent by the
association to England in order to establish
closer relations with the churches of kindred
faith there, and also for the purpose of study
ing in the libraries' at London and Oxford the
history of Sabbath discussions and of collect
ing books to form a Sabbath library in this
country. In the spring of 1844 ne returned to
New York and joined with others in the estab
lishing of a weekly newspaper, the Sabbath
Recorder, which is still published in another
city. He was the manager of the paper, which
soon became the recognized paper of the
Seventh Day Baptist denomination, and he
also preached occasionally. He was editor and
publisher of this periodical for about twenty-
five years, and also had charge of the monthly,
quarterly and annual publication, and the
books and reports of various kinds issued by
his_ denomination. At the outbreak of the
civil war in 1861 he moved his printing estab
lishment to Westerly, Rhode Island, and con
tinued his paper, in connection with a local
secular newspaper, the Narragansett Weekly.
In 1872 he sold the denominational periodicals
to a society which wished to use them at an
establishment near the university at Alfred
Center, Allegany county, New York, and after
that he continued the publication of the Narra
gansett Weekly at Westerly. He also published
books, pamphlets and reports, and preached at
times, as well as carrying out the demands of
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societies. During his records as a publisher
he has issued twenty-five volumes of the Sab
bath Recorder; twelve volumes of a Sabbath
school paper ; three volumes of a Seventh Day
Baptist memorial ; one hymn book ; one hymn
and tune book; one Seventh Day Baptist
manual; and twenty-two volumes of the
Narragansett Weekly. He "is a representative
man in his denomination, and a leading citizen
in the southern part of the State, though he
has avoided public political positions. His
hands have been full of good work, which has
been done thoroughly and conscientiously."
He married (first) in 1845, Catharine C.
Stillman. He married (second) in 1847, Mary
Starr Maxson, a direct descendant of John
Maxson, one of the pioneer settlers of New
port. Her mother was a daughter of Jesse
Starr, of Newport, a revolutionary soldier,
and granddaughter of Vine Starr, also a revo
lutionary soldier. She was also a descendant
of Elder William Brewster, who came in the
"Mayflower." He married (third) in 1871,
Harriet (Wells) Stillman, widow of Welcome
Stillman. Son, by second wife: George Her
bert, mentioned below.
(VII) Hon. George Herbert Utter, son of
Rev. George Benjamin Utter, was born at
Plainfield Center, New York, July 2, 1854.
He was but seven years old when his parents
came to Westerly, Rhode Island, where he
attended private schools. For two years he
was a student in the preparatory department
of Alfred University. He then attended the
Westerly high school for two years and entered
Amherst College, from which he was gradu
ated in the class of 1877. He had learned the
printer's trade, and after graduating he be
came associated with his father and uncle in
publishing the Narragansett Weekly. After
his uncle died in 1886 he became a partner of
his father, and in 1892, after the death of his
father, sole proprietor of the newspaper and
printing business. In August, 1893, he estab
lished the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper
that in a few years acquired the largest circu
lation in western Rhode Island and eastern
Connecticut. As an editor and publisher Mr.
Utter took rank among the most prominent
and successful in the state. The Sun is unique
in that it has no Saturday issue, but is pub
lished on Sunday evening. It is published in
a Seventh Day Baptist community, where Sat
urday is observed as the Sabbath.
He was distinguished in public life beyond
most of his fellow men. He began his service
to the state as member of the school board.
From 1883 to 1885 he served on the staff of
Governor Bourn. In 1885 he was elected to
the general assembly and when the Republican

party again came into power in Rhode Island,
in 1888, he was elected speaker of the house.
He demonstrated remarkable executive abil
ity and proved a model presiding officer. From
May, 1889, to May, 1891, he was a state sena
tor and was a member of the judiciary com
mittee both years and its chairman during
the last year, although this position is almost
always filled by a lawyer. Then he was elected
secretary of state, an office he filled with abil
ity and distinction, until he was obliged to
relinquish it, on account of the demands of
business, after his father died. In 1894 he
became lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island
and in that office won the apt nickname of the
"Little Giant" in affectionate admiration of
masterly intellectual qualities with short
stature. At the end of the term he retired to
private life and devoted himself energetically
to business. He was called to the public serv
ice again in 1903 as lieutenant-governor dur
ing the administration of Governor Lucius G.
Garvin. In 1905 he was elected governor.
His administration as governor was character
ized by open warfare with the boss of his party,
General Charles Brayton. In 1908 he declined
renomination. His administration was re
markable for many political and industrial re
forms of which he was the prime mover. He
was always a staunch and influential Repub
lican, an aggressive and eloquent public
speaker, well known to all the citizens of the
state. In 1910 he was elected to congress and
in 1912 he was reelected. He was active in the
campaign of 19 12 and a few weeks before his
death went west campaigning for President
Taft. He returned home on account of ill
ness and underwent an operation at the Provi
dence Hospital for cancer of the liver. He
died November 3, 1912.
At a memorial service in the Westerly Opera
House after his death, Rev. Clayton A. Bur
dick spoke of his life as a Christian and mem
ber of the Seventh Day Baptist Church; Sam
uel H. Davis spoke of his service to the town,
his public spirit and usefulness as a citizen.
United States Senator Henry F. Lippitt pro
nounced the eulogy. Senator Lippitt reviewed
his public services, his character as a public
officer and his great service to the state and
nation. He said:
Mr. Utter's experience, I believe, is unique in the
State of Rhode Island. I am told that almost
from his first appearance in Westerly, as a gradu
ate of Amherst College, he began to take an active,
if not important, part in the public questions of this
community. * * * Many other men have held
some of these offices; some other men have held
several of these offices, but I believe there is no
other man that has held all of them. * * * Mr.
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had been a pleasing and popular speaker in every
part of this State. As a speaker his methods were
those of a practical man talking to a practical
people. His addresses were simple in language,
clear in their thoughts, direct in the way he
treated his subjects. * * * If he was a practical
politician who discussed practical questions in a
practical way, he was no less a man with lofty
ideals of public and personal service, and if he felt
and inculcated these ideas towards individuals you
may well believe that he was no less desirous of
serving the State when he was called upon to serve
her in a way that would redound to her glory and
to the increase and upholding of her good name.
Governor Utter married, May 19, 1880, Eliz
abeth Lovina Brown, daughter of Cyrus Henry
Brown (see Brown VIII). Children: George
Benjamin, mentioned below; Henry Edwin,
mentioned below; Mary Starr, born February
21, 1890, graduate of La Salle Academy, 1912;
Wilfred Brown, born September 13, 1894,
student in the Poughkeepsie Military Acad
emy. (VIII) George Benjamin Utter, son of
Hon. George Herbert Utter, was born April
11, 1881. He was educated in the public
schools of Westerly and graduated from the
Riverview Academy of Poughkeepsie, New
York. He entered Amherst College, from
which he was graduated in 1905. Since then
he has been associate editor and manager, and
since the death of his father the publisher of
the Westerly Sun. In 1907 he made an inter
esting trip around the world, joining his class
mate at college in India. They visited Egypt
and made a tour of Europe in an automobile.
His letters to the Sun during the seven months
of travel were interesting and instructive. He
is a member of the Seventh Day Baptist
Church and assistant superintendent of the
Sabbath school. He is a leader in the Boy
Scout movement. He is a member of the Re
publican town committee of Westerly and of
the executive committee of the Rhode Island
Republican clubs. He is a member of the
Colonial Club.
(VIII) Dr. Henry Edwin Utter, brother of
George Benjamin Utter, was born at Westerly,
Rhode Island, April 9, 1883. He was edu
cated in the public schools of his native town ;
was for two years a student in the Riverview
Academy, Poughkeepsie, and graduated from
Columbia University in 1906. He studied in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York, and was graduated in 1910 with the de
gree of Doctor of Medicine. He was ap
pointed an interne in the Rhode Island Hos
pital, January 1, 1913, and later in the year
an interne in the Babies' Hospital of New
York. He is now practicing at Westerly, mak
ing a specialty of infants' diseases.

(The Brown Line).
(I) Thomas Brown, son of Nicholas and
Elizabeth Brown, was born in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, in 1628. Nicholas Brown was son
of Edward and Jane (Leids) Brown, of Ink-
borrow, Worcestershire, England. Thomas
Brown married Mary, daughter of Thomas
Newhall, of Lynn, an early settler there. She
was born about 1637. He died August 28, 1693,
and she was appointed administratrix of. his
estate, October 9, 1693. Children : Thomas,
Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan, John,
Mary, Jonathan, Eleazer, Ebenezer, Daniel,
Ann, Grace, Daniel.
(II) John Brown, son of Thomas Brown,
was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1664.
He was a carpenter. He lived in Stonington,
Connecticut, where he married, October, 1692,
Elizabeth, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah
(Avory) Miner, granddaughter of Lieutenant
Thomas and Grace (Palmer) Miner. She was
born April, 1674. Children : John, Jonathan,
Elizabeth, Hepsibah, John, Ichabod, Prudence,
Jedediah, Mehitable, Mary.
(Ill) Jedediah Brown, son of John Brown,
was born April 28, 1709, died January 15,
1732. He married, November 27, 1728, Abi
gail, born February 28, 1703, died June 6,
1732, daughter of Joshua and Fear (Sturgess)
Holmes ; Fear Sturgess was daughter of Ed
ward Sturgess, the immigrant in 1634. Chil
dren of Jedediah Brown : Jedediah Jr., Lucian.
(IV) Jedediah (2) Brown, son of Jedediah
(1) Brown, was born March 14, 1729, at Ston
ington, Connecticut, died October 31, 1791.
He married, December 19, 1751, Mrs. Anna
Holmes. Children: Jedediah, Lucy, Shubael,
Roswell, Taloo, Abigail, Martha, Thatcher,
Ephraim, Desire.
(V) Roswell Brown, son of Jedediah (2)
Brown, was born in Stonington, Connecticut,
August 27, 1760, died October 29, 1799. He
married at Stonington, September 6, 1786,
Esther Williams, born December 10, 1768,
daughter of John and Katurah (Randall) Wil
liams. Children: Cyrus Williams, Roswell,
William, Elias Williams, Esther.
(VI) Cyrus Williams Brown, son of Ros
well Brown, was born November 30, 1788, at
North Stonington, Connecticut, died there Au
gust 18, 1861. He was a farmer. He served
in the war of 1812, responding to the call for
the defence of Stonington, August 9 and 10,
1814, in the Third Company, Jesse Breed cap
tain. He received one hundred and sixty
acres of land for his services. He married
there, Theda, daughter of Nathan and Lydia
(Dewey) Brown, son of Daniel, son of
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was born April 16, 1786, died November 30,
1863. Children: Cyrus Williams, Esther,
Lydia, Polly or Mary, Lucy Palmer.
(VII) Deacon Cyrus Williams (2) Brown,
son of Cyrus Williams (1) Brown, was born
March 11, 1806, died November 30, 1875. He
served as representative to the general assem
bly; as selectman; deacon of the Second Bap
tist Church. He married, December 12, 1826,
Elizabeth Stewart Babcock, born December 28,
1806, died September 22, 1886. Children:
Emily Elizabeth, Cyrus Henry, Louisa A.,
Gideon Perry, Benadam Williams, Thomas
Shaler, John Babcock, Sarah Ellen, William
S., James'S.
(VIII) Cyrus Henry Brown, son of Dea
con Cyrus Williams (2) Brown, was born No
vember 24, 1829, at North Stonington, Con
necticut. He was author of the Brown Gene
alogy, published in 1907, which gives the his
tory of the families of Thomas, John and
Eleazer Brown, the American immigrants.
He taught school in Connecticut and Rhode
Island for six years, and in 1856 moved to
Brighton, Massachusetts. Until 1897 he was
a merchant in Boston and Brookline, Massa
chusetts. He was superintendent of the Sun
day school for twenty-two years, being a mem
ber of the Brighton Avenue Baptist Church in
Boston. In 1897 he moved to Westerly. He
married, at Ashaway, Rhode Island, March
23, 1856, Sarah Catherine Maxson, born
March 4, 1837, died at Westerly, Rhode Island,
October 1, 1897, daughter of Horace and
Lovina (Lamphear) Maxson. Children: Eliz
abeth Lovina, born at Brighton, June 15, 1858,
married Hon. George Herbert Utter (see
Utter VII) ; Henry Edwin, Brighton, April 5,
1 861 ; Katherine Mabel, Brighton, November
5, 1865; Wilfred -Merrill, Brighton, April 4,
1870; Horace Clifford, Boston, June 22, 1873;
Grace Emily, July 19, 1881.

(Ill) Theophilus Luther, son
LUTHER of Rev. Samuel Luther (q.
v.), was born October 9, 1665.
He settled at Swansea, Massachusetts. He
married Lydia Kinnicutt. Among their chil
dren was Theophilus, mentioned below.
(IV) Theophilus (2) Luther, son of Theo
philus (1) Luther, was born at Swansea. He
married Sarah Child. They had a son Theo
philus, mentioned below, and a son Barnabas,
who married, October 14, 1762, Mehitable
Cole, sister of Esther Cole.
(V) Theophilus (3) Luther, son of Theo
philus (2) Luther, was born at Swansea, Mas
sachusetts, May 27, 1734. He was a soldier in
the revolution, a private in Captain Peleg
Sherman's company, Colonel Thomas Carpen-
NE— 4

ter's regiment, stationed at Slade's Ferry in
Swansea, January 6 to April 19, 1777; also
of the same company in Colonel John Hatha-
way's regiment (Bristol county) later in 1777,
and in the same company under Colonel Car
penter in 1780 on the Tiverton alarm ; also in
Captain Jabez Barney's company, Colonel
Mitchell's regiment, August to November,
1780, muster roll dated at Rehoboth. (Mass.
Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution, vol. x,
p. 66). Pie married (first) March 13, 1760,
Esther Cole, born at Swansea, December 13,
1738, died there April 16, 1776 (see Cole IV).
He married (second) Martha Eddy. He mar
ried (third) Lovice (Wood) Mace, widow of
Captain Mace. Children of first wife, born at
Swansea: Benjamin, born February 8, 1761 ;
Esther, July 7, 1763; Sarah, February 11,
1765; Jonathan, March 23, 1767; Mary, May
13, 1769; Theophilus, mentioned below. Child
of third wife: Mace, born May 9, 1798,
married, January 7, 1833, Eliza Francis, and
had S. M. Luther, who is of Garrettsville,
Ohio, (compiler of the genealogy).
(VI) Theophilus (4) Luther, son of Theo
philus (3) Luther, was born at Swansea, Mas
sachusetts, September 20, 1772, died April 25,
1856. He married (first) February 19, 1795,
Mary Mason, who died August 6, 1809. He
married (second) January 10, 1813, Mary
Hathaway, who died September 30, 1847, in
her sixty-ninth year. He married (third)
March 30, 1848, Abigail Wheeler. Children
by second wife : William H., mentioned be
low ; Sarah; Jonathan R., born September 1,
1817, died January 26, 1848; Letitia.
(VII) William H. Luther, son of Theophi
lus (4) Luther, was born in 1814 at Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He resided in Provi
dence, and died there February 5, 1877. He
married Rachel M. Town, daughter of Aaron
Town (see Town VII). Children: Mary E.,
mentioned below ; William H., of Providence,
married Laura Whipple; Susan, married
Thomas H. Carrique, and had a daughter,
Mary A., who married Willard N. Banks ; Ed
win T., died 1905, married Matilda McCul-
lock. (VIII) Mary E. Luther, daughter of Wil
liam H. Luther, was born in Providence,
Rhode Island. She married, April 23, 1863,
at Providence, Rhode Island, John Edward
Brown, son of John and Isabelle Brown. His
father was a mariner. John Edward Brown.
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, September
19, 1836. He had one sister, Isabelle, who
married Nathan H. Daniels, and lived in Bos
ton. John Edward Brown attended the public
schools and the English and Latin High
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entered the employ of Foster & Taylor, East
India merchants. He left this firm after a
number of years, and established himself in
business as a broker in Chicago. He was
exceptionally successful and for twenty-eight
years was a prominent figure in the financial
circles of that city. He was a member of the
Chicago Board of Trade. After -he retired
he made his home in Providence, where he
spent his last years and where he died August
2, 1909. He was buried at Mount Auburn in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. In politics Mr.
Brown was a Republican; in religion a Uni
tarian. His tastes were domestic; he never
sought public honors. Their only child, Alice,
died at the age of four years. Mrs. Brown
resides in Providence at 200 Lexington ave
nue. She is a member of the Universalist
church and of the Rhode Island Woman's
Club and the Independence Chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, of Provi
dence. (The Cole Line).
(II) Hugh Cole, son of James Cole (q. v.),
was born in London, England, in 1627. He
came to this country with his parents. He
married (first) January 8, 1654, Mary Fox-
well, daughter of Richard and Ann (Shelley)
Foxwell, of Barnstable, Massachusetts. He
married (second) January 1, 1689, Elizabeth,
widow of Jacob Cook, formerly widow of
William Shurtleff, and daughter of Thomas
and Ann Lettuce. He married (third) Janu
ary 30, 1694, Mary, widow of Deacon Ephraim
Morton. Hugh Cole was a surveyor and
shipwright in Barnstable and held various
town offices. He removed to Swansea where
he was selectman, and from 1673 to 1689,
almost continuously, deputy to the general
court. He was a friend of King Philip. Chil
dren : James, born November 3, 1655 ; Hugh,
March 6, 1658; John, May 15, 1660; Martha,
April 16, 1662; Anna, December 14, 1664;
Ruth, January 8, 1666; Joseph, May 18, 1668;
Ebenezer, mentioned below; Mary, 1676; Ben
jamin, 1678.
(Ill) Ebenezer Cole, son of Hugh Cole,
was born in 1671, at Swansea, died Septem
ber 4, 1719. He married Mehitable Luther,
daughter of Elder Samuel Luther. She died
March 18, 1764. Children: Ebenezer, born
October 27, 1699; Phebe, January 10, 1701 ;
Samuel, June 24, 1704; Anne, March 1, 1706;
Martha, March 1, 1709; Mary, April 17, 171 1 ;
Edward, July 3, 1713; Ebenezer, October 27,
1715; Benjamin, mentioned below.
(IV) Benjamin Cole, son of Ebenezer Cole,
was born February 3, 1717, died April 1, 1794.
He married, June 24, 1738, Mary Beverly,
daughter of George and Esther (Carpenter)

Beverly. She was born July 2, 1717, died
April 17, 1799. He was a member of the Bap
tist church of Warren, elected deacon, De
cember 27, 1764. Children : Esther, born De
cember 13, 1738, died April 16, 1776, mar
ried Theophilus Luther (see Luther V) ; Me
hitable, April 19, 1741 ; Patience, September
12, 1744; Mary, December 24, 1746; Lydia,
March 7, 1749; Roby, August 2, 1758.
(The Towne or Town Line).
The surname Towne is an ancient English
surname but not of frequent occurrence. It
is found as early as 1227. Again in the reign
of Henry IV. the coat-of-arms of the Towne
family and the family name are found on a
memorial window in a church at Kensington,
county Kent. The arms are described : Argent
on a chevron sable, three crosses crosslet,
ermine. It is believed that Richard Towne,
of Braceby, Lincolnshire, England, and his
wife Ann, were parents of the American immi
grant, mentioned below.
(I) William Towne, the American immi
grant, was born in England and baptized May
21, 1603. He married, at Yarmouth, county
Norfolk, England, March 25, 1620, Joanna
Blessing, in the church of St. Nicholas, and
there six of his children were baptized. He
settled, first, at Salem, Massachusetts, where
he had a grant of land in 1640 and resided in
the part of the town called Northfields until
165 1, when he bought land and moved to
Topsfield. In 1652 he sold his Salem prop
erty and bought more land at Topsfield. He
died at Topsfield about 1672. His widow died
ten years later. Children: 1. Rebecca, bap
tized February 21, 1621 ; married Francis
Nurse; she was executed for withcraft at
Salem, July 19, 1692. 2. John, baptized Feb
ruary 16, 1624. 3. Susannah, baptized Octo
ber 20, 1625. 4. Edmund, baptized June 28,
1628. 5. Jacob, mentioned below. 6. Mary,
baptized August 24, 1634; married Isaac
Estey; she was also executed for withcraft,
September 22, 1692. 7. Sarah, baptized Sep
tember 3, 1648. 8. Joseph, born 1639, bap
tized September 3, 1649.
(II) Jacob Towne, son of William Towne,
was born in England, and baptized at Yar
mouth, March 11, 1632. He married, June 26,
1657, Catherine Simonds, of Salem. They
lived at Salem twelve years and then removed
to Topsfield, where his will was dated Novem
ber 27, 1704. Children: John, mentioned
below; Jacob, born February 13, 1660; Cath
erine, February 25, 1662; Deliverance, August
5, 1664; Ruth, August 5, 1664; Edmund, July
21, 1666.
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Towne, was born at Topsfield, April 2, 1658,
died there in 1740. He married, February 2,
1680, Mary Smith. He settled in Framing-
ham and was elected selectman at the first
town meeting in 1712; removed to Oxford,
Massachusetts, of which he was elected town
clerk and selectman at the first town meeting,
July 22, 1713. From the organization of the
church there to the end of his life he was
deacon and his son Jonathan succeeded him in
that office. Children, born at Topsfield : Mary,
born June 23, 1681 ; John, November 25, 1682;
Israel, November 18, 1684; Esther, Decem
ber 13, 1686; Ephraim, April 22, 1688; Jona
than, mentioned below ; David, October 22,
1693; Samuel, January 25, 1695; Edmund,
May 7, 1699; John, May 31, 1702.
(IV) Deacon Jonathan Towne, son of Dea
con John Towne, was born at Topsfield, March
11, 1691, died at Oxford in 1771. He was
deacon of the Oxford Church. He married
Catherine  •, who died June 8, 1757.
Children, born at Oxford: Jacob, born Octo
ber 20, 1720; Tamar, February 22, 1722;
Simon, March 26, 1724; Jonathan, April 26,
1727; John, December 15, 1728; Mary, June
4, 1 73 1 ; Josiah, mentioned below; Huldah,
November 2, 1737.
(V) Josiah Towne, son of Deacon Jona
than Towne, was born at Oxford, August 10,
1734. He was a soldier in the French and
Indian war and in the revolution. He mar
ried, August 13, 1756, Susannah Rich, of
Charlton. He died February 14, 1821 ; she
died November 25, 1788. Children: Cathe
rine, born May 23, 1757; Susanna, June
8, T759; Josiah, mentioned below; Richard
Rogers, May 2, 1764.
(VI) Josiah (2) Town, son of Josiah (1)
Towne, was born at Oxford, August 12, 1761,
died December 30, 1824. He married (first)
1780, Dorothy Hill, of Killingly, Connecticut.
She died in 1791, and he married (second)
March 10, 1793, Elizabeth Ware. Children:
Aaron, mentioned below ; Leonard, born Octo
ber 31, 1783; Ruth, October 31, 1783, twin;
Susanna, May 2, 1790.
(VII) Aaron Town, son of Josiah (2)
Town, was born at Charlton, Massachusetts,
September 11, 1781, died at Providence, July
23, 1819. He removed to Providence, Rhode
Island. He married Nancy Pettis, born Au
gust 31, 1782. Children: 1. Mary Ann, born
April 11, 1808, married James Murphy. 2.
Susan D., born November 27, 1809, married
David Slocum. 3. James P., born November
11, 1811. 4. Rachel M., born March 7, 1814,
married William H. Luther (see Luther VII).
5. Elizabeth F., born September 2, 1816, mar
ried Collins Chase. 6. Aaron, born Novem
ber 19, 1819.

William Winslow, or Wynce-
WINSLOW low, first of the line as traced
in England, had children: 1.
John, of London, afterward of Wyncelow
Hall, was living in 1387-88; married Mary
Crouchman, died in 1409-10, styled of Crouch-
man Hall. 2. William (2), of whom further.
(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Winslow, had a son Thomas, of whom fur
ther. (Ill) Thomas, son of William (2) Wins
low, was of Burton, county Oxford, having
lands also in Essex. He was living in 1452.
He married Cecelia Tansley, one of two daugh
ters, and the heiress of an old family. She
was called Lady Agnes. Had a son, Wil
liam (3).
(IV) William (3), son of Thomas Wins
low, was living in 1529. Children: Kenelm,
of whom further; Richard, had a grant from
Edward VI. of the rectory of Elksley, county
Nottingham. (V) Kenelm, son of William (3) Wins
low, purchased, in 1559, of Sir Richard New
port, an estate called Newport's Place, in
Kempsey, Worcestershire. He had an older
and very extensive estate, in the same parish,
called Clerkenleap, sold by his grandson Rich
ard Winslow in 1650. He died in 1607 in the
parish of St. Andrew. He married Catherine
—  . His will, dated April 14, 1607, and
proved November 9 following, is still pre
served at Worcester. Only son, Edward, of
whom further.
(VI) Edward, son of Kenelm (1) Wins
low, was born October 17, 1560, in the parish
of St. Andrew, county Worcester, England,
and died before 163 1. He lived in Kempsey
and Droitwich, county Worcester. He mar
ried (first) Eleanor Pelham, of Droitwich;
(second) at St. Bride's Church., London, No
vember 4, 1594, Magdalene Oliver, the records
of whose family are found in the parish regis
ter of St. Peter's, Droitwich. Children: 1.
Richard, born about 1585-86. 2. Edward, born
October 18, 1595, at Droitwich, governor of
Plymouth colony; married (first) at Leyden,
May 16, 1618, Elizabeth Barker; (second)
May 12, 1621, Susan (Fuller) White, who
came in the "Mayflower" with Governor Wins
low, widow of William White, and mother of
Peregrine White, the first-born in the colony.
3. John, born April 16, 1597, died 1674 in Bos
ton; married, October 12, 1624, Mary, daugh
ter of James and Susanna Chilton, who came
in the "Mayflower." 4. Eleanor, born April
22, 1598, at Droitwich, and remained in Eng
land. 5. Kenelm (2), of whom further. 6.
Gilbert, October 26, 1600, came in the "May
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turned to England after 1623, and died there.
7. Elizabeth, March 8, 1602, buried January
20, 1604, at St. Peter's Church. 8. Magdalen,
born December 26, 1604, at Droitwich, re
mained in England. 9. Josiah, born February
11, 1606.
(VII) Kenelm (2), son of Edward Wins
low, was born at Droitwich, county Worcester,
England, April 29, 1599, baptized at St. Peter's
Church, May 3, 1599, died at Salem, Massa
chusetts, September 13, 1672. He was the
immigrant ancestor. He came to Plymouth,
probably in 1629, with his brother Josiah, and
was admitted a freeman January 1, 1632-33.
He was surveyor of the town of Plymouth in
1640, and was fined ten shillings for neglecting
the highways. He removed to Marshfield
about 1641, having previously received a grant
of land at that place, then called Green's Har
bor, March 5, 1637-38. This grant, originally
made to Josiah Winslow, his brother, he shared
with Love Brewster. His home was "on a
gentle eminence by the sea, near the extremity
of land lying between Green Harbor and South
Rivers. This tract of the township was con
sidered the Eden of the region. It was beau
tified with groves of majestic oaks and grace
ful walnuts, with the underground void of
shrubbery. A few of these groves were stand
ing within the memory of persons now living
(1854), but all have fallen beneath the hand
of the woodman." The homestead he left to
his son Nathaniel. Other lands were granted
to Kenelm as the common land was divided.
He was one of the twenty-six original pro
prietors of Assonet, now Freetown, Massa
chusetts, purchased of the Indians, April 2,
1659, and received the twenty-fourth lot, a
portion of which was lately owned by a lineal
descendant, having descended by inheritance.
Kenelm was a joiner by trade as well as a
planter. He filled various town offices, was
deputy to the general court from 1642 to 1644
and from 1649 t0 x653, eight years in all. He
had considerable litigation, as the early court
records show. He died at Salem, whither he
had gone on business, apparently after a long
illness, for his will was dated five weeks earlier,
August 8, 1672, and in it he described himself
as "being very sick and drawing nigh unto
death." He may have been visiting his niece,
Mrs. Elizabeth Corwin, daughter of Edward
Winslow. He married, in June, 1634, Eleanor Adams,
widow of John Adams, of Plymouth. She
survived him and died at Marshfield, where
she was buried December 5, 1681, aged eighty-
three. Children: Kenelm (3), born about
1636; Eleanor or Ellen, born about 1637; Na
thaniel, born about 1639; Job (q. v.).

William Reynolds, the im-
REYNOLDS migrant ancestor, settled in
Providence, Rhode Island.
In 1637 he and certain others were to pay two
shillings six pence apiece for ground that they
had granted to them, and on August 20, 1637,
or a little later, he and twelve others signed the
following compact : "We whose names are
hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of
Providence, do promise to subject ourselves.
in active and passive obedience to all such
orders or agreements as shall be made for pub
lic good of the body in an orderly way, by the
major consent of the present inhabitants, mas-.
ters of families, incorporated together in
Town fellowship, and others whom they admit
unto them only in civil things." On July 27,
1640, he was one of thirty-nine who signed an
agreement for a form of government. On
November 17, 1641, he with twelve others
complained in a letter to Massachusetts of the
"insolent and riotous carriage of Samuel Gor
ton and his company," and therefore the peti
tioners desired Massachusetts to "lend us a
neighborlike helping hand," etc. On January
30, 1644, he was one of the Providence settlers.
who testified as to the outrage on Warwick
settlers by Massachusetts. On January 27,
1645, he sold to Robert Williams all his houses
and home share and three small pieces of
meadow, and on the same date he sold to Wil
liam Field a share of six acres on Fox's Hill.
On April 27, 1646, he sold to Thomas Lawton
his valley of eighty acres, and three acres of
meadow. Child : James, mentioned below.
(II) James Reynolds, son of William Rey
nolds, lived in Kings Town, Rhode Island, and
died in 1700. On May 13, 1665, he signed
the petition for land in Kings Province, and
May 20, 1671, he took the oath of allegiance.
He served as constable in 1671, overseer of
the poor in 1687, grand juryman in 1688, con
servator of the peace in 1690. On May 2,
1677, he was one of those who petitioned the
assembly for instruction, assistance and advice,
as to the oppressions they suffered from Con
necticut, and on May 24, 1677, he and the
others who had been taken to Hartford as
prisoners, received the following from the
Rhode Island authorities in a letter: "That
you might receive all suitable encouragement
that as you continue true to your engagement
to this colony and upon that account are kept
prisoners, we shall equally bear your charges
of imprisonment, and with all expedition ad
dress ourselves to his Majesty for relief." On
July 29, 1679, his name was on the petition
to the King for an end to the troubles between
the two colonies. He and his wife deeded to
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1673, and April 29, 1684, they deeded one hun
dred acres in East Greenwich to their son
James. On April 3, 1692, he deeded a slave,
named Elizabeth, to his son-in-law, Thomas
Nichols, and wife Mercy, if said slave be alive
at decease of grantor; January 21, 1699, he
deeded a negro boy named John to his son
Francis, under same conditions. He deeded
fifty acres to his son Henry, March 22, 1699.
On June 5, 1699, he ratified a deed to grand
daughter, Sarah Aires, and her male heirs,
having previously omitted the word heirs when
deeding to his son John. On September 21,
1700, a declaration was made by John Sweet
that James Reynolds Sr. made a deed of gift
to daughter Deborah and her husband, John
Sweet, of a negro girl Betty, but that after
wards he gave Betty freedom when she should
be thirty years of age, and to this John Sweet
and his wife consented. His son James was
executor of his will, and March 14, 1703, he
took a receipt from his brother Henry and
also from Joseph and Francis for their shares
in the estate. James Reynolds married Debo
rah  . Children : John, born October
12, 1648; James, October 28, 1650; Joseph,
mentioned below ; Henry, mentioned below ;
Deborah, 1658; Francis, October 12, 1662;
Mercy, 1664; Robert, mentioned below; Ben
jamin. (Ill) Joseph, Henry and Robert Reynolds,
sons of James Reynolds, each had a son by the
name of John, who may have been ancestor of
this Reynolds line.
Joseph Reynolds was born November 27,
1652, died 1722, and lived in North Kings
town, Rhode Island ; he married Susanna
 , and she married (second) November
7, 1723, Robert Spencer; he may have had an
earlier wife than Susanna. Children: Joseph,
Benjamin, George, Samuel, Elizabeth, John,
mentioned below, Susanna, Deborah and Mary.
Henry Reynolds was born January 1, 1656,
died 1716; lived in Kings Town and East
Greenwich, Rhode Island ; married Sarah
Greene, born March 27, 1664, died after 1716,
daughter of James and Deliverance (Potter)
Greene. Children: Henry, born July 31,
1686; John, born June 10, 1688; Sarah, born
January 5, 1690; Deliverance, born December
2, 1692; Mary, James, Thomas, Deborah,
Elisha, born 1706.
Robert Reynolds lived in Kings Town,
Rhode Island, and died in 1715 ; married De
liverance Smith, who died after 1 7 1 5 , daughter
of Jeremiah and Mary (Gereardy) Smith. His
will, dated August 22, 1713, was proved De
cember 14, 1715, his wife being executrix.
Children : Robert, Mary, Deborah, John.
(IV) John Reynolds, son of Joseph Rey

nolds, was born about 1680. He lived at Exe
ter, Rhode Island. Children: John; Benja
min; Jonathan; Joseph, mentioned below;
Hannah; Mary; Elizabeth.
(V) Joseph (2) Reynolds, son of John Rey
nolds, was born about 1725, at Exeter, Rhode
Island. Children : George, born November 27,
1756; Hannah, born June 29, 1758, married
Oliver Arnold; Dorcas, born April 25, 1760,
married Caleb Wheaton, of Providence ; Jo
seph, born March 9, 1762, died young; Lucy,
born November 25, 1763, died September,
1835, married Stephen Waite ; Martha, born
October 15, 1766, died in infancy; Martha,
born June 9, 1768, married Dean Sanford;
Joseph, mentioned below ; John, born Septem
ber 27, 1772, died March 18, 1858 ; Anne, born
February 9, 1775, married  Cory; Ben
jamin, born October 26, 1778.
(VI) Joseph (3) Reynolds, son of Joseph
(2) Reynolds, was born September 27, 1772,
at Exeter, Rhode Island. He was educated
there in the public schools, and engaged in
business as a general merchant at Norwich,
Connecticut, and later at Wickford, Rhode
Island. He became a large owner of land,
succeeding to a part of the estate of his father-
in-law, Lodowick Updike. His homestead at
Wickford is now in the possession of Abigail
Updike and Lucy Waite Reynolds, his grand
daughters. Mr. Reynolds died there in Octo
ber, 1843, and was buried in Elm Grove Cem
etery. He was a member of the Society of
Friends. He married Abigail Updike, daugh
ter of Lodowick Updike (see Updike IV).
She died at Wickford, December 19, 1862,
aged ninety-three years. She was a member
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. She is
buried in Elm Grove Cemetery. She was
prominent in the work of St. Paul's Church
and in charitable work for many years. Chil
dren : Abigail Updike, born May 29, 1801, in
Norwich, Connecticut, married Jabez Bullock,
of Wickford; Alfred Joseph, born at Nor
wich, October 7, 1805, died in Providence;
Lodowick Gilbert, born April 24, 1808 ; Ed
win Halsey, mentioned below.
(VII) Edwin Halsey Reynolds, son of Jo
seph (3) Reynolds, was born May 14, 1810,
at Wickford, Rhode Island. He was educated
in the public schools of his native town. When
a young man he went to Providence and
learned the art of gold and silver plating. He
engaged in business in New York City as a
gold and silver plater, and afterward in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, where he occupied a
factory at the corner of Dorrance and Friend
ship streets. His business prospered and he
became one of the most prominent and suc
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in the city. He continued in business to the
time of his death. He had an attractive home
on Benevolent street in Providence, and spent
his summers on the Reynolds homestead at
Wickford. He died July 21, 1878, and was
buried at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence.
In politics he was a Republican of great earn
estness, highly influential and a generous sup
porter of his party. In all the relations of life
he proved himself a capable and useful citi
zen, of upright character and warm heart and
sympathies for those less fortunate. To his
family he was always a devoted husband and
father. He married, at Providence, June 29, 1853,
Mary Randall Andrews, born at Providence,
daughter of William and Delilah (Mason)
Andrews. Her father was born in Dighton,
son of William and Patience Andrews. Wil
liam Andrews died April 25, 1885, at Provi
dence, aged eighty-eight years, and his wife
died March 11, 1877, aged seventy-nine years.
Mrs. Reynolds died August 16, 1879, and was
buried at the side of her husband in Swan
Point Cemetery. Children : Abigail Updike,
who now resides on the Reynolds homestead
at Wickford; Lucy Waite, who resides with
her sister; Joseph Lodowick, died January 15,
1914, unmarried, and was buried at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence. The Misses
Reynolds resided at Wickford in summer and
in Providence in winter until 19 10. Since then
their home has been at Wickford. Both are
active in social and church work and are mem
bers of St. Stephen Protestant Episcopal
Church, of Providence. (The Updike Line).
(I) Gilbert Updike, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in Germany, and after coming to this
country lived at Lloyd's Neck, New York, and
at Kings Town, Rhode Island. He married Sep
tember 24, 1643, Katherine Smith, who died
before 1664, daughter of Richard Smith, who
came from county Gloucester, England, to
Taunton, Massachusetts, and Kings Town,
Rhode Island; he was born 1596, died 1666;
his wife died before 1664. Child: Lodowick,
mentioned below.
(II) Lodowick Updike, son of Gilbert Up
dike, was born in 1646, died about 1737. He
lived in North Kings Town, Rhode Island.
He married Abigail Newton, who died in
1745, daughter of Thomas and Joan (Smith)
Newton. Thomas Newton married, April 16,
1648, Joan Smith, who died before 1664,
daughter of Richard Smith, born 1596, died
1666, mentioned above. Abigail Newton was
a cousin of Lodowick Updike.
(Ill) Daniel Updike, son of Lodowick Up

dike, was born in 1694, died May 15, 1757.
He lived in North Kings Town, Rhode Island.
He married (first) in 1716, Sarah Arnold.
He married (second) December 21, 1722,
Anstis Jenkins, born October 28, 1702, daugh
ter of Richard and Mary (Wilkins) Jenkins.
Richard Jenkins lived in Bristol, Rhode
Island; died February 25, 1704; his wife,
Mary (Wilkins) Jenkins, died after 1704,
daughter of John and Anstis (Bissett) Wil
kins ; Anstis Bissett was a widow, born 1639,
died October 31, 171 1, daughter of 
Gold, of England; John Wilkins died in 1704;
came from Wiltshire, England, to Boston,
Massachusetts, and then to Bristol, Rhode
Island. Children: Lodowick, mentioned be
low; Mary, born in 1727, married John Cole;
Gilbert, born and died in 1729; Wilkins, born
and died in 1729.
(IV) Lodowick (2) Updike, son of Daniel
Updike, was born July 12, 1725, died June 6,
1804. He lived in North Kings Town, Rhode
Island. Lodowick Updike was educated by
private tutors. One of his instructors was
Rev. John Checkley, rector of St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church of Providence,
an Oxford scholar, and learned divine. Mr.
Updike studied law, but never practiced. He
owned a large estate in South Kings Town,
a fine farm comprising some fifteen hundred
acres, which he inherited from his father, and
grandfather, Richard Smith. His home was in
the old Updike mansion or Smith's Castle, as
it was called, near Wickford. He was a prom
inent man. He was a communicant of the
Church of England. He is described as typical
Englishman in his small clothes and wig, re
sembling George III. in appearance. He mar
ried, January 25, 1759, Abigail Gardner, born
in 1740, died in 1826, daughter of John and
Mary (Taylor) Gardner or Gardiner. John
Gardner was born July 8, 1696, died July 7,
1770 ; lived at South Kings Town. Mary Tay
lor was his second wife. He was a son of
William and Abigail (Remington) Gardner.
Abigail (Remington) Gardner, born 1681, died
March 6, 1763, was a daughter of John and
Abigail (Richmond) Remington; Abigail
Richmond was born in 1656, died 1744, daugh
ter of Edward and Abigail (Davis) Richmond.
Edward Richmond, son of John Richmond,
was of Newport and Little Compton, Rhode
Island. John Remington died in 1688, was of
Kings Town, son of John and Abigail Rem
ington, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and of
Jamestown and Warwick, Rhode Island. Wil
liam Gardner was a son of Benoni and Mary
Gardner. Mary was born in 1645, died No
vember 16, 1729. Benoni Gardner died about
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George and Herodias Gardner, of Newport.
(See Gardner and Gardiner in this work).
Children : Daniel, born 1761, a lawyer of East
Greenwich, married Adolissa Arnold; James,
born 1765, died unmarried at Wickford; An
stis, born 1765, died aged one hundred, mar
ried William Lee, of Providence; Mary, born
1767, married Nathaniel Mundy, merchant,
Wickford; Abigail, born 1769, married Joseph
Reynolds, of Wickford (see Reynolds VI) ;
Sarah, born 1771, married David Hagan, of
Wickford; Lydia, born 1772, married Fred
erick Crary, of Wickford; Lodowick, born
1774, merchant, of Rhode Island and New
York, married Rhoda Baker; Alfred, born
1779, merchant, married Dorcas Reynolds, of
Wickford; Gilbert, born 1781, married Han
nah Dennis; and Wilkins.

The surname Richmond had
RICHMOND its origin in Brittany,
France, and is derived from
the French words "riche" and "monte" or
"monde." In English history it first appears as
Rychemond, afterwards as Richemounte and
Richemonte, and ultimately as Richmond.
Among the various lines of ancestors in Eng
land are found those of the Ashton-Keynes
and other Wiltshire Richmonds ; the former
for five generations bore the alias of Webb,
first assumed by William Richmond about
1430, when he married Alice, daughter and
heiress of Thomas Webb, of Draycott, Wilt
shire, England. It is claimed by some eminent
genealogists that the Richmonds of New Eng
land (though perhaps not in all of the branches
in that region, or elsewhere in America) de
scended through one Roald, son of Roaldus
"le Ennase," while others of equal celebrity
state that they descend from Alan, another son
of Roaldus "le Ennase," asserting that son
Roald had no children.
The Richmond genealogy informs us that
Roaldus de Richmond was granted lands by
the crown in Yorkshire, and tradition has it
that this Richmond was a relative of Alan
Rufus. Alan Rufus was a kinsman of the
Conqueror, and was granted lands in York
shire, where he built his castle and was the
first duke of Richmond. Tradition also says
that John Richmond was born in Ashton-
Keynes, and one reputable writer states that
in an examination of the old church records at
Ashton-Keynes he found the date of baptism
of John Richmond in 1597.
(I) This John Richmond was the Ameri
can ancestor of the particular branch of the
family to be treated of in these annals, and it
is believed that he came to this country with a

colony of cadets of noble English families on
the western coast of Ireland, who had chosen
this remote region that they might be able to
"engage in commercial and other pursuits
without shocking their aristocratic relatives."
It is believed that John Richmond came to
America in a trading vessel, and it is known
that he was engaged in carrying on an exten
sive and flourishing trade with Saco, Maine, in
1635, for the records show that in 1636 he was
in court with a suit brought by him, "to collect
from Thomas Lewis six pounds and ten shil
lings for two barrells of beife." In 1637 he
was one of the purchasers and proprietors of
Taunton, Massachusetts, and there* his daugh
ter Sarah was probably born in 1638, and his
daughter Mary in 1639. From the fact that
nothing is known of him between the years
1643 and 1655 it is thought that he returned
to England and took part in the wars, for
family tradition runs to that effect, and also
says that he was referred to as Colonel John
Richmond. He probably married before com
ing to New England. He was away from
Taunton much of the time, and is known to
have been in Newport and other places, but
eventually returned to Taunton and died there
March 20, 1664, aged seventy years. His chil
dren were: 1. John, of whom further. 2.
Captain Edward, born about 1632, in England,
died in November, 1696; married (first) Abi
gail Davis, daughter of James Davis; (second)
Amy Bull, daughter of Governor Henry and
Elizabeth Bull. 3. Sarah, born about 1638, in
Taunton, Massachusetts, died in 1691 ; she
married (first) Edward Rew, who died July
16, 1678; married (second) November 4, 1678,
James Walker, the immigrant, born in 1618,
died February 15, 1690-91 ; married (third)
Nicholas Stoughton. 4. Mary, born about 1639,
in Taunton, died October 3, 1715 ; she married
William Paul, of Berkley, Massachusetts, born
in 1624, died November 6, 1704.
(II) John (2), eldest son and child of John
(1) Richmond, the immigrant, was born about
the year 1627, before his father came to Amer
ica, and died in Taunton, Massachusetts, Octo
ber 7, 1715, aged eighty-eight years. He ap
pears to have been a man of importance and
was chosen to serve in various capacities. In
1672 he was appointed, with James Walker, to
purchase lands of the Indians ; was member of
the town council in 1675-76 and 1690, and also
served as constable, commissioner and sur
veyor in March, 1677; he was distributor of
ten pounds "Irish charity," sent from Dublin,
Ireland, in 1676, to be divided among the suf
ferers during King Philip's war. "He was a
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ton for the purchase, division and settlement
of land and other matters of public interest.
He was interested in several extensive pur
chases of land from the Indians in both Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island." He married Abi
gail Rogers, daughter of John Rogers, of Dux
bury, Massachusetts. She was born about
1641 and died August 1, 1727; both she and
her husband are buried in Taunton. Their
children: 1. Mary, born June 2, 1654, in
Bridgewater. 2. John, born June 6, 1656, in
Bridgewater, was killed by the upsetting of a
cart September 20, 1672. 3. Thomas, born
February 2, 1659, in Newport, Rhode Island,
died unma'ried, in Middleboro, December 14,
1705. 4. Susanna, born November 4, 1661, in
Bridgewater. 5. Joseph, born December 8,
1663, in Taunton. 6. Edward, of whom fur
ther. 7. Samuel, born September 23, 1668, in
Taunton. 8. Sarah, born February 26, 1671,
in Taunton. 9. John, born December 5, 1673,
in Taunton. 10. Ebenezer, born May 12, 1676,
in Newport, Rhode Island. 11. Abigail, born
February 26, 1679, in Newport.
(Ill) Edward, son of John Richmond, was
born in Taunton, February 8, 1665, and died
in 1 741. In 1687 he and Joseph Richmond
bought of John Rogers, of Duxbury, one hun
dred and fifty acres of land in Middleboro.
He married (first) Marcy  , (second)
May 6, 171 1 ; Rebecca Thurston, born Novem
ber 28, 1689, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah
Thurston, and (third) Mary  =  . His will
was dated June 3, 1738, and proved December
9, 1741. Children by first wife: Marcy, born
1693; Edward, born 1695 ; Richard; Josiah, of
whom further; Nathaniel, born about 1700;
Seth ; Elizabeth ; Phebe, born 1706. Children,
by second wife: Sarah, born December 20,
1712; Mary, born 1714; Priscilla, born Febru
ary 27, 1718; Eunice, born September 23,
1722, died young.
(IV) Josiah, son of Edward Richmond, was
born in 1697, in Taunton. He died in 1763,
and his will dated January 26, 1762, was
proved April 5, 1763. He was a blacksmith
by trade and resided in Middleboro. He mar
ried (first) Mehitable, born June 6, 1697,
daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Williams)
Deane. He married (second) February 5,
1745-46, Lydia (Eddy) Crocker, widow of
Theophilus Crocker and daughter of James
Eddy. Children, born in Middleboro : Mary ;
Josiah (q. v.); Gershom; Benjamin, born
1727: George; Lemuel, born 1733; Miriam,
born 1733; Ephraim, born February 12, 1736;
Eleazer, born February 27, 1737; Zekiah ;
Mercy ; Mehitable, died young.

(Ill) Thomas Potter, son of
POTTER Ichabod Potter (q. v.), was
born at Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, about 1663. He married (first) Janu
ary 30, 1687, Susanna Tripp, daughter of John
and Susanna (Anthony) Tripp ; and (second)
December 8, 1720, Lydia (Wilcox) Sherman,
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cook)
Wilcox. He located at South Kings Town,
Rhode Island. He died in 1728, and his wife
in 1727. Children, all by first wife: Susanna,
born June 28, 1688; Sarah, July 25, 1690;
Ichabod, September 23, 1692; Thomas, Feb
ruary 8, 1696; John, October 2, 1697; Na
thaniel, April 15, 1700; Benjamin, June 19,
1703; Joseph, January 30, 1706; Mary, Au
gust 16, 1708; and Martha.
(IV) Thomas (2) Potter, son of Thomas
(1) Potter, was born in North Kings Town,
Rhode Island, February 8, i795"96. His
father lived near Point Judith. He removed
to that part of Westerly which became Hop
kinton, because, as he said, "Kings Town was
a place noted for want of piety." He married
(first) March 19, 1717, Mary Babcock, daugh
ter of George Babcock; and (second) Judith
Rogers. His first wife died January 8, 1773,
and his second wife in 1805. Children by first
wife: Susanna, born February 20, 1718;
Thomas, September 14, 1720; Jonathan, 1723;
Mary; Elizabeth, January 29, 1727; George,
mentioned below; Stephen. By the second
wife, Caleb, August 19, 1749.
(V) George Potter, son of Thomas (2)
Potter, was born in Westerly, Rhode Island,
January 3, 1731-32. He was known as the
"honest miller." He remained with his father
in Hopkinton and inherited the homestead.
For two years he lived in the town of Rich
mond, removing in 1764 to Westerly, where
for seven years he hired the farm owned by
Plezekiah Babcock. Early in 1762 a dam was
built across the Pawtucket river near what is
known as the Meetinghouse bridge and a grist
mill was built, but the dam injured much val
uable land by flowage, and the farmers of the
vicinity tore down the mill. The grist mill
was then erected at Potter's hill on the west
side of the river and connected with a small
saw mill and fulling mill. George Potter
bought these mills and two houses and oper
ated the mills in connection with his business
as general merchant and ship builder. After
the close of the Revolution, he was among the
first to sail to Green Island in the Bay of St.
Lawrence on a fishing trip. He married, Sep
tember 18, 1754, Content Maxson, who died
in 181 5. He died August 9, 1794. Children,
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1755 J George, mentioned below ; Joseph, men
tioned below; Hannah, March 9, 1761 ; Susan,
March 18, 1763; Content, May 25, 1765; Ly
dia, October 10, 1766; Nathan, May 31, 1769;
Lucy, October 10, 1771 ; and Elizabeth, Sep
tember 19, 1775.
(VI) Captain George (2) Potter, son of
George (1) Potter, was born in Hopkinton,
Rhode Island, February 10, 1757. He and his
brothers succeeded to the business of their
father. He was engaged for many years in
the codfish industry. He died in 1801. He
married, April 20, 1780, Mary Silliman, daugh
ter of Benjamin Silliman. Children : Nancy,
born March 12, 1781 ; George, April 17, 1783;
Benjamin, June 10, 1785; Mary, July 21,
1787; Ephraim, May 30, 1789; Sally, August
11, 1792; John, 1795; Content, August 9,
1797; and Charles, September 7, 1799.
(VI) Joseph Potter, son of George (1)
Potter, was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
February 6, 1759. He started in business as
a general merchant in 1786, and with his
brothers, Captain George and Nathan, suc
ceeded to the business of their father in 1794.
He finally became the sole owner. In 1792 he
built a house on the hill with a store in the
west end of the building. For many years he
was engaged in foreign trade and sent vessels
to the West Indies and to Spain. In 1810 he
began to manufacture cotton goods in West
erly. Two years later he built a cotton mill
at a cost of $9,000. In partnership with his
brother Nathan he built vessels for the Green
Island fishery and also sloops, schooners and
at one time a ship, which were framed at Pot
ter Hill and put together on the Pawcatuck
river at Westerly. During the war of 1812
the firm built sloop-rigged gunboats Nos. 91
and 92 under the superintendency of Captain
Phipps. Joseph Potter died December 14,
1822. He married, April 7, 1784, Phebe
Wells, daughter of Thomas and Sarah
(Thompson) Wells. Children : Thomas Wells,
born January 26, 1785; Joseph, August 4,
1787; Henry, March 12, 1790; Robert Thomp
son, mentioned below; William, May 8, 1800.
The three latter were born at Potter Hill.
(VII) Robert Thompson Potter, son of
Joseph Potter, was born July 31, 1794, at Pot
ter Hill. He was a manufacturer. He was
a strong and forceful character, a devout and
faithful Christian. He and his wife were
members of the First Hopkinton Seventh Day
Baptist Church. He died in the prime of life,
of typhoid fever, contracted while caring for
others during an epidemic. He married, De
cember 6, 1821, Mary Palmer, born in 1803,
on Pendleton Hill, in North Stonington, Con
necticut, a daughter of Luther and Sally (Ken

yon) Palmer. Their only child was Joseph
Henry, mentioned below.
(VIII) Joseph Henry Potter, son of Robert
Thompson Potter, was born at Potter Hill,
October 20, 1823. His father died when he
was but four years old. He attended the pub
lic schools, and when he was thirteen he was
sent by his guardian to the old Bacon Academy
at Colchester, Connecticut. Afterward he en
tered the Potter Mills at Potter Hill and
learned the manufacturing business in detail,
beginning at the bottom and working his way
through the various departments. Desiring
further education, however, he studied under
the tuition of Solomon Carpenter and his wife,
of Westerly, in the old academy on Union
street. During his second year in this school,
in 1842, he served in the state militia engaged
in suppressing the Dorr Rebellion. He then
learned the trade of machinist in the shops
of J. P. Stillman & Company, of Westerly.
In the meantime, the Potter Mills having been
sold, he engaged in the iron foundry business
in the firm of Langworthy, Potter & Com
pany. In 1846 the firm built the iron foundry
on the west side of the river at Westerly, on
the site now occupied by C. B. Cottrell &
Sons, printing press manufacturers. Mr. Pot
ter's firm manufactured plows and stoves.
For two years he was the agent of the com
pany. He then sold his interests to his part
ners. In 1850 he purchased a half-interest in
the drug business of Henry W. Stillman and
four years later became the sole proprietor of
the business. He admitted E. G. Champlin to
partnership, July 1, 1855, and the firm built
the drug store on Main street, at that time the
finest drug store in the county, and conducted
an extensive business, both wholesale and re
tail. A branch store was also conducted by
the firm at Mystic Bridge, Connecticut, under
the firm name of Potter & Spicer. In 1864
Mr. Potter sold his share in the business in
Westerly to E. G. Charnplin & Company, re
taining his interests in the Mystic store.
About the same time Mr. Potter started
another drug store at Stonington, Connecticut,
in partnership with B. F. Palmer, under the
firm name of J. H. Potter & Company. On
account of impaired health, Mr. Potter, in
1865, sold his interests at Mystic Bridge and
in 1867 those at Stonington.
He then engaged in the retail clothing busi
ness and custom tailoring in a building on
High street in Westerly, of which he was a
part owner, known as the Hammond Block.
Five years later he made an addition to the
building. His business prospered and he con
tinued in business until 1883, when he sold his
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years in the drug business and fourteen in the
clothing business Mr. Potter demonstrated re
markable capacity and was rewarded by sub
stantial success. In trade he proved himself
as successful as his immediate ancestors had
been in manufacturing. He was a leading citi
zen of the town for many years. After he
retired it was his custom to spend the winters
in the South with his only daughter, Amelia.
He built a residence at Daytona, Florida, and
became a legal resident of that thriving city,
of which he was at one time president of the
city council. Some twenty years prior to his
death, Mr. Potter's eyesight began to fail him,
and for nearly eighteen years before his demise
he had been totally blind, although he retained
his other faculties to a marked degree.
Mr. Potter was for many years a director of
the Washington National Bank of Westerly,
and for more than thirty years a trustee of the
Westerly Savings Bank. In early life he and
his wife joined the First Hopkinton Seventh
Day Baptist Church and at Westerly he be
came a member of the Pawcatuck Seventh
Day Baptist Church. His wife died February
21, 1885, and he died in Westerly, August 9,
1909, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. They
are buried in River Bend Cemetery, at West
erly. He married, September 14, 1847, Rhoda
Ann Langworthy, born December 5, 1825,
daughter of Robert and Lois (Sisson) Lang
worthy (see Langworthy V). Children: 1.
Amelia, born at Stonington, January 21, 1851,
resides at the homestead on High street. She is
a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church;
of the Phebe Greene Ward Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, of Westerly, and
while living in Florida was for several years
president of the Palmetto Club, of Daytona.
2. Alice, born January 21, 1851, twin, died in
infancy. 3. Henry Robert, born July 25, 1857,
at Westerly, died when nearly twelve years
old. (The Langworthy Line).
(I) Andrew Langworthy, of Newport,
Rhode Island, was baptized in 1652, at "the
mill;" was made freeman in 1656; married,
November 3, 1658, Rachel, daughter of Sam
uel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard. She was
admitted to the church in 1671, baptized in
1674 by a minister of the Seventh Day Church ;
he joined the church in 1676, and died in 1680.
Children : Samuel and Andrew.
(II) Samuel Langworthy, son of Andrew
Langworthy, married Rachel  , and both
died in 1716. In 171 1 he joined in the Narra
gansett purchase. Children : Ann, John,
Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Robert and Mary.
(Ill) Samuel (2) Langworthy, son of Sam
uel (1) Langworthy, born about 1708, mar

ried Mary

Children, born in Hopkin

ton: Mary, born May 11, 1739; Elizabeth,
May 31, 1741 ; Rachel, June 8, 1743; Samuel,
mentioned below; Tacy, November 20, 1747;
Joseph, February 6, 1749; and Hannah, June
21, 1752.
(IV) Samuel (3) Langworthy, son of Sam
uel (2) Langworthy, was born November 27,
1745 ; married, January 24, 1771, Mary, born
September 20, 1752, daughter of Tobias
Saunders, of Charlestown, Rhode Island.
Children, born in Hopkinton : Samuel, born
September 11, 1771 ; Tacy, July 1, 1773;
Peleg, October 7, 1775 ; Nathan, November 29,
1777; Saundice, December 16, 1779; Hannah,
February 19, 1782; and Robert, mentioned be
low. (V) Robert Langworthy, son of Samuel (3)
Langworthy, was born March 14, 1784; mar
ried Lois, daughter of Thomas Sisson. Chil
dren : Robert Henry, born October 12, 1819;
William A., November 7, 1821 ; Louisa, mar
ried Nathan K. Lewis ; Rhoda Ann, married
Joseph Henry Potter (see Potter VIII) ; Har
riet Amanda, unmarried ; and Abbie Sisson,
unmarried.

(V) John (2) Reynolds,
REYNOLDS son of John (1) Reynolds
(q. v.), was born in North
Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married there,
January 17, 1762, John Reynolds, justice of
the peace, officiating, Sarah Carpenter, daugh
ter of Oliver Carpenter (Oliver (3), Abiah
(2), William (1)). Children, born at North
Kingstown: Infant daughter, born July 11,
1763, died unnamed; Dorcas, born March 15,
1764; Eldred, mentioned below; Ruth, July
23, 1766; Sarah, May 19, 1768.
(VI) Eldred Reynolds, son of John Rey
nolds, was born at North Kingstown, Rhode
Island, April 2, 1765. He was educated in
the district schools of his native town and
lived there all his active life. He married, at
West Greenwich, Rhode Island, Esther Corey,
April 26, 1792. She was a daughter of Shef
field Corey. Children : John, Sheffield, Henry,
Joseph, a prominent citizen of Monson, Mas
sachusetts ; Mary, Esther, Eliza, Henry R.,
mentioned below.
(VII) Henry R. Reynolds, son of Eldred
Reynolds, was born in North Kingstown,
Rhode Island, and was educated there in the
public schools and made farming his occupa
tion. He died in his native town and was
buried in Elm Grove Cemetery. He married
Alice Wilcox, of North Kingstown. Chil
dren: Ruth, John Marshall, Antoinette, mar
ried Thomas Pierce; Lucian Bonaparte, men
tioned below.
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Henry R. Reynolds, was born in 1843, at
Wickford, Rhode Island. He received his
early education in the public schools, and be
gan his career as clerk in the railway mail
service of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Company. He finally resigned
on account of ill health and turned to farm
ing on the old Reynolds homestead on the old
post road in North Kingstown, on the same
farm where his son and daughter now reside.
He had fifty acres of land and carried on his
farm to the end of his life. He died Septem
ber 2, 1905, aged sixty-two years, and was
buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, at Allenton,
Rhode Island. He was an upright and useful
citizen, highly respected and esteemed by his
townsmen. He married Jennie F. Johnson,
daughter of Albert Reynolds and Mary A.
(Cranston) Johnson. She died June 7, 1905,
and was buried at the side of her husband.
She was a faithful member of the Central Bap
tist Church of Providence. Children: Irving
Marshall, died young; Emma Greene, married
Walter N. Sherman, and they reside in Provi
dence (see Sherman XII) ; Oral Munn, re
sides on her father's homestead; Theodore
Munn, resides with his sister on the home
stead. (The Sherman Line).
(VI) Eber Sherman, son of Peleg Sher
man (q. v.), was born at North Kingstown,
Rhode Island, October 20, 1674. Children :
Abigail, born March 22, 1714; William, De
cember 30, 1716; Mary, April 13, 1719; Henry,
mentioned below.
(VII) Henry Sherman, son of Eber Sher
man, was born January 14, 1724, at North
Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married Ann
 . Children : Nathaniel, mentioned be
low; John, born October 24, 1750; Mary,
March 11, 1753; Charles, February 1, 1756;
Henry, March 31, 1759; Martha, March 9,
1762; Sarah, March 29, 1765.
(VIII) Nathaniel Sherman, son of Henry
Sherman, was born at South Kingstown,
Rhode Island, August 15, 1748.
(IX) Nathaniel (2) Sherman, son of Na
thaniel (1) Sherman, was born at South
Kingstown, Rhode Island. Among his chil
dren was William C, mentioned below.
(X) William C. Sherman, son of Nathaniel
(2) Sherman, was born at South Kingstown,
Rhode Island. He was educated there in the
public schools. He followed farming in his
native town. Afterward he was employed in
the Rodman Mills at Lafayette, Rhode Island,
and made his home in North Kingstown. He
married Mary Taylor, daughter of John Tay
lor, of North Kingstown. Children : William
C, deceased ; George, deceased ; John, resides

at North Kingstown ; Mary Ann, who married
John Weeden and died in Wickford; Frances,
who married Charles Wood, of Providence ;
Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Angie Viola,
married William Lasalle.
(XI) Nathaniel (3) Sherman, son of Wil
liam C. Sherman, was born at North Kings
town, Rhode Island, October 7, 1857. He re
ceived his education in the public schools, and
for many years was employed in the Rodman
Mills. Afterward, he became associated in
business with his son in Providence, Rhode
Island, in the Providence Plate and Window
Glass Company, Fountain street. He married
Emma A. Greene, born in Exeter, Rhode
Island, daughter of Frederick Greene. She
died at Wickford, and is buried in Elm Grove
Cemetery. Children : Sylvester, resides at
North Kingstown; Otis A., resides in Provi
dence; Walter N., mentioned below; Elma E.,
deceased; Elvina, deceased.
(XII) Walter N. Sherman, son of Na
thaniel (3) Sherman, was born at Wickford,
Rhode Island, April 24, 1881. He married,
April 17, 1907, Emma Greene Reynolds,
daughter of Lucian Bonaparte and Jennie F.
(Johnson) Reynolds. She was educated in
the public schools of North Kingstown and
at East Greenwich Academy and in the Bryant
& Stratton Commercial College at Providence,
where she took a course in shorthand and type
writing. For several years before her mar
riage she was employed as stenographer in the
office of the Joy Line Steamship Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman make their home in
Providence. Mr. Sherman is a member of the
firm doing business under the name of the
Providence Plate and Window Glass Com
pany. Children: Clifford Stanley, born July
31, 1909; Leonard Reynolds, August 6, 191 1.

William Hacker, the immi-
HACKER grant, settled in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, between 1650 and
1660, and died there in 1661, when his estate
was settled. Little is known of him. He was
doubtless a mariner. His name was sometimes
spelled Hager and Hecker.
(II) George, son of William Hacker, mar
ried, September 16, 1672, Bethia Meacham,
daughter of Jeremiah Meacham, and had:
Bethia, born July 25, 1673, died young; Bethia,
March 9, 1675; George, August 13, 1678;
Sarah, 1681 ; Isaac, mentioned below.
(Ill) Isaac Hacker, son of George Hacker,
was born about 1685. He married Hannah
Pope, daughter of Samuel Pope, and grand
daughter of Joseph Pope, the immigrant, No
vember 25, 1714. Children: Hannah, born
October 24, 1715; Sarah, August 29, 1717;

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Eunice, January 24, 17 19; Isaac, July 2, 1722,
died young ; Jeremiah, mentioned below ; Isaac,
November 28, 1727; Hannah, May 16, 1729;
Isaac, March 4, 1730, baptized June 13, 1731.
(IV) Jeremiah Hacker, son of Isaac Hacker,
was born in Salem, May 27, 1725. He re
moved to Brunswick, Maine. In the census of
1790, the only heads of family of this surname
in Maine were Jeremiah and his son Jeremiah
Jr., both of Brunswick. Jeremiah had two
males over sixteen and four females in his
family; Jeremiah Jr. had one male over six
teen, one under that age and four females.
Jeremiah Hacker was a Quaker. He married
Lydia Smith, daughter of John Smith, of
Mendon, Worcester county, Massachusetts,
Anarch 28, 1747. (See p. 167, printed record
of Smithfield, Rhode Island, Friends). In
1790 Caesar Hacker and Mary Hacker were
heads of families in Salem. Not all of the
family were Quakers. Haysteed Hacker was
captain of a privateer from Beverly in the
revolution and John Hacker was a midshipman
in the revolution.
(V) Isaac Hacker, son of Jeremiah Hacker,
was for forty years a teacher of the West
School, Salem, now the Hacker School. He
was very popular. He died at Salem, Septem
ber, 1818. Another Jeremiah Hacker, of
Salem, born 1799, removed to Philadelphia
and married into the Morris family there.
(VI) Isaac Hacker, grandson of Jeremiah
Hacker, was born in New Brunswick, Decem
ber 21, 1802, and was killed in a railroad acci
dent on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, No
vember 14, 1878. He was a pioneer of the
town of Fort Fairfield, where he was in busi
ness as a general merchant during the greater
part of his life. In politics he was a Repub
lican, but later became a Democrat ; in religion
a Universalist. He was brought up a Quaker,
but on his marriage was read out of meeting.
He held various offices of trust and honor.
He was selectman of the town and state sena
tor of Maine. He married Violet Eastman, in
Palermo, Maine, who was born December 16,
1807, in Winthrop, Maine, died February 24,
1887, at Fort Fairfield. She attended the Uni
versalist church. Children: 1. Ann Maria,
born September 29, 1836, died in Bangor, July
6, 1856. 2. Ellen Frances, born in Lee, April
11, 1838, died in Lee, January 20, 1842. 3.
Jerrie F., mentioned below.
(VII) Jerrie F. Hacker, son of Isaac
Hacker, was born in Lee, Maine, April 14,
1842, died at Fort Fairfield, February 10, 1902.
He received his early education in the public
schools of Bangor, Maine, and in the Lee
State Normal School. He came to Fort Fair
field when a young man and was associated in

business with his father. He was one of the
most prominent merchants in this section. He
was president of the First National Bank from
the time of its organization until his death.
Mr. Hacker was a Republican in politics in
early life, becoming a Democrat at the same
time as his father. For many years he was
town treasurer of Fort Fairfield. In religion
he was a Universalist. He was a member of
Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons. He married
(first) Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1,
1867, Almeda Libby, born at Bradford, Maine,
April 13, 1843, died at Fort Fairfield, May 15,
1874. He married (second) Lizzie E. Traf-
ton. Children by first wife: George Eastman,
born Fort Fairfield, May 1, 1869, died April 3,
1870; Frank Elmer, born December 25, 1873,
died April 28, 1874; Annie Violet, born Sep
tember 3, 1 87 1, died March 2, 1874. Children
by second wife: Hope E., born June 27, 1879,
died July 4, 1883 ; infant, born December 14,
1880, died December 28, 1880; Charles L, born
November 23, 1881, died March 2, 1883; Tom_
Edgar, mentioned below; Maria L., born Octo
ber 18, 1890, graduate of the Fort Fairfield
high school and of St. Mary's School, Concord,
New Hampshire, now living in Fort Fairfield.
(VIII) Tom Edgar Hacker, son of Jerrie F.
Hacker, was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
July 15, 1884. He attended the public schools
of his native town and graduated from the
high school in 1903. He entered Bowdoin
College, from which he was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1907. He
joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at
Bowdoin. He started in business before he
graduated from college, and from 1905 to 1910
conducted a retail shoe store in Fort Fairfield.
Since then he has been a dealer in potatoes,
hay, farming implements, fertilizers, etc., in
partnership with C. Fred Ames. He has been
uniformly successful in business. In politics
he is an independent Democrat. He is a direc
tor of the Fort Fairfield National Bank, and
is a member of Eastern Frontier Lodge, No.
112, Free and Accepted Masons; of Garfield
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Presque Isle
Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Houlton
Commandery, Knights Templar ; Cora Temple,
Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston ; of Border Lodge,
No. 83, Knights of Pythias, of Fort Fairfield,
and the Aroostook Valley Grange, No. 485,
Patrons of Husbandry. He attends St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church.
He married, July 1, 1907, in Belfast, Maine,
Sarah Curry Burns, born in Fort Fairfield,
October 12, 1886, graduated from the Fort
Fairfield high school in 1905 and is a member
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Star, of Fort Fairfield. She is also an Epis
copalian (see Burns III). Children, all born
at Fort Fairfield: i. Hope, born October 9,
1909, died February 26, 1910. 2. Jerrie Frank,
born January 14, 1910. 3. Mary Elizabeth,
born July 4, 191 1. 4. Tom Burns, born July
29, 1913. (The Burns Line).
(I) James Burns, grandfather of Mrs. Tom
Edgar Hacker, was born in Ulster province,
in the North of Ireland. He was of Scotch
ancestry. In 1822, when a young man, he
came to America and settled at Sussexvale,
New Brunswick, now called Sussex. He fol
lowed farming there and died in that town..
His wife was of Dutch descent. Children: 1.
William Henry, mentioned below. 2. James,
died in Sussex county, New Brunswick. 3.
John, died at South Bay, St: John, New Bruns
wick, a miller by trade. 4. Belle, married John
Campbell, of Campbell Settlement, Sussex
county, a farmer ; she died at St. John.
(II) William Henry Burns, son of James
Burns, was born in the North of Ireland, 1818,
died at Andover, New Brunswick, 1873. He
came to this country with his parents when a
child. He was a farmer in Andover. He was
a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal
church. By his first marriage he had no chil
dren. He married (second) Adelaide Murphy,
born at Andover, New Brunswick, October
10, 1828. For the past twenty years she has
lived with her son, Frank W. Burns. Chil
dren: 1. Frank W., mentioned .below..,-- 2. Rob
ert Bruce, born 1851 ; married Nellie Plummer,
of Stillwater, Maine; he was chief engineer of
two divisions of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad; died June 29, 1905, in Los An
geles, California ; his widow resides in Los
Angeles. 3. Martha Ann, born 1853, married
Adolphus Burpee, of, Sheffield, New Bruns
wick, a farmer; she resides in Skowhegan,
Maine, with her third husband,  Rowe.
4. Lottie, born 1856, married Lockland Hayes,
of St. John, New Brunswick, a miller at Fort
Fairfield. 5. William Henry, born 1861 ;
farmer at Andover; married Julia Bartlett,
of Presque Isle. 7. Stephen Douglas, born
1863 ; resides at Oconto, Wisconsin, a lumber
man and real estate dealer ; was elected sheriff
of Oconto county on the Democratic ticket, but
is now a Republican. 8. Arthur, born 1865;
lumberman, Oregon.
(Ill) Frank W. Burns, son of William
Henry Burns, was born June 12, 1849, m An
dover, New Brunswick, and came to Fort
Fairfield to live when he was twenty years old.
He learned the trade of harnessmaker and
followed it for seven years. He then engaged
in business and had a livery stable until July

1, 1 91 3. For the past thirty years he has also
followed farming. His place is about a mile
from the village of Fort Fairfield, and com
prises two hundred acres of land, most of
which is under cultivation. In politics he is a
Republican.- From 1878 to 1883 he was sheriff
of Aroostook county and he is now deputy
collector and inspector of customs, an office
he has held for the past sixteen years. He
attends the Congregational church. He is a
member of Aroostook Valley Grange, No. 485,
Patrons of Husbandry, and of Eastern
Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted
Masons. Pie married (first) December 21,
1873, at Caribou, Maine, Eliza N. Slocomb,
born at St. Francis, St. John, New Brunswick,
1855, died at Fort Fairfield, August 9, 1903.
He married (second) January, 1904, Mary
Elizabeth (Slocomb) Collins, widow of Henry
Collins, of Fort Fairfield, a hotel proprietor,
sister of his first wife. She was born at St.
Francis, New Brunswick, October 10, 1849,
died at Fort Fairfield, July 2, 19 10. He mar
ried (third) Annie P. Perry, born at St. John,
1867. Children, all born at Fort Fairfield, by
first wife: 1. William Edgar, born 1874, died
aged two years and a half. 2. Harry P., born
1876; married Amanda Brown, of Andover;
he is a farmer at Fort Fairfield. 3. William
B., born February 14, 1878 ; deputy collector
and inspector of customs ; married Cora
Barnes ; resides at Mars Hill. 4. Pearl, born
December 21, 1880; married Rev. David L.
Wilson, native of England, now in charge of
the Congregational church at Belfast, Maine.
5. Caleb Edgar, born 1882; resides in the
Hawaiian Islands ; employed by the Baldwin
Sugar Cane Syndicate; married (first) Grace
Valentine, of Waterville; (second) Florence
 . 6. Sarah Curry, married Tom Edgar
Hacker (see Hacker IX). 7. Frank, born Au
gust 9, 1889; civil engineer, Hawaiian Islands.
8. Alfred S., born February 15, it

Captain Andrew Newcomb,
NEWCOMB the immigrant ancestor, came
from the "west of Eng
land," according to tradition, perhaps from
Devonshire or Wales. He was very likely
among the earliest settlers of New Eng
land. The first mention of him was in 1663,
in Boston, Massachusetts, when he married
his second wife, Grace, widow of William
Rix or Ricks. He was called a mariner or sea
captain, and doubtless had always had this
occupation. In the Charlestown records for
February 28, 1666-67, mention is made of his
taking horses on his ship for John Ely and
Elikim Hutchinson; on August 28, 1679, m
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Andrew Newcomb is named as Master of the
sloop "Edmund and Martha," then in New
York and bound for Boston, probably from
Virginia, a part of the lading being tobacco.
Philip Foxwell deposed that Andrew New-
comb was in Saco river from Boston, Octo
ber, 1684, and this is the last record of him
until his will was proved two years later. His
second wife, Grace, was born about 1620-25,
and had by her first husband, William Ricks :
Elisha, John, Thomas and Ezekiel, born in
Boston between 1645 and J656. On February
14, 1672, agreement was made that Andrew
Newcomb and Grace should occupy William
Ricks' house during their lifetime ; that John
and Thomas Ricks should have the new house
near the former, near the water-mill in Boston,
each to have a half of the land, paying to New
comb twenty pounds each. On April 13, 1681,
he bought of Simon Lynde and Sarah, wife of
Joseph Goodale, the administratrix of Thomas
Ricks, the right to redeem an estate in Boston
mortgaged to Lynde by Thomas Ricks in
1677. On April 14, 1681, he and his wife sold
to John Ricks all right in the house near Mill
Bridge, that had been owned by Thomas Ricks,
deceased. His will was dated January 31,
1682-83, and proved December 9, 1686. He
doubtless died in November, 1686, though he
may have died a year earlier at sea. Although
his son Andrew was not mentioned in his
will, many facts show that he was doubtless
his son. Children of first wife: Andrew, men
tioned below; Susannah, born between 1635
and 1650. Child of second wife: Grace, born
in Boston, October 20, 1664.
(II) Lieutenant Andrew (2) Newcomb,
son of Captain Andrew (1) Newcomb, was
born about 1640, and was living in America
as early as July, 1666, when he attended a
meeting at the Isle of Shoals, near Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, of several merchants
and men engaged in the fisheries, for the pur
pose of fixing the price of fish. The first
record of land purchased by him was April
20, 1669, at Alfred, York county, Maine,
when he, of Kittery, York county, a fisher
man, bought of Daniel Moore, of Portsmouth,
blacksmith, a dwelling-house in Kittery and
six acres adjoining the house at Emberrys
(Emery) Point. The place is situated on the
southeast side of the mouth of the Spinney
Creek, bounded on the west by the Piscataqua
river. Andrew Newcomb served as constable,
and in 1671 was living at the Shoals. In
June, 1673, he was called before the county
court at Dover, New Hampshire, to answer a
complaint of Francis Small for withholding
the "PIull of a fishing shallop of sd Smalls
receiued of Thomas Trickie by virtue of sd

Small's order," but finally the case was with
drawn as there was no cause of action. On
July 19, 1673, a deed is recorded at Exeter,
New Hampshire, in which he sold a house on
Hog Island to Henry Platts. About 1675 ne
seems to have moved from the Shoals to Ed-
gartown, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county,
Massachusetts, where he remained the rest of
his life, dying between March 7, 1703-04, and
October 22, 1708. He was one of the pro
prietors of Edgartown and had several shares
in the divisions of land there, also making
many purchases of land. He sold the land
in 1700 which is the famous camp-meeting
ground on Martha's Vineyard. He served as
juror at quarter court, September 26, 1677, at
Edgartown, also December 28, 1680; was
foreman of the jury September, 1681, and
foreman of the grand jury, March 7, 1703-
04; in 1681 was constable, and was chosen
townsman May 10, 1693, overseer, March
16, 1693-94; on April 13, 1691, was chosen
lieutenant and was in command of the forti
fication that year. He very likely was a
merchant for several years. He was well-to-
do and a prominent man in Edgartown. The
land on which the court-house now stands
belonged to him.
He married (first) Sarah  , about
1661, and she died about 1674. He married
(second) in Edgartown, in 1676, Anna, daugh
ter of Captain Thomas and Anna (Baker)
Bayes ; she was born about 1658, and died in
the, -summer of 1731 or in September of that
year, aged about seventy-three, having sur
vived her husband for many years. Her name
is on the oldest list of church members which
has been kept there, July 13, 1717, and also in
the list,6f January 24, 1731. Children of first
wife: Simeon, born about 1662; Andrew,
about 1664; Simon, mentioned below; Thomas,
about 1668; Sarah, about 1670; Mary or
Mercy, about 1672; Peter, about 1674. Chil
dren of second wife: Anna, 1677; Elizabeth,
1681 ; Joseph, 1683; Emblem, about 1685;
Tabitha, about 1688; Hannah, about 1694;
Zerviah, 1698-99; Mary, about 1700.
(Ill) Simon, son of Lieutenant Andrew
(2) Newcomb, was born about 1666, probably
at Kittery, York county, Maine, or perhaps
on one of the islands of the Shoals, near Kit
tery. His father moved to Edgartown when
he was about eight years old, and here he lived
until 1 71 3, when he moved to Lebanon, New
London county, Connecticut, where he re
mained the rest of his life. The first time his
name was on record was May 10, 1690, when
he was named in the will of William Vinson,
of Edgartown, to see that it was carried out.
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of Chappaquiddick, where he kept large num
bers of cattle and sheep. He also received
several shares from 1695 on, in Edgartown, as
a proprietor, and he bought much land at Po-
hoggannut, near Job's Neck. He bought of
his father the land called Job's Neck, or So-
pataming. Other purchases and grants to him
are also recorded, and there are records of the
land sold by him, also. His first purchase in
Lebanon was September 26, 171 1, when he
bought of Israel and Mary Phelps, a farm of
about 160 acres, on which he lived in Lebanon
for nearly a third of a century, leaving it by
will to his son Simon. He gave farms to his
sons, and made several purchases in Lebanon.
In 1 710 he was chosen field driver in Edgar
town, and was made freeman there; in 17 14
was surveyor of highways; grand juryman,
1718; served on various committees and helped
in settling town boundaries. His will was
dated July 23, 1741. He died January 20,
1744-45, aged seventy-nine.
He married about 1687, Deborah  ,
who died in Lebanon, June 17, 1756, aged
ninety-one. Children : John, born about 1688-
89; Thomas, 1691-92; Hezekiah, (q. v.) ; Oba
diah, 1695; Deborah, 1696-97; Sarah, about
1698; Benjamin, about 1700; Elizabeth, 1701-
02; Simon, about 1705.

The surname Goodhue is
GOODHUE found in England as early as
1280. The American family
of the name is doubtless descended from the
Goodhews of Kent, for the family is not found
elsewhere in England at an early date.
(I) William Goodhue, the immigrant ances
tor, was born in England about 161 2, and came
to America in 1635-36, settling in Ipswich,
Massachusetts. He had a good education for
the times. He was deacon of the First Church
of Ipswich, and held various offices of trust
in the town; moderator, selectman, deputy to
the general court. He was admitted a free
man, December 7, 1636. He had a house lot
as early as 1638 and afterwards much other
land by grant and purchase. His house was on
the street called the East End. He was a
weaver by trade. He subscribed to the Deni
son fund. He was a leader in the revolt against
Sir Edmund Andros when he violated the
charter rights of the colony, and with the min
ister, Rev. John Wise, and four others, was
arrested, committed to the Boston jail, and
denied the right to give bail. They were tried,
convicted of contempt, and kept in jail three
weeks. William Goodhue had a fine of twenty
pounds imposed, and had to give bonds in the
sum of five hundred pounds and pay costs.
These fines were later paid by the town of

Ipswich. In his advanced age he gave up his
Ipswich home, and went to live with his son
William in Chebacco, now Essex, where he
died in 1699.
He married (first) in England, Margery
Watson, native of Kent. She died in Ipswich,
August 28, 1668. He married (second) Mary
Webb, widow, February 7, 1669-70, and she
died at Ipswich, September 7, 1680. He mar
ried (third) July 26, 1682, Bethiah Grafton,
who died December 6, 1688. He married
(fourth) in 1689, Remember Fisk, of Wen-
ham, Massachusetts, who survived him and
died at Ipswich, February 16, 1701-02. Chil
dren, all by his first wife: Joseph, mentioned
below ; William, born in Ipswich ; Mary.
(II) Joseph Goodhue, son of William Good
hue, was born in 1639 in Ipswich. He married
(first) July 13, 1 661, Sarah Whipple, daughter
of Elder John Whipple. She was born in
1 641, and was a woman of great piety. In an
instrument executed on the day of marriage
by William Goodhue Sr. and Margery, his
wife, by John Whipple and Sarah, his wife,
according to an agreement made previously,
Joseph Goodhue enters into possession of his
father's farm and is declared to be entitled to
his father's house and lot after the death of
him and his wife, and twenty-two acres of salt
marsh which had been bought with ten pounds
of the twenty-five pounds sent by Joseph's
grandfather, Watson, from England in 1646.
Sarah (Whipple) Goodhue died at Ipswich,
July 23, 1681. She left a farewell address to
her husband, children and friends written in
very pious and affectionate terms, mentioning
her parents as still living, evidently meaning
her husband's parents. Joseph Goodhue mar
ried (second) October 15, 1684, Rachel Todd,
widow, who died in Ipswich in 1691. He mar
ried (third) July 4, 1692, Mercy Clarke. He
died at Ipswich, September 21, 1697, aged
fifty-eight. He served the town as moderator,
selectman, assessor, deputy to the general
court and was deacon of the Ipswich church.
Children of first wife: Joseph, born May 13,
1662, died young; Mary; William, 1666;
Sarah; Margery; Susannah; Elizabeth; John,
born 1679; Hannah, July 20, 1681. Children
of second wife : Ebenezer, July 25, 1685 ; Jo
seph, 1687; Benjamin, January 25, 1690, died
December 3, 1697. Child by third wife : Sam
uel, mentioned below.
(Ill) Deacon Samuel Goodhue, son of Jo
seph Goodhue, was born April 6, 1696. He
moved from Ipswich to Stratham, New Hamp
shire, and then to Nottingham, New Hamp
shire, where he owned a large landed property.
He was deacon of the Congregational church
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moved to Hollis, New Hampshire, where he
lived the remainder of his life. He died No
vember 7, 1785, in the ninetieth year of his
age. He had a good education, and at his
death left an address to his descendants, writ
ten one hundred and five years after that writ
ten by his father's first wife. He left a small
legacy and a Bible to each of his thirty grand
children, and a legacy to the poor of the town
of Hollis. He married (first) 1717, Abigail
Bartlett, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. He
married (second) Widow Rebecca Caldwell.
Children, all by first wife: Samuel, born 1719;
Joseph, 1722 ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ;
Abigail, 1725; Mercy; Josiah, 1728; Mary,
died in her eighteenth year ; John, December
29, 1734-
(IV) Nathaniel Goodhue, son of Deacon
Samuel Goodhue, was born in 1724. He mar
ried Lydia Hill, of Nottingham, New Hamp
shire, where he lived and died. Children': Na
thaniel, born 1753; Samuel, 1755; Stephen B.,
mentioned below; Josiah; Mary; Lydia.
(V) Stephen B. Goodhue, son of Nathaniel
Goodhue, married Esther Pike, and lived and
died in Campton, New Hampshire. Children :
James, born February 7, 1783; Daniel, De
cember 7, 1784; Nathaniel, mentioned below
Samuel, died aged seventeen years; Betsey
Lucinda; Mary; Asa, born January 20, 1798
Stephen; Sally.
(VI) Nathaniel (2) Goodhue, son of Ste
phen B. Goodhue, was born in Campton, New
Hampshire, in 1788, died in Bangor, Maine,
in 1864. He married Polly Ward, born in
Plymouth, New Hampshire, August 11, 1788,
died at Fort Fairfield, Maine, in 1882. He
lived for a time in Campton, and then moved
to Bangor, where he resided the remainder of
his life. Children: Philomelia; Sally; Ira,
born 1819; Alfred; Henry; Isaac W., men
tioned below.
(VII) Isaac W. Goodhue, son of Nathaniel
(2) Goodhue, was born November 23, 1827,
in Bangor, Maine, died at Fort Fairfield,
Maine, August 6, 1901. In 1859.be moved to
Fort Fairfield, where he was a jeweller the
remainder of his life. He was a Republican
in politics, and was a member of the Episcopal
church. He married Eliza White, born in
Winterport, Maine, June 18, 1826, died at
Fort Fairfield, December 29, 1907. Children,-
first two born in Bangor, others in Fort Fair
field : 1. Ada, born October 5, 1855; married
Frank Wellington. 2. Herbert N., mentioned
below. 3. Arthur Frank, born December 13,
1862; married Sadie Hoit, of Fort Fairfield,'
where he is a jeweller and optician. 4. Plarry
Milton, born December 22, 1869; married

Willa Peters, of St. John, New Brunswick,
and they live in New Jersey.
(VIII) Herbert N. Goodhue, son of Isaac
W. Goodhue, was born at Bangor, Maine,
January 31, 1857, died at Fort Fairfield, March
28, 1912. He removed to Fort Fairfield with
his parents when he was two years old and
attended the public schools there until he was
eighteen years old. He learned the trade of
harnessmaker. For three years he was clerk
in the store of E. Merritt & Sons at Houlton,
Maine, and returned to Fort Fairfield to take
charge of a large branch store of that firm.
Several years later he started in business on
his own account as a grocer. His business
grew constantly and he had to find larger quar
ters. He rented the Martin store and after
ward built a handsome and commodious store
building, which was destroyed by fire, Decem
ber 19, 191 1. He resumed business in the
Martin store immediately. Mr. Goodhue also
conducted a candy kitchen in the A. F. Good
hue building. He built a residence on High
street. Mr. Goodhue was not only one of the
leading and most successful merchants of the
town, but he was prominent in church, in social
life and in public affairs. He was a member
and had been president of the board of trade.
He was one of the organizers of the Fort
Fairfield National Bank. He was a member
of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons
and of the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, a charter member of both, and he held
various offices in the Odd Fellows lodge.
For more than twenty years he was an active
and prominent member of the Congregational
church, of which for many years he was
superintendent of the Sunday school. He was
of exemplary character, upright and honor
able in all the relations of life and especially
in his business affairs. He gave his financial
aid and personal help in every project designed
to promote the welfare of the town. He was
a prominent worker in various organizations
of and for the young men of the town.
He married, November 7, 1882, at Dexter,
Maine, Mary Louise Winslow, born at Dexter,
January 20, 1859. She is a member of the
Universalist church and of the Philomathean
Literary Society of Fort Fairfield. Her father,
Samuel Adams Winslow, was born at Greene,
Maine, November 12, 1826, died at Dexter,
in November, 1907. Children: 1. Harold V.,
mentioned below. 2. Gladys Wyona, born
July 11, 1889, in Fort Fairfield, graduate of
the high school, student one year in Wheaton
Seminary. (IX) Harold V. Goodhue, son of Herbert
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gust 15, 1883. He graduated frorm the high
school of his native town in 1903. For two
years he was a student in Bowdoin College.
He left college in 1905 to take charge of his
father's store, which he has since conducted
successfully. The entire building is thirty feet
wide and one hundred and thirty-three feet
long. The cellar has stone walls', with brick
pillars, and is so large that eight or ten carloads
of stuff can easily be stored away in it, at the
same time leaving room for much in the way
of smaller goods. The building has steam heat
and electric lights throughout, requiring some
seventy-five lights, and thirteen switches. It
also has an elevator that readily carries goods
from the cellar to either the first or the second
story. Goods can be unloaded direct from
the C. P. R. track into the rear of the store.
In this beautiful combined store, bakery and
factory, let us begin at the top with the bakery,
which is easily the largest north of Bangor.
The oven, now nearly completed, is a big one,
weighing twenty-six tons, with a capacity of
at least a thousand loaves of bread a day. The
bottom of the oven is on a cement floor, and
its walls are of wire lathing and cement plaster
ing, rendering them fireproof. The frame
work of this oven is of steel, and the walls of
the bakery and of the oven are covered
with white enamel, so as to be easily washed
and kept absolutely clean and sanitary. Good
hue's "Top Notch" bread, as well as the other
products of this bakery, has already become
famous over a great part of Maine, and the
appliances now at hand for making them even
better and more desirable than before will not
be lost on the purchasing public. The candy
factory comes next. It is in charge of Hubert
Smith, an experienced candy manufacturer.
The factory itself is on the second floor, the
main room being about fifteen by thirty-five
feet in size. Here all the candy is made. The
wrapping and packing room, adjacent, is about
fifteen by twenty-five, large enough to give
fine capacity. Goodhue's candy is now sold
over a great part of Maine, from Fort Kent
to the Atlantic coast, and the demand for it
is continually increasing. With the proper
facilities for work, such as are here offered,
it can not fail to make itself even more widely
known. Of course the gem of the building is
the main store, which is thirty by seventy-three.
There are also two good offices — one for a
principal office, the other a private office. All
the parts of this building, the main store, office,
bakery, manufactory, and all, are closely con
nected with interphones, so that the owner or
manager, seated in his office at the "hub," can
easily keep in touch with every part of the
establishment, giving off orders without waste
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of time and without risk of mistakes by mes
senger boys. The groceries are kept on the
east side of the store, wholly separate from the
confectionery and bakery supplies, which will
be kept on the west side. For flour, meal, feed,
peas, beans, etc., Walker patent bins are used,
revolving easily in their places, keeping their
contents entirely free from dust or air, and
also showing under glass in front samples of
what the bins themselves contain. All the
interior finish was put in under the superin
tendence of Howard P. Cogswell, and all the
shelf work, which is of cypress, stained mahog
any, was done by Mr. Cogswell and H. W.
Varney. The shelves themselves are removable.
All the floors are of hardwood, and the tops
of the counters are also of polished hardwood.
Not an old fixture of any kind is used in this
store — everything is absolutely new. There
are two McCray refrigerator cases, in which
to keep meat, fruit, or anything perishable,
wholly out of the way of dirt. There are also
two Detroit automatic scales of the most recent
pattern. Two of the latest style National cash
registers, running by electricity, can be found.
One of these lights up by electricity every time
it is opened. Silent salesmen, or display cases,
for candy and bakery products, are found here
in plenty. They were made by the F. O. Bailey
Company, Portland, whose cases have a fine
reputation. An American slicing machine,
latest pattern, is also there for service. The
store has high side windows, no posts what
ever in the interior, a steel ceiling, and some
of the brightest, most brilliantly lighted, capa
cious and attractive show windows to be found
in Maine. No tobacco or cigars are sold
here, nor any smoking allowed about the
establishment. As can easily be seen the store
is arranged with everything the most modern
and with an eye to sanitation and the absolute
keeping out of dirt in every way. There will
be no flies on bakery products, on confec
tionery, on the store — or, let us hope, on the
management of the proprietor. Everything is
convenient, there being no necessity anywhere
of lost motion or wasted effort. In politics
Mr. Goodhue is an independent Republican.
He is a member of the Congregational church ;
of Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Fort Fairfield; of Gar
field Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and of
Caribou Council, Royal and Select Masters.
He is also a member of the Zeta Psi college
fraternity. He married, September 12, 1907, at Port
land, Maine, Winnifred Smith Larrabee, born
July 8, 1885, at Westbrook, Maine, graduated
from the Westbrook high school in 1901 and
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1904. She taught school before her marriage
for one term in Skowhegan, one in Rochester,
New Hampshire, one in Portland and for two
years in Fort Fairfield. She is a member of
the Congregational church and of the Philo
math ean Literary Society. They have one
child, Paul Herbert, born June 14, 1909.
George Henry Pierson Larrabee, father of
Mrs. Goodhue, was born at Portland, Maine,
January 31, 1842, and now living there. In
politics he is a Republican. He married (first)
Jennie Phillips, who died in Portland. He
married (second) Ella Margaretta Everett,
born at Bath, Maine, May 25, 1847, died at
Portland, January 14, 1904. Child by first
wife: Harriet Jane, born at Portland, Maine,
May 17, 1863, died December, 1908; married
Frederick A. Thompson, architect, of Port
land. Children by second wife: 1. George
Pierson, born at Scarboro, June 17, 1881 ;
married Mary Collens and had George Everett
and Frederick Thompson. 3. Winnifred Smith,
married Harold V. Goodhue, mentioned above.
4. Sarah Everett, born at Westbrook, Septem
ber 21, 1886, school teacher of Westbrook,
graduate of Gorham State Normal School,
1910. 5. Lena, born April 3, 1888, attended
Kent's Hill Seminary and Miss White's pri
vate school, Portland. Benjamin Larrabee,
father of George Henry Pierson Larrabee, was
born at Scarboro, died at Portland.

The name of Burke, Bourke or
BURKE Bourck, was originally written
de Burgh, and under that form
is an ancient name, and signifies "pertaining
to a city." It is of much note in the old world,
and may be traced back to the eighth century.
Its head was Charles, Due d'lngheim, fifth son
of the Emperor Charlemagne. In the fourth
generation from him is Baldwin de Bourg, his
great-grandson, a renowned Crusader, whose
son Baldwin founded the house of Blois in
France, and was a progenitor of the noble fam
ilies of Burgh and Vesey in Ireland. Early in
the fourteenth century lived John, earl of
Comyn and baron of Tonsburgh in Normandy,
and a descendant of the above, "who, being
general of the king's forces, and governor of
his chief towns, obtained the surname of de
Burgh." The name is mentioned in very early
English history, and its owners verify their
descent from the old crusader by deeds of
bravery, piety and loyalty to their king. The
most celebrated was Hubert de Burgh, who be
came king's judiciary of England under Henry
III., was made earl of Kent, and received in
marriage the eldest sister of the king of Scot
land. In the reign of Henry II. a branch of
the de Burghs went over into Ireland, and

from that time down figures in Irish history.
It is frequently involved in the wars and strug
gles which harassed that riotous kingdom, and
in most cases is found on the side of law and
order. (I) Richard Burke, the immigrant ancestor,
is supposed to have been born about 1640, in
England, and died at Sudbury, Massachusetts,
1693-94. October 24, 1670, he bought one
hundred and thirty acres of land in Sudbury,
and March 1, 1685-86, he was granted by the
town of Stow thirty acres of upland and
swampland for a house lot. July 26, 1687,
he had another small grant of land in Stow.
He married, in Sudbury, June 24, 1670, Mary
Parmenter, born in Sudbury, June 10, 1644,
daughter of John and Amy Parmenter, and
granddaughter of Deacon John Parmenter,
born 1588, who was one of the first settlers of
Sudbury, 1639. She survived her husband,
and afterward married  Allen. Chil1
dren, born in Sudbury: Richard, mentioned
below ; John, married Rebecca  — ; Joseph,
born April 1, 1676; Mary, September 25, 1680;
Jonas, January 4, 1683-84; Thomas, Novem
ber 1, 1686.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)
Burke, was born in Sudbury, April 16, 1671.
He lived at Stow, Sudbury and Brookfield,
Massachusetts. His name appears upon the
records of Stow as late as 1705; in 1708 he
is called of Sudbury, and in 1720 had a grant
of land in Brookfield. He married Abigail,
daughter of Jonathan and Mary Sawtell, and
granddaughter of Richard Sawtell, a pro
prietor of Watertown, 1636-37, and one of the
first settlers of Groton, where he was town
clerk for the first three years after its organi
zation. Her father was also an original pro
prietor of Groton. She was born there March
5, 1671-72, and died in Sudbury, April 1,
1716 ( ?). Children, first three born probably
in Stow, last three in Sudbury : Abigail, mar
ried John Parmenter ; Richard, lived in Brook
field, married Mary  ; Jonathan, men
tioned below; Sarah, born 1708; Keziah, Feb
ruary 24, 1710-11 ; Uzziah, twin of Keziah.
(Ill) Jonathan, son of Richard (2) Burke,
was born in January, 1701, and died in Wind
sor, Vermont, May 18, 1775. He lived in
Brookfield, where his name appears on the
records as late as 1748, at which time he pur
chased real estate in Brimfield, Massachusetts.
July 10, 1759, he conveyed to his son Jona
than eighty acres of land in Brimfield, and was
later of South Brimfield, which was incor
porated September 18, 1762. He was often
appointed on committees on town and church
affairs in the two latter towns. December 15,
1769, he was living in what is now West-

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minster, Vermont. He served in the colonial
wars, 1722-24; in Major John Chandler's com
pany, August 18 to November 26, 1722; Janu
ary 8, 1724, on the frontier; in garrison at
Brookfield, Massachusetts, April 13 to Novem
ber 20, 1724. (Authorities: Temple's "His
tory North Brookfield, Massachusetts," quot
ing from muster rolls among Massachusetts
archives in state house, Boston ; Burke Alvord
Memorial; Hemmenway's Gazeteer).
Jonathan married, May 10, 1731, in North
ampton, Massachusetts, Thankful, daughter of
William and Ann (Webb) Wait ; she was born
in Northampton, January 27, 1706 (?), and
died in Windsor, January 29, 1783. Children,
all but the youngest, born in Brookfield, the
latter in Brimfield: Keziah, March 3, 1732;
Jonathan, February 26, 1733-34; Simeon, May
3, 1736; Jesse, April 8, 1738; Isaiah, June 13,
1740; Richard, "deceast April 13, 1741"; Solo
mon (q. v.) ; Silas, November 22, 1744; Eli
jah; Anna, September 2, 1748.

(Ill) Lieutenant Henry Vose, son
VOSE of Thomas Vose (q. v.), was born
at Milton, Massachusetts, April 9,
1663, died March 26, 1752. He married Eliz
abeth Babcock, born October 24, 1666, died
November 19, 1732, daughter of Robert Bab
cock, of Milton. Children, born at Milton:
Waitstill, born July 29, 1688; Mary, January
4, 1691 ; Robert, October 25, 1693 ; Elizabeth,
January 28, 1696; Martha, August 25, 1698;
Abigail, December 14, 1700; Joshua, men
tioned below; Hepzibah, February 10, 1704;
Beulah, January 29, 1706; Thomas, February
4, 1709.
(IV) Joshua Vose, son of Lieutenant Henry
Vose, was born at Milton, Massachusetts,
March 3, 1703. He died in Westerly, Rhode
Island, September 23, 1778, and was buried in
the River Bend Cemetery. He was a justice
of the peace in 1774. He married Prudence
 , and among their children was Joshua,
mentioned below.
(V) Joshua (2) Vose, son of Joshua (1)
Vose, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island,
March 15, 1737-38. He made his home in his
native town, where he owned and operated a
tannery that was later owned by Mr. Rhodes.
He was appointed a justice of the peace in
1782 and served for many years afterward.
In 1801 he was appointed justice of the court
of- commissions and general sessions, and
served on the bench until 1809. His son
Joshua also filled the same office from 1817 to
1825. Joshua vVose died January 28, 1812,
aged seventy-five years. He married May 5,
1757, Mary Lamphere. Children, born at
Westerly: Abigail, born August 13, 1758;

Lemuel, mentioned below ; Joshua, born Janu
ary 23, 1775, died March 14, 1837, married
Prudence Wilcox, daughter of Rev. Isaiah
Wilcox, and she died March 9, 1816.
(VI) Lemuel Vose, son of Joshua (2)
Vose, was born in Westerly, Rhode Island,
December 2, 1767. He was a farmer in his
native town, owning large tracts of land there.
All his active life was spent in Westerly, and
he died there February 19, 1846, and was
buried in the River Bend Cemetery. He mar
ried Delight Babcock, of Exeter, Rhode Island,
March 13, 1794. She died December 25, 1848.
Children, born at Westerly: Lemuel, men
tioned below; Sophia, born October 8, 1799,
married Stephen Wilcox, and had Stephen
Wilcox, who was a great public benefactor of
Westerly; Charles Babcock, born February 6,
1807. (VII) Major Lemuel (2) Vose, son of
Lemuel ( 1 ) Vose, was born at Westerly,
Rhode Island, October 9, 1796. He received
his education in the public schools of his native
town. He engaged in business there as a gen
eral merchant, and for many years was in busi
ness in partnership with Joseph Lewis. When
a young man he served in the state militia and
became brigade quartermaster of the Third
Brigade of Washington county, Rhode Island,
with the rank of major. He was appointed
justice of the peace in 1830 and served many
years. For nine years he was postmaster of
Westerly. Few men were better known or
more highly respected. His home was on High
street, and is now occupied by his daughter
and granddaughter. Major Vose married, De
cember 29, 1825, at Stonington, Connecticut
(Rev. Dr. Ira Hart officiating), Mary Ann
States, born August 27, 1804, died August 28,
), at her home in Westerly, a daughter of

Adam and Cynthia (Brown) States. She was
buried in the. River Bend Cemetery. Major
Lemuel Vose and family were members of the
Protestant Episcopal church of Westerly. Chil
dren, born at Westerly: 1. Henry E., born
May 15, 1827, died October 12, 1827. 2. John
Denison, born October 27, 1828, died August
11, 1881 ; married Caroline Brown, who died
November 25, 1904, leaving one child, John
Denison Jr. 3. Eliza States, born August 7,
1832, resides on the old homestead at West
erly. 4. Francis, born May 22, 1833, died Au
gust 18, 1833. 5. Mary Ann, born December
22, 1835, died August 7, 1836. 6. Son, born
October 22, 1837, died the same day. 7. Wil
liam R., born September 26, 1839, died July
10, 1840. 8. Edward Francis, mentioned be
low. (VIII) Professor Edward Francis Vose,
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Westerly, Rhode Island, August 28, 1842. He
received his early education there in the public
schools and was prepared for college. He
studied medicine afterward in the Jefferson
Medical College at Philadelphia, where he was
a student for three years, but finally decided
to devote himself to the profession of music.
Under musical teachers in Philadelphia and
New York he attained a high degree of pro
ficiency. In 1870 he received the appointment
as musical instructor at the Connecticut Liter
ary Institute at Suffield, Hartford county,
Connecticut, continuing in that position with
this institution until his death, covering a
period of thirteen years. His musical skill
and ability were widely known and he took
rank as one of the foremost musical artists of
New England. He died at Suffield, September
14, 1883, and was buried with Masonic honors
in the River Bend Cemetery of his native town.
Kindly and charitable, he won the love and re
spect of people of all classes of society. To
his family he was a devoted husband and
father. In religion he was a Baptist, a faith
ful member of the church. He was a mem
ber of the various Masonic bodies, in which
organization he had attained the degree of
Knight Templar. He was the leader of the
Suffield band and director of the Suffield Glee
Club for several years. To his profession he
gave himself heart and soul. In his students
he took an absorbing interest, and he invari
ably won their affection. The relations be
tween Professor Vose and his pupils were
ideal. He was not only a master of his art,
but he had the rarer gift of imparting his skill
and knowledge to others ; he was a natural
born teacher.
At a meeting of the executive committee of
the Connecticut Literary Institute held in Suf
field, October 18, 1883, the following resolu
tions were unanimously adopted :
For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God, in
his wise providence, to remove by a severe and
sudden stroke of sickness, from the active duties of
life, our much esteemed friend, Professor E. F.
Vose, who for upwards of thirteen consecutive
years held the office of Musical Instructor in the
Connecticut Literary Institute, during which time
he conducted the department with such skill and
proficiency as to give general satisfaction both to
committee and patrons of the school, and that by
his general manners, his gentlemanly bearing and
his aptness to teach, he won for himself the love
and esteem, not only of the pupils, but also of their
parents and friends; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Professor Vose,
the institution has not only lost an able and effi
cient teacher, but also a strong supporter of all its
interests. Resolved, That with grateful feelings of appre
ciation we would record our indebtedness to the
late Professor Vose for the energy, faithfulness and

scholarly ability with which he brought up the
musical department of the school to its present
state of efficiency.
Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved wife
and little daughter, and also to his mother and
sister, in this their hour of sore bereavement, our
heartfelt sympathy, praying that our kind Father
in Heaven, who doeth all things well, may with his
own consoling hand, wipe all tears from their sor
rowing eyes, and gently guide them on to a glorious
meeting in the better land. In behalf of the Board,
J. R. STUB BART, Secretary.
Putnam, October 24, 1883.
He married, in 1871, Martha Virginia Law
rence, of Baltimore, Maryland, who is now
living in Poughkeepsie, New York. They had
one child, Mary Lawrence, mentioned below.
(IX) Mary Lawrence Vose, daughter of
Professor Edward Francis Vose, was born in
Westerly, Rhode Island. She was educated in
the public schools and at St. Margaret's Prot
estant Episcopal School for Girls at Water-
bury, Connecticut, and in other private schools
in New Jersey. She took up the study of the
profession that her father had followed with
such success and entered the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston, from which
she was in due time graduated with honors.
She inherited musical ability of a high order
and her training was the best the country
afforded. She has followed her profession as a
musical artist and has won the public favor for
her great skill and fine interpretation of music.
She has had gratifying success as a teacher of
music in Westerly and many of her pupils
have achieved distinction in musical circles.
Though devoted to her art, Miss Vose has not
neglected other arts and interests. She is
popular in social life in Westerly, where she
lives with her aunt, Miss Eliza States Vose.

Edward Rawson, the English-
RAWSON ancestor, lived at Colnbrook,.
Langley Marsh, Buckingham
shire. He was a wealthy merchant there. His
will was dated February 16, 1603-04, and
proved May 4, 1604. He married Bridget
 , probably Bridget Warde.
(II) David, son of Edward Rawson, was
a merchant tailor of London. His will was
dated June 15, 1616, and it showed that
he was well-to-do and a generous man to>
those not so fortunate as he. He married
Margaret, daughter of the Rev. William and
Isabel (Woodhal) Wilson. She married (sec
ond) William Taylor, of London, and died
before 1628. Mr. and Mrs. Rawson lived at
Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England, where their
son Edward, mentioned below, was born. Mar
garet Wilson was sister of Rev. John Wilson,.
minister at Boston, Massachusetts.
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immigrant ancestor, was born April 16, 161 5,
at Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England, son of
David Rawson. He came to New England in
1637, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts,
where he became one of the grantees and pro
prietors. He was the second town clerk of
Newbury; notary public and register, serving
from April 19, 1638, to 1647; was also select
man of the town and commissioner to hear and
determine small causes ; was deputy to the gen
eral court from Newbury in 1638 and nearly
every year until 1650; was clerk of the house
of deputies in 1645-46 and in 1649. Pie had
a special grant of fifteen hundred acres of
land in the Narragansett country on account
of his services to the general court. He and
Joseph Hills revised the laws of the province.
He succeeded Increase Nowell, who had been
secretary of the colony from the beginning
in 1636, being elected May 22, 1650, and after
wards resided in Boston, being reelected annu
ally until Sir Edmund Andros came into
power. His home in Boston was on Rawson
lane, now Bromfield street, and he owned sev
eral acres bordering on the common. He and
his wife were members of the church under
Rev. John Wilson, after whose death Mr.
Rawson became one of the twenty-eight dis
affected persons who left the First Church to
form the Third or Old South Church, in May,
1669. He became the agent or steward of an
English Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel among the Indians in New England, in
1631. He countersigned the warrant sent to
Massachusetts for the arrest of the regicides,
Goffe, Whalley and Dixwell, but they were
never arrested. The one blot on his good
record was his participation in the persecution
of the Quakers, a pretty general fault of the
early Puritans. His salary as secretary was at
first twenty pounds a year, later sixty pounds.
He was subsequently elected recorder of Suf
folk county. His family Bible is now or was
lately in the possession of R. R. Dodge, of
Sutton, Massachusetts, having descended in
direct line. He was an efficient public officer,
a useful and distinguished citizen. He died
August 27, 1694.
He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas
Perne, granddaughter of John Hooker, who
married  Grindal, sister of Edmund
Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. Children : Daugh
ter, married and remained in England; Ed
ward, graduate of Harvard in 1653; Rachel,
married, January 18, 1653, William Aubrey;
David, born May 6, 1644; Perne, September
16, 1646; William, May 21, 1651 ; Susan, died
in Roxbury in 1664; Hannah, baptized Octo

ber 10, 1653, died May 27, 1656; Rebecca,
born October 19, 1654, died young; Rebecca,
May 23, 1656; Elizabeth, November 12, 1657;
Rev. Grindal, (q. v.).

Governor and Captain Thomas
WIGGIN Wiggin, the immigrant ancestor,
came from England to New
England about 1630, and settled at Dover,
New Hampshire. He was a leading citizen
of large influence in the colony from 1633 to
1636. He was a Puritan and as proprietory
governor favored the union with Massachu
setts Bay colony. His family Bible, printed
in 1609, has been preserved. He was appointed
agent and superintendent of the Dover planta
tions in 1 63 1 and was sent by the colonists to
England in 1632 to secure means to develop
and support the colony. He returned in 1633,
bringing with him a number of families, "some
of them men of property and of some account
for religion together with some 'of no ac
count'." He was succeeded in 1636 by George
Burdett. He married Catherine  . He
died about 1687. After the union with Massa
chusetts, he became a magistrate. He was
deputy to the general court in 1645, and from
1650 to 1664 was one of the assistants of the
Massachusetts Bay colony, the only one at that
time from New Hampshire. He was one of
the principal men of the colony during his life
and seems to have enjoyed much of the con
fidence and respect of the community. He
did not, however, escape envy and abuse. In
1655 Philip Chesley was presented for re
proachful speeches against the Worshipful
Captain Wiggin and was found guilty. Cap
tain Wiggin built a house at what is now Strat-
*ham in 1650 and the cellar is still visible. He
was buried in a field near his home. Children :
Andrew, a prominent man, married Hannah
Bradstreet, daughter of Governor Simon Brad-
street and granddaughter of Governor Thomas
Dudley ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Mary.
(II) Thomas (2) Wiggin, son of Governor
Thomas (1) Wiggin, was born about 1640, at
Dover, New Hampshire. He married Sarah,
sister of Captain Walter Barefoot. She sur
vived him and was living is 1688. Barefoot
was one of the historical figures of the colony.
Children, born at Dover : Thomas, mentioned
below ; Sarah ; Susanna ; Catharine, was second
wife of Simon Wiggin, son of Andrew Wiggin,
grandson of Governor Thomas Wiggin.
(Ill) Thomas (3) Wiggin, son of Thomas
(2) Wiggin, was born about 1670. Children:
Samuel ; Thomas, mentioned below.
(IV) Thomas (4) Wiggin, son of Thomas
(3) Wiggin, was born at Dover, now Strat-

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ham, New Hampshire, March 15, 1701-02,
died April 26, 1776. He married (first) at
Stratham, December 17, 1719, Sarah Piper.
He married (second) Mary  , born at
Hampton, New Hampshire, April 10, 1703,
died May 3, 1776. Children: Thomas, born
September 13, 1720; Martha, April 15, 1729;
Samuel, mentioned below; Ann, January 21,
1742-43; Mark, October 25, 1745.
(V) Samuel Wiggin, called "Jr." to distin
guish him from his uncle of the same name,
was born 1730-35, at Stratham, New Hamp
shire, died there January 17, 1790. Children,
born at Stratham: Mary, May 12, 1751 ; Ann,
May 24, 1753 ; Phineas, mentioned below ; Eli
jah, November 3, 1760; Andrew, December
27, 1762; Abigail, November 11, 1765; Lydia,
February 11, 1767; Hannah, August 16, 1771.
(VI) Phineas Wiggin, son of Samuel Wig
gin Jr., was born at Stratham, New Hamp
shire, June 3, 1757. He was a soldier from
his native town in the revolution, in Captain
Samuel Gilman's company, Colonel Enoch
Poor's regiment, in 1775. He was also in Cap
tain Nicholas Rawley's company, Colonel
Abraham Drake's regiment, sent to reinforce
the Continental army at Stillwater in Septem
ber, 1777. He was a farmer at Stratham.
(See New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls,
vol. i, pp. 135 and 191 ; vol. ii, p. 327; vol. iv,
p. 6). He removed to Bowdoinham, Maine,
where he died September 3, 1820. He married,
November 15, 1787, Mehitable Preble. Chil
dren: 1. Mary, born September 30, 1788, died
January 13, 1875, unmarried. 2. Samuel, born
February 26, 1790, died May 8, 1832. 3. Re
becca, born October 26, 1792, died January 11,
1793. 4. Rufus, born October 26, 1793, died
February 2, 1864, father of Elizabeth L. A.
Wiggin, mentioned below. 5. Olive, born
May 26, 1796, died September 13, 1846, un
married. 6. Merrill, born May 15, 1798, died
May 2-j, 1857. 7. Edward, mentioned below.
(VII) Edward Wiggin, son of Phineas
Wiggin, was born at Bowdoinham, Maine,
March 7, 1800, died at Bangor, June 22, 1875.
He was a stonemason by trade, residing in
Bath and during his last years at Bangor. In
politics he was originally a Whig, afterward a
Republican. In religion he was a Congrega-
tionalist. He married, March 1, 1823, Lettice
M. Brown, born December 13, 1804, in Bow
doinham, died at San Francisco, California.
Children: 1. Charles L., born December 25,
1823, died at San Francisco, in 1891 ; was a
sea captain, who retired and settled in San
Francisco, of which he was at one time the
mayor ; was a prominent Free Mason. 2.
Rufus A., born January 18, 1826, died at San
Francisco; was a mining engineer. 3. Renaldo

B., born April 13, 1828, died August 1, 1864,
in Bangor; was a stonemason; enlisted in 1861
in Company A, Second Maine Regiment ; was
afterward lieutenant of Bangor Light Infan
try; captain of Company A, Second Maine
Regiment; died in military hospital at Wash
ington; wounded at Fredericksburg; married
Fannie Patten, of Bangor. 4. Albert, born
September 7, 1830; residing with Fred Sum
ner Wiggin ; was a farmer at Hodgdon, Maine ;
enlisted in 186 1 in the Second Maine Regiment
and served in the ambulance corps to the end
of the war. 5. Edward P., born January 4,
1833, died December 29, 1833. 6. Ellen B.,
born August 20, 1834; married (first) Fred
Sargent, a sea captain on the Pacific coast ;
(second) Alanson H. Phelps; now living in
San Francisco. 7. Edward, mentioned below.
8. Elizabeth H., born July 4, 1841, died Octo
ber 4, 1841. 9. Herbert F., born March 27,
1844, died March 12, 1846. 10. George S.,
born March 8, 1846, died April 26, 1846.
(VIII) Edward (2) Wiggin, son of Ed
ward ( 1 ) Wiggin, was born at Bangor, Maine,
November 14, 1837, died at South Paris,
Maine, September 21, 1912. He attended the
public schools of Bangor and was prepared to
enter Harvard College. He taught school for
a time at Hodgdon, Maine. From 1869 to
1877 he was collector of United States cus
toms at Fort Kent, Maine. He then bought
the farm at Presque Isle, where he lived
the remainder of his life. In politics he
was a Republican. He was selectman, town
clerk and superintendent of schools in Hodg
don. He taught school one term in Presque
Isle, and was afterward supervisor of schools
there for a number of years. From 1877
until the Rural Free Delivery was estab
lished recently, he was postmaster of Mays-
ville, now Presque Isle. He was state senator
two terms, 1893-94 and 1896-97. He edited
the North Star, a newspaper of Presque Isle,
for a few years. He was president of the
Agricultural Society of Maysville several
years ; member of the Maine State Board of
Agriculture, 1883-85. He was master of the
Maine State Grange for two years. For thir
teen years he was clerk in the office of the
state superintendent of schools at Augusta.
He was for ten years state statistical agent for
Maine. He was an able writer and an author
of note. He published an exhaustive work
entitled "A History of Jesus"; an interlinear
translation of Virgil and of Cicero's orations;
"A History of Maine," and a number of poems.
He enlisted in November, 1861, in the Sixth
Maine Battery and was mustered in as a pri
vate, January 1, 1862, at Augusta. He was at
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sergeant. He was commissioned second lieu
tenant, September 1, 1863, and first lieutenant
at Culpeper Court House. He resigned May
2, 1864, on account of the illness of his wife.
He took part in the battles of Cedar Mountain,
Bull Run, Antietam, and in many other engage
ments. He married, in 1855, Elizabeth L. A. Wig
gin, born at Hodgdon, Maine, September 25,
1837, died at Presque Isle, September 24, 1908.
She was educated in the public schools of her
native town. She was a member of the Grange
No. 153, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the
Congregational church. She was a daughter
of Rufus Wiggin, born October 26, 1793, died
February 2, 1864, at Hodgdon, mentioned
above. Her father was a farmer. In politics
he was originally a Whig, later a Republican ;
was deacon of the Free Will Baptist Church
for many years. He married, June 2, 1818,
Mary N. Smith, born in New Brunswick, Sep
tember 27, 1793, died at Hodgdon, February
13, 1874. Children of Rufus Wiggin : 1. Ed-'
gar M., born January 24, 1819, died at Hodg
don, February 24, 1875, a farmer; married
Lydia Ann White, of Miramichi. 2. Rufus,
born July 28, 1820, died in New York City.
3. Samuel P., born February 18, 1822, died in
Perham, Maine, a farmer ; married Harriet
Drake, of Houldin. 4. Thomas P., born
March 18, 1824, died at Southern Pines,
North Caroline, a tanner; married Annie
Ginn. 5. Mehitable A., born May 7, 1826,
died at Millville, New Brunswick ; married
George R. Jones, a blacksmith. 6. Hannah
L., born May 30, 1828, died May 7, 1845.
7. Cyrus, born November 26, 1831, a farmer,
died at Hodgdon ; married Ann Carr. 8. Mary
J., born May 16, 1835, died July 2, 1868; mar
ried (first) Charles Shaw, of Hodgdon, a mer
chant; (second) Abner Weeks, of Houlton,
a merchant. 9. Elizabeth L. A., married Ed
ward Wiggin, mentioned above. Children of
Edward Wiggin: 1. Fred Sumner, mentioned
below. 2. Nellie L., born 1862, died aged five
years. (IX) Fred Sumner Wiggin, son of Edward
(2) Wiggin, was born at Hodgdon, Maine,
April 3, 1^57. He attended the public schools
there and at Fort Kent, whither his parents
moved when he was twelve years old, and
afterward a select school at Bangor. He
entered the University of Maine in the class of
1877, but left college in 1878. He had taught
school at Hiram, Maine, and afterward taught
at St. Francis, Maine. He then assisted his
father on the homestead at Presque Isle and
succeeded to the farm after his father died.
He has continued in farming to the present
time. He has one hundred and sixty-five acres

of land, of which seventy-five is under culti
vation. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of Maysville Center Grange, No.
153, Patrons of Husbandry, in which he has
held every office and of which he was master
several terms. For the past fifteen years he
has been secretary of the grange. He is also
a member of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and
Accepted Masons, of which he was master two
years. He is now state statistical agent for
Maine. He married, November 30, 1881, in Presque
Isle, Annie Duff, born at Presque Isle, De
cember 2, 1856, and graduated from the
Presque Isle high school. She is also a mem
ber of the Grange. She is a daughter of Daniel
Duff. They have one child, Frankie, born at
Presque Isle, November 19, 1882 ; graduate
of the Presque Isle high school ; clerk in the
state statistical department, Augusta, for ten
years ; member of the Grange and communi
cant of the Roman Catholic church ; married
Stephen Franklin Pierce, contractor, October
9, 1913; resides in Portland.

Mathew Beckwith, the im-
BECKWITH migrant ancestor, was born
about 1610 in England, pre
sumably in Yorkshire. The history of his life
to the time he came to Hartford, Connecticut,
is obscure. He bought the homestead of Wil
liam Pratt, an original proprietor of Hartford,
in 1645. About 1652 he was at New London
and Lyme, his land lying in both towns. He
was able to give land somewhat liberally to his
sons and it is recorded that in 1675 thirty acres
more were laid out to him, all of which he
gave to his son Joseph. He was killed Octo
ber 31, 1680, "by a fall in a dark night down
a ledge of rocks." This gave occasion for a
sermon on the providence of God which took
away Mathew Beckwith and spared a fellow
traveller. The inquest showed that he was
then seventy years old, and this is the only evi
dence as to the year of his birth. He left a
widow, Elizabeth, who married Samuel Buck-
land, and died before 1690.. Children: Mat
thew, mentioned below ; John, born about
1639 ; Joseph ; Nathaniel ; Elizabeth ; daughter,
married Robert Grant ; daughter, married Ben
jamin Grant.
(II) Matthew Beckwith, son of Mathew
Beckwith, was born about 1637, died at Lyme,
Connecticut, June 4, 1727, aged ninety years.
In 1671 he moved from Guilford to New Lon
don, settling in Lyme in 1676. He married
(first) perhaps at Guilford, Elizabeth  .
He married (second) at Lyme, 1691, Elizabeth
Griswold, daughter of Matthew Griswold,
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Peter Pratt. He married (third) Sarah  ,
who was named in his will, which was dated
March 19, 1714-15. In a deed dated January
30, 1728-29, entered at Saybrook, Mrs. Sarah
Beckwith mentions her son Thomas Starkey,
from which it would be inferred that Mathew
Beckwith's third wife Sarah was widow of
— — — Starkey. Children, seven by first wife :
Matthew, born in Guilford, April 13, 1667;
John, born in Guilford, 1669; James, men
tioned below; Jonah, born in New London,
December 2j, 1673; Prudence, born in New
London, August 22, 1676; Elizabeth, born in
Lyme, February 4, 1679 ; Ruth, born in Lyme,
March 14, 1681 ; Sarah, born in Lyme, Decem
ber 15, 1684; Griswold, in Lyme, about 1691.
(Ill) James Beckwith, son of Matthew
Beckwith, was born at New London, Connecti
cut, June 1, 167 1. He lived in Lyme from
1677 until 1732, when he moved to Norwich,
Connecticut. He settled in Southington in
1744 and resided there the remainder of his
life, dying about 1756. His father appointed
his "well beloved son James Beckwith to be
sole executor of this my last will and testa
ment." He married, February 18, 1693, at
Lyme, Sarah Marvin, born at Lyme in 1673,
daughter of Reynold Marvin, granddaughter
of Edward Marvin and great-granddaughter
of Reynold Marvin (1). Children: James,
born at Lyme, May 1, 1695; Matthew, Lyme,
August 8, 1697; Daniel, October 13, 1699, died
1700; Sarah, December 23, 1701 ; Daniel,
Lyme, October 26, 1704; Reynold, February
15, 1706-07; Samuel, May 24, 1709, Lyme;
Elizabeth, July 23, 1712, Lyme; John, men
tioned below; Mary, January 25, 1715-16,
Lyme. (IV) John Beckwith, son of James Beck
with, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, October
10, 1713, died April 18, 1810. He lived at
Norwich and Southington, Connecticut, and
in 1760 moved to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia,
where he lived the remainder of his life. He
married, at Norwich, April 20, 1737, Jane
Worden, born about 1722, at Stonington. She
was daughter of- Thomas Worden, who was
son of Samuel Worden, son of Peter (2)
Worden, son of Peter (1) Worden. Children:
John, born March 16, 1738, at Norwich; Hope-
still, Norwich, October 22, 1746; Elizabeth,
baptized at Southington, June 28, 1745;
Worden, mentioned below.
(V) Worden Beckwith, son of John Beck
with, was baptized at Southington, Connecti
cut, July 9, 1749. He married, at Cornwallis,
Nova Scotia, January 12, 1769, Martha Sted-
man, daughter of John Stedman. She was
born November 18, 1750, and was appointed

administratrix of his estate, January 29, 1784.
She probably married (second) June 26, 1786,
Daniel Harris, and probably died December 20,
1802. Children: John Stedman, born Febru
ary 23, 1770; Parthenia, December 29, 1771,
at Cornwallis ; Thomas Worden, mentioned
below; Rebecca, July 6, 1776; Enoch, March
21, 1779,
(VI) Thomas Worden Beckwith, son of
Worden Beckwith, was born September 3,
1772, at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, died at
Maysville, a part of Presque Isle, Maine, in
December, 1854. He settled in Maysville
after his marriage and was a farmer there.
He was a member of the Free Will Baptist
Church, and a Whig in politics. He married
Olive Crocker, born in Nova Scotia in 1778,
died at Maysville in January, 1855. Children:
1. Eunice, died in Mapleton; married Peter
Bull, of Woodstock, New Brunswick, a
farmer. 2. Martha, died at Oshkosh, Wiscon
sin ; married (first) James "Johnson, (second)
Robert Athen, farmers. 3. Olive, died at
Maysville ; married John Rafford, of New
Brunswick, a farmer. 4. John Worden, men
tioned below.
(VII) John Worden Beckwith, son of
Thomas Worden Beckwith, was born in Chat
ham, on Sugar Island, in Miramichi river, New
Brunswick, probably in 1810, died at Presque
Isle, Maine, in 1893. He was a farmer in
Maysville (Presque Isle), and a deacon of the
Free Will Baptist Church there. He married
Sarah Monroe, born in 1809, at Deer Island,
Maine, died at Presque Isle in 1891. Chil
dren, born in Presque Isle: 1. James Worden,
mentioned below. 2. John Stedman, born July
6, 1832, died at Mapleton, April, 1910; a
farmer; married Mary Bull, of Mapleton. 3.
Enoch, born January 31, 1835; married Ma-
hala Johnson, of Presque Isle, where he now
lives, a farmer. 4. Bethanah, born August 7,
1837, died at Augusta, Maine, February, 1896,
unmarried. 5. Joel, born December 1, 1839,
died at Portland, Maine, July, 1865; served in
civil war, Twentieth Maine Regiment, and
died on way home. 6. Martha, January 23,
1841 ; married Asa Gould, who seryed in civil
war two years and nine months in First Maine
Cavalry, enlisting 1862; he is farmer in
Presque Isle, where they live. 7. Caroline,
December 29, 1843 ', married Abner Eastler, of
New Brunswick, a farmer in Presque Isle;
she died July, 1910, in Maysville. 8. Eunice
Ann, died young. 9. Sarah Ann, died young. 10.
Hutchings, died young. 11. Ellen, died young.
12. Rachel, born June 12, 1850; married Dan
iel B. Gould, born in New Sharon, Maine,
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March 24, 1908; was a farmer; she lives in
Washburn. 13. Esther, born April 25, 1851 ;
married Plumphrey Clark, of Washburn, where
they live on a farm. 14. Nancy, born Janu
ary 20, 1853; married Jerry Bull, of Maple
ton, farmer, deceased ; she lives in Washburn.
(VIII) James Worden Beckwith, son of
John Worden Beckwith, was born in Maysville,
Maine, February 24, 1831, died at Mapleton,
December 20, 1862. He was a farmer in Maple
ton all his life. He was a Whig in politics. He
married, March 19, 1853, in Maysville, Mary
A. Lyons, born in New Brunswick, December
26, 1835. She is a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church, and lives with her son, John
R. Beckwith, at Presque Isle. She married
(second) in Presque Isle, November 10, 1867,
Henry H. Borchers, born in Germany, Febru
ary 9, 1822, died in Presque Isle, October 2,
1870; he was a farmer; their children were:
1. Annie P., born September 12, 1868; mar
ried Arthur O. Garbin, of Londonderry, New
Hampshire; they live at Epping, New Hamp
shire, and have one child, Ovill. 2. Charles
H., born January 18, 1870; married Myrtis
Ramsdell, and they live at Salem Depot, New
Hampshire, where he is a contractor and
builder ; children, Henry C. and Evaline Con
stance. Mary A. (Lyons) (Beckwith)
Borchers married (third) in 1875, Eben Oaks,
a farmer of Maysville ; he died there March 7,
1884. She was daughter of Reuben Lyons,
born in Eastport, Maine, April 10, 1802, died
at Fort Fairfield, in 1865 ; he was a farmer in
Aroostook county, and finally in Fort Fair
field; member of Calvinist Baptist Church;
Whig; married Elizabeth Clark, born in New
Brunswick, November 23, 1812, died at Fort
Fairfield, 1865. Children of Reuben and Eliz
abeth (Clark) Lyons, born in Douglas county,
New Brunswick, except last two: 1. Mary A.,
born December 26, 1835; married James
Worden Beckwith, mentioned above. 2. Eliz
abeth, born October 8, 1837; married Alex
ander Smith, of Amity, Maine, farmer in
North Amity. 3. Frances F., born June 21,
1839; married Amaziah Harden, of Danforth,
Maine, farmer. 4. Thomas G., born June 21,
1840; married Emily Chalmers, of Albion;
they live in Lowell, Massachusetts ; he is a
Baptist minister. 5. Susan K, born June 11,
1842; married Horace Estabrook, of Amity,
farmer. 6. Lucy A., born April 24, 1844 ; mar
ried George Grass, of Fort Fairfield, and later
Methuen, Massachusetts; served in civil war.
7. Eli C, born February 27, 1846; lives in
Minneapolis, Michigan. 8. Lyvona A., born
October 19, 1848; married Lewis Tory, of
Portland, and they live in South Dakota. 9.

James H., born December 8, 1850; married
Minnie Knox. 10. Deborah, born July 7, 1852,
at Maysville, died aged twenty. 11. Abigail,
born October 9, 1853; married Abraham
Owen, of Lubec, Maine. Children of James
Worden and Mary A. (Lyons) Beckwith: 1.
Sarah Elizabeth, born in Maysville, January
16, 1854; married Daniel Chandler, of Presque
Isle, Maine, and they live at Washburn ; chil
dren : Myrtie, married Plerbert Moran ;
Maude, married Thomas Crawford; Burt. 2.
John R., mentioned below. 3. James W., men
tioned below. 4. Albert H., born March 5,
i860; married (first) Belle Sinclair, of Hay
stack, Maine, and had Charles, Burt, George,
Roy, Elwood; married (second) Annie Rich
ardson, of New Brunswick, and they had Ben
jamin. 5. Ernest C, born January 28, 1862 ;
married (first) Ella Ramsdell, of Farmington,
Maine, and had Horace; married (second)
Jennie English, and had Lucy and Laura,
(twins), Orrin, Maude, Byron and Grace; he
is a member of Grange and Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
(IX) John R. Beckwith, son of James
Worden Beckwith, was born at Mapleton,
Maine, July 6, 1856. He attended school there
and at Presque Isle. During his youth he
assisted his father on the farm, which came
into the possession of his brother, Ernest G.,
and himself, April 1, 1878. Subsequently they
divided the farm. In addition to the fifty acres
of the homestead Mr. Beckwith has added by
purchase a hundred acres of land in Mapleton.
In politics he is a Democrat. He has been road
commissioner and school agent. He is a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church, of which
he is clerk and chairman of the finance com
mittee. He is president of the North Aroos
took conference. He is a member of Mystic
Tie Lodge, No. 141, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of which he is past noble grand.
He has been representative to the Grand Lodge
twice. He is also a member of Aroostook
Union Grange, No. 143, Patrons of Husbandry,
and was formerly a member of the Aroostook
Potato Growers' Association.
He married, January 18, 1880, at Maysville,
Ada C. Morris, born at Maysville, December
6, 1861 (see Morris II). She is a member of
the Free Will Baptist Church and of the
Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor.
Children: 1. Blanche E., born at Maysville,
March 14, 1882 ; graduate of the Aroostook
State Normal School, 1905, school teacher in
Washburn, Presque Isle, Mapleton and Squa
Pan; married, July 28, 191 3, David C. Gethchel,
farmer of Limestone, Maine. 2. Frank W.,
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ried Ida May Niles, born March 7, 1890, and
have Elizabeth Orlene, born at Presque Isle,
October 9, 1910.
(IX) James W. Beckwith, brother of John
R. Beckwith, was born at Mapleton, Maine,
March 23, 1858. He attended the public
schools of Presque Isle. When he came of
age he bought a farm in partnership with his
brother, Albert H. Beckwith. After cultivat
ing it a few years he bought his brother's
share and has continued on the farm to the
present time. He owns one hundred and
twenty-five acres, of which one hundred acres
are cleared. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church,
and member of the finance committee ; mem
ber of Aroostook Union Grange, of Mystic Tie
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
which he has held a number of offices, and of
the Aroostook Potato Growers' Association.
He is also a carpenter and built his own house
and framed many houses in this section.
He married, April 9, 1890, at Mapleton, Lu-
ella Marion Bagley, born at Bangor, January
23, 1871 (see Bagley II). She attended the
public schools of Presque Isle. She is a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church and of
the Grange. Children, born at Presque Isle :
1. Dora Elizabeth, born February 2, 1891 ;
graduate of the Aroostook State Normal
School and has taught school at Castle Hill
and Mapleton. 2. Wealthy Marion, born July
21, 1892; student in Aroostook Normal School,
has taught school one year at Chapman. 3.
Walter Worden, born February 6, 1894; grad
uate of the Presque Isle high school ; now
assisting his father. 4. Howard France, born
February 1, 1896. 5. Vernon Oliver, born
October 6, 1898. 6. Zenda Porter, born Au
gust 10, 1900. 7. Earl James, born Septem
ber 30, 1902. 8. Stanley Gregory, born No
vember 7, 1905. 9. Kenneth Gilman, born Sep
tember 29, 1907. 10. Amy Asaphene, born
March 24, 1909. (The Morris Line).
(I) Isaac Morris was born in Nova Scotia
in 1788 and died at California Settlement, New
Brunswick, in 1876. He was a farmer in
Maysville, Maine, moving to New Brunswick
about 1 861. He was a Republican, and a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church. He
married Hulda Nicholas, born in Nova Scotia,
died in Maysville. Children: Calvin Luther,
mentioned below; William, married Drusilla
Fairbanks ; Silas, died aged twenty ; Plenry,
served in civil war ; Mary Ann, married 
Hill; Amelia, married (first) Edward Mc-
Dougall, (second) George Packard; Jane,
married (first) William Pyles, (second) Dan

iel Johnson; Margaret, married William Mc-
Dougall. (II) Calvin Luther Morris, son of Isaac
Morris, was born in Nova Scotia in 1827, died
at Eddington, Maine, in 1905. He settled in
Maysville before his marriage, and also lived
in Mapleton,- Fort Fairfield, and finally Edding
ton; was a farmer; Republican; deacon of the
Free Will Baptist Church ; married Elizabeth
Ann Barto, born in Nova Scotia, 1831, died in
1875, at Mapleton. She was daughter of John
Barto (formerly spelled Bartaux), a sea cap
tain of Nova Scotia; he was drowned at sea;
married Rebecca Barker; children: James,
married Roxanna Hatch ; Elizabeth Ann, men
tioned above. Children of Calvin L. and Eliz
abeth A. Morris : Melvin, born 1855, married
Sylvia Wood; Melvina, born 1857, married
(first) Melvin W. Page, (second) George W.
Densmore; Silas, born 1859, died aged twenty;
Ada C, married John R. Beckwith (see Beck
with IX) ; Frank, born 1864, married May
Matherson ; Elizabeth, born 1865, married Na
than Page, brother of Melvin Page; William,
born 1867, died in infancy; Roxanna, died
aged three and one-half years.
(The Bagley Line).
(I) Reuben Bagley was born probably in
1794, died in Wakefield, Massachusetts, prob
ably in 1892. He was a carpenter in Bangor,
Maine, and in Wakefield ; Universalist in re
ligion ; married Sarah Campbell, who died in
Wakefield. Children : Francis Marion, men
tioned below ; Henry, a lumber dealer in Win
chester, Massachusetts ; Nellie, married Frank
Smith. (II) Francis Marion Bagley, son of Reuben
Bagley, was born in Bangor, March, 1830, died
in Mapleton, Maine, February, 1901. He was
a farmer in Presque Isle and Mapleton all his
life except for one year, when he was one of
the "forty-niners" who sought gold in Cali
fornia. He was a Republican, and a Univer
salist; member of Castle Hill Grange; married
(first)  French, who died in Bangor;
married (second) Lydia A. Hews, born in
Bangor, May 6, 1848, died in Mapleton, Feb
ruary, 1889. Children by first wife: Henry
Reuben, Walter Francis, Addie H. By sec
ond wife: Luella Marion, married James W.
Beckwith (see Beckwith IX) ; George Adel-
bert, born October, 1873, married Vina Rich
ardson; Fred H., born in Bangor, January,
1875, married Blanche Roberts, was represent
ative in Vermont legislature, 1912; William,
born 1879, died 191 1, married Maude Dicker-
son; Charles, born in Mapleton, May, 1881,
married Maude Nason; Arthur Stanley, born
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Richard Currier, immigrant
CURRIER ancestor of the Curriers of
New England, was born in
England or Scotland, May 3, 1616. He was
one of the founders of Salisbury, Massachu
setts, in 1640. He was granted land in Salis
bury in 1641 and 1642 and in what is now the
town of Amesbury in 1654, 1658, 1659, 1662,
1664 and 1668. He sold land, February 16,
1642, to Abraham Morrill, and bought Joseph
Moyce's house, January 20, 1644. He was a
commoner and taxpayer in 1650. He was one
of the signers of the articles of agreement be
tween Salisbury and Amesbury in 1654, and
his name heads the list of first commoners of
the new town in 1654-55. In 1652 he and An
thony Colby were appointed to lay out a high
way from the mill bridge to the plain "that
goeth to the Lion's Mouth." He served on
various other town committees. In 1656 he
and Thomas Macy were empowered to build
a saw mill on the west side of the Powow
river. Thomas Macy sold his interests in
1658 and Richard Currier operated the mill
for many years. He was elected on the pru
dential committee, March 10, 1660. He was
acting clerk of Amesbury, 1660-61, and town
clerk in 1.662, serving until December 14, 1674,
when he was succeeded by his son Thomas.
He was also clerk of writs, commissioner to
hear small causes and selectman for fifteen
years. When he declined to serve further as
selectman he was fined. He was on the com
mittee of three to build the meeting house in
1665 and on the committee of two to secure
a minister. In seating the meeting house at
Amesbury, 1667, his name has the place of
honor. He was elected to present a petition
to the general court, May 14, 1666, asking for
separation of Amesbury and Salisbury and was
successful in his mission. The name was
changed to Amesbury in 1667 and the change
confirmed by the general court, May 27, 1668.
He was a planter and millwright, as described
in various documents. He deeded his real
estate to his heirs before his death, excepting
one lot of land and his rights as commoner in
Amesbury. Twenty-five years after he died
his grandson, Richard Currier, was appointed
administrator, November 6, 1710. He was a
soldier in King Philip's war and his descend
ants were granted land in what is now Buxton,
Maine, in payment of his service. His last
days were spent in the family of his wife's
son, Philip Rowell. He died February 22,
1686-87, by drowning. He married (first)
Ann  , (second) October 26, 1676, Jo
anna Pindar, widow of Valentine Pindar.
Children by first wife : Samuel, mentioned be

low; Hannah, born July 8, 1643; Thomas,
March 8, 1646.
(II) Samuel Currier, son of Richard Cur
rier, was born in England about 1636. He
was a weaver and millwright. As early as
1665 he settled in Haverhill and took the oath
of allegiance to the crown in 1677. He owned
the right to a corn mill in Haverhill. He died
there March 14, 1712-13. His will was dated
March 9, 1713, and proved April 6 following.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hardy.
Children: Sarah, born at Bradford, married
Ichabod Rogers and Amos Singletary; Ann,
October 23, 1666; Samuel, born and died Feb
ruary 26, 1669; Richard, December 24, 1670,
died April, 1689 ; John, April 22, 1673 ; Mary,
January 2, 1675; Alice, August 9, 1678; Eliz
abeth, February 21, 1680; Hannah, January
24, 1682, died soon ; Samuel, mentioned below.
(Ill) Samuel (2) Currier, son of Samuel
(1) Currier, was born February 14, 1685, at
Haverhill. He was a farmer. He married,
June 30, 1714, Abigail, daughter of John and
Sarah (Knight) Kelly. She was born March
5, 1691, died May 20, 1734. She was ad
mitted to the Haverhill church, June 19, 1720,
and her seven children baptized there 1720-28.
She was dismissed to become a charter mem
ber of the Methuen church, October 26, 1729.
Children: Jonathan, born May 4, 1715 ; Sam
uel, mentioned below; Richard, November 13,
1718; Abigail, February 20, 1720-21; Alice,
March 28, 1723 ; William, May 31, 1725 ; John,
May 22, 1728; Amos, September 12, 1730;
Asa, May 12, 1734.
(IV) Samuel (3) Currier, son of Samuel
(2) Currier, was born February 14, 1716-17.
He married Lydia Williams, and had a son
Jonathan, mentioned below.
(V) Sergeant Jonathan Currier, son of
Samuel (3) Currier, was born at Haverhill,
November 27, 1737, died at Valley Forge in
the revolutionary army, March, 1778. He re
moved with his family from Bedford, New
Hampshire, to Cornish in that state in 1774.
He served in the revolution in Captain Joshua
Abbott's company, Colonel John Stark's regi
ment, and later in Captain Aaron Kinsman's
company. He enlisted from Cornish in the
Continental army in January, 1777, at that
time being a private in Colonel Jonathan
Chase's regiment and under Lieutenant Moody
Dustin went to join the troops in the field.
He was a sergeant in Captain Emerson's com
pany, Colonel Cilley's regiment. He married
Sarah Searles, of Dunstable, Massachusetts.
She died January 24, 1817. Children: Jona
than, born June 5, 1767, settled at Winthrop,
Maine; James; Oliver, December 6, 1771 ; Dr.

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Samuel, 1774, lived at Winthrop and Read-
field, Maine, was postmaster of Readfield in
1803, town clerk in 1805; married Patience
Stanley; Sarah, died young; David. Perhaps
others. (VI) Moses H. Currier, son or nephew of
Sergeant Jonathan Currier, was of this Win
throp family, born about 1780. He had a son
Henry C, mentioned below. Readfield was
formerly part of Winthrop, Maine.
(VII) Henry C. Currier, son of Moses H.
Currier, was born at Readfield, Maine, Febru
ary 24, 1812, died at Fort Fairfield, October,
1848. He attended the public schools of his
native town. He resided and worked in Sears-
mont and Lincoln, Maine, at Red Rapids, New
Brunswick, and elsewhere. He removed to
Presque Isle and finally to Fort Fairfield, of
which he was a pioneer, and cleared a farm
there. In politics he was a Democrat. He
was school agent, road surveyor and assessor.
He attended the Universalist church. He mar
ried Mary Stevens, born May 8, 1812, at
Bloomfield, Vermont, died in 1893, at Fort
Fairfield, daughter of Joseph Stevens, who
died in Bloomfield, Vermont. Her father was
a farmer, a Democrat and prominent citizen.
Children of Henry C. Currier: John F., men
tioned below ; Sarah E., married Cornelius
Estes; Augusta, married George Burt; Olive,
deceased, married F. H. Haines; Mary L.,
married A. L. Haines; Octa, deceased, mar
ried Jarvis Barnes ; Lucy, deceased, married
Stephen Averill; Lucretia A., married Robert
Linn. (VIII) John F. Currier, son of Henry C.
Currier, was born at Presque Isle, Maine, Jan
uary 11, 1842. His parents removed to Fort
Fairfield when he was one year old. He re
ceived his education in the Fort Fairfield
schools. He assisted his father on the farm
and at the age of thirty-five succeeded to the
property, caring for his father in his declining
years. The farm comprises two hundred and
forty acres, two-thirds of which was under
cultivation, the remainder in timber, but in
recent years the timber has been cut and nearly
all the land cleared. He sold the farm in 1893
and bought a farm at Staunton, Virginia, but
after a year sold out and returned to Fort Fair
field and bought another farm. In 1902 he
again sold out and bought a farm at Wash
burn, Maine. Three years later he sold this
farm and bought a smaller place on the Cur
rier road. In 191 1 he sold his farm and re
tired from farming. He has since been living
in the village of Fort Fairfield. In politics he
is a Democrat. He was road agent of Fort
Fairfield for several terms. In religion he is
a Universalist. He is a member of Aroostook

Valley Grange, No. 485 ; of Eastern Frontier
Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons,
in which he has held the offices of junior and
senior warden.
Mr. Currier married (first) January 8, 1871,
in Fort Fairfield, Amanda J. Averill, born in
Fort Fairfield, April 12, 1847, died there July
17, 1907. She was a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church, and of Aroostook Valley
Grange, No. 485, Patrons of Husbandry. Chil
dren: 1. George W., born February 23, 1872;
married Mildred Poole, of Fort Fairfield,
Maine; he is a farmer of Fort Fairfield; chil
dren : Blanche and Marion. 2. Henry C, born
May 16, 1874, died April 19, 1877. 3. Jesse
S. A., born July 19, 1875, died April 22, 1877.
4. Olive, born October 24, 1876; married
Charles E. Jones, of Fort Fairfield; resides at
Maple Grove. 5. Charles W., born November
14, 1878; married Rena Russell, of Skow-
hegan, Maine ; children : Falvina, Lovisa,
Opal, Russell and an infant. Mr. Currier mar
ried ( second 1 at Fort Fairfield, September 1,
1908, Mrs. Mary G. (Marr) Campbell, born
in Scotland, January 29, 1856. She came to
the United States with her parents when she
was sixteen years old and settled in the Scotch
colony, New Brunswick. She was educated
in Scotland. She is a member of the Congre
gational church, of the Ladies' Aid Society,
the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
the Philomathean Literary Society, and a for
mer member of Goodwill Chapter, No. 85,
Order of the Eastern Star. She is a daugh
ter of James Marr, a Scotch immigrant, who
settled in the Scotch settlement. Children of
James Marr: 1. James, retired farmer of
Caribou. 2. Alexander, a farmer. 3. Ann,
resides in Boston, unmarried. 4. Isabelle, mar
ried Ruell Shaw, a farmer of Caribou. 5.
Daughter, resides in Boston. 6. Mary G., mar
ried (first)  Campbell, (second) John
F Currier, mentioned above.

William Brown, the immigrant
BROWN ancestor, was born in the North
of Ireland, died in Nashwaak,
New Brunswick. His name may have been
Jacob instead of William, though the latter is
thought to be correct. He came to this coun
try after his marriage, with his wife and chil
dren, and settled in Nashwaak, where he was
a farmer. Children, born in Ireland: Jacob,
died in Nashwaak, a farmer; Isaac, a hotel
proprietor; Samuel, mentioned below; David,
died in Nashwaak, a farmer; Benjamin, died
in Nashwaak, a farmer; John; Betsey, mar
ried Samuel Miller, a well-to-do farmer of
Nashwaak; seven or eight other children,
whose names are not known.

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(II) Samuel Brown, son of William Brown,
was born in 1797, died at Portage Lake, Maine,
1863. He received his education in Nash
waak, and became a farmer and lumberman.
About 185 1 he left Nashwaak and moved to
Portage Lake, where he lived the remainder
of his life. In politics he was a Democrat, and
in religion a member of the Methodist Epis
copal church. He married Statira McNeil,
born in Nashwaak, in 1800, died at Presque
Isle, Maine, in August, 1889. She also was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
She was daughter of Lyman McNeil, born in
Scotland in 1760, died in Nashwaak, in 1858.
Mr. McNeil was a lumberman and farmer
in Nashwaak; he had settled first in New
England, and served in the revolution be
fore moving to New Brunswick. He married
Rachel Lyman, who died in Nashwaak. Chil
dren of Lyman and Rachel (Lyman) McNeil:
1. Lyman, died in Nashwaak, a farmer. 2.
Thomas, died in Nashwaak ; a farmer and lum
berman; married Ann Ingram. 3. James, died
in Nashwaak; farmer and lumberman. 4.
Statira, born 1800; married Samuel Brown,
mentioned above. 5. Deborah, died in Nash
waak; married Nemiah Hanson, farmer and
hotel proprietor, and sheriff. 6. Ann, died in
Nashwaak; married William Cook, farmer.
Children of Samuel and Statira (McNeil)
Brown, born in Nashwaak: 1. Lavina, died in
Nashwaak; married Frazier Fowler, farmer,
of New Brunswick. 2. William, born Sep
tember 14, 1826, died at Portage Lake; mar
ried Rebecca Thompson, of Miramichi, New
Brunswick; farmer. 3. Julia, born January
15, 1830; married (first) George Savage, of
New Brunswick, (second) George Cole, of
New Brunswick ; she lives in Princeton, Maine.
4. Rachel, born March 3, 1831 ; lives in Marion
ette, Wisconsin; married William Shields, of
Nashwaak, a farmer. 5. Harriet, born Octo
ber 20, 1834 ; lives in Nashwaak ; married John
Shields, brother of William Shields; farmer.
6. Mary J., born March 25, 1833, died at Cold
Stream, New Brunswick, 1909; married Rob
ert Kent, of England, farmer and lumberman.
7. Ludlow, 'born February 11, 1837, died young.
8. Woodford, mentioned below. 9. Eunice,
born April 13, 1840; lives at Presque Isle;
married Jarvis Haywood, born in Lincoln,
New Brunswick, September 6, 1831, died 1892,
a well-to-do farmer and lumberman of Presque
Isle, 10. Fred, born August 9, 1842 ; lived at
Crystal Falls, Michigan, a lumberman and
hotel proprietor, now in California.
(Ill) Woodford Brown, son of Samuel
Brown, was born at Nashwaak, New Bruns
wick, September 3, 1838. He was educated
in the schools of his native town and of Port

age Lake, Maine, whither his parents removed
when he was twelve years old. He left school
at the age of fourteen and assisted his father
on the homestead until he was thirty years old.
He was also engaged in lumbering, driving a
six-ox team and afterward six-horse and eight-
horse teams. In 1868 he bought a farm of
150 acres at Portage Lake and cleared it, cul
tivating it until 1887 when he removed to
Presque Isle, where he bought a farm of one
hundred and twenty-five acres. He afterward
sold the farm at Portage Lake. He is now
living on the farm at Presque Isle and has most
of the land under cultivation. In politics he
is a Republican. He was- road commissioner
of Presque Isle for two years. He is a com
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church,
and a member of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Presque Isle; of
Garfield Chapter, No. 48, Royal Arch Masons,
of Caribou ; and of Presque Isle Council, Royal
and Select Masters ; of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of Presque Isle, and of the
Encampment and Canton there ; and charter
member of the Knights of Pythias, of Presque
Isle. He married, November 29, 1868, at Ash
land, Maine, Hannah Elizabeth Sylvester, born
at Portage Lake, July 25, 1849. She was edu
cated in the public schools of Oakland and
Portage Lake. She is a member of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, and was formerly a
member of the Rebekah Lodge and of the
Grange. Children: 1. Bertha Ella, born May
6, 1870; married George Rand, of Presque
Isle, a farmer of that town ; children : Wood
ford Merchant, a student in Colby College ;
Ray Randolph, Frank Kilburn, Lucy, Harry,
Marjorie, Alice, Helen and Emory. 2. Wal
lace David, born January 8, 1872, died Janu
ary 12, 191 1, in Menominee, Michigan; pro
prietor of a livery and training stable, an Odd
Fellow and a Free Mason. 3.. Newcomb Went-
worth, born July 29, 1873 ; driller of artesian-
wells at Augusta, Maine, a Free Mason and
Odd Fellow. 4. Sarah Lucy, born February
27, 1875 ; married John Hone, of Houlton,
Maine; now living at Presque Isle, where he
owns a theatre ; children : Jasper Harold, at
torney at Portland, Maine; Wendell Verne,
student in Bowdoin College; Llewellyn and
Woodford. 5. Henry Chesley, born Novem
ber 24, 1876 ; graduate of the St. John School,
now the State Normal School of Presque Isle ;
married Caddie McEachron, of Presque Isle ;
now residing at Falls City, Oregon; he is an
electrician ; child, Mildred. 6. Fred Fielding,
born July 29, 1879; a farmer in Presque Isle;
member of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and
Accepted Masons. 7. Perley Clyde, born May

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23, 1881 ; married Catharine Pattangill, of
Waterville, Maine; residing at Presque Isle;
he is a lawyer ; member of Trinity Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons ; of the Modern Wood
men of America; a Progressive in politics,
formerly a Republican ; has been county treas
urer for the past three years, was tax collector
three years and county attorney two terms.
8. Frank Otis, born- April 15, 1883; married
Sadie Bradbury, of Fort Kent; resides in
Bangor, Maine; a mail clerk, a Free Mason.
9. Eunice Evelyn, born January 17, 1885; edu
cated in Presque Isle high school, member of
the Episcopal church; married (first) Fred
Elmer Bennett, a farmer of Presque Isle, where
he died March 19, 1910; children : Glen Elmer,
born November 10, 1903; Louise Marion, No
vember 8, 1908; Eunice Evelyn married (sec
ond) Jerry Watson, of Grand- Falls, New
Brunswick, now living in Presque Isle, where
he is a farmer. 10. George Jarvis, born at
Presque Isle, May 17, 1889; graduate of the
Presque Isle high school and student in the
LTniversity of Maine for a year and in the
State Normal School at Aroostook for two
years ; followed civil engineering for two
years; now assisting his father; member of
Kappa Sigma fraternity; of Trinity Lodge,
No. 130, Free and Accepted Masons, and of
the Protestant Episcopal church.
(The Sylvester Line).
(I) Joseph Sylvester was born in 1800,
probably in Jefferson, Maine, died at Palmyra,
Maine, in 1867. He was a farmer there for
several years. In politics he was a Republican.
He married (first)  . He married (sec
ond) Susanna Noyes, who probably was born
in Somerset county, Maine, and who died at
Palmyra. Children by first wife : Harriet and
Rebecca. Children by second wife: 1. David
Weeks, mentioned below. 2. Lois, died at Pal
myra; married Ezra Badger, farmer of
Maine. 3. Abial, died on Ship Island during
the civil war of fever shortly after he enlisted
in 1861 in the Fifteenth Maine Regiment of
Volunteer Infantry. 4. Susanna, married
(first) James Thompson, of Portage Lake,
who served in civil war, enlisting in 1861, was
brought home and died in hospital ; married
(second) William Brown, of Palmyra, a
farmer. (II) David Weeks Sylvester, son of Joseph
Sylvester, was born in Somerset county, Maine,
January 21, 1825, died at Ashland, Maine,
October, 1906. He settled at Portage Lake
before his marriage and became a farmer there.
He was seventeen years old when his parents
settled there, and they felled the first trees in-
the place, clearing a farm. At various times

he owned several farms at Portage Lake. In
politics he was a Democrat, and later a Re
publican, and he served as town clerk and as
a member of the school board. In religion he
was a Universalist. He married Eliza Coffin,
born at Ashland, June 21, 183 1, died at Presque
Isle, Maine, November 29, 1888. She was a
member of the Advent church, and daughter
of Grindel Coffin, who was a farmer in Ash
land, Maine, and married Hannah Walker, of
that place. Children of Grindel Coffin : Mary,
married Hazen Walker ; Sally, married Daniel
Small; Hannah, married Daniel Getchell;
Nancy, married William Gardner; Louise,
married (first) Benjamin Sylvester, (second)
Henry Tilley; Eliza, born June 21, 1831, mar
ried David Weeks Sylvester, mentioned above ;
Levina, married Leonard Ellis; Printha, mar
ried Simeon Lord; Elbridge, died at Ashland,
farmer, unmarried ; Artemas, died at Ashland,
farmer; William, died at Ashland, farmer;
Stephen, died at Ashland, farmer; Lorenzo,
died at Puget Sound, Washington, ranch owner
and miner, a "forty-niner"; Rodney, died in
infancy; Rufus, twin of Rodney, died at Ash
land, a prominent lumberman and farmer.
Children of David Weeks and Eliza (Coffin)
Sylvester: 1. Hannah Elizabeth, born July 25,
1849, married Woodford Brown (see Brown
III). 2. Wilbert Augustine, a sketch of whom
follows. 3. Rufus Coffin, born May 7, 1854;
married Jennie Johnson, of California, and
they live at Anacortis, Washington ; child,
Myrtis. 4. Melvina, born June 26, 1856; mar
ried Rev. George Bradford; she lives at
Thomaston, Maine ; he was a Congregational
minister ; children : Lester, a physician in
Rockland, Maine ; Walter, a Congregational
minister; Jean, living with mother. 5. Charles
Wesley, born April 9, 1858; married Chris
tina Ross, of Presque Isle, they live on farm
in Bowdoinham, Maine; daughter, Luona, a
music teacher. 6. Fred, born January, i860;
married (first) Vera Gardner, of Ashland, and
had : Aubert, Woodford, Glen and Vern ; mar
ried (second) Nellie Smith, of Castle Hill, and
they live on farm at Ashland ; children : For
est, Charles, Ruth and a baby girl! 7. Wal
ter, born September 7, 1868, died in New
Hampshire, 1910; was a Congregational min
ister, and preached many years in the First
Congregational Church at Albany, New York ;
went to Honolulu, but returned because of ill
health and retired,

(III) Wilbert Augustine
SYLVESTER Sylvester, son of David
Weeks Sylvester (q. v.),
was born at Portage Lake, July 24, 1851. He
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in Ashland, Maine, and is a member of the
Advent church. In politics he is a Republican.
He married Flora Martin, born in Ashland in
1855, daughter of George Martin, a soldier in
the civil war. Children, born in Ashland: 1.
Ernest, born 1872, lives at Presque Isle, un
married. 2. Eva, born January, 1874; married
Plarry Fall, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and
they live at Portland, Maine; no children. 3.
Myrtie, died aged twenty-three, unmarried. 4.
Guy Atwood, mentioned below. Born in
Castle Hill, Maine: 5. Clinton, born May 1,
1884 ; educated in Washburn; is a Progressive,
and a member of Ashland Grange; married
Catherine Skinner, born in Ashland, 1889; is
manager of farm of Guy Atwood Sylvester,
his brother; children: Eva, born May 2, 1909;
Jay Newton, born November 17, 191 1, died
July 3, 1913; Wilbert, born May, 1913; Nor
man, born January, 1914. 6. Lena, born Au
gust, 1889; married Roland Hews, of Ash
land; no children; live at Presque Isle. 7.
Laura, died aged two years. 8. Harry, born
January, 1899, lives with parents.
(IV) Guy Atwood Sylvester, son of Wil
bert Augustine Sylvester, was born March 4,
1878, at Castle Hill, Maine. His parents re
moved when he was eight years old to Ash
land, Maine, and when he was thirteen to
Washburn, Maine, and he attended the public
schools in those towns. He left school at the
age of seventeen and for two years was asso
ciated in business with his father. Afterward he
was variously employed in Ashland. He kept
a restaurant and boarding house and followed
farming there. After his marriage he bought
a farm in Presque Isle, Maine, where he has
since lived. He is also a potato buyer and
shipper and agent of a fertilizer company. In
politics he was formerly a Republican, now a
Progressive. He is a member of the Ashland
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, December 12, 1904, at Ashland,
Ina (Craig) Ervin, born at Hartland, New
Brunswick, March 30, 1871. Her parents re
moved to Castle Hill, Maine, when she was
five years old and she attended school there
and at Presque Isle high school. She attends
the Congregational church, and is a member
of Ashland Grange and of the Pythian Sisters.
Before her marriage she taught school in
Presque Isle, Castle Hill and Mapleton for a
period -of seven years. She married (first)
David Lane Ervin, born in Burlington, Maine,
September 20, 1874, died at Burlington, state
of Washington, September 18, 1901. He was
a carpenter and builder and while in Washing
ton was a cattle dealer. In politics he was a
Republican, a member of the Orangemen and
Knights- of Pythias. By her first marriage she

had no children. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester have
two children : Dawn Myrtie, born at Ashland,
November 22, 1905 ; Carol May, born at Ash
land, April 30, 1909.
(The Craig Line).
(I) James Craig, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in the North of Ireland, and was of
Scotch descent. He settled at St. John, New
Brunswick, owning what is now the city of St.
John, New Brunswick, and was a farmer,
being a pioneer in that place. One day he
wandered away from his house and never re
turned; he was probably murdered, about
1800. His wife married (second) 
Orser. Children: Christopher; Daniel; other
children, names not known, and Jacob, the
youngest of all, mentioned below.
(II) Jacob Craig, son of James Craig, was
born in 1800, near Hartland, New Brunswick,
died there July, 1886, having been a farmer
there all his life. He was for many years
deacon of the Free Baptist Church, and was
one of the founders of that church there. He
married (first) Ann Shaw, born at Cold
Stream, New Brunswick, in 1808, died at
Hartland in 1871. He married (second)
Letitia Noble, who was born near Hartland,
and lives there now, over ninety years of age.
He was over seventy when they were married.
Children by first wife, born in Hartland: 1.
Stephen, farmer, died in Jacksontown, Maine.
2. Samuel, farmer, died at Hartland; married
Matilda Murphy, of Lee, Maine. 3. Maria,
died at Cold Stream; married Samuel Foster,
of that place, a well-to-do farmer. 4. John
Bunyon, died on family homestead at Hart
land ; married Basha Turner, of Cold Stream.
5. Evard, died at Hartland ; married Augusta
¦  ; she married (second) Mr. Grier; he
was farmer on family homestead. 6. George,
died at Wade, Maine; farmer; married (first)
Phoebe Murphy, sister of Matilda Murphy ;
(second) Martha Turner; (third) Margaret
Smith, of Hartland. 7. Jerusha, died at
father's house ; married William Murphy,
brother of Matilda Murphy. 8. Daniel Shaw,
mentioned below. 9. Hannah, died at Maple
ton, Maine ; married John Turner, brother of
Martha ; first a miller, later a farmer. 10.
Phoebe, died at Hartland, aged two years.
(Ill) Daniel Shaw Craig, son of Jacob
Craig, was born at Hartland, New Brunswick,
March 28, 1847, died at Ashland, Maine, No
vember 1, 1902. He first engaged in the lum
ber business, and moved to Castle Hill, 1876,
where he also was a lumberman and carried on
a farm. He was a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church, and was an Orangeman. He
married Mary Adelia Rideout (see Rideout

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II). She was born in Florenceville, New
Brunswick, April 30, 1849, and now lives in
Ashland, where she is a member of the Free
Will Baptist Church. Children: 1. Sylvester
Jacob, born at Hartland, July 11, 1868, died in
infancy. 2. Pennington Edward, born at Hart
land, August 14, 1869-; married Alice Rose, of
Presque Isle; children: Hope Eloise, Mary
Alice, Daniel Benton. 3. Ina, born March 30,
1 87 1 ; married (first) David L. Ervin, (sec
ond) Guy Atwood Sylvester (see Sylvester
IV). 4. Kearney Daniel, died in infancy. 5.
Allen, died in infancy. 6. Loren Daniel, born
at Hartland, March 20, 1875 ; married Maude
Edwards, of Maysville, a part of Presque Isle,
where they have a large farm ; children : Clyde
Chester, Ivan Lester, Ruel Loren, Erla Eloise,
Evalyn Addie, Irene Maude, and Reta May.
7. Frank Henry, born at Ashland, March 28,
1877, died July 18, 1913, in Milford, Massa
chusetts; lived at Smyrna Mills, Maine; mar
ried Ella Brooks, of New Brunswick, and she
lives at Smyrna Mills; children: Mildred
Frances, Chester Clyde and Helen. 8. Nettie
Adelia, born at Ashland, April 13, 1879; mar
ried James Howard, of Medway, Maine;
farmer ; they live at Island Falls, Maine, where
he is also a tanner ; children : Edith Craig,
Mary Emma, deceased, Dorothy Ruth, Ken
neth Paul, Hazen James, Frank.
(The Rideout Line).
(I) Abraham Rideout was born in the prov
ince of New Brunswick, Canada, and died at
Majorville, New Brunswick. He married a
Miss Todd, and was one of the pioneers in
Majorville, being a farmer there. Children :
Abraham, died a young man, unmarried ; Na
thaniel, died in New Brunswick, farmer ; Isaac,
deceased ; Jacob, mentioned below ; Prudence ;
Naomi ; Margaret ; Tamer ; and two others,
names not known.
(II) Jacob Rideout, son of Abraham Ride
out, was born at Majorville, New Brunswick,
in 1806, died at Castle Hill, Maine, in 1890.
He was a farmer at Florenceville, New Bruns
wick, all his active life, and he lived after his
retirement with his son, Isra Allen Rideout,
in Castle Hill, He was one of the founders
of the Free Will Baptist Church of Florence
ville, and was a deacon. He married (first)
Mary Kearney, born near Bristol, New Bruns
wick, in 1808, died at Florenceville, in i860.
He married (second) Julia Squires, from Eng
land. Children by first wife: 1. Adeline, died
aged five years. 2. Mahala, died at Florence
ville; married William Clark, of Westfield,
Maine. 3. Isra Allen, lives at Washburn,
Maine, aged seventy-eight, farmer; served in
civil war in the Fifteenth Maine Regiment;

married Martha (Stevens) Sylvester, widow
of Ansel Sylvester, who died in Libby prison
during the civil war; he belonged to the Fif
teenth Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry,
and served four years. 4. Sophia Jane, lives
in Mapleton, Maine, aged seventy-six, unmar
ried. 5. Barzilli, died in infancy. 6. Phanuel,
died in infancy. 7. Jacob Barzilli, born 1843,
died at Los Angeles, California, November 10,
1902 ; married Martha Hall, of Unity, Maine ;
she lives at Whittier, California ; he was a Pres
byterian minister, well known throughout the
west as a writer and poet. 8. Sylvanus (called
Sylvester S.), lives at Spring Lake, Michigan,
born December, 1844; married Charlotte John
son, of Spring Lake; served in civil war four
years in Fifteenth Maine Regiment of Volun
teer Infantry, being badly wounded at the
battle of Cedar Creek. 9, Noah Nathaniel,
born October, 1846; lives at Mapleton, Maine;
farmer; married (first) Hattie Dean; married
(second) Angeline Dingy, of Lower Peel, New
Brunswick. 10. Mary Adelia, married Daniel
Shaw Craig (see Craig III). 11. Francis Job,
died aged five years. 12. Harriet Adeline, by
second wife.

Durgan is a variation of the
DURGAN surname Durgin. An account
of the immigrant ancestor and
of the early generations in New Hampshire is
given elsewhere in this work.
(I) Joseph M. Durgan, a descendant of
William Durgin, was born in New Hampshire,
in 1790, died at Sedgwick, Maine, October 19,
1875. He was a teacher and farmer. He mar
ried Nellie Grindel, born in Maine, died at
Sedgwick. Children: 1. Joseph, a farmer and
miller of Sedgwick, married Phebe Freethy,
born in what is now Brooklin in 181 1, died
about the age of ninety-one years. Her
grandmother was Elizabeth Black, the first
white child born in that town. 2. Elbridge,
a farmer, died at Blue Hill, Maine. 3.
Reuben, a farmer, died at Sherman, Maine;
married Mary Curtis, of Blue Hill. 4. Israel,
a farmer, died at Surrey, Maine; enlisted in
the civil war from Sherman in Company C,
Twenty-ninth Regiment Maine Volunteer In
fantry, mustered in December 17, 1863, and
served to the end of the war ; was sent to the
hospital on account of sickness, November 1,
1864. 5. George W., mentioned below.
(II) George W. Durgan, son of Joseph M.
Durgan, was born at Sedgwick, Maine, 1835,
died in Sherman, Maine, August 18, 1909.
He was educated in the public schools of his
native town. He was a pioneer in the town
of Sherman, where he settled in 1858 and
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lican. He enlisted, August 18, 1863, and was
mustered into service, August 25, 1863. He
was wounded, May 16, 1864, at the battle of
Drury's Bluff, during a charge, by a bullet
fired by mistake by an own comrade. He re
mained in- the military hospital until Novem
ber, 1865. He married Maria Lucy Grindell,
bora in Sedgwick, 1840, died at Sherman,
April 28, 1899. Children: 1. Fred Grindell,
mentioned below. 2. Abby F., born at Sher
man, September 18, 1868; married William H.
Lewis, of Ripley, Maine; he is a merchant at
Sherman; children: Jennie M. and Fred D.
Lewis. (Ill) Fred Grindell Durgan, son of George
W. Durgan, was born at Blue Hill, Hancock
county, Maine, July 18, 1858. His parents
moved to Sherman ^n that state when he was
six months old and he attended the public
schools there until he was eighteen years old.
He also assisted his father on the farm and
remained on the homestead until he was of
age, working in the woods as a lumberman
during the winters. At the age of twenty-one
he bought a farm in Sherman, where he now
owns three hundred and twenty acres, of which
a hundred acres are under cultivation. He fol
lowed farming until 1910. During the next
year and a half he made railroad ties. He
engaged in business at Easton, Maine, May 3,
191 2, as a general merchant. His business has
grown and prospered. At the present time he
is enlarging his store to take care of his large
and increasing trade. In politics he is a Re
publican. For three years he was a selectman
of Sherman and he has been road surveyor for
several years. He is a member of Golden
Sheath Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and of
Katahdin Lodge, United Workmen of Amer
ica, of Sherman.
He married at Patten, Maine, September,
1878, Addie J. Hayden, born at Rawson
Plantation, Maine, April 28, 1856, attended the
public schools in Sherman and taught school
at Monarda, Maine, for two terms. She is a
member of the Congregational church (see
Hayden VII). Children, all born at Sherman,
Maine: 1. George W., born April 12, 1879;
attended the public schools of Sherman and
the University of Maine, B. S., 1902; was a
merchant in Sultan City, Washington, for two
years ; now associated with his father ; mem
ber of the Knights of Pythias ; unmarried. 2.
Charles H., born February 9, 1881; married
Mary, daughter of John McNally, a farmer of
Sherman ; children : Lee James, born June 26,
1908, in Sherman; Lucy Mary, February 4,
1910; Carl Lewis, February 20, 1912, in Sher
man. 3. Maria L., born January 16, 1887;
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married Harvey I. Benson, of Sedgwick, now
of Easton; children: Walter Richard, born
September, 1908; Lulu Mae, April 2, 1908.
(The Hayden Line).
The Hayden or Heydon family derives its
surname from the name of a town in county
Norfolk, England. The history of the family
extends back to the time of the Conquest and
came into prominence in the thirteenth century.
(I) Thomas de Heydon, resident of Hey
don, justice itinerant in county Norfolk in
1 22 1, is the progenitor of all the English Hay-
dens that have been traced. The elder branch
of the family remained in Norfolk ; a younger
branch located in Devonshire about 1273 and
another at Hatford, near London. Thomas de
Heydon was born about 11 55, died in 1250.
(II) William de Heydon, eldest son of
Thomas de Heydon, born 1220, died 1272; had
the estate at Norfolk.
(Ill) John de Haydon, son of William de
Heydon, was county judge of Devonshire in
1273. (IV) Robert Haydon or de Haydon, son of
John de Haydon, settled in Boughwood,
Devonshire; married Joan  .
(V) Henry Haydon, son of Robert Hay
don, married Julian, daughter and heir of Hay
don of Ebford.
(VI) William (2) Haydon, son of Henry
Haydon, inherited the estate at Boughwood.
(VII) Robert (2) Haydon, son of William
(2) Haydon, succeeded his father.
(VIII) John (2) Haydon, son of Robert
(2) Haydon.
(IX) Henry (2) Haydon, son of John (2)
Haydon, had Boughwood and Ebford in 1397;
was succeeded by his son John, who died with
out issue and was succeeded by :
(X) William (3) Haydon, son of Henry
(2) Haydon; he had sons: Leonard, John,
Richard, William.
(XI) Richard Haydon, son of William (3)
Haydon, was living on the estate in 1476. Chil
dren : Richard, John, Jane, married Robert
Gilbert. (XII) Richard (2) Haydon, son of Richard
(1) Haydon, had the estates in 1522; married
Joan Trent, daughter of Maurice Trent, of
Ottery St. Mary. Children: Thomas, John,
George. (XIII) Thomas (2) Hayden, son of Rich
ard (2) Haydon, married Joan Weeks, daugh
ter of Richard Weeks, of Honey Church.
Children: Thomas, Jane, Margaret and an
other daughter.
(XIV) Thomas (3) Hayden, son of Thomas
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Kelmiston, Boughwood and Ebford; married
Christiana, daughter of Robert Tidersleigh, of
Dorsetshire. Children : Robert, Thomas.
(XV) Robert (3) Playden, son of Thomas
(3) Hayden, inherited the estate of his grand-
uncle, John Hayden, a distinguished lawyer,
who held the charter for incorporating the
church when England broke away from the
Roman church in 1536, known as St. Mary
Ottery. He married Joan Paulet. Children :
Gideon, Amias, Frew, Margaret.
(XVI) Gideon Hayden, son of Robert (3)
Hayden, succeeded to the Cadhay and Ebford
estates ; married Margaret Davy, daughter of
John Davy. The family historian says they
had seven sons and five daughters, of whom
John, William and James emigrated to Boston
in 1630-31. In any case, the American immi
grants were closely related to the ancestors
mentioned above.
(I) John Hayden, the immigrant to Amer
ica, believed to be son of Gideon Hayden, was
born in England, came to Boston in 1630, and
was made a freeman, May 14, 1634. He was
a proprietor of Dorchester in 1632. In 1640
he was living in Braintree, formerly called Mt.
Wollaston, Boston. His will, dated October
31, 1678, proved July 26, 1682, bequeathed to
wife and children. Children: John, born 1636;
Joseph ; Samuel, married Hannah Thayer ;
Jonathan, born May 19, 1640; Hannah, April
7, 1642 ; Ebenezer, September 12, 1645 J Nehe-
miah, mentioned below.
(II) Nehemiah Hayden, son of John Hay
den, was born at Braintree, Massachusetts,
February 14, 1647-48, died January 12, 1717-
18. He was a prominent and influential citi
zen of Braintree and served as selectman ten
years, 1706-16, and on important town com
mittees. He and his wife were members of
the Middle Precinct church at the time of Mr.
Niles' ordination in 171 1. His will was dated
January 6, 1717-18, and proved February 28,
1717-18, mentioning all the children except
Mary. He married Hannah Neale, daughter
of Henry Neale. Children : Nehemiah, born
May, 1680; Hannah, July 18, 1681 ; Mary,
married Samuel Hayden; Samuel; Benjamin,
mentioned below; Rachel, married Samuel
Paine ; John ; Ebenezer ; Jonathan.
(Ill) Benjamin Hayden, son of Nehemiah
Hayden, was born at Braintree, Massachu
setts, February 22, 1685-86, died intestate in
1738. He married Elizabeth Faxon, daughter
of Josiah Faxon, May 12, 1722. Plis widow
Elizabeth was appointed administratrix, Sep
tember 26, 1738. Captain Richard Faxon was
appointed guardian of Charles, Joseph, Thomas
and Robert, her minor children, in 1748. Chil
dren, born at Braintree : Benjamin, born Au

gust 21, 1724; Nehemiah, January 5, 1726;
Elizabeth, 1727; Charles, December 6, 1730;
Ruth, September 4, 1732, died August 12,
1739; Josiah, mentioned below; Robert, Janu
ary 7, 1735-36; Thomas, July 12, 1738.
(IV) Colonel Josiah Hayden, son of Ben
jamin Hayden, was born at Braintree, Massa
chusetts, May 15, 1734, died in 1814. He re
moved to Bridgewater, to North Bridgewater
and finally to Winslow, now Waterville, Maine.
He was a prominent figure in the revolution,
captain of the Bridgewater minute-men in
Colonel Bailey's regiment, on the Lexington
alarm; captain in General Thomas' regiment,
May 24, 1775, and later in 1775 in Colonel
Bailey's regiment. He was afterward major
and colonel of the militia. He was clerk, treas
urer and moderator of "the proprietors of
Waterville, Maine, 1787, and afterward. He
married, in 1763, Silence Hayward or Howard.
Children : Charles, mentioned below ; Josiah,
Daniel, Silence, Mehitable, Damaris, Eliza
beth, Mary.
(V) Charles Hayden, son of Colonel Josiah
Hayden, was born in Bridgewater, Massachu
setts, in 1767, and removed with his parents
to Winslow, Maine. He was a farmer and
surveyor of Waterville. He made a survey
around Moosehead Lake. Among his children
was Henry, mentioned below.
(VI) Henry Hayden, son of Charles Hay
den, was born at Waterville, Maine, in 1800,
died at Bangor, in 1827. He was a carpenter by
trade. In religion he was a Methodist ; in poli
tics a Whig. He married Lucy Davis, who
died at Portland, Maine, during the civil war.
Children, born at Waterville: 1. Eliza D., born
in 1821, died in 1890, at Greene, Maine; mar
ried Henry Pulsifer, a carpenter. 2. Martha
J., born 1823, died in the west, 1888; married
 Thompson, of Minnesota. 3. Mar
garet A., born 1823, twin of Martha J., resided
in southern California; married John Hass.
4. Charles Henry, mentioned below.
(VII) Charles Henry Hayden, son of Henry
Hayden, was born at Waterville, Maine, Sep
tember 8, 1825. He is now living in Sherman.
He was formerly a farmer in Phillips and
Monarda, Maine. In politics he is a Repub
lican. For many years he was selectman. He
was on the school board for twenty-five years
and town clerk for some years. He was mus
tered into the army, December 8, 1864, in the
First Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and
served seven months. He was taken prisoner
at Petersburg shortly before the end of the
war. He was mustered out, June' 30, 1865. He
married Catherine Smith, born in Alsace, Ger
many, June 12, 1825, died at Monarda, Maine,
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married Gertrude Walter, also of Alsace. Her
parents came to America when she was two
years old and settled, finally, at Benedicta,
Maine. Pie was a shoemaker by trade, but fol
lowed farming in Benedicta. Francis Smith
was born in 1789, died in 1873 ; his wife was
born in 1790, died in 1877. He and his family
were Roman Catholics in religion. Children
of Charles Henry Hayden: 1. Addie J., mar
ried Fred Grindell Durgan (see Durgan III).
2. Charles, born December 16, 1857, a farmer;
married Henrietta Williams, of Newport,
Maine. 3. Walter, born March 28, 1859; re
sides at Sultana, Washington, a real estate
dealer and promoter ; married Elizabeth Bran-
niff, of Pennsylvania. 4. George F., born May
1, 1861 ; resides at Tampa, Florida, a carpen
ter ; married Clara Moore, of Phillips, Maine ;
children : Marion, Cora, George F., Julie Belle.

The surname Hawley seems to
HAWLEY have had a Norman origin.
At any rate it was used by a
Norman at the time of the Conquest, and
appears in the Battle Abbey. The family has
been prominent in Derbyshire since about A. D.
1200. We have six generations of an old
pedigree in that county. Doubtless many of
the families branched off from this line. John
Hawley (5), of Banbridge, had an only daugh
ter and heir, Anne, who married Thomas
Blount. He was the son of Thomas Hawley,
¦of Ersby, and grandson of Sir William, of
Ersby. Sir William's father was also Sir
William, and his grandfather was Robert de-
Hawley. Coat-of-arms of the Derby family:
Vert a satire engrailed argent. Crest : A dex
ter arm in armor proper garnished or holding
in the hand a spear or bend spinster point
downwards proper. Motto : Suivezmoi.
(I) The father of the three immigrants of
this family who came to America and their
two sisters is not known, and though it is
known that they were of the Derbyshire fam
ily, the English lineage has not been traced.
Children : Joseph, mentioned below ; Hannah,
¦of Milford, Connecticut, married (first) John
Ufford, and (second) Captain John Beard ;
Elizabeth, of Stratford, Connecticut, married
John Booth ; Thomas, settled in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, married Emma  ; Rob
ert, of Rhode Island, married Dorothy (Har-
bottle) Lamb, widow of T. Lamb.
(II) Joseph Hawley, the American immi
grant ancestor, was born in Derbyshire, Eng
land, in 1603, and died May 20, 1690. He
was a yeoman, and evidently of good educa
tion and abilities, for he was the town recorder,
1650-66, at Stratford, Connecticut, where he
settled soon after coming to this country. He

married Katherine Birdsey, who died at Strat
ford, June 25, 1692. Pie bought lands at Strat
ford in 1650 of Richard Mills, and from time
to time he received grants of land when the
common lands were divided. He was repre
sentative to the general assembly thirty times
in thirty-three years, and evidently one of the
most prominent men of the town of that time.
In his will he bequeathed land at Parwidge, in
Derbyshire, to his son Samuel. This is the
town of Parwich, nine miles from old Derby.
Children, born at Stratford: Samuel, (q. v.) ;
Joseph Jr., born January 9, 1649; Elizabeth,
January 26, 1651 ; Ebenezer, September 16,
1654; Hannah, May 26, 1657; Ephraim, (q.
v.) ; John Esq., June 14, 1661 ; Mary, July 16,
1663, married Captain John Coe.
The surname Watson is de-
WATSON rived from Wat, the familiar
form for Walter, with the
termination son, meaning son of Walter. It is
of English origin and the family of Watson
dates back to the beginning of surnames of
England. The family has several coats-of-
arms. That of the family at Rockingham,
county Northampton, is described: Parted
proper pale first argent on chevron azure three
crescents or, between three martlets sable. In
America the family is exceedingly numerous.
No less than eighteen immigrants came to this
country, five of whom were named John Wat
son, between 1623 and 1635. Numerous Scotch-
Irish immigrants came about 1720-50 and in
later years immigrants came from England
and Scotland.
The family was numerous in Essex county
at an early date. Phillip Watson was of Row
ley, Massachusetts, 1678, and had lived previ
ously at Salisbury ; his son William died De
cember 19, 1657. He was generally known as
Philip Watson Challis and most of his de
scendants, if not all, used the surname Challis.
John Watson was admitted a freeman of
Rowley in 1672. He removed to Bradford,
where he was one of the original members of
the church in 1682. The inventory of his
estate was filed in 1685. He married Eunice
or Emma Barker, daughter of James Barker,
and she was admitted to the Bradford church
in 1695. Children of John and Eunice Wat
son : John, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, born
December 2, 1676, at Bradford; Eunice, April
20, 1679, died young; Thomas, October 10,
1681 ; Mary, 1684
John (2) Watson, son of John (1) and
Eunice Watson, settled at Bradford. He mar
ried, February 2, 1791-92, Ruth Hartshorn or
Harris, and his children, John, Ruth, Abigail,
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there. From the similarity of names and dates
of birth and the fact that the wife's name is the
same the Bradford family has been confused
with the Newbury family. The facts show
also that these John Watsons must have been
closely related.
William Watson, of Newbury, married, De
cember 6, 1670, Sarah Perley. Thomas Wat
son married, May 19, 1687, Mary Hubbard.
(I) John Watson, nephew of John Watson,
was born about 1660, died April 25, 1710. His
will was dated April 20, and probated June 5,
1710. He was a signer of the Bradbury peti
tions. He was a soldier in the Salisbury com
pany, 1710, in Captain Abraham Watson's
company, Sergeant Thomas Bradbury's regi
ment. His first son was named Abraham and
it is possible that Captain Abraham was his
father. He settled in Salisbury. He married,
March 22, 1687, Ruth Griffin, who was ad
mitted to the Salisbury church, August 26,
1706. Children, born at Salisbury: Abraham,
born December 13, 1688; John, September 11,
1690, died young; Hannah, April 5, 1695, died
young; Jonathan, October 12, 1696; Ruth, bap
tized November 2, 1707; Ebenezer, mentioned
below. (II) Ebenezer Watson, son of John Wat
son, was born about 1693, and was mentioned
in his father's will, 1710. He married (first)
July 10, 1716, Martha Rawlins. He married
(second) August 21, 1732, Eleanor Long.
Children, born at Newbury : Eliphalet, men
tioned below; child, baptized 1719; Rebecca,
born September 20, 1724.
(Ill) Eliphalet Watson, son of Ebenezer
Watson, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts,
June 1, 1717, and was baptized July 17. He
died at Norway, Maine, March 14, 1812. In
early life he moved to Maine, and in 1739 was
admitted to the church at Falmouth. Soon
afterward he went to Gorham, Maine, of which
he was a proprietor in 1742, and he remained
with a few other settlers during the French
and Indian war in 1746, living in the fort for
seven years and suffering great hardships. He
owned lot 27 on which he build a log cabin and
lot 28. A few years later he erected a sub
stantial frame house. Two or more of his chil
dren were born in the fort. Mr. Watson be
came one of the leading citizens of the town
and was one of the first deacons of the church.
He held various offices of trust and was dis
tinguished by his common sense, wisdom, in
dustry, prudence and honesty. He has been
described as a pillar of strength in the com
munity. He married (intentions dated at Fal
mouth, Portland, April 29, 1740) Elizabeth
Phinney, daughter of Captain John and Mar
tha (Colman) Phinney, the first settlers of

Gorham. His wife died April 15, 1795, aged
seventy-four years. Children, born at Gor
ham: John, born September 23, 1741 ; Martha,
December 4, 1743; Susanna, February 1, 1746;
Ebenezer, September 28, 1748; Colman P.,
December 4, 1751 ; Elizabeth, February 11,
1754; Mary, July 12, 1756; Eliphalet, men
tioned below; James, August 3, 1761 ; Daniel,
October 11, 1763.
(IV) Eliphalet (2) Watson, son of Eli
phalet (1) Watson, was born at Gorham,
Maine, March 20, 1759. He married Zipporah
Partridge, of Falmouth. Children, born at
Gorham: Ebenezer, September 20, 1782; Na
thaniel P., August 21, 1788. He removed to
Waterford and had other children.
(V) Eliphalet (3) Watson, son or nephew
of Eliphalet (2) Watson, was born in 1810,
at Fayette, Kennebec county, Maine. To this
town Enoch and Henry Watson came about
1 781 with the first settlers, according to the
town history, and James, Noah and Thomas
came soon afterward. He was educated there
in the public schools, and when a young man
was a traveling salesman. Afterward he was
a merchant and lumberman of Ashland, Maine,
and Fort Fairfield. In i860 he bought a farm
at Fort Fairfield, of which he was one of the
pioneers. In politics he was a Republican.
He was a member and deacon of the Free Will
Baptist Church of Fort Fairfield. He mar
ried (first)  Griffith, born in Boston,
Massachusetts, and died there. He married
(second) Martha Cole, born 181 1, at Park-
man, Maine, died at Fort Fairfield, 1895. She
was a devout Methodist. Eliphalet Watson
had a brother, Joseph Watson, who went to
Missouri, was a planter, died there; a brother
Richard, a Free Will Baptist minister, who
died in Maine. He had several sisters. Child
by first wife : Elizabeth, died at Yonkers, New
York; married Frank Constant, of Indiana, a
merchant; children: Elizabeth, of Yonkers,.
and Margaret, of Minnesota. Children by
second wife : 1. Martha, born at Ashland, 1850;
married Clarence V. King, of Hallowell, Maine,.
now of Caribou, a farmer ; children : Cordelia,
married Willard P. Hamilton, a lawyer, of
Caribou ; Lora, married Dr. W. E. Sincock,.
physician of Caribou. 2. Samuel, born at Fort
Fairfield, 1852, died 1869. 3. Eliphalet, men
tioned below.
(VI) Eliphalet (4) Watson, son of Eli
phalet (3) Watson, was born July 21, 1856,
at Fort Fairfield, Maine. He attended the-
public schools of his native town. During his
boyhood he assisted his father on the home
stead, which afterward came into his posses
sion and a part of which he still owns. He has
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dred and seventy-five acres, about three miles
from the village of Fort Fairfield, on the
Conant road. In politics he is a Republican.
For six years he has been selectman of the
town. He married, June 8, 1892, at Presque
Isle, Jane Haley, born at Fort Fairfield, 1865,
died there September 22, 1895. They had one
child, Katherine, born at Fort Fairfield, July
25, 1895, student in Ricker's Classical Insti
tute, Houlton, Maine, communicant of the
Roman Catholic church.
William Haley, father of Mrs. Watson, was
born at Inniscortha, Ireland, in 181 3, died at
Fort Fairfield, Maine, in 1888. He came to
this country when a young man and settled in
Fort Fairfield, of which he was a pioneer. He
lived during the remainder of his life on the
farm which he cleared there. In politics he
was a Democrat. In religion he was a Roman
Catholic. He married  Upton, born in
New Brunswick, 1829, died at Fort Fairfield
in 1901. She was also a Catholic. Children,
born at Fort Fairfield: 1. Mary, married Allen
Hammond, of Van Buren, Maine, a lumber
man in that town ; children : Martha Ham
mond, married Joseph D. Martin, of St.. Leon
ard's, New Brunswick, a merchant ; Alice
Hammond, married Fred Goud, cashier of the
First National Bank of Houlton ; Haley Ham
mond. 2. Katherine, died at Fort Fairfield;
married (first) Daniel Douty; children: Win
nie Douty, married Lee Parker, a farmer of
Presque Isle; James Douty, salesman of Lime
stone; Katherine married (second) Michael
McLaughlin, of Caribou, now of Fort Fair
field, and had one son, Haley McLaughlin. 3.
John, resides at Caribou, a farmer. 4. Rose,
died at Fort Fairfield; married Michale Find-
Ian, now of the British Northwest, a lumber
man ; children : Henry Findlan ; Michael Find-
Ian, of Caribou ; Catherine Findlan, of Bangor,
stenographer ; Clarence Findlan, of Van Buren,
a druggist. 5. Martha, married Clarence V
King. 6. William, married  ¦ — Hale, of
Caribou. 7. Jane, married Eliphalet Watson,
mentioned above.

The Whitehouse sur-
WHITEHOUSE name is very ancient in
England. In this coun
try the family has been prominent in New
Hampshire and Maine. Judge William P.
Whitehouse, of the Maine supreme court, is of
the family, a descendant of the immigrant
mentioned below.
(I) Thomas Whitehouse, the American im
migrant, was born in England. He settled as
early as 1658 in Dover, New Hampshire, and
in 1665 was received as an inhabitant of
Dover, upon the terms that he was to have

what he brought with him, together with com
monage for his cattle, and no other privilege,
the town thinking that it had all it could
accommodate. He was a blacksmith by trade.
He signed a petition to Massachusetts for pro
tection in 1689. He had two sons, Thomas,
mentioned below, and Edward.
(II) Thomas (2) Whitehouse, son of
Thomas (1) Whitehouse, was born in Dover,
New Hampshire, about 1650. He married a
daughter of William Pomfret and they had a
son Pomfret, mentioned below.
(Ill) Pomfret Whitehouse, son of Thomas
(2) Whitehouse, was born about 1680. He
married Rebecca  . Children, born at
Dover: Pomfret, born October 14, 1703;
William, mentioned below; Judith and Ed
ward, twins, November 10, 1710; Thomas,
AprilS, 1713; Rosemes, March 31, 1715 ; Sam
uel, April 15, 1716; John, January 8, 1718;
Moses, June 13, 1720.
(IV) William Whitehouse, son of Pomfret
Whitehouse, was born in Dover, New Hamp
shire, January 8, 1705. He married Eliza
beth  -. He and his daughter were both
baptized May 12, 1728, in the Dover Church.
Children, born at Dover: Elizabeth, 1728;
John, October, 1730; Lucy, April 13, 1733;
William, September 21, 1735; Mary, April 2,
1738; Sarah, June 15, 1740; Turner, men
tioned below; Nathaniel, November 3, 1745;
Moses, May 29, 1748.
(V) Turner Whitehouse, son of William
Whitehouse, was born in Dover, New Hamp
shire, December 19, 1742. He removed from
Dover to the adjoining town of Rochester,
New Hampshire. He was a tanner and shoe
maker by occupation. He married 
Hanson and had eleven children, of «whom
Nathaniel is mentioned below.
(VI) Nathaniel Whitehouse, son of Turner
Whitehouse, was born in New Hampshire.
With several brothers, he settled at Middleton,
Strafford county, New Hampshire, near Moose
Mountain, and cleared farms there. He mar
ried, and among his children was Enoch, men
tioned below.
(VII) Enqch Whitehouse, son of Nathaniel
Whitehouse, was born in 1781 in New Hamp
shire, died at Liberty, Maine, in 1872. He was
a shoemaker by trade. Children: 1. Benja
min, mentioned below. 2. William, died in
southern Maine. 3. Jackson, died at Thomas-
ton ; was a ship carpenter ; married and had
children : William and Elmer. 4. Stacy, died
at Rockland, Maine ; married  Achorn ;
children : Clara, a milliner at Rockland, mar
ried  Worthing; Zetta. 5. Seth, was
drafted and served in the Confederate army in
the civil war. 6. Crowell, deceased. 7. Susan,

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deceased. 8. Daughter, married John Man
chester, a sea captain, now retired, living at
Camden, Maine. 9. Sarah, married Arthur
Dodge, formerly of Westfield, Maine, a
farmer ; children : Byron, deceased ; Willis
Dodge, a mine promoter, Montana, married
 Richards. Three other children, twelve
in all.
(VIII) Benjamin Whitehouse, son of Enoch
Whitehouse, was born at Liberty, Maine, Jan
uary 1, 1821, died at Fort Fairfield, February
14, 1902. He attended the common schools in
Liberty, and during his boyhood worked at the
trade of shoemaker. When he came of age he
went to work in the ship-yard at Warren and
Thomaston, Maine, as a ship carpenter. He
removed, finally, to Mars Hill, where he fol
lowed farming several years. After he retired
he resided at Fort Fairfield. In politics he was
a Democrat. He served as town treasurer at
Mars Hill for several years. He married Ellen
Sullivan, born at Castine, Maine, in 1829, died
at Fort Fairfield in September, 1895. She was
a member of the Baptist Church, but attended
the Congregational Church of Fort Fairfield.
Her father was a sailor, lost overboard at sea.
He married  Murch. Their children :
1. Mrs. Whitehouse. 2. Sarah Sullivan, de
ceased. 3. Susan Sullivan, married William
Pike, shoemaker, Newburyport, Massachu
setts. 4. Ephraim Sullivan, died at Bucksport,
Maine, a farmer; married (first) Nancy Hill;
(second) Ann Dodge, now living near Bucks-
port ; child by first wife : Lizzie, now living in
Boston ; children by second wife : Delia, now
living in New York; Mary, married W. R.
Roix, lawyer, Ashland, Maine, son Ephraim.
5. John Sullivan, died at -Tombstone, Arizona,
a miner, unmarried. Children of Benjamin
and Ellen (Sullivan) Whitehouse: 1. Ralph
Cheney, born at Liberty, Maine, September,
1849; was a lumberman, residing at Columbia,
California; died December, 1913, unmarried.
2. Nettie, born at Liberty, Maine, 185 1 ; mar
ried C. W. Kimball, of Easton, Maine, now
living at Stetson, Maine, a farmer; no chil
dren. 3. Emma, born 1858; married 
Bashford, of Tombstone, Arizona; both died
there ; he was a miner ; child, Nettie Bashford,
died young. 4. Fred Murch, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Fred Murch Whitehouse, son of
Benjamin Whitehouse, was born at Mars Hill,
Maine, April 26, 1868. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Fort Fair
field High School. He entered the Boston
Dental College, from which he was graduated
in 1890 with the degree of D. D. S. Since
then he has practiced his profession in Fort
Fairfield. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a member of Eastern Frontier Lodge, No.

112, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
Fort Fairfield, of which he is past master ;
member of Garfield Chapter, No. 48, Royal
Arch Masons ; Aroostook Council, Royal and
Select Masters; Goodwill Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star ; of the Modern Woodmen of
America, in which he has held the office of
escort ; a member of Citizens Band and of the
Fort Fairfield Masonic Club. He attends the
Congregational Church.
Dr. Whitehouse married, July 12, 1893, at
Fort Fairfield, Edith E. Armstrong, born at
Perth, New Brunswick, May 13, 1871. She
was educated there in the public schools. She
is a member of the Congregational church,
and past matron of Goodwill Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star, a member of Philoma-
thean Club, and of the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the Congregational church. Wilbert Arm
strong, her father, was born in New Bruns
wick, in 1848. For the past twenty years he
has followed farming in Fort Fairfield. He
attends the Baptist church. He married Em-
meline McLaughlin, born in Perth, New
Brunswick. She also attends the Baptist
church. Children of Wilbert Armstrong: 1.
Ella Armstrong, married Thomas Heney Arm
strong, of North Adams, Massachusetts, super
intendent of cotton mill there; no children. 2.
Lottie Armstrong, married Henry W. Ebbett,
of New Brunswick, now of Caribou, Maine, a
farmer ; children : Raymond, Gretchen, Avis
Ebbett. 3. Vina Armstrong, married 
Shaw, of Caribou, dealer in horses and auto
mobiles. 4. Millage Armstrong, married Geor
gia Lovely, of Fort Fairfield ; a farmer : chil
dren : Freda and Ella. 5. Edith E. Arm
strong, married Fred Murch Whitehouse, men
tioned above. 6. Henry Armstrong, married
Annie Shaw ; he is a farmer, Caribou. 7.
Wesley Armstrong, married Maud Ebbett ; he
is a farmer, Caribou. 8. Bernice Armstrong,
married Alfred N. Smith, general merchant,
North Pownal, Vermont. 9. Gladys Arm
strong, married Clement Richardson, farmer,
Bangor. Children of Fred Murch White-
house: 1. Beatrice Irene, born at Fort Fair
field, April 29, 1894; graduate of the Fort
Fairfield High School, class of 1912, and of
the Bliss Business College, North Adams,
191 3, now a stenographer for H. W. Trafton.
2. Ralph Murch, born March 6, 1898; student
in the Fort Fairfield High School, class of
1915-

Robert Fletcher, the immi-
FLETCHER grant, was born in England,
in 1592, died at Concord,
April 3, 1677, aged eighty-five. His will was
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four-score." The family tradition fixes his
birthplace in Yorkshire. He settled in Con
cord, Massachusetts, in 1630, and became well-
to-do and prominent. He was appointed by
the general court a constable for Concord,
November 2, 1637; was one of the founders
of the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
He married  . Children : Luke,
born in England ; William, mentioned below ;
Caroline ; Francis, 1630 ; Samuel, 1632.
(II) William, son of Robert Fletcher, was
born in England in 1622, died November 6,
1677. He came to Concord with his father.
He was admitted to the church there, was
made a freeman, May 10, 1643 ; selectman,
1655, of Chelmsford, the first town meeting
being at his house. In 1673 ne was appointed
a commissioner or magistrate for Chelms
ford. He owned the land on which the city
of Lowell is located, and a part of the original
lot near the meeting house in Chelmsford is
still owned by his descendants and has been
in the possession of the family two hundred
years and more. He married, October 7, 1645,
Lydia Bates, of Concord, who died October
12, 1704. Children: Lydia, born January 30,
1647; Joshua, mentioned below; Paul; Sarah;
William, born at Chelmsford, February 21,
1657; Mary, October 4, 1658; Esther, April
12, 1662 ; Samuel, July 23, 1664.
(Ill) Joshua, son of William Fletcher, was
born at Concord, March 20, 1648, died No
vember 21, 1713. He was admitted a freeman,
March 11, 1689. He married (first) May 4,
1668, Grissel Jewell, who - died in January,
1681. He married (second) July 18, 1681,
Sarah Willey. Child of first wife : Joshua,
born about 1669. Children by second wife:
Paul, 1682; Rachel, June 27, 1683; Timothy,
October, 1685 ; John, May 7, 1687; Joseph, (q.
v.) ; Sarah, January 21, 1690; Jonathan; Jonas,
1694; Elizabeth, June 10, 16

The surnames Cockburn, Col-
COBURN bourne, Colburn and Coburn
are variations in spelling of the
same old English surname. It is believed that
the name was of very ancient Scandinavian
origin. The family in England bore coats-of-
arms. One is described : Argent on a chevron
between three bugle horns, stringed sable, as
many mullets of the first, on a chief embattled
gules, pendant from a riband of the last, fim-
brinated, azure. Crest: Out of a mural crown,
or, a reindeer's head, argent, attired or, be
tween a branch of laurel in the dexter and a
branch of palm in the sinister both proper.
But various American families, descended from
Edward Coburn, mentioned below, have copies
of an armorial, not founded in English her

aldry, described in the Colburn genealogy:
Ermine on a shield a chevron or with two
cinquefoils in chief, centered sanguine, leaved
of the second and in the base a martlet on a
sword barwise, winged sable, closed, contourne.
Crest : A wolf's head, couped, contourne. This
device has been in use so many years in Amer
ica, that regardless of its early history it is a
valued possession of the Coburns of America.
(I) Edward Coburn, Colborne or Colburn,
as the name is variously spelled by his descend
ants, was born in England. He sailed in Sep
tember, 1635, in the ship "Defence" and ar
rived in Boston, October 30. His age was
stated as seventeen, and Robert Colburn,
aged twenty-eight years, was a fellow passen
ger. He settled first at Ipswich, Massachu
setts, and was a farmer for Nathaniel Salton-
stall. He was a soldier in King Philip's war
from Chelmsford and was in charge of what
was called Colburn's garrison on the Merrimac
river, having the rank of corporal. He was
guarding the ferry, March 18, 1675, when the
Wamesit Indians killed two sons of Samuel
Varnum and burned Coburn's home. During
King William's war, 1689-90, he again com
manded a garrison. He was probably the first
settler of Dracut, Massachusetts. He died in
1712. Children: Edward, born 1642; John,
1644; Robert, 1646; Thomas, mentioned be
low ; Daniel, 1654; Hannah, 1656; Ezra, March
16, 1658 ; Joseph, June 16, 1661 ; Lydia, August
20, 1666.
(II) Thomas Coburn, son of Edward Co-
burn, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts,
about 1648, died before 1728. His land was
conveyed to him by his father, February 22,
1671. He married (first) August 6, 1672,
Hannah Rolfe, (second) November 17, 1681,
Remembrance (Underwood) Richardson. Chil
dren by first wife : Hannah, born 1673 ;
Thomas, May 14, 1675 ; Jonathan, May 16,
1677; Daniel, January 19, 1679. Children by
second wife: Josiah, March 15, 1684; James,
January 31, 1689; Margaret, March 12, 1691 ;
Jonathan, December 22, 1693 ', Zachariah, April
26, 1697; Mary or Mercy, March 1, 1699;
Henry, May 2, 1700; Sarah, October 7, 1703;
Ephraim, April 24, 1706.
(Ill) Zachariah Coburn, son of Thomas
Coburn, was born April 26, 1697. He was a
seaman on the sloop "Sea Flower" in 1725.
He lived at Dracut and Pelham, now New
Hampshire. He married Johanna  .
Children: Hannah, born at Dracut, February
7, 1732; Edward, October 9, 1733; Ruth, May
17, 1737; Zachariah, August 8, 1740; Silas,
November 14, 1742 ; Jonas, mentioned below ;
Nathan, July 31, 1751.
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burn, was born at Pelham, now New Hamp
shire, March 28, 1749. He married, Decem
ber 6, 1770, Lucy Varnum, daughter of Abra
ham and Rebecca (Shedd) Varnum, descend
ant of pioneers in Dracut and Billerica, Massa
chusetts. She was born July 31,1751. They lived
at Lewiston and Brickfield, Maine. Children :
Sarah, born September 5, 1771, married Valen
tine Matthews, of Turner, Maine ; Jonas, Janu
ary 11, 1774; Asa Varnum, January 19, 1777;
Lucy, April 8, 1779, died at Turner, Decem
ber 10, 1815; Elizabeth, February 13, 1781,
soldier in the war of 1812 at Portland; Silas,
mentioned below; Hannah, April 14, 1785;
Mercy, October 22, 1787; Peter, September 3,
1791. (V) Silas Coburn, son of Jonas Coburn.
was born in Buckfield, Maine, January 24,
1783, died in 1879. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812, in the same company with his
brother Peter. He married Joan Brigham.
They lived at Lincoln, Maine. Children : Silas,
mentioned below; Marietta, married (first)
Turner, (second) —  Lombard;

Nancy, married

Warren; William;

Jonas, born February 16, 1821, married Esther
Warren. (VI) Silas (2) Coburn, son of Silas (1)
Coburn, was born about 1810 at Buckfield, Ox
ford county, Maine. He married Laura
Forbes in 1847. She was born in Paris, Ox
ford county, 181 1. He was a farmer all his
active life. In religion he was a Protestant.
in politics a Democrat. They had one child,
Christopher Columbus, mentioned below.
(VII) Christopher Columbus Coburn, son
of Silas (2) Coburn, was born at Crystal Lake,
Maine, May 20, 1848. He was educated in the
public schools. His occupations were farmer,
hunter and guide. In politics he was a Demo
crat, in religion a Protestant. He married, Au
gust 4, 1874, at Patten, Maine, Nancy Jane
Moore, born at Brownville, Maine, December
26, 1858, daughter of William Moore. Chil
dren: Lucy, born July 26, 1875, died in in
fancy; Henry, October 19, 1876, died July 10,
1880; Ferdinand R., mentioned below; Oren
W., April 14, 1882; Allard F., August 3, 1884;
Arthur C. F., April 15, 1888.
(VIII) Ferdinand R. Coburn, son of Chris
topher Columbus Coburn, was born at Patten,
Maine, November 11, 1880. He attended the
public schools of his native town, the Patten
high school and the Eastman Business College
of Poughkeepsie, New York. During his boy
hood he helped his father in the work of the
farm. After completing his education he left
home, and for three years worked during the
summer seasons for H. C. Filer, of East
-Hampton, New York. He then learned the

printer's trade in the office of E. S. Boughton,
of East Hampton, and continued in his employ
for eight years. He then purchased the Ash
land Gazette, Ashland, Maine, and since then
has been editor and one of the publishers of
that newspaper. The Gazette is an influential
weekly newspaper of wide and growing circu
lation, and Mr. Coburn also has an extensive
printing business. He has taken an active part
in public affairs, and has been especially active
in the temperance movement. In politics he is
a Prohibitionist. He served on the county
committee of the Prohibition party in Suffolk
county, New York. He has held all the im
portant offices in the subordinate lodge of the
International Order of Good Templars, and is
a member of the New York Grand Lodge of
that order. Pie is a past noble grand of Moun
tain View Lodge, No. 144, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and the financial secretary of
Shasta Rebekah Lodge, Odd Fellows. He is
secretary of the Aroostook Sportsmen and
Guides' Association, of Ashland, Maine. He
is an active member of the Union Congrega
tional Church.
He married, at East Hampton, New York,
August 19, 1905, Eva Blanch Miller, born at
Amagansett, New York, July 11, 1887, daugh
ter of Nathan D. and Ida Elizabeth (Bennett)
Miller. Her father was a farmer and fisher
man. Children of her parents : Howard Miller,
Ira D. Miller, Mrs. Agnes Bassett, Mrs. Hat-
tie Stolberg, Mrs. Ida Merrall, Mrs. Eva B.
Coburn, Filmore Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Coburn
have two children : Elizabeth Cartwright, born
March 16, 1908, and Frances Irene Miller,
born December 15, 1913.

The surname Spear is of ancient
SPEAR English origin. The name is also
spelled Spere. The family seems
never to have been very large.
(I) George Spear, the immigrant ancestor
of all the colonial families of this surname in
New England and of practically all of the
name in this country, came from his native
place in England to America in 1642 or earlier,
and made his home in Braintree, formerly
Mount Wollaston, and part of Boston, Massa
chusetts. He was admitted a freeman of the
colony, May 29, 1644. He lived for a time at
Dorchester, and in his old age he removed to
New Dartmouth, new Pemaquid, Maine, and
is said to have been killed by the Indians. He
married Mary  , who died at Braintree,
December 7, 1674. Children: George, mar
ried, April 2, 1669, Mary Dering; Sarah, born
January 3, 1647-48, married George Witty;
Richard, had seven children baptized April 11,
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young; Ebenezer, mentioned below; Hannah,
born March 30, 1656-57, died 1668; Samuel,
born January 16, 1658-59; Nathaniel, born
May 15, 1665, married Hannah Holman.
(II) Ebenezer Spear, son of George Spear,
was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, August
3, 1654. He was a farmer in Braintree. He
died March 27, 1719. He married, July 16,
1679, Rachel Deering. Children, born at Brain
tree: Ebenezer, born June 24, 1680; Mary,
June 10, 1682; Samuel, May 18, 1684; Rachel,
April 10, 1686; Joseph, mentioned below; Na
thaniel, May 18, 1693; Abigail, November 7,
1695; Benjamin, February 12, 1699; Deering,
November 6, 1700.
(Ill) Joseph Spear, son of Ebenezer Spear,
was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, Febru
ary 25, 1689. He married Abigail Clegg.
Among their children was John, mentioned be
low. (IV) John Spear, son of Joseph Spear, was
born about 1710, in Braintree, Massachusetts.
He married Mary  . Children, born at
Braintree: Mary, born January 4, 1743; Jo
seph, June 12, 1746; Ebenezer, mentioned be
low; Joshua, May 11, 1753.
(V) Ebenezer (2) Spear, son of John
Spear, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,
January 2, 1750, died March 18, 1821. He
married at Wells, Maine, February 18, 1766,
Rebecca Annis, who died July 20, 1826. He
came to Litchfield, Maine, in 1787, and set
tled on the lot next to John Magoon's farm on
the road from South Litchfield to the Corners.
Children: 1. Israel, born June 10, 1767; mar
ried, April 12, 1787, Sally Glass in Sanford,
Maine. 2. Meribah, born 1768; married Eben
ezer Moore. 3. Ebenezer, married, May 9,
1799, Molly Spear, and moved to Ohio. 4.
Gideon, mentioned below. 5. Annis, born
June 30, 1775; married, April, 1796, Sally
Hildreth, daughter of Paul Hildreth ; resided
at West Gardiner, where he died April 17,
1858. 6. Asa, born April, 1777; married
(first) November 26, 1806, Mary Jewell, (sec
ond) Jane (Stacy) Silver. 7. Salathiel, mar
ried, July 22, 1804, Deborah Jewell; removed
to Ohio in 181 6. 8. Rebecca, born March 31,
1788; married Andrew Brown and Elisha
Thomas. 9. Ivory, born September 8, 1790;
married, February 28, 1816, Lois Babb, daugh
ter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Daoughty) Babb;
he died August 3, 1849. IO- William, born
October 11, 1792; married (first) December
23, 1814, Betsey Brown, (second) Lois Libby,
who died December 13, 1863.
(VI) Gideon Spear, son of Ebenezer (2)
Spear, was born about 1775. For many years
he lived at Litchfield, Maine, near Oak Hill,
then removed to Gardiner. He married, Octo

ber 23, 1800, Susannah Jewell, who died June
4, 1864, aged eighty-three years, daughter of
Enos and Deborah (Hall) Jewell. Her father
was a soldier in the revolution. Children:
1. Edmund, mentioned below. 2. John, born
1805, died at sea in 1825. 3. Rebecca, born
July 24, 1807, died July 22, 1893 ; lived at
Gardiner. 4. Susannah, born May 9, 1809,
died December 8, 1835. 5. Salathiel, born Oc
tober 13, 181 1 ; married (first) Ursula Stevens,
(second) Louise W. Durham, March 15, 1856.
6. Ivory, born February 19, 1813, died at sea
in 1834.
(VII) Edmund Spear, son of Gideon Spear,
was born at Litchfield, Maine, April 5, 1802,
died at Gardiner, January 7, 1875. He was a
stonemason and farmer. He lived in Gardiner
during the greater part of his life. In early
life he was a Whig, later a Republican. He
was a devout member of the church. He mar
ried, March 5, 1827, Susan Hildreth, born in
Gardiner, July 17, 1807, died there June 2,
1880. Children, born at Gardiner: 1. Thad-
deus H., born April 28, 1828, died at Gardiner,
February 5, 1894; married, September 17,
1861, Hannah Douglas, of Gardiner; he was
a carpenter by trade; after an accident which
disabled him he propagated eels for a liveli
hood very successfully ; was councilman and
alderman many years ; child, Alice, born July
17, 1864, died May 8, 1875. 2. William H,
born March 18, 1833, died at Gardiner, Au
gust 7, 1898; married, June 6, 1856, Vesta
Averill, of Leominster; children: Ellen, born
September 13, i860, married, August 23, 1879,
William H. Hutchings, and she died December
23, 1895 ; Willie, born 1874, died August 20,
1890. 3. Frederick, born March 7, 1835, died
July 19, 1836. 4. Joseph E., mentioned below.
5. Charles E., born August 12, 1849, died Feb
ruary 13, 1891, in a landslide in Idaho.
(VIII) Joseph E. Spear, son of Edmund
Spear, was born at Gardiner, Maine, Novem
ber 11, 1837, died at Limestone, Maine, Au
gust 26, 1912. He worked for eight years in
the paper mills at Gardiner. He removed to
Limestone and cleared a farm, which he culti
vated until five years before he died. In poli
tics he was a Republican ; in religion a Free
Will Baptist. He was a member of Limestone
Grange, No. 272, of which he was treasurer
several years. He married, February 12, 1865,
Mary G. Ward, born at Gardiner, March 18,
1846. She is a member of Limestone Grange,
of the Ladies' Aid Society and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Pier father,
Josiah Ward, was born at China, Maine, No
vember 19, 1829, died at Limestone, June 10,
1884. He was a farmer in Limestone. In
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ber of the Free Will Baptist Church, of the
Good Templars and was lodge deputy in Lime
stone. He married Mary Ann Toole, born at
Gardiner, December 19, 1825. Children of
Josiah Ward: 1. Mary G. Ward, married Jo
seph E. Spear, mentioned above. 2. Elias B.
Ward, born at China, September 14, 1847, car
penter, Seattle, Washington. 3. Walter Ward,
born 1849, died 1851. 4. William B. Ward,
born at Gardiner, March 22, 1853; married
Ardelia Willey, of Colebrook, New Hamp
shire; farmer and potato buyer, Limestone.
5. Maria Ward, born at Gardiner, February
22, 1856; married William H. Webster, under
taker, Limestone. 6. Isabella Ward, born
March 27, 1859; married Laura Morris, of
Iowa. 7. John Ward, born at Limestone, Feb
ruary 17, 1863; married Alice Willey. Josiah
Ward, father of Josiah Ward, died in China
in 1832. He married Prussia Gifford and had
children : Betsey Ward, married Alpheus
Ewer ; Maria Ward, married Jefferson
Wyman; William Ward, brick manufacturer,
Idaho, married (second) Caroline Bragg, of
China, Maine ; Adelaide Ward, married John
Moore, of Nova Scotia; Roxanna Ward, mar
ried Charles Clapman ; Josiah Ward, men
tioned above. Children of Joseph E. Spear:
1. Fred Forest, mentioned below. 2. Elwood
E,, born October 3, 1871, died at Limestone,
June 5, 1882. 3. Nettie Maria, born July 28,
1873; married Charles Ernest Noyes, of Free-
port, Maine, a farmer at Limestone ; children :
Elwood, Helen, Laura and Fern Noyes.
(IX) Fred Forest Spear, son of Joseph E.
Spear, was born at Limestone, Maine, May
13, 1868. He attended the public schools of
his native town and graduated from the high
school there in 1888. He assisted his father
on the farm until 1890, when he bought a
farm in Limestone, consisting of one hundred
and fifty acres, all under cultivation except
twenty-five acres of woodland. In politics he
is a Progressive. He has been selectman for
five years, and has also been road commis
sioner and member of the school board. He
attends the Free Will Baptist Church. He is
a member of Limestone Lodge, No. 120,
Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chan
cellor commander ; member of Limestone
Grange, No. 272, Patrons of Husbandry, of
which he has been master. He is also a
Mason, member of Limestone Lodge.
He married, February 28, 1889, Ellen True
Noyes, born in Limestone, February 28, 1868,
died May 1, 1914. She graduated from- the
high school and taught school two terms in
Limestone before her marriage. She was a
member of the Grange. Josiah Merrill Noyes,

her father, was born at Freeport, Maine, 1838,
died 1907. He was a farmer, miller and lum
berman of Limestone. In politics he was a
Prohibitionist. He was tax collector and
selectman of the town. He was a member of
the Grange and the Knights of Pythias, and
a Free Mason. He married Sybil Davis, born
at Freeport, 1844, died at Limestone, 1909.
Children of Josiah Merrill Noyes : 1. Charles
Ernest Noyes, born February 6, 1863 ; married
Nettie Maria Spear, mentioned above. 2.
Eldelia A. Noyes, born February 6, 1863;
married Arthur Thompson, of Limestone.
3. Ellen True Noyes, married Fred Forest
Spear, mentioned above. 4. Alfred L. Noyes,
born September 11, 1877, married Ethel
Long, of Limestone ; he has a farm, mill
and starch factory at Limestone. Moses
Noyes, father of Josiah Merrill Noyes,
was born in Maine, and followed farming
in Freeport. He married Sophronia Mer
rill, who died at Freeport in 1874. Children
of Moses Noyes : Mary Noyes, married a Mr.
Thorts, miller, Yarmouth; Josiah Merrill
Noyes, mentioned above ; Sophronia Noyes,
died at Freeport, unmarried ; Adelaide Noyes ;
William Noyes, married Lucinda Merrill;
Charles Noyes, died at Pownal; John Noyes,
farmer, Freeport. Children of Fred Spear:
1. Forest Lewis, mentioned below. 2. Willa
Alice, born October 17, 1891 ; school teacher.
3. Waldo G., September 3, 1893. 4. Ruby Fay,
August 13, 1895, married Lyle Morris and has
one child, Mona Helen, born April 19, 1913.
5. William McKinley, March 4, 1897. 6. Otis
Elwell, January 13, 1899, died aged sixteen
months. 7. Amy Pearl, October 23, 1901. 8.
Donald Clare, January 15, .1903.
(X) Forest Lewis Spear, son of Fred Forest
Spear, was born at Limestone, April 12, 1890.
He attended the public and high schools of his
native town and the Houlton Business College.
He assisted his father on the homestead until
May, 1912, when he bought a farm on Center
road, Fort Fairfield, consisting of one hundred
and eighty-four acres, of which one hundred
and fifty acres are under cultivation. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He attends the Free
Will Baptist Church, and is a member of Lime
stone Grange, of which he has been secretary
and assistant steward. He married, December
24, 191 2, in Houlton, Fern E. Lundy, born in
Fort Fairfield, December 25, 1891, graduate
of the Fort Fairfield high school in 1909. She
attended the Aroostook State Normal School
one year and taught school until her marriage
(see Lundy II). They have one child, Helen
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(The Lundy Line).
(I) William Lundy was born in Dublin,
Ireland, died in Fort Fairfield, Maine. Pie
came to this country when a young man and
followed farming in Fort Fairfield. In reli
gion he was an Episcopalian. He served in the
civil war. He married Sarah Russell, born
and died in Fort Fairfield. She was a Roman
Catholic in religion. Children, born at Fort
Fairfield: 1. Fannie, married Isaac Whit-
taker, of Presque Isle. 2. John, born Septem
ber 22, 1847; married (first) Ellen McCar-
ron ; children : George, Ernest, Ellen, Charles,
Jeremiah, Sarah, married Charles E. Murphy ;
Lee. John married (second) January 12, 1898,
in Limestone, Ida M. Libby, born December,
1855, in Bradford, Maine. 3. Phebe, married
L. S. Osgood, carpenter, of Fort Fairfield,
foreman in mill at Presque Isle. 4. William,
deceased. 5. George, married Ida F. Mattice,
who resides at Pittsville, Wisconsin. 6. Sarah
Jane, married Frank Getchell, of Kennebunk,
now foreman of a shoe factory at Lynn, Mas-V
sachusetts. 7. Robert, lost his life in a railroad
accident at Youngs Point, Montana. 8. Mana,
married Frank Bowser, of Kennebunk, a mer
chant. 9. Thomas Albert, mentioned below.
(II) Thomas Albert Lundy, son of William
Lundy, was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
1859, died there January 29, 1895. He was a
farmer. In politics he was a Republican ; in
religion a Roman Catholic. He married, De
cember 24, 1888, in Fort Fairfield, Nettie May
Barker, born at Easton, August 29, 1864. Her
parents removed to Andover, New Brunswick,
when she was ten months old, and she was
educated there. Children, all born at Fort
Fairfield: Jennie, born June 3, 1890, died
October 19, 1903 ; Fern E., married Forest
Lewis Spear (see Spear X) ; Helen, born May
10, 1894, died July 6, 1902 ; Earl, died aged
ten months. Nettie May (Barker) Lundy
married (second) Frederick Russell, born at
Fort Fairfield, April, 1872, and had one son,
Orrin Joseph, born December 29, 1898.
Orin Barker, father of Nettie May Barker,
was born at Norridgewock, Maine, 1834, died
near Andover, New Brunswick, February 4,
1908. He was a farmer. He married Jane
Small, born at Mirimachi, New Brunswick,
1839, died near Andover, April, 1874. She
was a member of the Methodist church. Chil
dren of Orin Barker: David Barker, died
aged nineteen; Flora Barker, married (first)
Amos Fitzherbert, a harness maker, soldier in
the civil war; (second) Charles Everett, of
Andover ; Jane Barker, married Captain Elias
Reed, retired sea captain, of Brunswick,
Maine; Zebediah Barker, married Emeline
Sloat, and lives at Foxcroft, Maine; Nettie

May Barker, married (first) Thomas Albert
Lundy, mentioned above; (second) Frederick
Russell; Mary Barker, married Michael Dor-
sey ; Charles O. Barker, married Rella Bishop.
Orin Barker had brothers and sisters : So
phronia Barker, married James Stevens, of
Ludlow ; Mary Barker, married  Pingree ;
Emma Barker, married Ezra Fields ; Wil
liam Barker, married Lydia Morrison; Amos
Barker, married Martha Morrison; Daniel
Barker, married Mary Small ; Greenleaf
Barker, died young.

Rev. Hosea Smith was born in
SMITH 1776, in the state of Maine, died
in 1856, at Charlotte, Maine. He
came to Charlotte when a young man and
raised his family there. He was a minister of
the Christian church, and preached at Lubec
and Camp Bello, Maine. Pie was also a
farmer, owning a farm in Charlotte. In poli
tics he was a Whig. He married 
Damon, a native of Maine, who died in 1870,
at Charlotte. Children: 1. John, was a
farmer ; married Miss McGlauflin ; died at
Penobscot county, Maine. 2. Hosea, was a
farmer and a soldier; he enlisted in the Ninth
Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Infantry
and served three years ; he married Mary Ann
 ; he died at Pembroke, Maine. 3. Isaiah
D., mentioned below. 4. Zedach, married Miss
McAlpine, of Charlotte. 5. Charles, was a
minister of the Christian church ; died at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 6. Mary, mar
ried John Morgan, of Charlotte. 7. Elmira,
married Ephraim Seavy, a carpenter ; she died
in Minnesota. 8. Lydia, married William
Coan, who died in the army ; she died at Fox
croft, Maine. 9. Hannah, married (first) Ira
Hughes, a veteran of the civil war, and a car
penter; she married (second) George Ingra-
ham, who was overseer of the State Prison, at
Thomaston; he came from Camden, Maine,
and died at Chapman, where he lived on a
farm. 10. Johan, married Luther Laken, who
was a farmer and a lumberman ; she died in
1914, at Lawrence, Massachusetts. 11. Oliver,
was in the civil war; married Abigail Rey
nolds, from Dennisville, Maine, and died at
Presque Isle, Maine. There were two other
children; these are not in order of birth.
(II) Isaiah D. Smith, son of Rev. Hosea
Smith, was born in 1826 at Charlotte, Maine,
died at Mapleton, Maine, in 1907. He was a
farmer, also had a meat market in Milltown,
where he cut his hand very seriously, after
which he became an itinerant merchant. He
lived for many years in Charlotte, bringing his
family up there. When about sixty years old
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Republican, and attended the Methodist
church. He married (first) Harriet Laken, of
Charlotte, died 1867. He married (second)
Cordelia (Higgins) Milan, widow of William
Milan, of New Brunswick. She was born in
Wesley, Maine, and died in Boston, Massa
chusetts. Children: 1. Edwin Augustus, men
tioned below. 2. Charles Calvin, born March
19, 185 1, • he now resides at Mapleton, Maine,
a retired farmer ; he is a Prohibitionist, and
belongs to Eureka Grange, No. 113, Patrons
of Husbandry, Mapleton, Maine; he married
(first) Ellie T. Emerson, born in Oxford
county, Maine, died March 12, 1904; he mar
ried (second) Maria (Fields) Tuck, widow
of John Tuck, a harness maker, from Presque
Isle; children, all by first wife: Jennie H.,
married Steven Burton, a farmer, now resides
at Castle Hill, Maine ; Ploward, a farmer,
resides at Castle Hill, Maine ; Gertrude A.,
married Arthur Roake, a farmer, resides at
Mapleton ; May, deceased ; Ethel C, deceased ;
Frederick, a farmer, resides at Mapleton,
Maine; Lavada, deceased; Clara, married
George Rundstrom, a farmer. 3. Frederick,
born 1853, died young. 4. Ella B., born March
10, 1856; married John Dow, a farmer at Cas
tle Hill, Maine ; children : Warren, principal
of high school in Rhode Island; Charles, head
clerk in a store, in Seattle, Washington;
Thomas, a farmer at Mapleton, Maine ; Au
gustus, a merchant in Seattle, Washington;
-Marley, a farmer at Mapleton, Maine ; John,
a farmer at Castle Hill; Senior, a clerk
at Bar Harbor; Eleanor, a school teacher
at Mapleton, Maine ; Percy, lives with his
brother John. 5. Lucretia, born 1858, died
young. 6. Melvina, born 1861 ; married Jo
seph Lee, of Presque Isle, where she now re
sides ; children : Percy, a bookkeeper ; Lester,
a blacksmith; Harry, Elwood, Richard, El-
lery. 7. Clara, born 1863, died young. Chil
dren by second wife: 8. Harriet, born 1872;
married Chester Messer, a merchant in Au
gusta, Maine; they now reside in Gardiner,
Maine ; children : Rachel and two others. 9.
Elmira, died young.
(Ill) Edwin Augustus Smith, son of Isaiah
D. Smith, was born at Charlotte, Maine, July
2, 1849. He attended the public schools of his
native town. During his boyhood he worked
on his father's farm and from 1869 to 1871
he followed farming in the employ of various
neighbors. In 1871 he bought a farm in
Mapleton, consisting of fifty-eight acres, all
under cultivation. He conducted this farm
until 1908 and since then it has been in charge
of his son, Owen H. Smith. Afterward he
bought another farm of fifty-seven acres in
Chapman and he still owns it. In 1899 ne

opened a general store in Mapleton and since
then has devoted his attention mainly to the
mercantile business. In politics he is a Re
publican. For twenty-eight years he has been
town clerk, and for twenty-six years constable
of Mapleton. For ten years he has been a jus
tice of the peace. He was selectman for two
years and road commissioner for several years.
He is a member of the Free Will Baptist
church, and he is a trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He is a member of Lodge
No. 42, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Presque Isle, in which he has filled all the
offices except noble grand; member of the
Encampment and Canton of Fort Fairfield;
of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Presque Isle ; of Mapleton Grange,
and the Pomona Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married, September 23, 1871, at Presque
Isle, Zana Maria Chandler, born in Lovell,
Maine, April 1, 1857. Her parents removed to
Mapleton when she was two years and a half
old and she attended the public schools there.
She is a member of Mapleton Grange and the
Pomona Grange ; a former member of Re-
bekah Lodge; member of the Free Will Bap
tist church and of the Ladies' Aid societies
of both the Free Will Baptist and the Metho
dist churches. Children of Edwin Augustus
Smith: 1. Effie Blanche, born September 20,
1872, died in 1876. 2. Owen H., born May 26,
1874, conducts his father's farm; member of
Mapleton Grange and the Pomona Grange;
married Flora Dudley, of Castle Hill; chil
dren: Harold, born at Mapleton, June 30,
1897; Lionel, March, 1900; Dorothea, August
31, 1902. 3. Selden Harry, born in 1876, died
aged eleven months. 4. Zana Belle, born 1878,
died young. 5. Anna May, born April, 1880;
married William Casey, of Mapleton, farmer,
of Chapman. 6. Clyde, born 1882, died June
26, 1899. 7. Cherlene, born 1884; married
Clinton Johnson, of Chapman, farmer, Presque
Isle ; children : Crystal, Leversa, Hope. 8.
Maude E., born October 3, 1886; married Wil
liam Filmore, of Mapleton; she died in Octo
ber, 191 1, • he is a farmer and river driver in
Mapleton ; child, Omar. 9. Hattie, born 1888,
died February 16, 191 1. 10. Hazel, born July
8, 1892, member of the Ladies of the Macca
bees; married Aaron Dicker, born at Spring
field, Maine, December, 1888; child, May
Dicker, born November 27, 1908. 11. Velma,
born January 6, 1895.
Benjamin H. Chandler, father of Mrs.
Smith, was born in Chatham, Maine, August
3, 1808, died at Mapleton, March, 1883. He
followed farming in Lovell, Maine, and after
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publican. He married, October 27, 1834, at
Lovell, Nancy C. Hatch, born at Parsonfield,
Maine, October 24, 1816. She was a member
of the Free Will Baptist church. Children of
Benjamin H. Chandler, all born at Lovell :
1. Dean Chandler, born February 5, 1836, died
at Lovell, March 25, 1838. 2. Julius C.
Chandler, born June 12, 1839, died at Port
land, Maine, 1910; was a farmer in Mapleton
and afterward a carpenter in Portland, Maine ;
enlisted in 1861 and served through the civil
war; married Carrie Braley, born at Hal
lowed, Maine, and now lives in Portland. 3.
Alphonso L. Chandler, born November 6,
1841, died at Bangor, Maine, February, 1904;
was a farmer ; served in the civil war ; married
Matilda  — ¦ and had children : Mary, a
trained nurse, and Hettie, both of Bangor. 4.
Ruth E. Chandler, born February 15, 1846;
married (first) March 4, 1863, Josiah H. Chan
dler, born at Lovell, March 31, 1835, died May
27, 1870; children: Mabel F., born December
23, 1863, married Mark Grendell, and resides
at Chapman ; Mark, born March 6, 1867,
farmer, Chapman; Ha, born October 24, 1869,
farmer, Chapman ; she married (second) May
25, 1873, Worth Grendell, born at Newport,
Maine, October 14, 1849, a farmer of Chap
man; child: Blanche Grendell, born April
20, 1879, married William Akeley, farmer, of
Chapman. 5. Anna B. Chandler, born August
31, 1849; married Walter Eaton, of North
Reading, Maine, where he resides, a shoe
maker by trade ; children : Herbert Eaton, re
sides in New Hampshire ; Hovey Eaton, a
clerk in North Reading, Maine ; Grover Eaton,
locomotive fireman, living at North Reading;
Lucy Eaton, married Lester Haywood, a
butcher, Middleton, Massachusetts; Francis
Eaton; Edith Eaton, married Harry Tollman,
farmer, Newburyport, Massachusetts ; Ger
trude Eaton, married Thomas Foley, mer
chant, deceased; she resides at North Read
ing. 6. Francis Chandler, born October 4,
1851, died at Mapleton; married Nettie Clark,
who married (second) Havelock Demmock.
7. Zana Maria Chandler, married Edwin Au
gustus Smith, mentioned above. 8. Rebecca
W. Chandler, born February 22, i860; mar
ried Asa Gould, of North Andover, Massachu
setts ; children : Alice Gould, married Murray
Eaton, a shoemaker, Beverly, Massachusetts;
Sidney Gould, of North Reading; Helen
Gould. The father of Benjamin H. Chandler died
in Lovell in 1856, aged over eighty years. Bet
sey-Chandler, sister of Benjamin H. Chan
dler, married  Gray ; Charlotte, another
sister, married John Chandler, a farmer, of
Lovell ; Chloe, another sister, died in Pennsyl

vania, married Thomas Hatch, a farmer of
Lovell ; Phebe, another sister, died at Frye-
burg, Maine, married Seymour Plolmes, of
Fryeburg.

James Smith, the pioneer ancestor
SMITH of this family in Maine, was born
about 1773 in Massachusetts, died
at Waterboro, Maine, about 1856. He was a
farmer and owned a sawmill in Waterboro for
many years. In politics he was a Democrat.
He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Chil
dren: Samuel, mentioned below; Eunice, died
at Waterboro, married  Jellison of that
town, a farmer.
(II) Samuel Smith, son of James Smith,
was born at Waterboro, Maine, in January,
1804, died at Masardis, in September, 1895.
He was educated in the public schools and by
private study, and for some years was a school
teacher. Pie followed farming in Kingsbury
and later in Masardis for a period of thirty
years. He took a prominent part in public
affairs. He held in succession most of the
town offices and in 1856 was representative to
the state legislature. He married Olive
Decker, born at Clinton, Maine, in 1820, died
at Masardis, in October, 1894. Children, all
born at Kingsbury, Maine: 1. Lydia, died at
Kingsbury ; married James Adams, of Wel
lington, Maine, a farmer. 2. Wentworth, a
farmer, died in California, unmarried. 3.
Jefferson, resides at South Stillwater, Minne
sota. 4. Fairfield, died at Masardis, unmar
ried ; served one year in the Seventeenth Regi
ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, contracted
rheumatism in the army and became a cripple
from the effects of the disease. 5. Newell
Decker, mentioned below. 6. Emeline, married
Amasa Goding Jr., of Masardis, a farmer ; she
is living in Masardis. 7. Clara, died young.
8. George, died young. 9. Cora, married Orrin
Robinson, a farmer ; resides at Ashland.
(Ill) Newell Decker Smith, son of Samuel
Smith, was born at Kingsbury, Maine, June 23,
1843. He attended the public schools of his
native town and was a student for one term in
Bloomfield Academy, now Fairfield Academy.
From early youth he has followed farming,
and during most of his life he has cultivated
his farm in Masardis. For two years he was
in Minnesota. He enlisted in September, 1864,
in the First Maine Regiment of Sharpshooters
and served to the close of the war. He took
part in the battle of Five Forks and was at
Appomattox. At the end of the war he was
transferred to the Twentieth Maine Regiment,
in which he served for a month and a half and
then was mustered out in Portland. In politics
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in public affairs, serving as first selectman for
the extended period of fifteen years. He has
also filled the other town offices. He was rep
resentative to the legislature in 1896-97. He
is a member of Knowlen Post, No. 149, Grand
Army of the Republic, and is a charter mem
ber of Ashland Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, of Ashland.
Pie married Lucretia W. Trafton in Masar
dis, April 11, 1870. She was born in Masardis,
October 19, 1850. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith
are Congregationalists. Eben Trafton, father
of Mrs. Smith, was born in Newfield, 1819,
died at Masardis, in February, 1907. He mar
ried Lucinda Ellis, born in Dexter, Maine,
1828, died at Masardis, 1898. He was a
farmer in Masardis all his active life, having
settled there with the pioneers when a young
man and cleared the farm which he afterward
cultivated. In politics he was a Republican
and for many years he was chairman of the
board of selectmen. In his younger days he
was a school teacher in Masardis. He was a
member of Pioneer Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Ashland. Children of Eben Traf
ton: 1. Melissa Trafton, married Charles
Libby, farmer, Oxbow. 2. Sarah, died at Ash
land, 1898; married Dr. Edward Duren, of
Bangor, a physician. 3. Lucretia W. Trafton,
married Newell Decker Smith, mentioned
above. 4. Alpheus Trafton, married Louisa
Rowe ; is a farmer and lumberman of Ashland.
5. William Trafton, died unmarried, at Masar
dis. 6. Isaac Trafton, died at Masardis ; mar
ried Matilda Darling, and she is now living on
her farm in Masardis. Children of Newell
Decker Smith: 1. Nathaniel Jerome, men
tioned below. 2. Charles T., a farmer of Ma
sardis. 3. Maude S., married Willis Grant, of
Massachusetts ; she is a school teacher, a grad
uate of the State Normal School at Farming-
ton, Maine, and of Emerson College, from
which she received the degree of Bachelor of
Oratory ; he is a pattern maker ; they live at
Peterboro, New Hampshire. 4. J. Allen, edu
cated at Bucksport Seminary; married Lot
tie Clayton, of Ashland; he is a potato buyer,
living at Masardis. 5. Lucy L., married Wil
lis R. Dresser, who was born in Princeton,
Maine, now general manager of the Dominion
Fertilizer Company and a manufacturer ; they
reside at Calais, Maine ; she is a graduate of
Kent Hill Seminary. 6. Olive E., graduate of
Emerson College with the degree of Bachelor
of Oratory; graduate of the University of
Maine, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine ;
resides at Fergus Falls, Maine.
(IV) Nathaniel Jerome Smith, son of New
ell Decker Smith, was born at Haywood, town
of Masardis, Maine, February 7, 1872. He

attended the public schools of Ashland and
Masardis and the Bangor Business College.
He began his business career in 1889 as a sur
veyor of lumber in the woods and worked on
the river drive until 1895, when he went scaling
in the woods of New Hampshire. In 1897 he
returned to Maine and built the first potato
house in Haywood. In 1898, attracted by the
discovery of gold, he went to the Klondike
and had a successful year in the mining coun
try. He returned to Maine and in the fol
lowing spring went to Nome, Alaska, where
he followed mining until 1901. He then re
turned to Masardis and resumed his business
of potato buying. In 1906 he established a
general store at Haywood (Squa Pan station)
in the town of Masardis and bought a farm
which he conducted until he sold it in 1912.
He has continued with marked success in his
mercantile business. In politics he was for
merly a Republican, now a Progressive. He
attends the Congregational church, and is a
member of Pioneer Lodge, No. 72, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Ashland.
Pie married, June 3, 1903, at East Orring-
ton, Maine, Mildred Frances Eldridge, born
September 20, 1878, in Brewer, Maine, and
was educated in Orrington public schools and
the Bucksport Seminary. She taught school
for six years in Orrington and Brewer before
marriage. She is a member of the Congrega
tional church (see Eldridge II). Children:
Nathalie Emma, born May 2, 1904; Newell
David. June 22, 1905 ; Lois Olive, October 18,
1910. (The Eldridge Line).
(I) Seth Eldridge, a descendant of an old
Cape Cod family, was born in Holden, Maine,
about 1802, died there aged sixty years. He
followed the sea and was afterward a farmer.
In politics he was in later years a Republican.
He married Sarah Fisher, who died in Holden
before 1872. Children, all born in Holden:
1. Seth, born in 1823, died aged thirty-one
years, leaving Arno, now of Berkeley, Califor
nia, and one other child. 2. Sarah, born 1825,
died at Bangor, Maine ; married (first) Elisha
Jones, captain of a Maine company in the
civil war, who died in Libby Prison; married
(second) Thomas Trickey, of Bangor, a land
owner, wealthy and prominent citizen. 4. Mes-
singer Fisher, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin,
born 1844, died in 191 1 in Brewer, Maine;
was a brick mason and contractor; married
Elizabeth Rogers, of Orrington.
(II) Messinger Fisher Eldridge, son of
Seth Eldridge, was born in Holden, Maine,
August 2, 1829, died at Orrington, June 25,
1898. He was a shipwright in Brewer and
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In religion he was a Universalist, but attended
the Congregational church. He was a mem
ber of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Bangor, for many years. He mar
ried (first) Lucinda Rogers, of Orrington.
She died at Orrington. He married (second)
September, 1872, Emma F. Norton, born in
Vinal Haven, Maine, November 19, 1855, and
was left an orphan at the age of eleven years,
one of three children. Luraine and a twin
sister died young. She is now living in East
Orrington. Four children by first wife died
young. Children of Messinger Fisher Eld
ridge by second wife, all born in Brewer: 1.
George Messinger, born October 9, 1873: a
mason and contractor, living in Orrington, un
married. 2. Flora Green, born September 3,
1876; married James Clanson, of Monson,
Massachusetts, a chemist, graduate of the Uni
versity of Maine, now living at Danbury,
Connecticut. 3. Mildred Frances, married Na
thaniel Jerome Smith (see Smith IV). 4.
Arthur, died young.

This is one of the most
CARPENTER widely distributed names
of the United States, as
well as one of the oldest, and has been notable
among the pioneers of many states. It is
traced to an early period in England, and is
conspicuous in the annals of the American
revolution, and also in civic life through many
generations and representatives. It has car
ried service in many commonwealths. The
Carpenters trace their ancestry to John
Carpenter, born in 1303, and head of the
ancient house in Herefordshire, parish of
Dilwyne, England, to whom the Irish Trycon-
nels also trace their descent. The Hereford
family of Carpenters was prominent, taking an
active part in all matters of interest to the
crown, and probably no family in England has
performed more deeds and received more
favors. Among the most noted was John Car
penter, town clerk of London, who died in
1442. The line of Lord George Carpenter is
the same as that of William Carpenter, of
Rehoboth. Coat-of-arms : Argent a grey
hound passant and chief sable. Crest: A grey
hound's head erased per fesse sable and argent.
This is the same as found on the tombstone of
Daniel Carpenter, of Rehoboth, who was born
in 1669.
(I) John Carpenter, born about 1303, was
a member of parliament in 1325. (II) Rich
ard, born about 1335, was a goldsmith by trade
and wealthy. (Ill) John (2) was a cousin of
John Carpenter, town clerk of London. (IV)
John (3) died about 1500. (V) William, born
about 1440, died in 1520, was William of

Homme. (VI) James, son of William Car
penter. (VII) John (4), son of James Car
penter. (VIII) William, son of John Car
penter, was born about 1520, and died in 1550.
(IX) William, son of William (2) Carpenter,
was born about 1540. (X) William (4), son
of William (3) Carpenter, was born in Eng
land about 1576, and was a resident of Lon
don. He sailed from Southampton for Amer
ica in the ship "Bevis," landing in May, 1638,
and returned to England in the same vessel,
possibly having come to this country merely
to help in the settlement here of his son and
his family.
(I) William (5), pioneer ancestor of the
American line, son of William (4) Carpenter,
was born in England in 1605, died in Reho
both, Massachusetts, February 7, 1659. He
was admitted a freeman of Weymouth, May
13, 1640; was representative from Weymouth,
1641-43, and from Rehoboth, 1645; constable
in 1641 ; was chosen proprietor's clerk of Wey
mouth, 1643. He drew lot No. 18, in the divi
sions of lands in Rehoboth, June 30, 1644, was
admitted an inhabitant of the town March 28,
1645, and the following June was made free
man. It was through his influence that the
grant of Seekonk, otherwise known as Reho
both, was made by the general court, then at
Plymouth. This was the tract of land selected
by Roger Williams for a settlement, when
driven out of the Massachusetts colony. In
1647 William Carpenter was made one of the
directors of the town, and again in 1655. The
legal business of the town and colony was
transacted principally by him. He paid eight
pounds, seventeen shillings and three pence
toward defraying the expenses of King Philip's
war, and was one of a committee to lay out a
road from Rehoboth to Dedham. About 1642
he received a commission as captain from the
governor of Massachusetts, and was called
upon to act for the protection and ownership of
the Pawtuxet lands. The records show him to
have been a yeoman, and his estate was valued
at two hundred and fifty-four pounds and ten
shillings. Governor Bradford, who married
his cousin Alice, favored William Carpenter
in all his measures in the Plymouth court, and
in all their dealings they were close friends.
William Carpenter's wife, Abigail, who died
February 22, 1687, had been provided for in
his will of April 21, 1659. Children: 1. John,
born in England about 1628, died May 23,
1695. 2. William (q. v.). 3. Joseph, 1633,
died May 6, 1675. 4. Hannah, in Weymouth,
April 3, 1640. 5. Abiah, April 9, 1643. 6.
Abigail, twin of Abiah, died March 5, 1710.
7. Samuel, born in 1644.

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Charles Randall was born
RANDALL about 1823 in Nova Scotia
and is now living at Castle
Hill, Maine. He served three years in the civil
war. He followed farming during his active
life. For several years he has been living,
retired, at Castle Hill. In politics he is a Dem
ocrat. He attends the Advent church. He
was formerly a member of the Castle Hill
Grange. He married Eliza Holmes, born in
Maine in 1824, died at Wade, Maine, 1889.
Children: 1. George W., mentioned below. 2.
Jane, married Fred Hilton, of Castle Hill, a
farmer. 3. Charles, married Ida Smith, of
Maysville ; resides at Presque Isle, a farmer.
4. Sarah, resides at Houlton, Maine, a physi
cian. 5. Josephine, married A. F. Locke, of
Haverhill, Massachusetts, a farmer, now living
at Skowhegan, Maine. 6. Grant, a farmer at
Caribou ; married Rosa Blackstone. 7. Mark,
died young. 8. Nora, died at Castle Hill ; mar
ried  Ellis, of Oxbow, a guide.
(II) George W. Randall, son of Charles
Randall, was born at Wade Plantation, No
vember 9, 1841, died in the Houlton Hos
pital, November 21, 1906. He was educated
in the public schools, and followed farming
and lumbering all his active life. In politics
he was a Democrat. He was road commis
sioner and tax collector of Wade and held vari
ous other town offices from time to time. He
attended the Advent church. He was a mem
ber of the Maccabees of Masardis. He mar
ried, August 17, 1862, Abbie Jordan, born in
Carleton county, New Brunswick, June 9,
1842. She is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and was formerly a member
of the Castle Hill Grange. She resides in
Presque Isle. Richard Jordan, her father, was
born in Maine in 1804, died at Fort Fairfield
in 1880. He was a farmer in Fort Fairfield
and had previously cultivated a farm in New
Brunswick. In politics he was a Democrat ; in
religion a Free Will Baptist. He married
Mary Flannery, born in New Brunswick in
1806, died at Fort Fairfield, 1883. Children
of Richard and Mary Jordan: 1. Samuel Jor
dan, died at Westfield ; he was a farmer and
lumberman; married Abbie Giggey. 2. John
Jordan-, born in New Brunswick, died at Wash
burn, Maine ; served in the civil war for three
years ; married Mary Ann Bishop, of Bangor,
now living in Washburn. 3. Judith Jordan,
resides at Washburn ; married Richard Reid-
ker, a farmer. 4. Eunice Jordan, married
Daniel Giggey, cousin of Abbie, a woodsman,
river driver and farmer, now living at Wash
burn, Maine. 5. Abbie Jordan, married George
W. Randall, mentioned above. 6. Martha Jane
Jordan, married Henry Randall, of Washburn

who served in the civil war; is a farmer in
Washburn. 7. Richard Jordan, married
Amanda Boober. Children of George W. Ran
dall: 1. William Henry, mentioned below. 2.
Irene Gertrude, born September 21, 1866;
married James Randall, of Nova Scotia, a cook
and river driver ; she died in Blaine, Maine,
March 12, 1892 ; children : Sherman Randall,
a lumberman at Mapleton; Nellie Randall,
married John Driver, resides at St. Cloud,
Minnesota ; Isaiah Randall, a farmer at Castle
Hill. 3. Augusta, born August 11, 1872, died
at Wade, April 11, 1892, unmarried. 4. Fred,
born July 11, 1874; married Mrs. Louisa
Blake, widow of Alonzo Blake, a farmer of
Westfield ; children : Lillian and Annie. 5.
Mary E., born September 14, 1876, died Octo
ber 19, 1876. 6. Lulu Jane, born June 8, 1878;
married James K. Butterfield, born in Dan-
forth, Maine, January 21, 1849, manufacturer
of last blocks, boot trees, etc. ; resides in Dan-
forth; children: Nellie, born at Wade, April
26, 1895, married Perley Richardson, of Castle
Hill, a farmer of Presque Isle; Elroy, May
18, 1900. 7. George Burton, born March 31,
1882; married Eva Alley, daughter of George
I. Alley; children: Lulu and one other.
(Ill) William Henry Randall, son of George
W. Randall, was born August 27, 1863. He
attended the public schools and the Castle Hill
high school. During his youth he assisted his
father on the homestead. He followed farm
ing and lumbering for a number of years and
was employed for several years by A. F. Tille
at Castle Hill. In 1910 he bought a farm at
Ashland, Maine, and since then has cultivated
it successfully. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of Castle Hill Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry, and of Mountain View Lodge,
No. 144, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Ashland.
Mr. Randall married, June 2, 191 1, at Ash
land, Harriet Mabel Weaver (see Weaver
III), born at Ashland, April 5, 1890, and edu
cated there in the public and high schools, and
at the Presque Isle State Normal School. She
taught for two years in Ashland and for one
term in Portage, Maine. She is a member of
Ashland Grange, No. 247, and of Shasta Re-
bekah Lodge, No. 134. One child, Mavilla
Annie, born January 6, 1912.
(The Weaver Line).
(I) Andrew Weaver was born in Miramichi,
New Brunswick, died in Ashland, Maine,
where he was a pioneer. He cleared a farm
upon which he lived to the end of his life. He
married Letitia Mills, born in St. John, New
Brunswick, died at Readfield, Maine. Among
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(II) Isaac Weaver, son of Andrew Weaver,
was born in Ashland, Maine, died there, Janu
ary 3, 1884, aged fifty-three years, two months
and five days. He was a farmer in his native
town all his active life. When a young man
he was also a lumberman and teamster in the
woods. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married, April 28, 1858, Susan Dawson, born
at Miramichi, August 3, 1838, and is now living
in Ashland. Children: 1. Charles Byron, men
tioned below. 2. Alice, born December, 1862;
married Eugene McCallar, of Camden, Maine ;
resides in Minnesota. 3. Clara, born Novem
ber 22, 1864 ; married Joseph Kellock, of Ash
land; they live on a Montana ranch. 4. Ira,
born February 5, 1867, unmarried. 5. Annie,
born July 2, 1869, died unmarried. 6. Maude,
born January 11, 1873; married Joseph Kin
ney, of Bristol, New Brunswick, now of Ash
land, Maine, a farmer. 7. Marco, born Sep
tember 8, 1877; a lumberman, Minneapolis.
8. Sarah, born September 13, 1878; married
Fred Russell, of Fredericton ; resides in Ash
land. (Ill) Charles Byron Weaver, son of Isaac
Weaver, was born April 8, 1859, at Ashland,
Maine, and has resided there all his life. He
is a potato buyer and does an extensive busi
ness. In politics he is a Republican. He has
held the office of road commissioner. He at
tends the Congregational church. He is a
member of Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons
of Husbandry, and the Independent Order of
Foresters, of Ashland. He married, April 7,
1889, in Ashland, Mavilla Fenderson, born in
Ashland, May 1, 1871. She is a member of
Ashland Grange ; of Shasta Rebekah Lodge,
No. 134, and of the Congregational church.
She also belongs to the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and to the Ladies' Mission
ary Society. Children of Charles Byron and
Mavilla Weaver: 1. Harriet Mabel, married
William Henry Randall (see Randall III). 2.
Ernest L., July 18, 1892, student in Bangor
Law School. 3. Ralph 0., born January 2,
1895. 4. Annie L., born November 30, 1898.
5. Esther O., born January 8, 1901. 6. George
R., born August 30, 1902.
William H. Fenderson, father of Mavilla
(Fenderson) Weaver, was born at Presque
Isle, January 6, 1846, and is now living on
his farm in Ashland, where he settled when a
young man. In politics he is a Republican ; in
religion a Congregationalist. He is a member
of Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married Martha Jane Alieff, born
at Greenbush, Penobscot county, Maine, Au
gust 27, 1849. Children of William H. Fender
son: 1. Mavilla Fenderson, married Charles
Byron Weaver, mentioned above. 2. Daniel
NE— 7

M. Fenderson, born April 1, 1873; married
Bertha Farwell, of Patten, Maine ; is a farmer
of Ashland. 3. Otis H. Fenderson, born Janu
ary 13, 1875, unmarried. 4. Frank J. Fender
son, born in October, 1877; married Bessie
Dickerson, of Smyrna Mills; is a farmer at
Ashland. 5. George R. Fenderson, born Au
gust 27, 1883; married Etta Thistle, born at
Hartland, New Brunswick; he is station agent
at Mars Hill. 6. Louise M. Fenderson, born
September 17, 1886; married Thomas Brad-
dock, of Washburn, a farmer there.
Daniel Fenderson, father of William H.
Fenderson, was born in New Brunswick, about
1789, died at Ashland, about 1859. He came
to Ashland with his wife and children, and
was one of the pioneers of the town. He mar
ried Jeanette Sutter, of Miramichi. Children
of Daniel Fenderson: 1. Daniel Fenderson,
died young. 2. William H. Fenderson, men
tioned above. 3. Frank M. Fenderson, a shoe
maker of Auburn, Maine; married Georgia
Goss, of Portage. 4. Olive Fenderson, died
young. 5. Diantha Fenderson, died young.
Jeanette (Sutter) Fenderson, widow of Daniel
Fenderson, married (second)  Smith,
now living in Minnesota, and had children:
George, Sarah and Lorenzo Smith,

During the revolution or imme-
YOUNG diately afterward at least two
Young families left the states be
cause they were Loyalists and made their
homes in New Brunswick. Ephraim Young
was one of the first settlers of Fort Andrew,
New Brunswick, and died at St. George, New
Brunswick, in 1841, aged eighty-eight years.
He and his wife lived together for sixty-six
years and had thirteen children. At the time
of death he had one hundred and eight grand
children, one hundred and forty great-grand
children and three great-great-grandchildren.
George Young, another Loyalist, was a
grantee of St. John, New Brunswick, in 1783,
died there in 1827, aged seventy-one years.
(I) Jacob Young, believed to be son of
George Young, was born in New Brunswick
about the time of the revolution, died at Oak
Bay in that province in 1853. He was a
farmer at Oak Bay. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He married
twice. Children by first wife : 1. Jacob, a sea
captain, died at Oak Bay; married Polly
 •. 2. Michael, a farmer, died at Oak
Bay. 3. Christopher, a mariner, died at Oak
Bay. 4. William, a farmer at Oak Bay. 5.
John, mentioned below. 6. George, died on the
homestead. Children by second wife : 7. Clar
issa, married  Richardson. And others.
(II) John Young, son of Jacob Young, was

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born at Oak Bay, New Brunswick, September
30, 1806, died at' Garfield, Maine, February 11,
1880. He came to Ashland in 1844 and re
moved to Garfield in 1858. His farm was in
Garfield, but he remained for some years in
Ashland in order that his children might attend
school there. He was an Episcopalian in reli
gion. He married Jane Connick, born at War
wick, St. Davids, New Brunswick, February
15, 1810, died at Garfield, Maine, April 19,
1900. She was a devout Episcopalian and
active in church work. Thomas Connick, her
father, was born in New Brunswick, died at
Warwick in that province when about fifty
years old. He kept an inn at St. Andrews or
Warwick. In religion he was an Episcopalian.
He married Jane Kinney, born in New York
state. Children, all born in Warwick: 1. Sam
uel Connick, a farmer, married Ann Thomp
son. 2. Thomas Connick. 3. Jane Connick,
married John Young, mentioned above. 4.
Margaret Connick, died in British Columbia;
married Captain James Strang, sea captain,
who crossed the ocean sixty-two times. 5.
Sarah Connick, died at Deer Island, Maine.
Children of John Young: 1. Sarah Elizabeth,
born April 19, 1833, died at Ashland, March,
1908; married Andrew J. Flint, of Bridgton,
Maine, a lumberman and farmer of Ashland ;
children: Oscar J., went west; Marietta, mar
ried Henry Dunn, a farmer of Ashland; Ella
Maud, housekeeper for Henry Dunn ; Annie
Dora, married Millard Brown, blacksmith,
now keeping a boarding house at Portage
Lake, Maine ; Inez C, married Hezekiah
Sloane, a farmer of Limestone, Maine; Clara,
married Bernard Holmes, of Vancouver. 2.
John Cutrell, mentioned below. 3. George, died
in infancy. 4. Jane C, born May 1, 1839, re
sides at Garfield, Maine ; unmarried. 5. Mari
etta, born December 6, 1842 ; a dressmaker for
many years, lived with her sister Margaret
Annie, on the homestead ; member of the Epis
copal church and the Ladies' Aid Society and
of Ashland Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ;
unmarried. 6. Angus, born August 26, 1845 !
married Elizabeth Kellock ; he died at Gar
field, November, 1901, and she is living on the
farm in that town ; children : Leland E. and
Newman A. 7. Margaret Annie, born at Ash
land, August 5, 1847; resided with her sister
Marietta on the homestead; died August 4,
1914; was for the past seven years matron of
the Mattawaska Training School at Fort Kent ;
member of the Protestant Episcopal church
and the Ladies' Aid Society and of Ashland
Grange, No. 247, Patrons of Husbandry; also
member of the White Ribbon Society.
(Ill) John Cutrell Young, son of John
Young, was born at Oak Bay, New Brunswick,

September 9, 1834, died December 22, 1899,
in Garfield, Maine. He came to Ashland with
his parents when he was ten years old and
attended the public schools there. When a
youth he worked on his father's farm, and
when he was a young man his father gave him
half of the homestead, on which he lived the
remainder of his days. In politics he was a
Democrat. In religion he was an .Episcopalian.
He was a member of the Lodge of Good
Templars of Ashland.
He married, at Ashland, December 5, 1872,
Frances A. Thurston, born at Ashland, Janu
ary 17, 1854. She was educated in the Ash
land public schools and graduated from the
high school. She is a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church, and a member of
Shasta Rebekah Lodge, No. 132, of Ashland,
and of Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons of
Plusbandry. Children of John Cutrell Young :
1. Josie Maud, born October 26, 1873, died
January 19, 1874. 2. Harry, born January 18,
1875; a mail carrier in Ashland; married, in
Patten, April 1, 1903, Minnie D. Gould, born
January 19, 1877. 3. Martha Emma, born
April 29, 1876; married, at St. John, New
Brunswick, Milton Blair Gray, born July 27,
1875, died in November, 1913; she resides in
Nashville, Maine. 4. Arthur Thurston, born
December 24, 1877, died June 13, 1880. 5.
Addie Mabel, born December 29, 1878, 'a
trained nurse, living at Zanesville, Ohio. 6.
Luella Harvey, born February 12, 1880; mar
ried, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, August 5,
1903, Ernest S. Chase, born February 4, 1879;
now living at Concord, New Hampshire, where
he is manager of a store. 7. Mary Thurston,
born June 16, 1883; married, at Mapleton,
Maine, June 13, 1904, George L. Sinclair, born
November 28, 1874, a farmer; living at Cash
mere, Washington. 8. Walter Scott, born July
21, 1885 ; a fruit grower and farmer at Peshas-
ten. 9. Nancy Thurston, born December 18,
1886, died October 5, 1891. 10. George Aus
tin, mentioned below. 11. Hervey Allen, born
April 1, 1 89 1 ; a steam fitter at Lowell, Massa
chusetts. 12. Edmund Hovey, born August 5,
1892; a fruit grower at Peshasten, Washing
ton. 13. Elmer John, born April 2, 1894, died
July 29, 1900.
Charles Sewell Thurston, father of Mrs.
Young, was born in Wolfsboro, New Hamp
shire, 1825, and died at Ashland, Maine, Janu
ary 19, 1900. He was a stone mason by trade
in Ashland, where he settled before he was
married. In politics Mr. Thurston was a Dem
ocrat. He was a member of Ashland Lodge
of Free Masons. He enlisted in Company H,
Maine Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, in 1861,
and served fourteen months in the civil war.

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He married Mary Goding, who was born in
1836 and died at Ashland in 1892. She was a
daughter of Amasa Goding, a native of Maine,
who died at Masardis, Maine, about 1875, at
the age of about ninety. Mr. Goding lived at
Jay, Maine, whence he removed to Masardis
later in life and followed farming. Pie married
twice. His second wife was Mary (Goss)
Rowe, a widow. Children of Amasa Goding
by first wife: 1. William Goding, died at Ash
land ; married Melinda Kallock. 2. Harriet
Ann Goding, died at Strong, Maine ; married
Philip Smith, a farmer of Strong. 3. Josephine
Goding, died at Farmington ; married William
Morrison. 4. Elmira, died at Masardis ; mar
ried Daniel Wyman. 5. Eliza Goding, died at
Masardis, married Samuel Leavitt. Children
by second wife : 6. Amasa Goding, a farmer,
married Eveline Smith. 7. Llewellyn, a re
tired farmer, living at Masardis ; married Han
nah House; second, Mrs. Harvey, a widow.
Children of Charles Sewell Thurston: 1.
Frances A., married John C. Young, men
tioned above. 2. John Thurston, died aged
fourteen years. 3. Charles Austin, 1859; died
in Wisconsin in 1883, unmarried. 4. Edward
Wayland Thurston, 1861, married Helen
Cushman of Sherman ; living in Haverhill,
Massachusetts. 5. Herbert Eugene Thurston,
1863. 6. Mary Estelle Thurston, 1868, a trained
nurse in Haverhill. 7. James Madison Thurs
ton, 1870, resided in the Philippines in the
United States navy, when last heard from. 8.
Benjamin Franklin Thurston, 1872; married
Marion Owen of Presque Isle ; now a provi
sion merchant in Tacoma, Washington. 9.
Myrtie B. Thurston, 1874; married George
Stone, of Haverhill.
(IV) George Austin Young, son of John
Cutrell Young, was born at Garfield, Maine,
July 17, 1886. He received his early education
in the public schools of his native town.
During his boyhood he worked on his father's
farm, part of which he inherited and now cul
tivates. In politics he is a Republican. For
the past two years he has been town treasurer.
Pie is a member of Ashland Grange, No. 247,
Patrons of Husbandry, in which he has filled
the offices of gate-keeper, steward and over
seer. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is
also an Odd Fellow, member of Mountain
View Lodge, Ashland, Maine.

25, 1633, was rated at nine shillings. His wife
Sarah, son Samuel, and infant, came with him.
His wife died before 1627; Bradford says she
died "in the generall sickness which was in the
winter of 1620-21." He married a. second wife,
who died soon, and he married, (third) Chris
tian Penn, who came over in the "Ann," in
1623. He removed from Plymouth to Duxbury,
where he died in the latter part of 1633.
Administration on his estate was granted to
Thomas Prence and John Doane, November
25, same year. In July, 1634, his widow mar
ried Francis Billington, by whom she had eight
children. Children of Francis Eaton, by first
wife: Samuel, born in England or Holland,
1620. By second wife : Rachel, born in Plym
outh, 1624-25, married, March 2, 1645, Joseph
Ramsden. By third wife: Benjamin, of whom
further. There were two other children, one
an "ideote," and another who probably died
without issue.
(II) Benjamin, son of Francis Eaton, was
born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, about 1627.
He was apprenticed or bound out February
11, 1635, for fourteen years, including two
years at school, to Bridget Fuller, widow. In
1648 he was of Duxbury, and in 1650 of
Plymouth, and was admitted to the first church
there, March 19, 1693. He married, Decem
ber 4, 1660, Sarah, daughter of William Hos-
kins ; he was a grantee of Middleboro, but
never lived there. Children : William, born
about 1662, will proved March 18, 1690-91 ;
Benjamin, of whom further; Ebenezer, born
about 1667 ; Rebecca, married Josiah Richard.
(Ill) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
Eaton, was born at Plymouth, in 1664. His
trade was that of "housewright" at Kingston,
then a part of Plymouth. His will was dated
April 3, 1745, and proved December 20 same
year. He married (first) December 18, 1689,
Mary Coombs, who had twelve children by
him. He married (second) Susanna  ,
who died April 13, 1739, aged seventy years.
Children, born at Kingston: William, June 1,
1 69 1 ; Hannah, February 16, 1692; Jabez.
February 8, 1693, died young; Daniel, 1694;
Sarah, October 20, 1695 ; John, October 6,
1697; Benjamin, 1698; Francis, (q. v.);
Elisha, about 1702; Mary, married Zachariah
Souls ; Elizabeth, married Cornelius Sturte-
vant ; David, born about 1709.

Francis Eaton, the immigrant
EATON ancestor of this family, came
from England to Plymouth, Mas
sachusetts, in 1620, in the "Mayflower," and
signed the famous compact on board that his
toric vessel. He was a carpenter by trade. He
was admitted a freeman in 1633, and March

The surname Tilley is found in
TILLEY England as early as the Norman
Conquest, and appears in the
Domesday Book. The name was common
also in France and Holland at an early date
and is doubtless of Norman-French origin.
The name is spelled in the ancient records,

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Tillie, Tilly, Teley, Tiley, Tilee and Tely. We
have at the present time the surname Tylee,
probably of the same English stock.
Edward and John Tilley were among the
passengers of the "Mayflower." Edward and
his wife Ann both died in the spring of 1620-
21. John brought his wife and daughter Eliz
abeth, and he and his wife also died early in
1621. The only descendants of these Pilgrim
Tilleys are through John's daughter, who mar
ried John Howland. No person of the name
Tilley can claim descent through these ances
tors in the male line. There was another John
Tilley in Dorchester who came in 1629; left
no issue. William Tilley, of Barnstable and
Boston, came from Little Minories, England,
in the ship "Abigail," in June, 1636, left a
daughter Sarah, but no sons that have been
found on record. Others of the name came
later. George and Elizabeth Tilly had chil
dren in Boston, 1727-1748, George, Mary,
Elizabeth, Martha, George, William, John.
Samuel and Eliphal had children in Boston,
1712-32, Samuel, Eliphal, Eliza, Lewis, Wil
liam, William, Sarah. Thomas and Katherine
Tiley had two children, Eliza, born February
1, 1718, Sarah, August 20, 1724. John and
Eliza Tiley had, 1719-27, Eliza, John, Sarah,
Lydia. These are probably related to Thomas
Tilley who had by wife Hannah a son, Samuel
Tilee, in Boston, May 1, 1657. This Samuel
Tilee or Tiley had by wife Sarah: 1. John,
born March 2, 1693. 2. Hannah, died March
15, 1694. 3. Sarah, born September 1, 1696.
4. William, born November 30, 1697. Whether
this Boston family just described is related to
that given below we have not learned. The
facts of the early generations, of this family
are from an old genealogy of the Tilley fam-
ily. (I) John Tilley lived at or near Exeter,
England. Among his children were: 1. Wil
liam, mentioned below. 2. John, married and
had children : John, who remained in England ;
Elinor, remained in England; William, the
rope-maker, born in England, 1641, came to
Boston in 1660, and lived on Milk street, near
Cow Lane ; established a large rope-walk, and
Tilley's Wharf and Tilley's Lane were named
for him; his wife Isabella died January 13,
1702, and he married (second) Abigail Wood-
mancy; after his death she married (second)
October 19, 1718, Judge Samuel Sewell. He
died at Boston in 1717; daughter Isabella mar
ried Eliezer Armitage and Grace married Jonas
Clarke. From the similarity of names and
place of residence of the families it is con
jectured that Thomas Tilee was closely related
to William, the ropemaker.
(II) William Tilley, son of John Tilley,

lived at Exeter, England. He married and
had children: 1. William, born about 1685,
came with his two brothers, John and James,
to work for their cousin, William Tilley, the
rope-maker, in Boston; married, in 1736,
Dorcas  ; removed to Newport, Rhode
Island; son William, born October 19, 1738.
2. John, mentioned below. 3. James, born
1686; resided at New London, Connecticut,
about 1718; gave ten pounds to the First Epis
copal Church of New London; married, May
27, 1742, Hannah Savel, daughter of John
Savel. (Ill) John (2) Tilley, son of William Til
ley, was born at Edford, England, about 1787-
90. He came to Boston with his brothers,
James and William, to work in the rope-walk
of their cousin, William Tilley. He was in
Boston about 1720; removed to New York
state, where he married and had two sons,
perhaps other children also. The name of his
wife is unknown. Children: 1. Leonard,
born 1730-40, in Brooklyn, New York, where
he lived until his marriage, then moved to
Granby, Massachusetts, and was progenitor
of all of the name, without doubt, in western
Massachusetts. 2. Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel Tilley, son of John (2) Til
ley, was born in Brooklyn, New York, about
1740, died in 1820, in the parish of Gagetown,
Queen's county, New Brunswick, where he
settled in 1783, leaving Brooklyn with the
Loyalists. He married, 1765, Mary Morgan,
of Brooklyn, and she died at Portland, New
Brunswick, in 1834, aged eighty-four years.
Children : James, mentioned below ; Jacob ;
Elizabeth. (V) James Tilley, son of Samuel Tilley,
was born September 7, 1773, died November
23, 1850. He married Mary Chase, born April
7, 1776, died July 7, 1866. Children: Anna,.
Thomas M., James, mentioned below; Re
becca, Phebe, Samuel, Charles, Jacob.
(VI) James (2) Tilley, son of James (1)
Tilley, was born in New Brunswick, Feb
ruary 24, 1798. He married, January 24, 1822,.
Sarah Briggs. Among their children was-
Henry, mentioned below.
(VII) Henry Tilley, son of James (2) Til
ley, was born at Sheffield, New Brunswick,.
1824, died at Ashland, Maine, 1906. His-
father died in New Brunswick and he was the
only child. He came to Maine before mar
riage and settled in Ashland, where he fol
lowed farming for three years. He removed
to Castle Hill, where he owned a farm, was
postmaster and kept a hotel until he was over
seventy years old. He retired and spent his-
last years at Ashland. In politics he was a
Democrat. He held various public offices irt

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Castle Hill. He was a member of the school
board, selectman, tax collector and town treas
urer. He was a member of Pioneer Lodge,
No. 72, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ash
land. He married (first)  Currier, of
Florenceville, New Brunswick. He married
(second) Louisa (Coffin) Sylvester, born at
Unity, Maine, 1827, died at Ashland in 1907.
Child by first wife : James, deceased. Chil
dren by second wife: Louis Kossuth, men
tioned below; Herbert, born December 12,
1859, in Castle Hill, married (first) Addie
Gardner, (second) Carrie Gardner, her sister,
now of Ashland; he was a farmer in that
town ; Everett, born February, 1862, at Castle
Hill, died May 11, 1914; married Fannie Wat
son, of Limestone; they live at Northboro,
Massachusetts. By her first husband, Louisa
(Coffin) Sylvester had Helen Sylvester, who
married Wesley Smith, a farmer of Castle
Hill. (VIII) Louis Kossuth Tilley, son of Henry
Tilley, was born at Ashland, Maine, October
3, 1857. He attended the public schools there
and at Presque Isle and entered the University
of Maine at Orono, where he was a student
for two years. He taught school afterward at
Castle Hill, Washburn and Mapleton. In
1882 he bought a farm in Castle Hill and cul
tivated it until 1890 when he sold it to his
brother and purchased the general store at
Castle Hill. In 1895 he sold the store and
returned to agriculture in Castle Hill, contin
uing for three years. In 1898 he bought a
farm of 530 acres in Garfield, where he has
resided since that time. In politics he is a
Republican. He has held the offices of select
man, tax collector, town treasurer and superin
tendent of schools at Castle Hill ; superintend
ent of schools in Garfield for six years; tax
collector of Garfield, six years ; treasurer of
Garfield, five years ; justice of the peace twenty
years. He is now road commissioner. He
attends the Congregational church, and is a
member of Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons
of Husbandry ; the Independent Order of For
esters of Ashland. For five years he was the
master of the Grange at Castle Hill and was
the first to hold that office there.
He married, March 26, 1884, at Ashland,
Annette Goding, born at Masardis, May, 1859.
She is a member of the Congregational church
and of Ashland Grange (see below). Chil
dren of Louis Kossuth Tilley: 1. Harold Lee,
mentioned below. 2. Glenwood G., born Sep
tember 21, 1888; graduate of the University
of Maine, 1913; resides in Fulton, New York;
a manufacturer. 3. Ralph R., born October
9, 1890; graduate of Ricker's Classical Insti
tute, 191 1 ; clerk in Ashland; married Helen

Weeks, at Masardis, 1912. 4. Gordon B.,
born November, 1892; graduate of Ricker's
Classical Institute, 1912. 5. Lawrence C,
born August, 1894; graduated from Ricker's
Classical Institute, June, 1914. 6. George M.,
born August, 1896; student in Ricker's Clas
sical Institute. 7. Louise K., born September
1, 1900.
(IX) Harold Lee Tilley, son of Louis Kos
suth Tilley, was born at Castle Hill, Maine,
May 21, 1886. He attended school there until
he was twelve years old, and afterward at
tended the public schools of Garfield and at
Ricker's Classical Institute for three years.
At the age of nineteen he was employed in
surveying in Aroostook county in the woods
and for five years he followed this profession
in winter and assisted his father on the home
stead in summer. In 1910 he went west and
spent a year in Colorado and California. In
191 1 he entered the Ashland Grange store and
was employed there until May 1, 1912. In
the meantime, he bought a farm of two hun
dred acres which he is now cultivating. His
principal crops are potatoes, oats and hay.
In politics he is a Republican. He attends the
Congregational church, and is a member of
Mountain View Lodge, No. 144, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Ashland, and of
Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He is unmarried.
William Goding, father of Annette (God
ing) Tilley, was born in Kennebec county,
Maine, 1844, died at Ashland, 1894. He was
a farmer in Ashland for many years, and was
formerly of Masardis. He served the town as
selectman, and attended the Baptist church.
He married Belinda Kallock, born in Ashland
in 1841, died there in 1881. Children of Wil
liam Goding: 1. Annette Goding, married
Louis Kossuth Tilley, mentioned above. 2.
George Goding, born 1861 at Masardis, died
in Ashland ; was a farmer ; married (first)
Abbie Kallock, who married (second) Andrew
Estabrook; they reside in Minnesota. 3. Ma
ria Goding, born 1863 »' married Edward Bart-
lett, of Ashland. 4. William Goding, born
1865; married (first) Georgia Kallock; (sec
ond) Lucretia Winslow ; they reside at Ken
yon City, Colorado. 5. Alberta Goding, born
1867; married William Chandler, of Castle
Hill ; she died in Colorado ; he is a carpenter
and contractor in that state. 6. Annie Goding,
born 1869; married Charles Flint, an electri
cian, who established the Ashland Electric
Light Company. 7. Louise Goding, born 1871 ;
married Samuel Stevens, of Portage Lake,
where he now lives, a farmer. 8. Felix God
ing, born 1874; farmer, Ashland.

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The surname Bragdon or
BRAGDON Bragden has been in use for
several centuries in England,
and a lineage of the family appears in a visita
tion of London as early as 1588. The coat-
of-arms of the Bragdon family is : Argent a
lion passant azure between three fleurs de lis
gules. Crest : A boar issuant out of a rock
proper. Arthur Bragdon, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England in 1598, died in York,
Maine, about 1678. He settled in York as
early as 1642 and was a citizen of prominence,
having large grants of land and holding much
property on the south side of the York river.
All of this name are his descendants, unless
possibly some families of recent immigration.
The Bragdons were leading spirits in some of
the coast towns of Maine for many genera
tions, filling various positions of trust and
honor. Arthur Bragdon and George Pudding-
ton deposed July 3, 1647, to the .effect that
Richard Vines made a grant of land to John
Wadlon and Edmund Littlefield in Wells,
York county, by deed dated November 20,
1645, in behalf of Sir Ferdinand Gorges, pat
entee of Maine province. (See York deeds).
In a deposition made in York in 1665 his age
is stated as "about sixty-seven years." He
filled many offices and served on important
committees in the old town of York. Just
before his death he deeded to his son Thomas,
May 20, 1678, all his estate on condition that
Thomas "provide all necessary things as long
as he and his wife live." His administrator
filed an inventory, October 2, 1678. (Part I,
fol. 26, vol. V, York Deeds). Among the
articles mentioned was "one hatt 5s too ould
coats & one peyre of briches 30 s." Evidently
the wardrobe of the progenitor was simple
enough. The spelling is that of the convey
ancer, not of Bragdon, because he signed his
deed with a large capital A, the ends of the
cross bar and the terminals of each leg of the
letter being divided like a forked stick. His
son Thomas signed with a mark — plain capi
tal letters, "T. B." We do not find the name
of Arthur Bragdon's wife. Children: Arthur,
born about 1620; Thomas, born about 1625;
perhaps daughters.
The descendants of Arthur Bragdon have
been numerous in Maine. One branch of the
family located at Knox Station in that state.
( I ) Horace B ragdon, a descendant of Arthur
Bragdon, mentioned above, was born in Pen
obscot county, Maine, near the town of Dex
ter, September 7, 1825, died in Ashland, Maine,
in 1886. He was educated in the public
schools. He came to Ashland, Maine, when
about eighteen years old, bought and cleared a

farm there, and lived upon it the remainder of
his life. He was one of the pioneers of the
town of Ashland. In politics he was a Demo
crat. He attended the Congregational church.
He married, at Ashland, Priscilla House, also
a native of Penobscot county, born near Dex
ter, May 4, 1836, died at Ashland, 1890.
George House, father of Priscilla, was born in
Penobscot county in 1813, died at Ashland
in 1888. He came to Ashland with his family
and lived there during the remainder of his
life. In early life he was a Whig in politics,
and afterward a Republican. In religion he
was a Congregationalist. He cleared the farm
which he occupied for many years. Children
of George House: 1. Charles House, a
farmer at Patten, Maine. 2. George House,
died young. 3. Benjamin Plouse, a farmer
at Patten. 4. William House, a farmer at
Patten. 5. Calvin House, a farmer at Pat
ten. 6. Hannah, married Llewellyn Gordon, a
farmer, now retired, of Masardis, Maine,
where she died. 7. Betsey Vesta House, died
at Portage Lake, 1903, married S. Goss, of
Dexter, a farmer. 8. Adeline House, married
Silas Raftord, a farmer ; she died at Patten.
9. Priscilla, married Horace Bragdon, men
tioned above. Children of Horace and Pris
cilla Bragdon: 1. Sherborn, born May 8,
1853, died at Portage Lake, 1888; married
Lydia Hill, of Sheridan, Maine, now of Port
age Lake. 2. Franklin, born August 19, 1855,
died young. 3. Ai Franklin, born April 29,
1857; married Olive  , and they live on
a farm at Portage Lake. 4. Martha A., born
February 23, 1859, died at Portage Lake in
1888; married Albert Boltridge, of Ashland;
he is now a farmer at Portage Lake. 5. Ida
A., born October 19, i860; married Fred Bolt
ridge, a brother of Albert Boltridge ; they re
side on a farm at Portage Lake. 6. George
E., born December 1, 1862; a farmer at Port
age Lake; unmarried. 7. Almeda A., born
October 30, 1864; married Albert Boltridge as
his second wife; he is a farmer at Portage
Lake. 8. Sumner H., born July 9, 1867, died
at Portage Lake, 1897; a farmer. 9. Miles
Oscar, born April 17, 1869; married Vic
toria Meadow, of Wallagrass, Maine; he is a
farmer and merchant at Portage Lake. 10.
Charles Calvin, born August 6, 1871 ; married
Kate Pinnette, of Wallagrass ; he is a farmer
and lumberman at Portage Lake. 11. Harper
Allen, mentioned below. 12. Hadley, born
August 6, 1876; married Albra Wilcox, of
Washburn, Maine; now living in Ashland,
Maine, on the south half of the homestead of
his father. 13. Iva May, born October 6,
1879, died young.
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Bragdon, was born at Ashland, Maine, May
30, 1874. Pie attended the public schools
there, and assisted his father on the farm. His
father died when he was twelve years old and
after that time he worked on the farms of
various neighbors until 1892 when he bought
a half of his father's homestead. His brother
Hadley at the same time bought the southern
half of the farm. Mr. Bragdon has eighty-
eight acres, of which forty are under cultiva
tion. The land is excellent for potatoes, oats
and wheat. He has some valuable timber
lands. Mr. Bragdon married, in Ashland,
July 17, 1898, Flavilla Leighton Ellis, born in
Ashland, July 10, 1877. She was educated in
the public schools of her native town, and in
religion is a Congregationalist (see Ellis II).
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bragdon, all born in
Ashland, Maine: 1. Horace Sumner, born
March 8, 1899, died April 1, 1900. 2. Ralph
Minor, born February 6, 1900. 3. Forrest
Ellis, born January 15, 1901, died February
15, 1901. 4. Bessie Edith, born October 17,
1903. 5. Mildred Flavelle, born May 6, 1904,
died September, 1904. 6. Crystal Olive, born
October 5, 1905. (The Ellis Line).
(I) William Ellis, born 1799, died May 1,
1861. He married (first) Abigail  , who
died May 1, 1850, aged fifty-three years. He
married (second) Eunice  , born June 6,
1814, died September 24, 1887. Pie was for
many years a farmer in Ashland, Maine. Chil
dren : 1. William, died in Ashland, a farmer,
unmarried. 2. Josiah, died February 15, 1862,
aged forty-two years. 3. Stephen. 4. Calvin,
died September 23, 1846, aged twenty years
six months, at Ashland. 5. Charles, died April
19, 1853, aged thirty-five years. 6. Joseph,
married  ¦ Walker ; both died at Castle
Hill, Maine. 7. Leonard, mentioned below.
8. Daniel, born 1836, died in 1908; was a
farmer ; married Susan Libby, of Newfields,
Maine, where she now lives. 9. Levi, died at
Ashland, 1909, aged seventy-one ; always lived
on the homestead.
(II) Leonard Ellis, son of William Ellis,
was born in Dexter, Maine, in 1829, died in
Ashland, Maine, April, 1903. He came to
Ashland when a young man, a pioneer in that
township, and cleared his farm where he lived
the remainder of his life. In politics he was a
zealous and lifelong Republican. He attended
the Congregational church. He married La
vinia Coffin, born near Dexter in 1837, died
at Ashland, in May, 1901, daughter of Wil
liam and Lavinia Coffin. Her uncle, Artemas
Coffin, was one of the pioneers and cut the
first tree in the beginning of the settlement of

the town. Children of Leonard Ellis: 1.
Stephen, born October 3, 1856; married Sarah
McManus, of Patten, now of Oxbow, Maine ;
he died at Oxbow, in August, 1908; was a
farmer. 2. Edith, born June 5, 1858; married
Minot Bird, a farmer of Ashland. 3. Charles,
born April 5, i860; married  Stevens, a
widow of Houlton; now living on a farm at
Oxbow. 4. William, born 1862, died at Ash
land in 1864. 5. Carrie, born May 3, 1866;
married Alexander Skinner, of Nova Scotia;
now living at Ashland on a farm. 6. Calvin,
twin of Carrie, married Carrie Gardner, of
Ashland; he is a farmer in that town. 7. Eben,.
born April 9, 1873; married Filey Pulsifer, of
Mapleton; resides in Ashland. 8. Almeda,
born September, 1875 ; married William Mc-
Carren, of New Brunswick; he is a miller
at Ashland. 9. Flavilla Leighton, married
Plarper Allen Bragdon (see Bragdon II).

The surnames Cockburn, Col-
COBURN burne, Colburn and Coburn
are variations in spelling of the
same old English surname. It is believed that
the name was of very ancient Scandinavian
origin. The family in England bore coats-of-
arms. It is described : Argent on a chevron
between three bugle horns, stringed sable, as
many mullets of the first, on a chief embattled
gules, pendant from a riband of the last, fim-
brinated, azure. Crest: Out of a mural
crown, or, a reindeer's head, argent, attired or,
between a branch of laurel in the dexter and
a branch of palm, in the sinister, both proper.
But various American families, descended
from Edward Coburn, mentioned below, have
copies of an armorial not found in English
heraldry, described in the Colburn genealogy :
Ermine on a shield a chevron or with two
cinquefo-ils in chief, centered sanguine, leaved
of the second and in the base a martlet on a
sword barwise, winged sable, closed, con
tourne. Crest: A wolf's head, couped, con
tourne. This device has been in use so many
years in America, that regardless of its early
history it is a valued possession of the Coburns
of America.
(I) Edward Coburn, Colborne or Colburn,
as the name is variously spelled by his de
scendants, was born in England. He sailed in
September, 1635, in the ship, Defence, and
arrived in Boston, October 30. His age was
stated as seventeen, and Robert Colburn, aged
twenty-eight years, was a fellow passenger.
He settled first at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and
was a farmer for Nathaniel Saltonstall. He
was a soldier in King Philip's War from
Chelmsford and was in charge of what was
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River, having the rank of corporal. He was
guarding the ferry March 18, 1675, when the
Wamesit Indians killed two sons of Samuel
Varnum and burned Coburn's home. During
King William's War, 1689-90, he again com
manded a garrison. He was probably the first
settler of Dracut, Massachusetts. He died in
1712. Children : Edward, born 1642 ; John,
1644; Robert, 1646; Thomas, 1648; Daniel,
(q. v.) ; Plannah, 1656; Ezra, March 16, 1658;
Joseph, June 16, 1661 ; Lydia, August 20,
1666.

James Harris Beckwith, a
BECKWITH descendant of Matthew
Beckwith, the American
immigrant of this name, was born in New
England in 1814, died at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
in 1889. He was a carpenter by trade and
also a farmer. When a young man he re
moved to Prince Edward Island, where he
resided until 1870. He then located in Fort
Fairfield, Maine, and followed his trade there
to the end of his life. He was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church. He married
Elizabeth McGoogan, born in 1815, died at
Fort Fairfield in 1886, of Scotch ancestry.
She was also a Methodist. Children, all born
on Prince Edward Island: 1. William Mil-
lage, mentioned below. 2. John Chipman,
farmer, Athens, Maine ; married Sarah Mar
quis, sister of Mrs. William M. Beckwith. 3.
Horatio S. 4. Lavinia, died at Minneapolis,
Minnesota; married William Strang, a mill
wright of Prince Edward Island. 5. Jane,
died at Fort Fairfield; married Harry B.
Bearisto, of Prince Edward Island. 6. Stead-
man D., a builder and contractor, Fort Fair
field ; married Aline Rachliffe, of Easton ;
children: Linwood, Harris, Plelen.
(II) William Millage Beckwith, son of
James Harris Beckwith, was born on Prince
Edward Island, August 19, 1841, died at Fort
Fairfield, Maine, October, 1906. He was a
carpenter by trade. In 1868 he left his native
place and worked for a time at Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He afterward went to St.
John, New Brunswick, remaining for two
years, and in 1878 removed to Fort Fairfield,
Maine, where he spent the remainder of his
life, following his trade. In politics he was a
Democrat, in religion a Methodist. He mar
ried Mary Margaret Marquis, born in Caven
dish, Prince Edward Island, July 28, 1849.
She is now living in Boston, Massachusetts.
William Marquis, her father, was born in New
Brunswick, in 1815, died in Massachusetts, in
1895. He was a farmer and carpenter. He
removed to Massachusetts. He married Eliz
abeth Bishop, born on Prince Edward Island,

died in Massachusetts. Children of William
Marquis: 1. Robert Marquis, killed by natives
in New Zealand; was a ship-builder and ex
plorer. 2. Daniel Marquis, died at Auburn,
Maine ; was a contractor and builder. 3.
George Marquis, carpenter; married a Miss
Thayer ; resides at Roxbury, Massachusetts.
4. David Marquis, carpenter, died in Massa
chusetts, unmarried. 5. Alexander Marquis,
died in Texas ; was a minister. 6. Mary Mar
garet Marquis, married William Millage Beck
with, mentioned above. 7. Sarah Marquis,
died in Fort Fairfield ; married John Chipman
Beckwith. Children of William Millage Beck
with : 1. James Harris, a carpenter, resides in
Fort Fairfield; married Hetty Merrithew, of
Tobique, New Brunswick; children: Millage
Merrithew, born August 30, 1906; George
Chipman, October 4, 1907; Willard Stead-
man, 1909; Mildred, March, 1912. 2. William
Marquis, mentioned below. 3. Frank Worden,
resides at Brockton, Massachusetts, is with the
Douglas Shoe Company ; married Grace Math
ers ; children : Paul and a daughter. 4. Lil
lian Stella, married F. R. Street, of Upper
Kent, New Brunswick ; resides at Caribou ;
children : Anna, Malcolm, Mary Frances. 5.
Mabel lvalue, married W. O. Blake, now re
tired, a capitalist living at Hingham, Massa
chusetts ; daughter, Catherine Blake, born Au
gust 19, 1913. 6. Filinda Elizabeth, married
Herbert Stanley Street, brother of F. R.
Street, mentioned above ; resides at Seattle,
Washington, a merchant ; children : Lulu
Catherine, Mabel, Dorothy. 7. Robert A.,
married Ethel Grant, of Fort Fairfield, now
of Caribou, a farmer; no children. 8. Clara
V., in training for a nurse. 9. Ernest L., mar
ried Vita St. Clair Bishop; he is an insurance
agent, Roxbury.
(Ill) William Marquis Beckwith, son of
William Millage Beckwith, was born at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, March 23, 1871. His
parents removed to Fort Fairfield when he
was seven years old. He attended the public
schools there, and learned the trade of car
penter in the employ of his father. He re
mained at home and assisted his father until
the time of his marriage. He bought a farm
of seventy acres on Houlton road, all under
cultivation, February 22, 1902. Afterward
he bought another farm on the Presque Isle
road, five miles from Fort Fairfield, compris
ing one hundred and forty acres, of which half
is cleared and the rest is largely good timber
land. He now cultivates both farms. In poli
tics he is a Republican ; in religion a Metho
dist. He is a member of Aroostook Valley
Grange, No. 485, Patrons of Husbandry. He
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bel Edna Cottle (see Cottle II), born at Alex
ander, Maine, October 17, 1878. She was
educated at Fort Fairfield in the public schools.
She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and of Aroostook Valley Grange.
Children: 1. Merle Evelyn, born August 19,
1903. 2. Lawrence Cottle, born September 25,
1904. 3. Louise Mabel, born April 13, 1906.
4. Hazel, born January 20, 1910. 5. Ethel
Cottle, born March 19, 191 1.

(The Cottle Line).

(I)

Cottle, grandfather of Mrs. Wil

liam Marquis Beckwith, was born in Maine,
in 1806, died at Alexander, Maine, 1851, was
killed in an accident while hauling a load of
lumber. He followed farming in Alexander.
He married Mary Crafts. Children: 1. Shep-
pard Penny, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, re
sides at Quilcene, Washington, a farmer, for
merly a school teacher; married Mrs. Daisy
Miner, a widow. 3. Frederick, died at North
Anson, Maine, unmarried. 4. Louise, married
Joseph McLean, of Alexander ; resides at Au
gusta, Maine, a farmer, Democrat, road com
missioner. Mary (Crafts) Cottle was a native
of Maine. She died in Alexander. She mar
ried (second) William McLean, of New
Brunswick, a farmer, and had two children.
(II) Sheppard Penny Cottle, son of  —
Cottle, was born in Alexander, Maine, May
18, 1845. He was a lumberman when a young
man. He bought a farm about five miles from
the village of Fort Fairfield and cultivated it
until November, 1910, when he retired. He is
now living at Quilcene, Washington. In poli
tics he is a Republican, in religion a Methodist.
He was formerly a member of Aroostook
County Grange. He married, October 28,
1877, in Alexander, Clara Evelyn McPheters,
born in Cooper, Maine, February 5, 1850, died
in Fort Fairfield, March 20, 1909. She was
a member of the Methodist church and of
Aroostook Valley Grange. Joseph McPheters,
her father, was born in Maine in 1828, died at
Alexander in 1888. He was a farmer nearly
all his active life in the town of Alexander. In
politics he was a Democrat. He married Han
nah Bohanon, born in Washington county,
Maine, died at Alexander. Children of Joseph
McPheters: 1. Clara Evelyn McPheters, mar
ried Sheppard Penny Cottle, mentioned above.
2. Charles McPheters, resides at Campello,
Massachusetts ; a livery stable keeper ; married
Esther  . 3. Ida McPheters, married
Charles Hunnewell, of Alexander, a black
smith. 4. Edwin McPheters, a farmer, Alex
ander. 5. Nellie McPheters, died young. 6.
William McPheters, drowned when a young
man. Two other children died young. Chil

dren of Sheppard Penny Cottle: 1. Mabel
Edna, married William Marquis Beckwith
(see Beckwith III). 2. Arthur Garfield, born
March 16, 1880; resides at Fort Fairfield, four
miles and a half from the village on the
Presque Isle road; married Leola Devoe, of
Fort Fairfield; no children. 3. Ervin Llew
ellyn, born December 21, 1882, died at Fort
Fairfield, July 27, 1910; was a farmer, asso
ciated with his father ; married Emma Maude
Gould, of Washburn; child, Ervin Llewellyn,
born February 7, 1910. 4. Ethel Pearl, born
July 21, 1888; married Ralph C. Miner, of
Quilcene, Washington, where he is a farmer ;
children : Walter and Kenneth Miner.

Israel West, father of Israel West,
WEST of this review, was born in Penn
sylvania in 1801, died in Andover,
New Brunswick, in 1873. His father died in
Newmarket, New Brunswick, and he had a
brother John, who died at Bear Island, St.
John river, 1849, unmarried, and a sister who
married  Tracy, of New Brunswick, a
farmer near Woodstock. Israel West was
educated in Pennsylvania, and for a time was
a lumberman there, later moving to New
market Settlement in New Brunswick, then
to Calais, Maine, and finally to Ashland,
Maine, where he lived the last six years of his
life on a farm which he owned there. In poli
tics he was a Republican, and he was a mem
ber of the English church.
He married (first)  Howard, of New
Brunswick, and she died at the birth of her
child, who died at the same time. He mar
ried (second) Joanne Manuel, born at Prince
William, New Brunswick, in 1822, died at
Limestone, New Brunswick, in 1905. She
was daughter of Anthony Manuel, born in
Portugal in 1752, died at Prince William, in
1861. He came from Portugal before his
marriage, and settled in New Brunswick, keep
ing an inn halfway between Frederickton and
Woodstock for more than sixty years ; the inn
was a stopping place for the stage coaches.
At the time he started there were no roads,
and he had to reach his place of settlement by
way of St. John river. He was a member of
the English church. He married (first) Bet
sey Ross, born in 1773, died in 1858. He
married (second) when an old man, 
Shaw, who was over sixty years of age. Chil
dren : 1. John, died at Bear Island; married
Betsey Hagerman, of New Brunswick. 2.
Joanne, married Israel West, mentioned
above. 3. Margaret, died at Andover, New
Brunswick; married  Hallett, of New
Brunswick, a farmer. 4. Asa, died at Wood
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Morehouse, of New Brunswick. 5. Silas, died
at Prince William ; married  Carr, of
New Brunswick ; farmer. 6. Betsey, died at
Andover ; married William Carr, of Scotch
descent, farmer of New Brunswick. 7. Fan
nie, married George Jones, a farmer of Bear
Island. 8. Elizabeth, died at Bear Island,
New Brunswick; married George Parent, of
New Brunswick, farmer. 9. Frederick, died
at Woodstock. 10. Simon, lived in Wiscon
sin; married Maria Plagerman, niece of Bet
sey Hagerman.
Children of Israel and Joanne (Manuel)
West: 1. William, lives in Andover, New
Brunswick, eighty-five years of age; was a
blacksmith, later a farmer; married 
Hallett. 2. Jane, died in Limestone, New
Brunswick, unmarried. 3. Israel, mentioned
below. 4. Anthony, married Jane Ballard, of
Limestone, where he owns a large farm. 5.
Simon, married Bridget McDonald; owns
large farm in Limestone. 6. Sarah, went west.
7. John, died in infancy. 8. Sidney, killed on
Aroostook river by having a landing of logs
roll over him, 1863 ; was a lumberman, unmar
ried. Israel (2) West, son of Israel (1) West,
was born in the Province of New Brunswick,
Canada, in the parish of Dumfries, New
market Settlement, December 16, 1841. He
attended the public schools there until he was
fourteen years old. He began to work in the
woods when he was but twelve years old and
continued after he left school. At the age of
eighteen years he was placed in charge of the
work in the woods and on the timber drive. He
followed lumbering until 191 1, and during his
long service in this industry he has had charge
of more men in the woods than any other man
in the county. At the age of nineteen years
he bought a farm in Ashland, Maine, and he
cultivated it, in addition to his other business,
for a period of fourteen years. When he
sold this farm, he bought his present farm in
Garfield, consisting of one hundred and sixty-
two acres of wild land. He has cleared this
farm and now has in cultivation one hundred
and forty acres. He was one of the pioneers
of the town of Garfield. In politics Mr. West
is a Republican. He has served the town in
the office of road commissioner for three years
and assisted in the construction of the county
road, the Maine state road and the road from
Presque Isle to Ashland. For three years he
was truant officer and for one year collector of
taxes. Pie is a communicant of the English
church, and has been a member of the Ashland
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, for the past
seven years and served on various committees.
He married, at Ashland, September, 1861,

Victoria Bolstridge, born in Ashland, Septem
ber 2, 1845, daughter of Eben and Amelia
(Bradley) Boltsridge. Children, all born at
Ashland: 1. Mavilla, born January 10, 1866,
died at Masardis, in January, 1886; married
Charles Robinson, who was also born at Ash
land, and now resides at Masardis* a farmer ;
children : Alfred Robinson, died in infancy ;
Dolly Robinson, married John Borton, now of
Smyrna, Maine. 2. Eleona, born January 5,
1869, died at Ashland, in October, 1893; mar
ried James Fisher, of New Brunswick, now
of Caribou, a mail carrier. 3. Alice, born
September 15, 1872, died May 28, 1893, un
married. 4. William, born January 26, 1875,
died at Garfield, Maine, October, 1905, a lum
berman, and farmer ; married Lydia Goss, of
Oxbow, now residing in Bangor, Maine ; chil
dren : Montford, Bradford, John and Geary,
now living with their mother. 5. Woodford,
born April 22, 1878; a police officer in New
Hampshire ; married Lizzie Colpit, of Cari
bou ; children : Mildred, Woodford and one
other. 6. Lucille, born May 1, 1883, died at
Garfield, in December, 1902 ; married Henry
Howes, of Ashland, and had no children. 7.
Celestia, born June 15, 1884, died at Ashland,
October, 1908 ; married Granville Hoxley, of
Mars Hill, Maine, now .living in Garfield, a
farmer; child, Flora. 8. Howard, born May
28, 1886; married Alma Clayton; they reside
on their farm at Garfield. 9. Jessie, born Oc
tober 18, 1888; married Bernard O'Neil, of
Sherman, Maine, a farmer and joiner; they
reside at Garfield ; children : Christie and
Lala. 10. Daughter, died in infancy.

John and Nathaniel Harmon,
HARMON brothers, and perhaps others
of the same family came from
England to New England about 1640. John
Harmon settled at Springfield, Massachusetts,
and became a proprietor of the town as early
as 1644. He was a town officer. His son
Joseph removed to Suffield, Connecticut, and
became the progenitor of a large and impor
tant branch of the family. Governor Judson
Harmon is descended from the Suffield branch.
(I) Nathaniel Harmon, brother of John
Harmon, settled in 1640 in Mount Wollaston,
afterward called Braintree, Massachusetts, and
was admitted a freeman of the colony, May
10, 1643. He married Mary, daughter of
Thomas Bliss, of Rehoboth. Children: Na
thaniel, Mary, John, Sarah, Jonathan, Eph
raim. (II) John Harmon, son of Nathaniel Har
mon, was born about 1650. He removed from
Braintree to Wells, Maine, in 1677. He was a
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the Swamp Fight. He had land granted for
his services in the Narragansett war. He mar
ried, in 1679, Sarah  . Children: John,
Sarah, Samuel, Mary, William, Nathaniel.
(Ill) Samuel Harmon, son of John Har
mon, was born June 5, 1686, at Wells, Maine.
He purchased several large tracts of land at
Scottaway Hill, afterward called in his honor
Harmon's Hill, in the town of Scarboro, built
a mill on the river there and made his home
there in 1728. He owned much land and was
a prominent citizen of Scarboro. He married,
March 19, 1707, Mercy Stinson. Children:
Mercy, Sarah, Samuel, John, William, James,
George. (IV) John (2) Harmon, son of Samuel
Harmon, was born at Wells, Maine, about
1718, died in Standish, where he lived for some
years prior to his death. After the Indian
wars, about 1728, he went with his parents to
Scarboro. Pie married (first) December 2,
1742, Mary Hasty, who died December 10,
1853. He married (second) Widow Abigail
(Hoyt) Foss. Children by first wife: Abi
gail, Mary, died young; Daniel, John, Mary.
Children by second wife: William, Josiah,
Elliot, Rufus, Benjamin, mentioned below;
Anna. (V) Benjamin Harmon, son of John (2)
Harmon, was born about 1765. He married,
November 20, 1777, at Machias, Maine, Sarah
Hill, of Scarboro, daughter of Japhet Hill.
He was a soldier in the Revolution from
Machias, in Captain Stephen Smith's com
pany, Colonel Benjamin Foster's regiment,
December 4, 1778, to January 4, 1779. Chil
dren : William, married Mary McAllister ;
Japhet, married Sarah Getchell ; Nathaniel,
married Lydia McAllister; Samuel, married
Mercy Fisher ; Henry, married Sarah Berry ;
Stephen, mentioned below ; Benjamin, married
Lavinia Hanscom; Hannah, married William
Albee; Rebecca, 'married James Bean; Sally,
married Aaron Sever; Lydia, married Daniel
Whittemore. (VI) Stephen Harmon, son of Benjamin
Harmon, was born in Machias, Maine, in 1786,
died in Carleton county, New Brunswick, in
1870. He was a farmer. He married 
Rideout, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She
was born in Carleton county. Children: 1.
Avard, a farmer, died at Carleton, New Bruns
wick. 2. William, farmer and wheelwright of
Fredericton. 3. Abraham, farmer of Carle
ton county, married (second) Lavinia Abbott.
4. Samuel H., mentioned below. 5. Drusilla,
married  Getchell, farmer of Limestone,
Maine. 6. Naomi, resides in Peel, New Bruns
wick; married Benjamin Atwater. 7. Dingee.
8. Sarah.

(VII) Samuel H. Harmon, son of Stephen
Harmon, was born in Peel, New Brunswick,
1832, died at Fort Fairfield, August 14, 1910.
He was a farmer in his native town, removing
to Fort Fairfield in 1889. Pie bought the
farm now owned by his son in that town. He
married Lydia Sawyer, born at St. Stephen,
New Brunswick, 1835, died in Carleton county,
New Brunswick, in 1907. Children: 1. Alli
son, carpenter of Woodstock, New Brunswick ;
married Louise Lewis. 2. Vinal, married
Bessie Williams ; he is a police officer of the
city of Boston. 3. Etta, married Ira Reynolds ;
resides on a farm four miles from Fort Fair
field! 4. Archie B., mentioned below. 5. Lulu,
married Percy Bishop, farmer of Fort Fair
field. George Sawyer, brother of Lydia (Saw
yer) Harmon, went to California in 1849 and
died there ; John Sawyer served in the civil war
and died in Kansas City, leaving a son, Dr.
Lewis B. Sawyer; James Sawyer was another
brother ; Sarah Sawyer, a sister, married Wil
liam Deering, of Danforth, Maine, and Joan
Sawyer, another sister, married Moses Ride
out, a farmer of Carleton county, New Bruns
wick. (VIII) Archie B. Harmon, son of Samuel
H. Harmon, was born in Peel, Carleton county,
New Brunswick, September 19, 1875. He at
tended the public schools there until he was
fourteen years old. During his boyhood he
worked on his father's farm until he was nine
teen years old, when he bought the farm and
has conducted it since then. He is a member
of Greenridge Grange, No. 282, Patrons of
Husbandry. He married, May 12, 1901, in
Hartland, New Brunswick, Myrtle Perkins,
born at Centerville, Carleton county, New
Brunswick, December 19, 1879. Isaac Perkins,
her father, was born in Centerville, 1824, and
died there May, 1887. He was a farmer all
his active life. He married Mary Jane Bu
chanan, born in Centerville in 1830, died at
Hartland, New Brunswick, April, 1904. Chil
dren of Isaac Perkins: 1. Colonel Guilford D.
Perkins. 2. Kate, died aged thirty-five; mar
ried Reuben Drew, formerly of Portland. 3.
Watts, a boxmaker of Fall River, Massachu
setts, afterward a traveling salesman ; married
Laura Macomber. 4. Gideon, married Maggie
Sherer, of Gordonsville, Carleton county, New
Brunswick. 5. Waldo, married Edith Cornier ;
he is a veterinarian at Centerville. 6. Ida,
married O. A. Miller, a blacksmith at Hart
land. 7. Mary, married W. G. Kenney, a
machinist of Bangor. 8. Harry, married
Maude Foster; he is a carpenter in New Bed
ford, Massachusetts. 9. Myrtle, married
Archie B. Harmon, mentioned above. Isaac
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Boston; a brother Joel, a Baptist minister,
died at Gordonsville, New Brunswick; a
brother David who died in Boston ; a brother
Aaron who died at Centerville; a sister Katy
who married  Clark. Among the ances
tors of the Perkins family was an early New
York Dutch family. James Buchanan, father
of Mary Jane (Buchanan) Perkins, was born
in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1809, died at Cen
terville, New Brunswick, 1881. He came to
New Brunswick with his parents before he
married and followed farming at Centerville.
He married  McGuire, born in New
York City, died in Centerville. Children of
James Buchanan: 1. Elizabeth, married
Thomas Toms, and both died at Tracy's Mills,
New Brunswick. 2. Mary Jane, married Isaac
Perkins, mentioned above. 3. Daughter, mar
ried William West, farmer, who died near
Centerville. 4. Sarah, married David Fitz
gerald, shoe dealer of Centerville. 5. James,
farmer, married Lydia Irvin, who is now living
at East Centerville. Children of Archie B.
Harmon: 1. Loris, born June 3, 1903. 2.
George Alton, born June 15, 1904. 3. Neta,
born February 26, 1907. 4. Gertrude, born
September 26, 1909. 5. Pauline, born June
J7> I9I3- 6. Perry B., born June 16, 1914.

The family of Holbrook is
HOLBROOK ancient and distinguished in
England. The ancient coat-
of-arms is : A chevron between three martletts.
Several other coats-of-arms were borne by dif
ferent branches of the family in England.
(I) Thomas Holbrooek, or Holbrooke, the
immigrant ancestor, aged thirty-four, of Broad
way, England, with wife Jane, aged thirty-
four, and children, John, aged eleven ; Thomas,
aged ten ; Anne, aged five, and Elizabeth, aged
one, came from Weymouth, England, about
1628. He settled at Weymouth, Massachu
setts, in 1640, and was on the committee to lay
out the way from Braintree to Dorchester.
He was admitted a freeman, May, 1645. He
was selectman several years. His will was
dated December 31, 1669, with codicil, Decem
ber 31, 1673. He died 1674-76. His widow
Jane died before April 24, 1677, when admin
istration of the estate was granted to his son
John. Children: John (q. v.) ; Thomas; Cap
tain William, died 1699, lived at Scituate; Ann,
married  Reynolds ; Elizabeth, married
Walter Hatch ; Jane, married  Drake.

John Conant lived in the parish
CONANT of East Budleigh, Devonshire,
England, probably born about
1520 at Gittisham, an adjacent town; was a
taxpayer at East Budleigh, 1571, and in 1577

warden of the church there ; was buried March
30, 1596, probably son of John Conant, who
died September, 1659, at Gittisham.
(II) Richard Conant, son of John Conant,
was born at East Budleigh about 1548, and in
1588 was assessed for land there; church
warden in 1606 and 1616. He married, Feb
ruary 4, 1578, Agnes, daughter of John Clarke
Sr., of Collyton, who married, June 9, 1544,
Anne, daughter of William Macy, of Collyton.
Richard and Agnes Conant were buried Sep
tember 22, 1630. Children: John, Richard,
Robert, Jane, John, Thomas, Christopher,
Roger, mentioned below.
(Ill) Roger Conant, son of Richard Conant,
was the immigrant ancestor. He was bap
tized at East Budleigh, April 9, 1592, and re
ceived a good education. He married, Novem
ber, 1618, and had probably been seven years
in London as an apprentice to a Salter, doubt
less living there until 1623, when he came to
America. He was first at Plymouth, but owing
to differences in religious beliefs he followed
Rev. John Lyford to Nantasket (Hull). It
was probably while there that he used Gov
ernor's Island, which was known for some
time as Conant's Island. In 1624-25 he was
chosen by the Dorchester Company as gov
ernor of the Cape Ann colony, and after a
year there he moved with those who did not
return to England, to Naumkeag, later Salem,
Massachusetts ; his house was the first built
there. Although he is not universally recog
nized as the first governor of Massachusetts,
he is fairly entitled to that honor, for the
colony of which he was the head was the first
permanent settlement in the Massachusetts
Bay territory. Roger Conant was admitted a
freeman, May 18, 1631, and held many im
portant offices ; justice of the quarterly court
at Salem three years ; selectman 1637 to 1641,
1651 to 1654, 1657 and 1658; in 1667 he was
an original member of the Beverly church.
He had large grants of land in Salem, Beverly
and vicinity. He died November 19, 1679. He
married, November 11, 1618, in the parish of
Blackfriars, London, Sarah Horton. Chil
dren: Sarah, Caleb, Lot, mentioned below;
Roger, Sarah, Joshua, Mary, Elizabeth, Exer
cise. (IV) Lot Conant, son of Roger Conant,
was born about 1624, in Nantasket, or at Cape
Ann, and settled at Marblehead as early as
1657. He was selectman in 1662 ; householder
in 1674. On November 20, 1666, his father
gave him a farm and homestead at Beverly,
where he settled, and he was dismissed from
the Salem church to join in forming the Bev
erly church, July 4, 1667. He died Septem
ber 29, 1674. Many of his deeds are on record.

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He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Wil
liam Walton, who took degrees at Emanuel
College, Cambridge, in 1621 and 1625, and was
settled over the parish of Seaton, Devonshire,
where his daughter was baptized October 27,
1729. He was pastor in Marblehead in 1639,
until his death in 1668. Elizabeth, widow of
Lot Conant, married (second) January 10,
1681-82, as third wife, Andrew Mansfield, son
of Robert and Elizabeth Mansfield. Children :
Nathaniel, John, mentioned below ; Lot, Eliza
beth, Mary, Martha, Sarah, William, twin of
Sarah; Roger, Rebecca.
(V) John (2) Conant, son of Lot Conant,
was born December 15, 1652, at Beverly, and
settled there on the sixty acres of upland on
which his father lived. He was a weaver and
farmer. He served in King Philip's war in
Captain Samuel Appleton's company, 1675.
He was admitted to the Beverly church, Au
gust 23, 1691. He died September 30, 1724.
He married, May 7, 1678, Bethiah, daughter
of Andrew Mansfield, born April 7, 1658, died
July 27, 1720. Children: Lot, mentioned be
low; Elizabeth, Bethia, John, Deborah, Mary,
Daniel, Rebecca, Benjamin, Jemima.
(VI) Lot (2) Conant, son of John (2)
Conant, was baptized June 1, 1679, at Beverly.
He moved to Concord, Massachusetts, about
1716, and in April, 1710, bought fifteen acres
in Manchester, selling his Concord land to his
father and brother Daniel. He died May 15,
1767. He married (first) May 15, 1698, Mar
tha Cleaves, who was admitted to the First
Church at Beverly, May 31, 1701, and died at
Concord, February 15, 1725, aged forty-four.
He married (second) Susanna Clark; (third)
Mary  . Children by first wife, born in
Beverly: Robert, mentioned below; Andrew,
William, Dinah, Ezra, John, Elizabeth. Born
in Concord: Martha, Bethia. By second wife,
born in Concord: Ezra, Sarah.
(VII) Robert Conant, son of Lot (2)
Conant, was born in Beverly, April 26, 1699.
He removed to Concord, Massachusetts, and
thence to the adjoining town of Chelmsford,
where he was living in 1720. He removed to
Stow in 1754, and died March 27, 1773. He
was a farmer and carpenter. He married
(first) Esther  , (second) Sarah  .
Children : Samuel, Josiah, Peter, mentioned be
low; Esther, Martha, Rebecca, Lydia, Daniel.
(VIII) Peter Conant, son of Robert Conant,
was born at Chelmsford, 1732, and settled in
Stow. He was a soldier in the revolution in
Captain Barron's company, took part in the
battle of White Plains, and served in the Conti
nental army. He married Sarah Gibson. His
will was dated January 12, 1818. Children:
Ephraim, mentioned below; Peter, born May

10, 1760; Isaac, Ebenezer, Josiah, Abraham,
Mary, Sarah.
(IX) Ephraim Conant, son of Peter Conant,
was born at Stow, January 16, 1757. He was
a soldier in the revolution and fought in the
battle of Lexington. He was in Captain Whit-
comb's company, Colonel Prescott's regiment.
He removed to Georgetown, Massachusetts,
thence to Temple, New Hampshire, to Thomas-
ton, Maine, and finally to Temple, Maine,
where he died January 22, 1826. He married
Rebecca Hayward. Children: Asa, born 1778;
Simeon, 1779; Ephraim, February 7, 1781;
Joseph, January 25, 1783; Peter, 1785; Sarah;
Abraham, March 7, 1789; Rebecca, 1790;
Isaac, mentioned below; Abigail/ 1795 ; Jacob,
1797. (X) Isaac Conant, son of Ephraim Conant,
was born January 18, 1793, died in Waldo
county, Maine, about 1863. He was a farmer
in Waldo and Aroostook counties and was one
of the pioneers of Fort Fairfield. He was
colonel of a regiment of state militia. He mar
ried Nancy Wentworth, who died at Hope,
Maine, December 14, 1838 (see Wentworth
XXV). Children, born at Hope: Rebecca,
born July 31, 1815, died February 11, 1829;
William Bradford (named for Governor Wil
liam, an ancestor), August 11, 1817, merchant
of Belfast; Albert W., May 21, 1820, a "Forty-
niner," remained in California until 1887 ; Ben
jamin W., January 20, 1823, a sea captain;
Elisha H., January 22, 1826, a merchant; Jo
seph Augustus, mentioned below ; Nancy, De
cember 22, 1832; Rebecca, May 15, 1836.
(XI) Joseph Augustus Conant, son of Isaac
Conant, was born at Hope, Maine, June 5,
1830, died at Fort Fairfield, August 29, 1909.
He was educated in the public schools of Hope.
He came to Fort Fairfield when he was fifteen
years old and followed farming. He pur
chased his father's farm of eighty acres and
cultivated it with other land which he added
to it during the remainder of his active life.
To the original farm he added during his life
about six hundred acres, making it one of the
finest and largest farms in Aroostook county,
In politics he was a Republican, and subse
quently a Democrat. He was road commis
sioner of the town. In religion he was in early
life a Universalist, afterward an Agnostic. He
was a member of the Fort Fairfield Grange.
He enlisted in the Twenty-second Maine Regi
ment and served over a year in the civil war,
in 1862-63. He married Julia Ann Johnston,
born February 8, 1823, died in Fort Fairfield,
July 12, 1878. Children: 1. Benjamin Went
worth, born March 25, 1849, died February
18, 1891 ; he served three months in the civil
war; married Angela Jones; daughter, Nellie

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E., married Louis Scott. 2. Abigail Nancy,
born January 8, 185 1 ; married John H. Avery,
who died April 15, 1905, at Fort Fairfield;
children : Ada ; Lillian, married Rufus Hig-
gins; John; William; Delbert H., of Tacoma ;
Nettie, married Fred Ball ; Luella A., married
John McGill ; Mary E., married Orrison A.
Brown; Grace D., married Douglas Craig. 3.
Stephen Russell (q. v.). 4. Edward, born
May, 1853; married Harriet Hitchins, of
St. Stephen ; resides at Eureka, California,
police captain ; children : Rex O., of Seattle ;
Ge/jrge, Leon, Zelma, Alice, Helen. 5. Wil
liam Bradford, born August, 1855; married
Mary Peck; resides at Peshtigo, Wisconsin;
daughter Julia married a Mr. Hart. 6. Lyman,
born 1857; farmer of Peshtigo. 7. Dudley,
born August 4, 1858; married Maria Lovely;
he was killed April 26, 1877, in an accident,
lumbering ; son Dudley, millwright of Presque
Isle. 8. Adelia M., born July, 1859; married
Charles M. Waldron, of East Benton, Maine;
children: Earl, Robert J., Elizabeth, Bessie,
Joseph, deceased ; Jennie. 9. Emma, died in
infancy. 10. Joseph Augustus, mentioned be
low, n. Abraham Lincoln, born October,
1864, died August 6, 1889 ; married Cora John
ston; son Harry, a farmer. 12. Isaac, men
tioned below.
(XII) Joseph Augustus (2) Conant, son of
Joseph Augustus ( 1 ) Conant, was born at Fort
Fairfield, February n, 1862. He followed
farming in his native town until 1882 when
he went into the lumber business in Minnesota.
In 1886 he went to Montana and three years
later returned to Fort Fairfield and bought a
farm. In 1906 he sold his farm and bought a
larger one in Presque Isle, containing two hun
dred and fifty acres, of which one hundred and
seventy-five acres are in cultivation. In poli
tics he is a Democrat ; in religion an Agnostic.
He was a charter member of General Custer
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and he is a mem
ber of the Grange. He married, April 8, 1891,
Carrie C. Flannery (see Flannery II), born
May 12, 1865, a school teacher in Fort Fair
field, Limestone and Washburn, beginning
when but fourteen and continuing until her
marriage ; member of the Grange, the Women's
Relief Corps, and of the Episcopal church.
Children: 1. Bessie Arlene, born March 22,
1892 ; teacher in the Gardner School, Presque
Isle, member of the County and State Teachers'
associations. 2. Thomas Reed, born Novem
ber 28, 1893. 3. Frank Lewis, born October
15, 1895. 4. Madelyn Janice, born October n,
1900. (XII) Isaac Conant, son of Joseph Au
gustus (1) Conant, was born at Fort Fairfield,
Maine, June 14, 1867. He attended the public

schools there until he was sixteen years old.
He assisted his father on the homestead, to
which he succeeded after his father died. He
now owns four hundred acres of land, half of
which is under cultivation. In politics he is a
Democrat and he has served on the town com
mittee of his party. He attends the Unitarian
church, and is a member of Frontier Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; charter member
of Border Lodge, No. 83, Knights of Pythias,
Fort Fairfield, of which he has been chancellor
commander, having filled the lower offices in
succession. He is also a member of Fort Fair
field Lodge, Modern Woodmen of America;
and of the Aroostook Valley Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry. He married Delia Flannery,
sister of Mrs. Joseph A. Conant. She is a
member of the Pythian Sisters, the Aroostook
Valley Grange and the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. She attends the Epis
copal church. Children : Marion L., born Au
gust 7, 1899; Harold F., July 1, 1902; A. Beryl,
November 25, 1904; Joseph A., September 16,
1912. (The Wentworth Line).
(I) Reginald Wentworth, or Rynald de
Wynterwade, lived at the time of the Norman
conquest, io56. The family was Saxon.
(II) Henry Wentworth, son of Reginald
Wentworth, succeeded his father in the lord
ship of Wentworth, in the Wapentake of
Strafford, West Riding of Yorkshire.
(Ill) Richard Wentworth, son of Henry
Wentworth, was his heir.
(IV) Michael Wentworth, son of Richard
Wentworth, was succeeded by his son.
(V) Henry (2) Wentworth, son of Michael
Wentworth, was succeeded by Hugh.
(VI) Hugh Wentworth, son of Henry (2)
Wentworth, died in 1200.
(VII) William Wentworth, son of Hugh
Wentworth, was succeeded by his son and heir.
(VIII) Robert Wentworth, son of William
Wentworth, married Emma Woodhouse, thus
acquiring the estate for which the family was
later known as the Wentworths of Wentworth-
Woodhouse. He lived in the reign of Henry
III. and Edward I.
(IX) William (2) Wentworth, son of Rob
ert Wentworth, of Wentworth- Woodhouse,
married Beatrice, daughter of Gilbert Thakel,
of Yorkshire. Children: William, mentioned
below; Richard, prebendary of St. Paul's,
bishop of London, 1338, and lord high chan
cellor of England same year, very distin
guished, died 1339.
(X) William (3) Wentworth, son of Wil
liam (2) Wentworth, married (first) 1288,
Dionysia, daughter of Peter de Rotherfield ;
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Newmarch. He died in 1295, in the lifetime
of his father, at whose death in 1308-09 the
family estate went to William (XI). Chil
dren by first wife : William, mentioned below ;
John, married Alice Bissett.
(XI) William (4) Wentworth, son of Wil
liam (3) Wentworth, inherited Wentworth-
Woodhouse; married Isabel, daughter of Wil
liam Pollington, Esq., of Pollington, York
shire. Children : William, a knight, heir of
the estate; John, mentioned below.
(XII) John Wentworth, son of William
(4) Wentworth, of North Elmsall, Yorkshire,
inherited that estate from his uncle, John
Wentworth, situated at no great distance from
Wentworth-Woodhouse, in the parish of South
Kirkby, about nine miles from Doncaster ;
married Joan, daughter of Richard Tyas, of
Burghwallis, Yorkshire.
(XIII) John (2) Wentworth, only son of
John (1) Wentworth, married Agnes, sister
and co-heir of Sir William Dronsfield, of West
Bretton, in Yorkshire ; was living in 1413.
Sons : John, mentioned below ; Roger, Thomas,
Richard. (XIV) John (3) Wentworth, Esq., son of
John (2) Wentworth, of North Elmsall, mar
ried Joan (or Elizabeth, according to some
authorities), daughter of Richard Beaumont,
Esq., of Whitley Hall, Yorkshire. Sons :
John, mentioned below ; Roger, William.
(XV) John (4) Wentworth, Esq., son of
John (3) Wentworth, Esq., married Elizabeth,
daughter of William Calverly, Esq., of Calver-
ley, Yorkshire. Children : Jane, Thomas, men
tioned below.
(XVI) Thomas Wentworth, son of John
(4) Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, mar
ried Jane, daughter of Oliver Mirfield, Esq.,
of Howley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, daughter of
Sir John Saville, Knt, of Methley Hall, York
shire. He died in 1522. Children: John,
Roger, Oliver, mentioned below ; William,
Thomas, daughter, married William Hawks-
worth, Esq. ; Isabel, married Sir Thomas
Wentworth, Knt., of Bretton, her kinsman.
(XVII) Oliver Wentworth, son of Thomas
Wentworth, lived at Foxhill, Lincolnshire, a
parish extending to the Humber. His will,
dated December 7, 1558, was proved January
28, 1559 Children: William, mentioned be
low; Francis.
(XVIII) William (5) Wentworth, son of
Oliver Wentworth, lived fn Waltham, Lincoln
shire; died May 22, 1574. Sons: Oliver;
Thomas, born 1554; Christopher, mentioned
below. (XIX) Christopher Wentworth, son of Wil
liam (5) Wentworth, was born probably in
1556; married, August 19, 1583, Catherine,

daughter of William Marbury, Esq., and
Agnes (Lenton) Marbury, of Girsby, parish
of Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire. He evi
dently moved frequently, as his children were
baptized at five different places ; Irby, Great
Grimsby, Conisholm, Waltham and Lincoln.
Children : William, mentioned below ; Anne,
Faith, Elizabeth, Frances, Francis, died young ;
Priscilla, Christopher, died young.
(XX) William (6) Wentworth, son of
Christopher Wentworth, was baptized at St.
Peter, at Gowts, in the city of Lincoln, June
8, 1584; lived at Alford, 1614 to 1620; mar
ried, November 28, 1614, Susanna Fleming,
widow, daughter of Edward Carter, of Well ;
she married (first) July 1, 1613, Uther, son
of Robert and Jane Fleming. Children, bap
tized at Alford, after which he moved to Rigs-
by : William, mentioned below ; Edward, Chris
topher. (XXI) Elder William (7) Wentworth, the
American immigrant, son of William (6)
Wentworth, was baptized at Alford, England,
March 15, 1616. He came to Exeter, New
Hampshire, with numerous relatives and
friends. The first record found is his signa
ture to a compact drawn by Rev. John Wheel
wright for the government of Exeter, July 4,
1639. Elder Wentworth probably came over
in 1637, with a party of Rev. Wheelwright's
friends. In 1642, when Wheelwright was ban
ished by Massachusetts from Exeter and went
to Wells, Maine, Elder Wentworth and others
in Exeter went with him. In 1642 Elder Went
worth was a juror in Wells, in the county court
at York; in 1648 constable; juror in 1647 and
1649. He removed to Dover, New Hamp
shire, in 1650, in the part later named Somers-
worth, 1729, and Rollinsford in 1849. Most
of his grants were in this vicinity. In 165 1 he
was selectman of Dover, as well as in 1657,
1660, 1664, 1665 and 1670; moderator, 1661 ;
commissioner to end small causes, 1663 ; lot-
layer in 1657, 1660 and 1661 ; served on special
committees of church and town. The office by
which he is best known is that of ruling elder
of the First Church of Dover, organized De
cember, 1638. Pie was elected before 1655
and served in the pastorates of Daniel Maud,
John Reyner, John Reyner Jr. and John Pike,
more than forty years. He frequently preached
in the absence of the pastor, and officiated as
minister at Cocheco in 1665-66 ; he seems to be
the first person employed by public authority to
preach within the limits of Dover. He preached
often at Quamphegan, now South Berwick,
Maine, and in Exeter in 1690 and 1693. In
March, 1693, the town agreed with him to sup
ply the pulpit for a year, if he be able, and to
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1693 he gave his Cocheco farm to his son Ben
jamin, whose descendants still own some of
the land. The story of the saving of Heard's
Garrison by Elder Wentworth is famous. On
the evening of June 27, 1689, squaws re
quested leave to sleep by the kitchen fires in
the various garrison houses and were admitted
to four of the garrisons, according to a com
mon practice. Just before dawn the Indian
murderers were admitted by the squaws and
in three of the houses they killed twenty-three
and carried away twenty-nine captives. Elder
Wentworth was awakened by the barking of a
dog and found the Indians entering the open
door, pushed them out and managed to hold
the door until help came. Two bullets passed
through the door above him. He returned to
Dover, and died March 16, 1696-97. He mar
ried (first) Elizabeth Kenny, and (second)
probably, Elizabeth  , who survived him.
Children: Samuel, born 164 1 ; Gershom, Eze
kiel, John, mentioned below; Elizabeth, 1653;
Paul, Sylvanus, Timothy, Sarah, Ephraim,
Benjamin. (XXII) John (5) Wentworth, son of Elder
William (7) Wentworth, was born about 1650,
and was in Dover, New Hampshire, from 1668
to 1672; took the oath of fidelity, June 21,
1669. He was of York, Maine, August 28,
1699, and again in 1704 we find him located
near Canton, Massachusetts. He married
Martha —  . Children: John, born 1675;
Edward, Charles, Shubael, mentioned below;
Elizabeth, Abigail, Mary.
(XXIII) Shubael Wentworth, son of John
(5) Wentworth, settled in Stoughton, Massa
chusetts, and was town clerk. He married
(first) April n, 1717, Damaris Hawes, who
died at Stoughton, December 7, 1739; (sec
ond) September 10, 1741, Hannah Andrew,
who died December 1, 1759. He died in 1759.
Children : David, born January 13, 1718; Han
nah, August 12, 1719; Catherine, 1721 ; Eze
kiel, May 26, 1723; Sion, mentioned below;
James, April 13, 1727; Bathsheba; Amy, Feb
ruary 26, 1732; Lemuel, February 20, 173 — ;
Benjamin, died in 1760.
(XXIV) Sion Wentworth, son of Shubael
Wentworth, was born March 31, 1725, died
November 9, 1776. He was a blacksmith. He
bought land at Norwich, Connecticut, and at
Warren, Massachusetts. He married Hannah
Pettingill, who died January 29, 1780. She
married (second) July 27, 1779, Joshua
Whittemore. Children : Lemuel, born May
28, 1754; Hannah, February 25, 1756; Shubael,
January 29, 1759; Benjamin; Enoch, men
tioned below; Sion, May 30, 1769; Lydia.
(XXV) Enoch Wentworth, son of Sion
Wentworth, was born at Stoughton, now Can

ton, May 9, 1766. He removed to Maine in
1784. He married, at Friendship, January 4,
1 79 1, Azubah, daughter of Carpenter and
Mary (Gay) Bradford. She was born at
Truro, Nova Scotia, May 21, 1765, died at
Cushing, Maine, November 1, 1823. He died
there October 23, 1857. Children: Emily,
born October 12, 1792 ; Nancy, born December
29, 1794, married Isaac Conant (see Conant
X) ; Mary, January 14, 1797; Lucy, December
4, 1798; Sarah, December 6, 1799; Hannah,
December 6, 1801 ; Enoch, November 14, 1802;
Charlotte, November 6, 1805 ; Benjamin, July
13, 1808. (The Flannery Line).
(I) Thomas Flannery, grandfather of Mrs.
Conant, was born in Dublin, Ireland, emigrated
to this country soon after marriage, settled in
New Brunswick, afterward in Fort Fairfield,
Maine, where he was accidentally killed. He
married Bridget Kane, born in Ireland, died in
Fort Fairfield; she married (second) William
White. Children of Thomas Flannery; Ann,
John, Patrick, Thomas, mentioned below.
(II) Thomas (2) Flannery, son of Thomas
(1) Flannery, was born on the St. John river,
New Brunswick, April 16, 1826, died at Fort
Fairfield, Maine, June 25, 1885. He married,
March, 1848, Phoebe Lovely, born March 28,
1827, in Florenceville, New Brunswick, died
at Fort Fairfield, Maine, April 23, 1892, daugh
ter of William Lovely, a native of New Bruns
wick. Mr. Flannery was a farmer of Fort
Fairfield ; a Democrat in politics, selectman of
the town; member of the Free Will Baptist
Church. He enlisted on the first call for vol
unteers in the civil war, but was rejected for
physical disability. Children, born at Fort
Fairfield: Isaac, born April 16, 1849; William
J., October 19, 1851; Maria, June 25, 1852;
Agnes, February 4, 1854; Philena, November
1, 1857; Daniel, April 19, 1863; Carrie C,
married Joseph Augustus Conant (see Conant
XII) ; Helen, December n, 1868; Delia, July
17, 1870, married Isaac Conant (see Conant
XII).

(XII) Stephen Russell Conant,
CONANT son of Joseph A. Conant ( q. v. ) ,
was born at Fort Fairfield, De
cember 22, 1 85 1 . He attended the public schools
of his native town until he was fifteen years
old. He assisted his father on the farm dur
ing his youth, leaving home at the age of
eighteen. For nine years he was employed in
lumbering and saw mills in Clearfield county,
Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1879 he re
turned to Fort Fairfield and bought the farm
on which his son Edward now lives. He now
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politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of
the Unitarian church. He has been a member
of Fort Fairfield Lodge of Odd Fellows since
the first year of its organization. He married,
April 13, 1879, at Fort Fairfield, Harriet L.
Dolley, who was born in Franklin county,
Maine, March 27, 1858, daughter of Henry A.
Dolley, who was born in Holland, Maine, in
1824, and died in Augusta, Maine, in April,
1863. Her father was a carpenter by trade,
and later a school teacher in Fort Fairfield.
He married Mary Hogan, who was born in
county Tipperary, Ireland, 1832, and died at
Fort Fairfield, in February, 1863. She came
to this country at the age of sixteen years and
lived at first in New York City. Children of
Stephen Russell Conant: 1. Edward Lee, men
tioned below. 2. Alice May, born May 14,
1882 ; married Ray Johnson, of Fort Fairfield,
where he is in business as a furniture dealer;
children : Carl Johnson, born at Fort Fairfield,
May 23, 1905 ; Harriet Johnson, July 19,
1906; Harold Johnson, twin of Harriet, died
in infancy ; William Johnson, October 9, 1908.
3. Mattie Eloise, born October 16, 1883 ; mar
ried Ray Haines, of Maple Grove, a farmer;
children: Eloise Haines, born February 3,
1910; Harriet Haines, March 27, 1911. 4. Del-
bert, born May 25, 1886; married Inez Devoe,
of Fort Fairfield; he is a farmer; children:
Marjorie, born May 22, 19 10; Adelaide, Octo
ber 24, 191 1. 5. William, born August 21,
1887 ; married Sarah Saunders, of Fort Fair
field ; children : William, born December,
1909; Lewis, March, 1912; Mary Grace, born
August 19, 1913. 6. Kathleen, born Janu
ary 17, 1890; married Fred E. Peterson, of
Fort Fairfield, a blacksmith ; children : Edwina
Peterson, born October 16, 1910; Muriel
Peterson, May 20, 1912; Gilbert Peterson, Jan
uary, 1913. 7. Hazel, born January 20, 1893;
married George McBride, of Fort Fairfield,
a blacksmith; child, Alice Conant McBride,
born December 21, 1912. 8. Benjamin Went
worth, born November 3, 1895; a blacksmith's
apprentice. 9. Stephen Bernard, August n,
1907. (XIII) Edward Lee Conant, son of Stephen
Russell Conant, was born at Fort Fairfield,
June 6, 1880. He received his education there
in the public schools and assisted his father on
the farm until he came of age. He then bought
his father's farm, consisting of one hundred
and sixty acres, of which one hundred and
twenty-five are under cultivation at the pres
ent time. He has about thirty-five acres of
excellent timber. In politics Mr. Conant is an
independent Democrat. In religion he is a
Unitarian. He is a member of Fort Fairfield
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; and of the
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Knights of Pythias of Fort Fairfield. He mar
ried Annie Dorsey, January 12, 1908, at Fort
Fairfield. Children: John Stephen, born No
vember 1, 1909; Elizabeth Louise, October 14,
1911. John S. Dorsey, father of Mrs. Conant, was
born at Fort Fairfield, February 5, 1855, and
has been a farmer there all his active life. In
politics he is a Democrat. He married, April
24, 1881, at Fort Fairfield, Elizabeth Under
wood, who was born at Andover, New Bruns
wick, March 13, 1861. She was educated there
in the public schools. She is a communicant
of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Dorsey's
home is in the village of Fort Fairfield. Chil
dren of John S. and Elizabeth Dorsey: 1. Eliz
abeth Aldora, born August 27, 1882, died at
Fort Fairfield, April 28, 1907, unmarried. 2.
Susan, born May 4, 1885 ; married Jerome
McLaughlin, of Limestone, Maine, a farmer
of that town; children: Eva and Bessie Mc
Laughlin. 3. Annie, born January 3, 1887,
married Edward Lee Conant, mentioned above.
4. Romey, born July 31, 1889; married, April
15, 1912, Mary Evalina McHugh, of Houlton,
Maine, born May 24, 1889, now living in Fort
Fairfield, on the homestead. 5. John Edward,
born April 19, 1893.
William Underwood, father of Elizabeth,
was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1807, and
died at Costigan, province of New Brunswick,
Canada, October 14, 1869. He emigrated to
Canada with his parents, who located at An
dover, New Brunswick. He was a farmer in
that province all his active life, a Conservative
in politics, and a communicant of the Roman
Catholic church. He married Mary Gibson,
who was born at Latram, Ireland, March 17,
1821, died at Costigan, New Brunswick, July,
1898, also a Roman Catholic in religion. Chil
dren, all born in New Brunswick: 1. William
Underwood, died young. 2. Thomas Under
wood, accidentally killed at the age of thirty-
three years, while making railroad ties ; unmar
ried. 3. Becky Underwood, resides at Tilley
Settlement, New Brunswick; married Albert
Dumas, a farmer, Canada. 4. Mary Ann
Underwood, married Frank McDonald, a
farmer of Fort Fairfield, where she now lives.
6. Mattie Underwood, married Thomas Sulli
van, a farmer now of Costigan. 7. Elizabeth
Underwood, married John S. Dorsey, men
tioned above. 8. Susan Underwood, married
James McDonald, a farmer of Limestone,
Maine, where she now lives a widow.
Edward Dorsey, father of John S. Dorsey,
was born March 13, 1824, at Fort Fairfield and
died on the old homestead of his family in
March, 1876. He followed farming there all
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He married Hannah Doyle, who was born in
Ireland, and is now living in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, aged eighty- four years (1913).
Children of Edward and Hannah Dorsey: 1.
Miles Dorsey, born May, 1848; married Mary
Ann McShay, of Fort Fairfield, who died in
July, 1912; he is a real estate dealer and
farmer. 2. Edward Dorsey, born 1850; mar
ried Alice Webb, of Fort Fairfield, deceased;
he has a livery stable in Fort Fairfield, and
owns several farms. 3. Hannah Dorsey, born
November, 1853, died February, 1890; mar
ried Samuel Colbath, of Kennebec county,
Maine ; he is a farmer in Fort Fairfield. 4.
John, born February 5, 1855 ; married Eliza
beth Underwood, mentioned above. 5. Mich
ael, born May, 1858, a farmer of Fort Fair
field ; married Mary Barker, of New Bruns
wick. 6. Annie Dorsey, born August 26, 1865 ;
died October 2, 1882. 7. George Dorsey, born
October, 1867, resides on the homestead, un
married.

The Wright family of Worces-
WRIGHT ter, Massachusetts, .of whom
the Hon. George M. Wright,
mayor of the city, is the present representative,
is descended from John Wright, of Woburn,
who was among the first settlers of Chelms
ford, Massachusetts, where all of his children
were born. He married, in 1661, Abigail War
ren, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Children
John, of whom further; Joseph, born 1663
Ebenezer, 1665; Jacob, 1667; Abigail, 1668
Priscilla, 1671 ; Josiah, 1674; Samuel, 1683
Lydia, 1686.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Abi
gail (Warren) Wright, was born in 1662. He
married (first) Mary Stevens, (second) Han
nah Fletcher. Children by first wife : Jacob,
born 1692, died young; Ebenezer, born 1693;
Edward, 1695; Jacob, of whom further;
Plenry, 1700; John and Mary, twins, 1701,
died young. Children by second wife : Han
nah, born 1704; Thomas, 1707; Simeon, about
1710. (Ill) Jacob, son of John (2) and Mary
(Stevens) Wright, was born in 1698. He set
tled in the northern part of Westford, Massa
chusetts, on the farm recently owned by Brad
ley V. Lyon. He married Abigail  .
Children: Sarah, born 1721 ; John, 1723; Eph
raim, of whom further; Mary, 1727; Sarah,
1730; Jacob, 1732; Peletiah, 1734; Joseph,
1736; Benjamin, 1738, died 1741.
(IV) Ephraim, son of Jacob and Abigail
Wright, was born in 1725-26. He married, in
1751, Abigail Whittemore, of Dunstable. Chil
dren: Abraham, born 1752, died same year;
Abigail, 1753; Ruth, 1755; Sarah, 1757, died

1762; Ephraim, of whom further; Nathan,
1763; Lydia, 1765, married, 1784, Andrew
Fletcher; Jotham, 1767; Hannah, 1770, died
1775; Jacob, 1772.
(V) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (1) and
Abigail (Whittemore) Wright, was born in
1761. He removed to Littleton, Massachu
setts. He married Mary Blodgett. Children:
Abigail, born 1786, married Elisha Fletcher,
of Littleton; Mary, born 1788, died 1814, un
married; Sarah, born 1791, married Jacob
Harrington, of Shirley, Massachusetts ; Eph
raim, of whom further; Abram, born 1797,
died 1827, married Maria Hildreth ; Imlah,
born 1799, removed to Antrim, New Hamp
shire; Jesse, born 1802, married Mrs. Mehit
able Davis; James Mansur, born 1807, died
1824. (VI) Ephraim (3), son of Ephraim (2)
and Mary (Blodgett) Wright, was born in
1793. He married, in 1820, Asenath Fletcher.
Children: Mary Fletcher, born 1821, died
1826; Henry Otis, born 1824, died 1835;
Abram, born 1828, resided in Clinton, Massa
chusetts, married Mrs. Ann Eliza Wood;
George Fletcher, of whom further ; Mary
Alzina, born 1833, died 1834; Martha Asenath,
born 1835, married (first) Sampson Fletcher,
of Westford, and had two children, (second)
William H. Savage, no children ; Sarah Pea-
body, born 1838, married Artemas W. Cum-
mings. (VII) George Fletcher, son of Ephraim (3)
and Asenath (Fletcher) Wright, was born July
25, 1831, and died May 30, 1903. His early
life was passed in Westford. In 1850 he was
senior member of the firm of Wright & Burt,
manufacturers of "horse-powers," later known
as tread mills, at Harvard, Massachusetts, later
going to Clinton, Massachusetts. For twenty
years prior to going into business for himself
Mr. Wright served as master mechanic for the
pioneer makers of wire cloth in the United
States. He then established his own industry
and from a small beginning, without any assist
ance outside of his own family, built up the
immense business of the present Wright Wire
Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, which
is of national fame. The enterprise was first
launched in Palmer, Massachusetts, and was
from the first a family affair, Mr. Wright hav
ing been faithfully assisted by his two sons,
George M. and Herbert N. Wright. With only
a few thousand dollars of working capital they
began to put their plans into concrete form,
and from the beginning realized that their
efforts would meet with ultimate success. A
few years of earnest endeavor were sufficient
to cause the Wright Wire Company to out
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inal plant, and in 1889 the business was trans
planted bodily to Worcester, which was a
recognized center for the wire business and
offered far better accommodations for carry
ing on the manufacture. Operations were con
ducted here for four years, when the steadily
growing volume of business again made the
securing of more room imperative. Once more
Palmer was looked upon with favor, and a
large wire drawing plant in this town was pur
chased and quickly put into operation. This,
of course, was in addition to the Worcester
plant, which was still operated at its full capac
ity, being enlarged yearly by the erection of
new buildings and machinery. Mr. Wright
realized from the first the great possibilities of
the wire manufacture and the unlimited uses
to which wire could be successfully applied,
and the result is the Wright Wire Company
is to-day one of the greatest enterprises of the
kind in the United States. At his death in
1903 Mr. Wright was succeeded in the presi
dency of the firm by his eldest son, his second
son becoming vice-president and treasurer.
Mr. Wright married, September 13, i860,
Harriet Elizabeth Wrig"ht, born April 16, 1841,
at Littleton, Massachusetts, daughter of Eze
kiel Conant and Susan (Stevens) Wright (see
Wright VI) ; she was also a direct descendant
through her father's maternal line of John
Prescott (see Prescott). Mr. and Mrs. Wright
had two children : George Merrill, of whom
further ; Herbert N., of whom further.
(VIII) George Merrill, son of George
Fletcher and Harriet Elizabeth (Wright)
Wright, was born in Clinton, Massachusetts,
April 12, 1865. He received an excellent edu
cation, the foundation of which was laid in
the public schools of Clinton ; he then attended
the high school there, later the Foster Busi
ness College, and this was followed by a short
term at Monson Academy. At the conclusion
of his studies he worked with his father for
three years in order to master the details of
the business. After accomplishing this his ad
vancement was very rapid, and at the age of
twenty-one years he became general manager
of the Wright Wire Cloth Company, which
office he has held continuously ever since.
When he was twenty-three years old he trav
eled and sold goods on the road, subsequently
becoming treasurer of the company and after
wards vice-president. For the first six years
of his connection with the business the style of
the firm was the Wright Wire Cloth Company ;
after that for ten years it was known as the
Wright and Colton Wire Cloth Company, be
coming in 1902 the Wright Wire Company,
the name by which it is at present known.
Upon the death of his father in 1903 Mr.

Wright succeeded to the presidency of the
company which was thus so largely built up
by the activities of father and sons and con
tinued the broad policies already established.
Pie has now been identified with the firm for
a period of more than thirty years, during
which its growth has been phenomenal, so that
it stands to-day among the very largest of the
manufacturers of woven wire fabrics in the
L'nited States. In 1903 the increase in pros
perity necessitated a third factory to be de
voted to the manufacture of wire rope, and
required a number of large additions to both
the other factories. The manufacture of wire
rope and cable is now carried on exclusively
at Palmer, where another mill was purchased
and several departments transferred from the
Worcester establishment. The Worcester plant
is now devoted exclusively to the weaving and
galvanizing of wire cloth and netting.
The steady expansion in equipment, products
and sales has been accelerated under the presi
dency of Mr. Wright, who has so ably ad
vanced the business from its very beginning.
From a capital stock of $20,000 at the time it
was first organized as a Massachusetts corpor
ation the amount of capital all paid in reached
the sum several years ago of $650,000, since
which time the volume of business has in
creased a quarter of a million dollars. The
mills are not only splendidly equipped for the
manufacture of all the conceivable products of
the wire industry, but are most excellently
manned, many of the company's employees
having been in the service for periods ranging
all the way from ten to twenty-seven years,
and all earnest in their praises of Mr. Wright
as an employer. There are about nine hun
dred hands in all engaged in the mills, the
annual pay roll amounting to $500,000. In
Palmer alone the company owns forty-two
acres of land. It has sales offices and ware
houses in New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Francisco, and
has a remarkably fine selling force in the field.
Mr. Wright has become identified with the
interests of the city of Worcester in many
ways, and is one of the most public-spirited
citizens who has ever resided there. He was
elected to the common council in 1900-01,
serving on the committees on education, water,
and finance. In 1902 he was elected to the
board of aldermen, serving on the committees
on water, fire department, military affairs,
street lighting and as trustee of the City Hos
pital. In 1912 he was elected mayor of the
city of Worcester, and has proved one of the
most efficient and popular public servants ever
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honest, and is a thoroughly fit man for the
large responsibilities with which he has been
entrusted, being a business man of wideband
successful experience. He is the first mayor
of the city to represent its wire industry. In
December, 1913, he was reelected mayor by
the largest plurality ever given a mayor at any
city election.
Mr. Wright is a very popular man socially,
and is a member of a number of clubs and
associations. He is a member of Central
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and Athelstan- Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, and has attained the thirty-second de
gree in that order ; also a member of the
Worcester Automobile Club, of the Conti
nentals, the Worcester Club and Rotary Club,
and is a member, as are also his wife and chil
dren, of the Bethany Congregational Church.
Mr. Wright married Minnie E. Searle,
daughter of John F. and Emeline Searle. Chil
dren: 1. George Francis, born June 1, 1892;
educated primarily in the public schools and
finishing with a course at the Bryant & Srat-
ton Business School, where he was distin
guished by his accomplishments in mathe
matics, bookkeeping and penmanship, develop
ing also marked mechanical ability. He is
now acting superintendent of Wright Wire
Company's mill No. 2, at Palmer, Massachu
setts. 2. Ralph Wyman, born August 12, 1894;
educated in the public schools and under pri
vate tutorship. 3. Florence Marian, born in
November, 1895; a pupil at the South high
school, and now at the Emma Willard School
for Girls in Troy, New York.
(VIII) Herbert N., son of George Fletcher
and Harriet Elizabeth (Wright) Wright, was
born in Clinton, Massachusetts, March 13,
1867. His education was received in Massa
chusetts, being begun in the public schools of
Clinton, which was followed by a course in
the high school there. He then removed to
Worcester, where he remained for eight or
nine months, and he passed the following six
years or so of his life at Palmer, Massachu
setts, where for a brief period he attended
Monson Academy. After concluding his
studies there he entered upon his business
career, working in the mill of the Palmer Wire
Goods Company, which was established with
his father, he acted as general manager. It
was not until 1885, when the family were in
full control of the business, that the name was
changed to the Wright Wire Cloth Company.
The growth of the business and his connection
with it has been given in full in preceding
paragraphs. As a business man probably none
stands in higher esteem in the community than
Mr. Wright, and in social .circles his influence

is keenly and widely felt. He is a member of
the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, where
he has served the chamber on committee on
foreign relations. He is also a strong moral
factor in the circle in which he moves, being
a member of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, and of the Congregational Club. He
is an attendant of the Adams Square Congre
gational Church.
Mr. Wright married, December 16, 191 1,
Edith Athena Barber, daughter of Orlando D.
and Mary Fidelia (Fessenden) Barber, of
Townsend, Massachusetts (see Barber). Mr.
and Mrs. Wright have one child, Harriet Pres
cott, born February 20, 191 3.
(The Wright Line).
Mrs. George Fletcher Wright, mother of the
Wright brothers above mentioned, is also a
descendant of John Wright, of Woburn, and
his son, John Wright, given above, her descent
being traced through Henry, of whom further.
(Ill) Henry, son of John and Mary
(Stevens) Wright, was born in 1700. He
married Esther Adams. Children: Hannah,
born 1730, married, in 1749, John Underwood;
Henry, of whom further; Sybil, born 1734;
Olive, 1736; Rachel, 1738; Eunice, 1740;
Philip, 1742; Mary, 1745; Sarah, 1747; Hul
dah, 1749, married, 1771, Sampson Warren,
of Littleton.
(IV) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and
Esther (Adams) Wright, was born in 1732.
He married, 1753, Sarah Spaulding. Children:
Mary, born 1753; Thankful, 1754; Stephen,
of whom further; Bridget, 1760; Esther, 1762,
married, 1783, Jonathan Johnson Jr. ; Rebecca,
1763; Sarah, 1765; Henry, 1767; Hannah,
1768; Abel, 1770; Elijah, 1771, removed to
Ashby. (V) Stephen, son of Henry (2) and Sarah
(Spaulding) Wright, was born in 1758. He
removed to Littleton, Massachusetts. He mar
ried, April 5, 1787, Sarah Prescott, born March
31, 1765, died at Shelburne, Massachusetts,
September 21, 1817, daughter of Timothy and
Lydia (Fletcher) Prescott (see Prescott V).
Children: 1. Stephen, born at Ashby, Massa
chusetts, October 28, 1788, died at Ludlow,
Vermont, November 6, 1857; married, March
8, 1809, Zebiah Richardson, of Westford, who
died October 11, 1853. 2. Sally, born 1791,
died 1834; married, February 7, 1815, Nathan
Wright, of Shelburne. 3. Lucy, born August
4, 1795; married, October 8, 1820, Jacob Pool
Kellogg, of Shelburne. 4. Ezekiel Conant, of
whom further. 5. Lydia, born 1799, died 1817,
unmarried. 6. Mary, born November 1, 1801,
died April 29, 1857; married, October 30,
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at Tewksbury, Massachusetts. 7. Rebecca,
born 1803, died 1817. 8. Timothy Prescott'
born September 23, 1806; removed to Boston
in 1858; married, October 2, 1832, Elnora,
daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Wait)
Prescott, born February 19, 1806, died at Bos
ton, May 13, 1861. 9. Elizabeth, born Febru
ary 8, 1809; married, November 11, 1833,
Nahum Childs, of Wilton, New Plampshire.
(VI) Ezekiel Conant, son of Stephen and
Sarah (Prescott) Wright, was born May 26,
1797, died August 13, 1856. He married,
March 8, 1821, Susan Stevens, of Chelmsford,
daughter of Sampson Stevens, born December
12, 1796, died June 20, 1868. Children: 1.
Susan Emily Hester, born January 8, 1822,
died July 26, 1856; married, May 27, 1852,
George W. Wood, and had two children. 2.
Ezekiel Atwood, born January 20, 1824, died
February 18, i860; married, December 26,
1852, Hannah L. Files, who died November
8, 1858, leaving one child, Susan Emily, bom
July 26, 1858, lives in Chelmsford, married
Frank Marshall, and has one daughter, Rachel.
3. Sarah Maria, born January 24, 1826; mar
ried, May 22, 1851, James A. Parker; had
four children, two of whom died, the surviving
children being Eugene BlancKard Parker, liv
ing in Cuthbert, Georgia, has charge of the
Parker Railway News Company, married Eliz
abeth Conant, of Littleton, Massachusetts, and
their children were: George A., died aged
twenty, Roger Conant and Donald ; Emily F.,
married Harry Greenwood, and they have one
son, Wallace Wright Greenwood, a student at
Clark College. 4. Atwill Freeman, born Feb
ruary 18, 1829; married, May 30, 1861, Fran
ces S. Manahan; children: Fred Walter, of
Chelmsford and Washington, D. C, and John,
of Westford, engaged in the Boston office of
the Appleton Mills. 5. Nahum Harwood, born
September 15, 1831 ; married, November 26,
1857, Abbie P. F. Livingston, born December
31, 1836; children: Henry Merrill, a teacher
in the English High School, Boston, married
and has one son, and Harwood Livingston. 6.
Stephen Eugene, born June 25, 1834; married
Alice  ; had four children. 7. Merrill
Stevens, born July 19, 1837; served in civil
war; married Mrs. Elizabeth French; no chil
dren. 8. Harriet Elizabeth, born April 16,
1841 ; married George Fletcher Wright (see
Wright VII). (The Prescott Line).
Although the direct lineage of the American
family of this name cannot be traced back
further than the time of Queen Elizabeth, it
is well known that Prescott was an ancient
name in Lancashire, England. James Pres

cott, of Standish, of that county, was one of
the gentlemen required by order of Queen
Elizabeth, in 1564, to keep in readiness horses
and armor. His son, Sir James, was created
lord of the manor of Dryby, in Lincolnshire,
and had arms granted him as follows : Ermine,
a chevron sable, on a chief of the second two
leopards' heads, or. Crest: Out of a ducal
coronet or, a boar's head and neck, argent,
bristled of the first. Sir James had a son,
Roger, who lived in Sherington, in the parish
of Standish, and had a son, Ralph, baptized
in 1571-72, who live in Sherington, and had a
son, John, who became the direct ancestor of
the family in America.
(I) John Prescott, son of Ralph Prescott,
was baptized at Standish, England, in 1604-05.
He married, January 21, 1629, at Wygan,
Lancashire, Mary Platts. Owing to religious
persecution he came to America with his wife
and children, landing first at Barbadoes, in
1638, where he became a landowner. In 1640
he came to New England, landing at Boston,
Massachusetts, and settling at Watertown,
where he had large grants of land allotted him.
Children, all of whom except one lived to
great age and had large families : Mary, bap
tized 1630; Martha, 1632; John, 1635; Sarah,
1637; Hannah, 1639; Lydia, born 1641 ; Jona
than, probably 1643; Joseph, about 1645;
Jonas, of whom further.
(II) Jonas, son of John and Mary (Platts)
Prescott, was born at Lancaster, Massachu
setts, June, 1648, died December 31, 1723.
He settled in Groton ; he was a blacksmith ; he
assisted in rebuilding the town after its de
struction by Indians ; was town clerk, select
man, captain of militia, justice of the peace,
and representative in the general assembly,
1699 and 1705. He married, December 14,
1672, Mary, daughter of John and Mary
(Draper) Loker. Children: Mary, born 1674,
married Benjamin Farnsworth ; Elizabeth,
1676, married Eleazer Green ; Jonas, of whom
further; Nathaniel, 1680, died 1681 ; Dorothy,
1681, married John Varnum; James, 1684,
died young; Sarah, 1686, married John Long-
ley; Abigail, 1688, married James Parker;
Martha, 1690, married Shubael Hobert ; Sus
annah, 1691, married William Lawrence; Deb
orah, 1694, married Samuel Parker; Benja
min, 1696, married Abigail Oliver, died 1738.
(Ill) Jonas (2), son of Jonas (1) and Mary
(Loker) Prescott, was born October 26, 1678,
died September 12, 1750. He lived at Forge
Village, since included in Westford ; erected
iron forges, improved Stony Brook, was cap
tain of militia, justice of the peace, and repre
sented the town in the general court, 1720.
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ful Wheeler, of Concord; (second) April 30,
1718, Mary Page, born 1687, died 1781. Chil
dren: Ebenezer, born 1700, married Hannah
Farnsworth ; Jonas, of whom further; Thank
ful, 1705, married Timothy Spalding; Mary,
171 1, married Joseph Stone; Sarah, 1712, mar
ried Deacon Samuel Minot; Dorcas, 1714, mar
ried Deacon Samuel Minot, husband of her
sister Sarah.
(IV) Jonas (3), son of Jonas (2) and
Thankful (Wheeler) Prescott, was born Jan
uary 26, 1703, died September 9, 1784, at West
ford, where he had lived as a farmer, and
where he served as justice of the peace. He
married (first) April 30, 1726, Elizabeth
Spalding, (second) in 1 731, Elizabeth Howard,
of Chelmsford, (third) Rebecca Jones, widow
of Benjamin Barrett, of Concord. Children
by first wife: Jonas, born 1727, married Re
becca Bulkley; Timothy, of whom further.
By second wife: Elijah, born 1732; Elizabeth,
1734, married Zachariah Hildreth; Isaac and
Benjamin, died young. By third wife : Esther,
born 1742, married Colonel David Goodhue;
Sarah, 1744, married Abraham Taylor; John,
1752, married Martha Abbott.
(V) Timothy, son of Jonas (3) and Eliza
beth (Spalding) Prescott, was born Decem
ber 1, 1728, died April 30, 1808, at Westford.
He was a farmer and miller ; selectman for
fourteen years ; member of Congregational
church. Pie married (first) February 12,
I753. Lydia Fletcher, born 1734, died May 1,
1798, daughter of Gershom and Lydia (Town-
send) Fletcher, granddaughter of Joshua and
Dorothy (Hall) Fletcher, great-granddaughter
of Joshua and Grissies (Jewell) Fletcher,
great-great-granddaughter of William and
Lydia (Bates) Fletcher, and great-great-great-
granddaughter of Robert Fletcher, the immi
grant, born in England, and settled at Con
cord, Massachusetts, in 1630, with his three
sons, Luke, William and Samuel. Mr. Pres
cott married (second) July 10, 1800, Widow
Rebecca Boynton. Children, all by first wife:
Lydia, born 1754, died 1812, married (first)
Josiah Conant, (second) Jonathan Pierce;
Timothy, born 1755, died 1759; Esther, born
1757, died 1759; Lucy, born 1759, died same
year; Annie, born 1761, died 1821, married
Elnathan Reed; Isaiah, born 1763, married
(first) Betsy Wright, of Littleton, (second)
Widow Bird, (third) Widow Matilda French;
Sarah, born 1765, married Stephen Wright, of
Littleton (see Wright V) ; Elijah, born 1767,
married Eunice Walker; Ruth, born 1769,
married Abel White; Amos, born 1771, mar
ried Polly Emerson; Olive, born 1774, married
Caleb Parker.
Note — "Prescott Genealogy" gives dates of

Stephen Wright, of Littleton, who married
Sarah Prescott, as born May 24, 1764, died
February 16, 1857. Hodgman's "History of
Westford, Mass.," gives date of birth, 1758,
as used in Wright line V. The same history
also gives Ephraim as grandfather of George
Fletcher Wright, not Jesse.
(The Barber Line).
George Barber, the immigrant ancestor, was
born in England about 1615, and came to
America perhaps on the ship "Transport," July
4, 1636, having a certificate from his minister
at Gravesend, England, of conformity to the
laws. He settled at Dedham, Massachusetts,
and. was a townsman there December 10, 1640.
He belonged to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Boston in 1646. He
was captain of a militia company. In 1647 ne
took the freeman's oath. He was an original
proprietor, and one of the foremost settlers in
Medfield, formerly part of Dedham. In No
vember, 165 1, he contracted with the select
men of Medfield to build a mill for the supply
of the town on Mill brook, below Elm street.
He sold the mill the following year to Henry
Adams. In 1652 he was on a committee to
lay out highways and cut timber along Vine
brook. In 1663 he was appointed by the town
to beat the drum which gave signal to the set
tlers of Indian alarms and of all gatherings m
the meeting house. He was called upon fre
quently to settle estates. He served ten years
on the board of selectmen and was the chief
military officer of the town. He was town
clerk for twenty-three years, and deputy to
the general court for four years. His home
was on Main street, near the Bradford Curtis
farm. He married (first) September 24, 1642,
Elizabeth Clark, who died December 22, 1683.
He married (second) Joan (Faxon) Fisher,
widow of Anthony Fisher. He died in Med
field, April 13, 1685. Children of first wife:
Elizabeth, born 1641, died December 20, 1643;
Mary, June 27, 1643; Mary, November 31,
1644; Samuel, June 11, 1646; John, January
13, 1649; Elizabeth, February 11, 1651; Han
nah, April 16, 1654; Zachariah, mentioned be
low ; Abigail, October 20, 1659.
(II) Zachariah Barber, son of George Bar
ber, was born in Medfield, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 29, 1656. He was a farmer at Med
field. He married, August 30, 1683, Abiel
Ellis, born October 15, 1662, died at Medfield,
April 14, 1716. Their children were : Benoni,
born September 9, 1684, died September 23,
1684; Zachariah, mentioned below; Joseph,
October 4, 1687; Abiel, April 4, 1691 ; John,
October 12, 1693; Ruth, March 5, 1695-96;
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05; Elizabeth, July 5, 1700; Mary, May 26,
1703.
(Ill) Zachariah (2) Barber, son of Zach
ariah (1) Barber, was born October 19, 1685.
He married (first) December 14, 1717, Deb
orah Partridge, who died July 12, 1723. He
married (second) February 17, 1725, Mary
Allen, who afterward married William Mann,
of Wrentham, Massachusetts. He lived in
Medfield. Children, born in Medfield: Zach
ariah, born February 10, 1719; Deborah, No
vember 8, 1720; Elisha, mentioned below.
(IV) Elisha Barber, son of Zachariah (2)
Barber, was born in Medfield, Massachusetts,
November 23, 1722, died July 7, 1803. He
married, July 10, 1751, Silence Fairbanks, born
February 26, 1727, died November 14, 1804,
aged seventy-seven years. He settled on the
farm of Captain Joseph Morse, deceased, in
Sherborn, Massachusetts, now or lately owned
by Walter Barber. Children : Zachary, mar
ried Patience Whitney ; Deborah, born May
3, 1754; Sarah, March 17, 1756; Elisha, men
tioned below; George, March 9, 1761 ; Oliver,
January 26, 1763 ; Silence, October 18, 1765.
(V) Elisha (2) Barber, son of Elisha (1)
Barber, was born in Sherborn, May 31, 1758.
He married, October 16, 1783, Martha Bul-
lard. Children: Julia, born February 5, 1786,
died September 22, 1806; Rebecca, March 3,
1789; Vernal, March 3, 1794; Caroline, March
22, 1795; Elisha Dana, mentioned below;
Julius, November 11, 1806, died same day.
Elisha Barber was a soldier in the revolution
from Sherborn, a private in Captain Samuel
King's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's
regiment, serving five months and five days in
1776, at Hull, Massachusetts. He entered the
Continental army, June 5, 1780, at the age of
twenty-two years, according to the old rolls,
on which he is described as of light complexion,
five feet, seven inches in height. He was dis
charged December 16, 1780. (See Massachu
setts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution,
p. 585, vol. i).
(VI) Elisha Dana Barber, son of Elisha
(2) Barber, was born at Sherborn, September
15, 1803. He settled in Townsend, Massachu
setts, where descendants are now living. He
married, April 10, 1827, Sarah Dix, daughter
of Benjamin Dix. She died October 10, 1886.
He served nine months during the war for the
Union in Company H, Fourth Massachusetts
Heavy Artillery. He died July 9, 1885. Chil
dren, born at Townsend: 1. Eugene Lucette,
born May 26, 1828; married, January 8, 1856,
Alma M. Curtis ; he died January 15, 1897. 2.
Polly Ann, born April 29, 1832 ; married
(first) Luther A. Shattuck, (second) Edwin
A. Fessenden ; died in Milf ord, Massachusetts,

January, 1913. 3. Orlando Dix, mentioned be
low. 4. Martha, born March 27, 1837; mar
ried, November 26, 1857, George Jefferson
Shattuck, of Townsend. 5. Vernal, born De
cember 12, 1840; resides in Townsend; mar
ried, September 8, 1886, Abbie Anna Sever
ance. (VII) Orlando Dix Barber, son of Elisha
Dana Barber, was born at Townsend, Febru
ary 19, 1834, and is now living. Pie was edu
cated in the public schools. He was a cooper
by trade and worked at it many years until his
health failed, when he took to farming. In
politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Congre-
gationalist. He married, May 21, 1856, Mary
Fidelia Fessenden, born June 25, 1837, daugh
ter of Aaron and Sarah (Woods) Fessenden,
of Townsend. Mary Fidelia (Fessenden)
Barber is a woman of exceptionally strong
character. Endowed with robust health and
exuberance of vitality, a keen, active mind, and
a cheerful disposition, she was naturally fitted
to reach an exalted plane of thought and action.
After attending the public schools of Town-
send she entered an academy at Winchester,
Massachusetts. Here she won distinction as
one of the most brilliant pupils in the school.
While studying at the academy she was stricken
with brain fever and upon recovering was
obliged to give up her studies and return to
her home in Townsend. Soon after reaching
her home she was asked to teach a district
school in Brookline, New Hampshire, a school
noted for the lawlessness of its pupils, who
took delight in making the lives of the teachers
unbearable. Although but sixteen years of
age Mary F. Fessenden accepted the position
of school mistress in this district school and
taught there successfully for several terms.
Many of her pupils were much older than her
self. At an early age she showed marked
ability as a writer and public speaker, taking
an active part in lyceums and public debates,
which were among the social functions of that
time. Her poems and essays were always in
demand for various occasions, and she became
celebrated as a public speaker. At the age of
seventy she provided the program for a social
occasion, taking part in a drama, reciting a
poem, reading an essay, and opening the debate
on a question that was presented for discus
sion. Recognizing the power of the Grange
as a factor for progress in a town or village
she became a charter member of the Brookline
(New Hampshire) Grange, and is now at the
age of seventy-seven (1914) one of its enthusi
astic supporters. For a number of years she
was lecturer of this organization. She is an
earnest advocate for equal suffrage, and has
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subject. Strong and self-reliant by nature, she
has ever been a power for usefulness and
strength to the weak and helpless. To her
children she has been a devoted, sympathetic
mother, and an encouraging friend, always en
deavoring to impress them with the things of
life that are really worth while.
Children: I. Arthur Dana, born April 26,
1857; married (first) Gelena B. Richards, of
Mason, New Hampshire, (second) October
19, 1907, Jennie Litchfield, of Peppered, Mas
sachusetts ; now living in Townsend. 2. David
Melvin, born July 9, 1859; conducts the old
homestead, making a specialty of fruit and
dairy products; unmarried. 3. Nella May,
born February 10, 1863 ; married, January 8,
1891, George Waldo Browne, author, of Man
chester, New Hampshire ; children : Norman
Stanley and Rilma Marion. 4. Edith Athena,
born at Townsend, June 5, 1874; married Pler-
bert Nelson Wright, of Worcester, December
16, 1911 (see Wright VIII). 5. Frank Fessen
den, born January 8, 1877; has a large fruit
and poultry farm at Townsend ; married, June
20, 1906, Anna Marie Gabriel, of Eudora,
Kansas ; children : Arthur Gabriel and Robert
Edmund. Mrs. Edith Athena (Barber) Wright has
enjoyed a distinguished career as artist, author
and teacher since her completion of a very
fine general and artistic education. She was
graduated as valedictorian from high school
in 1892, after which she taught school in Hollis,
New Hampshire, for a year. She then attended
Cowles Art School at Boston for a year, after
which she returned to Townsend and continued
for three years teaching in district number
two. At the expiration of this time she be
came a student at the Massachusetts Normal
Art School, from which she was graduated in
1 901, after a four years' course. While pur
suing her art studies at the Normal School
Mrs. Wright contributed stories and articles
to various periodicals, including the "Home
stead" of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Dr.
Perrin's paper. She also contributed illustra
tions for "American Young Folks," published
at Manchester, New Hampshire, at age of six
teen, before taking up the study of art.
She voluntarily assisted Dr. Perrin in his
charitable work in regard to the conducting of
classes in art on Saturday at the "Every Day
Church." She took great interest in temper
ance work among the children at the "Willard
Y" Settlement, giving illustrated talks on the
subject, and she assisted at the reception for
the children. She taught Sunday school for
two years after having joined Tremont Temple.
During this time she was an earnest student
of physical culture and elocution, giving dra

matic and elocutionary readings in various
parts of New England. After her graduation
as an artist in 1901, Mrs. Wright became direc
tor of art, and went to Northfield, Massachu
setts, where she assumed charge of drawing
for a year and a half, covering five towns.
Removing to Attleboro, she assumed the super
vision of fifty teachers, and taught mechanical
and free-hand drawing in both day and night
schools for a period of three years. She then
removed to Newport, where as director of art
she supervised the work of upwards of a hun
dred teachers in charge of three thousand five
hundred pupils.
Beside her school work Mrs. Wright gave
private lessons in the homes of the Vander-
bilts for a period of three years, John Nich
olas Brown for two years, Mrs. Woodbury
Kane for three or four years, Miss Andrews,
daughter of Paul Andrews, for three years.
She was secretary of the Unity Club and took
part in its dramatic entertainments, for which
she prepared notes and extracts. Her literary
work included articles on art and industrial
education for the "Newport News" and articles
on handicraft for the "Ladies' World,"
"Mothers' Magazine" and "Youth's Com
panion," all illustrated by herself. At the Cur
rent Topics Club she prepared and read vari
ous papers.
Mrs. Wright was specially honored by being
chosen to deliver an address on art before the
Teachers' Institute at Providence, Rhode
Island, and on August 5, 1907, she delivered by
invitation an address on education for the Old
Home Day at Townsend, Massachusetts. For
a period of four months Mrs. Wright, in com
pany with Grace Gilpin, of Newport, Rhode
Island, traveled through England, France,
Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Hol
land and Belgium, and upon her return home
gave travel talks for the benefit of the Meth
odist church of Brookline, New Hampshire.
The receipts were large and a considerable
fund was raised for charitable purposes by her
efforts. In her writings on "Art and Industrial Edu
cation," Mrs. Wright treats her subject with
rare knowledge, comparing the old district
school with its primitive methods to our
modern institutions of learning in so skillful
a manner that the present day student cannot
but appreciate the advantages which he has
over the way in which his forefathers were
instructed. Mrs. Wright treats the subject of
"Making the Home Beautiful" in so delightful
a way, writing with so much ease and grace,
and withal with so thorough a comprehension
of the matter, that the necessity for order,
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and imperative. In her "Early History of
Worcester" she evinces an intimate historical
knowledge of the hardships of the pioneers,
their dangers from Indians and wild beasts,
and their heroic achievements, which makes
most fascinating reading. She is a woman who
has been gifted in many ways for the instruc
tion and entertainment of her race. Mrs. Wright
is president of Brittain Square Circle of the
Parent-Teachers' Association, affiliated with
the Adams Square Congregational Church. At
a recent meeting she gave an address, "Parents
and Their Responsibilities," taking up other
important subjects, "Use and Abuse of Food,"
"Teaching Obedience," "Parent and Child,"
and others of same trend. Mr. and Mrs.
Wright have one child, Harriet Prescott
Wright, born February 20, 1913.

This is an ancient Scotch name,
MUNRO traced to the eleventh century
through a long line of barons,
down to William Munro, who settled in Lex
ington, Massachusetts, about the middle of the
seventeenth century. The name was strongly
represented in the army of Malcolm II., who
expelled the Danes from Scotland. The fam
ily has been noted for its advocacy and civil
and religious liberty. The family herein de
scribed is probably descended from the ancient
Scottish barons, but the connection has never
been established.
(I) William Munro, born 1672-73, first ap
pears in Bristol, now Rhode Island, then a
part of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, in
1698. His farm extended from the Gray farm
on the north to Mount Hope farm on the south,
and the title deeds remained in the family until
after 1900. William Munro was the executor
of the estate of his neighbor, Colonel Henry
Mcintosh (Mount Hope Farm), and managed
the property for Mcintosh's widow. He died
April 28, 1746, in the seventy-third year of his
age. He married Mary Lindsay, born 1684-
85, died November 8, 1760. Their remains
now rest in Major Munro's lot on the Neck,
in Bristol. For six generations, beginning with
William Munro, members of the family have
served as vestrymen in St. Michael's Church,
Bristol, in the line below described. William
Munro's children were : Hezekiah, born July
27, 1702, died August 15 following: William,
born November 20, 1703; Nathan, June 11,
1706 ; Bennett, mentioned below ; George, Au
gust 31, 1710; Nathaniel; October 27, 1712;
Benjamin, November 16, 1714; Mary, Decem
ber 15, 1716.
(II) Bennett, fourth son of William and
Mary (Lindsay) Munro, was born October 1,
1708, in Bristol, and lived for some years on

Mount Hope Farm. The records show that
he had several slaves, and he bore the military
title of captain. He died September 25, 1775.
He married, in the latter part of 1733 (inten
tions recorded October 13, 1733) Sarah, daugh
ter of Nathaniel and Sarah Bosworth, of Bris
tol, born February 2, 1716, died August 12,
1754. Children : Nathan, born October 3,
1734; Nathaniel, October 20, 1736; William,
April 7, 1738; George, August 26, 1740; Sarah,
November 25, 17-42; James, March 10, 1745;
Edward, mentioned below ; Bennett, July 28,
1749; PIenry,'July 30, 1752; Benoni, August
11, 1754. He appears to have had a second
wife with the same baptismal name, as the fol
lowing children of Bennett and Sarah Munro
are recorded in Bristol : Jemima, born March
30, 1757; Samuel, November 27, 1758; Royal,
October 8, 1762. The second wife died Sep
tember 25, 181 1, aged ninety-two years. Her
death was caused by her clothes catching fire.
(Ill) Edward, sixth son of Captain Ben
nett and Sarah (Bosworth) Munro, was born
April 14, 1747, in Bristol, where his life was
passed. No record of his marriage or death
appears. His wife, Sarah, born 1749-50, died
August 12, 1796. Children recorded in Bristol
are: Henry, born May 28, 1771 ; Sarah, April
3, 1777; Bennett, mentioned below.
(IV) Bennett (2), son of Edv/ard and
Sarah Munro, was born December 19, 1785,
in Bristol, and passed his life in that town, as
before noted a vestryman of St. Michael's
Church. He married (first) May 16, 1808,
Sally, daughter of Daniel and Susannah
(Wardwell) Gladding. He married (second)
July 6, 1818, Lucy Abell, of Seekonk, daugh
ter of Preserved Abell, of Warren, who was
quartermaster-sergeant of Walker's Massa
chusetts regiment in the war of the revolution.
Children of first marriage : Edward, born
April 28, 1810; Phebe Howland, August 19,
1812, died 1815; Elinor, October 6, 1814. Chil
dren of second marriage : Sally Gladding, born
January 22, 1819; John Bennett, mentioned be
low ; Permelia Abell, October 11, 1822 ; George,
January 2, 1825 ; Otis, November 10, 1827 ;
Lucy Bennett, January 15, 1830; Frances Sid
ney, August 3, 1831 ; Crawford, February 16,
1834; Anne Durfee, July 30, 1837; Charles
Bennett, November 17, 1839.
(V) John Bennett, second son of Bennett
(2) Munro, and second child of his second
wife, Lucy Abell, was born September 20,
1820, in Bristol, and continued to reside in that
town, serving as vestryman of St. Michael's
Church. He represented his native town in
the state assembly from 1853 to 1857 inclu
sive. He married, December 25, 1846, Abbe
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(Waldron) Batt, born January 10, 1824, in
Bristol, granddaughter of Thomas and Lucretia
Waldron, of Bristol. Thomas Waldron served
eight months as a private in Captain William
Throop's company of Rhode Island militia, in
the revolution. James Batt, son of James and
Mary Batt, came from Dorsetshire, England,
to Rhode Island. Among the sons of John
Bennett Munro was Walter Lee Munro, M.
D., born 1857, in Bristol, graduated Bachelor
of Arts at Brown University in 1879, and sub
sequently received the degree of Master of
Arts. He graduated from the medical depart
ment of Harvard University in 1885, and has
since practiced medicine in Providence. In
1887 he was surgeon of the Rhode Island Hos
pital; visiting physician of St. Vincent De Paul
Infant Asylum; was examiner of the Medical
Society in 1890, and consulting physician of
St. Joseph's Hospital in 1899. He is the
author of various articles in the medical jour
nals of the day. Another son, Dana Carle
ton Munro, born 1866, in Bristol, graduated
from Brown University in 1887, and became
professor of European history in the Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
(VI) Wilfred Harold, son of John B. and
Abbe H. (Batt) Munro, was born August 20,
1849, m Bristol, and was graduated from
Brown University in the class of 1870, receiv
ing subsequently the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1870-71 he was master in De Vaux College,
Niagara Falls, New York, and was associate
principal in St. Mark's School, Salt Lake City,
in 1871. In 1873 he traveled in South and
Central America, and from 1875 to 1879 was
principal of the Academic Institute at Le Roy,
New York. From 1881 to 1889 he was presi
dent of De Vaux College, and in 1890-91 was
a student at the universities of Freiburg and
Heidelberg, Germany. From 1891 to 1899 he
was associate professor of history and director
of university extension at Brown University,
and in 1899 became professor of European
history. Since 1912 he has been professor
emeritus of Brown University. Professor
Munro has written much on historical and
other topics, and is the author of the "History
of Bristol, R. I.," published in 1880, and of
"Picturesque Rhode Island," 1881. He has
written numerous articles and reviews for en
cyclopedias, and is the editor of the works of
William H. Prescott, twenty-two volumes,
published in 1905-06. In speaking of this
work at the time of its completion, the "Brown
Alumni Monthly" said : "For a number of
years Professor Munro has been engaged in
editing the works of Prescott. The fruits of
his labors now appear in the sumptuous 'Mon
tezuma' edition of Prescott issued by the Lip-

pincott's in twenty-two volumes. Professor
Munro has added to the original text the re
sults of late research in the various fields cov
ered by Prescott's histories."
Professor Munro is a member of the Society
of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations, of which he served
as governor, made eligible through Lieutenant
Preserved Abell (1668- 1724), Rehoboth, Mas
sachusetts, who was sergeant in King Philip's
war, ensign in 1690, and lieutenant under Cap
tain Samuel Gallup, Phip's expedition against
Canada, 1690. He is a member of the Rhode
Island Society of Mayflower Descendants, of
which he was the first governor, made eligible
through Richard Warren, James Chilton and
William Brewster. He is also a member and
past president of the Rhode Island Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution, to which
he was made eligible through the service of his
great-grandfather, Edward Munro (above), his
great-grandfather, Preserved Abell (above),
and also through the service of his great-grand
father, Thomas Waldron (above). He is a
member and since 1906 president of the Rhode
Island Historical Society ; is a member and
past president of the Rhode Island Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity ; of the Barnard
Club and of the Churchmen's Club ; is a mem
ber of the American Historical Association ;
and of the American Philological Association.

William Fisher was born in Eng-
FISHER land in 1800, died at Fort Fair
field in 1875. He came to this
country about 1837 and settled in Fredericton,
New Brunswick, where he engaged in business
as a dealer in meats and provisions. After
ward he removed to Fort Fairfield, Maine,
where he followed farming during the remain
der of his life. He was a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church. He married
(first) in England, Martha Shaw, who died
before he emigrated. Children: 1. Joseph,
mentioned below. 2. Thomas, born in 1821,
died at Fort Fairfield ; was a farmer ; married
Phebe Harmon, of Fort Fairfield. He mar
ried (second) Amelia Kent, born in Fort Fair
field. Children by second wife: 3. Robert,
born July 3, 1823, in England, died at Tobique,
New Brunswick ; was a farmer ; married Ame
lia McDougal, of Tobique. 4. John George,
died young. 5. John, born October 1, 1827,
died at Fort Fairfield ; was a farmer ; married
Mrs. Jane (Connors) Riley, widow of Thomas
Riley, of Fort Fairfield, a farmer. 6. William,
born October 9, 1833; resides at Maysville,
Maine, a retired farmer ; married Mary Ann
Murphy, of Andover, New Brunswick. 7.
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born June 9, 1837, died in California; was a
farmer; married Mary McDonald, of Fort
Fairfield. 9. Henry, born August 20, 1839,
drowned at Fort Fairfield in the Aroostook
river, 1851. 10. James, born June 9, 1841,
died at Fort Fairfield; unmarried. 11. Mary
Ann, born January 19, 1845, in Fredericton,
educated in the public schools of Fort Fair
field, member of the Congregational church
there; married, August 31, 1865, Alexander
Donald McDougal, born at Fort Fairfield,
January 27, 1839, now a retired farmer, a
Republican, member of the Congregational
church and of Frontier Lodge, No. 122, Free
and Accepted Masons ; soldier in Eleventh
Maine Cavalry, 1861, to August 15, 1865, and
served in the second battle of Bull Run, Wil
derness, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Five
Forks, Appomattox Court House ; member of
Post No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic;
children: Allen J. McDougal, born, Septem
ber 1, 1866, married Eva Campbell, of Fort
Fairfield ; Ellsworth A. McDougal, born April
1, 1869, died May 16, 1880; Louisa McDougal,
born July 10, 1870, married Arthur Foster, of
Fort Fairfield, now of Limestone, a farmer
and potato buyer ; Estella McDougal, born
May 16, 1874, married Chadbourne W. Perry;
Jessie M. McDougal, born January 13, 1877,
died May 18, 1880; Bruce McDougal, born
August 16, 1879, died in 1881 ; Bessie Mc
Dougal, born September 16, 1884, stenog
rapher for C. W. Perry, unmarried ; Florence
McDougal, born March 17, 1887, married Her
bert Nickerson, resides at Maple Grove,
Maine; Aubra S. McDougal, born August 15,
1888, married Eva Witham, of Waterville,
where they reside. 12. Randolph, born Sep
tember 7, 1850, died at Fort Fairfield; was a
farmer ; married Tausey Morrow.
(II) Joseph Fisher, son of William Fisher,
was born at Oxford, England, December 31,
1819, died at Fort Fairfield, April 15, 1890.
He was educated in his native place. Pie came
to New Brunswick with his father when he
was about eighteen years old and settled at
Fredericton. At the time of the Aroostook
war he settled in Fort Fairfield. He was a
farmer and owned much real estate. In poli
tics he was a Republican. He was a communi
cant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He
married Sarah A. Humphrey, born in Grafton,
New Brunswick, May 22, 1825, died at Fort
Fairfield, May 7, 1913. She- was also an Epis
copalian. Children, born at Fort Fairfield: 1.
Alonzo, born April 6, 1848, died at Midland,
Texas, August, 1904 ; was a ranch owner ;
married Anne Hutchinson, of Andover, New
Brunswick, now living at Fort Fairfield; chil
dren : Cecile and Boyd. 2. Martha S., born

April 22, 1851, died March 26, 1914; married,
September 22, 1873, Whitman L. Orcutt, born
at Passadumkeag, Maine, October 20, 1843,
died at Fort Fairfield, November 6, 1905 ; was
a farmer, first lieutenant, Company C, Fif
teenth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry,
enlisting in 1861 and serving to the end of the
civil war ; a Democrat in politics, an Episco
palian ; children : Fred Orcutt, born at Bridge-
water, Maine, July 21, 1874, died in infancy;
Clifford Neely Orcutt, born November 5, 1875,
died in 1877 ; Myrtle Orcutt, born at Fort
Fairfield, August 8, 1877, married Charles
Smith, of Boston, a lawyer, living in Wollas-
ton. 3. Fred, born February 3, 1853; has a
large stock ranch in Wyoming, and a winter
residence in Los Angeles, California. 4.
Emma, born November 9, 1855; married Paul
Purington, of Topsham, Maine, a farmer; chil
dren: Carl Purington, died young; Ethel Pur
ington, married Allen F. Wheeler, of Wood
bury, New Jersey, an inspector of government
vessels. 5. Holman, born December 21, 1857;
married Flora Winter, of England; he is a
farmer at Fort Fairfield; children: Fred, Lin-
wood, Sarah. 6. Thomas Abel, mentioned be
low. 7. Fannie Fern, born November 15,
1862 ; married Thomas R. Ross, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, where he is a shoe dealer ; child,
Fisher Ross, traveling salesman. 8. Wallace,
born February 6, 1865, died July 1, 1888.
(Ill) Thomas Abel Fisher, son of Joseph
Fisher, was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine, July
21, 1859. He attended the public schools of his
native town. When a young man he became a
potato, buyer and dealer. He is a Republican
in politics. Pie is a communicant of St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, and is a member
of the Knights of Pythias. He married, at
Fort Fairfield, January 9, 1881, Ida M. Geller-
son, born at Haynesville, Maine, January 1,
1863. She was educated in the public schools
of her native town and graduated from the
Fort Fairfield high school. She attends St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church (see Gel-
lerson II). Children of Thomas Abel and Ida
M. (Gellerson) Fisher: 1. Edward Carleton,
born September 7, 1883. 2. Fred Percy, born
February 11, 1885; married Alice Price, of St.
Stephens, New Brunswick ; is a potato dealer ;
children: Marjorie Phyllis, born at Fort Fair
field, December 8, 1908 ; Percy Vincent, May
8, 191 1. 3. Lyle, born August 2, 188-8, died
April 30, 1914. 4. Dorothy May, born Sep
tember 20, 1890. (The Gellerson Line).
(I) Josiah Gellerson, a native of Maine,
died at Washington in that state in 1875. F°r
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ville and afterward went west. In politics he
was a Democrat. He married Hannah Peavey,
a native of southern Maine, who died in Cali
fornia. Children: i. Mehitable, married Ben
jamin Logan, of Houlton, and is living in
Chicago. 2. Benjamin Franklin, mentioned be
low. 3. Emma, died at Haynesville, Maine.
4. Daniel, died in the west. 5. Maude, resides
at Los Angeles, married a Mr. Merriman. 6.
Angeline, died in the west. 7. George, died in
the west.
(II) Benjamin Franklin Gellerson, son of
Josiah Gellerson, was born at Haynesville,
Maine, in 1838, died at Fort Fairfield, in Sep
tember, 1910. He was educated in the district
schools. Early in life he was a lumberman,
and afterward he kept a general store in
Haynesville, removing in 1877 to Fort Fair
field, where he was also a general merchant.
In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a
Congregationalist. He was a soldier in the
civil war. He married Mary Jane Webb, born
at Houlton, Maine, 1841, died at Fort Fair
field, May, 1899. She was a member of the
Congregational church. Dr. James Webb, her
father, was born in Madison, Maine, 1802, died
at Neponset, Illinois, 1858. He was a physi
cian at Houlton, Maine, for many years, and
afterward at Neponset. Late in life he joined
the Free Will Baptist Church, but previously
he had been a Universalist. He married
Amanda Farwell, born near Portland, Maine,
in 1804, died at Houlton, 1848. Children of
Dr. James Webb: 1. James, born 1828, died at
Island Falls in July, 1912 ; was a farmer and
mail carrier; married (first) Elizabeth Bell,
who died in Ludlow, Maine; (second)  ,
now living in Oakland, Maine ; children by
first wife: William Webb, resides in the west;
John Webb, Island Falls, hotel proprietor, has
been selectman; Ida Webb, married William
Doran, merchant, Fort Fairfield; children by
second wife : Rebecca Webb, married Leon
Teed, of Oakland ; Sidney Webb ; Daniel
Webb, of Ludlow, Maine. 2. William, born
1830, died at Ludlow, Maine; married Mary
Abernethy ; was a farmer in Ludlow ; children :
James Webb, farmer of Ludlow ; Daniel
Webb ; Mary Webb, married Herbert Rideout,
of Ludlow ; Olive Webb, married George Car
penter, resides at Plantation B, Maine ; Lyman
Webb, farmer of Ludlow; Elia Webb, married
Fred Moores, farmer of Ludlow ; Letitia
Webb, married B. Hovey, of Houlton ; Edith
Webb, trained nurse, widow. 3. Rebecca, born
1832, died at Fort Fairfield ; married John
Rediker, of Fort Fairfield, a farmer ; children :
Emma Rediker, married Everson True, fruit
farmer of Oregon; Archie Rediker; Albert
Rediker, farmer of Maple Grove; Rufus

Rediker. 4. Olive, born 1834; resides at Oak
land, California; married (first) Bartlett
Rediker; (second)  Tompkins ; children
by first husband : Laura and Carrie Rediker.
5. Daniel, born 1836, died at Fort Fairfield;
was a farmer, soldier in the civil war in the
Sixteenth Maine Regiment ; married Mary J.
Hargraves ; children : Alice, married Edward
Dorsey; Fred, married Maud McGuire ; Maud.
married John Ross ; and Stacey, married
Dolly King, farmer of Fort Fairfield. 6.
Mary Jane, married Benjamin Franklin Gel
lerson, mentioned above. 7. Ruth, born Octo
ber 11, 1846, in Houlton; married Edward
Jones, born at China, August 24, 1832, a
retired farmer of Fort Fairfield; Repub
lican ; Free Will Baptist ; children : Minnie
Jones, born March 6, 1869, married Percy
Redmond, of Belfast, Maine; Charles Jones,
born November 4, 1871, married Olive Cur
rier, of Maple Grove, Maine ; Wilbur Jones,
born September 26, 1874, married Susie Mer
rill, of Milton, New Hampshire, now of Syra
cuse, New York.
Children of Benjamin Franklin and Mary
Jane (Webb) Gellerson: 1. Minnie, died in
infancy. 2. Ida M., married Thomas Abel
Fisher (see Fisher III). 3. Lee, died in in
fancy. 4. Ernest Franklin, born at Haynes
ville, Maine, November, 1867 ; married Rose
Shaw, of Bangor, Maine; dealer in lumber at
Portland, Maine. 5. Percy Thornton, born
1869; married Frances Steele, of Chicago; re
sides at Dover, Maine ; he is a general mer
chant; son, Arnold, born 1899. 6. Guy Carle
ton, born 1 87 1 ; married Winnie Lovely, of
Fort Fairfield; potato dealer; daughter May,
died young. 7. Roy, born 1873, died 1887. 8.
Harry C, born 1875 ; married Mary Fogg, of
Millinocket; is a traveling salesman of Bangor.
9. Walter C, born 1879; married Sophia Wil
liams and had Blinn and George. 10. Rex C,
born 1885 ; married Anna Chapman, of Orono,
Maine; clothing merchant of Fort Fairfield.

Plenry Albee was descended from
ALBEE Benjamin Albee, who came to this
country as early as 1639 from
England. He was born probably in Maine,
about 1794, and died in Bingham or Lexington,
Maine, about 1874. He was a farmer in Bing
ham or Lexington, and served in the war of
1812. His wife died in Bingham. Children :
Dryus, died in Bingham, aged twenty years;
Clementine, married  Norton, farmer,
and they lived in Manitoba, Canada; Cyrus
Henry, mentioned below ; Samuel, served four
years in civil war, and now lives at Norridge-
wock, Maine; Nellie, lives in Oakland, Cali
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children, married

Fletcher, of Skow-

hegan, farmer; Robe, died in Skowhegan,
farmer, unmarried; Sylvester, of Presque Isle,
married Hannah Ireland, of Presque Isle;
Mary, lives in Skowhegan, married (first)
Squire Emery, (second) Willis Currier, of
Skowhegan, (third) Willis Maxwell.
(II) Cyrus Henry Albee, son of Henry Al-
bee, was born in Lexington, Maine, February
15, 1838, and now lives in Norridgewock,
Maine, where he is a farmer. He first lived
in Bingham, moving to Smithfield, Maine,
after a time, and then to Easton. His son,
Elmer Gould Albee, purchased his farm in
Easton, and he now owns a farm in Norridge
wock. He is a Republican in politics, and is
a member of the Free Will Baptist Church,
and of Norridgewock Grange. He married
(first) February 2, 1866, in Skowhegan, Lizzie
Howe Gould, born in Smithfield, Maine, De
cember 31, 1846, died at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
January 9, 1899. She was a member of the
Free Will Baptist Church, and of Easton
Grange. She was daughter of Jonas Gould,
born in Massachusetts, April 7, 1813, died in
Smithfield, Maine, March 22, 1883. He mar
ried Cyrena Fobes Whitman, born in Hing
ham, Massachusetts, November 8, 1814, died
in Smithfield, November 1, 1887; he was a
farmer and served two terms in the legislature
from Smithfield; member of Free Will Bap
tist Church. Children of Jonas and Cyrena F.
(Whitman) Gould: Edward, farmer, married
Mary  ; Calista, died in Smithfield, mar
ried Atwood Marston, of Smithfield, farmer;
Lizzie Plowe, married Cyrus Henry Albee,
mentioned above. Cyrus H. Albee married
(second) Emma M. Gould, of Skowhegan,
Maine. Children of Cyrus Henry and Lizzie
Howe (Gould) Albee: 1. Herbert Cyrus, born
February 18, 1868, Smithfield; married Emma
Laura Tracy, of New Brunswick, born Febru
ary 4, 1874, in Egypt, New Brunswick, and
they live on a farm in Norridgewock ; children :
Clayton Howe, born at Fort Fairfield, Febru
ary 5, 1899, and Roby. 2. Elmer Gould, men
tioned below. Children of Cyrus Henry and
Emma M. (Gould) Albee: 3. Lizzie, resides
with parents. 4. Caroline, resides with parents.
5. Berdina, resides with parents.
(Ill) Elmer Gould Albee, son of Cyrus
Henry Albee, was born at Fort Fairfield,
Maine, October 28, 1874. He attended the
public schools of Easton until he was seven
teen years of age, and he lived on his father's
farm until 1912, when he purchased his pres
ent farm in Easton. This farm consists of
eighty acres of land, practically all of which
is cleared. In politics he is a Republican, and
he attends the Free Will Baptist Church. He

is a member of Easton Grange, No. 159, in
which he has held all offices except that of
master; also he is a member of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 108, at
Easton, and holds an accident policy in the
Ridgely Company of Odd Fellows. He mar
ried, in Easton, November 3, 1906, Laura
Belle Brown, born in Fort Fairfield, April 30,
1890. Her parents moved to Blaine when she
was four years of age, and she received a
high school education there. She is a mem
ber of the Daughters of Rebekah, No. 49, Eas
ton, in which she has held the office of warden.
She also is a member of Easton Grange, No.
159. Child: Cyrus Emerson, born at Easton,
June 11, 1910.
Storrs Emerson Brown, father of Mrs. El
mer G. Albee, was born in Stowe, Vermont,
May 12, 1850, and now lives in Robinsons,
Maine, where he is a carpenter. He is a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church, and also
of the United Workmen of America and of
the Maccabees of the World. He married
Rose Emma Ireland, born at Presque Isle,
Maine, October 12, 1858, and who is a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church. She is
daughter of George Ireland, born in Calais,
Maine, about 1810, died at Presque Isle about
1895. He was a farmer in Presque Isle the
latter part of his life. He was a Republican.
He married Mary Annis, of Maine, and she
died at Fort Fairfield, Maine. Children of
George and Mary (Annis) Ireland: 1. Eunice,
lives at Presque Isle; married (first) George
Ricker, farmer, (second) Henry Jamieson,
farmer. 2. John, married Annie Murphy, of
Blaine, Maine, and they live on farm in Eas
ton, Maine. 3. Lestina, lives in Presque Isle ;
married Archibald Rediker, of Fort Fairfield,
a farmer. 4. Hannah, married Sylvester Albee,
son of Henry Albee (see Albee I). 5. Mary,
died at Fort Fairfield; married Fred Kennedy,
of Blaine. 6. Clara, died at East Blaine,
Maine; married Samuel Ricker. 7. Rose
Emma, married Storrs Emerson Brown, men
tioned above. 8. Flora, married William Web
ber, of Presque Isle, and they live in Boston.
9. Walter, died at Fort Fairfield ; married
Blanche Kilcollins, of Blaine, and she lives at
Fort Fairfield. 10. Winfield, married Annie
Jamieson, of Presque Isle, and they live on
farm at Corinna, Maine.
Children of Storrs Emerson and Rose Emma
(Ireland) Brown: 1. Mina, born 1878, at
Presque Isle, died young. 2. Elsie, born 1880,
at Presque Isle, died young. 3. Fred C, born
September 8, 1884, at Presque Isle ; married
Mattie Johnson, of Mapleton, and they live on
farm at Easton; children: Hazel, Verna A.,
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February 4, 1887, at Fort Fairfield; married
Alice Cullins, of Monticello, Maine, and they
live on farm at Easton ; children : Elsie and
Harry, reside with parents. 5. Laura Belle,
married Elmer Gould Albee (see Albee III).
6. Lelia Mary, born August 14, 1892, at Easton ;
married Frank Keegan, of Easton, where they
live.

Rev. Robert Jordan, the immi-
JORDAN grant, was a son, it is thought,
of Edward Jordan, of Worces
ter, England. As early as 1641 he was estab
lished as clergyman of the Church of Eng
land at Richmond Island, near Scarborough,
Maine. He married there Sarah Winter, only
child of John Winter. He inherited the large
estate of his wife's father, and afterward re
moved to the plantation of Spurwink in Fal
mouth, Maine. Pie was arrested and impris
oned by the Puritans for discharging the duties
of his religious office in 1654 and again in
1663. During the second Indian war he had
to leave his home and his house was burned
by the Indians. He then settled on Great
Island in the Piscataqua river, then part of
Portsmouth. He died at Portsmouth in 1679.
Children : John ; Dominicus ; Jedediah, men
tioned below; Jeremiah, born about 1663.
(II) Jedediah Jordan, son of Rev. Robert
Jordan, was born in Falmouth, now Portland,
Maine, died in 1725. He lived on Great
Island and at Kittery, Maine. Children, born
at Kittery: Jedediah, 1684, lived at Spurwink;
Abigail, 1687; Keziah, 1690; Mary, 1693;
Sarah, 1696; John, 1698; Thomas, 1701 ; Rob
ert, 1704.
(V) Jedediah (2) Jordan, great-grandson
of Jedediah (1) Jordan, was born February
11, 1755. The name of his father is not
known to the writer. His father may have
lived in Nova Scotia. Jedediah Jordan mar
ried, at Horton, Nova Scotia, December 25,
1781, Asenath Bill, born July 16, 1763, daugh
ter of Amos and Jerusha Bill, formerly of
Lebanon or Colchester, Connecticut. Chil
dren, born at Horton : Asenath, born Novem
ber 6, 1782; Jerusha, November 28, 1783;
Amos Bill, mentioned below ; Jedediah Jr.,
December 21, 1786, married  Eagles;
Orinda, October 17, 1788; Sarah, February 3,
1790; Miriam, August 19, 1792; Melinda, Sep
tember 6, 1793.
(VI) Amos Bill Jordan, son of Jedediah
(2) Jordan, was born at Horton, Nova Scotia,
August 19, 1785, died there in 1870. He was
a farmer in Lower Horton all his active life.
He was deacon of the Baptist church. He
married, at Horton, January 12, 1816, Jerusha
Kingsman, born in 1780, at Cornwallis, Nova

Scotia, died at Horton in 1868, also a member
of the Baptist church. Children, all born in
Lower Horton: 1. Eunice, born November
29, 1816; married James Caldwell, a farmer
of Plorton. 2. Mary Mehitable, born January
29, 1818; married William Fuller, of Nova
Scotia, a nurseryman of Cambridge, Massa
chusetts ; she died in Somerville, in that state.
3. Robert Kinsman, born February 6, 1819;
married Mary Johnson, and died in Horton.
4. Rebecca, born February 10, 1821 ; married
a Mr. Peterbaugh; both died in Kansas. 5.
William, born December 2, 1822; married
Elizabeth Ward; he was a farmer; died in
Kansas. 6. Edward M., mentioned below.
(VII) Edward M. Jordan, son of Amos
Bill Jordan, was born at Horton, Nova Scotia,
in 1825, died there in 1909. He was a black
smith by trade, and lived in Horton all his
active life. In politics he was a Liberal. He
attended the Baptist church, and was a mem
ber of the Horton Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married Sarah Johnson, born at
Horton in 1823, died there in 1903. Benjamin
Johnson, her father, was born in Kings county,
Nova Scotia, in 1775. He was brought up by
his Grandfather Peck, a Loyalist from Massa
chusetts, who received a grant of land from
the crown in Kentforth, Nova Scotia. Benja
min Johnson died in 1850, in his native county.
He cleared a farm and cultivated it the re
mainder of his life. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church. He married Hannah
Griffin, born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in
1777, died in Kings county in 1862. Children
of Benjamin Johnson: 1. James Johnson, a
farmer, member of the Methodist church, mar
ried Priscilla Lyons, of Cornwallis. 2. Eliza
Johnson, married George Parker, a farmer of
Cornwallis. 3. Cyrus Johnson, lived on the
homestead at Horton, married Mary Ward.
4. Mary Johnson, married Robert K. Jordan,
mentioned above. 5. Sarah Johnson, married
Edward M. Jordan, mentioned above. Chil
dren of Edward M. Jordan: 1. Albert, born
October, 1846; married Caroline Colwell, of
Horton; a farmer in Cornwallis. 2. Cyrus J.,
mentioned below. 3. William E., born 1850;
married Martha Harris, of Kings county, de
ceased. 4. George, born 1852; a farmer in
Kings county, unmarried. 5. Welsford, born
July, 1854, died of diphtheria, aged fourteen
years. 6. Archibald, born July, 1856; married
Mabel Lamphier, of Halifax, Nova Scotia;
they reside at Bulyea, Northwestern Territory,
Canada, on a farm. 7. Etta, born April, i860;
married William Ritchie, a farmer of Kings
county. (VIII) Cyrus J. Jordan, son of Edward M.
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18, 1848. He attended the public schools there
until he was twenty years old. He worked on
his father's farm until he came of age, and
for seven years afterward he followed farm
ing in Nova Scotia. In 1876 he came to Cari
bou, Maine, where he bought forest land,
cleared a farm and cultivated it for a period
of twenty-three years. In 1899 he returned to
Nova Scotia and resumed farming there. In
1912 he removed to Presque Isle, where he has
continued to follow farming for an occupation.
He bought the place on which he now resides.
It consists of fifty acres and is located in the
village. In politics he is a Democrat; in re
ligion a Methodist. Mr. Jordan married, in
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, May 18, 1871, Joseph
ine Johnson, born October 8, 1841, in Kings
county, in that province, died March 6, 1914.
She was a member of the Methodist church.
James Johnson, her father, was a native of
Kings county, born 1820, died 1903. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and a farmer all his active life. He married
Drusilla Lyons, born at Cornwallis in 1820,
died there in 1906. She was also a Methodist.
Children of James Johnson: 1. Mary Johnson,
born 1835, resides in Kings county; married
Thomas Weldon, of Amherst, Nova Scotia, a
carpenter. 2. Benjamin Johnson, born 1837,
a retired Methodist minister, living in Massa
chusetts. 3. Josephine Johnson, married Cyrus
J. Jordan, mentioned above. Benjamin Peck
Johnson, father of James Jordan, was born in
Kings county. He was of a Loyalist family.
He was probably the Benjamin Johnson, men
tioned above, whose son James is stated to
have married Drusilla Lyons. Children of
Cyrus J. Jordan: 1. Blanche J., born May 18,
1872, in Kings county; married George E.
Lang. 2. Frank P., born in Kings county,
August 12, 1873 ; married Annie Nickerson,
of Maysville, Maine; residing at Spragueville,
Maine; children: Mary, Earl, Alice, Hazel,
Cyrus, Wilmot, Ethel. 3. Laurie, born Febru
ary, 1875, in Kings county; married Addie
Randall, of Nova Scotia; they reside at
Spragueville ; children : Vera, Fred, Olif , Neva.
4. Gertrude, born at Caribou, Maine, July,
1877; married Gordon Tufts, of Nova Scotia,
a farmer there; child, Ernest Boughton Tufts.

The surname Thurlough
THURLOUGH is spelled also Thurlow,
Thurlo, Thurley, Thorlo
and Thorla. The most common spellings in
this country, however, are Thurlow and Thur
lough. Richard Thurlow, the immigrant ancestor
of all the Thurlows and Thurloughs of New
England, at least to recent times, was of an

old English family. He settled early at Row
ley, Essex county, Massachusetts, and his de
scendants are most numerous in that town and
the adjacent towns, especially in Newbury.
He was a proprietor of the town of Rowley.
He removed to Newbury. Pie built a bridge
over the Newbury river at his own cost and
the general court fixed a rate of toll for ani
mals May 3, 1654. Pie deeded part of his
farm to his son Thomas, January 27, 1669,
and provided that in case Thomas died his son
Francis should succeed to the farm. His wife
Jane joined in the deed. She died March 19,
1684. He died at Newbury, November 10,
1685. Children: Francis and Thomas.
(I) James Thurlough, a descendant of Rich
ard Thurlow, was born about 1790, in Ber
wick, Maine, died at Monroe, Maine, aged
forty-five years. He came to Monroe in 1822.
He was a farmer and carpenter. In religion
he was a Baptist. He married Affie Ricker,
born at Berwick, 1797, died at Monroe, 1857.
She was also a Baptist. Pier father was James
Ricker, a soldier in the revolution. Children :
1. Frederick, mentioned below. 2. Reuben, a
carpenter, Fort Fairfield; married Mary Ann
Farnham, of Dixmont, Maine. 3. Asa, mill
wright, Monroe ; married Hannah Peters, of
Mount Desert, Maine. 4. George, died at
Newbury, Maine ; married Delia Adams, a
school teacher ; he was a farmer and lumber
man, town clerk and justice of the peace,
representative in the state legislature. 5.
Rosella, died at Fort Fairfield; married (first)
John Emery, of Monroe, a farmer; (second)
Philander Webber, stationary engineer, Con
necticut. 6. James, moved to Yazoo, Missis
sippi. (II) Frederick Thurlough, son of James
Thurlough, was born at North Berwick, Maine,
January 9, 181 1, died at Fort Fairfield, Janu
ary, 1896. He was eleven years old when he
moved with his parents to Monroe. He fol
lowed farming in that town until 1873, when
he sold his place and settled in Fort Fairfield
on a farm he had bought there. In politics he
was a Republican. He served in the state
militia and was active in recruiting for the
civil war; was major in a regiment in the
Aroostook war. He married Elsie Whitney,
born in Dixmont, Maine, about 1813, died at
Fort Fairfield in 1890. Robinson Whitney,
her father, was born about 1790, died at Dix
mont about 1862. He followed farming there
most- of his life, was a Whig in politics and a
member of the Christian church. He married
Elsie (Chadbourn) Sherburn, born in Kenne
bec county, Maine, about 1792, died at Dix
mont, 1857. She had by her first marriage:
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Sherburn, married Edward Emery, of North
Berwick. Children of Robinson Whitney: i.
Elsie Whitney, married, as her second hus
band, Frederick Thurlough, mentioned above.
2. John Whitney, a farmer of Dixmont, Maine ;
married Mary Fulsom, of Newburg, Maine.
3. Amos Whitney, general merchant, East
Dixmont ; was representative to the legisla
ture ; married Elizabeth Fulsom, sister of
Mary. 4. Eliza Whitney, died at Bradley,
Maine ; married John Knapp, a carpenter,
farmer, miller and lumberman. Children of
Frederick and Elsie Thurlough: 1. James
Fairfield. 2. Mary Melissa, died young. 3.
Son, died in infancy. 4. Melissa, died unmar
ried, aged twenty-one years. 5. Reuben Fair
field, mentioned below. 6. Agnes, born 1844,
died young. 7. James Robinson, born in 1846,
farmer, Fort Fairfield ; married Olive Mar
shall, of Ludlow ; children : Nellie, married J.
Loring, of Yarmouth ; Agnes, died young. 8.
Frederick, born 1848, general jobber and
machinist; has been sheriff of Aroostook
county, Republican; married Adelia (Thomp
son) Wilson, of Montville; children: Claire,
Clayton, Myrtle; by her first husband she had
a daughter, Gertrude Wilson, married Wesley
Hamm, Houlton. 9. Rose, born 1850, died
young of typhoid fever. 10. John, born 1852 ;
married Maria Trafton; he was postmaster of
Fort Fairfield, twelve years, a Republican,
now retired. 11. Nellie, born i860; married
Charles A. Morse, of Bangor, chief engineer of
the Rock Island railroad; child, Frederick
Thurlough, married Hazel Kelly, who died
July 9, 1914, leaving one son, Charles A.
Morse Jr. ; he is a graduate of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, a civil engineer
at Tropica, California.
(Ill) Reuben Fairfield Thurlough, son of
Frederick Thurlough, was born at Monroe,
Maine, March 30, 1842. He attended the
public schools of his native town. During his
boyhood be assisted his father on the farm.
When he came of age he went to Bangor and
worked- in the lumber industry. He was at
Bradley, Maine, two years, and at Brewer six
years, in the lumber industry of the Penobscot
river. He bought a farm at Fort Fairfield, on
which he resided until 1906. After he sold this
farm he bought a house in Fort Fairfield,
where he has since lived. He has been a dealer
in potatoes. In politics he is a Republican.
He is an active member of the Baptist church.
He is a member of the Eastern Frontier Lodge,
No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons, and of
Aroostook Valley Grange, No. 485, of Fort
Fairfield. He married (first) Betsey Hamil
ton, born in Dixmont, Maine, died about 1884,
daughter of Aaron Hamilton, a carpenter of

Bangor. He married (second) June 10, 1891,
in Limestone, Maine, Flora (Temple) Piper,
born in Detroit, Maine, January 23, 1861. Her
mother moved to Lewiston when she was six
years old and she attended the public schools
there. She is a member of the Free Will Bap
tist Church, and of Goodwill Chapter, No. 85,
Order of the Eastern Star, of which she is
matron, and of Aroostook Valley Grange, No.
485, of which she has been lecturer and secre
tary. She married (first) July 3, 1883, in
Easton, Massachusetts, George Henry Rich
ardson Piper, born at Chicopee, Massachusetts,
son of a Congregational minister, a graduate
of Dartmouth College (see Temple IX). Reu
ben Fairfield- Thurlough had by his first wife,
Edith, born in 1870, died in 1889.
(The Temple Line).
(I) Abraham Temple, the immigrant an
cestor, was in Salem, Massachusetts, as early
as 1636. He owned real estate and appears
several times in the courts as plaintiff and de
fendant. He died soon after 1639. He mar
ried Abigail  and Margaret  .
Children : Richard, mentioned below ; Tobias ;
Robert. (II) Richard Temple, son of Abraham
Temple, was born- in 1623. He settled at
Charlestown before 1647, removed in 1654 to
Concord, where he died March 15, 1689. His
wife Joanna died February 24, 1688. In 1688
he divided his property among his children.
Children: Abigail, born May 15, 1647; John;
Abraham, mentioned below ; Richard, born
October 15, 1654; Isaac, June 19, 1657; Chris
topher, 1660; Sarah, March 8, 1662.
(Ill) Abraham (2) Temple, son of Rich
ard Temple, was born June 4, 1652. He mar
ried, December 4, 1673, Deborah Hadlock,
daughter of John Hadlock. He was admitted
a freeman March 21, 1690. He served in
King Philip's war and took part in the Swamp
Fight, where he was wounded, and in 1735
had a grant of land for his service. He died
January 4, 1738; his widow Deborah died
January 28, 1743 (gravestone, Hill burying
ground, Concord). Children: Richard, born
October 6, 1674; Abraham; Abigail, August
11, 1677; Isaac, December 25, 1678; John, De
cember 4, 1680; Sarah, August 3, 1682; Deb
orah, November 14, 1683; Mary, June 24,
1685; Joseph, mentioned below; Benjamin,
July 27, 1690.
(IV) Joseph Temple, son of Abraham (2)
Temple, was born in Concord, May 6, 1688.
He married, November 28, 1717, Abigail
Stearns, of Lexington. He lived in Concord
and Westford, and at Sanford, Maine. Chil
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mentioned below; Sarah, March 19, 1722;
Ebenezer; Richard, March 7, 1725; Samuel;
Thomas ; Elisha.
(V) Joseph (2) Temple, son of Joseph (1)
Temple, was born in Concord, December 31,
1720. He married, June 6, 1744, Sarah Mc-
Kiney, of Chelmsford. Children: Joseph,
born 1745; Levi, mentioned below.
(VI) Levi Temple, son of Joseph (2)
Temple, was born about 1 751, at or near West
ford, and lived at Bowdoin and Lisbon, Maine.
He was a corporal in Captain Timothy Under
wood's company, Colonel William Prescott's
regiment. He became a Free Will Baptist
minister. He died about 1821 and is buried on
Beaver Hill, Freedom, Maine. He married
Rachel Nutting, of Westford, March 10, 1774.
Children: Martha, born at Bowdoin; Noah,
mentioned below; Sarah, born 1780; Stephen,
1782; Levi, 1784; Joseph, October 13, 1786;
Wilson, 1788.
(VII) Noah Temple, son of Levi Temple,
was born about 1778.
(VIII) Noah (2) Temple, son of Noah (1)
Temple, was born about 1800, died in Detroit,
Maine, about 1871. He was a farmer in the
vicinity of Detroit. In politics he was a Re
publican. Pie married Abigail Huff, who died
in Detroit, 187 1. Children: Turner; Levi,
mentioned below ; Lucy, married a Mr. Har
rington ; Sadie, married Frank Bowen, a truck
man, Belfast, Maine; Abbie, died at Thorn-
dike, Maine ; Jane, married a Mr. Pike ; Fran
cis, carpenter, served in the civil war, resides
in Rockland, Maine; Annis, twin to Francis,
served in the civil war ; James, died in Detroit ;
John, died at Isleborough, Maine ; Lorenzo ;
Merrell; Clara, married a Mr. York.
(IX) Levi (2) Temple, son of Noah (2)
Temple, was born at Detroit, Maine, in 1822,
died at Detroit in 1867. He was a farmer.
In 1861 he enlisted in Company M, First Regi
ment Cavalry, and served through the civil
war. He was severely wounded. He returned
with health wrecked and died soon. In politics
he was a Republican. He attended the Union
church. He married Mary Samantha Patten,
born in Bangor, January 17, 1839, died at Fort
Fairfield, July 21, 1913. She was a member
of the Universalist church of Lewiston, and
of Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. Children of Levi Temple: 1. Eu
gene B., born April 5, 1859; married Drusilla
Getchell, of Limestone ; children : Winnie
Frances; Bertram; William, married Winnie
Finnemore ; Levi Glenwood ; Madaline May ;
Hazel ; Delia, died aged three years ; son, died
young. 2. Flora, married Reuben Fairfield
Thurlough (see Thurlough III). 3. Abbie,
born 1863, died 1866. Mary Samantha (Pat-
NE-9

ten) Temple married (second) William F.
Lombard, born in Buckfield, Maine, 1835,
died at Limestone, April 3, 1907. He mar
ried (first) Emeline Bailey, and had Winnie
Frances, who married George O. Tufts, of
Lewiston, a foreman in a shoe factory at
Auburn, Maine; child, Plelen, born July 19,
1900. Sampson Patten, father of Mrs. Temple,
came to America after his first marriage and
conducted a dye shop in Somerset county,
Maine. He was a member of the Church of
England. He died in 1853 and is buried in
the Niles burial ground. He married (second)
Besta Brann, born in Troy, Maine, died in
1891. Child of Sampson Patten by first wife:
Harriet Patten, married Oliver Plummer,
farmer. Children by second wife: 1. Mary
Samantha Patten, married Levi Temple, men
tioned above. 2. George Patten, born 1841,
farmer, now retired, Limestone ; married Emily
Barnes ; children : Mary, married A. C. Leigh
ton; Cleveland; Horace; Josephine, married
Harry Leighton, a merchant ; Frances, married
a Mr. Violet, a jeweler; Hattie, married Frank
Johnston; Percy, a barber, Limestone.

Rev. William Noyes, born in
NOYES 1568, resided in England and
died in Cholderton, county Wilts,
before April 30, 1622. He had brothers, Rich
ard and Robert. He matriculated at Univer
sity College, Oxford, November 15, 1588, and
took the degree of Master of Arts, May 31,
1592. He was rector of Cholderton in 1602.
He married, about 1595, Anne Parker, born
1575, buried March 7, 1657. The inventory
of his estate was made April 30, 1622, and his
widow was appointed administratrix. Chil
dren, born in England: Ephraim, born 1596;
Nathan, 1597; James, 1608; Nicholas, men
tioned below ; daughter, married Thomas Kent ;
John, lived at Newton, Wilts.
(II) Nicholas Noyes, son of Rev. William
Noyes, was born in England in 1615-16, and
was the immigrant ancestor. He came to this
country in 1633, and settled in Newbury. He
walked forty miles to Cambridge to qualify as
a voter, when he was admitted a freeman,
May 17, 1637. He was a deputy to the general
court in 1660, 1679, 1680 and 1681. He was
chosen deacon of the First Parish, March 20,
J633-34- He died November 23, 1701. His
will was dated July 4, 1700, and proved De
cember 29, 1701. His homestead was occupied
in 1903 by the heirs of Nathaniel Little. He
married, about 1640, Mary Cutting, daughter
of Captain John and Mary Cutting. Her
father was a shipmaster of London. She was
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ing a silk hood and scarf, but discharged on
proof that her husband was worth two hun
dred pounds. Children, born in Newbury:
Mary, born October 15, 1641 ; Hannah, Octo
ber 13, 1643; John, January 20, 1645; Rev.
Nicholas, December 22, 1647; Cutting, men
tioned below; Sarah, August 22, 1653; Tim
othy, June 23, 1655; James, May 16, 1657;
Abigail, April 11, 1659; Rachel, March 20,
1661 ; Thomas, June 20, 1663. Three children,
who died young.
(Ill) Cutting Noyes, son of Nicholas Noyes,
was born September 23, 1649, at Newbury,
Massachusetts, died there before November
18, 1734. He married, in 1673, Elizabeth
Knight. Children, born in Newbury: John,
November 15, 1674; Cutting, January 28, 1676;
Elizabeth, February 2, 1678; Joseph, men
tioned below ; Bathsheba, 1690 ; Mary, March
27, 1693. Two other children died young.
(IV) Joseph Noyes, son of Cutting Noyes,
was born at Newbury, Massachusetts. He
married, in 1711, Jane Dole, who died Febru
ary 14, 1755. They settled in Falmouth, now
Portland, Maine. Children, born in Newbury:
Josiah, mentioned below ; Dorothy, April 9,
1715; Hannah, July 6, 1720; James, January
8, 1722; Amos, July 29, 1728; Peter, Decem
ber 3, 1731. One other child died young.
(V) Josiah Noyes, son of Joseph Noyes,
was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 8, 1712, died in 1796, in Maine. He was
a soldier in the revolution. He lived at New
Casco, Maine. He married, in 1737, Mary
Lunt. Children, born in Portland or vicinity:
Joseph, born September 14, 1740 ; Mary, March
18, 1743; Cutting, February 27, 1745; Moses,
mentioned below; Jane, June 30, 1749; Han
nah, December 5, 1751 ; Eunice, October 26,
1753; Ann, October 12, 1755; Josiah, Septem
ber 20, 1757; Sarah; Thomas, February 4,
1762. Five other children died young.
(VI) Moses Noyes, son of Josiah Noyes,
was born at Portland, Maine, March 29, 1746.
He married, in 1769, Abigail Locke. In 1790
he moved to Pownal, Maine. Children, born
at Cumberland and Pownal : Thomas, born
'November 5, 1769; Moses, mentioned below;
John, October 27, 1778; Nathaniel L., April
3, 1780; Dorcas; Eunice, October 5, 1783;
Abigail, February 7, 1785; James L., March
23, 1794. Another child died young.
(VII) Moses (2) Noyes, son of Moses (1)
Noyes, was born at Cumberland, Maine, No
vember 15, 1775. He married  . Among
their children was Moses, mentioned below.
(VIII) Moses (3) Noyes, son of Moses
(2) Noyes, was born about 1800. He married
Rhoda Merrill, who died May 15, 1868. He
settled at Freeport, Maine. Children, born at

Freeport: Mary H., born January 4, 1832;
Josiah M., mentioned below ; Adelaide M.,
August 4, 1839; William M., October 12, 1841 ;
Charles A., March 14, 1845; Jorm M., May
25, 1847.
(IX) Josiah M. Noyes, son of Moses (3)
Noyes, was born at Freeport, Maine', October
J9> !835- He married Sybil B. Davis, daugh
ter of Samuel Davis. Children: Charles E.,
mentioned below; Eldelia, married Arthur H.
Thompson ; Helen T., married Fred F. Spear ;
Alfred L., married Ethel Long.
(X) Charles E. Noyes, son of Josiah M.
Noyes, was born at Limestone, Maine, Febru
ary 6, 1863. He attended the public schools
of his native town. He worked on his father's
farm when a boy and succeeded to it, after the
death of his father. The homestead, on which
he has always lived, is located about five miles
from the village of Limestone, on Noyes road
to Caribou, and consists of six hundred acres,
of which two hundred and fifty acres are
cleared. He also owns and operates a starch
factory in partnership with his brother, Alfred
L. Noyes. In politics he is a Republican. He
was selectman of the town for five years and
held the office of road surveyor. He is a mem
ber of Limestone Grange, No. 272, and was
master for two years. He is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, of Limestone.
He married, November 1, 1892, at Lime
stone, Nettie Maria Spear, born at Limestone,
July 28, 1873, and educated in the public
schools there. She attends the Free Will Bap
tist church, and is a member of the Grange in
Limestone. She is a sister of Fred F. Spear.
Children of Charles E. and Nettie Maria
(Spear) Noyes : 1. Elwood Austin, born April
9, 1894; graduate of the Limestone high school
in 191 1 ; student for two years in the Univer
sity of Maine ; member of the Sigma Chi fra
ternity. 2. Helen Evelyn, born January 19,
1898; member of the Grange. 3. Laura Nellie,
born October 8, 1899; student in the Lime
stone high school. 4. Fern Mary, born De
cember 22, 1902.

Spearin is an ancient English
SPEARIN surname. John and Katherine
^Spearin are mentioned in the
will of Abraham Jilson, of Rethnall Green
Stebonheath, otherwise Stepney, Middlesex,
England, in 1666.
(I) John Spearin, the first of the family
found on record in this country, was doubtless
born in England. He came to this country
before the revolution and settled in Maine. He
may have lived for a time in Essex county,
Massachusetts, for he is called of Beverly and
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but the vital records of Beverly and adjoining
towns do not contain records of the Spearin
family. John Spearin was engaged for the
town of Beverly, April 10, 1781, for three
years and served in Captain Simon Larned's
company, Colonel William Shepard's regiment
(the Fourth). His name appears on rolls at
West Point, Phillipsburg, Peekskill, Camp
Continental. In 1790, according to the first
federal census, he was the only head of family
of this surname. He lived then at Fairfield,
Lincoln county, and had in his family one son
under sixteen and three females. In the same
section, however, there was a Benjamin Spern,
possibly poor spelling for Spearin, which is
found spelled Speering, Spearing, etc.
(II) David Spearin, son of John Spearin,
was born in the vicinity of Blanchard, Maine,
about 1792, died at Benton, Maine, about 1875.
He was a farmer on the Kennebec river and
in the town of Benton for many years. In
politics he was a Democrat. He married Har
riet Gibson, born in Maine about 1795, died at
Benton in 1880. Her father came from Scot
land and settled in Benton. He was a car
penter and maker of violins, tables, chairs and
other furniture. Children, probably all born
in Benton: 1. William, died at Benton; was a
farmer; married Martha Joy, of Benton; chil
dren: Lettie, living in Fall River, Massachu
setts; George Franklin, resides in Fairfield,
Maine, where his grandfather lived in 1790;
Nettie. 2. Caroline, died at Clinton, Maine ;
married William Lamb, owner of a saw mill;
child, Nellie, who married Rev. Mr. Dodge.
3. Henry, died at Moosehead Lake, killed in a
jam of logs, a boss driver. 4. Gideon, a
farmer, died at Benton ; married Julia Haines ;
children: Walter, baggage transfer agent,
Boston; Frank, resides at Fairfield, Somerset
county; a daughter. 5. Lucretia, died at Fair
field; married Greenleaf Flood, a farmer; chil
dren : Howard, coal dealer and farmer, Fair
field; Horace; and a daughter. 6. Frank, died
aged eighteen years. 7. Samuel G., mentioned
below. (Ill) Samuel G. Spearin, son of David
Spearin, was born in the vicinity of Blanchard,
Maine, May 9, 1829, died at Clinton, Maine,
in September, 191 1. He was a carpenter and
followed his trade in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
in Benton, Maine, and in Clinton. In 1871 he
bought the farm now owned by his son at Fort
Fairfield. He lived there for many years.
After conveying it to his son he bought another
place at Clinton, Maine. Shortly before he
died he sold his farm and retired, spending his
last years in the village of Fort Fairfield. In
politics he was a Democrat. He held the office
of road surveyor. He attended the Christian

Union church. He married Mary Loana Ames,
born in Clinton, January 17, 1834, died in
Clinton, in January, 1912. She was also a
member of the Christian Union church. Her
father was a native of England. Pie died in
Clinton in 1846. Brothers and sisters of Mary
Loana (Ames) Spearin: 1. Lorin Ames, died
at Benton ; was a farmer and carpenter. 2.
Charles Ames, farmer; married Loana At
wood, of Albion, Maine. 3. Daniel Ames, died
at Shawmut Mills, Maine ; farmer ; married
Philona Noble. 4. Ann Ames, died in Clinton ;
married Merrill True, farmer, Clinton. 5.
Caroline Ames, married Pludson Brown, a
farmer, Clinton. 6. Racilla Ames, died at
Benton ; married Milton Gibson, a railroad
man. 7. Mary Loana Ames, married Samuel
G. Spearin, mentioned above. 8. Jacob Ames,
married Lucinda  . Children of Samuel
G. Spearin: 1. Ellen May, born at Clinton,
1853; married (first) Frank Goodrich, of Fort
Fairfield, a farmer ; she resides at Clinton ;
child, Cecil L. Goodrich; Ellen May married
(second) Christopher Goodrich, a farmer. 2.
Caroline Theresa, born at Clinton, May, 1855 ;
married D. C. Greeley, farmer of Clinton ; chil
dren : Burt G. Greeley, married Hazel True,
and is a hunter and trapper at Clinton ; Mattie
Greeley, married Earl Higgins. 3. Charles
Henry, mentioned below. 4. Mary L., born at
Clinton, 1859; married William Ames, born at
Clinton, September 7, i860, farmer at Fort
Fairfield ; children : Etta May Ames, born
March 27, 1882, married Norman I. Gallagher ;
Edith Carrie Ames, born April 1, 1883, mar
ried Joseph Emery, farmer of Fort Fairfield,
formerly of Centerville, New Brunswick; Otis
William Ames, born November 10, 1884,
farmer, Fort Fairfield, married Lavinia Barnes ;
Hattie Ethel Ames, born October 13, 1886;
Abner True Ames, born December 11, 1888,
married Susan Shay; Henry Harris Ames,
born October 14, 1890, married Inez Sloan, of
Limestone ; Charles Loren Ames, born Novem
ber 1, 1892; Samuel Horace Ames, born De
cember 19, 1895. 5. Hattie, died young.
(IV) Charles Henry Spearin, son of Sam
uel G. Spearin, was born at Sangerville, Maine,
December 7, 1857. His parents removed to
Benton when he was six months old, and he
attended the public schools there. When he
was fourteen his parents removed to Fort Fair
field to a farm five miles f :om the village on
Center Limestone road. He was raised on his
father's farm there and remained with his
father after he left school. In 1888 he bought
the place of his father and has cultivated it
since then. He has one hundred and sixty
acres of land, of which one hundred and thirty
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ent. He has held the office of road surveyor.
For many years he attended the Christian
Union church. He was formerly a member of
Pioneer Lodge, No. ~JJ, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Fort Fairfield, and of Lime
stone Grange, No. 272, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, in Caribou, August 27, 1887, Liz-
ette V. Boulier, born at Fort Fairfield, Novem
ber 30, 1865 (see Boulier II). She attended
the public schools of her native town. She is
a member of Rebekah Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. She attends the Chris
tian Union church. Children, all born in Fort
Fairfield: 1. Henry Lewis, born December 28,
1888; graduate of Hebron Academy, 1909; stu
dent for two years in Colby College ; member
of the Zeta Psi fraternity; since 191 1 has been
assisting his father on the farm; a member of
Pioneer Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. 2. Carrie Ellen, born May 10, 1895
graduate of the Fort Fairfield high school
1912. 3. Loana Mary, born February 13, 18961
class of 1914, Fort Fairfield high school. 4
Myrtle Gertrude, born February 13, 1898
class of 1915, Fort Fairfield high school. 5
Dorothy Esther, born November 30, 1900. 6.
Burton Dana, born April 5, 1906.
(The Boulier Line).
(I) Francis Boulier, was born in France,
1784, died in Fort Fairfield, September 27,
1882. He came to Canada with his parents in
1791 and they settled in Quebec. His parents
died of the plague when he was eleven years
old. In 1820 he came to Fort Fairfield. He
married Harriet Cyr, born at Quebec, June
25> !797, died at Fort Fairfield, February,
1884. Both he and his wife were communi
cants of the Roman Catholic church. Chil
dren: 1. Francis Xavier, born at Grand Falls,
New Brunswick, went to Australia. 2. Flora,
born at Grand Falls, died at Fort Fairfield;
married John Le Vasseur, of Van Buren,
Maine, a farmer. 3. Amos, born at Grand
Falls; married Julia Nedeau; he enlisted in
Company G, Fifteenth Maine Regiment, in
1861, and served three years in the civil war.
4. Thomas, born and died at Fort Fairfield;
married Sarah Campbell, of Fort Fairfield. 5.
Solomon, born at Fort Fairfield, 1842 ; resides
at Limestone; served three years in the civil
war, Company C, Fifteenth Maine Regiment;
clerk by occupation; married Ada Orcutt. 6.
Joseph, born 1844, died at Fort Fairfield, 1908;
enlisted in Company G, Fifteenth Maine Regi
ment, 1861, and served through the civil war;
married (first) Lizzie Gibson, (second) Mary
 — . 7. Philip, born at Fort Fairfield, 1846;
foreman in a shoe shop at Haverhill, Massa
chusetts; veteran of the civil war; married

(first) Jane McDonald, of Chelsea, South
Carolina, (second)  Leverett. 8. Mary,
born at Fort Fairfield, 1848; married Fred
Tardy, of Fort Fairfield, now of St. Leonard's,
New Brunswick, a farmer. 9. Mitchell, born
at Fort Fairfield, October 14, 1850. 10. Deno
Elizabeth, born May 6, 1852; married San
born Collingwood Murphy, born at Fort Fair
field, February 16, 1845, a harnessmaker,
served five years in the civil war, enlisted Feb
ruary, 1861, in the Fifteenth Maine Regiment,
discharged July, 1866; children of Mr. and
Mrs. Murphy: i. Herbert Horton Murphy,
born January 26, 1870, in Fort Fairfield; a
stationary engineer ; married Emma Haywood,
of Portage Lake, Maine, ii. Ada May Murphy,
born at Ashland, May 30, 1872; married Wil
liam Rand, of Presque Isle, now of Ashland.
iii. Alice Grant Murphy, born at Ashland, Oc
tober 14, 1873 ; married Edward Johnson, of
Washburn; she died in October, 1898; he is a
harnessmaker and farmer in Washburn, iv.
Lucille Murphy, born at Presque Isle, March
12, 1876; married Sherman Packard; resid
ing at Mapleton ; he a farmer, v. Mabel Mur
phy, born at Presque Isle, March 28, 1878;
married Frank Arnot, of Boston, now farmer
and mason, Ashland, vi. Daisy May Murphy,
born April 12, 1880, in Ashland ; married Del-
bert Story, of Washburn, postmaster, mer
chant, vii. Agnes Murphy, born August 12,
1883, in Ashland; married Merrill Tompkins,
of Mapleton, farmer, viii. Newman Murphy,
born October 14, 1886, in Ashland ; married
Annie Hendrickson, of New Denmark; is a
painter by trade, Fort Fairfield, ix. Stanley
Murphy, born March 26, 1888; hardware mer
chant, Fort Fairfield. 11. Anthony, died aged
nineteen years. 12. Annie, born 1857; mar
ried Roland Howard.
(II) Amos Boulier, son of Francis Boulier,
was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine, 1830, died
there in 1900. He had a farm in Fort Fairfield
on the east road to Limestone and lived there
all his life. In politics he was a Democrat.
He served in the civil war. He was a com
municant of the Roman Catholic church. He
married Julia Nedeau, but her mother married
(second)  Thobideau and she was gen
erally known as Julia Thobideau. She was
born in St. Leonards, New Brunswick, in 1836,
died there in 1882. Children: 1. John, born
1859, died young. 2. Frank, born 1861 ; mar
ried Elizabeth Griffin, of Tilley, New Bruns
wick. 3. Peter, born 1863; a contractor,
Bangor, Maine. 4. Lizette V., married Charles
Henry Spearin (see Spearin IV). 5. William,
born 1867 ; married Maggie McCann, of Vanes-
boro ; he is a guide at Caribou. 6. Mercy, born
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Falls, New Brunswick. 7. Sarah, born 1871,
died young. 8. Almeda, born 1873; married
Abram Gerow, of Hodgdon, Maine ; resides at
Island Falls. 9. Reuben, born 1875 ; married
Bertha Brown, of Four Falls, now of Fort
Fairfield. 10. Amos, died young. 11. Julia,
born 1883 ; married Lee Webster.

Hosea Webster was born in
WEBSTER Freeport, Maine, where the
family had been established
for many years, in 1828, died in Limestone,
Maine, January 18, 1910. He was an only
child, except for a half-sister. He was a car
penter in Freeport until 1861, when he moved
to Limestone, where he followed his trade and
carried on a farm. For a number of years he
was second mate and carpenter on ships, when
his home was in Freeport. He was a member
of Pioneer Lodge, No. 77, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Fort Fairfield, and of Eastern
Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted
Masons, Fort Fairfield. He was drafted to
serve in the civil war, but before he saw active
service the war had ended.
He married, March 22, 1853, Mehitable
Davis, born May 11, 1834, in Freeport, Maine,
died at Limestone, September 30, 1903. She
was a member of the Baptist church. She was
daughter of Samuel Davis, born in Maine,
about 1805, died at Freeport, about 1887;
farmer in Freeport, and a Republican in poli
tics; he married  ; children, born in
Freeport: 1. Mary S., born February 12, 1833,
died at Freeport ; married, September 24, 1854,
Joshua Coombs, farmer. 2. Mehitable, men
tioned above. 3. Merrill, born July 26, 1837,
died in Massachusetts; married, January 1,
1865, Mary E.  . 4. Sybil B., born
March 10, 1839, died in Limestone ; married,
January, 1862, Josiah M. Noyes, of Freeport,
farmer and mill owner in Limestone. 5. Sam
uel H., born January 5, 1841 ; married, Janu
ary 27, 1865, Mary Ann Davis, a cousin. 6.
Abby Noyes, born September 18, 1842 ; mar
ried, October 7, 1865, Woodbury Fitts, de
ceased; she lives in Yarmouth, Maine. 7.
Charity Ann, born January 17, 1846; married,
June 6, 1863, Charles Porter, who died in Free-
port, where she lives. Children of Hosea and
Mehitable (Davis) Webster: 1. William Her
bert, mentioned below. 2. Albert D., born in
Freeport, January 20, 1858; married, April 17,
1879, Esther Barnes, of Fort Fairfield, where
they live; children: Velma, married Amos
Libby, of Easton, Maine; Cland, of St. John,
New Brunswick; Albert, living with parents;
Abby, married  Johnson, farmer at Fort
Fairfield; Jessie, teacher; Isabelle and Mehit
able, living with parents. 3. Henry Elwood,

born in Limestone, January 8, 1864, died Janu
ary 20, 1883. 4. Lisetta May, born in Lime
stone, March 13, 1865, died there April 24,
1865. 5. Frank LeRoy, born in Limestone,
September 29, 1868, died aged eighteen years.
6. Arthur Stanley, born October 24, 1872, in
Limestone, where he attended the public schools
until fourteen years old ; married Angeline
Willey, born in Colebrook, New Hampshire,
December 3, 1875; they live on home farm on
West road, Limestone, having one hundred
and ten acres of land, seventy acres being
cleared; he is a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters, Limestone, and a member
of Limestone Grange, No. 272.
William Herbert Webster, son of Hosea
Webster, was born at Freeport, Maine, Octo
ber 21, 1856. His parents removed to Lime
stone, Maine, when he was five years old and
he was educated in the public schools of that
town. He began at the age of sixteen to learn
the trade of carpenter in the employ of his
father and he followed that trade for eighteen
years. Afterward he engaged in business at
Limestone as an undertaker and picture framer.
He has made his home in the village of Lime
stone. In politics he is a Republican. He was
constable of the town from 1905 to 191 1, and
has also been road commissioner. In religion
he is a Methodist. He is a member of Pioneer
Lodge, No. yy, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Fort Fairfield, and held the office
of right supporter of the vice grand noble.
He married, May 3, 1879, at Limestone, Ann
Maria Ward, born in China, Maine, February
22, 1856. Her parents came to Limestone
when she was seven years old and she attended
the public schools there. In religion she is a
Methodist. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have one
child, Lee, born at Limestone, January 23,
1 88 1. Lee Webster was educated in the pub
lic schools of his native town and is now a
locomotive engineer of the Bangor & Aroos
took railroad. He married, June 16, 1909, in
Limestone, Julia Boulier, of Fort Fairfield.
Children of Lee and Julia Webster: Elwood,
born May 24, 1910; Harold, September 27,
1911.

James Richardson, a sea-
RICHARDSON faring man of Mount
Desert Island, Maine,
was, according to family tradition, the immi
grant ancestor. He was born in England.
Children born on Mt. Desert Island: 1. Amos,
a sea captain. 2. Abraham, a mariner, died at
Mount Desert. 3. John, died on Mount Desert
Island. 4. Isaac, a mariner, died on Mount
Desert Island. 5. Nicholas, a mariner, died at
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died on Mount Desert Island. 7. Nahum,
mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth, died at Dan
ville Junction, Maine, married  Stock
ing, who died there, a farmer.
(II) Nahum Richardson, son of James
Richardson, was born on Mount Desert Island,
Maine, in 1812, died at Ellsworth, Hancock
county, Maine, in 1887. He was educated in
the public schools, and learned the trade of
ship carpenter in Ellsworth. He followed his
trade there and in Bangor and other places
along the Maine coast. Subsequently he
bought a farm and settled in Ellsworth. In
politics he was a Democrat. He married Mary
J. Maddox, born at Ellsworth, 1822, died there
in 1891. She attended the Methodist Episco
pal church (see Maddox II). Children: 1.
Isaac, born 1843, a farmer, died at Ellsworth
in 1869, unmarried. 2. Daniel, born 1845, a
farmer, drafted during the civil war but not
sent to the front; married Pamelia Salsbury,
of Ellsworth. 3. Luther, born 1847, farmer,
Ellsworth ; married Ella Capers, of Lewiston,
Maine. 4. Charlotte, born 1849, died aged two
years. 5. Nahum Augustus, mentioned below.
6. Frederick, born 1853 > married Kate Blod
gett, of Surry, Maine ; resides at Ellsworth. 7.
Eben, born 1855, died in 1874 at Ellsworth,
unmarried. 8. William, born 1857, farmer,
Ellsworth ; married Claudia Leed, of Surry.
9. Imogene, born 1859, died at North Orland,
Maine; married Gilbert Ware, of Rockport,
Maine, who served in the civil war, died at
North Orland. 10. Edwin, born 1862, a car
penter, Bangor, unmarried.
(Ill) Nahum Augustus Richardson, son of
Nahum Richardson, was born at Ellsworth,
Maine, November 15, 1851. He attended the
public schools of his native town, and worked
on his father's farm until he came of age.
Afterward he was a miller until 1897. He
also followed farming at Limestone and other
towns in Aroostook county, Maine, and in
1886 he bought the farm on which he now
lives in Limestone. He has eighty-five acres,
most of which is under cultivation. In politics
he is a Republican. He has held the office of
road commissioner. In religion he is an Epis
copalian. He married, November, 1878, at
Fort Fairfield, Olive E. Maines (also spelled
Maynes). She was born in Farmington,
Maine, August 2, 1861, and educated there in
the public schools. She is a communicant of
the Protestant Episcopal church, and a mem
ber of Limestone Grange, No. 272, Patrons of
Husbandry. Children of Nahum Augustus
and Olive E. (Maines) Richardson: 1. Per-
ley, born September 28, 1879, died aged seven
teen years. 2. Leland, born June 20, 1882 ; a
farmer at Caswell, Maine; married Hattie

Kearney; children: Fay, born October 14,
1907; Pauline, February 21, 1909; Rena, De
cember 17, 1910. 3. William, born July 11,
1884; married, June 25, 191 1, in Denmark,
New Brunswick, Ella Lawson, born April 17,
1891 ; children : Hudson Lewis, born October
19, 191 1 ; Winton Clester, born February 2,
1914. 4. Hannah, born June 12, 1891 ; edu
cated in the Limestone public schools ; mar
ried Earl Ward, and had Idelle Ward, born
October 3, 1910.
Joseph Maines, father of Mrs. Richardson,
was born April 5, 1821, died at Limestone,
Maine, September 10, 1894. He was a farmer
in New Brunswick for seven years, afterward
in Farmington, Maine. In politics he was a
Democrat. He was a member of the school
board and selectman while living in New
Brunswick. In religion he was a Methodist.
He married Hannah Hudson, born July 12,
1 816, in Quebec, Canada, died at Limestone,
Maine, September 30/1893. She was an Epis
copalian. Children of Joseph Maines: 1. Joseph
H. Maines, born at Quebec, Canada, November
16, 1850; a merchant at Seattle, Washington;
married Rose Pelchie, a native of New Bruns
wick. 2. Annie J. Maines, born at Quebec,
February 12, 1852; married Samuel Shaw, of
Hartland, New Brunswick, a blacksmith and
farmer. 3. Thomas Maines, born at Quebec,
March 1, 1854; has a farm and livery stable at
Limestone ; married Estella Shaw, a native of
Hartland, Maine. 4. William J. Maines. born
at Farmington, February 28, 1856; has a farm
and livery stable at Fort Fairfield ; married
Minnie Winters, a native of England. 5. Ella
E. Maines, born at Farmington ; married Fred
Philbrick, of Easton, who has a farm and
starch factory at Fort Fairfield. 6. Olive E.
Maines, married Nahum Augustus Richard
son, mentioned above.
John Maynes or Maines, father of Joseph
Maines, was born in Ireland, died in Virginia,
whither he came when a child. His wife was
of Spanish ancestry, and died in Virginia also.
Children of John Maynes or Maines : 1. Rob
ert Maines, a farmer, died in Pennsylvania.
2. William Maines, a farmer, died in Farm
ington from a wound received in battle during
the civil war. 3. Joseph Maines, mentioned
above. 4. John Maines. 5. Edward Maines,
died at Quebec; married Elizabeth Hudson,
sister of Mrs. Joseph Maines. 6. Annie
Maines, died at Lincoln Center, Maine; mar
ried Robert Cole, a farmer and lumberman,
Farmington. (The Maddox Line).
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of the name in 1790, according to the federal
census. In Wells, York county, two of the
name John Maddox were heads of families
and at Waterborough, York county, Henry
Maddox was head of a family. Henry, Sam
uel and Joshua were heads of families at
Township No. 6, Hancock county, Maine.
(I) Joshua Maddox was a pioneer at Ells
worth, Maine, and built the first saw mill
there. (II) Nathan Maddox, son of Joshua Mad
dox, was born at Fryeburg, Maine, in 1789,
died at Ellsworth, Maine, in 1873. He was a
farmer at Ellsworth, whither he went as a
child with his parents. He was a member of
the Methodist church. He served in the war
of 1812. He married Hannah Fly, born in
1 791, at Damariscotta, Maine, died at Ells
worth in 1866. Children : 1. Isaac, died about
twenty-one years old. 2. Daniel, died at Ells
worth ; married (first) Phebe Clemmons, of
Ellsworth; (second) Elizabeth Butler, of
Franklin, Maine, now living in Ellsworth. 3.
Emery, died at Ellsworth, Maine, unmarried.
4. Mary J., married Nahum Richardson (see
Richardson II). 5. Charlotte, died at Ells
worth ; married Lewis Fields, of that town, a
carpenter.

Jeremiah Nightingale, a
NIGHTINGALE descendant of William
Nightingale (q. v.), was
a native of Vermont or Maine. He died on
the coast of Maine, now the New Brunswick
line, in 1832. He was a soldier in the war of
1812. Children: 1. Jeremiah, born in 1818;
a farmer of Fort Fairfield, Maine, millwright
at Grand Lake, sold his farm in 1890 and
moved from Grand Lake to Fort Fairfield,
where he died in 1894; married Marion Bar
ton. 2. Josiah, mentioned below. 3. John, a
farmer of Grand Lake ; married (first)  —
Barton; (second) Rhoda Ann Jenkins. 4.
William, removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
5. Jerusha.
(II) Josiah Nightingale, son of Jeremiah
Nightingale, was born in Maine, near the
Canadian line, in 1820, died at Grand Lake,
New Brunswick, in May, 1886. He was a
millwright by trade, settling in Grand Lake
when a young man. He bought a farm and
lived there the remainder of his life. In poli
tics he was a Liberal. He was a member of
the Baptist church. He married Eleanor Mc-
Namara, born at Range, Grand Lake, Queens
county, New Brunswick, 1833, died at Grand
Lake, July 18, 1891. She was a Baptist in
religion. Her father was a native of Ireland,
born about 1794, died at Grand Lake, about
J873, where he was a farmer for many years.

He married  Riley, born in Ireland in
1796, died at Grand Isle, 1879. Eleanor Mc-
Namara had a sister Mary, who died at Grand
Lake, unmarried ; a brother, Joseph, farmer at
Grand Lake, married Rachel Miller, and a
sister Allie, who married Lot Kelly, of Cole's
Island, New Brunswick.
Children of Josiah and Eleanor (McNamara)
Nightingale: 1. Levi, born May 29, 1853; a
carpenter ; married Elizabeth Lunney, of Cum
berland Bay, Queens county, New Brunswick;
now living at Range, Grand Lake ; children :
Ward, miner and farmer, Grand Lake;
Blanche, married Walter Hawk, head sawyer
in a mill in Queens county; Wilford L., mar
ried, October 23, 1913, Lena White; Myrtle,
married  Wassam, farmer and lumber
man, Salmon Creek, New Brunswick; Hazen
and Ivy. 2. Elias, born May 3, 1855 ; a
farmer; married (first) Rosetta McNamara, a
first cousin; children: Maude, married Leslie
Barton, a coal hoister, Range, Grand Lake;
Mary, married Leslie Butler, miner, New Cas
tle, New Brunswick; Annie, married 
Brown ; farmer at Hardwood, Sunbury county,
New Brunswick; Ellery, lives on the home
stead ; Cecil, lives on the homestead ; Elias
married (second) Mrs. Dorothy (Rollins)
Monroe, widow of Samuel Monroe, a ship
builder, Grand Lake; no children. 3. Nehe
miah, born February 28, 1857; captain of a
coasting vessel, now a farmer at Cumberland
Bay, New Brunswick; married Mary McNa
mara, sister of Rosetta McNamara. 4. Mary,
died young. 5. Annie, born January 22, 1861 ;
married John McNamara, brother of Mary
McNamara ; farmer at Range, Grand Lake ;
children : Winnie McNamara, married James
Howe, a railroad man, Norton, New Bruns
wick; Cora McNamara, married Fred Mc
Lean, engineer, Queens county, New Bruns
wick ; Alice, Frank and Carl McNamara. 6.
Simeon, mentioned below. 7. Herbert, died
young. 8. Emery, born August 22, 1867; mar
ried Jane Libby, of Parish Canning, New
Brunswick, now living at Fort Fairfield ;
farmer ; children : Avis, Millie, Carrie, Pearl,
Owen, Moses.
(Ill) Simeon Nightingale, son of Josiah
Nightingale, was born at Parish Canning,
Queens county, New Brunswick, December
14, 1863. He attended the public schools of
his native town. He assisted his father on the
farm until he was seventeen years old, when
he went to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for two
years. He returned to his native town, but
soon afterward went to Eau Claire again,
thence to Emporium, Pennsylvania, following
the lumber industry. From 1884 to 1886 he
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various positions in Parish Canning and vicin
ity. In the winter of 1893 he worked in the
lumber camps at Mars Hill and Blaine, Maine.
He bought a farm, March 16, 1894, on the
Aroostook Falls road, Fort Fairfield, and cul
tivated it for the next eight years. In 1902
he sold his farm and bought the place that he
now owns, on Hopkins road, Fort Fairfield, a
mile and a half from the village. He also has
a grocery store, a grist mill and stave mill, in
partnership with his son, Alden S. Nightingale.
His farm comprises- one hundred and seventy
acres, largely under cultivation. In politics he
is a Republican. He has been road commis
sioner. He is steward of the Methodist Epis
copal church, and a member of Pioneer Lodge,
No. yy, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Fort Fairfield, of which he has been vice
grand noble. He is also a member of Aroos
took Valley Grange, No. 485, Patrons of PIus-
bandry. He married, April 3, 1889, in Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Caroline Augusta Stone,
born in Parish Canning, Queens county, New
Brunswick, February 17, 1864. She was edu
cated there in the public schools. She is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
of the Aroostook Valley Grange and of the
Ladies' Aid Society. Children of Simeon and
Caroline Augusta (Stone) Nightingale: 1.
Alden Simeon, born October 12, 1890, at
Grand Lake, New Brunswick; in partnership
with his father; member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and of Eastern Frontier
Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons;
married Lucy Bowles, daughter of Rev. S. S.
Bowles, Methodist minister at Fort Fairfield.
2. Eleanor Beatrice, born at Grand Lake,
Parish Canning, March 19, 1892; married
Stanley Watham, of New Brunswick, now of
Fort Fairfield, operator of the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad; child, born October 11,
1913. 3. Bessie Gladys, born at Grand Lake,
May 12, 1893, died March, 1896, at Fort Fair
field. 4. Vernon Basil, born at Fort Fair
field, June 4, 1894, died March, 1896, at Fort
Fairfield. 5. Florence Hazel, born March 5,
1898; student in high school. 6. Velma Fay,
born May 27, 1899. 7. Herbert Lester, born
March 11, 1901. 8. Harold Stone, born March
9, 1902. 9. Delmer Kenneth, born April 11,
1904. Thomas Stone, father of Mrs. Nightingale,
was born at Land's End, Cornwall, England,
in 1833, died at New Castle, Sunbury county,
New Brunswick, April, 1890. He came to
Canada with his wife and two children, settled
at New Castle, where he followed mining and
farming. In politics he was a Liberal. Pie
was a member of the Baptist church. He mar

ried Caroline Libby, born in England, about
1835, died at Fort Fairfield, September, 1901.
She was also a Baptist in religion. Children
of Thomas Stone : 1. Elizabeth Stone, born in
England, September 26, 1853 ; married Law
rence Burns, of Duluth, Minnesota; she is now
living at Caribou, a widow. 2. Mary Ann
Stone, born in England, April, 1855 ; married
William Flower, of New Brunswick. 3. Mar
tha Stone, born at New Castle, September 5,
1857; married Enoch Nightingale, son of Jere
miah Nightingale, a farmer of New Bruns
wick. 4. John Stone, born November 19, 1859,
died February 28, 1880, unmarried. 5. Esther
Stone, born October 6, 1861 ; married Nelson
Chapman, a farmer, Waterville, Maine. 6.
Caroline Augusta Stone, married Simeon
Nightingale, mentioned above. 7. Charles
Stone, born August 9, 1866; a farmer, New
Castle ; married Maude Kennedy, of New
Brunswick. 8. Rans ford Stone, born May,
1868, died young. 9. George Stone, born March
5, 1874; a farmer of Fort Fairfield; married
Mabel Averill.
William Stone, father of Thomas Stone,
was born in England and died there, a miner

all his active life. He married

Chil

dren : William Stone, a miner at Land's End,
Cornwall; John Stone, miner, Cornwall;
Thomas Stone, mentioned above; Martha
Stone ; Esther Stone ; Elizabeth Stone ; Cath
erine Stone.

The family of Coffin in Eng-
COFFIN land was seated at Portledge in
the parish of Alwington in
northern Devonshire and has been traced in
England to the time of the Norman Conquest,
1066. This family bears arms described:
Vert, five cross-crosslets argent between four
plates. (I) Tristram Coffin, the earliest English
ancestor of the American family of which we
have authentic record, lived in Briton, Devon
shire, England. His will was dated November
16, 1601.
(II) Nicholas Coffin, son of Tristram Cof
fin, lived at Rutlers, Devonshire, and his will
is dated September 12, 1613, and proved No
vember following. He bequeathed to wife
Joan, sons Peter, Tristram, Nicholas and John,
daughter Anna, and granddaughter Joan Cof
fin. (Ill) Peter Coffin, son of Nicholas Coffin,
married Joan Thomber. He lived at Brixton
and died in 1628, leaving a will dated Decem
ber 21, 1627. This will proves the relation
ship with the American immigrant. In 1649
his widow with her son Tristram and daughter
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to Haverhill and Newbury in that state. She
died at Nantucket or Boston, in May, 1661,
aged seventy-seven. Rev. John Wilson, of
Boston, preached her funeral sermon. Chil
dren: John, died in Plymouth Fort; Tris
tram, mentioned below; Joan, probably died
in England; Deborah; Eunice; Mary.
(IV) Tristram (2) Coffin, the American
immigrant, was son of Peter Coffin, and was
born in England in 1609, died in Nantucket,
October 2, 1691. He married, in England,
Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens,
of Brixton, Devonshire. He came to Salis
bury in 1642 with his mother, wife and five
children, removing soon afterward to Haver
hill where he witnessed a deed in the same
year. About 1648 he went to Newbury, where
he kept an inn and afterward returned to Salis
bury, about 1655, and was commissioner there.
In 1659 he was one of a Salisbury company
that bought land in Nantucket, whither he re
moved in 1660. He was one of the first mag
istrates of the island, and a capable official.
Children: Hon. Peter, born 163 1 ; Tristram,
1632; Elizabeth; James, August 12, 1640;
John, died in Haverhill, 1642; Deborah,. born
at Haverhill, November 15, 1642; Mary, Feb
ruary 20, 1645; John, October 30, 1647; Ste
phen, at Newbury, May 11, 1652.
(I) Grindall Coffin, a descendant of Tris
tram Coffin, was born about 1790 in Vermont,
according to family tradition, and died in Ash
land, Maine, in 1850. He came to Ashland,
after he married, following a blazed trail, and
was one of the pioneers of that town. He
cleared a farm and followed agriculture for his
occupation. In politics he was a Whig. He
was an upright citizen and a consistent Chris
tian. He married Hannah Walker, born in
Albion, Maine, in 1782, died at Ashland, in
1872, sister of Joseph Walker, who was born
in the White Mountain district of New Hamp
shire, and was also a pioneer of Ashland.
Joseph Walker married Esther (Rankage)
Gardner, who was born at Thomaston, Maine,
now Rockland, the widow of  Gardner,
of Rockland, a seafaring man. Esther Rank-
age was born in 1790, died at Ashland in
1890. By her first husband Esther had one
child : William Gardner, a farmer of Ashland,
married Nancy Maria Coffin, mentioned be
low. Children of Grindall Coffin: 1. Elbridge
Gerry, born at Albion, died at Ashland, un
married. 2. Printhia, resides at Oldtown,
Maine; married Simeon Lord, of Bangor, a
tanner. 3. Lorenzo, died near Bangor. 4.
Luther, died in Washington state, a miner and
farmer; had a restaurant in Seattle; unmar
ried. 5. Artemas W., mentioned below. 6.
Mary, died at Ashland; married Harrison

Walker, a farmer, born at Albion. 7. Han
nah, died at Freedom, Maine; married Daniel
Getchell, a farmer of Albion. 8. Rufus, died
at Ashland ; a farmer and lumberman ; married
Olive Brown, of Green, Maine. 9. Sarah,
died at Albion ; married David Small, a farmer
of Albion. 10. Eliza, died at Presque Isle;
married David Sylvester, a farmer of Ash
land. 11. Lovina, died at Ashland; married
Leonard Ellis, of Dover, Maine, farmer and
lumberman. 12. William, died in Ashland.
13. Nancy Maria, died at Ashland; married
William Gardner, farmer.
(II) Artemas W. Coffin, son of Grindall
Coffin, was born in Albion, Maine, June 25,
1812, died at Ashland, in March, 1903. He
was one of the pioneers of Ashland, removing
there soon after his marriage. He cleared a
farm and cultivated it the remainder of his
life. He was also a lumberman. In politics he
was in later years a Republican. He was for
a number of years selectman, collector of taxes
for six years and a prominent citizen. He was
active in the temperance movement and in the
Baptist church. He married Maribah Scrib
ner, born June 24, 1807, in Unity, Maine, died
in Ashland, 1899, daughter of Captain John
H. Scribner, who was born at Albion, Maine,
in 1770, died at Thorndike, Maine, in 1864, a
farmer, captain of the state militia, farmer in
Unity, afterward living with his son at Thorn-
dike. Captain Scribner married Susan Spen
cer. Children, all born in Unity: 1. Maribah
Scribner, married Artemas W. Coffin, men
tioned above. 2. Isaiah Scribner, died in the
service in the civil war. 3. Mary Scribner,
died at Stockton, Maine ; married (first) Clem
ent Sigert; (second) Captain Edward Sigert,
his brother, sea captain. 4. Sophia Scribner,
died in Minneapolis ; married Nathaniel Sigert,
brother of Edward Sigert. 5. Hall Scribner,
died on the way to California by way of Cape
Horn about 1849. 6. Hannah Scribner, died
in Illinois ; married Charles Sigert, another
brother of those mentioned above, a shoemaker
by trade. 7. Philip Scribner, died at Unity;
married Catherine McManus, of Freedom. 8.
Benjamin Scribner, mariner, died in the Sail
ors' Home. 9. Albert, a farmer, died at
Thorndike ; married (first) Sophronia Thomp
son ; (second) Sarah Thompson, her sister.
10. Horatio Scribner, died in Illinois ; married
Elizabeth Spinney. 11. Orrin Scribner, died
from the effects of a gunshot wound received
while in the service in the battle of Antietam.
The parents of Captain John H. Scribner died
when he was quite young and he was brought
up by John Hall, a merchant at Freedom,
Maine. Children of Artemas W. Coffin: 1.
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California in 1849 and after several years in
the mining fields returned to Portage Lake,
Maine, where he had a general store for many
years; removed to Ashland, where he had a
farm; married Emma Greenlaw, of Charlotte,
Maine, now living in Ashland; children:
Elmer E., Albion, Lillian, Maribah, Martha,
Hall, William, Addie, Annie. 2. Nathaniel S.,
mentioned below. 3. Sophia, resides at Ash
land ; married Ira Howe, of Ashland, a farmer
and lumberman. 4. LeRoy, married Caroline
Savage, of New Brunswick; now a farmer of
Ashland. (Ill) Nathaniel S. Coffin, son of Artemas
W. Coffin, was born at Thorndike, Waldo
county, Maine, January 5, 1840. He went to
live in Ashland, Maine, with his parents, when
he was four years old, and attended the public
schools there until thirteen years old. He
assisted his father on the homestead and suc
ceeded to it. He has added by purchase until
he now has six hundred acres of land, of which
one hundred are cultivated, the remainder
good timber land. In politics he is a Republi
can. He has been constable for six years, road
commissioner for one year, member of the
school board for three years. He attends the
Baptist church. He has been prominent in the
temperance work of the community. He is a
member of Ashland Grange, No. 247, Patrons
of Husbandry, and of Pioneer Lodge, No.
72, Free and Accepted Masons. He was
chosen lieutenant of the state militia in the
civil war. He married, June 15, 1868, at
Presque Isle, Manira Greenlaw, born at Char
lotte, Maine, May, 1850. Children of Nathan
iel S. Coffin: 1. Orrin Scribner, mentioned
below. 2. Luther, born September 20, 1872;
manager for Thomas Fair, lumberman, Ash
land ; married Lavona De Long, of Patten.
3. Herbert, born ,1874; a merchant; married
Ethel Sutherland, of Portage Lake ; children :
Margaret, Nathaniel, Ola, Helen. 4. Frank,
born November 5, 1876; married Ida McDon
ald, of Patten; she died July, 1913; child,
Lowena. 5. Alfred, born July 13, 1878; mar
ried Kate Haywood. 6. Sophia, born April 15,
1880; married Arthur Libby, a potato buyer
of Presque Isle. 7. Ira, born January 29,
1882 ; married Florence Baston, of Ashland ;
child, John Rodney. 8. Philip, born Decem
ber 17, 1883. 9. Susan, born September 20,
1885. 10. Aubrey, born May 21, 1887; stu
dent at Worcester Academy two years, now
assisting his father. 11. C. Frederick, born
August 22, 1890. 12. Sarah, born March 2,
1892. 13. Anna, born June 3, 1894.
William Greenlaw, father of Mrs. Coffin,
was born at Calais, Maine, died at South
Presque Isle, in 1859. He was a pioneer in

that town, a farmer, Whig in politics._ He
married Mary Smith, born at Calais, died at
Presque Isle. Children of William Greenlaw:
1. Mary Greenlaw, married Lowell Blanchard.
2. Darius Greenlaw, died in the service in the
civil war. 3. William Greenlaw, drowned in
a river drive. 4. Aaron Greenlaw, married
Abbie (Emerson) Rose, widow of Moses
Rose, Jr. 5. Mehitable Greenlaw, married
George Lancaster. 6. Sarah Greenlaw, mar
ried Benton Rose. 7. Samuel Greenlaw, mar
ried Mary Sprague ; is county commissioner,
living at Presque Isle. 8. George Greenlaw,
married Martha Sprague. 9. Lewis Green
law, resides at Presque Isle. 10. Emma
Greenlaw, married Artemas Coffin, mentioned
above. 11. Manira Greenlaw, married Na
thaniel S. Coffin, mentioned above. 12. Ed
ward Greenlaw, married Mary McLoughlin,
of Presque Isle.
(IV) Orrin Scribner Coffin, son of Na
thaniel S. Coffin, was born at Ashland, Maine,
November 4, 1869. He was educated there in
the public schools. He has been a lumberman
. since he was twenty years old and has also a
farm in Ashland, Maine. In politics he is a
Republican. He attends the Congregational
church, and is a member of Pioneer Lodge,
No. 247, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Shasta
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and was
formerly a member of the Ashland Grange.
He married Mrs. Ina (Flemming) McCor-
quindale, born at Oxbow, Maine, July 27,
1874. They have one child, Manira, born
March 19, 1908. Mrs. Coffin married (first)
John McCorquindale, born at Springfield, New
Brunswick, 1852, died at Oxbow, Maine. Sep
tember 7, 1904, a farmer and inn-keeper at
Oxbow. By this marriage she had three chil
dren : 1. Viola McCorquindale, born March 1,
1893, married Robert Tweedy, a filer, of Ash
land. 2. Perley McCorquindale, born March
28, 1894, a chauffeur, of Ashland. 3. Marion
McCorquindale, born December 29, 1896.
(The Flemming Line).
(I) Thomas Flemming, born 1797, died at
Prince Edward Island, 1821. He was a
farmer. Pie married Betsey Underwood, born
in New_ York City, died at Miramichi, New
Brunswick. Their only child was Thomas,
mentioned below.
(II) Thomas (2) Flemming, son of Thomas
(1) Flemming, was born on Prince Edward
Island, 1821, died at Oxbow, October 9, 1904.
He was educated in the schools of Miramichi
and came to Oxbow, Maine, before his mar
riage. He was a lumberman, a Democrat, and
an Episcopalian. He married Mary A. Bot-
ting, born May 6, 1842, died at New Limerick,

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Maine, in February, 1902. William Botting
came to Canada with his parents in 1820 and
settled in Montreal. Afterward he became a
farmer at Oxbow. He married Frances Ruth,
born on the river Thames, England, 1820, died
at Oxbow, 1892. Children of William Bot
ting: 1. William Botting, born at Madison,
Maine, died at Minneapolis ; married Eliza
beth Curo. 2. Elizabeth Botting, married
James Curo, inn-keeper. 3. Rosanna, mar
ried Hiram Smith, cook and guide. 4. Mary
A., married Thomas Flemming, mentioned
above. 5. Henry Botting, enlisted in 1861, in
Seventh Maine Regiment, died of a wound.
6. Fielder Botting, married Mary McKee.- 7.
James Botting, married Abbie Merchie. 8.
George Botting, an engineer. 9. Charles Bot
ting, orange grower in California. 10. Helen
Eliza Botting, married David Aiken, of Fred-
erickton, New Brunswick. 11. Grace Viola
Botting, married John Aiken, brother of David
Aiken. Children of Thomas Flemming: 1.
Thomas, born 1867, died at Oxbow, 1891. 2.
George, born 1870; married Eliza Taylor; he
is a guide at Oxbow. 3. Ida, born 1872; mar
ried Henry Smith, of Houlton, a guide at
Oxbow. 4. Ina, mentioned above, married
Orrin S. Coffin. 5. Gertrude, born in 1876;
married Boardman Stone, of Zealand, New
Brunswick, a carpenter and guide ; reside in
Oxbow. 6. Wilmon, born 1878, twin; married
Mary Lannigan ; is a guide and farmer at Ox
bow. 7. William, twin of Wilmon, a guide at
Oxbow. 8. Frederick, born 1881 ; married
Vesta Carson ; is a farmer and lumberman.

David Perry, son of Jonathan and
PERRY Margaret (Malcolm) Perry, was
born in Topsham, Maine, Decem
ber 22, 1762, died December 18, 1844. He was
a farmer and moved from Topsham to Litch
field, where he lived near Robinson's Corner,
where all of his children were born. He finally
removed to Richmond, Maine. He married,
September 24, 1789, Margaret (Owen) Wil
son, born October 9, 1764, died August 4, 1840.
Children, born in Litchfield, Maine: 1. Mar
garet, born September 12, 1790, died March,
1869; married David Baker. 2. Gideon, born
May 12, 1793, died April, 1869; married Eliza
W. Farren. 3. Sarah, born February 17, 1795 ;
married (first) Joseph Crawford, (second)
Nathaniel Hutchins. 4. Lucinda, born Decem
ber 5, 1797, died at Richmond, August 19,
1883; married (first) William Webber, (sec
ond) Jabez Robinson. 5. Otis, born August
5, 1800, died 1823. 6. David, mentioned be
low. 7. Harriet, born November 28, 1805, died
June 15, 1807.
(II) Deacon David (2) Perry, son of David

(1) Perry, was born in Richmond, Maine,
June 17, 1803, died there, April 26, 1877. He
was a farmer, and a member of the Free Will
Baptist church, of which he was deacon for
many years. lie married (first) Martha Rob
inson, and_(second) Marcia K. Stimson. Chil
dren: 1. Henry Otis, mentioned below. 2.
Maria, born April 18, 1832 ; married Nehemiah
Preble, a Free Will Baptist minister in Rich
mond most of his life.
(Ill) Captain Henry Otis Perry, son of
Deacon David (2) Perry, was born at Rich
mond, Kennebec county, Maine, February 2,
1829, died October 9, 1913, at Fort Fairfield,
Maine. His early life was that of the ordinary
• farmer's son. Pie attended the common schools
in and near Richmond and afterwards fitted
for college at Litchfield Academy. For a time
he was clerk in a dry goods store at Gardiner,
Maine. In 1857 he went to Minnesota, where
he followed the trade of carpenter for about
three years. In 1861 he returned to Maine and
located first in Aroostook county, and after
a few years sold his place and removed to
Blaine, Maine. In the autumn of 1863 he en
listed in the Thirty-first Regiment, Maine Vol
unteer Infantry, and was made orderly ser
geant. He won promotion rapidly and was
commissioned first lieutenant of Company E
of his regiment. He was afterward captain of
his company and served to the end of the war
with distinction. From 1870 to 1876 he was
engaged in business in Blaine, Maine. He was
afterward in partnership with his son, Chad-
bourne W. Perry, in business in Fort Fairfield,
and had a large and profitable business. Dur
ing his last years the management of the busi
ness was largely in the hands of his son. In
1895 he was appointed agent of the American
Express Company, with offices at the station
of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, and he
was succeeded in this position by his son, Chad-
bourne W. He was trial justice for thirty
years or more and he was known as a fair,
just, impartial magistrate, not lacking in kind
ness and sympathy for the unfortunates that
came into his court. In politics he was always
a staunch Republican. He was elected to vari
ous' offices of trust. He was selectman, super
intendent of schools and for six years a mem
ber of the board of county commissioners. In
1867 and 1868 he represented the town of
Blaine in the state legislature, and he was a
presidential elector when General Grant was
elected president. Under the administrations
of Presidents Garfield, Arthur and Harrison
he was deputy collector of customs at Fort
Fairfield, a period of eight years in all.
He married (first) Sarah Ring, by whom he
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May i, 1853, Susan Ellen Blanchard, of Rich
mond. She died December 22, 1859. He mar
ried (third) November 4, i860, Mary Ellen
Preble, of Richmond. She died January 7,
1870. He married (fourth) March 11, 1871,
Hattie Ruby Witham, daughter of Allen Cobb
Witham, of Easton (see Witham II). She
was born at Gardiner, Maine, July 14, 1847,
and educated there in the public schools and
at the Presque Isle Academy. She taught
school one year in Easton and at Monticello,
Maine. She is a member of the Congregational
church and of Goodwill Chapter, No. 85, Order
of the Eastern Star, of which she has been
matron and is now district deputy.
Captain Perry's death followed a shock of
paralysis, after a week. Delegations from Kil-
patrick Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Re
public, of which he had been a prominent mem
ber ; from Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112,
Free and Accepted Masons, of which he had
been a member for many years and an officer,
attended the funeral. Rev. W. A. Richmond
officiated. The interment was at Riverside
Cemetery. At the time of his death a local
newspaper said of him :
Captain Perry was one of the most agreeable,
genial and companionable of men, believing thor
oughly in the principle of live and let live, and
always a prominent and public-spirted man and one
of the best of neighbors. From him, no reasonable
accommodation was ever refused. Many are the
neighbors and friends, especially young men, who
have known and felt his spirit of helpfulness. A
leader in his party in this region, being always
prominent in politics, a leader in business interests
in Fort Fairfield and in Aroostook, largely through
his great insurance agency, and one of the most
interested of Grand Army men, having been De
partment Commander of the Maine Grand Army of
the Republic in 1906, Captain Perry will be sorely
missed indeed by many interests and many friends.
Captain Perry was a man of splendid physique and
strong and active mind, one of the kind of men
bound to make their impression, no matter where
they are located or whatever occupation concerned.
Child by second wife : Mary L., born Sep
tember, 1857; married George P. Witham, of
Caribou, Maine, now a potato buyer, Water
ville, Maine. Children by third wife: 1. Mar
tha Alice, born September, 1861 ; married War
ren Knight, potato buyer, Fort Fairfield. 2.
Myra Olive, born March, 1864; married Fred
Buell, machinist, Woburn, Massachusetts. 3.
Henry Warren, born April 23, 1866; hardware
merchant, Fort Fairfield. Children by fourth
wife : 4. Charles A., born September 23, 1872,
in Blaine; a potato buyer, of Limestone; mar
ried Dora Long, of Limestone ; children :
Buell and Dorothy. 5. D. Frank, born at
Blaine, January 21, 1874; carpenter of Water
ville; married  ; children: Lawrence,

Thomas, Marion, Doris. 6. Chadbourne W.,
mentioned below. 7. E. Louise, born April
25, 1879; married Varney Pearce, of Fort
Fairfield; children: Harriet Maria Pearce,
born April 18, 1901 ; Phillip Gorham Pearce,
May 2, 1903.
(IV) Chadbourne W. Perry, son of Cap
tain Henry Otis Perry, was born at Fort Fair
field, Maine, December 17, 1876. He attended
the public schools there, and graduated from
the Fort Fairfield high school in 1894. He be
came associated with his father in the insur
ance business, was admitted to partnership and
is now sole proprietor of the business that his
father established. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He represented the town in the state
legislature in 1907 and 1909. He attends the
Congregational church, and is a member of
Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and
Accepted Masons; of Garfield Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; Presque Isle Council, Royal and
Select Masters ; Houlton Commandery, Knights
Templar; Cora Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Lewiston ; the Knights of Pythias
of Fort Fairfield and the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks of Houlton. He is a
director of the Frontier Trust Company of
Fort Fairfield.
Mr. Perry married, September 14, 1898, at
Fort Fairfield, Estella McDougal, a graduate
of the Fort Fairfield high school. Alexander
McDougal, her father, was born at Fort Fair
field, January 27, 1839, and has always lived
there. He was a farmer, now retired from
active life. He is a member of the Congrega
tional church, of Eastern Frontier Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons ; Kilpatrick Post, No.
61, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he
was commander at one time. He enlisted in
the fall of 1861 in the Eleventh Maine Cavalry
and was honorably discharged August 15,
1865. He took part in the second battle of
Bull Run, the battle of the Wilderness, Peters
burg, Five Forks and Appomattox Court
House. He married, August 31, 1865, Mary
Ann Fisher, born January 19, 1845, in Fred
ericton, Maine. She is a member of the Con
gregational church. Children of Chadbourne
W. Perry: Louise, born May 16, 1900; Maxine,
January 31, 1903; Katherine, October 21, 1909.
(The Witham Line).
(I) John Witham was a farmer in New
Gloucester, Maine, where he died. He mar
ried  . Children: 1. John, died at Paris,
Maine, a farmer. 2. Parsons, died at Gardi
ner, Maine, a miller ; married Louise Ladd. 3.
William, died at Gardiner, Maine; married
Sarah Rollins, of Pittston, Maine. 4. Louise,
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married James Townsend, of Gardiner. 5.
Abigail, died in Oxford county, Maine ; mar
ried  Coffin, a farmer. 6. Sarah, died
at Freeport, Maine ; married Jonathan Haskell,
of Freeport, a farmer. 7. Allen Cobb, men
tioned below.
(II) Allen Cobb Witham, son of John
Witham, was born in New Gloucester, Maine,
in 1816, died at Fort Fairfield, Maine, May 4,
1891. He was a miller in Gardiner, Maine,
until i860, when he moved to Easton, Maine,
where he carried on a farm. Later he settled
on a farm in Limestone, Maine, remaining for
a few years, and died while on a visit in Fort
Fairfield. In politics he was a Republican,
and he was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. He married Elsie Moore, born in
Gardiner, Maine, in 1818, died in Easton,
Maine, in 1881. She was a member of the
Congregational church. Children: 1. Charles
Moore, born December 25, 1845, at New Glou
cester; enlisted, 1861, in Company E, Thirty-
first Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry ; died
in 1863, in Danville prison, having been cap
tured at Petersburg. 2. Hattie Ruby, born
July 14, 1847; married Captain Henry Otis
Perry (see Perry III). 3. Otis, born July 14,
1849, died at Presque Isle, Maine, March 3,
1912; married Orintha True, of Fort Fair
field; she died March, 1905; children: John,
farmer in Presque Isle ; Charles, lives in
Presque Isle; Louise, married Charles Giver-
son, farmer in Presque Isle ; Chester, farmer
in Presque Isle. 4. George P., born April 19,
1852 ; married Mary Witham.

(IV) Henry Warren Perry, son
PERRY of Captain Henry Otis Perry (q.
v.), was born at Blaine, Maine,
April 23, 1866. He attended the public schools
of his native town and graduated from the
Fort Fairfield high school. During his youth
he helped his father on the farm and in the
insurance business. He became a clerk in the
hardware store of J. S. Hall, Fort Fairfield,
and continued there for nine years. In 1898
he opened a hardware store on his own account
in Fort Fairfield and he has continued in this
business to the present time. In politics he was
a Republican until 1912, and he is now a Pro
gressive. He has been town clerk for the past
twenty-two years. He is a member of the
Congregational church ; of the Eastern Frontier
Lodge, No. 112, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of Fort Fairfield, of which he has
been secretary; of Border Lodge, No. 83,
Knights of Pythias, Fort Fairfield, of which
he has been chancellor commander.
He married, March 1, 1890, at Fort Fair
field, Mora C. Knight, born in Easton, Penn

sylvania, March 9, 1869. Her parents came to
Houlton, Maine, when she was nine months
old and she attended the public schools there.
When she was eleven years old her parents
came to Fort Fairfield, where she attended the
high schools three years. She engaged in the
millinery business, after leaving school, in the
employ of the Dresser Company, one year,
and with French Brothers, nine years. She
left this concern to become a partner in the
firm of G. E. Bartlett & Company. She with
drew at the end of six years to establish a mil
linery business of her own and she now has a
large and flourishing business at Fort Fairfield.
She is a member of the Congregational church;
of Goodwill Chapter, No. 85, Order of the
Eastern Star, of which she has been con-
ductrice. Children of Henry Warren Perry:
1. Wellman L., born November 16, 1890; edu
cated in the public schools and the Fort Fair
field high school ; graduate of the Bucksport
Academy, 1910; was for six months in the em
ploy of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber
Company, since then has been associated in
business with his father; member of Border
Lodge, No. 83, Knights of Pythias, of which
he is now appellate ; married Adeline Stelphen,
born at Orland, Maine, November 17, 1890,
educated in the public schools of Bath, Maine,
and the Bucksport Seminary ; children : Con
stance, born August 10, 191 1, at Fort Fair
field; Dorothy, born February 14, 1914. 2.
Ellen Beryl, born November 13, 1891 ; edu
cated in the Fort Fairfield high school ; mem
ber of the Congregational church. 3. Mar
garet, born December 10. 1905.
(The Knight Line).
(I) Rev. Elbridge Knight was born at West-
field, New York, in 1812, died at Fort Fair
field, 1895. He was a minister of the Cor*-
gregational church. When a young man he
was principal of schools at Craftsbury and in
another town in Vermont, where he also
preached. He came as a missionary to Fort
Fairfield and preached there and at Limestone,
Mars Hill and neighboring villages. He was
an earnest, devout Christian and accomplished
a vast amount of good work in his field of
labor. In early life a Republican in politics,
he afterward became a Prohibitionist. He
married Ann Whitten, born at Braintree, New
Hampshire, April 6, 1813, died at Easton,
Maine, May, 1905. She was also a devout
Congregationalist. Children of Rev. Elbridge
Knight: 1. Hermon Knight, mentioned below.
2. Homer Knight, born at Craftsbury, Ver
mont, 1844; married Christian Ellis, of Fort
Fairfield; they reside at Clinton, Maine. 3.
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Burlington, Vermont, April, 1873. 4. Ella
Knight, born at Fort Fairfield, 1850; married
John Bolster, of Easton, a farmer; she resides
in Easton. 5. Herbert, born at Fort Fairfield,
1852, died at Presque Isle; married Isabelle
Jenkins, of Presque Isle; she has married
twice since he died and is now living in Maine.
6. Effie Knight, born 1854; married Walter
Frazier, of New Brunswick, now a farmer of
Easton. 7. Henry Knight, born 1858; went
west. 8. Dora Knight, born i860, died young.
9. Adelbert Knight, born at Fort Fairfield,
1864, died there November, 1904; married
 Turner, of Limestone, where she died.
(II) Hermon Knight, son of Rev. Elbridge
Knight, was born at Eden, Vermont, Decem
ber 5, 1842, died at Fort Fairfield, July 31,
1906. He was a grocer in Houlton for eleven
years and in Fort Fairfield the remainder of
his life, from 1880 until 1906. In politics he
was first a Republican, then a Prohibitionist.
For many years he was deacon of the Congre
gational church. He was a member of the
Odd Fellows Lodge, of Fort Fairfield. He
married, June 1, 1866, Abby S. Hadley (see
Hadley III), born at South Moluncus, Maine,
May 16, 1851, now living at Fort Fairfield, an
active member of the Congregational church
of that town. Children of Hermon Knight :
1. Mora C, married Henry Warren Perry (see
Perry IV). 2. Wellman, born at Houlton,
February 5, 1871 ; educated in the Houlton
public schools and the Fort Fairfield high
school, now living in Boston, engaged in the
fish and meat business ; member of the lodge
of Odd Fellows of Fort Fairfield. 3. Edith
Knight, born April 5, 1876, at Houlton, gradu
ate of the Fort Fairfield high school ; married
Raymond Wallace, of Millbridge, Maine, re
sides at Fort Fairfield, clerk for F. J. Lowery
Company, clothiers, Fort Fairfield.
(The Hadley Line).
(I) Ephraim Hadley, the first of the name
in Machias, Maine, was doubtless a descendant
of George Hadley, the pioneer. Ephraim Had
ley was a soldier in the revolution (see New
Hampshire State Papers, vol. xiv, pages 51,
185, 424). He was in Captain Isaac Bald
win's company. Colonel John Stark's regi
ment, and in Captain John Hall's company,
Colonel Stark's regiment, in 1775 ; also in Cap
tain Samuel McConnell's company, Colonel
Daniel Moor's regiment (muster and pay roll
dated September 26, 1776). He married
Susanna Coburn or Colburn. According to
the first federal census, taken in 1790, he had
no family, however, but evidently was keeping
house at Machias. The only other Pladleys
in Maine were Simeon and Samuel, of Mount

Desert, who came doubtless from Cape Cod.
The spelling Hadlock was in use also at this
time. Ephraim Hadley was a taxpayer in
Machias in 1790. He was on the grand jury
in 1 801. Children: Abel, mentioned below;
Colburn; Ephraim, married (first) Susan
Woodruff, (second) Hannah Bryant ; Stephen;
Mary, married Jacob Stevens ; Sally, married
Earl Woodruff ; George, married Esther Libby.
(II) Abel Hadley, son of Ephraim Hadley,
was born at Machias, Maine, about 1800. He
married Jane Berry. Her father, Jonathan
Berry, married Hannah Knight ; children :
Hannah, Sally, Jane, married Abel Hadley,
mentioned above; Abigail, Sally, Rebecca,
Jonathan, Freeman, Susan, John, Lydia, Atkins,
Phebe, Jonas. Westbrook Berry, of an old
Maine family, one of the first sixteen settlers of
the town of Machias, was a native of Scar
borough, Maine. He married, in 1763, at Scar
boro, Jane Freeman. Children of Westbrook
Berry: Jonathan, Sally, John, Benjamin, Re
becca. Hadley's lake in Machias takes its name
from this family. Abel Hadley was a farmer.
Children of Abel Hadley : Susan ; Hannah, mar
ried George Smith ; Stephen. According to the
family record Abel Hadley also married 
Longfellow and she was perhaps mother of the
following children : Eliza Jane, married Mar
tin Longfellow, of Machias, moved to Minne
apolis, Minnesota, where both died ; Matilda
Jane, died at Patten, Maine, married Marion
Shaw, of Marshfield, Maine, afterward a
farmer of Patten, died at Sherman, Maine;
John, died at Machias, a farmer and lumber
man, later a landscape gardener ; Wilson, died
at Machias ; Abel ; Obadiah ; William W., men
tioned below.
(Ill) William W. Hadley, son of Abel Had
ley, was born at Machias in 1814, died at San
Diego, California, April 28, 1888. He was a
blacksmith and farmer in South Moluncus,
Maine. Afterward he removed to Bucksport,
Maine, and conducted a boarding house there
for seminary students. He removed thence to
Castine, Maine, and to Lynn, Massachusetts,
where he had boarding nouses. Thence he
went to Eureka, California, and had a ranch
for some years. He afterward followed farm
ing at Spokane, Washington. After he retired
he settled at San Diego, California. In poli
tics he was a Republican. For many years he
was town clerk and justice of the peace in
South Moluncus, Maine. He was a promi
nent member and steward of the Methodist
Episcopal church for forty-five years. He
served in the Aroostook war. He married
Cassandra Currier, born at Corinna, or Nor
ridgewock, Maine, died at South Moluncus,
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Norridgewock to South Moluncus. She was
a devout Methodist. Children, all born at
South Moluncus: 1. Mary, born 1841, died in
1846. 2. Hattie, born 1843, died 1846. 3.
Edwin, born 1845, died April, 1848. 4. Abby
S., born May 16, 1851 ; married, June 1, 1866,
Hermon Knight (see Knight II). 5. William
E., born May 24, 1853, died at San Diego,
California, April, 1907 ; married (first) Emma
Williams, of Eureka, California; married
(second) Louise Dingley, of Lewiston, Maine.
6. Mary C, born March 24, 1855; married
J. M. Grimmer, of St. Stephen, New Bruns
wick, now of Spokane, Washington, in busi
ness as a truckman and warehouseman. 7.
Ephraim Wilson, born December 28, 1857;
married Mary  , a school teacher from
Ohio ; he is a real estate dealer and broker and
merchant of San Diego, California. 8. Emma,
born March 4, i860, died at Fort Fairfield,
January 31, 1886; married Frank Griffin, of
Sherman Mills, Maine ; resides in Massachu
setts.

Lyman Clayton was born in
CLAYTON England about 1795, died at
East Saginaw, Michigan,
about 1875. He settled at Nashwaak, prov
ince of New Brunswick, before his marriage,
and was a farmer all his life, living in Michi
gan for a time, moving there about 1850. In
politics he was a Whig and later a Republican,
and in religion he was a Presbyterian. He
married  Plummer, and she died in East
Saginaw, Michigan, about 1883 ; she was born
about 1790. Children: 1. Charles Washburn,
mentioned below. 2. Archie, died in Michigan.
3. John, died in Michigan. 4. Fred, lived in
Michigan. 5. Eliza, died in Michigan. 6. Ann,
married  McKay, and for years kept a
hotel in Detroit.
(II) Charles Washburn Clayton, son of
Lyman Clayton, was born at St. Mary's river,
New Brunswick, January 15, 1820, died at
Ashland, October 16, 1896. He moved to
Aroostook county, near Bangor, Maine, before
his marriage, and was a lumberman for a time.
Shortly after his marriage he moved to Ash
land, where he purchased a farm and cleared
land. He was a pioneer there and resided
there the remainder of his life. In politics he
was a Republican, and he was a member of the
Episcopal church. He served in the civil war,
enlisting in 1862, as captain of the Fifteenth
Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. He
served but a short time, as he was compelled
to resign because of his physical disability.
He married, September 14, 1848, Sarah Fer-
nald, born November 20, 1829, in Glenburn,
Maine, died at Ashland, February 12, i£

She was a member of the Episcopal church.
Children: 1. Ira, born September 14, 1849,
at No. 8, Maine; married Delia Robinson, of
Ashland, and they live at Washburn, Maine ;
children: Nora, married  McDonald,
druggist; Charles, of Seattle, Washington;
John; Clair, of Ashland; Ada; James, of
Washburn, Maine, farmer; Sarah, deceased;
Archie, of Washburn, a farmer. 2. Charles
Frederick, mentioned below. 3. Inez, born at
No. 8, Maine, February 28, 1853; married
George R. Ketchum, of Woodstock, New
Brunswick ; she died at Ashland, October 3,
1892; he married (second) Abbie (Clayton)
Smith, sister of Inez; children; Ralph, of
Saskatchewan, Canada, a farmer ; Charles ;
Inez, married  Adams of Bangor,
Maine ; others, now deceased. 4. Ida, born
December 9, 1856, in Masardis, Maine ; mar
ried Wilbur Bartlett, of Ashland; they live at
Garfield, Maine, having one daughter living,
Maude, married Percy Rafford, of Ashland.
5. Abbie, born February 23, 1862, in Masardis,
Maine; married (first) William Smith, of
New Brunswick, died 1899, °y whom she had:
Randall K, born August 30, 1883, lives with
her; Henry Neely, born February 17, 1886,
lives at Brockton, Massachusetts, has jewelry
store; she married (second) George R.
Ketchum, who married first her sister Inez ;
he was born June, 1849, at Woodstock, New
Brunswick, and they live at Ashland, Maine,
on their farm; he is a Republican, a member
of Episcopal church ; member of Woodstock
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. 6. George,
born at Masardis, Maine, August 24, 1863;
married (first) Rose Goding, of Masardis, and
had William, deceased; married (second)
Edna Goding, sister of first wife, and had
Alma, married Howard West, of Garfield,
Maine ; Hazel, married Charles Patchel, of
Bangor, Maine; Leon, farmer of Garfield;
Alden; Fred, lives with parents.
(Ill) Charles Frederick Clayton, son of
Charles Washburn Clayton, was born at town
ship No. 8, about eight miles south of Masardis,
Maine, December 24, 1850. He was educated
in the public schools of Masardis. When he
was nineteen years old his parents removed to
Ashland, Maine, and he operated a grist mill
in that town until 1873. Afterward he erected
the first steam shingle mill in the town of Ash
land. In fact his was the first steam engine in
the town. He followed farming and lumber
ing for a number of years and spent one year
in the state of Washington. Upon his return
he bought a starch factory in Ashland and
operated it for a period of twenty-five years.
For twenty-one years he also operated his
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bought a farm of one hundred and thirty acres
and has conducted it since then. He owns tim
ber lands, which he has leased. In politics Mr.
Clayton is a Republican. He is a communicant
of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a mem
ber of Lodge No. 144, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Ashland, and of Ashland
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, September 3, 1878, in Debec,
New Brunswick, Mary McQuarrie, born Oc
tober 25, 1850, at Woodstock, New Brunswick.
She is a member of Rebekah Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the
Protestant Episcopal church (see McQuarrie
II). Children, all born in Ashland: 1. Inez
Lavinia, born June 5, 1879, died August 15,
1905, unmarried. 2. Lottie May, born Decem
ber 11, 1880; married, November 25, 1908,
Allen Smith, of Masardis, a dealer in potatoes ;
daughter, Mary Lucretia, born December 2,
1912. 3. Lu, born February 18, 1882, died
aged six months. 4. Harry Miles, born April
17, 1883, died December 11, 1910, of injuries
received while on duty as a locomotive engi
neer of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad ; mar
ried, April 1, 1907, Vivian Carter, daughter of
John Carter, of Masardis; she married (sec
ond) Herbert Greenland, of Westfield, Maine,
a farmer ; children by first husband : Harry
Lyman Clayton, born January 9, 1908; Wal
lace Carter Clayton, August 3, 1909. 5.
Charles Frederick, born October 7, 1885 ; he
was a graduate of the University of Louis
ville (Doctor of Medicine, 1910), and is prac
ticing in Kentucky; married, April 26, 191 3,
at Meadow Plantation, Tennessee, Agnes
Meek. 6. Hannah Elizabeth, born September
20, 1889; graduate of Kent's Hill Academy;
teacher at Sheridan, Maine. 7. Lyman Stan
ley, born October 20, 1891 ; lives with his par
ents. (The McQuarrie Line).
(I) Alexander McQuarrie was either born
in Nova Scotia or came to that place from
Scotland. He was born about 1780, died in
Debec Junction, New Brunswick, in i860. He
was a carpenter by trade, and lived in PIoul-
ton for many years. In religion he was a
Presbyterian. He married Catherine Dunbar,
born in Scotland in 1782, died at Houlton in
1862. Children, born in Nova Scotia: 1.
James, died in Pennsylvania, farmer ; mar
ried Mary Kirkpatrick, of Debec Junction,
New Brunswick; children: Jacquest, Neil,
Ida, Sarah, married  Frazier. 2. Alex
ander, mentioned below. 3. John, died at
Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1907, farmer;
married Agnes Wood, of Frederickston, New
Brunswick, daughter of Dr. Wood; children:
Margaret, married Charles Bull, lives on farm

at Southampton, New Brunswick; James, de
ceased ; Joseph, lives in Pennsylvania ; Fannie,
married Henry Ingram; Mary, married Ed
ward Goding; John, deceased; Abner, bridge
engineer; Fred, lives in Pennsylvania; Eliza
beth. 4. Hugh, died at Hodgdon, farmer. 5.
Neil, died in California, unmarried; a miner,
a "forty-niner." 6. William, died in Pennsyl
vania, unmarried. 7. Nancy, deceased. 8.
Eliza, died in Boston, unmarried.
(II) Alexander (2) McQuarrie, son of
Alexander (1) McQuarrie, was born in Picture
Town, Nova Scotia, in 1808, died at Debec
Junction, New Brunswick, in April, 1889. He
was a carpenter, and moved from Picture
Town to Woodstock, New Brunswick, and in
1840 settled in Debec Junction, then called
South Richmond, where he purchased a farm.
He was an elder of the Presbyterian church,
and was an Orangeman. He married Chris
tina McPhee, born in Picture Town in 1818,
died at Debec Junction, September, 1889. Chil
dren, born at Picture Town: 1. John, born
1834; married Ellen O'Brien, of Debec, where
he was a farmer; children: John, of St. John,
New Brunswick, and Nellie. 2. Amy, born
1836, died at Oak Mountain, New Brunswick,
in 1903; married Andrew Kerr, of Oak Moun
tain, farmer ; children : Alexander, Robert,
Howard, Joseph, Henry, Mary. 3. Duncan,
born 1838, died unmarried when a young man,
killed by a falling tree near Debec. 4. Cath
erine, born May 24, 1840; married Allen Mc
Quarrie, of Nova Scotia, not related ; she died
at Garfield, Maine, in 1898; he died in 1897;
children : Charles, of Ashland, a merchant ;
Edwina, married Whitfield Hallett, postmaster
of Ashland; Frank, lives in Vancouver. 5.
Mary, born October 25, 1850; married Charles
Frederick Clayton (see Clayton III). 6. Eliza,
born 1852, at Debec, died 1880, unmarried. 7.
Edwina, born 1854, died aged sixteen. 8.
Alexander, born 1856; married Clara Steward,
of Vanceboro, Maine ; a railroad engineer for
twenty-one years ; children : Mildred Glenroy,
trained nurse, and Cassie, school teacher.

John M. Ward, son of Josiah
WARD Ward, grandson of Daniel Ward,
was born in Limestone, Maine,
February 17, 1865. He attended the public
schools of his native town. He assisted his
father on the homestead, and after his father
died in 1884 he and his brother came into pos
session of their father's place. John M. Ward
sold his interests to his brother in 1888 and
bought a farm in Limestone. This farm of
one hundred and seventy acres, of which all
is under cultivation except about forty acres,
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a Republican. He is one of the selectmen of
the town and he has held that office eight years.
He has served also on the school board and
is road commissioner at the present time. In
1891 he went into the manufactory of starch
and has continued in this industry up to the
present time. He attends the Advent church.
He is a member of Limestone Grange, No.
272, of which he has been master, and of Pio
neer Lodge, No. yy, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Fort Fairfield.
He married, March 25, 1887, at Fort Fair
field, Alice A. Willey, of Limestone, born at
Colebrook, New Hampshire, April 29, 1865.
Her parents moved to Limestone when she
was fourteen years old and she completed her
schooling there. She afterward taught school
for four terms in Limestone. She is a mem
ber of the Advent church, and of Limestone
Grange (see Willey). Children: 1. Elmer E.,
born June 16, 1888, died December 17, 1894.
2. Benjamin H., born May 16, 1890; a farmer,
Limestone ; married Gladys Cox, of New York
City, November 9, 1912, and has one child,
Althea, born at Limestone, September 1, 191 3.
3. Mabel, born June 17, 1891, died May 9,
191 1. 4. Eva M., born September 9, 1892;
married, August 31, 1913, Glen Cheney, of
Limestone, an electrician, now of Washburn,
Maine. 5. James B., born July 17, 1893, died
December 16, 1907. 6. Sadie, born September
19, 1895 ; a junior in the Limestone high-
school ; member of the Grange. 7. Beecher,
born November 9, 1897. 8. Herman, born
January I, 1900. (The Willey Line).
Isaac Willey was born in Bristol, New
Hampshire, September 13, 1819, died in Lime
stone, Maine, November, 1898. His father
died when he was a small boy. Isaac Willey
was a farmer in Colebrook, New Hampshire,
until 1874, when he moved to Limestone,
where he resided the remainder of his life, as
a farmer. In politics he was a Republican, and
he served as a member of the school board in
Colebrook. He married (first) Sarah Holden,
born July 7, 1812, died in Stewartstown, New
Hampshire, March 23, 1862. He married
(second) Sarah Jane Forest, born in Stewarts-
town, November 25, 1840, died in Limestone,
February 17, 1896. She was a member of the
Advent church and of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. Children of first wife:
1. Sarah Jane, born August 24, 1841 ; married
William Angier, farmer. 2. Alfred D., born
September 18, 1842, died young. 3. Charles
A., born September 11, 1844, died April 16,
1893 ; married Sophenia Hardy. 4. Ezekiel,
born September 7, 1846, died October 22,
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1863. 5. Francena, born September 12, 1848;
married Hiram Paul, veteran of civil war,
farmer, lives in North Carolina. 6. John, born
July 19, 1850; married (first) Ellen Forest,
(second) Sarah Doughty; lives in Limestone.
7. Frank, born May 31, 1852; married (first)
Evaline Howe, of Kittyville, New Plampshire,
married (second)  ; lives in Vermont.
8. Edwin, born June 15, 1855; married Susie
MacDougal, of Caswell, Maine; they live in
Limestone. Children of second wife: 1. Ar-
delia, born in Colebrook, May 24, 1863; mar
ried William Ward, brother of John M. Ward ;
children : Marcia, married F. 0. Simonson, of
Limestone; Bessie, married R. Levitt, of Etna,
Maine, farmer ; Jesse, farmer in Limestone,
married Mabel Hamilton ; William, Emery,
Preston, Homer and Evaline, living with par
ents. 2. Alice A., born April 29, 1865 ; mar
ried John M. Ward (see Ward). 3. Isabelle,
born June 22, 1867, died at Colebrook, April
30, 1869. 4. Hattie, born March 27, 1869;
married Edward Bolstridge, of Limestone,
farmer; children: Bertha, Bessie, Sadie, Lizzie,
Clarence, living with parents. 5. Arthur, born
January 10, 1871 ; married Gertrude Blais-
dell, of Fort Fairfield, Maine ; they live on
farm in Limestone ; child, Jasper, living with
parents. 6. George, born June 26, 1873; mar
ried Dora Turner, of Fort Fairfield ; they live
on farm in Limestone ; children : Lula, Turner,
Mildred, living with parents. 7. Isabelle, born
May 5, 1875 ! married John Griffeth, of Lime
stone, farmer ; children : Ellen and Vesta, liv
ing with parents. 8. Isaac E., born February
20, 1877 ; married Jennie Frazier, of Caswell,
Maine ; a farmer in Portland, Maine ; no chil
dren. 9. Everett, born in Limestone, March
18, 1879, died July 3, 1882. 10. Kate E., born
May 8, 1881 ; married Clarence Bennett, of
Fort Fairfield, farmer ; children : Roy, Harold,
Mabel.

John Gallagher, son of
GALLAGHER the immigrant ancestor,
was born in New Bruns
wick in 1819, died in Limestone, Maine, 1899.
He came to this country when a young man,
settled in Caribou, Maine, and followed farm
ing. His parents also came to America in the
early part of the nineteenth century. He
served in the civil war in the First Maine Cav
alry. He was a member of Caribou Post,
Grand Army of the Republic. He married
Susan McNeal, born in New Brunswick, died
there in 1883. Children: 1. Joseph, served in
the civil war, was wounded, died of fever. 2.
Michael, died at Caribou ; married Jane Dem-
erchant, sister of Louisa S. Demerchant ; chil
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bou; Johanna, deceased, married Charles
Baird, farmer, selectman of Caribou ; Zilpha,
married Frank McNeal, farmer, Caribou ; Su
sie, married William McNeal, farmer, Cari
bou; Evelyn, married Lenwood Rideout, mer
chant, Robbinston, Maine ; William, deceased ;
Wilford, clerk in a drug store, Caribou ; Don
ald, deceased. 3. James W., mentioned be
low. 4. Frank, farmer, Caribou; married Ma
ria Woodward, of Fort Fairfield; children:
Joseph A., of Houlton; Charles, deceased;
Newman, deceased; Lillian; Pearl; Fern. 5.
Margaret, married John McLaughlin, farmer,
of Caribou ; children : John, farmer, of Cari
bou ; Ellsworth, farmer, Fort Fairfield ; James,
deceased ; Julia L., principal of school, Cari
bou ; Rosanna, school teacher, Caribou.
(II) James W. Gallagher, son of John Gal
lagher, was born at Caribou, Maine, June 9,
1850, died at Limestone, Maine, September 3,
1892. He attended the public schools of his
native town. He followed farming all his
active life and owned the farm now in the pos
session of his sons. He married Louisa S.
Demerchant, born April 3, 1854; she is now
living at Limestone, and is a member of the
Methodist church of that town, and of the
Grange. Children of James W. Gallagher :
1. George R., born 1873 '> a farmer in Lime
stone; married Martha Doody; children:
Elva, born June 10, 1895; Mary Idella, No
vember 24, 1897; James Edward, July 19,
1 901 ; Laura Louise, October 3, 1906; George
W, October 26, 1909; Marjorie B., Sep
tember 8, 191 1. 2. Joseph A., born 1875;
farmer, of Limestone ; member of the Grange
there; married Hilda Belyea; children: Glen,
born 1907; Ernest, 1908; Grant, 1910. 3.
Margaret R., born July 25, 1877; member of
the Grange at Caribou; married James R.
Wright, now of Limestone, a farmer; chil
dren: Delmar, died in 1913; Clifford Wright,
born 1906; Lillian Wright, 1908; Atwood
Wright, 1911; Arnold, 1913. 4. James H,
born January 9, 1880; a farmer in Lime
stone ; member of the Grange and the Modern
Woodmen of America; married Mabel V.
Brown, of Limestone ; children : Violet, born
1907; Jasper, 1910; Woodrow AVilson, 1912.
5. John S., born April 4, 1882; a farmer in
Limestone ; Democrat in politics ; married
Minnie Hamilton, of Caribou ; children : Char
lotte, born 1910; William, 1912. 6. Norman
Ivan, mentioned below. 7. Chester Ray, born
July 21, 1887; in partnership with Norman
Ivan Gallagher, mentioned below, member of
the Grange, of which he was secretary one
year, member of the Modern Woodmen of
America; married, February 23, 1907, in Lime

stone, Laura C. Richardson, born at Hart
land, New Brunswick, April 10, 1888; chil
dren: Wendell, born November 26, 1910;
Lenwood, July 21, 191 1. 8. William Wal
lace, born June 3, 1890; educated in the Lime
stone public schools, the Caribou High School
and the Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill,
from which he graduated in 1909; teacher at
Caribou ; attended Shaw's Business College,
Portland ; teacher in Caribou High School and
in Niagara, New York; graduate of Bowling
Green University, Kentucky, 1912, B. C. S.;
now teaching in the High School of Com
merce, Springfield, Massachusetts ; member of
the Grange and of the Modern Woodmen of
America. George Demerchant, father of Mrs. Galla
gher, was born in New Brunswick, December
28, 1818, died at Limestone, October 19, 1905.
He was a pioneer in Limestone, where he
cleared a farm, now owned by Norman Ivan
and Chester R. Gallagher. He served in the
militia when a young man. He married Zil
pha Anderson, born in Miramichi, New
Brunswick, August 15, 1820, died in Washing
ton, February 11, 1892. She was a devout
church member. Children of George and Zil
pha Demerchant: 1. Jane, born 1851; mar
ried Michael Gallagher, mentioned above. 2.
Louisa S., married James W. Gallagher, men
tioned above. 3. Rosanna, born 1856; mar
ried (first) Leslie Green, of Caribou, a
farmer ; (second) Alfred Tufty, a merchant,
now of Towasket, Washington; children:
Charles and Leonard. 4. John, born i860,
died at Spokane, Washington, September 20,
1913; dealer in coal, wood and ice; married
Jennie Donnelly, of Andover, New Bruns
wick, now of Spokane ; child, Wallace, who
succeeded his father in business. 5. Sanders,
twin of John, is a ranch owner and miner at
Loomis, Washington ; married Nellie Crane,
of New Brunswick; son, Lee, a student in the
University of the State of Washington. 6.
Harvey, died young. 7. Irene, married Pat
rick Somers, of Caribou, now of Limestone, a
farmer ; children : Nettie, born 1895, Earl, and
Alice. 8. Wilford, married Emeline McNeal,
of Caribou ; resides at Wanicut, AVashington,
a ranchman ; children : George, Leslie, Josie,
Kenneth, and a son, deceased.
(Ill) Norman Ivan Gallagher, son of James
W. Gallagher, was born at Limestone, Maine,
August 25,^ 1884. He attended the public
schools of his native town, the high schools of
Limestone and Caribou and the State Normal
School at Presque Isle, from which he was
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several terms in Caswell, Caribou and Lime
stone. After gra'duating, he was for one year
principal of the Presque Isle Grammar School
and for two years in Woodland, Maine. In
1908, in partnership with his brother, Chester
Ray Gallagher, he bought a farm in Lime
stone, five miles from Caribou, on the Noyes
road. It consists of one hundred acres of
cultivated land and forty-five acres of wood
land. In politics he is a Democrat. Pie has
been selectman of the town for three years and
is now a member of the school board. He is
a member of Limestone Grange, No. 272,
Patrons of Husbandry, and of Aroostook
Pomona Grange. Pie was secretary of the
Grange for four years. Pie is also a member
of the Modern Woodmen of America, of Cari
bou, and a former member of the Knights of
Good Templars. Pie married, December 14,
1910, at Limestone, Etta May (Ames) Savage,
widow of Enoch B. Savage, who was born in
Fort Fairfield, Maine, March 27, 1882, and
was educated in the Fort Fairfield schools.
She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Fort Fairfield, and of the Grange.
She is a teacher of music. Mr. and Mrs. Gal
lagher have two children : Mariel Alberta,
born June 27, 1912, at Limestone, and Irwin
Ames, born May 13, 1914.
William Ames, father of Mrs. Gallagher,
was born at Clinton, Maine, September 8,
i860. He is a farmer in Fort Fairfield, a Re
publican in politics, selectman and road com
missioner. He and his wife attend the Robie
Union Church. He married, in March, 1880,
in Fort Fairfield, Mary L. Spearin. Children
of William Ames : 1. Etta May, married Nor
man Ivan Gallagher, mentioned above. 2.
Edith Carrie, born April 1, 1883; married Jo
seph Emery, of New Brunswick, Centerville,
Carleton county, now a farmer at Fort Fair
field ; children : Mary, Carl, Plelen, Emery and
an infant. 3. Otis William, born November
10, 1884; married Lavinia Barnes, of Fort
Fairfield. 4. Hattie Ethel, born October 13,
1886. 5. Abner True, born December 11,
1888 ; married Susan M. Shea. 6. Henry Har
ris, born October 14, 1890; married Inez
Sloan, of Limestone. 7. Charles Lorin, born
November 21, 1892, unmarried. 8. Samuel
Horace, born December 19, 1895.
Otis Ames, father of William Ames, was
born in Benton, Maine, 1838, died at Fort
Fairfield, 1890. Pie was a farmer. He was
drafted in the civil war, but excused from
active service. He married Elvira True, born
in 1842, died at Clinton, October, 191 1. Wil
liam was their only, child.

Several families of the name
BENNETT of Bennett located in Strat
ford, Connecticut. The first
settler of the name was James Bennett, who
came from Concord, Massachusetts, with the
pioneers, and married, in 1644, Hannah
Wheeler, daughter of Thomas Wheeler, who
also came there from Concord. Their chil
dren were : Sarah, Hannah, James, Thomas,
John, Mary, Jane. Of this family there are
apparently many descendants in Fairfield
county, Connecticut.
(I) The immigrant ancestor of the family
described herein was born in England and
came to this country with a brother, leaving
another brother in his native land, who sub
sequently became an earl. He had a farm on
the Connecticut river near Stratford, and died
there in 1858. His widow went to Maine with
some of her children and died there. Children
of the immigrant: 1. Zera. 2. Abel, a farmer
and cattle buyer, died in Connecticut. 3.
Elisha, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, served in
the war of 1812. 5. Elijah. 6. Stephen, died
in Madison, Maine, a blacksmith. 7. Char
lotte. Five other daughters whose names are
not known to the family.
(II) Elisha Bennett, son of the immigrant,
was born near Stratford, Connecticut, July 27,
1789, died in Anson, Somerset county, Maine,
in April, 1877. He received his education in
the public schools of his native town. He fol
lowed the trade of blacksmith, which he
learned in his father's shop, until the time of
his marriage. He then removed, to Unity,
Maine, and later to Anson in that state. He
erected the first dam across the Kennebec
river at Madison. In politics he was originally
a Whig, finally a Republican. In religion he
was a Universalist. He was a Free Mason.
He married (first) Martha Loomis, born near
Boston, Massachusetts, died at Searsmont,
Maine. He married (second) Azubah Crowell,
born in Belgrade, Maine, January 12, 1800,
died in Anson, in April, 1899. She was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
The only child by his first wife died young.
Children by his second wife : 1. Samuel, born
at Searsmont, 1823; married Harriet Stephens,
of Stark; both died in Presque Isle; he died
there in 1906; children: Robert; Olive, mar
ried Ivory Kempton ; Mary, married George
Moody, a railroad man of Skowhegan ; Norris,
a carpenter, living near Los Angeles, Califor
nia; Persis, married Daniel Everett, a farmer,
and she resides in Woodland, Maine. 2. Mar
tha, born at Searsmont, 1825, died at Water
ville, Maine, 1842; married Ansel Shorev. a
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Helen, deceased. 3. Catherine, born at Sears
mont, 1827; married Benjamin Willis, of In
dustry, Maine; she died at Waverly, Iowa,
where he was a farmer ; children : Leone, mar
ried Alonzo Norton ; Albert, a retired farmer,
living at Waverly, Iowa ; Junietta, resides at
Waverly, unmarried ; Franklin, a farmer of
Waverly. 4. Harriet, born at Searsmont,
1829, died in Portland, Maine, 1895 ; married
Stephen Brewster, of Haverhill, Massachu
setts ; children : Charles, Frank, Estella, of
Providence, Rhode Island ; Rupel, also of
Providence. 5. Franklin, born 1831, died aged
two years. 6. Elsie, born at Anson, 1833, died
there; married Joshua Pelton, of Anson, a
farmer, who died in Dakota ; children : Flor
ence, lives in Providence ; Helen, lives in Da
kota ; Fred ; Everett, Leroy Pelton. 7. John
G., mentioned below. 8. Charles, born June
17, 1847, at Anson; married a Miss Seavey, of
Industry; he resides at Long Beach, Califor
nia, real estate dealer ; by his first wife he had
no children ; by second wife he had Hattie and
Elsie. (Ill) John G. Bennett, son of Elisha Ben
nett, was born September 9, 1840, at Stark,
Somerset county, Maine. His parents removed
to Anson, Maine, when he was two years old
and he attended the public schools there.
During his boyhood and afterward, until he
was twenty-seven years old, he assisted his
father on the farm, with exception of three
and a half years, during war time, passed in
California where he had various employments.
Then he bqught a farm at Presque Isle, then
called Maysville. After cultivating this place
for seven years he sold it. He bought another
farm in Easton, Maine, and also sold that
after living on it for a period of seven years.
He next bought a farm at Fort Fairfield. In
1891 he again sold out and bought another
farm at Presque Isle. After cultivating it
for eight years, he sold it in 1909 and since
then he has lived in the village of Presque
Isle. In politics he is a Republican. For
two years he was selectman of Easton. He
was road commissioner in Easton and Fort
Fairfield and also school agent in Fort Fair
field. In religion he is a Baptist. He was
formerly a member of Pioneer Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Fort Fair
field, and of Aroostook Union Grange, No.
143, Patrons of Husbandry, of South Presque
Isle. He married, March 3, 1867, at Presque Isle,
Murilla T. Hayden, born there, April 14, 1847,
died there November 8, 1901. She attended
the Free Will Baptist church and was a mem
ber of the Grange. Children of John G. Ben
nett: 1. Arthur Milton, mentioned below. 2.

Dr. Freeman E., born at Presque Isle, Janu
ary 17, 1 87 1 ; married Ella Call; he is a grad
uate of Bowdoin (M. D.) and is practicing
medicine at Presque Isle. 3. Josephine, born
at Presque Isle, January 14, 1873 ; married
Benjamin Good, of Fort Fairfield, a farmer;
child, Loomis Good. 4. Sarah, born at Presque
Isle, February 17, 1875 ; married Ralph
Sprague, of Presque Isle, clerk in A. M.
Smith's hardware store in Presque Isle; child,
Clara Sprague. 5. Fred, born November 1,
1881, at Easton; died at Presque Isle, March
19, 1909 ; was a farmer ; married Eunice
Brown, of Presque Isle, where they resided;
children : Glen, Louisa ; she married (second)
Jeremiah Watson, of Presque Isle, a farmer.
6. Rose, born October 20, 1891, at Fort Fair
field ; married Frank Griffin, of the state of
Georgia, brakeman on the Bangor & Aroos
took railroad ; child, Helen Griffin.
Freeman Hayden, father of Mrs. Bennett,
was born at Madison, Maine, in 181 1, died at
Presque Isle, in 1888. He came to Presque
Isle after he married and was a pioneer there.
He was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. In politics he was originally a Whig,
later a Republican. He married Sarah Ord-
way, born in Maine in 1807, died at Presque
Isle in 1892. Children of Freeman and Sarah
Hayden.: 1. Granville Hayden, born 1838, at
Corinna, Maine, died at Presque Isle, was
killed in 1874 while sheriff at the Chapman
Plantation by one Cullen whom he had
arrested; married Irene Rowes, of Presque
Isle. 2. Cyrus Hayden, born 1840, at Corinna,
died at Presque Isle in 191 1 ; a farmer, unmar
ried. 3. Luman, born 1842. at Corinna, died at
Presque Isle, 1903 ; was a farmer ; married
Augusta Seeley, of New Brunswick. 4. Mu
rilla T. Hayden, married John G. Bennett,
mentioned above.
^ (IV) Arthur Milton Bennett, son of John
G. Bennett, was born at Presque Isle, Maine,
January 31, 1869. When he was seven years
old his parents moved to Easton and to Fort
Fairfield when he was thirteen. He attended
the public schools in both these towns. During
his boyhood he worked on his father's farm
and continued until he came of age. For two
years afterward he was employed on the farm
of his uncle, E. L. Hayden. Afterward he
worked for various farmers, in the woods and
on a hay press. In 1895 he bought a farm of
one hundred and twelve acres in Mapleton.
After two years he sold this property and
entered the employ of the Merrill-Atwood
Company, ice dealers, of Wakefield, Massa
chusetts. He continued in this position for
ten years and a half. Afterward for six
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Company, Massachusetts, and for a short time
in the employ of the Boston Ice Company at
Charlestown. He then carried on a farm
•owned by his brother, F. E. Bennett, and
located on the Easton road, three miles from
the village of Presque Isle. He finally
bought the farm which he is now cultivating
on the Washburn road about four miles from
the village of Presque Isle. He has one hun
dred and twenty acres, of which eighty are
in cultivation. In religion he is a Baptist; in
politics a Republican. He married, in Presque
Isle, October 15, 1896, Lucy Higgins. She
was an adopted child. She was born Lucy
Dyer, at Spragueville, Maine, January 26,
1873, and educated in the Mapleton schools.
She attends the Free Will Baptist church.
Her own father, John Dyer, was born at Flor
enceville, New Brunswick, 1848, died at
Calais, Maine, May 30, 1903. He followed
the trade of barber at Milltown, a suburb of
Calais. In politics Mr. Dyer was a Repub
lican. He enlisted in a Maine regiment in the
civil war in 1863 and served to the end of the
war, taking part in the battle of Gettysburg
and in other engagements. Mr. Dyer married
Sophia Hersey, born in New Brunswick, 1845,
died at Presque Isle, 1879. She was a devout
Christian. Children of John Dyer : Eliza
beth, born in 1865, died aged fourteen years.
2. Leverett, born 1867 ; married Edna Webb,
of Lakewood, Maine ; he died there in 1912
and she resides there ; children : Ona and two
others. 3. Frank, born 1869, drowned in 1881 ;
was a recruiting officer of the United States
army. 4. Burt, born 1871 ; married Addie
McGeary, of Island Falls ; foreman on the
railroad, resides at Milo, Maine ; children :
Lloyd, Vera, Abbie. 5. Lucy, married Arthur
Milton Bennett, mentioned above. 6. Millard,
born 1875 ; resides at Robinson's Mills, Maine.
Charles Higgins, the foster father of Lucy
Dyer, was a farmer in Mapleton ; he married
Ruth Davis. Lucy was left an orphan by the
death of her mother when she was six years
old.

James Hone was born in England,
PIONE died in county Donegal, Ireland.
He was a farmer. He married
- Henderson, who died in county Done

gal, Ireland, where the children were all born.
Children: 1. John, died unmarried when a
young man. 2. George, died in Littleton,
Maine ; farmer ; unmarried ; lived with brother
Andrew. 3. Andrew, died in Littleton ; mar
ried Belle Mackay, of Ireland. 4. Robert, died
in Littleton, unmarried. 5. Thomas, men
tioned below.
(II) Thomas Hone, son of James Hone,

was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1829,
died in Littleton, Maine, in 1901. He was
about eighteen years of age when he came to
this country. He settled in Houlton, Maine,
where he was a blacksmith. After a time he
moved to New Limerick, Maine, where he
built a log cabin, and he finally settled in Little
ton, where he purchased a farm. He was a
member of the Episcopal church. He married
Elizabeth Meldrim, born in county Donegal,
Ireland, in 1834, died in 1891. She was also
a member of the Episcopal church. Children:
1. Sarah Jane, born January, 1855, in New
Limerick ; married George Henry McBride, of
New Brunswick, Canada, and they live at
Presque Isle. 2. Robert E., born at New
Limerick, February 3, 1856; married Sarah
Noyes, of Smyrna, Maine; they live at Little
ton. 3. David Andrew, mentioned below. 4.
John J., born in Littleton, March, 1861 ; mar
ried Lucy Brown, of Presque Isle, where they
live. 5. Catherine, born December, 1864, in
Littleton; married William H. Gray, of Houl
ton, Maine, where they live.
(Ill) David Andrew Hone, son of Thomas
Hone, was born at Littleton, Maine, July 11,
1859. He attended the public schools until
he was eighteen years old, and assisted his
father on the farm. In 1886 he left home and
in partnership with his brother, John J. Hone,
established a grocery store at Presque Isle,
Maine. After conducting this business for
eighteen years the brothers sold it to the pres
ent owner, Mr. McBride. In 1904, in com
pany with his cousin, Theodore H. McBride,
Mr. Hone made a western trip, visiting Den
ver, Leadville and other places in the Rocky
mountains. In 1905 he entered the employ of
W. H. Gray, hardware dealer and plumber, at
Houlton, where he remained until 1909, when
he left the store on account of ill health and
conducted the farm of his brother, Robert E.
Hone, in Littleton, for a year and a half. He
removed to Fort Fairfield, December 26, 1910,
and bought the theatre which he has since con
ducted there. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church, and a member of the Knights of
Pythias, a former member of the Odd Fellows
and Rebekah lodges. He served the town of
Littleton as highway surveyor. He married,
June 4, 1907, Catherine F. Churchill, born at
Presque Isle, June 8, 1873, graduate of the
Presque Isle high school, followed dressmaking
for seven years before her marriage. She is
also an Episcopalian. They have no children.
(The Churchill Line).
The history of the Churchill family dates
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name is derived from the town Courcil in Lor
raine, France. The surname has been spelled
Coucelle, Courcil, Curichell, Chercile, Churchil,
Churchall, Churchell and Churchill, the last
form being the one generally used. Eight gen
erations of the Churchill family have been
dukes of Marlborough. It is likely that the
American pioneers of the seventeenth century
were of this stock. All the New England
families are descended from John Churchill,
mentioned below.
(I) John Churchill, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England about 1620. Very little
is known of him. Pie appears first in Ameri
can records on the list of men able to bear
arms at Plymouth in 1643. He died at
Plymouth in 1662-63. He bought a farm of
Richard Higgins in Plymouth, August 18,
1645. He was admitted a freeman June 5,
1651. He bought of Nathaniel Masterson,
then of Manchester, Massachusets, ten acres
of upland at Wellingsley, in Plymouth, Octo
ber 20, 1652. His house was at Hobshole and
his homestead was on the east side from the
south line of the field opposite Jabez Corner
to a point thirty feet distant from the south
line of the estate of Branch Blackmer. He
became owner of much land. He made a
nuncupative will May 3, 1662, proved October
20, 1662. He married, December 18, 1644,
Hannah Pontus, daughter of William Pontus,
who was at Plymouth as early as 1633 ; she
was born in Holland or England in 1623. Wil
liam Pontus was one of the Pilgrims left be
hind with Rev. John Robinson; a fustian
worker by trade, from Dover, England ; mar
ried Wubra Hanson, December 4, 1610. Wil
liam Pontus had another daughter who mar
ried, October 31, 1645, James Glass. Mrs.
Hannah (Pontus) Churchill married (second)
June 25, 1669, Giles Rickard, as his third wife;
she died at Hobb's Hole, December 22, 1690,
in her sixty-seventh year. Her estate was dis
tributed, March 17, 1691. Children: Joseph,
born 1647; Hannah, November 12, 1649;
Eliezer, April 20, 1652; Mary, August 1, 1654;
William, mentioned below ; John, 1657.
(II) William Churchill, son of John
Churchill, was born in Plymouth in 1656, died
in Plympton, October 5, 1722. He inherited
lands in Plympton, then Punkatussett, a part
of old Plymouth, and was among the first set
tlers there. He and his wife were members
of the Plyrnouth church. He married, in
Plymouth, January 17, 1683, Lydia Bryant,
daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Shaw)
Bryant, and she died February 6, 1736, in her
seventy-fourth year. Children, born in Plymp
ton : William, born August 2, 1685 ; Samuel,
April 15, 1688; James, September 21, 1690;

Isaac, September 16, 1693; Benjamin, men
tioned below; Lydia, April 16, 1699; Josiah,
August 21, 1702; Mehitable.
(Ill) Benjamin Churchill, son of William
Churchill, was born in Plympton, Massachu
setts, in 1695, died December 6, 1771, accord
ing to his gravestone at Carver. Pie and
his wife lived in the north part of the town
of Plympton, in the house in which John
Bonney lived in 1849. It is said that Ben
jamin Churchill moved to the border of
Middleboro, near "Pope's Point Furnace" in
Carver. Mr. Bradford, the town clerk of
Plympton, wrote in a letter that the family
lived much nearer the Carver church than the
Plympton church, and that they attended the
Carver church. Benjamin Churchill married,
December 15, 171 7, Mary Shaw. Children:
Mary, born April 17, 1720; Perez, October 15,
1722, in Middleboro; Elizabeth, April 15,
1725; James, December 30, 1726; Benjamin,
mentioned below ; Susannah, April 2, 1733.
(IV) Benjamin (2) Churchill, son of Ben
jamin (1) Churchill, was born January 3,
1728, and lived in Middleboro until 1801, when
he moved to Plartford, Maine, where he settled
with his son Jabez. He married Thankful
Wood. Children: Jabez, James, William,
mentioned below ; Joseph, Nelson, Dinah.
(V) William (2) Churchill, son of Benja
min (2) Churchill, was born in Middleboro in
1755. He served in the revolutionary war, in
Captain Calvin Partridge's company, Lieu
tenant-Colonel Samuel Pierce's regiment;
marched May 21, 1779, and was stationed at
Little Compton, Rhode Island. Some time
before 1784 he settled in Buckfield, Maine,
and about 1796 or 1797 he moved to Wayne,
Maine. According to one of his grandsons
he drew a pension for his service in the war.
He married, in Middleboro, Lydia Maxim.
Children, four born in Buckfield, two in
Wayne: Lydia, born December 13, 1784;
Mary, June 1, 1788; Benjamin, July 22, 1791 ;
William, mentioned below ; Hepsibah, died un
married ^Nathan, born March 23, 1807.
(VI) William (3) Churchill, son of Wil
liam (2) Churchill, was born in Buckfield,
Maine, August 5, 1796. For many years he
was a mariner, returning to his home in Wayne
between voyages, but he was always of a rov
ing and adventurous nature. He related some
extraordinary tales of adventures at sea; at
one time when the ship was wrecked he and
a companion swam to a wild shore, were cap
tured by natives and made slaves, but after a
time managed to escape and make their return
home. After retiring from the sea he lived at
Wayne, and was drowned in Wayne pond,
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wild ducks which had lighted in an open place.
Pie almost managed to crawl to shore, but
gave out before reaching safety, in view of
three of his children, who were unable to help
him. He was a large man and noted for his
strength. He married, in Wayne, intentions
published May 24, 1816, Phebe Maxim, of
Wayne. She was born August 5, 1795. Chil
dren, born in Wayne : Florinda W., born Oc
tober 8, 1817; Thomas Wilson, mentioned be
low; Lewis, March 2, 1823; William, May 1,
1825; Jemima, July 6, i827;.Lydia, April 16,
1829; Emily, April 27, 1830, died March,
1833 ; Emily A., March 19, 1833.
(VII) Thomas Wilson Churchill, son of
William (3) Churchill, was born in Wayne,
Maine, June 28, 1821, died January 1, 1900.
He lived in Wayne until after 1842, when he
moved to Presque Isle, Maine, where he re
sided the remainder of his life. He was a
farmer and prominent in town affairs. He
attended the public schools in Gardiner. In
politics he was a Republican and he served as
a member of the school board. He attended
the Baptist church, of which he was a member.
He married (first) at Presque Isle, 1849,
Sarah Ireland, daughter of Silas and Celia
(Chubbuck) Ireland. She was born in Calais,
Maine, about 1828, died at Presque Isle in
1876. He married (second) Mrs. Elizabeth
Frost. Children by first wife, born in Presque
Isle: 1. Emily, born December 28, 1849; mar
ried Sylvanus S. Richardson, and they have :
Ida M., Olive and Lucille M. 2. William, born
1851, died January 13, 1852. 3. Annette, born
1853, died July, 1879; married, 1887, Daniel
Chase. 4. Frank, born 1855; married Maria
Frost, deceased. 5. Floraman, born 1857;
married Elsie Clark, of Peacham, Vermont,
where they live. 6. Nellie, born January 16,
1859; married Darius McGuire, of Presque
Isle. 7. Alma, born May 9, 1861, died Sep
tember, 1870. 8. Hattie, born March 26, 1863 ;
married George W. Thompson, of Mapleton,
and they have Flora. 9. Albert, born May,
1865, died January 19, 1887, at Richmond,
Maine. 10. Elmer, born March, 1872; mar
ried (first) Mabel Brown, of Easton, Maine,
and she had Albert and Harold; married (sec
ond) Annie Wilson, of Presque Isle, where
they live. 11. Catherine F., born June 8, 1873,
married David Andrew Hone (see Hone III).

The surname Lear, according to
LEAR "Patronymica Britannica," was not
derived from the personal Lear,
celebrated in Shakespeare and in history, but
from Lire, an arrondisement of Evreux in
Normandy. "Mr. Ferguson thinks the name
was originally from Hler (Hleer), one of the

names of Neptune, of northern mythology."
In "Burke's General Armory" we find the
coat-of-arms of the family. That of the Lears
of Lindringe, county Devon, was borne by Sir
John Lear. The baronetage is extinct. His
daughter Mary, an only child, married Sir
Thomas Tipping, baronet. The arms are de
scribed: Azure a fesse raguly between three
unicorns' heads erased or. A similar armorial
was borne by the Lears of London : Azure a
fesse double embattled between three unicorns'
heads erased or. Crest: Two hands issuing
from clouds grasping the trunk of an oak tree
proper. There is no doubt that the London
land Devon families were of the same stock.
There are two branches- of the family in Amer
ica. One pioneer located in New Hampshire
and had descendants at Portsmouth and Rye,
New Hampshire. From this family sprang
Tobias Lear, who was secretary of Washing
ton. The other family is described below.
(I) Colonel John Lear, founder of the Vir
ginia family, was born in England, either in
London or Devonshire. The will of Mary
Robinson (printed in the "Virginia Maga
zine," vol. 16, p. 194), dated February 13,
1617-18, in London, bequeaths to John Lear
and other children of her "Sister Leare." She
was widow of John Robinson, chief searcher
of customs at London, daughter of William
Ramsey, of London. She also left a bequest
to build a church in Virginia. She married
(first) John Wanton, who died August, 1592.
This record indicates that John Lear, of Vir
ginia, was related to John Lear, mentioned in
this will, but it is highly probably that the Lon
don and Devonshire families were of the same
stock. Colonel John Lear patented land in
Elizabeth City county, Virginia, in 1691, in
right of his wife Rebecca, said land formerly
belonging to Colonel Leonard Yeo, who was
a burgess in 1644-45, 1663-66. Both Yeo and
Lear are Devonshire names (see "William and
Mary College Quarterly," vol. vii, p. 309, and
vol. ix, p. 124). This land was near Old Point
Comfort. Colonel John Lear came to Vir
ginia about 1650, and settled in Nansemond
county. As early as 1666 he was captain,
according to the colony records, and was a
member of the assembly. He was appointed
to the king's council in 1683 and served until
1687, and probably until he died. He married
four times. The name of his first wife is not
known ; married before 1678. He married
(second) after 1678, Ann, widow of Colonel
John George, of Isle of Wight county. He
married (third) after 1688, Rebecca, widow
of Colonel Charles Moyson and Colonel Leon
ard Yeo, of Elizabeth City county. He mar
ried (fourth) Ann Willis, of Ipswich, Massa-

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chusetts, widow of Seth Sothell, governor of
North Carolina, and she died in 1695. Vari
ous cases in which he was a litigant are pre
served in the court records. He died June 27,
1696. His will is preserved at the Henrico
county court house (see copy in "Virginia
Magazine," vol. 20, pp. 5 and 122), dated No
vember 21, 1695. He bequeaths to sister,
Widow Pitt, and sister, Widow Perdue ; to
daughter, Martha Burwell, and to Elizabeth,
widow of deceased son Thomas ; to grand
daughter, Elizabeth Lear, and grandson, John
Lear ; grandchildren, Elizabeth and Martha,
children of son Thomas. The will was proved
December 12, 1696. Children by first wife :
Thomas, mentioned below ; Martha, married
(first) Colonel William Cole, and (second)
Major Lewis Burwell, member of the council.
(II) Thomas Lear, only son of Colonel John
Lear, was born before 1678, perhaps as early
as 1650 or 1660. He died before his father.
He represented Nansemond county in the
house of burgesses in 1685-88, and doubtless
in other years. He married Elizabeth Bridges,
daughter of Colonel Joseph Bridges, of Isle of
Wight county. He was also in the council.
Children, mentioned in the will of Colonel
John Lear : Thomas, of whom nothing further
is known ; John, mentioned below ; Elizabeth,
and Martha.
(Ill) John Lear, son of Thomas Lear, was
born before 1695. He was residuary legatee
of his grandfather and the only surviving
male, hence all the Lears of Virginia trace
their ancestry through him. Before 1712 he
married Elizabeth Haveild. He was sheriff in
1723; member of the house of burgesses from
Nansemond county, 1720-22. He was in the
grammar school in 1705, in his third year, and
made an affidavit relating to the ancient cus
tom of "barring out the masters."
(IV) John Lear, son of John Lear, was the
only head of family of this surname in Vir
ginia in the census of 1783 and 1786. He was
then of Shenandoah county, and had five in his
family in both census reports.
(V) John Lear, son of John Lear, was born
about 1770-75, in Virginia, and must have been
living in Shenandoah county in 1783-86-. Ac
cording to tradition his wife, Alice Doggett,
was born in Lancaster county, near Kilmar
nock, and was reared at Carter's Creek. After
the death of her father she made her home
with her guardian in Fredericksburg, Virginia,
where she was married. Lear is known to
have been a great traveler. Physically and
mentally he was a strong man. He finally set
tled at Fredericksburg and became a merchant
there. He was well educated and spoke sev
eral languages and often acted as interpreter

for foreign visitors. Among his children was
Joseph, mentioned below.
(VI) Rev. Joseph Lear, son of John Lear,
was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Febru
ary 10, 1810, and died in Petersburg, Virginia,
April 9, 1889. In 1833 he was licensed to
preach, and in 1834 joined the Methodist Epis
copal Conference of Virginia, remaining a
member of that body to the end of his life. He
was largely self-educated, but was a scholar of
no mean attainments, having mastered Hebrew
as well as Greek -and Latin. He married Susan
Wilkinson, of New Kent county, Virginia, a
daughter of Major W. C. and Ann (Christian)
Wilkinson. (VII) Rev. William Wilkinson Lear, son of
Joseph Lear, was born December 5, 1844, in
New Kent county. He attended several private
schools, and in 1861 entered Randolph-Macon
College at Boydton, Virginia. During the civil
war he left college to enlist, joining the Rich
mond Howitzers, July 19, 1863, and served to
the end of the war. He was paroled by Gen
eral Grant at Appomattox, April, 1865, and
resumed his studies at Randolph-Macon Col
lege, which had been removed to Ashland,
Virginia. He joined the Methodist Confer
ence of Virginia in November, 1875, and is
now (1914) preaching at Bedford City, Vir
ginia. He married May Nolley, who was born
at Ashland, Virginia, February 7, 1851, daugh
ter of George W. and Emily (Crenshaw)
Nolley, November 10, 1876. Children: Joseph
Merritt, born at Petersburg, Virginia, July 17,
1877; John Emery, mentioned below; Grace
Nolley, born in Dinwiddie county, April 5,
1882 ; William Emma, born at Ashland, No
vember 16, 1884.
( VIII) John Emery Lear, son of Rev. Wil
liam Wilkinson Lear, was born at Petersburg,
Virginia, July 17, 1879. He attended the pub
lic schools of his native town and fitted for
college at Nolley's private school at Richmond,
Virginia, where he was a student for four
years. He entered the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, from which he was graduated in
1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Science,
afterward taking a special course at Cornell
University. He began his business career in
the employ of the General Electric Company
at Lynn, Massachusetts, remaining until 1905,
and becoming assistant designing engineer.
Thence he went to Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College as graduate student and
instructor, and in 1909 received the degree of
Electrical Engineer. He remained at this insti
tution until June 13, 1913, as associate pro
fessor of electrical engineering, resigning to
become professor of electrical engineering in
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In politics he is a Democrat. He is an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal church;
a member of Brazos-Union Lodge, No. 129,
Free Masons, of Bryan, Texas. He is an asso
ciate member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers.
He married, June 30, 1906, Aldana Crockett,
who was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 1, 1883, daughter of Aaron H. Crockett
(see Crockett). They have one child, Charles
Merritt, born November 21, 1907, at Char
lottesville, Virginia. (The Crockett Line).
Jonathan Crockett, descendant of Thomas
Crockett, was born in Portsmouth, August 2.
1717, and married there, April 26, 1739, Eliza
beth Rice. There was a Jonathan Crockett at
Durham in 1792.
(II) Daniel Crockett, believed to be son of
Jonathan, was born in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, and removed to. Windham, Maine.
He was a soldier in the revolution from Gor
ham, in Captain Hart Williams' company,
April 21, T775, and in Captain James John
son's company, Colonel Edmund Phinney's
regiment ; also a soldier from Windham. In
1790 the federal census reports him as head of
a family at Bucktown plantation, Cumberland
county. He married Molly Noyes. Among
their children was Morris C, mentioned be
low. (Ill) Morris C. Crockett, son of Daniel
Crockett, was born about 1770, in Windham,
Maine, or vicinity. He married Olive Hum
phrey. Among their children was Daniel H.,
mentioned below.
(IV) Daniel H. Crockett, son of Morris C.
Crockett, was born December 5, 1797. Much
of his minority was spent in the family of
Isaiah Willis, of Paris, Maine. He was a
soldier in the war of 1812, in Colonel Mc-
Cobb's regiment. He came to Woodstock,
Maine, with the early settlers and located in
the eastern part of the town. He soon moved
out and later lived for several years on Ham
lin Gore, now part of Woodstock. He was a
shoemaker by trade, and became a prominent
citizen. He was a school teacher for a time,
and for many years justice of the peace. He
married Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Bacon,
of Greenwood. Children: Helen, born April
25, 1822, married Fessenden Swan; Benjamin
B., November 26, 1824, married Lucy R. Wil
bur; Daniel M., September 29, 182 — , married
Harriet C. Vosmus; Cyprian, April 29, 1829;
Rev. Charles T. D., March 15, 1833, married
Clementine Bird ; Amos Y., June 25, 1835,
died young; Avice, March 22, 1837, married
Jonas W. Lane and lived in Gorham; Olive

R., March 25, 1839, married Daniel M. Goss ;
Harriet B., January 9, 1841, married David
T. Foster; Eveline E., July 11, 1842, died in
1862; Virgil D., March 6, 1845, died in 1849;
Aaron H., mentioned below.
(V) Aaron H. Crockett, son of Daniel H.
Crockett, was born at Woodstock, Maine, Sep
tember 4, 1849. He married Maria Harriet
Aldrich, of Paris, Maine. He died June 22,
1907, at Lynn, Massachusetts. Child : Aldana
Florence, born at Lynn, September 1, 1883,
married John Emery Lear (see Lear).

William Chadsey, the immi-
CHADSEY grant ancestor, was born in
Wales in 1692, and died in
1787. In 1716 he was in Newport, Rhode
Island, and soon after crossed the bay, pur
chasing a farm of about one hundred acres,
situated three miles north of Wickford. Here
he settled and remained the rest of his life.
He married, 1719, Susannah Greene, daugh
ter of Jabez Greene, and they lived together
for sixty-eight years, dying within three
months of each other in 1787. Children:
Jabez, mentioned below ; Mary ; Richard ; Jane ;
William ; Naomi ; Phebe ; John ; Elizabeth.
(II) Jabez Chadsey, son of William Chad
sey, was born in April, 1720, and died at the
age of one hundred years, lacking about three
months, buried in the family burying ground,
January 5, 1820. He married (first) about
1750, Honor Huling, daughter of Alexander
Hiding, and she died in 1772. He married
(second) Mary Carey, widow of John Carey,
whose first husband was Jeremiah Greene,
father of Jeremiah Greene Chadsey's (IV)
mother; she died in 1789. He married (third)
Martha Grieves, widow of Archibald Grieves,
and she died at the end of eleven years. Chil
dren, all by first wife: John, born December
16, 1751; Jabez, mentioned below; Tabitha,
June 20, 1756; Joseph, August 8, 1758; Eliza
beth, January 16, 1 761 ; Honor, September,
1763; Rowland, February, 1766; Sisket, Au
gust, 1768.
(Ill) Jabez (2) Chadsey, son of Jabez (1)
Chadsey, was born January 29, 1754. He
served in the revolution, in Sullivan's expedi
tion at Newport, and spent much time guard
ing the shores during the war ; his widow drew
a pension of fifty dollars a year for the last
eight years of her life as compensation for his
services. He married, in September, 1774,
Hannah Greene, daughter of Jeremiah Greene ;
she was born in 1760, and died in Wales, near
Buffalo, New York, in November, 1839. Chil
dren : Jeremiah Greene, born December 2,
1780, mentioned below; George, October 16,
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December 2, 1788; Elizabeth; Elisha Greene,
July 6, 1791 ; Joseph Fones, October, 1793 ;
Tamsin Brown, September 6, 1798; Sarah,
July 17, 1801.
(IV) Jeremiah Greene Chadsey, son of
Jabez (2) Chadsey, was born in North Kings
town, Rhode Island, December 2, 1780. He
was educated at Plainfield Academy, Connecti
cut ; was a teacher in the East Greenwich Acad
emy in 1805-06, and was principal of the War
wick Academy from 1807 to 181 1, when he
relinquished teaching and began his career in
business as a manufacturer of cotton yarn,
which at that time was made into cloth by
hand looms in the homes of the vicinity. He
was also a general merchant and at his store
the cloth was exchanged for goods. This busi
ness continued until 1842, his son Henry T.
Chadsey being in partnership with his father
from 1826 to 1837 and Alfred B. Chadsey,
another son, from 1837 to 1842, when the busi
ness was discontinued. Mr. Chadsey then pur
chased several tracts of land in and adjoining
the village of Wickford and followed farming
for many years and largely benefited his towns
men by giving new impulses to agriculture.
He was very fond of mathematics. Astronomy
was his favorite study and in 1807 he con
structed for his own gratification an entire
almanac, calculating the eclipses. He took a
keen interest in public affairs and served two
years in the Rhode Island Senate. He was a
member of the Baptist church from 1816 to
the time of his death in 1873. He married,
August 16, 1804, Avis Wightman, who was
born in North Kingstown, October 7, 1780,
daughter of George and Waity Wightman, and
granddaughter of Colonel George Wightman.
They were married by Elder William North-
rup. They lived together sixty-eight years and
nine months. Children : Euclid, born April
19, 1805, died October 19, 1864; Henry Turner,
October 24, 1806, died June 2, 1889 ; Emily
Greene, April 2, 1809, died March 28, 1868;
William, March 2, 181 1, died March 23, 181 1 ;
George Wightman, March 23, 1814, died June
4, 1814; Alfred Blair, September 13, 181 5, died
February 27, 1902; Frances Loring, June 17,
1817, died at Mt. Vernon, New York, in Feb
ruary, 1902, married Sheffield C. Reynolds ;
Maria Wightman, May 23, 1819, died August
27, 1853 ; Waity Wightman, June 3, 1822, died
same day.
(V) Henry Turner Chadsey, son of Jere
miah Greene Chadsey, was born October 24,
1806, on Main street, East Greenwich, Rhode
Island. He was educated in the public schools.
From 1826 to 1837 he was in partnership with
his father and afterward became one of the
best known auctioneers in that section of the

state. He was also an extensive dealer in farm
produce. Pie was a notary public and con
stable and at one time collector of the customs
at the port of Wickford. In politics he was a
prominent Republican. He was a member of
the Baptist church of Wickford, of which he
was the second secretary. He was correspond
ent of the Providence Journal, the Providence
Evening Bulletin and the East Greenwich Pen
dulum. He married, June 13, 1830, Almira Wight-
man, daughter of Captain John Wightman
(see Wightman). Children: John Wightman,
born April 2, 1831, died January 5, 1896;
Henry Theodore, June 21, 1833, died May 8,
i860; George Holmes W., June 18, 1836, died
February 15, 1903 ; Hester Ann, July 29, 1839 ;
Mary Catherine W., April 9, 1840, died March
30, 1842 ; Mary Catherine W, born March 12,
1842; Almira Artemesia, April 15, 1844; Jere
miah Greene, March 12, 1846; Nathan Bush-
nell, March 5, 1848, died January 23, 1905 ;
Frances Wayland, September 20, 1850, died in
New York City. Mrs. Chadsey died May 15,
1890. The following obituary was published
in a local newspaper at the time of her death :
Mrs. Almira W. Chadsey, widow of Henry T.
Chadsey, * * * was married in June, 1830, and
the house in which they began housekeeping they
occupied the rest of their lives and there all of their
children were born. Mrs. Chadsey was a person of
great excellence of life and character, and a devoted
wife and mother. The interests of her family were
uppermost in her mind, and while to all who came
in contact with her she was a kind and faithful
friend, it was in her own home that she was best
known and loved. Many years ago she made a
public profession of religion; the faith and hope
she then professed she kept to the end. Ten years
ago she was laid aside from active life by a shock
of paralysis, but always maintained her interests
in all matters, and bore her affliction with patience.
The sudden death of her husband nearly a year ago
was a shock to her, and doubtless hastened her
own departure. More and more, however, as her
strength failed, she found comfort in the reading
of her Bible and religious books. Her last illness
was brief, but though unable to speak, she could
recognize her children, and gave ample assurance
that her mind was at peace, and her trust was in
God. "Her children rise up and call her blessed."
(VI) John Wightman Chadsey, son of
Henry Turner Chadsey, was born in Wick
ford, April 2, 1 83 1, and there he attended the
public schools and learned the trade of jeweler.
For a time he worked as a clerk in Worcester,
Massachusetts, but in 1857 entered the employ
of Knowles & Sibly, woolen manufacturers at
Warren, Massachusetts, as bookkeeper. When
this firm began to manufacture steam pumps,
he became the business manager and remained
in this position until the time of his death. He
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Warren in 1867 and often served the town on
important committees, such as the building
committee for the high school, library and
other buildings. He was one of the founders
of the Warren Savings Bank. He was espe
cially active and interested in promoting the
public library. Besides large contributions to
the building fund, he furnished Library Hall
with various attractive appointments, such as
the clock in the reading room, racks, tables and
electric lights and he provided the janitor. Pie
was for many years president of the board of
directors and treasurer. He was president of
the Warren Building and Improvement Com
pany and a member of the Rural Improvement
Society, in which he took the keenest interest.
At one time he was president of the board of
trar1e. He was a member of the Congrega
tional church, was chairman of the parish com
mittee and for eighteen years superintendent
of the Sunday school, for which he provided a
primary room and all its furnishings. He re
modeled the church kitchen, and gave a parlor
organ and piano for use in the chapel. In poli
tics he was a Republican. He was chairman
of the Republican town committee and dele
gate to many state and other nominating con
ventions of his party. He was an honorary
member of the Worcester Continentals. He
was of a cheerful and happy disposition, im
bued with public spirit and civic pride, gener
ous in benevolence, an exceeding useful citi
zen. He married Ann Frances Henry, who
died April 22, 1905. Children: Edith W. ; and
Emma, who married Charles Moore and had
two children — Madeline and Stanley.
(VI) Henry Theodore Chadsey, brother of
John Wightman Chadsey, was born June 21,
1833', and died May 8, i860. He was a mem
ber of the firm of C. Foster & Company, hard
ware merchants of Worcester, Massachusetts.
He married Mary Emeline Nichols, who was
born February 17, 1833, died September 30,
1859. Children: William Nichols, born Octo
ber 12, 1854; Henry Raplee, born September
11, 1858, died December 25, 1897. After the
death of their parents, they lived at Wickford,
Rhode Island, and afterward with their uncle,
George Holmes W. Chadsey, in Providence.
(VII) William Nichols Chadsey, son of
Henry Theodore Chadsey, was born October
12, 1854. He received his education in the
public schools of Wickford and Providence
and learned the printer's trade in the office of
Hammond, Angell & Company of Providence.
He then engaged in business for four years at
Benton Harbor, Michigan, under the firm name
of the Pictorial Publishing Company. In 1897
he sold his business, returning to Providence,
where he entered into partnership with his

brother in the sewer contracting business. He
is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 39,
Free Masons; of Providence Chapter, No. 1,
Royal Arch Masons and Providence Council,
Royal and Select Masters, and of Providence
Aerie No. 90, Eagles. Pie married, May 22,
1877, Nellie Stone, who was born December 29,
1855. She died December 23, 1913. Children:
Nellie S., born March 1, 1880, died January 8,
1889; Charles Hutchinson, born May 30, 1894.
(VII) Henry Raplee Chadsey, brother of
William Nichols Chadsey, was born Septem
ber 11, 1858, and died December 25, 1897.
When a young man he was a bookkeeper and
afterward was a sewer contractor in Provi
dence and in partnership with George H. John
son of Riverside in the coal business. He was
a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 39, Free
Masons ; Providence Chapter, No. 6, Royal
Arch Masons, and St. John's Commandery,
Knights Templar. At one time he was a
member of the town council of East Provi
dence. He married, June 11, 1882, Sarah Jane
Willis. Children: William N., born June 1,
1884; Henry R., August 5, 1886. He married
(second) Elizabeth Hidden and had one child,
George Theodore.
(VIII) William N. Chadsey (2d), son of
Henry Raplee Chadsey, was born in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, June 1, 1884. He at
tended the public schools of Providence and
East Providence and the Friends' School of
Providence. Since October, 1901, he has been
with the Mechanics' National Bank of Provi
dence. He married, July 18, 1906, Mildred T.
Straight, daughter of Stephen R. Straight.
(VIII) Henry R. Chadsey, son of Henry
Raplee Chadsey, was born August 5, 1886, and
educated at Wickford and Greenwich acad
emies. He began his business career as clerk
in the Mechanics' National Bank of Provi
dence. Pie married, November 3, 1910, Fannie
Hazard Maglone, daughter of John Maglone,
of Belleville, Rhode Island.
(VI) George Holmes W. Chadsey, son of
Henry Turner Chadsey, was born June 18,
1836, and died February 15, 1903. He spent
his youth at Wickford. In 1857 he entered the
employ of Barker & Whitaker, afterward
Brown Brothers & Barker and Barker, Chad
sey & Company, hardware merchants, of which
he was a partner. He was a member of the
executive committee of Dr. Woodbury's church
in Providence. He was also a member of the
First Light Infantry Veteran Association and
vice-president of the Unitarian Club. He mar
ried Addie Maybury Cook, of Boston. She
died in 1878. Children: 1. Fannie Evans, born
January 18, 1867, married, October 15, 1890,
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born July 4, 1892; Adelaide Maybury Brown,
February 2-4, 1896, and Edward Cleveland
Brown, May 31, 1897. 2. Addie Maria, Feb
ruary 29, 1868. 3. Mary Edna, May 27, 1872,
died in April, 1873.
(VI) Hester Ann Chadsey, daughter of
Henry Turner Chadsey, was born July 29,
1839. She and her sisters still occupy the
homestead at 5 Fowler street, Wickford. They
are members of the First Baptist Church and
are ladies of refined taste and artistic tempera
ment. They possess many priceless heirlooms
that have been in the possession of the family
for generations. Their home is rich in an
tiques. The wall paper itself in the drawing
room dates back to 1831 and is in a state of
perfect preservation.

Joseph Hammond was born
HAMMOND in England, November 16,
1690, and died at North
Kingstown, Rhode Island, June 24, 1776. He
married, about 1715, Rachel Gardiner, who
was born March 25, 1696, and died February
7, 1756, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Gardiner. He was a tailor by trade. He had
a shop at Swansea at first, and then moved
with the Paines and others to North Kings
town, Rhode Island, in 1716 or 1717. There
he bought a part of the "Pettaquamscutt pur
chase," which later came to be known as
"Hammond's Hill," where he lived the rest of
his life. His son William inherited the place.
He also owned lands in Exeter, Rhode Island,
which he gave to his sons, Joseph and John,
and he also gave land to his daughters, Rachel
Hammond and Lucy Tisdale. Children : Jo
seph, born August 28, 1717, died May 5, 1792;
Thomas, 1719; John, October 28, 1722; Lucy,
August 28, 1725; Rachel, July 19, 1728; Ben
jamin, July, 1731, died March 24, 1749; Wil
liam, February 19, 1733, mentioned below.
(II) William Hammond, son of Joseph
Hammond, was born in North Kingstown,
Rhode Island, February 19, 1733, and died
there January 23, 1809. Pie married, May 8,
1755, Chloe Wilbur, who was born in Swansea,
February 7, 1733, and died at Newport, Rhode
Island, December 14, 1818, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Wilbur, of Swansea. Wil
liam Hammond was one of the most promi
nent men in Washington county, Rhode Island.
He lived on his father's farm at Hammond
Hill, and bequeathed it at his death to his
son William. From June, 1767, to May, 1783,
or after, he was a justice of the peace (Civil
and Military Lists of R. I., pages 270, 283,
299, 303). In October, 1763, he was captain
of the Fourth Newport Company, Troop of
Horse (page 243). In 1782 he was deputy

from North Kingstown; in 1783, sixth assist
ant; in 1784, assistant; from 1796 to 1799 or
after he was justice of the court of common
pleas of Washington county (pages 554, 568,
583). In 1780 he was recruiting officer for
North Kingstown. In the Rhode Island census
of 1774 he is given as living in North Kings
town, having a family of two males over six
teen, two sixteen or under, one female over six
teen, and four sixteen or under. In September,
1769, he was director of a public lottery in North
Kingstown. Children : Joseph, born August
2, 1756, died March 10, 1792; Mary, August
4, 1758, died in March, 1853; Elizabeth, April
10, 1760; Rachel, March 24, 1763; William,
March 3, 1766, mentioned below; Benjamin,.
March 12, 1769; Esther, March 12, 1771 ;
Lucy, January 21, 1775; Gardiner, December
8, 1777, died December 20, 1777; Lydia, June
4, 1779, died October 31, 1801.
(Ill) William Hammond Jr., son -of Wil
liam Hammond, was born in Newport, Rhode
Island, March 3, 1766, and died at Wickford,
Rhode Island, September 24, 1827 ; he was
buried on the farm. He married, November
8, 1790, Alice Tillinghast, who was born May
12, 1766, and died February 27, 181 1. She
was daughter of Pardon and Ruth (Fry) Till
inghast, of Exeter, Rhode Island. William
Hammond was a merchant banker, ship builder
and farmer. For many years he kept a general
store at Wickford. He also was engaged in
the West India trade. In 1816 he was ap
pointed surveyor of customs for the port of
North Kingstown. He was the principal
founder of the North Kingstown Bank, which
later combined with the Narragansett Bank
to form the Wickford National Bank. He
built the family mansion in Wickford, where
he lived the most of his life. He became a
wealthy man through his great success in busi
ness, and was able to give his children fine
educational advantages and to start them in
business. He spent a good part of his time
on the old Hammond Hill estate, which he in
herited. His son, Pardon T. Hammond, was
administrator of the estate. The house is now
occupied by his granddaughter, Ruth H. Ham
mond, daughter of Pardon T. Hammond, men
tioned below.
His wife, Alice Tillinghast, was a lineal de
scendant of Dr. John Green and Rev. Samuel
Gorton, founders of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Her father, Pardon (4), was son of Philip,
son of Pardon, son of Rev. Pardon Tillinghast,
of Providence, Rhode Island. Her mother
was daughter of Thomas Fry, son of Thomas
(3), son of Thomas (2), son of John (1).
Children: Pardon Tillinghast, born January
31, 1792, mentioned below; Maria, October 26,

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1795, married Benjamin Champlain; Esther,
March 23, 1797, died January 2, 181 1; Ruth
Fry, June 20, 1799, married Eliphalet Young;
William Gardiner, January 20, 1802; George,
October 31, 1804; Lydia Alice, January 29,
1807, died April 10, 1886, married Jabez Bul
lock. (IV) Pardon Tillinghast Hammond, son of
William Hammond, was born at Wickford,
Rhode Island, January 31, 1792. He received
his education in the public schools- of his native
town and began his career in business as clerk
in the office of the Bellville mills. From 1818
to 1867 he was cashier of the North Kings
town Savings Bank, resigning when the bank
was reorganized as the Wickford National
Bank. He retired and spent his last years in
Wickford. At the time of his resignation, he
was the oldest banker in the state in point of
service and was well known and highly re
spected throughout the state. He inherited his
portion in the Hammond Hill estate from his
father, later purchasing the other heirs' inter
ests in the same and took great interest in
farming. "He was well educated, of fine in
tellect, a leader in the affairs of his native
town and state. He was a follower of Jeffer
son and Lincoln in politics ; active in industrial
and financial enterprises, and deeply interested
in educational advancement." He was a mem
ber of the Baptist church. He died at his home
in 1872 and was buried in Elm Grove Ceme
tery at Allenton, Rhode Island. He married,
February 23, 1823, Roby H. Stanton, who was
born at South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Octo
ber 18, 1802, died September 12, 1877, daugh
ter of Daniel and Ruth (Hopkins) Stanton, of
Wickford. Children : Daniel Stanton, men
tioned below ; Alice, died aged twenty-one
years ; William Pardon, born November 2,
1829 ; Ruth Hopkins ; Mary Elizabeth, died un
married, May 6, 191 1, in Brooklyn, New York;
Lydia Harriet, died in infancy.
(V) Daniel Stanton Hammond, son of Par
don Tillinghast Hammond, was born at Wick
ford, March 8, 1826. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of his native town.
Early in life he engaged in the manufacture
of leather goods in New York City, and was
highly successful in business. He and his
brother William inherited the Hammond Hill
estate, which they sold to George Hammond,
whose widow bequeathed it at her death to
four members of the family in common. He
died at Brooklyn, New York, June 11, 1901,
and was buried at Newtown, Connecticut. He
married Sophia Augusta Blakeslee, who was
born February 26, 1829, died in Brooklyn, New
York, March 14, 1890, a daughter of William
and Chloe (Fairman) Blakeslee. Children: 1.

Alice Tillinghast, married John Davis Wood,
of Brooklyn; died January 24, 1893. 2. Eva
Stanton, unmarried, and 3. Ella Sophia, twins,
the latter dying in 1869. 4. Mary Grace, mar
ried, December 28, 1887, Charles PI. Northrop,
who died May 26, 1908; she died at Wick
ford, May 13, 1914, at the home of her aunt,
Ruth H. Hammond; children: i. Mary Grace,
died young; ii. Elenore Hammond, and iii.
Nelson Northrop. 5. Daniel Stanton Jr., born
at Brooklyn, New York, February 18, 1865,
resides at Ridgewood, New Jersey ; married,
April 8, 1886, Helena M. Scott; children: Dan
iel Stanton, born September 22, 1887; Charles
Scott, born June 6, 1889; Reginald Blakeslee,
born June 5, 1891 ; Helena. M., born May 24,
1896. 6. Sophia Blakeslee, born July 2, 1870,
resides in Brooklyn, unmarried.
(V) William Pardon Hammond, brother of
Daniel Stanton Hammond, was born at Wick
ford, November 2, 1829. He resides at War
saw, Illinois, where he conducted a general
store, later engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and is now retired. He married, February 9,
1875, J. Virginia Wilson. Children: Wrilliam
Pardon Jr., born March 9, 1876 ; Harmon Wil
son, November 6, 1878; Mary Stanton, No
vember 8, 1883 ; Virginia Roby, March 14,
1889. (V) Ruth Hopkins Hammond, sister of
William Pardon Hammond, was born at Wick
ford, and is the only surviving daughter of
Pardon Tillinghast Hammond. She resides at
the old Hammond homestead at Wickford.
She is devoted to the church and has been very
active throughout her life in temperance and
charitable work. She is a suffragist and for
many years has contributed to the movement
for woman's rights and equal suffrage.
(The Tillinghast Line).
Pardon Tillinghast, son of the immigrant,
and fourth of the same name in direct line,
was born February 16, 1666, and died Octo
ber 15, 1743; he married (first) Mary Keech,
who died February 7, 1726, and (second)
Sarah Tarbox. He was a deputy for many
years and justice of the peace in Providence-
Children by first wife: John, 1690; Mary,
1694; Philip, mentioned below; Joseph and
Mercy, 1706.
Philip Tillinghast, son of Pardon Tilling
hast, was born in 1710. Children, born at
East Greenwich: Mary, August 5, 1734; Par
don, mentioned below; Thomas, August 21,
1742; Benjamin, September 13, 1746; George,
January 17, 1750-51.
Pardon Tillinghast, son of Philip Tilling
hast, was born February 2, 1735-36; mar
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Thomas. She died August 27, 1776. Chil
dren: Daniel, June 5, 1756; Thomas, Decem
ber 8, 1757; Philip, July 25, 1759; Samuel,
May 20, 1761 ; Mary, May 28, 1763; Alice,
May 21, 1767, married William Hammond (see
Hammond) ; Ruth, April 22, 1773.

The surname Bullock is doubt-
BULLOCK less derived from the name of
the domestic animal and be
longs to the same class as Bull, Lion, Doe,
Lamb, Hart, Stagg and many others. The
ancient seat of the Bullock family of England,
according to Burke, was in Arborfield, Berk
shire, and several of the family there served in
the office of sheriff in the fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries. The ancient Bullock
coat-of-arms is described : Gules a chevron
ermine between three bulls' heads cabossed
argent armed or. Crest : Five Lochaber axes
handles or blades proper, bound with an escarf
gules tassels or. John Bullock, of Great Wig-
borough, county Essex, who died in 1595, used
the same coat-of-arms and his motto was : Nil
conscirc sibi. Branches of the family are
located also in Shipdam, Norfolkshire, in Nor
ton, Onston and D-arlye, in Derbyshire, since
the time of Henry VI.
(I) Robert Bullock, of Harburghfield or
Arborfield, Berkshire, used the coat-of-arms
borne by the Bullocks of Berkshire and Essex.
He was sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
in the eighteenth year of Richard II. and died
in 1405.
(II) Thomas Bullock, son of Robert Bul
lock, also lived at Arborfield.
(V) Thomas Bullock, great-grandson of
Thomas Bullock (II), married Alice Kingmill,
daughter of John Kingmill, one of the justices
of the king's bench. Of their six sons, Rich
ard remained on the estate at Arborfield, Wil
liam is mentioned below.
(VI) William Bullock, son of Frank Bul
lock, married Elizabeth Belief, daughter and
heir of John Belief, of Moreton, Cheshire.
(VII) John Bullock, son of William Bullock,
a descendant of Robert Bullock (I), was the
first of the family in county Essex, England,
and was progenitor of the Bullock families in
Essex. He died February 10, 1595, and is
buried in the chancel of the church at Great
Totham. (VIII) Sir Edward Bullock, son of John
Bullock, was born in 1580, died in 1644. Pie was
knighted. Pie married a daughter of Thomas
Meldor-Wyld, Esquire, of Glazeyshall, Salop.
About 1637 Sir Edward bought the manor of
Faulkbonrn of John Fortesque, and this manor
has been the seat of this branch of the family
to the present time.

(IX) Henry Bullock, born 1595, the first
of the family in America, was a grandson of
John Bullock (V), according to the evidence
at hand. He lived at St. Lawrence parish,
county Essex, and came to New England in
the ship "Abigail" in June, 1633. He and his
family were certified as formerly living in St.
Lawrence, and his age was given as forty, that
of his wife Susan as forty-two, of his son
Henry as eight, daughter Mary six, and son
Thomas two years. He settled at Charlestown,
Massachusetts, removing in 1638 to Salem,
where he had a grant of land in 1643, and
another December 2, 1663. His wife Susan
died about November 2, 1644, at Salem. From
the fact that many settlers went back and forth
'between Salem and Rehoboth, where Richard
Bullock settled, and for various other reasons,
it is believed that Richard Bullock was a
brother of Henry. Without doubt Henry and
Richard were nearly related and descended
from the English family described above. Ed
ward Bullock, presumably another brother
came in the ship "Elizabeth," sailing from Eng
land, April 17, 1635, and settled at Dorchester.
He returned to England, where he died in
1656. (I) Richard Bullock, the American progeni
tor of this line, was one of the founders of the
town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1643. He
was admitted a freeman of the colony in 1644.
About 1656 he removed to Newtown, Long
Island, but soon afterward returned to Reho
both. He received an allotment of land there
January 4, 1647, and another June 22, 1658.
He was elected town clerk January 30, 1659,
He was a man of some prominence in the town.
He married (first) August 4, 1647, Elizabeth
Ingraham, probably a daughter of Richard
Ingraham, an early settler of Rehoboth. She
died January 7, 1659, and he married (second)
September 21, 1660, Elizabeth Billington. Chil
dren by first wife: Samuel, born August 19,
1648; Elizabeth, October 9, 1650; Mary, Feb
ruary 16, 1652; Mehitable, April 4, 1655; Abi
gail, August 29, 1657; Hopestill, December 26,
1659. Children by second wife: Israel, born
July 15, 1661 ; Mercy, March 13, 1662; John,
mentioned below; Richard, March 15, 1666-67.
(II) John Bullock, son of Richard Bullock,
was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, May 19,
1664. Pie was a farmer living in his native
town. He married Elizabeth Barnes, daugh
ter of Thomas and Patience Barnes. Chil
dren, born at Rehoboth : Ann, born 1697 ; Zer-
viah, 1700; Esther, 1702; Israel, 1706; Eliza
beth; John, 1710, died young; Mary, 1714;
John, mentioned below ; Richard.
(Ill) John Bullock, son of John Bullock,
was born at Rehoboth, in 1714. He married

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(first) Patience Bosworth (intentions of mar
riage dated at Barrington, Rhode Island, Sep
tember 6, 1740) ; she was born December 8,
1717, a daughter of Jabez and Susanna Bos
worth. He married (second) March 16, 1748-
49, Jerusha Smith (Rev. Solomon Townsend
officiating). Pie married (third) Ann Cole,
widow of David Cole. Children by first wife:
Jabez, married Mary Richmond and had Cap
tain Richmond Bullock, of Providence, Rhode
Island; Elizabeth. Children by second wife:
John, mentioned below ; Jerusha.
(IV) Captain John Bullock, son of John
Bullock, was born at Rehoboth, May 21, 1751,
and was known as John Bullock (3d) for
many years. He went to sea early in life and
became a master mariner in the coasting trade.
For many years he resided in Providence,
Rhode Island. He was a soldier in the revo
lutionary war, a private in Captain Jabez Bul
lock's company, Colonel Carpenter's regiment,
in 1780. He married Sarah Brown (inten
tions of marriage published in Barrington,
October 3, 1773). She was a daughter of
David and Sarah (Howland) (Lawton)
Brown. Her mother was a descendant of the
Howland family which came with the Pil
grims to Plymouth. She married (third)
Mathew Watson, of Barrington, Rhode Island.
Mrs. Bullock died at Providence, April 30.
1790. After her death Captain Bullock went
south and married again, made his home there
and died there. Children of Captain John and
Sarah (Brown) Bullock: Jerusha, married
Captain Joseph Gould and settled in Wickford,
Rhode Island ; Selinda, married John Case, of
Wickford ; Sarah, married Joseph Martin, of
Providence ; John, resided in Wickford ; James,
settled in Wickford ; Jabez, mentioned below.
(V) Jabez Bullock, son of Captain John
Bullock, was born in Providence, Rhode Island,
July 13, 1786. He was but four years old when
his mother died. In 1796, when he Was ten years
old, he went to live with his sister, Mrs. Gould,
in Wickford, where he received his education
in a subscription school. He learned the trade
of cabinetmaker and followed it throughout his
active life. He was a skillful craftsman, espe
cially expert in the making of chairs and other
household furniture. He dwelt in Wickford,
where he erected a home on Main street, oppo
site the new St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and
now owned by Aaron S. Thomas, of New
York, and about the time of his third marriage
he erected a handsome house on Brown street,
now owned and occupied by his daughter, Miss
Abby Catherine Bullock. He was a Whig in
early life, and afterward a Republican, keenly
interested in public affairs, a substantial and
useful citizen. He was a member of the Prot-

testant Episcopal church of Wickford. He
died at a ripe old age in Wickford, where he
spent nearly all of his life, June 15, 1861, and
was buried in the Elm Grove Cemetery in that
town. He married (first) Catherine Hull, who
died September 28, 1825, at Wickford. He
married (second) Abigail Updike Reynolds,
daughter of Joseph Reynolds ; she died at
Wickford, October 17, 1832. He married
(third) November 15, 1841, Lydia Alice Ham
mond, daughter of William Plammond (see
Hammond family in this work ) . She died
April 10, 1886, and was buried in Elm Grove
Cemetery. She was a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Children by the
first wife: 1. Sarah, married Alfred W. Up-
ham. By third wife : 2. Abby Catherine, re
sides on the homestead at Wickford, a com
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church.

The name Wyman is undoubt-
WYMAN edly of early Saxon origin and
in common with other ancient
names is variously spelled. Wiman, Wymond,
Wymant, Wimond, Ymond are some of the
forms found in old records. Withlaf, the
Saxon king, had a son Wimond, born 825, and
an old Roman town in Leicestershire given to
him was named Wymands Town. Wimond
is doubtless the same name as Waermond, the
mythological son of Woden, the Saxon deity.
Wymands Town became Wymandham, a visit
to which is described by Mr. Horace Wyman
in an address at the Wyman reunion, February
14, 1908, afterward published. Wyman or
Wymond, as a surname, has been in use from
the time when surnames were used in Eng
land. The family became numerous in various
counties of England and America and it is
estimated that there are fully ten thousand de
scendants of the two American immigrants
mentioned below.
(I) Francis Wyman, father of the Ameri
can pioneers, lived at West Mill, Hertford
shire, England. Pie married there, May 2,
1617, Elizabeth Richardson. His home was at
Brook End, about one mile from West Mill
church, and afterward at West Mill Green, a
half mile from Brook End. His wife was of
the Richardson family that sent three brothers
to New England. The Wymans and Richard-
sons were founders of Woburn, Massachusetts.
Among the children of Francis and Elizabeth
Wyman were : Thomas, who inherited his
father's lands ; Francis, baptized February 24,
1619 ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John Wyman, son of Francis Wyman,
was baptized in West Mill, Herts, England,
February 3, 1621. With his brother Francis
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among the first settlers of the town of Wo
burn, Massachusetts, after living for a time in
Charlestown. He subscribed to the town
orders of Woburn in December, 1640, and was
taxed there for the country rate, September
8, 1645. He was admitted freeman, May 26,
1647, and was one of the proprietors of the
town. He deposed, December 18, 1660, that
his age was about thirty-nine years. He held
various town offices. Pie was lieutenant of
the Woburn company and served in King
Philip's war. He was in the Swamp Fight
where his son John was killed and a nephew
mortally wounded. Later in the war an at
tempt to impress horses for the colonial troops
was resisted by Wyman and his daughter
Barsheba, who according to the complaining
constable "fisted him down." Father and
daughter were fined. He and others were
prosecuted in December, 1671, some "for pub
licly manifesting contempt for the ordinance
of infant baptism as administered in the church
of Woburn," others for withdrawing from
that church. Some were admonished, others
fined. The records show that he had bought
the time of one Simpson, a Scotchman, one of
the soldiers of Charles II., captured by Crom
well and sold into servitude in New England.
A petition of John Wyman to the governor
and council gives an illuminating picture of
life in 1676:
Humbly Sheweth that yore Petitioner Haith beene
often out in the service of ye Country against the
Indians; his sone also was out and slaine by the
enemy; and his servants hath been long out in the
warrs and now being reduced to greate wants for
clotheing: desires liberty to come downe from
Hadley where he now remains a garrison soldier;
and he is a taner by traid and yore Petitioner
bought him on purpose for the management of his
tanyard: and himselfe being inexperienced in that
calling doth humbly request that favore of your
honors to consider the premisses and to grant his
said servant Robert Simpson a dismission from this
present service that so his lether now in vatts may
not by spyled but yore Petitioner be ever engaged
to pray, &c. JNO. WYMAN.
He married Sarah Nutt, November 5, 1644.
She was born in England and came to this
country with her father, Myles Nutt, who set
tled first at Watertown, then in Woburn. He
died May 9, 1684. His widow married (sec
ond) August 25, 1684, Thomas Fuller, of Wo
burn. Children of John Wyman: Samuel,
born September 20, died September 27, 1646;
John, March 28, 1648; Sarah, April 15, 1650;
Solomon, February 26, 1651-52; David, April
7, 1654; Elizabeth, January 18, 1655-56; Bath-
sheba, October 6, 1658; Jonathan, mentioned
below ; Seth, August 3, 1663 ; Jacob.
(Ill) Cornet Jonathan Wyman, son of John

Wyman, was born in Woburn, July 13, 1661.
He was a cornet in the military company. He
died in his native town, December 15, 1736.
He married (first) July 29, 1689, Abigail
Fowle, born October 15, 1669, died January
3, 1690, daughter of James Fowle, granddaugh
ter of George Fowle. He married (second)
July 31, 1690, Hannah Fowle, daughter of
Peter Fowle, of Woburn. Child by first wife:
Abigail, born June 1, 1691. Children by sec
ond wife: Hannah, born November, 1694;
Mary, January 26, 1696; Elizabeth, February
15, 1700; Jonathan, mentioned below; Sarah,
August 18, 1706; Zechariah, July 19, 1709,
soldier in French and Indian war.
(IV) Jonathan (2) Wyman, son of Jona
than (1) Wyman, was born in Woburn, Sep
tember 13, 1704, died there in August, 1780.
Descendants settled in Burlington, Massachu
setts, and Dummerston, Vermont. He served
in the war of the American revolution of 1775.
He married Martha Thompson. Children,
born in Woburn: Martha, March 3, 1732;
Jonathan, mentioned below; Ezra, February
2, 1737; Abigail, December 16, 1740; John,
June 18, 1743; Hannah, March 30, 1746;
Sarah, August 27, 1749.
(V) Jonathan (3) Wyman, son of Jonathan
(2) Wyman, was born at Woburn, October 7,
1734, died November 18, 1774. He married
Abigail Wright, who died at Woburn, July 5,
1787. Children, born at Woburn: Abigail,
August 20, 1760; Mary, April 5, 1762; Jona
than, mentioned below; Margery, October 24,
1766; Joshua, December 30, 1768; Lavina,
October 20, 1770.
(VI) Jonathan (4) Wyman, son of Jona
than (3) Wyman, was born at Woburn, Octo
ber 5, 1763. He married Ruby B. Richardson,
widow, daughter of Abel and Mary Richard
son. She died at Woburn, September 2, 1853,
aged eighty-four years. Children, born in
Woburn: Jonathan, March 16, 1789; Abel,
mentioned below; Abigail, September 3, 1795;
Sylvester, Joseph, Stephen, Ray, Ruby, Ipps.
(VII) Abel Wyman, son of Jonathan (4)
Wyman, was born at Woburn, January 21,
1793, died February 10, 1864. He was a boot
and shoe manufacturer in his native town,
noted for his integrity, tact and sagacity in
business and his exemplary character. He
married, May 2, 18 17, Maria Wade, daughter
of Frank. Children, born at Woburn : Charles
Austin, July 20, 1818; Ward, March 10, 1820;
Winthrop, December 24, 1721 ; Nancy Maria,
January 10, 1823 ; Horace, mentioned below.
(VIII) Horace Wyman, son of Abel Wy
man, was born at Woburn on the old home
stead, November 27, 1827. He attended the
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Academy and the Francestown Academy in
New Hampshire. He began his business career
in 1846, as a machinist in the employ of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company at Man
chester, New Hampshire. Afterwards he was
employed by the Lowell Machine Shop, and
in the Hinckley Locomotive Works in Boston.
He then became a draughtsman for the
Holyoke Water Power Company, and in i860
became superintendent and manager of the
loom works of George Crompton in Worcester.
Early in life he developed inventive ability,
and he devoted his attention particularly to the
improvement of looms. During his active life
he was granted up to the year 1909 more than
one hundred and fifty patents, and many more
since that time, most of which were for im
provements in textile machinery, increasing
production, improving the quality of goods,
cheapening the cost of production. From time
to time he was associated with others, but the
principal machines with which his name is
connected were the result of his own inventive
genius and mechanical skill. The Crompton
Loom Works owe much of their success to his
designs. While superintendent he introduced
the manufacture of looms for making ging
hams and he designed devices for pattern
mechanisms which shifts the shuttle boxes to
produce the proper width of colored stripes
in the cloth. He also devised warp stop
mechanism for stopping the loom when a warp
thread breaks by means of which perfect cloth
is woven. Both of these inventions are now
in use in most of the fancy cotton mills in the
country, together with many other important
devices which he devised applicable to such
looms. He patented a device for producing
designs on moquette carpets by means of the
Jacquard machine, by which the interweaving
of the colored tuft yarns was governed and
the winding of the different colors on spools
as in the loom invented by Skinner was dis
pensed with. He had patents also for an im
proved method of introducing (in the spool
loom) the ends of the tuft yarns into the
fabric, making the latter much finer and allow
ing the increase in width of the goods, by
which rugs could be woven large enough to
cover an ordinary floor.
When Mr. Crompton died in 1886, the busi
ness was incorporated and Mr. Wyman be
came vice-president and manager, and in 1897,
when the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works
was formed by merger, he became its consult
ing engineer.
He has been president of the Worcester
Storage Company since its establishment ; was
director of the Quinsigamond National Bank
before it merged into Worcester Trust Com-
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pany; trustee of the People's Savings Bank,
and was director of the Uxbridge & Black-
stone Street Railway Company until it merged
into the Worcester Consolidated railway. In
politics he is a Republican and he was at one
time an alderman of the city of Worcester.
In religion he is a Unitarian. He is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers, the Worcester County Mechanics' Asso
ciation, the Worcester Society of Antiquity and
of the board of managers of the Old Men's
Home. He is a member of the order of Free
Masons. He has traveled extensively in this
country and abroad, both for pleasure and
business. He has devoted much time to the
study of family and local history and published
two small books : "The Wyman Families of
Great and Little Hormead, Herts County,
England" (1895) and "Some Account of the
Wyman Genealogy and Wyman Families in
Herts County, England" (1897).
He married, May 1, i860, Louisa B. Horton,
born at Orleans, Massachusetts, June 12, 1837,
died March 24, 1894, daughter of Sparrow and
Betsey (Doane) Horton, and descendant of
John Doane, born 1590, who came to Plymouth
in 1630, was assistant to Governor Prince in
1633. Children of Horace Wyman: 1. Horace
Winfield, born May 30, 1861, died October 11,
1905 ; graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, founder, with Lyman F. Gordon, of
the firm of Wyman & Gordon, manufacturers
of iron and steel drop forgings ; married, 1889,
Mary Wills Haskell, daughter of William
Henry and Aurelia (Bulkely-Lord) Haskell,
of Atchison, Kansas ; children : i. Aurelia,
born at Worcester, August 6, 1891, attended
Miss Rust's School, Dalzell School, Bancroft
School of Worcester, and Miss Porter's School,
Farmington, Connecticut, two years, then went
abroad for three years of travel and study,
now a student at Worcester Art Museum, ii.
Horace, born in Worcester, March 16, 1893,
attended the same private schools and the
Worcester high school for one year, student
for two years at the Chateau de Lancy, Geneva,
Switzerland, then one year at Milton Academy
(Massachusetts) and entered Cornell Univer
sity in 1912, taking the mechanical engineering
course ; he is a member of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity, iii. Louise, born in Worcester, Au
gust 28, 1894, attended the same schools as
her sister, also traveled and studied in Europe,
and is now a student at Miss Porter's School,
Farmington, Connecticut. The family are
Congregationalists. Mrs. Wyman married
(second) June 30, 1911, Marshall N. Goold,
author, of Glasgow, Scotland, and the family
resides at No. 58 West street, Worcester. 2.
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Horton, born 1867, died 1868. 4. Adelaide
Richards, born February 26, 1870; attended
public and private schools of Worcester and
Pittsfield; married, November 8, 1898, Ernest
H. Wood, born in Uxbridge, January 29, 1870,
son of Cyrus G. and Mary Farnum (South-
wick) Wood, who were the parents of three
other children : John Franklin, Gertrude
Southwick, Sarah Louise. Ernest H. Wood
attended the public and high schools, class of
1888, then entered Harvard, graduating with
degree of Bachelor of Arts, 1893 > engaged in
business with his father, admitted to partner
ship in firm of C. G. Wood & Company, woolen
manufacturers, Holden, Massachusetts, 1898;
he is treasurer of the Worcester Storage Com
pany, the president being Horace Wyman; he
is a Unitarian in religion ; their children are :
Cyrus Wyman, born January 31, 1900; Aus
ten, May 25, 1903 ; Daniel, September 7, 1904 ;
Louisa, October 27, 1905.

John Leavitt, the immigrant
LEAVITT ancestor, was born in England
in 1608, and settled at Dor
chester, Massachusetts, as early as 1634. He
removed to Hingham, Massachusetts, where
he was living when admitted a freeman, March
3, 1636. In 1636 he had a grant of land for a
house lot in Hingham. He was deputy to the
general court, 1656-64; selectman, 1661-63-
65-68-72-74-75, and deacon of the church. He
was a tailor by trade. The name of his first
wife is not known. He married (second) De
cember 16, 1646, Sarah  , who died May
26, 1700. He died November 20, 1691. His
will was dated November 30, 1689. Children:
John; Hannah, born 1639; Samuel, April,
1641, removed to Exeter, New Hampshire;
Jeremiah, baptized March 1, 1645-46. Chil
dren by second wife: Israel, baptized April
23, 1648; Moses, mentioned below; Josiah,
May 4, 1653; Nehemiah, January 22, 1655-56;
Sarah, February 25, 1658-59; Mary, June 12,
1661 ; Hannah, March 20, 1663-64; Abigail,
December 9, 1667.
(II) Moses Leavitt, son of John Leavitt,
was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, August
12, 1650. He and his brother Samuel settled
at Exeter, New Hampshire. Pie was one of
the most prominent citizens of the town. He
was selectman in 1682 and three other years ;
deputy to the general court in 1692 and three
other years and moderator seven years.. He
married, October 26, 1681, Dorothy Dudley,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley and grand
daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Chil
dren : Moses, of Stratham ; Timothy ; Stephen,
of Brentwood ; Joseph, of Exeter and Deer-

field; John, mentioned below; Dudley, of
Exeter ; Hannah ; Sarah ; Elizabeth ; Dorothy.
(Ill) John (2) Leavitt, son of Moses
Leavitt, had the homestead of his father. He
died in 1768. He married  . Children;
John, Moses, Nehemiah, mentioned below;
Dorothy, Mary, Sarah.
(IV) Nehemiah Leavitt, son of John (2)
Leavitt, resided at Epping and perhaps adja
cent towns. He died intestate in 1 77 1. He mar
ried  — . His children were baptized as
children of Nehemiah and J., September 21,
1729, in the Kingston church; John, settled at
Raymond; Nehemiah, mentioned below; Eliz
abeth, Sarah, Anna.
(V) Nehemiah (2) Leavitt, son of Nehe
miah (1) Leavitt, was born about i720>-25.
He lived at Kingston, Exeter and perhaps- Gil-
manton. He married  . Children:
Nehemiah, mentioned below; Amos, soldier
in the revolution from Brentwood ; Abigail,
born December, 1760; Reuben, born March.
13, 1763, at Exeter.
(VI) Nehemiah (3) Leavitt, son of Nehe
miah (2) Leavitt, was born in 1752. He was
a soldier from Brentwood in Captain Dear
born's company, 1775, at the age of twenty-
three, and went to Canada in Captain Aaron
Kinsman's company, Colonel John Stark's regi
ment. Nehemiah of Candia and Amos of Ray
mond were enlisted in 1777 for three years.
The history of Raymond states that John
Leavitt lived near the road from Gile School
to Jones pond and that Nehemiah lived fur
ther south. He married  . Among his
children was Amos, mentioned below ; Nehe
miah, born 1775, died at East Rumford, Maine;
married Polly Sleeper ; removed to Royalton,
Vermont, 1797, to Maine in 1835 ; was granted
the town of Smyrna on condition that he get
one hundred actual settlers.
(VII) Amos Leavitt, son of Nehemiah (3)
Leavitt, was born in Raymond, New Hamp
shire, in 1777, died in Royalton, Vermont, in
1828. He married Hannah Sleeper, born 1787,
died at Hodgdon, Maine, 1862, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Davis) Sleeper, of Kings
ton, granddaughter of Moses and Priscilla
Sleeper, great-granddaughter of Aaron and
Elizabeth (Shaw) Sleeper, and great-great-
granddaughter of the first settlers, Thomas
and Elizabeth (Sherburne) Sleeper (see "His
tory of Andover, New Hampshire"). Amos
Leavitt lived on Broad Brook, Royalton. He
was killed by a fall while attempting to cross
White river on the stringers of a bridge. Chil
dren : 1. Enos, born 1804, a farmer, died at
Littleton, Vermont ; married Emma Hobbs,
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ton, Vermont"). 2. Amos, born August 12, 1807,
died April, 1888. 3. Hannah, born 1810; mar
ried Orange Vail. 4. Moses, mentioned below.
5. Oramel, a farmer, died in Sherman, Maine ;
married Eliza Estabrook ; had eight children :
William, Albion, Justin M., Lucilva, Hannah,
Evelyn, Edward and Emily. 6. Merrill, born
1820; married Sarah Harrinton and had Amos,
Marcus and Merrill.
(VIII) Moses (2) Leavitt, son of Amos
Leavitt, was born in Vermont, December 27,
1814, died at Dyer Brook, Maine, July 24,
1896. He was educated in the public schools.
When a young man he came to Smyrna, Maine,
where he was employed in farming and lum
bering. He was one of the pioneers of the
town of Smyrna, where he lived during most
of his active life. He bought a farm before
he married and cleared it. He was a Repub
lican in politics. He was a member of the
Christian church. Pie married Eliza Tarbell,
born in 1829, died in Dyer Brook in 1906.
Children: 1. Artemas, mentioned below. 2.
Wilbur M., born September 9, 1863, at Dyer
Brook, where he resides on the homestead. 3.
Milo E., born at Dyer Brook, 1867; married
In-a Brown; they reside on a farm at Oakfield;
child, Lawrence A., a jeweler at Smyrna Mills.
(IX) Artemas Leavitt, son of Moses (2)
Leavitt, was born at Dyer Brook, Maine, Sep
tember 6, 1853. He attended the public schools
there, and assisted his father on the farm until
he was twenty-five years old. For eight years
after that time he was in the hotel business at
Smyrna Mills. He also bought and conducted
a farm at Smyrna Mills. After retiring from
the hotel business he carried on his farm until
1903, when he sold it to his son, Lewis Ridley
Leavitt. From 1904 to 1909 he was a mer
chant at Smyrna Mills. Since 1904 he has
owned and conducted another farm in Smyrna
Mills. In politics he is a Progressive ; was
formerly a Republican. He has been select
man of the town and for four years tax col
lector. He is a member of the Baptist church.
He married-, July 26, 1879, in Smyrna Mills,
Anna M. Clement, born at East Corinth,
Maine, May 8, 1854, died at Smyrna Mills,
July 27, 1910, daughter of Elijah Clement, a
native of Maine, who died at East Corinth in
1901, a wheelwright by trade, trustee and
steward of the Methodist church. Mr. Clement
married Mary Ridley, who died at East Corinth
in 1904. Children of Elijah and Mary Clement :
1. Alphia, married Henry Russell, a carpenter;
resides at Charleston, Maine. 2. Vesta E., re
sides at Charleston, Maine. 3. Austin A., a
wheelwright; married Ella Colbath. 4. Anna
M., mentioned above. 5. Carrie, married
Henry Blaisdell, a farmer of Bangor. 6.

George, died young. 7. Albert E., a machinist
of Brunswick. 8. Lester O., of Augusta, a
machinist. 9. Marjorie, married Elbridge
Ranks, of Auburn, a machinist. Children of
Artemas Leavitt : 1. Lizzie J., born at Smyrna
Mills, May 6, 1880; married Samuel H. Styles,
of Elgin, New Brunswick. 2. Lewis Ridley,
mentioned below. 3. Viola L., born July 25,
1887, at Smyrna Mills, died August 3, 1907;
married Frank Styles, of Elgin, now of Oak-
field, a railroad man; he married (second)
Celia Claghorn ; child by first wife, Beulah
Evelyn, born at Henderson, Maine, September
1, 1906. 4. Geneva M., born July 10, 1896.
(X) Lewis Ridley Leavitt, son of Artemas
Leavitt, was born at Smyrna, Maine, May 18,
1882. He attended the public schools there
until 1898. He assisted his father on the farm
until 1902, when he bought a farm of one hun
dred and forty-five acres in Smyrna, where he
has since lived. Iri politics he is a Progressive.
He has been selectman of the town for the
past two years. He is a member of the Bap
tist church ; of the Oakland Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry; of the Independent Order of
Foresters. He married, January 16, 1903, in
Smyrna, Pauline Emma Soule, born in Oak-
field, Maine, August 25, 1885. Before her
marriage she taught school in Moro and
Siboeis, Maine. She is a member of the Meth
odist church, of Oakfield Grange, of the De
gree of Honor of Smyrna Mills and of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union (see
Soule IX). Children, born in Smyrna: 1.
Alva Lois, born November 5, 1903. 2. Aileen
Bettina, born June 5, 1906. 3. Helen Pauline,
born June 11, 1910. 4. Erna Geneva, born
April 6, 1912. (The Soule Line).
(I) George Soule, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, and came in the "May
flower" to this country. He was the thirty-
fifth signer of the famous compact, and was
entered on the passenger list as an apprentice
of Governor Edward Winslow. As early as
1623 he was granted in his own right land at
Plymouth, and in 1633 was admitted a free
man and" was a taxpayer. He was a volunteer
for the Pequot war in 1637. He had various
grants of land at Powder Point. In 1638 he
sold his Plymouth property and moved to Dux
bury in Myles Standish's company, being a
founder there. He was one of the earliest
selectmen, and often served in that and other
offices. He represented the town in the gen
eral court in 1642-45-46-50-51-54. When
Bridgewater was set off from Duxbury he
was one of the original proprietors, but soon
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came one of the earliest purchasers of Dart
mouth and Middleborough. He was a com
missioner of court in 1640, and was on the im
portant committee for the revision of the
colony laws with Governors Prince, Winslow
and Constant Southworth, showing that he
must have been a man of superior intelligence
and education. Winslow mentions him among
the ablest men of the colony. He married, in
England, Mary Beckett, who came in the
"Ann" in 1621, in company with Barbara
Standish, Patience and Fear Brewster. Gov
ernor Bradford tells us that he had eight chil
dren. His wife Mary died in 1677. He died
in 1680, one of the last of the Pilgrims to die.
His will was dated August 11, 1677, proved
March 5, 1679-80. Children : Zachariah,
Mary, George, Susanna, John, mentioned be
low ; Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Benjamin.
(II) John Soule, son of George Soule, was
born about 1632, and was the eldest son, ac
cording to his father's will ; he died in 1707,
aged seventy-five years. He served as sur
veyor of highways, 1672, 1694; grand jury
man, 1675-76-77-78-83-84; arbitrator between
Marshfield and Duxbury, and Plymouth and
Duxbury, 1698, involving land disputes ; wit
ness to the Indian deed of Bridgewater, De
cember 23, 1686. In 1653 he was involved in
a quarrel with Kenelm Winslow "for speake-
ing falsly of and scandalicing his daughter in
carying divers fake reports betwixt Josias
Standish and her." He was fined ten pounds
and costs of two hundred pounds June 8, 1654.
He married Hester, probably daughter of
Philip and Hester (Dewsbury) De la Noye, the
French Protestant who joined the Pilgrims in
Holland. No other person of her name was
born in Duxbury, who could have been his
wife. She was born in 1638, died September
12, 1733. Children: John, Sarah, Joseph,
Joshua, Josiah, Moses, mentioned below;
Rachel, Benjamin, Rebecca.
(Ill) Moses Soule, son of John Soule, lived
in Duxbury, near Island Creek. Little is
known of him. He died in 1751, being well-to-
do for the times, and owner of much land. He
married  . Children : Isaac, Cornelius,
Barnabas, mentioned below; Ruth, Ichabod,
Elsie, Gideon, Deborah, Jedediah.
(IV) Barnabas Soule, son of Moses Soule,
was born in 1705, died April 8, 1780. He set
tled in North Yarmouth, Maine, about 1742.
In 1745 he purchased a homestead of his
brother Cornelius. He was ancestor of most
of the name in Yarmouth, Maine, and vicinity.
He married, about 1737, Jane, daughter of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Stockman) Bradbury,
of Salisbury, Massachusetts. She was born in
1718, baptized August 4, great-granddaughter

of Rev. John Wheelwright. Barnabas Soule
and wife were admitted to the First Church,
August 30, 1742. Children: Moses, born Feb
ruary 19, 1738; John, mentioned below; Cor
nelius, June 28, 1743; Sarah, September 4,
1745; Elizabeth, October 28, 1747; Mercy, No
vember 27, 1749; Samuel, June 16, 1752; Jane,
September 27, 1755; Barnabas, March 25,
1758. (V ) John (2) Soule, son of Barnabas Soule,
was born March 12, 1740, and was a sea cap
tain. He married (first) November 30, 1763,.
Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Mehit
able (Bragdon) Mitchell, born September 29,
1747, died December 26, 1794. He married
(second) October 10, 1795, Elizabeth Stan-
wood, of Brunswick; she died April 26/ 1800.
He married (third) April 17, 1814, Chloe
Josselyn; she died September 26, 1831. Chil
dren: Mehitable, born April 12, 1765; Dorcas,
March 11, 1766; Cornelius, March 1, 1768;
Benjamin, mentioned below; John, August 13,
1772 ; Elizabeth, baptized May 14, 1775 ; Brad
bury; Joanna; Rufus, 1785; Joseph, 1788;
Barnabas. (VI) Benjamin Soule, son of John (2)
Soule, was born April 15, 1770. He moved
from Freeport, Maine, to Pownal, Maine,
where most of his descendants live. He was
called "Major Ben," and was much interested
in military affairs. He married, October 14,
1 791, Eunice Frost. Children: John, men
tioned below; Phineas, born March 2, 1794;
Benjamin, January 4, 1796; Alfred, February
15, 1798; Dennison, May 15, 1800; William,
May 6, 1802; Louisa, April 12, 1804; Rufus,
May 27, 1806; Washington, January 24, 1809;
James, November 20, 1811; Eunice, twin of
James; Horace, January 17, 1814; Augusta,
October 1, 1816; George Nelson, March 12,
1820. (VII) John (3) Soule, son of Benjamin
Soule, was born May 6, 1792, died at Hern-
don, Virginia, March 22, 1875, where he lived
with his daughter Lena. He was a sea cap
tain. He was for a time a blacksmith, and
later a peddler in Cumberland county, Maine.
In politics he was a Whig and later a Repub
lican. He married, November 30, 1815, Mary
True, born February 16, 1794, died 1863, in
Cumberland county, Maine. Children: I.Ben
jamin, mentioned below. 2. John P., born at
Turner, Maine; a photographer in Boston;
died in Seattle, Washington, where he was in
real estate business ; married  Campbell,
of Georgetown, Maine ; she died in Maiden,
Massachusetts. 3. Mary, born at Turner; mar
ried Tristram Petty ; lived in Cumberland
county on farm, later in Florida. 4. Lucia,
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Chelsea, Massachusetts. 5. William S., born
at Turner ; he was photographer ; died in Mel
rose, Massachusetts; married Emma Black-
man. 6. Lena, born at Turner ; married Ed
win Rideant, of Cumberland county, Maine.
7. Eunice Frost, born February 3, 1819, died
young. 8. Augusta, died young.
(VIII) Benjamin (2) Soule, son of John
(3) Soule, was born at Pownal, Maine, De
cember 4, 1816, died in Buxton, Maine, Au
gust, 1892. He was a farmer in Turner ana
Phillips, and then a cattle buyer in Aroostook
county, living at Enfield, and finally in Buxton.
He was a Whig and a Republican in politics.
He married Celia C. Creach, born in Wayne,
Maine, 1818, died in Buxton, November, 1909.
Children: 1. Eunice Augusta, born 1841, died
at Portland, Maine, 191 1; married C. Oscar
Gordon, of Phillips, a physician in New Jer
sey. 2. William Dennis, born 1842 ; married
Arvilla Pratt, of Phillips ; lives in Buxton. 3.
John O., born April 1, 1844; married (first)
Mary McMillan, (second)  ; farmer in
Buxton. 4. Benjamin Franklin, mentioned be
low. 5. Alary Addie, born 1848; married
(first) Jacob Clausen, (second) Jacob Gantz;
died 191 1. 6. Edwin A., born 1850; married
Elizabeth Waterman, of Buxton. 7. Lizzie
B., born 1852 ; married Albert P. Whittier, of
Enfield ; lives in Portland. 8. Lena C, born
1854; married Edward Hill, of Buxton. 9.
Rollin, born 1857; married Minnie Cobb; lives
in South Windham, Maine. 10. Clinton, died
young. (IX) Benjamin Franklin Soule, son of Ben
jamin (2) Soule, was born in Turner, Maine,
July 2, 1846. He left school when sixteen
years old, attending in the winters until he was
twenty, working on the farm until 1867. He
then went to Chicago for seven years, and in
1875 moved to Milford, Maine, remaining for
a short time. After staying a season with his
father in Enfield, he went to South Lincoln,
Maine, remaining for two years, working in
MacGregor's spool mill. In 1878 he moved
to Oakfield, Maine, buying a farm, on which
he now lives. He is a Republican in politics,
and has served two years as superintendent of
the school and one term as selectman. He is a
member of Oakfield Grange, and is an ex-
member of the Orangemen and of the Odd
Fellows. He attends the Methodist Episcopal
church. He married Angie F. Grant, born
November 25, 1851, at Linneus, Maine. She
attended the Lincoln, Maine, schools, and is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church
and of the Oakfield Grange, as well as of the
Rebekahs of Smyrna Mills and of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. She is daugh
ter of William B. Grant, born 1820, died at

Dyer Brook, Maine, 1903 ; he was a farmer at
Dyer Brook for twenty years, a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Baptist church ;
he married Mary Lillie, who died at Dyer
Brook. Children of W. B. Grant: 1. Lizzie,
married Christopher McLaughlin, of Sherman,
Maine. 2. Henry, of Island Falls, Maine. 3.
Angie F., mentioned above. 4. George, mar
ried Alice McGinley, of Houlton, Maine, and
they live at Smyrna. 5. Rebecca, died young.
6. John, married Alice Randall, and they live
at Island Falls. 7. Fannie, married Sidney
Lillie, of Dyer Brook. 8. Annie, married Jesse
Hall, of Washington state. 9. Charles, ranch
man in Montana. Children of Benjamin
Franklin Soule: 1. Ethelyn, born in Enfield,
November 3, 1875, died at Portland, August
2, 1886. 2. Evangeline, born December, 1877,
at South Lincoln, Maine, died October 7, 1879.
3. Jessie, born in Oakfield, April 11, 1879, died
November 5, 1905. 4. George Clinton, born
July 1, 1882, in Oakfield; married Bessie Lan-
nigan, of Moro, Maine, and they live with his
parents. 5. Frank Elmo, born in Oakfield, De
cember 30, 1883, died August 2, 1886. 6.
Pauline Emma, married Lewis Ridley Leavitt
(see Leavitt). 7. William, born February 25,
1887, in Oakfield ; runs a garage in Portland ;
married Verna Gilpatrick, of Portland. 8.
Fritz, born in Oakfield, July 13, 1888; married
Lou Smart, of Danforth, Maine. 9. Walter,
born May 26, 1890, in Oakfield ; ranchman in
Montana. 10. Albert, born November 30,
1 89 1 ; ranchman in Montana. 11. Erna, born
in Oakfield, April 10, 1894; lives with parents,
unmarried.

Rev. John Crandall, the im-
CRANDALL migrant ancestor, was born
in England, and settled in
Providence, Rhode Island, as early as 1637.
He is the progenitor of all of the name of
colonial ancestry in this country. He was a
Baptist in religion, and for differing with the
Puritan church was persecuted in Massachu
setts, where he settled first. From Providence
he came to Newport, Rhode Island, as early
as 165 1, and became a prominent member of the
Baptist church there, subsequently the first
elder of the denomination at Westerly, Rhode
Island. With John Chace and Obadiah
Holmes he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to
hold services for the Baptists, was arrested
there July 21, 1651, and sent to prison in Bos
ton. Ten days later he was convicted of break
ing the law by holding services and fined five
pounds, m default of which he was to be pub
licly whipped. Upon his promise to appear at
the next term of court he was released. In
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1658-59, 1662-63, he was a commissioner.
With^ght others he signed a letter to the
court of commissioners of Rhode Island, dated
August 27, 166 1, in relation to a tract of land
at Westerly, where they and others desired
to settle. He was a deputy to the general
assembly in 1687, and in the fall of that year
was living at Westerly. He and Joseph Tor-
rey were appointed commissioners to treat
with Connecticut as to jurisdiction over dis
puted territory, May 14, 1669, and he was sup
plied with thirty-five shillings by the colony
of Rhode Island to pay his expenses to Con
necticut. He received a letter from the gov
ernor and assistants of Connecticut, Novem
ber 18, 1669, complaining that he and others
had appropriated a large tract of land belong
ing to Stonington, Connecticut. He and Tobias
Saunders answered the complaint for the
Westerly people. He was conservator of the
peace at Westerly in 1670, and deputy to the
general assembly again in 1670-71. He was
arrested by the Connecticut authorities, May
2, 1671, and by advice of the Rhode Island
government declined to give bond. The Rhode
Island colony promised to pay his expenses
and defend him.
His first wife died August 1, 1670, and he
married (second) Hannah, probably daugh
ter of William and Ann (Porter) Gaylord, of
Windsor, Connecticut. She died in 1678. He
died at Newport, whither he had removed on
account of King Philip's war, in 1676. Chil
dren : John, married Elizabeth Gorton ; James ;
Jane, married Job Babcock; Sarah, married
Josiah Witter; Peter, died 1734; Joseph, men
tioned below; Samuel, born 1663; Jeremiah,
died 1718; Eber, born 1676.
(II) Elder Joseph Crandall, son of Rev.
John Crandall, died September 12, 1737. On
April 20, 1704, he was chosen town council
man of Westerly, but declined. In 1712 he
moved to Kingstown, Rhode Island, and on
March 24, 1713, deeded one hundred acres in
Westerly to his son John. On May 8, 1715,
he was called to the pastorate of the Seventh
Day Baptist church at Newport, Rhode Island,
and served until 1717 as colleague of William
Gibson, who died that year. He married Deb
orah, daughter of Robert and Ruth (Hubbard)
Burdick. She was baptized April 11, 1685.
Children: John; Joseph, mentioned below;
Deborah. (Ill) Joseph (2) Crandall, son of Elder
Joseph (1) Crandall, was born at Westerly,
Rhode Island. He married, February 15, 1716,
in Westerly, Ann Langworthy. Children, born
in Westerly: Joseph, born January 17, 1717 ;
James, May 12, 1719; William, August 6, 1721 ;
Simeon, January 15, 1725; Joshua, October

15, 1727; Ezekiel, November 21, 1730; Ann,
July 21, 1733; Benjamin, mentioned below.
(IV) Benjamin Crandall, son of Joseph (2)
Crandall, was born November 20, 1736. Ac
cording to the census of 1774 he was living at
North Kingston, Rhode Island, and had five in
his family. He married Alice  .
(V) Rev. Joseph (3) Crandall, son or
nephew of Benjamin Crandall, was born, it is
said, in Freetown (now Fall River), Massa
chusetts, then part of Tiverton, Rhode Island.
Joseph, Nathaniel and Eber Crandall were
heads of families in Tiverton in 1774, accord
ing to the census. He was born in 1760 and
died in Salisbury, New Brunswick, in 1858,
nearly a hundred years old. He was a Bap
tist minister for sixty-six years. He left Free
town when twenty years old. He began to
preach at Woodstock, New Brunswick, and
was ordained at Sackville, New Brunswick.
Afterward he had various parishes in Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. He married (sec
ond) Martha Hopper, born in 1789, died at
Salisbury in 1877. She was of English de
scent. Children by second wife: 1. Joseph,
mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, died at Salis
bury, a merchant; married Mary Ann Scott,
of Salisbury. 3. William, died at Salisbury, a
merchant ; married Elsie Miller. 4. Chapin,
died at Hillsboro, New Brunswick, a farmer;
married Frances Knight, of Monkton. 5.
Henry, died at Salisbury ; married Catherine
Wheaton, of Salisbury, where she is now liv
ing ; he was a merchant and farmer. 6. Mercy,
died at Deer Creek Falls, Washington; mar
ried George Shearer, a farmer of Nova Scotia.
7. Ann, died at Oakfield, Maine ; married Rob
ert Perigo, of Milo, Maine, a merchant.
(VI) Joseph (4) Crandall, son of Rev. Jo
seph (3) Crandall, was born at Salisbury, New
Brunswick, Canada, July 14, 1805, died at
Oakfield, Maine, July 26, 1902. He came to
the United States in middle life and located at
Oakfield, Maine, where he had a farm and
saw mill. He married Catherine Wheaton,
born at Salisbury, in 1812, died at Oakfield,
1897. Children, born at Salisbury: 1. Asa,
mentioned below. 2. Washington, born 1841,
died at Oakfield, unmarried, January 19, 1903.
3. Martha, born March 8, 1842 ; married Harry
Fisher, born in Cumberland, England, April,
1833, came to Nova Scotia at the age of
eighteen years and to Oakfield at the age of
thirty-five; now a prosperous farmer at Oak
field. 4. Matilda, born 1844, died about 1884;
married  Mills, of Salisbury, a farmer.
5. Bonaparte, born 1846; married Olive
Thompson, of Oakfield, where they reside on
a farm. 6. James (q. v.). 7. William, born
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fourteen years. 8. Mary Helen, born 1852;
married Swanton Higgins, who is now living
near Bangor, a retired farmer ; she died in
Oakfield in 1887. 9- Kate, born 1854, died
aged seventeen years. 10. Marshall, born 1855 ;
a farmer at Oakfield ; married Florence Bren-
nan. 11. Henry, born 1859, died at Oakfield,
aged twenty-seven years ; married Jennie
Drew. 12. Belle, born 1861 ; married Frank
Goodell, a mill owner of New Brunswick.
(VII) Asa Crandall, son of Joseph (4)
Crandall, was born at Monkton, Nova Scotia,
1839, died at Oakfield, Maine, 1901. He at
tended the public schools of Monkton, and was
afterward a lumberman at Morrill, Island
Falls and elsewhere along the Penobscot river,
settling at length in Oakfield. In politics he
was a Republican. He was a member of the
Baptist church. He married (first) a Miss
Wheaton; he married (second) Estelle Drew,
born at Linneus, Maine, 1859, died at Oakfield,
1893, daughter of Aaron Drew. Her father
was born in 1828, at Smyrna, Maine, and died
at Oakfield, 1897, a farmer, member of the
Baptist church. He married Olive Cookson,
born September 19, 1835. She is now living
at Oakfield. Children of Aaron and Olive
Drew: 1. Estelle, married Asa Crandall, men
tioned above. 2. Hannibal, married Annie
Randall, of Linneus; they live at Dyer Brook.
3. Olive, resides in Oakfield, unmarried. 4.
Hattie, married Harry Dwyer, of Millinocket.
5. Samuel, married Sadie Howard, of Patten;
they reside at Oakfield. 6. Jennie, married
Harry Crandall. Children of Asa Crandall by
his first wife: 1. Frank, born 1866; married
Lydia Miles and resides at Linneus. 2. Lona,
born 1870; married Henry Murchie, a farmer
and owner of a mill and threshing machine.
3. Idella, born 1872; married Isaac Fredericks,
of New Brunswick; they live at Oakfield.
Children of Asa Crandall by his second wife
Estelle : 4. Bertha. 5. Guy, mentioned be
low. 6. Abel, born February 22, 1887 ; attend
ed the public schools of Oakfield ; farmer and
lumberman ; Republican in politics and Bap
tist in religion; married, February 26, 1913, in
Oakfield, Geneva Shorey, born at Oakfield,
November 29, 1894; school teacher before her
marriage, daughter of William Shorey, born
at Lowell, Maine, 1861, a prosperous farmer
and lumberman of Oakfield ; Democrat in poli
tics and formerly road commissioner ; married
Minnie Crandall, daughter of James Crandall,
of Monkton. William Shorey resides at Oak
field. His children: 1. Annie, born 1885, mar
ried Charles Sherman, of Oakfield, a farmer
there. 2. Vera, married Roy Boutler, or Bou-
tilier, a native of New Brunswick, now of Oak
field, a farmer. 3. Geneva, married Abel Cran

dall, "mentioned above. 4. Mary, born April
22, 1889, married Edward Williams, a native
of Penobscot county, a farmer of Oakfield.
(VIII) Guy Crandall, son of Asa Crandall,
was born at Oakfield, Maine, September 9,
1885. His parents removed to Island Falls,
Maine, when he was eleven years old and he
attended the public schools there. During his
youth he worked on his father's farm. He
followed farming and railroading on the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad until 1906, when
he bought a farm of seventy-five acres in Oak
field, near the village. Since then he has con
ducted this farm. He has also a farm of sev
enty-five acres about three miles from the vil
lage. In politics he was formerly a Repub
lican, now a Progressive. He has been fence
viewer of the town of Oakfield. He attends
the Baptist church, and is a member of Oak
field Lodge of Orangemen. He married, No
vember 19, 1905, at Smyrna Mills, Alma J.
Clark, born at Oakfield, July 4, 1890, educated
in the Oakfield schools, daughter of Bernell
Clark, who was born at Oakfield in 1870. Her
father is living at Oakfield and has followed
farming there all his active life. In politics
he is a Republican. He has been a member of
the school board and road commission. He
married Annie Moore, born in New Bruns
wick, daughter of Samuel Moore. Samuel
Moore died in Oakfield, where he was a
farmer. He married  Walton. Chil
dren of Bernell Clark: 1. Alma J., married
Guy Crandall, mentioned above. 2. Harold,
born 1892, resides at Oakfield. 3. Mary, born
1894, married Charles Grant, born at Oakfield,
a farmer. 4. John, born 1899. 5. Charles,
born 1901. 6. Lawrence, born 1910. Children
of Guy Crandall: 1. Asa B., born at Oakfield,
March 20, 1907. 2. Kenneth, born September
1, 1909. 3. Calvin Howard, born September
30, 1911.

(VII) James Crandall, son
CRANDALL of Joseph Crandall (q. v.),
was born in Salisbury, New
Brunswick, Canada, September, 1849, and
now lives at Oakfield, Maine. He was a lum
berman, but was compelled to retire from
active work because of his health. He is a
Republican in politics, and has served as dep
uty sheriff of Aroostook county for ten years ;
as road commissioner for two years ; and
for several years as a member of the school
committee. He is a member of Monument
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Houl
ton, and of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, of Houlton. He married,
January 23, 1869, at Boundary Creek, New
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ton, New Brunswick, February 14, 1850.
They both are members of the Baptist
church. Children: 1. Minnie, born Febru
ary 23, 1870, at Salisbury; married William
Shorey, of Enfield, Maine, and they live at
Oakfield ; he is a lumberman and farmer ; chil
dren : Annie, married Charles Sherman, of
Oakfield; Vera, married Roy Boutler or Bou-
tilier, of Oakfield; Geneva, married Abel Cran
dall; Mary, married Edward Williams, a
farmer of Oakfield. 2. Carrie B., born at
Oakfield, January 1, 1872; married James
Kinney, of Jackson Brook, Maine; they live
at Oakfield; children: Roland, of Oakfield;
Chalmer, of Oakfield; Dolly, lives with
mother; Milton, deceased; Waldo, Kate and
Florence, living with mother ; Eldin. 3. Harry,
mentioned below. 4. Kate, born at Oakfield,
December 22, 1876; married John Shorey, of
Enfield, Maine; she died 1904, and he lives in
New Hampshire, where he runs a boarding
house ; children : Edith, lives in Oakfield with
aunt ; Earl, is with father ; Freeda, deceased.
5. Harvey, born at Oakfield, May 10, 1879;
married Madge Sprague, of Oakfield, where
they live; he is a Republican; children: Nel
lie, James and Glenms, living with parents. 6.
Blanche L., born at Oakfield, July 23, 1880;
married James Shorey, of Enfield; he is a
farmer and also is employed by railroad; chil
dren : Ray, Virginia, Lester, Avis, Freeda,
Daphne, living with parents. 7. Frank B.,
born at Oakfield, August 16, 1882; married
Ruth Russell, of Fort Fairfield, Maine: they
live at Oakfield, where he is a lumberman ;
children : Mary, Katy, living with parents. 8.
Mary E., born at Oakfield, July 22, 1884; mar
ried Samuel Antworth, of New Brunswick;
she died 1904, at Oakfield; he lives at Stock
holm, Maine; no children living. 9. Nellie,
born August 29, 1886; married Henry Sher
man, of Oakfield, where they live on a farm;
children : Mary, Helen, Ruth, Edith, living
with parents. 10. Gertrude M., born at Oak
field, July 22, 1888; married Harley Sprague,
of Oakfield, where he is a barber ; children :
Hazel, Charles, Goldie, Frank, Mildred, living
with parents. 11. Charles P., born at Oak
field, January 15, 1890; married Mary Martin,
of Oakfield, where they live ; child, Joseph
Preston. (VIII) Harry Crandall, son of James Cran
dall, was born at Oakfield, Maine, November
19, 1873. He attended the public schools of
his native town, and during his youth and
young manhood was employed in farming and
lumbering. In April, 1907, he bought a farm
in Oakfield, comprising one hundred and forty-
three acres and since then he has followed
farming there. In politics he is now an inde

pendent Progressive; was formerly a Repub
lican. He was road commissioner of the town
for one term. He is a member of the Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 845, of
Houlton, and was formerly a member of the
Knights of Pythias, of Houlton. He attends
the Free Will Baptist church.
He married, December 21, 1896, in Smyrna,
Agnes L. Adams, born in Oakfield, December
14, 1880. She attended the public schools and
graduated from the Linneus Corner High
School. For five terms she taught school be
fore her marriage. She is a member of the
Baptist church (see Adams II). Children:
1. Don, born September 8, 1898. 2. Marjorie,
born March 31, 1900. 3. Marion, born Febru
ary 3, 1902. 4. Lloyd, born July 20, 1904. 5.
Jane, born May 14, 1906. 6. Marshall, born
May 9, 1908. 7. Arthur, born October 20,
1910. 8. Ada, born January 19, 1913.
(The Adams Line).
(I) William Adams was born in the Prov
ince of New Brunswick, probably in 1806,
died at Linneus, Maine, in 1886. Pie settled in
Linneus after his marriage, and was a farmer
and lumberman there the remainder of his life.
In politics he was a Republican, and he was
a member of the Free Will Baptist church,
being a deacon and an active member towards
its support. He married Eliza Plughes, born
in Ireland in 1816, died at Linneus, August 19,
1913. She was eight years old when her par
ents came to this country and settled in New
Brunswick; they came to Linneus, where her
father was a farmer. Children: 1. Charles,
born in New^ Brunswick, died at Linneus;
farmer; married Ellen Boyd, of Linneus. 2.
James, born in New Brunswick; married Jes
sie Mitchell, of New Brunswick; they live on
farm in Linneus. 3. John, born in New
Brunswick ; married Lottie Russell ; they live
on farm in Hodgdon, Maine. 4. Justus, men
tioned below. 5. Murray, born at Linneus;
married Sophronia Brown, of New Bruns
wick ; they live on farm at Linneus. 6. George,
born at Linneus ; married Phoebe Hansom, of
New Brunswick; she died at Linneus, where
he lives. 7. Sarah Jane, born in New Bruns
wick; married Justus Woodworth, of Lin
neus, where they live on farm. 8. Louise,
born at Linneus ; married (first) William Kur-
ven, of New Brunswick; farmer; married
(second) George Sterritt, of Linneus, where
they live on farm. 9. Maggie, born at Lin
neus ; married John Hughes, of New Bruns
wick ; they live at Houlton, Maine ; he is a
building mover. 10. Mary, born at Linneus;
married Alfred Hughes, brother of John
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neus ; married Dennis Hansom, of New Bruns
wick ; he lives on farm at Linneus ; she is dead.
(II) Justus Adams, son of William Adams,
was born April 18, 1847, at Linneus, Maine,
and lives now at Oakfield, Maine. He is a
farmer, and has lived in Oakfield ever since his
marriage. He is a Republican in politics, and
has served as road commissioner. He attends
the Baptist church. He married Jane David
son, born in the Province of New Brunswick,
October 4, 1848. Children, born in Oakfield:
1. William, born April 18, 1870; married
Becky Brown, of Oakfield, where they live on
farm. 2. George, born May 12, 1872 ; married
Gertrude Higgins, of Oakfield, where he is a
farmer and lumberman. 3. Scott, born May
14, 1874; lives with parents, unmarried. 4.
Emma, born July 29, 1877; married Fred Ray
mond, of Wallagrass, Massachusetts ; they live
at Oakfield on a farm. 5. Agnes L., married
Harry Crandall (see Crandall VIII). 6. James,
born August 11, 1883; married Blanche Hunt
ley, of Oakfield, where they live. 7. Lewis,
born June 9, 1886; lives with parents, unmar
ried. 8. John, died in infancy.

Thomas Griffin, doubtless a de-
GRIFFIN scendant of Humphrey Griffin,
a pioneer of Ipswich, Massa
chusetts, and progenitor of most of the Grif
fins of the state of Maine, was born in Free-
port, Maine, June 17, 1770, died at Levant,
Maine, July 22, 1857. He married, at New
Gloucester, August 9, 1796, Hannah Rollins,
born there, September 27, 1777, died at Levant,
December 30, 1848. Children, born at Pow
nal, Maine : 1. Carina P., born August 9, 1799,
died September 5, 1875, at Levant. 2. Priscilla,
born October 16, 1800. 3. Samuel Rollins,
mentioned below. 4. Stephen M., born Octo
ber 19, 1803. 5. Hannah, born October 25,
1804, died at New Gloucester, Maine, Decem
ber 1, 1870. 6. Thomas, born June 5, 1806.
7. Charles, born November 20, 1807, died Feb
ruary 16, 1879, in North Bridgton, Maine.
8. John, born March 23, 1809. 9. Martha,
born November 17, 1810. 10. Albert, born
September 6, 1812, died January, 1885. 11.
Moses R., born August 24, 1814, died at
Levant, February 27, 1855. 12. Benjamin,
born August 5, 1816. 13. Jacob S., born July
26, 1819.
(II) Samuel Rollins Griffin, son of Thomas
Griffin, was born January 18, 1802, in Pownal,
Maine, died at Calais, Maine, June 30, 1896.
He learned the trade of ship carpenter and
joiner. For many years he followed farming
in Charlotte, Maine, and in Pembroke, Maine,
where he spent most of his active years. After
he retired from active labor he settled in

Calais. In early life he was a Whig, and later
a Republican. He was a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. Pie married, August
3, 1828, Susanna P. Eldridge, born in St. John,
Charlotte county, New Brunswick, December
9, 1-805, died in Pembroke, Maine, 1900. She
was a devout Methodist. Children, born at
Charlotte and Pembroke: 1. Thomas G., born
March 27, 1829, at Pembroke, died in Char
lotte, September 9, 1879; a farmer and joiner
of Mapleton; married Sarah McGlauflin, of
Charlotte; children: James C, married Maggie
Argent, and resides in Alabama ; Arthur W.,
farmer, Mapleton, married Rose Argent, sister
of Maggie ; Constantine, died young. 2. Mar
garet E., born in Charlotte, July 24, 1830, died
April 2, 1913; married (first) Josiah McGlauf
lin, of Charlotte, veteran of the civil war,
served in the Seventh Regiment Maine Volun
teer Infantry, killed in the service ; children :
Lillian, married Heman Sprague, of Boston;
Gertrude, married Horace McGlauflin, Meth
odist clergyman, Skowhegan, Maine; Alice,
married George B. Whidden; Mary, married
Edward Greenlaw, farmer, Presque Isle. Mar
garet E. married (second) Albert McGlauflin,
a blacksmith, who died at Presque Isle. 3.
James G., born at Charlotte, August 27, 1831,
died there, unmarried, June 6, 1853. 4- Stacey
A., born July 25, 1833, died at Caribou, Maine,
1910; was a farmer; married (first) Sarah
Meek, of Littleton, Maine; (second) Mrs.
Cordelia (Toothaker) Soule, widow of Ben
jamin Soule, of Mapleton, a farmer, veteran
of the civil war; married (third) Mrs.  .
Stacey A. was a soldier in the civil war for a
year in the Eleventh Maine Regiment; chil
dren: Herbert, married Ida Merrill, resides at
Caribou ; Osgood, farmer, Caribou, married
Annie  ; Millie, married Austen Foss,
farmer, Kenduskeag, Maine; Stacey Evander,
married Alice Mills, Caribou. 5. Albert Stan
ley, mentioned below. 6. Infant, died young.
7. Infant, born September 2, 1838, died young.
8. Infant, born February 11, 1840, died young.
9. Samuel A., born January 10, 1841, in' Char
lotte ; farmer, Pembroke ; served in a cavalry
regiment from Maine in the civil war, was
badly wounded, now a pensioner, member of
the Grand Army; married (first) Eliza Tar-
bell of Charlotte, (second) Sarah Johnson, a
native of Massachusetts; children by first wife:
Percy and Herbert. 10. Susan Melvina, born
July 13, 1843, in Charlotte; married. Elijah
Wilder, of Washington county, Maine, now
living in Caribou; children: Fannie, married
Charles Murphy, a dentist in Calais ; Stephen,
a harnessmaker in Calais, where his father is
also a harnessmaker. 11. Stephen R., born
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killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3,
1864; was a private in the Thirty-first Maine
Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 12. Leonora E.,
born September 23, 1849, in Charlotte, died
there October 3, 1849.
(Ill) Albert Stanley Griffin, son of Samuel
Rollins Griffin, was born May 1, 1835, in Char
lotte, Maine. He attended the public schools
of his native town, and followed farming on
the homestead until he came of age. He then
became one of the pioneers of Mapleton,
Maine, and cleared a tract of land there. In
1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Maine Regi
ment Volunteer Infantry, and served until the
end of the war. He was a musician and played
in the regimental band. He was mustered out
in Portland, Maine, in 1865. After the battle
of the Wilderness he carried a rifle and took
part in every engagement of his regiment. He
was in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley,
in the battle of Winchester, at the siege of
Petersburg, at Fredericksburg and Appomat
tox. He returned to his farm, after the war,
but subsequently sold it, and bought a farm
of one hundred and sixty acres of his sister,
Margaret E. (Griffin) McGlauflin, clearing the
greater part of it. In 1908 he sold his farm
and retired. Since then he has lived in the
village of Mapleton. In politics he is a Re
publican ; in religion an Adventist. He is a
member of McGlauflin Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, and has held various offices, and
a former member of Mapleton Grange.
He married, August 10, 1865, in Portland,
Mary A. Waldron, born in Portland, February
22, 1842. She was educated in the common
schools and is a member of the Advent church
(see Waldron VIII). Children: 1. Eva Al-
bertina, born March 4, 1867 ; married Ernest
T. McGlauflin (see McGlauflin IV). 2.
Charles E., born August 8, 1869 ; farmer in
Mapleton ; member of the Mapleton Grange,
and Mapleton Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons ; married Blanche Thompson ; children :
Luona, married Irving Dudley, of Mapleton,
one child, Frank Dudley ; Luella, married,
June 17, 1914, Theodore Southard, of Presque
Isle ; Sterling, Ellery, Charles, Zelma and
Sherman, who died in infancy. 3. C. Lewis,
born April 3, 1871 ; farmer in Castle Hill, for
merly of Mapleton ; a Free Mason, Odd Fel
low, and member of the Grange ; married
Christina (or Tennie) Bird, of Castle Hill;
children : Velma, Delta, Alden. 4. Alice E.,
born October 6, 1873 ; married Winfield Saw
yer, of Castle Hill, a farmer ; she is a member
of the Advent church and of the Grange ; chil
dren : Ivan H. and Pearl. 5. Rosa, born Janu
ary 31, 1878; married Harry W. Greenlaw, of
Masardis, registered guide, lumberman; she

is a member of the Grange; children: Crystal,
Lloyd, Etta, Lauretta; Crystal married, in
1914, George Buzzell, of Caribou, one child,
Clairon Buzzell. (The Waldron Line).
The Waldron family has been traced for
several centuries in England. The ancient seat
of the family is in Warwickshire.
(I) Edward Waldron or Walderne lived at
Alcester, Warwickshire, England, and was
buried there January 13, 1590. He married
Joan  . Children : George, mentioned
below; Edward, buried February 11, 1619;
William, baptized April 18, 1581.
(II) George Waldron, son of Edward
Waldron, was buried at Alcester, April 12,
1588. He married, July 3, 1576, Joan Shollard,
who was buried July 27, 1627.
(Ill) William Waldron, son of George
Waldron, was baptized at Alcester, July 25,
1577, and was buried there December 25, 1636.
Pie married, November 26, 1600, at Alcester,
Catherine Raven. Children, born at Alcester:
1. William, mentioned below. 2. George, bap
tized April 26, 1603. 3. John, baptized Octo
ber 25, 1606. 4. Thomas, baptized October 29,
1608, died in 1633. 5. Foulke, baptized March
3, 1610. 6. Robert, baptized April 9, 1612.
7. Elizabeth, baptized October 10, 1613. 8.
Major Richard, "baptized January 6, 1615; was
one of the most prominent pioneers of New
Hampshire, settled at Dover, New Hampshire,
1636 ; treasurer, commissioner to hear small
causes, selectman, deputy to the general court
and speaker of the house at Boston for six
years; president of the province, 1681 ; tor
tured to death by Indians in 1689. 9. Kath
erine, baptized February 7, 1618. 10. Alex
ander, baptized April 6, 1620. 11. Humphrey,
baptized August 4, 1622. 12. Edward.
(IV) William (2) Waldron, son of William
(1) Waldron, was baptized in Alcester, Octo
ber 13, 1 601. He came to Dover about the
same time as his more famous brother, Major
Waldron. He was recorder from 1641 to
1648; a magistrate in 1642; member of the
church ; deputy to the general court, 1646. He
was accidentally drowned in 1646. Children :
1. Christopher, mentioned in the English pedi
gree, which is on record in the chancery court,
England. 2. William, born 1642. 3. George.
4. Alexander, died at Dover, 1676. 5. John,
mentioned below.
(V) John Waldron, son of William
Waldron, lived at Dover, taxpayer, 1672.
(VI) John (2) Waldron, son or nephew of
John (1) Waldron, lived in Dover. A tradi
tion, however, states that he lived in England
when a boy. Another tradition makes him a

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relative of Major Richard Waldron. The tra
dition has it that a man named Heard took
John in an unfair manner from an English
seaport. But John Pleard, of Dover, in his
will, April 21, 1687, mentioned "Waldron, my
apprentice." John Waldron married a widow
and another romantic story is told of this mar
riage. She was born October 2, 1668, mar
ried (first) June 30, 1686,  , (second)
August 29, 1698, John Waldron. She was a
daughter of John and Mary (Heard) Ham,
and granddaughter of John Heard, the master.
John Waldron's will is dated August 12, 1740.
Children: 1. Sarah. 2. Bridget, killed by In
dians. 3. Richard, mentioned below. 4. John,
died 1778. 5. Elizabeth. 6 Anna. 7. Mehit
able. 8. Sarah.
(VII) Richard Waldron, son of John (2)
Waldron, was born in Dover, about 1700. He
inherited the homestead. He married 
Smith, of Durham, New Hampshire. His will
was dated August 6, 1671, proved January 29,
1672, mentions wife Elizabeth. Children: 1.
Colonel John, born 1740. 2: Hannah. 3. Eliz
abeth. 4. Mary. 5. Joseph, born May 16,
1744. 6. Richard, mentioned below. 7. Sam
uel. 8. James.
(VIII) Richard (2) Waldron, son of Rich
ard (1) Waldron, was born in Dover, 1749.
His farm was afterward owned by the town.
He married, October 25, 1773, Elizabeth
Clements, daughter of Job Clements. Chil
dren, born in Dover: 1. Elizabeth. 2. Rich
ard, born March 30, 1775. 3. Mary, born De
cember 27, 1777. 4. John, died young. 5.
Abigail, married David McDuffee, and lived at
Winthrop, Maine. 6. Joseph C. (And others).
Richard Waldron, or a cousin of the same
name, married Mary Hall, and died at Port
land, Maine. Children: 1. Silas Hall, men
tioned below. 2. American Prospect, married
Maria Mason. 3. Francis Ashby, a miller,
grinding corn and salt, Portland ; married
Harriet Fairbanks. 4. William Harrison, divi
sion superintendent of a railroad ; married
Harriet Mortley. 5. Hannah, died at Portland,
aged eighteen years. 6. Mary Gould, married
Rodney Chaffin ; children : Mary Augusta,
married Joseph O. Fuller ; Sarah Jane, Julia
Jennette, Emily Francis, Agnes Angelia, Ellen,
Charles Rodney, Frank William. 7. Jeanette,
married Nathaniel Hicks, farmer ; children :
Hattie and Emma.
(IX) Silas Hall Waldron, son of Richard
Waldron, was born about 1800. He was a
miller and ground salt and corn. In politics
he was a Republican in later years. He mar
ried Mary Ann Sawyer Hamilton, born near
Portland, died there in 1868, aged over eighty-
four years. She was a member of the Advent

church. They had fifteen children: 1. Silas
H., of Winthrop, farmer, veteran of the civil
war ; married Lydia Dow. 2. Eugene, died
young. 3. Harriet, married Charles F. Corey,
a druggist, Portland. 4. Mary A., married
Albert S. Griffin (see Griffin III). 5. Rose,
married Willis G. McGlauflin, mentioned in
the McGlauflin sketch. 6. Joseph, died in
childhood. 7. Alzina, died in childhood. 8.
Albertina, died young. 9. Emma, died in Cari
bou ; married Otis Reynolds. 10. Anna, died
in Augusta, Maine, unmarried. Four other
children died in childhood. 15. Ernest, the
youngest, lives in Portland, Maine; married
Mrs. Minnie Abbott.

James McGlauflin (or
McGLAUFLIN Lochland as originally
spelled) came to Amer
ica toward the last part of the eighteenth cen
tury, and settled in New Hampshire. With
him came two of his brothers. His children
were : David, William, John, James, Thomas,
Barbara, Sally, Mary.
(II) John McGlauflin, son of James Mc
Glauflin, was born in Charleston, New Hamp
shire, October 11, 1798, died in Charlotte,
Maine, December 6, 1850. He was a farmer
in Charlotte, where he married, 1819, Hannah
Smith. She was born in Dennysville, Maine,
February 11, 1805, died in Presque Isle, Maine,
January 5, 1880. Children: 1. Albert, born De
cember 31, 1819, died in Presque Isle, May>
1891 ; he was a blacksmith and a Baptist minis
ter married (first)  , (second) Margaret
Griffin ; no children. 2. Lewis, born February
12, 1821, died in Sacramento, California; was
a farmer and broker. 3. Thomas, born June
9, 1822, killed during civil war; was in Seventh
Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 4. John,
born December 5, 1823, died in New York
state; was a minister. 5. William Vance, born
January 2, 1826, died January 25, 185 1. 6.
Hannah, born October 19, 1827, died June 10,
1842. 7. James, born March 13, 1829, died in
Presque Isle ; was postmaster and merchant in
Mapleton, Maine; Republican; married (first)
Martha Greenlaw, (second) Marion Green
law, sister of his first wife ; she lives in Chat-
man, Maine. 8. Josiah, born August 20, 1830,
killed during civil war; was in Seventh Maine
Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 9. Mary, born
May 23, 1832, died in Mapleton, Maine; mar
ried Levi Hughs, of Charlotte, a farmer. 10.
Sarah, born October 14, 1833, died in Maple
ton; married (first) Thomas Griffin, uncle of
Ernest T. McGlauflin, mentioned below ; mar
ried (second) Hall Packard, of Washburn,
Maine. 11. Isaac, born June 20, 1835, died in
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ten, Maine, later in Presque Isle; was trial
justice in Presque Isle several years; married
Sarah Hammond, of Lincoln, Maine. 12.
Nancy, born January 30, 1837, died at Presque
Isle; married John H. Sprague, of Presque
Isle, a trader. 13. Ezra, mentioned below.
14. Helen, born January 11, 1841, died at a
camp meeting; living at Pembroke at the time ;
married Elwell Carter, of Pembroke, a farmer,
who died in April, 1913. 15. Elvira, born
October 29, 1842, died in Mapleton; married
Ira Carter, brother of Elwell Carter, farmer
and upholsterer. 16. Laura, born December 30,
1844, died in Mapleton; married James Wil
cox, of Mapleton, farmer. 17. Willis G., born
December 23, 1846; lives in Portland, Maine,
partner of Gould's drug store; served in Sev
enth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry ;
married Rose Waldron. 18. Hannah, born
October 21, 1848, lives in Mapleton; married
John Waddell, of Castle Hill, a Universalist
minister. (Ill) Ezra McGlauflin, son of John Mc
Glauflin, was born in Charlotte, Maine, De
cember 11, 1838, died in Blaine, Maine, July
11, 1896. He was a farmer until the time of
the civil war, when he enlisted, 1863, in the
Seventh Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry,
with Albert S. Griffin, father of the wife of
his son, Ernest T. McGlauflin. They both
served during the remainder of the war and
both were members of the band a part of the
time. After his marriage he worked as a lum
berman, living at Mapleton, Maine, and later
was a wheelwright and blacksmith at Presque
Isle. For several years before his death he
was agent for the Portland Transcript. He
was an Independent Republican in politics,
and was an Adventist. He was a member of
Grange No. 143, of which he was master for
several years ; he was also master of Pomona
Grange, the County Grange, for a number cf
years. He was a member of Wade Post,
Grand Army of the Republic. He married,
August 18, 1861, Melissa A. Sprague, born in
Charlotte, Maine, March 30, 1837, died in
Presque Isle, Maine, September 17, 1905. She
was a member of Grange No. 143, and an Ad
ventist in religion. She was daughter of Mer
rill Sprague, born in Pembroke, August 26,
1812, died June 1, 1886, in Charlotte, Maine.
He was a Whig and later a Republican ; mem
ber of the Baptist church and of the Grange.
He married, May 24, 1836, Drucilla Welch,
born at Deer Island, New Brunswick, Febru
ary 27, 1815, died at Charlotte, February 26,
1892 ; she was a member of the Grange and of
the Baptist church. Children of Merrill and
Drucilla (Welch) Sprague: 1. Melissa A.,
married Ezra McGlauflin, mentioned above.

2. Henry Augustus, farmer, died in Charlotte
in 1905; married Annie Gardner, of Charlotte;
she lives in Connecticut. 3. Elvira, died at
Charlotte, 1898; married Joseph Lampson, of
Presque Isle, where he is a retired farmer now.
Children of Ezra and Melissa A. (Sprague)
McGlauflin, born in Presque Isle: 1. Ernest
T., mentioned below. 2. Winfred, born Octo
ber 2, 1871, died December 3, 1871. 3. Selden
A., born February 20, 1874; married Maude
Porter, of Castle Hill, Maine ; they live at
Presque Isle on a farm; member of Grange
No. 143, of which he has been master, and of
Modern Woodmen of America, Presque Isle;
children : Mabel and Philip, living with par
ents. (IV) Ernest T. McGlauflin, son of Ezra
McGlauflin, was born at Charlotte, Maine, July
7, 1863. He attended the public schools of
Presque Isle, the Presque Isle high school and
St. John high school, now the Aroostook State
Normal School. Before leaving school he had
taught two terms in Presque Isle and after
ward he was a teacher at Mapleton one term.
In 1883 he began • farming and he has con
tinued in this occupation to the present time.
His son, Harvey F. McGlauflin, is now culti
vating his farm at Presque Isle. For eight
years Mr. McGlauflin was in the employ of
the Parmenter & Polsey Fertilizer Company.
For the past seven years he has been secretary
of the Aroostook County Patrons Fire Insur
ance Company. He is also secretary of the
Northern Maine Patrons Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company and of the Aroostook Mutual
Fire Insurance Company. In politics he is an
independent. Pie is a member of the Aroos
took LTnion Grange, No. 143, Patrons of Hus
bandry, of which he has been master. He was
secretary of Pomona Grange, the county organ
ization, for sixteen years. For the past
eighteen years he has been secretary of the
Northern Maine Fair, Presque Isle. He is a
charter member of the Modern Woodmen of
America and a member of Lookout Camp,
Sons of Veterans, of Presque Isle, and has
been its captain. For several years he has
been deacon of the Advent church.
He married, January 17, 1888, Eva Al-
bertina Griffin, born at Mapleton, March 4,
1867. She is a member of the Presque Isle
Advent Church, of Aroostook Union Grange,
of which she has been ceres and secretary (see
Griffin III). Children: 1. Ray H., born Feb
ruary 10, 1889; an electrician at Presque Isle;
member of Trinity Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of which he is senior warden, and of
Aroostook Union Grange. 2. Harvey F., born
December 31, 1890; member of Aroostook
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Workmen; married, October 26, 1910, Georgia
May, who was bom in New Brunswick ; he
manages his father's farm at Presque Isle;
children: Elaine T., born July 3, 191 1, at Fort
Kent, died there February 4, 1912 ; Irene Dor
othy, born May 31, 1913. 3. Floyd E., born
June 24, 1895 ; employed by the Presque Isle
Electric Company ; member of Aroostook
Union Grange, of which he has been assistant
steward. 4. Vera A., born March 7, 1902.

John Damon, the immigrant an-
DAMON cestor, was born in England, and
came as early as 1633 to this
country. He was a planter of Scituate, Massa
chusetts, in 1644. With him came his sister
Hannah, mentioned with John Damon as
legatees, children of a sister of William Gil-
son, whose will was dated February 1, 1639-
40. John Damon succeeded to the Gilson place
on Kent street in 1649. He married (first)
in 1644, Katherine, daughter of Henry Mer-
ritt. He married (second) Martha Howland,
of Plymouth. John Damon died in 1776 and
the inventory of his estate is dated, October 23,
1676. His widow Martha and son Daniel made
depositions preserved in the records. Chil
dren by first wife: Deborah, born April 25,
1645; Jonn, November 3, 1647; Zachariah,
February, 1647, died young; Mary, July, 1651 ;
Daniel, February, 1652 ; Zachariah, mentioned
below. Children by second wife: Experience,
April 17, 1662 ; Silence, January 2, 1663 ; Eben
ezer, January 11, 1665 ; Ichabod, April 8, 1668;
Margaret, July 20, 1670; Hannah, December
2, 1672.(II) Lieutenant Zachariah Damon, son of
John Damon, was born at Scituate, Massachu
setts, in 1654. He was an officer in King
Philip's war. He married Mehitable  .
Children, born at Scituate: Martha, July,
1682; John, June, 1684; Zechariah, 1686;
Daniel, mentioned below; Mary, March, 1690;
Hannah, November, 1694; Mehitable, Febru
ary, 1696.
(Ill) Daniel Damon, son of Lieutenant
Zachariah" Damon, was born in 1688. He mar
ried, at Scituate, January 3, 1711-12, Bath-
sheba Sylvester. Children, born at Scituate:
Hannah, April 24, 1713; Daniel, April 23,
1716; Joseph, mentioned below.
(IV) Joseph Damon, son of Daniel Damon,
was born December 16, 1720, at Scituate, Mas
sachusetts, died at Abington, Massachusetts,
March 7, 1806, aged eighty-six. His wife died
at Abington, November 2, 1792, aged sixty-
nine years. He married, November 13, 1742,
at Scituate, Joanna Damon, daughter of Ex
perience and Ruth Damon. She was born May
4, 1722. Her father, Experience Damon, born

April 7, 1693, was son of Experience, grand
son of John (I). Children of Joseph Damon:
Joseph, baptized November 6, 1743, died
young; Joseph, baptized May 18, 1746;
Joanna, baptized November 4, 1750; Leafa
and Ruth, baptized with Joanna; Abiah or
Abiel, mentioned below; Mercy, died at Ab
ington, November 15, 1734, aged seventy-
seven ; Ezra. Probably other children.
(V) Abiah Damon (or Abiel as he was
originally named), son of Joseph Damon, was
one of twin sons, and both served in the revo
lution. Abiah Damon, of Abington, was a
soldier in Captain Joseph Trufant's company,
Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, August to
December, 1776, and also from May, 1777, to
December, 1779, in Captain Lincoln's com
pany. He was in Captain Robert Day's com
pany, Colonel Freeman's regiment, in 1777;
matross in Captain Amos Lincoln's company
(second), Colonel Paul Revere's regiment, in
1780. He was from Abington in 1780, in Cap
tain Edward Cobb's company, Colonel Elipha
let Cary's regiment ; also in Captain Lincoln's
company of artillery, at Castle Island, 1779.
He married, at Hingham, November 6, 1783,
Lucretia Gardner, daughter of Joshua Gard
ner, granddaughter of Stephen Gardner and a
descendant of John Gardner, of Hingham, a
pioneer there in 1650. Soon afterward, in
1786, he removed to Perry, Maine.
(VI) Joshua G. Damon, son of Abiah or
Abiel Damon, was born at Pembroke, Maine,
November 24, 1801, died at Charlotte, Maine,
April 22, 1881. He was a farmer and miller
in Charlotte, where he settled before his mar
riage and lived the remainder of his life. He
was a Democrat in politics and a member of
the Masonic fraternity. He married, June 23,
1827, in Charlotte, Abigail Morgan, born
March 26, 1806, in Pembroke, died at Char
lotte, July 28, 1861. Children: 1. Abigail,
born December 23, 1829, died at Charlotte,
December 4, 183-3. 2. Eliza, born February
12, 1831 ; married John Baker. 3. Joshua K,
born April 11, 1833, died at Charlotte, 1894;
he was a farmer; served in the civil war, 1861-
63; married Emeline Norwood, November 11,
1857 ; children : William, Eveline, Adelaide. 4.
George, born September 8, 1837; served three
years in the civil war ; married Augusta Mor
gan, of Charlotte. 5. Levi, born September 8,
1837, twin of George, died at Charlotte, Octo
ber 28, 1856; was a farmer. 6. Sarah, born
April 9, 1840, died May 19, 1841. 7. James
A., born April 30, 1842; farmer, Charlotte;
married, August 24, 1871, Mary Boyd. 8.
Arvella K, born September 18, 1844, died at
Charlotte, 191 1 ; married Isaiah Damon, a first
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March 21, 1847, died May 16, 1855, at Char
lotte. 10. Jason Franklin, mentioned below.
(VII) Jason Franklin Damon, son of Joshtja
G. Damon, was born at Charlotte, Maine, May
13, 1850. He is a farmer in his native town.
In politics he is a Democrat. He has been
road commissioner of the town. He is a mem
ber and has been master of the Charlotte
Grange. He attends the Methodist Episcopal
church. He married, at Calais, Maine, August,
1870, Elizabeth Hobart, born at Edmunds,
Maine, March 2, 1851, died at Charlotte, Feb
ruary 19, 1897. She was a member of the
Congregational church and of the Charlotte
Grange. Children of Jason Franklin Damon :
1. Albert Hobart, mentioned below. 2. Ralph
Talman, born March 15, 1873; married
Lemma Milbury, of Nova Scotia ; now residing
in Concord, New Hampshire, claim agent for
the Boston & Maine railroad; child, Marjorie,
born July, 1906. 3. Paul Hobart, born July
10, 1894; assists his father on the farm.
Albert Hobart, father of Mrs. Damon, was
born at Edmunds, Maine, June 5, 1821, died-
at South Maitlands, Nova Scotia, April 6,
1906. He married, May, 1846, at Little Falls,
Edmunds, Maine, Sarah Jones Hobart, a
cousin. She was born February 16, 1824, at
Little Falls, died November 21, 1908. He was
a sea captain, afterward in the lumber indus
try at South Maitlands, in partnership with
Daniel K. Hobart, who was American consul
at Windsor. Albert Plobart was a Republican,
member of the Congregational church. Chil
dren of Albert and Sarah Jones Hobart: 1.
Edmund Hobart, born at Edmunds, Maine,
March 29, 1847, died at South Maitlands, Jan
uary 4, 191 1, a lumberman. 2. Elizabeth Ho
bart, married Jason Franklin Damon, men
tioned above. 3. Octavia Hobart, born at Ed
munds, May 5, 1853, died July 4, 1898, at
South Maitlands ; married Gilmore McDougal.
Aaron Hobart, father of Albert Hobart, was
a farmer at Edmunds. Sarah Jones Hobart
was a daughter of Isaac Hobart, father of
Isaac and Aaron Hobart. Isaac Hobart Sr.
came from the Hingham family, served in the
revolution and received a grant of land at Ed
munds on account of his military service.
(VIII) Dr. Albert Hobart Damon, son of
Jason Franklin Damon, was born at Charlotte,
Maine, October 23, 1871. He attended the
public schools of his native town and the
Hebron Academy. He was a student at Dart
mouth College for several years and afterward
at the University of Vermont, from which he
was graduated in June, 1900, with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine. He joined the medical
fraternity, Alpha Kappa Kappa. He began to
practice his profession in Franklin, Maine, and

continued until 1902, when he located at Lime
stone, in that state, where he has practiced
since then. In politics he is a Republican, and
he has taken an active part in public affairs.
He has been superintendent of schools of
Limestone for three years and a member of
the board of education ever since he has lived
at Limestone. He is now chairman of the
school board. He is at present president of
the board of trade. He is a member of the
Aroostook County Medical Society, the Maine
State Medical Society and the American Med
ical Association. He has also served on the
board of health of Limestone since he came to
the town and is now the health officer. He is a
master of Limestone Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons ; member of Garfield Chap
ter, No. 49, Royal Arch Masons ; of Frontier
Lodge, No. yy, Knights of Pythias. In religion
he is a Universalist, but attends the Methodist
church. He is financially interested in the
Limestone Water Company.
He married, at Charlotte, July 15, 1898,
Susie Elizabeth Fisher, born at Charlotte, June
13, 1872. She attended the public schools and
graduated from the Hebron Academy in 1892,
and was a student for one year at the Castine
Normal School. She taught school for six
years before her marriage in Poland, Robbins
ton and Charlotte, Maine (see Fisher X).
(The Fisher Line).
(I) Anthony Fisher, the first of the family
of which there is definite record, lived in the
latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in
the parish of Syleham, county Suffolk, Eng
land. This parish is- situated on the south
bank of the Wavenay river on a freehold estate
called Wignotte. He married Mary Fiske,
daughter of William and Anne Fiske, of St.
James, South Elmasham, county Suffolk, de
scendant of an ancient family of Puritans who
suffered during the persecutions of Queen
Mary. Anthony Fisher was buried April 11,
1640. Children : Joshua, baptized February
24, 1585; Mary, twin of Joshua; Anthony,
mentioned below ; Amos, married Anne Mor-
rise, widow of Daniel Locke; Rev. Cornelius,
baptized August 6, 1599; Martha, married
John Buckingham.
(II) Anthony (2) Fisher, son of Anthony
( 1 ) Fisher, was baptized at Syleham, England,
April 23, 1591. He was the immigrant ances
tor, and came to New England probably in the
ship "Rose," arriving in Boston, June 26, 1637.
He was admitted a freeman in May, 1645, and
was selectman of Dedham in 1646-47; deputy
to the general court, May 2, 1649; elected
county commissioner, September 3, 1660. Pie
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removed to Dorchester and was elected select
man there, December 5, 1664, and the two
years following; was commissioner in 1666.
He died in Dorchester, April 18, 1671. His
wife Mary was admitted to the church at Ded
ham, March 27, 1642, but he was not "con
formably received into the church- * * on
-account of his proud and haughty spirit" until
March 14, 1645. He married (second) No
vember 14, 1663, Isabel Breck, widow of Ed
ward Breck, of Dorchester. Children, all by
first wife : Anthony, mentioned below ; Cor
nelius; Daniel, about 1619; Nathaniel, born
about 1620, in Syleham ; Lydia, married Daniel
Morse; John, died in Dedham, September 5,
1638. (Ill) Anthony (3) Fisher, son of Anthony
(2) Fisher, was born in Syleham, England,
and came with his parents to this country. He
settled in Dedham in 1637, and was admitted
to the Dedham church, July 20, 1645, and was
admitted a freeman May 6, 1646. He was a
member of the Honorable Artillery Company
of Boston in 1644. He was elected surveyor
of Dedham in 1652-53-54. He also removed
to Dorchester and was selectman there in 1666.
He married, at Dedham, September 7, 1647,
Joanna Faxon, only daughter of Thomas and-
Jane Faxon, of Braintree, Massachusetts.
Children: Mehitable, born June 27, 1648, died
young; Experience, baptized August 11, 1650,
probably died young; Josiah, born May 1,
1654; Abish, baptized August 3, 1656; Sarah,
born October 29, 1658; Deborah, baptized Feb
ruary 24, 1661 ; Judith, baptized July 5, 1663 ;
Eleazer, mentioned below.
(IV) Eleazer Fisher, son of Anthony (3)
Fisher, was born in Dedham, Massachusetts,
September 18, 1659, died there, February 6,
1722. He married, at Dedham, October 13,
1698, Mary Avery, born there August 21,
1674, died at Stoughton, Massachusetts, March
25, 1749. a daughter of William and Mary
(Lane) Avery. Her father was baptized Oc
tober 2y, 1647, in the parish of Brekham,
Berkshire, England, a son of Lieutenant Wil
liam Avery. Children: Eleazer, born Sep-,
tember 29, 1699; William, June 28, 1701 ;
Jemima, September 28, 1703; David, men
tioned below; Ezra, February 8, 1707; Na
thaniel, 1708; Mary, October 27, 1710; Eze
kiel, October 22, 1712; Timothy, August 28,
1714; Stephen, July 11, 1715, died young ; Ben
jamin, May 1, 1721.
(V) David Fisher, son of Eleazer Fisher,
was born in Dedham, June 21, 1705, died July
30, 1779. He joined the South Parish Church
in what is now Norwood, Massachusetts, with
his wife, November 7, 1736. He married
(first) at Walpole, February 16, 1732, Deb

orah Boyden, of Walpole, born 171 1, died July
18, 1770. He married (second) November 7,
1770, Elizabeth Talbot, of Stoughton, born
February 22, 1754. Children, all by first wife :
David, mentioned below ; Thomas, born March
10, 1735; Jacob, June 23, 1737; Deborah, Oc
tober 23, 1739; Hannah, November 28, 1742;
Nathan, February 8, 1745; Oliver, May 23,
1747; Abigail, June 4, 1749; Mary, December
J3> I75I J Abner, June 20, 1755.
(VI) David (2) Fisher, son of David (1)
Fisher, was born at Dedham, January 22,
1733. He lived at Sharon. He was a soldier
in the revolution, lieutenant in Captain David
Savel's company, Colonel Lemuel Robinson's
regiment, April 19, 1775. He was also in Cap
tain Stephen Penniman's company, Colonel
Robinson's regiment, and in Captain Theoph
ilus Wilder's company, Colonel Dike's regi
ment, December, 1776, to March 1, 1777. His
will was dated March 19, 1812. He married,
September 21, 1758, Abigail, daughter of Isaac
and Mary (Whiting) Lewis, born there Decem
ber 4, 1738. Children, born in Sharon: David,
mentioned below; Moses, born April 1, 1761 ;
Aaron, December 16, 1762; Ebenezer, August
27, 1765; Catherine, September 28, 1767; Re
becca, July 29, 1769 ; Mary, died young ; Mary,
born July 12, 1776.
(VII) David (3) Fisher, son of David (2)
Fisher, was born at Sharon, June 26, 1759.
He married, November 20, 1781, Mehitable
Lewis, daughter Lieutenant Ebenezer and
Mercy (Guild) Lewis, born there February
20, 1762, died at Francestown, New Hamp
shire, May 4, 1849. They moved to Frances-
town, where he died November 8, 1829. From
his size, he weighed two hundred and fifty
pounds, he was called "King David." He
entered the revolutionary army at the age of
sixteen. He built a saw mill on what is still
called Fishers brook. Children, all but the
fourth born at Francestown : Mehitable, Feb
ruary 18, 1782; David, December 15, 1783;
Ebenezer, August 11, 1785; Joel, July 16,
1787; Susanna, at Sharon, November 5, 1790;
Increase, July 17, 1792; Enoch Hewins, men
tioned below; Benjamin, February 22, 1796;
Asa, October 1, 1798; Nancy, October 10,
1800; Levi, March 14, 1803; Mary, April 17,
1805; Thomas, May 12, 1808.
(VIII) Enoch Hewins Fisher, son of David
(3) Fisher, was born in Francestown, New
Hampshire, March 16, 1794, died at Charlotte,
Maine, December 17, 1882. He moved to
Charlotte a few years after his brothers,
David, Ebenezer and Increase. He married^
March 14, 1816, Roxanna, daughter of Wins
low and Esther (Sawtelle) Lakin. She was
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Charlotte, July 19, 1881. Children: Roxanna;
Enoch ; Levi, mentioned below ; Frances Wood
bury, born April 12, 1825 ; Hewins G. ; Charles
L. ; Esther; Reuben Perkins, June 28, 1836;
Antress R.
(IX) Levi Fisher, son of Enoch Hewins
Fisher, was born at Charlotte, Maine, Decem
ber 9, 1821, died January 23, 1883. He was a
deacon of the Baptist church thirty years, a
farmer and lumberman. He married Susan S.
Waterman, born August 23, 1819. His wife
died January 14, 1888. Children, born at
Charlotte : Ansel Waterman, mentioned be
low; Ambrose Levi, born February 3, 1847;
Horace Joseph, April 11, 1849; Clara L., Au
gust 9, 1851 ; Herbert P., July 1, 1856.
(X) Ansel Waterman Fisher, son of Levi
Fisher, was born September 29, 1845, at Char
lotte, Maine. He was a school teacher when a
young man, and afterward a salesman on the
road for many years. He was first selectman
for many years, member of the school board
and superintendent of schools. He has a grain
and feed store. He is a member of the Baptist
church, of which is a deacon. He is a member
of Pembroke Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons; of the Knights of Pythias, of Calais, and
of Charlotte Grange. He married, at Char
lotte, September 29, 1869, Sarah E. Gardner,
born at Charlotte, September 1, 1850. She is
a member of Pembroke Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, and of Charlotte Grange. Lucas
W. Gardner, her father, was born in Charlotte,
1821, died in Calais, April, 1903. He was a
farmer and lumberman in Charlotte, removing
to Calais late in life. In early life he was a
Whig, afterward a Republican. He was a
Free Mason, and was first master of the Char
lotte Grange. For many years he was first
selectman of Charlotte. He married Eliza
Lincoln, born in Pembroke, Maine, January 9,
1824, and is now living in Charlotte, a mem
ber of the Charlotte Grange. Children of
Lucas W. Gardner: 1. Alvira Gardner, born
1845, died at Calais, 1905; married (first) Ed
ward Hastings, of Marlborough, Massachu
setts, and had a daughter Sarah Hastings, now
of Machias, Maine; married (second) Alex
ander Duncan, of St. Stephen, New Bruns
wick. 2. Sarah E., married Ansel W. Fisher,
mentioned above. 3. William Gardner, born
1856; a retired architect, Seattle, Washington.
4. Frank Gardner, born 1858, died in infancy.
Isaac Gardner, father of Lucas W. Gardner,
was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, and died
at Charlotte. He was a lumberman. Children
of Ansel W. Fisher: 1. Frank L., born July
21, 1870; a traveling salesman and merchant at
Audubon, Pennsylvania ; married Belle Weikel.
2. Susie Elizabeth, married Dr. Albert Hobart

Damon (see Damon VIII). 3. Maude L., born
November 29, 1874; married Arthur Sylvester,
of Etna, Maine, now of Woodland, station
agent and telegraph operator ; daughter, Grace
M., born June 9, 1906. 4. Herbert L., born
July 23, 1889; graduate of the University of
Maine, now civil engineer at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania.

The Trafton family settled
TRAFTON before 1700 in York county,
Maine. Benjamin Trafton
died without issue, leaving a will, dated June
4, 1706, bequeathing his property to his
brother, Zacheus Trafton, brother, Thomas
Trafton, and brother (brother-in-law) Wil
liam Beale. From his brothers descend the
families of Maine of this surname.
(I) General Mark Trafton, descendant of
the York county family, was born July 4, 1785,
in Maine, died at Bangor in that state, Sep
tember 15, 1857. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and became a leading citizen of
Bangor, prominent in civil and military affairs.
When a young man he was active in the state
militia and was commissioned captain of
cavalry and as such he served in the war of
1812. He was afterward brigadier-general of
the state militia. He was a Democrat in poli
tics and represented his town in the general
court in Boston and after the state of Maine
was incorporated in 1820 he was state sena
tor in 1822. For several years (1828-1840)
he was postmaster of Bangor. He was land
agent for the eastern and northern sections of
Maine before the office was opened at Bangor.
He served in the city council of Bangor and
held other offices of trust. He was appointed
to the custom house at Fort Fairfield and
moved thither in 1843. He was one of the
founders of the town of Limestone, Maine,
and furnished capital for the building of mills
there. With B. D. Eastman and others he was
in business at Limestone -for many years. He
returned to Bangor in 1857, died in the same
year and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.
He was a member of the Unitarian church. He
married (first) June 10, 1808, Eliza Goodhue,
of the Ohio Settlement, born February 10, 1785,
sister of Nathaniel Goodhue. She died at Ban
gor, August 22, 1818. He married (second)
September 13, 1822, at Bangor, Ann Bright,
of Croton, Massachusetts, born February 13,
1798, died December 1, 1832, at Bangor. He
married (third) June 27, 1838, Eliza A. San
born, born August 5, 1816, died December 4,
1843. Children by first wife: 1. Mary Ann,
born April 14, 1811, died October 15, 1813.
2. Sarah Goodhue, born November 8, 1812,
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shall. 3. Mary Eliza, born September 11, 1814,
died December 13, 1842. 4. Martha Ann, born
July 4, 1817, died in 1849; married Eben Web
ster, of Orono, Maine, owner of a lumber mill.
Children by second wife : 5. John Bright, men
tioned below. 6. Ann Bright, born February
17, 1825, died March 3, 1825. 7. Mark Jr.,
born May 18, 1826, died August 16, 1913, mar
ried Maria Libby, of Limestone, Maine, who
died March 17, 1893; he was a pioneer in
Limestone, farmer and merchant; children:
Charles W, a merchant, died in Limestone,
March I, 1912; Alice, married Joseph Lunt,
died April 30, 1900 ; Martha, married John M.
Thurlough, of Fort Fairfield; Elizabeth E.,
married Jerre F. Hacker, a merchant of Fort
Fairfield, died February 10, 1902, leaving a
son, Tom E. Hacker. 8. William Bean, born
November 3, 1827, died in New York City,
April 5, 191 1 ; school teacher and real estate
dealer. 9. Mary Ann, born September 11,
1829, died at Utica, New York, in 1901 ; mar
ried (first) Richard S. Jones, September 3,
1853, a merchant, and had Milton Trafton and
Fred Jones; married (second) William Taylor,
of Utica. 10. Charlotte, born December 29,
1831, died September 18, 1832.
(II) John Bright Trafton, son of General
Mark Trafton, was born at Bangor, Maine,
September 4, 1823, died at Fort Fairfield, June
26, 1896. He attended the public schools of
Bangor and the Waterville Classical Institute.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in
Penobscot county. He practiced law in Fort
Fairfield. In politics he was a Democrat. He
was for two years county attorney. He was
a communicant of St. Paul's Protestant Epis
copal Church, Fort Fairfield, and for many
years was its warden. He was a member of
Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Fort Fairfield, of which
he was past master; and of Houlton Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons. He married, September
19, 1847, Sarah Jane Staples, born August 24,
1831, in Sangerville, Maine, died October 17,
1893. She was a communicant of St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, Fort Fairfield.
Peter Staples, her father, was born, at Ber
wick, Maine, May 7, 1787, died at Fort Fair
field, April 15, 1855, aged sixty-eight years. He
was a farmer in Lebanon, Albion and finally
in Sangerville. After he retired he lived at
Fort Fairfield. He was a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. He married Mary
Keay, born at Lebanon, Maine, February 17,
1794, died at Houlton, April 20, 1871. Chil
dren of Peter Staples: 1. Nathaniel Seaver,
born at Lebanon, August 14, 1817, died at Leb
anon. 2. Benjamin Libby, born February 28,
1819, died at Houlton, June 18, 1891; promi-
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nent citizen of Houlton, clerk of courts many
years, trial justice, Democratic leader; married
Mary Trueworthy; children: Mary E., mar
ried Waldo G. Brown, hardware merchant, de
ceased; Ada L., married Walter D. Shaw, a
merchant in California. 3. Mary Elizabeth,
born at Albion, January 19, 1823, died at
Houlton, 1898 ; married Charles W. Douty, of
Sangerville, a farmer, died in 1890; daughter
Ella, married Hickory A. Mansur, merchant,
and had Merton D. Mansur, dentist, Ashland,
Maine. 4. George W., born at Albion, July
28, 1825. 5. Sarah Jane, married John Bright
Trafton, mentioned above. Children of John
Bright Trafton: 1. John Seaver, born June
18, 1850, died at Fort Fairfield, June 8, 1863.
2. Mary Abby, born March 31, 1854, died at
Fort Fairfield, April 20, 1859. 3. Ann Staples,
born September 12, 1856; married, August 18,
1873, in St. Paul's Church, Fort Fairfield, Cal
vin Blake Roberts, of Caribou, a prominent
lawyer; she died November 13, 1911; chil
dren: Elva May, born May 2, 1874, died July
4, 1913, married C. F. Ross, now of San Diego,
California; Sarah Atlant, born May 15, 1878,
graduate of Colby College, librarian of the
public library at Caribou; John Blake, born
February 14, 1880, married Blanche Lamb, of
Sangerville; he is a graduate of Colby and of
Harvard Law School, a lawyer at Caribou;
Charles Fred, born November 18, 1883, stu
dent at Tufts College two years, a farmer at
Caribou, married Lilla Lewis ; Ann Trafton,
born June 22, 1885, died March 6, 1908, when
a senior at Colby; Melvin Philip, born Novem
ber 22, 1891, graduate of Colby College, assist
ant principal of Caribou high school; Dorothy
Isabel, born March 30, 1897. 4. Sarah Elva,
born April 2, 1858, died at Fort Fairfield, May
13, 1863. 5. Arthur Willie, born July 5, 1861,
died at Fort Fairfield, May 30, 1863. 6. Her
bert Walter, mentioned below.
(Ill) Herbert Walter Trafton, son of John
Bright Trafton, was born at Fort Fairfield,
May 26, 1864. He attended the public schools
of his native town, the Houlton Academy,
from which he graduated in 1882, and Colby
College, from which he was graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1886. He joined
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He read
law in the office of his father and of Calvin B.
Roberts, of Caribou, and was admitted to the
bar in February, 1891, and since then has prac
ticed law in Fort Fairfield. In politics he is a
Democrat. He was elected to the state legis
lature in 191 1. For several years he was super
intendent of schools of Fort Fairfield. He is
warden of the Protestant Episcopal church of
Fort Fairfield. He is a member of Eastern
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Masons, Fort Fairfield, of which he was mas
ter for five years; of Garfield Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; of Presque Isle Council, Royal
and Select Masters. He is a director and presi
dent of the Fort Fairfield- National Bank;
director of the Fort Fairfield Drug Company ;
director and treasurer of the Eastern Frontier
Masonic Hall Association. He married, Au
gust 24, 1 89 1, in Dexter, Maine, Kate Persis
Winslow, born in Dexter, December 20, 1864.
She graduated from the Dexter high school in
1883, and taught school for six years in Dex
ter and Fort Fairfield. During the last three
years she was a teacher in the Fort Fairfield
high school. She is a communicant of St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Fort
Fairfield; member of Goodwill Chapter, No.
85, Order of the Eastern Star, of which she
was matron for two years ; member of the
Philomathean Literary Society and of St.
Paul's Guild (see Winslow VIII). Children,
born at Fort Fairfield: 1. Sarah Winslow,
born August 10, 1894, died May 25, 1913. 2.
Gertrude Staples, born May 8, 1900.
(The Winslow Line).
(IV) Benjamin Winslow, son of James
Winslow (q. v.), was born at Freetown, Mas
sachusetts, June 19, 1717, died at Falmouth,
Maine, April 26, 1796. Pie came to Falmouth
with his father before 1728. He bought half
of Birch Island. He was a Quaker. He
married (intention dated August 11, 1738)
Hope Cobb, born March 24, 1716, died No
vember 20, 1797. Children, born at Falmouth :
Samuel, mentioned below; Sarah, June 18,
1741 ; Oliver, March 9, 1743, died young; Eliz
abeth, March 10, 1745; Benjamin, December
6, 1746; Joseph, July 31, 1748; William, June
19, 1750; Oliver, March 2, 1752; Hannah, Au
gust 18, 1754.
(V) Samuel Winslow, son of Benjamin
Winslow, was born at Falmouth, Maine, Sep
tember 15, 1739, died April 24, 1833. He mar
ried, May 24, 1762, Ruth Morrill, born Janu
ary 4, 1744, at Berwick, daughter of Peter and
Sarah (Peaslee) Morrill. She died October 5,
1825. Children : Hezekiah, born April 4, 1763 ;
Sarah, February 16, 1765 ; Samuel, mentioned
below; Sarah, February 14, 1770; Abigail,
March 19, 1772; James, April 5, 1774; David|
July 19, 1775; Mary, August 7, 1777; Benja
min, August 7, 1780; Jonathan, July 29, 1782;
Amos, April 25, 1784; Ruth, November 27
1787. A
(VI)_ Samuel (2) Winslow, son of Samuel
(1) Winslow, was born November 26, 1767,
at Westbrook, Maine, died October 15, 1841'
at Canton, Maine. He married, December 10,
1789, Susanna Stevens, born March 24, iy6y,

died October 28, 1871, aged one hundred and
four years five months, at Canton. They re
sided at Falmouth, Poplar Ridge, Westbrook,
New Gloucester, Jay and Canton, Maine. Chil
dren : William, born April 3, 1791 ; Ruth, April
7, 1793; Sarah, December 9, 1794; Thankful,
September 29, 1796; Samuel, November 3,
1798; Eli Knight, mentioned below; Holmes,
December 9, 1803; Nathaniel, March 29, 1806;
Andrew Cushman, January 18, 1808.
(VII) Eli Knight Winslow, son of Samuel
(2) Winslow, was born May 31, 1801, died at
Dexter, Maine, in 1876. He was a farmer
and house painter in Dexter. In early life
he was a Whig, afterward a Republican. He
married (first) in 1823, Mary (Polly) Adams,
born June 27, 1804, died in Dexter. He mar
ried (second) Clarissa Elder. He married
(third) Rhoda Jordan. Samuel Adams, father
of Mary, married Susanna Rist. Children :
Betsey, Moses, Abigail, Sally, Elias, Polly,
mentioned above, Joseph and Samuel Adams.
Joseph Adams, father of Samuel Adams, mar
ried Elizabeth Draper. Samuel Adams, father
of Joseph- Adams, married Sarah Paine. Jo
seph Adams, father of Samuel Adams, mar
ried Hannah Bass, daughter of John and Ruth
(Alden) Bass, grandson of John and Priscilla
(Mullins)u Alden, who came in the "May
flower." Henry Adams, of Braintree, was the
immigrant ancestor. Children of Eli Knight
Winslow: 1. Susanna, born July 29, 1824, died
at Dexter, unmarried, 1909. 2. Samuel Adams,
mentioned below. 3. Mary Jane, born De
cember 2, 1830, died in Dexter; married Jona
than Lane, of Ripley, a farmer and Advent
preacher. 4. Roscoe Green, born November
18, 1835, died March 31, 1906, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts; married (second) Mary Thurs
ton, now living in New York City with their
adopted son, Arthur, who served as a bugler
in the Spanish war and is now employed by
the telephone company. 5. John R., born Janu
ary 20, 1839, died young. 6. Clara Thbmas,
born September 6, 1841, died at Livermore
Falls, Maine; married (first) Roscoe Moore,
who was killed in the civil war, (second)
George Whitney, of Livermore Falls.
(VIII) Samuel Adams Winslow, son of Eli
Knight Winslow, was born" November 12,
1826, died at Dexter, Maine, December 2, 1905.
Plis parents moved from Green to Dexter
when he was a boy and he attended the schools
in Dexter. He was a painter by trade. In
politics he was a Republican. He married
Sarah Parker Lane, born at Ripley, April 26,
1832. She resides at Dexter and is a mem
ber of the Universalist church. Richard York
Lane, father of Sarah Parker Lane, was born
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all his active life, a Democrat in politics and a
Methodist in religion. He married Sally
Parker Thompson, born in Maine in 1805, re
sided in Ripley until 1892, and- died at Dexter
in 1895. She was also a Methodist. Children
of Richard York Lane: 1. Ann, lived many
years in San Francisco, died at Brockton,
Massachusetts; married (first) Rufus Craw
ford, farmer, Ripley ; children : Andrew, of
Brockton ; Harvey F., of Brockton ; Adolphus,
of Oldtown; she married (second) William
Flye, of Oldtown, and (third) Charles Fahye,
of California. 2. Julia Granby, married George
Jones, of Ripley, a farmer, and had one son,
Edgar Jones, farmer, Ripley. 3. Sarah Parker,
married Samuel Adams Winslow, mentioned
above. 4. Louise Fuller, born January 5, 1835 ;
married George Sampson, of Ripley, farmer;
children : Emma, married Reuben Henderson ;
Charles, farmer, Ripley ; Frank, potato buyer,
deceased. 5. Richard Fowler, born 1837;
police officer of Minneapolis ; married. Abbie
Estes. 6. Betsey Greeley, born 1839, died
young. 7. Cyrus Elias, born 1842, died at
Dexter, 1912 ; a barber by trade, later an
osteopath and farmer in Dexter ; married
Fannie Packard, of Brockton; children: Leon,
farmer, Dexter; Maisie, died young. 8. Sum
ner Warren, born 1846; married Rossie Welch,
of Ripley; children: Abbie; Sarah, married
Orrin Guiggey, farmer, Athens ; Cyrus, of
Ripley; Herbert, of Ripley. 9. Grace Ellen,
born 1849; married John Nutter, farmer of
Ripley, soldier in the civil war. 10. Frederick
Augustine, born 1852; married Mary Adams.
Webster Lane, father of Richard York Lane,
married Mercy Smith, and had children : Wil
liam, Sarchwell, Benjamin, Mary, Levi, Asa,
Richard York, mentioned above, Waitstill,
David Lane. Sally Parker Thompson, men
tioned above, was a daughter of James and
Hannah (Chase) Thompson, who had chil
dren: Daniel, Benjamin, Janet-a, Betsey, Mary,
Hannah^ Sally Parker, mentioned above, Abi
gail, Ann, Cassandra, Jonathan Thompson.
Children of Samuel Adams and Sarah Parker
(Lane) Winslow : 1. Waldo R., born June 29,
1855; married, November 29, 1883, Leila
Brown, of Dexter ; children : Bertha, born
September 2, 1884, died unmarried ; Amy Per
sis, December 12, 1886; Samuel Howard, July
3, 1888, died young. 2. Herbert Stanley, born
April 13, 1857, died February 18, 1902, at
Dexter, Maine; married, October 15, 1885,
Jennie Green, of Dexter. 3. Mary Louise,
born January 20, 1859. 4. Kate Persis, mar
ried Herbert Walter Trafton (see Trafton
III). 5. Annie Isabel, born January 7, 1867;
married Dr. Joseph Harvey Murphy, of An
dover, New Brunswick, a physician in Dexter ;

child, Grace M., born May 18, 1897. 6. John
Bates, born February 15, 1869; married Ida
Fuller, of Dexter; resides at Westbrook, a
dentist ; children : Katharine, born July 6,
1899; Clifford, July 24, 1901 ; Annie Louise,
March 18, 1907. 7. Sarah Parker, born June
29, 1871 ; assistant cashier of the Eastern Trust
and Banking Company, Dexter.

Plaven Glidden was born in
GLIDDEN Bethel, Maine, in 1790, died in
Presque Isle, Maine, in 1861.
He was a farmer in Bethel and later in Presque
Isle. He married twice. His second wife was
Mary Phair, widow of James Phair. Chil
dren by first wife: 1. Oren, resides in Bethel.
2. Freemont, a farmer of Gorham, Maine. 3.
Henry Chase, mentioned below. 4. Olive, mar
ried PI. P. Ingalls, a retired- manufacturer of
Portland, Maine; children: Molly Ingalls,
married Peter Kyle, an auctioneer of Portland;
Lillian Ingalls; Frank Ingalls; Florence In
galls (adopted). 5. Edna, married- George
Smith ; son, Moses Smith, now of South Paris,
Maine. 6. Mary, died at Bethel; married
 Bean, a farmer of Bethel ; children :
Charles and Frederick. 7. Jennie, married
Gus Moore, a barber of Auburn, Maine; son,
Archie, of Auburn.
(II) Henry Chase Glidden, son of Haven
Glidden, was born in Bethel, Maine, in 1834,
died at Presque Isle in March, 1906. He was
educated in the public schools. When a young
man he went to New York City, where he was
employed in the Metropolitan Hotel. After
his marriage he settled in Aroostook county
and cleared a farm, which he afterward sold
for $10,000. Prior to his death he moved to a
smaller place of about eleven acres in Presque
Isle. In politics he was a Republican. He
served on the school committee and as road
surveyor. Pie was in the service in the last
year of the civil war, stationed at Augusta,
Maine. He married (first) Nancy S. Hig
gins, born September 29, 1845, in Yarmouth,
Maine, died at Presque Isle, May 18, 1891.
She was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. He married (second) Theresa Welch,
of Gardiner Creek, Maine. She married (sec
ond) Cecil Pulsifer, a farmer, and is now liv
ing in Mapleton, Maine. Children by first
wife: 1. Oren Alleland, mentioned below. 2.
Henry Rodolph, born April 2, 1863 ; resides at
Tacoma, Washington ; married Minnie Cowan,
of New Brunswick; children: Juanita and
Kenneth. 3. Alden, born 1865; a real estate
broker at Skowhegan ; married Addie Taylor ;
children : Alton, Gerald, Muriel and Marshall.
4. William, born October, 1867; a painter of
Presque Isle; married Eva Irving; children:

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Marjorie, Irving, Harold. 5. Charles, bom
1872; a guide and cook, living at Tacoma,
Washington; married Christine Sundel, of
Vancouver, British Columbia. Children by
second wife: 6. Ruth, born at Presque Isle;
married Robert Burton, of Linneus, Maine.
7. Olive, born at Presque Isle.
(Ill) Oren Alleland Glidden, son of Henry
Chase Glidden, was born at Presque Isle,
Maine, September 29, 1861. He attended, the
public schools of his native town. When a
young man he went to live on the old Isaiah
Higgins farm, where he cared for his grand
father and grandmother in their declining
years. In 1893 he came into possession of the
farm, which comprises one hundred and sev
enty-seven acres, of which one hundred and
fifty acres are under cultivation and the re
mainder in timber. It is located six miles from
the village of Presque Isle, on the road to
Caribou. In politics he is a Progressive, but
was formerly a Republican. He has been road
surveyor of the town. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and of the Cari
bou Grange, in which he has filled the office of
overseer. He married (first) July 3, 1889,
Alice Campbell; he married (second) Novem
ber 4, 1907, in Houlton, Flora Augusta Mer-
ritt, born in Houlton, December 1, 1881. She
was educated in the public schools of Houl
ton and at the Felton School of Music, Boston,
Massachusetts. She taught music before her
marriage. She attends the Methodist church
and is a member of Caribou Grange and of
Luna Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star (see
Merritt IV). Children by first marriage: 1.
Winfield Ingalls, born April 25, 1890; attended
business college at Portland, now a farmer in
Caribou; married Edna May Irving, of Cari
bou. 2. Jesse Dempsey, born January 13,
1896; student at Bowdoin College. 3. Walter
Akers, born August 13, 1903. Children by
second marriage : 4. Frank Lowell, born Au
gust 30, 1908. 5. Freeman Maurice, born De
cember 16, 1909. (The Merritt Line).
Ezekiel Merritt (also signed Meritt) en
listed from Scituate, Massachusetts, December
3, 1781, as a private and fifer under Captain
Adams Bailey, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, and
served to June 10, 1783. He applied, April
15, 1818, when residing at Lebanon, Madison
county, New York, for a pension, which was
allowed, and his widow, Sarah (Snow) Mer
ritt, drew the pension after his death. He died
April 23, 1847, at Eaton, Madison county,
New York, and she died there, November 1,
1848, aged eighty years. Children: Azel,

Barnabas, Melzer, Stephen, Salathia, Betsey
Ann Mills. The above was received from the
Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Depart
ment, Washington, D. C. Also senate docu
ment, first session, twenty-third congress, 1835,
contains the following : "Ezekiel Merritt, fifer,
allowance, $96; sum received $1,525.29 ; placed
on pension roll August 20, 1819; commence
ment of pension April 15, 1818, aged 67."
(I) Ezekiel Merritt, probably the Ezekiel
Merritt, mentioned above, moved from Scitu
ate to Brockton, Massachusetts, about 1780,
and later to Hamilton, New York. Married
Sarah Snow, and among their children was
Ezekiel, mentioned below. The above is copied
from an old family Bible.
(II) Ezekiel (2) Merritt, son of Ezekiel
(1) Merritt, was born July 21, 1780, died Sep
tember 10, 1846, aged fifty-eight years one
month twenty days. He lived at North Bridge-
water, Massachusetts. He married, October
26, 1809, Lydia Knapp, daughter of Abijah
Knapp; she died August 7, 1874, aged eighty-
six years three months. Children : Phebe,
born July 17, 1810; Ezekiel, mentioned below;
Azel, born August 24, 181 5, died August y,
1817; Nancy, January 24, 1818, died January
24, 1897; Lsaac, September 7, 1820, died April
2, 1884; Sally, January 25, 1823; Lydia, Janu
ary 22, 1826, died March 24, 191 1 ; George,
August 5, 1828, died about 1897; Adeline,
February, 1831, died February 17, 1833. The
above was also copied from the family Bible.
(Ill) Ezekiel (3) Merritt, son of Ezekiel
(2) Merritt, was born in Massachusetts, No
vember 9, 181 2, died at Houlton, Maine, April
2, 1886. He was a farmer and butcher in his
native state and afterward at Lincoln, Maine.
His later years were spent at Houlton. He
was a member of the Methodist church. He
married Eunice Dean, born in Massachusetts
in 1816, died at Houlton, Maine, 1904. She
was a Methodist- and member of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Children: 1.
Edmund, resides at Bridgewater, Massachu
setts, a fruit grower and gardener ; served in
the civil war ; married Sarah Ingersoll, of
Houlton; children: Elmer, lives in the west;
Louis, a physician at Campello, Massachusetts ;
Susie; Howard, a dentist in California;
George; Edward; Sadie, married 
Keith. 2. George Francis, mentioned below.
3. Charles D., born 1847 ; owner of flour mills
at Houlton, and now resides at Seattle, Wash
ington; married Hannah Kinney, of Houlton;
children: Hattie; Fred F., married Edna Tin-
ling, of Houlton, and removed to Seattle;
Nellie. 4. Eunice V., born 1849, died at Houl
ton, unmarried, aged forty-six years. 5.

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Lyman B., born 1851, died at Santa Barbara,
California ; owner of flour mills, etc., in part
nership with Charles D. ; married (first) Lillie
Berry, of Smyrna, Maine; married (second)
Molly Rideout, of Ludlow ; child by first wife :
Mabel, died aged one year ; children of second
wife : Marion and Earl. 6. Hattie, died young.
(IV) George Francis Merritt, son of Eze
kiel (3) Merritt, was born at Mansfield, Mas
sachusetts, October 8, 1845. He learned the
trade of butcher in his youth. He followed
his trade and farming at Houlton, Maine. In
politics he is a Prohibitionist. He is a mem
ber of the Methodist church of Houlton, and
has been treasurer and steward. He is a char
ter member of Houlton Grange, No. 16, Pat
rons of Husbandry, of which he has been mas
ter for several terms. He married, in 1874,
Laura Chandler, born in Green Bay, Michigan,
September 28, 1853. She is a member of the
Methodist church and of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union and a charter member
of the Houlton Grange. James Chandler, her
father, was born at Presque Isle, and is be
lieved to have been drowned in the Mississippi
river. He was a carpenter by trade. He mar
ried Sarah Gilman, born in Maine in 1827,
died at Houlton, 1903. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Chandler: 1. Lizzie, married Henry
Fisher, of Council Grove, Kansas, a farmer;
she is living in Seattle; children: Laura E.
and Charles Fisher. 2. Laura, married George
Francis Merritt, mentioned above. 3. Lowell
E., a painter and paperhanger of Houlton;
married Maggie Mcllroy, of Benton, New
Brunswick; children: Linnie F., married
George H. Mooers, of Ashland ; Hazen J., a
surveyor of Houlton. 4. Rachel, died aged
ten years. Children of George Francis Mer
ritt : 1. Herbert Lincoln, born June 16, 1875;
educated in the Houlton high school and
Ricker's Classical Institute. 2. Lillian Ray,
born November 20, 1876; graduate of Ricker's
Classical Institute; school teacher at Yankton,
Oregon. 3. Albert Grayson, born April 4,
1878; graduate of Ricker's Classical Institute
and -of the Houlton Business College; a farmer
at Houlton; member of the Houlton Grange,
the Modern Woodmen of America, the Free
Masons and Odd Fellows; plays in the Houl
ton band and orchestra. 4. Frank Chandler,
born July 2, 1879; graduate of the Houlton
Business College; secretary of Congressman
Guernsey, Washington, D. C. ; member of the
Odd Fellows ; married Mabel B. Hibschman,
of Ambler, Pennsylvania. 5. Flora Augusta,
married Oren Alleland Glidden (see Glidden
III). 6. Fannie Fern, born August 31, 1891 ;
graduate of the Houlton high school.

(The Higgins Line).
(VI) Ephraim Higgins, son of Timothy
Higgins (q. v.), was born in 1775, at Standish,
Maine. He married (first) Rebecca Higgins,
of that town. He married (second) Mary
Thomas, born in Standish, died there Novem
ber 3, 1818. Children: Ephraim, married
Abbie  , who is now living at Buxton,
Maine ; Bradford, a farmer in Standish ; Isaiah,
mentioned below ; Lucinda, died at Standish.
(VII) Isaiah Higgins, son of Ephraim Hig
gins, was born at Limington, Maine, October
27, 1818, died in Presque Isle in June, 1900.
Pie was a farmer. He married, at Pownal,
Maine, November 12, 1841, Hannah Stubbs,
born in Cumberland, Maine, November 12,
1823. Children: 1. Mary, born July 27, 1843;
married (first) April 29, 1861, in Maysville,
Joseph Vance, born July 4, 1838, at Caribou,
died July 1, 1862, in New Orleans, a soldier
in the Fifteenth Maine Regiment; married
(second) Jerry Dempsey, born in St. John,
New Brunswick, January 13, 1840; children:
Elbridge Allen Dempsey, born September 15,
1865, and Mary Emma Dempsey, born Au
gust 29, 1881, married Clarence White, farmer
of Caribou, .and has children: Velma, Vesta
and Grover White. 2. Nancy S., born Septem
ber 29, 1845, married Henry Chase Glidden
(see Glidden II). 3. Abbie McDuff, born at
North Yarmouth, July 22, 1850, died July 1,
1852.

The Christie families of this
CHRISTIE country are probably all of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. There
were several pioneers of this family among
the early Scotch-Irish pioneers in London
derry, New Hampshire, prominent in New
Boston, Windham and other towns in the vicin
ity, and related it is thought to the New Bruns
wick family mentioned below.
(I) Jesse Christie was born about 1770, at
Sheffield, New Brunswick, died at Parish
Bright, in that province. He married Esther
Burpee, born in Sheffield, died at Parish
Bright. The Burpees settled early at Rowley,
Massachusetts, and were doubtless related.
Children: 1. Thomas, a farmer, died at Bear
Island, New Brunswick. 2. Joshua, died at
Washburn, Maine ; married Deborah Estey ; he
was a farmer. 3. James, died at Temperance
Vale, New Brunswick; was a blacksmith. 4.
Peter, mentioned below. 5. George, died at
Parish Bright; was a farmer; married Lydia
Clark. 6. John, died at Salmon River, New
Brunswick; was a millwright. 7. Jeremiah, a
tanner, died at Parish Bright; married Diana
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ried Tyler Coburn, a farmer. 9. Elizabeth,
married Archie Flemmon, a farmer. 10. Hep-
sibath, married Thomas Pasant, a farmer. 11.
Agnes, married William Clark.
(II) Peter Christie, son of Jesse Christie,
was born at Sheffield, New Brunswick, Febru
ary 14, 1795, died at Parish Bright, August 4,
1876. He came to Parish Bright with his
father, when he was a young man, and fol
lowed farming there. Pie was deacon of the
Congregational^ church, for many years. He
married Ollie Parent, born January 7, 1808,
died at Parish Bright, April 7, 1878. Chil
dren, all born at Parish Bright: 1. Jeremiah,
born May 30, 1830, died in Wisconsin; was a
shoemaker; married Barbara Sheridan, of
Parish Bright, now living in St. John, New
Brunswick; children: Oliver P., a lumber
man in Wisconsin ; Mary Olive, married
 Hethington, of Grand Lake, New
Brunswick, resides at St. John, a merchant.
2. Mary, born in. 1833, died in 1849. 3. John
Tennant, mentioned below.
(Ill) John Tennant Christie, son of Peter
Christie, was born at Parish Bright, New
Brunswick, July 6, 1837, died there August 29,
191 1. He was a farmer in his native town all
his active life. In religion he was a Congre
gationalist. He married, June 15, 1858, Cath
erine McFarlane, born in Perthshire, Scotland,
June 28, 1838, came with her parents to New
Brunswick in 1856, settled in the parish of
Douglas. She is a member of the Congrega
tional church. She is now living with her son,
mentioned below. Children of John Tennant
Christie, all born at Parish Bright: 1. Isabel
Coburn, born March 23, i860; married Thomas
Morehouse, of Parish Bright, living now at
Morehouse Corners, York county, New Bruns
wick, a farmer; she is an Episcopalian; chil
dren: Moses Burt, died young; Oliver, a
farmer, Parish Bright; Walter Earl, died
young; Kenneth. 2. Peter Daniel, born Au
gust 30, 1862; married (first) Ellen Jones, of
Jones' Mill, New Brunswick; children: Celia
Beatrice, married Henry Brewer, painter,
Parish Douglas ; Stella Mae, married Freeman
Gilby, farmer. Peter Daniel married (second)
Jane Estey ; children: Lydia, Frances, Lillie
Campbell, died young. 3. Alexander Herbert,
born February 23, 1865; married (first) Jane
Brewer, of Parish Bright; married (second)
Gertrude Hammond, of Mapleton, Maine;
children by first wife : Ralph ; Alice Catherine ;
Harold James, a machinist, Greenfield, Massa
chusetts ; child by second wife, Louis Free
man. 4. Jessie Ellen, born March 3, 1867, died
July 27, 1869. 5. Jessie, born March 23, 1869,
died April 14, 1913; married John Inch, of
Parish Bright; children: Ernest and Walter.

6. Walter Robert, mentioned below. 7. John
T., born September, 29, 1873; married Lizzie
Currie; resides on the homestead at Parish
Bright; daughter, Annie Myrtle, born 191 1.'
8. Lockwood B., born November 2, 1875 ; mar
ried Mrs. Amy (Ficket) Bostwick, of St. John,
New Brunswick, and had Iva Sutton, born
191 1. 9. Lillie Campbell, born May 1, 1878,
died July 7, 1900; married Henry Dayton, a
miller in the west. 10. William Wedderburn,
born August 16, 1883; resides at Fairbanks,
Alaska. Alexander McFarlane, father of Mrs.
Christie, was born in Scotland, 1806, died at
Parish Douglas, 1876. He came to this coun
try with six children and settled on a farm in
Douglas. In politics he was a Liberal; in re
ligion a Presbyterian. He married Ellen
Campbell, born and died in Scotland. Chil
dren of Alexander McFarlane: 1. Catherine,
married John Tennant Christie, mentioned
above. 2. Jeanette, born May 24, 1841, in Scot
land; married Andrew Steen, of Douglas; she
died April 30, 191 1 ; he was a farmer. 3. Wal
ter, born August, 1843, died May 7, 1895; a
manufacturer; married Jane Haines; she lives
in Fredericton. 4. John, born 1845 > resides at
Castle Bright on the homestead, unmarried. 5.
Alexander, born 1847, died 1894; married
Henrietta Foster, of Douglas ; resides on the
homestead. 6. William R., born 1849; married
Lucy Gill, of Gibson, New Brunswick; he died
in 1876; she lives at Woodstock. Alexander
McFarlane married (second) Jane McClellan,
born in Scotland, died in Douglas, leaving no
children. Walter McFarlane, father of Alexander Mc
Farlane, was born and died in Scotland. He
was a farmer. He married Catherine Clark,
born and died there also. Children of Walter
McFarlane: 1. Peter, died at Douglas; married
(first) Margaret White, (second) Helen Gra
ham. 2. Alexander, mentioned above. 3.
Jeanette, born in Scotland; married Andrew
Ryan, a blacksmith, native of Scotland. 4.
Agnes, married Neil McNorton, a farmer;
came from Scotland. 5. Mary, died in Scot
land ; married William Russell, a longshore
man. (IV) Walter Robert Christie, son of John
Tennant Christie, was born at Parish Bright,
York county, New Brunswick, September 6,
1871. He attended the public schools there,
and assisted his father on the homestead until
1890 when he removed to Presque Isle, Maine.
Three years later he bought a farm of one
hundred acres and to that he has added by pur
chase three hundred acres more. Most of his
four hundred acres is under cultivation. His
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politics he is a Republican. He attends the
Calvinistic Baptist church, and is a member of
Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Presque Isle, and of Aroostook
County Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of
Presque Isle. He married, September 5, 1894,
at Maysville, Zellah Jane Kitchen, born at
Jacksontown, New Brunswick, August 20,
1875. She attended the public schools there
and taught music before her marriage. She is
a member of the Calvinistic Baptist church, of
the Ladies' Aid Society, of the Grange and the
Hospital Aid (see Kitchen II). Children,
born at Presque Isle: 1. Jessie Fay, born No
vember 17, 1895, died November 28, .1896. 2.
Thelma Fay, born May 19, 1899; student in
the high school. 3. Dorothea Mae, born De
cember 11, 1906, died December 14, 1906.
(The Kitchen Line).
(I) Henry Kitchen was born at Parish
Bright, New Brunswick, in 1803, died at Jack
sontown, in that province, in 1887. He was a
farmer there all his life. He married Harriet
Spur, born at St. John, died at Jacksontown.
Children: 1. Lina, married  McGraw,
a school teacher of Jacksontown. 2. William,
mentioned below. 3. Mary Ann, married Fred
Estey, a farmer. 4. Martha, resides at Wal
tham, Massachusetts; married Benjamin
Estey, cousin of Fred Estey. 5. Burpee, re
sides at Brockton, Massachusetts; foreman of
a shoe factory ; married Carrie Richardson, of
Deer Island, New. Brunswick. 6. Plerbert, a
farmer, Jacksontown, unmarried. 7. Fannie,
married Alfred Smith, cotton mill employee,
Marysville, New Brunswick. 8. Carrie, mar
ried, in 1912, David Edson, shoemaker, Cam-
pello, Massachusetts.
(II) William Kitchen, son of Henry Kitchen,
was born at Jacksontown, New Brunswick,
June 6, 1845, died at Presque Isle, September
16, 1 901. He married, March 6, 1873, Mary
Hetty Estey, born at Jacksontown, December
22, 1845 (see Estey II). She resides with her
children at Caribou and Presque Isle. William
Kitchen was a farmer at Jacksontown and
Presque Isle, a Republican in politics, a mem
ber of the Calvinistic Baptist church and of
Maysville Center Grange. Children, born in
Jacksontown: 1. Hannah Maud, born March
9, 1874; married Herbert Lincoln Calkins, of
Presque Isle, now of Littleton, Massachusetts,
a Baptist minister; child, Louise Estey, born
January 2, 1905. 2. Zellah Jane, married Wal
ter Robert Christie (see Christie IV). 3. Vilah
May, born April 24, 1877 ; married Carl Leslie
Smith, of Presque Isle, now of Jennings
Lodge, Oregon, foreman in a canning factory.
4. Herbert Winslow, born October 11, 1878;

married Annie S. Greenlaw, of Presque Isle,
and had Alice Maryland, born February 9,
1908. 5. Minetta Joy, born April 14, 1880;
married, December 30, 1908, Thomas Jeffer
son Ramsdell, a Baptist minister, Caribou, and
had Ruth Evangel, born September 7, 191 1.
6. John Colby, born December 18, 1881 ; re
sides at Bull's Run, Oregon, merchant and
postmaster, unmarried. 7. Alva Newman,
born September 7, 1883; married Ella B. Clif
ford, of Portland, now of Presque Isle, retail
store dealer ; children : Doris Isabel, born Jan
uary 14, 1909 ; Geneva Ethel, September 2,
1910; Theodore Plawks, September 26, 191 1.
8. Eva Blanche, born January 10, 1886 ; mar
ried Merle Roy Smith, of Maysville; lives at
Presque Isle, a farmer ; child, Irving Kitchen
Smith, born July 31, 1912. 9. William Beverly,
born May 24, 1890; married, June 21, 1913,
Marion Hicks, of Portland, Maine; sales agent
there for the Underwood typewriter.
(The Estey Line).
(I) Endicott Estey was born December 9,
1777, died August 15, 1848. He was a farmer
in Jacksontown, New Brunswick. His wife
Hannah was born February 14, 1781, died
February 24, i860. Children: 1. William Bev
erly, mentioned below. 2. Mary E., born De
cember 17, 1806, died November 30, 1884;
married George Everett. 3. Hannah, born
January 1, 1808. 4. John, born December 23,
1810, died January 5, 1886; married (third)
Sarah True. 5. Jarvis L., born February 19,
1813, died December 29, 1865; married twice.
6. Charlotte, born May 29, 1815. 7. Jonathan,
born July 6, 1817, died February 8, 1889; mar
ried (second)  ¦ — Mills, (third) Mary
Jane Corliss, of Calais, Maine. 8. Charles,
born August 30, 1819. 9. Thomas E., born
November 3, 182 1. 10. Stephen, born Decem
ber 28, 1822 ; married Elizabeth Vandine.
(II) William Beverly Estey, son of Endi
cott Estey, was born at Jacksontown, New
Brunswick, November 10, 1804, died there Oc
tober 17, 1876. Pie was a farmer; member of
the Baptist church. He married, December 3,
1833, Hannah Churchill, born May 22, 1814,
in Jacksontown, died there July 10, 1866. Chil
dren: 1. William E., born July 30, 1834, died
there March 27, 1910; married Margaret Gray,
of Eel River. 2. Joseph E., born December
11, 1835, died at Woodstock, New Brunswick,
April 5, 1864. 3. Charles L., born October 17,
1837, died at Knoxford, New Brunswick, Feb
ruary 28, 1891 ; married Susan Nevers. 4.
Benjamin F., born October 19, 1839, died at
Woodstock, New Brunswick, October 12,
1902; married Martha Kitchen. 5. Hannah
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Massachusetts. 6. George H., born September
12, 1843, died at Hartland, New Brunswick,
January 16, 1907. 7. Mary Hetty, born De
cember 22, 1845; married William Kitchen
(see Kitchen II). 8. Sarah A., born Decem
ber 28, 1847; married John Hopkins. 9. Hen
rietta A., born March 1, 1850; married Joshua
Churchill, of Woodstock, New Brunswick,
now of Amesbury, Massachusetts. 10. Fred
erick M., born March 28, 1852, died July 4,
1852. 11. Alice M., born September 9, 1854,
died April 1, 1862. 12. Jennie E., bom No
vember 10, 1857, died March 16, 1901 ; mar
ried William Shipprell.

Most of the Higgins families
HIGGINS of Maine are descendants of
Richard Higgins, of Plymouth
and Barnstable, a sketch of whom appears else
where in this work. Some of his descendants
settled at Standish, Maine, and vicinity. In
the Saco Valley we find some Higgins families
of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
 Higgins, descendant of Richard Hig
gins, lived at Indian Point, Maine, and died
there. He was a farmer and carpenter. He
married twice. Children by first wif e : 1 . Reuel,
died at Ellsworth, Maine ; was a singing school
teacher, and later in life a ship carpenter;
served four years in the civil war ; married
Adeline Hale, sister of Adelia C. Hale, men
tioned below. 2. Sophia, resides at Raleigh,
North Carolina. 3. Bethany, died in Massa
chusetts. 4. Andrew Jackson, mentioned be
low. Pie married (second) Hittie  — and
had Fenlawn (Fenelon?), carpenter and mer
chant, Bar Harbor.
(II) Captain Andrew Jackson Higgins, son
of  Higgins, was born at Indian Point,
Mount Desert Island, about 1839, died at Ells
worth, Maine, 1906. He was a sea captain,
sailing to foreign ports. In politics he was a
Democrat. He was a member of Legonia
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
Ellsworth ; a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight
Templar. He married Adelia C. Hale, born
at Sedgwick, Maine, 1846, and now lives in
Ellsworth, in that state. She is a member of
the Baptist church and of the Order of the
Eastern Star of Ellsworth. Her father was
born in England, died in Sedgwick. He was
a farmer, carpenter and soldier in the civil
war. Children of her parents: 1. Eliza, died
at Sedgwick ; married Jonathan Penney, of
Blue Hill. 2. Amanda, died at Sedgwick ;
married Joseph Hutchins, who had a livery
stable there. 3. Sarah Jane, died at North
Brooklin Settlement, Maine; married Adams
Herrick, of Sedgwick, farmer and carpenter.
4. Hattie, died at Ellsworth; married Paul

Custer, of Blue Hill, owner of a shipyard. 5.
Adelia C, married Andrew Jackson Higgins,
mentioned above. 6. Charles, a sea captain.
7. George, resides at Ellsworth, a retired sea
captain, afterward a fish-packer in Eastport,
Maine; served in the navy in the civil war.
Children of Andrew Jackson Higgins: 1.
Charles, born at Ellsworth, died young. 2.
Schuyler, born 1875, at Ellsworth; married
Lena Jones, of Manchester, New Hampshire;
resides at Ellsworth, of which he is city mar
shal; member of the Senior Order, United
Workmen of America; children: Kenneth,
Wendell, Earl and another son. 3. Percy
Elmer, mentioned below.
(Ill) Captain Percy Elmer Higgins, son of
Captain Andrew Jackson Higgins, was born
at Ellsworth, December 28, 1886. He attended
the public schools of his native town and grad
uated from the Ellsworth high school in 1905.
He entered the University of Maine, from
which he was graduated in 191 1 with the de
gree of Bachelor of Laws. He is a member of
the Pi Alpha Delta fraternity of the law school.
He began to practice law in Ellsworth. After
a year he located at Limestone, where he has
since practiced. In politics he was formerly a
Republican, now a Progressive. He is at pres
ent tax collector in Limestone, Maine. He
was tax collector of Plantation No. 8 of Ells
worth in 191 2. He attends the Baptist and
Methodist churches, but is an Episcopalian.
He is a member of Lejok Lodge, No. 90, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ellsworth,
and served as right supporter of the vice grand
noble. He is a member of the Harvest Home
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, West Ells
worth, Maine. He was formerly a member of
the Knights of King Arthur and of the Daugh
ters of Liberty and Junior Order of United
American Workmen. He married, November
5, 1913, in Caribou, Harriet Orcutt Boulier,
born at Fort Fairfield, December 24, 1886.
She was educated in the Limestone public
schools and Melrose high school, Massachu
setts. She was a nurse in Melrose two years
and a school teacher in Limestone one year.
In religion she is an Episcopalian.
Solomon Boulier, father of Mrs. Higgins,
was born at Fort Fairfield, June 4, 1843. He
resides at Limestone, a hotel proprietor, agent
for fertilizers, bookkeeper. In politics he is a
Democrat. He is a member of Presque Isle
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He en
listed in June, 1861, in Company C, Fifteenth
Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was
transferred to the First Maine Battery, serv
ing through the Shenandoah campaign under
General Sheridan. He was discharged in Sep
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June 28, 1845, in Passadumkeag, Maine, died
at Limestone, Maine, November 10, 1910. She
was a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church. Children: Fern; Mildred, died
aged fourteen years; Harriet Orcutt, married
Percy Elmer Higgins, mentioned above.
Thomas Boulier, father of Solomon Boulier,
was born in New Brunswick, 1786, died at
Fort Fairfield, Maine, 1884. He was a general
jobber in Fort Fairfield for many years. In
politics he was a Democrat. In religion he was
a Roman Catholic. He married Harriet Cyr,
born in France in 1806, died at Fort Fairfield,
1889, a Roman Catholic in religion. Children
of Francis Boulier: 1. Francis Xavier, born
1838, went to Australia during the gold excite
ment and never returned. 2. Amos, born 1841,
died at Fort Fairfield ; was a farmer ; enlisted
in 1861 in Company G, Fifteenth Maine Regi
ment and served three years in the civil war.
3. Solomon, mentioned above. 4. Thomas,
born 1845; farmer, Fort Fairfield; married
Sarah Campbell. 5. Flora, born 1847 ¦ married
John Vasseur, of Madawaska, a farmer. 6.
Joseph, born 1850, died at Fort Fairfield ; en
listed in Company G, Fifteenth Regiment and
served three years. 7. Mary, born 1852; mar
ried Thomas Tardy, of Madawaska, now a
farmer in Van Buren. 8. Philip, died in Mars,
Maine; enlisted in Company G, Fifteenth
Regiment; married (first) Jane McDonald,
(second) — ¦  Leverett. 9. Denot Elizabeth,
born May 6, 1852 ; married Samuel C. Murphy,
harnessmaker, Fort Fairfield. 10. Mitchell or
Michael, served in Company C, Fifteenth
Regiment. 11. Anthony, died aged nineteen
years. 12. Annie, married Roland Howard.

The surname Guernsey,
GUERNSEY Garnsey or Garnsy, as it was
spelled interchangeably in
the early records, is taken from the name of
the Isle and the family undoubtedly originated
in the Isle of Guernsey. Henry Garnsey set
tled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early as
1655, and was admitted a freeman in 1690.
John and Joseph Garnsey settled in Milford,
Connecticut, about 1639. Both seem to have
had sons Joseph. Joseph Garnsey removed to
New Haven, where he was living in 1647 and
finally to Stamford, where he and his descend
ants lived for many years. He or his son
Joseph married, May 11, 1659, at Stamford,
Rose Waterbury, and had Joseph, born June
30, 1662, settled at Stamford ; John, born May
23, 1697, resided in Waterbury.
(I) John Guernsey, the immigrant ancestor,
came from the Isle of Guernsey and settled at
Milford, Connecticut, where he probably died
soon after 1659. Children: Joseph, born about

1640-50, married, at Milford, April 10, 1673,
Plannah, daughter of Samuel Cooley Sr., and
had Joseph, John and Hannah (also given
Sarah) ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John (2) Guernsey, probably the son
of John (1) Guernsey, and certainly of this
family, was born about 1650, died at Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, March 31, 1722. His wife
Elizabeth died April 11, 1714, at Rehoboth.
Pie married (second) at Rehoboth, August 16,
1716, Sarah Titus. Among his children were:
John, mentioned below; Ebenezer, married, at
Rehoboth, January 19, 1709-10, Mehitable
West; Elizabeth, married, May 6, 1703, James
Bowen, at Rehoboth; Mary, married, Septem
ber 3, 1713, Samuel Hicks, at Rehoboth.
(Ill) John (3) Guernsey, son of John (2)
Guernsey, was born about 1690. He married
(first) October 14, 1714, at Rehoboth, Judith
Ormsbee, who died August 27, 171 5. He mar
ried (second) at Rehoboth, June 6, 1717, Eliz
abeth Titus, who died April 11, 1771. Child,
born at Rehoboth, of first wife: Beriah, born
September, 1715. Of second wife: John, born
February 7, 1718-19, died February, 1718-19;
John, mentioned below; Oliver, born Septem
ber 27, 1722; Elizabeth, April 23, 1725; Solo
mon, 1727; Mary, February 22, 1731 ; Sarah,
May 15, 1735.
(IV) John (4) Guernsey, son of John (3)
Guernsey, was born at Rehoboth, Massachu
setts, January 4, 1719-20. He married, May
13, 1742, Lydia Healey. Children, born at
Rehoboth : Amos, born March 31, 1743 ; Lydia,
September 25, 1745, died young; Oliver, men
tioned below; Lydia, January 12, 1747-48;
William, January 11, 1749-50; Hannah, De
cember 30, 1752; Ruth, June 18, 1754; Esther,
May 22, 1756; Lois, July 5, 1758; John, May
7, 1760; Samuel, October 3, 1762; David,
March 30, 1764; Jesse, April 9, 1766; Mary,
January 6, 1768.
(V) Oliver Guernsey, son of John (4)
Guernsey, was born at Rehoboth, Massachu
setts, July 5, 1846. He removed to Richmond,
New Hampshire. He was a farmer. He mar
ried Rachel Ware. Among his children was
Benjamin, mentioned below.
(VI) Benjamin Guernsey, son of Oliver
Guernsey, was born at Richmond, New Hamp
shire, October 23, 1775. He became a farmer
and a tanner at Effingham, New Hampshire.
Children by first wife: Samuel, mentioned be
low; John Ware; Mary Ann; Eunice; Sarah
Jane. Child by second wife: Elizabeth Gil-
man. (VII) Samuel Guernsey, son of Benjamin
Guernsey, was born at Effingham, New, Hamp
shire, in 1803, died at Bangor, Maine, October
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most of the preceding generations had done,
though we have used the present spelling
throughout for the sake of uniformity. In
every generation various forms of spelling pre
vailed in different branches of the family. He
studied law in the office of Judge Bailey, at
Wiscasset, Maine. At the age of twenty-four
he was admitted to the bar and began to prac
tice law in Bangor in partnership with Judge
Chandler. He practiced law until 1837, win
ning honorable distinction at the bar, and was
connected with many important cases. In
1837 he entered upon a mercantile career in
the dry goods business, in partnership with
J. C. White and continued until a few years
before he died. He was a member of the First
Baptist Church of Bangor and for many years
one of the deacons. He married, about 1826,
Eliza A. Nicholas, of Wiscasset, born in that
town in 1807. Children: 1. Horace H., born
1830, died soon. 2. Thomas H., born May 26,
1831, died in Boston in 1884; married Caro
line Helen Ploadley, December 14, 1866; she
resides near New Haven, Connecticut ; he
graduated at Colby College, Waterville, Maine,
and was a member of the Penobscot bar and
member of the legislature of Maine in 1865-66
and a member of the judiciary committee in
that legislature ; served on the staff of Gov
ernor Samuel Coney during part of the civil
war with the rank of lieutenant-colonel ; later
practiced law in Boston and New York. 3.
Edward, born and died in 1833. 4. Isabelle,
born October 24, 1834; she married Edward
T. Hornblower, and resides at Arlington, Mas
sachusetts. 5. Edward Hersey, mentioned be
low. 6. William A., born 1839, died in New
York City, October 6, 1875 5 enlisted October
4, 1861, mustered in as a private November
16, promoted to sergeant October 27, 1862, in
the Second Louisiana Regiment ; promoted
captain of Company J, Second Regiment
Louisiana Infantry, October 14, 1863 ; mus
tered out with rank of captain March 26, 1865.
7. George H., born 1843, died 1853.
(VIII) Edward Hersey Guernsey, son of
Samuel Guernsey, was born June 10, 1837, at
Bangor, Maine, died at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
January 19, 1884. He was educated in the
public schools of Bangor. He was engaged
in the clothing trade at Dover, Maine, before
the civil war. He went to the front as sutler
of the Sixth Maine Regiment and afterward
became sutler of the Sixth Army Corps. At
the close of the war, in 1865, he and George
Norcross, of Bangor, fitted out an expedition
at New Orleans to explore for oil in Texas.
Later he engaged in the nickel-plating business
in New York City and continued until 1872,
when he went to the state of Tolima, Republic

of Colombia, South America, and engaged in
gold mining until 1878. After he returned
from South America in 1878 he became a hotel
proprietor in Boston, in partnership with
Zacharias Favour, and at the same time was
engaged in railroad construction in Wyoming.
In 1883 he made another trip to South Amer
ica to attend to his mining interests, was ill
when he returned and never recovered. In
politics he was a Republican. He was a Free
Mason. He married Hannah Morse (Thomp
son) Foss, born at Sangerville, Maine, April
20, 1833, died at Dover, Maine, June 18, 1908
(see Thompson VIII). Children: 1. Anna
Belle, died April 18, 1864, at Washington,
D. C, aged two years eight months. 2. Frank
Edward, mentioned below. 3. Samuel James,
born May 1, 1867, in Dover; a professor in
Harvard University; married Drisilla Camp
bell, of New Brunswick ; they reside in Arling
ton, Massachusetts. 4. Edwin Grant, died at
Dover, October 2, 1869, aged one year five
months. (IX) Frank Edward Guernsey, son of Ed
ward Hersey Guernsey, was born at Dover,
Maine, October 15, 1865. He attended the
public schools of his native town and Foxcroft
Academy. In the fall of 1885 he entered the
Bucksport (East Maine) Seminary. A year
later he became a student in the Wesleyan
Seminary at Kent's Hill, Maine, and remained
until June, 1887. In 1884 'he was graduated
from the Eastman Business College at Pough
keepsie, New York. He started in business,
May 12, 1884, in the hardware store of Sawyer
& Gifford, at Dover, and was a clerk there
until August 15, 1885. After leaving the
Kent's Hill Seminary, in 1887, he began to
study law in the office of Hon. W. E. Parsons,
of Foxcroft, and was admitted to the bar in
September, 1890. Since then he has prac
ticed law at Dover. In politics he is a Repub
lican. In September, 1890, he was elected
treasurer of Piscataquis county, was reelected
twice, serving in this office until December 31,
1896. In 1891 he was elected town agent of
Dover and was reelected each year for sixteen
years, serving until 1908. He represented the
towns of Dover, Sangerville and Parkman two
terms in the state legislature, 1897-99, and was
state senator in 1903. In September, 1908, he
was elected to the sixtieth congress to fill a
vacancy caused by the death of ex-Governor
Llewellyn Powers. He was reelected and
served in the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-
third congresses. His term expires in March,
1915. He is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, of the Piscataquis Club
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of Bangor, the Army and Navy Club, Wash
ington, and the Columbia Country Club, Wash
ington. He attends the Methodist church. He
is president of the Piscataquis Savings Bank,
elected in 1905, and was previously a trustee,
also a trustee of the Kineo Trust Company of
Dover. He married, June 16, 1897, at Vinal Haven,
Maine, Josephine Francis Lyford, (see Lyford
VII). She attended the Vinal Haven schools,
the Bucksport Seminary and the Maine Wes-
leyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, from which she
graduated in 1887. She is a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. The
only child of Frank Edward and Josephine
Francis (Lyford) Guernsey was Thompson
Guernsey, born at Dover, February 17, 1904.
(The Thompson Line).
(I) James Thompson, the immigrant ances
tor, was one of the original settlers of Wo
burn, Massachusetts, coming in Winthrop's
company in 1630. He probably settled first in
Charlestown ; according to tradition he was of
the party that landed at Salem in June, 1630.
He was born in 1593, in England, and his wife,
three sons and one daughter came with him to
this country. His coat-of-arfns is identified
with that of Sir William Thompson, a London
knight, and it is probable that he came of that
family. He and his wife were admitted to the
First Church of Charlestown, August 31, 1633,
and in- December, 1633, he was made freeman.
In December, 1640, he was one of the thirty-
two men who subscribed to the noted town
orders for Woburn, and he was one of the first
in the town. He was on the first board of
selectmen, and served in that office nearly
twenty years with short intervals. In 1650 he
was commissioner to carry the votes for town
officers to Cambridge. He owned much land,
and probably disposed of most of it before his
death, as it was not mentioned in his will. He
married (first) Elizabeth  , who died
November 13, 1643. He married (second)
February 15, 1644, Susanna Blodgett, widow
of Thomas Blodgett, of Cambridge. She died
February 10, 1661. He died in Woburn in
1682. Children : James, Simon, Olive, Jona
than, perhaps another daughter.
(II) Simon Thompson, son of James
Thompson, was born in England. He came to
Woburn with his father, being made freeman
there in 1648. He was one of the purchasers
of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and was one of
the seven who met to arrange some form of
local government. It is said that he was first
town clerk of Chelmsford. He died in May,
1658, within three years of the formation of
the new town. He married, December 19,

1643, in Woburn, Mary Converse, daughter of
Edward Converse. She married (second)
February 1, 1660, John Sheldon, of Billerica.
Children: John, Sarah, James, mentioned be
low ; Mary, Ann, Rebecca.
(Ill) James (2) Thompson, son of Simon
Thompson, was born in Woburn, Massachu
setts, March 20, 1649, and was the only son to
reach manhood. He assisted in the care of
the mill of his grandfather, Edward Converse,
living with his uncle, Samuel Converse, until
he came of age, after his father's death. He
married (first) January 27, 1674, Hannah
Walker, who died February 4, 1686. He mar
ried (second) April 13, 1687, Abigail Gardner,
of Charlestown. She married (second) Deacon
Edward Johnson. James Thompson died Sep
tember 14, 1693. Children of first wife: Han
nah, Joshua, James, Ebenezer. Of second
wife : Richard, Abigail, Simon.
(IV) Joshua Thompson, son of James (2)
Thompson, was born September 15, 1677, died
July 10, 1760. He lived in the part of Woburn
which was later Wilmington, and became a
church member in 1742. On March 2, 1731,
he was elected "Clerk of the Market." He
married, May 6, 1702, Martha Dayle, who died
June 3, 1749. Children: Joshua, Hannah,
Martha, Robert, James, Ebenezer, Esther, Abi
gail, Phoebe, Jacob, Hezekiah.
(V) Robert Thompson, son of Joshua
Thompson, was born probably about 1708,
died October 31, 1756. He settled in Wind
ham, New Hampshire, early- in life. Two of
his sons were in the French and Indian war,
and three or four in the revolution. No record
of his marriage has been found. Children:
Robert, Andrew, Samuel, James, Jonathan,
William, and very likely Benjamin.
(VI) Robert (2) Thompson, son of Robert
( 1) Thompson, lived in Londonderry, New
Hampshire, and was a selectman in 1782. He
served in the revolution, and was an elder of
the Presbyterian church. He married Mar
garet  . Children : Robert, Jenny, John,
Smith, Thomas, James, William, Betsey,
Peggy. (VII) James (3) Thompson, son- of Robert
(2) Thompson, was born in Londonderry,
New Plampshire, August 18, 1764, and settled
in Buckfield, Maine, when a young man. He
cleared a farm and lived there the remainder
of his life. He married (first)  Gregg,
probably daughter of Jonathan Gregg, of Lon
donderry. He married (second) Martha Gil-
more, probably daughter of Whitefield Gil-
more, and she died November 17, 1833. He
married (third)  Chase. Child of first
wife : Jonathan Gregg, born August 12, 1792.
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Robert, Margaret, Sarah Boies, James, Jere
miah Adam, John, Mary Jane, Charles. Child
of third wife: Elisha.
(VIII) James (4) Thompson, son of James
(3) Thompson, was born June 21, 1801, in
Buckfield, Maine, died in 1873, in Dover,
Maine. He received a public school education,
and worked on his father's farm. In 1826 he
moved to Sangerville, Maine, where he was a
farmer and until 1850 was engaged in lumber
ing, as well as conducting a general store. In
1850 he started a general store in Dover,
Maine, with C. O. Palmer as partner and was
also interested in the lumber business there.
He retired three years before his death. He
was a Republican in politics, and was select
man and town treasurer for several years. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Dover, and was a generous con
tributor to the church funds, especially to the
building fund when the new church was
erected. He married, June 12, 1825, Hannah
Hunt Coombs, born in Brunswick, Maine, May
18, 1806, died November 20, 1891, daughter of
Deacon John Coombs. Children: 1. Elbridge
Augustus, born January 4, 1828, died August
2, 191 1 ; prominent physician in Charleston,
and later at Dover, Maine; served as surgeon
in civil war ; was an active Republican leader,
serving in various important town, county,
state and federal offices; member of the legis
lature, served on the governor's staff in 1871,
rank of colonel, and member of the gov
ernor's council, 1873-74; delegate to Repub
lican national convention, 1876, and in 1880;
delegate-at-large, 1896. 2. Amanda E., born
February 7, 1830, died August 17, 1905; mar
ried C. O. Palmer, her father's partner. 3.
Hannah Morse, born April 20, 1833, died June
18, 1908; married (first) A. M. Foss, of
Charleston, Maine, (second) Edward H.
Guernsey, of Bangor (see Guernsey VIII).
4. Dr. Edwin J., born November 3, 1845 ! a
practicing dentist of Lynn, Massachusetts.
(The Lyford Line).
(I) Francis Lyford, the immigrant ances
tor, was in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as
1667. He owned land on the water front and
was called mariner. About 1689 he moved to
Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was select
man in 1689 and 1690; had a grant of two hun
dred acres in 1698; served in King William's
war in 1696, Captain Kinsley Hall's company,
Exeter ; was commander of sloop "Elizabeth"
of Exeter; constable, 1709, but another was
chosen to take his place because of his age.
His will, dated December 17, 1723, was proved
September 2, 1724. He married (first) Bos
ton, about June, 1671, Elizabeth, daughter of

Thomas and Elizabeth Smith, born November
6, 1646; married (second) Exeter, November
21, 1681, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Dudley and granddaughter of Governor
Thomas Dudley.
(II) Thomas Lyford, son of Francis Ly
ford, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 25, 1672, died in Exeter, New Hamp
shire, in 1726-27; will dated December 29,
1726, proved June 7, 1727. He owned much
land. He married, at Exeter, Judith, daughter
of Moses and Elizabeth (Hersey) Gilman.
(Ill) John Lyford, son of Thomas Lyford,
was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, died in
Canterbury, New Hampshire; will, dated
March 18, 1788, proved May 20, 1795. He
was a housewright in Epping, New Hamp
shire, lie married Lydia, daughter of Wil
liam and Hannah (Gilman) Folsom.
(IV) James Gilman Lyford, son of John
Lyford, was baptized at Exeter, New Hamp
shire, August 24, 1746. He married Mary
(Molly) Hardy; lived in Canterbury and in
1802 moved to Stanstead, Canada.
(V) Biley Lyford, son of James Gilman
Lyford, was born in Canterbury, New Hamp
shire, October 17, 1775. He married, Decem
ber 1, 1 801, Lois Lyford, who died May 29,
1854, in Atkinson, Maine, where Biley was the
first settler; she was daughter of Thomas, son
of Thomas, son of Thomas, son of Francis
Lyford (I).
(VI) Biley (2) Lyford, son of Biley (1)
Lyford, was born at Atkinson, Maine, March
17, 1813, died there May 25, 1885. He mar
ried, January 1, 1838, Betsey Lewis Cook, born
December 26, 1818, at Provincetown, Massa
chusetts, died October 29, 1886.
(VII) Elisha Hammond Lyford, son of
Biley (2) Lyford, was born August 11, 1840.
He was educated in the public school at Atkin
son, and in Foxcroft Academy and Bucksport
Seminary. He was graduated from the Bruns
wick Medical School in June, 1866, with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine, and practiced
in Vinal Haven from 1866 until he retired in
1907, when he moved to Dover, his present
residence. In 1861 he enlisted. in the Four
teenth Maine Infantry, was discharged for dis
ability in 1862 ; reenlisted as medical cadet,
United States army, in June, 1863, and served
until February, 1865. He held the rank of
first sergeant in the civil war for two years.
In politics he is a Republican. He married,
July 10, 1865, Hannah Jane Rider, born March
30, 1839. The only child of Elisha Hammond
and Hannah Jane (Rider) Lyford was Joseph
ine Francis, born at Bucksport, May 1, 1866,
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William Winslow or Wynce-
WINSLOW low was the first of the line
age as traced in England.
Children: John, of London, and Wyncelow
Hall; William, mentioned below.
(II) William (2) Winslow, son of William
(1) Winslow or Wyncelow, had son Thomas,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Thomas Winslow, son of William (2)
Winslow, was of Burton, county Oxford, hav
ing lands also in Essex ; was living in 1452 ;
married Cecelia Tansley, called Lady Agnes.
(IV) William (3) Winslow, son of Thomas
Winslow, was living in 1529. Children:
Kenelm, mentioned below; Richard.
(V) Kenelm Winslow, son of William (3)
Winslow, purchased in 1559 of Sir Richard
Newport the estate of Newport's Place, Kemp
sey, Worcestershire, and he had an older and
very large estate in the same parish called
Clerkenleap. He died in 1607, in the parish
of St. Andrew. He married Catherine  .
His will was dated April 14, 1607, proved No
vember 9, 1607.
(VI) Edward Winslow, only son of Kenelm
Winslow, was born in the parish of St. An
drew, county Worcester, and died before 1631.
He lived in Kempsey and Droitwich, same
county. He married (first) Eleanor Pelham,
of Droitwich, (second) at St. Bride's Church,
London, November 4, 1594, Magdalene Oliver,
the records of whose family are found in the
parish register of St. Peter's, Droitwich. Chil
dren: Richard; Edward, governor of Plymouth
colony ; John ; Eleanor ; Josiah ; Gilbert, came
in the "Mayflower" ; Elizabeth ; Magdalen ;
Kenelm, mentioned below.
(I) Kenelm- (2) Winslow, son of Edward
Winslow, was born at Droitwich, county
Worcester, England, April 29, 1599, baptized
at St. Peter's Church, May 3, 1599. He was
the immigrant ancestor, and came to Plymouth
probably in 1629 with his brother Josiah, being
admitted freeman January 1, 1632-33. He
was surveyor of Plymouth in 1640, and was
fined ten shillings for neglecting the highways.
About 1 641 he moved to Marshfield, where he
had received a grant of land at the place called
Green's Harbor, March 5, 1637-38. This
grant, originally made to Josiah, his brother,
he shared with Love Brewster. He left the
homestead to his son Nathaniel. He received-
other grants of land, and was one of the
twenty-six original proprietors of Assonet,
now Freetown, Massachusetts. He was a
joiner by trade as well as a planter. He held
various town offices ; was deputy to the general
court from 1642 to 1644 and from 1649 to
1653, eight years in all. He had considerable
litigation, as the early court records show. He

died at Salem, whither he had gone on busi
ness, September 13, 1672, apparently after a
long illness, for his will was dated five weeks
earlier, August 8, 1672, and in it he says he is
"very sick and drawing nigh unto death." He
married, in June, 1634, Eleanor Adams, widow
of John Adams, of Plymouth. She died at
Marshfield, and was buried there December 5,
1681, aged eighty-three. Children: Kenelm,
born about 1635; Eleanor or Ellen, about
1637; Nathaniel, about 1639; Job, mentioned
below. (II) Lieutenant Job Winslow, son of
Kenelm (2) Winslow, was born about 1641,
died July 14, 1720, at Freetown, Massachu
setts. He settled at Swansey, Massachusetts,
about 1666. When King Philip's war broke
out in 1675, his house was burned. He seems
to have been an early settler at Rochester,
Massachusetts, as he was there about 1680;
he soon moved to Freetown, for in 1686 he
was a selectman there. In 1690 he was town
clerk and grand juror; assessor in 1691, 1701,
1706 and 171 1 ; deputy to the general court in
1692 ; moderator of town meeting, 1708 and
171 1. He was a leading man of the church as
well as in town affairs. He was a lieutenant
of the militia, and a shipwright and planter.
His will, dated November 12, 1717, bequeathed
land to the town now called the Winslow bury
ing ground. He married Ruth  , who sur
vived him. Children, birth records of first
six in Swansey, others in Freetown : William,
November 16, 1674; Oliver, February 20,
1677; Ruth, September 13, 1678; Richard,
March 6, 1680; Hope, May 29, 1681 ; Job, July
10, 1683 ; Joseph, about 1685 ; James, men
tioned below ; Mary, April 2, 1689, died young ;
George, January 2, 1690-91 ; Jonathan, Novem
ber 22, 1692 ; John, February 20, 1694-95 ;
Elizabeth, 1696-97.
(Ill) James Winslow, son of Lieutenant
Job Winslow, was born in Freetown, Massa
chusetts, May 9, 1687, died October 19, 1773.
He moved from Freetown to Falmouth, Maine,
about 1728, and settled on land granted to him
in 1728, on which he was to erect a mill. He
owned a large tract at Portland (then Broad
Bay), which he gave to his sons. He was the
first Friend in Falmouth and "lent a most im
portant support to the doctrines of that re
spectable people in this neighborhood." He
became a member, with Nathan and Benjamin
Winslow, at a monthly meeting, May, 1751.
He married (first) Elizabeth Carpenter, (sec
ond) intentions dated November 12, 1750,
Ruth Gatchell, of Brunswick. Children, re
corded in Freetown: Mary, June 20, 1709;
Nathan, mentioned below ; Job, March 30,
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May 6, 1721 ; James, August 6, 1725 ; Sybil,
October 3, 1727.
(IV) Nathan Winslow, son of James Wins
low, was bom at Freetown, Massachusetts,
April 1, 1713, died at Falmouth, Maine, No
vember 22, 1772. He lived in the part of Fal
mouth later named Westbrook, Maine. His
name is on the records of Falmouth in August,
1743. He married, intentions dated April 4,
1734, Charity Hall. Children, born in Fal
mouth: Charity; Mary, 1739; Ebenezer; Na
than, mentioned below; Job, January 4, 1745;
James, September, 1746; John, August 2, 1751 ;
Tabitha ; Phebe, February, 1753 ; Joseph.
(V) Nathan (2) Winslow, son of Nathan
(1) Winslow, was born at Falmouth, Maine,
April 1, 1743, died November 7, 1826. He was
a mechanic and lived at Falmouth. He mar
ried (first) September 25, 1764, Jane Crane,
born November 12, 1742, died March 30, 1805.
She was daughter of Richard and Margaret
Crane. Richard Crane was killed by Indians,
August 20, 1747, and his wife died at George
town, April 13, 1762, aged forty-three. Na
than Winslow married (second) Mary Vinal,
who died February 25, 1849, aged eighty-nine,
at Vassalboro, Maine. Children : Eleanor,
born August 15, 1765; Elijah, November 26,
1767; Richard, September 6, 1769; Jonathan,
mentioned below; Charity, September 7, 1773,
died August 25, 1774; Charity, January 23,
1776, died August 23, 1776; Fanny, June 24,
1777; Aaron, October 28, 1779; Hezekiah,
January 29, 1783; Jane, June 24, 1785.
(VI) Jonathan Winslow, son of Nathan
(2) Winslow, was born May 12, 1771, died
May 14, 1858. He was a farmer and scythe
manufacturer, and lived at Saccarappa, at Old
Town and at Albion, Maine. He married,
January 31, 1796, Mary Smith, born July 6,
1774, at Windham, Maine, died October 10,
1849, aged seventy-five, daughter of Rev.
Peter Thatcher and Elizabeth (Wendell)
Smith, of Windham, and sister of Elizabeth
Hunt Smith, wife of Deacon John Farwell.
Children: Elijah, born November 11, 1796;
Mary Smith, January 11, 1798; Elizabeth
Wendell, March 12, 1800; Jane Crane, No
vember 24, 1801 ; Fanny, May 1, 1803 ; Nathan,
mentioned below; Smith, June 16, 1807;
Nancy, February 24, 1809; Hezekiah, January
17, 1811.
(VII) Nathan (3) Winslow, son of Jona
than Winslow, was born June 15, 1805, at Mil
ford, Maine, died there May 16, 1838. He was
a merchant in Milford, and in politics was a
Whig. He married Lucy Bailey, born Sep
tember 17, 1808, at Milford, died at Ashland,
Maine, May 5, 1878. She married (second)
February, 1845, John Treat, of Milford, and

he died at Milford. She had a daughter, Mary
E. Treat, born April 26, 1846, who died aged
eighteen years. Children of Nathan and Lucy
Winslow: Charles, born- November 22, 1830,
died at Ashland, October 11, 1855, a farmer,
unmarried. 2. Nathan, mentioned below.
(VIII) Nathan (4) Winslow, son of Na
than (3) Winslow, was born at Milford,
Maine, March 2, 1835. He was educated there
in the public schools. He bought a farm in
Ashland when a young man and followed
farming there all his active life. He was one
of the pioneers of the town, clearing his orig
inal farm of four hundred acres. At that time
no roads had been built and he traveled by
blazed trails and over the ice on the Aroostook
river. From time to time he bought more land
and at the time of his death he owned three
farms. In politics in his later years he was a
Republican. He was a member of the school
board, was tax collector for twenty years and
constable for a long time. He attended the
Congregational church. He married (first)
May 12, 1869, Martha Jen Sharp, born at
Maysville, Maine, 1848, died at Ashland, Janu
ary 17, 1874. He married (second) Frances
E. Bolstridge, born at Ashland, Maine, April
28, 1844, and was educated there in the public
schools. She is a member of the Congrega
tional church, and of Ashland Grange, No. 247,
Patrons of Husbandry (see Bolstridge II).
Children by first wife: 1. Lucy Mary Lena,
born August 6, 1870; married, May 2, 1888,
Ernest E. Porter, of Castle Hill, Maine ; she
resides on her farm there; children: Grace
Porter, married Guilford Smith, of Washburn,
Maine ; Alonzo Porter, a farmer ; Earl Porter,
married Ethel Rouse, a merchant, Washburn;
Beatrice Porter ; Wallace Porter ; Robert Por
ter. 2. Lucretia Frances, born June 30, 1872 ;
married William Goding, of Ashland, now of
Canyon City, Colorado, a fruit grower ; chil
dren : Norman, George and Louise Goding.
Children by second wife: 3. Charles Richard,
born April 30, 1876; married Rose McKee, of
Millinocket; he is a farmer at Ashland; mem
ber of the Grange and an Orangeman. 4. Wal
lace Bradley, born July 22, 1877; married
Geneva Coffin ; he is a farmer in Ashland ;
member of Pioneer Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, the Grange and the Orangemen ; child,
Elwood Coffin, born May 19, 1907. 5. Smith
Bailey, born August 13, 1878; married Ethel
Alieff ; he is a farmer of Ashland ; member of
the Grange and the Orangemen ; children : Lin-
wood Alieff, born August 28, 1907; Russell,
July 16, 1901; daughter, August, 1913. 6.
Lorenzo Nathan, born October 25, 1879; mar
ried Anna Reab, of Samoa, California ; resides
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Nathan, born May 21, 191 1. 7. Elizabeth
Amelia, born August 20, 1884; married, July
16, 1913, Clarence Stanley Gallup, born at
Blaine, June 24, 1887, a salesman, member of
the Orangemen, Pioneer Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, and the Odd Fellows of Blaine.
8. James Plenry, born October 5, 1887; mem
ber of Pioneer Lodge and of the Orangemen;
married Ella Clara Flood ; child, Robert Burns,
born June 20, 191 1.
(The Bolstridge Line).
(I) James Bolstridge was born in Bristol,
England, died at St. John, New Brunswick,
about 1822. He came to this country about
1819, settling at St. John. He married a Miss
Smith. Children, order of birth not given: 1.
Fred, died in Limestone; married Catherine
McDougall, of Fort Fairfield, Maine. 2. Jane,
died at Maysville, Maine; married William
Fields, a farmer of Maysville. 3. Ebenezer,
mentioned below. 4. James, died young. 5.
William, died young. 6. Joseph.
(II) Ebenezer Bolstridge, son of James
Bolstridge, was born in Bristol, England, in
1815, died at Ashland in 1898. He was four
years old when his parents came to this coun
try, and he settled in Ashland when he came of
age, residing there the remainder of his life.
He was a lumberman. In politics he was a
Democrat, and he was a member of the Church
of England. He married Amelia Bradley,
born at Long Reach, near Tobique, New Bruns
wick, in 1817, died at Ashland in 1855, daugh
ter of Henry Bradley, born in New Brunswick
about 1792, died there about 1848. Henry
Bradley was a farmer ; he married Abigail
Freeman; children: Henry; Angus; Sarah,
married Jacob Sailor ; Mary ; Amelia, married
Ebenezer Bolstridge, mentioned above ; Dorcas,
died young. Children of Ebenezer and Amelia
(Bradley) Bolstridge, born in Aroostook
county, Maine: 1. Martha Jane, born Septem
ber 12, 1836, died young. 2. Rachel Ann, bora
April 5, 1838; married George Bolstridge, who
served three years in civil war and lived at
Fort Fairfield. 3. William Henry, born Au
gust 5, 1839, died in Minnesota; married Mary
Bean, of Minnesota. 4. Albert, born February
18, 1841 ; married (first) Martha Bragdon,
(second) Minnie Bragdon. 5. Eleanor M.,
born October 31, 1842; married Charles
Matheson, of Masardis, Maine, an innkeeper
and farmer ; she died in Montana. 6. Frances
E., married Nathan Winslow (see Winslow
VIII). 7. Victoria A., born September 12,
1845 ; married Israel West. 8. Ebenezer, born
April 11, 1847; married Lucinda Metcalf, of
Masardis; he is a farmer at Ashland, Maine.
9. Amelia, born September 12, 1848, died

young. 10. Fred C, born October 22, 1850;
married Ic'a Bragdon ; he is a farmer at Port
age Lake, Maine. 11. Rufus L., born October
19, 1852; was a storekeeper in Minneapolis,
died in 191 1, in- Masardis, unmarried. 12.
Celestia, born September 28, 1854; married
Roscoe Noyes, of Crystal, Maine, where they
live. 13. Angus, born March 26, 1856, died
aged twenty years.

John Brown, the immigrant an-
BROWN cestor, was born in England in
1588-89, and died February 28,
1687, nearly a hundred years old. He came to
this country in the great immigration from
England in 1635, and in 1639 permanently set
tled at Plampton, New Hampshire. He had a
four-acre house lot near the branch of the river
which was subsequently named for him. He
built a house on the ten-acre lot that he bought
of John Sanders afterward. He married Sarah
 . Children, born at Hampton: Sarah ;
John, August 29, 1643; Benjamin, 1647; Eliz
abeth; Jacob, 1653; Mary, September 13, 1655;
Thomas, July 14, 1657; Stephen, 1659.
(II) Benjamin Brown, son of John Brown,
was born in Hampton, in 1647. He married
Sarah (or Elizabeth) Brown, of Salisbury,
Massachusetts. He settled in Hampton, in
what is now the southeast part of Seabrook,
New Hampshire. Children, born at Hampton :
William, June 5, 1680; Sarah, September 11,
1681, died young; Benjamin, mentioned be
low; Elizabeth, July 16, 1686; John, March
18, 1688; Jacob, March, 1691 ; Stephen, July
17, 1693; Mary, 1696; Thomas, May 21, 1699;
Jeremiah, November 20, 1701.
(Ill) Benjamin Brown, son of Benjamin
Brown, was born at Hampton, December 20,
1683, and died February 9, 1766. He married,
January 7, 1718, Sarah Gove, daughter of
Ebenezer Gove. They resided at South Hamp
ton, New Hampshire. Children : Jonathan,
mentioned below; Benjamin, Lydia, Enoch,
Daniel, Dolly and Nathan.
(IV) Jonathan Brown, son of Benjamin
Brown, was born about 1720, at South Hamp
ton. He settled in that part of the town now
Kensington (p. 366, "History of Rockingham
County"). Among his children was Joseph,
mentioned below.
(V) Joseph Brown, son of Jonathan Brown,
was born at Kensington, New Hampshire,
about 1750. He married Ann Brown. They
had twelve children : Moses, Jonathan, Joseph,
Sewell, mentioned below; Nehemiah, Nathan,
Stephen, William and John.
(VI) Sewell Brown, son of Joseph Brown,
was born at Kensington, New Hampshire, Au
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July 25, 1770, daughter of Captain Enoch
French, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. Sewell
Brown married (second) Eunice Whidden,
born 1785, died at Patten, 1871. Sewell Brown
came to Litchfield, Maine, in 1792, and settled
on what was afterward called the Squire Neal
place. He had two sisters, the wives respec
tively of Abner and Daniel True. Mr. Brown
moved late in life to Brown's Corner, West
Gardiner, Maine, and died there October 20,
1828. His wife died July 31, 1817. Children
by first wife: William, born April 23, 1794,
married Abigail Libby; Ann, May 18, 1796,
married Benjamin Field; Sewell, January 19,
1798; married Abby Kimball; Joseph, Sep
tember 7, 1799, married Joanna Perham; Sus
anna, December 31, 1801, married James
Fuller; Roxanna, 1803, married D. J. Rams
dell; Joanna, December 31, 1804, married
James McCurdy; John, February 16, 1806,
married Betsey Meigs; Mary, August 9, 1808,
married John W. Thorns; Henry, 1810, of
Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Angeline, June 4,
 , married Rev. Daniel Sewell ; Sylvia, Au
gust 6, 1814, married John Knowlton. Chil
dren by second wife: 1. Lafayette, died in
Bangor, where three sons are living — Lafay
ette, Sewell and Samuel. 2. Elizabeth, died in
Michigan; married  Bicknell, and re
moved to Wisconsin. 3. Gilbert, mentioned
below. 4. Sarah, died unmarried.
(VII) Gilbert Brown, son of Sewell Brown,
was born in Gardiner, Maine, December 8,
1818, and died at Patten, October 25, 1896.
He attended the public schools of his native
town. He learned the trade of blacksmith.
He came to Patten when a young man and
engaged in the business of teamster and truck
man during the rest of his life in that town.
In politics he was Democrat. He served in
the Aroostook war. In religion he was a Con
gregationalist. He married Lovina Kneeland,
who was born at Lincoln, Maine, and died at
Patten, November 23, 1905, aged seventy-six
years eight months fifteen days. She was a
member of the Seventh Day Advent church,
and active in its work. Her parents came to
Patten when she was very young, and she was
educated there in the public schools and acad
emy. Children, all born in Patten: 1. John
K, July 3, 1853, died in Patten, November 12,
1870. 2. Eugene, born January 15, 1856; mar
ried Lottie Parsons, of Patten; he has a large
factory at Patten; he was educated at Patten
Academy; is a Democrat in politics, and a
member of Pomola Lodge, Odd Fellows. 3.
Mary Helen, August 7, 1858, died in Boston,
Massachusetts, January 5, 1901, unmarried;
educated in Patten Academy ; a dressmaker by
trade. 4. Mina L., April 12, 1861, died at

Patten, April 3, 1907, unmarried. 5. Herbert
W., mentioned below. 6. Edgar F., born Sep
tember 12, 1867, died in Boston, April 3, 1907,
unmarried ; was a tobacco merchant.
(VIII) Herbert W. Brown, son of Gilbert
Brown, was born August 22, 1864, at Patten,
Maine. He attended the public schools and
Patten Academy. In 1882 he left school and
followed farming and lumbering until 1897,
when he went into business as a truckman.
His business grew rapidly and he prospered.
In addition to his business he conducts a farm
of one hundred and sixty acres in the village
of Patten. He purchased this place in 1902.
In politics Mr. Brown is a Democrat. He
attends the Congregational church. He is a
member of Pomola Lodge, No. 98, Odd Fel
lows, of Patten. He married, August 18, 1886,
at Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada,
Emma J. Lonergan, who was born at Portage,
Maine, August 23, 1864, daughter of Cornelius
Lonergan. She attended the Congregational
church, and was a member of the Patten
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. She died at
the Bangor Hospital, August 25, 1910.
Cornelius Lonergan, her father, was born in
Nova Scotia, in 1837, and died at Portage,
Maine, in 1891. He came to Portage before
his marriage and bought a farm there. In
Portage he spent the rest of his life. He was
a Republican. He married Sarah Thompson,
a native of Portage, and she died there in 1897.
Children of Cornelius and Sarah Lonergan :
1. James Lonergan, born July, 1863; married
Masie Pelletier, of Portage; they reside on the
farm at Portage, the homestead cleared by his
father. 2. Emma J., married Herbert W.
Brown, mentioned above. 3. Edward Loner
gan, born in 1866, died young. 4. Laura Loner
gan, born in 1868; married Archie Nevers, of
New Brunswick; she died in Patten, Decem
ber 8, 1893; he is a farmer in Patten; for
merly proprietor of the Patten House, now
owner of the Half-way House, twenty miles
from Patten. 5. Hannah Lonergan, born in
1878; married (first) Frank Law, of Houlton,
a plumber, (second) Erastus Harvey, of Pat
ten, the Mattagamon stage driver, now living
in Patten.
Hannah Lee, grandmother of Mrs. Brown,
a native of England, died in Nova Scotia.
 Lonergan, grandfather of Mrs. Brown,
was a farmer in Nova Scotia. Besides Cor
nelius he had a son William, who resides in
Somerville, Massachusetts, and a daughter,
Mary Lonergan, who married Charles McNeal,
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; served in the
United States army.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W.
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at Patten; graduate of Patten Academy, class
of 1908 ; graduate of the State Normal School
at Gorham, class of 1910; school teacher at
Patten since graduation. 2. Frank, born at
Patten, September, 1896; graduate of Higgins'
Institute, Charleston, Maine, class of 1912;
now a student in Dow's Business College, Ban
gor, Maine.

The ancestor of the
WILKINS-COAN Wilkins family in
Wales, Robert de Win-
tons, went from England to Glamorganshire
(now Breckneck county), Wales, in 1090. He
was one of the nobles sent by William Rufus,
the king, to subdue the Welsh. After the
Welsh had retreated to the mountains, Robert
remained, built a castle and was lord of the
manor. The line of the Wilkins family in
Wales is published in several ancient histories
of ancient Wales, with the crest and coat-of-
arms — a Wyvern.
(I) Bray Wilkins, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in 1610, and came from Wales to
Salem, Massachusetts, where he settled in 1628
or 1630. Tradition says that he came with
Endicott in 1628, and there is record of him
there in 1630. He was admitted a freeman
May 14, 1634. After about fifteen years in
Dorchester he returned to Salem and bought
a tract of land of seven hundred acres which
had been granted to Governor Richard Belling-
ham. From time to time he added to this until
he owned about a thousand acres. His prop
erty extended two miles along the line of
Reading. His estate was known as Will's Hill,
as the hill on the place had been the home of
an Indian called Black Will. Bray Wilkins
died in January, 1702, aged ninety-two years.
He and his wife were members of the First
Church in Salem, and their names head the list
of petitioners for leave to withdraw to form a
church in Salem Village. This new church
was the one which figured in the witchcraft
delusions during the ministry of Samuel Ferris
in 1692. Bray Wilkins married Anna Gingell.
Children: Samuel, born in Dorchester; John,
baptized at Dorchester, March 2, 1642, mar
ried Mary  ; Lydia; Thomas, baptized
March 16, 1647; Margaret; Henry; Benjamin;
James. (II) James Wilkins, son of Bray Wilkins,
married  , April 20, 1684. Children :
Margaret, July 16, 1685; Elizabeth, July 21,
1687; James, March 10, 1689-90. Probably
others. (Ill) Bray Wilkins, son or nephew of
James Wilkins, and grandson of Bray (1),
was born about 1680. He married Rebecca
 , and lived at Middleton, Massachusetts.
NE-13

Children, born at Middleton: Rebecca, May
18,, 1703; Penelope, September 22, 1704; Israel,
January 6, 1705-06; Phinehas, December 26,
1708; Mehitable, September 6, 1711-12;
Ithamar, September 15, 1712; Abigail, July 28,
1716; Ichabod, July 7, 1720. Probably other
children. Henry and Joseph Wilkins were
living in Middleton about the same time.
(IV) Timothy Wilkins, son or nephew of
Bray Wilkins, was born in Salem, Massachu
setts, about 1700. He married (intentions
dated November 26, 1730) Anne Smith. Chil
dren, born at Middleton : Timothy, mentioned
below; Isaac, baptized 1735; James, baptized
1738. (V) Timothy Wilkins, son of Timothy
Wilkins, was born in Middleton, September
14, 1733. He settled in Billerica, where his
father bought farm 112 in 1739, part of the
Blood farms, bounded north by the Billerica
line. He had sons : William, and Isaac, men
tioned below. His wife was Mary Chamber
lain, whom he married December 11, 1755. He
was then of Carlisle, Massachusetts. William
was a physician, born April 1, 1765, married,
May 10, 1789, at Billerica, Frances Cummings;
removed to Marblehead, Massachusetts.
(VI) Isaac Wilkins, son of Timothy
Wilkins, was born about 1761, and died in
1 82 1, aged about fifty years. He married,
April 28, 1793, Sally Edwards. He was a
physician in Brownville during the last eleven
years of his life. His wife died in Brown
ville about 1830. He was a Whig in politics.
Children: 1. Sally Hanscom, baptized Decem
ber 29, 1793, died at Brownville; married
Jonah Thomas. 2. George, baptized January
17, 1796, died in Brownville; married (first)
Caroline Thomas, (second) Augusta Miller.
3. Isaac Edwards, mentioned below. 4. Sidney,
married Alva Williams, of Solon. 5. Bray,
died at Fairfield, Maine ; married Alice Free
man. 6. Harry, died at Brownville, a farmer;
married Mary Barney, of Milo.
(VII) Isaac Edwards Wilkins, son of Isaac
Wilkins, was born in Billerica, Massachusetts,
and baptized there April 1, 1798. The middle
name was added after he was baptized. He
died in Brownville, Maine, 1848. He attended
the public schools in Billerica. When he was
ten years old his parents moved to Brownville,
and he continued in the public schools there.
He entered the Bangor Theological Seminary,
from which he was graduated, and ordained a
minister of the Congregational church. He
was pastor of churches at Garland, Fairfield
and Albion, Maine. Before he entered the
ministry he studied medicine under the instruc
tion of his father, and for a time he practiced
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cessful. In politics he was a Whig. He was
a Free Mason. He married Mary Jane Brown,
at Newburyport, Massachusetts, born June 28,
1805, died at Brownville, Maine, March 3,
1894. Children: 1. William B., born at Gar
land, Maine, died at Brownville ; married
Miriam Heath, of Brownville ; he was a mer
chant. 2. Hannah B., born at Garland, died at
Brownville ; married Peter Perham, of Wil
liamsburg, Maine, a farmer. 3. Francis, died
young. 4. Eleanor, died young. 5. Lyman H.,
died unmarried ; enlisted in Company A, Sixth
Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry, as a
private ; was lieutenant when killed at the bat
tle of Rappahannock Station. 6. George E.,
at Albion, died at Presque Isle, Maine, a
blacksmith ; married Elizabeth Harmon, of
Milo, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mar-
lin) Harmon. 7. Martha J., mentioned below.
8. Francis, at Albion, a lumberman, died in
Minnesota ; married Mary Perigo, of Milo. 9.
Angenette, resides in Exeter, New Hampshire ;
married Frank Twombly, of Farmington, New
Hampshire ; was a shoe manufacturer, now
deceased. 10. Helen, born at Brownville; edu
cated in the public schools, member of the
Congregational church and of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union ; married Dr.
Luther B. Crosby, who was born at Albion,
Maine, September 8, 1833, died at Brownville,
May 13, 1908, graduate of Waterville College,
now Colby, school teacher ; enlisted in Com
pany F, Seventh Maine Regiment Volunteer
Infantry, in the civil war, was discharged on
account of ill health in 1863 ; studied medicine
under the instruction of his brother and at
tended the medical school at Brunswick,
Maine, and at Harvard Medical School, from
which he was graduated in 1868, and prac
ticed in Brownville from that time until he
died; a Republican in politics, afterward a
Democrat and Prohibitionist ; his widow re
sides at Brownville. 11. Marietta, at Albion,
died in Brownville at the age of six years.
Mary Jane Brown was a daughter of Fran
cis Brown, who was born at Newburyport,
Massachusetts, and died in 1854, at Brown
ville, whither he came when a young man. He
was a Whig in politics ; a Congregationalist in
religion and deacon of the church for many
years. He married Hannah Dustin Chase, of
West Newbury, Massachusetts, a descendant
of Hannah Dustin, who killed her Indian cap
tors. Children of Francis and Hannah Dustin
Brown: 1. Mary Jane, married Isaac Edwards
Wilkins, mentioned above. 2. William Brown,
died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a lumberman ;
married Ellen Lee, of Bucksport, Maine. 3.
Eleanor Brown, died at Sacramento, Cali

fornia; married Jefferson Lake, of Sebec,
Maine. 4. Eliazer, died at Brownville, a promi
nent business man and politician ; married Eliza
A. Jenks. 5. Moses, died at Brownville, a dry
goods merchant ; married Angenette Morrill,
of Readfield, Maine. 6. Francis, died at
Brownville, a farmer; married (first) Mary
Jane Griffin, of Bradford, Massachusetts,
(second) Abigail Ryder, of Dover, Maine. 7.
Hannah, died at Readfield ; married Reuben
Morrill, of Readfield. 8. Luther Brown, died
at Brownville, when young.
(VIII) Martha J. Wilkins, daughter of
Isaac Edwards Wilkins, was born at Albion,
Maine, and educated in the Brownville public
schools. For several years she was a teacher
of physical culture in the schools of Houlton,
Maine, and also at Machias, Eastport and
Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Bruns
wick. She is a member of the Congregational
church of Alton, New Hampshire, in which
she was a Sunday school teacher. She is a
member of the Woman's Relief Corps of
Dover, New Hampshire. She married, at
Brownville, Maine, July 26, 1868, Rev. Lean
der S. Coan, who was born at Exeter, Maine,
in 1842, and died at Alton, New Hampshire,
in 1883. He attended the public schools of
Exeter and Garland, and studied for the min
istry in the Bangor Theological Seminary. He
was ordained in the Congregational church
and preached at Cohasset, Massachusetts ; Am
herst, Massachusetts ; Boothbay, Maine ; Som
erset, Massachusetts, and Fall River; Brown
ville, Maine, and Alton, New Hampshire. In
politics he was a Republican. He was a mem
ber of the Masonic lodge of Farmington, and
of the Odd Fellows lodge of Fall River. He
enlisted in 1863 from Cohasset, Massachusetts,
in the Sixty-first Regiment Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry as a private, and was ap
pointed chaplain. He was wounded in the
service and brought to the New York Hos
pital, from which he was discharged. He was
a member of the Grand Army. Children of
Rev. Leander S. and Martha J. (Wilkins)
Coan: 1. Fred Leon Coan, born at Brown
ville, November 8, 1870, died at Fall River,
Massachusetts, November 8, 1873. 2. Alice
Coan, born at Alton, New Hampshire, Sep
tember 28, 1875, died at Somersworth, New
Hampshire, June 11, 1904; married Fred K.
Wentworth, of Somersworth, treasurer of the
Somersworth Savings Bank ; child, Gordon
Coan Wentworth, born June 4, 1904. 3. Jessie
Blanche Coan, born at Alton, June 8, 1877,
died at Farmington, New Hampshire, June 7,
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William Eldridge, the immi-
ELDRIDGE grant ancestor, was born in
England. This surname is
also spelled Eldredge and Eldred, and it is of
Saxon origin. Eldred was the name of several
Saxon kings in the eighth and ninth cen
turies. Eldred was king of Chester in 951.
At the time of the Domesday survey, A. D.
1085, the name was in common use in Wilts,
Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Gloucester, Shrop
shire, York and other counties in England.
John Eldred, of Great Saxham, county Suf
folk, descended from an ancient family claim
ing Saxon origin. Tradition says that he pur
chased the Great Saxham estate because of his
belief that his ancestors in remote ages as
Saxon* kings had held Saxham as their seat.
He was born in 1552 and died in 1632; was a
great traveler and his ships and merchandise
went to all parts of the world of commerce ;
was a founder of Virginia and from 1609 to
1624 a member of his majesty's council for the
Virginia Company of London. Settlers of
this surname were relatives of this John
Eldred, it is believed.
William Eldridge had brothers, Robert of
Yarmouth and Monomoy, Massachusetts, and
Samuel, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
Stonington, Connecticut. William Eldridge
was appointed constable of Yarmouth, Massa
chusetts, in 1657-62-74-75 and 1677. He was
also surveyor of highways in that town. As
the records of the town were destroyed by fire,
it is difficult to trace the family. He married
Anne Lumpkin, daughter of William and
Tamesin Lumpkin, of Yarmouth. Lumpkin
came over in 1637; was deputy to the general
court and held many town offices ; bequeathed
in his will to Elisha and Bethiah Eldred and
others. Anne Eldridge was buried November
1, 1676. Children of William Eldridge: Anne,
born at Yarmouth, December 16, 1648; Sarah,
born October 10, 1650; Elisha, born 1653, re
sided in Harwich and Eastham, died October
14, 1739; Bethia; Samuel, mentioned below;
John. (II) Samuel Eldridge, son of William Eld
ridge, was born at Yarmouth, about 1655. He
married Keziah Taylor. Children, born at
Yarmouth (p. 24, "Mayflower Descendants,"
vol. 10) : Samuel, born September 25, 1681 ;
Jehosaphat, mentioned below ; Mehitable, born
January, 1686-87; Ann, born April, 1691 ;
John, born February, 1692 ; Keziah, born
March, 1695; Mary, born March, 1697.
(Ill) Jehosaphat Eldridge, son of Samuel
Eldridge, was born at Yarmouth, October 12,
1683, and died in 1732. He married Elizabeth
 : Children, born in what is now Chat-
bam: Edward, July 17, 1702; Nathaniel;

Elisha ; Elnathan ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ;
Barnabas, born about 1715 ; Elizabeth.
(IV) Ebenezer Eldridge, son of Jehosaphat
Eldridge, was born in Chatham about 1710.
He married Deliverance  . Children,
born at Chatham: John, March 15, 1743; Ste
phen, May 12, 1746; Elnathan, March 7, 1747;
Sarah, July 25, 1750; Ebenezer, September 22,
1752; Desire, November 12, 1754; Jonathan,
September 2, 1756; Elizabeth, April 6, 1758;
Heber, February 7, 1760; Bethia, December
16, 1762; Mercy, February 16, 1764; Ensign,
mentioned below.
(V) Ensign Eldridge, son of Ebenezer Eld
ridge, was born at Chatham, Cape Cod, March
9, 1766. He settled in Maine. He married
and had children, among whom were : Ed-
mond, privateer in revolutionary war, and En
sign, mentioned below.
(VI) Ensign Eldridge, son of Ensign Eld
ridge, was born about 1800, at or near Dover,
Maine, and died at Chilton, Wisconsin, whither
he went in 1851. He was a farmer. In poli
tics he was a Democrat. He married Eunice
Dow, who was born in Dover and died in
Chilton. Children, born in Dover : Luther,
died at Chilton, a Methodist minister ; Wilson
E., mentioned below ; Henry, died at Chilton,
a farmer ; Betsey ; Job, died at Durand. Wis
consin ; Lucinda and another child died young.
The order of birth is not known.
(VII) Wilson E. Eldridge, son of Ensign
Eldridge, was born at Dover, Maine, July 18.
1831, died at Foxcroft, May 19, 1909. He left
school when he was sixteen years old and
worked for various farmers. He also learned
the blacksmith trade. In 185-1 he went to Cali
fornia for gold and was successful in his min
ing, remaining four years. Upon his return
he followed the trade of blacksmith at Fox
croft. On account of ill health he gave up his
shop, however, and went to farming at Sebec,
Maine. Subsequently he sold his farm, and
went to live with his son. He was a Demo
crat in politics, and active in public affairs.
He was selectman for two years. He attended
the People's Church, and was a member of
East Dover Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married Sarah A. Houston, who was born
at Dover, 1832, died at Sebec, 1872. Jonas
Houston, her father, was born about 1803, at
or near Kennebec, Maine. He was a farmer
in Dover, Maine, all his active life. In politics
he was a Republican. He died at Dover, about
1879. He married Sarah Hersey, who was
born in Maine, 1803, died at Dover, 1881.
Children of Jonas Houston: 1. William H.
Houston, a farmer; married (first) Helen
Dow, (second) Harriet Brown. 2. Joseph W.
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chant and hotel proprietor ; married Sarah
Jones, of Dover, now living in Courtland. 3.
Noah Houston, of Fulsom, California, mar
ried Dorcas Hilton. 4. Hiram Houston, of
Newport, Maine. 5. John Houston, of, Bruce-
ville, California; married Anne Smart, of
Dover; she is living in Bruceville. 6. Jonas
Houston, died in California, unmarried. 7.
Augustus, died at Bradford, Maine, a farmer
and blacksmith; married Martha Robinson, of
Corina, Maine; she now lives in Bradford in
that state. 8. Sarah A., married Wilson E.
Eldridge, mentioned above. Children of Wil
son E. Eldridge : 1. Fannie H., born at Fox
croft, 1857; married Charles Hamilton, of
Sebec; they reside at East Dover. 2. Anna
A., born 1859, died at Sebec, 1875. 3. Warren
J., mentioned below.
(VIII) Warren J. Eldridge, son of Wilson
E. Eldridge, was born at Sebec, Maine, July
7, 1863. He attended the public schools, and
the Foxcroft Academy for one year. During
his youth he worked on his father's farm. In
1884 he left school and became a clerk in the
general store at East Dover. Six months later
he bought the business of his employer. After
he had conducted the business a year the store
was destroyed by fire. In 1886 he built a new
store and continued in business as a general
merchant until 1897. In 1894 he opened a
branch grocery store in Foxcroft and con
tinued to run this business after he sold the
store at East Dover in 1897. He bought the
building on North street in which he had his
store, and afterward bought the adjoining lot
and built an addition, making it a well equipped
general store. In 1907 he sold this business
and since then has carried on a wholesale busi
ness in oils, etc. In politics he is a Democrat.
He was for twelve years postmaster in East
Dover. On January 12, 1914, he was appointed
postmaster of Foxcroft by President Wilson;
this is the largest postoffice in the county. He
is a member of the. East Dover Grange, Pat
rons of Husbandry, and attends the Baptist
church. He is also a member of the Pis
cataquis Club and of the Independent Order
of Foresters of Dover. He married, June 12,
1888, at East Dover, Nellie E. Stocker, who
was born at Atkinson, educated there in the
public schools and in Foxcroft Academy. She
is a daughter of Charles Stocker, born at South
Dover, 1833, died there in 1873, a farmer and
butcher. In politics he was a Republican. He
married Mary  , who survived him and
is now living with her daughter's family. Chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Stocker: 1. Minnie, died
at Dover; married C. W. Prince, who was
formerly of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a travel

ing salesman; she married (second) Forrest
Doon, of Atkinson, a barber. 2. Nellie E.
Stocker, married Warren J. Eldridge, men
tioned above. Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge have one
child, Charles Wilson, born at East Dover,
November, 1892, now a student in the Univer
sity of Maine. William Ford, the immigrant an-
FORD cestor, was born in England, and
settled in Duxbury, where his name
appears on the list of those able to bear arms
in 1643. He deposed October 30, 1671, that
he was sixty-seven years old. He was admit
ted a freeman June 3, 1652. He removed to
Marshfield. He was buried September 18,
1676. His will was dated September 12, 1676,
when he was about seventy-two years old. He
bequeathed to wife Anna, sons William and
Michael, daughters Margaret and Milicent,
grandchildren John Ford, William and John
Carver. His widow Anna died in September,
1684. Children : William, Michael, mentioned
below ; Margaret, Milicent.
(II) Michael Ford, son of William Ford,
was born about 1645. He married, December
12, 1667, Abigail Snow, daughter of Anthony
and Abigail (Warren) Snow, granddaughter
of Richard and Elizabeth Warren, who came
in the "Mayflower." Michael married (sec
ond) Bethia Hatch, daughter of Walter Hatch.
Children- by first wife : Lydia, born February
11, 1668, at Marshfield: Hannah, October 19,
1670; William, mentioned below; James, April
4, 1675; Abigail, April 28, 1679; Patience,
April 22, 1682. Children by second wife:
Thomas, April 30, 1685 ; Deborah, October 24,
1686; Bethia, March 16, 1687-88; Susanna,
July 26, 1689; Bathsheba, March 1, 1691 ;
Ephraim, July 18, 1692; Elizabeth, March 3,
1694; Elisha, January 19, 1696-97; Mehitable,
September 18, 1698; Martha, October 29, 1700.
(Ill) William Ford, son of Michael Ford,
was born at Marshfield, December 26, 1672.
He had a son William, mentioned below.
(IV) William Ford, son of William Ford,
was born in 1696. He married, December 7,
1 72 1, Hannah Truant. Children, born at
Marshfield: Silence, born November 22, 1722;
Abner, mentioned below; Nathan, January 15,
1727; Elijah, September 24, 1735-36; Levi,
May 18, 1739.
(V) Abner Ford, son of William Ford, was
born at Marshfield, November 8, 1724. He
married, in 1754, Bethia Sampson. He had
one child, Silence, baptized at Marshfield,
April 30, 1758. He appears to have moved
about that time to Lincoln county, Maine. Ac
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was living in Lincoln, Maine, and had in his
family three females ; Abner Jr. had three sons
under sixteen, and two females.
(VI) Abner Ford, son of Abner Ford, was
born about 1750-55. He was a soldier in the
revolution, and a pensioner after the war. Pie
was in Captain Mercres Carr's company, Colo
nel Joseph North's regiment, serving in the
retaking of the mastship "Gruel," September,
1777. He was at Ticonderoga under Benedict
Arnold. (VII) Abner Ford, son of Abner Ford, was
probably born at Whitefield, Maine, 1795, and
died at Sebec, Maine, 1858. He was a machin
ist by trade, and a wheelwright at Sebec. He
installed the machinery in the mills of the
vicinity. In politics he was a Whig. He was
a member of Sebec Lodge, Free Masons, after
wards of Milo. Three generations of his fam
ily were made Masons in this lodge. He mar
ried Mehitable Hatch, who was born at Cam
bridge, Maine, about 1802, and died at Sebec
about 1895. Children: 1. Caleb Jewett, men
tioned below. 2. Caroline, born at Sebec,
1822; married Theodore Wyman, of Sebec, a
merchant. 3. Eliza Jane, 1824; married John
Morrison, of Corinth, farmer and lumberman ;
she died at Corinth, Maine. 4. David S., 1827,
died young, of scarlet fever. 5. Lucy A., 1829,
died young, of scarlet fever. 6. Llewellyn,
1831, died at Sebec, unmarried ; served in the
First Maine Cavalry in 1863, died of typhoid
fever while home on a furlough. 7. Melvina,
1833 ; married Judson E. Parker, merchant of
Corinth. 8. Annette, married Henry M. Rich
ardson, of Sebec, a retired farmer ; she died
February, 1914. 9. Frank M., 1836, died at
Bangor, unmarried, a traveling salesman.
(VIII) Caleb Jewett Ford, son of Abner
Ford, was born at Mayfield, Maine, then called
Fordtown, the first white child born in May-
field, December 31, 1820, and died at Atkinson,
Maine, in 1896. He attended the public schools
of Sebec and the Charleston Academy, now the
Higgins Institute. He learned the trade of
machinist and millwright, and also followed
farming in Atkinson, where he lived. He fol
lowed his trade in various factories and
foundries in Dover and Foxcroft. In politics
he was a Republican. He represented the dis
trict in the state legislature in 1872, and served
as selectman of the town for many years. He
was a member of Piscataquis Lodge, Free Ma
sons, of Milo, and of Piscataquis Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, of Dover. He married,
at Atkinson, Maine, Helen P. Snow, who died
at Milo, about 1900; she was a daughter of Dr.
Eleazer Wheelock Snow, who was born at
Whitefield or Bath, New Hampshire, in 1799,
and died at Atkinson, Maine, 1851. He came

to Atkinson after his marriage and practiced
medicine there, making his professional visits
on horseback. He received his degree as doc
tor of medicine from Dartmouth College. In
politics he was a Whig. Dr. Snow married
Dorcas Hibbard, who was born at Bath, in
1801, and died at Atkinson, in 1876. He was
a son of Henry ( ?) Snow. Children of Dr.
Snow: 1. Mrs. Ford. 2. Edwin Payson, died
at Atkinson, a physician in that town ; married
(first) Henrietta Chase, of Sebec, (second)
Lovina Reed, of Charleston, Maine. 3.
Amanda Payson Snow, died at Atkinson ; mar
ried Russ A. Snow, a first cousin, of Atkinson,
farmer. Children of Caleb Jewett Ford: 1.
Mary W., born at Sebec, August 22, 1850;
married Crosby Oliver Plutchinson, of Atkin
son, a farmer; she died in February, 1913. 2.
Louis Caleb, mentioned below. 3. Caroline A.,
June 24, 1856, in Atkinson; married (first)
Frank J. Freese, of Atkinson, a farmer, (sec
ond) R. H. Morrison, of Sebec, where they
now live.
(IX) Dr. Louis Caleb Ford, son of Caleb
Jewett Ford, was born at Atkinson, Maine,
August 11, 1852. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Foxcroft
Academy. He studied medicine in the Maine
Medical College at Brunswick, Maine, and
graduated in the class of 1877 with the degree
of doctor of medicine. He began to practice
immediately at Sebec, where he remained until
September, 1880, when he located at Milo. He
has been a general practitioner at Milo since
that time, and is a leader in his profession. He
has been health officer several years and is
county medical examiner. In politics he is a
Republican. He has been supervisor of schools.
He is a member of Piscataquis Lodge, Free
Masons, and is past master ; member of Raboni
Chapter, No. 62, Royal Arch Masons, of
Brownville; of Bangor Council, Royal and
Select Masters ; of Dirigo Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Milo, of which he
is past noble grand. He was formerly a mem
ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
of Milo, of which he was the medical examiner.
He is also a member of the Knights of the
Golden Eagle of Milo; Milo Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star ; Pleasant River Grange ;
Crotona Club of Milo ; the Piscataquis County
Medical Society, of which he has been secre
tary ; the Maine State Medical Society; the
Piscataquis Historical Society. He was for
merly a member of the Improved Order of
Red Men.
He married (first) June, 1877, at Atkinson,
Antoinette Perkins, who was born at Orne-
ville, Maine, February 14, 1852, died July 23,
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(Ayer) Perkins. Her father was a farmer of
Atkinson. Dr. Ford married (second) Feb
ruary 26, 1885, at Bradford, Maine, Edith
Annette Rogers, who was born at Brownville,
daughter of William- S. and Elizabeth (Hobbs)
Rogers, of Brownville. He was a mason. Chil
dren of Dr. Ford: 1. Caleb, born at Sebec,
October 3, 1878, died at Milo, December, 1896;
graduate of the Milo high school. 2. Helen,
born at Milo, February 24, 1881 ; married
Arthur C. Dyer, of Dover, Maine, now of the
firm of Dyer Brothers, grocers ; she was a
graduate of the Milo high school and of the
Pernin School of Shorthand, of Boston. 3.
Antoinette, born at Milo, June 1, 1884; mar
ried Walter E. Burnham, of Greenfield, Mas
sachusetts ; they reside in Palmer, Massachu
setts, where he is employed in the State Fish
Hatchery ; she is a writer on natural history
subjects and a taxidermist, a graduate of the
Milo high school and of Ladies' Tailor and
Millinery College, Boston ; she was before her
marriage a milliner at Dexter and Milo, Maine.
4. Abner, born January 28, 1907.

William Sherman, the immi-
SHERMAN grant ancestor of this family,
settled in the Plymouth colony
about 1630. No relationship between him and
the other Sherman immigrants has been proved
as yet. He lived first at Duxbury, where he
is recorded as a yeoman and planter. He was
a taxpayer there in 1652. As early as 1637 his
name appears in the list of proprietors. He
was on the list of those able to bear arms in
1643. He finally removed to Marshfield, near
Plymouth, and his descendants have been nu
merous in that town. He was admitted an in
habitant of the town of Marshfield, November
13, 1644, and held various town offices. When
he came to this country he was without means,
but he was thrifty and industrious and left to
his children a generous estate. He owned real
estate in Rochester and Marshfield. He was
a useful and active citizen. Before he died he
conveyed to his sons various lots of real estate.
He deeded a share to Samuel, June 9, 1673 ; to
John, February 5, 1673 ! to William, August
16, 1676. He died October 25, 1679. The
inventory of his estate was dated December 30,
1680, and he was buried in the family bury
ing ground at Marshfield. Judging from the
date of his marriage and from the fact that he
was called an old man at the time of his death,
he was born as early as 1610. He married, in
1638, Prudence  . Children: Samuel,
mentioned below; John, born 1646, died 1722;
William, a soldier in King Philip's war ; per
haps other children.
(II) Samuel Sherman, son of William Sher

man, was born. 1640-50, in Plymouth colony,
now Massachusetts. As already mentioned, he
received from his father a part of the home
stead and in the deed his father calls Samuel
"my noble son." He married (first) Hannah
Daggett, (second) Hannah  . Children,
born at Marshfield: Sarah, married Josiah
Foster ; Prudence, "maiden turned of seventy,"
married Robert Cushman, aged eighty years;
Susanna; Hannah, born February 20, 1688;
Samuel, November 1, 1690; Mary, October 1,
1691 ; Joshua, January 1, 1693; Desire, Octo
ber 1, 1695; Patience, March 1, 1698; William,
June 1, 1699; Gershom, 1700; Caleb, men
tioned below.
(Ill) Caleb Sherman, son of Samuel Sher
man, was born at Marshfield, April 1, 1703.
He married Rebecca  . Children:
Young, born June 6, 1746; Ring, mentioned
below ; Hannah, October 29, 1751 ; Sarah, June
27, 1753; Elizabeth, July 1, 1755.
(IV) Ring Sherman, son of Caleb Sherman,
was born at Marshfield, December 17, 1749.
He appears to have been a Loyalist during the
revolution, and to have settled in New Bruns
wick. The names of his children are not
known to the writer, excepting Ring, men
tioned below, and Josiah, of Salisbury, who
married  Wartman, and had three
daughters. (V) Ring (2) Sherman, son of Ring (1)
Sherman, was born at Salisbury, New Bruns
wick, 1798, died there in 1872. He was a
farmer, owning large orchards. He was well
educated and fond of books. He married
Rachel Jacques, who died in Salisbury, aged
eighty-four years. They were members of the
Baptist church. Children: 1. Caleb, men
tioned below. 2. John, born 1827, a ranchman
died in North Dakota in 1896; married (first)
 Blackney, who died in 1862, (second)
Grace  ; children by first wife: Freeze,
a manufacturer in South Dakota, and John, of
St. Louis, Missouri. 3.  , married Jacob
Beck, of Salisbury, a farmer, and had children :
Sherman and Lemuel Beck.
(VI) Caleb (2) Sherman, son of Ring (2)
Sherman, was born at Salisbury, New Bruns
wick, October 25, 1824, died at Oakfield,
Maine, November 14, 1903. He had a com
mon school education. He was a farmer, lum
berman and nursery proprietor. In 1864 he
removed from Salisbury to Oakfield, and-
located on the old Spaulding farm, which he
subsequently sold. He bought another farm
in Oakfield, however, and followed farming
there as long as he lived. In politics he was a
Republican. He was a member of the Baptist
church. He married, December 31, 1845, Mary
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Brunswick, died at Oakfield, Maine, February
22,1888. Children: 1. Susan A., born June 9,
1847, in Salisbury ; married Charles L. Berry,
of Houlton, a merchant; children: Frank, a
carriagemaker at Island Falls ; Percy, a travel
ing salesman; Cassius, a tinsmith and plumber
of Island Falls ; Frederick, in partnership with
his brother Frank; Lillian, married John
Roach, carpenter and architect, Island Falls;
Charles, blacksmith, Island Falls. 2. Joseph
R., born at Salisbury, March 24, 1849, died at
Masardis, Maine, February, 1905 ; was a cook
by trade ; lived at Woodstock, New Brunswick,
and in the west; married (first) Lizzie Mul
lens, (second) Ella Dine, who now lives at
Masardis ; children by first wife : Harry, a
miller in Oregon ; Calen, a miller in Oregon ;
Pearl; one child by his second wife. 3. Wil
liam J., twin of Joseph R., died 1914; resided
at Island Falls ; unmarried. 4. Annie E., born
March 23, 185 1, died at Oakfield, August 14,
1896; married William Corliss, of Smyrna;
children : Nellie, married Paul Neddo, a
farmer, Oakfield; Sumner, married Sophia
Cameron; Wendell, a miller of Oakfield; Jus
tine, married Henry Collins, a farmer, Oak
field ; Amber, married R. Dowe, farmer, Orino,
Maine; Eva, married (first) Stephen Files,
(second) Elmer Byron, camp owner, at Island
Falls; Mary, married  Higgins, mail
clerk at St. John, New Brunswick; Grace, de
ceased ; Susie, in training school for nurses.
5. C. Ambrose, born at Salisbury, August 9,
1853; married (first) Helen Brown, of Oak
field, who died in 1884, (second) Ardra
Thompson ; he is a farmer in Oakfield ; mem
ber of the Baptist church and Oakfield Grange ;
children by first wife : Charles, married Annie
Shorey ; Paul, unmarried, resides with brother
Charles ; Henry, married Nellie Crandall ; chil
dren by second wife: Merle, a school teacher;
Emma. 6. Sarah Lavinia, born November 2,
1855, in Salisbury, New Brunswick; married
Avon D. Weeks, of Houlton, a mill owner,
farmer and lumberman; he died July, 1913;
she died September 28, 1910; children: June
A., married George Rosie, a salesman of Milo ;
Kate B., married Dr. Bunker, of Calais,
Maine; Helen C, married Ralph Tillie, living
at Squa-Pan, Maine, he a potato buyer and
carpenter ; Hadley F., unmarried ; Gertrude,
married Chester Feeley, druggist, Houlton. 7.
Fred M., born at Salisbury, March 24, 1858;
married Varina Mollens, of New Brunswick ;
he is a farmer and agent for machinery, Island
Falls ; has been a miller and lumberman ; chil
dren: Waldo, carpenter of Island Falls, mar
ried Bessie Eaton ; Mabel, married Sterling
Moore, carpenter, Bangor ; Don, unmarried ;

Ray, deceased ; Reed ; Maynard. 8. Mary A.,
born at Salisbury, August 2, i860; married
William W. Sewell. 9. Charles Walter, men
tioned below. 10. Bessie A., born at Oakfield,
January 12, 1865 ; married William C. Harper,
farmer and carpenter ; children : Amy, married
Boyd Crandall, Oakfield; Percy, unmarried;
Mildred, married Joel Hamm, Smyrna ; Caleb ;
Marjorie; Dorris. 11. Gertrude H., March 6,
1867; married Charles L. Weeks, brother of
Avon D. Weeks ; he is a guide and carpenter
at Masardis ; children : Beatrice, married Ellis
McCurdy, farmer, Masardis; Lincoln, resides
with sister Beatrice; Bessie, bookkeeper and
stenographer, Bangor; Gussie, clerk; Harold,
station agent ; Edwina ; Mary ; Hope.
(VII) Charles Walter Sherman, son of
Caleb (2) Sherman, was born December 11,
1862, in Salisbury, New Brunswick. When he
was six months old, his parents removed to
Oakfield, Maine, where he attended the public
schools. During his boyhood he worked on his
father's farm. In 1893 ne located at Smyrna
on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres,
which he has cultivated since that time. He is
a prominent and influential citizen. In politics
he is a Republican. For the past three years
he has been town treasurer, and he has been-
member of the school board, road commis
sioner and for three years member of the board
of health. He belongs to the Oakfield Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and to the Baptist
church, of which he has been deacon for the
past six years. He married, September 10,
1887, at Ludlow, Maine, Amy Maria Stephens,
born at Ludlow, December 24, 1867, educated
in Ludlow schools and Patten Academy. She
taught school in Merrill, Maine, two years be
fore her marriage. She is a member of the
Baptist church, and was formerly a member of
the Houlton Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
She is also a member of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. Children, born at
Smyrna: 1. Beecher Avon, born December 2,
1890; attended Patten Academy and Hodgin's
Business College of Houlton ; a potato buyer
of Oakland; member of the Loyal Order of
Moose, and of the Baptist church; married
Edith Hamm, born at Smyrna, April 5, 1891,
graduate of Ricker's Classical Institute and
for two years a school teacher before mar
riage ; child, Jean Nevada, born at Smyrna,
April 18, 1913. 2. Charles Walter Jr., born
June 20, 1893; chauffeur, living in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. 3. Annie Purrington, born
January 1, 1896; student for two years in
Ricker's Classical Institute of Houlton. 4.
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Three brothers of this
McLAUGHLIN name came from Ireland
to this country, one of
them settling in New Brunswick, and the other
two settling in the United States. The subject
of this sketch is descended from the one who
went to New Brunswick, whose name was very
likely Thomas McLaughlin.
(I) Robert McLaughlin was born probably
in New Brunswick about 1766, died in Char
lotte county, New Brunswick, about 1858. He
was a farmer there. He married Elizabeth
Stevens, born and died there. Children: 1.
Daughter, married  Norton, and they
lived on bank of Kennebec river. 2. Daughter,
married Daniel Whitton, and they lived at
North Vassalboro, Maine. 3. Daughter, mar
ried George Thirston, a farmer in New Bruns
wick. 4. Lydia, married (first)  Thirs
ton, (second) —  Townes, a farmer; she
died in Charlotte county, New Brunswick. 5.
Eliza, married (first) John McLaughlin, (sec
ond) James Davis, a farmer ; she died in Char
lotte county. 6. Steven, a farmer ; married
(first) Eliza Smith, (second)  ; died in
Charlotte county. 7. Daniel, mentioned below.
8. Robert, was a farmer ; married Margaret
Miller ; died in New Brunswick. 9. Levi,
farmer ; married Mary Smith ; they died in
Charlotte county. 10. Thomas, married Ade
line Palmer, both deceased.
(II) Daniel McLaughlin, son of Robert Mc
Laughlin, was born in New Brunswick, Febru
ary 15, 1812, died at Oakfield, Maine, Decem
ber 24, 1900. He lived in New Brunswick
until 1869, when he settled in Oakfield. He
was a farmer and a lumberman. He purchased
a farm in Oakfield on which he lived the re
mainder of his life. He became naturalized,
and was a Republican in politics. He married
Helen B. McGeorge, born April 7, 1812, in
Scotland, died at Oakfield in October, 1901.
She was daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Little) McGeorge, who came to this country
when she was about seven years of age, and
settled in Charlotte county, New Brunswick;
William McGeorge died in 1833, when a young
man; he was a farmer; his wife died in 1863.
Children of William and Elizabeth McGeorge :
1. Ann, died in Canada; married John Lundy,
of New Brunswick, farmer, deceased. 2.
Helen B., married Daniel McLaughlin, men
tioned above. 3. Jane, died in New Bruns
wick; married Daniel Trafton, of New Bruns
wick, farmer, deceased. 4. Mary, died in New
Brunswick ; married John Trafton, farmer,
brother of Daniel. 5. Elizabeth, died in New
Brunswick, unmarried. 6. Margaret, lives near
Seattle, Washington; married (first Benja
min Simmons, farmer, (second Jeremiah John

son, farmer, deceased. 7. Peter, died in Minne
sota ; farmer ; married Elizabeth Kelley, of
New Brunswick, deceased. 8. William, died
in California; farmer; married Margaret Mc
Laughlin, second cousin of Daniel McLaugh
lin. 9. David, died in California; farmer;
married Jane Little, of New Brunswick. 10.
Andrew, lives in Minnesota; farmer; married
Lucy Ann Hasty, of New Brunswick. Chil
dren of Daniel and Helen B. (McGeorge) Mc
Laughlin, all born in Charlotte county: 1. Asa,
born 1836, died at Old Town, Maine, in 1898;
married Mary McConnell, of Old Town, de
ceased. 2. Edgar, born 1838; a miner in Cali
fornia for forty years. 3. Oscar, born 1840;
married Emily David ; they live in state of
Washington, at Port Angelus. 4. Nelson, men
tioned below. 5. Jeannette E., born March 6,
1845 ; married Samuel White, of Charlotte
county, farmer ; they live at Oakfield. 6. Wil
liam S., born May 23, 1847; married Sarah
Clark, of Oakfield ; was killed in a dynamite
accident at Port Angelus, Washington, where
she now lives. 7. Robert Pearl, born 1849,
died 1863, in Charlotte county. 8. Clarence,
born 1851, died 1852. 9. Daniel Webster, men
tioned below.
(Ill) Nelson McLaughlin, son of Daniel
McLaughlin, was born June 6, 1842. He was
educated in Charlotte county, New Brunswick.
He is a farnjer and lumberman. In politics he
is a Republican. For two years he served as
collector in Oakfield. He lives now at Dyer
Brook, Maine, and is a member of Monument
Lodge, No. 196, Free and Accepted Masons,
Houlton, Maine, of which he was steward sev
eral years; also is a member of Oakfield
Grange, and of Orangemen at Smyrna Mills.
He is insurance agent for Oakfield Grange
now. He married (first) June 20, 1865, Erne-
line Steward, in Charlotte county, where she
was born January 4, 1844; she died at Oak
field, September 3, 1885. He married (second)
Clara Barrows, December 25, 1893, m Houl
ton ; she died at Oakfield, May 16, 1912. Chil
dren by first wife: 1. Ivy Florence, died aged
ten years. 2. Phoebe E., born in Charlotte
county, January 1, 1868; married Philip
Parker; they live in Beverly, Massachusetts.
3. Charles K., born at Oakfield, 1870; married
Elsie  , of California; lives at Skow
hegan, Maine; farmer. 4. Melissa E., born
1872 in Letter B township, deceased. 5. Wil-
lard E., born in Houlton in 1874; married
Janie Robinson, of Golden Ridge, Maine ; they
live at Sherman, Maine. 6. Gertrude L., born
at Houlton in 1875; married Elbridge Leach,
Of Massachusetts. 7. Ivy M., born at Oakfield
in 1877; married Dudley Conant, of Presque
Isle, Maine, where they live. 8. Edgar N.,

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born at Oakfield in 1879, died as result of
hunting accident in Sherman; married Ethel
Ambers, of Sherman. 9. Plarold V., born at
Oakfield, 1881, died 1906 at Uxbridge, Massa
chusetts, unmarried. 10. Cora E., born at
Oakfield, 1883; married Joseph McNelle, of
Dyer Brook, Maine, where they live. 11.
Daughter, died in infancy. By second wife :
12. Claude M., born at Oakfield, July 5, 1895.
13. Hudson D., born at Oakfield, July 24, 1899.
(Ill) Daniel Webster McLaughlin, son of
Daniel McLaughlin, and brother of Nelson
McLaughlin, was born May 30, 1855, in Bailey,
New Brunswick, and now lives at Dyer Brook,
Maine. He received his education in Bailey,
and at Oakfield, where his parents settled
when he was twelve years of age. Pie was
twenty-one years of age when he married, and
he became owner of a farm of one hundred
and ninety acres at Dyer Brook, which he now
manages. In politics he is a Republican, and
he has served as first selectman for one year,
now holding the offices of collector and mem
ber of the school board. He is a member
of Island Falls Lodge, No. 206, Free and
Accepted Masons; of the Odd Fellows of
Smyrna, Maine ; and of the Independent Order
of Foresters, Smyrna Mills. He married Mary
Effie Clark, born at Smyrna, June 18, 1857,
and educated at Oakfield, where her parents
settled when she was very young. She is a
member of the Eastern Star, Island Falls
Chapter, and of the Oakfield Grange. She is
daughter of John B. Clark, born in Brown
ville, Maine, about 1823, died at Oakfield in
1903, where he was a farmer and blacksmith ;
he married Mary Young, born at Linneus,
Maine, about 1833, died at Oakfield in 1901.
Children of John B. and Mary (Young) Clark:
1. Sarah, married William S. McLaughlin, son
of Daniel McLaughlin, mentioned above. 2.
Ernest, married Angie Sharp, of Merrill,
Maine ; they live at Smyrna Mills, where he is
blacksmith. 3. Mary Effie, married Daniel W.
McLaughlin, mentioned above. 4. John, mar
ried Nora Shields, of Oakfield ; they live at
Mars Hill; farmer. 5. Janie, married John
McGerry, of Oakfield; she died at Port
Angelus, Washington, where he now lives. 6.
Annie, married John Luce, of Farmington,
Maine, where he died, a farmer ; she died at
Oakfield. 7. Bernal, married Annie Mores, of
Oakfield, where she died ; he is a farmer there.
8. Mattie, twin, died young. 9. Lydia, twin of
Mattie, died young. 10. Stanley, married Lil
lian Rackliff, of Farmington ; they live on
farm in Oakfield. 11. Daughter, died young.
Children of Daniel Webster and Mary Effie
(Clark) McLaughlin: 1. Clyde Drell, men
tioned below. 2. Cordia, born at Oakfield,

May 2, 1882; married Guy Crosby, of Oak
field ; farmer ; children : Sylvia and Effie, live
with parents.
(IV) Clyde Drell McLaughlin, son of Dan
iel Webster McLaughlin, was born in Oakfield,
Maine, May 15, 1876. lie attended the public
schools there and at Dyer Brook, Maine, leav
ing school in 1892 to work on his father's large
farm. There he remained until the spring of
1910, when he purchased a farm of one hun
dred and thirty-three acres in Dyer Brook, on
which he now lives. In politics he is a Re
publican. He has served for two years as road
commissioner in Dyer Brook. He is a mem
ber of the Maccabees, Oakfield Tent, No. 57,
and of Island Falls Lodge, No. 206, Free and
Accepted Masons ; he is also a member of Oak
field Grange. He married Ella Margaret
White, born at Lambert Lake, Maine, Febru
ary 8, 1879, and received her education in the
public school at Vanceboro, Maine. She is a
member of Oakfield Gratige (see White II).
Children of Clyde Drell and Ella Margaret
(White) McLaughlin, born at Dyer Brook: 1.
Carl, born April 24, 1897; has attended the
Houlton high school. 2. Kemp, born June 5,
1899. 3. Cleo, born March 13, 1901. 4. Vil-
lard, born June 1, 1903. 5. Ralton, born De
cember 23, 1906. 6. Jennie, twin of Ralton.
7. Augustus Abbott, born April 5, 1913.
(The White Line).
(I) James White, the immigrant ancestor
of this line, was born in Ireland about 1801,
and came to this country, settling at New
Brunswick, Canada, where he died at Wolf
Corners, in 1881. He lived in Charlotte county,
New Brunswick, all his life after coming over
here. In religion he was a Presbyterian. He
married  . Children : William J., lives
at Antigo, Wisconsin, a farmer; George F.,
mentioned below; Daniel, of whom nothing
further is known.
(II) George F. White, son of James White,
was born in New Brunswick in 1854. He is
a carpenter by trade, and worked at Vance
boro, and for the past twenty years has worked
in Oakfield. He married, at Lambert Lake,
Agnes Trafton, born at New Brunswick in
1856, daughter of Enoch Trafton. Enoch
Trafton was born in Charlotte county, New
Brunswick, about 1828, died at Oakfield,
Maine, in 1905 ; he was a farmer' in Charlotte
county, later moving to Lambert Lake, Maine,
and then to Oakfield; he married Elizabeth
Pinkerton, born in Charlotte county in 1836,
died at Lambert Lake, June 20, 1912. Chil
dren of Enoch and Elizabeth Trafton: 1.
Agnes, married George F. White, of this
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Grass ; they live at Clearwater, Minnesota ;
carpenter. 3. Ellen, married Peter Leme, of
Minnesota ; they live at Clearwater. 4. Joseph,
runs a meat market at Clearwater. 5. William,
married Ella Trafton, of Lambert Lake; lives
at Danforth, Maine ; a millwright. 6. Emma.
married Albert Marshall, of Bailey, Charlotte
county, New Brunswick; they live at Lambert
Lake. 7. Enoch, married Hepsie Gellerson, of
Lambert Lake ; works on Bangor and Aroos
took railroad ; lives at Millinocket, Maine. 8.
Annie, married Hill Howland, of Lambert
Lake ; lives at Baring, Maine. 9. Melvin, mar
ried Cynthia Grass, of Lambert Lake ; lives at
Oakfield, Maine. 10. Emerson, died young.
11. Cassie, married Herbert Grass; died at
Lambert Lake, where he now lives. 12. Emily,
married George Grass, farmer; they live at
Lambert Lake. 13. Stella, married Herbert
Grass, who married (first) Cassie Trafton.
Children of George F. and Agnes (Trafton)
White: 1. Ella Margaret, born February 8,
1879; married Clyde Drell McLaughlin (see
McLaughlin IV). 2. Frank, born at Lambert
Lake, October 21, 1881 ; unmarried; farmer in
Oakfield. 3. Cora, born March 28, 1883, at
Lambert Lake ; married Dexter Smart, of Oak
field, Maine, where they live ; he is a painter
and carpenter. 4. Fred, born at Lambert Lake,
April 7, 1885 ; lives at Oakfield. 5. Ellsworth,
born at Lambert Lake, March 31, 1887; mar
ried Violet Plummer, of Oakfield, where he is
station agent for the Bangor and1 Aroostook
railroad. 6. Melvin, born at Vanceboro, July
21, 1889, unmarried, lives in Oakfield. 7. Ro
land, died in infancy. 8. Leland, born, at Oak
field, August 1, 1893; works for Bangor and
Aroostook railroad ; unmarried ; lives at Oak
field. 9. Edith, born at Oakfield, July 21,
1895.

The surname Scribner was
SCRIBNER originally Scrivener, meaning
a professional writer or con
veyancer. There were at least four families
in England early named Scrivener owning
landed estates. The first of the name in Amer
ica was Matthew Scrivener, a member of the
council of Virginia colony in 1607. It does not
appear that he had a family, although he was
commended by Captain John Smith as a "very
wise understanding gentleman." He was
drowned in the James river a few years after
his arrival. Benjamin Scrivener, ancestor of
the Connecticut Scribners, married at Nor-
walk, Connecticut, March 5, 1680, Plannah
Crampton. He was of Huntington, Long
Island, at an earlier date.
(I) John Scribner, immigrant ancestor of
another branch of the family, came from Kent,

England, before 1652, to Hampton, New
Hampshire, and to Dover, New Hampshire,
where he died October 2, 1675. He was a
large landowner and a person of influence.
His will is dated November 27, 1674. He be
queathed to wife Mary and children. Children :
John, Edward, Thomas and Elizabeth.
(II) Thomas Scribner, son of John Scrib
ner, was born in Hampton, New Hampshire,
and removed to Kingston. He also lived in
Exeter, New Hampshire. He died in 1718.
He owned much land and was a prominent
citizen. He married (first) December 25,
1702, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (God
frey) Clifford; she was born October 30, 1673,
and died June 5, 1706. He married (second)
February 4, 1708-09, Hannah Welch, daughter
of Philip Welch, of Ipswich ; she was born in
1680. Children by first wife: John, men
tioned below ; Deborah, born September 7,
1705. Children by second wife: Sarah, born
November 18,  ; Elizabeth, May 1, 1709;
Edward, April 27, 171 1; Samuel, March 29,
1713, died young.
(Ill) John Scribner, son of Thomas Scrib
ner, was born at Hampston or Kingston, De
cember 6, 1703. The Kingston records give
the record of marriage of John to Susanna
Davis, July 5, 1749, and of John to Deborah
Smith, September 27, 1750. One of these
marriages was probably of his son John, and
the other his second marriage.
(IV) John Scribner, son of John Scribner,
was born about 1725, at Kingston. In 1770 he
settled with seven others among the pioneers
and founders of Waterboro, Penobscot county,
Maine. This place was also called Massa-
besic in the early days. The census of 1790
gives among the heads of families of Water-
borough, Samuel Scribner, probably a brother
of John, having three males over sixteen years,
one male under that age and five females in
his family; Daniel, with two males over six
teen, two under that age, and four females;
Edward, with one male over sixteen, two under
that age, and one female; Edward Jr., who had
no children; Samuel Jr. John had two males
over sixteen and one female in his family.
(V) Daniel Scribner, son of John Scribner,
was born in 1750, at Kingston. He was a
soldier from Massabesic in the revolution, in
Captain Smith's company, Third York County
Regiment. His age was then thirty years.
Plis complexion is described as dark (page
932, Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolu
tion, vol. xiii). He came to Waterboro in
childhood. He followed farming for an occu
pation. He died at Otisfield, Maine. Besides
other children, as shown by the census of 1790,
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(VI) Daniel Scribner, son of Daniel Scrib
ner, was born at Waterboro, Maine, in 1776,
and died at Patten, Maine, in 1862. He was
educated in the common schools, and followed
farming. He was also a carpenter and barn
framer, and he worked at this trade in Water
boro, Springfield, Lincoln, Crystal, Maine. He
was a Whig in politics, afterward a Repub
lican. He was a member of the Free Will
Baptist church. He served in the war of 1812,
at Portland, Maine, when the ships "Enter
prise" and "Boxer" attacked the town. He
married (first) Hannah Kneeland, who died
at Otisfield, Maine. He married (second)
Hannah Sampson, who was born in Harrison,
Maine, in 1789, and died at Patten in 1857.
Children by first wife: 1. Sally, died at Bridg-
ton, Maine ; married Hiram Willard, a stone
cutter by trade. 2. Aaron, died at Mount
Chase, Maine, a farmer, who also owned a
half-way camp, which was destroyed by fire,
in which he lost two children burned to death,
and in which he was so severely burned that
he died soon afterward; married Diadama
Stevens. Children by second wife: 3. Miles
Sampson, born in Parkman, Maine, died in
Augusta, Maine, a merchant; married (first)
Lovisa Fish, (second) Lovena McPheters, of
Holden, Maine ; he served in the civil war in
the Eighth Maine Regiment for six months ;
his son Miles served in the same regiment. 4.
Asenath, born and died at Parkman; married
Solomon Cole, a farmer. 5. Diana, born at
Parkman, died unmarried at Patten. 6. Han
nah Cole, born at Parkman, died at Bridgton,
Maine; married (first)  Robbins, (sec
ond) John Troop, who was killed in the battle
of Cold Harbor; served in the Eighth Maine
Regiment. 7. Jemima S., born at Parkman,
died at Patten ; married Lorenzo Wadlin, of
Saco, Maine, a farmer. 8. Reuben S., born at
Lincoln, Maine, died at Patten, a tailor by
trade; married Elizabeth  . 9. Mary
Ann, born at Springfield, died at Crystal ; mar
ried Albion K. P. Hamilton. 10. Daniel, men
tioned below.
(VII) Daniel Scribner, son of Daniel Scrib
ner, was born at Springfield, May 3, 1834, and
died October 17, 1913. When he was eight
years old his parents removed to Lincoln,
Maine, and four years later to Crystal, in that
state. He attended the public schools in these
towns, and in 1851 went to work on a farm,
continuing in this occupation until he enlisted
in the summer of 1861 in the Fourteenth Maine
Regiment, Volunteer Infantry. He was ap
pointed a corporal, and at the time of his dis
charge in the summer of 1865 he had the rank
of sergeant. He served in the civil war under

Generals William T. Sherman, Nathaniel P.
Banks and Benjamin F. Butler in the Missis
sippi river campaigns. He took part in the
engagements at Baton Rouge, Winchester, and
many other actions. He was taken prisoner at
the battle of Winchester and sent to Libby
prison. After several weeks he was trans
ferred to Belle Isle prison. After two months
he was paroled and exchanged. After he was
mustered out he was clerk in a store at Patten,
Maine, for six months. Since 1867 he was
a farmer and merchant in Patten. In politics
he was formerly a Republican, later a Pro
gressive. He was selectman for two years,
town treasurer for six years, tax collector for
a long period, and for thirty-five years trial
justice. He was a member and for many
years a deacon of the Congregational church,
and also a member of the executive commit
tee. He was a member of Katahdin Lodge,
Free Masons, of Patten, and a past master ;
member of Patten Grange, No. 394, Patrons
of Husbandry. He was formerly treasurer of
the Patten Water Company. He was post
master of Patten under President McKinley.
He married, in 1873, in Conway, New Hamp
shire, Tenie A. Warren, who was born at Den
mark, Maine, in 1845, and died at Patten, May
25, 1905. Children, all born at Patten: 1. Lo-
ammi Wadlin, 1875, died at Ouray, Colorado, in
1901, a miner, unmarried. 2. Roland Sampson,
1877, died 1898; left at the end of his sopho
more year in the University of Maine and en
listed in the First Maine Regiment in the Span
ish war ; contracted typhoid at Chickamaugua,
and died in the general hospital at Portland,
Maine. 3. Rosalie, born 1881, died in infancy.
4. Caleb Warren, mentioned below.
(VIII) Caleb Warren Scribner, son of
Daniel Scribner, was born at Patten, Maine,
March 1, 1882. He attended the public
schools and Patten Academy, from which
he was graduated in 1901. He was a stu
dent in the University of Maine. In 1902
he left college and assisted his father in the
work of the homestead. He is now in charge
of the farm and has continued in farming there
to the present time. He has also been a suc
cessful real estate dealer. In politics he is a
Progressive. He has served on the school
committee, as collector of taxes, and member
of the board of health. He is a member of
the Congregational church, and of Katahdin
Lodge, No. 96, Free Masons, of Patten, of
which he is now junior steward. He is also a
member of Patten Grange, No. 394, of which
he was master for four years, and of the Mac
cabees of Patten. He was married, in Patten,
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was born in Crystal, Maine, September n,
1883, graduate of Patten Academy in 1902;
member of the Congregational church, and of
Patten Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star ; of
Patten Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. She
is a daughter of Martin Van Buren Main, who
was born August, 1850, in Brunswick, Canada,
and now resides at Crystal, Maine. He is a
farmer. In politics he is a Democrat, and for
a number of years he has been the tax col
lector. During the civil war he ran away from
home to enlist in the army, but was sent home
on account of his youth. He married Lucy
Hockter, who was born in Ohio, August, i860.
Children of Martin Van Buren Main: 1. Henry
Main, born February, 1881 ; married Ethel
Webster, of Patten ; he is employed by the
Bangor & 'Aroostook Railroad Company, and
is proprietor of a moving picture theatre in
Patten. 2. Margaret B., married Caleb War
ren Scribner, mentioned above. 3. Dora Main,
born June, 1889; married John Douglas, of
Crystal, Maine, where they reside. 4. Martin
L., November, 1892 ; graduate of the Patten
Academy in 191 3, employed on the Bangor &
Aroostook railroad. 5. Bertram Main, born
August 13, 1894, died in infancy. 6. Agnes
Bernice Main, twin of Bertram, died in in
fancy. 7. Stanley, August 13, 1899.
Martin L. Main, father of Martin Van Buren
Main, was born in New Brunswick, Canada,
March, 1828, and is now living in Crystal,
Maine. He had a farm in Oxboro, Maine, on
the Aroostook river, and afterward another in
Crystal. He is now retired. In politics he is
a Prohibitionist. He is a member of the Free
Will Baptist church, of which he has been
deacon for many years. He married Maria
Curo, who was born in Scotland, 1820, died in
Crystal, 1908. Children of Martin L. Main:
1. James Main, married Julia Hoxter. 2. Eliza
Main, married Henry Downing, of Groveton.
3. Martin V. B., mentioned above. 4. Isadore
Main, married William McFarland, now of
Island Falls. 5. Martha, born at Oxbow,
Maine; married Murray Nason. 6. Mary
Main, married (first) David Campbell, (sec
ond) James McKeen, (third) Simeon Pomeroy,
of Medway. 7. Jane Main, died at Groveton,
married Edward Blake. 8. John Main, mar
ried (first) Lillian Marston, of New Castle,
Maine, (second) Alice  , and they reside
in Hersey, Maine. 9. Charles Main, married
Annie Barton. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Caleb W. Scribner: Tenie, born July 16, 1906;
Daniel, February 26, 1908; Elizabeth Chad
bourne, October 2, 1909; Archie, May 3, 191 1 ;
Hugh, twin of Archie.

Jarvis or Jarvice Gould or Goold
GOULD was the immigrant ancestor of
the Gould family in America. He
came from county Kent, England, in 1635, and
settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, where he
had a house lot of five acres, on South street,
near Hersey street, July 3, 1636. He sold it
to Thomas Lincoln, the weaver.. He was a
cordwainer and a member of the church. He
removed to Boston and died there May 27,
1656, aged fifty-one years. He married Mary
 , who died prior to his death. Children :
John, mentioned below; Joseph, born March
11, baptized March 25, 1649.
(II) John Gould, son of Jarvis Gould, was
born July 28, and baptized in Boston, August
30, 1646. He was a trooper in King Philip's
war in 1676, and a soldier in 1682. He mar
ried, August 21, 1673, Mary Crosman, daugh
ter of Robert and Sarah Crosman. He sur
vived his wife and died at Taunton, where he
resided, December 14, 171 1. Children: Mary,
died young ; John, mentioned below ; Hannah,
Joseph, Nathaniel, Mary, Jabez, Benjamin,
Elizabeth. (Ill) Joseph Gould, son of John Gould,
came to Kittery, Maine, when he was twenty-
two years old. He bought in 1709 land at Tre-
worgy's Point, in the north part of Eliot, and
he died there May, 1762, aged eighty-two years.
He married, at Kittery, in 1705, Bethiah Fur
bish, daughter of William Furbish. Children :
Mary, born May 22, 1706-07; Bethia, married
Richard Church Jr. ; William, married Ann
Searles ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Joseph ;
Hannah, married Robert Tidy; Sarah.
(IV) Samuel Gould, son of Joseph Gould,
was born at Kittery, Maine, and settled in Ber
wick, Maine. His will was proved July 27,
1779. He married Sarah — — — . Children:
Samuel, married and had children, Ezra and
Samuel, of Dixmont, Maine ; Mussey, married
Elizabeth Robinson; Mary, married • — 
Jepson ; Sarah, married Jedediah Morrill;
Judith. The Quaker records show the mar
riage of Mussey Gould, September 28, 1751,
to Martha Frye ; and, January 27, 1768, to
Elizabeth Tibbitts ; the marriage of Samuel
Gould to Sarah Hanson, August 22, 1761, and
of Samuel Jr. to Margaret Hussey, October 4,
1761. (VI) Edward Gould, grandson of Samuel
Gould, founder of the Berwick branch, was a
farmer in Berwick, Maine. Children: 1. Ed
ward, a farmer and butcher, died at Berwick ;
married  ; children : Martin, married
Abbie M. Gould ; Edward ; Albert and a daugh
ter. 2. Samuel, died at Houlton ; married Sally
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Gould, mentioned below. 3. James, died at
Houlton; married  Frisbie. 4. Daniel,
died at Berwick, a farmer. 5. Lydia, died at
Berwick, unmarried. 6. Oliver, mentioned be
low. (VII) Oliver Gould, son of Edward Gould,
was born at Berwick, Maine, April 9, 1804,
died at New Limerick, Maine, July 10, 1865.
He attended the public schools.. He became a
farmer in New Limerick, where he owned one
hundred and sixty acres of land and lumber
mills. In politics he was a Republican, and he
took a prominent part in town affairs. He
attended the Methodist church. He married
Sally (Morrison) Gould, born at Parsonfield,
Maine, June 28, 181 1, died at Fort Fairfield,
August 6, 1897. She was a member of the
Baptist church. Children, all born in New
Limerick, Maine: 1. Abbie M., born May 23,
1830, died April 17, 1888, in Lowell; married
Martin B. Gould, her first cousin, of Berwick,
Maine, a railroad man, killed in a railroad acci
dent. 2. Samuel J., born April 10, 1832, died
at Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 18,
1902 ; a railroad man, afterward a farmer near
Minneapolis; married Carrie Olmstead. 3.
Mary Jane, September 7, 1834, died at Patten,
Maine, January 5, 1907; married John Q.
Bradbury, of New Limerick, a railroad man,
killed in a railroad accident. 4. Daniel E., born
June 12, 1836, died at Minneapolis, May 20,
1877; a railroad and lumberman. 5. Henry
Harrison, mentioned below. 6. Albert O., born
August 25, 1842, died at New Limerick, No
vember 10, 1861. 7. Sarah F., born July 3,
1846, died November 19, 1861, at New Lim
erick. 8. John F., born September 11, 1849;
married Ella Howe, of Minneapolis; he is a
druggist in that city.
(VIII) Henry Harrison Gould, son of
Oliver Gould, was born at New Limerick,
Maine, April 17, 1840. He attended the pub
lic schools until i860, when he assisted his
father on the homestead at New Limerick until
1887. He then bought a farm in Fort Fair
field, Maine, having sold the homestead to
which he succeeded. In 1904 he sold his farm
in Fort Fairfield- and bought a place of two
hundred and forty acres in Patten, where he
has since lived. In politics he is independent.
He was selectman of New Limerick for sev
eral years, and member of the school board,
and also town treasurer. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and of Patten
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He married,
December 25, 1870, at Linneus, Maine, Re
becca J. Pipes, born in Albert county, New
Brunswick, Canada, in January, 1854. Her
parents removed to Houlton, Maine, when she
was twelve years old and she was educated

there in the public schools. She also is a mem
ber of the Methodist church and of the Grange.
Children of Henry Harrison Gould: 1. Fred
PL, born at New Limerick, November 21, 1871,
died at Fort Fairfield, April 21, 1892. 2. Al
bert O., April, 1873 > he was educated in the
New Limerick schools and at Eastman Busi
ness College at Poughkeepsie, New York;
employed by the International Harvester Com
pany at Bangor ; married May Hamor, of Bar
Harbor. 3. Mabel F., born March 19, 1877;
graduate of the Fort Fairfield high school;
now bookkeeper for the Houlton Furniture
Company. 4. Harland R., born July 18, 1882;
graduate of the Fort Fairfield high school;
married Edna Hall, of Patten; they reside at
Sherman, Maine, where he is engaged in farm
ing. 5. Gertrude L., born at Fort Fairfield,
September 8, 1890; graduate of the Patten
high school in 1909; has taught school one
year in Patten and two years in Fort Fairfield.
6. Walter B., born at Fort Fairfield, December
11, 1898; student in the Patten high school.
Rufus Pipes, father of Mrs. Gould, was born
January 29, 1825, at Amherst, Nova Scotia,
died at Easton, Maine, November 22, 1902.
He taught school for many years in Albert
county, New Brunswick, and afterward fol
lowed farming in New Limerick. After re
tiring, he lived at Easton. He was a Repub
lican. For many years he was deacon of the
Baptist church. He married Jane Brewster,
born in Albert county, New Brunswick, April
16, 1826, died at New Limerick, December 20,
1899. Children of Rufus and Jane Pipes: 1.
James Brewster, born in Albert county, New
Brunswick, April 17, 1849; a carpenter; mar
ried Annie Hackett, of Patten, Maine. 2.
William Rufus, born April 30, 1851; married
Sarah Graham, of Woodstock; they reside at
Presque Isle, Maine ; he is a merchant. 3.
Rebecca J., married- Henry Harrison Gould,
mentioned above. 4. Mary E., born October
14, 1856 ; married Emery Hubbard, of New
Hampshire, a farmer later at Dover, Maine,
where she now resides, a widow. 5. Wallace
I., born April 16, 1859; married Myrtie Rob-
bins, born at Oakfield, Maine; now living at
Corinna, Maine. 6. Herbert N., born October
24, 1862; married Sophia  , of Dakota;
they reside on a farm in New Limerick. 7.
Annie I., born July 12, 1865, at Houlton; mar
ried Hudson Drew, of New Limerick ; he is a
carpenter in Houlton. 8. Lillian, born July
24, 1868, in New Limerick, died there August,
1885. William Pipes, father of Rufus Pipes, was
born in Nova Scotia and died in Amherst,
Nova Scotia. He was a ship builder. He was
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ried

Children, born in Nova Scotia:

i. Hannah, married Harris Calhoun, owner of
saw mills. 2. William Coglan, was postmaster
of Albert for many years. 3. Rufus, men
tioned above. 4. Thomas, a prominent citizen,
served in the Canadian parliament.

Robert Clark, the immigrant an-
CLARK cestor, was born in the north of
Ireland and came in 1725 with
other Scotch-Irish to Londonderry, New
Hampshire. He married Letitie Cochrane, of
another prominent Scotch-Irish family of Lon
donderry. Children : William, born 1735 ;
John, mentioned below; Samuel, 1739; Ninian,
1741 ; Jane, 1742; Letitia, 1744; Agnes, 1747;
Elizabeth, 1750.
John Clark, son of Robert Clark, was born
in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1737. He
married Nancy Stinson., Children: Robert,
David, Letitia, Polly, Alexander, mentioned
below ; William, Jane, Betsey, John.
Alexander Clark, probably a brother of Rob
ert Clark, mentioned above, was born at Lon
donderry, New Hampshire, and was one of
the early settlers of Belfast, Maine. He was
selectman in 1777, town clerk 1781-1800. He
died in Brooks, Maine, January 31, 1839, aged
ninety-five years. His wife Hannah died De
cember 28, 1820, aged seventy-eight years.
Various other Clarks also settled in Belfast,
but it is believed that the family mentioned be
low descended from Alexander.
(I) James Clark, a descendant of Alex
ander. Clark, was born April 7, 1790, died at
Greenfield, Maine, April, 1840. He lived in
Belfast, Maine, and was a sailor. In 1826 he
moved to Greenfield, Maine, and bought one
hundred acres of land which he cleared, and
he conducted a farm until his death. In poli
tics he was a Democrat. He served in the war
of 1812 with Perry's fleet. He married Sarah
Dodge, born December 2, 1794, died at Green
field in 1853. Children, born at Belfast: 1.
James, mentioned below. 2. Lavona, born
about 1 816 ; married Frank Costigan, a farmer ;
both deceased. 3. Margaret, born 1818, died in
Burlington, Maine, 1897 ; married Jeremiah
Page, a farmer, hotel proprietor, lumberman,
merchant ; was prominent in Burlington, and
well-to-do; deceased. 4. Mary, born 1820;
married Edward Coney, brother of ex-Gov
ernor Coney, of Maine; lived in Augusta,
Maine. 5. Robert, born 1822, died at Green
field, 1852 ; married Emily Dolliff, of Green
field ; she lives in Morrill, Maine, having mar
ried (second) Joseph Mears; children of Rob
ert : Robert F., lives in Freedom, Maine, a
tinsmith, and George, of Morrill, Maine.
(II) James (2) Clark, son of James (1)

Clark, was born at Belfast, Maine, October 2,
1814, died at Sherman, Maine, January 22,
1882. He was educated at Belfast, and owned
his father's farm in Greenfield. In 1865 he
moved to Sherman, where he purchased one
hundred and seventy-five acres, where he lived
until his death. In politics he was a Democrat,
and later a Republican. He served as road
commissioner, school agent, and in other town
offices. He married, October 23, 1842, Maria
A. Jackson, who was born in Belfast, January
11, 1824, died in Sherman, September 2, 1899.
Children: 1. Arsenath, born September 14,
1843, in Greenfield, died September 16, 1846.
2. Robert, born June 2, 1847, in Greenfield,
enlisted in 1864 in Fourteenth Regiment Maine
Volunteers, and died at Georgetown, South
Carolina, 1865, unmarried. 3. Luther, men
tioned below.
(Ill) Luther Clark, son of James (2) Clark,
was born in Greenfield, Maine, May 3, 1849.
He was sixteen years of age when his parents
moved to Sherman. He attended the Green
field and Sherman schools until 1867, when he
began to work on his father's farm of one hun
dred and seventy-five acres at Sherman Mills.
He inherited this farm from his father, and
has lived on it all his life since. In politics he
is a Republican. He married, in Sherman,
May 3, 1874, Jessie F. Perry (see Perry III).
Children, born in Sherman: 1. Waldo W.,
born July 21, 1875; attended school in Sher
man, and lives at Sherman Mills ; is a cattle
buyer and butcher; married Ethel Greaves, of
Silver Ridge, Maine ; children : Maurice James,
born at Sherman, September 6, 1903; Eleanor
Greaves, Sherman, November 14, 1905 ; Made
line, Sherman, June 8, 1908. 2. Effie A., born
September 16, 1877 ; married Chester A. Bar
rows, of Sangerville, Maine ; they live at Win-
terport, Maine, where he is station agent for
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad. 3. Lizzie
E., born July 5, 1879, died April 8, 1888. 4.
Luther Jackson, born December 23, 1881 ; edu
cated in Sherman and at Bucksport Seminary;
married Eleanor Coombs Williams, of Sanger
ville ; child, Florence Arsenath, born in Sanger
ville, Maine, December 1, 1913; they live in
Arlington, where he runs a garage. 5. Mattie
E., born February 6, 1886; graduate of Sher
man high school, and of the Eastern Maine
General Hospital at Bangor ; is a trained nurse
in Bangor. 6. Jessie Perry, born July 11, 1887;
graduate of Sherman high school ; is a tele
graph operator at Sherman Station for the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad. 7. Verna A.,
born August 30, 1889 ; graduate of high school
at Winterport, Maine, and also studied at Cas-
tine Normal School ; has taught at Sangerville,
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Maine. 8. Ralph W., born December 2, 1891 ;
graduate of Sangerville high school ; unmar
ried ; is at a garage at Winterport, living with
his parents. 9. Fred P., born October 4, 1896,
died October 14, 1897.
(The Perry Line).
Three Perry brothers came from England,
and one settled in New York state, one in
Connecticut, and one in Vermont. This branch
is descended from the Vermont family.
(I) William Perry was born in Vermont
about 1804, died at Exeter, Maine, about 1842.
He was a carpenter, being skilled at his trade.
In politics he was a Whig. He married Mary
Elizabeth McCard, born in 1806, died at Sher
man about 1869. Children: 1. Joseph T.,
mentioned below. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born
1829, died at Sherman in 1909; married Ezra
Cushman, of Sherman, a farmer. 3. Albert,
born 1831, died at Haverhill, Massachusetts,
191 1 ; married Susanna Peavy, of Patten,
Maine, and she died at Groveland, Massachu
setts. 4. Son, died young. 5. Samuel, born
1835, died at Groveland; enlisted from Massa
chusetts in 1862 and served nearly two years,
dying a few years later. 6. Jonathan Ai, born
in 1838, at Exeter, Maine; lives at Sherman
Station ; married Lois Frank, of Sherman,
born 1841 in Blue Hill, Maine, died in 1901.
7. William, born 1840, died in civil war, enlist
ing from Groveland, and dying at Washing
ton, D. C. 8. Helen, born 1842, died at Grove
land about 1865 ; married Daniel Sawyer, a
jeweler of Groveland.
(II) Joseph T. Perry, son of William Perry,
was born August 23, 1827, at Exeter, Maine,
and now lives in Sherman, a retired farmer.
He was nineteen years of age when he went to
Sherman, and at first he ran a mill, later buy
ing a farm there. In politics he is a Republi
can, and he has served as road commissioner,
as school superintendent and in other town
offices. He married (first) Emily Cushman,
born in Buckfield, Maine, died in Sherman.
He married (second) Charlotte E. Eaton, born
May 29, 1836, in Strong, Maine ; died at Sher
man, November, 1908. She was of Scotch
descent. Children by first wife: 1. Emily,
died in infancy. 2. Lizzie M., married Edson
Owen, of Sherman ; lives at Bradford, Massa
chusetts ; he is a plumber. 3. William A., died
at Somerville, Massachusetts ; married Nettie
Longfellow, of Silver Ridge ; was a member
of Somerville Fire Department ; she married
(second) Samuel Pease, a retired carriage
manufacturer, and they live at Merrimac, Mas
sachusetts. Children by second wife, born in
Sherman: 4. Jessie Freemont, mentioned be
low. 5. Florence E., born September 17, 1859;

attended Sherman High School ; married
Boardman W. Curtis, of Blue Hill, Maine; he
died at Sherman in 1903 ; was a farmer. 6.
Daniel H., born May 6, 1861 ; attended Sher
man High School ; married (first) Carrie E.
Whitney, of Damariscotta, Maine; (second)
Emma Clevitt, of Caribou, Maine ; they live in
Sherman. 7. Mattie E., born December 25,
1867; attended Sherman High School; mar
ried John Pease, of Merrimac, Massachusetts,
carriage manufacturer, deceased; she lives at
Merrimac. (Ill) Jessie Freemont Perry, daughter of
Joseph T. Perry, was born June 10, 1857, in
Sherman. She attended the Sherman High
School. She is a member of the Congrega
tional church. She married Luther Clark, of
Sherman Mills (see Clark III).

Colonel Clayton came with a
CLAYTON British regiment from Eng
land during the Revolution.
At the close of the war he went with his regi
ment to St. John, New Brunswick, where he
located on a government grant at Sheffield or
Majorfield. He married  Archibald, of
New York City. Among their children was
Lyman, mentioned below.
(II) Lyman Clayton, son of Colonel Clay
ton, was born at Sheffield or Majorfield, New
Brunswick, and died at an advanced age in
1866, in East Saginaw, Michigan. He was a
farmer and lumberman. Late in life he went
to Michigan with four or five sons and two
daughters. Children: 1. George, died in New
Brunswick. 2. Archibald, farmer, miller and
lumberman, probably died in Michigan. 3.
John, was at one time a police officer at Sagi
naw City. 4. Enoch, went to the then distant
West. 5. Fred, lived in Canada, opposite De
troit, Michigan, was a stone mason. 6. Charles
Washburn, mentioned below. 7. Ann, married
 McKay, a hotel proprietor in Detroit.
8. Eliza, married a farmer in Michigan.
(Ill) Charles W'ashburn Clayton, son of
Lyman Clayton, was born at Majorfield, New
Brunswick, January 15, 1820, died at Ashland,
Maine, October 16, 1896. He was a farmer,
lumberman, mill owner and a manufacturer of
starch. He located in Plantation No. 8, Maine,
and after a few years there moved to Masar
dis, where he lived for about six years. Thence
he went to Garfield and finally to Ashland,
Maine. In politics he was a Republican He
enlisted in the civil war in the Fifteenth Maine
Regiment Volunteer Infantry and served about
eight months. He was discharged on account
of illness. He was a member of the Ashland
Protestant Episcopal Church, and of Pioneer
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of Ashland. He married Sarah E. Fernel or
Fernald, born at Glenburn, Maine, November
20, 1829, died at Garfield Plantation in Febru
ary, 1885. She was also a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Children: 1.
Ira, mentioned below. 2. Charles Frederic,
born December, 1850; married Mary Mc-
Query, of New Brunswick; they reside at
Ashland; he is a farmer. 3. Inez Ann, born
1853 ; married George Randolph Ketchum, of
Woodstock, New Brunswick, now a farmer in
Garfield Plantation ; she died in Ashland in
1893. 4. Ida May, born December 9, 1855;
married Wilbur Bartlett, born at Ashland, now
a farmer at Garfield. 5. Abbie, born February
23, 1862 ; married (first) William Smith, of St.
John, New Brunswick, a hay buyer of Fort
Fairfield ; married (second) George Randolph
Ketchum, mentioned above ; resides at Gar
field. 6. George W., born August 24, 1863 ;
married (first) Rose Gordon, of Masardis;
(second) Edna Gordon, her sister, who died in
Masardis ; he resides in Garfield.
(IV) Ira Clayton, son of Charles Wash
burn Clayton, was born ten miles south of
Masardis in Aroostook county, Maine, Sep
tember 14, 1849. He attended the public
schools. He worked on his father's farm and
in winter followed lumbering in the woods
until he was twenty years old. He then became
a contractor for hauling logs. He also fol
lowed farming until 1898, when he retired.
He is now living at Washburn with his wife
on the farm of his son, Charles W. Clayton.
He was for many years a Republican in poli
tics, but is now a Progressive. He has been
assessor of the town of Garfield and for three
years was town treasurer. He is a communi
cant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He
is a member of Pioneer Lodge, No. 72, Free
and Accepted Masons. He married, March
13, 1870, in Garfield, Adelia Robinson, born in
Ashland, November, 1849. Children, all born
in Garfield: 1. Norine M., born December,
1870; married Frank McDonald, a druggist in
Boston. 2. Charles W., born September, 1872;
married Louise Sinclair, of St. John Planta
tion, Maine; he is a sawyer in Seattle, Wash
ington. 3. Ada K, born June 1, 1874; a
stenographer, Boston. 4. John R., born No
vember 3, 1876; married Annie Munn, of
Mapleton, now of Skowhegan, a farmer. 5.
Clarence L., born March, 1878; resides in
Oakland and has charge of the timber lands of
the Ashland Manufacturing Company. 6. Ira,
mentioned below. 7. Sarah L., born July,
1883; died in Washburn, October 20, 1912;
married Leroy Ballard, a carpenter, of Wash
burn. 8. James, born April, 1885 ; married
(first) Augusta Wilder; (second) Mabel

Rockwell, of Washburn. 9. Archie, born
March 6, 1890.
Daniel Robinson, father of Adelia (Robin
son) Clayton, was born in Kennebec county, '•
Maine, died at Ashland about 1873. He was
a farmer in Ashland all his active life. In
politics he was a Democrat. He married Mary
Ann Rafford, born August, 1823 ; she is living
in Ashland. Children of Daniel and Mary
Ann Robinson: 1. Orrin, married 
Smith, of Masardis ; he is a farmer in Ash
land. 2* Lot, married Fannie Bolton ; resides
on his father's farm, Ashland. 3. Adelia, mar
ried Ira Clayton, mentioned above. 4. Charles,
married (first)  West; (second) Jennie
Bolton, a sister of Fannie Bolton, just men
tioned; they reside at Masardis. 5. Esther,
married David Stevens, of Ashland, a farmer
there. 6. Isabel, married Fielder Bolton,
brother of Jennie Bolton; a farmer, at Smyrna.
(V) Ira (2) Clayton, son. of Ira (1) Clay
ton, was born at Garfield Plantation, Maine,
October 3, 1881. He attended the public
schools of his native town until 1890 when his
parents removed to Mapleton, where he also
attended school. He began to work in the
lumber business when he was fifteen and con
tinued in the woods and on the river drive for
eight winters. In 1898 he bought a farm on
the State road in Mapleton, consisting of a
hundred acres. In 1905 he sold this farm and
bought another of one hundred and twenty-
two acres in Washburn, where he has since
lived. He has ninety-five acres in cultivation.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem
ber of Castle Hill Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, Knights of Maccabees of Castle Hill,
and of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He married, May 22, 1910, in Washburn,
Jessie Sloat, born there March 8, 1885. She
attends the Baptist church. Joseph Sloat, her
father, was born in New Brunswick, February
29, 1852. Pie is a farmer in Washburn, a
Republican in politics. He married Martha
Burtsill, born at Fort Fairfield, April 1, 1859:
Children of Joseph Sloat: 1. Inez, married
Miles Pelkey, of Washburn. 2. Alice, mar
ried Henry Howes, of Ashland. 3. Pearl, died
in Mapleton, December, 1908. 4. Hester, mar
ried Alden Webber, of Mapleton, a farmer.
5. Henry, married Lou Sloat, of Easton,
Maine, resides on a farm in Washburn. 6..
Jessie, married Ira Clayton, mentioned above..
Abram Sloat, father of Joseph Sloat, was born-
in New Brunswick, 1826, died at Castle Hill,
Maine, 1899. He was a farmer in his native-
place and afterward at Castle Hill, where he
died. He married Martha Henderson, born in.
New Brunswick, 1828, died at Castle Hill,.
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died at Easton, Maine ; married (first) Gussie
Bump ; (second) Laura Elliott, now of Easton.
2. Joseph, mentioned above. 3. Abram, a
farmer, Ashland, married Olive Martin, of
Ashland. 4. Benjamin, died in the service in
the civil war. 5. Hiram, a farmer, died at
Castle Hill; married Nellie Fitz Herbert, of
Fort Fairfield; now living at Castle Hill. 6.
Allen, a mail carrier at Fort Fairfield. 7.
Martha, died at Castle Hill ; married Charles
Smith, a farmer of Castle Hill. 8. Charlotte,
died at Castle Hill ; married Richard Bell. 9.
Lydia, married George Mitchell. 10. Ada,
married George Robinson, of Presque Isle, a
livery stable owner and wagon dealer. 11.
Dora, married Samuel Moulton, of Boston,
employed in the watch factory at Waltham,
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Clayton
have one child, Athil, born September 29,
1912.

Anthony Potter, the immigrant
POTTER ancestor, was born in England
in 1628, died in 1690. He set
tled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he is
first recorded in 1648. His house was situated
near the stone mill, being the one which was
built by Major-General Daniel Denison. Later
Mr. Potter lived opposite the soldiers' monu
ment, and about 1661 he built a "lean-to" on
that site, with the town's permission. The
house was next the old tavern which still
stands; the old inn-keepers there were John
Sparks, Rogers, Smith and Treadwell, the lat
ter having been the keeper during the Revolu
tion. Mr. Potter owned a farm, one of the
best in town, on the road to Salem, about a
mile southwest of Ipswich village, and extend
ing north to Ipswich river. He was success
ful in the raising of fruit. He and his wife
gave a silver cup to the Ipswich Church. His
wife's tombstone at Ipswich bears the follow
ing inscription.: "Here lys burried Mrs. Eliz
abeth Potter, who died March ye 10, 1712,
aged 83 years. A tender mother, — A prudent
wife, — At God's command — Resigned her
life." Anthony Potter married Elizabeth
Whipple, born 1629, died 1712, daughter of
Deacon John and Sarah Whipple. Children:
John, born at Ipswich in 1652 ; Edmund, born
at Ipswich in 1654; Samuel, mentioned below;
Thomas, died 1745 ; Anthony, died 1756; Eliz
abeth, born about 1661, died before 1730;
Lydia. (II) Samuel Potter, son of Anthony Potter,
was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, died in
1714. He married (first) Joanna Wood, born
in 1661, daughter of Isaiah and Mercy
(Thompson) Wood. He married (second)
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April 18, 1692, Ruth Dunton. He married
(third) December 4, 1705, Sarah Burnett,
widow of Robert Burnett. Children by first
wife, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts: David,
born March 27, 1685 ; Sarah, twin of David ;
Joanna, born June 16, 1686; Samuel, men
tioned below; Thomas, born April 15, 1691 ;
Elizabeth; Henry. Children by second wife,
born in Ipswich : Anthony, born October 2,
1696, not mentioned in his father's will ;
Esther, born December 18, 1703, died 1703;
Ezekiel, born in 1704. Children by third wife,
born in Ipswich : Esther, born September 10,
1707; Lydia, born June 4, 1710; Abigail, born
September 6, 1713.
(Ill) Samuel (2) Potter, son of Samuel
(1) Potter, was born in Ipswich, Massachu
setts, about 1688, died in 1747. He married,
November 17, 1712, Hannah Dresser, born
in 1681-82, died in 1728. She was daughter
of Samuel and Mary (Leaver) Dresser. Chil
dren, born in Topsfield, Massachusetts : Mary,
baptized March 14, 1714, died in infancy;
Mary, born May 7, 1715 ; Elizabeth, born June
30, 1717, died October 25, 1734; Samuel, men
tioned below ; Plannah, born June 28, 1724.
(IV) Samuel (3) Potter, son of Samuel (2)
Potter, was born at Topsfield, Massachusetts,
June 28, 1719, died in 1759. He married, July
12, 1738, Abigail Cummings, born in 1719,
died in 1765. She was daughter of Isaac and
Abigail (Boardman) Cummings. Children,
born in Topsfield : Jeremiah, baptized Octo
ber 17, 1742; Hannah, baptized September 11,
1743; Daniel, baptized June 15, 1746; Pru
dence, baptized July 17, 1748; Solomon, men
tioned below ; Samuel, baptized September 17,
1752; Abigail, baptized June 18, 1758, at
Topsfield. (V) Solomon Potter, son of Samuel (3)
Potter, was born at Limebrook Parish, Ips
wich, Massachusetts, July 29, 1749, died May
25, 1800, in Whitefield, Maine. He settled in
New Castle, now Alma, Lincoln county, Maine,
after his first marriage, and moved to White-
field in 1782. His sons, Captain Aaron, Ma
jor Daniel and Deacon John, all served in
the War of 1812. Solomon Potter married
(first) June 11, 1776, Jane Leighton, born in
1755, died in 1794. He married (second) Sep
tember 20, 1795, Rachel Bartlett, born in
1770, died in 1813. She was daughter of Jacob
and Lydia (Chase) Bartlett. Children by
first wife, born in New Castle, Maine : Aaron,
born March 1, 1777; Daniel, born September
16, 1 78 1. Born in Whitefield: Solomon, born
February 25, 1784; Ezekiel, born December
26, 1785; Hannah, born April 22, 1787; Mary
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ruary ii, 1792. Children by second wife, born
in Whitefield: John, born September 29, 1796;
James, mentioned below.
(VI) James Potter, son of Solomon Pot
ter, was born in Whitefield, Maine, February
1, 1800, died March 15, 1875, at Limestone,
Maine. He was a farmer in the town of
Perry, and later in Caribou. He lived in
Limestone after his retirement from active
life. In politics he was a Whig, and later a
Republican. He married, at Perry, Maine,
Mary Goulding, born in 1806, died in 1881,
from drowning by falling from a bridge at
Caribou, Maine. (The Potter Genealogy gives
the dates of her birth- and death as 1811-1876).
Children, born in Perry, Maine: 1. Lucy Ann,
born March 19, 1830; died in Penobscot
county, Maine ; married Amial Keen, of Ken
nebec county, Maine ; he died in St. John, New
Brunswick, where he was a hostler. 2. Joseph
Conant, born April 24, 183 1 ; lives in King
man, Maine, a well-to-do farmer; married
Maggie Jacobs, of Danforth, Maine, deceased.
3. Peter Goulding, born December 31, 1832,
was drowned in Meadow Brook, February 16,
1858, while breaking up a jam of logs ; married
Abbie A. Eames, of Kennebec county, Maine,
and she lives at Prentice, wife of James  ,
farmer. 4. George Everett, mentioned below.
5. James Luther, born October 11, 1836, died
August 16, 1864, being shot by the enemy on the
bank of the Potomac while saving the Flag,
being the fifth to fall in same way in one of
the attacks at the time ; he enlisted in Com
pany B, Eleventh Maine Regiment, in 1861 ;
married Annie  , who died before the
war. 6. Mary E., born March 10, 1839, died
September 17, 1841. 7. Rachel B., born March
31, 1841, died September 12, 1841. 8. Clark
G., born March 19, 1842 ; married Anna M.
Averill. 9. Hannah I., born January 19, 1845,
died February 23, 1848. 10. John Letford,
born September 11, 1846, died December 1,
1854. 11. Annie M., born March 1, 1850;
married William E. Leonard.
(VII) Rev. George Everett Potter, son of
James Potter, was born in Perry, Washington
county, Maine, November 19, 1833. He at
tended the public schools of his native town.
At the age of fifteen he went to work cutting
cordwood for his father, and also assisted his
father in the work of the farm. Later he was
employed on the river drive as a lumberman.
He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company M,
First Maine Regiment Heavy Artillery, and
was mustered out after the close of the war in
September, 1865. He took part in the battles of
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg
and many other engagements. After the war
he engaged in farming at Limestone, Maine,

where he owned three hundred acres, much of
which was timber land. He cleared land for
tillage and cultivated this place for nine years,
then sold it to Deacon Gould. He bought a
farm of eighty acres in Monticello, where he
remained for a few years. In 1875 he became
a minister of the Christian church and for
many years he preached in various towns in
Aroostook county. Pie is now retired from
active service and residing in Easton, Maine.
In politics he is a Republican. He married
(first) Abigail Tryphene Trott, born in Perry,
died in Lee. He married (second) Jane
Theresa Banks, born in Ireland, died in Monti
cello, Maine. Children by first wife: 1.
George Frederick, born at Dexter Plantation,
October 9, 1855, died in Monticello. 2. Charles
Sumner, born February 14, 1858; married,
July 24, 1880, Laura Clendennin. 3. Louis
Clark, born May 27, i860, died at Lee. 4.
Laurin Freemont, resides in Limestone, Maine.
Children by second wife: 5. Lillian J., born in
Prentice, Maine, July 25, 1867; married Fred
Lowell, clerk in a department store, Provi
dence, Rhode Island. 6. Harry Everett, born
at Caribou, August 25, 1870; soldier in the
United States army, lieutenant, has served in
the Philippines and in China. 7. James Mor
gan, born September 12, 1871, at Caribou;
married Gussie  , of New Jersey; resides
at Gales Ferry, Connecticut; is a Methodist
minister. 8. John Garfield, mentioned below.
(VIII)" Dr. John Garfield Potter, son of
Rev. George Everett Potter, was born at Lime
stone, Maine, September 20, 1879. His par
ents removed to Monticello when he was two
years old and he attended the public schools
there. He graduated from Ricker's Classical
Institute at Houlton, Maine, in the class of
1 901. For two years and a half he was an
attendant in the Rhode Island Hospital at
Providence and for another year was a nurse.
In 1904 he entered Bowdoin College, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1908
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In
1904 he joined the Alpha Kappa Kappa fra
ternity. Since graduating he has been prac
ticing medicine at Houlton, Maine. In politics
he is a Progressive. He was elected on the
school board in March, 19 13. He attends the
Free Will Baptist church. He is a member of
Monument Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Houlton ; of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Houlton; of the Maine State Med
ical Society, the Aroostook County Medical
Society and the American Medical Associa
tion. He married, June 1, 1910, at Hodgdon,
Maine, Eveline L. Haskell, born at Hodgdon,
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lie schools, at Ricker's Classical Institute and
in the Aroostook Hospital. She followed her
profession as a trained nurse until her mar
riage. William Milton Haskell, father of Mrs. Pot
ter, was born at Hodgdon, March 24, 1846. He
followed farming there all his active life. He
is a Prohibitionist in politics and has held the
office of road commissioner for several terms.
He is a deacon of the Free Will Baptist church.
He married Alma J. Gidney, born at Jimsack,
New Brunswick, in November, 1854. Chil
dren of William Milton and Alma J. Haskell :
1. George W., born January 30, 1880; clerk in
the Boston Store ; married Helen Floyd, of
Danforth, Maine, now of Houlton; child, Lois
Evaline, born January 31, 1908. 2. Willard
W., born May 3, 1882 ; resides in North Van
couver, British Columbia; clerk in a depart
ment store; married  ; child, Eveline
Winnifred, born March, 1913. 3. Eveline L.,
mentioned above. 4. Harold M., born July 14,
. 1894; student in the Bible Institute, Spencer,
Massachusetts. Rev. George W. Haskell, father of William
Milton Haskell, was born in 1815, died at
Hodgdon, Maine, in 1877. He was a Free
Will Baptist minister, preaching, in various
parishes in Aroostook county and finally locat
ing in Hodgdon, where he died. He married
Hannah Smith.

William A. Walton, whose
WALTON death occurred at his home,
289 Broadway, Providence,
Rhode Island, on June 25, 1914, in the eighty-
third year of his age, was one of the well
known and substantial residents of the state of
Rhode Island, and a self-made man in the
truest sense of the word. Beginning life a
poor boy, he had climbed the ladder of success.
rung by rung, until he had reached a foremost
position among the successful manufacturers
of New England.
John Walton, grandfather of William A.,
was one of the old-time hand-loom weavers
and resided in Yorkshire, England. He was
assisted in his work by his wife, who previous
to her marriage was Mary Marsden. As was
the custom of those days all the children were
also instructed in the same art of hand-loom
weaving. Tohn Walton Jr., son of John and father of
William A. Walton, like his father before him,
was also a skilled weaver. He bought warps
and distributed them among families in the
neighborhood to be woven on hand-looms, and
when woven the cloth was taken to market by
him and sold. He came to America, spending
about a year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

but returned to his native country, where he
and his wife both passed away. Pie married
Mary Bracewell, daughter of Samuel Brace-
well, who was a hat manufacturer. To this
union were born eight children, namely: Wil
liam A., mentioned below; Mary B. ; Jane B. ;
Hannah; Bracewell; Hartley; Thomas, and
Samuel. William A. Walton, eldest child of John and
Mary (Bracewell) Walton, was born in Salter-
forth, Yorkshire, England, September 20, 1831,
and was a small boy when his family moved to
Bingley, in the same county. His parents were
very industrious people, but the wages were
small, and with their family to support it was
necessary that the childreri should go to work
as soon as possible, so that their earnings
could assist in the support of the family.
When at the age of eight years William A.
Walton wound bobbins at home for his father.
The educational advantages of an English
factory boy in his circumstances were very
limited indeed, and he was taught to read and
write in the Sabbath school. However, he re
ceived more thorough instruction between the
ages of eight and eleven years, when he was
helping a sister who tended four looms, and
he was released from work to spend a half
day in school. About this time he also man
aged to attend a night school.
The boy's first work in a mill was handing in
warp threads. Later he was placed in charge
of a loom in a mill at Bingley when only eleven
years of age. Here he was engaged in weaving
fancy dress goods, and remained there for a
period of about three years. From there, in
1845, he went to Bradford, six miles distant,
where for eighteen months he was employed
operating two fancy Jacquard looms, which
necessitated very hard work. He practiced the
very strictest economy, with the idea of saving
enough money to pay his passage to America,
where the opportunities were better and the
future brighter for an industrious and am
bitious young man of his stripe. Having man
aged to save ten pounds sterling, he embarked
at Liverpool, on the sailing vessel, "Iowa,"
which was thirty-five days en route, and he
landed in New York on June 1, 1853, a
stranger in a strange land, with but a few
dollars left.
Mr. Walton went to Philadelphia first, upon
landing in this country, where a relative re
sided, and soon found employment at his trade
in a mill at a place near Wilmington, Dela
ware, where he remained until July, 1853.
Here he earned and saved enough money to
pay his way to Lawrence, Massachusetts,
where an acquaintance was employed in the
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also found employment, and there did his first
work at spinning, running a hand jack. He
remained there until October, when he ac
cepted a better position in the Almy Mill, then
conducted by a Mr. Russell, at Almyville,
Moosup, Connecticut, his wages here being one
dollar per day. Here the boss and "fixers"
were starting up a Jacquard loom, and were
experiencing considerable trouble with it, in
fact, could not start it. Mr. Walton said to
the superintendent that he believed he could
start and run the loom, as he had been a
Jacquard weaver in England. He was given
a trial, and instructions were given other em
ployees to keep away from him. .He soon had
the loom running and the warp woven out. He
put in other warps and wove them out, and
was then offered the position of loom "fixer"
at five dollars per week, which was one dol
lar less than he had been receiving for weaving.
He was considered a first-class weaver, as the
average earnings of weavers were then from
four to five dollars per week. He began his
work as loom "fixer," but for some unknown
reason, perhaps an oversight, his wages were
not reduced. After serving as loom "fixer"
here for a year, on twelve "Bay State" looms,
and building the chains for the same, at the
above wages, he asked that his pay be raised to
$1.25 per day. He was told that the other
"fixers" were paid only seven dollars per week,
but rather than lose his services his wages
were increased. After remaining there for
about a year and a half, Mr. Walton resigned
his position to become assistant overseer in the
weaving department of a mill owned by the
Merrimac Woolen Mills Company, at Dracut,
Massachusetts, near Lowell, and two years
later he left this position to take charge of the
weaving department of a woolen mill in
Brookdale, Massachusetts, where he continued
for a period of two years. Mr. Walton was
then tendered a position in the Elm Street
Woolen Mill at Providence, Rhode Island, as
loom "fixer" at $1.50 per day, and while fill
ing this position he bought passage to Cali
fornia, intending to seek his fortune in that
far western State, but John P. Willard, who
was boss weaver at Millville, Massachusetts,
at that time, induced him to accept the position
as second hand in the latter mill, at $2.00 per
day, and Mr. Walton continued in this posi
tion for a period of about four years. His
next position was in the Bradford & Taft mill
at Blackstone, Massachusetts, where he spent
two and a half years, as weaver and designer,
receiving $2.50 per day for his services.
In 1865 Mr. Walton assumed charge of the
Weybosset Mills, in Providence, where his suc
cessful management very soon secured for

him the special favor of the owners, who
steadily increased his salary, and, in further
appreciation, presented him with a government
bond for five hundred dollars. Soon after he
acquired an interest in this mill and as the
profits continued large it furnished him a good
capital at the end of fifteen years, when he dis
posed of his interests for about $80,000. Mr.
Walton was now in a position to fulfill a life
long ambition, to own a mill, and he pur
chased of David L. Aldrich and Edwin Mil-
ner, in 1879, the Wood River Mills, located in
the town of Richmond, Rhode Island, in which
venture he was for a time associated with Wil
liam Blakely. In 1883 Mr. Blakely retired
from the business,- selling his interests to Mr.
Walton, who greatly improved the property,
erected new and comfortable homes for the
operatives, and thus attracted an unusually
good, class of help. Here Mr. Walton did
splendid work, and was instrumental in having
the postoffice established there, which took the
name of Alton. The little village which sur
rounded the mill was a most prosperous one
and the general atmosphere of refinement and
contentment that pervaded the locality was
largely due to his generosity and his personal
interest in the welfare of his employees. Al
ton was one of the cleanest and best kept mill
villages in the state, and its mill gave employ
ment to about two hundred people, and pro
duced cassimeres valued at $325,000 annually.
This business was continued by Mr. Walton
until 1899, when the plant was destroyed by
fire, and, his other interests by this time hav
ing become very extensive, together with his
advancing years, he did not desire to reengage
in active business, so that the property was not
rebuilt. Mr. Walton was one of the organizers and
leading spirits in the Smith Webbing Com
pany, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which is a
most flourishing and prosperous concern, and
has probably the most up-to-date plant of its
kind in the country. He became the first presi
dent of this company, continuing in that capac
ity until 1912, when he resigned the office, al
though he retained a position on the board of
directors until his death. Mr. Walton was
also a director of the Narragansett Electric
Lighting Company ; of the Hope Mutual Fire
Insurance Company; of the What Cheer Mu
tual Fire Insurance Company ; and of the Tex
tile Finishing Machinery Company, all of
Providence. He was for over four years a
member of the board of park commissioners
of Providence, having been appointed January
4, 1904, and resigning the office on June 29,
1908, on account of failing health.
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member of the Masonic organization, holding
membership in Adejphoi Lodge, No. 33, An
cient Free and Accepted Masons; Providence
Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Masons; Provi
dence Council, No. 1, Royal and Select Mas
ters; St. John's Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar, and the Rhode Island Consistory,
having attained the thirty-second degree. He
was also a member of Palestine Temple, Order
of the Mystic Shrine, of Providence. He was
a member of the Rhode Island School of De
sign, and was much interested in the work of
the same. His religious affiliation was with
the Society of the Pilgrim Congregational
Church, of Providence, of which he served
for many years as a member of the finance
committee. On November 28, i860, while a resident of
Millville, Massachusetts, Mr. Walton was
united in marriage at Pascoag, Rhode Island,
to Mary Wynn, who was born September 9,
1836, in Wiltshire, England, daughter of Isaac
and Sarah (Mortimer) Wynn, of Pascoag,
with whom she came to America when five
years of age. Before her marriage to Mr.
Walton she was formerly a successful school
teacher. Her grandfather fought at the battle
of Waterloo under General Wellington. Mr.
and Mrs. Walton's wedded life covered a
period of over fifty years, and both being fond
of traveling, they made several visits to their
native country, enjoying the scenes of their
childhood. To Mr. and Mrs. Walton were
born four children, one of whom died in in
fancy, the others being as follows: 1. Clara
W., born November 22, 1861, married, May 5,
1882, Clifton P. Brown, of Providence, and to
this union were born two children, namely :
Gertrude Walton, born February 3, 1888, and
Clarence Walton, born May 8, 1892, who died
December 14, 1899. 2. William Hartley, born
June 4, 1863, is connected with the real estate
and insurance firm of G. L. & H. J. Gross, of
Providence, with whom he holds a responsible
position, and is also secretary of the Gross &
Gross Company, of New York. 3. John Morti
mer, born May 15, 1872, is treasurer of the
National Construction and Equipment Com
pany, of New York, builders of electrical rail
ways; he married- Mabel Roberts, and they
have two children, namely : Mortimer and
Robert. Mr. Walton was a man who made many
friends during his long and active life, pos
sessing those sterling qualities which ever win
esteem. In his pleasant home at No. 289
Broadway, he had resided since November,
1891, and since 1865 had been a resident of
Providence, where he was well and favorably
known. He enjoyed the reward of a success

ful and well-directed life, and held the respect
and confidence of a wide circle of acquaint
ances. A friend, in writing of Mr. Walton,
said of him: "I came to know him as he really
was, for a more open-hearted man never ex
isted. There was nothing hidden, nothing de
ceptive, but he spoke right out, just as he felt,
sometimes perhaps to his own detriment. He
was naturally a very liberal man. In the weave
room, while at Dracut, and also in after years,
as I know him, he was a genius. To have a
thing to do, was simply to go and do it, and it
was always done in the quickest possible way,
and with the least possible waste. There was
no guess work, no experimenting, but he
merely took the tools, and went and fixed the
loom, and always good naturedly. I never
knew him to abuse a weaver, but rather to
conciliate them, even when they felt disposed
to be ugly." In the death of Mr. Walton,
Rhode Island lost one of its best known and
most successful manufacturers, as well as one
of its oldest and most respected citizens.

Adam Brouwer, or more
BROUWER properly Adam Brouwer
Berkhoven, came to this
country from Ceulen or Cologne in 1642 and
settled at New Amsterdam, where he married,
March 19, 1645, Magdalena Jacobs Verdan.
Berkhoven was probably a family name.
Brouwer is the Dutch for brewer and was
doubtless the occupation of Adam or his an
cestors. To some extent Berkhoven was used
by his children in this country, but it was
finally dropped for Brouwer. Adam Brouwer
bought a house and garden in New Amster
dam, February 3, 1645, of Hendrick Jansen,
who refused to give a deed and sued. Adam
Brouwer received a patent from the govern
ment for a lot on Manhattan Island, and Au
gust 19, 1656, he sold this lot to Dirck Schil-
luyne with house thereon, between the lot of
Jan the cooper on the west and Egbert Wou-
tersen on the east. In 1661 he and Isaac De
Forest owned the oldest tide mill in Brooklyn.
It was known as Brouwer's mill, later as
Freeke's. Brouwer bought out De Forest.
Adam Brouwer and his wife were members of
the Dutch church at Brooklyn in 1677 and
were censured in 1679 and 1680 for leaning
to the Catholic religion. His will was dated
January 22, 1691, and proved March 21, 1692.
His widow deeded her rights to sons, Abra
ham and Nicholas, August 12, 1698. Chil
dren: 1. Peter Adams, baptized September 23,
1646; married (first) Petronella Uldrichs or
Claine; (second) Gertruyd Jans ; (third) Feb
ruary 15, 1687, Annetje Jansen. 2. Jacobus,
mentioned below. 3. Aeltje Adams, married,

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April 30, 1682, Josias Janszen Deeaux. 4.
Mathys Adams, baptized May 30, 1649; mar"
ried, January 26, 1673, in New York, Marretje
Wyckoff. 5. William Adams, baptized March
5, 1651 ; married (first) Elsje  ; (sec
ond) Elizabeth Simpsons; (third) Marte
 . 6. Mary, Maria or Marretje, bap
tized June 4, 1653; married (first) Jacob
Pieterszen; (second) October 13, 1686, Barent
Janszen. 7. Helena Adams, baptized October
31, 1660; married, October, 1681, David Hend-
rickson, of England ; resided in Brooklyn. 8.
Adam Adams, baptized May 18, 1662. 9.
Abraham Adams, married, February 6, 1692,
Cornelia Halsyn. 10. Nicholas Adams, bap
tized April 16, 1672; married, September 15,
1692, Jannetje Coljer. 11. Fytie or Sophia
Adams, married (first) Evert Hendrickson;
(second) February 20, 1692, Matys Ernelissen.
12. Anna Adams. 13. Sarah Adams, married
(first) July 13, 1684, Tienis Janszen; (second)
September 23, 1692, Thomas Smit; (third)
Thomas Knight. 14. Rachel Adams, married,
June 5, 1698, Pieter Hendrickszen Sr., from
Vriesland. (II) Jacobus Brouwer, son of Adam Brouwer,
was born about 1660. He married, at Flatbush,
January 29, 1682 (recorded also in the Dutch
church, New York, February 4, 1682), Annetje
Bogardus, baptized October 3, 1663, daughter
of William and Wyntje (Sybrants) Bogardus,
granddaughter of Rev. Everardus and Anneke
(Jans) Bogardus. Rev. Everardus Bogardus
came from Holland in 1633, and married, in
1636,  . Jacobus Brouwer took the oath
of allegiance at Brooklyn in 1687. Children,
born at Brooklyn : Sybrant ; Jacobus, men
tioned below; Willem, baptized May 8, 1687;
Everardus, December 8, 1689; Elizabet, No
vember 15, 1694; Adam, March 29, 1696, at
the Dutch church, New York; Wyntje, Octo
ber 1, 1701 ; Magdalena, March 8, 1704.
(Ill) Jacobus (2) Brouwer, son of Jacobus
(1) Brouwer, was baptized at Brooklyn, No
vember 30, 1684. He married, October 28,
1709, Peiternella De La Montagne, daughter
of Jan De La Montagne and wife, Abbetje
Josephs (Waldron) De La Montagne. Chil
dren : Jacob, mentioned below ; Johannes, bap
tized March 19, 1712; Abraham, February 6,
1717; Antje, March 13, 1720; Adam, February
14, 1722; Antje, March 30, 1726; Everardus,
mentioned in his brother's will.
(IV) Jacob Brouwer, son of Jacobus (2)
Brouwer, was baptized at New York, Septem
ber 24, 1710. He was a mason. He married
Maria Delanoy. His will (vol. xii, p. 230),
dated at Kakiat, New York, October 23, 1781,
proved April 5, 1784, bequeathed to sons,
Jacob, Abraham and William ; daughters,

Petronella, Anna (wife of Cornelis Cooper),
Jane (wife of Henry Van Winkel), and Gitty
and Mary Permillian, children of his deceased
daughter Mary ; to his nephew, Jacob Brouwer,
hatter, executor with his son Jacob. The will
provided that if any of his father's estate be
recovered it should be divided in four shares
— one share for his children, another for the
heirs of his brother John, a third to his brother
Everardus and a fourth to his brother Abra
ham. His son Jacob married Elizabeth Turk.
(V) Abraham Brouwer, son of Jacob
Brouwer, was born 1745-50. He married
Rachel Sebring, born November 18, 1748, and
died February 16, 1826, daughter of Barend
and Susanna (Roome) Sebring. Her parents
were married May 9, 1747, and had children :
Rachel, mentioned above ; John, born June 26,
1750; Susannah, June 20, 1752; Maria, Sep
tember 8, 1754; Barend, August 21, 1756;
Aletta, July 19, 1758; Frederick, December 27,
1760; Jacob, September 28, 1762; Hester, Au
gust 19, 1764; Cornelia, June 25, 1766; Sarah,
March 28, 1768; Peter, April 9, 1770. Her
mother was descended from Peter Willemse
Roome and Hester Von Gelde, daughter of'
John Von Gelde and Jane Monteroath, bap
tized January 29, 1662, died April 17, 1729,
married, November 26, 1684. Children of
Abraham and Rachel (Sebring) Brouwer:
Jacob, mentioned below ; Susanna, baptized
October 3, 1773, married James Smith ; Ber-
net, born April 11, 1777, married Elizabeth
Packard; Mary, February 7, 1780, married
Isaiah Wilson; Rachel, May 8, 1783, married
 Chardavayne.
(VI) Jacob (2) Brouwer, son of Abraham
Brouwer, was born in New York, April 1,
1772. He married (first) Eliza Grant; (sec
ond) Hannah Hall, or Hill, about 1800. Chil
dren by first wife : Child, died January ' 18,
1795; child, died September 25, 1797; child,
died in infancy. Children by second wife : Sus
annah, born September 18, 1803, married Caleb
Amerman; Barnet, September 9, 1806; Abra
ham, mentioned below ; Mary, January 16,
1812, married Isaac Hall; James S., married
Anna M. Jeremiah; George W., November 4,
1818, married Rachel J. Romer ; Eliza, March
25, 1823,' married Moses W. Fish; Ellen, mar
ried Israel Haight.
(VII) Abraham (2) Brouwer, son of Jacob
(2) Brouwer, was born September 27, 1809,
died December 18, 1867. He married, Septem
ber 22, 1830, Sarah Clark, born February 14,
1 814, daughter of Henry and Rachel (Forster)
Clark, granddaughter of Nathaniel and Mary
Clark. They lived in Pleasantville, New York.
Children: 1. Sarah Forster, born October 15,
183-1, died September 17, 1865; married, Sep-

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tember 6, 1854, Noah I. Atwood. 2. Jacob,
mentioned below. 3. William Brownlee, born
September 8, 1835, died April 29, 1871 ; mar
ried, May 29, 1861, Catherine M. Cunningham,
and had Sarah Ann, born July 12, 1865, mar
ried, April 15, 1885, C. P. McGrath. 4. Henry
Clark, born January 29, 1838; married, Octo
ber 29, 1862, Paulina Allen, and had children :
Warren Hamilton, born August 27, 1863 ; Vir
ginia Allen, February 14, 1868; Floyd Perry,
July 14, 1872. 5. Adelia, born November 30,
1839. 6. Abraham, born January 31, 1842,
died February 8, 1843. 7- Rachel Elizabeth,
born March 21, 1844; married, March 6, 1867,
Noah I. Atwood, who died October 18, 1884;
children: Sylvester Opdyke, born January 10,
1868, died February 12, 1871 ; Alfred, June 2,
1877, died July 25, 1877; Edith, June 27, 1878;
Florence Josephine, April 7, 1881. 8. Julia
Pelton, born October 1, 1846, died July 28,
1851. 9. Martha Purdy, born June 2, 1851.
10. George Howard, born December 25, 1854;
married, October 17, 1877, Evelyn E. Rine-
hart; children: William H., born December
29, 1878; George Egbert, June 2, 1883, died
April 23, 1884; Mabel, April 23, 1885, died
April 25, 1885.
(VIII) Jacob (3) Brouwer, son of Abra
ham (2) Brouwer, was born in Pleasantville,
New York, July 21, 1833. He attended the
public schools and the Pleasantville Univer
sity, but he left before graduation and was
apprenticed to learn the trade of carpenter.
At the end of his first year he was made super
intendent of construction of a block of build
ings in New York City under W. M. Johnson.
He followed the building trade until his un
timely death, June 14, 1872. He was espe
cially gifted with mathematical ability and
skillful in planning and construction. He had
a fine tenor voice and for many years sang in
the choir of the Eighteenth Street Methodist
Episcopal Church of New York. He lived
during his last years at Jersey City, New Jer
sey. He married, September 29, 1858, Althea
Allen, born August 24, 1837. Children: 1.
Clarence Allen, mentioned below. 2. Ada At
wood, born March 16, 1862, died October 26,
1889; married, October 10, 1879, Fred O.
Dyer, and had Edith May, born June 26, 1881.
3. Fred Tilton, mentioned below. 4. Frank,
mentioned below.
(IX) Clarence Allen Brouwer, son of Jacob
(3) Brouwer, was born April 2, i860, in New
York City. He attended the public schools of
Jersey City, New Jersey, and Providence,
Rhode Island, whither the family removed
after his father died. He began his business
career at the age of twelve, assisting on a milk
route for two dollars a week. At the age of

fourteen he began to work in an office and at
the same time established a newspaper route.
Afterward he was employed by the express
company as a delivery clerk. He learned the
trade of cabinet finisher in the Wheeler & Wil
son factory, New York, and was sent by that
concern to its Indianapolis factory, where he
worked for five years. At the age of twenty-
one he returned home, but after a short time
returned to Indiana. A year later he and a
partner engaged in the lumber business, oper
ating a portable saw mill. Through the fault
of his partner, this venture proved unsuccess
ful. He took a position as deck hand on the
steamer, "William Maxwell," of Providence,
but soon afterward found employment in the
Riverside Worsted Mills and after three
months was placed in charge of the office. He
was subsequently superintendent for the Stand
ard Oil Company in Providence for seven
years. He had to retire from business for a
year on account of ill health and he spent the
time in New Jersey. During the following
year he was engaged in settling an estate in
New York. He returned to Providence in the
employ of the American Electrical Works at
East Providence and was superintendent of
one of the departments for eleven years, finally
retiring from active business in January, 191 1.
At the present time he is interested in the de
velopment of Canadian oil fields and in other
investments. He has a beautiful home at East
Providence. In politics he is a Republican.
He was at one time nominated for the state
legislature, but declined to run. He is a mem
ber of Rising Sun Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married, December 15, 1892,
Nellie F. Munroe, sister of Addison Munroe.
(IX) Fred Tilton Brouwer, son of Jacob
(3) Brouwer, was born September 3, 1868.
He attended the public schools of Jersey City
and Providence and the Bryant & Stratton
Business College of Providence. He learned
the carpenter's trade and started in business as
a builder and contractor at Forked River, New
Jersey. He bought land and built houses to
sell and dealt extensively in real estate. He
also owned and operated a grain mill and was
proprietor of Sedge Island Gunning Club. One
night, while on his yacht a mile from shore,
he saw the club house burned to the ground.
He is now superintendent of the National
Canal Transit Company. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons. He married, May 30, 1893,
Angeline Holman ; child, Frank Holmes, born
February, 1894.
(IX) Dr. Frank Brouwer, son of Jacob
(3) Brouwer, was born in Jersey City, Sep
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schools of Providence and was graduated from
the Jefferson Medical College with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1892.
He was at Manchester, New Jersey, for one
year, and finally located in Toms River, where
he has built up an excellent practice. He is a
member of the County and State Medical soci
eties, and the local lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons. In politics he is a Democrat. He
married (first) July 1, 1896, Carrie D. Hyer ;
children : Evan Hyer, born December 26,
1901, and Allen Kennedy, bora March 28,
1903. He married (second) November 24,
1910, Lyla Kirk.

The Claflin family of Provi-
CLAFLIN dence, Rhode Island, promi
nent in its various generations,
in business, professional and public life, has
for its American ancestor Robert Mac Claflin,
who was at Wenham, Massachusetts, as early
as 1 661. He married, October 14, 1664, Jo
anna Warner. The line of descent from him
is Antipas (II), Ebenezer (III), Oliver (IV),
(V) Lyman Claflin was a native of the town
of Douglass, Massachusetts, born July 25,
1794. He was a successful manufacturer, and
a man of influence in the community of Paw
tucket, where he resided. He was a Knights
Templar Mason, and devotedly attached to
the institution of Free Masonry. His death
occurred January 2, i860, when he was in his
sixty-fifth year. Mr. Claflin married, March
6, 1822, Rebecca Gay Starkweather, and to
them were born children, as follows : George
Lyman, of whom further; Sarah, born May 1,
1824, died October 9, 1828; Minerva, born
December 19, 1826, married, March 15, 1849,
James Cushing, and died September 3, 1896;
Sarah, born April 21, 1831, married, Septem
ber 8, 1853, Edward Haskell, and died Octo
ber 1, 1857.
Oliver Starkweather, father of Mrs. Re
becca Gay (Starkweather) Claflin, was a well-
known public man in his day, having been an
active member of the Massachusetts legisla
ture and also of the national house of repre
sentatives. One of his sons, John Stark
weather, a graduate of Brown University, was
a practising physician in Upton, Massachu
setts, for nearly fifty years, and was a man of
wide repute in his profession. Another son,
Samuel Starkweather, also a graduate of
Brown University and afterward a tutor there,
was for many years a judge in . Cleveland,
Ohio. Another son, James C. Starkweather,
became a successful manufacturer in his native
town, Pawtucket, being a member of the firm
of Starkweather & Claflin.
(VI) George Lyman Claflin, eldest son of

Lyman and Rebecca Gay (Starkweather)
Claflin, was born in Pawtucket, Massachu
setts, (now in the state of Rhode Island),
December 22, 1822, died April 4, 1886. He
enjoyed the usual advantages afforded to boys
of good parentage and surroundings, attending
public and private schools and also an academy
taught by Mr. Frederic Vinton. In 1842, in
his twentieth year, he came to Providence,
entering the store of John H. Mason & Com
pany, druggists, on Weybosset street, nearly
opposite the old "City Hotel." Subsequently
he was in the employ of Earl P. Mason &
Company, with whom he continued until he
became a member of the firm, and this business
was later conducted under the name of Snow,
Claflin & Company. In 1873 ne purchased
the stand and fixtures of the late J. Balch &
Sons, on South Main street, succeeding to
their business as senior member of the firm of
George L. Claflin & Company, and there he
continued until his death to carry on a large
wholesale and retail drug business. His suc
cess in that enterprise alone would make a
creditable life record for any man, but Mr.
Claflin had wider ideas of a man's responsibil
ity in his relations" to the community with
which he was identified. Consequently he
interested himself in the various financial insti
tutions which had sprung up in Providence,
and in the welfare of which, as a business man,
he was personally concerned. He was a
director in the Northern Bank from its organ
ization, in 1856; of the Coventry National
Bank and of the Coventry Savings Bank, in
Anthony, Rhode Island ; of the Jackson In
stitution for Savings, and of the Second Na
tional Bank. He was also interested in insur
ance, and in that connection was a director of
both the Roger Williams Insurance Company
and the Union Mutual Insurance Company.
His relations with various other institutions
were equally important.
Mr. Claflin had no taste for public life and
no desire for its honors, but he had the im
pulses which make every earnest man a patri
otic and public-spirited citizen, and as such he
consented to fill several offices. In 1870 he
was elected a member of the common council
from the first ward, and served three separate
terms in that body. In 1874 he was elected to
the state legislature, and in both positions dis
charged his duties with characteristic ability
and fidelity. But after the cares of business
he found his chief pleasure in his home and in
his church work, and political triumphs had no
attractions for him. The prosperity of the
church to which he was so devotedly attached
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his character. In 1843, soon after coming to
Providence, he became deeply interested in
religious truth, joining the Congregational
church which at that time held services in
Westminster Hall, under the pastorate of Rev.
Thomas T. Waterman. Upon the formation
of Central church, under Rev. Dr. Swain, Mr.
Claflin at once became an active member
thereof, identifying himself with all its inter
ests and contributing largely toward the erec
tion of the house of worship. On December
4, 1859, he became superintendent of the
primary department of the Sunday school, and
the duties of this position he discharged con
scientiously for over twenty-five years. His
devotion to the work was marked by tireless
efforts and unusual results, and in no circle
was he more sadly missed than among the reli
gious workers of the city. Mr. Claflin died
April 4, 1886, aged sixty-three years.
On September 3, 1850, Mr. Claflin was
united in marriage with Louisa Sisson Whit
man, daughter of Christopher A. Whitman,
of Coventry, Rhode Island, a leading citizen
of that place, a manufacturer, bank president,
member of both branches of the state legisla
ture, and an active and influential member of
the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Claflin died Oc
tober 19, 1892, aged sixty-four years. In 1864-
65 Mr. Claflin erected a commodious and ele
gant home at the corner of Halsey and Pratt
streets. Four children were born to himself
and wife: Arthur Whitman, of whom fur
ther; George Lyman, born September 24,
1859, died October 2, 1859; William Lyman,
born June 18, 1862, died January 24, 1903 ;
George Edwin, born April 4, 1866, married
April 18, 1894, Susan Emily, daughter of
Charles H. and Mary C. Talbot, of Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
(VII) Arthur Whitman Claflin, eldest son
of George Lyman and Louisa S. (Whitman)
Claflin, was born October 10, 1852, in Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of Providence, and
at Mowry & Goff's English and Classical High
School, from which he was graduated in 1869.
For three and a half years following he was
with the firm of Snow, Claflin & Company,
on Canal street, and in 1873 he came with his
father to the present .location of George L-.
Claflin & Company, Nos. 62-72 South Main
street. In 1884 he became a member of the
firm, and on January 1, 1903, incorporated the
business under the name of George L. Claflin
Company. For many years this has been one
of the leading wholesale and retail drug houses
of New England. In addition to his interests
in this concern Mr. Claflin was connected with
the Fourth National Bank of Providence, of

which he was vice-president, and he was a
director of the United National Bank.
On March 15, 1881, Mr. Claflin married
Mary Alice Ploward, daughter of Lieutenant-
Governor Albert C. Howard, of East Provi
dence, and to them have been born two chil
dren : Louisa Howard, born March 7, 1882,
and Albert Whitman, born January 31, 1885.
Mr. Claflin is a member of the Central Con
gregational church of Providence.
(The Howard Line).
(I) The record of this family is traced to
Thomas Howard, born about 1643. He was
of record at Lynn and Enfield, Massachusetts,
the latter now being Enfield, Connecticut. On
November 15, 1667, he married Ruth Jones, of
Gloucester, Massachusetts, born February 22,
1645, died after November 14, 1718.
(II) Benjamin Howard, son of Thomas
and Ruth (Jones) Howard, was born at En
field, Massachusetts, May 4, 1686, removed to
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, where he died
February 3, 1738-39. On September 10, 1710,
he married Mary, daughter of Peter Lee, born
in 1690, died February 22, 1774.
(Ill) Solomon Howard, son of Benjamin
and Mary (Lee) Howard, was born Septem
ber 27, 1716, died before June, 1801. He re
sided in Warwick and is of record as buying
land there in 1747.- He married prior to 1743,
Hannah  .
(IV) Peter Howard, son of Solomon and
Hannah Howard, was born June 30, 1745,
died May 15, 1823. He married, May 11,
1776, Abigail Giles, born April 20, 1756, died
January 23, 1831.
(V) Judge Jesse Howard, son of Peter and
Abigail (Giles) Howard, was born April 14,
1793, died April 6, 1881. He married, April
4, 1825, Mary King, born May 25, 1800, died
December 6, 1884, daughter of Joseph and
Alice Crawford (Mathewson) King. Alice
C. Mathewson was the daughter of Nicholas
Mathewson, a Revolutionary soldier, who
married Abigail, daughter of Silas and Sarah
(Crawford) Cooke. Sarah Cooke was the
daughter of Joseph and Susannah Crawford,
and the latter was the daughter of Gabriel
Bernon, the noted Huguenot refugee who set
tled in Rhode Island. Of the three children
of Judge Jesse Howard : 1. Henry, born April
2, 1826, died September 22, 1905; he held
many public offices, among them being that of
governor of the state of Rhode Island; he
married, September 30, 185 1, Catharine
Greene, daughter of Governor Elisha Harris,
and they had children : Jessie H., Elisha
Harris and Charles T. 2. Albert Crawford,
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1831, died in Providence, October 16, 1894;
she married Augustus H. Preston, and had
one child, Howard W., who resides in Provi
dence. (VI) Lieutenant-Governor Albert Craw
ford Howard, son of Judge Jesse and Mary
(King) Howard, was born February 29, 1828,
died at Atlanta, Georgia, July 3, 1910. During
his residence in Rhode Island he was well
known in commercial and political circles.
From 1877 to 1880 he was lieutenant-governor
of Rhode Island. He married (first) April
14, 1853, Ellen Murray, born November 2,
1834, died January 25, 1875, daughter of Har
ris and Sophia R. (Canfield) Murray, of
South Waverly, Pennsylvania. She left five
children: 1. Mary Alice, of whom further. 2.
Ellen Murray, born January 16, 1856; mar
ried Henry Edmunds ; son, Howard Maurice,
born July 25, 1884; resides in Moulsecombe,
Brighton, England. 3. Albert Harris, born
July 11, 1862; married Jenny Harris; chil
dren: Henry Bernon, born August, 1894, and
Ellen Margaret, born December 24, 1899; re
sides in London. 4. Henry Augustus, born
March 10, 1864; married Mary I. Piggott;
daughter, Alice Plummer, born February 20,
1898; they reside in Boston. 5. Jesse Way-
land, born October 22, 1867, died March 1,
1893. Mr. Howard married (second) Jennie
Randall. Two children : Jennie Randall, born
April 25, 1884, died September, 1885, and
Winthrop Randall, born July 19, 1889, resides
in Atlanta, Georgia.
(VII) Mary Alice Howard, daughter of
Lieutenant-Governor Albert Crawford and
Ellen (Murray) Howard, was born June 21,
1854. She married Arthur Whitman Claflin
(see Claflin VII).

This is an early New England
MOORE name and is found with various
spellings in the pioneer records,
such as Moors, Moores, Mooers and Mores,
also sometimes as Moore. It was identified
with the settlement and development of several
New England towns, and has taken no incon
spicuous part in the making of northern New
York. Its revolutionary record is an honor
able one, and its members have been no less
worthy in civil life.
(I) Edmund Mooers, born about 1614,
came from Southampton, England, to Boston,
in 1638, and is found of record in Newbury,
Massachusetts, as early as 1640, with his wife
Anne. He died in Newbury, June 7, 1676.
Children: Martha, born December 12, 1643;
Jonathan, mentioned below ; Mary, November
30, 1648; Edmund, died November 8, 1656;

Richard, born November 3, 1653 ; Sarah, April
1, 1661.
(II) Jonathan Moore, eldest child of Ed
mund and Anne Mooers, was born April 23,
1646, in Newbury, Massachusetts, where he
subscribed to the oath of allegiance in 1678.
He was assessed jointly with his brother in
1688 for the following property : Two houses,
fifty-two acres of land, two horses, one two-
year-old, two oxen, three cows, four three-
olds, one two-year-old; eight sheep, one hog.
He was member of the military company, be
ing promoted from corporal to cornet in 1689,
and to lieutenant in 1690. Either he or his son
bearing the same name was a soldier in 1707.
He married, May 10, 1680 (this appears 1670
on Newbury records, but is evidently an
error), Constance Langhorne. Children: Jon
athan, mentioned below; Richard, born July
24, 1683 ; Samuel, February 20, 1686; Thomas,
November 6, 1688; Dorothy, December 8,
1690. (Ill) Jonathan (2) Moore, eldest child of
Jonathan (1) and Constance (Langhorne)
Moore, was born April 30, 1681, in Newbury,
Massachusetts, and resided in that town, where
he died April 8, 1745. The records of the
town show that Jonathan and one of his broth
ers received twenty shillings as a bounty for
killing a wolf in Bradford, "This last winter,"
voted March 13, 1722, by the town of New
bury. He married, January 17, 1714, Mary,.
daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wallingford)
Poor, born August 12, 1692. Children: Jo
seph, mentioned below ; Jonathan, born April
4, 1718; Edmund, August 24, 1722; Benjamin,
January 20, 1725; John, October 15, 1726;
Samuel, November 5, 1728; Amiruhama, No
vember 17, 1730.
(IV) Joseph Moore, eldest child of Jona
than (2) and Mary (Poor) Moore, was born
February 3, 1715, in Newbury, Massachusetts,
and presumably resided in Massachusetts. He
probably lived outside of Newbury, as record
of his marriage does not appear in that town,
and only two children are there recorded. I lis
wife's name was Sarah, and the birth of their
son Daniel is recorded in Newbury and the
baptism of a daughter Mary, December 28,
1740, in Byfield church.
(V) Daniel Moore, son of Joseph and Sarah
Moore, was born in January, 1734, in New
bury, Massachusetts. He resided in Haver
hill, Massachusetts, where he married. Janu
ary 4, 1753, Abigail Springer, born August 28.
1729, in Newbury, daughter of Henrv and
Joanna (Pike) Springer. The following chil
dren are recorded in Haverhill : Sarah, bap
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mentioned below; Sarah, born June 20, 1757;
Daniel, September 13, 1759.
(Vl) Joshua Moore, son of Daniel and Abi
gail (Springer) Moore, was born March 28,
1755, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He prob
ably located in that town after 1790, as his
name does not appear in the census of that
year. He died there about 1816. He married
Dorothy Moody, born April 2, 1769, in New
bury, Massachusetts, daughter of Caleb and
Dorothy (Sargeant) Moody. No public rec
ord of their children seems available, and but
three are known. Rev. John Moore, born Feb
ruary 15, 1797, organized the Universalist
church in Strafford soon after his majority,
and was a minister at Lebanon, New Hamp
shire, Danvers, Massachusetts, and Concord,
New Hampshire. He was a magnetic, enthu
siastic man, popular, respected and beloved.
He was nominated by the American party for
governor of New Hampshire, but had not
lived in the state the number of years required
by the constitution, and so his nomination was
withdrawn. For many years he was known
as "Father Moore," and died suddenly at Con
cord, February 5, 1855. Another son, Samuel
Moore, lived in Strafford. Another son, James
Spencer, mentioned below.
(VII) Tames Spencer Moore, son of Joshua
and Dorothy (Moody) Moore, was born Oc
tober 23, 1805, in Strafford, and died February
11, 1810, in Royalton, Vermont. He was in
terested in the South Rovalton Bank, through
which he suffered considerable losses, but by
his industry and economy secured a compe
tence. He was prominent in the conduct of
local affairs, and was judge of probate for
Orange county in 1856-57-58. He is described
as a man of gentle nature and many agreeable
Qualities. He married, February 23, 1830,
Julia Ann Comstock, born February 20, 1809,
died November 25, 1892, in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island. Children: John, born June 21, 1831,
died April 7, 1832 ; David Comstock, men
tioned below ; John Harris, August 18. 1836,
died January 8, 1907; Carrie Asenath, Febru
ary 21, 1841, died August 17, 1865, in Straf
ford. (VIII) Dr. David Comstock Moore, sec
ond son of James Spencer and Julia A. (Corn-
stock) Moore, was born May 15, 1834. in
Strafford, died October 9, 1876, in South Roy
alton, Vermont. His body was taken to Straf
ford for burial. He grew to manhood in his
native town, pursued the study of medicine,
and after graduation settled in Sherburne,
Rutland countv, Vermont, to engage in prac
tice. In 1862 he removed to South Royalton,
where he was very successful in his profes
sion, and was also interested in a drug store.

He served during a portion of the civil war
as surgeon with the Union forces, located at
Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1872 he re
moved with his family from South Royalton
to Charlestown, New Hampshire, where he
conducted a drug store, but later returned to
South Royalton, where he died as before noted.
Soon after this his widow, with her two sons,
James S. and Elmer E. Moore, removed to
Boston. He married, 1840, at Woodstock,
Vermont, Hannah A. Esterbrook, a native of
Sherburne, Vermont, daughter of Richard and
Dorcas (Colton) Esterbrook. She is still liv
ing and resides in East Providence, Rhode
Island, in the home of her son, Dr. James
Spencer Moore.
(IX) Dr. Elmer E. Moore, son of Dr.
David Comstock and Hannah A. (Esterbrook)
Moore, was born October 10, 1861, in Hart
ford, Vermont, died at his home in East Prov
idence Centre, Rhode Island, January 30,
1913. His body was deposited in Lakeside
Cemetery at East Providence. As a youth he
attended the public schools of Boston, includ
ing the high school, and spent two years in the
famous Eliot School at Jamaica Plains, a
suburb of Boston. For five years after leav
ing school he was engaged in the drug trade in
Vermont and Boston, following which he was
a student at the Massachusetts School of Phar
macy. He began the study of medicine in
1883 and two years later entered the medical
department of the University of Vermont at
Burlington, and was graduated in 1886 from
the medical department of Dartmouth College,
with the degree of M. D. In the fall of the
same vear he located at East Providence Cen
tre, Rhode Island, and for twenty-seven years
was among the most successful physicians of
that section of the state, his practice extending
largelv over Bristol and Providence counties,
as well as adjoining districts of Massachusetts.
In 1898 Dr. Moore visited Europe, and pur
sued a course of study in the medical schools,
continuing- through one year at the medical
schools of Berlin, Germany. He was a mem
ber of the Rhode Island Medical Society, the
Providence Medical Association, and the
Providence Clinical Club. He was an active
member of the Congregational church, and
was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity as a
member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 30, Free
and Accepted Masons, of East Providence;
Providence Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Ma
sons; Providence Council, No. 1, Royal and
Select Masters ; St. John's Commandery, No.
1, Knights Templar; Rhode Island Consistory,
(thirty-second degree), and Palestine Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
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gregational Society of Seekonk, April 22, 1913,
the following resolutions upon the death of
Dr. Moore were adopted :
Since the last meeting of this Society, God hath
called unto himself one of our members whose
character and service deserves honor and recogni
tion. On lanuary 30, 1913, Elmer E. Moore, M. D.,
passed from this life, having made for himself a
place in the hearts of those who knew him, espe
cially his associates and co-laborers. He came to
East Providence in 1886, and immediately con
nected himself with Newman Church and this soci
ety and since that time has given to the support of
both in all ways, having filled various offices and
being at the time of his death, Treasurer and also
a member of the Board of Trustees. Being a
Christian gentleman, a Physician and a man of
sympathetic nature, he was especially qualified to
render true friendly service, which he did and for
this he will be long remembered, in the Church,
Parish and this and adjoining towns in the sphere
of his activities. Therefore be it Resolved, that
in his death not only this society and Church, but
the community in which he lived and wrought, as
well as the many objects with which he was iden
tified have suffered an inestimable loss. Resolved
that for his loyal service and support, this Society
owes a debt of gratitude which it desires to express
and record in a sincere and fitting manner. There
fore, Be it Further Resolved, that a copy of these
resolutions be presented to his family in token of
our sympathy, our appreciation of the service ren
dered to us, and our regard for his memory, and
that a copy of the same be entered upon the records
of this Society.
From Providence Journal, January 31, 1913:
He was a sympathetic Christian supporter of all
good work, and has long been an active member of
the Newman Congregational Church, being its
treasurer at the time of his death. Last year Dr.
Moore was president of the Newman Club at Rum
ford. Dr. Moore married, June 28, 1897, at East
Providence, Annie Richmond Pearse, a native
of that town, daughter of Robert H. and Ruth
Anne (Kent) Pearse (see Pearse IX). Mrs.
Moore was educated in the public and high
schools of East Providence, and engaged in the
profession of teaching for several years in the
public schools of her home town. She is a
faithful member of the Congregational church,
warmly devoted to her home and family, and
highly esteemed in the community. Children :
Roger Ellsworth, a student in the high school ;
Robert Spencer, a student in the public schools ;
Marjorie Kent, died in infancy.
(The Pearse Line).
The Pearse family is both ancient and his
toric in the annals of England, the lineage of
Richard Pearse, the immigrant to New Eng
land and founder of the American family,
being traced to the time of Galfred. In more
recent English generations were Peter Percy,
standard bearer of Richard III. at the battle

of Bosworth Field (1485), and Richard Percy,
the founder of Pearce Hall. For nearly two
and a half centuries the Pearse family has
been identified with the political, judicial and
legislative history of Rhode Island and Bristol.
During both the Colonial and Revolutionary
periods the name constantly recurs either in
legislative or military affairs. Captain Nathan
iel Pearse commanded an artillery company at
the burning of Bristol by the British, during
the Revolution, and covering the period from
1757 to 1849 different members of the family
represented the town in the state legislature.
Hon. Dutee J. Pearse, in the early portion of
the century, served as a member of congress
from Rhode Island for more than a decade;
the late Edward Pearse was for many years a
leading figure in the commerce and finances
of Bristol, a number of his sons following in
his footsteps. In more recent years figured
the late Alfred S. Pearse, Richard S. Pearse,
John S. Pearse, and the son of the last named,
the late John Bowen Pearse, who was for
many years high sheriff of Bristol county, suc
ceeding his father to that office, and also for
many years postmaster of Bristol.
(I) Richard Pearse (name changed from
Percy in this generation), born in England in
1590, married in England — his wife's name
being Martha — and was a resident of Bristol,
England. He was a son of Richard, who re
sided on the homestead of his father, grand
son of Richard Percy, the founder of Pearce
Hall, in York, England, where he lived and
died, and great-grandson of Peter Percy, who
was standard-bearer to Richard III. at the
battle of Bosworth field in 1485. Richard
Pearse came to America in the ship "Lyon,"
from Bristol, England, his brother, Captain
William Pearse, being master of the ship. His
children were : Richard, John, Samuel, Han
nah, Martha, Sarah, William, Mary. Captain
William Pearse, of the ship "Lyon," was a
distinguished shipmaster. He was killed by
the Spaniards at Providence, in the Bahamas,
1641. He is credited with being the author
of the first almanac, for 1639, published in
North America.
(II) Richard (2) Pearse, son of Richard
(1) Pearse, the settler, born in 1615, in Eng
land, married, in 1642, in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, Susannah Wright, born in 1620. Mr.
Pearse died in 1678 in Portsmouth, and Mrs.
Pearse was dead at that time. He was at
Portsmouth as early as 1654, and was admitted
a freeman of the colony from Portsmouth.
His children were: Richard, mentioned be
low; Martha, born September 13, 1645; John,
September 8, 1647; Giles, July 22, 1651 ; Su
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1654; Jeremiah, November 17, 1656; Isaac,
December, 1658; George, July 10, 1662; Sam
uel, December 22, 1664.
(Ill) Richard (3) Pearse, son of Richard
(2) Pearse, was born October 3, 1643, in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He was a free
man of the colony of Portsmouth in May,
1663. He removed to Bristol, Rhode Island,
probably soon after his father's death, and
there both he and his wife, Experience, died,
his death occurring July 19, 1720. Their chil
dren, born in Bristol, were: Jonathan, Rich
ard, Abigail, Mary, Jeremiah, Annie, Benja
min, and a son.
(IV) Richard (4) Pearse, son of Richard
(3) Pearse, married (first) Sarah  and
(second) May 22, 1723, Susannah Lawton, of
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, daughter of Isaac
and Elizabeth (Tallman) Lawton. Susannah
Lawton was born April 3, 1689, died July 29,
1768. Mr. Pearse died October 28, 1744. His
widow married,, in September, 1746, John
Burden, of Portsmouth. Richard Pearse was
a resident of Bristol. His children were :
Samuel, Nathaniel, Sarah, Richard, William,
Experience, Mary, Susannah, Ann, Elizabeth.
(V) Nathaniel Pearse, second son of Rich
ard (4) and Susannah (Lawton) Pearse, was
born November 23, 1708, in Bristol, and lived
in that town, where the records show that he
sold land September 22, 1746. He married,
April 6, 1732, Mary Lindsay and they had
children: Samuel, born October 25, 1733;
John, March 28, 1735; Richard, mentioned
below; Nathaniel, August 5, 1739; Christo
pher, July 5, 1741 ; Elizabeth, February 17,
1743; Thomas, March 6, 1744, died young;
Mary, April 3, 1747 ; Thomas, March 24, 1749 ;
William, April 2, 1753; Sarah, August 26,
1754- (VI) Captain -Richard (5) Pearse, third
son of Nathaniel and Mary (Lindsay) Pearse,
was born January 15, 1737, in Bristol, and re
sided in that town and Rehoboth, Massachu
setts, dying in the latter place in 1809. His
will was proved at Taunton, Massachusetts,
June 6, 1809. He married, about 1760, Phebe
Munro, born June 16, 1743, in Bristol, daugh
ter of Nathaniel and Mary (Jolls) Munro.
Children: Phebe, born October 5, 1760;
Richard, October 27, 1762 ; Nathaniel, Octo
ber 4, 1764; Lydia, February 13, 1767; Mary,
July 2, 1771 ; Timothy, February 14, 1775;
Robert, mentioned below.
(VII) Robert Pearse, youngest child of
Captain Ricbard (5) and Phebe (Munro)
Pearse, was born July 18, 1777, in Bristol,
and resided in Rehoboth, where he died Janu
ary 3, 1832. He married, May 3, 1798, Lydia
Blanding, born February 22, 1778, in Reho

both, died December 17, 1833, daughter of
William and Lydia (Ormsby) Blanding.
Children: Aurelia Powell, born December 14,
1798; William Augustus, May 25, 1801 ; Rob
ert Munro, mentioned below; Abram Bland
ing, December 29, 1805 ; Gilbert Dean, De
cember 16, 1808; Elizabeth Martin, May 28,
1811; Susan Blanding, September 29, 1815 ;
James Henry, May 29, 1818.
(VIII) Robert Munro Pearse, second son
of Robert and Lydia (Blanding) Pearse, was
born October 27, 1803, in Rehoboth, where
he was engaged in farming, and finally resided
on Pine street in Providence, Rhode Island,
where he died. He married Lucy Carpenter
Blanding, born May 23, 1813, in Rehoboth,
daughter of Christopher and Mary (Lawton)
Blanding, and had children: Mary Blanding,
born December 21, 1839, married, September
25, 1872, Francis L. Hill; Robert R., men
tioned below; Christopher Blanding, born
April 30, 1847.
(IX) Robert R. Pearse, elder son of Robert
Munro and Lucy C. (Blanding) Pearse, was
born December 14, 1841, in Seekonk, Massa
chusetts, which later became East Providence,
where he operated a wheelwright shop for many
years, and died December 4, 1900. He mar
ried, June 3, 1869, Ruth Anne Kent, a native
of East Providence, daughter of Isaac B. and
Hannah R. (Kent) Kent (see Kent VII).
She survives him and resides in East Provi
dence. Children : Annie Richmond, wife of
Dr. Elmer E. Moore, of East Providence
(see Moore IX) ; and Mary, wife of Dr. Ed
ward Gledhill, a well known dentist of Provi
dence. (The Kent Line).
For two hundred and twenty-five years the
Kents of the section of country now embraced
in Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts, and
East Providence and Barrington, Rhode
Island, have been a continuous family, and one
among the honorable and highly respected
families of that section. And for a generation
before this branch of the old Dedham (Massa
chusetts) family had dwelt not far distant in
New England. Back in old England the Kents
were an ancient family, their history reaching
back to the year 1295, and possibly earlier, but
in that year they were residents of Sherbeck.
Various branches of the family had coats-of-
arms, many of which are of record. They
were possessed apparently of much property.
Here in this country the name is now numer
ous and most honorably connected with Amer
ican history. From our colleges have gradu
ated many of the name, a number have risen
to the gubernatorial chair in different com
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the learned professions. The family, too, has
been fully and ably represented in the several
wars of this country, a number being high in
command. (I) Joseph Kent appears in New England
at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1645, whither
he came from England with his brother,
Joshua Kent, who had previously been in this
country and been a resident of Dedham. There
is no record of Joseph at Dedham after 1659.
Later he appears at Block Island, which was
settled in 1661, largely by people from Brain
tree, Massachusetts. Still later he was at
Swansea, Massachusetts, of which town he
was admitted an inhabitant, December 15,
1673. He married, in 1663, Susanna George,
and their children were : Joseph, born in 1665 ;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Joshua, 1672 ; Su
sanna, September 25, 1687.
(II) Samuel Kent, son of Joseph Kent,
born in 1668, married Desire, born in 1673,
daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Howland)
Cushman and granddaughter of John How
land and Elizabeth Tilley, both passengers of
the historic "Mayflower." To Samuel Kent
and his wife came two children : Hannah,
born October 3, 1703; and Josiah, mentioned
below, both of Swansea record. On the grave
stone of Desire Kent in the cemetery at Tyler's
Point, opposite Warren, is the following in
scription: "Mrs. Desire Kent, wdo of Ensign
Samuel Kent, Barrington, who was the first
English woman's granddaughter born in New
England. Died Feb. ye 8th, A. D. 1762, aged
about 94 years."
(Ill) Josiah Kent, son of Samuel and De
sire (Cushman) Kent, born September 9, 1705,
married, September 4, 1730, Alethea, daughter
of Samuel and Anna Salisbury Bullock, born
April 4, 1712, and their children were: Su
sanna, born May 4, 1732; Samuel, January 9,
1733; Armies, June 26, 1734; Hannah, March
13, 1737; Alethia, 1739; Josiah, mentioned
below; Anna, April 16, 1745; Joshua, Febru
ary 28, 1746.
(IV) Josiah (2) Kent, son of Josiah (1)
and Alethea (Bullock) Kent, was born April
8, 1741. He was a patriot of the Revolution,
serving as a private in Captain Joseph Frank
lin's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's
regiment, marching to Bristol on the alarm in
December, 1776. Plis name is also on the
roll of Captain Lyon and Captain Perrin's
company, which marched from Rehoboth on
the Lexirigton Alarm in April, 1775. These
two companies from Rehoboth were com
manded by Captain John Lyon and Captain
Jesse Perrin. Mr. Kent was a member of
Captain Jabez Bullock's company, Colonel
Thomas Carpenter's regiment (for service at

the Rhode Island alarm, in August, 1780),
which marched to Tiverton. He is referred to
as of Rehoboth and of Rhode Island. He
married, April 16, 1767, Elizabeth Bullock,
of Rehoboth, who died August 2, 1781, aged
thirty-seven years. Children: Patience, born
January 26, 1768, married, June 4, 1789,
Thomas Viall, of Rehoboth; Jabez E. B., De
cember 17, 1769; Josiah, mentioned below;
Perez Simon; Charles, March 11, 1780; went
to Conneaut, Ohio, and died there.
(V) Josiah (3) Kent, son of Josiah (2)
and Elizabeth (Bullock) Kent, was born in
June, 1771. He married, July 5, 1795, Patty
Brown, daughter of Isaac Brown, both being
of Rehoboth. Patty (Brown) Kent was a
great-great-granddaughter of John Brown Sr.,
who with Thomas Willett and Miles Standish
purchased of the Indians a tract of land known
by the Indian name of Wannamoisett, and of
which Mr. Brown afterward became sole pro
prietor. Josiah Kent was quite a character,
and was known familiarly as "Uncle Siah,"
while his wife was always "Aunt Patty."
Children: Ira; Celinda, who married Benja
min J. Brown, toll gatherer of Washington
Bridge for many years ; Elizabeth, who mar
ried Perry Barney, of East Providence; Mar
tha ; Isaac Brown, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac Brown Kent, youngest child of
Josiah (3) and Patty (Brown) Kent, was bom
July 3, 1812, and resided in Seekonk, Rhode
Island, now known as East Providence, where
he died May 8, 1885. He was one of the most
substantial citizens of that section, where his
forefathers had dwelt for generations. Of
quiet and unassuming nature, he pursued the
course of life without ostentation, and by in
dustry and prudent management acquired a
comfortable property. As a boy he went to
school in the old red school house, and first
engaged in farming with his father, inheriting
the homestead at the latter's death. This em
braced about one hundred acres, to which he
added from time to time, until the estate in
cluded over two hundred acres, and was then,
as now, one of the best in that section. It has
been divided and was owned in part by his
sons, Isaac R. and Alfred J. Kent. He en
gaged in general farming, giving particular
attention to the production of milk and hay.
Though an earnest Republican in political
principle, and not a seeker for office, he re
sponded to the call of duty, and filled some
minor stations in the town of East Providence.
Of superior judgment, his counsel was fre
quently taken by neighbors and friends in
financial matters. Though his schooling was
not extended, by experience and reading he
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and carried a large influence in the community.
He was a regular attendant and supporter of
Newman Congregational Church of East
Providence. He married, April 20, 1837, Han
nah R. Kent, daughter of Alfred Kent, of
Seekonk, grandii^ighter of Joseph Kent and
great-granddaughter of Samuel Kent. Chil
dren: Isaac Richmond, died young; Isaac
Richmond, born February 5, 1846, lived in
East Providence; Harriet, wife of Wheaton
Read ; Ruth Anne, mentioned below ; Alfred
K, born November 27, 1849, lived in East
Providence; Hannah Maria, July 29, 1851,
died the following year ; Martha B., residing in
East Providence, unmarried.
(VII) Ruth Anne Kent, second daughter
of Isaac B. and Hannah R. (Kent) Kent, was
born in East Providence, and married, June 3,
1869, Robert R. Pearse, of that town (see
Pearse IX).

This is a branch of the family
GREENE of Greene of Greene's Norton,
Northamptonshire, England,
which flourished in that county from 1319 until
the time of Henry VIII. Sir Henry Greene,
Knt., lord chief justice of England in 1353,
was the head of this family in his time. His
younger son, Sir Henry Greene, was beheaded
in 1399 for his attachment to the cause of
Richard II. Queen Catherine Parr was a
member of this family, her mother being Ma
tilda Greene, daughter and co-heiress of Sir
Thomas Greene, of Greene's Norton. By the
marriage of Matilda Greene and her sister
Anne, respectively, to Sir Thomas Parr and
Baron Vaux, the Northampton estate passed
into other families.
A branch of this family, from which the
American Greenes are descended, owned and
occupied the estate of Bowridge Hill, in Gill-
"ingham parish, in Dorsetshire, in the reign of
Henry VIII., and so continued until 1635 and
after, many records of births, marriages and
deaths of the family appear in the parish
records, and various curious wills of theirs are
extant. Their old stone house is still stand
ing. The John Greene, of Warwick, Rhode
Island, who is treated in what follows, was a
younger brother of the owner of Bowridge
Hill, at the time of his emigration to the Amer
ican" colonies in 1635. From this source came
the Greenes under consideration, and their
lineage from the American ancestor follows,
each generation being designated by a Roman
character. (I) Lord Alexander de Greene de Boketon,
a knight at the king's court, was the great-
grandson of one of the Norman nobles who
invaded England with William the Conqueror

in 1066. King John bestowed the estate of
Boughton in Northampton on him in 1202.
He is the earliest known ancestor of the Greene
families of Warwick and Quidnesset in Rhode
Island. He probably received his estate for
services rendered in putting down a rebellion
of John's nobles, and what was given him had
probably belonged to one of the lords whom
the king had attainted. Lord Alexander as
sumed a surname after his chief estate, de
Greene de Boketon, that is, the Lord of the
Park of the Deer Enclosure. A green in those
times was a park. Boketon is a very old word
meaning the ducks' (dokes) ton or paled, — in
enclosure. Centuries ago the terminal syllable
ton had lost its original sense, and meant a
town, so that Boketon, still used in the original
sense, shows Lord Alexander came to an estate
named long before, and noted for its exten
sive parks and deer preserves. Boketon be
came Bucks and Buckston, and later Bough
ton, its present name. It lies in Northamp
ton. For a long time the full name de Greene
de Boketon was used in legal documents.
Naturally in everyday speech it was shortened
to de Greene. During the reign of Henry VI.,
1422-1471, with its attendant French wars, the
patriotic de Greenes dropped the patrician de
as too Frenchy in sound for Englishmen, as
they now considered themselves.
(II) Sir Walter de Greene de Boketon, son
of Sir Alexander de Greene de Boketon, suc
ceeded his father to the title and estates, and
was probably a crusading knight in the seventh
crusade, which ended in 1240, as he was listed
in the old rolls of the twentieth year of Henry
III. (1236) and the forty-fifth year of the
same king (1261).
(Ill) Sir John de Greene de Boketon, son
of Sir Walter de Greene de Boketon, accom
panied King Edward III. to the Holy Land as
a crusading knight and perished there, leaving
an infant son.
(IV) Sir Noinas de Greene de Boketon,
only child of Sir John de Greene de Boketon,
received the title of his ancestors in his infancy.
He accompanied Edward I. against the Scots
in 1296, and is mentioned in the records of
1319 as then alive. He married Alice, daugh
ter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Bottishane, of
Brauston. (V) Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon,
fifth Lord de Greene de Boketon, was born in
1292, son of Sir Noinas (1) de Greene de
Boketon. When about forty years old he was
made high sheriff of Northampton (1330-32),
in the early part of the reign of Edward III.
"The office in those days was esteemed equal
to the care of princes, a place of great trust
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ter of Eudo de la Zouche and Millicent, one
of the sisters and heirs of George de Cantelupe,
lord of Abergaveny. Lady Lucie had royal
blood. One house of de La Zouche was line
ally descended from Alan, the famous Earl
and sovereign of Little Britain. One son was
born of this marriage.
(VI) Sir Henry de Greene de Boketon, son
of Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon, was
the foremost lawyer of his day and was made
lord chief justice of England. He was speaker
of the house of lords in two parliaments ( 1363-
64), and became at last the king's nearest
counsel. He died in 1370, in the sixtieth year
of his age, and was buried at Boughton. He
left to his posterity one of the most consider
able estates of the age. He married Katherine,
daughter of Sir John Drayton, and only sister
of Sir Simon Drayton, of Drayton. They had
six children: Thomas, Henry, Richard, Nich
olas, Margaret, Amadila.
(VII) Sir Henry (2) de Greene de Boke
ton, the second son of Sir Henry (1) de
Greene de Boketon, was made the heir of his
father in spite of the English law of primo-
genture through a special license given by the
king. Sir Henry was a very rich man and
possessed many estates. He married Matilda,
sole heiress of her father, Lord Thomas Mau-
duit, who also had five lordships and other fair
possessions. Sir Henry was a man of ability
and became as prominent a statesman as his
father had been. He was a member of the
house of commons, and one of its leaders. He
was knighted and became one of the king's
near counselors. As a favorite of the king,
he received many more manors and estates.
Sir Henry was one of a commission appointed
over King Richard II., whose eccentricity
amounted almost to insanity, and as such coun
seled the king to confiscate the estates of the
banished Henry Bolingbroke, duke of Here
ford and Lancaster. After the overthrow of
Richard, Sir Henry was taken prisoner by
Bolingbroke and bebeaded in the market square
in Bristol, September 2, 1399. Shakespeare
devotes much of Acts I. and II. of his Richard
II. to Sir Henry Greene. The children of Sir
Henry and Lady Matilda were Ralph, John,
Thomas, Henry, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Mary.
(VIII) Thomas de Greene de Boketon,
third son of Sir Henry (2) de Greene de Boke
ton, was the only son of his father whose line
remained to bear the name of Greene. From
him came the Gillingham Greenes, and from
them again came the Warwick and Quidnesset
Greenes, two of the most important lines of
that name in America.
(IX) The name of the son of Thomas de
Greene de Boketon, who was the ninth of this

line has not been preserved. He was born
about 1420, and came to manhood in the mid
dle of the "bloody century." This included the
period of the Wars of the Roses, and but little
authentic history of many families during this.
time is to be found.
(X) John (2) Greene, the next of the line,
is supposed to have been born about 1450.
Dickens says that King Richard III. sent word
to Sir Robert Brackenbury by John Greene,
offering him to put the two princes to death.
But Sir Robert refused to execute the com
mand. After the death of Richard, John
Greene lost no time in putting the seas between
himself and Henry VII., the rival and suc
cessor of Richard. He returned to England,
where he lived a while, then fled again and
died abroad. He is known as "John, the fugi
tive" in the family records.
(XI) Robert Greene owned and resided on
his estate at Bowridge Hill in the parish of
Gillingham, county Dorset (a locality noticed
in the Ordnance Survey of England), when
taxed on the Subsidy Rolls in the time of King
Henry VIII. (1543), in the 1st of Edward VI.
(1547), and in the 1st of Queen Elizabeth
(1588). The name of his wife. is unknown.
Children: 1. Peter, gentleman, son and heir,
who succeeded to the estate of Bowridge Hill,
Gillingham; he died and was buried (accord
ing to Parish Register) May 31, 1583; his will
is dated May 20, and was proved in London,
June 1, 1583; he died without issue, leaving
bequests to his wife, Joan, and to his brothers
and sisters. 2. Richard, of whom further. 3.
John, of Gillingham, received legacy from his
brother Peter, by will. 4. Alice, received
legacy from her brother Peter's will ; she mar
ried a Mr. Small and had issue. 5. Anne, re
ceived legacy from her brother's will ; married
Roger Capps, of Gillingham, and had issue.
(XII) Richard Greene, son of Robert
Greene, inherited the property of Bowridge
Hill as heir-at-law and "residuary legatee of
his brother, Peter Greene." He was taxed on
Subsidy Rolls 29th of Queen Elizabeth (1587).
His will, dated May 10, 1606, was proved May
3, 1608. The name of his wife is not known.
Children: 1. Richard, of whom further. 2.
Katharine, married a Mr. Turnor.
(XIII) Richard (2) Greene, son of Rich
ard (1) Greene, succeeded to Bowridge Hill,
1608. He was appointed executor of his
father's will. He married Mary, daughter of
John Hooker (alias Vowell), who was cham
berlain of the city of Exeter, England, Sep
tember 12, 1534, and represented Exeter in
parliament; he was uncle to the celebrated
divine, Richard Hooker, rector of Bascombe,
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Salisbury. Mary (Hooker) Greene was the
grandniece of Archbishop Grindal, of Canter
bury. Children: 1. Peter, gentleman, son and
heir to Bowridge Hill estate ; married Joan
 ; children and dates of baptism: Mary,
December 29, 1605; William, April 7, 1607;
Joan, April 25, 1609; Margery, April 11, 161 1 ;
Richard, August 6, i6r2; Richard, April 30,
1615; Robert, January 23, 1617-18. 2. Rich
ard, of Salisbury; he died s. p. 161 7, leaving
his property to his father, wife Agnes, and to
his brothers and sisters. 3. Robert, of Cuck-
lington, county Somerset, gentleman, died
1650; his will, dated October 21, 1649, was
proved January 7, 1650-51 ; his wife is not
named; child, Robert, who was his father's
sole executor. 4. John, of whom further. 5
Rebecca, married  Downton. 6. Mary
mentioned in her brother Richard's will. 7
Rachel, married Richard Perne, of Gillingham
8. Anne, baptized at Gillingham, August 31
1595, married Giles Stagg, of Little Newtpn
9. Thomas, baptized May 18, 1599, buried Au
gust 15, 1599.
(I) Dr. John (3) Greene, son of Richard
(2) Greene, was born on his father's estate
at Bowridge Hill, parish of Gillingham, county
Dorset, England, about 1590. He resided at
Salisbury for about sixteen years, following
his profession of surgeon. On April 6, 1635,
he was registered for embarkation at Hamp
ton, England, with his wife and six children
(one having probably died in England before
this date), in the ship "James," William
Cooper, master, for New England. After a
voyage of fifty-eight days he arrived in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, June 3, 1635. He first
settled at Salem, Massachusetts, where he was
associated with Roger Williams, purchasing
or building a house there, but soon after Mr.
Williams' flight from Salem (1636) he sold
it and, joining Mr. Williams at Providence,
secured his home lot, No. 15, on the main
street. He was one of eleven men baptized by
Roger Williams, and one of the twelve original
members of the first Baptist church on this
continent, organized at Providence, Rhode
Island. He was the first professional medical
man in Providence Plantations. He is alluded
to in Goodwin's "Pilgrim Republic" (p. 407)
as "one of the two local surgeons" at Provi
dence in 1638, though we are told "the people
of Providence relied solely upon him for sur
gical aid long after his removal to Warwick in
1643." He was one of the twelve original pur
chasers of Shawomet, a tract of land embrac
ing a greater part of the present towns of War
wick and Coventry. In 1644 he went to Lon
don to negotiate for Narragansett, and was
one of the committee who first organized the
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colony of Rhode Island, under the charter ob
tained from Charles I., in 1647. He was a
prominent man in the affairs of the town and
colony, and enjoyed the confidence and respect
of his associates through a long and active
political life, holding office almost continually
until the summer before his death, when he
refused to accept the office of commissioner,
being repeatedly urged thereto. On August
8, 1647, he was appointed member of first
town council of Warwick; February 26, 1648,
commissioner (representative of Warwick in
general assembly) ; May 7, 1649, magistrate
in court of trials at Warwick; June 4, 1649,
assistant; July 2, 1649, member of town coun
cil ; commissioner on the following dates ; Oc
tober 26, 1650, May 8, 1655, October 6, 1656,
August 9, 1657.
Dr. John Greene married (first) at St.
Thomas' Church, November 4, 1619, Joanne
Tattershall (or, as it was written on the church
register, "Tatarsole"). Nothing is definitely
known of her English connections ; the name
is frequently found in early records among
post-mortem examinations, parliamentary
writs, and charters, and is variously written
Tatersall, Tateshall, Tatashall, Tatershal and
Tatershall. The first of the family of whom
we have mention came in with William the
Conqueror and obtained the lordship of Tater
shall in Lincolnshire, where he seated himself
and from which he took his surname. His
descendants were seated in Berkshire and Nor-
folkshire, and were held in high repute. Chil
dren: 1. John, baptized August 15, 1620, mar
ried Anne Almy. 2. Peter, baptized March
10, 1621-22, married Mary Gorton. 3. Rich
ard, baptized March 25, 1624, died young,
probably in England. 4. James, baptized June
21, 1626. 5. Thomas, baptized June 4, 1628,
married Elizabeth Barton. 6. Jone, baptized
October 3, 1630, married John Hade. 7. Mary,
baptized May 19, 1633, married James Sweet.
Mrs. Greene died soon after their removal to
Rhode Island, and it is supposed was buried at
Conimicut, Old Warwick. Dr. John Greene
married (second) "Alisce (Alice) Daniels, a
widow." She died in October, 1643. Dr. John
Greene married (third) in London, England,
about 1644, Phillippa (always written Philip)
 ¦ — -, who returned with him to Warwick,
Rhode Island, 1646. She died in Warwick,
March 11, 1687, aged about eighty-seven years,
having survived her husband for nearly thirty
years. Dr. John Greene died in January, 1659,
and was buried at Conimicut, Warwick.
(II) Major John (4) Greene, son of Dr.
John (3) and Joanne (Tattersall) Greene, was
born in 1620, in England, and after serving as
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was made deputy governor of Rhode Island,
holding the office from 1690 until 1700, a
longer term than that of any other colonial
governor with the exception of Governor
Cranston, of Rhode Island. John Greene filled
the offices of recorder and attorney-general,
and was one of the committee appointed in
1654 to revise the laws, serving also in 1664
on the commission for the same purpose, in
association with Roger Williams. In 1670 he
was appointed to go to England to vindicate
the charter before the king, and from 1683 to
the time of Andros he held a commission in
the army of "major of the main," equivalent
to the present rank of a major-general of the
United States army. In 1666 he was appointed
with others to draw up an address to his ma
jesty and the lord chancellor of England; in
1666 he was notified by Governor Andros of
his appointment as a member of his council,
and in 1690 he with others sent a letter of con
gratulation to William and Mary on their
accession to the crown. John Greene married
Ann Almy, who was born in 1627, died May
17, 1709. He himself passed away November
.27, 1708.
(Ill) Captain Peter Greene, third son of
Major John (4) and Ann (Almy) Greene,
was born February 4, 1654, at Warwick, and
inherited by will from his uncle, Peter Greene,
the homestead of his grandfather, Dr. John
Greene, the American immigrant, near Coni
micut Point, in the eastern part of Old War
wick, where he resided until his death about
1723. He held various responsible town offices,
was captain of the train-band, and for many
years represented Warwick in the general
court. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ste
phen and Sarah (Smith) Arnold, of Pawtuxet,
born November 2, 1659. Children : Peter,
Sarah, John, Stephen, William, Elisha, Bar
low. (IV) Elisha Greene, fifth son of Captain
Peter and Elizabeth (Arnold) Greene, was born
February 13, 1692, in Old Warwick, and died
in 1767 at his home near Apponoug, where he
resided through life. His wife, Mary Greene,
who was a distant relative, died September 27,
1750. Their children were: Mary, Elisha,
Elizabeth. (V) Elisha (2) Greene, only son of Elisha
(1) and Mary (Greene) Greene, was born
July 7, 1726, in Warwick. He engaged in
farming on the paternal homestead, and also
conducted a distillery. Later he removed to
East Greenwich, where he continued farming,
and died in 1802. He married (first) Isabel,
daughter of John Budlong, and his second
wife was Sarah Johnson, who survived him.
His children, all born to the first marriage,

were: Tabitha, Stephen, Mary, William, Eliz
abeth. (VI) Stephen Greene, eldest son of Elisha
(2) and Isabel (Budlong) Greene, was born
November 5, 1752, in Warwick. He resided
at Greene's Corners, in East Greenwich, where
he was buried, succeeding his death, June 20,
1833. During the revolutionary war he was
drafted for service, but could not conveniently
leave his family and furnished a substitute.
He was prominent in the social life of the com
munity, serving as a judge of the lower courts,
and representative in the legislature. He mar
ried, December 1, 1771, Elizabeth, daughter of
George Wightman, of North Kingstown, died
April 1, 1830, in her eightieth year. Their
children were : Elisha, George, Mary, Isabel,
Valentine, William, Elizabeth, Tabitha.
(VII) William Greene, fourth son of Ste
phen and Elizabeth (Wightman) Greene, was
born November 8, 1784, in East Greenwich,
and during his long and active life engaged in
farming in that town, where he died March 3,
1854. He was active in promoting the public
interest, and for several years represented his
town in the general assembly. In early life he
was a Democrat, and -was one of the eleven
who voted for Andrew Jackson when he was
first a candidate for president. He was a sup
porter, however, of the principles and policies
which developed the organization of the Re
publican party, but did not live to see that
organization. In 1820 he became a member
of the Baptist church, and was much esteemed
in the community for his upright life and
Christian character. He was noted for his
honesty and devotion to his home and family.
He married, June 16, 1811, Abigail, daughter
of John Reynolds, of Warwick, who survived
him many years, dying in East Greenwich,
March 26, 1889, near the close of her ninety-
fifth year. Her home was with her son,
Lauriston H. Greene, in East Greenwich, dur
ing her later years. Of her large family of
children, several died in infancy. Those who
reached maturity were: 1. John R., who mar
ried Fannie Wightman ; was a merchant of
Wickford until the middle forties, when he
removed to Worcester, Massachusetts, and
there engaged as an accountant until his death.
2. Mary R., who married Joseph Fry; died in
Providence. 3. Elizabeth Isabella, married
John Pitcher ; died in East Greenwich. 4. Wil
liam C, mentioned below. 5. Thomas T., twin
of William C, married Ann Heines; died at
the age of twenty-six years. 6. George F.,
was a resident of East Greenwich, where he
died August 16, i860; his wife, Melissa (Rem
ington) Greene, survived him and married
again, now living in Westerly. 7. Henry, died

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at the age of fourteen years. 8. Lauriston H.,
mentioned below.
(VIII) William C. Greene, second son of
William and Abigail (Reynolds) Greene, was
born August 19, 1826, in East Greenwich. He
was an attendant of the public schools to his
eighteenth year, spending the summers in hard
labor on the paternal farm as soon as he was
old enough to be of use, and the winters in
school. For six weeks he was a student at
Wickford Academy, and in 1845, at the age
of eighteen years, he went to Providence,
where he apprenticed, himself to Allen Brown,
a manufacturing jeweler, for a period of three
years. For this period he was to receive one
hundred and forty-five dollars, and upon this
he lived and clothed himself. After one year
as a journeyman he embarked in business, in
1849, with Nathan Mathewson, under the firm
name of Mathewson & Greene, and engaged, in
the manufacture of jewelry in Providence, on
the corner of Westminster and Eddy streets.
The firm soon moved to larger quarters, and
111-1853 J°hn T. Mauran and ex-Governor
Charles Jackson were admitted to the firm,
which was then known as Mathewson, Greene
& Mauran. In 1854 Mr. Mathewson with
drew, the firm becoming Greene, Mauran &
Company. In 1862 Mr. Greene sold his inter
est to Mr. Mauran, and four years later formed
a partnership with Alfred Bliss, and did busi
ness under the firm name of Greene & Bliss
for nearly twenty-eight years, on Pine street,
Providence. The junior partner died in 1868,
and Mr. Greene purchased his interest from
the widow, later admitting Charles H. Bliss,
a brother of his former partner, who retained
an interest in the business until his death in
1872. The next year Mr. Greene was joined
by three partners, and the firm became William
C. Greene & Company, later a corporation
under the name of Greene & Knox Manufac
turing Company, and this later became a cor
poration known as William C. Greene & Com
pany, of which Mr. Greene was treasurer.
After more than half a century in the jewelry
business, most of which time was devoted to the
manufacture of gold jewelry, Mr. Greene
passed away in February, 1914, and was buried
in the Swan Point Cemetery at Providence.
In 1849 he joined the Point Street Baptist
Mission, and four years later transferred his
membership to the First Baptist Church, in
which he filled the office of deacon for more
than a score of years, up to the time of his
death. He married (first) November 4, 1850,
Mary Amanda Wightman, who died August
23, 1895. He married (second) February 13,
1899, Sarah Boone. After 1875 he resided in
a beautiful house, which he erected on the

southwest corner of Broad and Stewart streets,
Providence, where he died.
(VIII) Lauriston Hall Greene, son of Wil
liam and Abigail (Reynolds) Greene, was born
July 19, 1833, on the paternal homestead in
East Greenwich, on which he has spent most
of his life, and though above four-score years
of age, is still active as a man of sixty. His
long life may be attributed to his temperate
habits and industry, and -his life in the open
air. In childhood and youth he applied him
self to study, was a proficient student, and
acquired an excellent education. In early
manhood he went to Providence and learned
the business of manufacturing jewelry with his
brother, William C. Greene, remaining ten
years. On the death of his brother, George F.
Greene, he was called upon to settle the estate,
and at this time he purchased the interest of
the other heirs of the paternal homestead,
which has been his home since the spring of
1861. It embraces an area of one hundred
and sixty-five acres, and its intelligent culti
vation has been the occupation of Mr. Greene
for considerably more than half a century.
He gave up a business life largely on account
of his mother, for whom he maintained a con
genial home during her later years, thus re
paying in some measure the debt which every
one owes to his parents. In many other ways
through life Mr. Greene has evinced a sym
pathetic and self-sacrificing nature. He has
made many modern improvements upon the
farm, and has brought numerous changes,
which demonstrate his thoroughness, business
ability and systematic management. He has
served the public as a member of the town
council, but has refused numerous suggestions
of his fellow citizens that he accept other polit
ical honors. A member of the Quidnessett
Baptist Church, he is among its active workers,
and is a liberal contributor to all religious and
temperance movements. With a naturally
robust constitution, his regular habits and
activity of mind and body have kept him youth
ful to the present date.
Mr. Greene married (first) December 12,
1855, Abby Ripley, of Providence, who died
March 2, 1904, after nearly half a century as
his companion on the journey of life. He mar
ried (second) January 16, 1907, Lydia Parker
Brown, who died in 1908. He married (third)
October 20, 1909, in Providence, Lydia A.
Greene, born August 18, 1853, m East Green
wich, daughter of Stephen and Almira (Sher
man) Greene. She is a descendant in the ninth
generation of John Greene, the immigrant.
Her grandfather, Valentine Greene, was a son
of Stephen and Elizabeth (Wightman) Greene.
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phen (2) Greene, and his wife, Almira (Sher
man) Greene, were the parents of Mrs. Lauris
ton H. Greene. Stephen (2) Greene was. a
farmer in the town of East Greenwich, where
he made his home, and died in 1872. His wife
survived him about four years, dying in 1876.
Mr. Greene is the last survivor of his branch
of an old and honorable family in East Green
wich, where he is well known and highly re
spected. His life history will show a success
ful business career, and, moreover, a most
honorable one.

Captain William Cory, the immi-
CORY grant ancestor, came to America in
1635, and settled on the coast of
Massachusetts, later in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, where he followed the trade of car
penter and miller. On December 10, 1657, he
received a grant of eight acres of land, and on
May 18, 1658, he was made a freeman. On
October 28, 1662, he let his house to Peter
Folger, of Newport, for five years. He had
a deed of a third of a share in Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, from William Earle, December
4, 1669. He was juryman June 7, 1671, and
on April 4, 1676, he was on a committee of
four appointed to have the care and disposing
of one barrel of powder for the town, and to
fit for service two large guns, one near the
house of John Borden and the other on Ferry
Neck. On August 24, 1676, he was a member
of the court-martial at Newport, held for trial
of certain Indians, and in 1678, 1679 and 1680
he was deputy to the general court. He held
the office of lieutenant and captain. His will,
dated January 4, 1681, was proved February
24, 1682, his wife Mary being appointed- ad
ministratrix, and William Wodell, John San-
ford and George Brownell, overseers. He left
to his wife, absolutely at her disposal, all lands.
etc., with the wind mill at Portsmouth and all
personal estate, except legacies ; the use of the
dwelling house, except two rooms, half the
orchard, half the barn and use of half the up
land and meadows adjoining lands of one Hall.
To son John he left land in Portsmouth with
housing ; to William two rooms in house, half
the orchard, profits of half upland and meadow
adjoining and at decease of his mother the
rent of the lands and house; to Thomas, when
he came of age, half share of Pocasset lands ;
to Caleb, a third of a share in Dartsmouth ; to
Roger, at age, half of Pocasset share; to
Mercy, ten pounds, and same amount to other
daughters. His widow received receipt on
January 15, 1682, for legacy of Mercy, and
had one from Ann the following year. On
June 23, 1691, she received from her future

second husband a writing that she would have
liberty to care for her first husband's estate,
and she gave full power to Edward Cory and
George Brownell to care for the estate and
bring up her children, reserving for herself a
mare, four cattle, four hogs and four sheep.
Her will was dated August 12, 1717, and
proved April 14, 1718, her son Thomas being
executor. William Cory married Mary Earle, who
died March 22, 1718, daughter of Ralph and
Joan Earle. She married (second) about
1683, Joseph Timberlake. William Cory died
in 1682. Children: John, of Portsmouth and
Kings Town, Rhode Island ; William, of Ports
mouth; Mercy, married (first) Cornelius Jones
and (second) Charles Gonsales ; Ann, married
Robert Bennett ; Thomas, mentioned below ;
Margaret, died young ; Mary, married Thomas
Cook ; Cabel, of Dartmouth ; Roger, of Tiver
ton and Richmond, Rhode Island; Joan, mar
ried —  Taylor.
(II) Thomas Cory, son of Captain William
Cory, lived in Portsmouth for a time, but set
tled in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where he was
an inhabitant at the organization of the town,
March 2, 1692. His will, dated September 23,
1734, was proved March 21, 1738, his sons,
William and Philip, being executors. To Wil
liam he left half of one hundred and twenty
acres in Pocasset, half of swamp lot and half
of sixty-acre lot, this land received from his
father's will; to grandson, Thomas Cory, son
of Thomas, two hundred acres and housing,
being the farm in Dartmouth, also forty acres
to come to him at age; to son Philip, home
stead farm in Tiverton, one hundred and
twenty acres and housing, two cows, etc., and
the profit of grandson John's legacy until he
came of age, he to bring him up and put him
to a trade ; to daughter Patience, two hundred
and fifty pounds in household goods, Indian
boy Sam and Indian girl Dinah until their
time expired; to daughter, Mary Durfee, six
hundred pounds, and same amount to daugh
ters, Sarah Brown and Patience ; to wife, one
hundred pounds ; personal property, etc., to be
distributed evenly. Thomas Cory married
(first)  — . He married (second) Febru
ary 24, 1732, Susanna Taber, who died after
1734. He died in 1738. Children by first
wife : William, Thomas, Philip, mentioned be
low ; Patience, Mary, Sarah.
(Ill) Philip Cory, son of Thomas Cory, was
born about 1700-05. He settled in Tiverton,
Rhode Island. He was a prominent citizen
and held various town offices. He married
Hannah  . Children, born at Tiverton:
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1729; Thomas, July 10, 1731 ; Sarah, June 16,
1734; Philip, November 23, 1741 ; Isaac, men
tioned below.
(IV) Isaac Cory, son of Philip Cory, was
born at Tiverton, Rhode Island, November 13,
1746, died about 1832. He was a captain in
the revolutionary war. He followed the sea
and was captain of a whaling vessel. He was
also a ship builder and conducted a general
store for many years. He moved from Tiver
ton, Rhode Island, to Dartmouth, Massachu
setts, now Westport Point, Massachusetts. He
married, March 18, 1764, Mary Cadman, of
Portsmouth, Rhode Island (marriage by Rev.
Restcombe Sanford). Children, born at Ports
mouth : Isaac, mentioned below ; Christopher,
February 9, 1770; Sarah, July 28, 1771. Others
at Tiverton and Dartmouth.
(V) Isaac (2) Cory, son of Isaac (1) Cory,
was born at Tiverton, Rhode Island, about
1765. He was educated in the public schools
and afterwards became associated in business
with his father under the firm name of Isaac
Cory & Son, ship builders and general mer
chants, at Westport, Massachusetts. He mar
ried Mary Brownell, of an old Rhode Island
family, daughter of Deacon Sylvester Brownell
and sister of Bishop Thomas Brownell, of
Hartford ; Dr. Richmond Brownell, of Hart
ford; Sylvester Brownell, of Providence, and
Lydia Wendell, wife of Judge Wendell, of
Hartford. Pier father was a lieutenant in the
militia. Children : Alexander H., mentioned
below ; Albert ; Mary and Elizabeth, who died
in infancy.
(VI) Alexander H. Cory, son of Isaac (2)
Cory, was born at Westport, Massachusetts,
September 5, 181 5, died in October, 1897, in
Westport Point. He attended the Westport
public schools, and then became a clerk in his
father's general store, finally engaging in busi
ness on his' own account as a merchant in
Westport Point. For more than forty years
he was postmaster of that town. He held
various offices of trust and honor in the town.
He was a member of the school committee, an
overseer of the poor and a selectman. He was
a prominent Free Mason, having taken all the
thirty-two degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry
in New Bedford Masonic bodies. He was a
member of Eureka Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Royal Arch Masons ; Royal and
Select Masters ; Sutton Commandery, Knights
Templar. In religion he and his family were
Unitarians and Episcopalians. Mr. Cory was
a kindly, lovable man, widely known and
esteemed. To the poor and unfortunate he
was especially considerate and helpful and he
gave generously of his means to help others.

In politics he was a Republican. He married,
in 1841, Mary Ann Prince, born in 1819, died
in November, 1896, daughter of Joseph Prince,
of Brooklyn, Connecticut. Children: Isaac,
born August 15, 1843, died November, 1872;
Joseph Prince, mentioned below ; Charles
Burnett, deceased; Emma Brownell, unmar
ried, living in Providence; Kate Lucia, mar
ried Phillip L. Grinnell, of Westport Point;
Alexander H. Jr., living with his brother,
Joseph Prince ; Thomas Brownell, married
Mary Chatterton, and lives in Cranston, Rhode
Island ; Albert Fremont, died aged three years ;
Mary Brownell, unmarried ; Bertha Belle, mar
ried Rev. William B. Kugler, a wealthy min
ister, now located at East Hartford, Connecti
cut, and had children: Hester C, Lois M.,
Amy P. and William A. Kugler; Helen C,
unmarried. (VII) Joseph Prince Cory, son of Alex
ander H. Cory, was born August 5, 1845, in
Westport, Massachusetts. He received his
early education in the public schools and at
Pierce's Academy at Middleboro, Massachu
setts, from which he graduated in the class of
1863. He started upon his business career in
the employ of his father. In 1866 he left home
and was for one year employed as clerk in an
imported drug store in New York City. In
June, 1867, he established himself in the retail
grocery business in Providence, Rhode Island,
but after fifteen months went into the fancy
goods business in the Arcade, in the jewelry line,
continuing there until 1871. He then entered
the employ of Daniel R. Childs, manufacturer
of a general line of jewelry, gold and plated,
such as pins, rings, chains and charms, and
after serving as bookkeeper for a year, in 1872
he bought the business and continued it under
the name of Johnson & Cory, in partnership
with Solon R. Johnson. This firm was dis
solved in 1876 and Mr. Cory continued the
business alone until 1893, when he admitted
Frank Reynolds to partnership. In 1894
Thomas B. Cory was admitted to the firm. In
1895 the business was incorporated as the Cory
& Reynolds Company, with Joseph O. Cory
as president ; Frank Reynolds, treasurer ;
Thomas B. Cory, secretary. In 1906 Mr. Cory
retired from active business. In later years
Mr. Cory invested from time to time in real
estate in Providence and he now has large
holdings in that city.
Mr. Cory is a member of St. John's Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Providence;
Providence Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of
Providence; Providence Council, Royal and
Select Masters; St. John Commandery,
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Shrine, and also of the Warwick Club. ' In
religion he is a Methodist. Mr. Cory is one of
the best known and most popular business men
of the city. He is unmarried.

Among the ancient and high-
SHERMAN ly honored families of Rhode
Island, noted for their integ
rity and uprightness, characteristics which
have been transmitted to their descendants,
may be mentioned the Sherman family, worth
ily represented by Alfred Everett Sherman, in
the present generation.
(I) Hon. Philip Sherman, the pioneer an
cestor of the family, was born in Dedham,
England, February 5, 1610, died in 1687, in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He came of a
good old English family, his father being Sam
uel Sherman, son of Henry Sherman, who was
the son of Henry Sherman, all of Dedham,
county of Essex, England, but as the family
bore the Suffolk coat-of-arms, and probably
originally lived in the county of Suffolk, re
moving thence to Essex about a century before
Philip Sherman came to New England in 1634,
locating at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from
whence he removed to Rhode Island, where
he was one of the purchasers of the Island of
Aquidneck in 1636, and on the formation of a
government became secretary under Governor
William Coddington. He was public-spirited
and enterprising, a man of influence, and a
member of the Society of Friends. He mar
ried Sarah Odding, daughter of Mrs. John
Porter, who bore him the following children :
Eber, Sarah, Peleg, Mary, Edmund, Samson,
William, John, Mary, Hannah, Samuel, Ben
jamin, of whom further, and Philip.
(II) Benjamin Sherman, son of Philip and
Sarah (Odding) Sherman, was born in Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, 1650, died September
24, 1719. He gave his attention to agriculture
in his native place throughout his active years,
and was the owner of considerable land in
Kings Towne, Rhode Island. He served in
the capacity of constable in 1688, and as deputy
in 1707. He married, December 3, 1674, Han
nah Mowry, born September 28, 1656, died in
1718, daughter of Roger and Mary Mowry.
Children: Benjamin, born December 26, 1675;
Jonathan, of whom further ; Joseph, February
11, 1678; Hannah, March 20, 1679; Amie, Oc
tober 25, 1681 ; Sarah, 1684; Isaac, April 22,
1686; Mehetable, March 4, 1688; Deborah,
September 3, 1691 ; Abigail, March 13, 1694;
Freelove, September 14, 1696; Bethia, 1699.
(Ill) Jonathan Sherman, son of Benjamin
and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman, was born in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, March 7, 1677,
died in 1752. In early manhood he settled on

a tract of land of two hundred acres in the
town of Exeter, Rhode Island, given to him
by his father. He married Mary  , and
their children were : Jonathan, of whom fur
ther; Hannah, Mary, Sarah, Amie, Benjamin,
Ezekiel, born June 23, 1721.
(IV) Jonathan (2) Sherman, son of Jona
than (1) and Mary Sherman, was born in
Exeter, Rhode Island, October 14, 1705, died
on his farm there, April 18, 1778. He also
followed the occupation of farming from which
he derived a comfortable livelihood. He mar
ried (first) February 5, 1726-27, Dorcas
Sheldon, and (second) Mary, daughter of
Jonathan Card, of South Kingstown, Rhode
Island; she died November 15, 1803. Chil
dren of first wife: Benajah, of whom further,
and Joseph. Children of second wife: Jona
than, born October 14, 1731 ; Robert, Febru
ary 7, 1734; Abigail, October 7, 1737; Gideon,
October 25, 1741 ; Robert, September 3, 1752.
(V) Benajah Sherman, son of Jonathan
(2) and Dorcas (Sheldon) Sherman, was born
on his father's farm in Exeter, Rhode Island,
in 1728, died in 1785. His entire life was spent
in his native place, where he followed farming,
and where he was respected by all who knew
him. He married Martha  , and among
their children was Hazard, of whom further.
(VI) Hazard Sherman, son of Benajah and
Martha Sherman, was born in Exeter, Rhode
Island, died in Exeter, and was buried in the
family plot on the farm. He continued a resi
dent of Exeter throughout his lifetime, being
one of the extensive owners of land in that
town, and his principal occupation was farm
ing, in which he was highly successful. He
married (first) Ruth Jenkins, whose death
occurred in Exeter; married (second) Han
nah Gardner; married (third) Betsey Chaplin.
Children of first wife : George, Peleg Brown,
of whom further ; Hazard, Amy, Ruth. There
were no children by the second and third mar
riages. (VII) Peleg Brown Sherman, son of Haz
ard and Ruth (Jenkins) Sherman, was born in
Exeter, Rhode Island, died at Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, his death being caused by his
being thrown from a sleigh; he was buried in
the North burying ground, Providence, Rhode
Island. Pie was reared and educated in Exeter,
during his boyhood and youth assisting with
the duties of the farm. In 1828 he removed
to Cranston, where he rented a farm, upon
which he resided until 1832, when he removed
to Valley Falls, remaining there until April 3,
1837. He then removed to Lonsdale, and there
engaged in the grocery business, from which
he derived a lucrative income, which was aug
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office he filled acceptably for a number of
years. He was a "member and deacon of the
Baptist church, and first a Whig and later a
Democrat in politics. He married, June 1,
1817, Elcy, daughter of Shebney and Mary
(Sherman) Dawley, whose death occurred
April 2, 1858, and her remains were interred
beside those of her husband. She was also a
consistent member of the Baptist church. Chil
dren: 1. Harriet, born February 23, 1818;
married Peleg Arnold San ford, a contractor
and builder, living in Providence. 2. Mary,
born December 31, 1819, died February 17,
1866; married Nelson A. Burlingame. 3. Haz
ard, born January 14, 182 1, died December 27,
1884; member of Knights Templar; married
Susan B. Follett. 4. Susan, born April 14,
1822, died July 19, 1899. 5. Peleg, born Sep
tember 8, 1824, living in Lonsdale. 6. Mar
tha, born July 9, 1827, died November 7, 1890.
7. Ruth, twin of Martha, died May 13, 1883;
married William R. Esten, a machinist. 8.
George, born February 6, 1829, died December
18, 1890; he was a member of the Knights
Templars ; married Laura Eaton. 9. Robert,
born May 26, 1830 ; a soldier in the Civil War ;
died November 23, 1865. 10. Alfred, of whom
further. 11. Elsie, born November 7, 1833,
died unmarried, January 27, 1903. 12. Sarab,
born October 27, 1837, died November 23,
1840. 13. Hannah, born September 21, 1839,
died unmarried, November 12, 1870. 14.
Emily R., born May 11, 1843, died unmarried,
April 16, 1875.
(VIII) Alfred Sherman, son of Peleg
Brown and Elcy (Dawley) Sherman, was born
in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, July 15, 1832,
died in Lincoln, March 15, 1888, buried in the
North burying ground, Providence. He at
tended the schools of Lonsdale, and after com
pleting his studies worked in his father's gro
cery store until the death of the latter, after
which he entered the employ of his brother,
remaining for a short period of time, and then
learned the trade of carpenter, which he fol
lowed for some time. Preferring mercantile
business to that of a trade, he again entered
the employ of his brother, 'and finally engaged
in business on his own account, which he suc
cessfully conducted for a number of years,
then leased the store, and subsequently sold it
to the Lonsdale Company, and retired from
mercantile pursuits. He then purchased the
Weeden farm, in the town of Lineoln, where
he spent the remainder of his days, devoting
his time to its cultivation and improvement.
He bore a reputation for public and private
integrity, his influence for good was felt in
the community, and he was respected by his
neighbors and friends. He filled the office of

assessor, having been elected on the Repub
lican ticket. He was a member of Union
Lodge, No. 10, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, at Pawtucket; was a charter member
of Unity Lodge, No. 34, at Lonsdale; member
of Pawtucket Chapter, Pawtucket Council, and
Holy Sepulchre Commandery, Knights Temp
lar. Mr. Sherman married, October 29, 1854,
Hannah T., born in Exeter, Rhode Island,
April 25, 1837, daughter of Samuel Cross and
Abby Potter (Robinson) Clarke (see Clarke
III). His widow lives in the old home with
her son ; their house is one of the best in
Providence, and is surrounded with beauti
ful grounds, whose careful and artistic appear
ance speak of the good taste of its owners.
They had one son, Alfred Everett, of whom
further. (IX) Alfred Everett Sherman, son of Al
fred and Hannah T. (Clarke) Sherman, was
born at Lonsdale, town of Cumberland, Rhode
Island, December 2, i860. He pursued his
early studies in the schools of Lonsdale, and
later took a course in Bryant & Stratton's
Business College, at Providence. In early life
he worked in his father's store, thus becoming
familiar with every branch of the work, and
later conducted the business on his own re
sponsibility, continuing thus until 1 89 1, when
he accepted a clerical position with the Lons
dale Company, who appreciated his services by
advancement, he becoming paymaster in 1902,
which office requires thoroughness of detail
and ability of a high order, the duties thereof
being performed by Mr. Sherman in an effi
cient manner. He was chosen for the office
of treasurer of Lincoln, in which he served for
seven years to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned. He is a Republican in politics.
Among fraternities he is a member of Unity
Lodge, No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, at Lonsdale ; Pawtucket Chapter ;
Pawtucket Council, and Holy Sepulchre Com
mandery, Knights Templar.
Mr. Sherman married at her own home,
Annie, daughter of the late Hon. Samuel
Clark, who was general treasurer of state for
many years. She is an active worker in the
Episcopal church. (The Clarke Line).
The family of the mother of Alfred Everett
Sherman is an old one in Washington county,
Rhode Island.
(I) Elias Clarke, grandfather of Mrs. Han
nah T. (Clarke) Sherman, was a native of
South Kingstown, Rhode Island, where he
followed farming for a livelihood, and be
came the owner of a large amount of land. He
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and was buried beside him in the Clarke Ceme
tery at Richmond. Their children were:
Thomas, James, Samuel Cross, of whom fur
ther. (II) Samuel Cross Clarke, son of Elias and
Ruth (Cross) Clarke, was born at Narragansett,
town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Feb
ruary 19, 1798, died in 1878, and his remains
were interred in the North burying ground in
Providence. He was a farmer in early life, later
followed the trade of carpenter in the employ
of the Lonsdale Company, manufacturers of
boxes, after his removal to the town of Lons
dale in 1847 with his family. He attended the
Friends' meeting, and had the reputation of
strict integrity and the possession of all Chris
tian virtues. He was in politics first a Whig
and later a Republican. He married Abby
Potter, daughter of Jesse and Hannah (Sands)
Robinson, who died in 1847. Children : Elias,
died in Hartford, Connecticut ; Mary, married
Alexander G. Sherman ; Susan, married
Thomas B. Tucker; Hannah T., of whom fur
ther; William E., died in Brockton, Massa
chusetts; John and Charles, twins, deceased.
(Ill) Hannah T. Clarke, daughter of Sam
uel Cross and Abby Potter (Robinson) Clarke,
born in Exeter, Rhode Island, April 25, 1837,
is still living with her son. She married Al
fred Sherman (see Sherman VIII).

Thomas Sturges was born in
STURGES Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
married Mary Rush, daughter
of William Rush, of Philadelphia, where they
lived. (II) Howard Okie Sturges, son of Thomas
Sturges, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, February 24, 1845. He received his
education in the public schools of Providence,
Rhode Island. He then worked for two years
in a national bank, and since then, for a period
of forty-eight years, he has worked in the
manufacture of cotton cloth. He is president
of the Allen & Read Insurance Company ; vice-
president of the Narragansett Electric Light
ing Company; one of the vice-presidents of
the Providence Institute for Savings ; director
of the Providence Telephone Company, Al
bany and Susquehanna railroad, Rhode Island
Hospital Trust Company, Providence Build
ing Company, and Manufacturers', Rhode
Island State, Mechanics', Enterprise, American
— all mutual fire insurance companies. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and in 1896-97 was a
member of the common council. He served in
the civil war, in Company D, Tenth Regiment
Rhode Island Volunteers, in 1862, and belongs
to Rodman Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
He is a member of Hope Club, Providence ;

Art Club, Agawam Club, Turk's Head Club,
Rhode Island Country Club, Squantum Asso
ciation, and Bristol Reading Room. In re
ligion be and his family are Episcopalians. He
married, at Providence, November -25, 1875,
Alice Spring Knight, of Providence, daughter
of Benjamin Bray ton and Phebe Ann (Slo-
cum) Knight (see Knight VII). Children of
Howard O. Sturges: Walter Knight, see for
ward; Rush, see forward; Howard, see for
ward ; Dorothy, educated at Briarcliffe School,
New York.
(Ill) Walter Knight Sturges, son of How
ard Okie Sturges, was born in Providence,
Rhode Island, August 25, 1876, died May 9,
1913. He attended the private schools of
Providence and St. Paul's School at Concord,
New Hampshire. He entered Yale University
and was graduated in 1898 with the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy. For eighteen months
he was employed, after graduation, in the Mer
chants' National Bank, and from 1901 until
his death was agent of the B. B. Knight estate,
the management of which was his main occu
pation. He was active in public life and was
an influential Republican. In 1910 he was
elected councilman from the First Ward and
in 191 1 he was reelected. To the duties of his
office and to the various committees on which
he served he devoted himself with earnestness
and energy, and won a position of leadership
in the city government. He had the confidence
and respect of all classes of people and was
popular both in public and private life. He
was a member of Hope Club, Agawam Hunt
Club, Bristol Reading Room Club, Art Club
and the University Club of New York City.
He married, April 25, 1903, Marie Hayes,
born May 27, 1876, daughter of Joseph M. and
Sarah (Boyle) Hayes, of St. Louis, Missouri.
Children: Thomas Rush, born September 19,
1905; Hayes, October 7, 1906; Walter Knight
Jr., June 30, 1909.
(Ill) Rush Sturges, second son of Howard
Okie Sturges, was born August 19, 1879, in
Providence, Rhode Island. He attended the
University Grammar School in that city, pre
paring for college a't St. Paul's School in Con
cord, New Hampshire. He entered Yale Col
lege and was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1902. After
spending a year in foreign travel, Mr. Sturges
returned to this country and entered Harvard
Law School, from which in due course he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1906. He was admitted to the bar in 1908
at the September term of court and began to
practice in the office of Green, Hinckley &
Allen, attorneys of Providence. In 1910 he
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is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Associa
tion ; Hope Club ; Agawam Hunt Club and the
Rhode Island School of Design. He has been
in the state militia for a number of years and
now holds a commission as first lieutenant of
Battery A, Field Artillery, Rhode Island Na
tional Guard. He is a trustee of the Provi
dence Public Library. In religion he is an
Episcopalian and he is a vestryman of Grace
Church, and treasurer of the board of trustees
of the equipment fund of the Episcopal Dio
cese. He married, January 1, 1908, Elizabeth
Hazard, born April 27, 1884, daughter of Row
land G. and Mary (Pierrepont) (Bushnell)
Hazard (see Hazard and Bushnell lines).
Children: Benjamin Rush, born December 4,
1908; Elizabeth Peace, May 11, 1910; John
Pierrepont, December 19, 1912.
(Ill) Howard Sturges, son of Howard
Okie Sturges, received his early education in
the public schools and fitted for college at
Groton, Massachusetts. He also went to Yale,
from which he was graduated in the class of
1908. Since then he has been studying music
in Paris, France. He is a member of the
board of governors of the Agawam Hunt Club,
member of Yale Almuni Association of Rhode
Island, Turk's Head Club, Noonday Club,
Churchman's Club, and secretary of Play
ground Association of Providence.
(The "Knight Line).
(II) Captain Jonathan Knight, son of Rich
ard Knight (q. v.), lived in Warwick, Rhode
Island, where on April 30, 1678, he was made
freeman. In 1693 two hundred acres of the
Hall and Knight Purchase in Narragansett
was laid out to him, and on March 15, 1694,
he and his wife Hannah sold their house,
orchard and meadow in Warwick to Thomas
Greene Sr. In 1695 he purchased a tract of
land in Machantatack, and two hundred acres
of this was divided off and bounded. This
same year he moved to Providence, Rhode
Island, where in 1704 he was deputy to the
general assembly. In 1704 he was lieutenant
and later captain. He died June 25, 1717.
Children : Hannah, Jonathan, Richard, Rob
ert, mentioned below ; Joseph.
(Ill) Captain Robert Knight, son of Cap
tain Jonathan Knight, was a freeman in 1720
and deputy to the general assembly in 1736.
He died in 1771 and his will was proved the
same year. He left his property to his chil
dren and also bequeathed one thousand pounds
to one grandson. He married Mary Potter,
daughter of John and Jane (Burlingame) Pot
ter, and great-granddaughter of Robert Pot
ter. Robert Potter, with Governor Samuel
Gorton, the first settler of Warwick, and

others, in 1643 resisted the authority of the
Massachusetts colony. They were taken to
Boston by soldiers who besieged them in a
fortified house, and were charged with heresy
and sedition. They were sentenced to be con
fined during the pleasure of the court, and
should they escape from jail, preach their
heresies, or speak against the church or state,
they should die. At the time they were taken,
their wives and children had to take to the
woods, where three women died of exposure;
one of them was the wife of Robert Potter.
Children of Robert Knight : Edward, William,
Robert, mentioned below ; Charles, Joseph,
Mary, Esther, Ruth, Patience.
(IV) Robert (2) Knight, son of Captain
Robert ( 1 ) Knight, was born in September,
1721, died April 18, 1791. He married, Au
gust 29, 1742, Mercy Gorton, born July 4,
1722, died October 1, 1809, daughter of John
and Mercy (Matthewson) Gorton, and great-
great-granddaughter of Governor Samuel Gor
ton, mentioned above ; he was one of the most
prominent men of his time. Children: Mercy;
Zilpha, married, 1755, Nicholas Sheldon;
Mary ; Freelove ; Robert, mentioned below ;
Anne, born 1760, died 1833; married, Decem
ber 27, 1 781, Joseph Potter, born in Cranston,
Rhode Island, August 12, 1757, died Novem
ber 23, 1824; nine children; Alonzo, one of
their children, born July 10, 1800, became Rt.
Rev. Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania,
and married (first) Sarah Maria Nott, daugh
ter of Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D.,
president of Union College. Bishop Alonzo
Potter was father of Henry Codman Potter,
bishop of the diocese of New York.
(V) Robert (3) Knight, son of Robert (2)
Knight, was born June 12, 1750, died July 31,
1823. He served in the revolution during the
entire war in the Captain General's Cavaliers,
the crack company of the state. He served in
the battle of Rhode Island. He was a wheel
wright by trade, as well as a farmer. He
moved from Cranston to Providence, Rhode
Island, some time after 1792, settling at the
corner of what is now Westminster and Bur
gess streets. He lived there the remainder of
his life, known as an upright and honorable
man. He married, 1769, Elizabeth Hammond,
born May 6, 1750, died August 24, 1845,
daughter of Captain Amos Hammond, who
raised and commanded a company of soldiers
during the French and Indian war, and also
commanded them in the revolution ; he fought
at the battle of Crown Point. Elizabeth (Ham
mond) Knight survived her husband over
twenty-two years, and in spite of her extreme
age, retained all her faculties and was quite
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daily for the Scripture, which she was fond of
quoting. She was a religious woman, and
until a few years before her death could read
her Bible without the aid of glasses. She
attended church at the home of Peleg Boss, on
High street (now Westminster), at Provi
dence, and when the Roger Williams Free Bap
tist-Church was organized at the house in 1830,
she became a constituent member. She attend
ed church services regularly as long as she was
able. Robert and Elizabeth Knight had twenty-
two children, born in Cranston, eleven of whom
died in infancy. Children who survived in
fancy: Rebecca, born November 4, 1769; La-
vina, December 8, 1770; Nehemiah, April 13,
1774; Elizabeth, September 15, 1778; Stephen,
mentioned below; Robert, May 22, 1782;
Amelia, January 1, 1784; Celia, May 27, 1786;
Amos, July 24, 1788; Annah, March 1, 1790;
Thomas, April 13, 1792.
(VI) Stephen Knight, son of Robert (3)
Knight, was born in Cranston, Rhode Island,
May 13, 1780, died in Warwick, October 1,
1848. He was a farmer, and for many years
was employed as a farmer by William Sprague,
later working in the employ of Elisha Harris
at Coventry, Rhode Island ; Elisha Harris later
was governor of Rhode Island. He was an
industrious man, but was unable to accumulate
property because of the large size of his fam
ily. He married (first) Esther Burton, (sec
ond) Wealtha Brayton, born April 8, 1794,
died February 16, 1871, daughter of Benja
min Brayton. After her husband's death she
moved to Providence, where she resided the
remainder of her life. During the pastorate
of Rev. Jonathan Brayton, she joined the Cal
vinistic Baptist Church and later transferred to
the Friendship Street Baptist Church, during
the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Bixby. For many
years before her death, her five sons visited
her at her home every Sunday evening. Child
by first wife: Amos. Children by sec
ond wife: Sophia Amelia, born January 11,
1812; Benjamin Brayton, mentioned below;
Jeremiah, April 18, 1816; Mary Briggs, March
18, 1819; Annah, August 15, 1824; Robert,
January 8, 1826; Elizabeth, January 8, 1826,
twin of Robert; Stephen Albert, June 5, 1828;
Dexter Newton, July 16, 1832.
(VII) Benjamin Brayton Knight, son of
Stephen Knight, was born in Cranston, Rhode
Island, October 3, 1813. During his boyhood
he worked on the farm and attended the dis
trict schools until he was sixteen years of age.
In 1831, when he was eighteen, he entered the
Sprague Print Works at Cranston, where he
remained as an apprentice for two years, then
working again as a farmer until 1835. In that
year, when he was twenty-two, he purchased

a small lot of land near the Sprague Print
Works, and moved a small building to that
place from Providence. There he opened a
grocery store which he conducted for five
years. He then moved to Providence, and
with L. E. Bowen, who had been his partner
in Cranston, and Olney Winsor, engaged in
the wholesale grocery business under the name
of Winsor, Knight & Company. After two
years he bought the entire interest in the busi
ness, and in 1847 he took as a partner his
brother, Jeremiah Knight, with the firm name
B. B. Knight & Company. After a time he
also engaged in the flour and grain trade with
D. T. Penniman, with the name Penniman,
Knight & Company, and in a year he bought
out Mr. Penniman, carrying on that business
alone for four years. In 1849 he sold his gro
cery interest to his brother Jeremiah, and
about 1851 sold a half-interest in the grain
business to his brother Robert, purchasing of
Robert, at the same time, a half interest in the
Pontiac Mill and Bleachery. Under the firm
name of B. B. & R. Knight they began what
in time became the highest cotton industry of
its kind ever established. The business in
creased so rapidly that in time they were com
pelled to sell out their interests in other lines,
and devote their energies to the mills alone.
The business started on so small a scale be
came the largest of its kind under one firm.
In 1898 the firm owned under various names
twenty-one cotton mills in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, and employed nearly seven
thousand operatives. Their property consisted
of fifteen villages, and they made millions of
dollars worth of improvements on their prop
erty. The principal mills in Rhode Island are :
The Pontiac Mill and Bleachery at Pontiac;
the Natick Mills at Natick; Royal and Valley
Queen Mills at Riverpoint; Arctic Mill at
Arctic; White Rock Mill at Westerly; Clinton
Mill at Woonsocket; Grand Mill at Provi
dence ; Lippitt Mill at Lippitt ; Fiskeville Mill
at Fiskeville ; Jackson Mill at Jackson. In
Massachusetts: Hebron Mill at Hebronville;
Dodgeville Mill at Dodgeville; Manchaug
Mills at Manchaug; Readville Mill at Read-
ville. The principal product of these factories
has been the famous "Fruit of the Loom" mus
lin. The business has continued to increase as
it increased from the beginning.
Mr. Knight was active in public life as well
as in business life. In 1852 he was elected on
the Democratic ticket to the general assembly,
and in 1872 was chosen representative by the
Republican party, being chairman of the finance
committee during that term. In 1865-66-67 he
was alderman of the sixth ward, and served
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that time. For many years before his death he
was one of the commissioners of the Dexter
donation fund. He was president of the old
Butchers-' and Drovers' Bank from its founda
tion, with the exception of about a year, July
2, 1853, until his death, and he was director
of various insurance companies, being promi
nent in other business institutions also. He
died at his home on Broad street, Providence,
June 4, 1898, and the funeral services were
held at his house. The cotton brokers of the
city closed their places of business during the
hours of the funeral. The Providence Daily
Journal said, June 6, 1898 :
He was one of the leaders among the men who
have developed the cotton manufacturing industry
in this country. His life was that of the typical
American, devoted to business with indefatigable
energy and persistence; and he succeeded, in con
nection with his associates, in building up a manu
facturing property that was the largest of its kind
under one management. He was an upright citizen
and the vast business which he organized and
operated has contributed largely to the prosperity
and wealth of this State. In some sense the world
owes more to the successful organizers of industry
than to any other class.
He married (first) October 2, 1842, Alice
Westcott Collins, daughter of Elizur Collins,
of Johnston, Rhode Island. She died Febru
ary 8, 1850. He married (second) December
3, 1 85 1, Phebe Ann Slocum, born in Pawtuxet,
June 29, 1822, daughter of Abel and Phebe
(Fenner) Slocum. She died October 13, 1906.
She was noted for her generosity, though she
gave so quietly that her benefactions were not
found out. She was the founder of the Chil
dren's Friend Society, known as the Tobey
Street Home, and one of the founders of the
Sophia Little Home. For years she was identi
fied with the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children. Children by first wife:
Plenry, died in infancy ; Mary Wealtha, born
September 19, 1845, died unmarried, August
17, 1870; Walter Brayton, born August 8,
1849, died August 7, 1877. By second wife:
Alice Spring, born December 15, 1853, mar
ried, November 25, 1875, Howard Okie Stur
ges (see Sturges II) ; Henry Eugene, born
June 29, 1856, died December 18, 1862; Ade
laide Maria, born September 7, 1858.

Simon Crosby, the immigrant
CROSBY ancestor, was born in England
in 1608. He embarked for New
England in the ship, "Susan and Ellen," April
18, 1634, with his wife Ann, aged twenty-five
years, and son Thomas, aged eight weeks. He
was a prominent citizen of Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, where he was selectman in 1636 and
1638. He resided at what is now Brattle

Square, near the site of the old Brattle House.
He died in September, 1639. His widow Ann
married (second) Rev. William Thompson, of
Braintree, before 1648, surviving her second
husband, who died December 10, 1668. Thomas
Crosby, believed to be brother of Simon Cros
by, was in Cambridge as early as 1640, resid
ing on the westerly side of Ann street, remov
ing thence to Rowley, Massachusetts. Chil
dren of Simon and Ann Crosby: 1. Thomas,
born February, 1634; graduate of Harvard
College, 1663 ; minister at Eastham, Massa
chusetts. 2. Simon, born at Cambridge, Au
gust, 1637. 3. Joseph, born February, 1638-
39; settled in Braintree, Massachusetts; mar
ried Sarah Brackett.
(I) Luther Crosby, descendant of Simon
Crosby, was born in the vicinity of Albion,
Maine. He was a mill owner and merchant
in Albion. He was of large physique, a promi
nent citizen for many years. In politics he was
a Republican. He married  Getchell.
Children: 1. Jonah, moved to Camden. 2. Al
phonso, married and moved to Manchester,
New Hampshire. 3. Ethelinda, married 
Pray, a farmer of Albion. 4. Sarah, married
 Lancaster, a farmer of Benton. 5.
Martha, married Samuel Fuller, of Exeter and
Waterville, Maine ; he is a farmer of Water
ville. 6. Luther Byron, mentioned below. 7.
Augustus, died at Benton; a mill owner and
farmer ; married Susan Hinds. 8. Atwood,
was a physician at Waterville ; died at Las
Vegas, New Mexico, in 1882; married Lizzie
Hanscom, sister of Lois G. Hanscom, men
tioned below.
(II) Dr. Luther Byron Crosby, son of Lu
ther Crosby, was born in Albion, Maine, 1835,
died at Brownville, May 30, 1908. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
town and at Colby College, in which he was
a student for two years in the class of 1859.
He was for several years a school teacher. He
enlisted in 1861 in the Seventh Maine Regi
ment Volunteer Infantry, and served eleven
months in the civil war. He was promoted to
the rank of captain, but was discharged on ac
count of ill health. He entered Harvard Med
ical School and was afterward a student at
Bowdoin Medical College, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi
cine. He began to practice at Brownville and
continued there throughout his active life. In
early life he was a Republican, afterward a
Democrat. He served on the Brownville school
board, and for four years was United States
pension examiner of the county during Presi
dent Cleveland's administration. He was a
member of Brownville Lodge, Free and Ac
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He married (first) March 8, 1857, Lois G.
Hanscom, born at Benton, Maine, about 1837.
He married (second) Maria Parsons, at Buck-
field, Maine. She died in 1888 at Brownville,
aged fifty-nine years. He married (third)
Helen Wilkins, of Brownville, now living in
that town. Children of Luther Byron Crosby
by first wife: 1. Edgar Herbert, born at Ben
ton, 1859, was killed by a railroad train when
crossing the tracks at Woodfords, Maine, Jan
uary 31, 1898; he taught school at Brownville,
in Monson Academy and in the Deering high
school ; married Hettie E. Carle, of Brown
ville, who died in 191 1. 2. Alice, born at Ben
ton, 1861 ; married Urban Sumner, Williams
burg, Maine, a farmer in that town. 3. Fannie,
born 1862; married Frank S. Hamlet, of
Brownville ; was killed by a fall from a roof,
where he was working, in Gorham, 1908 ; was
a physician ; his widow resides at Saco, Maine.
4. Nathaniel Hanscom, mentioned below. 5.
Lois, born at Benton, 1865 ; married Levi F.
Johnson, of Milo, a photographer, now in the
insurance business at Brownville. Children by
second wife : 6. Minnie A., married Edward
A. Chase, a druggist of Brownville. 7. Luther
Byron, died aged five years.
Deacon David Hanscom, father of Lois G.
(Hanscom) Crosby, was born at Berwick,
Maine, September 16, 1809, died at Benton,
October 30, 1888. His father died when he
was two years old, leaving a family of six chil
dren, of whom he was the youngest. Early in
life he learned the trade of shoemaker and in
1830 he came to Albion, where he followed his
trade. He bought the Eaton Lumber Mill and
conducted it for many years. His plant was
destroyed by fire in 1856, but he built a new
mill on the old site. He bought part of the
Lovejoy farm in 1831, and made his home
there. He was a Republican in politics and
represented his district for two years in the
state legislature. He also held various offices
of trust and honor in the town. At the age of
twenty-five he joined the Baptist church and
he was a deacon for many years. He was a
consistent Christian, kindly and philanthropic.
He married Betsey Guptill, of Berwick. Chil
dren : Sybil; Lois G., married Luther Byron
Crosby; Lizzie, married Atwood Crosby and
died soon afterward; Nathaniel, served in the
army in the civil war and died of typhoid
fever in the service, took part in the battle of
Fair Oaks, was captain of his company; Rob
ert, died at age of four years ; Emily, died
shortly after marriage.
(Ill) Dr. Nathaniel Hanscom Crosby, son
of Dr. Luther Byron Crosby, was born at Ben
ton, Maine, January 17, 1864. When he was
four years old, his parents removed to Brown

ville, where he attended the public schools.
He graduated from the Hanscom Classical
Institute, now the Coburn Classical Institute
at Waterville, Maine, and entered Colby Col
lege, from which he was graduated in 1887
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1891
he received the degree of Master of Arts at
Colby. He studied his profession at the Uni
versity of Vermont, from which he received
the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1891,
graduating with honors. He started to prac
tice at Monson, Maine, and continued for a
period of ten years. Since 1901 he has been
in general practice at Milo, Maine. He is
president of the Piscataquis County Medical
Society and a member of the Maine State Med
ical Society and the American Medical Asso
ciation. In politics he is a Republican. He
was for several years superintendent of schools
of Munson ; for a number of years was a mem
ber of the board of education, and is at pres
ent a health officer of Milo. He is a com
municant of the Methodist Episcopal church;
a member of Onaway Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Monson; of Pleas
ant River Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of Brownville ; of the Independent
Order of Foresters, of Milo, and the Modern
Woodmen of America, of Milo.
Dr. Crosby married, at Monson, Maine, De
cember 24, 1899, Marion Alberta Hiscock,
born July 5, 1878, and educated in the public
schools of Monson and Fort Fairfield, gradu
ating from Monson Academy in 1896. She
then took the one-year course in the State Nor
mal School at Gorham, Maine, and taught
school at Monson for several years. She
joined the Congregational church when fifteen
years old and is now a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church of Milo. She is a
member of Euclid Chapter, Order of the East
ern Star, in which she has held various offices
and of which she is now conductress. She is
also a member of the Woman's Relief Corps,
the Alpha Reading Club and is past noble
grand of Orion Rebekah Lodge, No. 16, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows (see Hiscock
II). Children, born at Milo: Clare Alice,
born January 27, 1903 ; Gustavus Edgar, De
cember, 1904, died the same day ; Luthan Al
bert, May 20, 1909. (The Hiscock Line).
(I) Samuel Hiscock, grandfather of Mrs.
Nathaniel Hanscom Crosby, was born at
Carthage, Maine, died in 1881 at Abbott,
Maine, aged seventy-four years; he was a
farmer at Abbott, whither he removed in 1840;
He married Polly Lernard, Children: 1. Jo
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at Guilford, Maine, January 27, 191 1 ; a mill
worker; married (first) Anne Gordon, of Ab
bott, who died in i860; married (second)
Sarah Guilman, of Abbott, in 1865; she died
in 1913, at Guilford, Maine. 2. Fenderson, a
farmer, died at Abbott ; married Jennie Faunce,
of Abbott. 3. Samuel T., enlisted from Ab
bott in the Eighteenth Regiment Maine Vol
unteer Infantry and was corporal of Company
E, made sergeant in 1863, first sergeant in
1864, second lieutenant in June, 1864, was
killed in battle; unmarried. 4. Rhinda, died
at Abbott; married (first) Samuel Lindsay,
a farmer. 5. Enos, died young. 6. Daughter,
died young. 7. Gustavus Brown, mentioned
below. 8. Jesse, born September 15, 1845, died
at Exeter, New Hampshire, December 10,
1892 ; a shoemaker ; married Susan Ladd, who
resides at Exeter, Maine.
(II) Rev. Gustavus Brown Hiscock, son of
Samuel Hiscock, was born at Abbott, Maine,
February 26, 1843, died at Milo, May 26, 1910.
He attended the public schools and Monson
Academy. He was a teacher in the high
schools of Monson, Greenville and Guilford.
He was for thirteen years a teacher in the
Monson schools. He was an earnest student
and was largely self-educated. He studied for
the ministry and was ordained pastor of the
Congregational church at Fort Fairfield, March
28, 1889. After ten years in this pastorate, he
resigned to accept the pastorate of the church
at Monson. Afterward he was pastor of Con
gregational churches at Blanchard and Abbott.
He was for a number of years one of the trus
tees of the Maine Missionary Society. In
1905 he retired and made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Crosby, at Milo. In politics
he was a Republican. He was a member of
Doric Lodge, No. 149, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, of Monson, and of Euclid Chapter, No.
58, Order of the Eastern Star, of Monson.
He was past commander of Gerry Post, No. 5,
Grand Army of the Republic; member of the
Union Veterans' Union, of Foxcroft. He
served in the civil war in Company E, Twelfth
Maine Regiment Heavy Artillery, in 1862. He
was wounded by a bullet in the thigh in his
first engagement, the battle of Spottsylvania,
May 19, 1863, and incapacitated for further
service. Mr. Hiscock married Clara Octavia Kitt-
ridge, born at Monson, 1847, died there De
cember 10, 1899, daughter of Sylvester B. and
Mary Frances (Bean) Kittridge. Her father
was born at Readfield, Massachusetts, about
1820, died at Monson, about 1850. He was a
farmer. His widow married (second) James
Kollock Whiting, of Readfield; he died at
Portland, Maine, She was a daughter of Al

bert F. Bean, said to be a descendant of Pere
grine White, the first white child born at
Plymouth. Children of Sylvester B. Kittridge :
1. Frank S., born 1841 ; resides at Chandler,
North Dakota, a retired coal dealer ; was in
business in Chicago and at Lincoln, South
Dakota; married Georgia  . 2. Mary
Frances, born 1844; resides at Hudson, South
Dakota ; married George Knight, a well-to-do,
retired farmer. 3. Clara Octavia, married
Rev. Gustavus Brown Hiscock, mentioned
above. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hiscock:
Mildred Alice, born in Monson, in 1869, died
there in 1881 ; Marion A., married Dr. N. H.
Crosby.

 Chase, a descendant of
CHASE Aquila Chase, a sketch of whom
is given elsewhere in this work
with his ancestry in England, was born about
1794, probably in Freeport, Maine, where he
lived, and died about 1869. He was a ship
carpenter and joiner by trade. Children, born
at Freeport : 1. William Emery, a ship car
penter, died at Freeport. 2. Caroline, married
Isaac Lambert, a sea captain. 3. Reuben
Brewer, mentioned below. 4. Thomas, a ship
carpenter and farmer, Yarmouth, Maine. 5.
George, died at New Gloucester, Maine. 6.
Margaret, died at Freeport; married Charles
Soule, a carpenter.
(II) Reuben Brewer Chase, son of 
Chase, was born at or near Freeport, Maine,
August 28, 1834, died at Limestone, Maine,
June 4, 1912. He was educated in the com
mon schools and followed the trade of ship
carpenter in Freeport and Yarmouth, Maine.
In 1862 he removed to Limestone, where he
was a pioneer. He cleared a farm there, and
owned one hundred and sixty acres. In poli
tics he was a Prohibitionist. He was select
man of Limestone for many years, and super
intendent of schools. In religion he was a
Congregationalist. He served in the Twen
tieth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry from
1864 to the end of the civil war. He married
(first) Betsey Ellen Paine, born at Freeport,
1835, died at Limestone, March, 1866. She
was an active member of the Congregational
church. He married (second) Maggie A.
Phair, who died at Limestone, in September,
1881. Children by first wife: 1. Clarence,
born at Freeport, Maine, January 29, 1855,
died at Limestone, December 25, 1881 ; farmer
in Limestone, afterward in Dakota; he died
unmarried in Limestone, Maine. 2. Harry
Alton, mentioned below. 3. Nellie, born at
Freeport, March 1, i860, died at Limestone,
in March, 1882; married Warren A. Long, a
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now living at Caribou ; child, Ethel Long, mar
ried Alfred Noyes, farmer, Limestone. Chil
dren by second wife: 4. Edith May, born at
Limestone, May, 1873 ; married William Elgee,
of New Brunswick, a carpenter. 5. Effie, born
1875, at Limestone ; married Albert E. Nor
ton, of Portland, now of Newton Highlands,
Massachusetts, manager of the Portland Com
pany's elevator department. 6. Rowena, born
at Limestone, 1883, died there in 1890.
(Ill) Harry Alton Chase, son of Reuben
Brewer Chase, was born at Freeport, Maine,
July 25, 1857. His parents removed to Lime
stone, where he attended the public schools
from 1862 to 1873. During his boyhood he
worked with his father on the homestead at
Limestone. After he was twenty-one he went
to Minnesota and Dakota. In 1881 he returned
to Maine and followed farming for a year on
his father's place. He then bought a farm ad
joining his father's and cultivated it for a
period of twenty-five years. He sold it in
1907 and bought another farm of one hundred
and twenty acres in Limestone village. To
this he has added from time to time. He has
taken his sons into partnership under the firm
name of H. Chase & Sons. The firm owns a
thousand acres of land, mostly under cultiva
tion, and also deals in real estate, horses,
wagons, fertilizers, farming implements and
supplies. The firm is well known in this sec
tion and highly successful. Mr. Chase is a
Republican in politics and has for several years
been a member of the school board. Pie is an
active and prominent member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is steward and
trustee. He is a member of Limestone Grange,
No. 272, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he
was master for three years.
He married, at Caribou, Maine, November
5, 1882, Sarah A. Thompson, born at Free
man, Maine, March 3, 1865. When she was
twelve years old her parents removed to Lime
stone, Maine, where she completed her early
education. She is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and a former member of
Limestone Grange, No. 272, Patrons of Hus
bandry, and of the Ladies Aid Society and
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Be
fore her marriage she taught school for seven
terms in Limestone and Caswell, Maine ( see
Thompson III). Children, all born in Lime
stone: 1. Omar C, born October 12, 1883;
graduate of the Limestone high school ; mem
ber of Camp No. 13, Modern Woodmen of
America, of Limestone ; now a partner of
H. A. Chase & Sons; married Maude Libby,
of New Brunswick; children: Alton, born
March 25, 1908; Carroll, October 27, 1910;
Lucian, December 8, 1911. 2. Walter E., born

July 4, 1885; graduate of the Limestone high
school ; member of the Knights of Pythias, and
of the Modern Woodmen of America; part
ner in the firm of H. A. Chase & Sons; mar
ried Katy Candage ; children : Willis, born
February 21, 1910, and Harry, May 23, 191 1,
at Limestone. 3. Harold S., born June 2, 1888;
graduate of the Limestone high school and of
Shaw's Business College of Portland in 1907;
partner in H. A. Chase & Sons ; married Edna
Getchell ; children : Geraldine, born at Lime
stone, September 15, 191 1, and Richard
Getchell, born October, 1914. 4. Hobart, born
October 27, 1910. (The Thompson Line).
(I) John Thompson, of an old state of
Maine family, was born in Bowdoinham,
Maine. He followed farming for many years
in Freeman and Kingfield, Maine, and died at
Freeman. (II) Zaccheus Thompson, son of John
Thompson, was born at Kingfield, Maine, in
181 1, died there February 10, 1869. He was
educated there in the public schools, and fol
lowed farming there all his active life. In poli
tics he was a Democrat. He married Cynthia
Phillips, born in September, 1812, died at
Kingfield, November 29, 1893. Children, all
born at Kingfield: 1. Solomon P., mentioned
below. 2. Henry L., born March 10, 1836, died
at Limestone, August 8, 1907 ; a farmer ; mar
ried Celia Streeter, of New Portland, Maine ;
she is living in Limestone. 3. Alonzo H., born
December 27, 1837, died at Kingfield, Novem
ber 29, 1877; worked in factories in Lowell,
Massachusetts, and followed farming in King-
field. 4. Jacob P., born July 26, 1839, died
February 28, 1841. 5. Levi M., born Febru
ary 5, 1841 ; farmer at New Portland ; married
Alma Phillips, daughter of Davis Phillips, of
Kingfield. 6. Stephen L., born March 21,
1843, died at Kingfield, June 2, 1900 ; married
(first) Mary Lane, of Lowell, (second)
 . 7. Mary Ann S., born September 26,
1845. died at Farmington, Maine, November
17, 1902; married Frank Preston, of Farming-
ton, where he resides. 8. Marshall D. P., born
February 2, 1848; land agent and farmer,
Kingfield; married (first) Annette Knapp,
(second) Sarah  . 9. George W., born
September 6, 1850, died at Kingfield, January
21, 1870. 10. Rufus L., born January 5, 1853,
died young in Kingfield.
(Ill) Solomon P. Thompson, son of Zac
cheus Thompson, was born at Kingfield,
Maine, January 2, 1835, and is now living in
Limestone. He was educated in the public
schools, and has followed farming all his life.
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stone, October 22, 1877. In politics he is a
Democrat. For many years he has been select
man of the town. He has also been town
treasurer and has taken a prominent part in
town affairs. In religion he is a Universalist.
He is a member of the Fort Fairfield Lodge
of Odd Fellows and- Limestone Grange, No.
272, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was
secretary and treasurer for many years. He
married Lydia J. Bradbury, born at Kingfield,
Maine, September 10, 1833, died at Limestone,
April 6, 1905. She was also a Universalist.
Children, all born at Freeman: 1. Arthur,
born February 6, 1859; a farmer of Lime
stone ; married Eldelia Noyes, of Limestone ;
children : Sybil, married Wilmont Libby,
farmer, Limestone ; Elsie, married George
Hamilton, bookkeeper, Limestone; Clyde;
Roy ; Ernest ; Alpha, deceased ; Addie, de
ceased; Josiah; Cecil. 2. Walter, born July 4,
1861 ; superintendent of a city department,
Lowell, Massachusetts; married Alice Worl,
of Dunbarton;_ child, Eva. 3. Sarah A., mar
ried Harry A. Chase (see Chase III). 4.
Minnie May, born June 10, 1867 ; married
George Phair, of Limestone, deputy collector
of customs, farmer; George Phair married
(first) Annie Kelly ; children of George Phair
by first wife : Henry Phair, rural mail carrier,
Limestone, married Aubine Knights ; Lizzie
Phair ; Mark Phair ; children of George Phair
by second wife : Philip, Edward, Sarah, Hallie,
Bennie, Burns (twin of Bennie), Muriel, Mar
jorie and Gladys Phair. 5. Philip, born March
23, 1869 ; motorman, Dorchester, Massachu
setts ; married Theresa Tobin, New York City.

Samuel Getchell and his
GETCHELL brother John came from
England to Salem, Massa
chusetts, in 1636. John settled in Marblehead,
Massachusetts, where many of his descendants
lived for several generations. Samuel settled
in Hampton, New Hampshire, and sold real
estate there in 1644. With his wife Dorcas
and daughter Susannah he settled in Salisbury,
Massachusetts, in 1674, and died there in No
vember, 1697. His wife died there January
12* 1685. Children, born in Salisbury: Sus
anna, married Joseph Norton; Priscilla, born
February 24, 1648-49; Samuel, mentioned be
low. (II) Samuel (2) Getchell, son of Samuel
(1) Getchell, was born in Salisbury, Massa
chusetts, February 8, 1658-59, died there July
7, 1 710. He served in King Philip's war in
Captain Jonathan Poole's company, which was
stationed at Hatfield, Massachusetts, during
the winter of 1676-77. He married, Novem
ber 27, 1679, Elizabeth Jones, of Amesbury.

She died May 24, 1735. Children, born at
Salisbury: Plannah, born January 20, 1681-
82; Moses, May 15, 1682; Elinor, October 3,
1683; Elinor, November 2, 1684; Dorcas, May
8, 1685 or 1686; Mary, April 12, 1687; Sam
uel, twin of Mary, mentioned below ; John ;
Joseph; Elizabeth, married Philip Quimby;
Nathaniel, born 1697, of Haverhill ; Joanna,
May 22, 1699; Robert, July 13, 1702.
(Ill) Samuel (3) Getchell, son of Samuel
(2) Getchell, was born at Salisbury, Massa
chusetts, April 12, 1687. In 1736 he bought
land of Elisha Plaisted, of Berwick. He sold
land, September 28, 1737, and again in 1756.
On the muster rolls of the Massachusetts
archives he is mentioned as father of Dennis,
James and Nathaniel Getchell, all of whom
served in the colonial militia. He served as a
private seven months in a company from Ber
wick in the French and Indian war. He mar
ried Dorcas  . Children : James ; Na
thaniel, born 1720-29; Dennis, mentioned be
low; Nehemiah, 1744.
(IV) Major Dennis Getchell, son of Samuel
(3) Getchell, was born about 1723. He was a
sentinel under . Captain Cargill in 1759 in the
French and Indian war. In 1769 he bought
land at Vassalboro, Maine, of the Kennebec
Proprietors, and on August 27, 1770, land
above Fort Western, now in Riverside. At
the first town meeting in Vassalboro, April 26,
1 771, he was elected first selectman, an office
he held for many years afterward. He was
commissioned captain of the Fifth Company,
Second Lincoln County Regiment, July 23,
1776, and was sent with his company to River-
ton, Rhode Island, in 1777. He was represen
tative to the general court in 1786. His will
was dated August 2, 1790, proved January 6,
1792. He married (first) Nancy  ; (sec
ond) Margaret  . Children: Dennis,
mentioned below; David, born 1757; Elihu,
1760; Edmund, 1762; Abigail, 1765; Reming
ton, 1767; Margaret, 1770; Anstris, 1772; Ly
dia, 1775; Fannie, 1777; Mary, 1780, married
Charles Hayden.
(V) Dennis (2) Getchell, son of Major
Dennis (1) Getchell, was born in 1755. He
married (intention dated September 21, 1795)
Phebe Bragg, of Vassalboro. They had, it
is believed, sons : Dennis, mentioned below ;
George; Franklin, born December 12, 1818;
Lewis ; Lydia.
(VI) Dennis (3) Getchell, son of Dennis
(2) Getchell, according to the best evidence to
be found, was born at Albion, Maine, 1805,
died at Limestone, Maine, March, 1877. He
was a farmer and owned large tracts of land in
Limestone. He was also a mill owner. In
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In religion he was a Unitarian. He married
Drusilla Harmon, born at Peel, Carleton
county, New Brunswick, 1817, died at Lime
stone, Maine, January 2, 1898. She was a
member of the Free Will Baptist church.
Children: 1. Stephen, born August 19, 1835,
in Middle Simons, New Brunswick; a farmer;
served from October 12, 1864, to January 17,
1865, in the civil war, discharged for disabil
ity ; married Lettie Bell, of Mars Hill, now of
Limestone. 2. Daniel, mentioned below. 3.
Thomas F., born at Middle Simons, Decem
ber 1, 1838, died there, young. 4. Nelson,
born at Middle Simons, August 30, 1840, died
at Limestone ; -was a farmer ; married (first)
Belle Burns, of Bridgewater, Maine; (second)
Mary Sloan, of Limestone ; (third) Jane
Getchell, a cousin, now residing in Exeter,
Maine. 5. John, born at Middle Simons, July
1, 1841, died young. 6. George, born June
1, 1844, died there, young. 7. Henry, born
June, 1846, died young. 8. Dennis, born at
Middle Simons, March 8, 1848 ; removed from
Limestone in 1889 to Ferndale, Washington;
a truckman, now a farmer ; married Emma
Stiles, of Pennsylvania. 9. William, born at
Middle Simons, March 30, 1850; married
(first) Florence Chandler, of Woodstock, New
Brunswick; (second) a Miss Bird, of Mis
souri ; resides at Lakeside, Washington, a
farmer. 10. Lydia Victoria, born March 17,
1852, died at Limestone ; married James Edge-
comb. 11. Wallace Irving, mentioned below.
12. David Crosby, born at Blaine, May 6,
1857; a farmer and real estate owner of Lime
stone ; married (first) Ruth Carney, of Beech-
wood, New Brunswick, died at Limestone,
April 28, 1912; (second) Blanche Beckwith.
(VII) Daniel Getchell, son of Dennis (3)
Getchell, was born at Middle Simons, New
Brunswick, November 10, 1836. He resides
at Limestone, a retired farmer. He received
his early education in the public schools of his
native town and of Blaine, Maine, and at the
age of fourteen he left school. He assisted his
father on the homestead until he was twenty-
nine years old. After that he had a farm and
mill in Limestone until he retired from active
labor. In politics he is a Republican. He has
been road commissioner. He is a member of
Limestone Grange, No. 272, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married Susan Bridges, of Mars
Hill. Children: 1. Alice, born March, 1864;
married Jean Nickerson, of Boston, now of
Roslindale, Massachusetts, a lawyer ; children :
Elsie Hazel, married Rudolph Emil, a civil
engineer; Dorothy, Esther and Alberta Nick
erson. 2. Maria, born at Blaine, October 29,
1866; married Lee Goodrich, of Fort Fair
field, a prominent farmer; children: Villa,

Gladys Iola, Harry, Mabel and Susan Good
rich. 3. Lyman, born at Limestone, July 27,
1868; married (first) Mary Boulier, of Fort
Fairfield, died at Portland, 1909, formerly of
Limestone ; children : Hope Elizabeth, born
December, 1895, and Daniel Emery, born
1897; Lyman married (second) Rachel Weath-
erhead, of Gillespie Settlement, New Bruns
wick; farmer of Limestone. 4. Sarah Ade
laide, born at Limestone, 1870, died in 1883.
5. Hope, born at Limestone, January 22, 1872;
married, June 3, 1891, Henry Long, born at
Limestone, May 14, 1870, farmer, Limestone,
Republican, has been on the school board, an
assessor two years, tax collector three years;
member of the Eastern Frontier Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, and the Grange at
Limestone ; children : Laila Susan, born Feb
ruary 29, 1892, teacher of music; married,
June 8, 1914, Leroy Thompson ; Benjamin
Franklin, born January 12, 1894; Hazel
Maria, born January 2, 1896; Leversia Emma,
born January 6, 1898 ; Gretchen Althea, born
May 3, 1909. 6. George Holland, died young.
7. Laura Lulu, died young. 8. Earl Webster,
died young. 9. Zetta Zelma, died young. 10.
Berry Randall, died young. 11. Ernest, born
at Limestone, March 15, 1882; has a farm of
two hundred and ninety acres ; a Republican,
member of £he Methodist Episcopal church
and of Limestone Lodge, and Limestone
Grange; married, October 10, 1900, Melinda
Gray, at Presque Isle, born at Bath, New
Brunswick, August 23, 1880, member of the
Methodist church; children: Daniel, born at
Limestone, March 24, 1902 ; Irving, October
17, 1903; Harry, March 31, 1906; Winifred,
May 26, 191 1 ; Laura, August 12, 1913. 12.
Fern, born at Limestone, June 13, 1884; mar
ried Percy Lannon, of Boston, a lawyer; child,
Frances Lannon, born May 18, 1910, in Bos
ton. (VII) Wallace Irving Getchell, son of Den
nis (3) Getchell, was born at Blaine, Maine,
June 29, 1854, died at Limestone, July 6, 191 1.
His parents came to Limestone when he was
twelve years old and he attended the public
schools of that town and Fort Fairfield. He
had a saw mill and farm in Limestone. The
mill was destroyed by fire in 1910 and the site
was then sold. The farm which his son now
owns comprises two hundred and twenty-five
acres of land, all cleared except ten acres of
woodland. He also owned five hundred acres
in the town of Caswell. He was a Republican
in politics and chairman of the Republican
town committee, superintendent of schools,
selectman, road commissioner. He attended
the Methodist Episcopal church, and was a
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ent Order of Odd Fellows, of Fort Fairfield,
of the Independent Order of Foresters of
Fort Fairfield, and Limestone Grange, No.
272, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, De
cember 25, 1888, in Limestone, Isabelle Mar
Brown, born at Good's Corners, Carleton
county, New Brunswick, March 14, 1862. She
attended the public schools there. She is a
member of the Baptist church, but attends the
Methodist Episcopal church of Limestone.
She was formerly a member of the Grange.
Children of Wallace Irving and Isabelle Mar
(Brown) Getchell: 1. Dennis Fowler, men
tioned below. 2. Edna Mary, born April 8,
1890; married Harold Chase, of Limestone,
partner of his father, Harry A. Chase, farmer
and real estate dealer. 3. Eva Belle, born Feb
ruary 13, 1893; graduate of the Limestone
High School, 1912, student one year in
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. 4.
Helen Mudgett, born April 18, 1896; student
for two years in the Limestone High School,
afterward in the High School at Northboro,
Massachusetts, now at the Sea Pine School,
Brewster, Massachusetts, specializing in music.
George A. Brown, father of Mrs. Getchell,
was born near Fredericton, York county, New
Brunswick, August 24, 1833, died at Parish
Grand Falls, New Brunswick, March 6, 1902.
Pie was a farmer at Good's Corners, later at
Grand Falls. In politics he was a Conserva
tive. He was a member of the Baptist church.
He married Eliza Nevers, born at Sunbury
county, New Brunswick, September 10, 1835,
now of Gillespie Settlement, New Brunswick,
a member of the Baptist church, daughter of
John G. Nevers. Children of George A. and
Eliza (Nevers) Brown: 1. John Nevers
Brown, born November 5, i860; farmer at
Limestone; married Agnes Curry, of Four
Falls, New Brunswick. 2. Isabelle Mar Brown,
married Wallace Irving Getchell, mentioned
above. 3. William Chandler Brown, born
March 25, 1865, merchant at Limestone; mar
ried Clara Durepo, of that town. 4. Norris
Best Brown, born October 19, 1867 ; farmer at
Gillespie Settlement, New Brunswick ; married
Annie Wetherhead, born at Spring Hill, New
Brunswick. 5. Mary Helen Brown, born Sep
tember 7, 1871, married Charles Sawyer, a
farmer and well driller; she resides in North
boro, Massachusetts. 6. Bertha Eliza Brown,
born June 30, 1876; married John Gardner, of
Caribou, Maine; resides at present in Otis
Orchard, Spokane, Washington; has been a
merchant at Caribou.
James Price Brown, father of George A.
Brown, was born in Sunbury county, New
Brunswick, about 1803, died at Jacksontown,
New Brunswick, 1875. He was a farmer in
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Jacksontown for many years. In politics he
was a Conservative. He was a communicant
of the Protestant Episcopal church. He mar
ried Mary Ann Brimmer, born in York county,
New Brunswick, 1807, died in Jacksontown,
1878. She was a member of the Baptist
church. Children of James Price and Mary
Ann (Brimmer) Brown: 1. Hulda Brown,
died at Jacksontown ; married Ephraim Stoko,
a native of England, merchant in Jackson
town. 2. Ruth Brown, died at St. John, New
Brunswick, unmarried. 3. Benjamin Brown,
a farmer, died at St. John, unmarried. 4.
Charles Brown, married Elizabeth Hovey, of
Woodstock, New Brunswick, now of Califor
nia; he was a farmer in Jacksontown. 5. La
vinia Brown, born 1831, died at Woodstock,
New Brunswick; married George Hovey,
brother of Elizabeth. 6. George A. Brown,
mentioned above. 7. Ann Brown, died at
Grafton, New Brunswick; married Thomas
Shields, a farmer, died in Grafton. 8. James
Brown, married Mary Stiles.
William Chandler Brown, father of James
Price Brown, died in York county, Maine. He
was a lieutenant in the British army, and re
ceived a grant of land in New Brunswick. He
married  Price.
John G. Nevers, father of Mrs. George A.
Brown, was born in Sunbury county, New
Brunswick, 1796, died at Jacksonville, New
Brunswick, 1873. He was a farmer at Jack
sonville, a member of the Baptist church. He
married Jane Holly, born in Sunbury county,
1804, died at Jacksonville, 1882. Children of
John G. and Jane (Holly) Nevers-: 1. Mary
Nevers, born August 25, 1823, died at Jack
sonville, 1887; married James Harker, of Ire
land, a farmer. 2. Jane Nevers, born Febru
ary 7, 1825, died at Presque Isle, September,
1898. 3. Charles Nevers, born April 27, 1829,
died in Wisconsin, 1888; married Mary
Spaulding, of Wisconsin. 4. Isabelle Nevers,
died young. 5. Caroline Nevers, born Febru
ary 13, 1833; died at Bridgewater, Maine,
March 21, 1913; married (first) Samuel Ray
mond, of Middle Simons, a farmer; married
(second) Rufus Snow, of Wakefield, New
Brunswick, an Advent minister. 6. Eliza
Nevers, married George A. Brown, mentioned
above. 7. Elizabeth Nevers, born April 24,
1838, died at Middle Simons; married Elijah
Abbott, of Kings county, New Brunswick, a
farmer of Middle Simons. 8. Isabelle Nevers,
born October 16, 1840; married Levi Everett,
of Jacksontown, New Brunswick, and died
there; she resides at Waterville, Carleton
county, New Brunswick. 9. John Nevers,
born at Jacksontown, February 12, 1845, died
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of Richmond, now living on his farm at
Presque Isle. n. Martha Nevers, born at
Jacksontown, January 13, 1849, died aged
three years.
Samuel Nevers, father of John G. Nevers,
died in Sunbury county in 1820 or soon after
ward. He was a Loyalist, born in New Eng
land. He married Isabelle Howard, born in
St. John, New Brunswick, died in Sunbury
county. Both were members of the Presbyte
rian church. Children of Samuel and Isabelle
(Howard) Nevers: 1. Samuel Nevers, born
in Carleton county, a farmer, married Betsey
Merritt, of St. John. 2. Alexander Nevers, a
farmer, married Millicent Peters, of Sunbury
county. 3. John G. Nevers, mentioned above.
4. Maria Nevers, died at Majorville, New
Brunswick; married Whitman Boone. 5.
Eliza Nevers, died at Majorville, New Bruns
wick ; married Edward Miles, of Sunbury,
New Brunswick, a farmer. 6. Ann Nevers,
died at Witlow, New Brunswick; married
Charles Miles, brother of Edward, a farmer.
7. Fannie Nevers, died young.
(VIII) Dennis Fowler Getchell, son of
Wallace Irving Getchell, was born at Lime
stone, Maine, October 18, 1889. He attended
the public schools of his native town, for two
years was a student in the Limestone High
School, and graduated from the Hebron Acad
emy in the class of 1908. He entered the Uni
versity of Maine in the class of 191 3. In his
sophomore year he left on account of the death
of his father, and took charge of the farm.
He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi frater
nity. In politics he is a Republican and he is
chairman of the Republican town committee,
and member of the Republican county commit
tee. He attends the Methodist church, and is
a member of Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, of Limestone, and
of Limestone Grange, No. 272, Patrons of
Husbandry. He is secretary of the Limestone
Board of Trade.

Nicholas Edgecomb, de-
EDGECOMB scended from a junior
branch of the ancient and
distinguished family in Devonshire, England,
came to Blue Point, Scarborough, Maine, as
early as 1639 and opened a plantation on a
tract of fifty acres, rented of Captain Richard
Bonython. He took the oath of submission to
Massachusetts, July 13, 1658. In 1660 he sold
a house and land at Blue Point and removed
to Biddeford, where he was a juror in 1661.
He bought fifty acres of land at Saco, for
merly part of Biddeford, March 20, 1662.
His wife's name was Wilmot. Children,
according to the "Saco Valley Settlements and

Families :" Robert, mentioned below ; John,
v/as selectman of Saco, 1686; Christopher,
living at Scarborough, 1675 ; Michael, was at
Blue Point, 1675; Miles, born 1651; Mary,
married George Page, removed to Marble-
head; Joanna, married  Pyncheon,
Boston. Nicholas Edgecomb, of Plymouth, England,
had a son John, who came to Kittery, Maine,
as early as 1640, removed to New London,
Connecticut, and founded a prominent family.
It is said that his father Nicholas was instru
mental in establishing a settlement on Casco
Bay, and visited it in 1658. It seems probable,
therefore, that this John Edgecomb was a
brother of Nicholas (1), and that Nicholas
was a son of Nicholas of Plymouth.
(II) Robert Edgecomb, son of Nicholas
Edgecomb, was born at Blue Point, Scarbor
ough, Maine, 1656. He settled on the home
stead of his father at Saco and cared for his
mother during her last years. His land was on
Goose Fair brook. He was a member of the
first church of Saco. He married Rachel,
daughter of James Gibbins. Her mother was
Judith, daughter of Thomas Lewis, an orig
inal patentee of Saco. In 1730 share of the
Lewis estate was granted to the heirs of Rachel
and descendants have since lived there. Mrs.
Edgecomb died in 1724, aged sixty-three
years; Mr. Edgecomb died in 1730, aged sev
enty-four years. Both were buried at Rendez
vous Point, near the bank of Saco river. Chil
dren: Robert, born 1695, lived in Biddeford;
Thomas, mentioned below; Judith, married
Abraham Townsend; Mary, married David
Young. (Ill) Thomas Edgecomb, son of Robert
Edgecomb, was born in Saco in 1698. He re
ceived in 1728 a gift of thirty acres of land in
the town .clear of all other grants. He was a
farmer on the Ferry Road. He died October
17, 1778. He married Sarah, daughter of
Pendleton Fletcher, 2d, December 10, 1725.
She died August 16, 1790, aged ninety-two
years. Both were buried in the old Ferry bury
ing ground. Children: Thomas, born Octo
ber 19, 1727, died young; Rachel, May 23,
1730, married, December 29, 1748, Matthias
Redlon; James, mentioned below; Hannah,
September 20, 1735; John, May 25, 1738;
Samuel, August 29, 1739; Gibbins, May 9,
1743; Robert, baptized October 27, 1745.
(IV) James Edgecomb, son of Thomas
Edgecomb, was born at Saco, Maine, Novem
ber 28, 1734. He married Reliance Thomp
son, sister of General Samuel Thompson, of
Brunswick, in 1756. He lived at Edgecomb's
Meadow in Saco. During the Revolution, his
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to visit him, but was himself taken suddenly ill
and died on the journey. His widow married
Joseph Woodman and had by her second hus
band a child, born February 28, 1784. Chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Edgecomb: James,
born July 25, 1757, soldier in revolution;
Thomas, October 19, 1758; Reliance, July 26,
1760; Sarah, April 2, 1762, died young; Lydia,
September 22, 1763, married Uriah Graffam;
John, May 19, 1765; Aaron, May 8, 1767;
Pendleton, April 26, 1770; Ezekiel, June 6,
1773; Daniel, June 11, 1775; Samuel, men
tioned below.
(V) Samuel Edgecomb, son of James Edge
comb, was born at Saco, Maine, June 22, 1777.
He married Miriam Garland, of Buxton, De
cember 18, 1800, and settled at Hollis, opposite
the town house at Salmon Falls, on what is
called Brigadier Hill, in honor of Samuel, who
held a commission as brigadier general and
served in the War of 1812. Children : John,
born January 29, 1802; Joanna, June 1, 1804,
married Daniel Johnson; Salley, July 2, 1806,
married Joseph Rose; Mehitable, never mar
ried ; Elizabeth, married Phineas Glidden ;
James, mentioned below; Lydia, born May 6,
1816, married James Morton, of Buxton, May
25, 1834, and had a large family, she died
January 12, 1887; Samuel, born November 20,
1821, died February 4, 1893, married, October
11, 1843, Ruth L. Hanson, of Hollis, born
June 12, 1822, died March 27, 1874, leaving
five children.
(VI) James (2) Edgecomb, son of Samuel
Edgecomb, was born at Hollis, Maine, De
cember 25, 1814, died at Limestone, April 1,
1876. He was a miller in Hollis, and in Fair
field, Maine, where, he built a mill, and at
Buxton and other places. He finally settled on
a farm in Limestone. He was well educated.
At one time he was a justice of the peace in
Fairfield. In politics he was a Democrat. He
was selectman, assessor, tax collector, member
of the school board. He was active in the
Free Will Baptist church. He married Caro
line B. Seavey, born at Saco, Maine, February
5, 1814, died at Limestone, January 31, 1883.
She was a member of the Advent church.
Children: 1. Joseph Almon, born January 6,
1838, in Fairfield, Somerset county, Maine,
died at Hollis, 1910; was a farmer; married
Carrie Moore, of Hollis. 2. Daniel Owen,
born August 12, 1839, died at Augusta, Maine ;
enlisted in 1861 in the Fifteenth Maine Regi
ment, and served five years in the civil war,
being discharged a year after the end of the
war; was run over by an ambulance and
severely injured during the war; married
Mary Fowler, of Saco. 3. Ariannah. born
April 29, 1843, died at Fairfield, Maine, Janu

ary 19, 1845. 4- James Augustus, mentioned
below. 5. Caroline A., born June 5, 1847, twin
of James Augustus, resides at Fairfield ; mar.-
ried Albert Woodman, a miller.
(VII) James Augustus Edgecomb, son of
James (2) Edgecomb, was born at Fairfield,
Somerset county, Maine, June 5, 1847. When
he was five years old his parents removed to
Saco, Maine, and he attended the public schools
there. When he was seventeen he went with
his parents to Limestone. During his youth
he assisted his father on the farm. In 1882 he
bought a farm in Limestone of his father.
Subsequently his father gave him the southern
half of the homestead. He has one hundred
and thirty-three acres, all cleared except
twelve acres of woodland, situated about a
mile and a half from the village. In politics
he was formerly a Democrat, now a Progres
sive. He is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and a member of Eastern
Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Fort Fairfield, and of Limestone
Grange, No. 272, Patrons of Husbandry.
Mr. Edgecomb married (first) September,
1869, Lydia Victoria Getchell, born at Mid
dle Simons, New Brunswick, March 17, 1852,
died at Limestone, 1878. She was a daughter
of Daniel Getchell. Mr. Edgecomb married
(second) October 14, 1884, in Mapleton, May
Etta Morris, born in California Settlement,
Province of New Brunswick, June 5, 1865,
educated in Limestone public schools, member
of the Protestant Episcopal church and of the
Guild, of Limestone Grange, No. 272, Patrons
of Husbandry, and the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Children of James Au
gustus Edgecomb by first wife: 1. Carrie B.,
born October 30, 1870; married Clarence
Dunn, farmer and butcher, living near Fair
field, Maine. 2. Almond J., born May 30,
1876; former member of the Independent
Order of Foresters and of the Orangemen. 3.
Roscoe G., born December 15, 1878; farmer
of Limestone; married Ida Gillispie, of New
Brunswick ; children : Frank, Raymond, Har
old, Beatrice, Ruth, Glenwood, Walter. 4.
Bernice, born September 20, 1880; now a
farmer at Limestone; married Florence Haw
thorne, of New Brunswick ; children : Horace,
Margaret and a baby. Children of James
Augustus Edgecomb by second wife: 5. Ber
tram, January 20, 1885, died August 7, 1886.
6. Perley Austin, born November 15, 1888;
graduate of the Limestone High School ; mem
ber of Limestone Grange; married Mildred
Edith Bennett, of Sangerville, Maine, April
15, 1914; she was born in Sangerville, April
15, 1890, graduated from Dexter High School,
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school for three years; member of South
Sangerville Grange, No. 365, Woman's Chris
tian Union and of the Christian Endeavor.
7. Selinda Butterfield, born November 15,
1890; graduate of Limestone High School,
student at Presque Isle Normal School; mem
ber of Limestone Grange ; married Lee Brown,
of Caribou; child, Freda, born April 13, 1912.
8. Elva Elo, born September 30, 1892, died
1898. 9. Anna, born July 21, 1903. 10. James
Owen, born May 5, 1908. Mr. Edgecomb's
home was burned in 1898 with no insurance.
A new house was built on the same location,
larger and more modern. The family was liv
ing in the new house four weeks after the fire.
William P. Morris, father of Mrs. Edge
comb, was born in Nova Scotia, March 4,
1833, died at Limestone, March 4, 191 1. He
was a farmer. He enlisted in 1861 in the
Fifteenth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infan
try, and served three years in the civil war. In
politics he was a Republican. He was a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist church and of the
Good Templars. He married Hannah Dru
silla Fowler, born at Presque Isle, April 20,
1840, died at Limestone, October 8, 1902.
She was also a member of the Free Will Bap
tist church. Children of William P. Morris:
1. Frank, born at Presque Isle, December 24,
1861 ; a farmer of Limestone; member of the
Limestone Grange; married Alice Hagerman,
of Centreville, New Brunswick. 2. May Etta,
married James Augustus Edgecomb, men
tioned above. 3. Clinton, born 1867, died aged
fourteen years. 4. Eva, born August, 1869,
died young. 5. Jessie, born 1871, died young.
6. Myrtle, born 1873, died young. 7. William,
born 1874, died aged seventeen years. 8.
Lyman, born at Limestone, February, 1876;
married Jane Doak, of Caribou; resides at
Houlton, Maine. 9. Casper, born 1878, in
Limestone; married Florence Reynolds. 10.
Ivy, born May, 1883, at Limestone; resides
in New York City.
Isaac Morris, father of William P. Morris,
was born in Nova Scotia, about 1794, died in
California Settlement, New Brunswick, about
1881. He was a farmer for many years. He
was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. He married twice. Children of Isaac
Morris by first wife: 1. William P., men
tioned above. 2. Calvin, died at Edmundston,
Maine; was a farmer. 3. Margaret, died at
Limestone ; married William McDougal, a
farmer, Limestone. 4. Amelia, died at Presque
Isle; married Washburn Packard, a farmer,
who died at Presque Isle. 5. Jane, died at
Presque Isle ; married Daniel Johnson, farmer,
Presque Isle. Children of Isaac Morris by
second wife: 6. Randolph, farmer, Califor

nia Settlement ; married Eunice Shorey, now
living there. 7. Lerancy, married George
Cook, a farmer ; resides at Vall's Mills,
Presque Isle, Maine.

Prominent among the younger
PELLETIER members of the medical pro
fession, resident in Milli-
nocket, Maine, is Dr. Ludger Irene Pelletier,
who has a thoroughly established practice and
a wide acquaintance, and his successful career
illustrates what one may accomplish who is
actuated by an honest, manly purpose and a
determination to make the most of his oppor
tunities and ability.
(I) Cyril Pelletier, grandfather of Dr. Pelle
tier, was born in St. Basil, New Brunswick,
in 181 5, died there in 1885. He acquired
a practical education in the schools of his
native place, and during his active career was
a blacksmith and farmer, conducting his oper
ations in the place of his birth, and by pru
dence and thrift was enabled to provide a good
home for his family, which consisted of six
children, all born in St. Basil, but probably not
named in order of birth: 1. George, deceased
resided near Bathurst, N. B. ; had an official
position with the Intercolonial Railroad. 2.
Cyprian, resides at St. Basil; a farmer. 3.
Flora, married D. Martin; resides in St. Basil.
4. Remi, died at St. Francis, Maine ; operated
a saw mill and farm. 5. Joseph, was a priest
in St. Louis, New Brunswick, now retired;
resides in St. Basil. 6. Thomas Henry, of
whom further. The father of these children
was a communicant of the Roman Catholic
Church, and a Liberal in politics.
(II) Dr. Thomas Henry Pelletier, father of
Dr. Pelletier, was born near Edmonston, New
Brunswick, October 17, 1844. He was a stu
dent at Quebec College, from which institution
he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
and later matriculated in Laval University,
Quebec, from which he received the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He practiced his pro
fession in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, for a
number of years, and then removed to Van
Buren, Maine, where he is now retired, hon
ored and esteemed by all who come to him
for alleviation of pain or for counsel. For
one year during the civil war he assisted Dr.
Currier, who attended to the needs of the
soldiers in the city of Philadelphia, and thus
acquired a valuable experience which proved
useful to him in his subsequent career. He is
a communicant of the Roman Catholic church,
and a Democrat in politics. He married Mel-
vina Chenard, born in New Brunswick, 1847,
and their children, all born in Van Buren|
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J. A. Pineau, from River de Loup, Quebec, a
physician of prominence, who died in Water
ville, Maine, where he practiced his profes
sion; she resides in Montreal. 2. Wilbrod,
born 1872, died in 1905; was a merchant; un
married. 3. Alma, born 1873; married L. V.
Thibodeau, from Grand Isle, Maine, an attor
ney; they reside in Van Buren, Maine. 4.
Annie, born 1875; a nun; was in. Mexico until
1912 when she went to Austria, Hungary. 5.
George, born 1877; a foreman in a factory;
married Laura Belanger, from Van Buren,
Maine; they reside in Lawrence, Massachu
setts. 6. Joseph, born 1879; a merchant; mar
ried Lizzie Michaud, from Kingman, Maine;
they reside in Van Buren, Maine. 7. Helen,
born 1881 ; married Louis W. Chaput, from
Montreal, where they reside; he is a grocer.
8. Ludger Irene, of whom further. 9. Louis,
born 1885 ; a priest at St. Mary's College, Van
Buren, Maine. 10. Rosalie, born 1890; resides
with parents.
(Ill) Dr. Ludger Irene Pelletier, born in
Van Buren, Maine, December 24, 1883, at
tended St. Mary's College, Van Buren ; Sul-
pician College, Montreal, from which he grad
uated in May, 1902, with degree of Bachelor
of Arts ; Laval College, Montreal, from which
he graduated in 1906 with degree of Doctor of
Medicine. He lost no time in entering upon
the active practice of his chosen profession,
and it soon became evident to the medical fra
ternity and to the community at large that he
was a man of skill, ability and tireless energy,
which, coupled with his high character as a
man, would win for him merited distinction
in his line of work. For the first three and a
half years he practiced in Van Buren, achiev
ing a certain degree of success, and in the fall
of 1909 removed to Millinocket, where he now
resides, and where he has built up an extensive
and lucrative practice, which is steadily in
creasing. He devotes himself to his work witrT
conscientious zeal, takes a personal interest in
each case brought to his notice, and therefore
merits the success which has attended his
efforts. He is a Democrat in politics, a com
municant of the Roman Catholic church, and
a member of Council No. 680, Knights of
Columbus, in which he serves as medical ex
aminer. Dr. Pelletier married, October 19, 1908, in
Madawaska, Josephine Pelletier, born in Mada
waska, Maine, January 11, 1890, daughter of
Joseph and Edith (Cyr) Pelletier, and grands
daughter of Cyprien Pelletier. Joseph Pelle
tier was born in St. Basil, 1870, has followed
the occupation of farming throughout his
active career, is a Roman Catholic in religion,
and resides in St. David, Maine. He married

Edith Cyr, who died in St. David, 1901. Their
children: 1. Josephine, wife of Dr. Pelletier.
2. Edmund, born 1892. 3. Anna, born 1893;
resides in Van Buren. 4. Thomas, twin- of
Anna; resides with father. 5. Helen, born
1895; resides with father. 6. Henry, born
1897; attends St. Mary's College, Van Buren.
7. George, born 1899; resides with father. 8.
Emile, born 1901 ; in office with Dr. Pelletier.

This family, represented in the
WHALEN present generation by Carl
William Whalen, proprietor of
a well equipped pharmacy in Millinocket,
Maine, was founded in Ireland some centuries
ago, his forebears being men of energy and
enterprise, transmitting these characteristics
to their descendants, who are among the sub
stantial citizens of this great nation.
(I) Dennis Whalen, the progenitor of this
branch of the family, was born in county
Queens, Ireland, in 1799, died in Miramichi,
New Brunswick, Canada, 1867. He was reared
and educated in his native land and remained
there until the year 1831, when he emigrated
to Canada, that land of promise, and located
in the town of Nelson, Miramichi, where he
purchased a farm which he cleared and cul
tivated, and on which he resided for the re
mainder of his days. Some years prior to his
emigration he married Catherine Mahar, born
in Tiniaho, Ireland, 1794, died in Canada, 1861,
and they had ten children, the first two named
born in county Queens, Ireland, and the re
mainder in town of Nelson, Canada : 1. Daniel,
born 1828, died in, Woodville, Maine ; unmar
ried; was a general workman. 2. John, born
1830, died in town of Douglas,, Miramichi ; he
was a riverman ; married Maggie Kirk, also
deceased. 3. Mary, born 1832, died in Nelson ;
married Dennis Kirk, born in Nelson, now de
ceased, who was a government lumber sur
veyor. 4. Michael, born 1834, died in, town
of Nelson; was a farmer and postmaster; mar
ried Catherine Hutchinson, of Nelson, where
she now resides. 5. William, born 1836, died
in Lincoln, Maine ; was a general workman ;
married a Miss Hamilton, of New Brunswick,
Canada ; she now resides in Lincoln, Maine.
6. Catherine, born 1838; married Richard
Burk, of Prince Edward Island, now deceased;
he was a farmer; she resides in town of Nel
son. 7. Patrick W., of whom further. 8.
Dennis, born 1842, died in Wisconsin, unmar
ried; he was a lumberman. 9. Edward, born
1844; resides in California; a general work
man ; married Mrs. Costello, a widow. 10.
Peter, born 1846; has a ranch out west.
(II) Patrick W. Whalen, son of Dennis and
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city of Quebec, Canada, March 17, 1840. He
was educated in the public schools of Quebec,
and later learned the trade of carpenter, which
was his occupation throughout the entire period
of his active business career, and by hard labor
and ceaseless activity he amassed a com
petence for his declining years, and is now
(1913) enjoying a period of rest, the natural
sequence to a life of toil. He resides in Milli
nocket, where he is held in the highest esteem
by his friendis and neighbors. He is a com
municant of the Roman Catholic church. He
married Anne Milea, born on Prince Edward
Island, 1852, died in Winn, Maine, 1892. Chil
dren: 1. Ellen, born in Winn, December 21,
1874; married George Galvin, of Bangor,
Maine, now proprietor of a lunch wagon in
Millinocket. 2. John E., born in Winn, Janu
ary 10, 1876, died February 4, 1876. 3. Cath
erine A., born in Winn, January 10, 1876,
twin of John E., died January 25, 1876. 4.
Peter, born in Winn, December 2, 1877, died
August 9, 1878. 5. Mary E., twin of Peter.
6. Patrick E., born in Winn, February 13,
1879; resides in Bangor, Maine; unmarried;
superintendent of the outside work of the
Great Northern Paper Company; veteran of
the Spanish-American war, enlisting from Lin
coln, Maine, with Steve Love joy, they being
the only ones who enlisted from that city;
went to Chickamauga. 7. Katherine, born- in
Winn, July 4, 1880 ; married Edward Callinan,
of Bangor, a clerk for the Great Northern
Paper Company; they reside in Bangor. 8.
Anne, born in Winn, September 5, 188 1 ; mar
ried Harry Rush, of Millinocket, where they
reside ; he is a member of the firm of Rush
Bros. 9. John A., born in Winn, April 8,
1884, died there, August 9, 1884. 10. Clemen
tine, born in Winn, May 1, 1886, died in in
fancy. 11. Clara, twin of Clementine, died in
infancy. 12. Carl William, of whom further.
(Ill) Carl William Whalen, youngest child
of Patrick W. and Anne (Milea) Whalen, was
born in Winn, Maine, December 9, 1889. His
parents removed to Lincoln, Maine, when he
was three years old, and seven years later re
moved to Millinocket, and his education, was
obtained in the public schools of both places,
completing his studies in the high school of
Millinocket in 1906, where he took special
course in chemistry, anatomy and the classics.
From 1903 to 1907 he worked in Heebner's
drug store in Millinocket, after school hours
and evenings and during his vacation period,
this being the profession which he chose for his
life work, deeming it best suited to his tastes
and inclinations. In the latter named year he
went to Portland, Maine, and pursued a course
of study in pharmacy until 1909, in, which year

he passed the examination in Augusta, Maine,
and was admitted to practice. From Novem
ber, 1909, to February, 1910, he spent in the
woods of Maine in order to recuperate his
health which had been somewhat impaired by
his work and study together, and the beneficial
air of that section proved the tonic he needed.
In March, 1910, he took charge of Heebner's
drug store, serving thus for six weeks, and at
the expiration of this period of time accepted
a position at the prescription counter of Theo
dore Metcalf's drug store in Boston, Massa
chusetts, where he remained until November,
1910. He then went as a registered pharmacist
with Mr. Johnston, of East Millinocket, he not
being a registered pharmacist, and remained
with him until the summer of 191 1, when he
again sought rest and recreation in the woods
of Maine, and upon his return entered the em
ploy of Mr. Small, of North East Harbor,
Maine. In November, 191 1, he again returned
to Millinocket and consummated the purchase
of Warren's drug store from Mr. E. J. War
ren, the owner of the building, on December
16, 191 1, and on January 16, 1912, he began
operating the store on his own account. There
is only one other store of a similar character
in Millinocket, hence Mr. Whalen is enjoying
an extensive patronage, his store being well
supplied with all things necessary for the com
pounding of prescriptions, and in addition they
carry a full line of toilet articles and other ad
juncts of a perfectly appointed drug establish
ment. Mr. Whalen is a Roman Catholic in
religion, an Independent in politics, a social
member of the Knights of Columbus, St. Mar
tin of Tours Council, of Millinocket, a mem
ber of the Maine Pharmaceutical Association,
and a stockholder in the United Drug Com
pany of Boston.
Mr. Whalen married, June 4, 1912, in St.
Martin of Tours Church, Millinocket, the cere
mony being performed by Father Reilly, Mabel
B. Smart, born in Kingman, Maine, January
25, 1888, daughter of Alexander C. and Fran
ces (Pelkey) Smart. Mrs. Whalen was edu
cated in the public schools of Madison and
Montague, Maine, and is a member of the
Roman Catholic Church. Mr. and Mrs.
Whalen have two children : Carl William Jr.,
born June 7, 1913; Jeanette, born July 24,
1914. Mr. Smart was born in the province of
Quebec, June 17, 1855. He is a merchant of
Millinocket, an Independent in politics, a mem
ber of the Roman Catholic church, St. Martin
of Tours Council, Knights of Columbus, of
Millinocket, and the Holy Name Society. He
married Frances Pelkey, born in the province
of Quebec, March -23, i860. Children: 1.
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1878; married James Bealear, of Montague,
Maine, assistant superintendent in paper mill ;
resides in Madison. 2. Thomas, born in King
man, August 30, 1880; a carpenter; married
Ellen Quinn, of Baltimore, Maryland ; resides
in Baltimore. 3. Alexander, born in Kingman,
April 20, 1882; a merchant in Millinocket;
married Lottie Farrell, of Van Buren, Maine.
4. Elizabeth, born in Kingman, July 16, 1884;
married Edward Sheehan, of Bangor, Maine,
who is assistant superintendent at Pulp MilL
East Millinocket. 5. Mabel B., born in King
man, January 25, 1888, wife of Carl W.
Whalen. 6. Maude, born in Montague, De
cember 29, 1890; married Arthur Nadeau, of
Fort Kent, Maine, an, attorney ; they reside in
Fort Kent. 7. George, born in Montague, July
6, 1896; a student in St. Mary's College, Van
Buren. Alexander C. Smart was a son of
John Smart, born in the province of Quebec,
1805, died there, 1907, at the advanced age of
one hundred and two years. He was a farmer
in his native place all his active life, and a
Roman Catholic in religion. He was the father
of two other children, namely: Michael, re
sides in Glenburn, Maine, a farmer, and Vir
ginia.

The Cochrane family traces
COCHRANE its descent from Ayr, in
Ayrshire, Scotland., The
name is spelled variously Cofran, Cofren,
Coghran and Cochran. Among the signers of
a petition to Governor Shute of Massachu
setts, asking from the North of Ireland, March
26, 1718, for a grant of land, are John, An
drew, James, John, William and B. Cochran.
William was an original proprietor of Lon
donderry, New Hampshire, in 1722, and John,
Peter and Andrew also are found there, the
Antrim branch of the family being descended
from the first John. This surname is spelled
Cofran, Cofren and Cochrane, as well as
Cochran. (I) Deacon John Cochran, the immigrant
ancestor of this branch of the family, settled
in Londonderry and was a prominent man and
a deacon of the Presbyterian church. He mar
ried - — ¦  . Children : James, mentioned be
low ; John, married (first) Mary McHard,
(second) Margaret Owens ; Ninian.
(II) James Cochran, son of Deacon John
Cochran, was living in Pembroke, New Hamp
shire, in 1750. He married  . Children :
Joseph, mentioned below ; William, born 1740;
James, born 1743; Samuel; John, married
Joanna Gilman.
(Ill) Lieutenant Joseph Cofran, son of
James Cochran, was born in 1740, probably
in Pembroke, New Hampshire. He spelled

his name Cofran. He lived in Pembroke on
the fifth range, south of the John M. Kimball
place. He died in Goshen, March 20, 1816.
He served in the war of the revolution in Cap
tain William Barron's company, out of Colonel
Daniel Moore's regiment, mustered July 22,
1776. (Page 358, New Hampshire rolls, book
I). He married Margaret Murray, born in
1740, died August 17, 1830. Children, born in
Pembroke: Robert, born November 1, 1764;
James, mentioned below; Samuel, born June
3, 1771 ; Benjamin, born 1779; Betsey, married
John Currier; Margaret, born 1783; Sally,
married Joseph Smith ; Mary, married — ¦ — —
Chamberlain; Susanna, married Enoch Blood.
(IV) Rev. James (2) Cochran, son of Lieu
tenant Joseph Cofran, was born in Pembroke,
New Hampshire, March 20, 1767, died March
27, 1817, at Vienna, Maine. He was a farmer
and a Methodist Episcopal minister in Vienna.
He preached in the neighboring towns as well
as in Vienna. He married Ruth Whittier,
born in Redfield, Maine. She married (sec
ond) Frances Hubbard, of Fayette, Maine.
She was born July 28, 1773, died September
23, 1856, at Vienna. Children, born at Vienna:
Polly, born November 10, 1794, died Septem
ber 24, 1800; Nathaniel, born- June 15, 1796,
married Sally Greeley, of Mt. Vernon, Maine,
died January 24, 1879 ; Mercy, born August
31, 1798, married William Brier; Levi, men
tioned below; Sarah, born January 30, 1804,
married Ansel Wood; Thomas Jefferson, born
January 28, 1807, married Ruth Kimball;
Lewis B., born January 7, 181 1, died unmar
ried,, May 8, 1837; Mary P., born August 15,
1815, married Peleg F. Pike, of Fayette, who
lived in Wayne, Maine, and attained the re
markable old age of one hundred years and
some months.
(V) Levi Cochrane, son of Rev. James
Cochran, was born in Vienna, Maine, March
10, 1802, died in Fayette, Maine, September
20, 1865. He received a common school edu
cation at Vienna, and was a farmer in Fayette
all his life. In politics he was at first a Whig
and later a Republican, and he was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He mar-
ried'Alice C, Furber, born at Rochester, New
Hampshire, August 9, 1804, died at Summers-
worth, New Hampshire, September, 1877. She
was daughter of Richard Furber, who was born
probably at Rochester, and died there before
she was born ;*he was a farmer, and married
Alice Furber, a distant relative, who died in
Rochester; their children were: i„ Nicholas,
tailor, married a Miss Miller, and died in New
York City. 2. John, died at Bunker Hill, Illi
nois; farmer. 3. Alice C, married Levi Coch
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miller; married Olive Hussey. 5. Rosamond,
died at Bunker Hill, Illinois ; married Richard
Nutter. 6. Mary, died at Newton, Massachu
setts; married Richard Sykes, of England,
who did fine drawing in woolen mills. 7.
Elizabeth, died at Summersworth ; married
Isaac Chandler, who married (second) Char
lotte M. Cochran. 8. Miranda, died in Sum
mersworth ; married Allan Fisk, who owned a
machine shop. Children of Levi and Alice
(Furber) Cochrane: 1. James Brier, men
tioned below. 2. Angeline E., born August 13,
1835, died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1883,
unmarried. 3. Charlotte M., born July 26,
1837; married Isaac Chandler, mentioned
above, superintendent of machinery in cotton
mill; she lives in Melrose, he is deceased. 4.
Charles W., born May 31, 1842; married Ellen
Colesworthy, of Chelsea; she lives at Maiden,
Massachusetts, he was salesman in a wholesale
store. (VI) Dr. James Brier Cochrane, son of
Levi Cochrane, was born in Fayette, Kennebec
county, Maine, March 23, 1833. He received
his early education there in the common schools
and at Kent's Hill Seminary. He entered Bow
doin College, from which he was graduated in
the class of 1861 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. He was a member of the Delta Ep-
silon fraternity. He began to study medicine
at the Portland School for Medical Instruction
and spent a year in the United States Marine
Hospital, under Dr. Fessenden. He afterward
took a course of medical lectures at the Maine
Medical School at Brunswick. He then be
came a student at the Albany Medical College,
from which he was graduated with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in 1864. He began
immediately to practice at Chelsea, Massachu
setts., Soon afterward he went to St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he practiced for six months.
He then located at Cottage Grove, Minnesota,
and remained there until 1873, when he came
to Dover, Maine, and has continued to prac
tice up to the present time. He bought a farm,
on part of which he makes his home. Some
of the farm has been sold for building lots.
For many years he was a staunch Republican,
and he walked fifty miles to vote for Abraham
Lincoln for President. He is now a Progres
sive in politics. He has been health officer of
Dover since 1885, and was United States pen
sion examining surgeon from 1882 to 1893.
He is a trustee of Foxcroft Academy. He at
tends the Congregational church. He is a
member of the Piscataquis County Medical
Society, the Maine State Medical Society, the
Minnesota State Medical Society, of which he
was a charter member. He is one of the in

corporators of the Piscataquis Savings Bank
of Dover.
Dr. Cochrane married, February 19, 1865,
in Dover, Elizabeth Merrill Cochran, born at
Dover, August 23, 1836 (see Cochran V). She
was educated at the Foxcroft Academy and the
Gorham Female Seminary. She is a member
of the Congregational church and is a charter
member of Dover Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Cochrane
have no children. (The Coehran Line).
The line of Elizabeth Merrill Cochran, who
married Dr., James Brier Cochrane, is the same
for the first three generations, as his own,
namely: Deacon John Cochran (1), James
Cochran (II), and Lieutenant Joseph Cofran
(HI)- (IV) Robert Cochran, son of Lieutenant
Joseph Cofran, and brother of Rev. James
Cochran, was born in Pembroke, New Hamp
shire, November 1, 1764, died January 3, 1844,
in Vienna, Maine. He was a farmer and also
owned a mill. He kept a hotel in Vienna. He
served in the revolution, and it was through
his services that Mrs. James B. Cochran gained
her membership in the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution., He married (first) Elizabeth
Merrill, of Vienna, born 1776, died January
28, 1801. He married (second) May 26, 1802,
Sarah Gower, of Farmington, Maine. She was
born in 1779, died in 1865. Children by first
wife: 1. Benjamin, born November 15, 1797;
married Hannah Stevens ; killed by a fall, June
28, 1847. 2. Sewall, mentioned below. 3.
Louisa Betsey, born January, 1801, died young.
Children by second wife: 4. John G., born
1803; married Catharine Stockbridge. 5.
Samuel, born March 26, 1804; married Mary
Cloudman. 6. Jeremiah, born 1806; married
Caroline Hall; died 1884. 7. Louise, born
July 1, 1809; married John L. Philbrick. 8.
Calista, born June 15, 1812; married Rev.
George W. Childs. 9. Fidellis, born July 17,
1815; married William W. Lowell, merchant
in Dover. 10. Ann Maria, born 1817 ; married
Joseph C. Whitman; died July 18, 1893. 11.
Charles H., born August 26, 1819; married
Abigail Greeley ; died in California, 1894. 12.
Julia Ann, born December 29, 1825; married
James M. Woodman, 1856; died in Cape Eliz
abeth, Maine.
(V) Sewall Cochran, son of Robert Coch
ran, was born June 15, 1799, in Vienna, Maine,
died in Dover, Maine, July 12, 1884. He re
ceived a common school education in Vienna,
and was a miller. He settled in Dover in 1828,
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was a Whig and later a Republican. He mar
ried- Abigail Crowell, born in New Sharon,
Maine, November 15, 1801, died July 12, 1874,
in Dover. Children, born in Dover: 1. Perley
Sewall, born February 7, 1828, died August
31, 1828. 2. Henry Sewall, born February 11,
1830, died in Foxcroft, January, 1913; was a
forty-niner, going across the Isthmus and re
maining in California three years, was success
ful, returned to Dover and was a farmer ; mar
ried (first) September 7, 1854, Marinda Cut
ter, (second) August 2, 1877, Hattie M.
Greene. 3. Elizabeth Merrill, born August
23, 1836; married Dr. James Brier Cochrane
(see Cochrane VI). 4. Chauncey Newton,
born June 15, 1843; married, March 20, 1869,
Esther J. Drake ; died in Bangor, 1903 ; rail
road mail agent; children: Harry Walter,
born April 13, 1870; Wilbur Sewall, born Au
gust 15, 1873.

The early records usually have
KEYES this surname spelled Key, but the
present spelling is generally
Keyes. The spelling Keay was also in use.
(I) John Key, the immigrant ancestor, set
tled before 1657 in Dover, New Hampshire.
In 1667 he was living in the adjacent town of
Berwick, Maine. He took the oath of fidelity,
July 19, 1669. The name of his first wife is
unknown. He married (second) Sarah, widow
of Jonathan Nason and daughter of Reynold
Jenkins. His will was dated April 13, 1710,
and proved October 30, 1718. He and his son
John were prisoners at Quebec in 1695, having
been captured by the Indians. Children:
James, killed by the Indians about 1690 ; John,
mentioned below; Abigail, captive in Canada,
March 5, 1710-11; Mary, married  —
Wentworth ; Hannah, married, July 7, 1708,
John Haines ; Elizabeth, born 1673, married,
January 3, 1694, Walter Abbot.
(II) John (2) Key, son of John (1) Key,
married Grizzel, daughter of Peter Grant. She
was baptized April 15, 1703. His will was
dated June 18, 1736, proved December 20,
1737. He bequeaths to wife Grizzel and the
following children: 1. James, born November
18, 1697 (not named in the will). 2. John, No
vember 22, 1699, died in 1779; married Char
ity, daughter of John and Charity Hooper ;
children, baptized at South Berwick, as fol
lows: Charity, October 26, 1729, died- young;
James, August 9, 1730, died young; John,
March 18, 1732-33 ; Grizzell, June 23, 1737,
married, 1757, James' Hamilton; James, Janu
ary 18, 1740; Betsey, November 20, 1748., 3.
Mary, born December 15, 1701 ; married Moses
Tibbetts, March 18, 1724-25. 4. William, men

tioned below. 5. Peter, died June 18, 1769.
6. Abigail.(Ill) William Key, son of John (2) Key,
was born February 4, 1703, at Berwick, Maine.
He married Mary Hodsdon. Children, bap
tized at South Berwick : John, mentioned be
low ; Daniel, June 24, 1748; Ann, January 10,
1741-42; Mary, February 26, 1743-44, mar
ried Aaron Chick; Hannah, March 23, 1745-
46, married Nathaniel Guptil.
(IV) John (3) Key, son of William Key,
was baptized at South Berwick, Maine, Feb
ruary 17, 1739-40. He married, April 9, 1767,
Mehitable Early.
(V) William (2) Key or Keys, son of John
(3) Key, lived at Berwick, Maine, and per
haps later in life at Wolfboro, New Hamp
shire. He died at Corinth, Maine, in 1838.
He was a farmer. Love Key, probably a
brother, married, January 18, 1796, at Wolf
boro, Molly Fogg, of Berwick. The records
of marriages at Wolfboro show also that Peter
Key married, December 23, 1799, Betsey Cole
man ; Ezekiel Key married, October 30, 1822,
Elizabeth Fay ; Bradbury Keys married, Janu
ary 20, 1833, Betsey Whitehouse. William
Key or Keys had sons : John, mentioned be
low; Lewis B., married, 1832, at Wolfboro,
Hannah Knox.,
(VI) John (4) Keys or Keyes, son of Wil
liam Key or Keys, was born at Wolfboro, New
Hampshire, August 18, 1803. He attended the
public schools of his native town, and in 1836
removed to Stetson, Maine, where he bought
a farm. He was a pioneer and cleared his
own farm there. In politics he was a Demo
crat. He was a consistent member of the
Christian church. He married  Mar-
den, born in New Hampshire, died at Stetson.
Children: 1. William, born at Wolfboro, 1828,
died at Concord, Maine, 1886; he was a
farmer in Corinth; married Jane Bean, of
Corinth ; children : Orlando, Carrie and Delia,
who is now living in Corinth. 2. Elvira, born
1830, at Wolfboro, died at Stetson, 1874; mar
ried Merrill Hersey, of Stetson, a farmer ;
children : Drusilla Hersey, married Emory
Robinson, resides with her daughter, Mrs. W.
A. Frey, of Bangor; Elias Hersey, farmer of
Stetson ; Nathan Hersey, owns the homestead.
3. George L., mentioned below. 4., Lydia, born
1834, at Wolfboro; married Samuel Tay, of
Levant, Maine, a farmer ; children : William,
Lucy Ann, Ella Tay. 5., John, born 1836, at
Stetson, died at Levant, farmer, unmarried.
6. James, born 1838, at Stetson, died at Levant ;
married Ella Allen, who is now living in Cali
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Keys or Keyes, was born at Wolfboro, New
Hampshire, 1832, died at Stetson, Maine,
March, 1897. He came with his parents to
Stetson in 1836 and became a farmer in that
town, succeeded in time to the homestead of
his father. He attended the Union church.
In politics he was a Democrat. He married
(first) Rosetta Sanborn, born at Newport,
Maine, died in 1874, at Stetson. He married
(second) Ellen Abbott, born at Stetson, 1849,
and is now living in that town. She attends
the Union church, and is a member of the
Stetson Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
Thomas Abbott, her father, was born in York,
Maine, 181 1, died at Exeter, Maine, 1903. He
came to Stetson when a young man and fol
lowed farming there. In politics he was a
Democrat.. He married Elizabeth Pease, born
at Exeter, died at Stetson. Children of
Thomas Abbott, born at Stetson : 1. John, born
1841, died at Newport, Maine, a farmer; mar
ried Almira  . 2. Irene, born 1843, died at
Stetson ; married William Davenport, who was
a soldier in the civil war. 3. Annette, born
1845 ; married Dr. Charles Robinson, of New-
burg, Maine ; she resides at Stetson. 4. Olive,
born 1847, died at Newport, Maine; married
William Randlett, of Newport, a retired
farmer; children: Roscoe, of Windham, Fred,
of Newport, Belle, of New Hampshire, and
Nina, of Detroit, Maine. 5. Ellen, married
George L. Keyes, mentioned above. 6. Charles,
born 185 1 ; resides at Wenham, Massachusets ;
has charge of the Pingree estate; was a sol
dier in the civil war; unmarried. 7. Wesley,
born 1853, died at Stetson, unmarried; a school
teacher and afterward a farmer. 8. Frank,
born 1856; a farmer, died unmarried at Stet
son. 9. Preston, born 1859, died at Stetson, a
farmer; his wife now resides at Newport,
Maine; children: Charles, a farmer of New
port; Clarence, a farmer of Newport ; Maurice,
who died aged eighteen years. Child of George
L. Keyes by first wife : Lewis V., born at Stet
son, September 19, 1872; a musician, living at
Belfast, Maine; a Free Mason; unmarried.
Children by second wife : Orman L., men
tioned below; Leeman H., born September 29,
1880, in Stetson, a farmer on the homestead
cleared by his grandfather; unmarried.
(VIII) Orman L. Keyes, son of George L.
Keyes-, was born at Stetson, Maine, May 20,
1878. He received his early education there
in the public schools and graduated from the
Stetson high school in 1896. He graduated
in 1898 from the Central Institute, Pittsfield,
Maine, and was for one year a student in the
University of Maine. Pie studied law in the
University of Maine for three years and was
graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor

of Laws. Since November, 1905, he has been
practicing law at Caribou, Maine. In politics
he is a Democrat. He attends the Baptist
church. He is a member of Caribou Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons; of Etna Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He mar
ried, at Bangor, Maine, June 8, 1903, Grace L.
Allen, born at Exeter, Maine, February 20,
1878, died at Caribou, Maine, November 8,
1910. She attended the Baptist church, and was
a member of the Rebekah Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. Before her marriage
she was a school teacher in Stetson and Orono.
She was a graduate of the Oldtown high school.
Alfred H.. Allen, her father, was born at Exe
ter, Maine, 1857. He resides in Oldtown. He
is a stationary engineer. He married Eliza
beth Tibbetts, born at Exeter, Maine, 1859,
died there in 1883. Elizabeth Tibbetts was
born at Exeter, daughter of Joseph Tibbetts,
born there in 1820, died at El Paso, Texas,
December 15, 1912. Joseph Tibbetts taught
school in Exeter several years, removed to El
Paso, where he was a fruit grower, and owned
lands also in Arizona. Alfred H. and Eliza
beth Allen had one child, Grace L., who mar
ried Orman L. Keyes, mentioned above. Mr.
and Mrs. Keyes have one child, Grace Marion,
born at Caribou, April 22, 1907.

The Rikers or Ryck's-Lents and
LENTE Krankheyts were of common
origin in Germany, and at a very
early date they were living in Lower Saxony,
where they had the estate or manor of Rycken.
Their name of "van Rycken" was taken from
this manor. "Hans van Rycken, the lord of
the manor and a valiant knight, with his cousin,
Melchoir van Rycken, who lived in Holland,
took part in the first crusade to the Holy Land
in 1096, heading eight hundred crusaders in
the army of 'Walter the Penniless'." Hans
met his death in the expedition, while Melchoir
returned home again. It is a tradition in the
Lente family that their ancestor came with a
company which sailed from Amsterdam, Hol
land1, May, 1640, arriving at New Amsterdam,
August, 1640. The records, however, show
that he came about two years earlier. (I)
Melchoir Ryck was of Amsterdam, Holland.
(II) Captain Jacob Simons de Ryck, son of
Melchoir Ryck, was a wealthy, corn merchant
of Amsterdam, Holland. (Ill) Jacob de Ryck,
son of Captain Jacob Simons de Ryck, had
a son Abraham.
(IV) Abraham de Ryck, the immigrant an
cestor, was son of Jacob de Ryck. He came
to America in 1638, and had in that year a
grant of land from Governor Kieft; he took
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died in 1689, and left his farm to his son Abra
ham. He married Gertie, daughter of Hend-
rick Hermanson, who it is said settled early at
what was called the "Poor Bowery" (Bou-
werij, Dutch farm), and purchased a large
amount of land; he had been an armourer,
according to the Dutch story, and was accus
tomed to forge tomahawks for the Indians;
for some reason the Indians attacked him sud
denly and he was killed by one of the very
instruments which he had forged- for them.
Children of Abraham de Ryck : Ryck Abraham-
son, mentioned below ; Jacob, born 1640, died
young; Jacob, 1643, joined his brother in pur
chasing Ryck's patent, now part of Cortland-
town, Westchester county, New York; Hend-
rick, born 1646, died in infancy; Mary, 1649,
married Sybout M. Krankheyt, of the manor
of Courtlandt; John, 1651, married Margaret,
daughter of Jacobus Krankheyt; Aletta, 1653,
married Captain John Harmansen, of the
manor of Cortlandt; Abraham, 1655, died
1690; Hendrick, 1662.
(V) Ryck or Richardi Abrahamson van
Lent, son of Abraham de Ryck, was born in
New Amsterdam, in 1637, and was christened
in the old Dutch church in the fort, now the
Battery. He and his brother Hendrick were
the first to adopt the name of Lent, and it is
thought that they took it from their maternal
grandfather, who came from Lent. This
grandfather is thought to have been the one
mentioned in a letter to Governor Stuyvesant
in 1654, from his superiors in Holland, as
"Hendrick Hermansen van Lent," a soldier
sent to Curacoa, but who was not to be found
there. Richard became the principal owner of
the tract of land bought of the Sachoes In
dians by the Dutch in April, 1643, Paid for
with merchandise. The land was situated east
of Annsville creek, east and south of where
Peekskill is located, and of the seven thousand
two hundred acres of land, Richard owned
eighteen hundred acres. The Lents seem to
have been on very good terms with the Indians,
as were the rest of the Dutch, for through all
the trouble with the Indians and French, and
later with Great Britain, there was no record
of their being molested. With his brothers,
Jacob and Hendrick, he lived in the manor of
Courtlandt, and they were the owners of Ryck's
patent, as the land he had from the Indians
was called; this land covered a large part of
the northern half of the town of Cortlandt, be
tween Verplanck's Point and Peekskill creek.
The "village" of the Sachoes Indians, from
whom the land was purchased, was situated in
the southern part of what is now the city of
Peekskill, Westchester county, New York, in
the part known as "Lent's Flats." Ryck's

patent, confirming the title of the land, was
granted by the English to Hercules Lent, son
of Ryck, about 1730. Ryck married (Tryntje)
Catrina, daughter of Harck Syboutsen, and
they were both early members of the old
Dutch church (Sleepy Hollow), at Tarry-
town, New York. Children: Elizabeth, born
1672; married Thomas Heyett (Hyatt) ; Abra
ham, mentioned below; Ryck, born 1678;
Harck (Hercules), 1681 ; Margaret, about
1683, married Thomas Bensen; Katherine,
about 1685, married Joseph Jones.
(VI) Abraham van Lent, son of Ryck
Abrahamsen van Lent, was born March 10,
1674. He was a deacon of the Dutch church
(Sleepy Hollow), at Tarrytown, New York,
retiring from that office August 28, 1724. He
lived in Westchester county a number of years,
and then returned to Newtown, Long Island,
in 1729. He settled on the farm left him by
his uncle Jacobus Krankheyt, which was at
that time part of the estate of Isaac Rapalye,
deceased. He was on the committee to build
the church, December 29, 173 1, the edifice
being finished in 1735. He inherited from his
father an island on Long Island Sound called
"Judich's Island," and some land on Nassau
Island, "which is wrongfully detained from
me." He died February 5, 1746. He mar
ried, in 1698, Anna Catherine, daughter of
Adolph Meyer, from Ulfen in Westholia, and
settled- in Harlem, New York. She was born
in 1677, and died July 21, 1762, in her eighty-
sixth year. Children : Ryck, born 1699, died
1732; Jacob, 1 701; Adolph, 1703; Isaac, 1705;
Abraham, 1707 ; Catrina, 1710, married, Janu
ary 1, 1729, Elbert Herring; Jacobus, men
tioned below; Elizabeth, 1718, married Jacob
Brinckerhoff ; Maria, born 1720, married John
Rapalye; Wyntie, 1722, married Jeromus
Rapalye; Ann, born 1724, married (first)
Maratie Ryder, (second) John Brinckerhoff.
(VII) Jacobus Lent, son of Abraham, was
born at Newtown, Long Island, New York,
July 3, 1714, and died December 13, 1779. He
inherited his father's farm on Long Island,
and was elder of the Newtown Dutch Church,
being a highly respected citizen. He married
Margaret, daughter of Daniel Rapalye, and
she died September 11, 1794, in her seventy-
fourth year. Children : Abraham, born Feb
ruary 15, 1745, died April 13, 1816; Alletta,
born April 24, 1747, married George Rapalye;
Daniel, mentioned below.
(VIII) Daniel Lent, son of Jacobus Lent,
was born in Newtown, May 31, 1754, and died
April 20, 1797. He was the last of the family
to live on the van Lent estate, at the "Poor
Bowery," and it was sold just before his death.
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ter of Martin Rapalye. They had four chil
dren, the first three dying in infancy: Daniel,
mentioned below.
(IX) Daniel Lent, son of Daniel Lent, was
born August 30, 1797, at Newtown, Long
Island, and died February 23, 1858, at Flush
ing Bay., He was a merchant in New York
until the spring of 1822, when he bought a
farm in Flushing, Long Island, near the
Canons Cleft in the Kills, called "The Alley."
He purchased the Lawrence farm on Flushing
Bay, in the spring of 1834, and lived there
until his death. He married, June 6, 1821,
Jane Catherine, daughter of Cornelius R. Rem
sen, and she died August 15, 1854. He was
for years an elder of the Reformed church at
Newtown, and he and his wife were both
buried in the cemetery there. Children : Rev.
James Rapalye, born April 18, 1822, married,
June 25, 1851, Catherine White, of Scotch-
town, Orange county, New York, and she died
May 27, 1887; Cornelius Remsen, mentioned
below; Theodore, born about 1828, died in in
fancy; Charles Henry, born April 28, 1833,
farmer at Schodack Landing, Rensselaer
county, New York, married, October 15, 1857,
Mary A. Thorburn, and she died July 23,
1889; Elizabeth Catherine, born March 25,
1842, married Charles Halcott, of Flushing
Bay. (X) Cornelius Remsen Lent, son of Daniel
Lent, was born at Newtown, November 25,
1825, and died January 20, 1896, at Corona,
Long Island. He was a farmer at Newtown
and Corona. He married, December 10, 1850,
Sarah Ann Nafis, of Newtown, Long Island,
and she died November 7, 1897. Children,
born in Corona: Abram Remsen, May 15,
1852, died August 6, 1852; Adriana Nafis,
July 6, 1854, died September 5, 1854; Jane
Catherine, born April 15, 1856, married, Janu
ary 1, 1877, Thomas Whitney Powell, of
Flushing, where they live, he having now re
tired from the real estate business ; Allen Rem
sen, mentioned below ; Sarah Cornelia, born
March 10, 1859, married George Edgar Suy-
dam, of Lucas, Long Island, August 10, 1881,
and they live at Winsted, Connecticut, he being
a truck farmer ; Henry Meserole, born Janu
ary 6, 1861, married May 10, 1890, Cornelia
S. Arkels, of Greenpoint, Long Island, and
they live in Winsted, Connecticut; Addie
Nafis, born June 19, 1862, died April 2, 1866;
Aletta Hallock, born July 6, 1864, died No
vember 31, 1864; Elizabeth Cornish, born Sep
tember 24, 1867, married, January 24, 1889,
Benjamin Duryea, of Flushing, and they live
on Long Island, he being in the oil business.
(XI) Allen Remsen Lente, son of Cor
nelius Remsen Lent, was born at Newtown,

July 5, 1857, and died November 10, 1892, at
Santas, Brazil. He finished his education at
Columbia University, and on account of ill
health decided to follow the sea. He became a
master mariner. For some time he was in the
government service. He was a Free Mason.
He married Mary Ella Singer Butler, June 12,
1882. She was born January, 1855, in
Thomaston, Maine, and is now living at East
Hartford, Connecticut. Children: 1., Annie
Remsen, born October 25, 1884, in South
Thomaston, Maine; married William F.
Blanchard, of Vermont; they reside at East
Hartford, Connecticut; he is an engineer of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company. 2. Harry Hallock, men
tioned below.
(XII) Dr. Harry Hallock Lente, sonof Allen
Remsen Lente, was born in South Thomas
ton, Maine, October 25, 1886. He attended the
public schools of his native town and was grad
uated from the high school in the class of 1903.
He entered Dean Academy at Franklin, Massa
chusetts, and was graduated in the class of
1906. He joined the Pi Chi Beta fraternity.
He entered Bowdoin College, from which he
was graduated with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in 1912. He joined the Phi Chi fra
ternity, a national medical organization. He
began to practice in association with Dr. Hayes
at Brownville Junction for the Canadian Pacific
Railroad Company. After the death of Dr.
Hayes, in 1912, Dr. Lente opened an office in
Brownville, where he has already acquired a
generous clientele. In politics he is a Demo
crat. He attends the Universalist church. He
married, September 6, 1913, Hildred Robert
son, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roderick
Robertson, of Richibucto, New Brunswick,
Canada; she was born July 18, 1887.

The Merrills are of French
MERRILL origin, the name originally be
ing de Merle, and they were
of the French nobility. The ancestral home of
the family in 1550 was Place de Dombes, Au-
vergne, France. The family coat-of-arms is
published in American Heraldry and is as fol
lows : The field is silver, the bar blue and the
peacocks' heads green and gold. The shield is
charged with three peacocks' heads, erased one
above and two below a fesse. The crest is also
a peacock's head. In Burke's "General Arm
ory" the peacock's head is accredited to the
name in England, but the coat-of-arms of the
English family is not the same, though using
the same crest. Being Huguenots the family
fled to England at the time of the massacre of
St. Bartholomew in 1552 and settled in Salis
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were an honored family. Sir Peter Merrill
(de Merle), of the English army, was knighted
in 1634.
(I) Research has led to the conclusion that
all the Merrills in this country are descended
from Nathaniel and Susanna Merrill, who were
among the first settlers of Newbury, Massa
chusetts, in the early spring of 1635. Some
other families of the name are mentioned in
early town and parish records, but these fam
ilies seem to have died out and there is to be
found no one of the name whose ancestry can
be traced back to any other than Nathaniel
Merrill, of Newbury. John, the elder brother
of Nathaniel, a very prominent man in the
settlement, had daughters but no son and con
sequently contributed nothing to the family
history, except his own individual and very
honorable record. Nothing is known of the
parents of John and Nathaniel Merrill or from
what county in England they came, but proba
bly from Wiltshire and the vicinity of Salis
bury. Nathaniel Merrill took the freeman's oath
in 1638 or 1640 in Newbury and there died
March 16, 1654-55. He left an estate valued
at eighty-four pounds six shillings. By his
will his estate was to go to his son Nathaniel,
executor, subject to life interest of widow,
Susanna, he to pay as directed to the other
children. After his death his widow married
Stephen Jordan, August 16, 1661. and her
death occurred January 25, 1672. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill, as given in Coffin's "His
tory of Newbury, Massachusetts," were: 1.
John, born 1635, died July 18, 1712; freeman
in 1658; deacon; went to Hartford, Connecti
cut; married Sarah Watson; ten children. 2.
Abraham, born 1637, died November 28, 1772;
was a weaver by occupation ; resided in New
bury; was freeman in 1668; selectman and
deacon; married (first) January 11, 1660, Abi
gail Watson; eleven children; married (sec
ond) September 2, 1713, Sarah Bradley Bond.
2. Nathaniel, born 1638, died January 1, 1683;
freeman in 1668; married, October 15, 1661,
Joanna Ninnian; seven children. 4. Susanna,
born 1640, died in 1690; married, October 15,
1663, John Burbank. 5. Daniel, born August
20, 1642, died June 27, 1718; freeman in 1668;
married (first) May 14, 1667, Sarah Clough;
eight children; married (second) May 29,
1708, Sarah (Morrill) Bond; three children.
6. Abel, of whom further.
(II) Abel, youngest son of Nathaniel and
Susanna Merrill, was born February 20, 1644-
45, died October 28, 1689. He was made free
man in 1668, and served as deacon of the
original Baptist church in Newbury. He was
active in community affairs, respected and

honored by all who knew him. He married
(first) February 10, 1671, Priscilla, born March
14, 1649, died November, 1697, daughter of
Aquilla and Ann (Wheeler) Chase. He married
(second) Sarah Bradbury. Children of first
marriage: 1. Abel, born December 28, 1671 ;
served as deacon; married, June 18, 1694, Abi
gail Stevens. 2. Susannah, born November 14,
1673; married, January 28, 1692, Benjamin
Morse. 3. Nathan, born April 3, 1676; mar
ried, September, 1699, Hannah Kent ; ten chil
dren. 4. Thomas, born January 1, 1678-79;
married Judith Kent; twelve children. 5.
Joseph, born July 12, 1681 ; married Ann Wig
gin ; five children. 6. Nathaniel, born Febru
ary 6, 1684; married, July 28, 1709, Hannah
Stevens; one son. 7. Priscilla, born July 13,
1686; married, June 8, 1704, Nathaniel Noyes.
8. James, of whom further.
(Ill) James, youngest son of Abel and
Priscilla (Chase) Merrill, was born January
27, 1688-89. He married, November 23, 1714,
Mary Pettingill Adams, born in Newbury,
Massachusetts, March 3, 1699-1700, died in
1790, daughter of Robert and Rebecca
(Knight) Adams, granddaughter of Abraham
and Mary (Pettingill) Adams, and great-
granddaughter of Robert Adams, also of Rev.
James Noyes, and a descendant of Richard
Inkersall, all of which families had coats-of-
arms. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill resided in New
bury, Massachusetts, until after the birth of
their fourth child, when they removed to
Stratham, New Hampshire, where five chil
dren were born to them. They then moved to
Falmouth, Maine, where two more children
were born to them. They settled in the north
east part of the town on the Pusampscot river,
that part of the town still bearing the original
name. He was a leading and influential citi
zen, and was the ancestor of nearly all the
families attending the First Congregational
Church of Falmouth, which church he took an
active part in forming in 1753. He died Octo
ber 27, 1756. His will was probated October
3, 1757, in which he devised a very consider
able estate for those times to his heirs. Chil
dren: 1. Israel, of whom further. 2. Humph
rey, born in Newbury, January 18, 1717-18,
died January 1, 1815; was a prominent citizen
of Falmouth; was selectman fifteen years; in
1775 was on the committee of safety; was
assessor in 1776-1777 and other years, and was
deacon of the Congregational church ; married
(first) August 29, 1741, Betty Merrill, of Salis
bury, daughter of Moses Merrill, who was son
of Daniel, who was son of Nathaniel Merrill;
she died 1770; he married (second) June 18,
1783, Mary (Noyes) Weare; she died in 1821.
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ried, in 1739, John Calley. 4. Priscilla, horn in
Newbury about 1723 ; married (intentions pub
lished October 24, 1742) Richard Merrill. 5.
Adams, born in Stratham, 1726; married (in
tentions published November 19, 1757) Eliza
beth Pitcomb. 6. James Jr., born in Stratham,
1728, died November 16, 1806; married, June
29, 1753-54, Abigail Brackett. 7. Joshua, born
in Stratham, March 25, 1733, died in 1782;
married (intentions published November 1,
1755) Mary Winslow. 8. Mary, born in
Stratham, January 14, 1734-35; married (in
tentions published December 20, 1750) Samuel
Noyes. 9., Dorothy, born in Stratham, about
1737; married (intentions published May 25,
1753) John Blake. 10. Susanna, born in Fal
mouth, 1739; married (intentions published
June 22, 1761) Moses Adams. 11. Sila, born
in Falmouth, March 1, 1741 ; married (first)
Susanna Knight, (second) Hannah Matthews.
(IV) Israel, eldest son of James and Mary
Pettingill (Adams) Merrill, was born in New
bury, Massachusetts, July 27, 171 5, said to
have been. killed by the Indians about 1750.
He married, August 20, 1743, Abiah, daughter
of Richard Calley (sometimes spelled as pro
nounced, Cawley), of Stratham, New Hamp
shire. She married (second) (intentions pub
lished November 17, 1753) Captain David Tor-
rey. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill: 1.
Israel, born in Falmouth, August 31, 1744. 2.
Elias, baptized 1746. 3. Abiah, born 1747;
married, July 19, 1767, Captain David Brad-
ish, who was captain of one of the Falmouth
companies in Colonel Edmund Phinney's
Thirty-first Regiment from May to December
31, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts; he ren
dered other service during the revolutionary
war and was commissioned major, January 1,
1777; they had a daughter Betsey, who mar
ried Edward G. Capon; Major Bradish died
in 1818. 4. Nicholas, born September, 1747
(?), died in the West Indies; married Sarah
Harris. 5. Levi, of whom further.
(V) Levi, youngest son of Israel and Abiah
(Calley) Merrill, was born in Falmouth,
Maine, January 27, 1749, died in Portland,
Maine, August 10, 1787. He was third ser
geant in Captain Bradish's company from May
to December 31, 1775, and probably rendered
other service. He married, November 25,
1773, Mary Smith, of Newbury, daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Newman) Smith. She
married (second) John Mussey, by whom she
had two sons, John and Charles Mussey. Mrs.
Mussey died in Portland, Maine, August 1,
1796, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Mer
rill had three sons: 1. William, of whom fur
ther. 2. Thomas, born in Portland, November
12, 1782, died in Cape Elizabeth; married

Sophia Smith, of Newburyport. 3. Leonard,
born in Portland, April, 1785, died at sea, No
vember 30, 1807.
(VI) William, eldest son of Levi and Mary
(Smith) Merrill, was born in Portland, Maine,
June 22, 1780, died June 26, 1854, at Shelby-
ville, Kentucky, and was buried in the family
ground of the Mortons. Later his remains
were brought to Portland, Maine, and placed
in his tomb in the Western Cemetery. He
married (first) Mary, daughter of Captain
William McLellan, granddaughter of Bryce
McLellan, who came from Scotland about
1719 or 1720, and a descendant of Sir Hugh
McLellan, of Argyle, Scotland, who was
knighted in 151 5. She died in Portland, June
12, 1834, and her remains were placed in the
tomb in Western Cemetery. Mr. Merrill mar
ried (second) December 7, 1835, Frances Fol-
som. Children of first marriage, all born in
Portland, Maine: 1. William Leonard, born
June 27, 1806, died November 13, 181 1. 2.
Mary Smith, born January 26, 1808, died in
Gorham; married, September 5, 1835, Charles
A. Stackpole. 3. Martha Wells, born March
6, 1810, died December 20, 1885; married
(first) September 10, 1832, Dr. Asa Dodge,
who died in Jerusalem, Palestine, January 28,
1835; (second) February 23, 1837, Rev. John
D. Paxton, of  , Syria; (third) John
Lagow, Princeton, Indiana. 4. Carolina Eliz
abeth, born January 4, 1812, died in Naples,
Maine; married Elijah Smith Dow. 5. Sophia
Smith, born March 17, 1815, died in Prince
ton, Indiana, July 2, 1877. 6, Eliza McLellan, ,
born December 15, 1816, died at Auburn, Indi
ana, September 6, 1851 ; married, September
29, 1844, Rev. James P. Bliss. 6. William
George, of whom further. 7. Charles Mussey,
born September 19, 1821, died November 4,
1870, unmarried. 8. Edward Thomas, born
July 18, 1823; married, December, 1843, Mary
Jane Tarbell. 9. Henry Augustus, born July
23, 1826, died same year. 10. Harriet Jane,
born October 16, 1827, died October 7, 1828.
The oldest house in Portland, Maine, and
one of the three buildings now standing which
were there when Captain Henry Mowatt and
the British fleet burned Falmouth, in October,
1775, is still on its original site, the third house
on the west side of York street before reaching
High street. This house was built by Bryce
McLellan, grandfather of Mary (McLellan)
Merrill, and was occupied by him prior to and
during the revolutionary war. When the
house was built it was on the outskirts of the
town of Falmouth, and at the time of the de
struction of that town was far removed from
the burning section, and was the refuge for
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been destroyed by the carcasses and shells from
the British ships. This old building, which is
now occupied as a dwelling, is of substantial
construction, with large chimneys and big open
fireplaces, which are not used at the present
time. (VII) William George, son of William and
Mary (McLellan) Merrill, was born in Port
land, Maine, December 1, 1819, died at Ridley
Park, Pennsylvania, in 1910. He attended the
public schools of his native city, and during
his active career was a merchant at Bar Mills,
Maine, where he was highly esteemed and re
spected. During the civil war he was a mem
ber of the Thirteenth Maine Volunteer Infan
try, serving in the capacity of sutler. He and
his wife attended the Congregational church,
and he gave his political allegiance to the Re
publican party. He married, May 22, 1845,
Margaret Taylor Dow, born in New Bruns
wick, New Jersey, died at Ridley Park, Penn
sylvania, in 1907, aged eighty-two years. Chil
dren: Fannie M.; Eleanor A., married (first)
Frank G. Robinson, (second) Charles Pritham;
Margaret Dow, married William G. Merrill ;
Amanda G., married (first) Edward E. Mc-
Kenney, (second) Benjamin E. Sweet; Wil
liam John, of whom further ; Thomas L. ;
Plenry, deceased; Charles H.
(VIII) William John, son of William
George and Margaret Taylor (Dow) Merrill,
was born in Township No. 7, Aroostook
county, Maine, April 22, 1852. The early years
of his life were spent at Bar Mills, Gorham,
South Freeport and Portland, all in Maine,
and his education was acquired in the public
and high schools of Portland. Upon arriving
at a suitable age he devoted his attention to
mercantile pursuits in Portland, continuing
until 1878, when he removed to Providence,
Rhode Island, where he remained until 1890,
following the same line of work, then removed
to> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was
engaged in electrical pursuits until 1893, and
from that time to the present (1914) has been
engaged in financial pursuits in New York
City, with offices at No. 115 Broadway. He
was one of the organizers of the American
Hayti Company, capital $3,000,000. He is a
Republican in politics, and a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. Merrill married, September 12, 1876,
May Willette Lockhart, born in Portland,
Maine, June 2, 1853, and they were the par
ents of one child, Jessie Deering, who died at
the age of six years. Mrs. Merrill, who is a
member of the Christian Scientist church, is
the daughter of a minister of the gospel, now
deceased.

William Howe, descendant of an
HOWE old New England family, was
born in Penobscot county, Maine,
in 1804, died at Bangor in that state in 1899.
He was a farmer in Holden and East Edding
ton, Maine. In religion he was a Universal
ist ; in politics a Democrat. He married Annie
Peakes, born in Penobscot county in 1806,
died at East Eddington in 1889. She was a
member of the Universalist church. Children,
all born in Holden or East Eddington: 1.
Susan, mat ried John E. Stockwell, of Bangor,
a lumberman ; she resides in Bangor. 2. Amasa,
mentioned below. 3. William A., served
through the civil war, a pensioner, now living
in Massachusetts. 4. Letitia, married William
Rowe, of Great Works, Maine, a lumberman;
she resides in Bangor. 5. Lawson W., a re
tired carriage manufacturer, living at Merri
mac, Massachusetts. 6. Melza B., resides at
the Soldiers' Home, Togus, Maine, a veteran
of the civil war. 7. Anna, married Arthur
Merrill, of Eddington, a spool manufacturer ;
she resides at East Eddington, Maine. 8. Wes
ley C, married Lucy Morse, of Merrimac,
Massachusetts ; he is a carriage manufacturer,
residing in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 9. Lizzie,
married  Fletcher, a farmer at Canton,
Maine. (II) Amasa Howe, son of William Howe,
was born at East Holden, Maine, May 25,
1835, died at Presque Isle, June 25, 1913. He
was educated in the public schools of his native
town. When a young man he went to Bangor,
Maine, and engaged in business. In 1861 he
came to Presque Isle, Maine, where he was
employed as clerk by Nathan Perry. After
ward he entered into partnership with Warren
Pratt under the firm name of Pratt & Howe
to conduct a general store. He was afterward
in partnership with David Dudley and his
brother, Melza Dudley, in the same line of
business. After this firm was dissolved he
engaged for a number of years in a general
insurance business. He then embarked in the
manufacture of lumber. He suffered financial
reverses through the destruction by fire of sev
eral large and well equipped saw mills. In
politics he was a Democrat. During the sec
ond Cleveland administration he was post
master of Presque Isle. He was a member of
the Unitarian church. He married, in 1865,
Louisa Pratt, born in Phillips, Maine, June 5,
1843. She is now living in Presque Isle and
is a member of the Unitarian church there.
Beniah Pratt, her father, was born near Phil
lips, Maine, in 1806, died at Presque Isle in
1878. He was a farmer in Presque Isle, com
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Beniah Pratt: i. Levina, married Columbus
Hayford, of Farmington, Maine, now a farmer
at Presque Isle. 2. Martha, married G. C.
Hall, of Caribou, Maine, then called Lyndon;
a farmer. 3. Louisa, married Amasa Howe,
mentioned above. 4. Warren P., married Au
gusta Allen, of Presque Isle. 5. Edwin, re
sides in Kansas City, Missouri. 6. George,
died young. Children of Amasa Howe: 1.
Vivian E., born September 10, 1867; educated
in the public schools and academy of Presque
Isle and at St. John's Episcopal School; pro
prietor of a laundry at Presque Isle; married
Jennie Lindow, of Woodstock, New Bruns
wick, and has one son, Edward Amasa, born
at Woodstock, in February, 1900. 2. Leon
Selden, mentioned below. 3. Clifford, born
1871, died at Presque Isle in 1877.
(Ill) Leon Selden Howe, son of Amasa
Howe, was born at Presque Isle, Maine, Au
gust 18, 1869. He attended the public schools
of his native town, the Presque Isle Academy
and St. John's Episcopal School, now the
Aroostook State Normal School. At the age
of nineteen he left school and engaged in the
retail clothing business in the employ of S.
Friedman & Company of Presque Isle, remain
ing in this position until 1893. After resting
a year, on account of ill health, he entered the
employ of M. S. Klein, dealer in clothing, and
a year later became clerk in the dry goods
store of William R. Piper, in whose employ he
remained until 1905, when he formed a part
nership with R. M. Barker and engaged in the
dry goods business under the firm name of
the Howe-Barker Company. The firm was
dissolved in March, 1913, and in the following
month he opened a ladies' furnishing store in
Presque Isle and from the first has done a
large and flourishing business. In politics Mr.
Howe is a Democrat. For two years he has
been a trustee of the State Normal School.
He is an active member of the Unitarian
church, of which he has been treasurer. He is
a member of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Presque Isle, of which
he is past master; member of Garfield Chap
ter, No. 48, Royal Arch Masons, of Caribou;
of Aroostook Council, No. 16, Royal and
Select Masters, of which he is past thrice illus
trious master; of St. Aldamar Commandery,
No. 17, Knights Templar, of Houlton; of Kora
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of
Lewiston, Maine. He is past junior grand
warden of the Grand Lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons of the State of Maine, was dis
trict deputy grand master of the First Masonic
District of Maine for three years, and is now
representative of the Grand Lodge of Cuba
in the Grand Lodge of Maine. He is also a

member of the Moosaleuk Club of Presque
Isle. Mr. Howe married, July 6, 1904, at Bangor,
Myra Frances Vickery, born at Bangor. She
is a graduate of the Bangor high school and
of Mount Holyoke College, member of the
Unitarian church, of Luna Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star, and the Pierian Club of
Presque Isle. She was a teacher in the Presque
Isle high school before her marriage. Chil
dren of Leon Selden and Myra Frances Howe :
Gilbert Vickery, born August 1, 1905 ; Sarah
Scoville, February 5, 1907; Leon Selden Jr.,
June 5, 1908; Amasa, September 10, 1909.
George W. Vickery, father of Mrs.' Howe,
was born in Auburn, Maine, in 1853, and now
resides in Glenburn in that state. He was with
Morse & Company, lumber merchants, for
more than thirty years, but for the past six
years has followed farming. In politics he is a
Republican. He has served the city of Bangor
as alderman. He is a member of the Univer
salist church, of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Bangor, and of Glenburn Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. He married Sarah
Scoville, born in Rockland, Maine. Children:
Gilbert, superintendent in the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, mar
ried  Rennell; Myra Frances, married
Leon Selden Howe, mentioned above; Ethel
(adopted), deceased.

Thomas Paine, the progenitor of
PAINE this branch of the family in Amer
ica, was born in England. He
settled in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, and was
the first deputy to the general court from that
town, June, 1659. His name is on a list of the
inhabitants in 1641, and he had land confirmed
to him in 1648. He was admitted a freeman
June 4, 1639, and was on the list of those able
to bear arms in 1643. He removed to East-
ham as early as 1655, when he was a townsman
there. It is thought that he was the Thomas
Paine whose widow Hannah administered on
his estate at Boston, July 29, 1667. He had a
son Thomas, mentioned below, and possibly
other children.
(II) Thomas Paine, son of Thomas Paine,
was born in England, and came to this country
at the age of ten years, with his father. It is
said that he lost the sight of one eye by an
arrow. He settled in Eastham, where he or
his father was a constable as early as 1653 and
townsman in 1655. He was admitted a free
man June 1, 1658. He was surveyor of high
ways in 1662, and deputy to the general court
in 1664. He received a grant of land in 1667,
and two years later purchased land at Nam-
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John Alden. In 1670 he was appointed an in
spector of ordinaries in the town to see that
there was no excessive drinking. In 1670 he
purchased land at Truro, afterward conveyed
to his son Thomas. For many years he served
as "bayley by land and water" to receive cer
tain prescribed sums from fishermen and to en
force the rules as to care of the shore. He was
deputy to the general court in 1671-72-74-76-
78-80-81-90. He was selectman of Eastham
in 1671 and several years afterward. In 1676
he was one of a committee to collect a debt
from Sandwich, and of another to build the
meeting house. He was town treasurer 1674
to 1694. In 1677 he and three others hired the
fishing privileges and profits at the head of
Cape Cod for seven years, paying annually
thirty pounds. Before 1695 he removed to
Boston and bought the homestead of Thomas
Stableford, at the South End. In 1697 he sold
it to Eleazer Darby, and in the same year sold
his share of land at Showamet, Bristol county.
He was a cooper by trade and also a millwright.
He built two grist mills at Eastham. He died
at an advanced age, at Eastham, August 16,
1706. His will was dated May 12, 1706, and
proved October 2, 1706. He married Mary
Snow, daughter of Nicholas and Constance
(Hopkins) Snow. Her father came in the
ship "Ann" in 1823. Her mother was a daugh
ter of Stephen Hopkins, of the "Mayflower."
She died April 28, 1704.. Children: Mary,
Samuel, of whom further; Thomas, 1656;
Eliezer, Elisha, John, March 14, 1660-61 ;
Nicholas, James, July 6, 1665 ; Joseph, Dorcas.
(Ill) Samuel Paine, son of Thomas Paine,
was born in Eastham, about 1660; married,
January 31, 1682, Patience Freeman. He was
selectman of Eastham in 1697, 1700-01-02-05;
lieutenant of the military company. He died
October 13, 1712, and his estate was divided
January 29, 1717. Patience, his wife, was a
daughter of Major John Freeman and Mercy
(Prence) Freeman, daughter of Governor
Thomas Prence or Prince, granddaughter of
Elder William Brewster, who came in the
"Mayflower." Major Freeman was assistant
to the governor. Children of Samuel and Pa
tience Paine : Samuel, born October 30, 1683 ;
Mercy, August 5, 1686; Nathaniel, July 9,
1689; Ebenezer, June 17, 1692; Elizabeth, June
11, 1694; Joshua, mentioned below; Isaac,
January 15, 1698-99; Mary, February 24, 1703-
04; Seth, October 5, 1706.
(IV) Joshua Paine, son of Samuel Paine,
was born at Eastham, Cape Cod, May 20,
1696. He married Phebe Snow, March 19,
1729, and settled in Eastham. Children, born
at Eastham : Samuel, born January 29, 1730 ;
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Isaac, January 13, 1737; Seth, June 12, 1740:;
Joshua, mentioned below.
(V) Joshua Paine, son of Joshua Paine,
was born at Eastham, May 10, 1743. He mar
ried Mercy Higgins, April 26, 1768. He was
a mariner. "After he left the water he moved
down east." He went with the Higgins fam
ily^ into which he married, to Standish, Maine.
Children, born at Eastham : Timothy D., Feb
ruary 22, 1770; Sarah, May 25, 1774; Joshua,
July 27, 1777; Samuel, June 11, 1779; Uriah,
mentioned below, and others. Joshua was a
soldier in the revolution, a corporal in Captain
Isaiah Higgins' company, Major Zenas Wins-
low's regiment, on the alarm at Bedford, Sep
tember, 1778.
(VI) Uriah Paine, son of Joshua Paine,
was born in Maine, about 1780, and died at
Standish, Maine. He was captain of the
militia. Among his children was Joshua, men
tioned below.
(VII) Joshua Paine, son of Uriah Paine,
was born in 1814, at Standish, and died there
in 1 901. He was a cooper by trade, and also a
farmer. In politics he was a Republican; in
religion a Unitarian, and deacon of the church
for many years. He played the bass viol in the
church. He married  Loweel, born 1817,
died at Standish, 1881. Children: 1. Caroline,
died at Portland; married Alonzo Mayo, of
Standish, a cooper. 2., Appleton, married 
Thomas; resided at Old Orchard, Maine. 3.
Etta, married G. B. Poindexter, of Standish,
who served in the civil war, now retired. 4.
Daniel Uriah, mentioned below. 5. Frederick,
married, and is a farmer in Standish ; children :
Hattie, married  Paine, a cooper of
Buxton; Nora, married  Higgins,
-farmer ; Standish ; Everett, farmer, Windham ;
Harry, merchant, Sebago Lake, Maine; Vera,
school teacher, Jefferson, New Hampshire;
Wilford, merchant, Sebago Lake; Ina, and
Frederick. 6. Melinda, married William
Parker, farmer of Buxton; children: Ethel
Parker, married  Lane, now a student
in the Gorham Normal School; Linette, mar
ried Homer Martin, real estate dealer, Buxton ;
Ernest Parker, farmer, Buxton; Charles
Parker, farmer, Buxton; Alford Parker, stu
dent, Bates College; Linona Parker. 7.
Charles, married Emily Robbins, Eastport,
Maine ; cooper, now living in Standish Village ;
child, Mable, married Willard Boulter, of
Standish, now in charge of a grain store, Bos
ton. (VIII) Daniel Uriah Paine, son of Joshua
Paine, was born April 13, 1844, at Standish.
He received his education there in the public
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has also followed farming. In politics he is a
Republican, and he has been tax collector for
a number of years. In religion he is a Meth
odist. He married Albrona F. Berry, who was
born at Standith, 1847, died there July, 1884.
She was a member of the Methodist church.
Asa Berry, her father, was born in Standish,
in 1803, and died there in 1890. He was a
farmer and shoemaker, a Democratic leader in
the town, selectman for many years, and a
Methodist in religion. He married Hannah
Moore, born 1803, died 1896. Children of Asa
Berry: 1. Asbury Berry, shoemaker, Standish;
Helen Berry, married  Parker, Buxton ;
Vesta Berry, married  Tarbox, Port
land; John Berry, a carpenter, Newburyport,
Massachusetts ; Melinda Berry ; Albrona Fos-
tina Berry, married Daniel Uriah Paine, men
tioned above ; Fernando Cortez Berry, farmer ;
Standish, married Emma Libby, of Gorham,
now of Standish; children: May F. Berry,
married John Howard and reside on the Berry
homestead; Edward C. Berry, contractor,
Woodfords, Maine ; Inez Berry, married 
Files, farmer, Gorham; Alice Berry. Children
of Daniel Uriah Paine: 1. Lillian, born March
25, 1873, at Standish ; married Curtis Witham,
of Westbrook, Maine, now a farmer of Stand
ish; child, Curtis Ray Witham, born at West
brook, June 12, 1894. 2. Leon Gilman, men
tioned below.
(IX) Leon Gilman Paine, son of Daniel
Uriah Paine, was born at Standish, January
25, 1880. He attended the public schools, and
graduated from the Standish high school in
1898. He taught in the grammer school at
Standish Village for three years, then attended
the Westbrook Seminary for a year and enter
ed Bates College, from which he was gradu
ated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
1906. He then taught for three years in Pat
ten Academy, of which he was principal, and
since then has been principal of the Fort Fair
field high school. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He attends the Congregational church.
He is a member of Eastern Frontier Lodge,
No. 112, Free Masons; of Border Lodge, No.
93, Knights of Pythias, Fort Fairfield, in which
he has been master-at-arms, and of Lodge No.
87, Odd Fellows, of which he is chaplain.
He married, June 12, 1907, at Litchfield,
Maine, Augusta Parka Briery, who was born
at Litchfield, May 5, 1884, graduate of Litch
field Academy, 1902, and of Bates College,
1906. She taught in Patten Academy three
years, and since then has been assistant prin
cipal of the Fort Fairfield high school. In re
ligion she is a Congregationalist. She is a
member of the Rebekah Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Patten; and of

Goodwill Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
of which she is an officer; and of the Philo-
mathean Literary Society. Edgar S. Briery,
her father, was born at Litchfield, February
22, 1852. He is a farmer in Litchfield. He is
deacon of the Free Will Baptist Church, mem
ber of the Masonic lodge and the Grange, a
Republican in politics. He married Nellie
Stinson, who was born at Bowdoinham, Maine,
September 15, 1862. She attends the Free
Will Baptist church and is a member of the
Eastern Star. Mrs Paine was their only child.
Willis Stinson, father of Mrs. Edgar S. Briery,
was born in 1826, and died at Bowdoinham,
He was a farmer and owned a saw mill.

In politics he was a Republican. He married
Hannah Brooks, who was born at Bowdoin
ham, November 15, 1829, died at Litchfield,
March 14, 1912. She was a devout Baptist.
Children of Willis Stinson : John Stinson, died
aged eighteen; Lavinia, born 1853, resides at
Richmond, unmarried; Nellie Stinson married
Edgar S. Briery, mentioned above ; Lillian
Stinson, died young. James Briery, father of
Edgar S. Briery, was born in 1821, and died at
Bowdoinham in 1901. He was a farmer in
Bowdoinham, a Republican in politics. He
married (first)  Haley ( ?) ; (second)
Mary Bartlett, widow, now living in Rich
mond. Children of James Briery: 1. Alvah Briery,
born 1849 ; married Ella Stinson, of Rich
mond ; a farmer; children: Herbert Briery,
musician, Augusta, Maine; Cheetham Briery,
farmer, Bowdoinham; Elwell Briery, farmer,
Bowdoinham. 2. Edgar S. Briery, mentioned
above. 3. Manley Briery, died young. ,.

The surname Fogg or Fogge, pos-
FOGG sibly identical with Fagge, is of
ancient origin and has been in use
since surnames were adopted in England. Its
derivation is uncertain. The family was in
county Kent as early as A. D. 115, and in 1400
some of the Fogg family were living at Ash-
ford, fifty miles from London. Sir John Fogg
was the founder of the college at Ashford.
Plis son, Sir John Fogg, also lived there and
died there, leaving a will dated November 14,
1 533- There was a Sir Francis Fogg of the
same place. There is but one Fogg coat-of-
arms, varied slightly by the different branches
of the family. The principal family, having
its seat at Richbury, Kent, bears this armorial :
Argent a fesse between three annulets sable as
many millets pierced of the first. Crest: A
unicorn's head argent. Fogg is also a common
surname in Wales.
Samuel Fogg, the American immigrant, an
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Colonial Fogg families, was born in England,
February 20, 1600, died at Hampton, New
Hampshire, April 16, 1672. There is a tradi
tion that two brothers came with him and there
were two Fogg pioneers in Massachusetts, but
evidence to show their relationship is lacking.
James Fogg was living in Gloucester in 1648 ;
Ralph Fogg came from Dedham, county Essex,
England, was first at Plymouth, then at Salem ;
his son John was living in Barnstable, Eng
land, in 1665.
Samuel Fogg came with John Winthrop in
1630, settled in 1638 or soon afterward in
Hampton. He was a farmer. He bought his
homestead of Christopher Hussey, a farm
lately known as the Anthony Emery place. He
had other land by grant and purchase. In 1669
he drew one hundred acres, which have re
mained in possession of his descendants to the
present time, never having been deeded. He
married (first) October 12, 1652, Anne Shaw,
who died December 9, 1663, daughter of Rich
ard Shaw. He married (second) December
28, 1665, Mary Page, daughter of Robert Page,
of Hampton. She joined the Hampton church,
May 29, 1698, and died at Hampton, March
8, 1699-1700, aged fifty-six years. Children
by first wife, born in Hampton : Samuel, born
December 25, 1653; Joseph, March 25, 1656;
John, July 15, 1658; David, June 16, 1660;
Mary, May 1, 1662. Children by second wife:
Seth, November 28, 1666; James, April 8,
1668 ; Hannah, April 6, 1670.
(II) Almon H. Fogg, son of Joseph and
Esther Fogg, descendants of Samuel Fogg,
was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1836, died in
Boston, October 18, 1908. He was educated
there in the public schools. He became a hard
ware merchant at Houlton, Maine, in 1859.
He was prominent for many years in town
affairs. In politics he was a Republican. He
was town treasurer and director of the First
National Bank and president of the Houlton
Savings Bank. In religion he was a Congre
gationalist. He married Lucy Webster Hasey,
born at Houlton, Maine, October 7, 1838,
daughter of William Hasey, born June 30,
1799. Her mother was born March 17, 1800.
Children: 1. J. Etta, born February 14, 1864,
died November, 1888. 2. Charles Houlton,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Charles Houlton Fogg, son of Almon
H. Fogg, was born July 8, 1866, at Houlton,
Maine. He attended the public schools of his
native town, the Houlton Academy, the River
view Academy at Poughkeepsie, New York,
from 1881 to 1885, and entered Bowdoin Col
lege, from which he was graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1889. He was
associated with his father in the hardware busi

ness from 1889 to 1906. Since then he has
been editor and publisher of The Aroostook
Times, Houlton, Maine. He is a trustee of the
Houlton Savings Bank. He is a member
of Psi Upsilon fraternity of Bowdoin; past
master of Monument Lodge, No. 96, An
cient Free and Accepted Masons. He has
taken the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite
Masonry, and is a member of Portland Coun
cil, Royal and Select Masters; and Kora
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is
also a member of Ploulton Lodge, No. 835,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
is a charter member of the Meduxulkeag Club,
and is a member of the First Congregational
Church of Houlton.
Mr. Fogg married, December 7, £892, at
Houlton, Maine, Rosina H. Kidder, born at
Fort Fairfield, Maine, May 21, 1876, daugh
ter of James H. and Rose S. Kidder. Her
father is register of deeds of Aroostook county.
He served in the civil war in Company C,
Fourteenth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infan
try. Children of James H. and Rose S. Kid
der ; Eldridge H., Rosina H., mentioned above ;
Fred B. Kidder. Mr. and Mrs. Fogg have no
children.

James Watson was born about
WATSON 1800. He married, January
10, 1826, in Eastport, Maine,
Sally Emery, who died at Calais, Maine. Chil
dren, born at Eastport : Enoch Jones Noyes,
mentioned below; Julia Ann Elizabeth Noyes,
born February 19, 1830, died September 10,
1834. (II) Enoch Jones Noyes Watson, son of
James Watson, was born at Eastport, Maine,
September 4, 1827. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town. Early in life
he began to follow the sea, and rose to the rank
of master mariner. He made many foreign
voyages as mate and captain. In 1861 he left
on a voyage ; the vessel never returned, and he
was doubtless lost at sea. He married Mary
Millburn, who was born near Salmon River,
New Brunswick, December 11, 1822, and died
at Calais, Maine, May, 1905. She was a de
vout Christian, member of the Methodist Epis
copal church for many years. Mary (Mill-
burn) Watson, wife of Enoch Jones Noyes
Watson, had brothers and sisters : David Mill-
burn, died in Iowa, a farmer ; Isaac Millburn,
resides in the west; Sarah Millburn, died in
the west, married  Brown ; sister, mar
ried Oliver Dow, of Milltown, Calais, Maine,
keeper of the toll bridge ; sister, married Con
verse Kenney, a farmer. Children of Enoch
J. N. Watson, all born at Calais: 1. Sarah,
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mentioned below. 3. William, 1854, died
young. 4. Jones Alfred, born April 12, 1856;
married Mary Gage, of Macadavy, New Bruns
wick, and they have adopted a daughter, Belle.
5. Mary M., i860; married Everett Leighton,
of Calais, a carpenter and farmer of Calais;
no children.
(Ill) George Edmund Watson, son of
Enoch Jones Noyes Watson, was born at Calais,
Maine, June 15, 1852. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of his native town.
At the age of fourteen he left home and went
to work in Boston, Massachusetts. He was
employed in winter for several years on the
steamboats plying between Calais and East-
port. He removed to Van Buren, Maine,
where he was employed as clerk for C. R.
Goodenough & Company for a year and a half.
Afterward he was a shingle inspector, night
watchman in the mills, and scaler in the woods
until 1889, when he opened a variety store in
Van Buren, Maine. His business grew con
stantly and he is now one of the leading mer
chants of the town. In politics he is a Repub
lican. For eight years he was a tax collector.
He served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff
James Bolton and for two terms under Sheriff
Levi Geary, a total of about six years. He is
a member of Caribou Lodge, No. 170, Free
and Accepted Masons. He married, January
4, 1874, Eulalia L. Farrell, who was born in
Van Buren, May 15, 1856. She attended the
public schools of her native town. She is a
member of the Roman Catholic church, and of
the Independent Order of Foresters of Van
Buren (see Farrell). Children: 1. William
E., born at Van Buren, May 22, 1875 ; edu
cated in the public schools and graduate of the
Calais high school; now a merchant in Van
Buren; married, June 26, 1912, in Haynesville,
Iva Dunlop, of Upper Haynesville, New Bruns
wick; child: Winifred, born at Van Buren,
June 23, 1913. 2. Jones A., at Calais, Maine,
June 6, 1876, graduate of the Van Buren high
school ; died March 7, 1900, in Van Buren, a
merchant ; married Odelia Therriault, of Grand
Isle, Maine; she died in August, 1901 ; no chil
dren. 3. George Wilbert, at Van Buren, No
vember 17, 1877; killed in an accident in a
mill, July 18, 1889. 4. Mary Malvenia, at Van
Buren, December 22, 1878; educated in the
Convent of the Good Shepherd at Van Buren ;
married Simeon B. Cyr, of Van Buren; chil
dren : Philip George Francis Cyr, December 4,
1906; Howard Abel Cyr, April, 1908, died in
infancy; Eulalia Mary Cyr, November 4, 191 1.
5. Henry, March 23, 1880, at Van Buren ; grad
uate of Van Buren high school; married Mary
Thibideau, of Eagle Lake; children: George,
Mary and Percy. 6. Frank Lee, at Van Buren,

December 13, 1882; graduate of Van Buren
high school; a merchant; married (first) Mary
Plourde, of Wallagrass, Maine; (second)
Estella Hughes, of Prince Edward Island. 7.
Eulalia M., born December 30, 1887; educated
at Convent of the Good Shepherd. 8. Louise
Hester, January 5, 1890; educated at Con
vent of the Good Shepherd ; married, Septem
ber 16, 1914, Alphonse Louis Pelletier, of Van
Buren, a carpenter by trade. 9. Charles How
ard, August 19, 1900, attends St. Mary's Col
lege, Van Buren. (The Farrell Line).
Michael Farrell, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in Ireland, about 1775, and died at
Van Buren, Maine, in 1855. He came to
America when a young man, and was one of
the pioneers of the town of Van Buren. He
was a carpenter by trade. He was a com
municant of the Roman Catholic church. He
married Julia Dubay, who was born in Maine,
died in Van Buren in 1887, aged eighty-nine
years nine months. Children, all born at Van
Buren: 1. Mary, died in Van Buren; married
Robert Powers, a farmer. 2. Ellen, died in
New Brunswick; married Peter Powers. 3.
Margaret, died at Van Buren; married David
Cyr, a farmer. 4. Dennis, a farmer of Van
Buren ; married Severine Michaud, a native of
Canada. 5. Michael, mentioned below. 6.
John B., a farmer and merchant of Van
Buren; married Emeline Michaud, who was
born in Canada. 7. Charles, merchant of Van
Buren;, married Caroline Nedeau, of New
Brunswick. 8. Betsey Ann; married Zebe-
diah Michaud, a native of Canada, a farmer at
Van Buren. 9. Edward, died at Marysville,
New Brunswick, a millwright.
(II) Michael Farrell, son of Michael Far
rell, was born at Van Buren, May 12, 1827,
and died there March 8, 1882. He was edu
cated in the public schools of his native town.
In politics he was a Republican, a leader of
his party. He was justice of the peace, and
for more than twenty years deputy sheriff of
the county. He was a farmer all his active
life. In religion he was a Roman Catholic.
He married Eulalia Bellefleur, who was born
at St. Basil, New Brunswick, February 14,
1829, and died at Van Buren, August 3, 1912.
She was also a Roman Catholic. Children, all
born at Van Buren: 1. Catherine, born Sep
tember, 185 1, a school teacher ; married Michael
Michaud, of Wallagrass, Maine, a farmer
there ; children : Peter, Olive, Albert, William,
Elizabeth, Eulalia, Edward, Isabelle Michaud.
2. John Charles, November, 1852; river man,
builder of piers; married Julia A. Charrette,
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Olive and John. 3. Mary, October 30, 1854,
resides at Howland, Maine; married Alick
Nedeau ; children : Henry, Rosa, Joseph, Wil
liam, Alexander, Edward and Mary. 4. Eula
lia L., a school teacher; married George Ed
mund Watson (see Watson). 5. Michael,
October 8, 1858, resides at Waterville, a
painter and paper hanger, married Lena
Michaud; children: William, Edward and
Fred. 6. Henry, March, i860, a carpenter of
British Columbia; unmarried. 7. Son, died in
infancy. 8. Joseph, November 8, 1864, a miller,
Van Buren ; married Artemesia Bechard, born
in Quebec, Canada; children: George, Mary
and Lottie. 9. William, July, 1867, a mill
wright of Eagle Lake, Maine ; married (first)
Tillie Cyr, of Van Buren ; (second) Anastasia
Marquis, of St. Agatha; children by second
wife: Patrick, Mattie, Joseph, Maggie, Liz
zie and others. 10. Flevia, February 12, 1869;
resides at Burling Falls, New Hampshire;
married William Marden. 11. Edward, May
29, 1872, a millwright, Van Buren ; unmarried.
Isaac W. Clark was born prob-
CLARK ably in England, died in the
town of Charlotte, Maine, where
he is buried. He came to this country, accord
ing to family tradition, before he was married.
Children: 1. Eben, a farmer, died at Char
lotte. 2. Bela, died in. California. 3. William,
a carpenter, lost his life by a fall from a build
ing on which he was working. 4. Lewis, died
at Holland, Maine ; married Louisa Leavitt, of
Medway, Maine. 5. Aaron, died at Kingselian,
Illinois; soldier in the civil war, a Methodist
preacher. 6. Mary, died at Medway; married
John Hughes, of Charlotte, a farmer. 7. A
daughter. 8. Isaac W., mentioned below. The
order of birth is not known.
(II) Isaac W. (2) Clark, son of Isaac W.
(1) Clark, was born in Washington, Maine, in
1815, died at Mapleton, Maine. During his
active life he lived in Charlotte, Machias and
Medway. In politics he was a Whig. He was
a member of the Christian church. He mar
ried Annie Smith, born at Smith Ridge, Maine,
died in 1849. Children, all born at Charlotte:
I. Isaac W., died at Lowell, Maine, unmar
ried ; served in the civil war in the Fourteenth
Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and died
shortly after the war. 2. Mary Ann, died at
Medway, Maine ; married Joseph Thompson,
a farmer of Medway, also a lumberman. 3.
Lucretia, died young. 4. Lucretia Darmon,
died at Medway; married William Clifford, a
farmer. 5. Hannah, died at Ashland; mar
ried (first) Harris Crocker, of Medway, a
lumberman ; married (second) Charles Clay
ton, of Ashland, a lumberman. 6. Charles,

enlisted in the civil war from the town of
Cooper, Maine, in the Sixty-seventh Regiment
Maine Volunteer Infantry, was wounded and
died in the service. 7. Thomas, enlisted in the
Eleventh Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry
and died in the service in the military hospital.
8. Thaxter, mentioned below. 9. Daughter,
died in infancy.
(Ill) Thaxter Clark, son of Isaac W. (2)
Clark, was born in Charlotte, Washington
county, Maine, February 26, 1847. When he
was seven years old his parents moved to Med
way, Maine, where he attended the public
schools. He also attended the schools at Low
ell, Maine, but at the age of fourteen he went
to work. He followed farming and lumbering
for several years. He enlisted, September 27,
1864, in Company I, Ninth Regiment Maine
Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably dis
charged, June 22, 1865. He took part in the
battle of Chapin's Farm. After the war he re
turned to Maine, where he has since lived.
Since October 7, 1901, he has resided at Milli
nocket, Maine. In politics he is a Prohibition
ist. He is a member of the Free Baptist
Church of Island Falls. He is a member of
the Grand Army Post of Winn, Maine.
He married, September 19, 1869, in Matta-
wamkeag, Maine, Sarah M. Blackmore, born
in Mattawamkeag, July 9, 1845. She was edu
cated in the public schools of her native town
and taught school there, in Medway and Bene
dicta, Maine. She is a member of the Free
Baptist Church of Island Falls and .of the
Woman's Relief Corps. Children of Thaxter
Clark: 1. Horace B., born at Mattawam
keag, April 10, 1875 ; married, May 29, 1898,
at Island Falls, Maine, Vona Maguire, of Wil
ton. 2. George Eddie, mentioned below. 3.
Jennie H., born January 10, 1880 ; married,
June 11, 1898, Isaac Higgins, of Crystal,
Maine, a machinist, resides at Millinocket. 4.
Annie, born at Woodville, Maine, April 8,
1882, died at Millinocket, April 20, 1903. 5.
Harry H., born at Woodville, February 17,
1884; married Mary E. Given, of Millinocket,
September 25, 1906, partner of George Eddie.
Joseph I. Blackmore, father of Mrs. Clark,
was born at Woodstock, New Brunswick,
July 14, 181 1, died at Mattawamkeag, Febru
ary 1, 1866. He was a carpenter and builder.
He came to Mattawamkeag after the death of
his first wife and lived there during his last
years. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married (second) Hepsa Butterfield, born at
Kingsboro, Massachusetts, February 5, 1812,
died at Mattawamkeag, January 30, 1896.
Children by second wife: 1. George W., born
May 3, 1837, at Winn, Maine, then called Five
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was a carpenter by trade ; enlisted in Septem
ber, 1862, and served nine months in the civil
war; married Catherine Asher, of Sherman,
Maine; she died February 4, 1901. 2. Joseph
P., born November 13, 1840, at Mattawam
keag, died in December, 1841. 3. Sarah M.,
married Thaxter Clark, mentioned above.
Joseph Blackmore, father of Joseph I.
Blackmore, was born in England, died in
Woodstock, Maine; he was a farmer; mar
ried  Cozzens. Children: 1. William,
died at Richmond, New Brunswick, a farmer.
2. Joseph I., mentioned above. 3. Mary, died
at Kingsclear, New Brunswick; married Isaac
Mills, of New Brunswick, a farmer. 4. Sarah,
died at Hardscrabble, New Brunswick; mar
ried  Prosser, a farmer, now deceased.
5. Catherine, died at Richmond, New Bruns
wick ; married James Rush, a native of Ire
land, farmer. 6. Julia, died in New Bruns
wick ; married  Jewett, a farmer.
(IV) George Eddie Clark, son of Thaxter
Clark, was born at Prentice, Maine, September
6, 1877. He attended the public schools there
and at Mapleton, Maine, whither his parents
moved when he was eleven years old. At the
age of sixteen he went to work on a farm and
continued in this occupation until 1898 when
he began to learn the tanner's trade at Island
Falls. After working in the tannery for three
years, he came to Bangor and entered the
employ of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Company. He was a locomotive fireman for
four years. In 1909 he established a coal,
wood, ice and oil business at Millinocket,
Maine, in partnership with his brother, Harry
H. Clark, and the firm has continued with
marked success to the present time. In reli
gion he is a Methodist, but he attends the Bap
tist church of Millinocket. He is a member
of Millinocket Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of which he was recording sec
retary a year and a half and is now vice-grand
noble. He is also a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America, Millinocket Lodge,
No. 10,857.
He married, June 16, 1903, in Boiestown,
New Brunswick, Mabel Fairley, born at Boies-
town, March 23, 1883. She attends the Bap
tist church, and is a member of the Royal
Neighbors of Millinocket. She is a daughter
of George and Maggie (Long) Fairley, of
Boiestown. Her father was a farmer. Her
mother is living at Boiestown, an active mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. Chil
dren of George and Maggie Farley: 1. Het-
tie, born at Boiestown ; married Thomas Dick
inson, of Chatham, New Brunswick; resides
at Boiestown. 2. Howard, a lumberman at
Boiestown. 3. Livingston, a farmer. 4. Emma.

5. Mabel, married George Eddie Clark, men
tioned above. 6. Maude, resides with parents.
7. Stanley, of Millinocket. 8. Charles, died in
Boiestown, 1907. 9. William, died young.
Children of George Eddie and Mabel Clark:
1. George Thaxter, born at Millinocket, No
vember 7, 1906. 2. Stanley Irving, born No
vember 23, 1910.

(V) Lieutenant Nathaniel
KELLOGG Kellogg, son of Nathaniel
Kellogg (q. v.), was born in
Hadley, Massachusetts, September 22, 1693,
died there August 6, 1770. He was a surveyor
of land, and served as selectman of Hadley in
i737-39-4i-44-48-5o-53-57-59-6i- He was
lieutenant in the militia. In 1738 the general
court of Massachusetts allowed two hundred
and eight acres of land to Lieutenant Nathan
iel Kellogg and William Chandler, for a map
of the Connecticut river. It is said that Josiah
Kellogg built the old Thomas G. Ford house
in Hadley, which was torn down in 1901.
There was an old stone in this house, used as
a hearthstone, which bore the following in
scription : "In memory of Mrs. Sarah, the
wife of Lieut. Nathaniel Kellogg, who died
Sept. ye 15th ye A. D. 1756 in the 63d year of
her age. On the left hand lies the body of
their Dautr Abigail who died Sept ye 15th ye
A. D. 1756 in her 19th year. On the right
hand side lies the body of their son Nathaniel
who died Sept ye  ;" the stone was broken
at this point. Lieutenant Kellogg married
(first) March 4, 1714, Sarah Preston, born in
Hadley, November 8, 1693, died September
15, 1756, daughter of John and Sarah (Gar
diner) Preston. He married (second) inten
tions published July 1, 1758, Mrs. Martha
(Allis) Hammond, of Hardwick, born No
vember 19, 1703, died September 13, 1764,
daughter of Ichabod Allis, of Hatfield, born
July 10, 1675, and Mary (Belden) Allis, born
August 27, 1679. He married (third) in Ware,
October 29, 1765, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of
Ware, and she survived him. Children, born
in Hadley: Daniel, born about 1717; Abra
ham, born about 1719; Prudence, born about
1723; Joel, born about 1724; Gardiner, men
tioned below; Moses, born about 1733; Phebe,
married Lieutenant Eleazer Nash ; Sarah, died
unmarried, aged more than sixty years; Abi
gail, died September 15, 1756, aged nineteen;
Nathaniel, died young.
(VI) Gardiner Kellogg, son of Lieutenant
Nathaniel Kellogg, was born in Hadley, Mas
sachusetts, about 1730, died there October 6,
1814. He served as sentinel in Captain Israel
Williams' company, in Colerain and Charle-
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as private in Captain William's company, in
the expedition against Crown Point, 1756;
served forty-four weeks. He married, April
29, 1762, Thankful Chapin, of West Spring
field, born February 22, 1727, died February
24, 1755, daughter of Joseph and Thankful
(Dickinson) Chapin. Joseph Chapin was born
March 16, 1697, was of Chicopee, Massachu
setts, and Thankful was of Hatfield, Massa
chusetts. Gardiner Kellogg and his wife were
buried in the Hadley cemetery, where their
gravestones may still be seen. Children, born
in Hadley: Nathaniel, born October 1, 1763;
Gardiner, mentioned below ; Josiah, born July
x5> l7&7'> Lucy, born November 2, 1769.
(VII) Rev. Gardiner (2) Kellogg, son of
Gardiner (1) Kellogg, was born in Hadley,
Massachusetts, September 22, 1765, died in
Windham, Maine, November 29, 1826. He
attended Amherst or Yale College, of which
he was a graduate, and in 1791 was clergyman
at Bradford, Vermont, and Windham, Maine.
He was called "Good Old Parson Kellogg,"
and in religion was Congregational. He was
a cousin once removed of Elijah Kellogg, the
author. He was a man of fine character, much
beloved by those who knew him, In politics
he was a Whig. Late in life he owned a small
farm in Windham. He married Abigail White,
born May 8, 1781, died in Portland, Maine, in
1844, daughter of James and Eunice (Kings
bury) White, of Thetford, Vermont. James
White was born May 17, 1754, and his wife
was born June, 1759. Children, first five born
in Bradford, others in Windham: 1. Lucy,
born June 19, 1799; married Samuel I. Wells;
died in Portland; her husband studied law
under Daniel Webster, and practiced in Salis
bury, Maine. 2. Gardiner, mentioned below.
3. Julia, born 1804, died in Portland, 1871, un
married. 4. Henry, born 1806, died in 1808.
5. Caroline, born 1809, died at Portland, un
married, a teacher. 6. Benjamin, born 181 1,
died in Clinton, 1835, unmarried; contracted
a cold while in Yale College which settled on
his lungs, and went to Clinton, Georgia, for
his health ; was a successful teacher. 7. Har
riet Newell, born 1814, died in Philadelphia,
unmarried, February 11, 1877; was a well-
known artist, and for some years a Bible
reader for the poor of Philadelphia.
(VIII) Gardiner (3) Kellogg, son of Rev.
Gardiner (2) Kellogg, was born in Bradford,
Vermont, January 7, 1802, died in Clinton,
Georgia, October, 1840. He attended the pub
lic schools and entered Bowdoin College, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. He was afterward a student
at Yale University and was graduated with the
degree of Master of Arts. He taught school

at Penn Yan, New York, and in a young
ladies' seminary at Sparta, Georgia, and in a
similar institution at Clinton, Georgia. He
went south on account of pulmonary disease,
but continued to teach until two days before
he died. In politics he was a Whig." He was
a member of the Congregational church.
He married, in Gorham, Maine, November 9,
1828, Elizabeth Green Foster, born at Gorham,
October 14, 1805, daughter of William Hart
and Betsey (Plarding) Foster. She died at Gor
ham, February 26, 1870. Her father was born
in Boston, January 20, 1780, and her mother
was born November 14, 1786. Mrs. Kellogg
was educated in the Gorham Seminary. She
was a member of the Congregational church.
Children: 1. Gardiner, born in Penn Yan, Au
gust 21, 1829; a printer by trade in Gorham
all his active life; died there, August 19, 1900,
unmarried. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born at Penn
Yan, March 21, 1831, died in July, 1831. 3.
John William, born at Gorham, May 13, 1832,
died at Sherman Mills, in March, 1906; he
was engaged in literary work; married Maria
Lucy Caldwell, of Sherman Mills, where she
now resides; children: Ernest Lee, born at
Island Falls, December 10, 1864, died at Sher
man Mills, May 6, 1880; Elizabeth, bom at
Island Falls, April 13, 1866, married Walter
Spooner, of Monanda, Maine, a carpenter of
Sherman Mills ; Benjamin, born at Island Falls,
February 19, 1868, died in infancy; Wesley,
born at Island Falls, September 30, 1869, a
machinist, later a merchant, and since 1910
owner of the Sherman House, married, No
vember 24, 1897, Geneva Augusta Ingalls, born
at Sherman Mills, and had children : Frederick
Ernest, born June 25, 1899, Lucy, June 15,
1902, Pearl James, October 5, 1906, Donald
Foster, August 9, 1909; Mary Louisa, born at
Sherman Mills, July 28, 1871, died there, May
30, 1880; Margaret Hiller, born January 10,
1873, at Sherman Mills, died there, May 25,
1874; John William Jr., born at Sherman
Mills, September 2,2, 1874, died there, May
30, 1880. 4. Louisa Terrill, born at Sparta,
Georgia, November 5, 1834, died at Gorham,
Maine, August 20, 1893, unmarried; was a
teacher in the grammar schools of Gorham
and Portland, Maine. 5. Lucy Elizabeth, born
at Sparta, March 6, 1837, died at Gorham, in
November, 1906, unmarried. 6. Mary Foster,
born at Clinton, Georgia, October 12, 1839;
educated at the Gorham, Seminary ; member
of the First Parish Church of Gorham; has
been a teacher of drawing and painting in
Gorham. 7. Charles Foster, born July 17,
1841, at Clinton, died at Gorham; was a civil
engineer ; served in the civil war, in the First
Maine Cavalry, for a year, discharged for
physical disability.

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Noah Rogers was born, it is
ROGERS thought, at Cornville, Maine, in
1816, died at Abbott, Maine, in
1894, where he was a farmer. In politics he
was at first a Whig and later a Republican.
Pie served in the civil war, enlisting in 1861
and serving throughout the war. He was
injured during service and was granted a pen
sion, which arrived the day after his death.
He married Sarah Davis, who was born about
1819, died in Abbott in 1903. Children, not
given in order of birth: 1. William L., lives at
Greenville, Maine ; a lumberman ; married
Frances Wyman, who died in 1910. 2. Man-
son, a lumberman, lives in the west. 3. George,
married Louise Loud ; lives at Dover, Maine,
being employed in a factory. 4. Laura, mar
ried Charles Collis, deceased, was a locomotive
engineer; she lives at Dover. 5. Flora, mar
ried Edward Fogg, of Abbott, Maine, a rail
road employee; they live at Bingham, Maine.
6. Willis, a lumber clerk in British Columbia.
7. Charles, a lumberman, lives in the west. 8.
Walter D., mentioned below.
(II) Walter D. Rogers, son of Noah Rogers,
was born at Orneville, Maine, August, 1843,
died at Abbott, Maine, April, 191 1. He was a
lumberman and later a farmer at Abbott, where
he owned two hundred acres of land. In poli
tics he was a Republican, and he was a mem
ber of the Free Will Baptist church, of which
he was deacon for many years. He was a
member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He married Lucia M. Simonds, born in
Ogdensburg, New York, June 29, 1848, and
who now lives at Abbott. She is a member of
the Free Wih Baptist church, and of the Guil
ford Grange, Guilford, Maine. Children, born
in Abbott, Maine: 1. Arthur, born 1872; mar
ried Mary Huff, of Shirley, Maine, where they
live on a farm. 2. Elmer, born 1874; married
Edith Frost, of Willimantic, Maine, and they
live at Guilford, where they own a farm; he
also works in the saw mills. 3. George, born
1876; married Annie Kingsbury, of Bradford,
Maine, deceased ; he has a farm at Abbott. 4.
Justin N., born March 20, 1878 ; dentist, located
at Patten, Maine. 5. Forest, born 1880; mar
ried Vira Kendall, of Willimantic; they live
on a farm at Abbott. 6. Lawrence, born 1888;
salesman for the Maine Tourist Bureau ; un
married.

John Blethen, the immigrant
BLETHEN ancestor, settled in Salem,
Massachusetts. He owned
land on the Old Mill brook, adjoining land of
Samuel Gardner and Daniel Southwick and
the highway along the common lands near

Northfields. His will is dated at Salem, 1704.
He married, May 10, 1672, or 1674, Jane
Marks, of Salem. Children : John, mentioned
below ; Jane ; Elizabeth ; Sarah ; Abigail ; Han
nah. (II) John (2) Blethen, son of John (1)
Blethen, married Mary  . Children:
Nathan ; Samuel ; John, mentioned below.
(Ill) John (3) Blethen, son of John (2)
Blethen, married  Kane, and settled in
Georgetown, Maine. Children: Rhoda; Han
nah ; Sarah ; Wealthy ; Phebe ; James, married
Miriam Day, and lived at Cape Elizabeth ; John,
mentioned below ; Job ; Increase ; Levi.
(IV) John (4) Blethen, son of John (3)
Blethen, settled in Lisbon, Maine. He mar
ried (first) in 1763, Dorcas Getchell, of Bruns
wick, Maine. He married (second) August
27, 1789, Hannah Hubbard. He married
(third) Abby Welch. He had twelve children
by his first wife and seven by the second. He
was in the garrison house in 1722, when it was
attacked by the Indians. He died at the age
of ninety-four years. He lived at Old Town,
Maine. He bought Lot 12 in Durham, Maine,
in 1770, and afterward moved to Lisbon, where
he died at the home of his daughter Hannah.
Children: Rhoda; James, mentioned below;
John, married Sally Pomeroy ; Hannah ; Mary ;
Josiah ; Reuben ; Increase ; Simeon ; Judy ;
William ; Joseph ; Job ; Stephen ; David ; Dor
cas ; Achsah ; Jonathan ; Sarah ; Rhoda, mar
ried Simeon Kimball; Phebe, married Charles
Gerrish ; Azel ; Miriam, married Nathaniel
Getchell ; Polly, married Josiah True ; Dorcas,
married Edsel Webber ; Joanna, married James
Estes. Probably others.
(V) James Blethen, son of John (4)
Blethen, was born in Durham, Maine, died
March 4, 1812. He married Sally Bryan, who
died October 5, 181 1. Children: John, born
September 6, 1789, died April 3, 1873, married
Rebecca Blethen, a cousin ; James, April 4,
1791; Sally, February 2, 1793; Andrew, Janu
ary 2, 1795 ; Reuben, September 14, 1797 ; Abi
gail, July 14, 1799; Isaac, mentioned below;
George, July 21, 1804, died February 23, 1890,
married, April 13, 1826; Mary, September 16,
or June 26, 1807. All born at Durham, accord
ing to the town history.
(VI) Isaac Blethen, son of James Blethen,
was born in Durham, Maine, June 30, 1801,
died at Dover, Maine, in May, 1884. He was
educated in the public schools of Durham, and
came to Dover at the age of nineteen. He was
a carpenter by trade, and in 1844 he built the
Hotel Blethen. In politics he was a Democrat.
He was active in the state militia and major of
his regiment. He married Susan G. Longley,
who died-in 1870. Children, all born in Dover :

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1. Isaac D., born December 10, 1820, died at
Dover ; was a truckman and hotel proprietor ;
married Julia Elder, of Dexter. 2. Jonas L.[
born April 3, 1823, died in Nevada; was a
carpenter ; married Mary Downing. 3. Charles
born December 5, 1825, killed in a railroad
accident in California; married Lydia Galison.
4. James, born June 25, 1828, died in Oakland^
California; was a lumberman. 5. William
Dennett, mentioned below. 6. Alphonso George
(q. v.). 7. Henry A., born August 11, 1836;
a jeweler at Dexter, Maine; married (first)
Eleanor Turner, (second) Carrie (Spaulding)
Chase. 8. Susan Augusta, born August 14,
1838, died in Dover; married Joseph H. Allen.
9. Helen A., born January 8, 1842; resides
with her nephew, Walter Blethen.
(VII) William Dennett Blethen, son of
Isaac Blethen, was born at Dover, Maine,
March 12, 1831, died there, May 26, 1907. He
attended the public schools of his native town
and Foxcroft Academy. He became associated
in business with his father, whom he succeeded
as proprietor of Hotel Blethen. He went to
California for gold in 1850 and remained there
for four years. He returned to Dover, where
he spent the remainder of his life. He was a
member of Dover Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; of Kineo Lodge, No. 64, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Dover; and of
Eldorado Encampment, No. 20, of which he
was treasurer for a number of years. In poli
tics he was a Democrat. He married Mary
Caroline Warren, born at Abbott, Maine, in
1828, died at Dover, 1865, daughter of Eben
ezer Warren, who died at Abbott in 1864. Her
father was a farmer. Children: 1. Walter
Henry, mentioned below. 2. Harry W., born
at Dover, July 9, 1862 ; educated in the Dover
schools and Foxcroft Academy; is in partner
ship in business with his brother; he is a
Democrat in politics; member of the Knights
of Pythias, of Dover, of which he is past chan
cellor, having held all the offices in succession ;
married Effie M. Hale, born at Dexter, Maine,
died at Dover, February 1, 1906.
(VIII) Walter Henry Blethen, son of Wil
liam Dennett Blethen, was born at Dover,
Maine, April 26, 1859. He attended the pub
lic schools of his native town and Foxcroft
Academy. In 1878 he left school and was em
ployed by his father in Hotel Blethen, which
was built by his grandfather in 1844. He has
continued in this business and is in partner
ship with his brother in conducting the hotel.
It is the largest hotel in this section and is
equipped with all modern improvements and
conveniences. It is a favorite stopping place
for the traveling public, especially commercial
travelers. The structure has been thoroughly

remodeled three times since it was built and
additions made from time to time. In politics
Mr. Blethen is a Democrat. Pie has been town
treasurer of Dover for ten consecutive years.
He is trustee of the Thompson Free Library
of Dover. He is a member of Kineo Lodge,
No. 64, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Dover, and has been secretary of the lodge
since July, 1885. He is also a member of
Eldorado Encampment, No. 20, of Dover, of
which he has been secretary since January,
1886. He is a member of Kineo Canton, No.
6, and of 'the Winona Rebekah Lodge, No. 11.
Mr. Blethen married, December 4, 1890, in
Dover, Nellie Sanford, born in Dover and
educated there in the public schools. She is
a member of Winona Rebekah Lodge of Odd
Fellows. She is a daughter of Elihu Sanford,
who was born in New York state about 1833,
died in Dover, Maine, 1903, a blacksmith, and
hotel and livery proprietor in Dover. In his
younger days Mr. Sanford followed the sea.
In politics he was a Republican. He married
Ann Adams, of Bangor, who died in Dover,
in 1906, aged seventy-two years, daughter of
Samuel Adams, who- died in Dover, in 1884,
aged ninety-three years, and Margaret (Haley)
Adams, who lived to the age of eighty-two
years. Children of Elihu and Ann (Adams)
Sanford: 1. Nellie, married Walter Henry
Blethen, mentioned above. 2. John, resides in
Nebraska. 3. Horatio, died in Dover ; married
Lillian Bowker, who is now living in Dover ;
he was a barber by trade. 4. Willis, a livery
man, died in Dover; married Minnie Cofren.
5. Samuel G., a liveryman, resides in Foxcroft ;
married Florence Lyford, of Dover. 6. Etta,
died in Dover, unmarried. Mr. and- Mrs.
Blethen have one child, Mary Etta, born at
Dover, December 17, 1892, graduate of the
Dover grammar school, 1906; of Foxcroft
Academy, 1910; now a student in Wellesley
College, class of 1915.

(VII) Alphonso George
BLETHEN Blethen, son of Isaac Blethen
(q. v.), was born in Dover,
Maine, January 12, 1833. He is now a jeweler
there. He went to Aurora, Nevada, in 1851,
where he learned the trade of watchmaking,
and he remained there for several years. At
one time he owned a sash and blind factory
in San Francisco, and while there also owned
a water works supply and artesian wells. Since
that period he has lived in Dover. In politics
he is a Republican, and he has held the offices
of school commissioner several times and of
road commissioner. He attends the Methodist
Episcopal church, and is a member of Dover
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the

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Odd Fellows at Dover. He married Martha
Rockwell, born in Sebec, Maine, January i,
1834, and was educated in the Dover public
schools and at Foxcroft Academy. For sev
eral years she taught school at Sebec and at
Houlton, Maine, before her marriage. Chil
dren, all born in Dover: 1. Frank, mentioned
below. 2. Annie, born 1867; married Bart
lett Clark, of Salem, Massachusetts, an insur
ance adjuster, deceased; she lives in Dover.
3. Edith, born 1870, unmarried; lives with
parents ; attended Foxcroft Academy, study
ing painting under Miss Greeley, of Fox
croft ; has taught drawing and painting in oils.
Martha Rockwell, wife of Alphonso George
Blethen, was daughter of Thomas Rockwell,
who was born at Sebec, about 1807, and died
at Dover, about 1874. He owned a farm at
Foxcroft. He married Deborah Glidden, born
at Sebec, about 1812, died at Dover, in 1907.
Children, all born at Sebec, Maine: 1. Elisha,
born about 1831, died at Cooperville, Washing
ton, 19 10, where he had a ranch; married and
had children : Mattie, and Annie, deceased.
2. Martha, married Alphonso George Blethen,
mentioned above. 3. Lucy, born 1837, lives
in Dover, unmarried. 4. Frank, lives at Reno,
Nevada, where he is chief of police; was with
Wells Fargo Express Company there for many
years. (VIII) Frank Blethen, son of Alphonso
George Blethen, was born at Dover, Maine,
January 1, 1864. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Foxcroft
Academy, leaving school in 1881. He followed
the trade of watchmaker in Bath, Maine, hav
ing previously learned the trade in his father's
store. After two years in Bath- he spent a
year in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He then
established himself in business as a jeweler at
Monson, Maine. After a year there he re
turned to Dover, where he remained for two
years. In 1887 he went to San Jose, Cali
fornia, thence went to Fresno, California, and
afterward to Carson City, Nevada. In 1889
he returned to Maine, but in the fall went west
again, locating in Seattle, Washington. In the
spring of 1890 he again went to Carson City,
where he remained for three years. During
the next six years he had a jewelry store at
Caribou, Maine. In 1899 he opened a jewelry
store at Houlton, Maine, and since then he has
remained in business in that town. In his line
of business he is the leading merchant in this
section. In politics he is a Democrat, though
until four years ago he was a Republican. In
religion he is a Universalist. He is a charter
member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, No. 835, of Houlton, and has
served on the house committee for two years.

He is also a charter member of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, No. 816, of Houlton, and has
served on its building committee. He is a
charter member of Caribou Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, and of the Uniformed Rank. He is
also a member .of Loyal Order of Moose, No.
818, of Houlton, and was on the board of trus
tees in 1912 and on the house committee in
1913. Before he was of age he enlisted in the
Maine state militia and served for eight years
in Company F, and in Nevada he served in the
Carson City Guards, with rank of junior
second lieutenant.
Mr. Blethen married, at Caribou, in Janu
ary, 1898, Louise Levasseur, born in North
Linden, Maine, in January, 1882. She is a
graduate of the Caribou high school ; member
of the Roman Catholic church and of the
Ladies1 Division of the Knights of Pythias,
and she is president of the Ladies' Division of
the New England Order of Protection. Chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blethen: 1. Fred
Alton, born at Houlton, October 5, 1902. 2.
Marion, born at Houlton. April 3, 1904. 3.
Doris, born at Houlton, June 25, 1906, died
July 8, 1914.
Ezekiel Levasseur, father of Mrs. Blethen,
was born in New Brunswick, in 1842, died at
Caribou, Maine, in 1909. He received his edu
cation in Canada and came to Maine when a
young man. He enlisted in a Maine regiment
in the civil war. After the war he was a
lumberman in Maine to the time of his death.
In politics he was a Republican and afterward
a Democrat. He served as selectman of Cari
bou at the time the great bridge was built
across the Aroostook river and his name ap
pears on the tablet on the bridge. He was a
communicant of the Roman Catholic church.
He married Madeline  . She now lives
in Caribou. Children of Ezekiel and Made
line Levasseur: 1. Delina, married Arthur
Bouchard, of Caribou, a telephone man. 2.
Charles, died in Caribou, aged about twenty-
five, a farmer. 3. Louise, married Frank
Blethen, mentioned above. Other children died
young.

The old Dutch surname
VAN HEUSEN Van Heusen is identical
with Van Hoosen, Van
Hoesen and Van Hoosear. It is also found
spelled in a variety of other ways. The pro
genitor of the Van Hoosear family of Con
necticut appears to have changed the spelling
after moving from New York state to western
Connecticut at the time of the revolution. The
family is not large and though it is difficult to
trace all the descendants it is practically cer
tain that all of the name are descended from

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the immigrant ancestor, mentioned below. At
one time a Van Heusen Family Association
was formed for the purpose of claiming an
estate in the old country, but as in all similar
cases of foreign estates claimed by the scat
tered descendants in this country from a re
mote ancestor of whom they knew little or
nothing, many took stock in the estate, but no
estate was ever found.
(I) Jan Franse Van Heusen, or Hoesen,
was born in Holland and settled early at Fort
Orange and Beverwyck, in what is now the
state of New York. In 1662 he bought land
at Claverack, on the Hudson river, from the
Indians and he died there about 1667. He
married Volkie Juriaanse, sister of Amatje
Juriaanse, wife of Andries Herbertsen Con-
stapl. After the death of Mr. Van Heusen
she married (second) Gerritt Visbeech. The
Van Heusens were Lutherans for several gen
erations, and therefore we find few baptisms
in the old Dutch church records. Children of
Jan F. Van Heusen living in 1694: Juriaan;
Jacob; Volkert; Johannes, mentioned below;
Anna, married Luykas Gerritsen; Stynje Jan
Tys Goes ; Marya, married Hendrick Coen-
radtse; Catharina, married Frank Hardingh.
(II) Johannes Van Heusen, son of Jan
Franse Van Heusen, was born about 1670.
He lived at Claverack and Kinderhook, New
York. He married (first) Jannetje Janse De
Ryke, (second) Willempse Viele Winne,
widow of Levinus Winne, June 19, 1709. He
deeded land to two sons, October 24, 1724.
Children : Jan ; Johannes ; Harmen, mentioned
below ; Gerritt ; Jacob, baptized January 8,
1699; Jacob, baptized January 5, 1701 ; Fran-
cisca, baptized June 13, 1703; Maria, baptized
January 7, 1705; Gerrittje, born in Albany,
baptized' in the Lutheran church, August 20.
1710; Nicholas, born at Claverack, baptized
at Loonenburgh, February, 1712.
(Ill) Harmen Van Heusen, son of Jo
hannes Van Heusen, was born at Claverack,
New York, or vicinity, shortly before 1700.
He married Geesie  , who was buried in
the Lutheran church yard, April 11, 1746.
Among their children were : Jan, buried Au
gust 28, 1754; Volkert, mentioned below;
Reiner; Hendrick; Lucas, baptized April 24,
1726. (IV) Volkert Van Heusen, son of Harmen
Van Heusen, was born about 1713. He mar
ried, April 20, 1738, Alida Marselius. Chil
dren: Harmen, mentioned below; Bregje,
born November 9, 1740; Myndert, February
20, 1743; Geesje, April 21, 1745 : Render, Sep
tember 2, 1750; Gerritt, October 13, 1754.
(V) Harmen (2) Van Heusen, son of Vol

kert Van Heusen, was born at Claverack, or
vicinity, September 24, 1738. He married,
September 10, 1763, Catharyntje Witbeck.
Children: Volbert,born August 22, 1764; Eva,
October 31, 1766; Volkert, mentioned below;
Alida, August 13, 1771 ; Engeltje, September
21, 1776; Geertruy, August 6, 1780; Gerritt,
November 12, 1782; Alida, December 5, 1787.
(VI) Volkert (2) Van Heusen, son of Har
men (2) Van Heusen, was born April 1, 1769.
He married Jane Young. He had a son Har
men, born December 17, 1799. Probably
others. The brothers and sisters of Volkert,
mentioned below, as given by the family were :
Myndert, Garrett, John, Bathen (?), married
John Lansing; Julia, married Hitam Bryant.
The father was a farmer and shoemaker.
(VII) Volkert (3) Van Heusen, son or
nephew of Volkert (2) Van Heusen, was born
about 1804, in Claverack, New York, or vicin
ity. He was a farmer all his active life. In his
younger days he served in the militia. In politics
he was a Democrat and he served three terms
as assessor. He removed to Queensbury, War
ren county, New York, and died there in
1882-83, aged seventy-seven years. He mar
ried, March 5, 1834, Helen Groesbeck, born in
Dutchess county, New York, in 1803-04, died
in April, 1880, daughter of Jacob Groesbeck,
a farmer. They were members of the Pres
byterian church. The children of Peter Groes
beck were : Peter, who died aged seventy
years ; Agnes, Gertrude, Sarah, Betsey, Helen,
Rebecca, Jemima, Catherine, John J. Groes
beck, all now deceased. Children of Volkert
and Helen Van Heusen: Margaret Ann, died
aged three years ; Leonard Harmen, died in
1910, aged seventy years ; Jacob Peter, aged
seventy years in 1912 ; Helen Augusta, mar
ried John Miller, resides at Glen Falls, New
York ; Garrett Arthur, mentioned below ; Lem
uel Harmen, never married ; Francelia, born in
1850, married Jacob Buckbee, a farmer.
(VIII) Garrett Arthur Van Heusen, son of
Volkert (3) Van Heusen, was born in Queens-
bury, Warren county, New York, January 22,
1846. He received his early education in the
public schools. For many years he followed
farming, but has in later years been a general
contractor and teamster at Glens Falls, New
York. He is a Republican in politics, and a
Methodist in religion.
He married, May 21, 1873, at Queensbury,
New York, Helen Jane Mead, born March 6,
1852, daughter of John H. and Polly Ann
(Williams) Mead. Her father was born at
Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York, died
at the age of seventy-seven years, seven
months ; her mother was born at Queensbury,

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died there, in 1912, aged eighty-six years.
Children of her parents : Albert H., married
Lucy Murray; Edwin R., married Lettie Wil
liams ; Helen Jane, married Garrett Arthur
Van Heusen, mentioned above ; Mary Per-
melia, married Henry Stevenson ; Polly Ann,
married John Mead ; Ada Belle, married Scott
Gleason, of Glens Falls ; Amanda L., married
George Norman; Charles W., never married;
Fred J., married Ethel Van Dusen, of Glens
Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Van Heusen have one
child, Gertrude A., born April 2, 1874.

Stephen Hardison, the immi-
HARDISON grant ancestor, was doubt
less of English birth and an
cestry. He settled at Berwick, Maine, as early
as 1687, the date of a deed which he witnessed.
He was there in 1691 according to the court
and birth records, in 1696 was yet living, but
died in 1697 or 1698, when his widow Mary
is mentioned in the records. Children : John,
born January 22, 1691 ; Stephen, mentioned
below. (II) Stephen (2) Hardison, son of Stephen
(1) Hardison, was born at Berwick or Kittery,
Maine, May 9, 1693, died December 25, 1769.
He married, at Kittery, September 23, 1724,
Alice Abbott, believed to be daughter of Joseph
and Alice (Nason) Abbott. Children: 1. John,
born August 16, 1725 ; a soldier in the revolu
tion from Berwick; had son John, baptized
January 4, 1755. 2. Stephen, born July 30,
1727; married (first) September 5, 1753, Mary
Crece; had daughter Mary, baptized July 16,
1754; married (second) November 9, 1756,
Hannah Scammon. 3. Mary, born January
16, 1728-29. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5.
Thomas, born January 9, 1736; married, De
cember 2, 1756, Mary Chadburn. 6. Nathaniel,
born April 22, 1738; married, October 25,
1758, Charity Shorey. 7. Alice, born April
22, 1738; married, September 9, 1756, Thomas
Shorey. This seems to include the entire
family down to the revolution. John and Ben
jamin were soldiers in the revolution from
Berwick; Nathaniel, Stephen and Thomas
were also in the revolution. According to the
census of 1790 there were six families of the
name in Maine : Joseph, of Lebanon ; Na
thaniel; Stephen, of Sullivan, Hancock county ;
Samuel, Stephen and Thomas, of Berwick,
York county, Maine.
(Ill) Joseph Hardison, son of Stephen (2)
Hardison, was born at Kittery or Berwick,
Maine, September 3, 1732. He married, No
vember 15, 1752, Mary Pike. In 1790 he was
living in Lebanon, near Berwick, and accord
ing to the first federal census had in his family
three males over sixteen, two under that age

and five females. Among his children was
Joseph, mentioned below.
(IV) Joseph (2) Hardison, son of Joseph
(1) Hardison, was born in 1772, at Berwick,
Maine, died April 28, 1858, aged eighty-six
years, at Caribou, Maine. He was a pioneer
at Winslow, Maine, a farmer during his active
life. He married twice. His wives were of
¦ the Libby and Brainerd families, their given
names not known. Children by first wife:
Pliram ; Joseph ; Ivory, mentioned below ;
Mary. Children by second wife: Betsey, died
unmarried; Lucinda, died in California; Re
becca. (V) Ivory Hardison, son of Joseph (2)
Hardison, was born in China, Maine, in 1798,
died at Caribou in that state in 1874. He fol
lowed farming in China, in Winslow, and
finally in Caribou, where he settled in 1841
with the pioneers and cleared his farm. In
politics he was a Democrat. He was road sur
veyor, justice of the peace and for a number
of years postmaster of Caribou. He married
Dorcas Abbott, born at Winslow, Maine, 1799,
died at Caribou, 1887. The Abbotts were early
settlers at Andover, Massachusetts, and vicin
ity. Children: 1. Jacob, born at Winslow,
March 11, 1825; was a farmer in Caribou;
married Adaline Smiley, of Winslow, now
residing at Santa Paula, California. 2. Dor
cas, born at Winslow, March 7, 1827; mar
ried Samuel Collins, of Bangor, farmer and
miller ; she resides at Caribou ; children : C. P.,
now in Oklahoma ; Clara, married (first) M.
D. Teague, (second)  Gries, of Los An
geles, California ; Florence, married Dr.
Charles Porter, a Congregational minister, and
she is living in Los Angeles ; Edith E., mar
ried Charles E. Oak, of Bangor; Hershel, a
lumberman of Caribou. 3. Oliver A., men
tioned below. 4. Mary, born at Winslow,
April 21, 1831 ; married James Bishop, born
in New Brunswick, 1824, an oil producer, died
in California; she is living at Santa Paula in
that state. 5. James, born 183,5; married
—  Brook, of Newfoundland ; they are
living at Geneva, Indiana; he is an oil pro
ducer. 6. Harvey, born at Caribou, died at
Newhall, California, killed by an oil explosion.
7. Martin, mentioned below. 8. Ai, born in
Kennebec county, Maine, 1838; resides in Los
Angeles, California; formerly a prosperous
farmer at Caribou; married Josephine Pratt.
9. Ida, born at Caribou; married John Brown,
an oil producer; she resides in Santa Paula.
10. Wallace, born at Caribou, an oil producer
at Los Angeles; editor of the Los Angeles
Herald, 1900-04; killed by a railroad train
colliding with his automobile.
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Hardison, was born at China, Maine, May 18,
1829, died at Caribou, Maine, June 25, 1902.
His parents removed to Caribou when he was
twelve years old. He followed farming and
lumbering and cleared a farm on which he
lived the remainder of his life. In politics he
was a Democrat. He was road surveyor and
school agent, a member of the Universalist
church, and of Caribou Grange, No. 138, Pat
rons of Husbandry. He married Mary
O'Leary, March 14, 1852, in Lyndon, Maine,
now Caribou. She was born in Mirimichi,
New Brunswick, January 22, 1823, died at
Caribou, Maine, September 14, 1905. She was
a Roman Catholic in religion, member of the
Caribou Grange. Her father was a native of
Ireland, died in Mirimichi; married (first) in
Ii eland, (second) in Mirimichi. He was a
farmer, a Roman Catholic in religion. Chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary: Mary, mar
ried Oliver A. Hardison; Simon, a farmer,
died in Presque Isle, unmarried ; Ellen, mar
ried  Rideout, a farmer, lost his life in
the civil war. Children of Oliver A. Hardi
son : 1. Lewis A., born August 9, 1853 ; resides
at Santa Paula, California, in charge of a
pumping station in the oil fields. 2. Ellen M.,
born May 9, 1855 ; married Simeon Oldham,
of Peru, Maine ; she died at Caribou ; he lives
in Auburn. 3. Abbott, born January 4, 1857,
died in 1881, in Ohio; was an oil producer.
4. Anna Cora, born May 27, 1859; married
Clarence Titcomb, of Lewiston, Maine ; resides
at Auburn. 5. Edward Augustine, born Feb
ruary 20, 1861 ; oil producer, Los Angeles,
California, and in Arizona. 6. Mary Jennie,
born March 30, 1862; married Fessenden
Hubbard, of Canaan, Maine. 7. George W.,
mentioned below.
(VI) Martin Hardison, brother of Oliver
A. Hardison, was born at China, Maine, No
vember, 1835. He attended the public schools
of Caribou. When a young man he bought
a farm there, and afterward he sold out and
managed the homestead for his mother during
the remainder of his life. In politics he was
a Republican ; in religion a Universalist. He
married Lucy Nickerson, born at Jacksontown,
New Brunswick, August 9, 1847, now living
at Ashland, New Brunswick, a member of the
Free Will Baptist church. Their only child,
Tressa, married her cousin, George W. Hardi
son, mentioned below.
Ira Nickerson, father of Lucy (Nickerson)
Hardison, was born in England, 1810, died at
Jacksontown, 1875. He came to New Bruns
wick when a young man and followed farming
in Jacksontown the remainder of his life. He
married, in New Brunswick, Margaret Rock

well, also a native of England, born 1822, died
at Wytopitlock, Maine, 1912. Children of Ira
Nickerson, born at Jacksontown: 1. Lucy,
married Martin Hardison, mentioned above.
2. Nancy, born 1849; married (first) Allen
Jones, a school teacher of Centreville, New
Brunswick, and had Frank Jones, now a
butcher in Syracuse, New York; married
(second) George Currie, a farmer of Centre
ville, and had Miles Currie; married (third)
 Sloat, of Tracy's Mills, New Bruns
wick, a miller. 3. Elizabeth, born 1851; mar
ried Thomas McKee, of Smyrna Mills, Maine,
soldier in the civil war; she is living at
Smyrna; children: Ira, of Smyrna Mills; Ena,
married Knowland Noyes, mail carrier,
Smyrna; Thomas, of Smyrna Mills; Lillie,
married  Hanson, of Sherman, Maine;
Winnifred. 4. Francis, born 1853; married
Edward Bragdon, a farmer of Smyrna ; chil
dren : Dora; Burns, of Linneus, a shingle
sawyer; George, a farmer of Smyrna Mills
Emerson, of Golden Ridge, Maine, a farmer
Miles; Leila; Elizabeth. 5. Delia, born 1856
married Stephen Rockwell, a farmer of Lin
neus ; children : Elzana, married  Hen
derson, of Linneus ; Lillian ; Margaret, mar
ried Alexander Reardon, of Easton ; Cecilia ;
Blanche. 6. George, born 1858, a farmer;
married Sarah Frecartan, of Jacksontown. 7.
Darius, born i860; resides at Golden Ridge, a
farmer ; married Marion Reed, of Merrill
Plantation ; children : Lorius, farmer of
Golden Ridge; Melvina. 8. Theresa, born
1862 ; resides at Kingman, Maine. 9. James,
born 1864; married Margaret Clark, of Mer
rill Plantation ; he is a farmer of Linneus. 10.
Joseph, died aged twenty years at Jackson
town. (VII) George W. Hardison, son of Oliver
A. Hardison, was born at Caribou, Maine,
February 28, 1864. He attended the public
schools there until he was eighteen. He as
sisted his father on the homestead until he
was twenty-eight and then succeeded to the
farm, which he has cultivated since then. He
has ninety-five acres, of which sixty-five are
under cultivation, the remainder in timber and
pasturage. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a member of Caribou Grange, No. 138,
Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, May 7, 1893, Tressa Hardison,
born at Caribou, May 25, 1869, and educated
there in the public schools. She is a Univer
salist in religion, and a member of Caribou
Grange. She is a daughter of Martin Hardi
son, mentioned above. Children: 1. Clarence
Lewis, born April 19, 1898, at Caribou. 2.
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Anthony Besse or Bessey, the im-
BESSE migrant ancestor, was born in
England in 1609, and came to
America in the ship "James," sailing from
England in July, 1635. His descendants use
both spellings of the name. He was a man of
education and used to preach to the Indians.
It is believed that his ancestry was French.
He was among the first to move from Lynn,
Massachusetts, to Sandwich, on Cape Cod.
Plis name appears in the court records there
as early as 1638 and he was one of the peti
tioners asking Rev. Mr. Leveredge to remain
in Sandwich, 1655. His widow Jane married
the notorious Charles Barlow. In her will,
dated August 6, 1693, she bequeaths to her
daughters, Anne Hallett, Elizabeth Bodfish,
Rebecca Hunter and to sons, Nehemiah Besse
and John Barlow. Anthony Besse's will was
dated February 10, 1656, and his inventory
May 21, 1657. He bequeathed to his wife
Jane; daughters, Dorcas, Anne, Mary and
Elizabeth ; sons, Nehemiah and David ; pro
viding also that if his mother in England
should send over anything, as she had formerly
done, it should be divided among all the chil
dren. Children : Anthony, who was of age in
1664 ; Nehemiah, mentioned below ; David,
born in Sandwich, May 23, 1649 ; Anne, mar
ried Andrew Hallett; Elizabeth, married
Joseph Bodfish ; Rebecca, married 
Hunter ; Dorcas and Mary.
(II) Nehemiah Besse, son of Anthony
Besse, was born as early as 1641, for he was
of age in 1663. He was a townsman of Sand
wich in 1675, the only one of the family; was
a freeman on the list of 1678; was entitled to
share lands at Sandwich on the list dated
March 24, 1702. His name appears frequently
in the town records and he was one of the
most prominent citizens of Sandwich. He
married Mary  . Children, born at
Sandwich: Mary, November 16, 1680; Nehe
miah, mentioned below ; Hannah, 1684-85 ;
Robert, April 30, 1690; Joshua, February 14,
1692-93; David, December 23, 1693-94; Ben
jamin, September 20, 1696; Ebenezer, April
30, 1699.
(Ill) Nehemiah (2) Besse, son of Nehe
miah (1) Besse, was born at Sandwich, Massa
chusetts, July 3, 1682. He and his brothers re
moved to the then adjoining town of Wareham
and their descendants have constituted one of
the most prominent families from that day to
the present. Robert Besse and wife joined the
First Church, April 18, 1742 ; David Besse and
v/ife, July 11, 1742; Joshua Besse, December
12, 1742; Benjamin Besse's wife, July 22,
1744; Nehemiah's wife Sarah, April 7, 1754;
Jabez and Martha Besse also joined early.

Among the children of Nehemiah was Nehe
miah, who settled in Bridgewater, and Joseph,
mentioned below.
(IV) Joseph Besse, son of Nehemiah (2)
Besse, was born about 1740, doubtless at Ware-
ham. He went to Bridgewater with his brother
Nehemiah. He married, at Wareham, Decem
ber 20, 1755, Mercy Dunham, of Middle-
borough. (V) Joseph (2) Besse, son of Joseph (1)
Besse, was born about 1760, in Wareham or
Middleborough. He married, August 21,
1784, Lydia Besse, daughter of John Besse,
of Wareham, a relative. He was then of
Middleborough. He removed to Paris, Ox
ford county, Maine. He settled on the farm
afterward owned by his son, Captain Alden
Besse. During his last years he was blind.
Children, as given in the history of Paris :
Polly, married Gershom Cole; Warren, mar
ried Margery Ganum; Sally, married Na
thaniel Billings; Lydia or Loadia; Elisha, men
tioned below ; John, married Ruth Allen ; Han
nah, married Willard Andrews ; Joseph Jr. ;
Captain Alden, born April 16, 1807.
(VI) Elisha Besse, son of Joseph (2)
Besse, was born about 1790 and lived to the
age of one hundred, lacking twelve days. He
was a farmer, living near Augusta, Maine,
during the greater part of his life. In early
life he was a Whig, afterward a Republican.
Plis wife died at Winthrop, Maine, aged nearly
one hundred years and twelve days. Children,
whose order of birth is not known : Constance,
died at Lewiston, Maine, shortly after the
civil war ; George ; Caroline, married Bernam
Plummer; Elisha, mentioned below; Mary;
Samuel, served in the civil war, died in the
south. And five whose names are not known
to writer.
(VII) Elisha (2) Besse, son of Elisha (1)
Besse, was born October 24, 1820, in Oxford
county, Maine, died in Merrill, Maine, July
25, 1904. He attended the public schools and
graduated from Bowdoin College. He fol
lowed farming, however, for a vocation. He
had a farm at Oakfield, whence he moved to
Merrill Plantation, thence to Bridgewater. He
spent his last years in the family of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Marcellus G. Grant, in Smyrna,
Maine, and with his son Elisha, at whose home
he died. In politics he was a Republican. He
was an assessor of Merrill Plantation for some
years. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.- He enlisted in the Mexican
war and served from beginning to end. He
was in the United States army for seven years
and during part of the time he was in the re
cruiting service. He married, June 25, 1848,
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Mclntyre, born in Ireland, 1817, died in Mer
rill, May 29, 1903. She came to this country
with her brother, Timothy Sullivan, and a
sister, when she was but seven years old, and
located in Ohio. She married (first)  ¦ —
Mclntyre, at St. Louis, Missouri, and had a
son, John Mclntyre, born in 1839, died at
Winthrop, Maine, in 1861 ; served in the civil
war, was wounded and after he came home
died of his wound. Mr. and Mrs. Besse had
eight children, of whom six died in infancy.
The surviving children were: 1. Elisha, men
tioned below. 2. Kate Ellen, born September
21, 1864.; married, at Winthrop, Maine, Mar
cellus Gideon Grant, of Hodgdon, Maine ; they
reside at Patten, Maine, where he follows
farming ; children : Ella, married (first) Allen
McFadden, (second) Asahel Stephen, and re
sides at Patten; Floyd, a farmer of Patten;
Llewellyn, a farmer of Patten ; Florence ;
Lizzie. (VIII) Elisha (3) Besse, son of Elisha
(2) Besse, was born at Wayne, Maine, June 1,
i860. He received his early education in the
public schools of Aroostook county. During
boyhood he worked on his father's farm in
Oakfield. In 1875 his father bought another
farm in the town of Merrill, Maine, whither
the family removed. He also went to Bridge-
water with the family. He succeeded- to his
father's farm and conducted it until 1901,
when he sold it and bought a place in Smyrna.
In 1912 he bought his present farm in that
town. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and of Houlton Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He was formerly a member of the
Bridgewater Grange, of which he was master
for two years and overseer three years.
He married, May 6, 1903, in Frederickton,
New Brunswick, Maggie May Ethelwood
(Anjovine-McKindred) Ogden, born in Ger
many, June 23, 1865. She came to America
with her parents when she was seven years old'.
They settled in Kings county, New Brunswick.
She attended school .in Toronto, Canada. She
is a member of the Methodist church. She
married (first) at the age of twelve years, July
20, 1877, in Kings county, Frank Wilmott Mc-
Kindred, who was born in Scotland, in i860,
settled at Monckton, New Brunswick, where
he was foreman in a nut and bolt factory, in
which he was accidentally killed. Mr. Mc-
Kindred was an active member of the Meth
odist church. By her first marriage she had
children : 1. Lqretta May, born April 20, 1879,
in Monckton; 'married Gilbert Vail, of St.
John's; they reside in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where he is in the laundry business; chil
dren: Mary, Harry, George, Henry, Edward,

William Vail. 2. Frank, born June 18, 1881,
in Monckton, died in infancy. 3. William,
born October 23, 1882. After the death of
Mr. McKindred his widow married (second)
January 21, 1886, John H. Ogden, of St.
John, born February 23, 1817, died at St.
John, March 22, 1901. He resided at St.
John all his life. He was a carpenter and
an active member of the Methodist church,
and of the Orangemen. Children of John
H. Ogden: Harry, William, John, Kenneth,
George and Hebra Ogden, all of whom died
in infancy. She married (third) Elisha Besse,
above mentioned. Mr. and Mrs. Besse have
one child, Lona Isabelle, born February 21,
1906, at Merrill, Maine.
AVilliam Anj ovine, father of Mrs. Besse,
was born in Scotland, in 1822, died in Kings
county, New Brunswick, 1875. He came to
this county in 1873. He was a sea captain sail
ing to foreign ports. He was a member of
the Methodist church. He married Maggie
May Ethelwood, who was born in Germany,
in 1847, died there, June 26, 1865, the only
child of Lord Ethelwood, of Germany. Henry
Anjovine, father of William Anjovine, was
born in Scotland and lived and died there.
Children, born in Scotland : George, Elizabeth,
Mary Ann, Jean and Hugh (twins), William,
mentioned above.

The relationship between
EMERSON Thomas Emerson, the immi
grant ancestor of the Ips
wich family to which Ralph Waldo Emerson
belonged, and Michael Emerson (mentioned
below) has not been established, but there is no
reasonable doubt that some relationship ex
isted. Thomas was born in Bishop's Stort-
ford, County Essex, England, July 26, 1584,
son of Robert Emerson of Dunmow, County
Essex, and grandson of Thomas Emerson of
Great Dunmow, born before 1540. The
first to use the name Emerson in England was
Johannes Emeryson, of Brancepeth parish,
County Durham, and he was born before 1300.
It is thought that the English Emersons are all
descended from him, though the lines cannot
be traced for want of complete records. The
will of Alexander Emerson, of Sereby, Lin
colnshire, England, yeoman, dated April 10,
1604, and proved February 10, 1605, was that
of a relative of both Michael and Thomas in
all probability, and it is likely that Michael
(given below) was his grandson. He be
queathed to a son Michael Emerson his home
stead and other lands ; to son Robert ; to son
Thomas, lands in Howson and Cadvey ; to his
wife, house at Glamford Brigges ; to daugh
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names have survived in both lines of the
American family. It should be said that the
Haverhill Emersons are not all descended
from Michael. Robert Emerson, presumably
his brother, married at Haverhill, in 1660, Ann
Grant; died 1694; will dated May 3, 1694. He
had many descendants in Haverhill ; his wife
died in 1719.
(I) Michael Emerson, the immigrant ances
tor, was born in England about 1630, probably
in Lincolnshire, as indicated in the will of
Michael Emerson, cited above. He came to
Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1656 or 1661, and
had a meadow lot granted to him. He was
called a cordwainer in various deeds and
doubtless followed this trade some of the time.
In 1665 he was chosen to "view and seal all
leather" in town. That was the first election
of a sealer of leather in Haverhill and for
many years he was reelected at each annual
meeting. His farm was on the present site of
the railroad station on the east side of Little
River. Michael Emerson, of Haverhill, cord
wainer, deeded to his sons Jonathan and
Joshua, of Haverhill, his homestead, including
land bought of Thomas Davis and Peter
Green, "bounded upon ye highway that goeth
over yet west Bridge and rangeth from ye lit
tle river upon ye highway on ye north side of
ye old way yt went downe to ye Bridge abd sie
rangeth from thence as ye fence standeth to a
small black oake tree next to ye highway that
goeth between this said land formerly Robert
Swan's (?)." In the same deed, dated May
31, 1699, and executed October 18, 1714, he
conveyed to the same sons other parcels therein
described. Michael Emerson, shortly before
his death, by deed of gift dated June 3, 1715,
and acknowledged November 14, 1715, gave
forty-four acres and the residue of his estate
to his grandson Michael (or Micah), and in
case of death before Michael, whom he says
was then but six years old, reached his major
ity, the property was to be divided among the
surviving children of Joshua, brothers and
sister of this youthful grantee. This deed was
more like a will than the usual deed, and was
perhaps an attempt to adopt the English cus
tom of entailing the estate. His sons Jonathan
and Joshua divided the property that he
deed to them jointly. The will of Michael
Emerson was dated July 18, 1709, and is on
file at the Salem registry, but no record shows
that it was allowed. The deed mentioned
seems to have disposed of his property. The
will mentions his eldest son John, his youngest
sons Jonathan and Joshua, son Samuel ; daugh
ters Hannah Dustin and Abigail Smith ; son-
in-law Mathews Jr., and his children John,

Johanna and Mary Mathews. He married
April 1, 1657, Hannah Webster, daughter of
John Webster of Ipswich and Newbury. Chil
dren: Hannah, born December 23, 1657, mar
ried Thomas Dustin, was the famous Hannah
Dustin who killed the Indians who had cap
tured her; John, born July 30, 1659'; Mary,
October 5, 1660; John, March 18, 1661-62;
Samuel, February 2, 1663; Elizabeth, January
26, 1665; Abigail, December 17, 1667; Jona
than, March 9, 1669-70, mentioned below ; Abi
gail, November 20, 1671 ; Judith, July 2, 1673 ;
Judith, September 29, 1674; Joshua, March 2,
1675-76, died young; Ruth, May 8,  ;
Joshua, November 17, 1678; Susanna, April
30, 1680.
(II) Jonathan Emerson, son of Michael
Emerson, was born in Haverhill, March 9,
1669-70. He married Hannah Day. Chil
dren, born at Haverhill : Jonathan, May 8,
1700; John, June 7, 1701 ; Nathaniel, Septem
ber 25, 1703 ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Rich
ard, September 29, 1710; Hannah, December
3, 1712; Jonathan, June 10, 1715; Abigail,
twin of Jonathan; Moses, December 2, 1717;
Nehemiah, April 4, 1721 ; Mehitable, January
30, 1722-23.
(Ill) Samuel Emerson, son of Jonathan
Emerson, was born at Haverhill, January 8,
1707-08. He married Tryphane Webster. Chil
dren, born in Haverhill : Daniel, March 24,
1735; Sarah, September 9, 1737; Lois, July
13, 1740; John, mentioned below.
(IV) John Emerson, son of Samuel Emer
son, was born at Haverhill, October 17, 1742,
and was called "John 3d," to distinguish him
from others of the name. He married Ann
Haseltine. Children, born at Haverhill : Dan
iel, mentioned below; James, born May 4,
1767; Elizabeth, October 4, 1769; Samuel,
December 31, 1771 ; Joseph, May 16, 1774;
John, February 10, 1777; Polly, June 22,
1779; Richard, August 14, 1782; Isaiah,
March 31, 1786; Nancy, March 4, 1790.
(V) Daniel Emerson, son of John Emer
son, was born at Haverhill, February 17, 1765,
and died at Illyria, Ohio, about 1849. He was
a farmer in Athens during most of his life,
and later at Illyria. He married  Nut
ting, who was born in Norridgewock, Maine,
died in Illyria. Children: 1. Roberts, died
at Athens, killed by a fall from his father's
grist mill. 2. Philip, died at Fairfield, Maine,
a farmer ; married Lydia McKechnie, of Fair
field. 3. Carter, a blacksmith, died in Ohio;
4. Samuel, mentioned below. . 5. Jonathan, a
farmer, died in Athens. 6. Mary, died in
Ohio; married  French in Ohio. 7.
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French, a farmer. 8. Ann, resides in Illyria,
married William Walker, farmer and lumber
man. (VI) Samuel Emerson, son of Daniel Em
erson, was born in Athens, Maine, in 1807,
and died in Illyria, Ohio, December, 1853. He
attended the public schools of his native town,
and followed farming in Skowhegan, Athens,
Canaan, Clinton, Maine, finally locating in
Illyria. In politics he was independent. He
attended the Free Will Baptist church. He
married Fannie Parlin, who was born in
Athens, about 1809, and died at Athens, Som
erset county, 1876. Children: 1. Frances,
born 1827, died at Harmony, Maine; married
Willard Richardson, of Waterville, Maine, a
farmer afterward of Harmony. 2. Samuel,
1829, died at Skowhegan, Maine, November,
191 1, a mill owner; married Cynthia Burrell,
of Canaan, and lived at Skowhegan. 3. Orrin,
183 1, resided in Montana, attorney and con
tractor ; was at one time state treasurer. 4.
Emeline, 1833 ; married Freeman Turtle, of
Astrina, Maine, a carpenter; she resides at
Richmond, Maine, with her son Elmer. 5.
Diantha, 1817, died at Garland, Maine, 1908;
married Mark Avery, of Harmony, Maine, a
farmer and merchant; he died in 19 12 at Gar
land. 6. Martin L., mentioned below. 7.
Elmer, 1842, married Ella Phillips; (second)
 ; he is a carpenter living at Richmond,
Maine. 8. Marcellus, 1844, died young. 9.
Esther, 1846, died young. 10. Aurelia, 1848,
died at Athens; married Bernam Fox, of
Athens, a farmer.
(VII) Martin Le Forest Emerson, son of
Samuel Emerson, was born at Norridgewock,
Maine, November 18, 1839. He attended the
public schools in Athens, Harmony, Canaan
and Lewiston, Maine. He began to work in a
saw mill at the age of seventeen years and con
tinued until 1 86 1. He was also engaged in
clearing farms in Island Falls, that county,
until 1875, when he bought land in Island
Falls and cleared a farm. In 1901 he removed
to the village of Island Falls. He and his son
Delmont are now the owners of 25,000 acres
of forest land. He also owns a number of
excellent farms. He had a large saw mill
which was destroyed by fire in October, 191 1.
He is president of the Mattawamkeag Lumber
Company, of which since October, 1912, he
and his son have been half-owners. This com
pany brought 12,000,000 logs to the saw mills
this year to be manufactured into lumber for
the Boston market. The mills cost originally
$108,000. In politics Mr. Emerson is a Dem
ocrat. He was for a number of years assessor,
selectman and member of the school board.
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He is a member of Island Falls Lodge, No.
106, Free Masons, and has been senior warden.
He was formerly a member of the Druids, of
Island Falls.
He married, March 22, 1861, at Lewiston,
Isabelle G. Carr, who was born at Bowdoin
ham, Maine, July 12, 1837. She was educated
in the schools of her native town. She is a
member of the Congregational church, and a
charter member of the Order of the Eastern
Star. Nathaniel Carr, her father, was born in
1812, in Bowdoinham, and died there in De
cember, 1899. He was a ship carpenter, and
worked in Bath, Richmond, and other towns
along the Kennebec river. Afterward he fol
lowed farming in Island Falls. He was a
Democrat, but voted for Lincoln. He was on
the school board and was selectman. He mar
ried Elvira Small, born in 1817 at Bowdoin
ham. Children of Nathaniel Carr: 1. Isabelle
G., married Martin Le Forest Emerson, men
tioned above. 2. Joseph Carr, born February
29, 1839, died 1909, in Minneapolis; married
Hattie Frank, of Sherman, Maine. 3. Julia
Carr, July 29, 1841 ; married Henry Coles-
worthy, of Portland. 4. Harriet, June 7, 1844;
married Robert Smart, of Patten. 5. Jennie,
March 24, 1847; married Eugene Dyer, of
Linneus, now of Minneapolis. 6. Albert, Sep
tember 8, 1853; married Mary Jack, of Top
sham. 7. Frank, twin of Albert, married Jen
nie Jack, of Topsham. 8. Fred, born at Lew
iston in 1862, a farmer at Island Falls.
Joseph Carr, father of Nathaniel Carr, was
born about 1782, in Maine and died at Bow
doinham about 1857. He was a farmer and
shipwright. He was a Universalist. He mar
ried Sally Purrington, born 1785, died 1862.
Children of Joseph Carr: 1. Nathaniel, men
tioned above. 2. Mary, married Isaac Var
num. 3. Joshua Purrington, married Caroline
Starbird. 4. William, married Ruth Adams.
5. Courtney, married William Johnson. 6.
James P., married Statira Frenche. 7. Kate
married Jeremiah Grover. 8. Isaac, died aged-
twenty. Children of Martin Le Forest Emerson. 1.
Delmont, born at Island Falls, April 20, 1864;
educated in the public schools ; mill owner and
lumberman, in partnership with his father;
the firm also owns a general store in Island
Falls; a Republican in politics and for two
terms of four years represented the town in
the Maine legislature; member of the school
board; married Myra Morrison, of Sherman,
Maine, and had son Roswell, August, 1897. 2.
Ralph Waldo, August 2, 1866, died at Ash-
ville, North Carolina, December 5, 1901 ; was
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$65,000; married Pauline Dow, who lives at
Island Falls. 3. Harold L., March 24, 1871,
died at Island Falls, March 7, 1910; was a
lumberman; married Geneva Walker, now of
Island Falls.

The family of Bates, Bate or
BATES Batt, as the name was variously
spelled, in ancient times in Eng
land is one of the oldest in England and many
of the family, both in England and America,
have achieved distinction. The Bates coat-of-
arms is described : A lion's head erased, gules.
The name is derived from Bartelot or Bar-
tholemew. Five generations of the family
have been traced in England.
(I) Thomas Bates lived in Lydd, parish of
All Hallows, county Kent, England, and died
there in 1485. (II) John Bates, son of Thomas
Bates, died at Lydd, 1522. (Ill) Andrew
Bates, son of John Bates, had four sons, and
died at Lydd in 1533. (IV) John (2) Bates,
son of Andrew Bates, died at Lydd, in 1580,
leaving three sons. (V) James Bates, son of
John (2) Bates, died at Lydd in 1614. Among
his children, authorities give three American
pioneers — Clement, mentioned below ; Edward,
who settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts;
James, who settled at Dorchester, Massachu
setts. (VI) Clement Bates, son of James Bates,
was born in Hingham, county Kent, England,
in 1595. When he was forty years old, he
sailed with his wife Ann, also aged forty,
April 6, 1635, on the ship "Elizabeth," William
Stagg, master. He was also accompanied by
his five children. He settled at Hingham,
Massachusetts, about the same time that Rev.
Peter Hobart's company arrived in Septem
ber, 1635, and he had a homestead of five
acres granted him on Town street, near South
street. The original house was standing at last
accounts and was owned by descendants. His
wife Anna died in Hingham, October 1, 1669,
aged seventy-four years, and he died Septem
ber 17, 1671, aged seventy-six years. His will
was dated at Hingham, October 12, 1669, and
he left land to sons, Joseph, Benjamin and
Samuel. Children: James, born 162 1 ; Clem
ent, 1623; Rachel, 1627; Joseph, 1630; Benja
min, 1633 ; Samuel, mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel Bates, son of Clement Bates,
was baptized in Hingham, Massachusetts,
March 24, 1639. He married, February 20,
1666-67, Lydia Lapham, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Tilden) Lapham. He resided on
South street, Hingham. In 1685 he was one
of the purchasers of Agawam, now in the
town of Wareham, Massachusetts, and was
one of the committee of purchasers and one of

the first settlers. Agawam is now. called Great
Neck in the town of Wareham, Plymouth
county, Massachusetts. Children, born at
Hingham: Lydia, born September 2, 1669;
Mary, August 31, 1671, died young; Sarah,
December 23, 1673 ; Anna, April 12, 1676, in
the garrison house during King Philip's war;
Judith, April 17, 1678; Samuel, mentioned
below; Thomas, March 17, 1681-82, died aged
eleven days; David, February 22, 1683-84,
settled at Wareham; Mary, April 12, 1685,
died January 5, 1690-91.
(VIII) Samuel (2) Bates, son of Samuel
(1) Bates, was born at Hingham, Massachu
setts, February 28, 1679-80. He and his
brother David settled in Wareham, and are
the ancestors of the Bates family of that town.
They belonged to the church at Sandwich
until shortly after the church was founded in
Wareham. Their children were baptized at
Sandwich. Samuel Bates died in 1730 in his
fifty-second year, according to his gravestone
in the old cemetery at Indian Neck, Ware
ham. He married Margaret Hamlin, who
died July 5, 1764, in her eighty-ninth year, and
is also buried at Agawam (Indian Neck Cem
etery). Children: Thomas, born 1709, died
1804; John, 1717, soldier in the Revolution;
Barnabas, mentioned below; David; Job, re
moved to Middletown, Connecticut ; Remem
ber ; Mary.
(IX) Barnabas Bates, son of Samuel (2)
Bates, was born in Wareham, Massachusetts,
in 1719. He was a soldier in the French and
Indian war, enlisting March 4, 1745, for the
Cape Breton Expedition. He and his brother
Thomas are ancestors of most of the family
in Wareham. He was received from the Sec
ond Church of Sandwich by letter to the
Wareham Church, February 11, 1749-50. He
married, at Wareham, September 17, 1747,
Phebe Gibbs. Barney's Point was named for
Barnabas Bates and Lydia's- Island, Wareham,
for the wife of Thomas Bates. Lydia was
dismissed from the Sandwich Church, October
21, 1744, to Wareham. Barnabas Bates was
a prominent citizen and held various town
offices. Children : Barnabas, mentioned be
low ; Joseph, born May 4, 1750; Betsey, June
1, 1752; Asa, August 13, 1754; Samuel, Jan
uary 6, 1757; Thomas, mentioned below;
Phebe, June 29, 1759; Abigail, October 4,
1761 ; Mercy, November 2, 1763; Zilpah, May
27, 1766; Joshua, June 8, 1768; John, men
tioned below; Isaac, January 20, 1773.
(X) Barnabas (2) Bates, son of Barnabas
(1) Bates, was born at Wareham, Massachu
setts, June 15, 1748. He was a soldier in the
Revolution. He was clerk of the proprietors
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zen. He married Sylvia

Children,

born at Wareham: William, Barnabas, Ste
phen, Josiah, mentioned below ; Susan and
John, probably in Maine.
(XI) Josiah Bates, son of Barnabas (2)
Bates, was born in Kennebec county, Maine,
1801, died at Moro, Maine, in 1866. He at
tended the public schools of Fairfield, and
from boyhood followed farming. Pie removed
to Moro among the pioneers of the town and
cleared a farm on which he spent the re
mainder of his life. He was an active member
of the Methodist church. He married Sophro
nia Maxim, born at Plymouth county, Massa
chusetts, 1801, died at Moro, 1885. Children:
1. Sylvia, born 1820, died at Moro, 1910; mar
ried Edward Collins, a native of Ireland ; they
lived in Kennebec county and later at Moro,
where he was a farmer. 2. Stephen Toby,
mentioned below. 3. David B., born 1830;
resides in Moro, a farmer; married (first)
Isabelle Green, and (second) Mary Curtis, of
Enfield, Maine. 4. Albert PL, born 1832; re
sides in Moro; married Martha Taber, of
Houlton. (XII) Stephen Toby Bates, son of Josiah
Bates, was born at Fairfield or Palmyra,
Maine, about 1822, died in Virginia, July,
1864. He attended the public schools of Fair
field, and came to Hersey with his parents and
took up land there. He enlisted in January,
1863, in the Thirty-first Regiment Maine Vol
unteer Infantry and served in Company A
until he was killed in the battle of Spottsylva-
nia. He was an active member of the Metho
dist church. He married Lillian Ann Mitch
ell, born in county Derry, Ireland, August,
1823, died at Hersey, Maine, January, 1896.
She came to this country when a young woman
and went to live with her aunt, Mrs. Lillie
Ann (Mitchell) Stephenson, at Cold Stream,
New Brunswick, Canada. She was a devout
Methodist. James Mitchell, her father, was
born in England and died in county Derry,
Ireland. He lived in the town of Refow
about twelve miles from Londonderry, Ire
land, and followed farming. He owned thor
oughbred horses, gamecocks and hunting dogs
and lived the life of a country gentleman. He
married Isabelle Thompson, born in Scotland,
died in county Derry, Ireland. Children of
James and Isabelle Mitchell: John, born 1821,
died in Ireland ; Lillian Ann, married Josiah
Bates, mentioned above; James, born 1825,
died in Ireland; William and Belle, both died
in Ireland. Children of Josiah and Lillian
Ann Bates: 1. William H., mentioned below.
2. Isabelle, born June, 1853, at Moro, died of
diphtheria in 1864 during an epidemic that
took also the three younger children. 3. Lil

lie Ann, born 1855. 4. Oliver, born 1857. 5.
John, born 1859.
(XIII) William H. Bates, son of Stephen
Toby Bates, was born in Moro, Maine, April
24, 1852. He was educated there in the public
schools. When a young man he bought a
farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land
in Moro and he has cultivated it with marked
success. From time to time he has added to
his possessions until he now owns three hun
dred and twenty acres. He is active in public
affairs. In politics he is a staunch Republican.
He has been selectman of the town for
eighteen years; has been chairman for six
years ; has served six years on the school
board ; for twenty-two years he was deputy
sheriff under Sheriffs Bolton, Sharp, Levi H.
Gray, Martin Lawless, Fred Thurlow, Alma
G. Bryson, and continues in office at the
present time; has been assessor and overseer
of the poor for eighteen years. He is a mem
ber of Katahdin Lodge, No. 98, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Patten; of Pomola
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; is
a policy-holder in the Vermont Insurance
Company ; member of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks, of Houlton; of Oak
field Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He was
formerly interested financially in the Katahdin
Telephone Company. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has
been steward and trustee.
Mr. Bates married, November 3, 1877, at
Hersey, Lizzie Mitchell, born at Medford,
Massachusetts, February 21, 1853. Her par
ents removed to Linneus, Maine, when she
was very young, and she attended the public
schools there. She is a daughter of Robert
Mitchell, born in Avon, Maine, 1812, resided
in Linneus, but died in Hersey in 1896. He
was a farmer all his life. He lived in Med
ford, Massachusetts, for a time; also in Tin-
mouth, Vermont, where he followed the trade
of stone mason. In politics Mr. Mitchell was
a Republican. He was a member of the Free
Will Baptist church. He married Mary (Mc-
Cusker) Dorris, born in county Derry, Ire
land, 1826, died at Moro, Maine, 1892. Her
parents removed to Linneus, Maine, when she
was a young girl. She married (first) in county
Derry,  Dorris and had two children:
John, who died in the service in the civil war,
and Mary, who married Simeon Card, a
machinist; she is living at Mansfield, Massa
chusetts. Children of Robert and Mary Mitch
ell : 1. Lizzie, married William H. Bates,
mentioned above. 2. George, born September
10, 1857, in Linneus, died at Moro, November,
1879. 3- Clark, born at Linneus, 1859, died
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ried (first) Angie Elwell, of Sherman, Maine ;
(second) Irene Kirkpatrick, of Merrill. Rob
ert Mitchell had a brother James, a physician,
and a brother William, both of whom went
west. Children of William H. Bates: 1. Irving
I., born July 20, 1884, at Hersey; graduate of
the Patten High School ; now a farmer in
summer and clerk in the woods in the lumber
business in winter; married Mabel Ellen Stew
art, of Hodgdon, Maine, November, 1907, and
they have one child, Elizabeth Pauline, born
August 16, 191 1 ; they reside at Dyer Brook;
he is a member of Katahdin Lodge, No. 98,
Free and Accepted Masons, and holds a pol
icy in the Union Mutual Insurance Company.
2. Winfield Scott, born at Hersey, August 24,
1890; educated in the Hersey public schools
and the Ricker Classical Institute of Houl
ton; he is a policy-holder in the Vermont In
surance Company; married Bertha Cunning
ham in April, 1909; she was born at Mt.
Chase, January 8, 1890; children: Marshall,
born May 18, 191 1 ; Thurley, August 6, 1912.
(X) Thomas (2) Bates, son of Barnabas
Bates, was born in Wareham, Massachusetts,
January 6, 1757, twin of Samuel. He was a
soldier in the Revolution from Wareham,
called Thomas 2d in the records to distinguish
him from an uncle or cousin of the same name
in Wareham. He was a fifer in Captain John
Gibbs' company, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's
regiment in 1778 at Falmouth on the Eliza
beth Islands alarm, also in Captain Elisha
Hackett's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes'
regiment of Plymouth county, at Rhode
Island, 1779, and at Falmouth in the same
year. He settled at Waterville, formerly Ten
Lots, Maine. He married, at Wareham, Feb
ruary 6, 1782, Ruth Besse. Children: Con
stantine, born at Sandwich, June 10, 1783, set
tled at Waterville; and others.
(X) John (3) Bates, brother of Thomas
(2) Bates, was born at Wareham, Massachu
setts, May 10, 1770. He married, at Ware
ham, March 3, 1791, Experience Besse. He
removed to Waterville, Maine.
(XI) John (4) Bates, son of John (3) or
Thomas (2) Bates, was born about 1800, died
at Ten Lots, Maine, 1871. He was a farmer
in Waterville, Maine, then called Ten Lots,
all his active life. In politics he was originally
a Whig, later a Republican. He was a deacon
of the Free Will Baptist church. Children,
born at Ten Lots (order of birth not known) :
1. Joshua, drowned in the Kennebec river;
married  — Otis, of Waterville. 2. Sam
uel, a farmer, died at Waterville, unmarried.
3. Solomon, mentioned below. 4. George, a
farmer, died at Moro, Maine; enlisted from

Moro in 1861 and served one year in the Elev
enth Maine Regiment in the civil war; mar
ried Jane McGreary, of Linneus, Maine. 5.
John, died at Norridgewock, Maine, a farmer ;
married Mary Olin, of Dexter, Maine. 6.
Mary, died at Garland, Maine ; married Jacob
Haskell, a farmer, who died at Garland. 7.
Salome, died young, at Waterville. 8. Sarah,
died at Dexter; married Murry Haskell, of
Garland. (XII) Solomon Bates, son of John (4)
Bates, was born at Waterville, Maine, March
24, 1825, died at Hersey, Maine, December,
1906. He attended the public schools of
Waterville. When a young man he worked in
the lumber business and on the farm of John
Otis, of Waterville. He was also employed
for a time in Tautman's mill on the Kennebec
river. After he married he bought land in
Moro and cleared a farm on which he lived
until 1870, when he bought another farm at
Hersey and sold the farm at Moro. On the
farm at Hersey he spent the remainder of his
days. In politics he was a Republican. He
was an active and prominent member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was
steward and trustee. During the civil war he
was drafted, but was rejected on account of
physical disability.
He married Cynthia G. Bates, born at
Waterville, Maine, September 25, 1825, died
at Hersey, March 25, 1901, daughter of Con
stantine Bates. Her father died in Waterville,
Maine, in 1864. He was a farmer at Ten Lots,
a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and a
member of the Free Will Baptist church ; mar
ried, March 10, 1803, Sally Blackwell, born
January 5, 1785, and had Asa Blackwell, Octo
ber 6, 1807, Anson, Sophronia, Phebe and Cyn
thia S. Children of Solomon Bates : 1. Laura
Etta, born 1850; married Amos Chase, of
Togus, Maine, a farmer and lumber manufac
turer, who died at Moro, Maine, 1888; she
resides at Moro; children: Samuel, resides in
Moro, a merchant, carpenter and farmer, mar
ried Gertrude Bates and had children, born at
Moro: Marion, born December 29, 1896,
Augusta, September 9, 1899 ; Norman, Febru
ary 7, 1903 ; Hazel, April 7, 1905 ; Lizzie, mar
ried John Grant, of New Limerick, Maine, a
carpenter, now living in Patten, and had a
daughter Augusta Chase, who died young. 2.
Leazer, born 1852, died at Moro in 1863. 3.
Frank, born 1854; married Angeline Bates, of
Moro, now of Patten ; he is a carpenter ; chil
dren : Lottie, married Allen Brewer, of New
port, a dairyman ; Gertrude, married Samuel
Chase; Delia, married Charles Lawrence, a
carpenter and merchant of Gardiner; Lewis,
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ningham; Augusta, married George Darling,
farmer, Seattle, Washington ; Fred, of Patten ;
Carrie. 4. Abbie, born 1856; married George
Cunningham, of New Brunswick, now of
Braggville, Maine, a farmer; children: Ella,
married Lige Arbo, farmer and guide of Mt.
Chase, Maine; Edith, married Allen Feni-
more, of Hersey; Minnie, married Fred Kyle,
of Braggville, a guide; Alma, married Albert
Dunn, farmer at Mt. Chase; Winifred, mar
ried Everett Bates, farmer, at Merrill; Bertha,
married Scott Bates, farmer, Moro; Emma,
unmarried, resides at Braggville; Fred;
Frank, teacher at Moro; Carl. 5. George Ed
gar, mentioned below. 6. Lorinda, born i860,
died young, at Moro. 7. Helen, born 1862;
married Nelson Ryder, of Mt. Chase, a farmer,
now living at Madison, Maine; children:
George, born at Mt. Chase, 1884, resides on a
ranch at Winnipeg, Canada ; Lettie, deceased ;
Roy, born 1895 ; Ralph, born at Wyoming,
Delaware. 8. Stephen, born 1864; married
Effie Miller, of Linneus; resides at Moro, and
has charge of the woods and river drive ; chil
dren : Nita, Mona, Dorris, Herbert, Edna,
Rex, Delmont, Harold. 9. Augusta, born
1866, died young, at Moro. 10. Emma, born
1868; married Alexander Cunningham, now
living in Winnipeg, Canada ; children : How
ard, of Patten ; Walter and Robert, of Bangor.
11. Annie, born 1870; married Edward Ken
nedy, of Littleton, Maine; resides at Moro,
a farmer; children: George, Eleazer, Warren,
Flora, Cynthia, Gustave, Emma.
(XIII) George Edgar Bates, son of Solo
mon Bates, was born at Hersey, Maine, Feb
ruary 11, 1858. He attended the public
schools of his native town. He began to
work in the woods and on the river drive
when a boy and he also assisted his father on
the homestead until 1899. He is a member of
Patten Lodge, No. 98, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married, January 5, 1889, at
Hersey, Laura Mitchell, born at Linneus,
Maine, 1864, died at Hersey, August 30, 1907,
a daughter of Orrin Mitchell, born 1848, a
farmer in Moro, a Republican in politics. Her
mother, Augusta (Hutchinson) Mitchell, died
at Linneus in 1875. Children of Orrin Mitch
ell : 1. Laura, mentioned above. 2. John,
born 1866; died at Argyle, 1912; married Eva
Spencer, of Argyle, Maine ; she died there in
191 1. 3. Vernon, born at Linneus, 1868, died
1907, unmarried. 4. Clark, born at Oakfield,
1882, died at Merrill, 1905; was a farmer;
married Evalina Rockwell, of New Bruns
wick; she married (second) Arthur Mitchell.
Children of George Edgar Bates: 1. Ada,
born at Hersey, July 9, 1890; married Leston
Kennedy, born at Monticello, Maine ; children :

Ray, born March 11, 1909; Rena, May 1,
191 1 ; Leon, June 8, 1913. 2. Harold, born at
Hersey, September 12, 1891, died November,
1897. 3- Graydon, born October 17, 1892. 4.
Asa, born September, 1895. 5. Amos, born
November 9, 1897. 6. Vane, born October 29,
1900. 7. Frank, born March 16, 1902. 8.
Annie, born May 23, 1904.

The Grindle family settled on
GRINDLE the Penobscot river before the
revolutionary war, in which
Reuben, Daniel and Ichabod Grindle were in
Captain William Reed's company at Machias
in 1777. William Grindle was in Captain John
Lane's company, at the defence of Gloucester,
November 1, 1775, to December 31 of that
year. He was in the same company July to
November, 1775, at Penobscot. In the census
of 1790 John, Ichabod, Reuben and John Grin
dle Jr. were heads of families at Penobscot,
Hancock county, Maine. In the adjacent town
of Sedgwick, Maine, lived Joshua and William
Grindle. These were brothers or closely re
lated. Their descendants are now numerous
in Maine and other states.
(II) William Grindle, son or nephew of
William Grindle, was born about 1775 in
Penobscot or vicinity. He had a son William,
mentioned below.
(Ill) William (2) Grindle, son of William
(1) Grindle, was born at South Penobscot,
Maine, died there in 1884. He was a farmer
all his active life. He was a member of the
Baptist church. He was active in the temper
ance movement and prominent in the Knights
of Good Templars. He was a member of the
Society of Pilgrims. In early life he was a
Whig in politics, but when the Whig party dis
solved he became a Republican. He was state
senator of Maine for two years, a member of
the governor's council during the administra
tion of Governor Dingley and of Governor
Perham. He was for a number of years col
lector of customs for western Hancock county.
Pie married Eliza Perkins, born at South
Penobscot, Maine, in 1806, died there about
1886. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Children, born at South Penobscot: 1. Jewett,
a farmer, South Penobscot; married (first)
 , (second) Flora Leach; -child by
first wife : Eliza, married Frank Binder, re
sides- in Pennsylvania; child by second wife:
William, an electrician, served in the civil war,
resides at Sound, Maine. 2. Augustus, farmer,
South Penobscot ; married Inez Perkins ; he
served four years in the civil war ; children :
Fred, died young ; Herbert, farmer. South
Penobscot. 3. Stillman, mariner, lost at sea.
4. Clara, resides at Sargentville; married

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Leach, who was in the civil war,

(first) —
killed at the battle of Gettysburg; married
(second) Elisha R. Bowden, of South Penob
scot, a merchant and brick manufacturer ; chil
dren by second marriage: Ellery, an attorney
at Winterport, has been county attorney and
district attorney of Waldo county; Wilma,
resides at Medfield, a farmer ; Vesta, died un
married ; Flora, graduate of the Castine Nor
mal School, 1909, teacher at Hull, Massachu
setts; Chandler, clerk, Sargentville, Maine.
5. Arthur M., mentioned below. 6. Lucius,
married and has a son Stillman, stone cutter,
South Penobscot.
(IV) Arthur M. Grindle, son of William
(2) Grindle, was born at South Penobscot,
Maine, in 1844. He was educated there in the
public schools, and has followed farming there
all his active life. In politics he was a Re
publican. He is a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. He married Ada
A. Littlefield, born at Penobscot, Maine, 1854,
and was educated there in the public schools.
Nelson Littlefield, her father, was born in the
vicinity of Penobscot, where he died in 1907,
aged about eighty years. He was a farmer in
Penobscot during the greater part of his life.
In politics he was originally a Whig, later, a
Republican. By his first wife he had one
child, Ada A. Littlefield, mentioned above. He
married (second) Julia Leach, of South Penob
scot, and had one child, Hattie Littlefield, who
died unmarried. The Littlefields settled with
the pioneers of Wells, Maine, and the family
has been prominent in the state of Maine.
Children of Arthur M. Grindle: 1. Son, died
young. 2. Son, died young. 3. Lucius Merrill,
born 1873; educated in the public schools of
Penobscot ; resides at South Penobscot, a car
penter ; married Mabel Gray, of Blue Hill,
Maine ; children : Una, Amy, Joy, and one
other daughter. 4. Nan J., born 1881 ; edu
cated in the Penobscot schools, graduate of the
Castine State Normal School, 1900; has taught
school in Penobscot, Warren, Maine ; Whitins-
ville, Massachusetts, and for the past five
yea^s at Haverhill, Massachusetts. 5. Thomas
S., born August, 1885 ; superintendent of
schools at Blue Hill, Brooklyn and Sedgwick,
Maine; graduate of the State Normal School
at Castine and the Coburn Classical Institute,
Waterville, Maine, 1909, of Colby College,
1912, with the degree of Bachelor of Science;
was principal of Penobscot schools one year
and of the Baring high school, Baring, Maine,
for one year, after leaving college. 6. Wade
L., mentioned below.
(V) Wade L. Grindle, son of Arthur M.
Grindle, was born at South Penobscot, Maine,
October 19, 1888. He attended the public

schools of his native town, the George Stevens
Academy, Blue Hill, from which he graduated
in 1907, and Bates College, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts
in 1913. In college he was active in the work
of the Young Men's Christian Association, of
which he was delegate to the Northfield con
ference. He was president of the Pierian
Literary Society and of the Student Council.
He was a member of the Parker Hall Asso
ciation; charter member of the Politics Club,
of which he was treasurer ; member of the ad
visory board of the Athletic Association, and
of the Intercollegiate Debating Team. He is a
wearer of the Drew Medal. He was editor-in-
chief of the Mirror, a college annual; was
chairman of the class executive committee,
assistant in oratory and senior exhibition-
speaker. He is now a member of Bates Col
lege Club. In politics he is independent. He
is a member of the Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, of North Haven. He has been a
school teacher in Franklin and Hancock and
principal of the Caratunk high school one year ;
principal of the North Haven high school one
year, and is at present principal of the high
school at Easton, Maine.

Hugh Alley, the immigrant an-
ALLEY cestor, was born in England in
1608, and came to New England
in 1635 in the ship "Abigail" from London.
He gave his age as twenty-seven years. He
came in the service of Henry Collins, and set-
tied at Lynn, Massachusetts. He deposed in
1662 that he was aged about fifty-three. He
owned land at Nahant. He died January 25,
1673. His will, dated January 2, 1673, proved
July 2, 1673, bequeathed to wife Mary, son
John and his children, grandchild Eleazer Lin-
sey, and to Martha Willis and her child Mar
tha. Children, born at Lynn: Mary, January
6, 1641-42; John, November 30, 1646; Martha,
July 31, 1649; Sarah, April 15, 165 1 ; Hugh,
October 15, 1653; Solomon, August 2, 1756,
killed in King Philip's war; Hannah, June 1,
1661 ; Jacob, September 5, 1663.
(II) Hugh (2) Alley, son of Hugh (1)
Alley, was born at Lynn, October 15, 1653.
He resided before his marriage with the widow
of Richard Rooten, of Lynn. He was a
weaver by trade. He married, December 8,
168 1, Rebecca Hood. His estate was divided
by his widow Rebecca and his children in 1712.
Children: Solomon, born October 11, 1682;
Jacob, January 28, 1683; Eleazer, November
1, 1686; Hannah, August 16, 1689; Richard,
July 31, 1691 ; Joseph, June 22, 1693; Benja
min, February 24, 1694-95 > Samuel, mentioned
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(III) Samuel Alley, son of Hugh (2) Alley,
resided at Lynn. He was a housewright and
fisherman. He married, December 12, 1728,
Abigail Bassett, who died November 2, 1767.
Children: Hugh, born September 5, 1729;
Sarah, May 28, 1732; Rebecca, December 31,
1742; Samuel, a Quaker, was living in Lynn,
1763, a shipwright by trade, removed to Bris
tol, Lincoln county, Maine, married, July 16,
1758, Deborah- Breed, (second) January 12,
1774, Sarah Lincoln, daughter of Benjamin
Lincoln. Samuel Alley contested the will of
his wife's father in 1796. He was then of
Boothbay, Maine. In 1790 we find as heads
of families at Boothbay, according to the cen
sus, John, John Jr., Ephraim, Samuel and
Joshua. (IV) Joshua Alley, believed to be son of
Samuel Alley, settled with Samuel Alley Jr. at
Boothbay, Maine. He was a corporal in the
revolution in 1775. Ephraim Alley, a brother
or near relative, was also a soldier in the revo
lution, enlisting for three years in 1780. Wil
liam Alley and John Alley Jr. were in the war
of 1812 from Boothbay. John Alley Sr. was
of Boothbay and probably another brother of
Joshua. (V) Alexander Alley, son of Joshua Alley,
was born- in Hancock (formerly Lincoln)
county, Maine, probably at Boothbay, about
1792. He died at Bridgewater about 1875.
He was a farmer, a Democrat in politics, and
a pensioner of the war of 1812. He married
 Gray, who was born at Brooksville,
Maine, and died at Masardis. Children: 1.
Joshua, died at Orland, Maine ; married Mary
Plarper, of Mount Desert, Maine. 2. Na
thaniel Cushing, mentioned below. 3. Jason,
a mariner, last heard of at Sydney, Australia.
4. Alexander, a miller and lumberman in
Oregon; married Annette Bean, of Presque
Isle ; he served in the civil war. 5. George, a
jobber at Frankfort, Maine ; married Augusta
Haswell, of Monroe. 6. John, died at Frank
fort, a stone quarryman ; married  ¦ West.
7. Martin, resides at North Eldreth, Maine, a
farmer. 8. Margaret, resides at Nohomid,
Washington ; married Alonzo York, of Mon
roe, a farmer. 9. Louisa, died at Orland,
Maine; married Samuel Gray. 10. Sarah, re
sides at Frankfort ; married Willard Clark, a
stone cutter and farmer. 11. Elizabeth, resides
at Mapleton ; married Henry Braley, a farmer,
of Mapleton. 12. Deborah died in Surrey,
Maine ; married Addison Cunningham, of Sur
rey, a farmer. There were six other children,
eighteen in all.
(VI) Nathaniel Cushing Alley, son of Alex
ander Alley, was born at Orland, Maine, March
25, 1830, and died at Wade, Maine, April 29,

1908. He attended the public schools and
studied medicine at Bucksport in the office of
Dr. Jonathan Henderson. He had a farm at
Sheridan Plantation, Maine, for a time, and
afterward practiced medicine in Aroostook
county. He removed to Wade, Maine, but
died three weeks after locating there. Pie was
in early life a Democrat, afterward a Repub
lican. He married Nancy Jane Harper, who
was born at Mount Desert Island, Maine, Octo
ber 11, 1831, and died at Castle Hill, July 17,
1899. She was a pious woman, a model wife
and mother, Thomas Harper, her father, was
born at Mt. Desert and died at Blue Hill,
Maine, about 1868. He was a sea captain.
He married  Irish, a descendant of Gen
eral Irish, of the revolutionary army. She
died at Blue Hills. Children of Thomas
Harper: 1. Nicholas, a farmer, died at North
Penobscot, Maine. 2. James, a farmer, died
at North Penobscot. 3. Charles, died at Wal
tham, Maine. 4. Lemuel, drowned at Surrey,
when a young man. 5. Nancy Jane, married
Nathaniel Cushing Alley, mentioned above. 6.
Plannah, married William Mace, farmer and
lumberman. 7. Margaret, married George
Crosby Deaam. Children of Nathaniel Cush
ing Alley: 1. Nathaniel Eldad, born October,
1855 ; expressman; married Rebecca Bragg, of
Braggville, Maine, (second) Mrs. Mary Hunt;
they reside in Allston, Massachusetts. 2.
Lemuel, June 2, 1857; married (first) Man-
daney Clendennon, of Castle Hill, (second)
Mrs. Melli Walton, widow of Alexander Wal
ton, of Caribou ; he is a merchant in Holden,
Maine. 3. Elihu Sanford, March 2, 1859;
married (first) Hattie McAlpin, widow of
James, (second) Kate Hartley, of New Bruns
wick ; farmer of Castle Hill. 4. Llewellyn
Pratt, July, 1861 ; married Etta Hazleton, of
Hancock, Maine ; a farmer and trader at Ded
ham, Maine. 5. Frank, February 10, 1865 ;
died May 17, 1887, unmarried. 6. Georgia
Ellen, January 11, 1867; married William
Stairs, of New Brunswick, (second) Heber
Kinney, of Swanville, Maine, where they re
side ; he is a farmer and trader in hides, etc.
7. George Oscar, mentioned below. 8. Sophia
Jane, July 11, 1871 ; married Elias King, now
of Jackson, Maine. 9. Calvin, February 20,
1873, died at Sheridan, Maine, May, 1877. 10.
Mary, May 11, 1875; married Samuel Jakins,
of Waterville, a farmer at Skowhegan.
(VII) George Oscar Alley, son of Nathaniel
Cushing Alley, was born at Wi-nterville, Maine,
March 6, 1869. He received his early educa
tion in the public schools. He assisted his
father on the farm in summer and worked as
a lumberman in winter until he was twenty
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the same vocations until 1890, when he bought
a farm in Castle Hill. About the same time
he bought another farm in Sheridan, and in
1912 he bought a farm in Wade Plantation,
where he now resides. The three farms aggre
gate four hundred acres, of which one hundred
and fifty acres are under cultivation and the
remainder is good timber growth. In politics
he is a Republican. He is a member of the
Adventist church, and of Hope Lodge, No.
181, of Washburn, of the Orangemen, of
which he has been worthy master for the past
three years; of Castle Hill Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry. He married, at Castle Hill, No
vember 5, 1893, Carrie Ida Turner, who was
born at Castle Hill, July 1, 1877. She is a
member of the Advent Christian church, and
Castle Hill Grange. Preserved Brayton
Turner, her father, was born in York county,
Maine, July 9, 1843, and died at Castle Hill,
December 27, 1905. He worked at the trade
of cooper in Levant and Bangor, Maine, and
was afterward a farmer in Castle Hill, where
he died. In politics Mr. Turner was a Repub
lican, and he served the town as road commis
sioner and supervisor of schools. He was a
member of the Grand Army Post of Mapleton.
He enlisted in 1861 and served fourteen
months, then reenlisted and served another
year in a Maine regiment. He took part in the
battles of Fredericksburg and Port Hudson,
and in one engagement was shot through the
leg. He married Abbie Jane Simpson. She
resides in Castle Hill. She was born in York
county, February 16, 1845. She is a member
of the Advent Christian church. Children:
1. Walter Herbert, born 1864; married Hattie
Mardin, of Castle Hill ; he operates a thresh
ing machine and resides at Castle Hill. 2.
Wilmer Frank Turner, born September, 1866;
married Phoebe Cox, of New Brunswick, and
resides at Castle Hill. 3. Vina Estelle Turner,
born 1868; married James Frank Carter, a
farmer of Mapleton. 4. Lillian Isabelle
Turner, born in 1870; married Lemuel Waldo
Carter, of Mapleton, a farmer of that town.
5. Charles Nelson, at Castle Hill, 1872, died
there aged ten years. 6. Carrie Ida Turner,
married George Oscar Alley, mentioned above.
7. Lizzie Inez, twin of the preceding, married
Whitfield Hanson, a stone mason of Mapleton.
8. Leo Scott Turner, born May 26, 1882, at
Castle Hill ; married Maude Esterbrook, of
Blaine, Maine, he is a farmer at Castle Hill.
9. Twin of Leo, died at birth. Horatio
Turner, father of Preserved Brayton Turner,
was born in England and settled in York
county, Maine, where he was a pioneer farmer.
Pie married Sally Call. Their children: 1.
Jackson Turner, a cooper, died at Bangor. 2.

Charles Turner, a cooper, died at Hermon.
3. Preserved Brayton, mentioned above. 4.
Adaline Turner, married James Breckett, of
Hermon, a farmer there. 5. Sarah Turner,
died at Bangor; married James Hodgdon. 6.
David Turner, a cooper. The order of birth is
not known.
Children of George Oscar Alley: 1. Bray
ton Calvin, born April 12, 1895. 2. Eva
Estelle, January 1, 1897. 3. Inez Ida, June 2,
4. Inza Nancy, February 19, 1901. 5.

Georgia Ellen, July 7, 1902. 6. Vina Isabel,
October 17, 1904. 7. George Walter, October
10, 1907. 8. Doris Caroline, March 27, 1909.
9. Ada, February 24, 1912.

According to the history of
HOPKINS Sheepscot and Newcastle,
Maine, this family of Hopkins
was from Ireland, though the family was
doubtless originally from England.
(I) Solomon Hopkins, the immigrant an
cestor, was born in England or the North of
Ii eland, died in 1761. He settled in New
castle before 1735 and had Lot No. 12, one
hundred acres, afterwards owned by Samuel
Kennedy and later by Washington Houdlette.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian
war in 1761. David Hopkins, of Newcastle,
was appointed administrator of his estate, Sep
tember 11, 1761. The inventory by Benjamin
Woolbridge, Johm Cunningham and Samuel
Nichols, November 11, 1761, amounted to one
hundred and fifty pounds. The court issued
an order regarding the real estate, September
4, 1765. In probate of his estate the children
of his son William and of his son Solomon
are mentioned. William is mentioned below.
Solomon had children, David and Mary Wood.
(II) William Hopkins, son of Solomon
Hopkins, was born 1710-20. In 1736 he re
ceived Lot No. 10, one of the Tappan lots of
Newcastle, one hundred acres, afterward
owned by John Holmes. According to the
history of Newcastle he was taken prisoner
by the Indians and did in Canada. He died
before 1761, when his father died. His farm
was afterward owned by Washington Houd
lette. According to his father's probate rec
ords his children were Solomon, Mary, Mar
tha, Agnes and Jennet. Martha (Patty) mar
ried Samuel Kennedy; Jennet (Jenny) mar
ried David Soames. William and David Hop
kins were petitioners for the incorporation of
Newcastle, May 25, 1750. Mary, widow of
William Hopkins, was appointed administra
trix, September 22, 1761, Peter Paterson and
Robert Cochran, sureties. She was appointed
guardian of her children, Solomon, Mary, Mar
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November 18, 1761. Subsequently she mar
ried, before October 4, 1763, when her account
was filed, Hugh Holmes. There was prob
ably also a William, son of David. In 1790,
at Balltown, Lincoln county, William, William
J. and Solomon Hopkins were heads of fam
ilies ; another Solomon was living at Newcastle
and a third at Pepperillboro, Maine.
(Ill) Solomon (2) Hopkins, son of Wil
liam Hopkins, was born about 1750. He was
a soldier in the revolution. He was in Captain
Israel Davis' company, June 1, 1776, to De
cember 5, at the defence of Boothbay. He was
sentinel in Captain Richard Hodge's company,
Colonel William Jones' regiment, and his name
is on the list of men who assisted in the re
capture of the ship "Gruel" from the "Rain
bow," September 10, 1777. He was of New
castle (sometimes called of Jefferson) in the
Third Lincoln County Regiment for the Conti
nental army engaged for Salisbury, joined
Captain Israel Davis' company, Colonel Wig-
glesworth's regiment, enlisting for three years.
He was private in Captain Woodbridge's com
pany, Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment (for
merly Wigglesworth's), February 3, 1777, to
December 31, 1779. He was on many payrolls
in Wigglesworth's regiment. In 1778 he was
at Valley Forge, at Camp Greenwich in June,
1778, and at Providence in October, 1778. He
was in the same regiment in 1779. He made
a deposition, December 24, 1821, when he was
living in Jefferson, Kennebec county, aged
seventy-two years, stating that he enlisted in
February or March, 1777, in Captain Davis'
company, Colonel Wigglesworth's, afterward
Colonel Sprout's, regiment, and served until
February, 1780, being discharged at West
Point, and asked for money still due him, nam
ing Ebenezer Billings as attorney to receive it.
His claim was certified to by Captain Henry
Sewall, of Colonel Sprout's regiment, stating
that Hopkins was at the taking of Burgoyne
in the Rhode Island campaign. Other service
credited to Solomon Hopkins indicates that
there was another of the same name in Lincoln
county, and the census of 1790 proves that
there were two of the name there. The other
Solomon may have been a son of Henry Hop
kins, son of Solomon, grandson of Solomon
(I). The history of Sheepscot mentions an
other early settler, Christopher Hopkins, who
came there about the same time as Solomon
and his family, and he came from Devonshire,
England. It is possible that the families were
related. According to the family records Solo
mon Hopkins was born in April, 1757, died
December 25, 1813. If these dates are correct,
the David Hopkins who made the affidavit in
1821 was the son of David, and part of the

revolutionary record given above belongs to
him. Solomon Hopkins married Esther Plummer,
born in October, 1764, died March 6, 1846.
Children: 1. David, born July 17, 1785,, died
1855. 2. Bedfield, born August 27, 1786; mar
ried  ; children: Harriet, Sarah Jane,
Roxanna, Mary Ann, Seth, Eli. 3. James,
born March 5, 1787, died 1873. 4- Solomon,
born October 23, 1789. 5. John, October 17,
1791. 6. Samuel, born March 17, 1793. 7.
William, born April 18, 1795, died November
13, 1869; married  ; children: William
Jr., Nancy, Sarah, and three others. 8. Rob
ert, mentioned below. 9. Alexander, bom
April 18, 1798. 10. Lewis, born September 9,
1799, died in Worcester, Massachusetts; mar
ried —  ; children: Lewis Jr. and Eveline.
11. Daniel, born February 24, 1801 ; moved
to Aroostook Junction, New Brunswick; a
farmer and lumberman; married  -; chil
dren : William, resides in Aroostook Junction ;
John S. and Daniel, of Aroostook Junction;
Plannah, married Albert Brewer, a bridge
builder of Woodstock, New Brunswick; James,
Robert, Edward, Mary Jane, Sarah and Eliz
abeth. 12. Josiah, born April 29, 1803. 13.
Jane, born December 26, 1804. 14. Esther,
born September 28, 1806. 15. Sarah, born
June 13, 1808. 16. Nancy, born November 12,
1810. (IV) Robert Hopkins, son of Solomon (2)
Hopkins, was born in North Newcastle, Maine,
October 29, 1796, died in Washington, Decem
ber 18, 1882. He was a farmer there all his
active life. He married Mary Montgomery,
born February 28, 1795, died November 14,
1874. Children: Margaret Elizabeth, born
January 19, 1821, died September 1, 1868. 2.
Irene Ann, born July 17, 1822, died March 12,
1875. 3. Daniel, mentioned below. 4. Mary
Jane, born August 6, 1825, died July 1, 1826.
5. Josiah Lewis, born July 18, 1827, died Octo
ber 17, 1864. 6. Solomon E., born October
29, 1829, died October 14, 191 1.
(V) Daniel Hopkins, son of Robert Hop
kins, was born at Whitefield, Maine, March 20,
1824, died at Fort Fairfield, February 14, 1909.
He enlisted in 1861 in the Sixteenth Regiment
Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served to the
end of the war. He was wounded in the battle
of the Wilderness, being shot in the jaw.
After the war he followed farming in Fort
Fairfield to the end of his life. In politics he
was independent. He married Hannah J.
Newhall, born at Whitefield, June 20, 1831,
Maine, died at Fort Fairfield, November 20,
1912. Children: 1. William, born January 16,
1857, died. June 11, 1863. 2. Lillian K., 'born
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ried William H. Boynton, a farmer of Skow
hegan; children: Hannah, born April 16, 1883,
a graduate of Colby College ; William H. Jr.,
born October 20, 1885, a farmer at Mercer,
Maine. 3. James R., mentioned below. 4.
Eben Solomon, mentioned below. 5. Mattie
E., born in Fort Fairfield, May 10, 1870 ; she
was educated in the public schools of that town
and graduated from the high school in 1891 ;
she afterward took a course in Bucksport
Seminary, graduating from that institution in
1896; since that time she has been teaching in
the public schools of Maine and New Hamp
shire ; for the past fourteen years she has been
connected with the public schools of Fort
Fairfield, and for four years of that time she
served acceptably as superintendent; she is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. 6.
Minnie E., born March 31, 1873, died Novem
ber 28, 1876.
Hannah J. (Newhall) Hopkins traced her
ancestry to William Mullens, who, accom
panied by his wife, son Joseph, and daughter
Priscilla, came over in the "Mayflower" in
1620. William Mullens, his wife and son died
during the first year. Priscilla married John
Alden in 1621 or 1623, and they were the par
ents of eleven children. John Alden was hired
by Mr. Mullens as a cooper. David Alden,
second child of John Alden, was born in 1635,
died in 1719; married Mary Southworth. Ben
jamin Alden, son of David and Mary Alden,
married Hannah  . David Alden, born
in 1717, son of Benjamin and Hannah Alden,
married Elizabeth Thorndike in 1750. To
them were born nine children. Rebecca Alden,
daughter of David Alden, was born Septem
ber 17, 1762. Rebecca Alden married Henry
Pendleton. They had thirteen children. They
moved to Northport, Maine. Judith Pendle
ton, daughter of Henry Pendleton, married
Thomas Jefferson Witherly. Their children
were : David, Betsy, Henry, William, Rebecca,
James, Amos, John, Erastus. Rebecca With
erly, daughter of Thomas J. Witherly, married
(first) a man named Bowles, and (second)
James Newhall. Their children were: Har
riet, Hannah J., Katherine, Eben, James, Mar
garet and Lois. Hannah J. Newhall, daugh
ter of James Newhall, married Daniel Hop
kins. (VI) James R. Hopkins, son of Daniel
Hopkins, was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
September 30, 1862. He attended the public
schools of his native town. At the age of six
teen he left home and went to New Hamp
shire. He followed farming and lumbering
in New Hampshire and Maine until he came
of age. In 1885 he entered into partnership
with his brother, Eben S. Hopkins, and bought

a farm, and in the following year engaged in
the meat and provision business. In 1888 the
firm added a grocery store to their under
takings. They have been very successful in
business, and are among the foremost mer
chants in the county. During the past ten
years the firm has dealt extensively in horses,
lumber, automobiles and other merchandise,
also real estate. In politics Mr. Hopkins is a
Progressive. He is a member of the Methodist
church, and of Eastern Frontier Lodge, No.
112, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in
which he has been junior and senior warden.
He is also a member of Garfield Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, and of Aroostook Coun
cil, Royal and Select Masters, of Presque Isle.
He is a member of Aroostook Valley Grange,
No. 485, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, at Fort Fairfield, Annie May-
nard, born at Fort Fairfield, April 16, 1866.
Pier parents moved to Clearfield, Pennsylvania,
when she was six years old and remained there
seven years, and she attended the public schools
there. In 1879 the family returned to Fort
Fairfield, where she completed her education.
She is a member of the Methodist church, of
Goodwill Chapter, No. 85, Order of the East
ern Star, in which she has held office, and of
Aroostook Valley Grange. The children of
James R. and Annie (Maynard) Hopkins
were: 1. Lillian Katherine, born October 21,
1887 ; married Charles H. Abbott, of Presque
Isle, August 20, 1913; child, Katherine Hop
kins, born May 22, 1914. 2. Hannah Mar
garet, born December 31, 1889; married Allen
A. Sharp, of Presque Isle, April 4, 1912 ; child,
Elizabeth Alden, born March 7, 191 3. 3.
Mattie Edna, born December 30, 1891, met
death by drowning, December 1, 1909. 4.
Louis E., born August 16, 1901. 5. Helen
Irene, born November 14, 1907.
Robert Maynard, Mrs. Hopkins' father, born
in March, 1820, died at Mars Hill, April 25,
1884, was a harnessmaker by trade and after
ward a farmer at Mars Hill, at Fort Fair
field, at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and finally at
Fort Fairfield, where he died. In politics he
was a Republican. In religion he was a mem
ber of the Baptist church, and fraternally he
was a Mason. He served through the civil
war and was severely wounded in the leg at
the battle of Gettysburg. After recovering he
returned to his regiment and continued in the
service to the end of the war. He married
Phoebe Clark, who was born in January, 1825,
died at Fort Fairfield, January 24, 1886. She
was a member of the Baptist church.
(VI) Eben Solomon Hopkins, son of Dan
iel Hopkins, and brother of James R. Hopkins,
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1865, and was educated there in the public
schools. At the age of sixteen years he
entered the employ of E. Merritt & Sons of
Houlton, Maine, and continued there until
1885, when he formed a partnership with his
brother, James R. Hopkins, as described above.
He has large farming interests. His firm has
the largest business in meat, groceries and
their other lines of any house in this part of
the state. He is a director and secretary of
the board, and member of the discount com
mittee of the Fort Fairfield National Bank.
He is administrator of the estate of his uncle,
Solomon E. Hopkins, of Cooper's Mills,
Maine. He married, October 18, 1898, at Andover,
New Brunswick, Kate Rainsford Watson, born
at Andover, July 21, 1865. She is a communicant
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She is a daugh
ter of Samuel Watson. Her grandfather was
George Watson, who had three sons : George,
William, Samuel, mentioned below. Samuel
Watson was born in Ireland, came to America
when a young man, and settled at Andover,
Victoria county, New Brunswick. He was a
tailor by trade. He was one of the first set
tlers of Andover, where he had a farm of one
hundred acres, on which he lived all his life.
He married Jane Kerrigan, of the North of
Ireland, in St. John, New Brunswick. Chil
dren : 1. William, single, deceased ; was a trader.
2. Sarah, unmarried, resides in Andover. 3.
Mary Ann, married Andrew Rainsford, and
had Mary H. and Kate, deceased. 4. John,
married Mrs. Kate L. Hammond ; resides in
Houlton, Maine. 5. Samuel, died young. 6.
Samuel James, deceased ; married Augusta
Philbrick; children: Carey, deceased, Pansy
and Geneva. 7. Margaret, married John Rus
sell. 8. George T., married Nellie Thompson,
of Toronto; resides in Winnipeg; children:
Frank, Lee, Harry, Ruth. 9. Henry, unmar
ried, lives in Seattle. 10. Peter, unmarried,
resides in Houlton, Maine. 11. Frank, de
ceased. 12. Kate R., married Eben S. Hop
kins, mentioned above. Children of Eben S.
and Kate R. (Watson) Hopkins, all born at
Fort Fairfield: 1. Sarah, born May 4, 1900. 2.
Mary, twin of Sarah. 3. Ruth, born Decem
ber 18, 1904.

Rev. Ebenezer Brown was born
BROWN in Sharon, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 1, 1 77 1, died at East
Wilton, Maine, March 27, 1838. He lived in
East Wilton, where he was buried. He married,
January 25, 1797, Hannah Billings, born in
Sharon, November 2, 1776, died at East Wil
ton, May 29, 1852. He was a Free Will Bap
tist minister. Children, born in East Wilton,

order of birth not known: 1. Mary, died at
Wilton; married Elisha Eaton, of Wilton, a
farmer. 2. Plarriet, died at Dover, Maine;
married Oscar Woodward, of Dover, a farmer.
3 Betsey, died at East Wilton ; married Luther
Cheney, of Wilton, a farmer. 4. James, men
tioned below. 5. Bradish, died in Massachu
setts; a carpenter; married (first) Elzina
—  , (second) Harriet Fox. 6. Curtis,
died at Boston, unmarried ; a merchant tailor.
(II) James Brown, son of Rev. Ebenezer
Brown, was born in Wilton, Maine, June 24,
1808, died at Patten, Maine, May 30, 1872.
He received his education in the public school
at Wilton, and became a farmer at Dayton
Plantation, later called Hersey, Aroostook
county, Maine. He lived on this farm over
thirty years before retiring from active work.
In politics he was a Democrat, and served
many years as justice of the peace, also serv
ing as a member of the school board, as road
commissioner, as assessor, and for many years
as selectman. He married Mary Ann Russell,
at Weld, Maine, February 18, 1835. She was
born at Weld, October 11, 1813, died at Island
Falls, Maine, in April, 1903. Children: 1.
Nancy, born January 22, 1837, in Weld; mar
ried Samuel T. Sewall, born in Farmington,
Maine, November 30, 1826, died in Island
Falls, March 13, 191 3, a lumberman and
farmer ; she lives at Island Falls ; children :
Mary Anna, born at Island Falls, June 3, 1858,
died October 3, 1862 ; Levi, born at Dayton
Plantation, November 4, i860, died at Island
Falls, October, 1862; Rebecca A., born Febru
ary 18, 1862, in Island Falls, married Fred S.
Alexander, of North Harpswell, and they live
at Island Falls. 2. Lucia A., born at Weld,
June 27, 1839, died at Island Falls, October,
1862, unmarried. 3. James Franklin, born
June 24, 1843, died at Island Falls in 1896;
married May Emma Pratt, of Crystal, Maine.
4, Charles Russell, mentioned below. 5. Mary
Eaton, born at Dayton Plantation, February
24, 1853, died at Island Falls, October, 1862.
(Ill) Charles Russell Brown, son of James
Brown, was born at Dayton Plantation, Aroos
took county, Maine, August 30, 1845. He
attended the public schools at Dayton Planta
tion and at Island Falls. At the age of seven
teen years he went to work on a farm at Day
ton Plantation and remained there for two
years. Dayton Plantation is now the town of
Hersey. Mr. Brown enlisted, January 4, 1864,
at Bangor, Maine, in Company L, First Maine
Pleavy Artillery, one of the famous regiments
of the civil war. He was continuously under
fire at the siege of Petersburg from May 18,
1864, to June 19 following. Of eighteen hun
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remained after the desperate charge of June
18. The others were killed, wounded or taken
prisoners. Mr. Brown was wounded at Peters
burg, March 25, 1865, and incapacitated for a
fortnight. He was in engagements continu
ously to the time of General Lee's surrender.
He was mustered out with his regiment Sep
tember 11, 1865. After his military service,
Mr. Brown became a lumberman in Maine,
continuing until 1882, when he established a
restaurant in Patten, Maine, where he had
made his home since 1866. From 1882 to 1890
he was an itinerant merchant, traveling through
the surrounding towns with his wares. From
1890 to 1892 he had a store in Patten. He sold
out in 1892 and went to Kitchi, Michigan,
where he became proprietor of a hotel, which
shortly afterward was destroyed by fire. He
then became proprietor of a hotel at Kenton,
Michigan, continuing until 1895, when he re
turned to Patten, Maine. For two years he
was guide to hunters in the Maine woods.
From 1897 to 1903 he was a potato buyer for
wholesale houses. During the next four years
his health was poor and he pursued no regu
lar vocation. In 1907 he was appointed rural
mail carrier on Route 2 of Patten, a position
that he has since filled. He is well known and
highly esteemed in the community.
In politics he is a Progressive, formerly a
Republican. He has been tax collector of Pat
ten for three years ; road commissioner three
years. He attends the Congregational church.
He is an ex-member of the Orangemen of
Patten and is a member of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen of Patten; Katahdin
Lodge, No. 97, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Patten, of which he is past master; Pomola
Lodge, No. 98, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Patten, of which he is past noble
grand; Edwin S. Rogers Post, No. 114, Grand
Army of the Republic, of Patten, of which he
has been commander for the past ten years.
Mr. Brown married, July 6, 1872, Clara
Belle Palmer, in Patten. She was born in
Patten, June 27, 1849, and educated in the
public schools and Patten Academy. She
taught school in Aroostook and Penobscot
counties in thirteen different schools before
her marriage. She attends the Congregational
church. She is a member of the Woman's
Relief Corps of Patten and of Ideal Lodge of
Rebekah, No. 93, of Patten, of which she is
past noble grand. She is also a member of
Katahdin Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
of Patten, of which she was one of the found
ers and charter members and of which she has
been conductress (see Palmer II). Children,
all born in Patten: 1. Curtis, born May 30,
1874; married Adela Blethen, of Linneus,

Maine ; he is manager of an electric railway at
Fargo, North Dakota ; children : Charles, born
May 24, 1895; Marjorie, September 8, 1900.
2. Hadley F., born May 23, 1877; married,
February 24, 1904, Lena M. McKinney, born
in Patten; he is chief machinist in a shipyard
at North Weymouth, Massachusetts ; children :
Dorothy, born July 23, 1905, at Patten; Car
roll, January 11, 1909, at Quincy. 3. Eva May,
born November 3, 1883 ; married, December
5, 1906, Clifford V. Grindal, born at Blue Hill,
Maine; he is a jeweler in Patten. 4. Ada
Mary, born February 6, 1885 ; married, Febru
ary 25, 1906, at Patten, Henry G. Bither; he
is a barber, living in Denver, Colorado; child,
Stanley Earl, born at Patten, October N8, 1906.
(The Palmer Line).
(I) Jonathan Palmer is believed to have
been born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, in
1785, died in Patten, Maine, December, 1877.
He settled in Patten about 1829, and was a
farmer there the remainder of his life. In
politics he was a Whig and later a Republican.
He married Mehitable Watson, born about
1787, died at Wakefield, New Hampshire, Oc
tober 30, 1829. Children, born in Wakefield:
1. Offin B., mentioned below. 2. Amanda,
died at North Chesterville, Maine; married
Solomon Reed, a farmer in Patten. 3. Har
riet, died in Patten; married Nelson Darling,
brother of Louise M. Darling, who married
Offin B. Palmer; he was from Passadumkeag,
and was a well-to-do farmer in Patten. 4.
James, died in Patten; a farmer; married
Mary Dean Darling, sister of Louise M. Dar
ling. 5. Mary, died near Weston, Maine ; mar
ried Joel Foss, of Weston, a farmer; he was
a Democrat, being prominent in political life,
a member of the legislature. 6. Clara, died at
Wilmington, North Carolina; married James
Springer, of Weston, a mill owner in the south.
7. Jonathan, died at Patten; a farmer; mar
ried Evaline Bowers, of Patten. 8. Augustus,
died at Patten; farmer; married Sarah Dar
ling, sister of Louise M. Darling. 9. Edwin,
died at Patten; farmer; married Elizabeth
Craig, of Patten.
(II) Offin B. Palmer, son of Jonathan Pal
mer, was born in Wakefield, New Hampshire,
October 30, 1808, died in Patten, Maine, Feb
ruary 27, 1884. He received his education in
the Wakefield public schools, and came to
Patten when a young man. He was a farmer.
In politics he was a Republican, and attended
the Methodist Episcopal church. He belonged
to the Sons of Temperance. He married, No
vember 4, 1842, in Patten, Louise M. Darling,
born in Passadumkeag, Maine, July 28, 1824,
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devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Children, born in Patten: 1. Fran
ces Marian, born November 13, 1843, died
May 13, 1846. 2. Sarah Albina, born Decem
ber 14, 1845; married, July 3, 1863, Lorenzo
W. Hackett, in Patten; he was born in Bidde
ford, Maine, where they live. 3. Mary Ed
wina, born October 25, 1847 > married, July 7,
1868, Hadley Fairfield, of Houlton, Maine,
where he was register of deeds for many
years ; she lives at the home of Charles Russell
Brown. 4. Clara Belle, born June 27, 1849;
married Charles Russell Brown, July 6, 1872
(see Brown III). 5. Arthur Bowman, born
August 26, 1851 ; lives at Biddeford, unmar
ried ; a liveryman. 6. Maria Louise, born Jan
uary 1, 1854, died in Patten, October 27, 1862.
7. James Wesley, born August 9, 1856, died
in Patten, August 5, 1868. 8. Lee Offin, born
November 13, 1858, died December, 1909;
married, July 25, 1887, Minnie Belle Crom-
mett, of Mount Chase, Maine; she lives in
Waterville, Maine; he was a farmer, lumber
man, and hotel proprietor in Patten. 9. Cas
sius Elbert, born March 21, 1862; married,
July 1, 1903, in Presque Isle, Annie M. Libbey,
of Patten ; they live in Saco, Maine ; he is a
farmer. 10. Winthrop Watson, born July 5.
1864; married, November 13, 1885, in Patten,
Hattie Mary Willey, of Hersey, Maine; they
live in Saco on a farm. 11. Edith Louise, born
April 19, 1870, died at Patten, May 22, 1885.

John Blackden was born in
BLACKDEN Anson, Maine, probably in
1795, died in Carmel, Maine,
in 1882. He was a cobbler by trade, remain
ing some years in Anson, and then moving to
Carmel, where he followed his trade until his
death. He married (first) Martha Blagden,
who died at Anson. He married (second)
Rachel Jones, who died in Carmel. Children
by first wife : 1. Angeline, married Hiram
Getchell. 2. Susan, died young. Children by
second wife: 3. Napoleon B., mentioned be
low. 4. John, died in Everett, Massachusetts ;
married Submit Cookson, born 1833, of Green
field, Maine, and she lives in Everett, aged
eighty years. 5. Corydon, died in Etna, Maine;
enlisted in 1861 in Sixth Maine Heavy Artil
lery and served three years and nine months ;
worked in Boston ; married Charlotte Kendall,
of Skowhegan, Maine. 6. Owen, died in St.
Louis, Missouri; railroad conductor; married
Ella  . 7. Amelia, died in Carmel,
Maine; married Ansten Mills, of Newport,
Maine, who died in California. 8. Ethan A.,
lives in Boston; retired from rubber goods
business ; married Ella Whitney. 9. Goff, lives
at South Etna, a farmer; served three years

nine months in Sixth Maine Heavy Artillery;
married (first) Annie Day, of Carmel, and
had Jennie, married Frank Otis, and Lydia,
married Benjamin Otis; married (second)
Ella Morrison, of Exeter, Maine.
(II) Napoleon B. Blackden, son of John
Blackden, was born in Madison, Maine, March
5, 1823, died in Dexter, Maine, July 4, 1897.
Until May 2, 1880, he was a farmer in South
Etna, Maine. At that time he purchased a
farm in Mars Hill, Maine, and moved there,
selling his farm in South Etna. He resided at
Mars Hill the remainder of his life, and lived
the last fourteen years with his son, Owen E.
Blackden, retiring from active work. In poli
tics he was a Republican, and he held the
offices of road commissioner and of school
agent. He was a member of the Christian
church. He married Lydia W. Cookson, born
in Greenfield, Maine, May 18, 1835, and who
now lives with her son, Owen E. Blackden,
mentioned below (see Cookson II). Children,
born in Etna: 1. Rachel M., born March 13,
1854; married Alden Sylvester, of Etna, and
they live at Blaine, Maine, on their farm ; chil
dren: Ada, Herbert Wilson, Fred, Arthur,
Alice, Pearl, Lena, Don, Iva, Lila. 2. Arvella
F., bora April 13, 1856; married James Round-
let, of Etna, who died at Kittery, Maine; was
a farmer ; she lives at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, with her son, the only child, Amos, an
attorney, who has been in engineer department
of Portsmouth navy yard for sixteen years.
3. Owen E., mentioned below. 4. Lillian, born
November 25, i860, died February, 1906;
married W. F. Glidden, of Etna, who owns
fine farm at Mars Hill; children: Alta,
Marian, Annie, Ruby, Ora, Alden, Alpha,
Selma. 5. George Franklin, born December
26, 1862 ; married Emma Smith, of Mars Hill,
where they live; children: Oliver O., Lydia,
Clyde, Ray, Edna, Velma. 6. Fred, born 1868;
married Stella Fulton, of Mars Hill, where
they live ; he is a contractor and builder ; chil
dren : Edith, Leon, Dale. 7. Irene, born Sep
tember 29, 1874; married Norman Margerson,
of Mars Hill ; no children.
(Ill) Owen E. Blackden, son of Napoleon
B. Blackden, was born in Etna, Maine, August
11, 1858. He attended the public schools there
until he was sixteen years old. He then began
to learn the blacksmith trade at Solon, Maine.
He followed his trade there and at Skowhegan,
Maine, until 1885. He became the proprietor
of the Lancey House at Pittsfield, Maine, in
October, 1886, and conducted it until he sold
out in February, 1891. In the December previ
ous he had bought the Exchange Hotel at Dex
ter, Maine, and after conducting it for ten
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it. After retiring from the hotel business he
followed farming at 'Dexter. In 1902 he en
gaged in the heating and plumbing business in
Dexter and followed it for seven years. He
then returned to his trade of blacksmith and
conducted the T. D. Forrest farm at Dexter.
He opened the Presque Isle House, and this
hotel has already become the best hostelry be
tween Van Buren and Bangor, Maine. In
politics he is a Republican. He has been select
man of Dexter for two years, assessor two
years and overseer of the poor for the same
length of time. For seven years he was a
member of the board of fire engineers and for
six years on the sewer committee of the town.
For many years he has been on the Republican
town and county committees. He resigned
from the county committee in 1913. He is a
member of the Free Will Baptist church, of
which he has been a trustee and director. He
is a member of Dexter Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, and Dexter Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons. He joined the Carabasset
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Skowhegan, January 26, 1881, and is past
noble grand. He was transferred to Plymouth
Lodge, of Dexter, in 1907. He is also a mem
ber of the Knights of Pythias, of Dexter, and
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, of Bangor. He joined Parmenas En
campment, January 26, 1881.
Mr. Blackden married, January 6, 1877, at
Athens, Maine, Ada C. Cleveland, born at
Athens, November 12, 1858, and was educated
in the Athens Academy. She is a member of
the Order of the Eastern Star and of Martha
Washington Rebekah Lodge, of Dexter, and
of the Free Will Baptist church. William H.
Cleveland, her father, was born in 1835 at
Fairfield, Maine, died at Athens in 1901. He
was a carpenter. He married Mary Wing,
born at Athens. Children of William H.
Cleveland: 1. Ada C, married Owen E. Black
den, mentioned above. 2. Edward, a carpenter
of Waterville ; married  — Davis. 3. Wil
liam, a weaver of Dexter ; married EdnaKeten,
of Dexter. 4. Delmont, married Kate Ross,
of Presque Isle, Maine ; he is proprietor of
the Exchange Hotel. Elijah Cleveland, father
of William H. Cleveland, was born at Fair
field in 1816, died at Athens in 1893. Chil
dren of Owen E. Blackden: 1. Edna C, born
at Pittsfield, September 29, 1888, died aged
six months. 2. Vesta L., born at Pittsfield,
January 6, 1891 ; graduate of the Dexter high
school, member of Martha Washington Re
bekah Lodge. 3. Vera May, born at Dexter,
December 11, 1892; member of the Free Will
Baptist church and Martha Washington Lodge.
4. Bernice C, born at Dexter, July 20, 1894;

member of Martha Washington Lodge. 5.
Owen Edward, born at Dexter, May 17, 1896.
6. Glen, born at Dexter, November 25, 1898,
died there December 6, 1904.
(The Cookson Line).
(I) Joseph Cookson was born in Belmont,
Maine, about 1777, died in Greenfield, Maine,
in 1849. He was a farmer in Greenfield. He
married  , probably Hopkins, who died
at Milford, Maine. Children, order of birth
not given: 1. Abram, mentioned below. 2.
Benjamin, married Jane  , died in Costi
gan, Maine ; was a farmer. 3. Reuben, died in
Greenfield; was a farmer and lumberman;
served in Aroostook war; married Margaret
White, who died in Lowell, Maine. 4. Han
nah, died in Enfield, Maine; married Arthur
Lamb, a blacksmith, who died in Costigan. 5.
Betsey, died in Greenfield; married 
Adams, veteran of civil war. 6. Joseph, died
in Greenfield; was a farmer; married Maria,
probably Otis.
(II) Abram Cookson, son of Joseph Cook
son, was born in Belmont, Maine, in 1805,
died at Etna, Maine, June 4, 1889, aged eighty-
four years ten months six days. He was a
farmer in Greenfield, Maine, for many years,
and finally in Etna. In politics he was a Re
publican, having been a Democrat until Lin
coln's time. He was active and prominent in
church affairs. He married Sybil Witham,
born in New Sharon, Maine, died at Etna,
April 14, 1885, aged seventy-four years eleven
months twenty-four days. Sybil Witham was
daughter of Peter Witham, born in Maine,
perhaps New Sharon, about 1770, died in
Greenfield, about i860. He settled on a farm
in Greenfield, and resided there the remainder
of his life. He married Joanna Whitney, born
in Maine in 1771, died in Greenfield in 1847.
Children of Peter and Joanna (Whitney)
Witham: 1. Luther, died in Greenfield; mar
ried (first) Rebecca —  , (second) Elvira
 . 2. Orrison, killed by lightning in
Pennsylvania, was on the way to settle in Wis
consin when he was killed ; was a farmer ;
active temperance worker; married Lovisa
Lord, of Plantation No. 1, Maine. 3. Lydia,
died in Greenfield; married Robert Whitney,
farmer of Greenfield. 4. Submit, died in Lin
coln, Maine ; married Jason Weston, a lumber
man and farmer, who died in Bangor, Maine.
5. Sybil, married Abram Cookson, mentioned
above. 6. Asa, died in Greenfield ; was a
farmer. Perhaps other children. Children of
Abram and Sybil (Witham) Cookson, born in
Greenfield: 1. Hepsebath, born 1829; married
Philip Littlefield, of Olamon, Maine, farmer;
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years. 2. Asa, born 183 1 ; carpenter; married
Maria Hammond, of Etna, and they live in
Easton, Maine. 3. Submit, married John
Blackden. 4. Lydia W., married Napoleon B.
Blackden (see Blackden II). 5. Drusilla, born
1837; married William Stevens, of Belgrade,
Maine, a farmer; she lives at Belgrade. 6.
Albert, born 1839; farmer; served in civil war
one year; married Rebecca Patterson, of Car
mel, Maine, and they live at Etna. 7. George
W., born 1839 ; carpenter and builder ; mar
ried (first) Hannah Patterson, sister of Re
becca Patterson; married (second) Rebecca
Pinkham, widow of Madison Pinkham, and
daughter of  McLaughlin; married
(third) Delia Goodwin, of Carmel, and they
live at Etna. 8. Martha, born 1843, died at
Etna, 1887; married Harry Smith, of Penn
sylvania, a farmer, veteran of civil war, died in
Dresden, Maine. 9. Addison, born 1845 ;
farmer ; married Anna Rogers, of Penobscot
county, Maine, and they live in Newburg,
Maine. 10. Joanna (always called Anna),
born 1847, died at Mars Hill, Maine, in 1899;
married Edward Tarr, of Carmel, a farmer,
now living in East Newport, Maine.

Daniel Page was born about ii
PAGE in Bucksport, Maine, and was a
farmer in that town all his active
life. In politics he was a Whig and he took a
prominent part in the affairs of the town. He
was an active member of the Methodist Epis
copal church and a steward and trustee. He
married Margaret Little, born in Maine about
1808, died at East Bucksport in 1882. Chil
dren, all born at East Bucksport: 1. William,
1829, died at Rockport, Massachusetts, 1903 ;
built a vessel six miles from the shore and with
the help of his neighbors hauled it to the sea ;
it was lost in a gale at sea; was afterward a
manufacturer of hammer handles; married
Minerva Page, a cousin. 2. Hannah, born
1831, died in South Orrington, Maine, Au
gust 15, 1914; she married (first) Charles
Hixie, a farmer; married (second) William
Hixie, brother of her first husband, also a
farmer. 3. Samuel Thaxter, mentioned below.
4. Bathsheba, born 1839, died at Peabody,
Massachusetts, in 1909; married Samuel Har
ris, of Rockport, Massachusetts ; a stone-cutter
by trade.
(II) Rev. Samuel Thaxter Page, son of
Daniel Page, was born at Bucksport, Maine,
August 18, 1836, died at Milo, in June, 1895.
He was educated in the public schools and
Bucksport Academy and graduated from the
Bangor Theological Seminary ; became a Meth
odist minister of the East Maine conference
and had pastorates in Penobscot and Aroostook

counties. In politics he was a Republican.
He was postmaster at East Bucksport during
the civil war. He was a member of Tomah
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Dan-
forth. He married Ruby King, at Orrington,
June 28, 1863. She was born at Orrington,
November 18, 1838, died at Forest City, Maine,
August 23, 1890. She was a daughter of John
King, who was born in Orrington, July 25,
181 1, died at Bangor, August 17, 1903, a
farmer all his life in Orrington until he re
tired. He spent his last years in Bangor. He
was a Republican. He organized and drilled
companies for the service in the civil war and
was called Captain King. He was steward and
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Captain King married Mary Devereux, who
was born at Castine, Maine, about 1812, died
at Orrington in 1870. Children of John and
Mary King, born at Orrington: 1. John D.,
died at Brewer ; was a school teacher ; mar
ried Anna Mason, of Bangor, where she now
lives. 2. George, died at Orrington, was a
farmer ; unmarried. 3. Ruby, married Rev.
Samuel Thaxter Page, mentioned above. 4.
Amos, died at Toledo, Ohio, was a merchant
for forty years in Brewer, Maine ; married
Cora Baker, of Orrington ; he served in the
civil war. 5. Abbie, resides at Bucksport;
married Charles Devereux, a cousin, sea cap
tain, of Castine, now deceased. 6. Martha,
died at Augusta, Maine ; married Amos M.
White, of Parkman, Maine, a jeweler, now of
Augusta, retired. 7. Jabez, resides at Toledo,
Ohio, a plumber by trade, served in the civil
war. 8. William, resides in Cleveland, Ohio ;
employed in marble works. 9. Mary, resides
at Toledo, Ohio ; married George Ryder, of
Orrington, a sea captain, afterward a farmer.
10. Anna, resides in Bangor; married Alpheus
Hanson, who died in 191 3, was general man
ager for Morse & Company of Bangor, for
whom he worked forty-five years. 11. Everett,
died at Ogden, Utah, was a real estate agent;
married Nellie Rideout, of Bucksport; she
married (second)  Weymouth, and re
sides at Patten, Maine. 12. Charles Sumner,
resides at Kingfield, Maine; manager of the
Kingfield Lumber Company; married Alice
Smith, of Old Town, in 1912. Child of Rev.
Samuel Thaxter Page : Sherman Daniel Page,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Sherman Daniel Page, son of Rev.
Samuel Thaxter Page, was born at Bucksport,
Maine, July 30, 1864. When he was six years
old his parents removed to Brewer, Maine,
and he attended the public schools of that
town and the East Corinth Academy, from
which he graduated in 1882. He then learned
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and followed his trade at East Corinth, 1884-
86. Pie afterward worked at Bangor, Fox
croft and Sherman Mills, where he was em
ployed in fresco work. He entered the em
ploy of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Company, January 1, 1899, at Houlton, Maine.
In 1908 he came to Milo Junction, where he
has since lived. He is now general car fore
man on this railroad system. In politics Mr.
Page is a Republican. He has served as super
visor of schools of Milo Junction for two
years. He is a member of the Methodist Epis
copal church and is chairman of the board of
trustees. He is a member of Piscataqua Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Milo ; of Rocka-
bema Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, of Houlton; of the Encampment, Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias, of Dover. He
is also a member of the Master Car and Loco
motive Painters' Association of United States
and Canada.
Mr. Page married, at Bradford, Maine, No
vember 27, 1890, Nellie M. Sanford, born in
Bradford, September 30, 1870 (see Sanford
II). Children: 1. Ruby King, born at Forest
City, Maine, September 17, 1891 ; educated in
the Bangor and Houlton schools, graduating
from the Milo high school in 1910 and from
Beal's School of Shorthand, Bangor, in 1912;
now stenographer for the superintendent of
motive power on the Bangor & Aroostook
railroad; she is a member of the Methodist
church, and of Aldworth Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star, of Milo. 2. Helen Sanford,
born at Milo, November 24, 1892 ; graduate of
the Milo high school, 1910, and the State Nor
mal School, Farmington, class of 1914; mem
ber of the Methodist church and Eastern Star;
has taught school two years in Benedicta, Milo
and Sangerville. 3. Thaxter William, born at
Milo Junction, June 6, 1895, died there Octo
ber 23, 1895. 4. Margaret Edith, born at
Houlton, December 6, 1900. 5. Edwin Sher
man, born at Milo Junction, October 20, 1908.
(The Sanford Line).
(I) Peleg Sanford, of an old New England
family, was born at Palermo, Maine, and died
there in 1820, in the prime of life. He was a
farmer. In politics he was a Whig. He mar
ried Hannah  , who died at Palermo.
Children: Perez, died at Palermo; Ezekiel,
died at Bradford, a farmer; Hannah, died at
Knox, Maine, married  Marden ; Eliza,
died in Dakota; William, mentioned below;
and others.
(II) William Sanford, son of Peleg San
ford, was born at Palermo, Maine, April 17,
1818, died at Bucksport, May 5, 1893. He at
tended the public schools of his native town.

At the age of twenty years he located on a
farm at Bradford. In politics he was a Re
publican. He was selectman and held various
other offices of trust. He was a communicant
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He mar
ried (first) March 29, 1841, Mary Ann Rowe,
born December 4, 1818, died August 5, 1848,
at Bradford. He married (second) June 10,
1849, at Bradford, Margaret Jane Erskine,
born at Bristol, Maine, March 4, 1831, died at
Bradford, April 23, 191 1, daughter of Roger
Erskine, born in 1804, in Maine, died at Brad
ford in 1864, a ship carpenter in Bristol and
afterward a farmer in Bradford, a Whig and
later a Republican in politics, and active mem
ber of the Methodist church. Roger Erskine
married Maria McCobb, born on Loud's
Island, 1806, died at Presque Isle in 1896.
Children of Roger and Maria (McCobb)
Erskine : 1. John, killed in the battle of Spott-
sylvania; married Elmira Williams, of Brad
ford, now of Presque Isle. 2. Roger, died at
Presque Isle ; married the widow of his brother
John ; was a farmer and served in the civil
war. 3. William, died at Belfast, Maine; was
a harnessmaker by trade ; married Georgia
 , who is living at Newport, Maine. 4.
James, resides in Aroostook county, a farmer ;
served in the civil war. 5. Abbie, died in
Bradford. 6. Margaret Jane, married William
Sanford, mentioned above.
Children of William Sanford by first wife:
1. Isabelle H., born August 5, 1842, died No
vember 27, 1855. 2. Rufus R., born April 30,
1844, died March 9, 1856. 3. George W., born
June 17, 1848, died February 1, 190 1 ; married
(first) Kate Church, of Bradford, died July
12, 1892; married (second) Ruth Mantor, of
Madison, who died May 27, 191 1; he was a
merchant and had charge of a large tannery.
Children of William Sanford by second wife:
4. Annie M., born September 16, 1850, died
January 12, 1856. 5. William H., born at
Bradford, July 30, 1852; resides in Corinth,
Maine, a farmer; married (first) Hattie Perry,
December 25, 1880; she died October 27, 1881 ;
married (second) June 1, 1887, Laura A.
Goodwin. 6. Clara J., born at Bradford, Feb
ruary 20, 1854; married Edwin Aldrich. 7.
Alfred Godfrey, born at Corinth, May 27,
1856; married Evie A. Strout, May 10, 1882.
8. John Wesley, born at Corinth, September
15, 1858; married (first) Lizzie A. Vague, who
died March 20, 1909, (second) Martha French,
April 16, 19 13; now living at Bangor. 9.
Charles C, born at Bradford, October 23,
1 861 ; married, September 25, 1889, Lizzie
Ross, born in Bradford ; resides at Bangor on
a farm. 10. Ulysses Sherman, born at Brad
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Colorado, June 29, 1883, a minor. 11. Rufus
R., born at Bradford, June 21, 1867; married,
December 21, 1907, Grace J. Norwood; they
reside in Providence, where he is employed in
the wholesale meat business. 12. Nellie M.,
born September 30, 1870; attended the public
schools of Bradford and the Ricker Classical
Institute of Houlton and the Higgins Classical
Institute of Charleston, Maine; she is a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church ; of Aid-
worth Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of
Milo, and of the Ladies' Aid Society ; married
Sherman Daniel Page (see Page III). 13.
Daniel B., born at Bradford, September 7,
1873; married Linnette E. Fogg, January 15,
1896; he died May 8, 1907; she married (sec
ond) Ernest Patten, a farmer of Greene,
Maine. 14. Margaret, born at Bradford,
March 9, 1876; resides at Bangor, a milliner.

John Cookson, the immigrant
COOKSON ancestor, settled in Boston,
Massachusetts, about 1700.
He was a gunsmith by trade. In 1705 he was
constable; in 1706-15-18 tithingman. He was
given "the liberty and benefit of sweeping
chimneys" — apparently a nice monopoly — by
the selectmen, June 1, 1701. In 1714 he was
authorized to prosecute those who swept chim
neys contrary to the town by-laws. He em
ployed negroes to do the work and was in
business as late as 1723. He built a tomb in
the Copp's Hill burying ground. He was a
member of the Artillery Company and its
clerk in 1726. He married, November 2, 1704,
Rachel Proctor. He and his wife joined the
Second Church, November 12, 1727. Chil
dren: John, mentioned below; Rachel, born
September 10, 1707 ; Elizabeth, October 10,
1708; Obadiah, February 1, 1709; Reuben,
May 10, 171 1 ; Samuel, January 29, 1716.
(II) John (2) Cookson, son of John (1)
Cookson, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
July 2, 1706. He was admitted to the church
April 2, 1727. His wife or sister Elizabeth
was admitted December 24, 1727. He mar
ried, December 31, 1741, at Boston, Mary
Baker, of Eastham. She was probably his
second wife. His brother Obadiah married
Margaret ¦  and had a son John, born
April 10, 1738.
(Ill) John (3) Cookson, son of John (2)
or Obadiah Cookson, married, at Boston, De
cember 3, 1767, Margaret Freeman. He was
a soldier in the revolution in Captain Roger
Libby's company, Cumberland county (now
in Maine), in 1779; also in Captain Jonathan
Andrew's company, Colonel Joseph Prince's
regiment in Maine in 1780. Reuben Cookson,
a brother or near relative, lived at Pearson-
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town and served in the revolution in Captain
Wentworth Shaw's company, Colonel Edmund
Phinney's regiment, July to September, 1775 ;
corporal in Captain Jonathan Sawyer's com
pany, Colonel Phinney's regiment at Fort
George, 1776. Reuben Cookson was living at
Pearsontown (Standish), Maine, in 1790, and
had in his family, according to the first federal
census, two males over sixteen, three under
that age and seven females. One other family
of Cookson was living there, Elizabeth, a
widow, had two sons under sixteen and two
females in her family. Elizabeth was prob
ably the widow of John.
(IV) Daniel Noyes Cookson, son or nephew
of John (3) Cookson, was born at Unity,
Maine, about 1770. He was a farmer all his
active life. He married (second) Lucy Gil
ford, born in 1777, died about i860, in Lin
neus, Maine. Children by second wife: 1.
Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Gardner, born at
Unity, 1813; he was a farmer at Unity; mar
ried Aurelia Sagers, of Unity. 3. Lucy, born
at Unity, 181 5; married William Townsend, a
cooper by trade, and died in Brewer, Maine ;
they lived in Linneus and afterward in south
ern Maine; she died at Brewer. 4. Calvin,
born at Unity, 1818; married Mary Ann
 , of Houlton; he died in Rhode Island
and she at Bangor, Maine.
(V) Daniel Cookson, son of Daniel Noyes
Cookson, was born at Unity, Maine, February,
181 1, died at Gadsden, Alabama, in February,
1879. When a young man he moved to Lin
neus and followed farming there for thirty
years. He and his son, Eli N. Cookson, then
went to Alabama to engage in the lumber busi
ness. In politics he was a Republican. He
married Maria Morrison, born at Limerick,
Maine, May 30, 1810, died there August 24,
1892. She was a daughter of Isaiah Morrison,
born in western Maine, 1786, died at Linneus,
1875. He removed to New Limerick, Maine,
when a young man and followed farming. He
was postmaster for a number of years. Mr.
Morrison married Sally Webber, born in 1787,
died at New Limerick in 1825. Children of
Isaiah Morrison: 1. Maria, married Daniel
Cookson, mentioned above. 2. Olive, died
when a young woman. 3. Joseph, died in
Linneus; was a farmer; married Susan Por
ter, of New Brunswick. 4. Ruth, died at
Houlton; married Nathan Lamb, a cooper and
farmer. 5. Benjamin, died at Linneus; he
was a farmer ; married Catherine McGeery, a
native of Ireland. 6. Sally, died at Linneus;
married Joseph Goodenough, of Smyrna,
Maine. Children of Daniel Cookson: 1. Olive,
born September 19, 1835; married Aaron
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1828, died at Oakfield, March 8, 1887; was_s
farmer in Linneus ; member of the Free Will
Baptist church; road commissioner of the
town. 2. Christopher Columbus, born March
14, 1837, died at Mapleton, Maine; served in
the civil war in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment
and was made prisoner at the battle of the
Wilderness and for six months confined in the
rebel prison at Andersonville ; married (first)
Lydia Clifford, of Linneus, (second) Mary
Sawtelle, of Bangor, who is living in Island
Falls, Maine, having married (second) Henry
A. Grant. 3. Lucinda A., born March 11,
1839; married Simon Carpenter, of Linneus,
a farmer, lumberman and surveyor ; she died
a*- Dyer Brook, March 28, 1904; he died at
Milo, in February, 1910. 4. Eli N., born
March 9, 1841, died in July, 1906, at Gadsden,
Alabama, where he lived for thirty-six years ;
served in the Second Maine Cavalry, enlisting
December 20, 1863 ; married Olive McCor-
netha, of New Brunswick. 5. Isaiah M., born
December 12, 1842 ; married Eunice Collins,
of Hodgdon, Maine ; they reside at Milo, where
he is a farmer ; he served in the Second Maine
Cavalry in the civil war. 6. Daniel Noyes,
mentioned below.
(VI) Daniel Noyes (2) Cookson, son of
Daniel Cookson, was born at Linneus, Maine,
October 12, 1849. He attended the public
schools of his native town and assisted his
father on the farm until he was twenty-nine
years old. During the next three years he
was a teamster, engaged in hauling leather
from Shaw's factory to Houlton and hides
from there back. In 1882 he bought a farm in
Dyer Brook and has cultivated it since then.
He had eighty-six acres, but sold six acres to
the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company.
In politics he is a Republican. He has been
selectman for twenty-one years. He was ap
pointed postmaster in 1901 and served six
years. He attends the Free Will Baptist
church, and is a member of Island Falls Lodge,
No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons, and for
merly a member of the Good Templars of
Linneus, and of the Oakfield Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry.
He married, at Dyer Brook, October 3, 1880,
Hattie F. Kelley, born at Littleton, June 20,
1862. She attended the public schools at
Bridgewater, Maine, whither her parents re
moved when she was twelve years old. She is
a member of the Oakfield Grange, and of
Island Falls Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star. Children of Daniel Noyes Cookson: 1.
Nellie A., born at New Limerick, August 21,
1882 ; educated in the Dyer Brook schools ;
married Edwin A. Plughes, born at Mapleton;
they reside at Milo, where he has a farm and

he also follows his trade as machinist; chil
dren : Dermont Victor, born at Dyer Brook,
June 10, 1902 ; Perley, February 20, 1905. 2.
Lottie M., born at New Limerick, April 2,
1884; married Avon R. Carpenter, of Linneus,
now of Dyer Brook; children: Floyd, born
at Dyer Brook, October 14, 1905, died young;
Mildred, September, 1907; Frank, July 3,
1909; Hollis, March 14, 191 1; Marjorie, March
14, 1913. 3. Charles Earl, born at Dyer Brook,
June 29, 1885; graduate of the Dyer Brook
schools, assists his father on the homestead.
4. Horace E., born at Dyer Brook, March 29,
1889; resides in his native town; is a potato
buyer. 5. Willis D., born at Dyer Brook, May
20, 1903.
William H. Kelley, father of Mrs. Cookson,
was born at Weston, Maine, died at Dyer
Brook, December 17, 1903, aged seventy-one
years two months six days. He was a farmer
all his active life in Easton, Maysville and
W'eston No. 9, at Littleton, Bridgewater, and
finally at Dyer Brook, where he lived for
twenty-five years. In politics he was a Repub
lican, and for eighteen years he was post
master of Dyer Brook and for ten years col
lector of taxes and constable. He was a dea
con of the Free Will Baptist church. Pie mar
ried Mary Jane Fulds, born at Maysville,
Maine, November 24, 1835, died at Dyer
Brook, in 1899. Mr. Kelley was also a
preacher and held meetings in various towns
in this section. Children of William H. Kel
ley: 1. Elijah A., born at Easton, Maine, 1854;
married Flora M. Kelley, a first cousin, of
Bridgewater, and lived at Dyer Brook. 2.
Lyman, born at Easton, January 29, 1856, died
at Dyer Brook, 1898; married Lucy M. White,
of Littleton, Maine; she married (second)
John D. Clark. 3. Ada L., born October 6,
i860, died at Dyer Brook, 1901 ; married
Henry A. Grant, of Dyer Brook, now a farmer
of Island Falls. 4. Hattie F., married Daniel
Noyes Cookson, mentioned above. 5. Etta
Kelley, born 1867, died at Dyer Brook, 1883.
Jeremiah Kelley, father of William H. Kel
ley, was born in Kennebec county, Maine,
1798, died at Weston, Maine, about 1878. He
was a lumberman and hotelkeeper at Haynes
ville, Maine. He married Sarah Ellis, born at
Athens, Maine, died at Weston. Children of
Jeremiah Kelley: 1. Samuel, born at Haynes
ville, Maine, died in his native town, unmar
ried ; was a lumberman. 2. Sarah, died at
Orient; married (first)  Knight; (sec
ond) Joel Faulkner, of Orient, a farmer, now
of Newport, Maine; he married (second) El-
meda Cumberland. 3. William H., mentioned
above. 4. Plulda, married James Irish, of
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master of the town ; she now lives at Hermon,
Maine. 5. Martha, died at Weston, Maine ;
married  Newcomb, a farmer. 6. Ben
jamin Franklin, died at Orient; married Ma
tilda Pierce, of Bridgewater. 7. Mary Ann,
twin of Benjamin Franklin, died in Orient ;
married Dr. Pierson, of Danforth, Maine. 8.
Murilla, married James Whitney, a farmer,
who died in Weston; she resides in Weston.
9. Lydia, died at Weston; married William
Estabrook, of Amity, a farmer. 10. Alonzo,
died at Weston ; was a farmer ; married Ame
lia Gallerson, of Weston. 11. Orrin, resides
at Ashland, New Hampshire ; a farmer ; mar
ried (first) Deborah Gallerson, sister of Ame
lia, and (second) Eva Miller. 12. Loraine,
died at Danforth; married Albert Kilpatrick,
of Danforth, a farmer.

David Stephens was born in
STEPHENS England in 1808", died in
Ludlow, Maine, in 1883. He
came to this country after his marriage, set
tling in Ludlow, where he was a carpenter.
He married Helen Gray, who was of Scotch
ancestry. She died in Miramichi, Canada,
where they lived for a time before settling in
Ludlow. The children were all born in Mira
michi : 1. George, died at Patten, Maine, lum
berman ; married Marian McKenzie, who died
at Patten. 2. Thomas, died at Dakota, unmar
ried. 3. Walter, died at Ludlow, unmarried, a
farmer. 4. Charles, mentioned below. 5. Bet
sey, died at Ludlow ; married Frank Small, of
Miramichi, a farmer in Ludlow ; son, David, a
farmer, died in 1910. 6. Jane, died at Lewis-
ton, Idaho; married John Small, of Miramichi,
a farmer ; children : Eliza, married Robert
Ingram, deceased, and she lives at Lewiston;
Mary, married Richard Steward, both de
ceased; Nancy, married Henry Whitney, she
is deceased ; Elmira, married Samuel Smith,
both deceased; Elfert, deceased; George, lives
in Lewiston ; Eli ; Lydia, married Reed Smith,
of Veazie, Maine ; Annie, married Henry Cor
coran. 7. Amy, died in Ludlow ; married John
Stewart, farmer, deceased ; no children. 8.
Mary, died in Old Town, Maine; married
Jacob Morris, deceased; no children.
(II) Charles Stephens, son of David Ste
phens, was born at Miramichi, New Bruns
wick, August 21, 1826, died at Merrill Planta
tion, Maine, September 15, 1885. He came to
the United States with his parents in 1834, and
settled in Ludlow, Maine, where he received
his education. He was a farmer and lumber
man in Ludlow for a time, and then moved
to Merrill Plantation, where he purchased a
farm, after selling his farm in Ludlow. In
politics he was a Republican, and he served as

school agent, as selectman, and as assessor ; he
had charge of the road district and also served
in other town offices. He was a member of the
Free Will Baptist church. He was drafted
for the civil war, but was not mustered in, as
the war closed before he was needed. He
married, November 6, 1850, Ruth Cummings
Stewart, born in Ludlow, Maine, the first
white child to be born there, September 27,
1829, died at Merrill Plantation, January 12,
1 90 1. Children of Charles and Ruth Cum
mings (Stewart) Stephens, born at Ludlow:
1. David, born October 6, 1851 ; merchant at
Presque Isle ; married (first) Annie Black, of
Searshott, Maine, deceased; children: Fred,
of Presque Isle; Otis, Ralph, Theodate; mar
ried (second) Adelia Hoyt. 2. Charles Walter,
mentioned below. 3. George, born March 18,
1853, twin of Charles Walter; died July 17,
1896, in Houlton; a farmer; married Eliza
beth Taggett, of Houlton; child, Gertrude,
married Fred Shean, of Patten, and they live
at Fort Kent, Maine, where he is in custom
house office. 4. John, born January 18, 1855 ;
married Hannah Dale Watson. 5. William,
born September 17, 1856; died at Merrill Plan
tation, Maine, November, 1900; married Dian-
tha Small, of Ludlow ; she lives at Minneap
olis, Minnesota ; children : Walter, Percy,
Eva, Sherman, Charles, Luella. 6. Helen,
born June 27, 1858; married Henry Bradbury,
of Ludlow, and they live at Fort Kent; chil
dren : Sadie, married Frank Brown, of Ban
gor, Maine ; Eda, stenographer, lives at Houl
ton, Maine ; Grover, stenographer, lives at
Fort Kent; Irving, lives at Bangor, stenogra
pher; Mildred and Earl, live with parents. 7.
Rufus, born April 21, i860; married Ruby
Haskell, of Smyrna, Maine ; they live in Mer
rill on a farm ; children : Leland, Delia, Jas
per, Howard, living with parents. 8. Leon
ard, born January 18, 1862; married Mina
Kimball, of Patten, where he is a carpenter;
no children. 9. Jane, born February 10, 1864;
married Alonzo Haskell, of Smyrna ; they live
at Smyrna Mills ; children : Gertrude, married
Parker Smith, of Smyrna Mills ; Myrtle, mar
ried Wallace Anderson, of Smyrna Mills;
George, lives in New Hampshire; Charles,
William, Telma, Ruby, Ora, living with par
ents. 10. Amzie, born February 9, 1866; mar
ried Charles Bates, of Moss, Maine, and they
live at Dyer Brook, where he is a farmer;
children: Irving, married Beatrice Mason,
and lives at Portland, Maine ; Andbrey, Pearl,
George, living with parents. 11. Amy, born
December 24, 1867 ; married C. Walter Sher
man. 12. Asa, born July 26, 1869; .married
Grace Darling, of Moro, Maine, and they live
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tation, living with uncle, John Tarbell ; Hazel,
a teacher, living with uncle, John Tarbell. 13.
Schuyler, born July 20, 1872 ; lives at Water
ville, Maine; married Corinne Ellis, of Dyer
Brook, deceased; children: Hollis, lives with
grandfather at Dyer Brook; Lucy, lives at
Dyer Brook, with grandfather. 14. Eldridge,
born April 15, 1877; farmer; married Alma
Parker, of Dyer Brook; no children.
John Stewart, father of Mrs. Stephens, was
born in county Cork, Ireland, in 1788, died at
Ludlow in 1863 ; he was a Presbyterian m reli
gion; he came to this country with his wife
and children and settled in Ludlow, where he
was a farmer ; he married Mary Jane Hum
phrey, who died in Ludlow. Children of John
and Mary Jane (Humphrey) Stewart: 1.
John, died at Ludlow ; married Amy Stephens,
aunt of Charles Walter Stephens. 2. Rich
ard, died at Dyer Brook; married Mary Small,
of Ludlow, deceased; was a farmer; children:
Ella, married Andrew, Whitehead, of Houl
ton; Zenus, deceased; Ira, deceased; Annie,
married Joseph Jordan, of Lewiston, Idaho;
John, of Houlton. 3. Maria, died at Ludlow ;
married Ephraim Hall, of New Brunswick,
deceased; children: Addie, married Peter
Moore ; Fossie, of New Brunswick ; Jennie ;
Cassie, married Benjamin Hussey, farmer of
Houlton ; John, of Houlton ; Cornelius, of
New Brunswick ; Minnie and Blanche. 4.
Martha, died at New Limerick, Maine ; mar
ried Robert Ingram, of New Brunswick, a
farmer ; children : Amos, Robert and John,
deceased; Charles, farmer at New Limerick;
Mary, married Thomas Smith, veteran of civil
war, farmer, deceased; she lives at Blaine,
Maine; Joseph, lives on farm at Patten,
Maine ; Samuel, lives at Lewiston, Idaho, on
his ranch. 5. Helen, married  Martin.
6. Ruth Cummings, married Charles Stephens,
mentioned above.
(Ill) Charles Walter Stephens, son of
Charles Stephens, was born March 18, 1853,
at Ludlow, Maine, then called the Belfast
Academy Grant. He received his education
in the public schools of his native town and left
school in 1868 to assist his father on the home
stead. From 1874 until the time of his mar
riage he worked in the woods and on farms in
the vicinity of his home. In 1881 he bought
a hundred acres in Dyer Brook, Maine,
cleared a farm of sixty acres and has culti
vated this land since that time. In politics he
is a Republican. He was for six years road
commissioner and for two years selectman of
the town of Dyer Brook. He has also served
on the school board. He married, December
10, 1881*, at Houlton, Maine, Mary Hopestill
Watson, born in Eel River, New Brunswick,

May 24, i860. She graduated from the high
school of that town (see Watson III). Chil
dren: 1. Charlotte, born at Ludlow, October
4, 1882; school teacher in Dyer Brook; mem
ber of the Baptist church; married, March 4,
1903, George Hunt, a carpenter and taxider
mist of Island Falls ; children : Delight, born
at Dyer Brook, August 12, 1904; Marion, at
Crystal, June 14, 1907; Ruth, at Crystal, May
24, 1909; Charles, at Mount Chase, July 5,
191 1. 2. Halle, born at Merrill, Maine, March
21, 1884. 3. Harriet, born at Dyer Brook,
May 22, 1891. (The Watson Line).
(I) Edward Watson was born in New
Brunswick, died at Frederickton, New Bruns
wick. He was a lumberman.
(II) William Watson, son of Edward Wat
son, was born in Lower Woodstock, New
Brunswick, about 1808, died at Eel River, in
1880. He was a farmer at Lower Wood
stock. After retiring from active life, he went
to live with his son, Charles F. Watson, at Eel
River, six miles from Woodstock. He was
deacon of the Free Will Baptist church, and
was very active in church work. He preached
occasionally in New Brunswick and in Aroos
took county, Maine. He married Jane Wol-
verton, born at Northampton, New Bruns
wick, February 8, 1810, died at Eel River in
1872. Children: 1. William, died at Houlton
Hospital ; lived at Ludlow, Maine, at time of
death, 1907; farmer; Republican; member of
Baptist church ; married Esther Dow, sister of
Charlotte Armenta, who married his brother,
mentioned below; children: Henry, married
Mina Dow, of Canterbury Station, New
Brunswick, lives at Patten, Maine, on a farm;
Norris, lives at Ludlow, unmarried; David,
lives at Houlton. 2. Charles, died young. 3.
Charles Frederick, mentioned below. 4. Har
riet, married George Scott, of Eel River; he
died at Oakland, Maine, a farmer; she lives
at Oakland; children: George, Frank, lives
at Waterville, Maine, unmarried; Harry, mar
ried Senia Jennerson ; Amelia, married Fred
erick Doe, of Oakland, Maine; Mary, died
young; Jennie, lives at Oakland. 5. Jane, died
af Debec, New Brunswick; married Wolfred
Chapman, of Debec, farmer; no children. 6.
Louisa, deceased; married John Furlong, of
Frederickton, New Brunswick, a teacher in
high schools, deceased; children: Sophia;
Louise, married William Furguson, of Water
ville; Emma, Alexander, Elizabeth. 7. Jarvis,
lives at Woodstock,- New Brunswick; is re
tired from trade of carpenter and joiner; mar
ried Lucy Scott, of Eel River; member of
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merchant at Woodstock ; Mary, lives with par
ents, unmarried.
(Ill) Dr. Charles Frederick Watson, son
of William Watson, was born in Carleton
county, New Brunswick, in 1827, died at Lud
low, Maine, in 1905. He was a physician,
having received his degree as Doctor of Medi
cine in Frederickton, New Brunswick. He
practiced medicine in Frederickton, at Eel
River, and Woodstock, and also in Houlton
and Ludlow, Maine, where he spent the last
twenty-nine years of his life. In Canada he
was a Conservative in politics. He became
naturalized after moving to Maine, and was
a Republican in politics. He was a member
of the Aroostook County Medical Society, and
of the Maine State Medical Society. He mar
ried Charlotte Armenta Dow, born at Dow
Settlement, New Brunswick, in 1829, now
Canterbury Station, died at Dyer Brook,
Maine, July 24, 191 1. Children of Charles
Frederick and Charlotte Armenta (Dow)
Watson: 1. Hannah Dale, born at Eel River,
June 1, 1856, died at Waterville, Maine, July
17, 1908; married John Stephens, brother of
Charles Walter Stephens; lives at Portland,
Oregon; children: Jessie Fern, married
Ernest Crosby, and lives in Portland; Cecil,
lives with father, unmarried. 2. Amanza,
born January 1, 1858, at Eel River; lives at
Ludlow; carpenter; member of I. O. O.
M., of Houlton, Maine. 3. Mary Hope-
still, born May 24, i860; married Charles
Walter Stephens (see Stephens III). 4.
Walter Denmark, born at Eel River, February
12, 1862 ; married May Maude Hawkins, of
New Castle, California; she died 1904, at New
Castle, where he is a mining carpenter ; chil
dren: Dessel, unmarried; Bessie, unmarried.
5. Chick H., born at Eel River, November 3,
1870; married Harriet Webb, of Littleton,
Maine, and they live at Waterville ; he is a
member of New England Order of Protec
tion, Free and Accepted Masons, Modern
Woodmen of America, and Ancient Order of
Mechanics ; child, Don Otto, born at Ludlow,
June 20, 1893, liyes with parents.
David Dow, father of Mrs. Watson, was
born at Canterbury in 1808, died at Ludlow,
Maine, in 1888; he moved to Maine after his
children were born, and settled on a farm at
Ludlow with his son ; he also ran a large saw
mill at Dow Settlement before coming to
Maine ; he was deacon of the Free Will Bap
tist church for many y&ars. David Dow mar
ried Mary Way, born at Southampton, New
Brunswick, in 1812, died at Ludlow in 1881 ;
children of David and Mary (Way) Dow, not
in order of birth: 1. Esther, born 1833, lives
at Ludlow ; married William Watson, men

tioned above, brother of Charles Frederick
Watson. 2. Plannah, married William Con
don, of Connecticut, owner of a foundry; she
lives at Winslow, Maine; no children. 3.
Charlotte Armenta, married Charles F. Wat
son, mentioned above. 4. Rhoda, died at Dow
Settlement; married Jacob Tompkins, of
Southampton, New Brunswick, farmer; chil
dren: Joel, of Bloomfield, New Brunswick,
farmer; Frank, of Dow Settlement, lives on
homestead farm ; Teresa, married Moses Dow,
and he lives at St. Stephens, New Brunswick;
Avord. 5. Hopestill, born 1847, hves at Wins
low, Maine, unmarried. 6. Amos, died at
Ludlow, Maine; married Sophia Watson. 7.
John, died in Minnesota, a carpenter ; married
Frances Tupper, deceased; children: Albert,
deceased; Ella, married Horatio Grant; Elva.
8. Walter, died in Waterville, Maine, carpen
ter; married (first) Angelina Cummings, of
New Brunswick, and had Mary, of Winslow,
Maine, unmarried ; married (second) Annie
Anderson, of Canterbury Station, New Bruns
wick, deceased, and had Leverett, of Water
ville, a merchant.

John McGlauflin was
McGLAUFLIN born in Charlestown,
New Hampshire, Octo
ber 11, 1798, died in Charlotte, Maine, Decem
ber 6, 185 1. He settled at Charlotte before his
marriage and followed farming there to the
end of his life. In politics he was a Whig; in
religion a Baptist. He married, at Charlotte,
Hannah Smith, born at Dennysville, Maine,
died at Spragueville, Maine, January 5 or 11,
1880. Children born at Charlotte, probably
not in order of birth: 1. Albert, died at
Presque Isle in 1888; was a blacksmith and
Baptist minister at Calais and Presque Isle ;
married (second) Margaret (Griffin) McGlau
flin, widow of Josiah McGlauflin ; she died in
June, 1913, at Presque Isle. 2. Lewis, died
in Sacramento, California, January, 1867; was
a blacksmith, wheelwright, farmer and broker ;
marrier Emeline  . 3. Rev. John, born
1822, died in New Hampshire in 1898 ; was a
minister in the Christian church. 4. Hannah,
died at Charlotte, aged sixteen. 5. James,
mentioned below. 6. Mary, born May 23,
1831, died at Mapleton, September 30, 191 1;
married Veli Hughes, a farmer of Charlotte,
Maine. 7. Isaac, born 1833 ; died at Presque
Isle in February, 1898; was a wool carder;
had a mill at Presque Isle; trial justice there;
married Susan Hammond, of Lincoln, Maine.
8. Josiah, enlisted in the Seventh Maine Regi
ment in 1861 and was killed in the battle of
Chancellorsville ; married Margaret Griffin.
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Maine during the civil war; dropped dead in
Washington, D. C. ; married Alice McCabe.
10. William, died aged fifteen years, n. Ezra,
born December ii, 1838, died at Blaine, July
11, 1896. 12. Sarah, born October 14, 1839,
died at Mapleton, January, 1901 ; married
(first) Thomas Griffin, of Charlotte ; (second)
Hall Packard, of Washburn. 13. Elvira, born
October 29, 1840, died in Mapleton, Novem
ber, 1905 ; married Ira Carter, of Pembroke,
brother of Elwell Carter. 14. Helen, died at
a campmeeting, 1898; lived at Pembroke;
married Elwell Carter, of Pembroke, a farmer,
who died in April, 1913. 15. Laura, born De
cember 31, 1845, died at Mapleton, May, 1897;
married James Wflcox, of Mapleton, farmer.
16. Willis C, born December 30, 1846; part
owner of Gould's drug store, Portland ; served
in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the civil
war; married Rose Waldron. 17. Hannah,
born October 21, 1848; married, March 3,
1865, in Mapleton, John Waddell, a Univer
salist minister and farmer; he was born at
Lubec, Maine, May 7, 1845 > is a member of
Mapleton Grange ; children, born at Castle
Hill: Jesse A. Waddell, October 10, 1866,
farmer, at Castle Hill ; Mary Waddell, April
8, 1869, died young; Edward I. Waddell, Oc
tober 19, 1871, a jeweler, married (first) Ro-
sella Humphrey, of Presque Isle ; (second)
Iva Woodbury; Ralph Eugene Waddell, July
19, 1873, died young; Wallace Waddell, Feb
ruary 6, 1882, married Phebe Craig, of Castle
Hill, is a farmer at Mapleton ; Susie Waddell,
May 1, 1884, married Horace Higgins, a
farmer of Mapleton. 18. Nancy, died at
Presque Isle ; married John Henry Sprague,
of Charlotte, afterward a merchant at Presque
Isle. (II) James McGlauflin, son of John Mc
Glauflin, was born at Charlotte, Maine, in
1830, died at Presque Isle, 1902. He attended
the public schools of his native town, and
learned the trade of wheelwright in South
Presque Isle, then called Spragueville. On
account of ill health he moved to Mapleton,
where he was postmaster and general mer
chant. He enlisted in the Seventh Regiment
Maine Volunteer Infantry in the civil war.
In the service he had an attack of typhoid,
and never entirely recovered his health. He
was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church, of which he was deacon. In politics
he was a Republican. He was selectman, road
commissioner, member of the school board and
board of health. He married Miriam Green
law, born in Charlotte, April 7, 1846. She is
living at Chapman, member of the Free Will
Baptist church and of the White Ribbon Tem
perance Society. John Greenlaw, her father,

was born in 1806, died at Mapleton, 1895 '> a
shipbuilder and mariner. She had brothers :
Benjamin Franklin and Calvin Greenlaw.
Children of James McGlauflin, born at
Presque Isle: 1. Nellie, born July, 1868; mar
ried Llewellyn Foss, of Dover; a farmer at
Chapman ; children : Halstead, Hazel and
Marion Foss. 2. Clifford, born December 31,
1872; was a school teacher in Mapleton, now
a lawyer in Portland ; married Hattie Achorn.
3. Flora, born 1875 ; married Alfred Searles,
of Brownville, a dairy farmer; son, Joseph. 4.
Lulu, 1879; married Herbert Kiersted, of
Presque Isle, a mail carrier in that town; chil
dren : Ivan and Raymond Kiersted. 5. James
Frederick Allen, mentioned below.
(Ill) James Frederick Allen McGlauflin,
son of James McGlauflin, was born at Maple
ton, Maine, August 10, 1889. When he was
seven years old his parents removed to Presque
Isle, where he attended the public schools. He
left the high school in 1905 and began his
career as clerk in Portland, in the grocery
store and meat market of Fred B. Estes.
Afterward for nearly a year he was a street
railway conductor in Hartford, Connecticut.
He returned to Portland and for a time was a
teamster for the city. In 1907 he became a
clerk in the crockery store of Guy Chandler
at Presque Isle. From 1909 to 191 1 he was in
the employ of the Mapleton Milk Company.
He started in business on his own account in
191 1, having a variety store in Mapleton, and
in January, 1912, formed a partnership with
T. F. Phair. This firm has a large and flour
ishing general store in Presque Isle. In poli
tics Mr. McGlauflin is a Republican. He
attends the Free Will Baptist church.
He married, at Chapman, Maine, Idella
Emery, born at Fort Fairfield, December 25,
1891, and educated in the schools of Presque
Isle. Children of Mr. and Mrs. McGlauflin:
1. Marjorie, born at Chapman, July 11, 1909.
2. James, at Mapleton, February 15, 191 1. 3.
Donald, March 2, 1914. James Emery, father
of Mrs. McGlauflin, was born at Foxcroft,
Maine, February 28, 1864, died at Chapman,
Maine, May 18, 1906. He was a farmer at
Presque Isle for nine years and in Chapman
for two years. He was a member of the
Modern Woodmen of America of Mapleton.
He married Constantia Nicholson, born at
Centerville, New Brunswick, March 28, 1874,
and educated in her native place and at Monti
cello, Maine. She is a member of the Free
Will Baptist church, and of Mapleton Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. Children of James
Emery: 1. Idella, married James Frederick
Allen McGlauflin, mentioned above. 2. Flos
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sides with her mother at Chapman, graduate
of the Lewiston Business College, member of
the Free Will Baptist church and the Maple
ton Grange. Frank Nicholson, father of Con-
stantia (Nicholson) Emery, was born in New
Brunswick, May 12/1846. He formerly had a
boarding house. He married Margaret Nich
ols, born in New Brunswick, 1853, died at
Presque Isle, 1901. Children of Frank Nich
olson: 1. Constantia, mentioned above. 2.
Claude, born September, 1883 ; married Zelpha
Pendexter, of Chapman, where he has a farm.
Constantia Emery married (second) George
Sites, of Chapman, a farmer.

James Lang was born in Barnet,
LANG Vermont, in 1807, died there in
1881. He was a farmer in Barnet
all of his life. In politics he was a Repub
lican, and he was a member of the Presby
terian church nearly all his life. He married
Nancy Gilkerson, who died in Barnet. Chil
dren, born in Barnet: 1. Agnes, married
Peter Nelson ; resides in Barnet, aged seventy-
nine years. 2. William, of Barnet, lives on
homestead, unmarried, aged seventy-seven
years. 3. Louise, lives in Barnet, unmarried,
aged seventy-five years. 4. Thomas, men
tioned below. 5. James, born 1849, died aged
fifty-two years.
(II) Thomas Lang, son of James Lang,
was born in Barnet, Vermont, in 1841. For
fifteen years he worked in the cotton mills in
Lowell, Massachusetts, and then moved to
Oxford, Maine, where he had a farm. Later
he settled in Perham, Maine, where he was
a farmer, and in 1912 moved to Vernon, Ver
mont, where he has a farm. He is a Republi
can in politics. He is a member of the Con
gregational church, and of the Odd Fellows.
He married, in 1869, Mary McEachern, bom
on Prince Edward Island, in 1848, and who is
a member of the Congregational church. Her
father died at Prince Edward Island in 1872,
aged forty-eight years ; he was a ship builder
and farmer; his children were: Mary, men
tioned above ; Christie ; Sarah, died at the age
of twenty-one ; Jessie, resides in Two Plar-
bors, Minnesota ; Neal ; Malcolm, resides in
Portland, Oregon ; Charles ; John, resides in
Portland, Oregon. Children of Thomas and
Mary (McEachern) Lang: 1. George E.,
mentioned below. 2. Alena M., nurse in Mas
sachusetts, member of Perham Grange. 3.
Sarah, of Massachusetts, unmarried. 4. Alice,
lives in Connecticut. 5. Frederick, died in
1904, aged twenty-one years. 6. Edwin, died
in 1898, aged fourteen years.
(Ill) George E. Lang, son of Thomas
Lang, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts,

March 27; 1870. He received his early educa
tion in the public schools of Perham, Maine,
whither his parents removed when he was
eight years old. He assisted his father on the
farm until he came of age. Afterward he
followed farming and lumbering. In 1892 he
bought a farm in Perham and cultivated it
until 1906. For two years afterward he oper
ated- a shingle mill in Perham. In 1908 he
bought the farm that he now owns in Presque
Isle, consisting of sixty-five acres, of which
fifty are under cultivation. In politics he is a
Republican. He attends the Methodist Epis
copal church, and is a member of Perham
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is also a
member of the New England Order of Protec
tion. He married, May 1, 1895, hi Caribou,
Blanche J. Jordan. Children: 1. Walter J.,
born in 1896, died in infancy. 2. E. Stuart,
born at Perham, January 9, 1898, student in
the Presque Isle High School. 3. Gertrude A.,
born at Perham, April 25, 1932. 4. Helen J.,
born in Presque Isle, December 21, 191 1.
The Rideout family settled
RIDEOUT in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire before the Revo
lution. Two of the family emigrated to New
Brunswick during or directly after the war
with other Loyalists and had grants of land
there from the Crown. Their names were
Burt and Nathaniel.
(I) Jephtha Rideout was born in Carleton
county, New Brunswick, in 1807, died at
Parish Grand Falls in 1881. He was a farmer,
and a member of the Baptist church. He mar
ried Anne Dickson, who was born at sea on a
voyage between England and the West Indies.
She died at Grand Falls in 1897. Her father,
Thomas Dickson, was a soldier in the British
army, sent to the West Indies to suppress the
uprising of the negroes. He belonged to the
Queen's Royal Rangers. When he retired
from the army he settled on a grant of land at
Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Children of
Thomas Dickson: 1. Mary, married 
Dyer, a soldier in the British army ; settled at
Chicadee Hawk, in Carleton county, New
Brunswick. 2. Anne, married Jephtha Ride
out, mentioned above. 3. Thomas, resided at
Parish Grand Falls, a ""farmer. Children of
Jephtha Rideout: 1. Ezekiel, mentioned be
low. 2. Mary, died at Parish Grand Falls ;
married William Merritt, a farmer. 3. Re
becca, died unmarried. 4. Susanna, died
young. 5. Margaret, died at St. John, New
Brunswick ; married Marcus Watson, of
Grand Falls, a farmer. 6. Elias, died aged
about twenty-eight, unmarried, a farmer of
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brother William. 8. William, of Parish Dram-
mond, New Brunswick, a farmer, unmarried.
9. Gideon, resides at Parish Drummond, a
farmer, unmarried.
(II) Ezekiel Rideout, son of Jephtha Ride
out, was born at Parish Andover, New Bruns
wick, 1832, died at Grand Falls, in 1900. He
settled in Grand Falls when a young man and
followed farming there all his active life. He
attended the Free Will Baptist church. He
married Augusta Watson, born at Woodstock,
New Brunswick, in 1839, died at Grand Falls
in 1882. Shortly after his wife died, his house
was burned and two of his children lost their
lives in the fire. Children: 1. Elijah Sisson,
mentioned below. 2. Alice, married Thomas
Murcheson; they reside near Andover, New
Brunswick. 3. Emma, died aged five years.
4. William, a methanic, lived in California.
5. Charles, resides at Parish Grand Falls;
owner of livery stable. 6. Emma, married
Judson Atwater, a farmer of Fort Fairfield.
7. Christian, died young. 8. Hiram, now a
farmer at Grand Falls ; married Myrtle Ever
ett, of Andover, New Brunswick. 9. Lowery,
married Amos L. Stone, of Grand Falls, near
which he has a farm. 10. Effie, married Mar
shall Wright, of Andover, where he has a
farm. 11. Maude, burned to death, aged four
years. 12. Bertha, burned to death, aged three
years. 13. Walter.
(Ill) Elijah Sisson Rideout, son of Eze
kiel Rideout, was born July 13, 1859, in Parish
Grand Falls. He attended the schools of his
native place, and assisted his father during his
boyhood. Pie remained on the homestead until
he was twenty-two years old. During the next
three years he cultivated a farm that he bought
in Grand Falls. He then bought a farm in
New Brunswick just over the line from Lime
stone, Maine, cleared and cultivated it until
February, 1908, when he removed to Wash
burn, Maine. Since that time he has con
ducted the farm owned by Mrs. Rideout in
Washburn. He owns a farm of eighty acres
and another of seventy-five acres in Wade,
Maine. The farm in Washburn consists of
sixty acres, nearly all under cultivation. He
attends the Free Will Baptist church, and is
a member of the Washburn Lodge, Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of
Pythias, of Limestone.
He married (first) July 12, 1884, Eliza Cur
rie, born in New Brunswick, died at Grand
Falls, in 1837. Mr. Rideout married (second)
February 5, 1908, Hannah (Getchell) Duncan,
born at Limestone, May 28, 1869, and was
educated there. She is a member of the Reor
ganized Church of Christ, but attends the Bap
tist church. She is a member of Prosperity

Lodge, No. 96, Rebekahs, of Washburn, of
which she is at present the noble grand, and of
which she has been chaplain for many years.
She is also a member of Washburn Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry (see Getchell II).
Hannah married (first) Alexander Duncan,
born in Stonehaven, Scotland, January 12,
i860, died January 27, 1905, being killed in a
railroad accident at Northern Maine Junction.
They lived at Masardis. Children of Alex
ander and Hannah (Getchell) Duncan: 1.
Ernest, born February 23, 1887, at Washburn;
he is a car despatcher for the Great Northern
Railroad Company ; married Margaret Wright,
of Everson, Washington. 2. George, born
April 23, 1896, in Washburn. 3. Lettie, born
July 27, 1899. 4. Ruth, born November 22,
1 901. 5. Stewart, born September 16, 1905.
Children of Elijah Sisson Rideout by first
wife: 1. Lee, died in infancy. 2. Child, died
at birth. Child by second wife : 3. Donald
Eugene, born May 4, 1910.
(The Getchell Line).
(I) Dennis Getchell, descendant of an old
Maine family, was born at Kennebec, Maine,
1814, died at Limestone, Maine, 1879. He
followed farming in Blaine, Maine, then in
Limestone, where he owned a large farm. He
was active in public affairs and held various
offices of trust and honor there. In politics he
was originally a Whig, afterward a Republi
can. He married Drusilla Harmon, born at
Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1816, died at
Limestone, 1897. She was a Methodist in
religion. Children, all born at Blaine: 1.
Stephen, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, born in
1838; a retired farmer of Limestone; married
Susan Bridges. 3. Nelson, a farmer, died at
Limestone; married (first) Belle Burns, of
Blaine, (second) Mary Sloane, of Limestone;
(third) Jane Getchell, a cousin, now living in
Bucksport, Maine. 4. William, married (first)
Florence Chandler ; married (second)  ;
resides on a ranch in Washington. 5. Wallace,
died at Limestone ; was a mill owner and
farmer; married Belle Brown, of Victoria
county, New Brunswick; she is living at
Limestone. 6. David, resides at Limestone, a
retired mill owner and farmer, formerly in
partnership with his brother Wallace; mar
ried (first) Ruth Kenney, of Victoria county,
New Brunswick; (second) Blanche Beck
with, of Presque Isle. 7. Lydia, died at Lime
stone; married James Edgecomb, of Lime
stone, a farmer. Five other children died
young. (II) Stephen Getchell, son of Dennis Getch
ell, was born at Woodstock, New Brunswick,
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October, 1888. He had an excellent educa
tion and when a young man taught school for a
number of years. He was a farmer in Blaine,
Maine, and later in Limestone. In politics he
was a Republican, and for many years was
town clerk of Caswell, and was selectman for
a. number of years. He was prominent in
' town affairs and held in succession most of
the town offices. Pie was a member of the
Free Will Baptist church, of Fort Fairfield
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the
Good Templars. In 1864 he was mustered
into the service in the Union army, but after
one year of duty was mustered out on account
of illness. He married Letitia Bell, born near
Woodstock, New Brunswick, in August, 1838.
She was a member of the Advent Christian
church. She is now living at Limestone. Chil
dren of Stephen and Letitia Getchell: 1. Bet
sey, born at Blaine, August, 1857; married
Isaac Kearney, of Limestone, a retired farmer
of Masardis ; children : George, chief
despatcher of the Bangor & Aroostook Rail
road, living at Bangor; Cora and Daniel, de
ceased; Harry, a railroad man of Penobscot
county ; Guy, resides at Masardis ; Norman.
2. Decatur, born at Blaine, 1859; married
Dano Bolier and lives in Washington state ;
is a miller and farmer ; children : Stephen, a
miller, of Washington ; Josie, married 
McGraw, a ranchman, of Washington ; Henry ;
Lettie. 3. George, born 1861, died aged two
years, five months. 4. Daniel, born 1863 ; a
miller in Washington ; married at Blaine, Taw-
sey Bolier, sister of Dano. 5. Urban, born
November, 1865; died in 1910; was a farmer
of Limestone ; married Nancy Finnemore, of
Limestone ; she lives at Limestone ; children :
Samuel and William. 6. Drusilla, born April
16, 1867, in Limestone ; married Eugene Tem
ple, of Limestone; children: Winnie; Burt;
William, married Winnie Finnemore; Levi,
Magdalen; Hazel. 7. Hannah, married (sec
ond) Elijah Sisson Rideout (see Rideout III).
8. Julia, born August 12, 1 871, at Limestone;
married Samuel Palmer, of Fredericton, _ a
carpenter in Washington; children: Lillie,
Eva, Tawsey. 9 Lydia, born October, 1873;
married George Leighton; resides at Fern-
dale, Washington; children: Flossie, Millard,
Ora, Martha. 10. Ora, born April, 1876;
married Fred Durepo, of Limestone, a mer
chant and manufacturer; children: Vinal,
Frederick, Clara.
Thomas Bell, father of Mrs. Getchell, was
born in New Brunswick, 1806, died at Mars
Hill, Maine, 1871. He settled with his family
in Mars Hill. In politics he was first a Whig,
then a Republican. He was a Baptist in reli
gion. He married Hannah Tompkins, born in

New Brunswick, 1819, died at Mars Hill,
1894. Children of Thomas Bell: 1. Letitia,
married Stephen Getchell, mentioned above.
2. William, a farmer, died at Mars Hill; mar
ried Susan Rideout. 3. Deborah, married
George Bell, a cousin, a farmer at Mars Hill.
4. Elizabeth, married Samuel Pierce, a farmer
in Blaine, Maine. 5. Roger, a farmer; mar
ried Martha Smith, of Mars Hill ; she resides
at Blaine. 6. Richard, married Dolly Fulton;
resides at Mars Hill. 7. Ora, died- unmarried.
8. Ruth, died young. 9. Urban, died young.

Francis Coolidge Wood, an active
WOOD factor in the varied interests of
the city of St. Louis, Missouri, is
a native of Madison county, New York, born
September 19, 1836, son of Alden and Sarah
(Hayward) Wood.
He obtained a practical education in the
schools of his native county, supplementing
this with a course at the high school at Sher
burne, New York, which thoroughly qualified
him for an active and useful career. Later he
took up his residence in St. Louis, Missouri,
and for a long period of thirty-four years was
resident manager for the A. N. Kellogg News
paper Company, manufacturers of ready
prints. During six years of this time he served
in the capacity of treasurer of the company,
thirteen years as president and general man
ager, and a like period of time as a director of
the company, thus being thoroughly familiar
with every detail of the business, which is one
of the leading industries of that city. Mr.
Wood is a member of the English Lutheran
church, of the Masonic Fraternity, the Mer
chants' Exchange, of St. Louis, the Mercan
tile Club, of St. Louis, the Missouri Athletic
Club, of St. Louis, the Union League Club, of
Chicago, the Hardware Club, of New York
City, and the Sphinx Club, of New York City.
Mr. Wood married, at Mitchell, Iowa, Feb
ruary 22, 1864, Amelia Paine, who bore him
two children : Frank, who died in 1869 ; Grace,
wife of R. E. Goodwin, of Augusta, Maine,
who are the parents of a son, a student at
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

The progenitor of the Todd fam-
TODD ily of New Brunswick settled
there in early life. His children,
all born in New Brunswick, were: Asa and
Reuben, farmers; both died in Fredericton;
Alfred, mentioned below-; a daughter, married
 Buck, and lived and died in Boston,
1VT 3. s ScLchu s ctt s .
(II) Alfred Todd was born in New Bruns
wick, 1796, and died at Presque Isle, Maine,
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and followed farming there until 1829, when
he bought a farm at Hodgdon, Maine. After
ward he sold this farm and bought another at
Caribou, Maine. In politics he was a Repub
lican in later life. He was a member of the
Calvinistic Baptist church. He married Mary
Towne, who was born in Boston, Massachu
setts, in 1792, and died at Caribou, Maine,
1876. She was also a member of the Calvin
istic Baptist church. Children: 1. Emeline,
married Hiram Hamm, of Hodgdon, a farmer
and itinerant merchant, Presque Isle. 2. Lo
renzo D., mentioned below. 3. Israel, a farmer,
died at Presque Isle ; married Jane Parsons of
Presque Isle. 4. Lucinda, died at Caribou ;
married Joseph Hall, an editor, Boston. 5.
Sarah, resides at Portland, Maine ; married
Ephraim Sawyer, a farmer, New Brunswick,
who died at Presque Isle ; she resides in Port
land. 6. Daniel, died at Presque Isle, a farmer;
was in the civil war, 1864-65 ; married Fran
ces Stone, of Boston. 7. Howard P., en
listed in Seventh Maine Battery; married Nel
lie J. Dudly, of New Hampshire. 8. Amy A.,
a school teacher, died in Caribou.
(Ill) Lorenzo D. Todd, son of Alfred
Todd, was born at Fredericton, New Bruns
wick, June 8, 1828. His parents removed to
Hodgdon, Maine, when he was nine months
old, and he received his early education in the
public schools of that town. He assisted his
father on the farm until he was twenty-eight
years old, when he bought the farm now
owned by his son, Arthur Winfield. He has
lived- there to the present time. In politics he
is a Republican. He is senior deacon of the
Baptist church, of which he was one of the
organizers. He married (first) Carrie Van
Joy, January, 1856, at Hodgdon ; she was born
in New Brunswick, and died in 1862 at Presque
Isle. Her father was a farmer in New Bruns
wick. Children: 1. Arthur Winfield, men
tioned below. 2. Edith, married Willard
Vance, of Caribou, a farmer; children: Ber
nice, Newman, Amy, Vernon, Vida. Lorenzo
D. Todd married (second) Mary Ann Stubbs,
in 1866. She was born in 1825, in Boston, and
died in 1900 at Caribou. By his second wife
he had no children.
(IV) Arthur Winfield Todd, son of Lo
renzo D. Todd, was born at Caribou, Maine,
January 17, 1862. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the Houlton
Academy. During his youth he assisted his
father on the homestead, and after leaving
school he remained at home. In 1907 his father
deeded the farm to him. He also owns
another farm situated a quarter of a mile dis
tant. Of the four hundred acres that he now
has, one-half is under cultivation and the re

mainder is excellent timber land. In politics
he is a Republican. He is a member of the
Baptist church, and is one of the finance com
mittee. He is also a member of Caribou
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry and of the
Modern Woodmen of America, of Caribou.
He married, June 16, 1897, in Caribou, Myrtie
Mabel Rackliffe, who was born in Easton,
Maine, December 8, 1873. Her father re
moved to Caribou when she was fifteen years
old, and she completed her schooling there in
the high school and at Bucksport Seminary.
She is a member of the Baptist church and of
the Caribou Grange. Before her marriage she
taught school at Caribou and Presque Isle for
six years (see Rackliffe). Children, all born
at Caribou: 1. Elva May, born August 8,
1898; student in Caribou high school, member
of the Baptist church. 2. Grace, born May 30,
1900. 3. Elmer Winfield, May 15, 1902. 4.
Katie Nelson, April 17, 1904. 5. Mabel, May
16, 1906. 6. Eva Caroline, September 9, 1908.
7. Arthur, November 26, 1910. 8. Wilmer
Howard, March 25, 191 1. 9. Ruth, June 30,
1913- (The Rackliffe Line).
(I) Benjamin Rackliffe, of English ances
try, was born in Kennebec county, Maine, and
died about 1850, in Knox, Maine. He was a
farmer all his active life, during most of which
he resided at Unity, Maine. Children: 1.
Alanson, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, died
at Blaine, a farmer ; married (second) Mrs.
 Bridges. 3. Thayer, a farmer, died in
Unity; married  Vickery. 4. Madison,
a farmer, died at Vassalboro, Maine. 5. John
M., died at Corinna, Maine, a farmer and
drover; married  Mills. 6. Clement, a
farmer, died at Knox, Maine. 7. Mary, died
at Albion, Maine; married Otis Crosby, a
farmer. Perhaps others.
(II) Alanson Rackliffe, son of Benjamin
Rackliffe, was born at Unity, Maine, about
1809, and died at Presque Isle, 1883. For
many years he followed farming in Presque
Isle. In religion he was a Methodist; in poli
tics a Republican. He married Dorcas Pierce,
born about 18 10, died at Boston, 1870, resided
at Presque ble during most of her life. Chil
dren : 1. Augustus A., born 1835, died at Fort
Fairfield; married (first) Mary Haines, of
Fort Fairfield; (second) Susan Delaite, of
New Hampshire. 2. Francis M., 1837, re
sides at Presque Isle, a farmer; married
Frances Ordway, of Corinna. 3. Otis C, 1839,
died young. 4. William Henry, 1841, died at
Easton, a farmer and sheep dealer; married
Sarah Hall, of Presque Isle. 5. Susan Maria,
1843, died young. 6. Co-risann, 1845, died
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1861 in the Seventh Maine Battery, and died
in 1863, in the service. 8. Bertrand R., men
tioned below. 9. Bertha R., twin of Bertrand,
born July 8, 1849, in Presque Isle, resides
there ; married Dennis A. Foster, a farmer.
(Ill) Bertrand R. Rackliffe, son of Alan
son Rackliffe, was born July 8, 1849, at
Presque Isle. Pie has followed farming there
and at Easton, where he now lives, all his
active life. At present he is retired, having
sold his farm. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Free Will Baptist
church, and was formerly a member of the
Maysville Center Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married Fannie McGuire, who
was born in New Brunswick, June 20, 1852,
and died at Presque Isle, March, 1891. He
married (second) Mary (Sharp) Day, widow
of Louis Day, a farmer of Caribou ; she died
in 1902. By her first husband she had: 1.
Nellie Day, married Judson Wade, an elec
trician, of San Francisco, California. 2. Belle
Day, married Freeman Kierstead, of Presque
Isle. 3. Frank Day, of San Francisco. 4.
Albert Day, of San Francisco. 5. Lizzie Day,
of Auburn, Maine. 6. Almeda Day, a trained
nurse, Bangor, Maine. 7. Lura Day, married
Ross Kierstead, of Presque Isle.
Children of Bertrand R. Rackliffe by first
wife: 1. Myrtie Mabel, married Arthur Win
field Todd, mentioned above. 2. Eva E., born
June 8, 1875 ; married Edward Kierstead, of
Hodgdon, now of Maysville, a farmer and
potato buyer ; children : Hope Avis Kierstead,
married Benjamin Curtis, of Caribou, station
agent Aroostook Valley railroad, and has
daughter Phyllis Margaret ; Margaret Kier
stead, school teacher, Presque Isle ; Heber
Kierstead.

Robert W. Richardson,
RICHARDSON grandfather of Chester
G. Richardson, was born
about 1813, died at Woodstock, New Bruns
wick, or at Lower Brighton, New Brunswick,
about 1853. He was a shoemaker at Wood
stock, New Biunswick, at Hamilton, Maine,
and at Lower Brighton, New Brunswick. He
was a Conservative in politics, while in Can
ada. He married Betsey Dickinson, born at
Lower Brighton, and lives there now, being
between eighty and ninety years of age. She
married (second) William Taylor, a school
master, who died in Lower Brighton, and by
him she had the following children : Wilmott,
a bookkeeper of Rochester, New York, mar
ried (first)  Gray, (second)  :
Annie, married George Tedlie, of Lower
Brighton, farmer; Charles H., married Lena

Smith, of Presque Isle, where they live, he
being a railroad conductor.
The father of Robert W. Richardson is
thought to have been a quartermaster on a
British man-of-war, and probably went to the
Provinces after the revolution. Children of
Robert and Betsey (Dickinson) Richardson:
1. Fraser, married  Holmes from Cor
nell, New Brunswick, and they live at Lower
Brighton ; he is a lumberman. 2. Elizabeth,
lives at Hartland, New Brunswick; married
Jesse Shaw, of Woodstock, a blacksmith, de
ceased. 3. Robert Willoughby, mentioned be
low. 4. George, born at Woodstock, lives at
Fort Fairfield, Maine; a shoemaker. 5. John,
died young.
(II) Robert Willoughby Richardson, son
of Robert W. Richardson, was born in Houl
ton, Maine, November 1, 1849. He was edu
cated at Lower Brighton, New Brunswick.
He first engaged in business at Lowell, Massa
chusetts, in the ice and wood business, and
then moved to Hartland, New Brunswick,
where he was a farmer, lumberman and mer
chant. He owned a large woodwork factory.
In 1903 he moved from Hartland to Ashland,
Maine, where he is engaged in the lumber busi
ness, having also carried on a livery there.
While living in New Brunswick, he was a
Conservative in politics. He is a member of
the Congregational church and deacon of the
church. He is a member of Pioneer Lodge,
No. y2. Free and Accepted Masons, Ashland,
Maine, and of the Independent Order of For
esters, Ashland, Maine. He married Jennie
M. Gilchrist, born in Richmond, Quebec, May
19, 1853, daughter of James G. and Elizabeth
Gilchrist. James Gilchrist was born in Scot
land in 1816, died at Richmond, Quebec, in
1907 ; he came to this country when nineteen
years old, and was married the night of his
arrival in Quebec City. He was a farmer in
Richmond the remainder of his life, a member
of the Presbyterian church, and a Conservative
in politics. Elizabeth Gilchrist, wife of James
Gilchrist, died February, 191 3, in Lowell, Mas
sachusetts ; their children were : Belle, married
Thomas Allen, carpenter of Duluth, Minne
sota; Thomas, of Topeka, Kansas, horse
dealer; James, lives near Los Angeles, Cali
fornia; Jennie M., wife of Robert Willoughby
Richardson ; Elizabeth, married William Guns-
ton, veteran of civil war, lost his arm in war,
she lives in Lowell, Massachusetts ; John, died
young; William, lives in Topeka, Kansas, a
horse dealer; Jessie, married John J. Briggs,
a policeman of Lowell, came from St. John,
New Brunswick. Children of Robert W. and
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George, mentioned below. 2. Lulu, born at
Hartland, New Brunswick, May 7, 1887; edu
cated at Hartland high school ; married Charles
E. Duren, of Ashland, Maine, merchant; they
lives at Ashland, having one child, Dean, born
at Ashland, June 26, 1909.
(Ill) Chester George Richardson, son of
Robert Willoughby Richardson, was born at
Lowell, Massachusetts, March 14, 1883. His
parents removed to Hartland, New Brunswick,
Canada, when he was one year old, and he
attended the public schools in that town. He
completed his education in the college at Fred
ericton, New Brunswick. In 1900 he entered
the employ of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
where he remained one year. He then became
a clerk in the hardware store of W. W. Loane,
Ashland, Maine. After three years he left
this position to take a similar one in the store
of F. G. Webster, of Ashland. In September,
1909, he resigned and removed to Patten,
Maine, to become manager of the Patten Hard
ware Company, a position he has since filled.
In politics he is a Progressive. He is a mem
ber of Pioneer Lodge, No. 72, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, of Ashland, the oldest lodge
in Aroostook county ; of Royal Arch Chapter,
Island Falls ; of Ashland Tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men ; of Patten Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star.
He married, August 21, 1907, at Ashland,
Ethel Edna Baston, born in Moro, Maine,
October 31, 1888. She is a graduate of the
Ashland high school, and a member of Patten
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. She is
a daughter of William J. Baston, born at Moro
in 1852, living in Ashland, a carpenter by
trade, and a Republican in politics. William
J. Baston married Fossie Darling, born in
Moro in 1842. Children of William. J. Bas^
ton: 1. Florence, born at Moro, 1880, mar
ried Ira Coffin, of Ashland, a dealer in pota
toes. 2. Ella, born October 1, 1882, at Masar
dis, Maine ; married Clarence Orcutt, a mer
chant of Ashland. 3. Ethel Edna, married
Chester George Richardson, mentioned above.
4. Adelaide, born at Ashland, May, 1893. 5-
Marion, born at Ashland, 1903. The only child
of Mr. and Mrs. Chester George Richardson is
Robert Webster, bora at Ashland, June 26,
1908.

Samuel Gould was born in Ken-
GOULD nebec county, Maine. He was a
farmer and miller at Brownville,
Maine, and erected the first saw mill in that
town. He married Sally  , born in Ken
nebec county and died in Brownville. Chil
dren: 1. John, a carpenter, died at Brownville.
2. Abbie, died at Milo, Maine ; married 

Mayo, of Milo, a farmer. 3. Samuel, died at
Sebec, Maine; was a farmer. 4. Isaiah, died
at Monticello, Maine ; was a farmer. 5. Nabby,
died at Milo; married  Boobert, a
farmer of Milo. 6. Isaac, mentioned below.
7. James, died at Brownville ; was a farmer.
(II) Isaac Gould, son of Samuel Gould,
was born at Brownville, Maine, in 1826, died
there November 3, 1879. He was educated in
the public schools, and was a farmer and lum
berman in his native town all his active life.
He took part in the Aroostook war. He held
various town offices and was a prominent citi
zen. He was an active member, steward and
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. He
was a member of Dirigo Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Brownville. He
married Mary A. Smith, born at Brownville,
1825, died there March 3, 1881. Children, all
born in Brownville : 1. Ira W., born 1852, died
at Houlton, Maine, where he was in business
as a merchant; married Sarah Peters, of
Hodgdon, Maine ; his widow lives at Houlton.
2. William S., born 1853 ; married Angie Pratt,
of Brownville; he is a retired farmer; they
reside in Brewer. 3. Frank, born 1855, died
young. 4. Fred D., mentioned below. 5. Alice,
born 1859, died at Lincoln, Maine; married
Jethro Smith, of New Brunswick; he died in
Butte, Montana ; was a miner. 6. George,
born in 1861 ; married Mildred Pollard, of
Milo; they reside at Milo on a farm.
(Ill) Fred D. Gould, son of Isaac Gould,
was born at Brownville, Maine, February 15,
1856. He attended the public schools of his
native town until he was sixteen years old.
He has followed farming all his life, and has
an excellent farm of one hundred and ninety
acres ; he is also engaged in the lumber busi
ness. In politics he is an independent Pro
gressive. He served on the road commission
of the town for four terms and was tax col
lector for a year. He attends the Methodist
Episcopal church. He is a member of Dirigo
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Brownville, and of the Pilgrim Fathers Asso
ciation of that town. He married, November
17, 1881, in Brownville, Dora B. Stanchfield,
born in Eldred, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1863,
She attended the public schools of her native
town until she was eight years old, when her
parents removed to Milo, where she also at
tended the public schools. In religion she is a
Methodist. Children of Fred D. and Dora B.
(Stanchfield) Gould: 1. Eva M., born Janu
ary 17, 1883; married John W. Jones, a farmer
of Brownville. 2. Frank I., born February 5,
1884; merchant of Brownville; married Ber
tha Jones, of Brownville. 3. Isaac N., born
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H., born May 13, 1888; a printer; residing in
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Ivory N. Stanchfield, father of Mrs. Gould,
was born at Milo, Maine, July 12, 1833, died
at Brownville, March 28, 1906. Pie was a car
penter by trade and also a farmer. Before and
after the civil war he lived in many different
places and traveled in all parts of the country.
He enlisted in 1861 in a Pennsylvania regi
ment and served three years. In politics he
was a Democrat. He was a member of the
Congregational church. He married Cordelia
A. Bryan, born at Lee, Maine, May 20, 1835,
died at Milo, November 24, 1894. Children
of Ivory N. Stanchfield: 1. Cleveland, born in
Minnesota, March 4, 1856, died June 2, 1869.
2. Orrin B., born in Minnesota, December 16,
1858; a farmer in Milo; married Rose Berry,
of Brownville. 3. Eveline M., born in Minne
sota, August 2, i860; married Henry Hall, of
Worcester, Massachusetts ; he is a retired mer
chant, living in Worcester. 4. Dora B., mar
ried Fred D. Gould, mentioned above. 5.
Frank I., born at Eldred, Pennsylvania, March
12, 1869; a farmer at Milo; married Susan
Groton, of Miramichi, New Brunswick. 7.
Zeb V., born at Milo, December 23, 1873; a
farmer at Milo ; married Lucy Phinney, of
New Brunswick. 8. Otis, born May 12, 1876,
at Milo, died December 6, 1879.
Solomon Stanchfield, father of Ivory N.
Stanchfield, was born in Kennebec county,
Maine, near the town of Turner, about 1784,
died at Brownville in 1869; he was a farmer
in Milo during all his active life. He died sud
denly while visiting Brownville. He married
Jerusha  , born at Turner, died at Milo,
aged about seventy years. Children of Solo
mon Stanchfield, all born at Milo: 1. Hiram,
a farmer, died at Lee, Maine ; married Maria
Abbey, of Brownville. 2. Sally, died at Milo ;
married Luther Pollard, a farmer. 3. Benja
min, died in Minnesota. 4. Solomon, served
in a Maine regiment in the civil war and died
in the service. 5. John, died at Milo, a farmer ;
married Sarah Gilman, of Brownville; she is
now living at Guilford, Maine. 6. Ivory N.,
mentioned above. 7. Rebecca, died at Milo;
married Daniel Gardner, of Sebec, Maine; he
was a farmer at Milo. 8. Zeb, a farmer, living
in Milo. 9. Lawrence, a farmer at Milo, where
he died ; married Lenwood Bumpus, of Turner,
Maine. 10. Jerusha, died young in Milo. 11.
Cordelia, died young in Milo.
Samuel Cooper was born in
COOPER England in 1823, died at St.
John, New Brunswick, in 1883.
He went from England first to the North of
Ireland, where he owned a farm, and in 1854

he came to this country and settled in Sussex,
New Brunswick, where he also was a farmer.
He was a member of the Church of England,
and served in the English army. He was a
Conservative in politics. He married Eliza
 , born in Scotland, died in St. John.
Children, all born in Ireland: 1. Samuel, went
to California, not heard from. 2. John, died
in Boston in 1893; was a ship carpenter in
Boston ; married Margaret Crawford, of New
Brunswick ; children : Margaret, married Wil
liam Day, of Boston, where he is an iron
moulder; Elizabeth, married Thomas Tippits,
a clerk in Boston ; David, a merchant in Bos
ton ; Jennie, lives in Boston. 3. David Thomas,
mentioned below. 4. Mary, died at St. John,
1891 ; married Steve De Grand, of Quebec,
deceased ; he was a sales agent ; children :
Steve and Frank, both of Boston. 5. Eliza,
of Millageville, New Brunswick; married
Plenry Codner, of St. John, an engineer ; chil
dren: Henry, and others.
(II) David Thomas Cooper, son of Sam
uel Cooper, was born in the North of Ireland,
in 1848, and came to this country with his
parents when he was six years of age. He
is .a ship caulker, and has followed his trade
in St. John, New Brunswick, and in New York
City. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York,
for twenty-five years. He is a Roman Cath
olic, and is a member of the Union. He mar
ried Mary Ann Buckley, born in St. John, in
1850, now living in Brooklyn. She was daugh
ter of Peter Buckley, born in county Cork,
Ireland, in 1814, died at St. John, in 1896; he
came to New Brunswick before his marriage,
and was a longshoreman in St. John the re
mainder of his life. In politics he was a Con
servative, and in religion a Roman Catholic.
He married, in St. John, Catherine Campbell,
born in Scotland in 1816, died at St. John in
1891. Children of Peter and Catherine
(Campbell) Buckley: 1. James, died at St.
John; married (first)  — Jenerson, and
has William, a lithographer of St. John, and
Ella; married (second)  , now living,
and had Fred, of Boston, Harry and Gertrude.
2. Maggie, died at St. John; married John
Cooper, a first cousin of David Thomas
Cooper ; a longshoreman at St. John ; children :
Frank, of St. John, a decorator and painter;
Maggie, married Michael Doherty, station
clerk at St. John ; Agnes, married James Kel
ley, of St. John, a brakeman, living in Boston
now 3. Mary Ann, married David Thomas
Cooper, mentioned above. 4- Peter, living in
Boston, a ship carpenter; married Maggie
O'Brien, of St. John; children living are:
Maggie and Charles, both of Boston. Chil
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ley) Cooper, born in St. John: I. Samuel,
born 1870, living in Brooklyn, a ship caulker.
2. Elizabeth, born 1872; married Meburne
Ackerly, of Queens county, New Brunswick;
he is a shipping clerk in the rolling mills at
St. John ; children : Stella, Clarence, Mabel,
Bessie, Ruby, Arthur, Frederick, Gertrude, all
living with parents. 3. David Thomas, born
1874, died at St. John in 1880. 4. Joseph
Alphonso, mentioned below. 5. William, born
December, 1878; a stone cutter; married Alice
Quinn, of St. John ; they live in Brooklyn. 6.
Frederick James, born 1880; employed by Bos
ton and New York Express Company; mar
ried Mary Ann O'Connor, of New York City,
where they live ; no children. 7. Catherine
Isetta, born 1887, living with parents, unmar
ried. (Ill) Joseph Alphonso Cooper, son of
David Tbomas Cooper, was born at St. John,
New Brunswick, October 10, 1876. He at
tended the public schools of his native town
until he was fourteen years old. He then
learned the trade of trunkmaker and followed
it for three years. He followed lumbering in
New Brunswick afterward and with the ex
ception of a year which he spent in New York
City he has continued in various departments
of the lumber industry to the present time.
While in New York he was in the manufac
turing business. When a young man he came
from New Brunswick to Masardis, in Aroos
took county. Since 1906, however, he has
made his home at Oxbow, where he purchased
a farm. In addition to his farming and lum
bering he is a cook in the Maine woods for
hunting parties. In politics he is a Democrat.
He is a member of Masardis Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry.
Mr. Cooper married, September 2, 1903, at
Havelock, Kings county, New Brunswick,
Stella M. Morse, born at Canaan, Kings
county, New Brunswick, December 2, 1889.
She was educated in the Havelock schools and
attends the Baptist church. Children: 1.
David Thomas, born at Havelock, April 24,
1904, died at Canaan, October 17, 1904. 2.
Isetta Elizabeth, born at Canaan, January 18,
1906. 3. Flora May, born at Masardis, Sep
tember 1, 1908. 4. Curtis Frederick, born at
Oxbow, August 18, 191 1.
(The Morse Line).
(I) John Morse was born in New Bruns
wick in 1825, died in Canaan, New Brunswick,
in 1885. He was a farmer in the English Set
tlement, now New Brunswick, before going to
Canaan, where he lived with his son George
until his death. In politics he was a Conserva
tive, and he was a member of the Baptist

church. Children: John, deceased; George,
mentioned below ; Frank, deceased.
(II) George Morse, son of John Morse,
was born in Queens county, New Brunswick,
in 1848, and he now lives at Havelock, New
Brunswick, where he has been a farmer most
of his life. In politics he is a Conservative,
and he is a member of the Baptist church. He
married Jennie Elizabeth Poley, born May,
1852, died at Dyer Brook, Maine, in April,
1913 ; she was a member of the Baptist church.
Jennie Elizabeth Poley was daughter of Oliver
Poley, born in English Settlement, New Bruns
wick, Canada, in 1831, died at Havelock, in
1896. He was a farmer in the English Settle
ment, and a Conservative in politics. He at
tended the Baptist church. He married Mar
garet Johnson, who died in the English Settle
ment. Children : Olive, died in the English
Settlement; Sarah, deceased; Jennie Elizabeth,
married George Morse, mentioned above;
John, died in the English Settlement, was a
shoemaker; Margaret, lives at Coles Island,
New Brunswick, unmarried. Children of
George and Jennie E. (Poley) Morse, all born
at Canaan, New Brunswick: 1. Henry, born
1874; married Ada Ryder, of Canaan, and
they live at Portland ; children : Asa Clayton,
and one other, both living with parents. 2.
Alice, born 1877 ; married George Pratt, of
Bath, Maine, where they live; he is an iron
moulder ; children : Sarah and Harriet, both
living with parents. 3. William, born 1879;
married Elizabeth Alward, of Havelock, New
Brunswick, and they live at Creek Road, New
Brunswick, where he is a farmer ; no children.
4. Ephraim, born 1883; lives at Dyer Brook,
Maine, unmarried. 5. Jacob, born 1885 ; mar
ried Florence Bull, from England, and they
live at Dyer Brook; child, Blanche Eliza
beth, born 1912. 6. Stella M., born December
2, 1889; married Joseph Alphonso Cooper (see
Cooper III). 7. Jennie, born 1893; married
Scott Smith, of New Limerick, Maine, a
farmer there; no children.

Calvin Howard Clark was born
CLARK probably in Wells, Maine, where
his father lived, about 1802, died
in Smyrna, Maine, in 1835. He lived in
Brownville, Maine, and in Massachusetts, and
finally settled in Smyrna, where he owned a
farm. He was a Whig in politics. He mar
ried Mary  , born in 1805, died in
Smyrna in 1880. She was of Scotch descent.
Children, order of birth not given: 1. Calvin
Howard, died at Oakfield, Maine, in 1878 ; he
was a farmer; married Eliza Thompson, of
Oakfield, and she died in Florida ; left a daugh
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field, two children : Irvin, married Amy Bar
rows, has one son, Frank ; Bertha, unmarried ;
Eliza (Thompson) Clark married (second)
Abial Huntley. 2. Asenath, deceased ; married
James Hamm, of New Brunswick ; lived in
Smyrna; children, order of birth not given:
Albert, married Ella Chambers, of Smyrna,
three children ; Albion, married Helen Miller,
of New Brunswick, three children, he died at
Masardis, Maine ; Abbie, married Elbridge
Marks, of Oakfield, she died in the west;
Carrie, married (first) a Mr. Cronkhite, of
New Brunswick, two children : Nellie, married
Ernest Lozier, of Linneus, Maine, and has
seven children; Viola, married Stillman
Thompson, of Oakfield, she died leaving one
son John ; Mr. Cronkhite died and his widow
Carrie married (second) John Briggs, of Mer
rill Plantation, Maine, and has one daughter,
Mildred ; Mr. Briggs was a soldier in the civil
war. 3. John D. B., mentioned below. 4.
James C, died in Oakfield, January, 1912;
farmer; married Christina Hunter, of Hodg
don, Maine, and she died 1909. 5. Abbie, died
when a young woman.
(II) John D. B. Clark, son of Calvin How
ard Clark, was born in Brownville, Maine,
July 5, 1827, died in Oakfield, Maine, March
27, 1903. His father moved to Smyrna when
he was a young boy, and he attended the com
mon school there. He was a farmer and black
smith, and also worked some as a lumberman.
He married, at Linneus, Maine, Mary M.
Young, born at Dover, Maine, April 17, 1833,
died at Oakfield, October 13, 1901. They
lived on their farm at Smyrna until 1861, when
they moved to Oakfield. There he cleared a
farm of one hundred and thirty-three acres.
This farm is now owned by Stanley Rufus
Clark and Bernal A. Clark, his sons, each pos
sessing half. In politics John Clark was a
Democrat, and he held various town offices in
Oakfield. Children: 1. Sarah A., born April
7, 1853, in Smyrna; married Stanley Mc
Laughlin, of Oakfield, born in New Bruns
wick, died at Port Angeles, Washington, 191 3;
a ranchman; she lives at Port Angeles. 2.
Ernest B., born at Smyrna, June 17, 1855;
married Angie Sharp, of Smyrna, and they
live at Smyrna Mills ; he is a blacksmith ; mem
ber of Smyrna Mills Lodge, No. 151, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. 3. Effie M.,
born at Smyrna, June 18, 1857 ; married Web
ster McLaughlin, brother of Stanley, and they
live at Dyer Brook, Maine, where he is a pros
perous farmer. 4. Isadora, born at Smyrna,
June 18, 1859, died February 18, i860. 5.
John C, born at Smyrna, February 8, 1861 ;
married Nora Shields, of Oakfield, and they
live at Mars Hill, Maine, where he is a farmer ;

member of Blaine Lodge, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. 6. Jane A., born at Oakfield,
July 13, 1863; married (first) John McGary,
of Oakfield, who died in 1898; was ranchman
and truckman at Port Angeles, Washington;
she married (second) David Mossman, of
Port Angeles ; she died August 18, 1903 ; he
lives at Puffer, Alberta, Canada, a ranchman.
7. Annie, born at Oakfield, July 19, 1868, died
December 5, 1885, in Oakfield; married John
R. Luce, of New Sharon, Maine; he lives at
New Sharon, a farmer, having married (sec
ond) Edna Verrill. 8. Bernal A., mentioned
below. 9. Lydia Y., born at Oakfield, Decem
ber 23, 1873, died September, 1874. 10. Nattie
B., born December 23, 1873, twin of Lydia Y.,
died December, 1874. 11. Stanley Rufus,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Bernal A. Clark, son of John D. B.
Clark, was born at Oakfield, Maine, August
20, 1 87 1. Pie received his education in the
public schools of Oakfield. He worked on his
father's farm, ia the lumber camps and on
the river drive until he came into possession
of his share of his father's farm in 1903.
Since then he has cultivated the farm in part
nership with his brother, Stanley R. In poli
tics he is a Democrat. He has been road com
missioner of the town. He attends the Uni
versalist church, and is a member of Smyrna
Mills Lodge, No. 151, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows ; of the Oakfield Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry, and of Oakfield Lodge, No.
276, Orangemen. Mr. Clark married (first)
November, 1891, Annie Moore, of Oakfield.
She was born in Oakfield, June 13, 1872, died
there February 5, 1911. Children, all born in
Oakfield: 1. Harold, born July 29, 1892. 2.
Mary A., born August 20, 1895 ; married, June
5, 1912, Charles Grant, of Oakfield. 3. John
W, born November 24, 1898. 4. Charles S.,
born November 2, 1901. 5. Lawrence, born
July 10, 1910, died November 14, 1913. Mr.
Clark married (second) June 24, 1914, Ida M.
Pinkerton, born at Bailie, New Brunswick,
February 3, 1891, eldest daughter of Hugh
Pinkerton. Samuel Moore, father of Mrs. Clark, was
born in New Brunswick, 1823, died at Oak
field, in October, 1898. He settled in Oak
field, and followed farming and lumbering
there. He married Jane Walton, born in New
Brunswick, died in 1874, in Oakfield, Maine.
Children of Samuel and Jane (Walton)
Moore: 1. William A., died in March, 1898,
at Oakfield; was a farmer; unmarried. 2.
Annie, married Bernal A. Clark, mentioned
above. 3. Royal, born March 3, 1875 ; farmer
in Oakfield ; married May McLain, of Smyrna.
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B. Clark, was born at Oakfield, Maine, Sep
tember 20, 1875. He attended the public
schools of his native town. During his boy
hood he assisted his father on the farm when
he was not in school and he remained on the
homestead after completing his early educa
tion. With his brother, Bernal A., he succeed
ed to the farm after his father died and they
have cultivated the place in partnership since
then. When a young man he learned the trade
of blacksmith, but he has not followed that
trade. In politics he was formerly a Repub
lican, now a Progressive. He served the town
as road commissioner one year and for several
years was a member of the school board of
Oakfield. He is a member of Houlton Grange,
No. 16, Patrons of Husbandry. He attends
the Universalist church. Mr. Clark married,
April 14, 1894, at Industry, Maine, Lillian M.
Rackliffe, born in Lewiston, Maine, February
27, I875 (see Rackliffe III). After the death
of her mother she lived with her grandfather.
She was educated in the public schools and in
the State Normal School at Farmington. She
taught school for three years in Sharon, Maine,
before her marriage. Children, all born in
Oakfield: 1. Ora M., born November 25, 1894.
2. Nathaniel S., born March 7, 1896. 3. Henry,
born June 5, 1900, died same day. 4. Norman
A., born September 8, 1901. 5. Holman D,
born March 26, 1903. 6. Robert H., born Oc
tober 24, 1904. 7. Hollis E.-, born November
7, 1911.
(The Rackliffe Line).
(I) Henry B. Rackliffe, grandson of the
American immigrant, who came from England
and probably lived in Georgetown, Maine, was
bora in 1792, doubtless in Georgetown. He
died in Jay, Maine, in 1885. He was a mer
chant in Industry, Maine. He served in the
war of 1812, and received a pension for his
services. He married (first) Elizabeth Oliver,
a widow, who had one child by her first hus
band; the son was Luther Oliver, and he died
at Scarboro, Maine. He married (second)
Rosella Bean, a widow, of Jay, Maine, and she
died at Farmington about 1903. Children, all
by first wife, order of birth not given: 1. El
bridge H., mentioned below. 2. Sumner, mar
ried Susan  ; was killed in the Kansas
rebellion ; was a writing school master ; she
lived in Idaho. 3. Sarah, married (first) Lucas
Hall, (second) John E. Johnson, merchant;
they lived at New Sharon, Maine, where both
died. 4. Emeline, married Samuel Walker, of
Embden, Maine, farmer, and they both died
there. 5. Elizabeth, died young. 6. Child,
died young. Perhaps other children.
(II) Elbridge H. Rackliffe, son of Henry
B. Rackliffe, was born October 20, 1827, in

Industry, Maine, died in Farmington, Maine,
October 20, 1907. He lived in Oxford, An
droscoggin and Franklin counties, and finally
settled in Industry, where he had owned a
farm for years. He was a traveling tinsmith
by trade. He kept a general store from 1889
to 1896-97. He served in the civil war, being
drafted in 1864, in Company B, Eighth Maine
Regiment of Volunteer Infantry; he remained
in the company until the end of the war. In
politics he was a Republican and he served as
postmaster for several terms of four years
each in Industry. He married Oraville Potter,
born January 7, 1833, at Bridgton, Maine, died
at Industry, July 12, 1895. Children: 1. J.
Henry, mentioned below. 2. D. Frank, born
July 18, 1856, in Industry; twin of J. Henry;
married Emma Rogers, of Mercer, Maine;
they live at North Wayne, Maine. 3. Charles,
born November 5, 1857; married Annie
Wheeler, of Canaan, Maine ; they live at In
dustry. 4. William L., born March 8, 1859;
married Hattie Niles, of Lewiston; they live
at Farmington, where he owns a farm.
(Ill) J. Henry Rackliffe, son of Elbridge
H. Rackliffe, was born in Industry, Maine,
July 18, 1856, and he now lives there. He is
a tinsmith by trade, and also a sawyer of
shingles. He has learned the canning business
also, and has lived in Lewiston and in Indus
try. He owns land in Industry. In politics
he is a Republican, and he has held most of
the town offices. He is a member of Industry
Grange, and attends the Congregational
church. He married (first) Nellie Brackett,
of Dixfield, Maine, born in Dixfield, August,
1855, died in Lewiston, March 15, 1875. He
married (second) Ida Lewis, of Auburn,
Maine. Child by first wife : Lillian M., born in
Lewiston, February 27, 1875, married Stanley
Rufus Clark (see Clark III). Children by
second wife: 1. Lena, born October 31, 1879,
in Industry; married Allen Merry, of Indus
try; they live in Farmington, where he is a
liveryman. 2. Garfield E., born September 8,
1881, in Industry; married Edith Millett; they
live in Industry. 3. Mildred, born August 20,
1883, in Farmington ; married Ernest Robbins,
of Farmington ; they live in New Vineyard,
Maine, on their farm. 4. Millard, born Au
gust 20, 1883, twin of Mildred; married Ger
trude Deiss, of Industry; they live in Farming-
ton.

James Clark lived at Machias,
CLARK Maine, and at Woodstock, New
Brunswick. He married  .
Children : Maria, Livia, William, Leta, Peggy,
Mary, Elias, mentioned below.
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born in Machias, Maine, in 1816, died at Dan
forth, Maine, January, 1891. He received a
good education, and became a farmer in Wood
stock, New Brunswick, Canada. He had set
tled there with his parents when he was a boy,
and he purchased his farm there, where he
lived all of his active life. Ten years before
bis death he moved to Danforth, Maine, to
live with his son, John I. Clark, and retired
from active work. In politics he was a Re
publican, and he was a prominent and influ
ential member of the Baptist church. He mar
ried Amy Sharp, born near Woodstock in 1831,
died at Danforth in 1893. Children, born at
Woodstock: 1. Jarvis, born 1835, died at
Passadumkeag, Maine, in 1892; farmer; mar
ried Catherine McKluskie, of Danforth. 2.
Mary, born 1838, died in Boston, 1903 ; mar-
rid William Roach, of New Brunswick. 3.
James Elijah, born 1843, died in Houlton,
1910; enlisted at beginning of civil war from
Houlton, serving throughout war ; farmer and
liveryman ; married Lizzie Adderton, of Wood
stock; she died at Houlton, 1908. 4. William,
born 1850; lives in Philadelphia. 5. Henry,
born 1854; lives in Michigan. 6. John I., men
tioned below. 7. Annie, born i860; lives at
Houlton; married James Foster, from New
Brunswick. 8. Elias, born 1863 ; lives at
Passadumkeag, Maine ; married Emily, daugh
ter of Charles Foster, of Houlton, where she
died. 9. Rigby, born 1865; lives in Houlton;
married Sarah Swin, of New Brunswick. 10.
Millie, born 1870; married William Oswald,
of Philadelphia, a sea captain, veteran of civil
war, having served as captain of a war vessel
and now of United States navy.
(Ill) John I. Clark, son of Elias Clark, was
born at Woodstock, New Brunswick, May 25,
1858. He attended the schools of his native
place until he was sixteen years old, and then
came to Houlton, Maine, where he was em
ployed as a lumberman and farmer. In the
fall of 1899 he came to live on a farm of sixty-
three acres in Dyer Brook, belonging to his
wife. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of the Free Will Baptist church, and
of the Oakfield Grange. He married, at Dyer
Brook, Lucy (White) Kelley, born at Littleton,
Maine, July 24, 1863, and was educated there
in the public schools. She married (first) Eli
jah A. Kelley, born at Easton, Maine, in 1851,
died at Dyer Brook. Pie was a farmer. Chil
dren of Elijah A. and Lucy (White) Kelley:
1. Clara, born October 14, 1881, at Dyer Brook ;
married Rev. Charles Bell, a minister of the
Free Will Baptist church, now living at White
Station, New Brunswick. 2. George Ambrose,
born June 12, 1884, at Dyer Brook, died there
September 24, 1897. 3. Edith E., born April
NE— 20

3, 1886; married John Batchelder, of Phillips,
Maine, who was killed by a railroad train at
Phillips. 4. Harry N., born November 1,
1888 ; he is now station agent of the Bangor
and Aroostook Railroad at New Limerick;
married Lula Kirsted, of Maysville, Maine. 5.
Charles W., born October 8, 1893, died Au
gust, 1894. 6. Josie May, born April 18, 1896;
junior in Ricker's Classical Institute, Houlton.
Children of John I. and Lucy (White-Kelley)
Clark: 1. Millie B., born June 3, 1901. 2. Ora
W., born August 25, 1905.
(The White Line).
(I) William White was born about 1800,
died in Houlton, Maine, about 1872. He was
born probably in Miramichi, New Brunswick,
Canada. The White family was an old New
England family and cams from Rhode Island to
Prince Edward Island. William White was a
farmer and was one of the first settlers in
Houlton, to which place he moved when his
son Charles was young. In politics he was a
Republican, and he was a member of the Free
Will Baptist church. He married Dorothy
 , of Miramichi. Children, order of birth
not given: 1. Samuel, died on a war vessel,
burned at sea. '2. James, enlisted from Maine,
and died during the war of fever. 3. Joseph,
died at Blaine, Maine ; farmer on old home
stead at Houlton ; married Jerusha  . 4.
Charles, mentioned below. 5. William, wound
ed fatally during war, enlisted from Maine.
6. Prudence, died in Patten; married Gideon
Grant, of Houlton, farmer. 7. Jane, died in
Weston, Maine; married Aaron Lillie, of the
White Settlement, now lives in Weston. _ 8.
Priscilla, died in Weston ; married Charles Gel
lerson, of New Brunswick, now of Houlton.
9. Ruth, resides in Patten, Maine, unmarried.
10. Haley, died in Houlton; married Leonard
Gellerton, of Weston.
(II) Charles White, son of William White,
v/as born in Houlton, Maine, in 1821, died at
Dyer Brook, Maine, in 1893. He received his
education in the public schools, and became a
joiner and mason by trade. He followed this
occupation in Houlton, Maine, in Penobscot
and Aroostook counties, and in the province of
New Brunswick until 1880, when he finally
settled in Dyer Brook, Maine, for the remain
der of his life. In politics he was a Repub
lican, and in religion a member of the Free
Will Baptist church. He was drafted to serve
in the civil war, but the end of the war came
before he was mustered in. He married Bet
sey Lillie, born in New Brunswick, August 15,
1831, and now lives at Dyer Brook. Children :
1. Rebecca, born in White Settlement; married
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Enoch, born at the White Settlement, now
Houlton, died there 1881 ; married Ada Kelley,
of Bridgewater, Maine. 3. William R., born
at Woodstock, New Brunswick, November,
1854; lives at Dyer Brook; farmer, unmarried.
4. Lucinda, born at Woodstock, died in in
fancy. 5. Harrison H., born February 19,
1857, in Littleton, Maine; farmer at Dyer
Brook, unmarried. 6. Lucy, married (second)
John I. Clark (see Clark III). 7. Dorothy L.,
born at Littleton, Maine, January 18, 1866;
married Joseph Hopsley, of Mars Hill, Maine ;
they live at Smyrna Mills, Maine. 8. Beecher
A., born at Littleton, November, 1869; mar
ried Ida Lancaster, of Miramichi, Canada ; they
live at Houlton. 9. James W., born at Smyrna,
April 29, 1873 ! married Jennie Parker, of
Miramichi; they live on farm at Dyer Brook.

The grandfather of John E.
WHITNEY Whitney, of Ashland, Maine,
lived at Miramichi, New
Brunswick, Canada. It is believed that he was
a descendant of John and Eleanor Whitney,
pioneers of Watertown, Massachusetts, but on
account of the lack of vital records the com
plete line cannot be traced. He died at Mira
michi. Children: 1. Peter, resides at Mira
michi. 2. John. 3. Moses. 4. James, died in
Carleton county, New Brunswick, a farmer;
married Ruth Kinney, of New Brunswick;
children : John ; Edward, of Westbrook,
Maine, a shoemaker; William, a farmer and
potato buyer of Houlton, Maine ; Sarah ; Susan
and Ann. 5. William Parker, mentioned be
low. (II) William Parker Whitney, mentioned
above, was born at Miramichi, New Bruns
wick, in 1816, died at Ashland, Maine, March
24, 1876. He came to Ashland when a young
man and followed his trade of shoemaking.
He also bought land there and cleared a farm
on which he spent the remainder of his life.
He was, in fact, one of the pioneers of the
town. He married Sophia McNally, born in
New Brunswick, 1827, died at Ashland, Maine,
February 18, 1899 (see McNally II). Chil
dren: 1. James, born at Ashland, November
16, 1853; manager of the woods for the Ash
land Manufacturing Company for many years
independent in politics ; resides in Ashland
unmarried. 2. Mary, born at Ashland, 1855
married Edward A. Whitney, of Centerville
Carleton county, New Brunswick, a shoe
maker, now living in Westbrook, Maine ; child,
Roy, died aged eleven years. 3. Martha, born
in 1855 at Ashland; married Frank Hackett,
of Patten, Maine, a truckman ; resides at Read-
field, Maine ; child, Ada, born at Crystal, 1

a school teacher in New Hampshire. 4. Sarah
Jane, died young. 5. Sophia, died young. 6.
William, died young. 7. John E., mentioned
below. (Ill) John E. Whitney, son of William
Parker Whitney, was born at Ashland, Maine,
June 23, 1863. He attended the public schools
of his native town and graduated from the
Ashland high school. At the age of eighteen
he began to teach school, but soon afterward
engaged in lumbering as a business and worked
in the woods for eighteen years in winter. He
learned the trade of carpenter and worked at
that trade in summer. He has in later years
followed his trade and farming. In 1904 he
bought a farm of one hundred and thirty acres,
of which a hundred acres are cleared and culti
vated. In politics he is an Independent. He
was one of the building committee in charge of
the erection of the new high school building in
Ashland. He is a member of Pioneer Lodge,
No. 72, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ash
land, and was master for three years ; member
of Tillicum Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, of Ashland, of which he was patron for
two years ; member of Ashland Grange, No.
247, Patrcns of Husbandry; the Masonic Pro
tective Insurance Company and the Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Whitney married, December 30, 1893,
at Patten, Maine, Mary Corliss, born in Lin
neus, Maine, December 23, 1875. She gradu
ated from the Patten high school and taught
school in Belvedere, Crystal and Owlsboro,
Maine, before her marriage. She is a member
of Tillicum Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star. Children : 1. Roy William, born at Pat
ten, December 31, 1895; graduate of the high
school; farmer on the homestead. 2. James
Albert, born January 24, 1900, in Ashland. 3.
Hope Catherine, born February 18, 1908.
Albert Corliss, father of Mrs. John E. Whit
ney, was born in Maine, in 1846, died at Pat
ten, Maine, in the fall of 1910. He was a
blacksmith by trade, a farmer and foreman in
the woods. He attended the Methodist church.
He married Letitia Stein, born in Maine, 1849,
died at Patten, in June, 1913. Children, all
born at or near Crystal, Maine: 1. Frank,
born 1873 ; a contractor and builder in Boston.
2. Mary, married John E. Whitney, mentioned
above. 3. Lettie, born 1877; married Fred
Huston, of Patten, a foreman in a molding
mill in Portland, Maine. 4. Walter, born
1879, drowned when a child. 5. Arthur, born
1 881; resides at Portage Lake, a carpenter;
married, in 1913, Amber Southerland, of
Portage Lake, daughter of William and Ma
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uate of the State Normal School at Castine,
Maine, 1913; school teacher at Greenville,
Maine. (The McNally Line).
(I) Michael McNally was born in New
Brunswick about 1770, died at Frederickton,
New Brunswick, nearly eighty years of age.
He was a farmer. His father, a native of
Ireland, was a settler in New Brunswick.
Children of Michael McNally, born in New
Brunswick: 1. Richard. 2. Moses, died at
Sheffield, New Brunswick, a farmer; married
 : — Kilburn. 3. James, mentioned below.
4. Eliza, died at Fredericton ; married John
Guion, a miller of that town. 5. Hannah, died
at Tobique, New Brunswick; married 
White. 6. Ann, went west and died there.
(II) James McNally, son of Michael Mc
Nally, was born in Majorville, New Bruns
wick, October, 1803, died at Jacksonville,
Carleton county, New Brunswick, April 2,
1883. He was a shoemaker and followed
his trade at Woodstock and Jacksonville.
In politics he was a Liberal. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married Jane Treadwell, born at Major
ville, in 1808, died at Millville, York county,
New Brunswick, in June, 1891. Children: 1.
William, born in 1825, died at Ashland, March,
1905 ; a shoemaker by trade, also a farmer and
lumberman ; a Republican in politics ; was
United States marshal, sheriff and prominent
in public affairs ; married Fannie Burtt, of
Jacksonville. 2. Sophia, married William
Parker Whitney (see Whitney II). 3. Betsey
Jane, born 1831, died in Ashland; married
Matthew White, native of England, farmer.
4. Catherine, born 1833, died at Centerville,
New Brunswick, 1901 ; married David Burtt,
of Jacksonville, now a retired lumberman, liv
ing in Centerville. 5. Moses, born 1835, died
at Ashland, 1904; married Sarah Clark, of
Maysville, Maine; was a lumberman all his
active life. 6. George, born 1837, died at Fort
Fairfield, Maine; a farmer and lumberman;
married Emily Turner, of Fort Fairfield; she
is now living in Boston, Massachusetts. 7.
Hester, born 1839, died at Fort Fairfield, 1893 ;
married Charles Burpee, of Waterville, Maine,
now living in the west, formerly had a saw
mill in Waterville. 8. Mary, born 1841 ; lives
at Woodstock, New Brunswick; married
Everett Tilley, of Fredericton, a merchant.
9. James, born 1843, died young. 10. Fred,
bom 1845. died young. 11. Fannie, born 1847;
resides at Woodstock ; married Charles Alter-
ton, of Jacksonville, a wagon-maker of Bloom
field, New Brunswick. 12. Albina, born at
Jacksonville, New Brunswick, May 25, 1849;
resides at Ashland, Maine ; a nurse by pro

fession ; married James Ludlow, born at Kes
wick, New Brunswick, August, 1844, died at
Ashland, November 11, 1900, was a wood
worker, blacksmith and miller.

Robert Wright, the immigrant
WRIGHT ancestor, was born in Scotland,
and died at Nicholas River,
Kent county, New Brunswick. He came to
Canada when a young man and followed
farming at Nicholas River the remainder of
his life. He died in middle age. In politics
he was a Conservative. Children, born at
Nicholas River: 1. John, died at Rexton,
Kent county, 1891 ; was a farmer; unmarried.
2. Alexander, died at Rexton; was a farmer;
married  McChern, who is living at
Rexton. 3. Robert, mentioned below. 4. Jen
nie, died at Nicholas River, unmarried. Rob
ert Wright came from a town in Scotland
about fourteen miles from Edinburgh. His
brother George settled in Goodrich, Tennessee
county, Michigan, and became a lumberman
and farmer. The brothers left Scotland and
came to America together.
(II) Robert (2) Wright, son of Robert
(1) Wright, was born at Nicholas River, New
Brunswick, in 1831, died at Indiantown, Jan
uary 21, 1874. He was a lumberman in New
Brunswick and had a farm in Kent county.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church,
and a Conservative in politics. He married
Phebe Bagley, born 1846, died at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, February 10, 1897. Children:
1. John, born March 7, 1862, died in 1863. 2.
James, mentioned below. 3. David, born De
cember 21, 1866, in Indiantown, New Bruns
wick, died at Harcourt, New Brunswick, 1881.
4. John, born June 1, 1869; resides at Auburn-
dale, Massachusetts, a carpenter and builder;
married Elizabeth Hawes. 5. Robert, born
July 17, 1871, at Indiantown, died at Brown
ville Junction, killed by a railroad train, Janu
ary 21, 1898. 6. Elizabeth, born June 23,
1873, died young.
(Ill) James Wright, son of Robert (2)
Wright, was born at Indiantown, New Bruns
wick, January 23, 1865. He attended the pub
lic schools in Blackville, New Brunswick.
During his youth he worked on his father's
farm. In 1880 he was employed in lumbering
and for seven years was in the railroad busi
ness. In 1888 he entered the employ of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company in Cali
fornia, and in 1889 he took a position in the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and was
promoted to the position of conductor in 1891,
and has held this position to the present time.
In politics he is a Republican. He attends the
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City Camp, No. 462, Independent Order of
Foresters, of Macadam, New Brunswick; of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; of
Pine Tree Lodge, No. 366, of which he has
been president two years and has been treas
urer for the past thirteen years. He is also a
member of Onawa Lodge, No. 70, Knights of
Pythias, of Dover, of which he is past chan
cellor commander; of Pleasant River Lodge,
No. 163, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Brownville; of Rabonia Chapter, No. 62,
Royal Arch Masons; of the Masonic Insur
ance Company, of Granby, Quebec.
He married, November 11, 1890, Agnes
Josephine Schofield, born in Blackville, March
4, 1867. She is a member of the Ladies'
Auxiliary, No. 316, of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, in which she has filled
various offices. In religion she is a Presby
terian (see Schofield). Children: 1. Grace
Mildred, born at Brownville Junction, July 27,
1891 ; graduate of the high school there; she
was for a time a student in the high school
of Hudson, Massachusetts. 2. Robert Scho
field, born at Blackville, New Brunswick, Au
gust 29, 1893; graduate of the Brownville
Junction High School and of . Shaw's Tele
graphic School of Portland; a telegrapher on
the Canadian Pacific Railroad. 3. Inez Ber
nice, born at Brownville Junction, August 14,
1895 ; student in the high school.
(The. Sehofleld Line).
Daniel Schofield or Scofield, the immigrant
ancestor, was born in England and probably
came from Wethersfield, England. He settled
in Stamford, Connecticut, as early as 1641,
and died there in 1671. His widow Sarah be
came the third wife of Miles Merwin and is a
legatee in Merwin's will. The two eldest sons
of Daniel Schofield settled in Stamford and
left a numerous posterity. Children : John,
married, July 12, 1677, Hannah Mead; Daniel;
Richard; Joseph, who died of hardship suf
fered in King Philip's war, 1676; Sarah, mar
ried John Petit ; Mary.
The family has been numerous in Fairfield
county, Connecticut. According to the tradi
tions of the New Brunswick family Major
James Schofield was a Loyalist. He came to
New Brunswick during the Revolution and
received a grant of land for distinguished
services for the Crown. His brother, Seth
Schofield, remained in Connecticut and was a
Federalist and general.
John Lockhart Schofield, grandson of Major
James Schofield, was born in 1806, died in
1896, aged eighty-nine years, three days. He
was a pioneer in Northumberland county, New
Brunswick, in 1826. He cleared a farm in

1840. He married Mary Johnson Conners,
born in Blackville in 1828, died there in Au
gust, 1912. She was a daughter of John Con
ners, a farmer, who died in Blackville. His
wife was  Bentley, born on Prince Ed
ward Island. Children of John Conners: 1.
John Conners, died at Millerton, New Bruns
wick. 2. Alexander, died at Brownsville;
married Rebecca  . 3. William, died at
Blackville; was a farmer; married Jamene
Armstrong, now living in Blackville. 4. James,
of Blackville. 5. Mary Johnson, married John
Lockhart Schofield, mentioned above. 6.
Charles Conners, died at Upper Blackville;
was a farmer ; married  Morehouse. 7.
Ann, died at Renous River, New Brunswick;
married Mark Hambrook, a farmer, native of
England. 8. Agnes, married Nat Morehouse,
a merchant and farmer, brother-in-law of
Charles. 9. Margaret, married Robert Cowie,
a farmer. 10. Sophia, married John Curtis, a
farmer and lumberman. Three other children
died young.
Children of John Lockhart Schofield : 1.
John L., married (first) Carilla Sinclair; he
represented the county in the New Brunswick
legislature when a very young man; came to
the United States; is now a miner and ranch
man in Montana. 2. William, a farmer of
Blackville. 3. David G., a farmer at Black
ville, on the homestead ; married Sarah Trues-
dale. 4. Mary Ann, married James Foley,
of St. John, New Brunswick, a shoe manufac
turer and capitalist, retired, living at Newbury
port, Massachusetts. 5. Alexander, married
Jane Dunn, of Blackville; a shoemaker by
trade, now a railroad man. 6. Ellen, married
John Bowser, of Boutouche, New Brunswick,
a carpenter, now living at Hudson, Massachu
setts. 7. Charles, married Susan Arbon, of
Newburyport; he is a carriage manufacturer
in Newburyport. 8. Agnes Josephine, married
James Wright (see Wright III). 9. Grace,
married Frank Wheeler, of Hudson, Massa
chusetts, a cutter in a shoe factory at Hudson.
John Lockhart Schofield had a brother
Isaac, a farmer of Indiantown, who married
Jane Jardine ; a brother, Jacob Schofield, who
died in Sussex, New Brunswick; a brother,
Stevens Schofield, who also died at Sussex;
a brother, Richard Schofield, who died at In
diantown, married Betsey Firth.

William Ballard, the immi-
BALLARD grant ancestor, came from
England. He was born about
1780. He settled in Vassalboro, Maine, where
he died in 1856. He married  Moores,
who died in Vassalboro at the age of eighty-
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Maine; was a shoemaker. 2. John, died at
Vassalboro, Maine; was a carpenter and a
farmer; married Sarah Worth. 3. William,
died at Vassalboro, Maine ; married Mary Ann
Blanchard. 4. Charles, a farmer. 5. Harmon,
a miner in California. 6. James, died in Min
nesota, unmarried. 7. Albert, mentioned be
low. 8. Ruth, married Benjamin Johnson; she
died at Kennebec, Maine; he died at Vassal
boro, Maine. 9. Betsey, married Joseph San
born, a farmer; they died at Vassalboro,
Maine. 10. Martha, married Isaac Day, who
was in the civil war; she died at Lewiston,
Maine. (II) Albert Ballard, son of William Bal
lard, was born 1814, at Vassalboro, Maine,
died in 1861. He was a carpenter and a
farmer. He belonged to the Masons. He
married (first)  . He married (second)
Hannah Bragdon, born 1837, at Freedom,
Maine. She died at Vassalboro, 1909. She
was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. Child by first wife: Llewellyn, died
at Vassalboro ; he enlisted in the Third Regi
ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 ;
he served for three years, after which he was
in the navy nine months ; after the was he went
to the Black Hills, Virginia, and from there
to Leadville, Colorado, where he was a miner.
Children by second wife: 1. Leander, born
August 1, 1864; educated in the public schools
and business college at Augusta, Maine ; he
stayed on the farm with his mother until he
was twenty-one years old; in 1877 he bought
a farm in Washburn, Maine, which he con
ducted until 1904, then worked in a dry goods
store, afterwards becoming a merchant ; he
owns a bowling alley in Washburn, Maine;
he attends the Free Will Baptist church, and
is a Democrat; he married, February, 1885,
Blake Roberts, of Caribou, Maine, born 1867 ;
children: Hazel, born June 11, 1891 ; Albert,
born November 29, 1894; Seth, born Decem
ber 31, 1897; Claude, born December 3, 1904.
2. William, mentioned below. 3. Frank, born
March 13, 1859; married Ella Austin; he is
a farmer and resides at Vassalboro, Maine.
(Ill) William (2) Ballard, son of Albert
Ballard, was born in 1856, at Vassalboro,
Maine, died at Washburn, JMaine, 1911. He
came to Washburn shortly before his mar
riage. He married Rose Smith, born July 20,
1865. He is a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters. She is a member of the
Washburn Grange and the Rebekahs, and
attends the Baptist church. Children: 1.
Alice, born 1883, died young. 2. Harry Frank
lin, mentioned below. 3. Roy, born 1887 ; mar
ried Sadie Clayton, of Washburn, died Octo
ber, 1912; he is a stone mason and resides in

Washburn. 4. William, born July 19, 1889;
married Louisa Crouse. 5. Arnold, born
March 28, 1891 ; married Etta Annett, of
Washburn; children: Fay, born September
13, 1910; John, born September 12, 1912. 6.
Bernice, died young. 7. Frank, born February,
1894; works in a starch factory. 8. Floy,
born 1896. 9. Hannah, born July, 1899. 10.
Charles, born May 27, 1901. 11. George, born
January 8, 1903. 12. Wilber, born March 9,
J905- J3- Mona, born September 26, 1907.
(IV) Harry Franklin Ballard, son of Wil
liam (2) Ballard, was born in Washburn,
Maine, March 16, 1885. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town, including
the high school. He has followed farming
from early youth. Since 1909 he has managed
the farm of his wife's mother. It contains
three hundred acres, half of which is under
cultivation and the remainder in timber. In
politics he is a Democrat. He is a member
of Washburn Lodge, Modern Woodmen of
America, and of Washburn Lodge, No. 112,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He mar
ried, June 5, 1906, at Washburn, Abbie Green-
leaf Crouse (see Crouse III), born at Wash
burn, May 16, 1887, graduate of the Wash
burn High School and of the Aroostook State
Normal School. She is a member of the
Rebekah Lodge, of Washburn, and of the
Washburn Grange. Children: 1. Elbridge,
born December 11, 1907. 2. Dorothy, born
January 30, 1909. 3. Beryl, born October 7,
1912. (The Crouse Line).
The Crouse family settled in New York
before the Revolution. They remained loyal
to the crown and with thousands of other
Loyalists came to New Brunswick after the
war. (I) Gould Crouse was born in New Bruns
wick and died at Washburn, Maine, aged
ninety-three years. He came to the village
that was afterward named Crouseville in his
honor and followed farming there the re
mainder of his life. He was a member of the
Advent church. He married  Clark,
who was born in New Brunswick, died at
Crouseville. Children: 1. Jeremiah, men
tioned below. 2. Abram, died in Oregon; a
lumberman; married Bethia Clark, of New
Brunswick. 3. William, a carpenter ; married
Lucy Clark, a sister of Bethia; his widow
resides at Waterville, Maine. 4. Jessie, a
farmer in Washburn; married (first) Minnie
Sprague; (second) Alberta Clark, cousin of
Lucy Clark. 5. Gould, resides at Crouseville.
6. Joshua, resides at Crouseville; married
Emma Upton, of Norway, Maine, a school
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of New Brunswick, a farmer afterward of
Washburn. 8. Ann, died in Washburn ; mar
ried Joseph Churchill, a farmer of New
Brunswick. 9. Huldah, died in youth. 10.
Lucinda. (II) Jeremiah Crouse, son of Gould Crouse,
was born in March, 1830, in New Brunswick.
He came to Crouseville when a young man
and followed farming and lumbering there all
his active life. He is now retired, living in
Crouseville. In politics he is a Republican.
He has been school agent and selectman. He
is a member of the Advent church. He mar
ried Esther Chrystal, born in New Bruns
wick, in February, 1834, died at Washburn,
July 1, 1901. She was a member of the Ad
vent church. Children: 1. Elbridge Dunn,
mentioned below. 2. Louise, died aged four
years. 3. Beverly, died at Washburn, aged
twenty-four years ; married Ada Campbell, of
New Brunswick, now of Newport, Maine. 4.
Aaron, resides in Ludlow, Maine, a farmer;
married Rebecca Thompson, of Nova Scotia.
5. Winfield, resides at Crouseville, a potato
buyer ; married Esther Lovely, of New Bruns
wick. 6. Sherman, a farmer of Crouseville;
married Fannie Drake, of New Brunswick. 7.
Louisa, died at Washburn, June 18, 1897;
married Jesse Churchill, of Washburn, now a
farmer in Crouseville. 8. Lizzie, married
Alfred Kinney, a farmer of Washburn. 9.
Aubrey, married Georgia Clark, of Wash
burn, where they now live.
(Ill) Elbridge Dunn Crouse, son of Jere
miah Crouse, was born at Washburn, Maine,
September 7, 1854, died there, December 31,
1903. He attended the public schools of his
native town. In 1874 he bought the farm on
which his widow is now living. In politics he
was a Republican. He was selectman of the
town for two years and road commissioner.
He was a member of the Advent Christian
church. He married, October 12, 1876, in
Presque Isle, Adaline Jane Bugbee, born in
Washburn, Maine, February 14, 1859. She is
a member of the Advent Christian church and
of the Washburn Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. Samuel S. Bugbee, her father, was
born at Pembroke, Maine, 181 1, died at Wash
burn, in January, 1863. He came to Wash
burn soon after his first marriage and fol
lowed farming there. In politics he was a Re
publican; in religion a Baptist. He married
(first) Adaline Stoddard, of Pembroke. He
married (second) Rebecca McGuire, born in
New Brunswick, 1833, died at Washburn,
April, 1861. She was also a member of the
Baptist church. He married (third) Susan
Rollins, widow of William Rollins, of Presque
Isle. Children of Samuel S. Bugbee by first

wife, Adaline: Louisa; Alford; Henry, a
retired farmer of Washburn; Stella, married
(first) Warren McGuire, (second) William
Jardine, of Washburn, a farmer ; Abbie ; Han
nah; Sarah. Child of Samuel S. Bugbee by
second wife, Rebecca: Adaline Jane, mar
ried Eldridge Dunn Crouse, mentioned above.
Child of Samuel S. Bugbee by third wife,
Susan: George. Samuel S. Bugbee had a
sister Hannah, who married William Green-
leaf, a farmer of Hodgdon, and a brother Dan
iel, who died when a young man at Pembroke,
Maine. Children of Elbridge Dunn and Adaline
Jane Crouse. 1. Blanche A., born August 20,
1881 ; married Harvey Brown, of Washburn,
now a carpenter of Crouseville ; children : Mel
vin, Madaline, Ada, Enda, Ruth, Ruby, Bea
trice, Bertha. 2. Ruby, born September 17,
1885 ; married Wesley Braddock, of Wash
burn, a farmer and potato buyer; child, Mil
dred. 3. Abbie Greenleaf, married Harry
Franklin Ballard (see Ballard IV). 4. Bev
erly, born June 18, 1889, died June 13, 1909.
5. Louisa, born May 21, 1891 ; married Wil
liam Ballard, brother of Harry F. Ballard ; he
is a manufacturer of cement arid brick blocks ;
children : Beverly and Hugh: 6. Hanford,
born November 5, 1895. 7. Clair, born No
vember 10, 1897. 8. Florence, born May 29,
1900.

Major James Easier was born
EASLER and died in New Brunswick,
Canada. His father was an im
migrant from Germany. His mother's maiden
name was Mary Crossman. He married Mar
garet Kelly. Children, born in New Bruns
wick: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. Eliz
abeth, died at Washburn, 1906, aged one hun
dred and two years; married  Tower.
3. Mary, married .  McFarland. 4.
Christian, a mariner, mate of a vessel. 5.
Robert, a mariner, died in New Brunswick. 6.
John, married Ellen Wood. 7. Daniel, mar
ried May Tarris. 8. George, lost in boyhood,
thought to have been taken by Indians.
(II) James (2) Easier, son of Major James
(1) Easier, was born at Petticotiac, New
Brunswick, 1802, died at Washburn, Maine,
1875. He came to Washburn in 1843 and
cleared a farm on which the widow of his son
George is now living. There he spent the re
mainder of his days in the occupation of a
farmer. He married Elizabeth Crawford,
born in New Jerusalem, New Brunswick,
1822, died at Washburn, March 24, 1902.
Children: 1. George, mentioned below. 2.
Elizabeth, born .at Miramichi, New Brunswick,
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of Washburn ; they adopted two children :
Hollis H. and Lottie Easier. 3. John G., born
at Washburn, June 5, 1845 5 married Minnie
Estes, of Caribou ; he died at Fifield, Wiscon
sin; was a building contractor; she lives at
Washburn; she married (second) William
McDougal ; child of John G., Myrtie, married
Wallace Vance, a farmer of Caribou. 4.
James, born at Washburn, April 25, 1847 ',
married Sarah _mith, of Boston ; he is a con
tractor and builder in Los Angeles, Califor
nia; children: Miles, Vesta, Ella, Thornton,
Emily. 5. Daniel, born March 22, 1850; a
lumberman in Idaho. 6. Mary A., born at
Washburn, September 22, 1852 ; married Her
bert Smith, of Castle Hill, Maine, a farmer
and hotel keeper ; she resides at Castle Hill ;
children: Inez G. Smith, married Benjamin
Johnson, a mail carrier of Presque Isle ; Parker
M. Smith, married Alanda Boyd, of Fort Fair
field, residing at Castle Hill ; Ethel M. Smith,
married William Peva, 'a traveling salesman.
7. Susan E., born at Washburn, June 15, 1855 ;
married Joseph Galusha, of Richmond, Maine,
a farmer; she resides in Richmond on her
farm ; children : Emma and Austin. 8. Mar
tha L., born at Washburn, July 26, 1857; lives
with her brother George. 9. Alexander, born
December 18, 1859. 10. William T., born at
Washburn, September 20, 1864, died in April,
1908, unmarried ; was a lumberman and ac
countant. (Ill) George Easier, son of James (2)
Easier, was born at Kishmaquiac, New Bruns
wick, May 12, 1840, died at Washburn, Au
gust 12, 1910. He attended the public schools
for a time, but was largely self-educated and
a man of wide information and sound learning.
He was a carpenter by trade, and in later life
followed farming on his father's homestead.
Ninety acres of the one hundred and forty
in his farm is under cultivation and the re
mainder is excellent timber land. In politics
he was a Democrat. He was selectman for a
number of years and also road commissioner
of the town. For nine years he was postmaster
of East Washburn. He was a member of the
Seventh Day Advent church, of which he was
clerk. He entered the service during the civil
war, but peace was declared before his regi
ment was ordered to the front. He married,
March 20, 1881, at Woodland, Maine, Lizzie
Imogene Phillips, born at Effingham, New
Hampshire, December 6, 1861. She attended
the public schools of Biddeford and Kenne
bunk, Maine, and afterward taught school two
years before her marriage in Woodland and
one year in Presque Isle. She is a member
of the Seventh Day Advent church (see Phil
lips II). Children: 1. Edson G., born No

vember 27, 1882 ; a farmer on the homestead.
2. Elta M„ born February 12, 1884; married
Frank Sheehan, of Littleton, Maine, a farmer
of Presque Isle ; she is a member of the Sev
enth Day Advent church. 3. Eva V., born
March 5, 1886; a school teacher at Presque
Isle. 4. Georgia Verne, born February 6,
1891, died July 3, 1914; graduate of the Wash
burn Pligh School, 1909. 5. Herbert G., born
August 24, 1893; student three years in the
high school, now assisting his brothers on the
farm. (The Phillips Line).
(I) Metaphor Phillips, descendant of an old
New England family, was born in 1800, died
at Madison, New Hampshire, in February,
1872. Pie was a farmer in Effingham, New
Hampshire, all his active life. In early life he
was a Whig, and afterward a Republican. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He married Lucy Temple, born in
Maine, 1794, died at Madison, 1884. Children:
1. Rufus, died at Biddeford; was a miller;
served in the civil war. 2. Gilman, mentioned
below. 3. Roswell, died in Michigan; married
Lois Temple, a cousin of Lucy. 4. Charles,
died in Biddeford, unmarried. 5. Mary, died
in Madison ; married Charles Thurston, a
farmer of Madison, and had children: Mary
and Charles. 6. Joan, died at Madison ; mar
ried a Mr. Kimball, a farmer. Three other
children. (II) Gilman Phillips, son of Metaphor Phil
lips, was born at Hollis, Maine, August 9,
1829. He attended the public schools of
Effingham, New Hampshire. He was a
machinist by trade and was employed in ma
chine shops in Biddeford, Maine, Manchester,
New Hampshire, and for one year in Massa
chusetts. He is now retired. In politics he is
a Republican. He is a member of the Seventh
Day Baptist church. He married Susan A.
Hanson, born in Brookfield, New Hampshire,
October 29, 1836. Before her marriage she
was employed in the cotton mills in New
Hampshire. John Hanson, her father, was a
native of New Hampshire, descendant of an
old New England family. He died at Effing
ham, New Hampshire, in 1875, aged over sev
enty years. He was a farmer, an active mem
ber of the Methodist church. He married Abi
gail Watson, a native of New Hampshire, who
died in Effingham. Children of John Hanson :
1. John, died in Boston, 1907 ; married Almena
Blanchard, of Hallowell, Maine, and she now
resides in Millis, Massachusetts ; he was a car
penter by trade and served in the engineer
corps in the civil war. 2. Susan A., married
Gilman Phillips, mentioned above. 3. Charles,
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ried. 4. Joseph, resides at Hastings, Nebraska,
a farmer, unmarried. 5. Benjamin, died in
New Hampshire ; was a farmer. 6. Freeman,
died at Woodland, Maine. 7. Son, died young.
Children of Gilman and Susan A. (Hanson)
Phillips: 1. Wendell, born August 3, 1859, at
Effingham, died February 27, 1892, in Wash
burn, Maine; was a traveling salesman; mar
ried Addie Emery, of Mapleton; child, Wen
dell Jr., born April 8, 1887, resides in Oregon;
she married (second) Rodney Foote, of Sno
homish, Washington. 2. Lizzie Imogene, mar
ried George Easier (see Easier III). 3. Susie
B., born October 23, 1863; married James
Leighton, of Perham, Maine, a salesman in
Florida ; she resides in Iowa ; children : Lee
Leighton, born at Battle Creek, Michigan,
September 1, 1883; Carl Leighton, 1888; Ruby
Leighton, at Mars Hill, Maine, November,
1893. 4. Gilman H., born at Biddeford, No
vember 28, 1865 ; married Kate Brewer, of
Washburn; he is a contractor and builder of
Portland; child, Lola, born April 15, 1897. 5.
Jessie B., born at Effingham, New Hampshire,
March 22, 1867; married W. J. Dunscombe,
of Portland, a contractor and builder ; child,
Elizabeth E., born January 6, 1889. 6. Almena
G., born at Biddeford, March 7, 1871 ; married
Howard Morse, of Portland; resides in Brook
lyn, New York; a broker; children: Howard
Tilton, bom May 8, 1904; Helen Louise, July
6, 1906. 7. Mattie R., born at Biddeford, Feb
ruary 10, 1873 ; married Clinton Munson, of
Washburn ; resides at Caribou, Maine ; is a
farmer; children: Jessie, Nira, Ray, Nina,
Howard, Louis, Pearl, Viola, Ruel, Erma.

Elias Child, in a genealogical
CHILDS work published in 1881 regard
ing the Child, Childs and Childe
family from 1630 to 1881, says of the family
in general :
They possess enough of the impulsive element to
defy dangers and to grapple with difficulties to
obtain a manly independence, the determination and
perseverance with which many have met and over
come difficulties, and the boldness and daring in
adventure displayed by others will thrill the reader
and awaken his admiration. We often find the love
of knowledge and ambition of life into the quiet
seclusions of the study, where they find their sweet
est companionship with some history, romance or
philosophical treatise. A manly independence has
ever been more to the race than fame, wealth or
position, while none of these would be despised or
rejected if they were the legitimate rewards of in
dustry and virtue. As benefactors of their race
they are usually sympathetic and active.
There are three men of this name who were
prominent in English history : Sir John Child,
of Surat, E. J., was well known as a civic and
military leader ; Sir Josiah Child, of London,

was a merchant, political economist and phil
anthropist ; and Sir Francis Childs, of London,
was a banker, goldsmith and sociologist. Judge
Salmon Child, of Saratoga county, New York,
was the first of the family to bear that title;
he was also member of assembly from that
county in 1820. Orville W. Childs was one
of the foremost practical civil engineers in the
United States; the Hon. Calvin Child was a
graduate of Yale College, and held the office
of United States district attorney of Connecti
cut, receiving his first appointment from Presi
dent Grant; Professor Samuel F. Morse, the
inventor of the telegraph, was the grandson of
Sarah Child; Mayor Jonathan Child was first
mayor of Rochester, New York, in 1834. The
coat-of-arms generally used by the Childs fam
ilies is as follows : Gules, a chevron engrailed
ermine, between three eagles close argent.
Crest: An eagle, wings expanded or elevated
argent, enveloped with a snake proper. Motto :
Imitari quam invideri.
(I) William Child settled in Watertown,
Massachusetts, where he was made freeman
in 1634. He is thought to have been a brother
of Ephraim Child, who left parts of his estate
to his nephews, sons of William Child. Wil
liam Child doubtless came over with Ephraim,
or else before him. He married in England,
and his son Joseph was probably born there,
as his birth record is not found in the Water-
town records. He seems to have died early,
not being accustomed to the severe climate.
His widow is mentioned in the will of Mrs.
Elizabeth Palmer Child, who left her some of
her wardrobe. Children : Joseph, born about
1629; Richard, 163 1 ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John, youngest child of William Child,
was born in 1636, in Watertown, and died Oc
tober 15, 1676. He was prominent in the
town and colony, and represented Watertown
in the general court. His first wife bore the
name of Mary. He married (second) May
29, 1668, Mary Warren, born November 29,
1651, who married (second) Nathaniel Fiske,
and died May 12, 1734. She was the oldest
child of Daniel and Mary (Barron) Warren,
of Watertown, granddaughter of John War
ren, who came from England in 1630, and was
a conspicuous pioneer of Watertown. Chil
dren : Mary, born January 8, 1663 ; John, men
tioned, below; Eliza, July 24, 1670; Daniel,
June 5, 1677.
(Ill) John (2), elder son of John (1) and
Mary (Warren) Child, was born April 25,
1669, in Watertown, and resided in the west
ern precinct of that town, where he was a
member of a "committee to manage pruden
tials" in 1721. In 1730 this precinct became
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served on a committee to "take effectual care
that learning shall be advanced." Like his
father, he represented his town in the general
court. Pie possessed land in Waltham and
Weston. He died in Waltham, 1743. Pie
married, October 5, 1693, Hannah French,
daughter of Captain William French, who died
January 2, 1766. Children: John, born Au
gust 5, 1694; Jonathan, mentioned below;
Sarah, baptized November 19, 1704; Abigail,
November 4, 1705; Isaac, March 24, 1706;
Prudence, July 16, 1708; Lydia, October 7,
1711; Jonas, June 14, 1713; Ruth, August 27,
17 15; Mehitable, January 13, 1717.
(IV) Jonathan Childs, second son of John
(2) and Hannah (French) Child, was born
April 26, 1696, in Watertown, and settled in
Grafton, Massachusetts, where he lived to a
great age. His gravestone in the ancient ceme
tery in that town bears the following epitaph :
"Here lies buried the body of Mr. Jonathan
Child, who departed this life September 8,
1787, in the ninety-second year of his age."
Behold and see as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare for death and follow me.
He married, in October, 1729, Abigail
Parker, born September 9, 171 1, died March
3, 1756. Children : Josiah, mentioned below ;
Abigail, born August 28, 1732; Elizabeth, Oc
tober 28, 1735; Jonathan, February 14, 1738;
Ruth, October 2, 1740; Solomon, January 31,
1744; Sarah, August 13, 1746; Joseph, Janu
ary 29, 1753.
(V) Josiah, eldest child of Jonathan and
Abigail (Parker) Childs, was born October
17, 1730, in Grafton, and lived in that town,
where he married, April 24, 1755, Elizabeth
Ball, probably the daughter of Joseph and
Bathsheba (Bellows) Ball, born February 10,
1732, in Southboro, Massachusetts. About
1762 he removed to Upton, Massachusetts,
where his last three children are recorded.
Children: Abigail, born May 31, 1756; Ste
phen, October 18, 1757; Elizabeth, June 21,
1759, born in Grafton; Josiah, February 2,
1762; John, February 3, 1765; Asa, mentioned
below, born in Upton.
(VI) Asa, youngest child of Josiah and
Elizabeth (Ball) Childs, was born June 19,
1767, in Upton, where he made his home. He
married there, October 21, 1784, Rebecca Taft,
born January 30, 1770, daughter of John and
Rebecca (Wark) Taft. Children: Daniel,
mentioned below ; Betsey, born January 14,
1787; Otis, January 16, 1789; Jonathan, De
cember 29, 1790; Lucretia, October 14, 1792;

Willard, October 4, 1794; Nathaniel Taft, Au
gust 22, 1798; Asa P., December 13, 1804.
(VII) Daniel, eldest child of Asa and Re
becca (Taft) Childs, was born March 13,
1785, in Upton, where he married, May 24,
1807, Anna Wood, born August 31, 1789, in
Upton, daughter of Ezra (2) and Sarah
(Taft) Wood.
(VIII) Charles Henry, son of Daniel and
Anna (Wood) Childs, was born August 31,
1807, in Upton, where he grew to manhood,
receiving his education in the public schools
of the town. In 1829, soon after attaining his
majority, he settled in Providence, Rhode
Island, where for a few years he conducted a
grocery store on North Main street. Follow
ing this he established a livery business on
Dorrance street, and there continued with
gratifying success until his death, February
12, 1866. His body was deposited in Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence. He was quite
an extensive dealer in horses, and was very
active up to the time of his death. He mar
ried, December 1, 1828, Abigail Goulding
Thayer, born April 3, 1807, in Mendon, Mas
sachusetts, daughter of Dr. Alexander and
Sarah (Sally) (Wight) Thayer, of Mendon
(see Thayer VI). She died in Providence, De
cember 3, 1887, and was buried in Swan Point
Cemetery. The family was affiliated with the
Unitarian church. Children: 1. George Henry,
born November 30, 1829, died September 1,
i860, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery.
2. Charles Henry, April 27, 1835; was for
many years cashier of the Third National
Bank of Providence; died December 26, 1885,
and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery. 3.
Arvedina Helen, January 27, 1840, died Janu
ary 18, 1910, and was buried in Swan Point
Cemetery. A cultured member of society, she
was noted for her many acts of charity. 4-5.
William Henry and Clara Thayer (twins),
August 28, 1845; the latter died May 22, 1914,
and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery. The
former now resides at the family home on
Board street, Providence.
After the death of Miss Arvedina Helen
Childs, Miss Elizabeth A. Stuart was appointed
by the courts guardian of William Henry and
Clara Thayer Childs, and trustee of the estate,
which position she has filled with ability and
credit. . N
(The Thayer Line).
The surname Thayer was originally Tayer,
Tawier and Tawyer, and is a trade name, for
one who dresses skins. The letter "h" was not
added until after the family came to New Eng
land and in the Mendon line that letter was
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in the last century. The home of the family
in England was Thornbury, in the western
part of Gloucestershire, a short distance from
the river Severn, eleven miles north of Bristol.
No coats-of-arms appear on any tablet or
monument of the family at the parish church,
St. Mary's of Thornbury, and the fact that
Edward Tayer, of Oldbury-on-Severn, in the
parish of Thornbury, was disclaimed by the
heralds at their visitation of Gloucestershire
in 1625, for using arms without proof of au
thority, tends to show that the family was not
armorial. The name is now extinct in Thorn
bury. A family spelling the name Theyer and
Thayern and having the same root form "taw"
has long been at Brockworth, in Gloucester
shire, a parish twenty-five miles northeast of
Thornbury, and there was an armorial family
of Tawyer at Raounds, in Northamptonshire,
about eighty miles northeast of Brockworth
and one hundred and five miles from Thorn
bury, also an armorial family of Thayer at
Great Baddow and later at Thayden Garnen,
in county Essex, afterwards of London; but
no connection between- these families has been
established, so far as is known. In an account
of "Able and Sufficient Men in Body fit for
His Majesty's Service in the Wars, within the
County of Gloucester in the month of August,
1608," which is given in three classes, (1)
those about twenty years of age, (2) those
about forty years of age, and (3) those be
tween fifty and sixty years of age, there ap
pear in Thornbury, Edward, John, Nicholas
and Richard Tayer, all of the second class, and
William Martiner of the first class ; in — 
comb, eight miles north east from Thornbury,
John Thayer (Gent) of the second class; and
in Brockworth and its vicinity, John Theyer of
the first class, Richard, Roger, Thomas, Wal
ter and William Theyer of the second class,
Gabriel, Giles, John, Thomas of the first class
and William Thayer of the second class. The
Thornbury parish register begins in A. D.
T538, with breaks from 1645 to 1660 and from
1679 to 1684. (See New Eng. Reg. 1906, p.
283, for copy of baptisms, etc.). John Thayer
or Tayer was baptized January 4, 1557-58, and
another John, son of Thomas, October 15,
1558. The godfathers and godmothers are
given, but as a rule the parents' names are
omitted. A Richard Tayer or Tawier was bap
tized August 2, 1562, and a Thomas, February
12, 1569-70. It is probable that either Thomas
or Richard was father of the American immi
grants, Richard and Thomas. The will of
Thomas was dated February 13, 1622, proved
May 20, 1623.
(I) Thomas Thayer was born in Thorn
bury, England, and came to America before

1639, in which year he had a grant of land at
Braintree, Massachusetts, of seventy-six acres.
There were at that time nine persons in his
family. His brother Richard came over shortly
after Thomas and also settled in Braintree.
Both were shoemakers by trade. Thomas was
admitted a freeman in 1647. He married, in
England, April 3, 1618, Margery Wheeler,
died February 11, 1642. He died June 2, 1665.
His will was dated June 24, 1664, proved Sep
tember 13, 1665. Children, born in Thorn
bury: Thomas, baptized at Thornbury, Sep
tember 15, 1622 ; Ferdinando, mentioned be
low ; Shadrach, May 10, 1629; Sarah, married
Jonathan Hayward, not named in father's will.
(II) Ferdinando, second son of Thomas
Thayer, was baptized April 18, 1625, and came
to this country with his father. He married,
January 14, 1652, Huldah Hayward, of Brain
tree, and lived in Braintree until after his
father's death, when he removed to Mendon
with a colony from Braintree and Weymouth.
He was one of the largest proprietors in the
new township. His homestead was a little
south of the present center of the town, on the
Providence road. He held many offices of
honor and trust, and was a man of wealth
according to the standards of his day, and pro
vided all his sons with farms. Several of them
became extensive landowners and many of the
original Thayer farms in Mendon have never
passed out of the family. Mendon was first
settled in 1662 as a plantation and continued
thus until 1667, when it was incorporated as
a town ; the settlement was broken up in King
Philip's war, most of the families returning to
Weymouth and Braintree until the danger had
passed. The Thayers probably returned to
Mendon in 1680. Ferdinando died there
March 28, 1713, his wife, September 1, 1690.
Children, born at Braintree: Sarah, May 1,
1654; Huldah, June 15, 1657; Jonathan, March
18, 1658; David, June 20, 1660, died August
1, 1674; Naomi, January 28, 1662-63. Chil
dren, born at Mendon : Thomas, mentioned be
low ; Samuel ; Isaac ; Josiah ; Ebenezer ; Ben
jamin, December 20, 1712; David, baptized
September 17, 1677, died August 29, 167-8.
(Ill) Captain Thomas Thayer, third son of
Ferdinando and Huldah (Hayward) Thayer.
was born in Mendon and lived in that town,
where he died May 1, 1738. He married, in
1688, Mary Adams, who undoubtedly belonged
to the Braintree family of that name, often
called the presidential family, but there are no
records by which she can be identified. Chil
dren: Mary, born January 19, 1689; Thomas,
January 14, 1694; Samuel, March 28, 1696;
Temperance, July 7, 1698; David, February 8,
1701 ; Elizabeth, March 2, 1703; John, Sep-

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tember 17, 1706; William, mentioned below;
Margaret, December 12, 1710; Jemima, Feb
ruary 13, 1712.
(IV) William, fifth son of Captain Thomas
and Mary (Adams) Thayer, was born Janu
ary 22, 1708, in Mendon, and made his home
in that town, where he married, November 13,
1729, Abigail Sumner, born December 16^
171 1, in Mendon, daughter of Ebenezer and
Abigail, (Lovet) Sumner, of that town. Chil
dren: Hepsibah, born February 28, 1731 ; Beu-
lah, May io, 1733; Beriah, 1735, died young;
Silence, October 4, 1741 ; Alexander, men
tioned below; Abigail, May 10, 1748; Increase,
October 4, 1751 ; Amasa, March 2, 1754;
Beriah, May 28, 1758.
(V) Rev. Alexander Thayer, senior son of
William and Abigail (Sumner) Thayer, was
born January 25, 1743, in Mendon, where he
died January 5, 1840. He graduated at New
Jersey College in 1765, and was ordained a
clergyman of the Congregational church, whose
labors he followed through life. His first pas
torate was in Medway, Massachusetts, and he
was located for a time in Holliston and Paxton,
same state. About 1770 he became pastor of
the Mendon church, where he continued for
many years. He married, August 18, 1773, in
Holliston, being described then as of Paxton,
Abigail Goulding, of Medway, born April 14,
1753, in Holliston, died November 26, 1817, in
Mendon, daughter of James and Bethiah
Goulding. Children: John Goulding, born
1774; Alexander, March 15, 1777, died young;
Polly, November 9, 1780; Abigail, October 17,
1782; these are all that are recorded in Men
don. The birth of the next mentioned is estab
lished by family record.
(VI) Dr. Alexander (2) Thayer, son of
Rev. Alexander (1) and Abigail (Goulding)
Thayer, was born about 1783, and resided in
Mendon, where he was a physician and sur
geon, and died March 26, 1848. He married
(first) May 19, 1802, Sally, daughter of Aaron
Wight, born 1785-86, died April 1, 1822. He
married (second) in 1825, Sally Blake Inger-
soll, and (third) in 1829, Johanna Simpson.
Children of the first marriage : 1. Mary Helen,.
born November 21, 1803; married September
22, 1824, George E. Carter, and died February
15, 1836, in Charleston, South Carolina. She
had one child, George Edward Carter, born
May 2, 1825, in Mendon, died in Providence,
May 29, 1859. 2. Sally W., December 8, 1805 ;
married, November 1, 1827, Horace H. Fiske,
and resided in Branchville, South Carolina,
where she died October 30, 1845. 3- Abigail
Goulding, mentioned below. 4 Alexander Dar
win, December 3, 1809, died in Cherry Valley,
New York, 1831. 5. Ptolemy Philadelphus,

September 6, 181 1, died in Rochester, New
York. 6. Euclid Cullen, 1814, died young. 7.
Euclid Cullen, 2d, May 8, 1819; married in
Providence, Martha Mason, born May 24, 181 5,
died March 15, 1872. Children: Owen Mason,
born October 2, 1842, died April 14, 1846;
Owen Mason, 2d, November 25, 1844; John
Plenry, February 28, 1857, died December 6,
same year. 8. Lydia Helen, June 29, 1821-;
married, August 17, 1847, William Henry
Gudgeon, and resided in Westerly, Rhode
Island. She has one son, William Henry, who
now spells the name Goodgeon, born January
18, 1852. Child of the second marriage: 9.
Edward J., August 18, 1826. Of the third : 10.
Henry A., August 17, 1830.
(VII) Abigail Goulding, third daughter of
Dr. Alexander and Sally (Wight) Thayer, was
born April 3, 1807, in Mendon, Massachusetts,
and died in Providence, Rhode Island, Decem
ber 3, 1887. She married, December 1, 1828,
Charles Henry Childs, of Providence (see
Childs VIII).

The family of Olney is one of
OLNEY the oldest in Rhode Island, and
has been continuously identified
with the history of the state from its earliest
period down to the present time. The origin
in England is traced to the time of the Con
quest, and it appears in the Domesday Book.
In America those bearing it have been found
in positions of responsibility in every genera
tion. The early colonists transplanted to these
shores a civilization which for high moral and
intellectual tone and sterling virtues, has never
been surpassed. To this day New England
conscience and virtues are regarded as models
throughout the country, no less than by the
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers themselves.
Inheriting in generous measure the qualities
which made their forebears strong and irre
proachable, the present day representatives
have fostered the traditions and lived up to the
standards of right living established by an
honored race. To say that they have improved
on the models would be presumption. But the
days of stern necessity having passed, the
social arts have softened rugged outlines and
added grace to dignity, until now no higher
compliment could be paid to a son of New
England than to call him a typical son of that
region. (I) Thomas Olney, a native of St. Albans,
Hertfordshire, England, born 1600, received a
royal permit to colonize in New England in
1635, and sailed April 2, 1635 from London
in the ship "Planter" to Massachusetts. He
bore a certificate from the minister at St. Al
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1637, being made a freeman in Salem the same
year. The records show that he had five in
his family December 25 of that year. He early
associated himself with those entertaining the
religious views of Roger Williams, hence was
excluded from the Massachusetts colony,
March 12, 1638. Prior to this he had accom
panied Roger Williams to the shores of Narra
gansett Bay, and he became one of the twelve
original settlers on the west side of the See
konk river, at the head of the bay, founding
what is now the beautiful city of Providence,
so named in grateful remembrance of their de
livery from oppression. He located in Provi
dence, October 8, 1638, and was one of the
twelve to receive deeds of land from Roger
Williams. Thomas Olney was a shoemaker by
trade, but at once became prominent in the
government of the Providence Plantation, and
was almost constantly in the public service.
He was treasurer of the colony in 1638 and
again in 1669, and was one of the original
members of the Baptist church formed there
in 1638. He signed the agreement for a form
of government, with thirty-eight others, July
27, 1640. He was assistant in 1649, I653_54-
55-56, 1664-65-66-67. He was taxed £1 13s.
4d. September 2, 1650, and was commissioner
in 1656, 1658-59, 1661-62-63. In the division
of lands made February 19, 1665, he received
Lot No. 23. He was deputy to the general
court in 1665, 1667, 1670-71. He was a mem
ber of the town council in 1665-66, 1669-70-71,
1674, 1677 and 1681. In 1665 he was chosen
a judge of the justice's court, in association
with Roger Williams and Thomas Harris. His
will, made March 21, 1679, was proved Octo
ber 17, 1682. He died 1682 in Providence. He
married, in 163 1, Marie Small, who died in the
same year as himself. Children: Thomas,
mentioned below; Epenetus, born 1634; Nede-
biah, 1637, died young; Stephen, died 1658;
James, died 1676; Mary, died same year;
Lydia, died 1645.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas
(1) and Marie (Small) Olney, was born in
1632 in England, and resided in Providence,
whither lie was borne by his parents at the age
of six years. He was one of the leading spirits
of the Rhode Island colony, being made a free
man in 1655, and received Lot No. 41 in the
division of lands in 1665. He was town clerk
from 1664 to 1667 inclusive, and from 1683
to 171 5 inclusive. He was assistant in 1669-
70-77 and 1677-78-79. During most of the
time from 1671 to 1714 inclusive he was a
member of the town council ; was deputy four
teen years, from 1672 to 171 1. In 1668 he was
ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Providence. The tax list of September 1,

1687 shows his tax as twelve shillings and
seven pence, and in the following year his
ratable estate included twenty-five cattle, em
bracing oxen and yearlings, four swine, four
horses, and thirty-one acres of land. He was
chosen, with two others, by the assembly, July
2, 1695, to run the north line of the colony,
and was appointed August 21, 1698, a member
of a commission to meet with a similar com
mission from Connecticut before the proper
authorities in settlement of the boundary. He
was chosen October 29, 1699, to go to England
and defend the rights of the colony under its
charter, but declined to serve. He owned a
large tract of land, known as the Wenscot
Farm, in what is now North Providence and
Lincoln, then a part of Providence. His will,
made February 20, 1722, was proved July 9
same year. He married, July 3, 1660, Eliza
beth Marsh, of Newport, who died in 1722.
Children: Thomas, mentioned below; William,
born June 25, 1663; Elizabeth, January 21,
1666; Anne, January 13, 1668; Phebe, Sep
tember 15, 1675.
(Ill) Thomas (3), eldest child of Thomas
(2) and Elizabeth (Marsh) Olney, was born
May 4, 1661, in Providence, and died March 1,
1718. He was a carpenter residing in his
native town, which he represented as deputy
in the general court in 1690 and 1707. He was
appointed, with two others, February 25, 1707,
to audit the colony accounts. It is evident that
he engaged in farming and other industries by
the property embraced in his inventory, which
amounted to £141 7s. 5d. This included eleven
neat cattle, an interest in a saw mill and corn
mill, carpenter's tools, surveying instruments,
a cider mill, and other property. He married,
July 13, 1687, Lydia Barnes, daughter of
Thomas and Prudence Barnes, of Swansea,
Massachusetts, who died in 1722. Children:
Lydia, born April 30, 1688, in Swansea ; Phebe,
October 29, 1689; Sarah, August 26, 1693;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, Janu
ary 29, 1698; Anne, March 26, 1700; Mary,
February 25, 1702; Obadiah, February 14,
1710. (IV) Thomas (4), eldest son of Thomas
(3) and Lydia (Barnes) Olney, was born
January 18, 1696, in Providence, where he died
December 7, 1758. He inherited from his
grandfather the north part of Wenscot, and
presumably engaged in agriculture. He mar
ried, August 8, 1724, Sarah Smith, born May
24, 1694, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Gard
ner) Smith, and died December 7, 1758. Chil
dren : Joseph, mentioned below ; Thomas, born
July 29, 1726; Ezra, November 22, 1727; Isaac
and Ithamar.
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Thomas (4) and Sarah (Smith) Olney, was
born December 12, 1724, in Providence. He
died July 6, 1779. He bore the title of major,
and was present at the battle of Rhode Island.
He married Martha Hawkins, and their chil
dren were: Abigail, born in 1752; Stephen,
born October 12, 1755 ; Martha, born June 20,
1758; Hezekiah, born March, 1761 ; Eve, born
March 3, 1763; James, who died young.
(VI) Stephen, son of Captain Joseph Olney,
was born October 12, 1755, and undoubtedly
passed his life in the town of North Provi
dence, where he died November 23, 1832. He
was a farmer and landowner in North Provi
dence, where his great-granddaughter, Miss
Mary E. Olney, now resides, and was buried
in the family lot on the homestead. He was
a soldier of the revolution in the twentieth
year of his age, with the rank of lieutenant,
and was stationed at Roxbury when the British
left Boston. He marched with the army to
New York and participated in the battle of
Long Island and others in that vicinity, and
shared in the retreat through New Jersey. He
was promoted to captain, and gained honor as
a patriot and soldier. He married, March 30,
1777, in North Providence, Dorcas Smith,
born 1753, died on the farm in North Provi
dence, December 13, 1813, aged sixty years,
and was buried in the family cemetery.
(VII) Alfred, son of Stephen and Dorcas
(Smith) Olney, was born June 11, 1784, in
North Providence, and there made his home
on the homestead farm, and died April 26,
1835. His body now rests in the family ceme
tery on the homestead. He was a faithful
member of the Baptist church. He married,
December 9, 1813, Susan, daughter of Jona
than Angell, born November 14, 1791. Chil
dren recorded in North Providence : Vernon
Leonard, born March 30, 1816; Mary Joanna,
November 6, 1817; Almon Angell, August 28,
1819; Stephen Brayton, mentioned below;
David, May 17, 1827; Franklin, August 19,
1839; Dorcas Jane, November 3, 1832.
(VIII) Stephen Brayton, third son of Al
fred and Susan (Angell) Olney, was born Oc
tober 28, 1832, in North Providence, on the
homestead farm, which supplied his home dur
ing the greater part of his life. He was but
thirteen years of age when his father died, and
his educational opportunities were limited. He
spent three years with an uncle upon the lat-
ter's farm, and later took charge of the pa
ternal homestead, embracing a tract of ninety
acres, which he greatly improved. He en
gaged in general agriculture and dairy farm
ing and stock raising, with considerable suc
cess, continuing until his death, January 2,
1896, after which he was buried in the family

lot, where five generations of the family now
repose. His guide of life was the Golden Rule,
his habits were temperate, and politically he
was a Democrat of the old school. He mar
ried, November 18, 1851, Elizabeth Smith
Harris, born January 16, 1824, in Smithfield,
Rhode Island, daughter of Robert and Martha
(Smith) Harris, of that town (see Harris
VI), and died January 15, 1912. She was a
woman with many graces of character, devoted
to her home and family. Children: 1. Un
named son, born November 21, 1852. 2. Eliz
abeth Harris, August 12, 1855, died young.
3. Stephen Harris, October 10, 1857, died on
the home farm, February 19, 1901. He mar
ried, December 23, 1880, Margaret Crowell,
and left two sons : Stephen Crowell, born Sep
tember 22, 1881, residing in Denver, Colorado,
and Herbert Harris Olney, born March 18,
1898, also now living in Denver. 4. Martha
Smith, May 28, i860; is now deceased. 5.
Mary Elizabeth, mentioned below.
(IX) Mary Elizabeth, youngest child of
Stephen Brayton and Elizabeth Smith (Har
ris) Olney, was born January 21, 1864, on the
homestead in North Providence, where she
now resides. She attended the North Provi
dence district school, the Providence high
school, and the State Normal School of Provi
dence, after which she engaged in teaching,
continuing same seven years in her native
state, after which she remained at home, being
her father's companion during his last illness,
which covered a period of four years. Very
early in life Miss Olney became interested in
the cause of temperance, and has been many
years active in the work of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, serving in vari
ous state offices, and since March, 1898, has
been corresponding secretary of the state
organization, with headquarters at Providence.
She is a member of the Loyal Temperance
Legion. She is a member of the Roger Wil
liams Baptist Church, corner Veazie street and
Woodward road; served as superintendent of
the Sunday school for a period of ten years,
this being one of the largest Baptist Sunday
schools in the state, and is still active with
Sunday school work. She has instituted im
provements in the paternal homestead, to
which she is very much attached. Miss Olney
was for several years secretary of the Rhode
Island Baptist Sunday school convention. She
also served as a member of the North Provi
dence school committee for a period of six
years. (The Harris Line).
The Welsh custom of adding to a name the
father's name in possessive form to distinguish
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was the origin of this patronymic. In the short
four centuries that surnames have prevailed
among the common people in Great Britain,
time has sufficed to make many changes and
modifications in the form of all classes of
words, and names are no exception to the rule.
In the Welsh vernacular, William was
"David's," Harry was "John's" and David was
"William's," and thus we have Davy's (Davis),
John's (Jones), Williams and Harris (Harry's)
among the most common of the Welsh names.
The Harris family, of whom this article gives
some account, was among the earliest in New-
England, and has contributed much to the ad
vancement of this region and of the nation,
and is now found in connection with all worthy
endeavor. It has been especially active in the
fields of invention and pioneer development.
Almost every state has found the name among
those of its pioneer settlers, and it has spread
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
(I) Thomas Harris, born in Deal, Kent
county, England, died in Providence, Rhode
Island, June 7, 1686. He came to America
with his brother William in the ship "Lion,"
from Bristol, England, December 1, 1630. On
August 20, 1637, or a little later, he and twelve
others signed the following compact: "We,
whose names are hereunder, desirous to in
habit the town of Providence, do promise to
subject ourselves in active or passive obedience
to all such orders or agreements as shall be
made for public good of the body in an orderly
way by the major assent of the present in
habitants, members incorporated together into
a town of fellowship, and such others whom
they shall admit unto themselves, only in civil
things." On July 27, 1649, he and thirty-eight
others signed an agreement for a form of gov
ernment. On September 2, 1650, he was taxed
one pound. In 1652 to 1657 and 1661 to 1663
he was commissioner; in 1654, lieutenant;
1655, freeman ; 1656, juryman. Bishop's
"New England Judged," published in London,
in 1703, has the following with reference to
July, 1658:
After these came Thomas Harris from Rhode
Island into our colony, who Declaring against your
pride and oppression, as we would have liberty to
speak in your meeting place in Boston, after the
priest had ended. Warning the people of the
Dreadful, terrible day of the Lord God, which was
coming upon that Town and Country, him, much
unlike to Ninevah, you pulled down and hall'd him
by the Hair of his Head out of your meeting, and
a hand was put on his mouth to keep him from
speaking forth, and then had, before your Governor
and Deputy, with other Magistrates, and committed
to Prison without warrant or mittimus that he saw,
and shut up in the close room, none suffered to
come to him, nor to have provisions for his money;
and the next day whipped him with so cruel

stripes, without shewing any law that he had
broken, Tho' he desired it of the Jaylor, and then
shut up for Eleven Days more, Five of which he
was kept without bread (Your Jaylor not suffering
him to have any for his Money and threatened the
other Prisoners very much for bringing him a little
water on the day of his sore whipping) and all
this because he could not work for the Jaylor and
let him have Eight Pence in Twelve pence of what
he could earn; And starved he had been in all prob
ability, had not the Lord kept him these Five
Days and ordered it so after that time that food
was so conveyed him by night in at a Window, by
some tender People, who tho' they came not in the
Profession of Truth openly, by reason of your
Cruelty, yet felt it secretly moving in them and so
were made Serviceabale to keep the Servant of the
Lord from Perishing, who shall not go without a
reward. And tho' he was in this state of Weak
ness from want of Bread, and by torturing his body
with cruel whippings, as aforesaid, and tho' the
Day after he was whipped, the Jaylor had told him
that he had now suffered the Law, and that if he
would hire the Marshall to carry him out of the
Country he might be gone when he would; Yet the
next Sixth Day in the Morning before the Sixth
Hour, the Jaylor again required him to Work,
which he refusing, gave his weak and fainting body
Two and Twenty Blows with a pitched rope; and
the nineteenth of the Fifth Month following, Fif
teen cruel stripes more with a three-fold-corded
whip knotted as aforesaid. Now upon his Appre
hension, your Governor sought to know of him
who came with him (as was their usual manner)
that so ye might find out the rest of the company,
on whom ye might Execute your Cruelty, and
Wickedness, and your governor said he would
make him do it; but his cruelties could not. Never
theless they soon were found out (who hid not
themselves but were bold in the Lord) viz.: Wil
liam Brend and William Ledd, etc.
In 1664-66-67, 1670-72-73, he was deputy to
the general court; in 1664-65-66-69 member of
town council, and February 19, 1665, drew
Lot 7, in division of town lands. In May,
1667, he as surveyor laid out the lands. Au
gust 14, 1676, he was on a committee which
recommended certain conditions under which
the Indian captives, who were to be in servi
tude for a term of years, should be disposed
of by the town. April 27, 1683, he made the
statement that about 1661, being then a sur
veyor, he laid out a three acre lot for his son
Thomas, at Pauquchance Hill, and a twenty-
five acre lot on the south side, etc. June 3,
1686, he made his will, which was proved July
22, 1686, his son Thomas- being appointed
executor, and his sons-in-law, Thomas Field
and Samuel Whipple, overseers. Thomas
Harris married Elizabeth —  , who died in
Providence, Rhode Island ; children : Thomas,
William, Mary and Martha.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Elizabeth Harris, died February 27, 171 1, al
ways lived in Providence. February 19, 1665,
he had Lot 49 in a division of lands. In 1671-
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and 1710, he was deputy to the general court;
and in 1684-85-86 member of town council.
July 1, 1679, he was taxed £8 9d., and Septem
ber 1, 1687, 14s 9d. June 21, 1708, he made
his will, which was proved April 16, 171 1, the
executors being his wife Elantha and his son
Henry. He married, November 3, 1664,
Elantha Tew, born October 15, 1644, died Jan
uary 11, 1718, daughter of Richmond and
Mary (Clarke) Tew, of Newport, Rhode
Island; children: Thomas, Richard, Nicholas,
William, Henry, Amity, Elantha, Jacob and
Mary. (Ill) Richard, second son and child of
Thomas (2) and Elantha (Tew) Harris, was
born October 14, 1668, in Providence, and re
sided in Providence and Smithfield. He deed
ed to his son Richard in 1725 one hundred
acres of land in the latter town, and died there
in 1750. He married (first) a daughter of
Clement and Elizabeth King, and his second
wife, Susanna, born in 1665, was widow of
Samuel Gordon and daughter of William and
Hannah (Wicks) Burton. She died in 1737.
Children, all born of first marriage, were:
Uriah, Richard, Amaziah, Jonathan, David,
Preserved, Amity, Dinah and Elantha.
(IV) Jonathan, third son of Richard Har
ris, was born June 12, 17 10, in Smithfield,
where he died September 24, 1785. These
dates are found in the records of the Quaker
church, and lead to the assumption that his
wife was a Quakeress. No record can be
found of his marriage in either town or church
records. He resided in Providence.
(V) Robert, son of Jonathan Harris, re
sided in the eastern part of the town of Smith-
field, where he died and was buried in the
family lot. He served the town in various
official capacities. He married Phebe Jenks,
who survived him, and died in 1833. Her
body now rests beside that of her husband.
Children: Amy, married Thomas Angell, a
farmer of Smithfield; William, a farmer of
the same town; Sarah, wife of Stephen Steere,
a farmer near Stillwater; Phebe, married
Caleb Farnum, a farmer at Georgiaville; Jenks,
a farmer, blacksmith and wheelwright, who
lived in Smithfield; Robert, mentioned below;
Thomas, a skilled mechanic, lived at Georgia
ville ; Ethan, a farmer at Smithfield.
(VI) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) and
Phebe (Jenks) Harris, was born March, 21,
1797, in Smithfield, and was reared upon the
paternal farm in the usual manner of country
boys in his day. In early manhood he fol
lowed the trade of cooper, and purchased a
farm near his father's, on which he settled
after his marriage. There he continued until
1858, when he sold and removed to another

farm in the same town, where he died, Octo
ber 25, 1888. His body was laid to rest in a
private yard on the latter farm. An indus
trious man, he prospered as a farmer, and
provided well for his family. Before the divi
sion of the town, he served several years as a
member of the town council, and was also rep
resentative in the general assembly and state
senate. Politically he affiliated with the Demo
cratic party. He married, September 14, 1820,
Martha Smith, born May 15, 1796, in Smith-
field, daughter of Junia and Martha Smith.
She died June 15, 1880, mother of the follow
ing children: 1. Raymond Perry, born June
28, 1822 ; went to California in 1850, remain
ing there twenty years, and died in Smithfield,
February 27, 1875, unmarried. 2. Elizabeth
Smith, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin Frank
lin, born January 27, 1829, married Abby
Hawkins Newell, January 5, 1854. 4. Elisha
Smith, July 13, 1833; is a farmer, residing
near Stillwater. He married, December 27,
1859, Martha Phetteplace.
(VII) Elizabeth Smith, only daughter of
Robert (2) and Martha (Smith) Harris, was
born January 16, 1824, in Smithfield, and was
married, November 18, 1851, to Stephen B.
Olney, of North Providence (see Olney VIII).
(Ill) John Blanchard, son
BLANCHARD of Samuel Blanchard (q.
v.), was born in Andover,
Massachusetts, July 3, 1677, died April 10,
1750. He resided in Andover, probably near
the Noyes place. He married, August 7, 1701,
Mary Crosby, daughter of Simon Crosby. She
died in 1748. Children: Mary, bora August
18, 1702; Hannah, October 24, 1704; Rachel,
February 2, 1706-07; Abigail, January 23,
1708-09; Sarah, June 5, 171 1, died young;
Sarah, May 23, 1712, died young; John, March
15, 171 3-14, died young; John, February 15,
1714-15; Samuel, August 17, 1717; David,
mentioned below; Benjamin, July 5, 1722;
Simon, March 16, 1725-26.
(IV) David Blanchard, son of John Blanch
ard, was born at Andover, Massachusetts,
March 20, 1719-20, died at Woburn, June 21,
1793, aged seventy-four years. His wife Abi
gail died at Woburn, December 23, 1792, aged
sixty-six. He settled as early as 1752 in Wo
burn and was deacon of the church there. He
was a soldier in the Woburn company on the
Lexington alarm and was in Captain Joshua
Walker's company, Colonel David Green's
regiment, in 1775. He was also in Captain
Samuel Ward's company, Colonel Solomon
Lovell's regiment, in 1776. Children, born at
Woburn : David, mentioned below ; Abigail,
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Benjamin, March 17, 1757; Josiah, February
11, 1759; Hannah, March 18, 1764; Jesse,
April 10, 1769.
(V) David (2) Blanchard, son of David (1)
Blanchard, was born at Woburn, Massachu
setts, March 31, 1752. He was a soldier in
the revolution in the same company with his
father in 1775 and 1776. He was also deacon
of the Woburn church. In 1790 the census
shows that he and his father were the only
David Blanchards among the heads of families
in Massachusetts. His father had three males
over sixteen and two females in his family,
while he had three males under sixteen and
three females. He married (first) Sarah
— ¦  , who died at Woburn, April 14, 1783. He
married (second) February 7, 1786, Eliot
Bridges, of Lexington. Children by first wife :
William Grimes, born March 2, 1778; David,
mentioned below. Children by second wife:
Eliot, born December 11, 1786; Joseph Bridges,
November 9, 1788; Isaac, February 22, 1791,
died young; Elias, March 2, 1793, died young;
Sarah, February 1, 1796; Elias, May 7, 1798.
(VI) David (3) Blanchard, son of David
(2) Blanchard, was born at Woburn, Massa
chusetts, April 4, 1779. He lived in Essex
county, Massachusetts, and in Maine. He had
a son David.
(VII) David (4) Blanchard, son of David
(3) Blanchard, was born about 1800, in Massa
chusetts. He was a farmer in Charlotte,
Maine. He had a son David, mentioned be
low. (VIII) David (5) Blanchard, son- of David
(4) Blanchard, was born in Charlotte, Maine,
June 19, 1822, died at Presque Isle, October
15, 1898. He followed farming in Charlotte
until 1870, when he moved to Presque Isle,
where he engaged in the manufacture of brick.
In politics he was a Republican. He was town
clerk and member of the school board. During
the civil war he was recruiting officer at Char
lotte. He was a member of the Calvinistic
Baptist church. He married, May 22, 1845,
in Eastport, Maine, Mary Louisa Babcock.
She is living in Presque Isle. Enoch Babcock,
her father, was born at Eastport in 1800, died
at Pembroke in 1865. He was a brick mason
in Eastport and Pembroke. He was originally
a Democrat, later a Republican. He was a
member of the Calvinistic Baptist church of
Eastport. He married Mary Batson, born
1802 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, died
at Pembroke, 1877. Children of Enoch Bab
cock: 1. William, born 1823, died in New
Hampshire; was an iron worker; married Abi
gail Clark, of Eastport. 2. Mary Louisa, mar
ried David Blanchard, mentioned above. 3.
John Babcock, born 1828, died in New York

City; was an iron worker; married Georgi-
anna Reynolds, of Pembroke. 4. Enoch
Henry, born 1829; resides at Belfast, a retired
nursery agent; married Martha Carter, of
Pembroke. 5. Abbie A., born 1830, died in
Arizona; married  Hilliard, of Pem
broke. 6. Joshua Babcock, born 1832, died at
Pembroke ; was an iron worker ; married Mar
tha Leighton. 7. Lincoln Babcock, born 1833;
married Lizzie Gardner, of Pembroke. 8.
Charles Babcock, born 1835 ; enlisted in 1861
in the Sixth Maine Regiment and died of
fever a year later. 9. Cecilia Babcock, born
April 11, 1837, died at Presque Isle, October,
1909; married Charles Leighton, an iron
worker. Enoch Babcock, father of Enoch
Babcock, was born in Maine and died in Char
lotte, Maine, 1828. He was a farmer in Char
lotte for many years. He married Annie Ben
nett, born 1773 at Eastport, died at Perry,
Maine, 1863. Children of David Blanchard:
1. William, born March 16, 1846; enlisted in
1 86 1 in the Sixth Maine Regiment and died a
year later of fever. 2. Sarah Elizabeth, born
July 1, 1848, died at Presque Isle, 1870, of
typhoid. 3. Henry Gilbert, January 11, 1850,
killed by a falling tree at Dennysville, Maine,
March 2, 1869; he was a lumberman. 4. James
Bennett, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin Bat-
son, born May 11, 1853; married Josephine
Gordon, of East Livermore; he died at
Presque Isle, January, 1897; he was a trav
eling salesman; she is living at Livermore
Falls. 6. Loren, born April 3, 1855 ; real
estate dealer in Somerville, Massachusetts ;
married Eva Howe, of Ashland. 7. Charles
Shackford, born November 27, 1856; died
1870. 8. Mary Sophia, born March 5, 1859,
died 1872. 9. Effie Louisa, born November
4, 1862; milliner at Presque Isle; married
J. Frank Holmes. 10. Steadman, born June
10, 1865, died aged twenty-one. 11. Alvah
Elbridge, born July 24, 1866; a carpenter of
Presque Isle ; married Vera Johnson.
(IX) James Bennett Blanchard, son of
David (5) Blanchard, was born at Charlotte,
Maine, October 7, 185 1. He attended the
public schools there until he was fifteen years
old. He then learned the business of brick
manufacture in his father's kilns and con
tinued in his employ until 1874. He then
bought a farm in Fort Fairfield and conducted
it until 191 1, when he sold it for $10,000 and
bought his present place in Presque Isle. He
has one hundred and four acres, all of which
except twenty acres is under cultivation. In
politics he is a Progressive, formerly a Re
publican. He is a member of Trinity Lodge,
No. 130, Free and Accepted Masons. He mar
ried, January 18, 1879, at Easton, Maine, Mary

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Ophelia Barker, born in 185 1. She was edu
cated in the schools of Presque Isle. She is
a member of the Free Will Baptist church, of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and the Relief Corps and was formerly a
member of Aroostook Union Grange. She
taught school eight terms in Presque Isle
and Mars Hill before her marriage. Children
of James Bennett Blanchard: 1. William
Henry, born December 7, 1879 ; a farmer of
Litchfield; married Mrs. Laura (Hall)
Tucker, widow of Fred Tucker, of Litch
field; child, Robert Gerald. 2. Frank Elden,
born August 7, 1881 ; graduate of the Bliss
Business College, Lewiston ; married Jennie
Daly, of Caribou. 3. Bessie May, born Octo
ber 7, 1883 ; graduate of the Fort Fairfield
High School, 1906,^ and the Aroostook State
Normal School, 1908 ; teacher four terms in
Chapman and Presque Isle; married Raphael
Bennett, of Easton, who is in partnership with
her father, owning a saw mill. 4. Sidney Bow
man, born March 15, 1886; farmer at Charles
ton, Maine ; married Beatrice McNealy, of
Hartland, New Brunswick. 5. Charles Sum
ner, born July 21, 1887; graduate of the Fort
Fairfield High School ; a trainer of horses.
6. Lucy Ellen, born January 28, 1889, died in
infancy. Samuel W. Barker, father of Mrs. Blanch
ard, was born at Lovell, Maine, May 25, 1832,
died at Easton in January, 1877. He was a
farmer in Lovell, Waterford and Easton. In
politics he was a Republican. He served as
road commissioner of the town. He was a
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. In
1864 he enlisted in the Seventh Maine Battery
and served to the end of the civil war. As a
result of his service he had rheumatic fever,
was ruptured and died a few years after
the war. He married Martha Merrill, born at
Lovell, December 2, 1824, died at Easton in
March, 1898. Children of Samuel W. Barker :
1. Elden G., born at Lovell, 1854; market gar
dener, deacon of the Free Will Baptist church,
has been selectman of the town ; married Ada
Moores, of Presque Isle. 2. Nellie A., born
1856, died at Lewiston, 1871. 3. Annie, born
1858, died aged fifteen years. 4. Eben W.,
born at Easton, February 29, i860; ranch
man at Grand Junction, Colorado; married
Amy  -. 5. Josiah M., born June, 1861,
at Easton ; ranchman at Grand Junction ; mar
ried Addie Bridges, of Mars Hill. 6. Albert,
born March 15, 1863; farmer of Fort Fair
field; married Nellie Curtis, of New Bruns
wick, who died in 1913.
Samuel Barker, father of Samuel W.
Barker, was a native of Maine, descendant of
an old New England family, died at Lovell,
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Maine, 1852. He was a farmer of Lovell,
and member of the Methodist church there.
Pie married Naomi Merrill, who married
(first)  Mansfield, (second) 
Merrill, (third) Samuel Barker, (fourth)
 Marr. By Mr. Merrill she had chil
dren : Josiah Merrill, a carpenter of Bidde
ford, Alford Merrill, Martha Merrill, who
married Samuel W. Barker, mentioned above.
Children of Samuel Barker : Son, died in
Lovell, a carpenter; Samuel W., mentioned
above ; Ruth Barker, married  Marr,
a hotel proprietor, who married (second)
Naomi Merrill, mentioned above.

The family of Gilpatric or
GILPATRIC Kilpatric was very early
located in southwestern
Maine, where descendants now use both forms
of the name. The earliest data obtainable of
the family herein mentioned comes from Day
ton, a remote inland district of York county,
whose records are very meagre.
(I) Caleb Gilpatric was born about 1830,
in Dayton, Maine, and became a tailor, follow
ing that occupation in Saco and Lewiston,
Maine. Thence he removed to Massachusetts,
residing successively in Hyde Park and South
Dedham, removing to Putnam, Connecticut, in
1886. There he resided until the time of his
death. He was possessed of considerable
mechanical ingenuity, and brought out several
devices, on which he received patents. While
continuing at his trade, he sold the rights to
use his patents. He was a member of the
Methodist church, and in politics a Republi
can. He married Elmira Sands, of Saco,
Maine, daughter of Isaac and Dorcas (Chad
bourne) Sands. Children : Addie, wife of
William PI. Heustis ; George Walter, men
tioned below ; Fred Sands, died in October,
ioi'3. (II) George Walter Gilpatric, second child
of Caleb and Elmira (Sands) Gilpatric, was
born November 4, 1855, in Saco, Maine, and
received his education in the schools of that
town, and Hyde Park. Massachusetts. He was
early trained to assist his father, and became
quite useful in the business before leaving
Hyde Park. In 1876 he entered the service of
the Adams Express Company, at Warren,
Rhode Island, and for thirty-four years con
tinued in that employment, ending in 1910.
After several years in Warren, he was located
a short time in Boston, and afterward opened
an office for the company in Hyde Park,
whence he removed to Putnam, Connecticut,
in 1884. There he continued for twenty-six
years in charge of the Adams Express Com
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1910 to engage in business on his own account.
In association with H. S. Whipple, under the
firm name of Whipple & Gilpatric, he began
dealing in ice, coal, wood and lumber. The
firm now operates portable steam saw mills
and does an extensive lumbering business, as
well as a large trade in coal. Mr. Gilpatric is
a member of the Congregational church, being
on the church committee, and is also a member
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen;
Royal Arcanum; Quinebaug Lodge, No. 106,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Putnam;
Israel Putnam Lodge, No. 33, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Putnam, and of
Mizpah Rebekah Lodge of that town. He mar
ried, June, 1875, Jessie Isidor Hodges, born
1856, in Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter
of Addison S. and Esther (Gazner) Hodges.
Children: 1. Walter Hodges, an attorney,
practicing in New York City; he married
Charlotte Leavitt, of Somerville, Massachu
setts, and has two children, Roswell and
Donald. 2. George Harold, mentioned below.
3. Fred Raymond, born April 1, 1886.
(Ill) George Harold Gilpatric, second son
of George Walter and Jessie I. (Hodges)
Gilpatric, was bora July 8, 1881, in Warren,
Rhode Island, and was three years of age
when his parents removed to Putnam, Con
necticut. He graduated from the Putnam
High School and in June, 1899, entered the
First National Bank of Putnam as draft
clerk. His ability and faithfulness gained for
him rapid promotion, and he was successively
teller and assistant cashier, and January 15,
1908, was made cashier of the bank, since
which time he has filled that position to the
satisfaction of the bank and its patrons. He is
a director of the bank and of the Putnam
Woolen Company, and director and treasurer
of the Putnam Foundry & Machine Company.
He is also a director of the Waterman Worsted
Company of Putnam; president of the Paris
Water Company of Paris, Kentucky ; secre
tary of the Water Company at Adrian, Mich
igan ; a director of the Jefferson Trust Com
pany of Putnam. Mr. Gilpatric has also taken
an active interest in the affairs of the com
munity where he lives, and is now secretary of
the board of water commissioners of Putnam.
He is a steadfast supporter of Republican
principles and policies, and served as a mem
ber of the state central committee and for
six years a member of its district committee.
He is a past master of Quinebaug Lodge, No.
106, Free and Accepted Masons, of Putnam;
of Putnam Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of
Montgomery Council, Royal and Select Mas
ters, of Danielson; of Columbian Command
ery, Knights Templar, of Norwich, and

Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. He is also
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Royal Arcanum, and is a
member of the church committee of the Con
gregational church of Putnam. He married,
October 19, 1905, Irene Taft Wheelock, born
April 7, 1881, in Putnam, daughter of Eugene
A. and Sarah Smith (Taft) Wheelock, of that
city (see Wheelock VIII). Children: Rhoda
Taft, born July 31, 1906; George Harold, May
16, 1909; Richard Wheelock, March 8, 1912.
(The Wheelock Line).
(I) Rev. Ralph Wheelock was born in
Shropshire, England, in 1600. He was edu
cated at Clare Hall, Cambridge University,
England, where he received his B. A. in 1626
and his M. A. in 163 1. He became an eminent
preacher in England, but because of his non
conformist views he was prosecuted, and
finally in 1637 sought refuge with his Puritan
fellows in New England. He was at Water-
town for a short time, but located permanently
at Dedham, Massachusetts. He brought with
him from England his wife Rebecca and his
daughter Rebecca. In his biography by his
great-grandson, Rev. Ebenezer Wheelock,
who founded Dartmouth College, we are told
that the ship was driven back once by storms
and that the voyage was long and distressing.
He was one of the founders of the town and
church of Dedham — learned, devout, unselfish,
practical and indefatigable. In 1638 he made
his home in that part of Dedham which was
set off as Medfield. He was admitted a free
man, March 13, 1638-39; was selectman,
schoolmaster, deputy to the general court, com
missioner to end small causes, appointed mag
istrate to perform marriages while at Dedham,
and was equally prominent in the new town of
Medfield. He built his house at Medfield in
1651-52. He was made clerk of writs in 1642,
was selectman of Medfield, 1651-55; school
teacher and justice of the peace. He made his
will May 3, 1681 ; the inventory was dated
January 31, 1683, and the will proved May 1,
1684. He bequeathed to his eldest son Ger-
shom, and other sons — Benjamin, Eleazer and
Samuel ; sons-in-law Increase Ward and Jo
seph Warren; grandchild Rebecca Craft;
refers in his will to his deceased wife, and ap
points George Barbour one of the. overseers of
his will. His wife died in 1680. Two of his
sons, Benjamin and Eleazer, settled in Men
don, Massachusetts. Rev. Mr. Wheelock de
clined to take charge of any particular parish,
but preached occasionally in Medfield and
adjacent parishes. His last years were .spent
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of New Haven, wrote in 1899: "It is highly
probable that he was a descendant of Hugh
de Wheelock, who in the reign of Plenry II,
received from Roger Maine Warring a title to
all the latter's claims to the village of Whee
lock, Cheshire, England, which he had previ
ously held. It is also probable that he was a
relative of Abraham Wheelock, a native of
Shropshire, who took the degree of Master of
Arts at Cambridge University in 1618, and was
admitted to Clare Hall as a fellow about the
same time as Ralph Wheelock, entered the
same college and who later became the first
professor of Arabic and Saxon tongues in the
University and became librarian." Children
of Rev. Ralph Wheelock : Rebecca, born in
England about 1632 ; Peregrina, about 1636,
on the voyage; Gershom, 1637; Mary, 1638;
Benjamin, mentioned below; Samuel, Septem
ber 22, 1642; Record, December 15, 1643;
Eleazer, father of Ralph, who settled at Wind
ham, Connecticut, and whose son, Rev. Dr.
Eleazer Wheelock, was the founder and first
president of Dartmouth College ; Experience,
1648. (II) Benjamin Wheelock, second son of
Rev. Ralph and Rebecca Wheelock, was born
January 8, 1640, in Medfield, and settled on
the Rehoboth road in Mendon; in what is now
Milford, where he became a large land holder.
About 1706 he purchased a corn mill on the
southwest border of Milford, in which his
sons became joint owners later, and which
they sold in 1719. He married. May 21, 1668,
in Medfield, Elizabeth Bullin, who died Octo
ber 22, 1689, in Mendon. Children recorded
in Medfield: Elizabeth, born January 25,
1672; Marie, June 11, 1674; Abial, September
30, 1676; Benjamin, mentioned below; Oba
diah, April 21, 1685; Elizabeth, January 2,
1689. (Ill) Benjamin (2) Wheelock, eldest son
of Benjamin (1) and Elizabeth (Bullin)
Wheelock, was born December 12, 1678, in
Medfield, and died in Mendon, Massachusetts.
He married, December 9, 1700, in Mendon,
Huldah Thayer, born May 11, 1682, died 1739,
daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (French)
Thayer, of Mendon. Children: Mary, born
January 21, 1702; Benjamin, May 10, 1704;
Daniel, December 20, 1707; Huldah, August
17, 1710; Jonathan, July 21, 1713 ; Paul, Janu
ary 13, 1716; Silas, mentioned below; David,
January 18, 1720; Peter, July 23, 1724.
(IV) Silas Wheelock, fifth son of Benja
min (2) and Huldah (Thayer) Wheelock, was
born March 11, 1717, in Mendon, and passed
his life in that town, where he died. He mar
ried, in Mendon, May 20, 1740, Hannah Albee,
born there October 11, 1718, daughter of John

and Deborah (Thayer) Albee. Children:
Seth, born March 21, 1743; Simeon, men
tioned below; Caleb, May 7, 1745; Eleazer,
June 27, 1747; Plannah, November 20, 1749;
Perle, June 8, 1752; Calvin, May 5, 1754;
Luther, March 9, 1756; Eunice, May 8, 1758.
(V) Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock, second
son of Silas and Hannah (Albee) Wheelock,
was born March 18, 1744, in Mendon, and set
tled in U> bridge, in 1762, in the early settle
ment of that town. He became prominent in
military affairs, and in the Crown Point expe
dition of 1760 acted as adjutant of a Rhode
Island regiment under Colonel Christopher
Harris and General Amherst. He was ap
pointed a member of the Uxbridge Revolu
tionary committee, July 6, 1744, and when the
Revolutionary war began enlisted as lieutenant
of a company of minute-men under Captain
Joseph Chapin. They marched from Ux
bridge on the Lexington Alarm, April 19,
1775, and afterward took part in many engage
ments. After the Revolution, in the time of
Shay's Rebellion, he met his death from an
injury received by a fall on the ice while
descending Arsenal Hill at Springfield. He
married, November 28, 1763, in Mendon, De
borah Thayer, of that town. Children:
Eunice, born February 13, 1765; Royal, July
16, 1766; Silas, March 26, 1769; Hannah,
October 16, 1771 ; Rachel, June 10, 1774;
Polly, March 11, 1779; Nancy, November
19, 1781 ; Jerry, mentioned below.
(VI) Jerry Wheelock, youngest child of
Lieutenant Simeon and Deborah (Thayer)
Wheelock, was bora September 19, 1784, in
Uxbridge, and in early life became accustomed
to working in machinery, following the trade
then called a "set" workman. He was one of
the first to manufacture and operate woolen
mill machinery in Uxbridge, and became a
member of the first woolen company there, in
association with his father-in-law, Daniel Day,
in 1810. After some years he withdrew from
this company and went to Holden, Massachu
setts, where he engaged in the manufacture of
woolen mill machinery, continuing many years
with Artemus Dryden, Jr. During this time
he set up machinery in new mills in various
places in New England, and was in Falmouth
during its bombardment by the British war
ship "Nimrod" in 1814. In that year he pur
chased an interest in the Rivulent Manufactur
ing Company of Uxbridge, and continued four
years as a member of that concern. For_ the
succeeding sixteen years his time was given
exclusively to the manufacture and repair of
woolen mill machinery. This business grew
under his management, and in 1834 his sons
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prosperous industry until his retirement in
1846, and died in Uxbridge, October 10, 1861.
He married, January 24, 181 1, Suky Day,
daughter of Daniel and Sylvia (Wheelock)
Day, of Uxbridge. Children: Charles A.,
born February 27, 1812; Sylvia A., February
3, 1815; Silas M., mentioned below; Maria I.,
July 7, 1821, died young; Maria, March 8,
1824; Abbie E. R., September 22, 1832.
(VII) Silas Mandeville Wheelock, second
son of Jerry and Suky (Day) Wheelock, was
born November 11, 1817, in Uxbridge, and
was among the most active and successful in
upbuilding the manufacturing industries of
his section. His educational privileges were
somewhat limited, consisting of five months a
year at the district schools, and three or four
terms in a select school. Under the tutorship
of such able instructors as E. Porter Dyer,
afterwards Congregational pastor at Shrews
bury, Massachusetts, and C. C. Jewett, subse
quently librarian of the Smithsonian Institute
and the Boston Public Library, he laid the
foundation for a successful business career.
Before completing his tenth year, he began
work in a woolen mill "piecing rolls for the
billy," receiving a compensation of fourteen
cents a day and board. Thenceforward nearly
all of his active life was connected with the
manufacture of woolen goods. He was suc
cessively operator, foreman and superintend
ent, and in time became manager and financier
of private companies and corporations, having
at one time the management of the woolen de
partment in commission houses in Boston and
New York. In 1846, in association with his
brother, he formed the firm of C. A. & S. M.
Wheelock, which manufactured satinets, plaid
linseys and tweeds. In 1855 the factory was
enlarged, steam power installed, and the pro
duction of fancy cassimeres was begun, super
seding the articles previously mentioned. In
1870 Mr. Wheelock organized the Putnam
Woolen Company, and purchased the property
of the Harris Company in Putnam, Con
necticut, consisting of a factory, one-fourth
of the power supplied by the Quinebaug river
at that point, together with dwelling houses
and other property. Of this firm Silas M.
Wheelock became treasurer and manager, con
tinuing until 1887, when he resigned the treas-
urership on account of other business cares.
In 1883 he assisted in the organization and
became treasurer and manager of the Calumet
Woolen Company of Uxbridge, which pur
chased the new village mill property, embrac
ing the entire control of the Blackstone river
at that point. After making repairs and many
changes and additions, this mill was used to
manufacture fancy cassimeres. In 1886 the

capital stock was enlarged, and the Uxbridge
Woolen Factory, afterwards known as the
Hecla Mill, was purchased and placed in oper
ation, in connection with the other Uxbridge
mills. For more than sixty years Mr. Whee
lock was connected with woolen mill compa
nies and always proved a wise manager.
Though conservative, he never lacked courage
in undertaking new enterprises or meeting
emergencies, and continually enjoyed the good
will and respect of his employees. Every obli
gation was strictly fulfilled, and while friendly
to his men he maintained a high degree of dis
cipline in his factories. He was for many
years interested in the Uxbridge Savings Bank,
and was a director of the Blackstone National
Bank of Uxbridge from 1858 to his death.
His golden wedding was celebrated May 5,
1891, and he died at his home in Wheelock -
ville, October 15, 1901, in his eighty- fourth
year. His remains repose in Prospect Hill
Cemetery. While he did not take a very active
part in politics, he served many years with
fidelity on the board of selectmen, and acted
on several town committees. In 1887 he was
elected state senator by a very handsome
majority, and served two terms with ability
and distinction. At the Republican national
convention held at Philadelphia in 1900, he
was a delegate.
He married, May 5, 1841, in Uxbridge,
Irene Taft, born there September 19, 1816,
died there January 26, 1900, daughter of Luke
Taft, and a descendant in the sixth- generation
from Robert Taft, the pioneer of the family
in America. He came from England about
1678, and after remaining nine years in Brain
tree, Massachusetts, settled in Mendon, be
coming especially prominent in that town. His
residence stood near what is now Mendon
Pond, then called Taft's Pond. A carpenter
by trade, a plain unlettered man, he was gifted
by nature with unusual faculties, and was very
prosperous. By his wife Sarah he had five
sons, to each of whom he gave a farm on
attaining majority. His son Joseph received
a farm from his father in Uxbridge, which is
still owned by one of his descendants. He
figured prominently in the management of
town affairs of both Mendon and Uxbridge.
His sons Moses was the father of James Taft,
above mentioned- as the father of Mrs. Silas
M. Wheelock. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Wheelock: Ellen Maria, born September 2,
1842; Eugene Augustus, mentioned below;
Alice Augusta, January 22, 1849; Arthur,.
March 26, 1851 ; Henry, January 14, 1857.
(VIII) Eugene Augustus Wheelock, eldest
son of Silas Mandeville and Irene (Taft)
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Uxbridge, and received a fair education in the
common and high schools of that town and
Williston Academy at Easthampton, Massa
chusetts. From the time he was ten years old,
his vacations were devoted to work in his
father's mills, and at the age of seventeen
he left school to begin what proved a most
successful business career. He became a
steady hand in the Uxbridge factory, where he
continued until 1857, or the attainment of his
majority. He was then placed in charge of
the S. M. Wheelock & Company mill at Wil-
sonville, Connecticut, which employed about
one hundred people. After three years in that
position, he was sent to Putnam in 1870 as
superintendent and agent of the Putnam
Woolen Company's No. 1 mill. Ten years
later the Putnam Woolen Company .purchased
the mill owned by C. F. Mason & Company
in Putnam, and Mr. Wheelock became man
ager of both. When his father resigned the
treasurership of this company in 1886, the son
was elected to fill the vacancy, and thereafter
acted as both manager and treasurer, until his
retirement. The mills under his charge oper
ated nineteen sets of machinery, and employed
about three hundred and fifty people in the
manufacture of cassimeres, overcoatings and
suitings. The water power which it owned is
considered the best on the Quinebaug. While
essentially a business man, Mr. Wheelock was
public-spirited, and for several years acted as
a member of the Republican town committee.
In 1888-89 he was a member of the state
central committee from the sixteenth district.
He was long in service in educational affairs ;
was a member of the first high school board of
Putnam, ' and one of the committee which
erected the high school building in 1874. He
continued on the board over twelve years, and
was a trustee of the Putnam Town Library. On
attaining his majority, he joined Uxbridge
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and was subsequently affiliated with Quine
baug Lodge, No. 106, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Putnam, of which he was worship
ful master four years. He also affiliated with
Putnam Chapter, No. 41, Royal Arch Masons ;
Columbian Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Norwich, Connecticut, and Aleppo Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Boston. During the existence of a
Knights of Pythias lodge in Putnam, Mr.
Wheelock was a member of that lodge.
He married, June 17, 1868, Sarah Smith
Taft, daughter of Zodok Arnold and Mary
Mowry (Brown) Taft, of Uxbridge. She
died December 20, 1901, in Putnam. Her
descent from Robert Taft is traced above
down to Joseph, whose son Zodok was the

father of Zodok A. Children: 1. Silas Mande
ville, born March 10, 1871 ; graduated from
the Putnam High School, attended Cushing
Academy, at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, for
some time, and then, with the intention of be
coming a manufacturer, entered the employ of
the Putnam Woolen Company, and after
acquiring sufficient knowledge of the business,
October 1, 1901, was made superintendent of
the company's mills, and in 1912 was made
agent and treasurer; on October 18, 1899, he
married Ruth E. Shaw, daughter of George
E. and Ellen S. Shaw, of Putnam; Mr. and
Mrs. Wheelock have two children: Sylvia,
born in Putnam, November 26, 1900,' and
Elizabeth, born in 1902. 2. Ellen Maria, born
March 20, 1873; was graduated from the Put
nam High School in 1890, and afterward
attended the Bishop Hopkins Seminary, at
Burlington, Vermont, and the Burnham School
at Northampton, Massachusetts ; she is a char
ter member of Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chap
ter. Daughters of American Revolution, and
has served as corresponding secretary for sev
eral years. 3. Mary Taft, bora August 8,
1875; attended the Putnam High School; she
is a charter member of the Daughters of
American Revolution and was their librarian.
4. Irene Taft, mentioned below. 5. Henry
Arnold, born August 27, 1883 ; was graduated
from the Putnam High School in 1900 and
spent two years in Phillips Academy, at Exe
ter, New Hampshire ; in 1902 he entered the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College,
graduated therefrom, now connected with
brother. (IX) Irene Taft Wheelock, fourth child of
Eugene Augustus and Sarah S. (Taft) Whee
lock, was born April 7, 1881, and graduated
from the Putnam High School in 1899. Sub
sequently she spent two years at Smith Col
lege, Northampton, Massachusetts. She mar
ried, October 19, 1905, George Harold Gilpat
ric, of Putnam (see Gilpatric III).

The surname Pease has been com-
PEASE mon in England for many years.
A John Pease, LL. D., is men
tioned in a work published in England in the
year 1472. The English family is said to have
originated, however, in Germany and their
emigration to England is placed at a much
later date than that of the Saxon Conquest,
to be exact, in 1400. The surname is found in
Germany at the present time and is spelled
Pies, Pees and Piez. An ancient coat-of-arms
borne by the German family, granted during
the reign of Otho II., Emperor of Germany
in 970, is described : Per Fesse argent and
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Crest : An Eagle's head erased, the beak hold
ing a stalk of Pea-halum, all proper.
(I) Robert Pease, the immigrant ancestor
of this branch of the family, is believed to be
the son of Robert and Margaret Pease of
Great Baddow, county Essex, England. He
came to New England in the ship "Francis,"
sailing from Ipswich, England, the last of
April, 1634, and landed in Boston, Massachu
setts. He was accompanied by his brother
John and his eldest son Robert. His wife
Marie and other children came in a later ship.
He settled in Salem, where in January, 1637,
both he and his brother John had grants of
land. Margaret Pease, widow, who died in
Salem and whose will was dated September 1,
1642, and proved January 1, 1645, was the
mother of Robert. In her will she mentions a
grandchild John, son of Robert. Robert was
admitted to the Salem Church, October 1,
1643, and two weeks later three of his children
were baptized there. The inventory of his
estate was filed August 2y, 1644. Children:
Robert, born about 1622; John, mentioned be
low ; Sarah, married, October 22, 1667, John
Sampson, of Beverly ; Mary ; probably Isaac.
(II) John Pease, son of Robert Pease, was
born in England, about 1630, and came to this
country when a boy. He received by will from
his grandmother, Margaret Pease, the greater
part of her estate and she placed him in the
care of Thomas Watson, of Salem, to "dis
pose of as his own child." He settled in that
part of Salem called Northfield, where he
owned a farm. He was admitted a freeman
of the colony, April 29, 1668, and had pre
viously joined the church of Salem, July 4,
1667. He and his wife were dismissed from
the Salem church to the church at Springfield,
Massachusetts, and soon afterward he removed
to that part of Springfield which is now
Enfield, Connecticut. In 1682 he returned to
Salem to testify in a lawsuit involving a
boundary line. He was a good citizen and
active in the church. He died suddenly, July
8, 1689, in the midst of his preparations for
building a house. He married (first) Mary
Goodell, who died January 5, 1669, daughter
of Robert and Catharine Goodell. He mar
ried (second) December 8, 1669, Ann Cum
mings, who died at Enfield, June 29, 1689,
daughter of Isaac Cummings. Children by
first wife: John, born May 30, 1654; Robert,
May 14, 1656; Mary, October 8, 1658; Abra
ham, June 5, 1662; Jonathan, January 2, 1669.
Children by second wife : Isaac, mentioned
below; Abigail, born December 15, 1675, died
1689 ; James, born December 23, 1678.
(Ill) Deacon Isaac Pease, son of John
Pease, was born July 15, 1672, at Salem, Mas

sachusetts, died July 9, 1731. His gravestone
is standing in the burying ground near the cen
tral meeting house at Enfield. He married, in
1691, Mindwell Osborn, and settled in the
northeastern part of Enfield, then in Massa
chusetts, not far from the Shaker village. He
owned much land and was a leading citizen.
He was deacon of the Congregational church.
Children, born at Enfield: Isaac, born May
2, 1693; Abraham, 1695; Mindwell, 1697; Abi
gail, 1699, died August 28, 1723; Israel, men
tioned below; Ann, February, 1705; Benja
min, 1707; Ezekiel, June 20, 1710; Timothy,
1713; Cummings, November 15, 1715.
(IV) Israel Pease, son of Deacon Isaac
Pease, was born at Enfield (now in Connecti
cut), in 1702, and he followed farming there
all his life. He married Sarah Booth in 1726.
Children, born at Enfield : Israel, mentioned
below; David and Sarah, twins, 1727; Sarah,
1729; Hezekiah, 1732; Alice, 1736; Jesse,
1738; Bathsheba, February 2, 1741 ; Mind
well ; Nathan.
(V) Israel (2) Pease, son of Israel (1)
Pease, was born at Enfield, in 1726. He re
moved from his native town to Middlefield,
Massachusetts, where he spent the remainder
of his life. He married Ann Bartlett. Chil
dren, born at Enfield : Simeon, born. February
7, 1758; Asenath, October 19, 1761 ; Lovisa,
December 8, 1763; Israel, mentioned below;
Abigail, March 27, 1768; Gad, January 10,
1771 ; Dan, April 25, 1773.
(VI) Israel (3) Pease, son of Israel (2)
Pease, was born at Enfield, February 27, 1766.
He married, January 10, 1789, Mary Pease, a
daughter of Deacon Jonathan Pease, of
Ellington, Connecticut (Jonathan, Joseph,
John, John, Robert). Israel Pease settled in
Middlefield, Massachusetts, and followed
farming there until he died, September 25,
1842. Children, all born at Middlefield: Mary,
born January 10, 1790; Israel, September 28,
1791 ; Daniel, mentioned below; Harvey, Oc
tober 29, 1794; Nancy, May 28, 1796; Horace,
March 2, 1798; Nial, July 6, 1801 ; Oliver,
December 29, 1802; Austin, April 23, 1806;
Abiel, February 28, 1808, died September 18,
1816. (VII) Daniel Pease, son of Israel (3)
Pease, was born at Middlefield, April 19, 1793,
died November 27, 1847. He removed to
Oswego, New York, in 1822, where his death
occurred. He married Miriam Rice, in 1816.
She was born October 31, 1784, died October
21, 1847, daughter of Asa Rice. Children,
born at Oswego: Levi, mentioned below;
Laura, February 26, 1818, died February 10,
1841 ; Charlotte, November 14, 1819, died
October 7, 1846; Nancy, July 15, 1822, mar-

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ried Dr. S. H. Plumb, and resided at Red
Creek, New York; William, September 11,
1823, married (first) October 8, 1850, Emily
Fowler, (second) September 25, 1862, Marcia
H. Place ; died March 30, 1865 ; Alfred, No
vember 7, 1825, farmer of Oswego, married,
October 27, 1848, Mary Gorsline; Amos, May
26, 1827, farmer, Oswego, married Julia E.
Bishop. (VIII) Levi Pease, son of Daniel Pease,
was born at Enfield, Connecticut, November
23, 1816, died October 7, 1897. He was a
farmer. He married Mary B. Rhodes, born
December 8, 1817, died July 5, 1894, who
was a sister of Rev. Artemus Bishop, mission
ary to Sandwich Islands in 1825. Children:
Leroy, mentioned below ; Anna, married C. P.
Smith, a banker of Burlington, Vermont ; Ira,
born June 20, 1856.
(IX) Leroy Pease, son of Levi Pease, was
born at Oswego, New York, March 2, 1850.
He received his early education in the public
schools of his native town. He married, June
28, 1868, Laura Alexander, who was born
at Oswego, February 18, 1850, daughter of
Samuel and Mary (Ryan) Alexander, of
Troy, New Hampshire. Children : Arthur
Dwight, born April 18, 1869; Mary Isabelle,
August 13, 1872, married Lewis Denton, of
West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York ;
Hermon Leroy, mentioned below ; Mabel, born
April 11, 1878, married Walter J. Dobbie;
Lloyd Levi, April 18, 1881.
(X) Dr. Hermon Leroy Pease, son of Le
roy Pease, was born at Oswego, New York,
July 10, 1874. He attended the public schools
there. He entered Cornell University, in
which he was a special student for some time,
and he was afterward a student at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin. He studied his profession
at the American School of Osteopathy at
Kirkville, Missouri, graduating in the class of
191 1. Since that time he has been engaged
in the practice of his profession at Putnam,
Connecticut. He is a member of the local
lodges of Free Masons and Odd Fellows. He
married, October 31, 1900, Carrie Downing, of
West Winfield, New York, a daughter of Dr.
Zeno I. and Sarah (Beals) Downing. Chil
dren: Warren Zeno, born August 17, 1901,
died October 29, 1905 ; Stuart Winfield, March
5, 1902; Edith Downing, December 3, 1905.

The family of which Dr.
FULLER yette Dallas Fuller is a
guished member has been
inent in the state of Connecticut for
years, its members for many generation
having belonged to that sturdy class of
New England has furnished so many fi

Lafa-
distin- prom- many
s back
which
ne ex

amples, the class of successful farmers, who
have been, perhaps, more instrumental in
moulding the institutions of our republic than
any other section of the community. Jabez
Fuller, grandfather of Dr. Fuller, was typicai
of this admirable class which formed in the
early days a sort of rural aristocracy, the only
one this country has ever known, unless we
are willing to accept the belief of those who
see to-day in our moneyed classes a new aris
tocracy of wealth. Plowever this may be, that
old group of country gentility, with their high
degree of culture, their possession of all the
social graces and amenities, and yet with a
truly democratic spirit, were entirely free
from the sinister suggestions attaching to their
modern successors, forming the natural leaders
of the people with whom their interests were
inseparably united in a common cause.
(I) Jabez Fuller was born during the latter
half of the eighteenth century at East Had-
dam, Connecticut. He owned and operated a
large farm in the country adjacent to his birth
place and there lived the greater portion of his
life, and finally died there. He also learned
the trade of carpenter in his youth and worked
at this more or less during the remainder of
his life. He married Fluvia Smith, of that
region, and five children, three boys and two
girls, were born of that union.
(II) Ambrose Fuller, son of Jabez Fuller,
was a man who all through his active, busy
life was a conspicuous figure in the community,
a man of the highest reputation. He was born
in the year 1802, at East Haddam, where his
parents were living at the time, and received
his education in the schools of that place. As
he grew into young manhood he learned the
trade of cloth finishing and for sometime de
voted himself to that business at Ludlow,
Massachusetts, where were situated large cloth
works. The life of his ancestors, however,
made a strong appeal to him and he eventually
gave up an industrial and business life and
took up farming on a magnificent farm of six
hundred acres which he purchased in die
neighborhood of Columbia. Here he carried
on general farming on a very large scale, keep
ing large herds of cattle and many horses of
the best breeds. His large establishment was
a boon to the- farming industry in that part of
the state, providing many men with remunera
tive labor, the more so as Mr. Fuller was a
most public-spirited man, who had the welfare
of his employees truly at heart. Besides agri
culture he also engaged in a large lumber busi
ness, his specialty in the latter line being the
production of planking for use in ship build
ing. He soon grew to have a wide reputation
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ings with all and his capability as a manager
of his resources. He was politically affiliated-
with the Democratic party, and the local organ
ization, perceiving his great and growing popu
larity, decided that he was the most available
candidate in the community, and it thus hap
pened that he held successively well nigh all
the public offices in the town. Among these
may be mentioned that of justice of the peace,
and selectman, he being the chairman of the
selectmen for many years. Eventually he was
elected to represent the town of Columbia in
the state legislature, and was reelected to suc
ceed himself for a number of terms. He was
a member of the Congregational church, and
was very active in the work connected there
with, serving upon all' the church committees
and performing much valuable service for its
advancement. His death occurred at Charlton
City, Massachusetts, July 5, 1878. He mar
ried Ruth Skinner, a native of East Glaston
bury, Connecticut, where she was bora in the
year 1804, and of this union were born seven
children, as follows: 1. Julius B., born August
31, 1827, at Hebron, Connecticut, died at Nor
wich, Connecticut, in February, 1898; married
Emily F. Buell, of that place. 2. Frederick
Dwight, born September 8, 1832, died at
Charlton, Massachusetts, in 1889; married
Ellen Kemp. 3. Emily J., born at Hebron,
February 24, 1835, died at Columbia, Con
necticut, April 7, 1867; became Mrs. Moses F.
Pelton, of Portland, Connecticut. 4. David
H., born at Hebron, January 31, 1841, died
there at the age of two months. 5. Orrin An
drews, born at Hebron, May 7, 1842 ; married
Mary Pease. 6. Lafayette Dallas, of whom
further. 7. Plenry S., born at Hebron, Janu
ary 4, 1849, died in March, 1895 ; married
Jennie Button.
(Ill) Dr. Lafayette Dallas Fuller, the sixth
child of Ambrose and Ruth (Skinner) Fuller,
was born August 26, 1844, at Hebron, Con
necticut, and there passed the early years of
his childhood and youth. He received the ele
mentary portion of his education in the local
public schools, and then went to New Britain,
Connecticut, for a supplementary course in the
Classic School of the State Normal School,
situated there. During these studies there had
been forming in his mind the determination
to take up the profession of medicine, and he
accordingly bent every effort to prepare him
self for a course in some first rate school. In
1864, when he was but twenty years of age, he
enlisted in Company D, Tenth Regiment of
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, which was
largely recruited from -the town of Columbia.
Connecticut, of which he was then a resident.
Dr. Fuller served until January 28, 1865, when

he received his honorable discharge. During
the entire period of his service he had been
attached to the medical staff of his regiment.
At the conclusion of this service he went to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and there matricu
lated at the Eclectic Medical School of that
city. Here he quickly distinguished himself
in his studies to such an extent that he drew
the favorable attention of his instructors to
his work. He was graduated from this institu
tion with the class of 1867, having won his
degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Fuller was
not inexperienced in the ways of the world at
this period, although a new graduate, as he
had already learned much in the school of ex
perience through service in the civil war. In
1868 he returned to New England and settled in
Charlton, Massachusetts, where he remained in
active practice for two years, establishing there
a successful general practice. In the year 1871
Dr. Fuller became associated with the Gould
Mining System, which was carrying on exten
sive mining operations in Oklahoma and the
west. Thither Dr. Fuller went to act as a sur
geon for them, and while there was stationed
in a number of the Oklahoma towns and cities,
among which may be mentioned Lehigh,
Muskogee, Oklahoma City and South Mc-
Alester. After serving in this capacity for a
period of twenty-three years, in 1904 he re
turned to the east and settled in Hartford,
Connecticut, where he engaged in the practice
of medicine and surgery, and conducted a
private hospital. Here he remained until 1913,
when he removed to Rockville, Connecticut,
where he is now engaged in a most successful
practice, and one that is rapidly growing. It
is remarkable that a man of Dr. Fuller's years
(he is now seventy) should possess the enthusi
asm and energy to establish and develop a new
practice in a new place. The fact is, however,
in Dr. Fuller's case, so normal has been the
life he has led, continually in the open, that
he possesses the strength and vigor of a man
of forty. Certain it is that he has already won
for himself popularity and reputation, and his
practice is one of the most important in the
place. Although the professional duties of Dr.
Fuller are excessively heavy and occupy very
nearly all his time and attention, nevertheless
he strives to give of both to the general affairs
of the community. He is a member of the
Republican party, and a keen and intelligent
observer of the great political movements
which are agitating the country. He is an
active member of the Union Congregational
Church of Rockville and a material supporter
of the benevolences carried on in connection
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fraternity and organization man, though most
of the chapters and lodges to which he belongs
are identified with the western cities in which
he spent so many of the years of his life. He
is a charter member of Anchor Lodge, No. 1,
Knights of Pythias, of Lehigh, Indian Terri
tory; a member of Post Lahola, No. 1, Grand
Army of the Republic, Muskogee, Oklahoma;
and of Quinebaug Tribe, Improved Order of
Red Men, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Be
sides these orders Dr. Fuller is a member of
the Pennsylvania and the New England Med
ical associations.
Dr. Fuller has been twice married. Plis first
marriage was to Emma F. Hyde, of Danielson,
Connecticut, on September 1, 1872. There
were four children as the result of this union,
as follows: 1. Ethel Irene, born in Upton,
Massachusetts, June 26, 1875, died November
1, 191 1 ; married Frank Betzer, and had two
children, Glenn and Ruth. 2. William Lafa
yette Ambrose, born in Grafton, Massachu
setts, died at Providence, Rhode Island, Au
gust 20, 1908 ; married Maud Smith. 3. Nellje
Ruth, born in Charlton, Massachusetts, Janu
ary 12, 1882; now a resident of Providence,
Rhode Island. 4. Edmund Dwight, born in
Charlton, Massachusetts, May 6, 1884; mar
ried Jessie Cram, of East Providence, Rhode
Island, and is now the father of three children,
Edmund Dwight Jr., Lucile Dorothy and Wil
liam Joseph.
Dr. Fuller's second marriage was to Daisy
Belle Ayers, a native of Stockton, Kansas,
where she was born in the year 1880. Mrs.
Fuller is a prominent figure in the social and
religious life of Rockville, Connecticut. She
is a particularly active member of the Union
Congregational Church of that city. She is
the possessor of a fine voice and great musical
talent generally.

John Kenyon, the immigrant
KENYON ancestor of the Kenyons of
Rhode Island, was descended
from the Kenyons of Peel, Lancaster, Eng
land. He settled in Kingstown, Rhode Island.
It is claimed by some authorities that John
Kenyon, of Kingstown, was descended from
Jordan de Lanton, lord of Kenyon, of the reign
of Henry III., of England. Four English
families, according to Burke, bear coats-of-
arms and crests, differing slightly. The Ken
yons of Whitney have as a motto: Magnmii-
miter crucem sustine (nobly bear the cross),
indicating that the family took part in the cru
sades. John Kenyon was born in England in
1605 and married about 1627, Ann Smith.
John Kenyon had three sons : John, mentioned
below ; James, who settled in Kingstown and

Westerly, a miller by trade, married Ruth
 -. and had James, Thomas, Ebenezer,
John, Peter, Sarah and Ruth ; Roger, married,
in 1683, Mary Ray, and settled at New Shore-
ham (Block Island), in Rhode Island.
(II) John Kenyon, son of lohn Kenvon,
was born in 1657 and died in 1732. He also
lived in Kingstown and Westerly, Rhode
Island. In his will he left £10 each to his sons,
and to Jonathan his personal property. Chil
dren : John, James, Enoch, Joseph, David, and
Jonathan, mentioned below.
(Ill) Jonathan Kenyon, son of John Ken
yon, was born in 1695. He married Sarah
Rogers, daughter of James and Elizabeth.
Among their children was Samuel, mentioned
below. ( IV) Samuel Kenyon, son of Jonathan Ken
yon, lived in Charlestown, Rhocle Island. He
married several times. His will was proved
July 21, 1801. Children, mentioned in the
will : Jonathan, James, Samuel, Elijah, men
tioned below ; Barnabas, Job, Lewis, Elizabeth,
Anna and Sarah.
(V) Elijah Kenyon, son of Samuel Ken
yon, was born May 15, 1759; married, Decem
ber 8, 1780, Penelope Perry, who was born
May 8, 1762. He died December 13, 1806,
and she died May, 1842. Elijah Kenyon was
a soldier in the revolution, a private in Cap
tain Amos Green's company, Colonel Joseph
Noyes' regiment, and took part in the Spencer
expedition and in the Sullivan expedition.
Children : Lewis, mentioned below ; Samuel,
Simeon, Perry, Beriah, Penelope, Susan, Sarah
and Eliza.
'(VI) Lewis Kenyon, son of Elijah Kenyon,
was born June 7, 1783, and married at Ston
ington, Connecticut, February 20, 1812, Ann
Sherman, who was born at South Kingstown,
Rhode Island, May 22, 1790, a daughter of
Thomas and Ann (Hoxie) Sherman. Thomas
Sherman was a son of James, whose first wife
was  Franklin ; second,  Frye ;

third,

Reynolds. Lewis Kenyon was a

farmer, and clothier or fuller by trade. He
bought a farm where the village of Kenyon is
now located from Thomas Holburton, March
3, 1820, the property including a small mill
in which he finished cloth made by the farmers'
wives of that vicinity. About 1845 the name
of the place was changed from Holburton Hill
to Kenyon's Mills and since March 26, 1888,
the postoffice there has been under the name of
Kenyon. He died there February 7, 1839, and
his wife September 2, 1870. Both are buried
in the Kenyon burial ground at Kenyon vil
lage. Lewis Kenyon served in the war of
1812, and his widow had a grant of one hun
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service. Children: i. Lucy Sherman, born
April i, 1813, died June 2, 1886, never mar
ried. 2. Abial Sherman, twin of Lucy, born
April 1, 1813, died September 15, 1875; a
manufacturer; married, January 4, 1842, in
Providence, Margaret Maranda Taylor ; chil
dren : A daughter, who died at birth ; Lewis
Randolph, born February 9, 1847, died July
6, 1850; and Lewis Perry, born October 26,
1851, died February 25, 1871. 3. Elijah, men
tioned below. 4. Parmelia Clarke, born Sep
tember 4, 1817, died November 13, 1900; mar
ried John S. Clarke, of Richmond. 5. Mary
Ann, bora March 14, 1820; died January 15,
1842. 6. Hannah Griselda, born August 14,
1822, died October 24, 1893, unmarried. 7.
Charles Henry, born August 24, 1824; a
woolen manufacturer ; died September 20,
1891, at Norwich, Connecticut; married, in
1861, in Stonington, Emeline Newell Bentley;
children : Carrie S., who married William S.
Slocum, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and
Charles Henry, treasurer of the National Ma
chinery Company of Providence. 8. Sarah
Penelope, born December 22, 1827, died No
vember 11, 1894; married, October 26, 1851,
George Weeden ; both now deceased. 9.
Thomas Randolph, born June 11, 1829, died
November 8, 1832. 10. Isaac Denison, born
August 14, 1831 ; member of Company B,
Twenty-first Connecticut Regiment, was first
lieutenant, wounded at Petersburg, Virginia,
August 18, 1864, and died September 1, 1864;
was a merchant ; married, September 9, 1862,
Carrie J. Freeman. 11. Susan Elizabeth, born
May 21, 1834; inherited with her sisters, Lucy
and Hannah, the old homestead, the house on
which was built by Joshua and Samuel Clarke
in 1735; she died at Kenyon, April 13, 1909.
(VII) Elijah Kenyon, son of Lewis Ken
yon, was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
February 24, 1815. He attended the public
schools of his native town until 1832, when be
entered the Kingston Academy. He began his
career in his father's mill and was associated
in the business of dressing cloth with his
father, and after his father died, with his
brother, Abial S. Kenyon. The brothers intro
duced carding and spinning machinery in the
old mill, beginning with six looms. In 1844 a
new mill was erected near the site of the old
structure, and the facilities of the firm largely
increased. Mr. Kenyon built, and for five years
operated, the Laurel Glen Mill in North Ston
ington, Connecticut, then- taking his brother,
Charles H. Kenyon, into partnership. In 1863
Elijah Kenyon sold his share to his brother.
In 1856 Elijah Kenyon returned to Richmond
and bought the interest of his brother. Abial
S. Kenyon, in the mill and he operated it until

1863, when he admitted to partnership Charles
B. Coon. In 1862 a general store was opened
by the firm for the convenience of the em
ployees of the mill and in 1866 a cotton mill
was erected to manufacture yarn. In 1872 Mr.
Kenyon built a handsome residence at Kenyon,
equipped with every modern convenience. In
1881 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Kenyon's
son, John S. Kenyon, succeeded Mr. Coon, at
which time the name was changed to E. Ken
yon & Son. The partnership with Mr. Coon
was marked by the utmost harmony and great
financial success. Elijah Kenyon died Decem
ber 3, 1881, and his son and partner succeeded
to the business. "As a citizen Elijah Kenyon
was unusually esteemed. He was noble, gener
ous hearted and truthful in his dealings and
withal exceedingly modest, never aspiring to
any public honor. Gifted with rare business
qualifications, his advice was frequently sought
on matters of business importance and always
cheerfully given. His social and open-hearted
nature won many friends. Not being fond of
travel, his pleasures were found chiefly within
the compass of his home, and the affairs per
taining to his office."
He married, April 25, 1859, Mary A. Lewis,
born November 28, 1838, daughter of Arnold
and Mary A. (Tillinghast) Lewis, of Exeter,
Rhode Island. Children: 1. John Sherman,
born August 2, i860; resides in Kenyon; mar
ried Alice H. Morse. 2. Mary Lewis, born
December 3, 1862 ; was educated in the Moses
Brown School of Providence. 3. Isaac Deni
son, November 7, 1867, died aged four years.
4. Leonora Parsons, died aged twenty-five
years, unmarried ; was educated at Miss Ab
bott's School in Providence. 5. Fred Elijah,
born November 15, 1875, died in infancy. The
mother of these children passed away at her
home at Kenyon, Rhode Island, September 3,
1914. (The Lewis Line).
John Lewis, the immigrant ancestor of the
Rhode Island family, is said to have come
from England with four brothers. He located
at Westerly, Rhode Island. There were many
other immigrants to New England of the sur
name Lewis before 1650 and afterward, but
the relationship between them has not been
established as yet. John Lewis was at West
erly as early as 1661, and was admitted a free
man of the colony in 1668. He died at Paw-
catuck in 1690, and was buried in the ceme
tery just below the village of Westerly, near
the road to Watch Hill. Children: Jonathan,
John, "Daniel, married Mary Maxson; James,
David, Israel. Samuel, mentioned below, and
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sided at Westerly, where he died in 1739, or
soon afterward. His wife Joanna died about
1734. He deeded a hundred acres of land at
Westerly to James Babcock, March 5, 1692.
His will, dated August 5, 1734, proved Febru
ary 1, 1739, provided legacies for his wife
Joanna, son Jonathan, daughters Joanna and
Sarah, son Samuel's children, son Jonathan's
children and daughter Joanna's children. Chil
dren : Samuel ; Jonathan, mentioned below ;
Joanna, married  Tanners ; Sarah, mar
ried  Fordyce.
(Ill) Jonathan Lewis, son of Samuel Lewis,
lived in- Exeter, Rhode Island. In his will
dated June 4, 1785, proved August 29, 1785,
he bequeaths to sons, Jonathan, Caleb, Thomas
and Sylvester, and grandson Stephen.
(IV) John Lewis, son of Jonathan Lewis,
died before his father, and his share in the
estate was left to his son Stephen, mentioned
below (see Lewisiana, iv, p. 180).
(V) Captain Stephen Lewis, son of John
Lewis, was born about 1750. In the census
of Rhode Island we find that in 1774 James,
Joseph, Randall, Jacob, Jonathan Jr. and John
Lewis were heads of families. John had four
males over sixteen, four under that age. two
females over sixteen and three under. Jona
than Jr. had five in his family, including three
males over sixteen. Jonathan Sr. must have
been living in the family of one of the sons.
In 1790 the first federal census shows that
Stephen had a family, three sons under sixteen
and several females. Stephen was a soldier in
the revolution in the Massachusetts militia,
a private from Washington county, Rhode
Island, and was pensioned for his service. He
was on the pension list of 1835, his age being
stated as eighty-three years in 1833, when the
pension was granted. He was captain of the
second company of Exeter in 1789, and con
tinued in command of this militia company
until 1795. His son Stephen was afterward
captain of the same company. He married
Alice Sheldon, at Exeter, January 26, 1770.
Among their children was Stephen, mentioned
below. (VI) Captain Stephen Lewis, son of Cap
tain Stephen Lewis, was bora at Exeter, about
1772. In 1798 he was ensign of the second
company of Exeter, of which his father had
been captain and from 1799 to 1801 he com
manded the company (see "Civil and Military
Lists of Rhode Island," vol. i, pages 473, 484,
496, 508, 520. 53-3, 577, 591, 606; vol. ii, pages
11 and 25). Stephen Jr. married, November
7. 1799, Hannah, Lewis, daughter of Samuel
Lewis, a relative. They lived at Exeter.
Among their children was Arnold, mentioned
below.

(VII) General Arnold Lewis, son of Cap
tain Stephen Lewis, was born about 1800, at
Exeter. He married, October 10, 1822, Mary
A. Tillinghast, who was born May 25, 1800.
Like his father and grandfather, he was active
in the state militia and attained the rank of
general. He was prominent in town affairs.
He died at Exeter, and was buried in the
burial ground on the homestead. His wife
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ken
yon, and was buried in Wood River Cemetery.
She was a member of the Baptist church.
Children: 1. Eunice, born May 11, 1823; mar
ried Stephen A. Tefft, and lived at West Kings
town. 2. Gardiner, bora August 9, 1825 ; was
thrown from a horse and killed when a boy.
3. Joseph Allen, born January 5, 1829; a
nurseryman at Willimantic, Connecticut, where
he died. 4. Sarah, bom October 17, 1830;
married John T. Lewis, and died at West
Greenwich, Rhode Island. 5. Eliza P., born
February 17, 1832; married Joseph R. Frye,
and resided at Willimantic, Connecticut. 6.
John, bom October 6, 1833 ; was in the nursery-
business at Dighton, Massachusetts, where he
died. 7. Mary Abbie, born November 28,
1838; married Elijah Kenyon (see Kenyon).
8. Hannah E., born March 28, 1841 ; resides
in Willimantic, unmarried. 9. Henry Byron,
born June 19, 1846, now deceased; was super
intendent of the repair shops of the New York,
New Plaven and Hartford Railroad Company
at Providence, Rhode Island.

The following facts relating to
THAYER the English ancestry of the
Thayer family of America are
taken from a work entitled "The Thayer Fam
ily of Thornbury," by Thomas Thayer Ojeda
(1907). ( I ) Johannes Tawier, the first known Eng
lish progenitor, married, it is believed, Con
stance or Johanna Tawier. He died March
19, 1561-62, and his wife died May 4, 1576.
The earliest mention of the name of Tayer in
Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, is among
twenty-six tenants who made presentment of
the customs of the manor in 1550. As only the
surname is there given, doubtless he was the
only living Thayer (Tawier or Tayer) at that
time and it is likely that he was the same
Johannes Tawier mentioned above. Children
of Johannes Tawier: Willihelmus, baptized
February 11, 1561; Jone or Joan, Johannes,
Thomas, Constans, Augusta, Alice.
(II) Johannes (2) Thayer, son of Johannes
( 1 ) Tawier, married Mary  . His name
is mentioned as a godfather in 1565-67-68-69.
He died October 12, 1584. His widow mar
ried  Cooke. Children: Johannes, born

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January 4, 1557-58; Richard, mentioned be
low; Johannes, May 6, 1561; Richardus, Au
gust 2, 1562; Johannes, February 28, 1563-64;
Wilihelmus, November 1, 1564; Alice, Decem
ber 16, 1565; Ussly; Lucy, September 25,
1568; Anna, August 13, 1570; William, March
22, 1572-73; Nicholas, January 25, 1573-74;
Edward, October 26, 1577; Ursula, April 25,
1579; Anthony, January 6, 1581-82, died Au
gust 16, 1587.
(Ill) Richard Thayer, son of Johannes (2)
Thayer, was born November 7, 1559. He
married (first) Ann Gibbs, and she died No
vember 10, 1590. He married (second)
 , and he was living in 1625. Children
by first wife: Catherine, born June 24, 1586;
Alice, October 23, 1587; Margaret, December
23, 1589; Ann, November 10, 1590, died same
day. Children by second wife: Joanne, born
January, 1592-93; John, April 17, 1593; Mary,
March 1. 1595-96; Thomas, mentioned below;
Wilfry, January 1, 1599-1600; Richard, April
6, 1601 ; Catherine, February 24, 1603-04; Wil
liam, May 5, 1605; Margaret, June 10, 1606;
Agnes, March 15, 1607-08 ; John, April 29,
1610, died October 12, 1610 ; John, December
26, 1617-18.
"(IV) Thomas Thayer, son of Richard
Thayer, was born at Thornbury, England, Au
gust 16, 1596. He and his brother Richard
were the immigrant ancestors of the American
family. Richard came shortly after Thomas
and both settled in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Both were shoemakers by trade. Thomas was
in New England before 1639 and in that year
he had a grant of land at Braintree for nine
persons in his family, seventy-six acres of land.
He died June 2, 1665. His will is dated June
24, 1664, and was proved September 13, 1665.
He bequeathed to his wife and children. His
widow died February 11, 1672-73. He mar
ried, at Thornbury, April 13, 1618, Margery
Wheeler. Children, born at Thornbury :
Thomas, baptized September 15, 1622; Ferdi
nando, mentioned below ; Shadrach, baptized
May 10, 1629 ; Sarah, married Jonathan Hay
ward. (V ) Ferdinando Thayer, son- of Thomas
Thayer, was baptized at Thornbury, England,
April 18, 1625. He came to this country with
his father, and married, January 1, 1652, Hul
dah Hayward, of- Braintree, Massachusetts.
He lived in Braintree until after his father's
death, when he removed to Mendon in that
province with a colony of men from Braintree
and Weymouth. He was one of the largest
proprietors of the new township. His home
stead was a little south of the present center
of the town on the road to Providence. He
held many offices of honor and trust in the

town and was a man of wealth, according to
the standards of his day. He provided farms
for all his sons and several of them also be
came extensive owners of land. Some of the
original Thayer homesteads in Mendon have
never passed out of the possession of his de
scendants. Six of his children were born in
Mendon. Mendon was settled in 1662 as a
plantation and continued thus until 1667 when
it was incorporated as a town, but during King
Philip's war the settlement was broken up and
most of the families sought refuge in the for
mer homes in Braintree and Weymouth until
the war was over. The Thayers returned to
Mendon about 1680, and Ferdinando Thayer
died there March 28, 1713. His wife Huldah
died there September 1, 1690. Children, born
at Braintree: Sarah, born May 1, 1654-55;
Huldah, June 16, 1657; Jonathan, March 18,
1658; David, June 20, 1660, died August 1,
1674; Naomi, January 28, 1662-63. Children,.
born at Mendon:- Thomas; Samuel; Isaac,
mentioned below ; David, baptized September
iy, 1677, died August 29, 1678; Josiah; Eben
ezer; Benjamin, born December 20, 1712.
(AT) Isaac Thayer, son of Ferdinando
Thayer, was born in Mendon. He married
(first) Mercy Rockwood, daughter of John
Rockwood and granddaughter of Richard
Rockwood, April 1, 1691 or 1692. He settled
in Mendon and followed farming. In the
Thayer genealogy the maiden name of his wife
is incorrectly given as Ward. She "died De
cember 18, 1700, and he married (second)
Mary  . in 1703. Children by first wife :
Mercy, born November 2, 1693 ; Isaac, Sep
tember 24, 1695 ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ;
Comfort, February 19, 1700. Children by sec
ond wife: Mary, December 22, 1704; John,
May 6, 1706; Nathaniel, April 20, 1708; Moses,
May 10, 1710; Samuel, 1713, an ensign in the
Indian wars; Joseph, 1715 ; Ichabod, March
17, 1721.
(VII) Ebenezer Thayer, son of Isaac
Thayer, was born at Mendon, September 6,
1697. He settled in the adjacent town of
Bellingham, Massachusetts, and followed farm
ing all his active life. He married, May 9,
1 7 19, Mary Wheelock. Children, born at Bell
ingham : Ebenezer, mentioned below ; Huldah,
born March, 1722; Elizabeth, 1724; Micah,
1726; Isaac, March 11, 1729; Abigail, Novem
ber 11, 1731 ; Pater, 1733; Lydia, 1736.
(VIII) Captain Ebenezer (2) Thayer, son
of Ebenezer (1) Thayer, was born at Belling
ham, Massachusetts, in June, 1720. He also
settled in Bellingham. He was a farmer. He
married, April 24, 1734, Hannah Greene. She
died in 1783. Children, born in Bellingham:
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mentioned below; Lydia, July 31, 1739; Elias,
June 22, 1742 ; Silas, November 30, 1746 ; Hul
dah, September 19, 1749.
(IX) Ebenezer (3) Thayer, son of Captain
Ebenezer (2) Thayer, was born at Bellingham,
Massachusetts, May 21, 1737, died in 1779. He
was also a farmer in the town of Bellingham.
He married there, in May, 1756, Martha Thay
er, born October 8, 1737, daughter of Uriah and
Rachel (Taft) Thayer, of Bellingham and Men
don. Uriah Thayer was the fifth child of Eben
ezer and Martha (White) Thayer, and grandson
of Ferdinando Thayer, mentioned above. Uriah
Thayer was born at "Mendon, September 10,
1706. His mother was born August 28, 1675.
Children of Ebenezer and Martha Thayer :
Thaddeus, born August 10, 1760; Calvin, July
7, 1763; Luther, October 6, 1766; Irene, Sep
tember 16, 1770; Ebenezer, mentioned below;
Philo, 1779.
(X) Ebenezer (4) Thayer, son of Eben
ezer (3) Thayer, was born in Bellingham,
Massachusetts, November 29, 1772, died there
November 21, 1852. He settled in his native
town. He married there, June 28, 1798, Sabra
Darling, who died July 22, 1823. Children,
born in' Bellingham : Alanson, born February
17, 1799; Willard, April 18, 1802; Samuel,
mentioned below; Miranda, August 2, 1808;
Perley C, January 27, 1812.
(XI) Samuel Thayer, son of Ebenezer (4)
Thayer, was born at Bellingham, Massachu
setts, April 22, 1804, died in 1856. He was
educated in the public schools. He settled in
Foxborough, Massachusetts, and afterward in
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and followed farm
ing all his active life. He married, in 1826,
Miranda Sherman. Children: Allen, born
May 11, 1827; Ellis, 1830; Julia Ann, January
10, 1836; Sarah Wilder, September 28, 1838;
George Wesley, September 28, 1844; Philo
Elisha, March 4, 1847.
(XII) Allen Thayer, son of Samuel Thayer,
was born May 11, 1827, at Foxborough,
Massachusetts, died January 31, 1899, at
Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He was educated
in the public schools. For a number of years
he was a commercial traveler. He was for
many years a merchant in Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, where he lived for more than sixty
years. In politics he was a Republican and he
served several terms in the common council of
the city of Woonsocket. In religion he was
a Baptist. He married, September 2, 1851,
Ellen Maria Cook, born at Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, November 18, 1831, died May 4, 1877,
a daughter of Jervis and Silvia (Taft) Cook.
Children: Henry Jervis, mentioned below;
Walter Samuel, born October 6, 1857; Elmer
Allen, September 23, i860; Florence Ellen,

Xovember 12, 1862, married Arthur Pease;
Mabel Alma, June 15, 1867, married Wendell
A. Mowry; Fred Irvin, March 13, 1872; Leslie
Harris, December 11, 1876, died aged two
years. (XIII) Colonel Plenry Jervis Thayer, son
of Allen Thayer, was born at Woonsocket,
Rhode Island, December 3, 1853. He attended
the public schools and the Woonsocket high
school. At the age of seventeen years he be
gan his business career in Woonsocket and
Blackstone. In 1879 he came to the Mono-
hansett mill at Putnam, Connecticut, as a
bookkeeper, and in 1898 was made treasurer,
and continued in that position until 1912, when
the company went out of business and the
Manhassett Manufacturing Company was
formed, of which Mr. Thayer is a director,
secretary and paymaster. He is well known
and highly esteemed in industrial circles in
New England. In politics he is a Republican ;
for four years he was a member of the city
council of Putnam, three years on the school
board, and now is chairman of the board. He
is a member of Israel Putnam Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the
local council, Royal Arcanum. In religion he
is a Congregationalist. He served in the
Spanish-American war from June to Septem
ber, 1898, as major of the Third Regiment
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and was
afterward commissioned colonel in this regi
ment. He is a member of the Foreign Wars
Society. He married, October 11, 1874, Lucy A. Dar
ling, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, daughter
of John Charles and Melissa E. (Crosby) Dar
ling. Children: 1. Charles Allen, born June
30, 1875; office manager of a manufacturing-
company at Saylesville, Rhode Island; served
in- the navy during the Spanish-American war
in the Rhode Island Naval Reserves ; member
of the Foreign Wars Society; married Ger
trude A. Chaffee, of Willimantic, Connecticut,
and they have two children: Allen, born June
7, 1905; Henry Chaffee, December 29, 191-'.
2' Frank Darling, born April 16, 1882; em
ployed at present in the office of the Man
hassett mill ; married Eva Sequin, of Putnam.
3. Henry L., died July 6, 1887, aged three
years. Thomas Lowe or Low, the immi-
LOWE grant ancestor of this family, was
born in England and is believed to
be the son of Captain John Low, master of
the ship "Ambrose" and vice-admiral of the
fleet that brought Governor Winthrop and his
colonists in 1630. A cane and Bible, said to
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been handed down in the families of descend
ants of Thomas Lowe in Essex county and at
last accounts were in the possession of Daniel
W. Low, of Essex, Massachusetts, a descend
ant. The Bible was "Imprinted at London by
Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queen's
most excellent Majestie, dwelling in Pater
Noster Rowe at the signe of the Tigreshead
Anno 1579." "The whole Book of Psalms by
Sternhold Hopkins and others printed by
Derye over Aldergate 1578." "Susanna Low
her book 1677, Mav 19." "Thomas Low his
book." (I) Thomas Lowe came early to America
and was a resident of Ipswich as early as 1641.
According to a deposition made in 1660, he
was born in 1605. He was a malster by trade.
He died September 8, 1677. His will, dated
April 30, 1677, was proved November 6, 1677.
His son John succeeded to his business as
maltster and carried it on until 1696. Thomas
Lowe married Susanna  , who died at
Watertown, August 19, 1684, aged about
eighty-six years. Children: 1. Margaret, born
in England, married, April 8, 1657, Daniel
Davidson, who was afterwards a major gen
eral ; died July 8, 1668. 2. Thomas, born in
England in 1632, died April 12, 1712. 3.
Sarah, bora 1637, if a deposition of her father
in 1660 is correct, married Joseph Safford. 4.
John, mentioned below.
(II) John Lowe, son of Thomas Lowe, was
born about 1640 in Ipswich. He married
(first) December 10, 1661, Sarah Thorndike,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Thorndike,
of Beverly, Massachusetts. He married (sec
ond) Dorcas  . He died intestate, and
January 28, 1705-06, Elizabeth, Daniel and
Joseph Lowe, declining to administer his
estate, his son Thorndike was appointed to
administer it. Children, born at Ipswich :
John, born April 24, 1665 '• Elizabeth, October
10, 1667; Margaret, January 26, 1669; Daniel,
mentioned below ; Dorcas, November 3, 1673 ;
Joseph, 1677; Martha, September, 1679;
Thorndike, about 1680, died in 1750.
(Ill) Daniel Lowe, son of John Lowe, was
bora about 1669 in Ipswich. His uncle,
Thomas Lowe, who settled in Gloucester and
married Sarah Symonds, daughter of Har-
laakenden Symonds, December 2, 1687, was a
grantee with his son, John Low, and others
who bought of Mr. Symonds a tract of land
called Coxhall, now Lyman, Maine, six miles
by four. This town is near Wells. Most of
the grantees and first settlers in this section
of York county, Maine, were from Ipswich.
Daniel Lowe went to York county when a
young man and bought land at Wells, Maine,
of Henry Maddo, of York, June 19, 1721, and

January 29, 1723-24. Sarah Lowe, widow of
Thomas Lowe, deeded land in Wells to her
son, Thomas Lowe, of Gloucester. Neither
Thomas nor John appear to have settled per
manently in Maine, however. Daniel was
killed by the Indians in the spring of 1723.
His property descended to Job, William and
Jeremiah. Jeremiah seems to have returned
to Ipswich, where his estate was divided Feb
ruary 28, 1758.
(IV) Job Lowe, son of Daniel Lowe, was
born about 1690. He lived in Wells, Maine,
and was a householder there as early as 1726.
In 1735 he appears to have been the only adult
of the family in AVells. He witnessed a deed
in Wells in 1725. He married and was the
father of these sons : William, the eldest, to
whom he gave land April 13, 1730; Jedediah,
who went to Sanford, Maine ; Ephraim, men
tioned below; Ebenezer, settled in Sanford.
(V) Ephraim Lowe, son of Job Lowe, was
born about 1725 at Wells, Maine. With his
two brothers he moved during the Revolution
to Sanford, Maine. Among his children was
Ephraim, mentioned below.
(VI) Ephraim (2) Lowe, son of Ephraim
(1) Lowe, was born at Wells, Maine, March
14, 1748, died at Mercer, Maine, March 14,
1834. Pie moved, before 1777, to the ridge
formerly called Low's Ridge, now Shaw's
Ridge. He was a soldier in the Revolution
and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill,
where he was wounded. He was also present
during the siege of Boston until the evacua
tion. He was a famous bear hunter and in one
year killed an average of a bear a day. He
followed farming in Sanford during the greater
part of his active life. His last years were
spent in the family of his son Ephraim. He
married (first)  Littlefield; (second)
June 15, 1788, Esther Lewis, of Berwick. Be
sides the son, mentioned below, he was the
father of five daughters.
(VII) Lieutenant Ephraim (3) Lowe, son
of Ephraim (2) Lowe, was born at Sanford,
Maine, September 5, 1783, died at Mercer,
Maine, February 1, 1859. He lived in his
native town until 1826 when he removed to
Mercer with his family on an ox-team, settled
on wild land, building a log house and clearing
a farm. He eventually owned five hundred
acres of land in Mercer and followed farming
there to the end of his life. He was a skillful
surveyor and was much employed in fixing
boundaries and held various positions of public
and private trust. He settled many important
estates. In 1820 he was appointed coroner of
York county by Governor King. He married
Hannah Kane, born in Barnstead, New
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Children, born at Sanford: James K, men
tioned below ; William L., born September 22,
1816; Ephraim Jr., December 6, 1818; Abbie'
October 18, 1820; John K, October 11, 1822;
Timothy, March 16, 1824. Children, born at
Mercer: Samuel, born August 18, 1826;
Joseph P., October 8, 1828; Benjamin K.',
March 10, 1830, died in childhood; Benjamin,
January 24, 1834; Ivory, March 2, 1836, a
physician at Canaan, Maine; Lucy H., June
11, 1838, now living at Canaan, Maine.
(VIII) James K. Lowe, son of Lieutenant
Ephraim (3) Lowe, was born at Sanford,
Maine, December 15, 1814, died at Mercer,
December 23, 1882. He received his education
in the public schools of Sanford and Mercer.
He was about twelve years old when the fam
ily moved, to Mercer and he lived in that town
during the remainder of his life and followed
farming for an occupation. Pie helped his
father clear the homestead farm and in time he
also had a farm of five hundred acres. He
made a specialty of raising stock. In politics
he was a radical Democrat, and he took a
prominent part in public affairs. He was
elected to all the town offices within the gift
of his fellow-citizens, and served the public
faithfully in every position of trust that he
filled. He was a member of the Congrega
tional church. He married (first) November
11, 1843, Martha Russell, born at Mercer,
Maine, May 7, 1816, died February 27, 1852,
daughter of Charles Russell. He married
(second) March 10, 1855, Elizabeth Leach,
born at Waterborough, Maine, October 10,
1821, died January 30, 1909. Children by first
wife: Martha, born December 7, 1844, mar
ried Austin White ; James Russell, March 18,
1846; Dr. Henry Russell, mentioned below;
Mary E., September 20, 185 1. Children by
second wife: Elwin A., March 3, 1856, died
October 10, "1909; John F., died in infancy;
Albert L., April 25, 1861, died September 15,
1900. (IX) Dr. Henry Russell Lowe, son of
James K. Lowe, was born at Mercer, Maine,
January 20, 1849. He attended the public
schools of his native town, Mercer Academy
and the Eaton Family and Day School at Nor
ridgewock, Maine. For a number of years he
worked on his father's farm. When he left
home he found employment as shipping clerk
for a wholesale concern in Worcester, Massa
chusetts, and remained there for several years.
He finally decided to study medicine and in
1878 entered the Dartmouth Medical School,
from which he was graduated in 1882 with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon after
graduation he beean to practice medicine at
Woodstock, Connecticut, where he remained

until 1902. Since then he has been practicing
very successfully at Putnam, Connecticut. He
is a member of the Windham County Medical
Society and of the Connecticut State Medical
Society. In religion he is a Congregationalist.
He is also a member of Quinebaug Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Putnam.
Dr. Lowe married, January 1, 1884, Exoa
(Holbrook) Stanton, born in 1856 at Shrews
bury, Massachusetts, daughter of George and
Sarah (Chamberlain) Holbrook. By a previous
marriage she had a son Walter W. Stanton,
who married Lillie Andrews, and had two chil
dren, Wilfred H. and Charles R. Stanton,
both of whom are living in the family of Dr.
and Mrs. Lowe. Dr. and Mrs. Lowe have had
no children.

William Bliss Root is a member
ROOT of a New England family, which
for many years has enjoyed the
highest respect of that portion of the state of
Connecticut in which they have made their
home. (I) Joshua Root, grandfather of William
Bliss Root, was the first of the name whose
residence in Hebron, Connecticut, is record
ed. He was probably born there late in the
eighteenth century, and died there in Au
gust, 1 83 1. He passed his entire life in- that
place, following the occupation of farming
with a high degree of success. He was mar
ried and the father of eight children, four sons
and four daughters. .
(II) Solomon Root, son of Joshua Root,
was born at Hebron, probably in the year
1800, and like his father he passed his entire
life there in the occupation of farming. He
was educated in the local schools and upon
completing his studies followed the life of a
farmer on his father's place. In course of
time he inherited his father's property. He
died at the early age of fifty-nine years as the
result of an accident. Pie married Mary
Bliss, of Hebron, and to them were born two
children: William Bliss, who is noted at
length below; Mary Jane, born July 31, 1828,
at Hebron, married William Wilson, and died
at Colchester, Connecticut, probably in the
autumn of 191 1.
(Ill) William Bliss Root, eldest child of
Solomon and Mary (Bliss) Root, was born
September 10, 1823, on the old Root home
stead at Hebron, Connecticut. He was edu
cated, as his father before him, in the district
schools, but later, instead of taking up farm
ing, determined to learn a trade. He was
naturally of a mechanical turn of mind, and
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brick masonry. He worked at tanning, how
ever, for a number of years, and was making
a success of it when the breaking out of the
civil war intervened. Mr. Root had removed
to the town of Vernon, Connecticut, in the
year 1856, and from that place enlisted in
Company D, Fourteenth Regiment of Con
necticut Volunteer Infantry, on July 16, 1862,
at Rockville, Connecticut. His experience in
the war was a most varied one with plenty
of danger and hardship of all kinds. The
Fourteenth Connecticut went first into camp
at Hartford, Connecticut, and from there was
ordered to the front, going by way of Vir
ginia. The first active' service that Mr. Root
saw, however, was in Maryland, whither they
were shortly ordered to Rockville in that state.
Later with his regiment he took part in the
engagements at Antietam, South Mountain
and Falmouth and also at the siege of Fred
ericksburg. The following winter the Four
teenth Connecticut went into camp at Fal
mouth for the season, and Mr. Root was
assigned to detached duty on the medical bri
gade. Later he fought at Chancellorsville and
then in the battle of Gettysburg, where with
the rest of his regiment he was stationed in
the front rank of the troops which endured
the famous advance known as Pickett's charge.
He is now (1914) the only man left of his
regiment who- took part in that terrible and
famous charge. The next engagement was at
Harper's Ferry, after which' he was in Carv
er's Hospital at Washington for six weeks
with a serious wound. He recovered, how
ever, and was transferred to the Convalescent
Camp near Alexandria, Virginia. When
finally able for duty he entered the Sixth
Veteran's Reserve Corps, Company D, then
stationed at Washington, where he remained a
considerable period engaged in such service as
guarding bridges and capturing deserters along
the line of the railroad between Washington
and Baltimore. After some two months of
this work, he was transferred to the Sixth
Veteran Reserve Corps and was sent to Wash
ington to defend it from the threatened attack
by General Early's troops. General Early's
attack not materializing, the Sixth Corps was
sent to Johnson's Island, there to guard a
group of twenty-seven hundred Confederate
officers, prisoners of war. Mr. Root was then
sent to Lima, Ohio, on detached duty, and
there made quartermaster of the Fifth Provost
Marshall District. His active service was
nearing an end, however, and in April, 1865,
he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and there re
ceived bis honorable discharge July 5, of the
same year. Mr. Root had given three of the
best years of his life to the service of his

country, and for the cause of the Union had
risked death and endured wounds and priva
tions. Upon the close of the war, Mr. Root re
turned to his native state and settled in the
town of Rockville. There seemed to be an
excellent opportunity for carpenters at that
time in the place, and Mr. Root, having mas
tered that craft in his youth, at once set to
work. So successful was he that he perse
vered in the work until the year 1898, when
by dint of industry and thrift he was in a
position to retire from all active business. He
had followed his trade over forty years; he
made a specialty of lathing and in that time
had lathed one hundred and thirty houses in
cluding the opera house, this job alone taking
six hundred bunches or sixty thousand laths.
In the year 1868 Mr. Root and four of his
fellow veterans of the war united to form
what is now Burpee Post, No. 71, Grand Army
of the Republic, of Rockville, the name given
being that of Colonel Thomas L. Burpee of
the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, who
was an honored citizen of the town of Vernon
Connecticut. Mr. Root is still a charter mem
ber of the post, and still serves as surgeon,
having been elected to that position at the
time of its organization, forty-six years ago.
Mr. Root has always given his allegiance to
the Republican party, and he is still a keen and
intelligent observer of the political questions
agitating the country to-day. His religious
affiliations are with the Methodist church.
He is now a man ninety-one years of age, but
despite his venerable years he enjoys in a won
derful degree the possession of good health
and all his faculties. Physically he is strong
and robust, while his intellect is clear and his
memory unclouded. He occupies a unique
place in the respect and affections of the entire
community. Mr. Root married, March 22, 1846, Abbie
Jane Ross, a native of Norwich, Connecticut,
where she was born in the year 1826. She was
the daughter of Jesse Ross, of that place. Mrs.
Root died at Rockville, Connecticut, in the
year 1904, at the age of seventy-eight years.
To Mr. and Mrs. Root were born two chil
dren : 1. Emma Adelaide, born in Columbia,
Connecticut, February 13, 1847; she attended
Rockville High School, after which she learned
the millinery trade; on January 1, 1872, she
was married to Mr. John Ramsbottom, a
native of Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England,
where he was born in the year 1840; his
migration to America was in the year 1869,
when he settled in Rockville, Connecticut, and
found employment in the Florence Woolen
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Mrs. Ramsbottom engaged in a mercantile
business in Rockville, and were very success
ful for a long period of years, or until Mr.
Ramsbottom's death which occurred at Rock
ville, February i, 1904; Mrs. Ramsbottom is a
woman of many interests and abilities, and is
actively engaged in many of the aspects of the
life of Rockville; she is the possessor of un
usual literary talent, and her work along phil
anthropic lines is noteworthy; she is a mem
ber of the Relief Corps No. 11, of Rockville,
and has served three terms as its president, and
for six years as secretary ; she is the press
correspondent of the Burpee Relief Corps, and
the correspondent of the Connecticut State
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Asso
ciation ; she is also superintendent of the Sol
diers and Sailors work of Tolland county,
Connecticut, and is especially interested in the
library work of this association; Mrs. Rams
bottom has made two trips abroad ; the first
was in 1909, when she visited Paris and Ver
sailles in France and London, Liverpool and
Manchester in England, taking some two
months in all; she made a similar trip two
years later, in 191 1. 2. William Henry, born
November 10, 1848, at Hebron, Connecticut,
and there passed his childhood and received
his education ; he later removed to Rockville,
where he now resides unmarried, and follows
his father's trade of carpentry.

(II) Jeremiah Bean, son of John
BEAN Bean, (q. v.), was born at Exeter,
New Hampshire, April 20, 1675,
died in 1727. He married Ruth  , who
died in 1758. Children: Mary, married 
James ; Jeremiah, mentioned below ; Richard ;
Hannah. (Ill) Jeremiah (2) Bean, son of Jeremiah
(1) Bean, was born at Exeter, New Hamp
shire. He married, June 15, 1749. Abigail
Prescott. Children: Richard, born July 25,
1750; Molly, November 3, 1751 ; Jeremiah,
mentioned below; Levi, September 3, 1754;
Benjamin; Asa; Ruth, November 12, 1767.
(IV) Jeremiah (3) Bean, son of Jeremiah
(2) Bean, was born at Exeter, New Hamp
shire, February 13, 1753. He was a farmer at
New Sharon, Maine. He married Hannah
Smith, born at New Limerick, Maine, died at
New Sharon. Children : Jeremiah, a farmer,
died in New Sharon; John S., mentioned be
low; Eben, died in Farmington, Maine, a
wealthy merchant and cattle buyer; Joseph,
died in New Sharon; Benjamin, died at Cold
Stream, New Brunswick, a farmer; Thomas,
died in Maine, a farmer; Nathaniel, died in
Milo, Maine, a blacksmith; daughter, died in
Sebec, Maine, married John Thompson,
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farmer; Lydia, died at New Sharon, married
John Merrill, of Lewiston, Maine, a farmer in
New Sharon; Hannah, died in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, married Rev. James Heard, a
Baptist minister of New Sharon.
(V) John S. Bean, son of Jeremiah (3)
Bean, was born in Limerick, Maine, probably
in 1783, died in New Jersey in 1855. He was
a farmer in Roxbury. He was a member of
the Baptist church, and a Whig in politics.
He married Sarah Merrill, born in 1786, died
in New Jersey about 1870. Children : Joseph,
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a physician
there and in Jersey City; Charles H., men
tioned below ; Eben, died during civil war,
killed at battle of Antietam; Phoebe, died at
Phillips, Maine, married Plamilton Records,
farmer, born in Phillips ; Mary, died in Bos
ton, unmarried; Harriet, died in Boston, un
married; Sarah, died in Lowell, Massachu
setts, married William Page from Maine ;
Amanda, died in Massachusetts.
(VI) Charles PI. Bean, son of John S.
Bean, was born in Athens, Maine, September
18, 1822. His parents removed to New
Sharon, Maine, when he was a young child
and he attended school there until he was
twelve years old. He afterward attended the
public schools in Farmington until he was
eighteen years old. During his youth he
worked on the farm of his Uncle Ebenezer
until he came of age. He then served an
apprenticeship in a tannery at Gardiner,
Maine. Afterward he was for four years in
the carriage business at Auburn, Maine, then
for five years in the plow business. For six
years he was in the employ of the Bag Mill
Corporation at Lewiston as a pattern maker.
He enlisted in 1863 in the Eleventh Maine
Regiment Volunteer Militia, and served to the
end of the civil war. He was mustered out of
service at Augusta in 1865. After the war he
cleared a farm at Mapleton, Maine, and culti
vated it until 1897, when he came to Presque
Isle to live with his son. In politics he was a Re
publican. He married Margaret Randall, born
in Lewiston, Maine, died at Presque Isle.
Children: 1. Charles Rodney, born at Lewis-
ton, Maine, 1848, died at Mapleton; was a
farmer; married Caroline Thibdeau, who
afterward married Joseph William Bean, men
tioned below. 2. Joseph William, mentioned
below. 3. Elizabeth, born at Turner, Maine,
1852; married (first) Ansel Packard, a farmer;
(second) Joseph Davidson, of Prince Edward
Island; he is an undertaker and merchant at
Munson. 4. Columbus Henry, born 1854, in
Auburn; a mariner. 5. George, born 1857,
married (first) Alice Tibbets; (second) Alice
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ville, Maine. 6. Fred, born at Mapleton, i860;
resides at Bridgewater, Maine, a farmer and
carpenter. (VII) Joseph William Bean, son of Charles
H. Bean, was born at Turner, Maine, April
19, 1850. When he was two years old his
parents removed to Lewiston and when he
was eight years old to Casco Bay, Maine. In
these towns he attended the public schools
until he was nineteen years old. He assisted
his father in the work of the farm and re
mained with him until he came of age. At the
time of his marriage he removed to Mapleton,
where he followed farming until 1900. At
that time he bought a farm in Presque Isle and
has cultivated it since then. In politics he is a
Republican. He attends the Methodist Epis
copal church. He married, January 1, 1870, in
Mapleton, Maine, Caroline (Thibdeau) Bean,
widow of his brother. She was born at Grand
Falls, New Brunswick, July 4, 1849. Her
parents removed to Presque Isle, Maine, when
she was eight years old and she attended the
public schools there. She is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and of the
Woman's Relief Corps. She is a daughter of
Andrew Thibdeau, born at Madawaska, Maine,
1828, died there in 1899. He was a farmer
and lumberman. In politics he was a Republi
can. He married Mary Lagassi, born in 1830
near Madawaska, and died there in 1902.
Children of Andrew Thibdeau, all born at
Madawaska: 1. Caroline, married (first)
Charles Rodney Bean ; (second) Joseph Wil
liam Bean, mentioned above. 2. Edward, re
sides at St. Leonards, New Brunswick. 3.
Aldred, resides at St. Leonards. 4. Frederick,
resides at St. Leonards. 5. Florence, died at
St. Leonards ; married John Adams, a farmer.
6. Alexander, resides at St. Leonards, a
farmer. Edward Thibdeau, father of Andrew
Thibdeau, died at Madawaska, in 1850. He
was of French ancestry, a Roman Catholic in
religion, and his occupation was the making of
spinning wheels.
Children of Joseph William Bean: 1.
Charles Ezra, born September 29, 1870, in
Mapleton, died at Presque Isle in 1876. 2.
Maggie May, born at Mapleton, June 15, 1873 >
married Harry Clare, a native of England,
farmer; she died in March, 1893, in Presque
Isle ; he married (second) Minnie Cronkhite,
of Tobique, New Brunswick; they are now
farming in Presque Isle. 3. Hattie Maude,
born at Presque Isle, May 18, 1875; married
Garvey Swain, of New Brunswick, a carpen
ter, now living in Waterville, Maine ; children :
Gordon, Lillian, Bertie Charles, Wiley, Marie
Swain. 4. Elmer, born September 29, 1877,
at Mapleton, died at Presque Isle, February,

1883. 5. Eva Edna, born at Presque Isle, June
15, 1884; married Percy Rider, of New Bruns
wick; now living near Easton, Maine, a
farmer ; children : Vivian Fay, Fannie Fern,
Edna Louisa Rider. 6. Alice Gussie, born
October 3, 1890, in Mapleton; married Mur
ray Rider, a farmer of Caribou, Maine ; chil
dren : Edgar and a baby son.

(XVI) Elijah Washburn,
WASHBURN son of Joseph Washburn,
(q. v.), was born in
Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He married, in
1746, Hannah Taylor. He settled in Leicester
and in 1760 removed to Natick, Massachu
setts, where he bought of Sarah Rumnamah,
an Indian, a farm on which he lived the re
mainder of his life. Three of his children set
tled in Hancock, New Hampshire: Elijah,
born October 8, 1758, soldier in the Revolu
tion ; Sarah; Joseph, mentioned below.
(XVII) Joseph Washburn, son of Elijah
Washburn, was born in Leicester, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, in 1754. He was a
soldier in the revolution. He married, at
Natick, November 28, 1786, Sarah Gay. He
died at Hancock, May 24, 1841. His wife died
there August 14, 1845, aged eighty-four years.
Children: Reuben, born July 20, 1787; Polly,
November 5, 1790; Eli, January 20, 1793;
Joseph Franklin, mentioned below ; Asa, July
16, 1797; Reed, July 8, 1799.
(XVIII) Joseph Franklin Washburn, son
of Joseph Washburn, was born at Hancock,
New Hampshire, March 4, 1795. He was a
blacksmith by trade. He removed to Mira
michi, New Brunswick, and died there aged
about sixty years. He married, in 1824, Eliza
Munroe, born in 1790 on the St. John river,
New Brunswick. They were communicants of
the Church of England. Children: 1. George
W., a railroad builder, died in Ohio. 2. Sarah
Ann, died in Ludlow, Maine ; married Andrew
Mushreau, of Miramichi, a farmer and lum
berman. 3. Martha, died at Masardis; mar
ried Richard Cliff, of Miramichi, a farmer and
hotel proprietor, lumberman and prominent
citizen. 4. William, died in New Brunswick;
married Bahala Clark. 5. Eliza, died in the
West; married Guilford Bartlett, of Kenne
bec county, a farmer in Ashland. 6. Joseph
F., died at Miramichi, farmer and fisherman;
married Jennie Murdock. 7. James, died at
Masardis; farmer, of Nova Scotia. 8. Reu
ben, mentioned below. 9. Mary Jane.
(XIX) Reuben Washburn, son of Joseph
Franklin Washburn, was born at Miramichi,
New Brunswick, August 25, 1838. He received
his education in the schools of his native town.
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ing. When he was twenty-four years old he
bought a farm in Masardis, Maine, on which
he lived until he sold it in 1897. Pie then
bought a farm in Presque Isle and cultivated
it until he retired in 1903. Since then he has
lived in the village of Presque Isle, where he
bought a house. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church, of which he has been trustee, and
he is a member of the Maysville Center
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Pie married
Elsie Jane Leavitt, in Plantation No. 8, Maine.
She was born in Masardis, September 29,
1843, and was educated there in the public
schools. She is a member of the Woman's
Relief Corps and of the Episcopal church.
Children, all born at Masardis : 1. Ida Louise,
born 1870; married Leslie Bean, of Presque
Isle, a farmer, who was drowned on Sua-Pan
Lake. 2. Myra, bora 1874; married Fred
Cook, of Presque Isle, a farmer ; she is living
at Presque Isle. 3. George Furbush, men
tioned below. 4. Fred W., born April 21,
1881 ; married Carrie Stevens, of New Hamp
shire ; they live near Manchester in that state ;
he is a pattern maker.
(XX) George Furbush Washburn, son of
Reuben Washburn, was born at Masardis,
Maine, August 8, 1877. He attended the pub
lic schools of his native town and the Presque
Isle High School. He assisted his father on
the farm until he was twenty-one years old and
has always followed farming for his occupa
tion. In 1903 he bought his father's farm and
has conducted it since then. In politics he is
a Republican. He is a member of Aroostook
Union Grange, No. 143, Patrons of Hus
bandry; of Trinity Lodge, No. 130, Free and
Accepted Masons. He married, June 21, 1899,
at Presque Isle, Lulu Blanche Porter, born in
Mapleton, April 20, 1879. She attended school
in her native town and forgone year was a
pupil in the schools of Eagle River, Wiscon
sin. She graduated from the Presque Isle
High School in 1898 and taught school one
tenn in the Hayden School, Presque Isle. She
attends the Congregational church. She is a
member of the Eastern Star, in which she has
held the office of Adah (see Porter II). Chil
dren: 1. Marie Evelyn, born November 16,
1903, at Presque Isle. 2. Mamie Arlene, born
July 1, 1904. (The Porter Line).
According to family tradition, four brothers
of the Porter family came from England, two
settling in New Brunswick and two in Ken
nebec county, Maine.
(I) Daniel Porter, son of one of the broth
ers who located in New Brunswick, was born
at Miramichi, New Brunswick, 1823, and died

at Mapleton, Maine, 1878. He owned a lum
ber mill in Miramichi and after selling it,
moved to Mapleton, Maine, where he bought
a farm. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married Elsie McCayer, who died in Maple
ton. Children (order of birth not known) :
1. Mary Ann, married Melzah Plouse, of New
Brunswick, afterward a farmer in Presque
Isle. 2. Margaret, married Marden Nelson.
3. Abbie, resides at Frazee, Minnesota ; mar
ried Luther Weymouth, of Oldtown, Maine,
a farmer and hotel proprietor in Minnesota.
4. Charlotte, married Allen Hale, a farmer in
Washburn. 5. John Leonard, mentioned be
low. 6. Robert, died at Castle Hill, Maine;
married Sarah Day, of New Brunswick. 7.
Richard, married Cora Dennett, of Saco,
Maine ; he died at Mapleton and she is living
in that town.
(II) John Leonard Porter, son of Daniel
Porter, was born at Miramichi, New Bruns
wick, 1832, died at Mapleton, 1885. He was
for several years a teamster in California. He
enlisted in 1863 in the First Maine Regiment
and served to the end of the civil war in the
cavalry. After he was mustered out, he en
gaged in farming in Mapleton and continued
all his active life in that occupation. In poli
tics he was a Democrat. He was a Free
Mason. Pie married, June 2, 1861, in Castle
Hill, Maine, Blester Smith, born in Western,
Maine, January 4, 1843, and is living in
Presque Isle. She attends the Methodist Epis
copal church and was formerly a member of
the Castle Plill Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
and of the Rebekah Lodge. She is a daugh
ter of Guilford Smith, born at Vernon, Maine,
1812, died at Castle Hill, in 1883. He was a
farmer and hotel-keeper in Castle Hill. He
married Mary Brackett, born at Albion,
Maine, 1825, died at Castle Hill, 1898. Chil
dren of Guilford Smith: 1. Emily Smith,
married Simon Porter, of Miramichi, resides
at Castle Hill. 2. Albert Smith, married
Louisa Marble, of Weston, Maine ; merchant
and postmaster of Castle Hill. 3. Hester
Smith, mentioned above. 4. James Smith,
married (first) Eunice Boynton, of Masardis ;
(second) Mary Porter, of Washburn ; he was
a hotel proprietor of Masardis. 5. Wesley
Smith, married Helen Tilley, of Ashland; he
was a farmer at Castle Hill. 6. Herbert Smith,
¦> died at Castle Hill ; was a hotel keeper ; mar
ried Mary Eastler, of Washburn ; she resides
at Castle Hill. 7. Everett Smith, married
Villa Bowers, of Boston ; he is a Methodist
minister, now of Los Angeles, California. The
father of Guilford Smith lived in Maine and
died at Hallowell in 1845. Guilford Smith
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abeth Todd, and was a farmer at Castle Hill.
He also had a sister, Harriet Smith, of Ash
land, who married  Bartlett, a farmer,
who died in Kennebec county, Maine. Chil
dren of John Leonard Porter: i. Cora, born
December 13, 1863; married William Nich
ols, of Lewiston, Maine, a hardware merchant
of Boston. 2. Fred O., born June 19, 1865;
married Ella Chandler, of Castle Hill; resid
ing at Presque Isle, a real estate owner. 3.
Rose B., died aged eleven years. 4. Nellie,
born February 7, 1869, died aged twenty-
three years; married Fred Shaw, of Eagle
River, Wisconsin, now a farmer in Maple
ton. 5. Morton, died in infancy. 6. Maude,
died young. 7. Lulu, Blanche, married George
Furbush Washburn, (see Washburn XX). 8.
Mamie, born March 26, 1883; married Harry
Pipes, of Presque Isle, where he is a merchant.

Thomas Manchester, the
MANCHESTER immigrant ancestor, was
born in England, and
was a resident of New Haven, Connecticut,
in 1639, the year following the planting of the
colony. Afterward, however, he settled at
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he is first
mentioned in the land records, January 25,
1655, when he and his wife sold to Thomas
Wood twelve acres of land. He married Mar
garet, daughter of John Wood. In the settle
ment of her father's estate, it was ordered,
March 17, 1655, that the son John pay his sis
ter, Margaret Manchester, eight pounds. Eight
acres of land were granted at Portsmouth to
Thomas Manchester, December 10, 1657, and
he sold to Richard Sisson one three-hundredth
right in Canonicut and Dutch Islands. In 1680
he was taxed four shillings. He deeded to his
son John, July 9, 1691, his mansion bouse and
lands at Portsmouth, except the place at the
lower end of the ground, in possession of his
son Thomas, one-half to be his at the death of
grantor and the other half after the death of
grantor's wife, mother of grantee, provided
he pay to the sons, Thomas, William' and Ste
phen, ten shillings each, to Job twenty shillings,
and daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, ten shil
lings each. He also gave to John his personal
property, including cattle, tools, etc. Thomas
Manchester died in 1691 ; his wife in 1693.
Children: Thomas, born about 1650; William,
mentioned below ; John, George, Stephen, Job,
Mary, Elizabeth.
(II) William Manchester, son of Thomas
Manchester, was born in 1654, died in 1718.
He was admitted a freeman in 1675. With
others he bought, March 5, 1680, of Governor
Josiah Winslow, land at Pocasset and became
the owner of five of the thirty shares. He be

came one ¦ of the organizers of the town of
Tiverton, March 2, 1692. His will was dated
September 27, 1716, proved November 3, 1718.
He left his lands at Tiverton to his son John
and made other legacies to his wife and chil
dren-, to be paid by John. His estate was ap
praised at 1,586 pounds. He married Mary
Cook, who died in 1716, daughter of John and
Mary (Borden) Cook. Children: John,-men-
tioned below; William, Mary, Sarah, Deb
orah, Elizabeth, Margaret, Amey, Susanna,
Rebecca, Thomas.
(Ill) John Manchester, son of William
Manchester, was born in 1695. He married,
March 22, 1718-19, Phebe Gray. Children,
born at Tiverton: William, February 9, 1719-
20; Phillip, February 11, 1722; John, Febru
ary 12, 1724; Mary, January 23, 1726; John,
April 17, 1728; Isaac, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain Isaac Manchester, son of
John Manchester, was born at Tiverton, June
27, 1731. He married (first) November 1,
1750, Abigail Brown, (second) April 9, 1769,
Deborah, daughter of Thomas Cook. Chil
dren: Phillip, born August 23, 1751 ; Sarah,
October 1, 1753; Isaac, mentioned below;
Thomas, April 5, 1759; Abraham, August 8,
1 761; John, July 10, 1764; Phebe, August 22,
1766; Abigail, February 9, 1769.
(V) Isaac (2) Manchester, son of Captain
Isaac (1) Manchester, was born at Tiverton,
Rhode Island, August 4, 1756. He was a sol
dier in the revolution, a private in Colonel
Topham's regiment, 1776, and afterward in
Colonel Crary's regiment. He married, May
11, 178' — , Alice Tabor, daughter of Jacob and
Susanna Tabor. Children, born at Tiverton:
John, May 19, 1783; Otis, January 28, 1786,
died April 26, 1788; Lucy, March 26, 1788,
married  Hammond; Robert, August
21, 1790; Isaac, September 21, 1792; Otis,
March 17, 1795; Willard, May 12, 1797;
George, August 20, 1799; Humphrey, August
10, 1803; Jacob, mentioned below; Eli, Octo
ber 21, 1808.
(VI) Jacob Manchester, son of Isaac (2)
Manchester, was born at Tiverton, May 2,
1806, died at his home on Friendship street,
June 29, 1871, and is buried in the North
Burying Ground, Providence. He attended
the public schools of his native town, but at
the age of twelve years he left home to study
surveying under the instruction of his brother,
Robert Manchester, in Providence. He fol
lowed this profession for a time and afterward
learned the trade of carpenter. He soon after
ward engaged in the lumber business under the
firm name of Manchester & Dailey. The place
of business of the firm was on Dyer street,
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barked in business as a dealer in brick, cement,
masons, and other material for builders, with
headquarters on the Dorranee street wharf.
He also soon engaged in the handling of coal,
being one of the first coal dealers in the city.
In 1846 William H. Hopkins became his part
ner and the firm name became Manchester &
Hopkins. G. P. Pomeroy and John H. Hop
kins were afterward admitted to the firm,
which was afterward known as Manchester,
Hopkins & Company. He continued at the
head of the firm to the end of his life.
Mr. Manchester was a typical self-made man
of business, beginning his career without capi
tal and depending on his own exertions en
tirely for the large measure of success that he
won in business. He was keen, far-sighted,
enterprising and progressive, upright and
honorable in all the walks of life, well known
throughout the city and highly respected in
the communit}'. In public affairs he took an
active interest and he was a useful and influ
ential citizen. In politics he was a Repub
lican. He was for a number of years a mem
ber of the old Providence Fire Company.
He married (first) in Providence, Rhode
Island, September 3, 1827, Caroline Pettis, who
was bom September 19, 1806, and died June
6, 1838. He married (second) December 25,
1838, Thankful Stevens, who was born at
Barnstable, Massachusetts, September 25, 1817,
died at her home on Friendship street, Sep
tember 15. 1892, daughter of Samuel and Abir
gail (Hilliard) Stevens. She was a devout
member of the Methodist Episcopal church on
Chestnut street. Children by first wife, born
in Providence : 1. Caroline Frances, born Sep
tember '14, 1828, died August 18, 1904; mar
ried Norval B. Lamb. 2. William Dart, bom
March 13, 1834, died August 1, 1877, in
Chicago. 3. Mary Ann, born May 31, 1838,
died October 1, 1838. Children by second
wife: 4. Daughter, born March 15, 1840, died
same day. 5. Lucy Hammond, born Septem
ber 22. 1841, died March 8. 1846. 6. Jacob Tr.,
born July 24, 1843, died February 14, 1846.
7. Emma Louisa, mentioned below. 8. Mary
Simmons, born December 26, 1849. 9- Walter
Howland, mentioned below. 10. Eleanor
Lewis, born March 1, 1855, died September 15,
i8q8. 11. Willard, mentioned below.
(VII) Emma Louisa Manchester, daughter
of Jacob Manchester, was born at Providence,
Rhode Island, July 29. 1846. She and her sw-
ter, Mary Simmons Manchester, reside at 152
Adelaide avenue, Providence. They are mem
bers of the Methodist Eoiscopal church, of
various charitable organizations and' of the
Children's Friends Society. Miss Manchester
is a member of the Rhode Island Woman's

Club and she and her sister are members of
the Elmwood Club.
(VII) Walter Howland Manchester, son of
Jacob Manchester, was born at Providence,
Rhode Island, August 16, 185 1. He attended
the public schools of Providence and Scofield's
Commercial College. At the age of eighteen
years, he entered the employ of Manchester
& Hopkins as salesman and continued with
that firm until 1878, when he became a part
ner in the firm of Manchester & Hudson,
dealers in masons' and builders' material, Point
street, near Point street bridge. The business
prospered. In 1910 it was incorporated under
the laws of Rhode Island and Mr. Manchester
became president of the company. He stands
high in, the business world and is accounted
one of the foremost merchants of the city.
He is a member of What Cheer Lodge, No.
21, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of
Providence Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Ma
sons ; of Providence Council, No. 1, Royal and
Select Masters ; of Calvary Commandery, No.
13, Knights Templar; Palestine Temple, Order
of the Mystic Shrine ; and Rhode Island Con
sistory (thirty-second degree).
Mr. Manchester married (first) December
31, 1872, Ida Davis, daughter of James and
Julia (Ray) Davis. She died September 8,
1905. Children: 1. Edith Howland, married
Thomas J. Griffin, now of Abington, Massa
chusetts, and has had four children : Thomas
J., died in infancy; Deborah Manchester;
Thomas J., 2nd., and Edith Amanda Griffin.
2. Bertha Simmons, married J. Forrest Perkins,
of Providence. Mr. Manchester married (sec
ond) March 19, 1907, Ella (Patton) Bardeen,
widow of Bernard Bardeen, and daughter of
Lorenzo Patton.
(VII) Willard Manchester, son of Jacob
Manchester, was, born- at Providence, Rhode
Island, July 27, 1857, died May 1, 1910, at
Providence, in the prime of life. He was edu
cated there in the public schools. He engaged
in the insurance business. He married Vesta
Louise Trescott. Children: 1. Raymond Lin-
dumon, born April 14, 1881, died April 12,
1893. 2. Helen Louise, born April 10, 1883.
3. Ruth Frances, born May 22, 1886. 4. Lewis
Trescott, born October 13, 1887, who died in
infancy. (The Cook Line).
(I) Francis Cook came to Plymouth in the
"Mayflower" and was one of the signers of
the Compact with his son John. His wife
Hester, a Walloon, came in the ship "Ann"
with other children in 1623. He died April
7, 1663. His will was dated December 7,
1659, and was proved June 5, 1663, bequeath
ing to wife Hester and son John. Children :

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John, Jacob, James, Hester and Mary, named
in the division of cattle in 1623.
(II) Mary Cook, daughter of Francis Cook,
was born in 1626; married at Plymouth, De
cember 26, 1645, John Thompson, who was in
Plymouth as early as 1643, when his name was
on the list of those able to bear arms. John
Thompson- served against the Narragansetts
in 1645 • was a town officer. Children of John
and Mary (Cook) Thompson, of Plymouth
and Barnstable : John, died February 18, 1648 ;
John, born November 24, 1649; Hester, July
28, 1652; Elizabeth, January 28, 1654; Sarah,
April 4, 1657; Lydia, October 5, 1659; Jude,
April 24, 1662; Thomas, October 19, 1664;
Mary, mentioned below.
(Ill) Mary Thompson, daughter of John
and Mary (Cook) Thompson, married Thomas
Tabor. Their son Jacob, born 1683, married
Susannah  , and had Alice Tabor, who
married Isaac Manchester (see Manchester
V).

This peculiar spelling of the
JOHNSTON name marks the Scotch
origin of the family in every
known case. From the thrifty people of that
delightful country have come many of the best
citizens of America, and they are scattered
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, wherever they
go carrying energy, industry and the support
of good morals. Many have come by the way
of Northern Ireland, where those of Scotch
lineage are often said to be "more Scotch than
the Scotch." The family mentioned below,
which is now identified with Putnam, Con
necticut, came to America by way of Nova
Scotia, and the name of the original ancestor
who came to that country about 1808 is now
unknown to his descendants in Putnam. He
came from Scotland, was a farmer in Nova
Scotia, where he died. The names of the fol
lowing sons are preserved : Duncan, Hector,
Angus, Neil, Lachlan.
(II) Neil Johnston was born in 1828, in
Nova Scotia, died in Canton, Massachusetts,
1887. From his native province he removed
to New Brunswick, Canada, in 1867, and fol
lowed logging and lumbering there and in the
Maine woods for a dozen years or more. He
took contracts for furnishing wood for the
engines on the railroads in New Brunswick,
and by his energy and industry accumulated
some capital. About 1880 he removed to Can
ton, Massachusetts, where he continued to re
side until his death. In early manhood, while
at work in the lumber region, he met with an
accident, which incapacitated him for heavy
labor, and led ultimately to his death, while yet
in the prime of life. For some time after re

moving to Canton, he was identified with the
copper works there. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church, and while in Canada was
known as a Liberal in politics. He married
Mary McKenzie, born in 1830, in Nova Scotia,
died in 1892, in Canton, daughter of Kenneth
McKenzie. Children : Sarah, born December
31, 1864, married Douglass Fenwick; Mur-
dock McKenzie, born March 15, 1866, now
resides in Massachusetts ; John George, men
tioned below ; Jannette, born October 6, 1868,
married Darwin Freeman; Douglas Austin,
born February 22, 1870, married Winifred
Sherman, and has children: Harold, Emily,
Neil, Douglas, Frances ; Martha, born April
25, 1871 died August 2, 1903; Lena, born Feb
ruary 20, 1876, died 1895.
(Ill) John George Johnston, second son of
Neil and Mary (McKenzie) Johnston, was
born May 18, 1867, at River John, Nova Scotia-,
and was but three months old when his par
ents removed to New Brunswick. His early
education was supplied, by public and private
tutors there. He was twelve years old when
the family removed to Canton, Massachusetts,
and there he entered a cotton mill, improving
his evenings by attendance on night schools.
After a short time he left the mill and took a
position in the nail department of the copper
works. Following this he was employed in a
stove polish factory, and later in an oilcloth
factory. In 1890 he went into the silk mill of
the Eureka Silk Manufacturing Company at
Putnam, Connecticut, and made a thorough
study of the silk industry. Since that time he
has confined his1 attention to that industry, and
when the Eureka Silk Manufacturing Com
pany was absorbed by the Hammond- Knowlton
Company of Putnam, Connecticut, Mr. John
ston continued under the new employers. He
removed to Putnam in 1906, and in August,
1908, was made superintendent of the com
pany's principal plant, which is located in that
town, and in addition to this position he is
now a stockholder and director in the com
pany. Mr. Johnston is a member and deacon
of the Congregational church at Putnam, and
assistant superintendent of its Sunday school.
He is also identified with various fraternal
bodies, being a member of Blue Hill Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; of the Royal Arch
Chapter at Danielson, Connecticut, and the
Council at Putnam. He is also affiliated with
Putnam Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the local lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at Canton, Massachusetts. Politically he is
identified with the Progressive movement, and
is now alderman of the first ward of the city
of Putnam.

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Hamlet Moss, the English progeni-
MOSS tor of this family, was born in Ash-
ton, England, about 1802, died in
his native town in 1832. He married Mary
Lee, who was also born in Ashton. She died
in Greenville, Rhode Island, in 1859, aged
fifty-nine years. Children: Patience, born at
Ashton in 1823, died at Grosvenordale, Con
necticut, in 1895; John, born in 1824, died in
1836; Thomas, mentioned below; Enoch, born
in 1828, died in 1832.
(II) Thomas Moss, son of Hamlet Moss.
was born at Ashton, England (called Ashton
Underline), and died in the town of New
Maryland, province of New Brunswick, Can
ada, in August, 191 1. He was a miller and
farmer. He married (first) Agnes Hodgson,
born in Blackburn, England, in 18-26, died in
1858, daughter of Thomas William and Agnes
Hodgson. He married (second) Agnes Char
ters, who was born in New Maryland, New
Brunswick, in 1826. Children by first wife:
Jennie, born at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in
1848, died in infancy ; Thomas, born at Woon
socket in 1850, died in infancy; Charles Henry,
mentioned below ; Thomas, born at Woon
socket in 1854, died im infancy; William Ed
ward, born- in New Maryland, New Bruns
wick, in 1857. Children by second wife:
Jennie, born at New Maryland, in i860, mar
ried Jabez Hodgson ; Margaret, born in 1862,
married Edward Burnside Chapman; Julius,
born in 1864; Thomas, born in 1866.
(HI) Charles Henry Moss, son of Thomas
Moss, was born at Greenville, Rhode Island.
July 13, 1852. He attended the public schools
in the towns in which his parents lived during
his youth. Early in life he went to work in a
cotton mill and he learned the business of
manufacturing cotton cloth in every detail. He
has continued in this business all his life. For
some years he was employed in the mills at
North Pownall, Vermont. For fifteen years
he was an overseer in the Powhatan mills at
Putnam, Connecticut. At the present time he
is superintendent of the cotton mills at Dob-
sonville, in the town of Vernon, Connecticut,
a position he has" held for a number of years.
In politics he is«a Republican. He is a mem
ber of the Baptist church, and of the local
council of the Royal Arcanum. He married,
January 11, 1879, Ellen Gully, born in Corn
wall, England, in the village of Lew Mills,
near Liscard, August 12, 1857, a daughter of
John J. and Mary Jane (Banfield) Gully. Her
parents came to America from England in
June, 1873. She was one of nine children, one
son and eight daughters. Children of Charles.
Henry and Ellen Moss: 1. Maud Alice, mar
ried Clarence Barrett, of Hartford, Connecti

cut, and has two children : Donald E. and
Dorothy Moss. 2. William Edward, men
tioned below.
(IV) William Edward Moss, son of Charles
Henry Moss, was born at Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, August 29, 1886. He was a young boy
when he came with his parents to Putnam,
Connecticut, where he received his education
in the public schools. He graduated from the
Putnam high school and afterward attended a
business college at Worcester, Massachusetts.
He began his business career in the Worcester
office of the American Steel and Wire Com
pany, where he continued for a period of three
years. In 1909 he accepted a position in the
office of the Nightingale-Morse mills as cost
accountant and paymaster, a position he has
held to the present time. Pie is a member of
the First Baptist Church of Putnam. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He married, October
16, 1912, Rhoda Dean, born in Lowell, Massa
chusetts, February 16, 1883, daughter of John
Munday and Mary Ann (Dudley) Dean. Mr.
and Mrs. Moss have one child, William Dean,
born at Putnam, October 18, 19 13.

This is a name which, has been
DEAN identified with American history
from a very early period, coming
here from England, where the descendants
have continued to reside and whence came re
cently to this country the family herein de
scribed. It is the opinion of some writers that the
name was originally derived from the Latin
word Decanus, a term applied to a Roman
military officer of minor rank, commanding a
force of ten men, and its English equivalent,
Dean, was long ago adopted as an ecclesiastical
title. It is also time honored as the title of a
collegiate official. It has probably existed as a
patronymic in England from the time of King
Alfred the Great, tenth century, who was the
first British sovereign to encourage the adop
tion of surnames. The first of the name in
America were Rachel Dean, probably a widow,
and Stephen Dean, both of whom arrived at
Plymouth in the "Fortune," November, 1621.
Stephen Dean erected and operated the first
grist mill in the Plymouth Colony. In 1637
two immigrants of this name, John and Wal
ter Dean, brothers, came from Chard, a place
of some importance, located about twelve miles
from Taunton, county of Somerset. Informa
tion at hand states that they were the sons of
William Dean. They landed at Boston, and
after spending a year in Dorchester, proceeded
to Taunton, Massachusetts, where they were
admitted freemen, December 4, 1638. John
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directed in his will that "in case there be no
settled ministry in Taunton, my administrators
shall have full power to sell either the whole
or a part of these my housings- and lands, so as
my children and posterity may remove else
where, where they may enjoy God and His
Ordnances." (I) James Dean, son of a British soldier,
a native of Leeds, England, lived and died in
that place. His wife was Sarah (Munday)
Dean, also a native of Leeds, and they had
children: Margaret, Martha, Rhoda, Mary
Ann, John Munday, James, Joseph.
(II) John Munday Dean, eldest son of
James and Sarah '(Munday) Dean, was born
October 30, 1845, i° Leeds, and was educated
in the schools of that city. At an early age he
was accustomed to earn his own livelihood by
working as a pin grinder in the making of
textile pins. In May, 1876, in his thirty-first
year, he came to America and first located in
Newark, New Jersey, where he remained a
year. In 1877 he removed to Lowell, Massa^
chusetts, and continued to reside in that town
until 19 10, and was continuously employed at
pinmaking until 1899, when he engaged in
business on his own account in Lowell, in the
manufacture of textile pins and talking machine
needles. Im 1910 he erected a large plant in
Putnam, Connecticut, and removed his busi
ness to that place. In 1913 the business was
incorporated under the title, "John M. Dean,
Incorporated." He is treasurer of this cor
poration. Charles E. Dean is president, and
John M. Dean Jr., secretary. The product of
this establishment is sent to all parts of the
world, and the business has experienced a
steady and healthy growth. It is one of two
of its kind in New England, and there are but
three in the United States. Its establishment,
growth and success are chiefly due to the in
dustry, skill and prudent management of John
M. Dean Sr. He does not concern himself
greatly with public affairs, and has given his
attention to the development of his business.
He married, May 21, 1870, Mary Ann Dud
ley, also a native of Leeds, England, born Jan
uary 25, 1848. Children: 1. Charles E., born
November 1, 1871, in Leeds; is president of
the John M. Dean Company, Incorporated;
he married Marion Elliott, and they have one
son, Elliott Dudley, born March 13, 1905. 2.
Sarah, died in infancy. 3. Mary Ann, born
November 7," 1876, in Leeds; wife of William
Arthur Morse, secretary of the Young Men's
Christian Association, of Hoi yoke, Massachu
setts ; they have a son, Roland Danforth Morse,
born December 27, 191 1. 4. Sarah M., born
January 25, 1879, in Lowell, Massachusetts; is
now a teacher in that city. 5. Rhoda, born

February 16, 1883; married William E. Moss,
now employed at the Nightingale Morse mills
of Putnam; their son, William Dean Morse,
was born October 18, 19 13. 6. John Munday,
mentioned below.
(Ill) John Munday (2) Dean, youngest
child of John Munday (1) and Mary Ann
(Dudley) Dean, was born June 20, 1885, in
Lowell, Massachusetts, where he grew up and
attended the public schools. He was early
accustomed to assist his father in the manu
facture of pins and has ever since so continued.
When the business was incorporated in 191 3,
he became secretary of the corporation. Like
his father he gives the best of his time and
talents to the development and growth of the
business, and is little concerned in outside
affairs. He married, April 14, 1910, Ethel J.
Kerr, of Lowell, daughter of John and Fran-
cese (Griffith) Kerr, of that city. Mr. and
Mrs. Dean have one daughter, Doris, born
August 5, 1913.

This name is of distinctively
EVANS Welsh origin, and is most numer
ously represented in Wales and
in this country. The people of this nationality
are noted for their peace loving nature, their
industry, and substantial promotion of good
morals wherever found. The ancestry of the
family below described is veiled in mystery
because of the fragmentary nature of the vital
records in Rhode Island. The name is early
found in that state, and this family is prob
ably descended from Thomas, son of Evan
Evans, who married in Newport, March 8,
1 801, Dorcas Doubleday, born October 25,
1765, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Ladd)
Doubleday. ( I ) Eli Evans was born in, Kingston, Rhode
Island, died in North Kingston, in 1878. He
was a bookkeeper by profession, and of indus
trious and frugal habits. He married Phebe
Thomas, who died at the age of forty-eight
years. Children: Raymond Robinson, of
whom further ; Nicholas ; George B., died in
March, 1914; Elizabeth, died at the age of
sixteen years; Torris.
(II) Raymond Robinson Evans, eldest child
of Eli and Phebe (Thomas) Evans, was bom
November 20, 1827, in Wickford, Rhode
Island, died in Putnam, Connecticut, March 4,
1912. Plis education was very meagre, and
when only seven years of age he went to work
in a mill, and passed most of his life in mill
work. Pie was among the patriots who went
to the defense of the country when it was
imperiled by internal dissension, enlisting Oc
tober 5, 1861, at Providence, in Company G,
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served until October 6, 1864. He reenlisted
February 24, 1865, in Company C, Fourth
Regiment First Army Corps, and continued as
a private until the close of the war. When
peace was restored he again entered a mill,
and removed to Putnam, Connecticut, in 1875.
For the last twenty-five years of his life he
was disabled on account of the exposures and
severity of army life. He was a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic and of the
Advent church, and was a Republican in politi
cal principle. Faithful to every duty and obliga
tion of life, he earned and retained the esteem
and respect of all who were privileged to know
him. He married, June 16, 1877, Mary Eliza Wil
cox, born May 22, 1856, in West Thompson,
Connecticut, daughter of James and Ruby
(Wilbur) Wilcox, and granddaughter of Wil
liam Wilcox. Children : 1 . Mabel Ruby, born
June 1, 1878; married, in 1903, Harry E. Stra-
ton, and has a daughter, Gladys Isabel, born
March- 18, 1904. 2. Alphonse Rudolphus, born
September 29, 1880; married Carrie Wilbur.
3. Bertha Arvilda, born October 16, 1882 ; is
a stenographer employed in the office of J . F.
Spencer. 4. Raymond Robinson, born June 9,
1884; married, July 13, 1914, Anna Mercier.
5. Ruby May, born June 29, 1886; married
Thomas Light, and has sons: Howard Fran
cis and Thomas Kenny. 6. George Byron,
bom September 26, 1888, died 1889. 7. Earl
Gardner, born July 27, 1890. 8. Frank Lester,
born November 25, 1894.

The name of Weeks has been
WEEKS identified with the pioneer settle
ment of several New England
states, and the citizens of those states now
include many of the name. It has been con
nected, like most New England names, with
the pioneer settlement of many states in the
Union, and to-day bears its share in the de
velopment and moral progress of the nation.
(I) Amos Weeks, born about 1795-1800,
was the father of the following sons : Amos,
Rufus, Asa, Frank and Elisha.
(II) Frank Weeks, son of Amos Weeks,
died in Phoenixville, Connecticut, about 1868,
in the neighborhood of forty years old. He
followed various occupations, and resided most
of his active life in Eastford, Connecticut. He
married Lucetta Badger, of Eastford, who
died in 1909, aged seventy years, daughter of
Chester Badger. Children : Paschal, Leverett
Frank, Elijah, Henry, Lewis, Champion, Ches
ter, Emma, married Newton Snow ; Ida, mar
ried Fred Franklin ; Alice, married Burt Whit-

and Lucetta (Badger) Weeks, was born March
9, 1851, in Eastford, Connecticut, and attended
the schools of Pomfret, same state. In early
life be worked on farms in various localities,
and settled in Putnam, Connecticut, in 1879.
Here he engaged in teaming and livery busi
ness, which has grown under his able and care
ful management, and he now has the best
equipped stables in his section. He gives strict
attention to the wants of his patrons, and has
little time for other concerns, taking no part
in political agitation, and is, a- regular attendant
of the Baptist church. He married (first)
Almeda Chaplain, (second) Louise Preston.
Children of first marriage : Bertha, born Au
gust 12, 1877; Frank, January 15, 1879. Child
of second marriage : Carl E., born November
28, 1894.

ney.

(Ill) Leverett Frank Weeks, son of Frank

No less than thirty -two men by
SHAW the name of Shaw were among the
pioneer settlers of New England
during the seventeenth century. The name has
been identified with the history of English-
speaking people from a very early period. One
progenitor of the numerous families bearing
this name was Roger Shaw, born in England,
who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
1636, removing eleven years later to New
Hampshire. The family included in this
article is presumably of Scottish origin, but
migrated from Ireland to this country in re
cent years.
(I) The first of whom the descendants now
have knowledge was Gatt Shaw, a native of
Scotland, who removed to Ireland, where he
was active in local affairs, and because of his
educational qualifications served some time as
a school trustee. His wife's baptismal name
was Eliza, and record of one child, James
Shaw, is preserved.
(II) James Shaw, son of Gatt and Eliza
Shaw, was born about 1837, in county Armagh,
Ireland, and is now living a retired life in
Preston, England. When only seven years of
age he went to Manchester and was very soon
employed in a cotton mill there, rising from a
very humble position to an important one in
connection, with the cotton industry. He has
made several trips to America, coming the first
time in i860, and has been employed- in mills
at Fisherville, Massachusetts, Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Bedford,
Massachusetts. He has always maintained his
home in Preston, and is proud of his home
city. He is identified with the Episcopal
church in religious matters, and is a Tory in
politics. He married Elizabeth Parker, born
at Tarlton, Lancashire, England, daughter
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Children : Eliza, now deceased ; Margaret Ann,
wife of John Porter; Eliza, deceased; Mary
Jane; Alice; John Parker, mentioned below;
Ellen Ada, deceased; Arabella; James, de
ceased ; Lillie, deceased ; Evelyn, Mrs. James
Webb; Florence, wife of Stephen Kirchner.
(Ill) John Parker Shaw, eldest son of
James and Elizabeth (Parker) Shaw, was born
June 30, 1867, at Preston, Lancashire, Eng
land, and was educated in the public schools
of his native town. At an early age he became
identified with the cotton mill industry, and
with the exception of a very short time has de
voted bis entire life to it. At the age of
eighteen years, in 1885, he came to the United
States "and spent one year each in mills at New
Bedford, Massachusetts, and at Berkley, Rhode
Island. For six years he was in Fisherville,
Massachusetts, three years in Lonsdale, Rhode
Island, two years in New York City, seven
years in Passaic, New Jersey, and three years
in Maiden and Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
From Fitchburg he removed to Putnam, Con
necticut, to take the position of superintendent
of what was then known as the Monohowsett
mills, now known as the Manhasset Manufac
turing Company, and has since continued in
that position. Wherever he has resided Mr.
Shaw has taken an interest in the progress of
the community and his adopted country, and
has been somewhat active in social life. He
is a member of the Masonic order, affiliating
with the Blue Lodge at Fitchburg, and the
Royal Arch Chapter of Putnam. He is also
a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of the
latter place. He attends the Episcopal church,
in which he was reared, and- has cast his politi
cal fortunes in this country with the Repub
lican party. He married, June 22, 1892, Selina
Goode, born in Darwin, England, daughter of
Thomas and Eliza (Parlitt) Goode. Mr. and
Mrs. Shaw are the parents of two children :
James Thomas, born March 5, 1893, and Lena,
November 1, 1894.

(VIII) Henry A. Haines, son
HAINES of Joseph Wingate Haines (q.
v.), was born at Hallowell,
Maine, September 17, 1832, died in Fort Fair
field, Maine, in April, 1889. He was educated
in the public schools. When a young man he
settled in Fort Fairfield, where he was em
ployed in the lumber industry, as a miller in
grist mill and saw mill, and he resided there
to the end of his life. In politics he was a
Democrat. He was prominent in public affairs
and held various town offices. He was a com
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church,
and member of Pioneer Lodge, No. yy , Inde

pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a
soldier in the civil war, but his regiment was
not called into active service on account of the
fall of the Confederacy. He married Mary F.
Knight, born in Maine in 1839, died July 15,
1914. She was a resident of Fort Fairfield,
attended the Congregational church, and was
a member of Rebekah Lodge and of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Chil
dren: 1. Adelaide, born at Fort Fairfield, in
1856; married Lafayette Richardson, of Brad
ford, Pennsylvania, where he is in business as
an oil driller ; children : Harriet, married Reu
ben Ervin, of Houlton, Maine, a clothier; Don,
deceased ; Adelaide, living at Bradford, Penn
sylvania, married Hugh Pipes, of Presque Isle,
deceased ; Eva, a stenographer, of Houlton ;
Clyde, died young; Haines, died young. 2.
William Arthur, mentioned below. 3. Ida,
bom at Fort Fairfield, 1865 ; married Fred
Fields, of Princeton, Maine, and had Haines
Fields. (IX) William Arthur Haines, son- of Henry
A. Haines, was born at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
July 8, 1859. He attended the public schools
of his native town and the Fort Fairfield high
school. He assisted his father after leaving
school and succeeded to the ownership of the
grist mill and saw mill of his father, and he
continued the business. He sold the grist mill
to D. E. Edwards. He has operated the saw
mill to the present time and conducted a farm
in the village of Fort Fairfield. He has one
hundred acres of land in Fort Fairfield, all
under cultivation, and another farm in An
dover, New Brunswick, about six miles from
the village of Fort Fairfield, of which about
fifty acres are cleared, and the remainder is
valuable timber land. In politics he is a Dem
ocrat. He attends the Congregational church,
and is a member of Pioneer Lodge, No. yy, In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, in, which
he has held various offices and of which he is
now a trustee. He belongs also to the North
ern Light Encampment, in which he has also
held office, and to Canton No. 22, in which he
has also been an officer. He is a member of
the Knights of Pythias, of Fort Fairfield, and
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, No. 385, of Houlton.
He married, at Fort Fairfield, Maine, March
30, 1893, Laura May Hoyt, born at Fort Fair
field, May 13, 1867. She attended the public
schools and the Fort Fairfield high school. She
is a member of the Society of Friends and was
formerly a member of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union (see Hoyt II). Children:
1. Frances, born July 1, 1895, died in August,
1895. 2- Thelma, born April 29, 1897 ; student
in the high school, class of 191 5.

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(The Hoyt Line).
(I) Levi Hoyt, of an old New England
family, was born at Readfield, Maine, about
1798, died in Fort Fairfield, in 1880. He was
a farmer all his active life. He came to Fort
Fairfield in 1841 with the pioneers. He cleared
a farm which he cultivated for many years. In
politics he was a Whig, later a Republican.
He took a leading part in town affairs. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which he was steward and trustee.
He joined the first temperance society organ
ized in Maine and was prominent in the tem
perance movement. He married Rachel Wood,
born in Kennebec coumty, Maine, in 1800, died
at Fort Fairfield in 1877. She was an active
and- prominent member of the Methodist
church. Children: 1. Melvin, born at Read-
field, Maine, died near Sacramento, California ;
married Olive Webb, of Fort Fairfield; no
children. 2. Enoch, born at Readfield, died at
Fort Fairfield ; was a farmer ; married Jane
Clark, of Easton ; children, : Gustavus, killed in
an accident, married Ellen Delano, of Easton ;
a daughter who died young. 3. Joshua, born
at Readfield; -enlisted im the civil war in 1861
and died in the service, unmarried. 4. Albert,
born at Readfield, died at Fort Fairfield;
served in the civil war ; owned a planing mill ;
married Emma Pickard, of Ludlow, Maine,
now living in Fort Fairfield; no children. 5.
Thomas Hubbard, mentioned below. 6. Charles,
born at Readfield, resides on the Houlton road,
Readfield, a farmer ; served in- the civil war,
pensioner; married (first) Riza  , (sec
ond) Mrs. Carrie (Nichols) Dross. 7. Gus
tavus, born at Readfield, Maine, died young.
8. Julia, born at Fort Fairfield, died there ;
married (first) Lafayette Springer, of Bel
grade, Maine, a farmer, deceased, leaving one
son, Nelson Springer, of Bethel, Maine, a
spool and novelty manufacturer ; Julia married
(second) Charles McLain, of New Bruns
wick, Canada, a farmer, deceased, leaving one
son, Vinal McLain, married Rosa Bean, of
Bethel, and now a clerk in a drug store at
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(II) Thomas Hubbard Hoyt, son of Levi
Hoyt, was born at Readfield, Maine, July 19,
1829, died April 21, 1914, at the old home.
He resided in Maplegrove in the town of Fort
Fairfield. He was a farmer all his active life.
His farm was in Fort Fairfield on the Houlton
road, one hundred and forty acres of cleared
land and thirty acres of timber. In politics he
was a Republican. He was the first town
treasurer of Fort Fairfield. He was a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church and
was formerly a member of the Maplegrove
Grange. He married Frances Usher Parsons,

born at Eastbrook, Hancock county, Maine,
April 22, 1835, died at Fort Fairfield, April
24, 1881. She resided in Ashland and Easton
before her marriage. She was a devout Meth
odist. William Parsons, her father, was born
in Hancock county, Maine, in 181 5, died at
Easton in, 1891. He was a farmer and a Meth
odist preacher. He owned farms in Easton
and Fort Fairfield. Pie married a Miss Usher,
who died in Ashland. Children of Wrilliam
Parsons: 1. Frances Usher Parsons, married
Thomas Hubbard Hoyt, mentioned above. 2.
Charlotte Parsons, died at Houlton ; married
Lendal Parsons, of Easton, now of Franklin
Park, Massachusetts, a commission merchant
of Boston. 3. Annette Parsons, married (first)
Rev. Charles Sinnett, pastor of the Congre
gational church of Fort Fairfield, (second)
Henry Higgins, a truckman, served in the civil
war, resides at Easton. 4. John Parsons, killed
in the battle of the Wilderness, unmarried. 5.
Lyman Parsons, killed in the battle of Antie
tam, unmarried. 6. Charles Parsons, married
Clara Towle, of Fort Fairfield, now living at
Presque Isle ; he is a general agent for machin
ery, fertilizers and agricultural tools and sup
plies. Five other children died young.
Children of Thomas Hubbard Hoyt: 1.
George Levi, born- at Fort Fairfield, November
6, 1865 ; married Clara Donaldson, of Milo,
Maine ; he died April 24, 1-891 ; was a carpen
ter and contractor; she died April 24, 1890,
in Fort Fairfield; no children. 2. Laura May,
married William Arthur Haines (see Haines
IX). 3. Albert Theodore, born February 22,
1874, in Fort Fairfield; married Beulab Plum-
mer, of Titusville, Pennsylvania ; resides on
the homestead- at Fort Fairfield; children:
Charles Parsons, born January 10, 1901 ;
Thomas Henry, May, 1907; Evangeline Plum-
mer, September, 1908. 4. Henry Thomas,
born September 16, 1880, at Fort Fairfield,
died in February, 1906, unmarried, in Denver,
Colorado, whither he had gone for his health ;
was a student for three years in the Baltimore
Medical College.

John Kelly, descendant of a very
KELLY ancient Irish family, was born in
Ireland in 1835, died in Paw
tucket, Rhode Island, in 1909. He received his
education in his native country, and during
his youth was employed in farming. In 1851
he came to this country. He found employ
ment in a powder mill, and later became a skill
ful craftsman and was superintendent of vari
ous powder mills in New England. After the
civil war he followed the trade of stonemason
until shortly before he died. In politics he
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olic. He married Mary Trainer, born at May-
bole, Scotland, and came on the same vessel
with Mr. Kelly to America. Their acquaint
ance began on shipboard and was followed by
their marriage a few years later. Children:
John, Julia, Peter, James, mentioned below;
Mary, Jenny, Helen, Margaret, Thomas, Hugh.
(II) James Kelly, son of John Kelly, was
born in New Hartford, Connecticut, in 1858.
He was educated there in the public schools,
and when a boy he entered the employ of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road Company. He afterward was employed
in the worsted and woolen mills at Winde-
mere, Connecticut ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ;
Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Fulton, New York,
and since 1887 has been in charge of various
departments of the business. For some years
he resided in Rockville, Connecticut, and now
resides at North Adams, Massachusetts. In
politics he is a Democrat. He is a communi
cant of the Roman Catholic church,, and a
member of the United Workmen of America,
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Im
proved Order of Red Men, and the Loyal
Order of Moose. He married Mary Morrison,
born in 1861, at Rockville, Connecticut, daugh
ter of Michael Morrison, of that city. Chil
dren : Leo James, mentioned below ; Cecilia,
born at Rockville, Connecticut, January 25,
1893, died there, February 4, 1909; Irene, born
at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, January 25, 1896,
now living with her parents.
(Ill) Leo James Kelly, son of James Kelly,
was born at Rockville, Connecticut, December
30, 1887. He attended the Sacred Heart
Parochial School of Pawtucket, Rhode Island ;
the public schools at Fulton, New York, and
the high school at Rockville, Connecticut, from
which he was graduated in 1907. He was for
three years a student in the law school of
Georgetown University at Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia, graduating in 1910 with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. After another
year at the Yale Law School, where he gradu
ated in 191 1, he was admitted to the bar, June,
191 1, in Connecticut, and began to practice
law in Rockville, where he has since remained.
In politics he is a Democrat ; he has been active
in public affairs, chairman of the town and
city Democratic committees, for two years has
also been registrar of voters in both town and
city, and in 1913 represented the town of Ver
non, Connecticut, in the Connecticut state leg
islature, and served as house chairman of the
committee on state libraries and member of
the committee on rules. His popularity is
shown by his election in a district that has
always been strongly Republican. In religion
he is a Roman Catholic ; is a member of Rock

ville Council, No. 1155, Knights of Columbus;
of the First Division, Ancient Order of Hi
bernians, of Rockville ; member of Court Snip-
sic, No. 32, Foresters of America, of Rock
ville, and county director of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of Connecticut.

The Arnold family is one of
ARNOLD great antiquity and honorable
mention in the early annals.
The descent, is traced to Ynir, king of Gwent-
land, who flourished about the middle of the
twelfth century. King Ynir descended through
a second son from Cadwalader, last king of
the Britons. The ancient castle of Aber
gavenny, Monmouthshire, England, built by
Cadwalader, may yet be seen, although in
ruins. The family name was closely identified
with the records of early events- in New Eng
land, and figures conspicuously in the records
of both church and state.
(I) Ynir, king of Gwentland, married
Nesta, daughter of Justin, king of Glamorgan.
(II) Meiric, king of Gwentland, married
Eleanor, of the house of Trevor.
(Ill) Ynir Vichan, king of Gwentland,
married Gladice, daughter of the lord of
Ystradyr. (IV) Carad-or, lord of Gwent, married
Nesta, daughter of Sir Rydereck le Gros.
(V) Dyenwall, lord of Gwent, married
Joyes, daughter of Hamlet, son of Sir Druce,
duke of Balladon, of France.
(VI) Systal, lord of Upper Gwent, married
Annest, daughter of Sir Peter Russell, lord of
Kentchinch, in Hereford.
(VII) Arthur, married Jane, daughter of
Lein, lord of Cantrosblyn.
(VIII) Meiric, married Annest, daughter
of Cradock.
(IX) Gwillim, married Jane, daughter of
Ivon, lord of Ligh-s-Tabyvont.
(X) Arnholt, Esq., married Janet, daughter
of Philip Fleming, Esq.
(XI) Arnholt (2), Esq.. married Sibyl,
daughter of Madoc.
(XII) Roger Arnold, of Llanthony, in Mon
mouthshire, first of the family to adopt a sur
name, married Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas
Gamage. (XIII) Thomas Arnold, successor to the
estates in Monmouthshire, married Agnes,
daughter of Sir Richard Warnstead.
(XIV) Richard Arnold married Emmate,
daughter of Pearce Young.
(XV) Richard (2) Arnold, born in Somer
setshire, removed1 to Dorsetshire, England, be
came seated at Bagbere, and was lord of the
manor. Plis name appears on the "Subsidy
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patron of the churches of Blanford and Bing
ham Mekombe Plis manor house at Bagbere
was standing until 1870, when it was demol
ished. His will was probated July 9, 1595.
He desires "To be buried in the Parishe Church
of Milton, in the He called Jesus He as we go
to the Tower."
(XVI) Thomas Arnold; second son of
Richard (2) Arnold, of Bagbere, lived toil
some time at Mekombe Horsey, and removed
to Cheselbourne, where he lived on an estate
formerly the property of his father, in whose
will he received mention. He married (first)
Alice, daughter of John Gulley, of North
Over, parish of Tolbuddle, near Cheselbourne,
baptized September 29, 1553. Children of this
marriage were: Tamsen, baptized January 4,
1 571; Joane, November 30, 1577; Marjory,
August 30, 1581; Robert, October 18, 1583;
John, born 1585; William, mentioned1 below.
There were three children of the second wife:
Elizabeth, born April 9, 1596; Thomas, bap
tized April 18, 1599; Eleanor, July 31, 1606.
The records of this family were preserved by
the son William and brought to this country.
(I) William Arnold, founder of the family
in this country, was the third son of Thomas
and Alice (Gulley) Arnold, born June 24,
1587, and sailed from Dartmouth, England,
May 1, 1635, arriving in New England, June
24, following. He lived a short time at Hing
ham, removing to Providence, April 20, 1636,
and' lived in that part of the town which is
now Pawtucket, where he was one of the
members of the Baptist church in 1639, and in
1640, with others, signed the agreement for
civil government. He held various important
offices, and was held in high esteem in the
community. From Roger Williams he received
grants of land in Providence and Pawtuxet in
the town of Warwick. A record preserved,
written by himself, states that he removed
from Providence to Newport, November 19,
1656, the journey being made on that day,
probably by boat. He died in 1676. He mar
ried, in England, Christian, daughter of
Thomas Peak, of Muchelney, Somersetshire,
England, baptized February 15, 1583. Chil
dren : Elizabeth, born November 23, 161 1 ;
Benedict, December 21, 1615; Stephen, men
tioned below ; Joanna.
(II) Stephen Arnold, second son of Wil
liam and Christian (Peak) Arnold, was born
December 22, 1622, in England, and was in his
thirteenth year when he accompanied his par
ents to this country. He removed from Provi
dence to Warwick, where he had very large
landed estates, including one hundred and
twenty-five acres, purchased August 14, 1659,

seven hundred and fifty acres purchased 1681,
and several other parcels. One of his estates
was known as "The Cowesett Purchase,"
which was divided among his sons during his
life. He was very active in the conduct of
Colonial affairs, serving as deputy to the gen
eral court in 1664-65, 1667, 1670-71-72, 1674-
75-76-77. 1684-85, and 1690. Pie was deputy
governor in 1664, and assistant in 1672, 1677-
78-79-80, 1690-91, 1696 and 1698. He died
November 15, 1699. He married, November
24, 1646, Sarah, daughter of Edward Smith,
of Rehoboth, who died April 15, 1713, in War
wick. Children: Esther, born September 22,
1647; Israel, October 30, 1649; Stephen, men
tioned below; Elizabeth, November 2, 165*9;
Elisha, February 18, 1662; Sarah, January 26,
166-5; Phebe, November 9, 1671.
(Ill) Stephen (2) Arnold, second son of
Stephen (1) and Sarah (Smith) Arnold, was
born November 27, 1654, in Warwick, died
March 1, 1720. He received from his father
the north one-third of the Cowesett Purchase,
and by his will made April 18, 1717, proved
March 26, 1720, he bequeathed lands to his
sons, Philip and Edward, and cash to daugh
ters, Phebe, Mary, Sarah, Penelope and
Larana. The inventory of his estate amounted
to six hundred and eight pounds and one shil>-
ling, including bonds one hundred and two
pounds fourteen shilling, silver money fifty-
one pounds thirteen shillings, five horses.
twenty-three kine of various ages, seventy-
two sheep, swine, bees and other property. He
was deputy in 1704, 1706 and 1719. He mar
ried, January 12, 1688, Mary Sheldon, born
October 5, 1660, died April 25, 1735, daugh
ter of John and Joan (Vincent) Sheldon.
Children: Stephen, born about 1689; Edward,
about 1691 ; Philip, mentioned below ; Phebe,
March 5, 1695; Mary, December 12, 1696;
Sarah, about 1698; Penelope, 1701 ; Larana,
1703. (IV) Philip Arnold, second son of Stephen
(2) and Mary (Sheldon) Arnold, was bom
February 12, 1693, in Warwick, and lived for
some time in Providence. His children are
recorded in Warwick, and he probably spent
most of his life in that town. He married,
June 10, 1714, Susanna Greene, born July 16,
1694, second child and eldest daughter of Cap
tain Benjamin and Susannah (Holden)
Greene, of Warwick. He received two hun
dred and fifty acres in Warwick by his father's
will, and his wife inherited lands from her
father in the same town. The homestead was
occupied by his descendants for several gen
erations. Children: Susannah, born July 23,
1716; Mary, February 6, 1720; Benjamin,

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mentioned below; Elizabeth, November 23,
1724; Philip, June 9, 1726; Thomas, June 22,
1730; Stephen, September 2, 1732.
(V) Benjamin Arnold, eldest son of Philip
and Susannah (Greene) Arnold, was born No
vember 1, 1722, in Warwick, died in Coventry,
February 25, 1799. He resided most of his
life in Coventry. He married, in 1748, Bar
bara, daughter of John Rice, born March 18,
1724, died October 4, 1814. Children: Benja
min, mentioned below; Philip, born June 23,
1750, died young; Stephen, died young; Eliza
beth, November 18, 1753, died in her eighteenth
year; John Rice, July 12, 1755; Philip and
Stephen (twins), June 23, 1756; Henry, April
10; 1758; Thomas, July 21, 1759; Mary, July
1, 1761, died in twenty-first year; Dutee, July
3°, 1765-
(VI) Benjamin (2) Arnold, eldest child of
Benjamin (1) and Barbara (Rice) Arnold,
was born April 2, 1749, recorded in Coventry,
Rhode Island, and died 1831. He married,
about 1772-, Sarah Greene, born November 26,
1752, in Cranston, daughter of Elisha and
Hannah (Gorton) Greene, of that town. They
had children recorded- in Coventry : Lorey,
born March 14, 1774; Elisha, October 27,
1775; Welcome, October 1, 1778; Mary, Janu
ary 25, 1782; Meret (Merrit), May 2y, 1784;
Tbomas Greene, mentioned below; Benjamin,
May 21, 1789; Sarah, December 25, 1791;
Owen, July 3, 1794.
(VII) Thomas Greene Arnold, fifth son of
Benjamin (2) and Sarah (Greene) Arnold,
was born November 26, 1786, in Coventry,
died April 17, i860. He married, December
21, 1806, Eleanor G. Bowen, born October 19,
1789, died November 1, 1882. Children: Al
mira, born October 10, 1816, married Henry-
Madison, of Norwich Falls, Connecticut ; Al
bert Bowen, January 30, 1822, married Maria
Spencer, of Windham, Connecticut ; Lucinda
Elizabeth, December 21, 1824, married Edward
F. Manchester, of Providence, Rhode Island;
Merritt Thomas, March 3, 1827, married
Josephine Nickerson; Levi Bowen, mentioned
below. All of this family belonged to the
Society of Friends.
(VIII) Levi Bowen Arnold, third son of
Thomas Greene and Eleanor G. (Bowen)
Arnold, was born July 7, 1829, in Coventry,
and was educated in the Friends' School at
Providence. In early life he assisted his father
in the manufacture of acids, and having a
natural aptitiade for mechanics, applied him
self to the trade of machinist, of which he be
came master. For some years he followed this
occupation in his native state and settled later
in Connecticut, being employed June 13, 1874,
at the Grosvernordale mills as machinist. He

thus continued to the time of his death, which
occurred in Grosvernordale, December 17,
1899. A Friend in religious belief, be found
no society in his neighborhood and worshipped
at the Methodist Episcopal church. In early
life a Whig, he naturally allied himself with
the Republican party upon its organization, to
whose principles he continued faithful, though
he never sought any share in political honors.
Industrious by habit and domestic in taste, he
passed a quiet life devoted to duty, and was
respected and esteemed by his contemporaries.
He married, February 6, 1856, at Willimantic,
Connecticut, Eunice A. Briggs, born July 21,
1836, in Coventry, Rhode Island, daughter of
Wanton and Mary (Tifft) Briggs, of that
town. Children: 1. Ernest Murray, mentioned
below. 2. Wralter S., mentioned below. 3.
Mary Eleanor, born January 22, 1861 ; edu
cated in the Thompson's schools ; resided sev
eral years in Glasgow, Connecticut, and later
for some years- in Norwich, Connecticut ; she
is the author of books of designs for crochet
ing lace thread, and so forth ; a lady of edu
cation and social graces, she now resides in
Putnam ; she is a member of Trumbull Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of
Norwich. 4. Lucius Frank, born November
11, 1862; manager of the Iroquois Machine
Company of Providence, Rhode Island. 5.
Clifford Bowen, born March 9, 1868; is a
draftsman employed by the Whitin Company
of Whitinsville, Massachusetts. 6. Edwin
Tifft, born November 3, 1872, died in his
nineteenth year.
(IX) Ernest Murray Arnold, eldest child
of Levi Bowen and Eunice A. (Briggs)
Arnold, was born January 25, 1857, in Coven
try, Rhode Island, and was educated in the
Friends' School. In early life he engaged in
educational work, and was subsequently em
ployed in mechanical establishments at Worces
ter, Massachusetts, and other points. In 1892
he became accountant for the Grosvernordale
Company in Thompson, and continued in that
capacity nine years. In 1901 he settled at Put
nam, Connecticut, where he established a
brokerage connection with Douglas, Lacey &
Company of New York, dealers in investment
securities, and has met with pronounced suc
cess in this line of business. Gifted by nature
with shrewd common sense, and guided by
upright principles, he has earned and retained
the confidence of the investing public in his
vicinity, and enjoys a wide acquaintance. He
is a charter member of Cornerstone Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of North Gros
vernordale ; is a member of Putnam Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, and of Montgomery
Council, of Danielson. He is an active mem-

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ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, which
he has long served as steward, and for eight
years was assistant superintendent of the Sun
day school. While an earnest supporter of
Republican principles, he has never engaged in
any strife for office. Mr. Arnold is unmarried,
and resides with his widowed mother and sis
ter in Putnam.
(IX) Walter S. Arnold, second son of Levi
Bowen and Eunice A. (Briggs) Arnold, was
born in Coventry, Rhode Island, April 12,
1858. Like his brother he was educated in the
Friends' School at Providence, and when six
teen years of age came to Connecticut with his
parents, locating at Grosvernordale. Under
his father he learned the machinist's trade,
thereafter engaging in the same at Worcester,
Massachusetts, and at Suncook, Merrimack
county, New Hampshire, in which latter city
he remained four years. After four years
with the Grosvenordale Company he went
to Berkeley, Rhode Island, where he was mas
ter machinist for the Lonsdale Company for
four and a half years. In 1887 he returned to
Grosvenordale as master machinist for the
Grosvenordale Company, and was later ap
pointed chief engineer of all the Grosvenor
dale mills, a responsible position discharged
by him with credit to himself and to the satis
faction of the company.
In Suncook, New Hampshire, Mr. Arnold
married Ida L. Wells, daughter of Zadoc
Wells, of North Grosvenordale, and by this
union there were three children : Eleanor, who
is a student at the Putnam high school ; Ethel ;
Byron Edward. Mr. Arnold is a member of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
of New York. He is a Republican, but no
politician. Formerly a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, he is now a member
of the Peniel church of Grosvenordale, in
which he is a deacon, and also a Sunday school
teacher. His wife is also active in the church.
Mr. Arnold bears an enviable reputation in
Grosvenordale, and is one of the most skilled
machinists in the state.

William Hassett, the first of
HASSETT this family in this country,
was born about 1795 in county
Tipperary, Ireland. He was educated in his
native place, and during his youth followed
farming there. In 1845 n'e came to America,
and located at Stafford, Connecticut, where he
followed farming to the end of his life. He
died at Stafford, in 1870. In politics he was
a Democrat; in religion a Roman Catholic.
He married Nora O'Brien, who was also a
native of Tipperary.
(II) Thomas Hassett, son of William Has

sett, was born in county Waterford, Ireland,
died in 1904 at Stafford, Connecticut. He
was educated 111 the schools of his native coun
try, and was a farmer there until he came to
America at the age of twenty-four years. The
remainder of his life was spent at Stafford,
where he followed farming. In religion he
was a faithful communicant of the Roman
Catholic church, and in politics an active and
influential Democrat. He married Mary Dunn,
born in county Waterford, Ireland. They had
five sons: William, John C, mentioned below;
Thomas, Patrick, George.
(Ill) John C. Hassett, son of Thomas Has
sett, was born at Stafford, Connecticut, Tanu-
ary 16, 1854. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. When a young
man he found employment in the woolen mills
and since 1892 he has resided at Rockville,
Connecticut, where he has been in the same
line of business. In politics he is a Democrat ;
in religion a Roman Catholic. He is a mem
ber of Rockville Council, No. 1155, Knights
of Columbus. Pie married Mary Sullivan,
born, at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts,
February 26, 1859, daughter of Edward and
Julia Sullivan. Children : Thomas, deceased ;
Daniel, deceased ; John Edward, mentioned
below; Francis T., born at Stafford, January
15, 1886; William, deceased ; Elizabeth J., born
at Rockville, October 18, 1894.
(IV) Dr. John Edward Hassett, son of
John C. Hassett, was born at Stafford, Connec
ticut, November 12,1884. He received his early
education in the public schools of Rockville
and graduated from the Rockville high school
in the class of 1903. Pie then took up the
study of his profession in the Harvard Den
tal School, from- which he was graduated in
1906 with the degree of D. M. D., and soon
afterward began to practice at Rockville,
where he has built up an extensive and profit
able practice. He occupies a well equipped
office in one of the finest business buildings
in the city. He is progressive, public-spirited
and influential. In politics he is a Democrat.
Pie is a member of the Rockville school board
and keenly interested in educational matters.
In religion he is a Roman Catholic. He is a
member of Rockville Council, No. 1155,
Knights of Columbus, and of Rockville Divi
sion, No. t, Ancient Order of Hibernians.

Though the New England states
SPIERRY have been long settled and have
long been preeminent in the
manufacturing industries of the nation, much
of their recent development is due to the skill
and industry of foreign-born citizens. No
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England is made up of natives of the Emerald
Isle, and their cheerful disposition and inde
fatigable industry are features of the present
day life which cannot be overlooked.
(I) Samuel Sherry, a native of Ireland, re
moved to the United States in 1831, landing in
New York City, whence he very shortly pro
ceeded to Montreal, Canada, and there con
tinued to reside until his death, in 1879. He
was a wheelwright and carpenter, an excellent
mechanic, and for many years conducted a
business of his own in the manufacture of
spinning wheels and coffins. He was the father
of the following children: Henry, James,
Thomas, Hugh, Mary. The first named was
the father of the well-known caterer of New
York City, and the last named married a Mr.
Shallow. (II) James Sherry, second son of Samuel
Sherry, was born in 1826 in Ireland, died at
the age of seventy-two years in Fall River,
Massachusetts, in 1898. He was but five years
of age when he came with his parents to- the
western continent, and his education was sup
plied by the Canadian schools. He received a
good ordinary education and was an expert
penman. He learned the trade of carpenter,
and in 1868 removed to- Fall River, Massachu
setts, where he was employed at his trade in
the mills up to the time of his death. In
Canadian politics he was known as Liberal.
He married Mary Horn, born in 1827, in Ire
land, died in 1907, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Ryston) Horn. Children: Annie, wife
of Michael Cox, of Fall River ; John William,
mentioned below ; James, resides in Fall River ;
Sarah, married Frank Kilty, of Fall River ;
Thomas, resides in Fall River; Hugh; all liv
ing in 1914.
(Ill) John William Sherry, eldest son of
James and Mary (Horn) Sherry, was bom
February 7, 1859, in Sherrill, province of
Quebec, Canada, and received a common
school education in Canadian and Fall River
schools. As a boy he went into the mills of
Fall River, in the mule room and later in the
card room, then into the weave room, and in
time became w boss weaver. While working
in the mills of Fall River, he improved his
mind by attendance at night school. For thir
teen years he was employed in mills in the
state of New York, and returned to Fall River
in 1900, continuing there twelve years. He
settled at Putnam, Connecticut, July 21, 1913,
becoming the superintendent of the Night
ingale Morse mills, having five hundred em
ployees under him, and has proven himself
thoroughly competent for the position. Mr.
Sherry gives his attention to his duties, and
has little time for outside concerns. He mar

ried, August 15, 1884, Margaret McNally, a
native of Yorkshire, England, daughter of
Michael McNally. Children, all born at Fall
River: James T., born July 17, 1885, overseer
in the Barnaby mills of Fall River, married
Mary Brady, and has sons, John W., born
April 5, 1912, and- Carl F., April 9, 1914;
Annie G., February 3, 1887; William H., Au
gust 19, 1891 ; John, died February 10, 1906,
age of fourteen years; Irene M., November
13, 1893; Fred J., born February 16, 1897;
Grace M., July 14, 1898.

The genealogist of this family
PEIRCE claims that the American pioneer
was the twentieth generation
from Galfred, to whom the famous English
family of Percy or Pearce (Pers, Pierce,
Peirce) traces its ancestry. The lineage is:
Ralph (16), Henry (15), Henry (14), Henry
(13), Henry (12), Henry (11), Henry (10),
Henry (9), William (8), Henry (7), Agnes
(6), William (s>, William (4), Alan (3),
William (2), Galfred (1).
(XVII) Peter Percy, son of Ralph Percy
(16), had a son Richard. Peter was standard
bearer to Richard (HI), at the battle of Bos
worth field in 1485.
(XVIII) Richard Percy, son of Peter
Percy, founded Pearce Hall in York, England,
where he lived and died.
(XIX) Richard Pearse, son of Richard
Percy, changed the spelling from Percy to
Pearse. He lived on his father's homestead,
and had sons, Richard and William.
(XX) Richard Pearse, son of Richard
Pearse, was born in 1590. He was the immi
grant ancestor. He resided in Bristol, Eng
land, and came to America in the ship "Lyons."
of which his brother William- was master.
Children : Richard, mentioned below ; John,
Samuel, Hannah, Martha, Sarah, William,
Mary. (I) Richard Peirce or Pearse, son of Rich
ard Pearse, was born in- England in 1615. He
married, at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1642,
Susannah Wright, who was born in 1620. He
died at Portsmouth in 1678, and she in the
same year. He was at Portsmouth as early
as 1654, when he witnessed a deed of twelve
acres of land and a house purchased of Wil
liam James by Henry Piercy. He was witness
to deeds in 1657, and a will in 1658. He was
admitted a freeman, May 18, 1658. He mar
ried, probably in 1642, Susanna, daughter of
George Wright, of Newport. His will was
dated April 23, 1677, and proved at Ports
mouth, October 28, 1678. Children : Richard,
born October 23, 1643; Martha, September 13,
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tioned below ; Susannah, November 22, 1652 ;
Mary, May 6, 1654; Jeremiah, November 17,
1656; Isaac, December, 1658; George, July 10,
1662 ; Samuel, December 22, 1664.
(II) Hon. Giles Peirce, son of Richard
Peirce, was one of the founders of the town of
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1677. The
town meeting was held at his house. He was
moderator of the town meeting in 1685; mem
ber of the general assembly in 1690 and 1696;
town councilman in 1677-84, 1691 and 1696.
,His will was proved December 7, 1698. He
married, in April, 1676, Elizabeth Hall, who
died in 1698, daughter of William and Mary
Hall, of Portsmouth. He died November 19,
1698. Children, born at Portsmouth and East
Greenwich: Jeremiah, January 22, 1678; Sus
annah, May 7, 1679 ; Elizabeth, May 27, 1682 ;
John, mentioned below ; Mary, February 7,
1690. (Ill) John Peirce, son of Giles Peirce, was
born January 11, 1687, and died in 1739. His
will was proved April 28, 1739. He married,
June 9, 1709, Susanna Nichols, and lived in
East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Children :
Giles, born September 21, 1710, died February
27, 171 1 ; Giles, April 22, 1712, died March 17,
1713; Susannah, January 10, 1714; John, Au
gust 4, 1722; Thomas; Elizabeth; Giles, men
tioned below ; Mary.
(IV) Giles Peirce, son of John Peirce, was
born at East Greenwich, and died April 10,
1793. He lived at East Greenwich, Block
Island and North Kingstown. He was made a
freeman of Rhode Island in 1745. A few
years after his marriage, since the large landed
estate of his father had been spent in law suits
by executors of the estate and he could get
nothing of value from it, he moved to Block
Island, after 1758. He became the largest
stock raiser there, especially of sheep, and
was second to few in the colony outside of the
island. In 1775 he and Gideon Ho-xie were
appointed by the general assembly to oversee
the stock on the island. During the revolution
a large amount of his stock was taken by
authorities to help out war expenses. In 1782
he bought a large tract of land in North Kings
town, and moved there in 1782. He married
Desire, daughter of Joseph Case, of North
Kingstown. Children : Sarah, born January 2,
1 751 ; Lucy, September 2, 1753 ; Elisha, Octo
ber 30, 1755, died 1764; Anna, May 14, 1758;
Joseph, September 14, 1760; Giles, 1763; John,
mentioned below ,\ Susannah, 1769; Thomas,
1770; Desire.
(V) John Peirce, son of Giles Peirce, was
bom February 19, 1766, on Block Island,
Rhode Island, died July 11, 1848, in Provi
dence. He lived in North Kingstown. He
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married (first) Polly Davis, who died in 1820.
He married (second) November 6, 1825,
Sarah Brown, born May 21, 1788, died Decem
ber 30, 1859. Children by second wife: John
Brown, mentioned below; Thomas C, born
September 17, 1829.
(VI) Hon. John Brown Peirce, son of John
Peirce, was born July 19, 1827, in North
Kingstown. He attended the district schools
and the Lapham Institute at Smithfield, Rhode
Island, and afterward taught for a time in the
public schools. For several years he was book
keeper and paymaster at Larsche's mill in
Smithfield. He then engaged in the grocery
business in Providence in partnership with his
brother, Thomas C. Peirce. In 1849, at the
time gold was discovered in California, the
brothers sold their business and went to the
gold fields. After a few years Mr. Peirce re
turned and formed a company for the printing
of calico. Business was begun at what is now
known as the Greenwich Print Works and
afterwards at Smithfield. In the panic of
1857 the company failed. Mr. Peirce then be
came agent of the Providence Iron Foundry
and remained with that concern until 1863,
when he entered the army. Beginning as lieu
tenant and commissary of the Third Rhode
Island- Regiment of Cavalry, he was remas
tered to date September 22, 1863, and four
days later was detached as regimental quarter
master, and designated as such while the regi
ment was recruited. He was commissioned
first lieutenant of Company A, Fourteenth
Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, October 27,
1863. He accompanied the Third Battalion,
serving as quartermaster, but was detached as
acting assistant quartermaster in the chief
quartermaster's- department at New Orleans,
and served until June, 1865. He volunteered
for duty as acting assistant quartermaster at
Shreveport, Louisiana, and at one time had
charge of the transportation department. He
was mustered out, October 2, 1865, but was
afterward commissioned captain in the regular
army and served until 1866. He then returned
to Rhode Island, and engaged in the grocery
business at Wickford. Afterward he built up
a very extensive grain business and operated
a steam grist mill.
Mr. Peirce took a keen interest in public
affairs and held many offices of trust and
honor. While a citizen of Providence he was
elected alderman for three successive years
from, the seventh ward, resigning when he
entered the military service. In 1867 he was
elected president of the town council of North
Kingstown and served five consecutive years.
In 1868 and 1869 he represented the town in
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clerk of the town of North Kingstown, and
was reelected without opposition to the end of
his life. He was always a staunch Democrat
and was honored by his party several times
by receiving the nomination for secretary
of state and iieutenant-governor. In 1876 he
was a delegate from his state to the Demo
cratic national convention at St. Louis. He
was one of the fourteen Free Masons to secure
the return of the charter of Washington Lodge,
No. 5, Free and Accepted Masons, of Wick
ford, and he was the first master under the
new charter. He was made a Mason in Mount
Vernon Lodge, No. 4, of Providence. He was
at the time of his death a member of the chap
ter, council, and of St. John's Commandery,
Knights Templar, all of Providence. He was
writing a genealogy of his family at the time
of his death. He died March 26, 1885.
He married (first) Izitte C. B. Gardiner,
daughter of Jeremiah Gardiner, of North
Kingstown. She died at Providence in 1848.
He married (second) Mary G. Brown, daugh
ter of Samuel Brown, of South Kingstown.
He married (third) Abby A. C. B. Gardiner,
sister of his first wife. She died December
28, 1904. Child by first wife : John G., died
in infancy. By second wife : Izitte G., de
ceased, and Colonel Thomas Jay, mentioned
below. (VII) Colonel Thomas Jay Peirce, son of
Hon. John Brown Peirce, was born at Provi
dence, June 20, 1857, died May 10, 1913. He
attended- the public schools of Providence, the
East Greenwich Academy for three years, the
Mowry & Goff English and Classical Institute
and the Bryant & Stratton Business College.
He was associated in the grain business with
his father and for four years was agent at
Wickford of the Newport & Wickford Corrih
pany. In politics he was a leading Democrat
for many years. In June, 1896, he was elected
town clerk of North Kingstown, and was
reelected from term to term to the end of his
life. Father and son held this office twenty-
eight years. For twelve years he was clerk of
the school committee, and in 1887 and 1891
he was on the staff of Governor Davis. In
1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic
national convention at St. Louis. For many
years he was coroner and- clerk of the second
district court. He was past master of Wash
ington Lodge, No. 5, Free and Accepted Ma
sons; member of Newport Chapter, No. 2,
Royal Arch Masons ; past eminent commander
of Washington Commandery, No. 4, Knights
Templar, of Newport; member of the Rhode
Island Consistory, and a charter member of
Palestine Temple, Mystic Shrine. He was also
a member of Beacon Lodge, No. 38, Independ

ent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Improved
Order of Red Men, being the first past sachem
of Ninigret Tribe, No. 18; member of the
Sons of Veterans and of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Colonel Peirce married, October 12, 1880,
Sarah M. Wightman, daughter of Peleg W.
Wightman, of Wickford. Children: Mary
Izitte, born September 14, 1881, married, No
vember 19, 1904, Albert L. Rodman; John
Perry Babcock, mentioned below ; Raymond
Wightman, born August 1, 1892.
(VIII) John Perry Babcock Peirce, son of
Colonel Thomas Jay Peirce, was born Febru
ary 5, 1883. He attended the public schools
of Wickford, the Rogers- high school of New
port, and the Polytechnic Institute of Worces
ter, Massachusetts. He was first employed as
an engineer on the state highway construction
under Colonel Robert F. Rodman. After his
father died in 191 3 he was elected town clerk
to succeed him and has held that office to the
present time. He is also clerk of the second
district court ; secretary of the Wickford Light
and Water Company, secretary and treasurer
of the North Kingstown Poultry Association.
In politics he is a Republican, and is chairman
of the Republican town committee. In religion
he is an Episcopalian, and is clerk of the parish
of the Protestant Episcopal church of Wick
ford. He is a member of Washington Lodge,
No. 5, Free and Accepted Masons, of which
he is senior warden (1914) ; member of Narra
gansett Chapter, No. 11, Royal Arch Masons,
of East Greenwich, and of Providence Coun
cil, No. 1, Royal and Select. Masters ; of Bea
con Lodge, No. 38, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Wickford; of the Improved Order
of Red Men, and of the Modern Woodmen of
America. He married, November 9, 1912, Dora Eve
lyn Peirce, who was born at North Kingstown,
July 8, 1889, daughter of Edward M. and
Minnie (Harvey) Peirce (see Peirce line).
(The Peirce Line).
(V) Giles, Peirce, son of Giles Peirce, and
brother of John Peirce (V), mentioned above,
was born in 1763, died January 25, 1844. He
lived in North Kingstown. He inherited the
part of his father's estate which was south
west of Roon's farm, and in 1866-67 he built
a new house there, where he lived the remain
der of his life. He married (first) Elizabeth
Dodge, who died in 1810. He married (sec
ond) Sarah Gardiner, daughter of Ezekiel
Gardiner, of North Kingstown. Children:
William, born April 2, 1789; Rebecca, 1793;
Giles, mentioned below ; Edward, 1800, died
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(VI) Giles Peirce, son of Giles Peirce, was
born in 1795, died October 14, 1841. He lived
in North Kingstown. He married, in 181 3,
Mrs. Mary (Cole) Pearse. Children: Wil
liam, born March 12, 1814; Elizabeth, May 3,
1816; Edward, mentioned below; Darius, Au
gust 23, 1824.
(VII) Edward Peirce, son of Giles Peirce,
was born April 29, 1819. He married, Janu
ary 25, 1846, Frances M. Clark, Children:
Edward, born May 16, 1847, died May 24,
1847 ; Mary F., August 20, 1848 ; Edward M„
mentioned below ; Julia A., August 2, 1852,
died January 27, 1854; Susan B., January 4,
1854; Julia A., January 14, 1857.
(VIII) Edward M. Peirce, son of Edward
Peirce, was bora January 13, 1850. He mar
ried, May 6, 1874, Minnie Harvey. Children:
Frank E., born December 13, 1875; Levin M.,
May 3, 1877; George E., October 4, 1880;
Charles L., December 3, 1882; Dora Evelyn,
married John Perry Babcock Peirce (see Peirce
VIII).

A complete history of the Dart
DART family, as it exists to-day, would
well nigh form- an epitome of the
. history of this country, not only back to the
early colonial times, but even antedating them,
to include that dim past when the whole con
tinent was the possession of the noble race,
whose title to the vast domain has gradually
passed into our hands, not, alas, without much
blood guiltiness on our part in the trans fer-
rence. Certainly such, a history would con
tain an account of many of the most important
events in the record of the growth and de
velopment of this great country, including that
of every war in which we have taken part
from early colonial days down to the present.
in all of which the ancestors of the present
generation of Darts have taken part. The
romantic ancestry and origin of the name are
to be found among the Indians, of the Narra
gansett Tribe, one of the important divisions
of the great Algonquian stock which at one
time occupied a larger territory than any other
among the North American races. The Narra-
gansetts themselves were a powerful and ex
tensively distributed tribe at the time when
they first came into contact with the "pale
face" strangers; the region through which
they were dominant extending from the upper
reaches of the Connecticut river southward to
Long Island sound, and from that river as its
western boundary eastward to what is now
the state of Rhode Island, above the harbor
which still bears their name.
So far as the records available to us at the
present day reach, the first chief of whom

there is any historical knowledge was one
Canonicus, whose rule over the Narragansetts
was comtemporary with the earliest arrivals of
colonists on the New England shores, and a
period somewhat preceding that. He died at
the age of eighty years in the year 1647. It
was from this powerful figure that the Dart
family is directly descended, the Mr. Dart of
this sketch being, according to the balance of
evidence, the eighth generation from his re
doubtable ancestor. The great chief Canonicus
was succeeded im his rule over the Narragan
setts by his nephew Miantomomo, also a power
ful chief, amd who im turn was succeeded by
his son Canonchet. The son and grandson of
Canonchet followed him in the chieftaincy of
the curtailed Narragansetts. The latter of
these bore an Indian name signifying an arrow
or dart, and when the family again emerges
into the clear light of history, in the person of
his son, the name clings to him in its English
form and he becomes Abial Dart. His father
was the last chief of the Narragansetts, and
the name was not the only thing which became
anglicized after the final break up of the tribe.
Abial Dart identified himself with the race
which, since the revolution, had come to be
universally called Americans, and fought with
them against the now foreign English, serving
on the frigate "Confederacy" in the war of
1812, and being one of the men picked for spe
cial service in New London harbor. He was
the father of three children, as follows :
George, of whom further; Ann, who became
Mrs. Charles Harrison, of Hartford, and Glas
tonbury, Connecticut, and was the mother of
one child, Martin Harrison; Emily, who be
came Mrs. George Webster, and was also the
mother of one son, George Webster Jr.
George Dart, son of Abial Dart, was born
in the beautiful old town of Groton, Connecti
cut, November 12, 1805, died at Glastonbury
in the same state, June 12, 1884. He was edu
cated in the excellent schools of his native
place, but while still a young man removed to
Glastonbury, and there became a farmer, an
occupation which he continued to follow dur
ing the remainder of his life. He operated a
large farm for Thaddeus Wells, the brother of
Gideon Wells, who was secretary of the navy
during the civil war. George Dart was him
self a strong upholder of the policy of the Re
publican party, and became a member of the
Connecticut state militia. He was affiliated
with the Methodist church. George Dart mar
ried Mary Ann Lucas, a native of South Glas
tonbury, Connecticut, where she was born Oc
tober 28, 181 1, passed her whole life and
finally died, December 5, 1902. She was a
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distinction in the revolutionary war. To Mr.
and Mrs. George Dart were born nine children,
as follows: Charles Henry, born April II,
1832; Clarissa, December 22-, 1835; Egbert, of
whom further; Theodore S., June 9, 1840, died
June 5, 1902; Elizabeth Ann, October 11,
1842, died March. 8, 1872; Mary Jane, April
9, 1845; Edward, January 5, 1848, died Febru
ary 17, 1848; Andrew P., December 10, 1850;
Warren Thrall, February 26, 1853, died De
cember 28, 1912.
Egbert Dart, third child of George and
Mary Amn (Lucas). Dart, was born October
18, 1836, at West Hartford, Connecticut. He
received his education in the schools of Glas
tonbury, whither his parents removed, while
he was still a very young child. Upon the con>
pletion of his studies he found employment in
the great woolen mills of Glastonbury, begin
ning work in the carding room,. He continued
in this service, and by his natural aptitude and
industry put himself in line for promotion,
when the outbreak of the civil war intervened.
On August 14, 1862, at Hartford, Connecticut,
he enlisted for three years in Company B,
Seventh Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer
Infantry. Upon its formation the regiment
first went to Fort Trumbull, then to New
York City, and from there was ordered to the
front. Hilton's Head, South Carolina, was the
point of destination in the south, and once
there it was but a short time before it was in
the midst of active service. The first engage
ment in which Mr. Dart took part was at May-
port Mills, Florida, and then in quick succes
sion came Poketaligo, Blufftown, Fort Wag
ner. The latter engagement took place on July
11, 1863, and in the course of a charge Mr.
Dart was taken prisoner, and spent practically
all the remainder of the war time in captivity.
He was first taken to Charleston, South Caro
lina, and from there to the Libby Prison at
Richmond, where he was kept in close confine
ment for thirty days. From there he was
transferred to Bell Island, remaining there for
over seven months. While still at Bell Island
he was wounded so that it was necessary to
place him in a hospital for a time. Upon his
recovery he was paroled at Richmond, Vir
ginia, on March 26, 1865, and then, taken to
Fortress Monroe. From there he went to the
hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, and finally
to the Connecticut State Plospital at New
Haven, where he received his honorable dis
charge, April 24, 1865. Upon the close of the
war Mr. Dart resumed the business which had
been interrupted four years before, and soon
became an important figure in the world, of
woolen manufacture. For forty-two years he
continued in this line, holding, during that

period, the position of overseer in many of
the largest mills in New England. He finally
retired from active business in the year 1898,
having established a reputation for himself as
a most capable and progressive business man
and of unimpeachable rectitude and integrity.
His retirement from business did not involve
the abandonment of all the activities of his
busy life. Mr. Dart's interests had been of a
very broad nature, and were by no means con
fined to the conduct of his business, and in
these departments his activity has been rather
increased, owing to the greater amount of time
he has had to bestow upon them. He is a
prominent figure im the social life of the region,,
and an influential member of many social clubs
and fraternal organizations. He is a member
of Burpee Post, No. 71, Grand Army of the
Republic, Rockville, Connecticut, and has filled
all its offices excepting that of chaplain, includ
ing two terms- as commander. He was elected
junior vice-commander of the state division
of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 191 1,
for a term' of one year, and is now past vice-
commander. He Is also a member of the Ma
sonic order. Mr. Dart is a staunch member of
- the Republican party and is still a keen and in
telligent observer of the political issues which
agitate the country, while his voice is influen
tial in the conduct of all local affairs. His re
ligious affiliations- are with the Methodist
church. In the year 1903 Mr. Dart was made
special superintendent of the state capital at
Hartford, Connecticut, and discharged the
functions of this post for one year.
Mr. Dart married, May 11, 1859, Mary Jane-
Couch, a native of East Glastonbury, Connec
ticut, where she was born May 11, 1837, daugh
ter of David and Lydia (Alexander) Couch,
of that place, Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Dart are
the parents of two children, as follows: 1.
Eva Gertrude, born December 14, 1868, at
Wilbrahami, Massachusetts ; married Edwin-
Preston Simms, of Rockville, Connecticut. 2.
Ada Lydia, born September 15, 1873, at Ver
non, Connecticut, died at Hartford, May 7,
1904; she was married, in 1900, to Charles
Stevenson, of Somers, Connecticut, and of
this union was born in 1902 a charming little-
daughter, Irene Madeline Stevenson.
The union of the Dart and Couch families
has given ancestors to the rising generation of
Darts who have taken part in every war of
consequence in which, the country has been irr-
volved since its first settlement. Among the
well known ancestors of Mrs. Dart was
Thomas Alexander, her maternal grandfather,
residing in Wrentham, Massachusetts, who en^
listed in the Continental army during the revo
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was in the artillery service and took part in
many of the famous engagements, including
the battles of Long Island, White Plains,
Brandywine and Germantown. Pie enlisted
three separate times, as the war was prolonged
beyond expectation: On April i, 1775, for
eight months, in the following April for twelve
months, and finally, April 3, 1777, for three
years. Sanford D. Alexander, of New York
City, a great-grandson of this Thomas Alex
ander, is the last male descendant of this line.

George E. Shaw, one of the prom-
SHAW inent citizens and representative
business men of Putnam, Wind
ham county, Connecticut, who has for a num
ber of years conducted one of the leading
jewelry establishments in the city, is a de
scendant of one of the most honorable of the
early New England families, while his wife
traces her ancestry in both the paternal and
maternal lines back to the heroes who fought
and died in the struggle for the establishment
of religious and civil freedom in America.
Names are derived from- occupations, pecu
liarities, places of birth, and various other
agencies. The name of Shaw is accounted for
in this manner. In a glossary in "Burn's
Works" the word "shaw" is defined as "a
small wood in a hollow," i. e., a grove in a
valley, the people living there being called
"Shaw." There are numerous families of the
same name in no way connected, but trace any
Shaw far enough and you will find he came
from Scottish ancestors. George E. Shaw
jocularly relates an incident concerning the
name. One of the family, being told that
"Shaw" came from- "a grove in. a valley," said,
"Light timber," but added, "A match for any
one," and the present members accept the
amendment. (I) Edward Shaw, of Scotland, married
Mary Ann Chalmers, and they had the follow
ing children: David, who died June 30, 1779,
in Jamaica; William, died in London, in De
cember, 1799; John, died in 1804; Edward,
died in Jamaica in 1806; James, of whom fur
ther ; George, died in Jamaica in 1819 ; Thomas,
died in London subsequent to 1838 ; Nellie,
married a Mr. Baxter, and died in Dundee,
Scotland, November 3, 1796; Mary Ann, mar
ried a Mr. Spink, and died in Dundee, Decem
ber 30, 1819 ; Allison, married Alexander Der-
wood, and died in Arbroath, May 30, 1823 ;
Margaret, married John Ogg, and died in
Arbroath, August 11, 1838.
(II) Captain James Shaw, son of Edward
and Mary Ann (Chalmers) Shaw, was born
in Arbroath Scotland, January, 20, 1773, and
became the founder of the Shaw family in

America. He was a skilled navigator; before
coming to America he had sailed to all parts
of the world, and in the later years of his life
was sailing master for the large importing
bouse of Brown & Ives, and Edward Carring-
tom, of Providemce, Rhode Island. He died
in Providence, March 15, 1812. The follow
ing is an excerpt from the Providence Gazette
of March 21, 1812, in an article concerning his
career: "He was a native of Scotland and
came to this country in early life. Possessing
all those traits of honesty, industry and stead
fast resolution which characterize his fellow-
countrymen, joined with an agreeable and
affable disposition, he soon attracted the atten
tion and encouragement of the principal mer
chants of this and other seaport towns, who
employed him, in their most important con
cerns as a nautical commander. Those who
have had the pleasure of his acquaintance can
say with the poet, 'A man- resolved and steady
to his trust, averse to ill and obstinately just'
His friends most sincerely condole with his
widow and children, who have by this afflictive
dispensation of Divine Providence been be
reaved of an affectionate husband and tender
parent. His funeral was attended by the
Marine Society and the Masonic Lodge."
Captain James Shaw married Elizabeth
Westcote, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Hoppin) Westcote. She was the sixth in
descent from Stukeley Westcote, who came to
Rhode Island with Roger Williams. They
had five children: 1. James, born July 30,
1801, in Providence, where he died March 27,
1880: he was popularly known- as General
Shaw, and was for many years of the mer
cantile firm of Shaw & Earle ; be was a cap
tain of the First Light Infantry in 1831, at
the time of the memorable "Olney Lane" riot,
and by order of the sheriff promptly dispersed
the mob with ball cartridges when the power
of the civil authorities had proven ineffective;
he commanded the Second Brigade, Rhode
Island Militia, from 1844 to 1850. He mar
ried Eliza Field Godfrey; children: James,
Richard Godfrey, John Preston, Frank Her
bert, died in infancy, Mary Elizabeth, Anna
Frances. Frederick, Mary E., Charles Ogg,
Charles Edward, the last three named dying
in infancy. 2. John, born in December, 1802,
died in Augusta, Georgia, a bachelor ; he was
a member of the firm of Shaw & Dean, of
Providence. 3. George W, mentioned below.
4. Edward, born in January, 1809; learned
the trade of watchmaker, and settled in Thomp
son-, Connecticut, about 1830, where he became
one of the most prominent men in the place,
both in civil affairs and in the church ; about
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mained until his death, which occurred in
Philadelphia while on a visit to the Centennial
Exposition in 1876. He married Hannah G.,
daughter of Squire William Larned, of Thomp
son; no children. 5. Rosamund, born in Octo
ber, 1812, in Providence, where she died in
1842, unmarried.
(Ill) George W. Shaw, son of Captain
James and Elizabeth (Westcote) Shaw, was
born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 15,
1806, died in Thompson, Connecticut, June 25,
1875. He was a shell worker by trade, making
combs, jewelry, etc., from' tortoise shells. He
worked for several years for Claflin & Com
pany, of Providence, and later, about 1836,
came to Thompson, where he operated a shop
of his own. He was a great artist in his line,
and while he plied his trade was successful.
The business finally became unprofitable, owing
to a change in fashions, and he was compelled
to abandon it. He was a master workman and
received a diploma from the American Insti
tute for a tortoise shell bugle which he con
structed. He was also the inventor of several
useful articles, among them a windmill for
which he took out several patents. He had a
genius for mechanical construction. The latter
part of his life was passed in Thompson, where
he died, and he now lies buried in Putnam.
He and his wife were active and consistent
members of the West Thompson Methodist
Episcopal Church In political opinion he was
a Jeffersonian Democrat, but never cared for
public office. Both he and his wife were highly
esteemed in the village where they passed the
greater part of their married life.
Mr. Shaw married, May 31, 1843, Abbey
Carpenter, born February 5, 18 16, in Thomp
son, Connecticut, died April 21, 1890, aged
seventy-four years, and is buried in Putnam,
Connecticut. She was a daughter of Richard
and Cynthia (Walker) Carpenter.. Children:
1. Rosamond, born August 19, 1844, in Thomp
son, died July 10, 1847. 2- Emma, born Sep
tember 3, 1846; married, May 17, 1893, Fred
erick William Colcleugh, of Selkirk, Manitoba.
Mrs. Colcleugh is an authoress and writer of
note, and is at present (1914) employed on the
staff of the Providence Journal; since 1895
she has edited the department in that paper
devoted, to women's clubs, besides representing
that paper during extensive travels in the
South Sea Islands, New Zealand, Australia,
Cuba, just after the Spanish-American war ;
Porto Rico, immediately after the hurricane ;
she also went into- Central Africa in 1902 (be
fore the Uganda railway was completed) as
the special correspondent ; she has been a fre
quent contributor to the Boston Transcript and
several other prominent papers ; her writings

have attracted wide-spread attention. 3. Julia,
born May 19, 1850; died August 6, 1909, hold
ing the love and esteem of all who knew her ;
she was a teacher for many years in Thomp
son and Putnam, and resided in the former
town where she tutored private pupils. 4.
George E., mentioned below. 5. Edward, born
January 19, 1857; is a cotton goods broker in
Providence; married, June 3, 1879, Carrie
Amelia Knight, of Providence ; had one child,
Marion, born December 25, 1894, who died
aged thirteen years.
(IV) George E. Shaw, son of George W.
and Abbey (Carpenter) Shaw, was born in
Thompson, Connecticut, January 20, 1853. He
passed his childhood in his native village, at
tending the public schools and absorbing in
the manifold ways known to the average
"town" boy exclusively that equally important
branch of learning which has for its end the
giving of a proper balance and poise for the
duties of life. At fifteen years of age he be
came an inmate of the home of his uncle, Ed
ward Shaw, in Putnam, where he had the ad
vantage of the newly started high school, then
under Latham Fitch as principal. In his
leisure hours he gave considerable attention to
the business of his uncle, who conducted a
jewelry store and was an expert watchmaker.
In this manner he soon became thoroughly
conversant with the details of the business, and
on the death of his uncle in 1876 was capable
of assuming entire charge of the business. In
the following year the establishment was com
pletely destroyed by fire, a disaster which
would have overwhelmed most young business
men. But taking counsel of his courage, Mr.
Shaw at once fitted up a new store and began
again. He had hardly got "on his feet" when
in 1881 he again suffered the loss of his stock
by fire. But more determined than -ever to
succeed, he planned on a larger scale than had
yet been attempted in his line in the city, and
the new establishment gradually assumed its
present proportions. It is doubtful if there is
a jewelry store outside the large cities having
better fixtures than this one, and the excellence
and variety of the stock have caused it to be
come a household name throughout that sec
tion of the country. As the years passed Mr.
Shaw has added lines of goods not usually car
ried in a business of this nature. In what he
styles the "Annex" he has built up an excellent
patronage in sewing machines, pianos and
organs, and for years has been sole agent for
the well known Victor and Victrola talking
machines. Mr. Shaw has occasion to look
with pride upon the record he has made in
Putnam as a merchant.
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Shaw has been a leading factor. He was the
originator and subsequent prime mover in the
Business Men's Association, an organization
to which can be credited many of the success
ful enterprises of Putnam, notably the Put
nam Water Company, the Putnam Foundry
pud Machine Company and the John M. Dean
Pin Company. For over twenty years he
served as a director of the Putnam Foundry
Company, and he was one of the incorporators,
a director and secretary of the Putnam Water
Company until its property was acquired by
the city. Mr. Shaw has the credit of being
one of the first agitators for a pure and
adequate water supply for Putnam. He was
manager of the Electric Light and Power Com
pany, and one of the incorporators and at
present director of the Putnam Box Corpora
tion. He has always taken an active interest
in the Putnam Library Association, and is one
of the board of managers. The fire depart
ment of the city has also found in him an
interested friend. In his earlier years he
showed his loyalty to the state by a five-year
service in the Connecticut National Guard.
These facts serve to show the helpful char
acter of the man. One thing he has always
eschewed, at least so far as public preferment
is concerned, and that is politics. He, how
ever, is a staunch Republican, and delights in
the success of the nominees of that party. Mr.
Shaw belongs to several of the best fraternal
societies, and is active in promulgating the
principles for which they stand. He is a mem
ber of Quinebaug Lodge, No. 106, Free and
Accepted Masons; Putnam Council, No. 340,
Royal Arcanum, in which he has passed
through all the chairs, and has also served as
a member of the committee on laws of the
Grand Lodge; and of Putnam Lodge, No. 19,
Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Shaw married, May 4, 1875, Ellen S.
Sharpe, of Abington, the officiating minister
being Rev. Thomas M. Ross. A daughter,
Ruth Elizabeth, was bom to them, March 10,
1876. She was given every advantage that a
refined home and superior educational institu
tions could furnish, her literary education
being acquired in the Putnam high school and
Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachu
setts, where she graduated in the class of 1895.
She early developed musical talent of a high
order, and for four years after leaving school
taught that branch successfully in the Putnam
and Willimantic schools. On October 18,
1899, she became the wife of Silas Mandeville
Wheelock, son of Eugene A. and Sarah Smith
(Taft) Wheelock, of Putnam, and they are
the parents of three children: Sylvia, born
November 26, 1900; Elizabeth, born October

27, 1902; Sarah Taft, born August 31, 1905,
died in January, 1909.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and their daughter, Mrs.
Wheelock, are active and helpful members of
the Second Congregational Church, in which
Mr. Shaw was for some years identified in
an official way with the Sunday school as
superintendent. At the present time (1914)
Mr. Shaw is an active member of the men's
class. Mrs. Shaw is an active worker in the
different societies of the church, the Ladies'
Aid and "Drop In" class finding in her a
strong supporter.

The name Pierce was common
PIERCE in England in a very early age,
and had many ways of spelling
such as Parr, Piers, Pierce, Pears, Pearse,
Peers, Peirce and Purse. It dates from a re
mote period, is widely distributed throughout
the United States and there is some reason for
believing that some of its bearers, if not all of
them, derive their origin from the ancient
Percy family of Northumberland (the Hot
spurs of the north). It not only possesses an
honorable colonial record but figured promi
nently in the war for national independence,
and is especially distinguished as having fur
nished the fourteenth president of the United
States. This branch, of the Pierce family in
America is one of long standing and among
the first settlers of New England. The name
has been variously spelled in the Massachu
setts and Rhode Island records, and the
modern form Pierce has been adopted by most
of the descendants of the name in this country.
In the old world the members of this family
have been quite prominent, and the name can
be traced through a long and distinguished line
back to the days of the Norman conquest.
(I) Brave Galfred, born 972, who left his
Normandy castle to come over with venture
some Rollo, assumed the name of Percy. From
him the line is traced- to the American pro
genitor as follows :
(II) William, his son.
(Ill) Allan, son of William.
(IV) William, son of Allan.
(V) William, son of William.
(VI) Agnes, daughter of William, who
married Josceline de Louvaine, who was prince
of Normandy, but who on account of his mar
riage relinquished his own name and assumed
that of Perci ; however, he kept his royal coat-
of-arms of Brabant.
(VII) Lord Henry, of Petrovith, who mar
ried Isabelle De Bruce.
(VIII) William, third lord of Petrovith,
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(IX) Henry, who married Eleanor Plant-
agenet. (X) Henry, first baron of Alnwick, who
from youth to old age was a warrior and was
one of the victors at the battle of Dunbar and
was highly distinguished throughout the Scotch
war during the reign of Henry I. He married
Lady Eleanor Fitzalan.
(XI) Henry, second lord of Alnwick, born
1299, who is 1346 was the chief of forces and
gave battle to the Scots at Neville's Cross,
where he took the king, David Bruce, prisoner.
He married Idonea De Clifford, and died in
1351- (XII) Henry, who in 1346 accompanied
King Edward III. to France and was at the
victory at Crecy and afterward held high offices
under the king. He married Mary Plantage-
net. (XIII) Henry, first earl of Northumber
land, who fell at the battle of Branham Moor
in 1408. He married Margaret Navill.
(XIV) Henry, born May 30, 1364, who
fought in the battle of Shrewsbury against the
crown, 1403. He married Elizabeth De Morti
mer. (XV) Henry, second earl of Northumber
land ; according to an old ballad of which he
and his bride were the hero and heroine he
fell fighting for Lancaster. His bride was
Lady Eleanor Nevill.
(XVI) Sir Ralph, who fell at Towton field,
1464, fighting with his father and brothers for
the house of Lancaster.
(XVII) Peter, son of Sir Ralph, who was
standard bearer for Richard III., 1485, at Bos
worth field.
(XVIII) Richard Percy, son of Peter,
founded the hall at York, England.
(XIX) Richard Pearce Jr. resided at the
home of his father in York. He spelled the
name Pearce, which name and way of spelling
continued to within the last three-quarters of
a century, since when some members of the
family have used the form Pierce.
(I) Captain Michael Peirce, born in Eng
land about 1615, brother of Captain William
Peirce, of London, is believed to have been a
son of Richard Pearce Jr., of York. He came
to the new world about 1645, settled first at
Hingham', Massachusetts, whence he soon after
removed to the neighboring town of Scituate,
and is- said to have built the first saw mill in
the colony. This was burned by the Indians
in May, 1676. Captain Peirce received his
commission from the colony court in 1669, and
participated in the Narragansett fight in De
cember, 1675. In the campaign that followed
be was one of the fifty Englishmen who were
slain, March 26, 1676. His home in South

Scituate was not far from Herring brook, near
the North river. No record of the name of
his first wife appears, although it is shown
that she died in 1662. He married (second)
about 1663, Mrs. Annah James, of Marshfield,
Massachusetts. She was living with her son,
Mark, and daughter Abigail, in Marshfield, in
1650. Children : Persis and Benjamin, bap
tized, 1646; John, Ephraim, Eliza, Deborah,
Anna, Abiah, Ruth, Abigail.
(II) Ephraim Peirce, apparently third son
of Captain Michael Peirce, resided for a time
at Weymouth, Massachusetts, whence he re
moved to Warwick, Rhode Island, where his
first child was born. He was made freeman
of the colony at Providence, May 3, 1681, and
died September 14, 17 19. His will, made July
18, 1718, was proved September 23, 1719, in
Warwick. He married Hannah Holbrook, and
had children : Azrikim, mentioned below ; Eph
raim, born 1674; Michael, 1676; Rachel, 1678;
Hannah, 1680; Experience, 1682; John, 1684;
Benjamin, 1686.
(Ill) Azrikim Peirce, eldest child of Eph
raim' and Hannah (Holbrook) Peirce, was
born January 4, 1671, in Warwick, where he
resided in early life, removing to Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, before 1721. He married
(first) December 31, 1696, Sarah Hayward or
Howard, of Swansea, Massachusetts, born
March 2, 1676, died August 12, 1712. He mar
ried (second) May 6, 17 13, Elizabeth Easton,
born April 8, 1683, died May 18, 1718, daugh
ter of Henry and Elizabeth (Martin) Easton,
of Providence. There was one child of the
first marriage, Sarah, born October 2, 1707,
in Rehoboth. Children of the second mar
riage : Joseph, mentioned below ; Hopestill,
born August 14, 1716; Tabitha, August 27,
1717; Elizabeth, August 14, 1718.
(IV) Joseph Peirce, eldest son of Azrikim
and Elizabeth (Easton) Peirce, was born April
7, 1 7 14, in Rehoboth, where he passed his life,
and died May 5, 1787. He married, October
3, 1734, Mary Martin, born March 17, 1718,
in Rehoboth, died October 16, 1803, daughter
of John and Mercy Martin. Children: Na
thaniel, mentioned below ; Stephen, born Au
gust 7, 1739; Elizabeth, January 21, 1742;
Mary, February 23, 1744; Ann, June 10, 1746;
Noah, February 11, 1752; Amy, November 19,
1754; Rhobe, February 17, 1757; Joseph, De
cember 1, 1759: Hannah, August 18, 1762;
Rhoda, August 8, 1764.
(V) Nathaniel Peirce, eldest child of Jo
seph and Mary (Martin) Peirce, was born
July 9, 1735, in Rehoboth, and passed his life
in that town, where he was undoubtedly a
farmer. Nathaniel Peirce was a soldier in the
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phen Frost's company, Colonel Cyprian Howe's
regiment; entered service August 1, 1780, three
days preceding the march, discharged Novem
ber 1, 1780; service ninety-six days to Rhode
Island, including sixty miles travel home ; regi
ment raised for three months. He married
there, June 24, 1756, Sarah, daughter of John
Pierce, born November 1, 1736,, in Rehoboth.
Children: Sarah, born September 16, 1759;
Lydia, August 2, 1763 ; Aaron, April 20, 1765 ;
Nathaniel, November 30, 1766; Israel: Na-
'than, mentioned below.
(VI) Nathan Pierce, son of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Pierce) Peirce, was born February 19,
1777, in Rehoboth, where he made his home,
and died February 25, 1861. He married, in
Wrentham, Massachusetts, September 23,
1798, Rhoda Guild, born May 27, 1780, in that
town, died February 3, 1858, in Rehoboth,
daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Paine)
Guild, of Wrentham (see Guild VI). Chil
dren: Nathan Guild, mentioned below; Eliza,
born October 9, 1801 ; Fanny, January 7, 1805 ;
Reuben Guild, September 10, 1806; Nancy
Guild, August 30, 1808; Joseph S., February
6, 1814; Childs, October 16, 1820; Emeline,
married Asaph Chaffee.
(VII) Nathan Guild Pierce, eldest child of
Nathan and Rhoda (Guild) Pierce, was born
February 9,, 1800, in Rehoboth, and died in
middle life, probably in Seekonk. He lived
in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and Wrentham,
Attleboro and Seekonk, Massachusetts. He
married Maria- Shaw, probably of an Attleboro
family, who also died at an early age. The
Attleboro records show her maiden name.
which is the only means of knowing it, and the
following children : Susan, born in Cumber
land, May 7, 1820, died November 3, 1822, not
recorded in Cumberland ; William Darling,
March 17, 1822, in Cumberland, was a jeweler
in Providence, where he died October 17, 1899;
Nathan Darling, December 1, 1824, in Wren
tham, not recorded in that town, died in Nor
wood, Rhode Island ; Myra Jane, February 18,
1827, in Attleboro, married Arnold Jillson, and
died in Providence; Abby Ann, October 28,
1830, in Attleboro, died unmarried; Charles
Francis, January 11, 1835, in Seekonk, settled
in Washington county, Rhode Island ; Lewis
Warner, mentioned below,
(VIII) Lewis Warner Pierce, youngest
child of Nathan Guild and Maria (Shaw)
Pierce, was born October 25, 1836, in Attle
boro, as indicated by the record of his death
In Providence, April 17, 1895. His birth is
not recorded in Attleboro. Death robbed him
of his parents' care at a very early age, and he
was thrown upon his own resources. His edu
cational opportunities were thus limited, and

while still a youth he learned the jeweler's
trade in his native town, and the manufacture
of jewelry occupied his attention throughout
his active life. He was the inventor of the
album locket, which has had a very extended
use. His employer in Attleboro sought to gain
the benefit of this invention for his own use,
whereupon young Pierce left his employ, and
moved to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he
engaged in the manufacture of jewelry on his
own account, and continued until 1867. In
that year he removed to Providence and
formed a partnership with Alfred H. Willard
under the firm name of Pierce, Willard &
Company. They at once engaged in the manu
facture of an improved form of the album
locket and other goods, with factory located
on Friendship street. In 1870 it was removed
to Page street. In 1874 Elisha F. Clewley was
admitted as a partner, and the business con
tinued under the same title until 1881, during
which time little financial gain was made. In
the last named year Mr. Pierce bought out the
interest of his partners and conducted the busi
ness under the old name of L. W. Pierce &
Company, manufacturing several lines of
jewelry. Four years later he began the manu
facture of emblems and all kinds of society
badges and pins, locating in 1893 in the Ladd
Watch Case Company's building. At this
time his son-in-law, Charles C. Darling, was
admitted as a partner, the firm name remain
ing unchanged, and together they continued
the business until failing health compelled Mr.
Pierce to retire. Mr, Darling then bought Mr.
Pierce's interest and has since continued in
this business with success under the firm name
of C. C. Darling & Company. Mr. Pierce died
April 17, 1895, at his home in Johnson, Rhode
Island, now a part of the city of Providence,
where he had lived for many years. His re
mains repose in Swan Point Cemetery. He
was noted for his industry, integrity and enter
prising business methods. Devoted to his
home and family, he gave little attention to
public affairs, and was classed politically as an
independent Republican. He married, in Graf
ton, Massachusetts, Eliza Jane Barbour, born
January 25, 1837, in New England Village,
Grafton, Massachusetts, daughter of Elliot and
Eliza (Stevens) Barbour (see Barbour VII).
Mrs. Pierce resides at the old home in John
son, where she has won the esteem and respect
of the community as a most devoted wife and
mother. Children: 1. Annie Maria, mentioned
below. 2. Corielynn Eliza, born September 10,
1867, in Providence, died July 11, 1906; she
married, October 14, 1891, Henry W. Heaton,
M. D., of Providence. 3. Marion J. L., born
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vem-ber 29, 1897, George Emil Haupt, of
Centerville, Rhode Island, and they have two-
children, namely: Charlotte May, born May 1,
1899, and George Emil Jr., born January 25,
1902. (IX) Annie Maria Pierce, eldest daughter
of Lewis Warner and Eliza Jane (Barbour)
Pierce, was born December 27, 1865', in New
England Village, now North Grafton, Massa
chusetts, and became the wife of Charles Colby
Darling, of Providence (see Darling VIII).
She is a member of St. John's Episcopal
Church of Providence, and is active in the
work of that organization, giving much of ber
time and means to works of charity and music.
(The Guild Line).
The surname Guild, Guld, Guide or Guile is
of Scotch origin, the records showing the sur
name as early as 1449, when one Alexander
Guide owned property at Sterling. In the six
teenth century we find the family in Dundee,
and in the seventeenth in Forfarshire and
Perth. The Scotch family may have descended
from the Guille family of the Isle of Guernsey,
the original seat of which was on the bay
called Saint, in the parish of St. Martin. Ac
cording to tradition they were there before or
at the time of the conquest. At the dedication
of the St. Pierre du Bois Church, in 1167,
John Guille is mentioned as one of the honor
able gentlemen present. The name of Guille is
said to be Norman, probably the Norman form
of the Latin Aegidius, or Giles, in English.
The Scotch coat-of-arms of Guilds closely re
sembles that of the Guernsey family named
Guille. The American families of Guild and
Guile are descended from two brothers, John
Guild, mentioned below, and Samuel Guild,
who with their sister Ann arrived in Massa
chusetts about 1636 and settled in Dedham.
They were probably quite young when they
came, and it is conjectured that Ann was the
oldest, being about twenty, John about eighteen
and Samuel sixteen years of age. Ann mar
ried, March 16, 1638, James Allen, and in
1649 settled in Medfield, Massachusetts, ad
joining Dedham, Samuel Guild went in 1640
to Newbury, Massachusetts, and soon after
ward joined the settlement at Haverhill.
(I) John Guild, immigrant ancestor of this
branch of the family, was born probably in
England- about 1616, and came to America in
1636, with his brother Samuel and sister Ann.
He was admitted to the church at Dedham,
July 17, 1640, and the same year bought twelve
acres of upland upon which he built a house,
which was occupied by himself and descend
ants for more than two hundred years. He
was admitted a freeman. May 10, 1643, and

as one of the original grantees was assigned
three roods and twelve rods of land, to which
he added by further grants and purchases
much real estate in Dedham, Wrentham, Med
field and Natick. He was thoroughly honest
in all his dealings, industrious and frugal,
modest in his deportment, and retiring in his
habits. He never held any office, and the town
records show that he attended town meetings
but once in several years, and then on an occa
sion of considerable excitement in relation to
making alterations and additions to the meet
ing house. He died October 4, 1682. His will
is dated October 3, and proved November 3,
1682. He married, June 24, 1645, Elizabeth
Crooke, of Roxbury, who died August 31,
1699. She was dismissed from the Roxbury
church, July 4, 1649. Children: John, born
August 22, 1646, died young; Samuel, Novem
ber 17, 1647 ; John, mentioned below ; Eliezur,
November 30, 1653, died June 30, 1655 ; Eben
ezer, December 21, 1657, died April 21, 1661 ;
Elizabeth, January 18, 1660; Benjamin, May
25, 1664, died young.
( II) John (2) Guild, third son of John (1)
and Elizabeth (Crooke) Guild, was born No
vember 29, 1649, in Dedham, and died Janu
ary 24, 1723, in Wrentham. He resided in
Dedhami until 1681, when he removed to
Wrentham, and united with the church in that
town, April 13, 1692. He was elected deacon
of the Wrentham church, December 7, 1707,
and continued in that office until his death. He
married, March 23, 1677, Sarah Fisher, of
Dedham, born October 27, 1658, daughter of
Anthony and Joane (Faxon) Fisher. Chil
dren: Bethiah, born August 4, 1678; Sarah,
August 30, 1680, died young; Sarah, June 3,
1683 ; Elizabeth, July 7, 1685 ; Joanna, No
vember 4, 1687; John, mentioned below;
Josiah, July 14, 1694; Judith, September 19,
1697: Ebenezer, September 9, 1700.
rill) John (3) Guild, eldest son of John
(2) and Sarah (Fisher) Guild, was born No
vember 7, 1690, in Wrentham, and died there,
January 28, 1762. He was a farmer in that
town. He married (first) June 11, 171 1,
Mercy Foster, who died May 3, 1730. He mar
ried (second) March 22, 1732, Phebe Mann,
born February 16, 1706, died May 7, 1790,
daughter of Theodore and Abigail (Hawes)
Mann, Children of the first marriage: John,
born November 23, 1712; Joseph, August 17,
1714; Benjamin, April 12, 1717 ; Mercy, April
6, 1719; Esther, September 20, 1721; Eben
ezer, mentioned below. Children of second
marriage: Timothy, born January 15, 1733;
Samuel, April 21, 1734; Daniel, September 30,
1736; Abigail, September 16, 1739; Phebe,
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(IV) Ebenezer Guild, fourth son of John
(3) and Mercy (Foster) Guild, was born July
31, 1724, in Wrentham, and resided in West
Wrentham, which later became Franklin,
where he was a deacon of the Baptist church
He died May 29, 1790. He married, Novem
ber 20, 1746, Margaret Pond, born March 12,
1725, died August 11, 1810 (see Pond IV).
Children: Ebenezer, born August 16, 1747;
Joseph, mentioned below ; Margaret, February
22, 1751; Mary, July 14, 1754; Chloe, MaV
15, 1760; Samuel, December 13, 1762.
(V) Joseph Guild, second son of Ebenezer
and Margaret (Pond) Guild, was born Sep
tember 14, 1748, in Wrentham, and died Janu
ary 12, 1819, in West Wrentham, in the same
place, which was then called Franklin. Joseph
Guild, of Wrentham, was a private in the revo
lution, in Captain Asa Fairbanks' company,
which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ;
service from April 30, 1775, to May 2, 1775;
also in Captain Asa Fairbanks' company,
Major Metcalf's regiment, enlisted December
8, 1777, service to December 11, 1777; roll en
dorsed "Col. Wheelock's regiment" ; also
served in Samuel Fisher's company, Colonel
Ephraim Wheelock's regiment, Suffolk county's
brigade, service twenty days, company marched
to Rhode Island on the alarm of April 21,
1777; also in Captain Asa Fairbanks' com
pany, Colonel John Daggett's regiment, en
listed August 24, 1778, discharged September
3, 1778, service eleven days in Rhode Island.
He married, in Rehoboth, November 2, 1769,
Rebecca Paine, born December 17, 1750, in
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, daughter of Jona
than and Sarah (Doggett) Paine, died Febru
ary 3, 1842'. Children: Reuben, born Decem
ber 12, 1770; Mary, October 29, 1772; Noah,
October 2, 1774; Rebecca, November 1, 1777;
Rhoda, mentioned below.
(VI) Rhoda Guild, youngest child of Jo
seph and Rebecca (Paine) Guild, was born
May 27, 1780, in Franklin, and died in Reho
both, February 3, 1858. She became the wife
of Nathan Pierce, of Rehoboth (see Pierce
VI). (The Barbour Line),
(I) George Barbour, a distinguished Puri
tan in New England, was born in 1615, in
England, died in 1685. He sailed from Grave-
send, July 4, 1635, in the ship "Transport,"
arriving in the western world in the autumn
of that year. He was a townsman of Ded
ham in 1640, and in 1646 appears as a mem
ber of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston, with the rank of captain.
In 1647 he subscribed to the freeman's oath
in Dedham, and, was later prominent in the
settlement of Medway, which was set off from

Dedham. In November, 165 1, he made a con
tract with the town to build a mill, which he
executed, the mill being located on Alill brook,
below the crossing of the present Elm street.
This he sold in 1652, and in the same year
was a member of a committee to lay out high
ways. In 1663 he "beat the drum," for which
he received from the town four bushels and
three pecks of corn. For some years he was
a principal military officer of Medway, and
was very often employed to settle estates.
For ten years he was a selectman; was town
clerk twenty-three consecutive years, and four
years deputy to the general court. His resi
dence was on the main street of Medway. He
married (first) in 1642, Elizabeth Clark, who
died in 1683; (second) Joan, widow of An
thony Fisher, of Dedham. Children: Eliza
beth, died December 20, 1642 ; Mary, died
June 27, 1643 ; Mary, born November 30, 1644 ;
Samuel, November 6, 1646; John, January 13,
1649; Elizabeth, February 11, 1651; Hannah,
April 16, 1654; Zachariah, mentioned below;
Abigail, October 20, 1659. The last three was
born in Medway.
(II) Zachariah Barbour, youngest son of
George and Elizabeth (Clark) Barbour, was
born September 29, 1656, in Medway, and re
sided on the present Bridge street in that town,
near the corner of the road to Dingle Dell.
Pie owned what was subsequently the town
farm and built his house soon after the close
of King Philip's war. He married, August
30, 1683, in Medway, Abial or Abigail Ellis,
born October 15, 1662, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Wright) Ellis, died April 14, 1716.
Children: Benoni, born September 9, 1684;
Zachariah, mentioned below; Joseph, October
4, 1687; Abial, April 4, 1691 ; John, October
12, 1693; Ruth, March 5', 1696; Thomas, July
2, 1698; Elizabeth, 1700; Mary, May 22, 1703.
(Ill) Zachariah (2) Barbour, second son
of Zacbariah (1) and Abial or Abigail (Ellis)
Barbour, was born October 19, 1685, in Med
way, and came into possession of the Bridge
street farm' by paying off the other heirs in
1717. He died July 28, 1746. He married
(first) about 1717-18, Deborah Partridge, born
October 12, 1694, in Medway, daughter of
Nathaniel and Lydia (Wright) Partridge, died
July 12, 1723. He married (second) Febru
ary 17, 1725, Mary Allen, born July 10, 1698,
daughter of Benjamin Allen. She survived
her husband, and married (second) William
Mann, of Wrentham. Children, all born of
the first marriage: Zachariah, February 10,
1719; Deborah, November 8, 1720; Elisha,
mentioned below.
(IV) Elisha Barbour, younger son of Zach
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was born November 23, 1722, in Medway, and
inherited from his father the Bridge street
farm, on which he resided until 1754. He then
removed to Sherborn, Massachusetts, where
he continued to engage in agriculture, and died
July 7, 1803, in his eighty-first year. He mar
ried, September 10, 1751, Silence Fairbanks,
born February 26, 1727, daughter of George
and Sarah (Harding) Fairbanks. Children:
Zachariah, born November 17, 1752; Deborah,
May 3, 1754; Sarah, March 17, 1756; Elisha,
May 31, 1758; George, March 9, 1761 ; Oliver,
mentioned below; Silence, October 18, 1765;
all except the first born in Sherborn.
(V) Oliver Barbour, fourth son of Elisha
and Silence (Fairbanks) Barbour, was born
January 26, 1763, in Sherborn, and lived in
that town, where he was a farmer. Oliver
Barbour was a revolutionary soldier, serving
as a private in Joshua Leland's company, Colo
nel Abner Perry's regiment ; pay abstract for
fourteen days, service at Rhode Island from
July 28 to August 8, 1780, on an alarm dated
Sherborn; also volunteer in Captain Staples
Chamberlain's company, Colonel Dean's regi
ment, enlisted March 11, 1781, service seven
days on an alarm to Rhode Island, marched by
order of Governor Hancock; his brothers,
Zachariah and Elisha Barbour, also served in
the revolution from Sherborn. He married,
May 26, 1790, Nancy Bullard, born February
17, 1768, in Sherborn, daughter of Samuel and
Mary (Ware) Bullard. Children: Eunice,
born June 28, 1791 ; Walter, February 6, 1794;
Elliot, mentioned below ; Nancy, February 26,
1798; Martin, April 3, 1800; Oliver, August 3,
1802 ; Horace, March 24, 1804 ; Julia, March
4, 1809.
(VI) Elliot Barbour, second son of Oliver
and Nancy (Bullard) Barbour, was born Octo
ber 15, 1795, in Sherborn, and settled in Graf
ton, Massachusetts. He married Eliza Stevens,
and they had children : John E., born March
26, 1825; Walter, April 26, 1827; Lyman L.,
December 12, 1832; Albert, October 1, 1834;
Eliza Jane, mentioned below.
(VII) Eliza Jane Barbour, youngest child
of Elliot and Eliza (Stevens) Barbour, was
born January 25, 1837, in New England Vil
lage, Grafton, Massachusetts, and became the
wife of Lewis Warner Pierce, of Providence,
Rhode Island (see Pierce VIII).
(The Pond Line).
(I) Daniel Pond', progenitor of the Pond
families of Dedham and Wrentham, Massa
chusetts, appeared in Dedham about 1652, and
was described as a yeoman. Undoubtedly he
was a son of Robert Pond, of Dorchester, and
brother of William of that town and Robert

of Milton. He purchased two acres of up
land and two of swamp land, March 30, 1652,
and also bought the estate of Ralph Wheelock,
February 12, 1663, including buildings. In
the following month he received a grant of lot
No. 15, in Wrentham, the next year twelve
acres, and lot No. 25 in 1667. He owned large
holdings in that town, though he did not live
there, the land being occupied by his sons, and
died in Dedham, February 4, 1698. He was
received in full communion in Dedham church,
October 11, 1653; was made a freeman- in
1690; and was lieutenant of the military com
pany. He married (first) about 165 1, Abigail,
daughter of Edward- Shepard, of Cambridge,
born 1 63 1, died July 5, 1661. He married
(second) September 18, 1661, Ann Edwards,
born 1640, died June 6, 1732, supposed to be
a sister of his first wife. Children of first
wife: Abigail, born November 9, 1652; Dan
iel, died March 4, 1662 ; John, had three wives:
Ephraim, mentioned below ; Rachel, baptized
September 5, 1658; Hannah, born September
27, 1660. Children of second marriage: Dan
iel, born April 17, 1663; Robert, August 5,
1667; William, November 20, 1669; Caleb,
February 13, 1672; Joshua, January 3, 1674;
Jabez, March 6, 1677; Sarah, July 10, 1679.
(II) Ephraim Pond, third son of Daniel
and Abigail (Shepard) Pond, was born in
Dedham and baptized there July 6, 1656, died
December 22, 1704, in. Wrentham, where he
settled about 1686. He was the owner of real
estate in 1689, and served the town on various
committees. The inventory of his estate
showed a valuation of three hundred and
eighteen pounds, and it was divided between
the widow and her children in 1714. He mar
ried, January 6. 1686, Deborah Hawes, of Ded
ham, born September 1, 1666, daughter of
Edward and Eleony (Lumber) Hawes. She
survived him and married a second husband.
Children : Ephraim, mentioned below ; Daniel,
born September 22, 1689; Deborah, September
13, 1693; Samuel, December 29, 1695; Joseph,
December 30, 1697, died in infancy; Joseph
and Benjamin (twins), July 22, 1700; Jacob,
November 22, 1702; Eleony, August 15, 1704.
(Ill) Ephraimi (2) Pond, eldest child of
Ephraim (1) and Deborah (Plawes) Pond,
was born October 21, 1686, in Wrentham, and
died there April 27, 1760. He was granted
lot No. 32, March 28, 1709, and received other
lands in 1716, continuing as a farmer through
life. He married, November 1, 1710, in Bos
ton, Mary Colburn, born November 5, 1681,
in Dedham, daughter of Samuel and Mercy
(Partridge) Colburn, died May 25, 1754, in
Wrentham. Children : Ephraim, died young ;
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ruary 28, 1715; Mary, February 28, 1717;
Sarah, October 7, 1720; Deborah, February
6, 1723; Margaret, mentioned below; Esther,
December 1, 1727; Jeremiah, December 23,
1729. (IV) Margaret Pond, fifth daughter bf
Ephraim (2) and Mary (Colburn) Pond, was
born March 12, 1725, im Wrentham, and be
came the wife of Ebenezer Guild, of that town
(see Guild IV). (The Darling Line).
(I) Dennis Darling was born in England
about 1640. On the early records of Brain
tree, Massachusetts, where he settled, his name
was spelled Denice Darly and in various other
ways. It is likely that, as many genealogists
think, he was a brother of John Darling, who
also settled in Braintree about the same time;
married, May 13, 1664, Elizabeth Dowman
or Downam and had several children. It is
also believed by various investigators that the
Braintree family was related to George Dar
ling, of Salem, Lynn and Marblehead, who
was in Massachusetts earlier than the Brain
tree immigrants and was somewhat older, hav
ing been born in England in 1620. Dennis
Darling with other Braintree men removed,
shortly after the close of King Philip's war, to
Mendon, Massachusetts. He was one of the
petitioners from Mendon for relief in their
endeavor to effect a successful resettlement of
the town which the savages had desolated. He
had a grant of land, October 25, 1682, and his
name was on the tax roll, dated January 11,
1685, at Mendon. The next name to appear
of this family was that of his son John, Octo
ber 25, 1689. Dennis Darling built his first
log cabin near the center of the village of
Mendon and most of his children settled in
the south parish of that town. He died at
Mendon, January 25, 1715. He married, in
Braintree, in 1662, Hannah Francis, and had
children born there: Cornelius, March 4, 1663,
died young; John, mentioned below; child,
born August 18, 1667, died August 19 follow
ing; Sarah, January 26, 1669-70; Cornelius,
March 23, 1675, settled in Rehoboth and Bell
ingham; Hannah, June 14, 1677. Born in
Mendon: Ebenezer, January 8, 1679, married
at Rehoboth, March 3, 1696, Mary Mann, of
Providence; Daniel, April 23, 1682; Elizabeth,
July 2, 1685; Benjamin, February 11, 1687.
(II) Captain John Darling, son of Dennis
and Hannah (Francis) Darling, was born at
Braintree, Massachusetts, September 16, 1664,
died at Bellingham, where he had been living
with his son for a time, May 29, 1753, in his
ninetieth, year. He went to Mendon, Massa
chusetts, when a child, with his father. He

was mentioned as an heir in the settlement of
the estate of Samuel Shepard in 1691. He
had land laid out to him in Mendon, June 7,
1700, and served on committees to lay out lots.
He had a grant of land in Mendon in 1706,
and lived in what was afterward Bellingham.
He married (first) at Braintree, Elizabeth
Thompson, who died in 1687. He married
(second) 1690, Anna Rockwood. He married
(third) Elizabeth Morse. Child of first mar
riage : John, mentioned below. Child of sec
ond marriage: Anna, born April 20, 1689, in
Mendon. Children of third marriage, born in
Mendon: Elizabeth, January 3, 1692; Samuel,
March 18, 1694; Ruth, September 20, 1696;
Hannah, November 1, 1697; Margaret, August
19, 1700; Ebenezer, March 2, 1702; Mary,
May 22, 1704; Martha, March 10, 1705; Abi
gail, July 14, 1708; Rachel, May 14, 171 1;
Deborah, January 8, 1713.
(Ill) John (2) Darling, eldest child of
Captain John ( 1 ) Darling, and only child of
his first wife, Elizabeth (Thompson) Darling,
was born about 1683, not recorded in Brain
tree or Mendon. He married, in Mendon,
January 5, 1708, Hannah Staples, born there,
May 13, 1686, daughter of Abraham and Mary
(Randall) Staples. Children: Hannah, born
March 26, 1710; Elizabeth, November 7, 1712;
Mary, March 2, 1714; John, mentioned below;
Peletiah, February 28, 1721 ; Margaret, Janu
ary 12, 1723; Ruth, July 1, 1726.
(IV) John (3) Darling, eldest son of John
(2) and Hannah (Staples) Darling, was born
December 1, 1717, in Mendon, and resided in
that part of the town which later became Bell
ingham. He married, in Rehoboth, May 1,
1740, Hannah Healey, born March 3, 1722, in
that town, daughter of Paul and Hannah
(Titus) Healey. Children: John, mentioned
below ; Esther, born July 9, 1743 ; Hannah,
November 17, 1744; James, August 4, 1746;
Martha and Mary (twins), April 16, 1749;
Peter, May 16, 1751; Daniel, April 14, 1753;
Eunice, August 5, 1755; Jemima and Jerusha
(twins), June 3, 1757; Elias, December 3,
1759- (V) John- (4) Darling, eldest child of John
(3) and Hannah (Healey) Darling, was born
April 24, 1 741, in Bellingham, and resided in
Cumberland, Rhode Island. No record of his
marriage has been discovered, but his wife's
name was Martha. Children recorded in Cum
berland : Pamelia, born October 5, 1766; Mar
tha, September 14, 1768; John, mentioned be
low ; Lorana, January 2, 1772 ; James, August
20, 1773; Gideon, November 5, 1777; Joshua,
March 5, 178 1 ; Jacob, February 14, 1785.
(VI) John (5) Darling, eldest son of John
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20, 1770, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and
resided in that town. He married Mary
Weeden, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
They had a family of eight children, namely:
Lauretta, married Lorenzo Miller ; John
Weeden ; George Washington ; Mary, married
a Mr. Harris, of Cumberland ; William ; Han
nah, married (first) a Mr. Davis, (second) a
M'r. Hunt; Levi B., mentioned below; Susan,
married John Austin.
(VII) Levi B., fourth son of John (5) and
Mary ( Weeden ) Darling, was born January
8, 1827, in the northern part of Cumberland,
and was for many years a well known resident
of Providence, where he died December 31,
1906, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery,
The second of his three wives was Martha E.
Colby, daughter of Dr. John Calvin Colby, a
well known physician of Franconia, New
Hampshire. (VIII) Charles Colby Darling, son of Levi
B. and Martha E. (Colby) Darling, was born
December 25, 1853, in Providence, and was
principally educated in private schools of his
native city. For several years he was a stu
dent at Mowry & Goff's English and Classical
School, practically completing the course of
that famous institution. On leaving school he
entered upon business life as a clerk in the
shoe store of Charles Snow, where he con
tinued four years. Subsequently he was em
ployed in the wholesale dry goods house of
Dudley, Parkhurst & Company, and was com
pelled to relinquish this after two and one-half
years because of failing health. After recover
ing he became bookkeeper for S. C. Fish &
Company, jewelry manufacturers of Provi
dence and since that time has been prominently
identified with this line of industry. He has
attained a high reputation in business and per
sonal standing. After three years with Fish
& Company he spent five years on the road as
traveling salesman for H. W. Potter, a manu
facturing jeweler. He continued in this capac
ity thereafter with the firm of L. W. Pierce
& Company, and became sole owner of the
business in 1891, at which time Mr. Pierce was
compelled to retire from' business because of
failing health. The business has been con
ducted since that date under the title of C. C.
Darling & Company, although Mr. Darling has
been the sole owner. The establishment is
engaged in the manufacture of all kinds of
emblems, and gives employment to more than
fifty skilled workmen. As clerk, salesman and
proprietor Mr. Darling has demonstrated great
executive ability, and is a typical American
business man. The great success of the busi
ness under his charge is due largely to his'
energy, good judgment and reputation for in

tegrity. Mr. Darling is affiliated with the Ma
sonic fraternity, being a member of Mt. Ver
non Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Providence Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Ma
sons, and Calvary Commandery, No. 13,
Knights Templar, of which he has been com
mander ; also is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-
second degree, and belongs to Palestine Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; has served the
Citizens' Savings Bank of Providence as direc
tor since June, 1907. While taking no part in
public life, he has steadfastly sustained Repub
lican principles and policies. He married, Janu
ary 22, 1889, Annie Maria Pierce, daughter of
Lewis Warner and Eliza Jane (Barbour)
Pierce, of Providence (see Pierce IX). Their
only child, Charles Lewis, died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling occupy a handsome
home located in a commanding position on the
east side, the abode of hospitality and refined
taste.

Rev. John Cornell, M. A.,
CORNELL who now makes his summer
home in Portsmouth, is a de
scendant of Thomas Cornell, the first of the
family to come to America, where he finally
settled om the same farm now occupied by Rev.
John Cornell.
(I) Thomas Cornell was born in county
Essex, England, about 1595, and- there mar
ried Rebecca ' Briggs, sister of John Briggs.
She was born about 1600, died February 8,
1673. Thomas Cornell brought his wife and
children to the new world about 1638, and
located first in Boston, where he made his
home on what is now Washington street, be
tween Summer and Milk streets. Later he
moved to Rhode Island, was admitted a free
man of Portsmouth, August 6, 1640, and about
1646 he settled on the present Cornell farm.
He died about 1655, in Portsmouth, the father
of five sons and four daughters. A complete
record of his life and his posterity may be
found in the genealogical history of the family
published in 1902 by Rev. John Cornell.
(II) Richard Cornell, second son and fifth
child of Thomas and Rebecca (Briggs) Cor
nell, was born in England, about 1625. Some
time before 1656 he moved to Flushing, Long
Island, becoming the owner of large tracts of
land in various parts of the island. His death
occurred about 1694. By his wife, Elizabeth,
he had five sons and three daughters.
(Ill) William Cornell, second son of Rich
ard and Elizabeth Cornell, was born about
1667, on Long Island, and there married. His
first wife was probably Elizabeth Smith. His
second union was with Jane, daughter of Wil
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to whom he was married April 8, 1735, in St.
George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island.
Seven children were born to the first marriage
and none to the second. Like his father Wil
liam Cornell became a large landowner and
left a handsome estate. He died in 1743.
(IV) John Cornell, second son of William
Cornell, was born about 1700, died in 1773.
His first wife, Abigail (Whitehead) Cornell,
supposed to be the daughter of Thomas and
Jane (Creed) Whitehead, died April 20, 1762.
aged fifty-seven years, and was buried in
Rockaway Cemetery. For his second wife
John Cornell married on June 6, 1766, Patience
Oakley, daughter of Samuel and Plannah Skid-
more. A firm adherent of the Church of Eng
land, he was a petitioner for a charter for St.
George's Church at Hempstead. His nine
children were all by the first marriage.
(V) Whitehead Cornell, son of John and
Abigail (Whitehead) Cornell, was born March
12, 1731, at Plempstead, and was baptized July
19, 1731, at St. George's Church. About 1755
he moved, to Brooklyn, and engaged in busi
ness. His first wife was Margaret, daughter
of Isaac Sebring; she was born April 14, 1731,
died June 17, 1797. For his second wife he
chose Mrs. Phoebe Thorn, a widow, sup
posedly the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah
(Morvin) Rowland. She survived her hus
band and died September 25, 1829, in New
York City, being buried in St. Ann's church
yard. Mr. Cornell was very active in church
work in Brooklyn, and was one of the first
trustees of St. Ann's. His death occurred
February 5, 1810, and he was first buried in
St. Ann's churchyard and later his remains
were removed to the family vault in Green
wood. There were three children by the first
marriage as follows : John, mentioned below ;
William, born about 1755 ; Isaac.
(VI) John (2) Cornell, eldest son of
Whitehead and Margaret (Sebring) Cornell,
was baptized December 23, 1753, at Hemp
stead, and died in Brooklyn, January 21, 1820.
He was a large landowner, and also spent
much of his time in church affairs, being one
of the first vestrymen of St. Ann's. In 1787
he was one of the incorporators of the Epis
copal church in Brooklyn and was four times
a delegate to the diocesan convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church. He was a per
sonal friend of Bishop Henshaw. Mr. Cor
nell was married in Brooklyn to Sarah (Cor-
telyou) Conradi, widow of Charles Conradi,
whose demise occurred June 4, 1786. Mrs.
Cornell was born May 13, 1767, and died Au
gust 3, 1858, having borne her husband four
teen children.
(VII) Isaac R. Cornell, son of John (2)

and Sarah (Cortelyou-Conradi) Cornell, was
born September 17, 1805. At an early age he
left home to make his own way in the world,
becoming a clerk in New York with the firm
of Hinton & Moore, dealers in paints and oils.
In 1822, however, when the epidemic of cholera
broke out in the city, he went to New Bruns
wick, New Jersey, and took a position as clerk
in the wholesale drug store of Jonathan Acker-
man. Later the firm became Ackerman & Cor
nell, and so continued until 1832, when Mr.
Cornell returned to New York, and engaged
in the wholesale drug business there at No.
141 Maiden Lane, the firm name beimg Robin
son & Cornell. A few years afterward, with
his brothers, Whitehead, Peter and Samuel, he
formed the Union White Lead Company of
Brooklyn, with offices at No. 175 Front street,
New York, and was connected with that com
pany until he retired from business in 1843.
After he gave up active business Mr. Cornell
bought a farm in Weston, New Jersey, near
Somerville, beautifully located upon the Mill
stone river. There he built a grist and saw
mill, with wheelwright and blacksmith shops,
and, renting them, gradually established quite
a settlement about the place. He spent much
money in beautifying the estate, and for over
twenty years he and his wife dispensed there
a generous hospitality. But at last they sold
the property for $50,000, and in May, 1864, re
turned to New York, where he and his son-
in-law, Theodore T. Moran, built a house to
gether at No. 4 West Fifty-third street. Mr.
Cornell's death occurred at this home, Janu
ary 17, 1896, at the ripe old age of ninety-one
years, and he was buried in Greenwood Ceme
tery. All of his life he was an active member
of the Episcopal church, and in New York
was for many years a vestryman of Christ
Church. Mr. Cornell married in New Brunswick,
New Jersey, March 15, 1831, Mary Duyckinck,
the ceremony being performed by Bishop
Cross. Mrs. Cornell was born February 15,
1814, daughter of Richard Bancker and Eliza
beth Mary (Donnan) Duyckinck. She sur
vived her husband and passed away, May 3,
1899, while residing on Madison avenue, New
York. They were the parents of two chil
dren: Sarah Duyckinck, August 6, 1836, in
New York City, who married, September 17,
1857, Theodore Thomas Moran, and died
March 26, 1889; John, mentioned below.
(VIII) Rev. John (3) Cornell, son of Isaac
R. and Mary (Duyckinck) Cornell, was born
Tune 11, 1839, and was baptized at St. Thomas'
Church, New York, September 29, 1839. He
was educated in Mr. Churchill's Military Acad
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class of 1859. Entering Princeton he was given
the degree of M.aster of Arts in 1862. The
next year Mr. Cornell devoted to civil engi
neering, but soon decided to devote his life to
the ministry instead, and so entered the Theo
logical Seminary. Graduating with the class
of 1863 he was that year ordained deacon by
Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, and pres
byter in 1864 by Bishop Potter, of New York.
During the years 1863-64 he was assistant in
the Church of the Messiah at Rhinebeck, and
from that time until 1867 was rector of St.
Thomas' Church at Ravenswood, New Jersey.
In 1867 he resigned his charge and going
abroad traveled extemsively. Among the coun
tries visited were included Greece, Turkey and
the Holy Land.
In 1868 Rev. Mr. Cornell returned to Amer
ica and took up missionary work in the west.
He was at first stationed in Laramie, Wyo
ming, under Bishop Randall, and when St.
Matthew's Church was organized he was elect
ed rector. Later he was sent to Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and to Hamilton, Nevada. In
1 87 1 he was made rector of Trinity Church,
Santa Barbara, California, but after remain
ing there a year he accepted a position as mis-
sionary-at-large in Northern California, where
he resided successively in Marysville, Wheat
land and Yreka. After about four years of
this work, while on a visit to his parents in
New York, Rev. Mr. Cornell was induced by
a friend, Rev. William A. McVickar, D. D.,
to take the latter's place temporarily at Nice,
France, and at once departed to the scene of
his new labors. Dr. McVickar received a call
to Christ's Church, New York, and as he ac
cepted Rev. Mr. Cornell was unanimously
elected to his place in Nice, and ministered to
the church there for eighteen years.
In 1894 the Rev. Mr. Cornell returned to
his native land. During his forty years of pas
toral work he has been instrumental in build
ing six places of worship. Since returning to
America he has devoted much of his time to
literary work and has contributed to both re
ligious and secular journals. He has also spent
much time and money in compiling a genea
logical history of the Cornell family, a volume
of over five hundred pages, published in 1902.
In 1895 Mr. Cornell settled, in Rhode Island.
purchasing the old homestead in Portsmouth,
which originally belonged to the first Thomas
Cornell, and there he has built a fine home,
modelled after the original house, which had
been destroyed by fire some years before. He
has done much to beautify the grounds and
has one of the most attractive places in Rhode
Island. He resides in it only a portion of the
year as his winters are spent in New York

City, where for five years he was canon mis-
sioner in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
and is now associate rector of Ascension Me
morial Church.
On July 31, 1878, the Rev. John Cornell was
united in marriage at Friarn Barnet, near
London, England, to Margaret Katerina
(Osterberg) Robinson, a native of Stockholm
and the widow of Joseph Parkinson Robinson,
of Dewsbury, England. He has no children.
Rev. Mr. Cornell is a member of the New
York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Abraham Shaw, the first of the
SHAW family in this country, came from
North Awram, Halifax, York
shire, England, with his wife, Bridget (Best)
Shaw, in 1636, and settled at Watertown,
Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman,
March 9, 1636-37, and was at that time a pro
prietor of Watertown. His house there was
burned in October, 1636, and he removed to
Dedham, of which he was one of the original
petitioners. He signed the famous compact
and was elected constable, September 6, 1636.
He afterward removed to Cambridge and was
a town officer there. While in Dedham he
helped build the first bridge across the Charles
river for a grist mill. He had a grant of "coal
and iron ore which may be found in any com
mon land in this country's disposing," Novem
ber 2, 1637, and it is presumed that he pros
pected for minerals. He owned coal mines in
Halifax, England. He was given liberty to
erect a corn mill, February 12, 1636-37. He
died in 1638, leaving a will in which he made
bequest to children, Joseph, John, Mary and
Martha. Children: 1. Joseph, settled in Wey
mouth. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Mary,
born about 1638. 4. Martha, about 1638. 5.
Susanna, married Nicholas Byram, and re
moved to Weymouth.
(II) John Shaw, son of Abraham Shaw,
was baptized at Halifax, England, May 21,
1630, died at Weymouth, September 16, 1704.
He married Alice Phillips, daughter of Deacon
Nicholas Phillips, of Weymouth. Children:
John, born about 1655 ; Elizabeth, February
26, 1656; Abraham, October 10, 1657; Mary.
May 24, 1660; Nicholas, March 23, 1662
Joseph, April 15, 1664; Alice, July 6, 1666.
Hannah, April 7, 1668; Benjamin, mentioned
below; Abigail, July 15, 1672; Ebenezer, April
24, 1674.
(Ill) Benjamin Shaw, son of John Shaw,
was born at Weymouth, June 16, 1670, died at
Taunton, June 16, 1723. He married Hannah
Rogers, who died at Taunton, May 26, 1723.
Among their children was Samuel, mentioned
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(IV) Samuel Shaw, son of Benjamin Shaw,
was born in Weymouth, in 1698, died in Taun
ton, in September, 1730. He married Eliza
beth, daughter of Henry Hodges. She mar
ried (second) January 12, 1734, Isaac Samp
son, (third) November 6, 1750, Deacon Ed
ward Richmond; she died October 10, 1782-,
aged eighty-one years. Samuel Shaw left five
sons: Samuel, Joseph, Jonathan and two
others. (V) Joseph Shaw, son of Samuel Shaw,
was born at Taunton, September 2, 1725, and
was the first of the family to settle in Rayn
ham, which was set off in 1731. Joseph Shaw
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain John
King's company in 1775, and in his old age re
ceived a pension. He married, October 18,
1748, his cousin, Mary Shaw, born October
19, 1729, died October 15, 1816, at Raynham,
daughter of Jonathan and Mercy (Mason)
Shaw. Children: Joseph, born April 1, 1750,
died young; Joseph, November 6, 175 1 ; Silas,
July 26, 1754; Samuel, mentioned below.
(VI) Samuel (2) Shaw, son of Joseph
Shaw, was born at Raynham, April 19, 1772,
died there April 20, 1840. He was a farmer
in his native town and also a carpenter. He
had a talent for music and taught singing
schools in the vicinity. He also composed
words and music for a number of songs. He
married, April 2, 1793, Abigail Hall, born in
Raynham, September 21, 1771 (see Hall VI).
Children: 1. Mary, born September 13, 1794,
died March 27, 1876; married Josephus
Bumpus. 2. Samuel, born September 29, 1795,
died March 4, 1881 ; married (first) August
25, 1817, Mrs. Rachel Barden, of Raynham;
(second) Mrs. Caroline W. Farnham; children
by first wife: Alanson; Caroline Elizabeth,
who married Dr. Daniel A. Briggs, of Norton ;
Francis Marion, manufacturer at Brockton,
married and had sons : Linus Hall, born at
Raynham, August 25, 185:1, and Frank Ells
worth, both of Brockton; William Wallace;
Oliver Perry; Andrew Jackson; James Har
mon. 3. Diadamia, born July 29, 1797, died
March, 1882 ; married (first) Abiather Dean,
of Taunton, who died June 26, 1833; married
(second) William Ramsdell. 4. Isaac H., born
February 4, 1800, died at sea, June, 1845. 51.
Susanna H., born June 4, 1802 ; married Henry
Hall, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 6.
Rev. Linus Hall, mentioned below. 7. Alan
son, born May 6, 1807, died March 15, 1809.
8. Abigail, born January 10, 1810; married
(first)  Briggs, of West Bridgewater;
(second) Joshua Hall, of East Westmoreland.
9. Lucinda, born and died in 1814.
(VII) Rev. Linus Hall Shaw, son of Sam
uel (2) Shaw, was born at Raynham, Novem-
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ber 29, 1804, died at Sudbury, January 6,
1866. He attended the public schools of his
native town and under the tuition of Rev.
Enoch Sanford, pastor of the Trinitarian Con
gregational Church of Raynham, fitted for col
lege. He entered Brown University in the
class of 1829, but after two years left college:.
He was the assistant principal of the old Bris
tol County Academy at Taunton for a time.
In 1830 he entered Harvard Divinity School,
in which he was choir leader, and from which
he was graduated in 1833. He was a class
mate of Chandler Robbins and James Free
man Clarke. He was ordained at Athol, Mas
sachusetts, as pastor of the Unitarian church:
In 1840 he accepted a call to the church at
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and later to
Townsend in this state. He preached after
ward at Mendon, Massachusetts. In 1844 he
was called to Sudbury, Massachusetts, where
his pastorate continued to the end of his life.
In 1850 he built a house on Plympton Hill,
northeast of Sudbury Center. He was for
some years on the school committee and was
chairman of the Goodnow Library board of
trustees. He took an active part in the tem
perance movement and belonged to various
temperance organizations. Is his parish he
was popular and highly esteemed. Hudson,
the historian of Sudbury, says he was an
"estimable man, a valuable citizen, much re
spected. Small in stature, dignified and gen
tlemanly in demeanor, quiet and unassuming
in his ways." A sermon preached November
24, 1864, from the theme, "The Blackman and
the War," was published in pamphlet form,
as well as one preached three years earlier on
"The War and Its Issues."
He married, at Raynham, September 3, 1827,
Louisa Alden Jones, born at Raynham, Octo
ber 24, 1806, daughter of Nehemiah and Polly
(Alden) Jones (see Alden VI). She died at
Framingham, Massachusetts, August 29, 1891;
"She was a prudent and affectionate wife, a
good mother and a faithful friend. Her chil
dren rise up and call her blessed." Children:
1. Charles, born at Raynham, died 1846. 2.
Dr. Henry, born at Raynham, September 12,
1829, died March 28, 1910, at Revere, Massa
chusetts ; giaduate of Harvard Medical School
in 1854; assistant surgeon in the United States
navy, 1862-68; employed in Boston and state
charities, 1872-1910; author of book on
"Pauper Settlement" and one of the authors
of "The Descendants of Polly and Ebenezer
Alden;" married, October 28, 1855, Jane
Maria Taft. 3. Louisa, born at Cambridge,
December 26, 1831 ; married, April 25, 1855,
Rev. George F. Stearns, and had ten children.
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Maria, born at Mendon, December 28, 1842;
married, at Sudbury, September 5, 1865,
Orange Scott Stearns, assistant postmaster at
Framingham for many years; had three chil
dren. 6. Helen Jones, born at Sudbury, March
20, 1848; married, at Framingham, July 12,
1880, Walter Frank Hurd, born at Newton,
January 1, 1842, died at Framingham, April
9, 1900; was an architect and musician; Mrs.
Hurd is a teacher of household art, a librarian
and maker of library catalogues.
(VIII) Joseph Alden Shaw, son of Rev.
Linus Hall Shaw, was born at Athol, Massa
chusetts, January 4, 1836. He attended school
in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and in
the other towns in which his father was located.
In 1850 he attended a select school in Way-
land, where he continued the study of Latin
previously begun with his father and prepared
for college. In 1853 he entered Phillips Acad
emy at Exeter, Massachusetts, in the middle
class and graduated with the class of 1855.
Mr. Shaw was a student under Professor
Joseph G. Hoyt, who taught Greek and mathe
matics and was afterward chancellor of Wash
ington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr.
Shaw and his fellow students acknowledged
their great debt to this teacher, whose naturally
large influence over his pupils and intuitive
knowledge of human nature made him pre
eminent in his profession. Mr. Shaw entered
the sophomore class of Harvard College and
was graduated with the class of 1858 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1866 he re
ceived from Harvard the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. At Exeter Mr. Shaw was a
member of the famous old fraternity known
as the Golden Branch. At Harvard he re
ceived a "detur" in recognition of his scholar
ship and he graduated with honors. While a
student in college he followed the custom then
in vogue and taught school during three win
ters. His first school was at Upton in Worces
ter county, where his brother Henry lived and
practiced in 1855-56. In 1856-57 Mr. Shaw
taught the grammar school at Upton Center.
In- 1857-58 he taught at Centerville, in the
town of Barnstable. In late years Mr. Shaw
has spent his summers in this village and has
enjoyed renewing acquaintance with bis for
mer pupils after a lapse of more than half a
century. In 1858-59 he accepted the position
of principal of the New Salem Academy, one
of the few remaining endowed academies in
the state. After a few months spent in the
study of law in the office of his cousin, Colo
nel John Wilder, at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
Mr. Shaw decided to continue in the profes
sion of teaching and became head teacher of
the Elm Park Institute at the Lyman Beecher

mansion at Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1862
he was recalled to his former position at New
Salem, where he was principal for five years
more. In 1867 he accepted the position of
sub-principal of the Highland Military Acad
emy of Worcester and teacher of ancient and
modern languages. In 1881 he resigned and
during the following year was in charge of the
classical department of the Chickering Insti
tute, Cincinnati, Ohio. He returned to New
England after the death of Mr. Chickering
and held the office of classical instructor in
the Cheshire School, Cheshire, Connecticut,
until the fall of 1883, when he accepted a call
to the same position in Trinity School, Tivoli-
on-the-Hudson. In 1887 he returned to
Worcester, and succeeded Mr. Caleb B. Met
calf as head master of the Highland Military
Academy. For twenty-five years he was at
the head of this famous old academy and
maintained its high reputation as an institu
tion of learning. In June, 1912, the real estate
of the academy was sold by the Metcalf estate
for residential purposes, the school closed and
Mr. Shaw retired from active labor. The
academy was founded in 1856 and during the
fifty-six years of its existence had but two
superintendents, Mr. Metcalf and Mr. Shaw.
The academy ranked among the foremost in
its standards and its discipline, and numbers
among its graduates many distinguished men.
Among its well known alumni may be men
tioned F. W. Whitridge, lawyer, author, pub
licist ; George Hitchcock, painter, famous on
two continents, for many years a resident of
Holland ; Hon. Ernest W. Roberts, of Chelsea,
congressman ; Frederic Remington, artist,
sculptor and author ; Rev. Welles M. Partridge,
A. George Bullock, General Philip Reade, U.
S. A., retired; Edward L. Burlingame, and
many other former students might be men
tioned. George Nagle, the guard whose bullet
ended the career of the notorious Judge Terry,
was once a student. Those who know Mr.
Shaw will be struck by the description of his
father in the Sudbury history as applicable
equally well to the son. Mr. Shaw is a type
of the American scholar. He had a native
gift for teaching and won uniform success
wherever he taught. He invariably gained the
respect and confidence of his pupils. His
character and executive ability were the bul
warks of the academy for many years, and
hundreds of former students have the kindli
est feelings for the head master who for so
many years made the academy highly success
ful in every way.
Mr. Shaw was a charter member of the
Hancock Club and is a member of the Worces
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American Philological Association, the Alden
Kindred, the Harvard Club, and of the Society
of Mayflower Descendants. For many years
he was a communicant of All Saints Protes
tant Episcopal Church and he was one of the
earlier members of St. John's Church. He
fias served the parish of St. John's as vestry^
man and represented it in the diocesan conven
tions. He is a member of the Council of the
Massachusetts Federation of Churches. In
1914 he prepared a historical sketch of St.
John's Church. In politics he is a Republican.
The only public office he has held was on the
school committee of New Salem.
Mr.. Shaw married, November 18, 1863,
Eliza Antoinette Thompson, born April 16,
1843, daughter of Captain Clark and Nancy
(Kendall) Thompson, granddaughter of James
and Mary (Sellon) Thompson, of New Salem,
and of Joel Kendall, of Athol. Mrs. Shaw is
a graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Semi
nary (now college), class of 1863. Captain
Clark Thompson married (first) Eliza Smith,
of New Salem, and had a son, Edward Clark
Thompson, a successful manufacturer at Bran
don, Vermont, who married Mary Goodrich,
who survived him and is now living at Clinton,
Maine. Dr. Frederick Henry Thompson,
brother of Mrs. Shaw, was born August 5,
1844, graduate of Phillips Exeter, a student at
Amherst College in 1864, Harvard Medical
School (M. D., 1870), practiced at Lancaster,
1870-74, and since then at Fitchburg, Massa
chusetts ; married Harriet Fiske Howes, of
Petersham, June 1, 1870. Children of Joseph
Alden Shaw: 1. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Alden, M. D., born at New Salem, June 3,
1867; graduate of Trinity Military Institute at
Tivoli, New York, in 1886 ; of Harvard Med
ical School, 1889; house officer of the Massa
chusetts General Hospital, 1889-91 ; practiced
in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1891 ; was ap
pointed assistant surgeon in the United States
army in 1891 with the rank of lieutenant ;
-served in the Philippines ; stationed at Fort
Slocum, New York, 1903-10, in charge of the
hospital and made a systematic study of new
recruits of great value to the medical service
of the army ; now stationed at West Point ;
married, July 6, 1892, at Worcester, Alice
Stanley Whitman, born at Fitchburg, August
8, 1866, daughter of Ephraim and Augustine
(Nash) Whitman; daughter, Margaret Whit
man, student in Smith College, class of 191 5.
2. Robert Kendall, mentioned below.
(IX) Robert Kendall Shaw, son of Joseph
Alden Shaw, was born at Worcester, July 18,
1871. He received his early education in the
public schools and graduated from the Worces
ter Classical High School in 1890. He was

salutatorian of his class. In 1894 he graduated
from Harvard University with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, taking
final honors in classics. During the next three
years he was a teacher in the Highland Mili
tary School. From 1898 to 1901 he was on
the staff of the New York State Library.
From 1901 to 1904 he was assistant in the
Library of Congress at Washington. In 1904-
05 he was librarian of the public library of
Brockton, Massachusetts. He returned to
Worcester in 1905 to accept the position of
assistant librarian of the Free Public Library.
Upon the resignation of Mr. Samuel Swett
Green in January, 1909, Mr. Shaw became
librarian. He has continued the policy, in
which Mr. Green was a pioneer, of making
the library a popular institution, cooperating
with the public schools and colleges of the city
in assisting research of all kinds, answering
every question possible, keeping pace with de
mand for fiction and works of entertainment
as well as those of study and instruction.
Under Mr. Shaw the usefulness of the library
has widened and broadened. The following
from the fiftieth annual report of the board
of trustees relates to Mr. Shaw : "During the
past year he has discharged the duties of his
position with a degree of fidelity, ability and
courtesy which has merited and received the
commendation of the patrons of the library,
and the approbation of the board of directors."
He is a member of the American Library
Association, the Massachusetts Library Club,
the Bay Path Literary Club, the Phi Beta
Kappa of Harvard, the Worcester Economic
Club, the Shakespeare Club, and the Harvard
Club. He was president of the Massachusetts
Library Club in 1910-11. He delivered an ad
dress at the dedication of the Fobes Memorial
Library at Oakham in 1908, of the Merriam
Library at Auburn, Massachusetts, in June,
1909, and of the Beaman Memorial Library at
West Boylston in 1912. In 191 1 he read a
paper on Elihu Burritt before the Worcester
Society of Antiquity. He was one of the
speakers at the dedication of the three new
branch libraries in Worcester, under his charge,
at Greendale, South Worcester and Quimsiga-
mond, respectively, known as the Carnegie
branches of the Worcester Public Library.
Mr. Shaw married, September 20, 1902, at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Bertha Mower Brown,
born at Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, December
27, 1875, daughter of James Harding and Anna
Sarah (Taft) Brown. (The Hall Line).
(I) George Hall and his wife Mary were
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They emigrated, it is believed, from Devon
shire, England, in 1636-37. George Hall was
a proprietor of land at Duxbury in 1637 and
was one of the forty-six purchasers of Taun
ton (Cohannet) and he built a house on what
is now Dean street on the river. He was ad
mitted a freeman in 1645 and was constable
in that year; member of the supervising coun
cil in 1657; chairman of the board of select
men, 1666-69. He was one of the founders
of the church, and a stockholder in the iron
works at Raynham and first clerk of the com
pany. He died October 30, 1669, and his will
was proved in March, 1670. Children: John,
born 1640; Joseph, 1642-; Samuel, mentioned
below ; Charity ; Sarah ; Mary.
(II) Samuel Hall, son of George Hall, was
born in 1644. His will was dated January 25,
1690, and proved May 19, 1690. Samuel Hall's
homestead was near the iron works. He was
an owner in Taunton North and South Pur
chases and held much real estate in Taunton.
He was a town officer and member of the
church and contributed- four acres towards im
proving the parsonage of Rev. Samuel Dan
forth. He married Elizabeth White, who died
in 1707, daughter of Nicholas White, an early
settler of Taunton. Children: Samuel, men
tioned below; John, born October 19, 1666;
Nicholas, January 23, 1668; Elizabeth, Octo
ber 28, 1670; Mary, October 3, 1672; Sarah,
1674; Ebenezer, March 19, 1677; Sarah,
March 2, 1679; George, January 25, 1680-81;
Hannah, 1682-83.
(Ill) Samuel (2) Hall, son of Samuel (1)
Hall, was born December 11, 1664, 'died in
1 7 16. He was a farmer and large landholder
in Taunton. He married Abigail Pratt, born
November 2, 1665, died July 6, 1734, daughter
of Jonathan and Abigail Pratt, of Plymouth.
Children: Samuel, born 1688; Jonathan, men
tioned below ; Esther ; Hannah.
(IV) Jonathan Hall, son of Samuel (2)
Hall, was born at Taunton, August 22, 1689,
died there April 19, 1750. He was a farmer
and large real estate owner; deacon of the
church at Raynham. He married (first) Sarah
 , born 1690, died March, 1726. He mar
ried (second)  . Children by first wife:
Jonathan, mentioned below ; Sarah, born July
16, 1 71 8; Amos, April 5, 1720; Rebecca, May
21, 1722; John, May 15, 1724; Mason, Janu
ary 28, 1726. Children by second wife, Sarah:
Elizabeth, May 2, 1728; Hannah, March 25,
1734- (V) Jonathan (2) Hall, son of Jonathan
(1) Hall, was born at Taunton, May 3, 1716,
died February 25, 1789. He was a prominent
member and deacon of the Raynham church,
member of the board of selectmen in 1776 and

for several years afterward and town treas
urer. He married (first) Lydia Leonard, who
died in 1763. He married (second) April 25,
1764, Hannah Hall. Children by first wife,
born in Raynham: Jonathan, born September
26, 1737; Seth, mentioned below; Silas, Feb
ruary 4, 1742; Prudence, March 20, 1744;
Lydia, October 21, 1747; Jemima, August 14,
1750; Jonathan, June, 1753," Hezekiah, No
vember 12, 1755; Obed, December 23, 1757;
Ebenezer, December 22, 1759; Abigail, June
6, 1762. Child by second wife, Linus, born
May 17, 1765, for whom Linus Hall Shaw
was named. ,
(VI) Seth Hall, son of Jonathan (2) Hall,
was born at Raynham, October 4, 1740. He
was a farmer at Raynham. He was a soldier
in the revolution from Raynham, a corporal in
Captain Philip King's company, Colonel •
George Williams' regiment (Third Bristol
County), twenty-three days in December, 1776,
on a Rhode Island alarm ; also sergeant in Cap
tain Noah Hall's company, Colonel Abiel
Mitchell's regiment, in command of Lieuten
ant-Colonel James Williams on the alarm at
Tiverton, August 1, 1780. He married Di-
adamia Shaw. Children, born at Raynham:
Elijah A., born October 19, 1769; Abigail,
September 21, 1771, married Samuel Shaw
(see Shaw VI); Lucinda, May 21, 1775;
Joshua, October 11, 1777; Gaius, June 12,
1780; Seth, January 31, 1783; Camilius, July
18, 1785. (The Alden Line).
(I) John Alden, the Pilgrim ancestor, was
born in England in 1599. He joined the Pil
grims on the "Mayflower" at Southampton,
when the vessel stopped there for supplies on
the way to New England and was hired as a
cooper. He had not been with the company
at Leyden, and was probably not a member of
the independent church at that time. After
enduring the hardships of the first terrible
winter at Plymouth, he cast his fortunes with
the colonists and in the spring of 162 1 mar
ried Priscilla Mullins (or Molines), daughter
of William Mullins (or Molines), who also.
came with his family in the "Mayflower."
Longfellow has made John and Priscilla
familiar names in his "Courtship of Miles
Standish." When the common property of the
colony was divided in 1627, John Alden went
with Captain Standish, Elder Brewster, John
Howland, Francis Eaton and Peter Brown to-
Hattakeeset, the Indian name for the territory
now included in Duxbury, Marshfield, Pem
broke, Hanson and Bridgewater. For several
years they were obliged to return to Plymouth
during the winter season to unite all their
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residence in Plymouth also gave them an op
portunity to attend religious worship. In 1633
John Alden was elected assistant, an office he
continued to hold during nearly all the re
mainder of his life, and from 1666 until he
died he was first assistant, often called deputy
governor on account of his acting as governor
in the absence of the governor. From 1640 to
1650 he was deputy to the colonial council.
The history of Duxbury says of him :
Holding office of the highest trust, no important
measure was proposed or any responsible agency
ordered in which he had not a part. He was one
of the council of war, many times an arbitrator, a
surveyor of lands for the government as well as for
individuals, and on several important occasions was
authorized to act as agent or attorney for the colony.
He was possessed of a sound judgment and of
talents which, though not brilliant, were by no
means ordinary. Writers who mention him bear
ample testimony to his industry, integrity and exem
plary piety, and he has been represented as a
worthy and useful man of great humility and emi
nent sanctity of life, decided, ardent, resolute and
persevering, indifferent to danger, stern, austere
and unyielding and of incorruptible integrity. He
was always a firm supporter of the church, and
everything of an innovating nature received deter
mined opposition.
From the Puritan point of view Alden was
a model of the virtues. He took his part in
making the lives of the Quakers at Plymouth
colony intolerable. On the Alden farm stands
the house built by his son Jonathan and occu
pied by eight generations in direct line. Here
John Alden spent his last years. He died at
Duxbury, September 1, 1686, the last of the
Pilgrim Fathers. Eleven children : John ; Jo
seph, mentioned below; Elizabeth, born 1625;
Jonathan, about 1627; Priscilla; Rebecca;
Zachariah; Sarah, married Alexander Stand
ish, son of Miles Standish ; Ruth, married John
Bass, from- whom the President Adams de
scended ; Mary ; David.
(II) Joseph Alden, son of John Alden, Was
born in Plymouth in 1624, died February 8,
1697. He inherited land at Bridgewater,
where he settled, and also at Middleborough.
He was admitted a freeman in 1659. He mar
ried Mary Simmons, daughter of Moses Sim
mons Jr., who came in the ship "Fortune" in
1621 and settled at Duxbury. Joseph Alden's
will was dated December 14, 1696, and proved
March 10, 1697. Children: Isaac, Joseph,
John, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Mary.
(Ill) John (2) Alden, son of Joseph Alden,
was born about 1674, died September 29, 1730.
He removed from Bridgewater to Middle
borough about 1700. He married Hannah
White, born May 11, 168 1, died October 5,
1732, daughter of Captain Ebenezer White.
of Weymouth, Children, born at Middle

borough: David, born May 18, 1702; Priscilla,
March 2, 1704; Thankful, May 3, 1706; Han
nah, 1708; Lydia, 1710; Mary, 1712; Abigail,
1714; Joseph, mentioned below; John, October
8, 1718; Ebenezer, served in Cuba, settled in
Ashfield; Rev. Noah, May 30, 1725.
(IV) Joseph (2) Alden, son of John (2)
Alden, resided in Middleborough, where he
was born in 1716, died January 20, 1787. He
married (first) Hannah Hall. She died July
1, 1766. He married (second) Deborah Wil
liamson, a widow, born September 11, 1716.
In 1789 she released her dower rights in the
estate and in the deed gives the only complete
list of the children of Joseph Alden. Chil
dren: Ebenezer, mentioned below; Amariah,
Moses, Phebe, Hannah, Joseph, Fear, Eunice,
Lois, Abner, Eliab.
(V) Ebenezer Alden, son of Joseph (2)
Alden, was born in Middleborough, February
4, 1743. He married there, December 22, 1763,
Ruth Fobes (daughter of Joshua Fobes (4),
Joshua (3), Edward (2), John (1)). She
married (second) August 2, 1777, Daniel
Faunce, of Plympton, and died July 28, 1817.
She was buried at North Carver. By her sec
ond husband she had children : Sarah, Eunice,
Phebe, Alden and Ezra Faunce. Ebenezer
Alden was a general merchant. He died at
Middleborough, January 6, 1773, and was bur
ied with his parents and Alden grandparents
in Purchase burying ground. Children : Han
nah, born February 2, 1765; Polly, mentioned
below; Ruth, December 18, 1768; Ebenezer,
August 8, 1770, removed to Pennsylvania, later
to Appleton, Maryland ; Joseph, born 177 — .
(VI) Polly Alden, daughter of Ebenezer
Alden, was born at Middleborough, August 4,
1767. She married, at Raynham, October 2,
1791, Nehemiah Jones, born at Raynham, July
7, 1767, son of Nathan Jones. She died Janu
ary 7, 1831. He died January 3, 1831, at
Raynham. Mr. Jones was for many years
merchant, postmaster and justice of the peace
at Raynham. Children: Maria; Nehemiah,
born February 1, 1795 ; Clarissa Leonard, 1799,
married Dr. Abner A. Hathaway ; Mary Wales
Fobes, May 12, 1802, married Rev. John
Wilder; Emeline, January 31, 1905, teacher;
Louisa Alden. October 24, 1806, married Rev.
Linus Hall Shaw (see Shaw VII) ; William,
March 11, 1811.

The name Weth-
WETHERELL-MOIES erell appears at
an early date at
Taunton, Massachusetts, and has been the
patronymic of numerous progressive and prom
inent families in New England, being especially
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vital records of that town were burned in the
last century, and information concerning early
generations of many prominent families was
thus lost.
(I) William Wetherell was in Taunton as
early as 1643, and resided in what is now the
town of Norton, near the outlet of Winnecon-
net pond. He was probably a native of Maid
stone, Kent, England, whence several of this
name came to America. Tradition says that
he came over as a cabin boy. He was admitted
a freeman in 1658, served as constable in 1662,
and was often a selectman of the town; was
representative in 1671 and 1685, and in the
latter year was sergeant of militia. His will
made August 15 and probated November 18,
1691, mentions wife Dorothy, and children:
William, John, Ephraim and Dorothy, the
third being then deceased.
(II) John Wetherell, son of William and
Dorothy Wetherell, was born about 1664, and
died soon after 1747. He was a leading citizen
of the town, an original member of the church,
and one of the first selectmen. He married,
about 1687, Susanna Newland, probably daugh
ter of Jeremiah and Ruth Newland, of Taun
ton. Children: John, born October 8, 1688;
Abigail, March 28, 1691 ; Benjamin, June 15,
1696; William, mentioned below; Jonathan,
May 21, 1700 ; Henry, January 26, 1703 ; Isaac,
August 5, 1707.
(Ill) William (2) Wetherell, third son of
John and Susanna (Newland) Wetherell, was
born March 11, 1698, in Norton, where he re
sided, and had wife Mary and the following
children: Phebe, born May 15, 1730; Mary,
April 13, 1732; George, mentioned below;
Rhoda, December 28, 1738; William, June 7,
1740; "Persilla," December 29, 1742; Sibell,
June 27, 1745; Abel, April 3, 1747.
(IV) George Wetherell, eldest son of Wil
liam (2) and Mary Wetherell, was born Janu
ary 1, 1735, in Norton, and was dead in 1826.
He was a soldier of the revolution, serving
fifteen days in Captain Newell's company. He
married, January 25, 1765, Lydia Phillips, born
r734-35> died May 16, 1826, at which time she
was a widow. Children: Mary, born July 21,
1766; Metelday, August 20, 1770; Phebe, Sep
tember 17, 1771; George, mentioned below;
Laben, February 13, 1776.
(V) George (2) Wetherell, eldest son of
George (1) and Lydia (Phillips) Wetherell,
was born June 18, 1773, in Norton, where he
made his home. He married, February 16,
1799, Lydia Hunt, born October 2, 1779,
daughter of Joseph and Eunice (Copeland)
Hunt, of Norton. Joseph Hunt was a soldier
of the revolution, serving as surgeon in Cap
tain Samuel Robinson's company, of Colonel

Josiah Whitney's regiment, Massachusetts
Troops, for one month and fourteen days. He
was born 1746, and died December 12, 1822.
Eunice Copeland was a daughter of Benja
min and Sarah (Allen) Copeland, of Norton,
born 1753, died November 9, 1832. Children
of George (2) and Lydia (Hunt) Wetherell:
George, born March 24, 1800; Thomas, De
cember 20, 1801 ; Ruhana H., February 26,
1804; Carolina, March 29, 1806; Zelotes, men
tioned below; Julia, July 6, 1810; Caleb
Strong, November 14, 1812; John Williams,
January 25, 1815; Eunice Hunt, October 30,
1819. (VI) Zelotes Wetherell, second son of
George (2) and Lydia (Hunt) Wetherell, was
born July 2, 1808, in Norton, and when a
young man moved to what was then the town
of North Providence, Rhode Island, now a
part of the city of Pawtucket. Here he en
gaged in the express business, conducting what
was known as the Wetherell Express for many
years in Pawtucket, where he died February
11, 1866, in his fifty-eighth year, and he was
buried in the Mineral Springs Cemetery. He
was a member of the Universalist church, in
early life a Democrat, but was alienated from
his party by the issues which precipitated the
civil war, and was an earnest Republican from
the organization of that party. He was every
where respected as an honest man and good
citizen. He married, June 23, 1841, Pamelia
Adeline Crossman, born July 3, 1812, in Nor
ton, daughter of Captain Elisha and Ruth
(Balcom-Darby) Crossman, of Norton (see
Crossman VI). Children: 1. Mary Bartlett,
now the widow of Artemus King, residing in
Norton. 2. Harriet Miller, died at the age of
twenty-two years. 3. Florence Damon, widow
of Charles P. Moies, of Central Falls, Rhode
Island, mentioned below. 4. Carrie Belle,
married Dana Chadwick, of Mansfield, Massa
chusetts; both now deceased.
Charles Parmenter Moies was born March
24, 1845, in what is now the city of Pawtucket.
The origin of the Moies family is much ob
scured by the lack of records, and cannot be
positively stated. The name appears in New
England in the records of settlers of Salis
bury, Massachusetts, in 1639. Joseph Moyces
or Moyses was a joiner and received land in
the first division at Salisbury, and again in
1640 and 1 641. He was taxed there in 1650
and 1652, and received land in 1654. His wife
Hannah died in 1655. Nicholas Stanton, of
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, by will proved Feb
ruary 14, 1649, bequeathed property to Joseph
Moyce or his wife, living in New England,
from which it would be inferred that Hannah,
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Nicholas Stanton. Mr. Moyce and three sons
had lands assigned to them in Haverhill in
1649. It is possible that Charles P. Moies'
family was descended from one of the sons of
Joseph Moyce, but all disappear from the rec
ords of Haverhill and Salisbury, and have not
been found elsewhere in New England. The
name does not appear in the vital records of
Boston, but the Dorchester records show that
John Moyce, of Boston, married, September
19, 1 yy 1, in Dorchester, Ruth Davenport. The
name has various forms in the Dorchester rec
ords, including Moies.
It is quite probable that John and Ruth
Moies were the parents of John (2) Moies,
who appears in the Dorchester records, Janu
ary 22, 1797, when he married Anna Robin
son, both of Dorchester. It is probable that
he removed from Dorchester soon after 1807,
as he is known to have had children other than
those recorded in Dorchester. The latter are :
Susanna, born October, 1798, died 1802; Mary,
died September 8, 1801 ; Ebenezer Robinson,
born September, 1803; John, 1804; Ebenezer,
August, 1807. It is known that John and Anna
Robinson resided in North Adams and North
ampton. Three of the sons became conspicu
ously identified with the present city of Cen
tral Falls, where they were extensively en
gaged in manufacturing, and died honored and
respected. Thomas Moies, son of John and Anna (Rob
inson) Moies, was born December 24, 1819,
in the town of Northampton, Massachusetts,
where most of his boyhood was passed, and
where he attended public and private schools.
His brothers, Charles and John Moies, located
in Rhode Island previous to 1835, and in that
year Thomas, a lad of sixteen years, followed
them and entered their employ in the manu
facture of cotton thread at Central Falls. He
was later associated with his brother Charles
in the manufacture of cotton cloth for a period
of seven years. From 1846 to 1850 he was
employed in a similar manner at Oxford, Mas
sachusetts, and returned to Central Falls in
the latter year, continuing two years there
after as station agent of the Providence and
Worcester railroad at Pawtucket. For two
years, from 1852 to 1854, he was in the em
ploy of Plant & Company, dealers in seeds and
agricultural implements at St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1854 he returned to Rhode Island, and in
1855 was made treasurer of the Pawtucket
Institution for Savings, in which connection
he continued with the exception of about three
years, until his death, which occurred Novem
ber 3, 1886, at his home on Clay street, Central
Falls. In 1870 he was elected cashier of the
Pacific National Bank at Pawtucket, and con

tinued in that relation throughout the remain
der of his active business life. On the organi
zation of the town of Lincoln, in 1871; Mr.
Moies was chosen treasurer of the town, and
so continued until his decease, when he was
succeeded by his son, Charles P. Moies. For
many years Thomas Moies was treasurer of
the Pawtucket Gas Company, and he filled
many other official trusts in the school and fire
districts of the town, continuing as treasurer
of the school district to his death. He twice
represented the town of Lincoln in the lower
house of the general assembly, and in 1880
was elected to the office of state senator. Dur
ing the civil war he served as a member of the
Eleventh Rhode Island Volunteers, whose
period of enlistment was about one year, hold
ing the office of first lieutenant. At the same
time two of his sons were in the service, and
one gave up his life in the country's defence.
At the time of his death, the Pawtucket Gazette
and Chronicle of December 5, 1886, said edi
torially :
This (Thomas Moies) name is almost a house
hold one in our neighborhood. The man who bore
it has been universally known by the people of this
region for more than thirty years. His removal
from the midst of us is a public loss. Quiet, unas
suming, efficient, faithful, were attributes of Thomas
Moies. The very utterance of them will oft recall
the memory of the man now that his work is done,
and impel those who take up his work where he
laid it down, to imitate his probity. Though resid
ing in an adjoining town where responsible trusts
were confided to him, he was in equally great
measure identified with the interests of this city,
save in a municipal sense, and in both communities
he is alike measured, esteemed and mourned. Con
servative yet progressive, the town in which he
lived and died, owes much of its material prosperity
to his wisdom and foresight. Well will it be for
both communities if such counsels continue their
policy. And on the same occasion the Providence
Journal said editorially :
In the death of Thomas Moies the town of Lin
coln has lost one of its most conspicuous and esti
mable citizens. Since the creation of that town by
the partition of old Smithfield, Mr. Moies has been,
as we remember, continuously in its service in some
official capacity. He was for years cashier of the
bank, National Pacific, in Pawtucket. Conservative
in his views, simple in his habits, he won and held
the esteem of all with whom he came in contact
in private or in official life. To him and a few
others who had charge of the affairs of Lincoln in
its earliest days is due in a great measure the
higher character of the town for its roads, its
schools, its economy and its municipal prosperity.
He was as careful in the expenditure of the public
money as of his own, yet fully interested in all real
public improvements. As a man, while he was far
from unsocial, he found his enjoyment rather in his
household than in the wider intercourse of society.
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emulation of those who are in or about to enter
upon the business of life. Such a citizen as he was
aids in the progress of a community, and departed,
is to be held in honorable remembrance.
Mr. Moies married, in 1842, Susan, daugh
ter of George and Cecilia B. (Curien) Sey
mour. The last named was a daughter of Jobn
George Curien, who came to this country from
France with Lafayette, and assisted the Amer
ican colonies during the revolution. Mr. and
Mrs. Moies were the parents of five sons: 1.
Frederick Seymour, a gallant soldier of the
civil war in Battery C, First Rhode Island
Light Artillery; fell at Chancellorsville, May
3, 1863, at the age of twenty years. 2. Charles
Parmenter, mentioned below. 3. Thomas
Corwin, mentioned below. 4. Herbert, died in
childhood. 5. Herbert H, died in Kansas City,
Missouri, December 30, 1905 ; he was south
western passenger agent of the New York,
Chicago and St. Louis railroad (Nickle Plate),
with headquarters at Kansas City; he married
Cora Barter, of Nevada, Missouri, and had
two children : Meroe R. and Thomas.
Charles Parmenter Moies, son of Thomas
and Susan (Seymour) Moies, was born March
24, 1845. He acquired his early education in
the public schools of Central Falls, and after
his return from the civil war, in 1864, pursued
a business course at Scholfield's Commercial
College at Providence. For a year and a half,
beginning in the spring of 1865, he was em
ployed in the freight office of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad at Chicago, Illinois.
In the fall of 1865 he returned to Central Falls
and became clerk and assistant to his father,
who was then treasurer of the Pawtucket Insti
tution for Savings, and on the death of the lat
ter succeeded him in that position, in which he
continued until his death, which occurred June
11. 1910, at his home in Central Falls. His
body was deposited in Moshassuch Cemetery.
As before indicated, Mr. Moies was a soldier
of the civil war, entering the service in Sep
tember, 1862, when but seventeen years old,
as a private in Company B, Eleventh Rhode
Island Volunteers, "in which regiment his father
was an officer. Very early in life he became
prominent in affairs of his native town and
city, and in January, 1881, was elected treas
urer of the Central Falls Fire District, succeed
ing his uncle, Hon. Charles Moies, who had
held the office twenty-six years. Charles P.
Moies continued in this position more than
fourteen years, until the district was abolished
by the organization of the city of Central Falls,
in March, 1895. In May of that year he was
elected treasurer of the Pawtucket Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, and- continued to hold
that office through the remainder of his life.

He also succeeded his father as treasurer of
the Union school districts 1 and 2 of Central
Falls, and served until May, 1892, when the
town system adopted by the town of Lincoln
abolished the district system. He also suc
ceeded his father as treasurer of the town of
Lincoln until the city of Central Falls was set
off from that town, March 18, 1895, at which
time he became mayor of Central Falls, his
administration closing January 6, 1896. His
political affiliations were with the Republican
party, in whose councils he was prominent and
active. In '1885 he was elected representative
to the general assembly. He was a charter
member of Ballou Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, and served two years as its com
mander. He was a member of Superior
Lodge, No. 35, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows ; of Washington Lodge, No. 4, Knights
of Pythias; of the Knights of Honor; the
Veteran Fireman's Association, and the Paw
tucket Business Men's Association. He was
a faithful attendant of St. Paul's (Prot
estant Episcopal) Church, of which his
widow is a communicant. He married, De
cember 19, 1876, Florence Damon Wetherell,
of Wilmington, Delaware, daughter of Zelotes
and Pamelia A. (Crossman) Wetherell (see
Wetherell VI). Mrs. Moies continues to re
side in Central Falls. She is a member of
Pawtucket Chapter, Daughters of American
Revolution. There was one son of this mar
riage, mentioned below.
Charles Parmenter (2) Moies, son of Charles
Parmenter (1) Moies, was born March 26,
1884, in Pawtucket, and was educated at Wil
liams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He now resides at Chula Vista, California.
He married Constance Isabella Cleveland,
daughter of John and Anna Cleveland, of
Hartford, Connecticut, and has a daughter.
Constance Wetherell Moies.
Thomas Corwin Moies, son of Thomas and
Susan (Seymour) Moies, was born August
30, 1847, at North Oxford, Massachusetts. He
was educated in the public schools of Paw
tucket. In 1865 he took up the printing trade
with the late E. L. Freeman, of Central Falls,
with whom he spent a three years' apprentice
ship. On attaining his majority he continued
at printing, being for some time manager of
the Weekly Visitor, a newspaper published at
Central Falls, where he continued until 1899.
For some time following this he was associated
with his father-in-law, William H. Haskell, a
manufacturer of Pawtucket (see Haskell VI),
and died at his home in Central Falls, Septem
ber 30, 1893. His body rests in Moshassuch
Cemetery. He was a member of the Masonic
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Lodge, of Pawtucket, and was past chancellor
commander of Washington Lodge, No. 4
Knights of Pythias. He was also a member of
Camp Thomas Moies, Sons of Veterans, and
for many years a member of the old volun
teer Pacific Steam Fire Engine Company. An
active and intelligent citizen, he naturally bore
a prominent part in local affairs. He married
May 14, 1873, Eunice Edna Haskell, daughter
of the late William H. Haskell, whose ancestry
is elsewhere described in this work. They
were the parents of two children : 1. Amy Sey
mour, a teacher in the public schools of Cen
tral Falls, and secretary of the Pawtucket
Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution.
2. William Henry Haskell, who was educated
in the schools of Central Falls and Pawtucket,
and the Massachusetts School of Technology
of Boston, and is now connected with the
Phillips Insulated Wire Company, of Paw
tucket, having for two years been connected
with that corporation's office in Mexico ; he is
also a member of Union Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, of Pawtucket.
(The Crossman Line).
There was a family of this name at Crosse
in Cornwall, England, descended from John
Crossman, Gentleman, in 1509, with coat-of-
arms. Another family was located in Somer
setshire, and also had coat armor. The name
is not a common one in this country, but has
been long established in Bristol county, Rhode
Island, where it has continued to the present
date. (I) John Crossman settled in Taunton, Mas
sachusetts, in 1639, and was probably over
fifty-six years of age at that time. Little can
be discovered concerning him or his family.
(II) Robert Crossman, son of John Cross-
man, born in England, settled in Taunton,
where he married, about 1653, Sarah, daugh
ter of Joseph and Melicent Kingsbury, of Ded
ham, Massachusetts. Children recorded in
Taunton: John, born March 16, 1654; Mary,
July 16, 1655; Robert, August 3, 1657; Joseph,
April 25, 1659; Nathaniel, August 7, 1660;
Eleazer, March 16, 1664; Elizabeth, May 2,
1665 ; Samuel, mentioned below; Mercy, March
20, 1669 ; Thomas, October 6, 1671 ; Susanna,
February 14, 1673.
(Ill) Samuel Crossman, sixth son of Rob
ert and Sarah (Kingsbury) Crossman, was
born February 25, 1667, in Taunton, and lived
in Norton, Massachusetts, formerly a part of
Taunton. He married (first) December 19,
1690, Elizabeth Bell, (second) December 26,
1696, Mary Sawyer. Children of first mar
riage: Elizabeth, born October 31, 1691 ;

Thomas, August 13, 1694. Children of second
marriage: Joseph and Samuel, twins, August
23, 1697; Robert, April 29, 1699; Barnabas,
March 12, 1701 ; Gabriel, November 6, 1702;
Sarah, May 15, 1704; Phinehas, July 31, 1707;
Theophilus, mentioned below.
(IV) Theophilus Crossman, youngest son of
Samuel and Mary (Sawyer) Crossman, was
born March 18, 1709, in Norton, resided in
that town, and was presumably the father of
Theophilus Crossman, mentioned below.
(V) Theophilus (2) Crossman, undoubt
edly son of Theophilus (1) Crossman, was
born 1741-42, and resided in Norton or Mans
field. Theophilus Crossman served as a revo
lutionary soldier from Mansfield, being a cor
poral in Captain Abiel Clapp's company, Colo
nel John Daggott's regiment, and acquitted
himself with credit and honor. He died Au
gust 15, 1826. He married, 1764, "Persilla"
Wetherell, born December 29, 1742, died Oc
tober 9, 1824, daughter of William and Mary
Wetherell (see Wetherell III). Children:
Elisha, mentioned below; Asa, born Septem
ber 12, 1769; Hannah, August 15, 1772; Wil
liam, July 25, 1775; Isaac, March 29, 1781 ;
Roland, January 3, 1783.
(VI) Captain Elisha Crossman, eldest child
of Theophilus (2) and "Persilla" (Wetherell)
Crossman, was born January 31, 1767, in Nor
ton, died August 25, 1840. He bore the mili
tary title of captain, which probably arose from
militia service. He married (first) May 27,
1787, Elizabeth or Betsey Balcom, of Reho
both, born 1767, died December 11, 1806, at
the age of thirty-nine years. He married (sec
ond) June 18, 1809, Mrs. Ruth Darby, the
widowed sister of his first wife, born 1772,
died January 24, 1832. Children of first mar
riage : Betsey, born October 30, 1788; Han
nah, May 10, 1790; Nancy, August 23, 1793;
Elisha, December 16, 1795 ; Charles Leonard,
February 26, 1798; Theophilus, May 27, 1800;
all of these, except Hannah, were baptized No
vember 4, 1804, in Norton. Children of sec
ond marriage : Orrin, born November 22,
1810; Pamelia Adeline, mentioned below;
Wheaton, March 9, 1815; Harrison, March 6,
1820. (VII) Pamelia Adeline Crossman, daugh
ter of Elisha Crossman, and second child of
his second wife, Ruth (Balcom-Darby) Cross-
man, was born July 3, 1812, in Norton, and
became the wife of Zelotes Wetherell, of North
Providence, intentions published June 23, 1841,
in Norton (see Wetherell VI). They were the
parents of Florence Damon Wetherell, who
married Charles P. Moies, of Central Falls,
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Julius Hiram Newell is a mem-
NEWELL ber of an old and distinguished
New England family, which
has for many years resided in the charming
town of Ellington, Connecticut, and through
all the period of its residence there has occu
pied a high place in the estimation of the
region, and played a prominent part in the
community's affairs.
(I) Jacob Newell, the great-grandfather of
Julius Hiram Newell, is the first of the name
of which there is definite record. He was a
resident of Ellington, Connecticut, during the
middle part of the eighteenth century, though
the dates of his birth, marriage and death are
unrecorded. It is known, however, that he
built a house near Crystal Lake at Ellington
upon a farm that has since come to be known
as the old Newell farm. It is also known that
he was a successful farmer in that region.
(II) Charles Newell, son of Jacob Newell,
was born on the Newell property at Ellington,
Connecticut, January 7, 1773, died in the same
place, November 13, 1854. He was educated
in the local common schools, and following in
the footsteps of his father, became a farmer
on the old place, where he passed his entire
life. He married (first) Clarissa Day, June 1,
1802. To them were born seven children:
Harriet, Ephraim, Charles, Adonijah, Hiram,
Mariva, Maria. Charles Newell married (sec
ond) Mrs. Mary Dimock, of Ellington.
^ (III) Hiram Newell, the fifth child of
Charles Newell, was born in the ancestral home
at Ellington, Connecticut, March 13, 1815.
When he was but eighteen years of age, im
mediately after completing his education in
the Ellington public schools, he left his native
town and went to Coventry, Connecticut, where
he found employment for himself as a wool
sorter in the great woolen mills of that vicinity.
He remained in this service for some time, and
then removed to Rockville, where he found
employment of the same kind. He continued
thus until after reaching the age of fifty years.
After his retirement he went to live on his
farm, and thereafter devoted his time to agri
culture. He was an ardent Republican, and
a devoted member of the Methodist church.
His death occurred October 21, 1877. Hiram
Newell married (first) Olive Adeline Hovey,
a native of Mansfield, Connecticut, born May
10, 1816, a daughter of Cordial and Olive
(Royce) Hovey. To Mr. and Mrs. Hiram
Newell four children were born : 1. Mary Ade
line, born in Rockville, January 16, 1842; she
married George Warren Colburn, a native of
Chaplin, Connecticut, born February 6, 1836,
son of Warren and Caroline (Neff) Colburn'
of that place; Mr. George Warren Colburn

enlisted in the Union army during the civil
war and distinguished himself for bravery dur
ing that terrible conflict; he joined Company
D, Fourteenth Regiment Connecticut Volun
teer Infantry, on July 26, 1862, and in Sep
tember of the same year took part in the battle
of Antietam, in which he was so badly wound
ed that, after spending about three months in
hospital at Frederick City, Maryland, he was
honorably discharged from service; he then
withdrew to his home in Rockville, Connecti
cut, and there passed the remainder of his life;
to Mr. and Mrs. Colburn three children were
born as follows: George Hovey, born in Rock
ville, August 18, 1867, married Olga Stone
wall; Leila May, born in Rockville, Connecti
cut, June 15, 1872, married, November 28,
1894, James Patterson Callison; Elmer Edson,
born in Rockville, December 29, 1875, died
July 28, 1876. 2. Julius Hiram, mentioned be
low. 3. Mariva Elizabeth, born in Rockville,
Connecticut, June 23, 1845 ; married Frederick
Hunt Presbrey, of Willington, Connecticut,
April 29, 1871 ; they are the parents of four
children, as follows : Delia May, born May
30, 1873, at Willington, married Charles Wes
ley Hale, July 25, 1894, and had one daughter,
Fiona; Fred Carlton, born in Rockville, Sep
tember 26, 1874, married Maud Robinson, De
cember 5, 1900, and had three children: Pre-
cilla, Newell and Robinson; Clifton Hyde,
born in Rockville, March 1, 1876, married Eliz
abeth Martin, October 31, 1901, and by her
had four children, Helen Elizabeth, Carlton
and Clifton, twins, and Elizabeth Louise; May
Ethel, born in Rockville, Connecticut, January
2, 1878, married Charles H. Hardie, July 10,
1900, and has one daughter, Virginia Pres
brey. 4. Charles Storrs, born in Rockville,
July 12, 1848, died August 2y, 1848. Mr.
Hiram Newell married (second) Angeline Mc-
Clure, June 19, 1851. The second Mrs. Newell
died December 18, 1886. By this second union
Mr. Newell became the father of two sons, as
follows : 5. Alon Abbe, born in Rockville, Au
gust 16, 1858, married Eva Tryon by whom
he has one child, Claire Tryon ; Arthur Revillo,
born in Rockville, June 20, 1861, married
Esther Ellen Harris by whom he had one son,
Arthur Burgess.
(IV) Julius Hiram Newell, the first son of
Hiram and Olive Adeline (Hovey) Newell,
was born in Rockville, Connecticut, July 14,
1843. He received an excellent education at
the public schools in the- region of his birth
place, and pursued farming during such time
as he could spare from his schooling. It was
the life of the typical farmer's son with all its
splendid health-giving discipline, which the lad
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then that the civil war broke out between
North and South, and the young man noted
with all the impetuosity of youth the enlist
ment of soldiers in the cause of the Union. It
was not long before he too had offered his
services to his country, and on December 2,
1861, he joined, at Hartford, Company G,
Eleventh Regiment Connecticut Volunteer In
fantry. His regiment was detailed first to
Annapolis, Maryland, and then to North Car
olina. In the latter place it was sent directly
to the front and saw active service in a number
of fierce campaigns. In spite of his youth,
the young man distinguished himself for brav
ery, taking part in Burnside's expedition and
fighting at Newburn, North Carolina. With
the return of his regiment to Maryland, he
took part in the campaign in that state and in
the engagements at Cold Harbor, South Moun
tain and Antietam, in the last of which his
brother-in-law, Mr. Colburn, was so desper
ately wounded that he was retired from the
service. Mr. Newell was also in the battle of
Fredericksburg, the siege of Suffolk, the bat
tle of Suffolk Creek, Drury's Bluff, Deep Bot
tom, and all the engagements of the Peters
burg campaign. He went to Richmond, April
3, 1865,' and later to New Castle, Virginia. On
December 21, 1865, he received his honorable
discharge at Hartford, where, over four years
before, he had enlisted for the Union. It had
been four years of hard and perilous service,
but unlike his brother-in-law, he came through
all those great battles without receiving a
wound. After the close of the war Mr. Newell
took up his residence at Holyoke, Massachu
setts, where he remained for about two years,
working in one of the large woolen mills there.
After that period of time he came to Rockville,
Connecticut, and there engaged in a teaming
and express business on his own account. In
this enterprise he prospered highly and has
continued it until recently. He now lives in
retirement from active business, but not from
the general life of the town. He is particu
larly prominent in the social and club circles
of Rockville. He is a member of the Burpee
Post, No. 71, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Rockville, Connecticut, and has held all the
offices of the post, including that of adjutant,
which he held for fourteen years, commander,
and is to-day the senior post commander.
Mr. Newell married, May 1, 1868, Maria
Coleman, a native of England, born July 20,
1843, daughter of Edward and Jane (Mills)
Coleman. To Mr. and Mrs. Newell was
born one child, Hubert Coleman Newell, whose
birth occurred in Rockville, Connecticut, May
3, 1869. He died in Rockville, September 4,
1870.

Joseph Bradley, the founder
BRADLEY of the family in America, was
born in London, England, in
1649. He settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
in 1659. Pie married, April 4, 1671, Hannah
Pleath, of Haverhill. The fifth garrison of the
town was under his command. He suffered
greatly from the Indian raids. In 1695 his son
Isaac was captured; in 1697 Joseph, Sarah and
Martha Bradley were captured by Indians.
The wife of Joseph was captured twice. The
garrison at his house was surprised February
8, 1704, and she was taken for the second time
and carried away. An infant born to her soon
afterward died of exposure and want. She
received no kindness from her captors. Sub
sisting on bits of skin, ground nuts, bark of
trees, wild onions and lily roots on the terrible
journey to Canada the child grew sickly and
annoyed the Indians with its crying. They
thrust embers from the fire into its mouth and
gashed its forehead with their knives, and
finally ended its life by impaling it on a pike.
She was sold to a Frenchman for eighty livres
and was kindly treated. Her husband started
for Canada on foot in March, 1705, with a
dog and small sled, having a bag of snuff to
present to the governor of Canada from the
governor of Massachusetts. He. redeemed his
wife and returned by vessel to Boston. Dur
ing one of the attacks on the Bradley house
Mrs. Bradley poured hot soft soap on an
Indian and killed him. Joseph died October
3, 1739; his widow Hannah died November 2,
1761. They had ten children, some of whom
were: Abraham, settled in Concord, New
Hampshire ; Joseph ; Martha ; Sarah, killed by
Indians March 11, 1697; Isaac, mentioned be
low ; Daniel, was drowned.
(II) Isaac Bradley, son of Joseph Bradley,
was born in 1680. In 1695 he and Joseph
Whittaker, aged eleven, were taken by the
Indians. While in the Indian camp he had a
fever that nearly cost him his life, but the
squaw tenderly nursed him. The Indians
planned to go to Canada in the spring, but Isaac
and his companion managed to escape. They
were saved from capture by concealing them
selves in a hollow log, but they had to give
their provisions to the dogs of the Indians.
For eight days they traveled practically with
out food and with little clothing. Joseph gave
out finally and Isaac reached a settler's home
the day afterward. Both finally recovered.
He married at Haverhill (intentions dated May
16, 1706) Elizabeth Clement. Children, born
at Haverhill : Lydia, born May 31, 1707; John,
mentioned below; Mehitable, December 1,
171 1 ; Ruth, May 26, 1713; Abigail, May 20,
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January 10, 1718-19; Nathaniel, February 10,
1720-21 ; Moses and Miriam, twins, January
18, 1723-24.
(Ill) John Bradley, son of Isaac Bradley,
was born at Haverhill, April 10, 1709. Chil
dren, born at Haverhill : Ruth, baptized May
8, 1737; Miriam, baptized January 20, 1739-
40; Nathaniel, baptized April 18, 1742; Mary,
baptized July 1, 1744; Jonathan, mentioned be
low; Moses, baptized February 19, 1748-49.
(IV) Lieutenant Jonathan Bradley, son of
John Bradley, was baptized at Haverhill, Feb
ruary 22, 1746-47, and died at Andover, Feb
ruary 23, 1818, aged seventy-three, according
to his gravestone. He married (first) (inten
tions dated February 11, 1773) Sarah Osgood,
of Andover ; she died at Andover, September
14, 1790, aged forty. He married (second)
April 14, 1 791, Sarah Ayer, who died October
20, 1820, aged sixty-five, at Andover (grave
stone). He was a soldier in the revolution;
second lieutenant in Captain Stephen Webster's
company, Fourth Essex County Regiment,
1778. Children, born at Andover, by first wife :
Polly, May 3, 1779; William, January 7, 1782,
died young; Betsey, June 10, 1784, died young;
Jonathan, October 19, 1786; William, Janu
ary 16, 1789. By second wife: Charles, men
tioned below; Harrison, December 4, 1793;
James, July 1, 1795; George, November 28,
1796; Anna, November 1, 1798; Susanna, Feb
ruary 17, 1801.
(V) Charles Bradley, son of Lieutenant
Jonathan Bradley, was born at Andover,
Massachusetts, December 17, 1792. He mar
ried (intentions dated at Newburyport, Novem
ber 14, 1817) Sarah Smith, of Haverhill. He
was a merchant in Boston and afterward a
manufacturer in Portland, Maine. His wife
was a daughter of Jonathan K. Smith and a
granddaughter of Rev. Hezekiah Smith, a
famous chaplain from Massachusetts in the
revolution, and for more than forty years one
of the fellows of Brown University. Children:
Charles Smith, mentioned below ; Sarah, mar
ried Nathaniel S. Howe, of Haverhill, Massa
chusetts ; and Susan, died unmarried.
(VI) Hon. Charles Smith Bradley, son of
Charles Bradley, was born at Newburyport,
July 18, 1819 (town record). He attended the
public schools of Boston and was prepared for
college at the Boston Latin School. He entered
Brown University in 1834 and was graduated
in 1838 with highest honors in a class notable
for able and brilliant students, and was vale
dictorian. Even as a student his elocution was
masterly, and he won a reputation in college
as an able, forceful and convincing public
speaker. . He remained in the university as
tutor for two years and received the degree of

Master of Arts. In 1866 he received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and was
elected to the board of fellows. He never
failed in his loyalty and service to the uni
versity and later in life he had the pleasure of
raising $50,000 for the renovation of Uni
versity Hall, as chairman of a committee oi
the corporation. He studied law in the Har
vard Law School and in the office of Charles
F. Tillinghast, of Providence, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1841. He was afterward
law partner of Mr. Tillinghast. He soon rose
to a place of leadership at the bar. In 1854
he was elected to the state senate, where he
was influential in securing the act of amnesty
t( 1 all who were involved in the Dorr rebellion
of 1842. At a public meeting in Providence,
June 8, 1856, relative to the assault of Brooks
upon Sumner in the United States senate, he
delivered a notable speech. Repeatedly he was
elected to represent Rhode Island in the Demo
cratic national conventions ; and in that of
1869, when the party was divided, he adhered
to the Federalists, casting his vote for Stephen
A. Douglas. In February, 1866, a Republican
legislature honored him by electing him chief
justice of the supreme court of the state, suc
ceeding Justice Samuel Ames. After two
years on the bench, however, be resigned, on
account of private affairs. Soon afterward he
became one of the lecturers at Harvard Law
School, and continued for several years. In
1876 he succeeded Hon. Emory Washburn as
the Bussey professor in the law school and
held that chair for three years. Judge Bradley
enjoyed art, literature and travel. His beauti
ful home in Providence was a treasury, of the
works of the masters of painting and sculpture.
He had a wonderful library. He traveled ex
tensively in his own country and abroad. As
an orator his fame became national. "He was
tall, erect, manly, and of commanding presence
and figure. He was always dignified, and com
manded the respect of others wherever he
moved. He was very fond of his friends and
of welcoming them to his hospitable home."
Among his notable orations may be mentioned
those before the alumni of Brown in 1855 -; on
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth ; be
fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard
in 1879; that at the University of Virginia in
1881, on "The Profession of the Law as an
Element of Civil Society." He was preemi
nently a scholar, learned not only in the law
but in all branches of literature. He was highly
cultured, artistic and refined in his tastes.
There was a certain elegance about his intel
lectual structure and movement, a mixture of
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logical and practical power, which lifted him
above the dry professional road he traveled by
choice and with so much success. He was
first of all a lawyer, a ripe and good one. But
so, also, and indeed for the greater ornament
of his profession, he was something more.
There are slaves of all professions, and mas
ters, too. And the masters, whether in law,
physics or divinity, are those who know more
than their profession, and pass beyond it ; who,
if they are debtors to their profession, are
creditors to all sorts of thought and knowledge.
Judge Bradley married (first) April 28,
1842, Sarah Manton, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Whipple) Manton, of Providence. She
died December 12, 1854, leaving three sons,
namely: 1. Joseph Manton, died March 7,
1879, unmarried. 2. Charles, mentioned be
low. 3. George Lothrop, mentioned below.
He married (second) August 4, 1858, Char
lotte Augusta Saunders, of Charlottesville,
Virginia, and she died in May, 1864, and her
daughter, Janet Laurie, died in the same month.
She left one son, James Saunders, who died
January 19, 1880. He married (third) in May,
1866, Emma Pendleton (Ward) Chambers, of
Winchester, Virginia, who passed away Feb
ruary 28, 1875. Judge Bradley died in New
York City, April 29, 1888, while on a visit to
his son, the late George Lothrop Bradley, in
that city.
(VII) Charles Bradley, the second son of
the late Chief Justice Charles Smith and Sarah
(Manton) Bradley, was born in Providence,
Rhode Island, May 6, 1845. His early educa
tional training was begun in a private school
at Newton, Massachusetts, under the instruc
tion of Dr. S. F. Smith, after which he gradu
ated from the University Grammar School of
Providence. He then entered Williams Col
lege, graduating therefrom in 1865. After
completing his collegiate courses he entered
business in Chicago, remaining there several
years. He then went to Colorado, where he
was interested in gold mining. Business be
coming distasteful to him, he soon returned to
his native city, where he entered his father's
office, and engaged in the study of law. Upon
being admitted to the bar of Rhode Island he
at once began the practice of his chosen pro
fession in the office of Bradley & Metcalf, of
which his father was the senior member. His
practice was confined mostly to his office, he
seldom appearing in court. He was in no
sense a public man, being of rather a retiring
nature, and his chief pleasure was his home
and its surroundings. He devoted much atten
tion to his country estate in the town of Lin
coln, where his summers were spent, and in
the development and improvement of which

he took especial pride. He was a very quiet
and domestic man, and a great lover of chil
dren. His home was filled with books and
pictures, the nucleus of his collection having
been left to him by his father. He belonged
to the Hope and Rhode Island clubs of Provi
dence. He. was much interested in art, and
was a member of the Rhode Island School of
Design and the Providence Art Club. Mr.
Bradley died in the prime of life, November
9, 1898, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, at
his home, 367 Benefit street, Providence.
On October 31, 1876, Mr. Bradley was
united in marriage to Jane Whitman Bailey,
who was born in North Providence, July 13,
1849, daughter of William Mason and Harriet
(Brown) Bailey (see Bailey). To Mr. and
Mrs. Bradley were born children as follows :
1. Charles Jr., born December 19, 1877; he
was educated in the University Grammar
School of Providence and at Brown Univer
sity, graduating from the latter in the class of
1898; after graduating from college he entered
the employ of the Bell Telephone Company,
being appointed to the Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, office in 1900, and by successive promo
tions was soon made superintendent of one of
the departments of that company's plant in
that city ; he was considered one of the rising
young men in the Bell Telephone Company,
and was just entering upon a most promising
career when his death occurred, January 17,
1910, as a result of blood-poisoning; he mar
ried Helen N. Hunt, daughter of Horatio N.
Plunt, of Providence, and to this union were
born three children as follows: Charles Jr.,
Ploratio Hunt, and George Lothrop Bradley.
2. Alice Whitman, born November 5, 1881 ;
resides with her mother. 3. Joseph Manton,
born December 10, 1882, was for six years
engaged in business in Portland, Oregon, and
then returned to the east, engaging in cotton
manufacturing at Brattleboro, Vermont; he
married Margaret S. Walter, of Portland,
Oregon, and they have two children, namely:
Joseph Manton Jr. and Margaret Bradley. 4.
Mary Emerson, born June 18, 1884; married
Dr. Emery M. Porter, of Providence, and they
have had children as follows : Emery Moulton
Jr., who died in infancy; George Whipple;
Jane Bradley, who died in infancy ; and Arnold
Porter. 5. Margaret Harrison, born July 6,
1890, married Brockholst M. Smith, of Provi
dence, and they have a daughter, Helen Brad
ley Smith, born in August, 1914.
(VII) George Lothrop Bradley, the third
son of the late Chief Justice Charles Smith
and Sarah (Manton) Bradley, was born at
Providence, Rhode Island, October 4,_ 1846.
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a private school in Providence and at Newton,
Massachusetts, after which he was graduated
from the University Grammar School of
Providence. After fitting himself for Brown
and Harvard and passing the examinations in
connection with both universities he decided
to enter the School of Mines at Freiburg. Ger
many, where he took a special course in metal
lurgical engineering, graduating therefrom in
1867. Upon his return to America he went
to Colorado for the purpose of developing a
mining property. On this trip to the far west
he crossed the plains in a stage coach and met
with some thrilling experiences, the coach pre
ceding the one in which he was a passenger
being captured by the Indians and its occu
pants all killed. This mining property in Colo
rado not proving a financial, success as antici
pated by Mr. Bradley he then spent some time
in South America in investigating various min
ing propositions. Upon his return east, in
Boston he met Professor Alexander Graham
Bell, then a teacher of a new system of com
munication for deaf mutes, who subsequently
went to Salem, Massachusetts, and while giv
ing instructions there devoted considerable
time to, the study and development of the tele
phone. Upon coming to Providence, Pro
fessor Bell there met Norman N. Mason, who
was then in the apothecary business, and they
with others put the telephone on a working
basis. Mr. Bradley quick to realize the possi
bilities of this new invention and upon becom
ing interested in the same was induced to take
the telephone to Boston, where in 1876 he
organized the New England Telephone Com
pany. The following year, in New York City,
he organized the National Telephone Company.
In the meantime the Western Union Tele
graph Company had acquired the Edison
patents for a telephone, and there was a con
tract between the two companies for the
monopoly of the system. This contract be
tween these two companies resulted in a com
promise which gave the Bell company an un
disputed field. The stock of the latter com
pany had gradually increased in value from
one to fifty dollars per share, and was sud
denly quoted at $800 per share, Mr. Bradley
realizing a goodly profit therefrom. Mr.
Bradley probably accomplished more in making
the telephone a business success than any other
man in this country. He had seen great finan
cial possibilities in what others of recognized
foresight had regarded as a mere mechanical
toy, and became one of the original investi
gators and promoters of its utility, now an uni
versally recognized necessity. In his researches
he was associated with Professor John Pierce
and Professor Blake, of Brown University,

and encouraged in the undertaking by the late
Hon. Rowland G. Hazard, of Peace Dale,
Rhode Island, who was confident that the tele
phone would be as universally used as gas and
water. After establishing the telephone on a
financial basis, in 1883, Mr. Bradley settled in
Washington, D. C, and became actively inter
ested in the Mergenthaler Linotype Company,
which had been a business failure for more
than six years. With the assistance of the- late
Hon. William C. Whitney, who was secretary
of the United States navy in President Cleve
land's cabinet, Mr. Bradley put the latter com
pany in such a sound financial condition that
its stock was greatly enhanced in value.
Upon investing in the stock of the Florida
Coast Line Canal and Transportation Com
pany, which was organized for the purpose of
constructing an inland waterway five hundred
and sixty miles in length along the eastern
coast of Florida, Mr. Bradley gave this enter
prise not only great financial aid but in addi
tion took an active interest in the management
of the corporation, and for several years served
as its president. In order to form a continu
ous navigable inland waterway it was neces
sary not only to construct canals through the
divides separating the natural waters, but to
remove shoals from the channels of these
waters, and in places to cut through sharp
bends and increase the width of a number of
tortuous salt-water creeks, which form a por
tion of the route selected by the company. The
canal is operated under a state charter and
has the right of eminent domain and privilege
of charging tolls on all canals constructed and
channels improved, the tolls to be fixed by the
president and directors of the canal company,
and to be approved by the board of trustees
of the internal improvement fund of the state
of Florida. In addition to the rights acquired
by the canal company under the above law the
state legislature, by special act, granted to the
company a land subsidy of 3,840 acres per
mile, for the purpose of enabling those inter
ested in the project to obtain the necessary
capital for the construction of the canals and
the improvements along the natural water
ways. This policy on the part of the state re
sulted in the canal company becoming such a
considerable, land owner on the east coast of
Florida that when an opportunity came to
secure the construction of a railway along the
coast of Biscayne bay the canal company direc
tors decided to grant a land subsidy of about
270,000 acres of land to the railway company,
which resulted in the construction of one of
the best, railroads in the south. It soon be
came apparent that the directors of the canal
company made no mistake in subsidizing the

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railroad, as the construction of this railroad
not only transformed the eastern section of
Florida from a wilderness into the greatest
winter resort in the United States, but in addi
tion, gave great impetus to the development of
the agricultural resources of that country by
giving rapid transportation to the growers of
delicate fruits and vegetables, which enabled
them to place the products of their plantations
in the northern and western markets in good
condition. The vast improvements of the canal
company, too, had drained large bodies of rich
marsh land, which, when the water was low
ered, were ready for the plow, and resulted in
new agricultural enterprises, as well as the
building of new towns and villages on both
sides of the waterway for practically its whole
length. A line of passenger and freight steam
ers were placed in commission and operated
between Titusville and Jupiter, one hundred
and thirty miles to the south, another impor
tant factor in the opening up of this country.
Until the year 1892' the inside waters of the
Florida coast were supposed to be controlled
by the state, and the canal company, under its
charter, improved the channels of the Indian
river where necessary. In the latter year, how
ever, through the efforts of the late Senator
Matthew S. Quay, of Pennsylvania, an appro
priation was made by congress to be expended
in still further improving the river and in en
larging the canals owned by the canal com
pany. The question of jurisdiction being
raised the United States attorney^general gave
the opinion that the appropriation should not
be expended until the Florida Coast Line
Canal and Transportation Company waived its
rights to charge tolls on the channels improved
by the company between Titusville and Jupi
ter. After some negotiations an agreement
was made which provided that no tolls should
be collected on that section of the waterway,
and the money appropriated was then spent on
the channel, and later on additional appropria
tions were made for the same purpose. The
balance of the waterway, however, is still con
trolled by the canal company. The phenomenal
success of this gigantic undertaking, which has
so very largely increased the wealth and com
mercial interests of the state of Florida, was
chiefly due to Mr. Bradley's timely aid when
financial difficulties were encountered and the
project on the verge of being abandoned, as
well as his farsighted discernment and the
close personal attention he gave to the com
pany and its interests.
Mr. Bradley passed away at his home in
Washington, D. C, on March 26, 1906, in the
sixtieth year of his age. By the terms of his
will, the Bradley estate, situated in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and containing about

twelve acres of land, becomes the Emma
Pendleton Bradley Home for Convalescents
and Invalids, in memory of his only child, who
through illness became an invalid. The will
is clothed in beautiful language, and it is
doubtful if more loving words ever graced a
charitable gift.
Mr. Bradley was a man of great mental
alertness and far-sightedness, and of more
than ordinary intellectual attainments. He
was an extensive traveler and an accomplished
linguist. In the charm of his conversation he
was not easily equalled and never surpassed.
He had a happy manner of expressing an
antagonistic judgment, in language, which,
while, calmly decisive, was utterly void of
offense. He possessed marked personal char
acteristics which commanded great respect
among his fellowmen, and strong convictions
which left their imprint upon his associates.
His sympathy was genuinely sincere and
whole-souled, his hospitality a fine art, and he
never lost an opportunity of showing grace
and kindness to even slight acquaintances. He
was always welcome among eclectic and repre
sentative people, and his home was the center
of thoughtful and brilliant society. His library-
was a large and comprehensive one, and his
fine taste for varied reading enabled him to
hold his own in any field where the merely pro
fessional critic would be apt to be terribly
astray. Mr. Bradley invariably found some
thing pleasant to say about the most immature
and unpromising efforts, and he possessed the
knack of so handling his own experiences as
tn make it an encouragement and a stimulus.
Neither honors, nor riches, nor power could
divert him from simplicity of speech and
action, or render him inaccessible to the call
of suffering and distress. He had an intense
yearning toward those who stood to him, and
an overflowing tenderness for weakness and
suffering. He was particularly fond of nature
and outdoor life, and his large and well-
appointed country estate, comprising over eight
hundred acres of land, in Pomfret, Connecti
cut, is an ideal spot, commanding a magnificent
view of the surrounding country. In this
estate he took an especial pride, and to the im
provement and development of the same he
spent much of his time and means. Mr. Brad
ley was also one of the founders of the Pom
fret School for Boys, in connection with which
he displayed a very deep interest, and of which
he served until his death as a member of the
board of trustees. Mr. Bradley was a promi
nent and influential member of the Metropoli
tan, Cosmos, Elite, Chevy Chase and Country
clubs of Washington, D. C. ; the Reform and
the Players' clubs of New York City, and also
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On June 12, 1878, Mr. Bradley was united
in marriage to Miss Helen McHenry Cham
bers, daughter of Dr. John Mason Duncan
Chambers, a prominent physician of Virginia,
and his wife, Emma Pendleton Ward, and to
this union was born one daughter, Emma Pen
dleton Bradley. (The Bailey Line).
(I) John Bailey, the founder of this family
in America, came from Chippenham, England,
and on his way to New England, was ship
wrecked off Pemaquid, August 15, 1635. He
was a weaver by trade. He located first at
Newbury, Massachusetts, but in 1637, with
William Scholar, located in the wilderness in
what was afterward Colchester, now Salisbury.
With him came his son John, while his wife,
son Robert and two or more daughters re
mained in England. His daughter Joanna
came later. In 165 1 he was ordered to return
to England or send for his wife. He died the
next year. His will was proved April 13, 1652.
His children were: John, mentioned below;
Joanna; Robert, and others.
(II) John Bailey Jr., son of John Bailey,
was born in 1613, and came to America with
his father. He resided in Newbury and Salis
bury. He married Eleanor Emery, and their
children were : Rebecca, born 1641 ; John, born
May 18, 1643; Sarah, born August 17, 1644;
Joshua, died young; Joseph, born April 4,
1648; James, September 12, 1650; Joshua
(2d), February 20, 1653, died young; Isaac,
born July 22, 1654; Joshua (3d), April 20,
1657; Rachel, October 19, 1662; Judith, Au
gust 13, 1665.
(Ill) Rev. James Bailey, son of John
Bailey Jr., was born September 12, 1650, and
died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, June 18, 1707.
He married, September 17, 1672, Mary Carr,
daughter of George and Elizabeth Carr, of
Salisbury. She died at Killingworth, October
28, 1688. He graduated from Harvard Col
lege in 1669. He was minister at Salem Vil
lage from 1671 to 1680, removing to Killing-
worth, Connecticut, in 1682, and to Roxbury,
Massachusetts, in about 1694. At Roxbury he
was engaged in preaching and also practiced
medicine. His second wife, Mary, died Octo
ber 23, 1717. His children were : Mary, born
July 5, 1673 >' John, 1675 ; James, mentioned
below ; Isaac, born October 22, 1681 ; Sarah
and Joshua, born in 1685.
(IV) Lieutenant James Bailey, son of Rev.
James Bailey, was born at Salem Village in
1678, and married, June 3, 1697, Elizabeth
Ruggles, daughter of Captain Samuel Ruggles.
He was a saddler by trade, and resided at
Roxbury. His children were: James, born

March 22, 1698; Mary, August 8, 1699, died
young; Elizabeth, born December 29, 1702;
Samuel, mentioned below; Mary (2d), bom
March 16, 1707; Ann, January 7, 1708; Hul
dah, July 10, 1710; Joshua, August 26, 171 3.
(V) Samuel Bailey, son of Lieutenant
James Bailey, was born at Roxbury, Massachu
setts, February 1, 1705. He resided on the
homestead at Roxbury, and married Anna
Richardson, who was born May 11, 1710. He
later removed to Ward, now Auburn, Massa
chusetts. His children were : Elizabeth, born
September 19, 1731 ; Samuel, January 28, 1733;
Joshua, March 17, 1735; Anna, March 28,
1737; Sarah, November 30, 1738; Susannah,
died April 12, 1745; Samuel (2d), born Janu
ary 25, 1743; Susannah (2d), May 6, 1745;
Isaac, March 13, 1747, died in infancy; Abi
gail, born June 21, 1750; Isaac (2d), men
tioned below.
(V'l) Rev. Isaac Bailey, son of Samuel
Bailey, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
February 7, 1753, and died at Ward, now Au
burn, Massachusetts, April 10, 1814. He was
graduated from Harvard College in 1781, and
was ordained November 4, 1784, after study
ing divinity with Rev. Daniel Emerson, of
Plollis, New Hampshire. He was the first
minister of the Congregational church at
Ward, and held that pastorate for thirty years.
He married, April 8, 1784, Elizabeth Emerson,
who was born May 5, 1755, and died at Au
burn, January 5, 1842, daughter of Rev. Daniel
Emerson. Their children were: Daniel, born
March 19, 1785, died March 20, 1785 ; Samuel,
twin of Daniel, died February 2, 1790; and
Isaac, mentioned below.
(VII) Isaac Bailey, son of Rev. Isaac
Bailey, was born at Auburn, Massachusetts,
May 25, 1788. He was graduated from Brown
University in 1810. He was poet of the Phil
harmonic Society ; editor of the "Rhode Island
Literary Messenger" ; and author of "United
Naval Biography." He married Jane Whit
man, daughter of Jacob Whitman Jr. ; she was
born March 25, 1793, and died at Waterville,
Maine, June 27, 1886. After the death of Mr.
Bailey she married (second) Professor George
W. Keely, of Waterville. The children born
to Isaac Bailey were: 1. Jacob Whitman, born
April 29, 181 1 ; graduated from West Point
in 1832; commissioned second lieutenant, then
first lieutenant; became assistant professor of
chemistry at West Point and later professor of
chemistry, mineralogy and geology in 1838;
he was a recognized scientist ; married July 23,
1835, Maria Slaughter. 2. William Mason,
mentioned below. 3. Samuel Emerson, un
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Bailey, was born November 23, 181 5, at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and died in that city,
May 6, 1897. He attended Austin's private
school, which then occupied the present site of
the Boston Store. After graduating therefrom
he entered into business on South Water street,
and was engaged in various commercial pur
suits under different firm names for about
forty years. During the uncertain period of
the Dorr war Mr. Bailey served as captain of
a company until the final dispersion of Dorr
and his followers. In about i860 he built the
Westminster and Weybosset blocks, and dur
ing the civil war his office was located in the
former building. He was a member of the
general assembly during the administration of
Governor James Y. Smith, and was also one
of the board- of commissioners on the building
of the city hall of Providence. He held many
positions of trust in estates, some of which he
had administered for over fifty years, and
ended his faithful guardianship over the same
only by death. On June 11, 1838, Mr. Bailey
married Harriet Brown, a native of Provi
dence, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Water
man) Brown, and granddaughter of Captain
William and Mary (Farnum) Brown. To
William Mason Bailey and his wife were born
the following children: 1. William Mason Jr.,
born June 7, 1841, died March 10, 1893, un~
married. 2. Charles Emerson, born July 15,
1843, died April 1, 1912; served in the civil
war as a member of the First Rhode Island
Regiment ; married Isobel C. McCutcheon, of
Indianapolis, Indiana. 3. Robert, born No
vember 14, 1846, died April 5, 1848. 4. Jane
Whitman, born July 13, 1849, in North Provi
dence; married, October 31, 1876, Charles
Bradley (see Bradley). 5. Harriet Brown,
born November 24, 1852, died unmarried in
New York City, November 25, 1905. 6.
Thomas Brown, born December 6, 1854; is
unmarried, and has been connected with the
Bell Telephone Company since its organization.
7. Richard Arnold, born October 1, 1857, died
December 11, 1904; he was connected with the
Corliss Steam Engine Works for a number of
years ; married Jennie V. Duff, of Providence,
and they had four children, namely: William
Mason, born October 8, 1894; Lucy Elizabeth,
October 8, 1896; Richard Francis, December
10, 1898; Arnold Brown, July 12, 1903.

This family is of French-Hugue-
DIMAN not origin, and the name appears
under a variety of spellings in
this country, usually previous to 1750 Diamond
or Diament. Many of the descendants now in
Rhode Island use the form Diman. In the
seventh generation from the original settler
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some of the family in Bristol, Rhode Island,
adopted the spelling Dimond. For more than
two centuries it has been established in Bristol,
and has figured prominently in the town social
and business life, as well as in the public affairs
of the state, including Byron Diman, who
served as assemblyman, senator, lieutenant-
governor and governor, and Francis M. Dimon,
whose service was similar. From the Bristol
family came the. eminent scholar and educator,
the late professor of history at Brown Uni
versity. (I) Thomas Diamont appeared early in
Farmington, Connecticut, whence he went to
Easthampton, Long Island, in 1660, and died
there in 1682. He purchased for fifty pounds,
March 1, 1663, housing and fencing, land and
accommodations of Richard Smith. On Sep
tember 28, 1667, he bought meadow of Stephen
Shamger and Benjamine Hased. In 1668 he
gave land for a highway. He sold a lot of
forty square poles, March 15, 1679, and on
December 27, 1680, he gave a bill of sale of his
property to his eldest son James, which was
entailed to go to the latter's son Thomas. He
made a deed of gift to his son James, July 28,
1682, in which he mentions- several previous
similar deeds, to include a house and barn,
thirty-five acres of meadow lands, amount not
named, and two-thirds of his commonage, and
other properties in town and Montaucut, to be
effective after the death of himself and wife.
To his daughter Abigail he gave four pounds,
and to daughters, Hannah Burd and Elizabeth
Miller, two pounds each. In 1645 he married
Mary Sheaffe. He had two sons beside the
one above named, Thomas and John, and also
a daughter, Sarah Headley, of New Jersey.
(II) James, eldest son of Thomas and Mary
(Sheaffe) Diman,* born in 1646, lived in East
hampton, New York, where he died December
13, 1 721. He sold a ten-acre lot there, Sep
tember 18, 1703, to Ebenezer Belding for £92.
He had a grant of land from the town adjoin
ing land already in his possession, April 4,
1710, and on May 28, 1713, he sold one-half
acre and twenty poles of land for £3 15s to
Ananias Conkling Jr. He received a quit
claim, October 6, 1701, to lands previously
purchased from Samuel Brooks. He married,
in 1677, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Thomas
James, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. They
had sons : Thomas, mentioned below ; Na
thaniel, who married Lois Hedges, 1721 ; John,
born 1690, died 1764; daughter Mary, who re
ceived by will her father's "great trunk."
(Ill) Thomas (2), eldest son of James and
Hannah (James) Diman, was born about 1679,

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in Easthampton, where he lived until 17 12,
when he removed to Bristol, Rhode Island.
He sold one-fourth of a share in land at Mean-
tauke, November 8, 1700, and on September
14, 1721, he sold one-eighth share in the same
lands for £60 15s to Theodore Pilsom He
married, in- 1706, Hannah Finney, who died in
1744, and they had children: John; Rebecca;
Jonathan, deacon of the First Church of
Plymouth, Massachusetts, died February 25,
1797; Rev. James, born November 29, 1707,
minister of the Second Church at Salem,
Massachusetts, died October 8, 1788; Jere
miah, mentioned below ; Phebe, 17 17, died Sep
tember 14, 1789; Lucretia, 1719, married Rich
ard Smith, and died January 31, 1790; Daniel,
died December 16, 1797.
(IV) Jeremiah, third son of Thomas (2)
and Hannah (Finney) Diman, born about
1710, resided in Bristol, where he was admitted
with his wife to the Congregational church,
May 13, 1741, and died November 10, 1798.
He married, May 13, 1733, Sarah Giddings,
born about 1709-10, died October 13, 1790.
Children : Nathaniel, mentioned below ; James,
born October 9, 1735 ; Sarah, February 5,
1738, married John Lawless; Jeremiah, July
13, 1740, died in Albany in 1760, while a sol
dier in the French war; Jonathan, October 19,
1742; Hannah, twin of Jonathan, married, Oc
tober 29, 1 761, George Oxx; William, Decem
ber 10, 1744; Joseph, about 1746; Thomas,
1748; Benjamin, major in the revolutionary
army, died December 31, 1777.
(V) Nathaniel, eldest child of Jeremiah and
Sarah (Giddings) Diman, was born January
29, 1734, in Bristol, and died May 24, 1812, in
that town. He married, October 18, 1756,
Anna Gallup, daughter of Samuel (2) and
Mary Gallup, and granddaughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Southworth) Gallup, among
the first settlers of Bristol. The last-named
was a daughter of Constant Southworth, treas
urer of the Plymouth colony. She died March
7, 1 791. Two children are recorded in Bristol,
namely: William, born November 1, 1759, a
soldier of the revolution ; Jeremiah, mentioned
below. Others known are Mary, September
18, 1764, married Nathaniel Ingraham; Nancy,
1775, married Nathaniel Ingraham;  ,
1775, married John Richardson, died Septem
ber 13, 1821 ; John, went to sea from Bristol,
and was never heard from again.
(VI) Jeremiah (2), second son of Na
thaniel and Anna (Gallup) Diman, was born
January 4, 1767, in Bristol, was a cooper and
gauger, interested in shipping, a deacon of the
First Congregational Church, and died August
10, 1847. He married, November 6, 1794,
Hannah, daughter of Barnaby Luther, of

Swansea, Massachusetts, born about 1770.
She died June 7, 1840, aged seventy years.
Children: Byron, mentioned below; George
Howe, born August 19, 1707, died from an
accident, December 2, 181 5.
(VII) Hon. Byron Diman, elder son of
Deacon Jeremiah and Hannah (Luther)
Diman, was born August 5, 1795, in Bristol,
and was educated in excellent private schools,
principally under the tuition of the late Bishop
Griswold. Having determined upon a busi
ness career at a very early age he entered the
office of Hon. James DeWolf at the age of six
teen years, and continued in his employ until
the settlement of his estate, succeeding his
death in 1837. Mr. Diman became extensively
interested in the whale fisheries and West India
trade, and conducted a very large commercial
business. He was also interested in the manu
facture of cotton, being an extensive owner
and director in the two cotton manufacturing
establishments then in Bristol. At one time
he was treasurer and subsequently president
of the Bristol Steam Mill. For many years he
was president of the Bank of Bristol, and was
a director of the Pokanoket Mill. The busi
ness interests of Bristol flourished in his day
largely through the influence of his sound com
mercial ability, and he was in every way con
sidered a successful man, mentally and morally,
as well as materially. An enthusiastic Whig
of the Henry Clay school he took an active
interest in the direction of public affairs, was
for many years a member of the general assem
bly, and a delegate to the Harrisburg conven
tion of 1840, in which General William H.
Harrison was nominated for the presidency.
He represented Bristol in the lower house in
1829, 1837-38, and was a member of the senate
in 1850-51-52. During the troubles of the
Dorr rebellion, in 1842, he was a member of
the governor's council, and was one of those
who shouldered a gun and marched to Che-
pachet to compel peace in the commonwealth.
In 1843-44-45 he was lieutenant-governor of
the state, and governor in 1846. "No persua
sion could induce him to hold the office longer
than a year, and he was deaf to all solicitations
to accept a higher position, even that of United
States senator." The only official connection
that he retained with the state was as commis
sioner of the indigent blind, deaf and dumb.
Mr. Diman issued the call for the first meeting
held in Bristol for the organization of the Re
publican party, and he gave to the policy of
President Lincoln a cordial and unhesitating
support. Governor Diman was active in the
promotion of religious interests, and was re
markably punctual in his attendance on public
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of the Catholic Congregational Society. A
genial, kind-hearted man he was given to open-
hospitality, and no deserving person ever ap
pealed to him in vain for aid. He was espe
cially active in providing out of his bounty for
the worthy poor. A prudent counsellor and a
true friend he was esteemed and appreciated
by every element of society in his native town.
At the age of sixty years he retired from
active business, and until his death, August 1,
1865, he spent much of his time in the quiet
of his library and the social life of his native
town. "Up to a late period in his life he was
a diligent reader, and few men not belonging
to the class of professed students possessed
more varied and accurate information. He
was well versed in English literature and gen
eral history, and especially at home in topo
graphical and antiquarian lore."
He married (first) June 1, 1823, Abigail Al
den Wight, born October 21, 1802, daughter of
Rev. Henry Wight, D. D., more than forty
years pastor of the Congregational church in
Bristol, and his wife, Clarissa Leonard, of
Raynham, Massachusetts (see Leonard VII).
Children : George Byron, born May 16, 1824,
died February 4, 1903 ; Clara Anna, August 8,
1826, died seventeen days old; Clara Anna,
April 1, 1828, married, June 30, 1847, A. Sid
ney DeWolf ; Jeremiah Lewis, mentioned be
low ; Henry Wight, April 2, 1835, was pay
master in the United States navy, serving on
the gunboat "Kineo" during part of the civil
war, and was for about twenty-four years
consul to Oporto and Lisbon, Portugal, dying
in the latter place in September, 1884; Abby
Byron, May 7, 1838, died three months and
three days old. Byron Diman married (sec
ond) May 2, 1855, Elizabeth Ann Wood, born
October 11, 1816, in Warren, Rhode Island.
daughter of Thomas Baker and Sarah (Haw
kins) Wood, died October 13, 1881. There
was one daughter of this marriage, Elizabeth
Byron, born June 22, 1857, married, January
8. 1890, Harry Hyde Cabot, born in St. Louis,
May 11, 1857, son of Joseph Clarke and Cath
erine (Wales) Cabot.
(VIII) Jeremiah Lewis, second son of Hon.
Byron and Abigail A. (Wight) Diman, was
born May 1, 1831, in Bristol, and was pre
pared for college under the direction of Rev.
James N. Sikes, a Baptist minister, pastor of
the church at Bristol. As a boy in his native
town he prepared a number of historical
articles entitled "Annals of Bristol," which
were published in the Phoenix of that town.
Entering Brown University at the age of six
teen years he was graduated, with the class of
1851. Here he developed a taste and power
in literary, historical and philosophical studies,

which occupied most of his time during a busy
and useful life. At his graduation he was
assigned the classical oration, and selected for
his theme "The Living Principle of Literature."
While yet in college Mr. Diman united with
the Congregational church of Bristol, and de
cided upon the Christian ministry as his life
work. In pursuance of this purpose he went
to reside as a pupil in the family of Rev. Dr.
Thatcher Thayer, of Newport, with whom he
pursued a course in philosophy, theology and
classics. Beginning in the fall of 1852 he was
for two years a student of the Andover, Massa
chusetts, Theological Seminary, and deter
mined to pursue further studies in the German
universities. In the summer of 1854 he trav
eled on the European continent, pursuing the
study of theology, philosophy and history
under the great teachers of Halle, Heidelberg
and Berlin. During a short time in one of his
vacations he was a student of art at Munich.
Returning to his native land in the spring of
1856 he again took up his studies at Andover
and was graduated in the following summer.
In the same year he was installed pastor of the
First Congregational Church at Fall River,
Massachusetts, where he continued four years.
In 1858 he declined an invitation to become a
colleague of the celebrated Dr. Horace Bush
nell, in charge of a Congregational church at
Hartford, Connecticut. In i860 he became
pastor of the Harvard Congregational Church
in Brookline, Massachusetts, and four years
later removed to Providence to take the chair
of history and political economy in Brown Uni
versity, which position he held until his death,
receiving in 1870 from his alma mater the de
gree of Doctor of Divinity. His work in this
position soon brought him distinction, his rare
scholarship and enthusiastic devotion to his
work bringing many words of encomium from
his contemporaries. He was apt as a teacher
and enlarged his office until his department be
came the best and most effective of any chair
of history in all the institutions of the land.
His work was not confined to the class room.
As a contributor to the Providence Journal, the
"New York Nation," the "North American
Review" and "Monthly Religious Magazine,"
and other periodicals, his influence was very
broadly extended, and many outside of his
class room came under his beneficent influence.
In 1873 Professor Diman was elected a corre
sponding member of the Massachusetts His
torical Society. His published sermons and
addresses were numerous, and among these
may be mentioned a sermon delivered October
16, 1867, in the chapel of Brown University,
at 'the request of the faculty, in commemora
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long professor of rhetoric in Brown Univer
sity; an address delivered before the Phi Beta
Kappa of Amherst College, July 6, 1879, and
afterward published in the "New Englander,"
entitled "The Method of Academic Culture;"
one of his Boston lectures delivered in 1870,
"Historical Basis of Belief;" an oration before
the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, delivered June 29, 1876, and
afterwards published, "The Alienation of the
Educated Class from Politics;" an address de
livered at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, July 10,
1877, at the centennial celebration of the cap
ture of General Prescott by Lieutenant-Colonel
Barton, which was afterwards published with
notes, forming No. 1 of Rider's Rhode Island
historical tracts ; an address delivered October
16, 1877, at the request of the municipal
authorities of Providence in dedication of the
monument in commemoration of the life and
services of the venerable founder of the state,
in Roger Williams Park ; an address delivered
at the dedication of the Rogers Free Library
at Bristol, January 12, 1878. At the two hun
dredth anniversary of his native town, in 1880,
he delivered before a large gathering the his
torical address, which has since been published
with the proceedings. Dr. Diman was fre
quently called upon to supply pulpits in his
own and the Unitarian denominations. For
some years preceding his death he was an at
tendant at St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal
Church of Providence, though he never with
drew from his Congregational affiliation. In
1879 he delivered a course of lectures before
Johns Hopkins University upon the subject of
"The Thirty Years' War," and in the follow
ing year a course of lectures before the Lowell
Institute of Boston on "The Theistic Argu
ment as Affected by Recent Theories." These
lectures were edited after his death by, Pro
fessor George P. Fisher, of Yale, and pub
lished in 1881. In 1882 appeared Prof.
Diman's "Orations and Essays with Selected
Parish Sermons," including the commemora
tion address by Professor James O. Murray,
of Princeton. In 1887 Caroline Hazard, sub
sequently president of Wellesley College, pub
lished his "Memoirs, compiled from his Letters,
Journals and the Recollections of his Friends,"
with which was included a complete list of his
publications. Professor Diman died after less
than a week's illness, February 3, 1881. A
memorial service in his honor, under the aus
pices of the university, was held in the First
Baptist Meeting House on May 17, 1881, when
an impressive commemorative discourse was
delivered by his intimate friend and associate
in' college, Rev. James O. Murray, D. D., pro

fessor in the College of New Jersey at Prince
ton. Professor Diman married, May 15, 1861,
Emily Gardner Stimson, born in Providence,
March 4, 1837, died March 21, 1901, daugh
ter of John J. and Abby M. (Clarke) Stim
son, of Providence, and granddaughter of Dr.
Jeremy Stimson, a physician of Hopkinton,
Massachusetts, and also of Rev. Pitt Clarke, of
Norton, Massachusetts. Children: Maria
Stimson, born February 12, 1862, died from
accident, April 29, 1881 ; John Byron, men
tioned below; Louise, December 23, 1869;
Emily, April 8, 1873.
(IX) Rev. John Byron Diman, only son of
J. Lewis and Emily G. (Stimson) Diman, was
born May 24, 1863, in Brookline, Massachusets.
He was educated in "The English and Classical
School" of Providence, and Brown University,
graduating in 1885 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. In 1903 he received from that insti
tution the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
He entered Cambridge Episcopal Theological
School, from which he received the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity in 1888, and received
from Harvard College in 1896 the degree of
Master of Arts. He was ordained a deacon
of the Episcopal church at Providence in 1888,
and officiated as minister in charge of St. Co-
lumba's Chapel at Middletown, Rhode Island,
until 1892. For the succeeding three years he
was teacher in the University Grammar School
of Providence. In 1896 he founded St.
George's School for Boys at Newport, now at
Middletown, Rhode Island', and has been head
master of that institution to the present time.
(The Leonard Dine).
(I) John Leonard was of Knole, county
Kent, England. He was born in 1479, and
died in 1556.
(II) John (2) Leonard, son of John (1)
Leonard, was also of Knole, county Kent. He
was born in 1508 and died in 1590.
(Ill) Samson Leonard, son of John (2)
Leonard, was the eleventh Baron of Dacre.
He was born in 1545, and died in 1615. He
married Lady Margaret Fienes.
(IV) Sir Henry Leonard, son of Samson
Leonard, was the twelfth Baron of Dacre. He
was born in 1569. He married Lady Chriso-
gona, daughter of Sir Richard Baker, of Sis-
singhurst, county Kent, England.
(V) Richard Leonard, son of Sir Henry
Leonard, was the thirteenth Baron of Dacre,
seated at Chevening. He died in 1630. He
married (first) Lady Anne, daughter of Sir
Arthur Throckmorton. He married (second)
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(VI) Thomas Leonard, son of Richard
Leonard, was of Pontypool, Wales. He had
sons: Henry; James, mentioned- below; and
Philip. (I) James Leonard, son of Thomas Leon
ard, of Pontypool, Wales, was born in Great
Britain, and came to America about 1645. He
settled first in Lynn and later in Taunton,
Massachusetts. He was the founder of the
iron works in Saugus, near Lynn, and these
were the first iron works in America. He was
not living, in 1691. In 1653 he and his brother
Henry were engaged in the manufacture of
iron in Taunton. He was a great friend of
King Philip, the famous Indian, who used to
shoot wild birds at Fowling Pond, which was
on James' property. Leonard often enter
tained him at his house, and when the town
was burned, his house was spared by the
Indians. Children: Thomas, born August 3,
1641, at Pontypool, Wales; James, mentioned
below; Abigail, married John Kingsley, of
Milton; Rebecca, married, September 2, 1678,
Isaac Chapman, of Barnstable; Joseph, born
about 16-55; Benjamin, married, January 15,
1678-79, Sarah Thresher; Hannah, married
January 24, 1677-78, Isaac Deane; Lh'iah, born
July 10, 1662.
(II) James (2), son of James (1) Leonard,
was born about 1643, i*1' Great Britain, and
died at Taunton, Massachusetts, November 1,
1726. He was interested in iron works, and
resided early in life at Braintree, later at Taun
ton, where the iron works have continued down
to the present time, and were in his day the
greatest industry in New England, in which
many people held shares. There was a saying
current in those times: "Wherever you can
find an iron works you will find a Leonard."
His first wife Hannah died February 25, 1674,
and he married (second) Lydia, daughter of
Anthony Gulliver, of Milton, Massachusetts,
born 1652-53, died July 24, 1705. His third
wife, Rebecca, born about 1662, died April 3,
1738, in her seventy^sixth year. Children:
Eunice, born November 25, 1668, in Brain
tree; Prudence, January 24, 1670; Hannah,
October 2, 1671 ; James, February 1, 1673, died
1674; David, May 11, 1677; Lydia, May 10,
1679; Stephen, mentioned below; Abigail,
January 30, 1683; Nathaniel, October 18, 1675;
Seth, April 3, 1686; Sarah, September 6, 1688;
Mehitable, October 24, 1691; Elizabeth, April
19, 1604.
(Ill) Stephen, third son of James (2)
Leonard, and third child of his second wife,
Lydia Gulliver, was born December 14, 1680,
and was a justice of the peace, and judge of
the court of common pleas at Taunton, where
he died March 4, 1741-

(IV) Major Zephaniah Leonard, son of Ste
phen Leonard, was born March 18, 1704, and
died April 23, 1776, in his seventy-third year.
He resided at Raynham, Massachusetts, was a
man of enterprise and energy, and served as
judge of the court of common pleas from 1761
until his death. He married, April 24, 1724,
Hannah, daughter of John and Alice (Deane)
King, of Raynham, and had children: Joshua,
born January 5, 1725; Mary, September 22,
1726; Prudence, March 23, 1729, died 1731 ;
Silence, April 27, 1731 ; Anna, March 1, 1733;
Abigail, January 31, 1735, died 1739; Zepha
niah, mentioned below; Phebe, November 10,
1738, died 1739; Prudence, August 14, 1740;
Abigail, May 19, 1742 ; -Apollos, August 3,
1744; Phebe, July 16, 1746, died 1752; Silas,
April 8, 1748; Samuel, December 6, 1750.
(V) Zephaniah (2), second son of Zepha
niah (1) and Hannah (King) Leonard, was
born January 18, 1737, in Raynham, and was
many years sheriff of Bristol county, being
succeeded by his son Horatio, the two filling
the office over seventy years. He married,
October 30, 1765, Abigail Alden, of Middle
boro, Massachusetts, bora May 19, 1744, died
January 25, 1845, in her one hundred and first
year, daughter of David and Judah (Paddle-
ford) Alden, of Middleboro (see Alden IV).
They had children: Abigail, born July 10,
1769; Horatio, and Clarissa, and perhaps
others. (VI) Clarissa, daughter of Zephaniah (2)
and Abigail (Alden) Leonard, became the wife
of Rev. Henry Wight, D. D., more than forty
years pastor of the Congregational church in
Bristol, Rhode Island.
(VII) Abigail Alden, daughter of Rev.
Henry, and Clarissa (Leonard) Wight, was
born October 21, 1802, and became the wife of
Hon. Byron Diman, of Bristol, Rhode Island
(see Diman VII). (The Alden Line).
(I) The history of John Alden, of the
Plymouth colony, has been celebrated in song
and story, and is familiar to* every American.
He was born in 1599, in England, and joined
the Pilgrims on the "Mayflower" at South
ampton as the ship was on its way to America.
When the ship stopped there for supplies he
was hired as cooper. He had not been with
them at Leyden and was probably not a mem
ber of the independent church, but soon joined.
He cast his fortunes with the Pilgrims, after
enduring the hardships of that first terrible
winter at Plymouth when so many died. He was
doubtless influenced in this decision by his love
for Priscilla Mullens, the story of which, with
some embellishments, is told in the "Courtship

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of Miles Standish." She was the daughter of
William Mullens, who came on the "May
flower" with his family. John and Priscilla
were married in the spring of 1621. When
the common property of the colony was divided
in 1627, Alden went with Captain Standish,
Elder William Brewster, John Howland, Fran
cis Eaton and Peter Brown to Mattakeeset,
the Indian name of that territory now included-
in Duxbury, Marshfield, Pembroke, Hanson
and Bridgewater, Massachusetts. For several
years they were obliged to return to Plymouth
during the winter season to combine all their
forces against the possible Indian attacks. The
residence at Plymouth in the winter also gave
them an opportunity to attend worship, and
the records show a written agreement of Alden
and others in 1632 to remove their families to
Plymouth in the winter. In 1633 Alden was
appointed assistant to the governor, an office
which he held for nearly all of the remainder
of his life, serving with Edward Winslow,
Josiah Winslow, Bradford, Prince and Thomas
Plinckley. From 1666 until his death he held
the office of first assistant, was often called
the deputy governor in the absence of the
governor. From 1640 to 1650 he was also
deputy to the colonial council from Duxbury.
Winslow's- "History of Duxbury" says of him,
"Holding offices of the highest trust, no im
portant measure was proposed, or any respon
sible agency ordered in which he had not a
part. He was one of the council of war, many
times an arbitrator, a surveyor of lands for the
government as well as for individuals, and on
several important occasions was authorized to
act as agent or attorney for the colony. He
was possessed of a sound judgment and of
talents which, though not brilliant, were by no
means ordinary. Writers who mention him
bear ample testimony to his industry, integrity
and exemplary piety, and he has been repre
sented as a worthy and useful man of great
humility, and eminent sanctity of life, decided,
ardent, resolute, and persevering, indifferent
to danger, stern, austere and unyielding, and
of incorruptible integrity. He was always a
firm supporter of the church and everything
of an innovating nature received determined
opposition." From the Puritan point of view
Alden was a model if this description of his
virtues is truthful. He took his part in mak
ing the lives of the Quakers at Plymouth colony
intolerable. On the Alden farm stands the
house built by his son Jonathan, having been
occupied by eight generations in direct line.
It is the oldest house in New England, with
three exceptions; the old fort at Medford,
built in 1634, the Fairbanks house at Dedham,
built in 1636, and the old stone house at Mil

ford, Connecticut, built in 1640. Here Alden
spent his declining years. He died in Dux
bury, September 1, 1686, aged eighty-seven
years, the last of the famous band of Pilgrim
Fathers, and the last of the "Mayflower" com
pany. John Alden had eleven children, only
eight of whom are known, namely : John, born
about 1622, at Plymouth; Joseph, mentioned
below ; Elizabeth, 1625 ; Jonathan, about 1627 ;
Sarah, married Alexander Standish, son of
Captain Miles Standish; Ruth, married John
Bass, of Braintree, from whom the Presidents
Adams descended; Mary; David, prominent
man of Duxbury.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Priscilla Al
den, was born 1624, in Plymouth, and inherited
his father's proprietary share in Bridgewater,
where he settled, residing in what is now West
Bridgewater, and died February 2, 1697. He
also owned lands at Middleboro, and was ad
mitted a freeman in 1659. He married Mary,
daughter of Moses (2) Simmons, who came
in the "Fortune" in 1621, and settled at Dux
bury, Massachusetts. Children : Isaac, mar
ried, December 2, 1695, Mehitable Allen;
Joseph, born in 1667 ; John, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, married, 1691, Benjamin Snow;
Mary, married, 1700, Samuel Allen.
(Ill) John, third son of Joseph and Mary
(Simmons) Alden, was born 1674, in Bridge-
water, and inherited- his father's homestead in
West Bridgewater, which he sold, June 20,
1700, to Isaac Johnson. He removed to Mid
dleboro, where he died September 29, 1730,
aged fifty-six years. He married Hannah,
daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah White, of
Weymouth, born May 12, 1668, died October
5, 1732. Children: David, mentioned below ;
Priscilla, born March 2, 1704; Hannah, March
24, 1708; Thankful, May 3, 1709; Lydia, De
cember 18, 1710; Mary, November 18, 1712;
Abigail, September 8, 1714; Joseph, Septem
ber 11, 1716; John, October 8, 1718; Ebenezer,
October 8, 1720; Samuel, died young; Nathan,
June 12, 1723; Noah, May 31, 1725.
(IV) David, eldest child of John and Han
nah (White) Alden, was born May 18, 1702,
and resided in Middleboro, where he died Au
gust 24, 1763. He married Judah Paddle-
ford, born 1708, died 1802. Children: Solo
mon, born November 21, 1728; David, Janu
ary 14, 1730; Rufus, November 19, 1731 ; Hul
dah, October 8, 1733 ; Job, September 24, 1737;
Sylvanus, October 10, 1739; Abigail, mentioned
below; Peter, February 17, 1747.
(V) Abigail, second daughter of David and
Judah (Paddleford) Alden, was born May 19,
1744, in Middleboro, and became the wife of
Zephaniah (2) Leonard, of that town (see
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(The Stimson Line).
The surname Stimson is identical in origin
with Stephenson, Stevenson, Stimpson and
Stinson. The name is common in its various
forms in England and Scotland and is very
ancient. The family was represented in New
England at an early period. Andrew Stimson
came from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, about
1637, and was admitted a freeman at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, May 10, 1643. He and
his wife Jane joined the Cambridge church in
1643, and in 1655 ne was appointed first keeper
of the House of Correction, serving until 1673.
By trade he was a shoemaker. His will was
dated May 23, 1681, and he died in 1683, be
queathing to one son Andrew, and four daugh
ters. Jonathan Stimson, undoubtedly a close
relative of Andrew Stimson, settled at Water-
town Farms, later Weston. He died Decem
ber 22, 1692.
(I) George Stimson, of whom no previous
record can be found in New England, appears
at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1668, and lived
in Chebacco, parish of Ipswich. He was mar
ried there, July 22, 1676, as shown by the
records of the Essex quarterly court, to Alice
Phillips. Children : George, born August 1 7,
1677, died within a year; Richard, March 10,
1679; Elizabeth, January 11, 1681 ; Mercy,
March. 11, 1683; Alice, February 18, 1685;
Sarah, June 14, 1691 ; George, mentioned be
low ; Mary, March 4, 1696.
(II) George (2), son of George (1) and
Alice (Phillips) Stimson, was born August 27,
1693, in Chebacco, and resided there until
about i737"38, when he removed to Hopkin
ton, Massachusetts. He married in Ipswich,
January 16, 1724, Margaret Rust, born about
1694, daughter of Lieutenant Nathaniel and
Joanna (Kinsman) Rust. Children: George,
mentioned below; John, born September 1,
1728; Nathaniel, April 26, 1730; Lucy, April
9, 1732; Jeremiah, baptized May 5, 1734;
Mary, January 2% iy$y ; Alice, recorded in
Hopkinton after November 5, 1738; Sarah,
between August 28 and 31, 1740; Nathaniel,
baptized November 6, 1743; Ephraim, No
vember 10, 1745; Samuel, October 4, 1747.
The first six are recorded in Ipswich, the others
in Hopkinton.
(Ill) George (3), eldest child of George
(2) and Margaret (Rust) Stimson, was born
November 20, 1726, in Ipswich, and baptized
there before the close of that month. As a
boy he removed with his parents to Hopkin
ton, where he probably passed his entire life,
though his death is not recorded' there. He
married in Hopkinton, February 28, 175 1, Abi
gail Clark, born July 10, 1732, recorded in
Hopkinton, daughter of Isaac and Experience

(Wilson) Clark, of Framingham and Plopkin-
ton (see Clark IV). Both were admitted to
the Hopkinton church, April 5, 1752. Chil
dren : Jeremy, mentioned below ; Nabby, bap
tized February 25, 1753 ; Experience, May 5,
:755; Henrietta, December 12, 1756; Betty,
April 25, 1762; George, July 22, 1764; Eph
raim, April 5, 1767; Henry Bowen, August 1,
1773; William, July 17, 1774.
(IV) Jeremy, eldest child of George (3)
and Abigail (Clark) Stimson, was born Octo
ber 13, 175 1, in Hopkinton, and was a physi
cian most of his life in that town. At the time
of his marriage he is called of Marlborough,
but his children are all recorded in Hopkinton.
He was admitted to the Hopkinton church,
June 3, 1781, but was. later excommunicated.
He married, October 7, 1779, Anna Jones,
born June 24, 1756, daughter of John and
Mary (Mellen) Jones, died March 17, 1805
(see Jones IV). Children: Emily, born March
21, 1781 ; Jeremy, October 7, 1783; Mary
Jones, March 24, 1785; Nancy, December 18,
1786; Abigail Clark, May 1, 1789; an infant
died unnamed in July, 1794; John Jones, men
tioned below.
(V) John Jones, youngest child of Dr.
Jeremy and Anna (Jones) Stimson, was born
June 11, and baptized, October 14, 1798, in
Hopkinton. When a young man he settled, in
Providence, Rhode Island, where he made his
home during the balance of his life, and en
gaged in business as a wine importer. He pur
chased a place on Angell street, which he
named Rose Farm. The house was built by
Ebenezer Knight Dexter about 1800, and is
one of the oldest dwellings in that section of
the city. It is now owned by his grandchildren,
the children of J. Lewis and Emily G. Diman,
and contains many pieces of rare antique furni
ture, and a fine library, one of the largest pri
vate collections in the city. Here he died in
i860, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery.
He married Abby Morton Clarke, born No
vember 21, 1798, in Norton, Massachusetts,
daughter of Rev. Pitt Clarke, who was a native
of Medfield and a minister of the Congrega
tional church at Norton for many years (see
Clarke VI).
(VI) Emily Gardner, daughter of John
Jones and Abby Morton (Clarke) Stimson,
was born March 4, 1837, and became the wife
of Professor Jeremiah Lewis Diman, of Provi
dence (see Diman VIII). She died in Provi
dence, March 21, 1901.
(The Clark Lines).
(I) Hugh Clark, born 161 3, probably in
England, was in Watertown, Massachusetts,
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as a husbandman, and, was made freeman
there, May 30, 1660. He was a member of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of
Boston, in 1666, and in the same year was ap
pointed appraiser of the estate of Robert
Hawes. Soon after this he removed to Rox
bury, where he died July 20, 1693, surviving
his wife a little more than eight months; she
died December 11, 1692. Children, recorded
in Watertown : John, mentioned below ; Uriah,
born June 5, 1644; Elizabeth, January 31,
1648. (II) John, eldest child of Hugh and Eliz
abeth Clark, was born October 13, 1641, in
Watertown, and in 1681 received by deed from
his father, sixty-seven acres of land in New
Cambridge, now Newton. This land' is situated
at Newton Center, near the present Baptist
Theological Seminary. About 1688 he built
a saw mill at Newton Upper Falls, the first
mill on the Charles river in the town. He died
January 6, 1695. His first wife Abigail died
January 2, 1682, and he married (second) De
cember 18, 1684, in Newton, Elizabeth Nor
man. Bond says he married, in 1680, Lydia
Buckminster. It is apparent that there is some
error concerning his wives, as his eldest son
must have been born long before 1680. Chil
dren : John, mentioned, below ; William, born
June 20, 1681; Ann, May 18, 1688; Martha,
January 11, 1690; Esther, March 1, 1692;
Hannah, April 20, 1693; Moses, July 19, 1695.
(Ill) John (2), eldest child of John (1)
Clark, was born about 1670, and resided in
Newton, where he was selectman in 1722, and
died June 22, 1730. He married, April 16,
1697, in Dorchester, Ann Burd, born 1671,
daughter of Thomas Burd, of that town, died
1747. Children: Mary, born January 9, 1698;
John, September 22, 1700; Ann, January 12,
1702; Thomas. May 29, 1704; Isaac, men
tioned below; Atherton, April 16, 171 1.
(IV) Isaac, third son of John (2) and Ann
(Burd) Clark, was born October 19, 1707, in
Newton, and resided in Framingham and Hopr
kinton, dying in the latter town in 1783. He
married, August 7, 1729, in Newton, Experi
ence Wilson, born August 7, 1705, in that
town, daughter of Samuel and Experience
Wilson. Children: John, born July 21, 1730;
Abigail, mentioned below; Ann, 1735; Experi
ence, June 11, 1738; Isaac, November 20, 1740;
Samuel, May 20, 1743; Stephen, 1745; Lemuel,
1750; William, December 2, 1753, baptized
May 15, 1757, in Hopkinton.
(V) Abigail, eldest daughter and second
child of Isaac and Experience (Wilson) Clark,
born July 10, 1732, became the wife of George
(3) Stimson, of Hopkinton (see Stimson III).
(I) Joseph Clark was among the earliest

residents of Dedham, Massachusetts, and one
of the thirteen first settlers of Medfield, which
was detached from Dedham. He was made
freeman in 1652, and resided on the west side
of the present South street, near the corner of
Oak, where until recently the cellar marked
the site. In 1660 he served as selectman of
Medfield, and died in 1684. His wife Alice
died March 17, 171 1. Children: Joseph, men
tioned below; Benjamin, born February 9,
1644; Ephraim, January 27, 1646; Daniel, Sep
tember 29, 1647; Mary, March 12, 1649;
Sarah, February 12, 1652; John, October 28,
1654; Nathaniel, October 6, 1658; Rebecca,
August 16, 1660. The last three were born in
Medfield. (II) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (1)
and Alice Clark, was born July 2y, 1642, in
Dedham, and occupied a house lot in Medfield
granted to his father for that purpose on the
attainment of his majority in 1663. In 1674
the records show he bad a house near Pine
Swamp and near the junction of the present
Curve and Spring streets, where he built a
malt house. He received a house from his
wife's father, and at the time of his death,
September 4, 1702, had, a house and land in
the planting field, and also in Wrentham. He
served the town as selectman and representa
tive. He married, June 25, 1663, Mary Allen,
born December 11, 1641, in Dedham (twin of
Martha), died May 5, 1702, daughter of James
and Ann (Guild) Allen. Children: Joseph,
born June 14, 1664; John, May 31, 1666; Jona
than, March 14, 1668; Esther, March 12, 1670;
Thomas, August 6, 1672; Mary, May 24, 1674;
Daniel and Lea (twins), 1676; Solomon, men
tioned below; David, September 25, 1680;
Moses and Aaron (twins), July 2, 1685.
(Ill) Solomon, sixth son of Joseph (2)
and Mary (Allen) Clark, was born July 8,
1678, in Medfield, and died there June 23, 1748.
He settled in the house owned by his father in
the planting field, was three years selectman
of the town, a trustee of the state loan in 1721,
and representative in 1725. He married (first)
about 1698, Mary White, who died April 16,
1740. He married (second), October 7, 1740,
Elizabeth Adams, born January 8, 1694, daugh
ter of Henry and Prudence (Frairy) Adams.
Children, all of the first wife : Mary, born
April 7, 1699; Jonathan, June 14, 1700; Solo
mon, August 11, 1701 ; Daniel, August 7, 1703,
died 1704; David, mentioned below; Ann,
March 4, 1706; Hannah, December 8, 1708,
died 1710; Daniel, April 25, 1710; Hannah,
September 30, 1711; Sarah, 1713, died same
year; John, June 14, 1715 ; Sarah, July 3,
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Mary (White) Clark, was born January 19,
1705, in Medfield, and inherited his father's
homestead, on which he dwelt, dying June 22,
1771. He was selectman in 175-6 and 1760,
and left a good property, which he divided
among his children. He married, June 13,
1728, Mary Smith, born February 5, 1709,
daughter of Henry and Mary (Adams) Smith,
of Medfield, died April 17, 1770. Children:
Nathan, born May 2, 1729; Jacob, mentioned
below; Dinah, November 6, 1735; Catherine,
November 5, 1736; Esther, July 7, 1739;
David, August 24, 1742; Joses, November 26,
1744, died same year; Mary, January 2, 1746;
Joses, died November 20, 1748; Solomon, born
June 10, 1750; and Ichabod, not recorded, but
mentioned in his father's will.
(V) Jacob, second son of David and Mary
(Smith) Clark, was born April 3, 1732, in
Medfield, and settled on the farm previously
owned by his wife's father and grandfather,
on Mill Brook, where he died March 2, 1801.
He was selectman in 1774-75. He married
(first) November 7, 1754, Rachel Smith, born
May 27, 1733, daughter of Eleazer and Sarah
(Turner) Smith, died January 23, 1757. He
married (second) in 1757, Meletiah Hamant,
born October 20, 1732, died July 9, 1768,
daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Partridge)
Hamant. Children: Chloe, born August 30,
1755-; Rachel, April 8, 1759; Martha, January
27, 1761 ; Pitt, mentioned below; Elisha, Feb
ruary 15, 1765; Meletiah, January 4, 1767;
Sarah, April 2, 1769; Jacob, November 5,
1774. (VI) Pitt, eldest son of Jacob Clark and
third child of his second wife, Meletiah
Hamant, was born January 15, 1763, in Med
field, and died February 13, 1835, in Norton,
Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard Col
lege in 1790, and in 1793 was ordained pastor
of the First Congregational Church of Norton,
over which he presided until his death, a period
of nearly forty-two years. He married (first)
February 1, 1798, in Hopkinton, Rebecca
Jones, born May 24, 1767, in that town, daugh
ter of John and Mary (Baldwin) Jones, died
February 8, 181 1. He married (second) No
vember 12, 1812, Mary Jones Stimson, born
March 24, 1785, in Hopkinton, daughter of
Dr. Jeremy and Anna (Jones) Stimson, of
that town (see Stimson IV). There were five
children of the first marriage: Abigail Mor
ton, mentioned below ; William Pitt, born Feb
ruary 25, 1800; John Jones, February 24,
1803; Caroline, February 15, 1806; George
Leonard, born 1809, died young. Children of
second marriage : George Leonard, born Au
gust 10, 1813; Harriot, February 27, 1815;

Manlius Stimson, October 17, 1816; Edward
Hammond, February 2, 1820.
(VII) Abigail Morton, -eldest child of Rev.
Pitt and Rebecca* (Jones) Clarke, was born
November 21, 1798, in Norton, Massachusetts,
and- became the wife of Colonel John Jones
Stimson, of Hopkinton (see Stimson V).
(The Jones Line).
There were many of this name among the
first settlers of Boston, including Edward,
whose wife was Elizabeth; John, whose wife
was also Elizabeth; Isaac, Morgan and Rice
Jones. In Dorchester lived Thomas and Ellen
Jones, who had two children recorded there.
This was probably the Thomas Jones, who
later became prominent in Boston, and served
as one of the "ten men" or selectmen.
(I) Edward Jones, whose connection with
others of the name in the vicinity is not shown
in any record discovered, was a resident of
Boston as early as 1637, and received on March
1 of that year, house lot No. 5, consisting of
five acres in the first division on Mystic Side.
In 1674 he was taxed five shillings as a resi
dent in the first district of Boston, to be col
lected by Constable Greenwood. His wife's
name was Elizabeth. On April 24, 1676, Eliz
abeth Jones was approved and appointed by
the selectmen to keep the keys of the pound
and look after the cattle impounded. Children,
recorded in Boston : Isaac, mentioned below ;
Jacob, born March 10, 1666; Joseph, October
9, 1668.
(II) Isaac, son of Edward and Elizabeth
Jones, was born June 20, 1664, in Boston, and
in 1687 was taxed there two shillings and six
pence on five trades and estates. Isaac Jones
appears in the list of country rates in June,
1691, and in 1695 the list of inhabitants in
cluded Isaac, fishman. He had wife Mary, and
the three following children are recorded in
Boston : Mary, bora April 9, 1687 ; Isaac, May
28, 1689, and John, mentioned below.
(Ill) John, son of Isaac and Mary Jones,
was born October 24, 1691, in Boston, and died
m Hopkinton, February 7, 1773. He settled
in Hopkinton in early life, and was married
there (first) March 12, 1713, to Elizabeth
Simpson, who died after February 9, 1726.
He married (second) August 4, 1726, in Bos
ton, Hannah Allen, who died in January, 1758,
in Hopkinton. He married (third) in the
latter town, September 21, 1758, Mary Bald
win, of Salem, bom 1723, died October 4,
1802, in Hopkinton. Children, all recorded in
Hopkinton: Mary, born March 13, 1714; Eliz
abeth, August 12, 1715; Simpson, September
3, 1716; Sarah, July 9, 1718; Jane, November

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29, 1719; Anna, November 15, 1720; John and
Anthony (twins), January 9, 1722; Hannah,
November 8, 1724; Abigail, February 9, 1726;
Isaac, November 17, 1727; trie last-named was
the child of the second wife, Hannah Allen.
(IV) Colonel John (2) Jones, son of John
(1 ) and Elizabeth (Simpson) Jones, was born
January 9, 1722, in Hopkinton, and- died in
that town, September 5, 1797. He married,
June 8, 1749, in Hopkinton, Mary Mellen, born
April 13, 1724, in that town, daughter of Henry
and Abigail Mellen. Children: Mary, bap
tized June 24, 1750; Elizabeth, January 26,
1751 ; Jane and John (twins, the former died
1757), November 25, 1753; Anna, mentioned
below; Abigail, August 20, 1759; Jane, April
12, 1761 ; Olive, May 6, 1764; Rebecca, May
24, 1767.
(V) Anna, fourth daughter of Colonel John
and Mary (Mellen) Jones, was born June 24,
1756, in Hopkinton, and was married, October
7, 1779, in that town, to Dr. Jeremy Stimson,
then of Marlborough (see Stimson IV).

The Danielson family of
DANIELSON eastern Connecticut has
been one of the substantial
and wealthy families of that locality for over
two hundred years ; and many of the families
allied or connected with it by marriage have
been those of position and influence, among
them the Harrises, Peckhams, Whitmans and
Torreys. In the locality comprising Killingly,
in Windham county, remarkable for loyalty to
the traditions and histories of its time honored
families, the name of Danielson takes pre
eminence as the oldest, one of the most sub
stantial, and one of the most widely known
and respected. The borough of Danielson,
which perpetuates so many worthy lives, was
named as a tribute to a descendant of the first
settler of the town, and from this branch of
the family have come men and women of
mental and moial poise, and with old-time re
ligious devotion and zeal.
(I) Sergeant James Danielson, born about
1648, was among the early residents on Block
Island, which is now the town of New Shore-
ham, Rhode Island. Between 1688 and 1705
he purchased several tracts of land there, and
at the May session of the general assembly, in
1696, was admitted a freeman of the colony
of Rhode Island. In 1700 he was elected ser
geant of the town of New Shoreham ; in 1704-
05 was a member of its town council, and in
August, 1705, was chosen deputy to the gen
eral assembly. In September, 1696, he agreed
to raise one hundred pounds to pay for making
a suitable harbor. He was a soldier in the
expedition, against Quebec in 1696, under Gen

eral Wolfe, and took part in the battle against
Montcalm. The family tradition asserts that
Sergeant Danielson was of Scottish descent,
which is borne out by the history of Brim
field, Massachusetts, which states that he came
from Scotland. In youth and early manhood
he fought in the wars against the Indians, and
in the distribution of lands in eastern Connec
ticut to the heroes of those wars, he received
a share of the town of Voluntown, by grant of
the general court. During his Indian can>
paigns it is probable that he was attracted by
the aspect of the country on the mainland, and
it appears that he removed thither early in the
eighteenth century. In 1706, being then in his
fifty-eighth year, he purchased eight hundred
acres of land on the Quinebaug river, with a
mansion house and barn, in what is now the
town of Pomfret. In 1707 he purchased an
other tract of about two thousand acres lying
between the Quinebaug and Assawauga rivers,
and is said to have been the first settler south
of Lake Mashapaug, at whose southern ex
tremity he built a garrison house. He was
soon known as one of the most prominent men
in the new settlement, not long after named
Killingly. It is apparent that he was possessed
of means, as he paid in cash for one tract f 155,
and for another £170. He had a residence in
each settlement, and a portion of the property
which he held in Killingly still remains in the
possession of his descendants. In his declin
ing years he laid out a burial ground between
the rivers, for the use of the inhabitants, and
was the first to be interred in it. He died Janu
ary 22, 1728, in his eightieth year. The head
stone of his grave bore the inscription, "In
memory of the well beloved Mr. James Daniel
son, who after he had served God and his gen
eration faithfully many years in this life,
sweetly fell asleep in the cradle of death." His
wife, Mary, probably his second wife, died
February 23, 1752, in her eighty-sixth year.
He had sons : John, Samuel and James. His
first wife bore the name of Abigail, and was
the mother of these children, the last-named
born May 15, 1687, in New Shoreham. There
were two sons of the second marriage : Samuel
and William. A descendant, William Daniel
son, was constable and collector of taxes and
lieutenant in 1760; first major of the Eleventh
Militia Regiment in 1774; took one hundred
and forty-six men from Killingly to Cam
bridge in 1775; became colonel in 1776, and
after the revolution general of militia. In
1788 he was a member of the state conven
tion called to ratify the national constitution.
(II) Samuel Danielson, son of Sergeant
James and his second wife Mary, was born in
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stead and much of the landed property in what
is now Killingly, and succeeded to the good
name of his father, which he carried forward
unblemished to subsequent years. He became
an active and useful citizen of the town, and
the manufacturing village built up on the
Quinebaug on the Danielson lands took the
name of Danielsonville, by which it is still
known, except that the last syllable has been
dropped. Busy mills still employ many hands
there, and the village is a thrifty and enduring
monument to the memory of the name. He
married, March 26, 1725, Sarah Douglas, born
about 1704, died March 29, 1774, in her seven
tieth year. He died in 1780, in his eighty-fifth
year. Children: James, bora 1727, died Octo
ber 3, 1754; William, mentioned below; Sarah,
February 22, 1730; Susannah, October 1, 1732;
Elizabeth, March 25, 1734; Priscilla, February
12, 1737; Sybil, February 8, 1739; Samuel,
March 27, 1741 ; Sarah, March 19, 1745.
(Ill) Colonel William Danielson, second
son of Samuel and Sarah (Douglas) Daniel
son, was born August 11, 1729, in Killingly,
and continued to reside in that town, where he
died August 19, 1798. He married, October
29, 1758, Sarah Williams, born 1737, died Jan
uary 10, 1809, in her seventy-second year.
Children: Sarah, born November 14, 1759;
James, mentioned below ; Lucy, October 1 1 ,
1764; William, March 4, 1768; Mary, January
24, 1770.
(IV) General James Danielson, eldest son
of Colonel William and Sarah (Williams)
Danielson, was born January 18, 1761, and
lived in his native town, where he died October
25, 1827. He married, December 3, 1788, Sarah
Lord, of Abington, Connecticut, born June 17,
1769, died April 28, 1852. Children: William,
born June 20, 1790; Sarah, March 25, 1791 ;
George, October 27, 1792 ; James, March 2,
1794; Elisha, March 4, 1796; George, July 14,
1798; Erastus, August 13, 1800; Hezekiah
Lord, mentioned below ; Eliakim, November
15, 1804; Lucy; Mary Ann.
(V) Hezekiah Lord, seventh son of General
James and Sarah (Lord) Danielson, was born
December 16, 1802, and lived in the village of
Danielson, where he was an active member
and deacon of the Congregational church, and
died 1881, at the age of seventy-nine years.
He married Laura Weaver, of Brooklyn, Con
necticut, and both were buried in the West-
field cemetery at Danielson. Children: 1.
Charlotte Tiffany, born 1827 ; married Orville
M. Capron, and is still living at Danielson. 2.
Lucy Storrs, 1829; married John Hutchins,
and now lives in Danielson. 3. Elizabeth S.,
183 1 ; is the widow of Charles C. Cundall, re
siding in Seattle, Washington. 4. John Weaver,

mentioned below. 5. Joseph, died in child
hood. 6. Edward, died in childhood. 7.
Daniel, 184-3; resides in Danielson. 8. Henry
M., resides in Danielson.
(VI) John Weaver, eldest son of Hezekiah
Lord and Laura (Weaver) Danielson, was
born March 30, 1833, in Danielson, and at
tended the public schools of that village and
Woodstock Academy. His business career was
begun as a clerk in the Quinebaug mill store
and later as a clerk in the mill office in his
native town, of which Amos De Forest Lock-
wood was agent. There he continued until
i860, when he went to Lewiston, Maine, with
Mr. Lockwood, who was then superintending
the construction and equipment of the Andro
scoggin mills in Lewiston. Here Mr. Daniel
son spent thirteen years, eventually becoming
agent of the mills. The latter removed to
Providence in 1873, and was soon followed by
Mr. Danielson, where they were associated in
business until the death of the former, in 1884,
following which Mr. Danielson was elected
treasurer of the Quinebaug Company at
Danielson and the Lockwood Company at
Waterville, Maine. Later he became also treas
urer of the Wauregan mills at Wauregan, Con
necticut, and also of the Lewiston Bleachery
and Dye Works at Lewiston, Maine, and- the
Ponemah mills at Taftsville, Connecticut, all
of which positions of trust and responsibility
he filled satisfactory to the time of his death,
representing six million dollars of capital, and
employing over four thousand hands. He was
also interested in several cotton mills in the
south, and was one of the best known in the
cotton industry in New England, respected and
esteemed as a man of the highest integrity.
In 1877 he became a member of the corpora
tion of the Providence Institute for Savings,
and, in 1884 was elected a director of that insti
tution, and also a director of the Rhode Island
Hospital Trust Company, and the Merchants'
National Bank of Providence. He was a mem
ber of the finance committee of the Rhode
Island Hospital Trust Company from the time
he became a director, and in 1887 was elected
treasurer of the Rhode Island Hospital, which
position he held for twenty-one years, resigned
in 1908. He was a member of the Central
Congregational Church of Providence, in
which he served as deacon, and was much
interested in the construction of the present
beautiful, home of that church on Angel street.
In 1886 he became a life member of the Rhode
Island Historical Society. The necrologist of
that society says: "He was conspicuous for
his wide activity and success in business and
manufacturing interests, and in his devotion
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was wise in counsel, upright in life, public-
spirited as a citizen, and greatly honored by
all who knew him." He was a member of the
Hope and Art clubs, and of the Oquossoc Ang
ling Association of Rangely Lakes, Maine. He
was also a member of the Arkwright Club of
Boston. He died at his home on Waterman
street, Providence, August 9, 1913, and was
buried in the Swan Point Cemetery. While
taking an active interest in all matters calcu
lated to promote the general welfare he was a
devoted husband and father, and his memory
is cherished by relatives and friends alike. He
married, in Danielson, Connecticut, August 24,
1858, Sarah Deming Lockwood, born May 30,
1836, at Slatersville, Rhode Island, daughter
of Amos De Forest and Sarah Fuller (Dem
ing) Lockwood (see Lockwood VII, Fuller
VI, and Deming VI). She resides in the home
stead at Providence, and is esteemed for her
many lovable qualities; activejn many good
works. Children, all born at Lewiston, Maine :
1. Edith Lockwood, is the wife of Elisha
Harris Howard, of Providence, and has had
four children: Catharine, died young; John
Danielson, married Mildred Grindstaff, resides
at San Francisco, and has a daughter, Cath
erine Lockwood, born February 4, 1914; Elisha
Plarris, and Alice Lockwood. 2. Alice Weaver,
wife of Theodore P. Bogert, residing in Provi
dence, and has one daughter, Edith Bogert.
3. Amos Lockwood, successor of his father in
business ; residing in Providence ; he married
Charlotte Ives Goddard, and they had one son,
Henry Ledyard Danielson, who died in 1902,
at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island. 4. John De Forest,
died October 16, 1909, in Boston, and buried
in Forest Hills Cemetery; married Pauline
Root Otis. (The Lockwood Line).
The surname Lockwood is of very ancient
origin and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
It is a place name, and, the family has several
branches in England, in Staffordshire, York
shire, county Essex and Northampton. The
coat-of-arms borne by Rev. Richard Lock-
wood, rector of Dingley, Northampton, was:
Argent, a fesse between three martletts sable.
(I) Robert Lockwood, immigrant ancestor,
came to New England about 1630 and settled
in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was ad
mitted a freeman, March 9, 1637, and was the
executor of the estate of one Edmund Lock-
wood, supposed to be his brother. He removed
to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he was ad
mitted a freeman of that state, May 20, 1652,
was recorded as a settler as early as 1641, and
died in 1658. He is said to have lived for a
time in No-rwalk, Connecticut, and was ap
pointed sergeant at Fairfield in May, 1657.

His wife, Susannah, married (second) Jeffrey
Ferris, and died at Greenwich, December 23,
1660. Children: 1. Jonathan, born September
10, 1634. 2. Deborah, October 12, 1636. 3.
Joseph, August 6, 1638. 4. Daniel, March 21,
1640. 5. Ephraim, December 1, 1641. 6.
Gershom, mentioned below. 7. John. 8. Abi
gail, married John Barlow, of Fairfield. 9.
Sarah. 10. Mary, married Jonathan Heusted.
(II) Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood, son of
Sergeant Robert Lockwood, was born Septem
ber 6, 1643, at Watertown, died March 12,
1719, in Greenwich, Connecticut. He removed
to Greenwich with his father at the age of nine,
became one of the twenty-seven proprietors of
Greenwich, and held many positions of trust
in the town. He was a carpenter by trade.
The plain blue slate stone which marks his
grave is well preserved. He married Lady
Ann Millington, from, England, daughter of
Lord Millington. She came to New England
in search of her lover, a British army officer.
Failing to find him she taught school, and
afterwards married Gershom Lockwood. In
1660 her parents sent her a large oak chest,
ingeniously carved and strongly built. Tradi
tion says it contained a half bushel of guineas,
many fine silk dresses, etc. The chest was at
last accounts owned by Samuel Ferris, of
Greenwich, who married Ann Lockwood, Ann
(Millington) Lockwood's granddaughter. He
married (second) Elizabeth Townsend, daugh
ter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery)
Townsend, and widow of Gideon Wright.
Children, all by first wife : Gershom ; William,
died young; Joseph; Elizabeth, married John
Bates; Hannah, born 1667, married (first)
John Burwell, (second) Thomas Han ford;
Sarah (twin), born 1669, received by will
from her father "a certain negro girl being
now in my possession;" Abraham (twin),
mentioned below.
(Ill) Abraham, son of Lieutenant Gershom
and Ann (Millington) Lockwood, was born
in 1669, died in June, 1747. He removed to
Old Warwick, Rhode Island, and lived there
the remainder of his life. He married Sarah
Wescott, born 1673, daughter of Amos and
Deborah (Stafford) Wescott. Children: Deb
orah, married, November 29, 1725, Nathaniel
Cole ; Amos, mentioned below ; Adam, mar
ried, December 24, 1734, Sarah Straight;
Sarah, married, June 16, 1728, Abel Potter;
Abraham, married Mary  .
(IV) Captain Amos, son of Abraham and
Sarah (Wescott) Lockwood, was born about
1695, in Warwick, Rhode Island, died' March
11, 1772. He was admitted a freeman, April
30, 1723, and went as deputy to the general
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23, 1725, Sarah Utter, born August 1, 1707,
died January 4, 1780, daughter of William and
Anne (Stone) Utter, of Warwick. Children:
Amos, born April 25, 1727, married Mary
Knight; Sarah, January 26, 1728-29, married
Siom Arnold; Ann, December 28, 1730, mar
ried Joseph Arnold; Benoni, mentioned be
low; Alice, October 10, 1735, married John
Healy; Marcy, November 26, 1737, married
Stephen Greene; Waite, September 2, 1742,
married. William Greene ; Phebe, June 20,
1744; Barbara, April24, 1747; Abraham, De
cember 26, 1748, married Patience Greene;
Millicent, April 25, 1750.
(V) Captain Benoni, son of Captain Amos
and Sarah (Utter) Lockwood, was born in
Warwick, November 26, 1733, died February
19, 1781. He lived in Cranston, Rhode Island,
and married, April 5, 1772, Phebe Waterman,
born April 11, 1748, died October 19, 1808,
daughter of Resolved and Sarah (Carr)
Waterman. She married (second) Moses
Brown. Children: Sarah, bom April 24, 1773,
married Bates Harris ; Avis, December 7,
1774; Benoni, mentioned below; Phebe, De
cember 9, 1778.
(VI) Captain Benoni (2), son of Captain
Benoni (1) and Phebe (Waterman) Lock-
wood, was born April 2, 1777, in Cranston,
Rhode Island, died April 26, 1852. In his
early years he was a sea captain, and later a
civil engineer. He married, April 29, 1798,
Phebe Greene, born January 20, 1781, died
April 30, 1837, daughter of Rhodes and Phebe
(Vaughan) Greene. Children: Rhodes Greene,
died young; Phebe Greene; Sarah; Mary;
Benoni, born April 26, 1805, married Amelia
Cooley; Rhodes Greene, married Sally M.
Davidson; Avis Waterman, married Rhodes
B. Chapman ; Amos De Forest, mentioned be
low; Anna Tucker, October 13, 1813, married
James Dennis; Moses Brown, married Alice
Brown; Dorcas Brown, February 10, 1821,
died July 13, 1872, married, November 2, 1841,
Shadrach Standish Bradford.
(VII) Amos -De Forest, fourth son of Cap
tain Benoni (2) and Phebe (Greene) Lock-
wood, was, born October 30, 1811, in Cranston,
and died January 16, 1884, in Providence. At
the age of sixteen years he started out to make
his own way in the world, taking employment
with the firm of Peck & Wilkinson, merchants
and manufacturers in the town of Rehoboth,
ten miles from his home, and his occasional
visits to his home were made on foot. For
two years he served as clerk in the store, and
for two years was a mill hand, acquiring a
knowledge of the manufacture of cotton
fabrics. Thence he became an operative in
the employ of Almy, Brown & Slater, at

Slatersville, Rhode Island, and such was his
industry, energy and ability that he became
assistant superintendent of the mill before he
had attained his majority, and three years- later
was made resident agent. After eight years
of faithful service in this capacity he became
one of a company formed to rent and operate
the property, which was successfully carried
forward for a period of ten years. Mr. Lock-
wood remained a resident of Slatersville
twenty-one years, and his influence upon the
community was most salutary. He had early
formed religious connections under the care
of Rev. Thomas Vernon, at Rehoboth, and his
life and conduct were calculated to inspire
noble motives in others. When the lease of
the Slatersville property expired, Mr. Lock-
wood became interested in the Quinebaug mills
at Danielson, Connecticut, and was one of the
original proprietors of the Wauregan mills in
Plainfield, same state, which were begun under
his supervision and managed by him several
years. After residing in Danielson five years
he went to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1855,
and rearranged- the Pacific mills of that state.
Three years later, in 1858, as mechanical engi
neer, he took charge of extensive operations
for Boston capitalists at Lewiston, Maine, and
in other places in that state and northeastern
Massachusetts. Under his supervision the
Androscoggin mills at Lewiston were built,
equipped, and put in operation, and for several
years he was resident agent. He resided twelve
years in Lewiston, where the operations under
his charge were very profitable and he acquired
a great variety of business interests. He was
elected treasurer of Bowdoin College, and
about the same time became a corporate mem
ber of the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, both of which positions
he filled during his life. In the spring of 1874
a corporation was formed to engage in manu
facturing at Waterville, Maine, and Mr. Lock-
wood was chosen treasurer of the company,
which took his name, and the Lockwood mills,
erected, according to his plan, were operated
with great success and profit. In 1873 he re
turned to Rhode Island, and continued there
after to reside in Providence. At the time of
his decease he was president of the Saco water
power machine shop at Biddeford, Maine. The
minutes of the directors relating to his death
speak of him as "one who had been associated
with them from the beginning of the enter
prise, and one who was interested and, active
in its success, and whose loss cannot be meas
ured," "and to the managers a personal loss
which cannot be filled." The institutions, cor
porations- and associations of various kinds
with which he was identified numbered nearly

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one hundred. His memorialist says : "It seems
amazing that one man has done so much and
done it so well, and, yet, as one has said, 'was
never in a hurry'." Mr. Lockwood was one
of the early presidents of the Congregational
Club of Rhode Island, which passed appro
priate resolutions' following his death, of which
the following is the closing paragraph: "Re
solved, That in the death of Amos D. Lock-
wood we have suffered no common loss. He
was identified with the industries of our state,
with its soundest business enterprises, with its
charitable institutions, and with its religious
life. In all these departments his influence
was felt in a marked degree, and always on the
side of right. By his death we have lost a
leader of industry, who was an ornament to
our community, a counselor whose advice was
always wise, a man whose uprightness and' in
tegrity stood firm as the everlasting hills, a
friend whose kindliness endeared him to- all
who knew him, a Christian whose daily life
exemplified the faith which he professed." Mr.
Lockwood lived in the times of the greatest
development in the American industries, and
he contributed no small share not only to the
material development of the region in which
he lived, but also to its moral and social up
lifting. He assisted in planting the cotton in
dustry in the south, where it has grown to
large volume. The directors of the Pacelet
Manufacturing Company at Spartanburg,
South Carolina, passed, proper resolutions upon
his death, which follow : "Resolved, That we
have heard, with much regret, of the death of
Amos D. Lockwood, for whom we had the
highest respect and regard. Resolved, That in
him was found a true friend not only of our
company but also of the entire south. While
his death will be a great loss to the many enter
prises with which he was connected, the entire
manufacturing interest of the south is no less
a sufferer. By his works he showed great faith
in the future of this country. Full of energy
and experience he commanded our respect and
confidence. Frank and1 candid, useful in every
way, full of honors, a Christian gentleman, we
saw in him a man as he should be. His life
was worth living." A man of strong convic
tions he was of most kindly nature, and to
him the home circle was very dear. He was
a child when among children; was very fond
of music and gifted with a sweet voice, which
retained its strength and purity to the last.
He was never too busy or weary to listen to
singing, or join in it. Particularly marked in
his observance of the Sabbath "he could ill
bear the presence in his family of any one who
intruded themes of business on sacred time.
He never would permit repairs on mills under

his control on that day. Having been asked
his opinion in regard to Sabbath work in manu
facturing establishments Mr. Lockwood closed
his letter in reply with the following words :
'My habit from the commencement of my busi
ness life has been to work only six days in a
week, and- to have those under me do the
same ; and never have I departed from this
custom except when property has been in dan
ger from fire or flood.' Kind, charitable, as he
was in respect to the opinions and practices of
others, his convictions were an abiding law to
himself. This appears, also, in his staunch ad
herence to the cause of temperance." Careful
of his own reputation as a business man he
would not speak ill of others. He married,
May 27, 1835, Sarah Fuller Deming, of Bos
ton, born August 24, 1812, daughter of Charles
and Mehitable (Fuller) Deming, of Needham,
died May 23, 1889. Children: Sarah Deming,
mentioned below ; De Forest, born 1838, died
young; Amelia De F., November 29, 1840,
died in 1910, unmarried ; Mary, August 8,
1847, died young.
(VIII) Sarah Deming, eldest child of Amos
De Forest and Sarah F. (Deming) Lockwood,
was born May 30, 1836, in Slatersville, and
became the wife of John W. Danielson (see
Danielson VI). (The Fuller Line).
This is one of the class known as occupa-
tive surnames, dates from the twelfth century,
or later, and has the same signification as
Tucker or Walker, "one who thickens and
whitens cloth." Various persons named. Fuller
have won distinction in both England and
America. Nicholas Fuller, born 1557, was a
distinguished Oriental scholar; another Nich
olas Fuller, died 1620, was a prominent lawyer
and member of parliament ; Isaac Fuller, died
1672, was a noted painter; Andrew Fuller,
born 1754, was an eminent Baptist minister
and writer; Thomas Fuller, English divine
and author, born 1608, was chaplain extra
ordinary to Charles II., and a prolific writer.
A high authority said of him : "Fuller was in
comparably the most sensible, the least preju
diced great man of an age that boasted of a
galaxy of great men." Sarah Margaret Fuller,
marchioness of Ossobi, born 1810, was a prom
inent teacher, editor and author. Melville W.
Fuller, born 1833, distinguished as a jurist,
served as chief justice of the United States.
In England John Fuller, gentleman, in the
thirty-seventh year of Henry VIII. , was re
corder of the city of London, and was the
father of two sons, Richard and John. The
first of these had a son John, of Ackfield, Sus
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ert Dackenhall, of Kent, and- was the father of
Richard, of Ackfield. The second son of John
Fuller, of London, was the father of John, a
tanner in Melrose. Robert Fuller, of Pleath-
field, Sussex, died in 1611, and had descend
ants including Thomas, of Catesfield. There
were two Thomas Fullers among the pioneer
settlers of New England. One of these settled
at Woburn, and was a very prominent citizen
of that locality.
(I) Thomas Fuller, of Dedham, Massachu
setts, represented that town in the general
court in 1673. 1679 and 1686, and died Sep
tember 28, 1690. He married Hannah Flower,
who was, like himself, of English birth. Chil
dren: John, born November 1, 1644, died
young ; John, mentioned below ; Elizabeth,
April 1, 1648; Hannah, November 9, 1650;
Thomas, 1653, died young; Mary, March 25,
1655; Samuel, April 25, 1657; Sarah, May 7,
1659; Thomas, June 23, 1662.
(II) John, second son of Thomas and- Han
nah (Flower) Fuller, was born December 28,
1645, and died October 19, 1718. He owned
hnds in what is now Needham, at Purch Plain
and Purch Meadow. Three of his sons, John
Thomas and Hezekiah, lived in that town. He
married, January 18, 1672, Judith Gay, born
April 23, 1649, in Dedham, daughter of John
and Joanna Gay, who came to America about
1630, settling first at Watertown, and were
among the founders of Dedham. Children :
Judith, born November 21, 1673; Hannah, July
7' J675 ; John, November 19, 1677 ; Thomas,
November 19, 1681 ; Robert, mentioned below ;
Plezekiah, August 5, 1687.
(Ill) Robert, third son of John and Joanna
(Gay) Fuller, was born August 11, 1685, in
Dedham, and died March 3, 1769, in Need
ham, where he inherited lands from his father.
He lived on what is now Forest street, and in
1735 built a new house on that street, which
was occupied by his grandson, Moses, and, was
among the oldest houses of the town. His
first wife Mary died March 7, 1719. He mar
ried (second) July 6, 1721, Sarah Mills. Two
children of the first marriage are recorded,
Robert and Mary.
(IV) Lieutenant Robert (2) Fuller, son of
Captain Robert (1) and Mary Fuller, was born
June 6, 17 14, in Needham, and lived in that
town, where he died May 12, 1788. He mar
ried Sarah Eaton, born August 24, 1713, in
Dedham, daughter of William and Mary
(Starr) Eaton, died July 10, 1797. Children:
Robert, born May 31, 1740; William, March
10, 1743 ; Mary, twin of William, died two
months old; Moses, 1748, died young; Moses,
mentioned below; Mary, March 5, 1756.
(V) Moses, fourth son of Robert (2) and

Sarah (Eaton) Fuller, was born April 29,
1750, and lived in Needham in the house built
by his grandfather, Robert (1) Fuller, in 1735,
where he died February 13, 1823, in his
seventy-third year. He married, April 14,
1744, Elizabeth Newell, born February 22,
1754, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
Newell, died November 29, 1834, in Weston,
Massachusetts, aged eighty years. Children:
Elizabeth, born 1775, died three years old;
Mehitable, mentioned below; Elizabeth, July
13, 1779; Moses, March 21, 1785; Mary
March 25, 1788; Hervey, October 16, 1790^
Stephen Palmer, February 10, 1794; Louisa,
June25, 1798.
(VI) Mehitable, second daughter of Moses
and Elizabeth (Newell) Fuller, was bora June
5, 1777, in Needham, became the wife of
Charles Deming, and died September 5, 1867
( see Deming V). (The Deming Line).
Through the greater part of the century but
recently closed there has resided at Providence
a branch of the old Connecticut family of
Demings, here made prominent through the
achievements of the late Hon. Richard H.
Deming, citizen, soldier, member of both
branches of the city government, park and
police commissioner, and to whose conspicuous
services for a decade in connection with the
public park system, to his untiring efforts and
large public spirit the citizens of this and
future generations are and long will be in
debted for superior advantages in the line of
public improvement.
(I) John Deming was one of the chief set
tlers at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1635, re
ceived grants of land in 1636 and 1645, and
was made freeman in the latter year. He was
selectman in 1647-48 and later; representative
to the general court of the colony in 1649 and
often subsequently, as late as 1667. He was
one of the nineteen patentees to whom the
famous charter of Connecticut was granted by
King Charles. He was a person of prominence
and influence, leaving many descendants. His
will made June 26, 1690, was proved Novem
ber 21, 1705, indicating that he died in the lat
ter year, when he must have been of great age.
His homestead is recorded as a house, barn
and five acres of land. His name appears in
Wethersfield records in various forms, one of
which was Dement. That John Deming was
a prominent man in the affairs of the Connecti
cut colony cannot be doubted, and his appar
ent association by kinship and friendship with
those regarded as the founders of New Eng
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education. He married, about 1637, Honor
Treat, baptized March 19, 1616, in Pitminster,
England, daughter of Richard and Alice (Gay-
lord) Treat, who were among the prominent
pioneers of Wethersfield. Children: John,
born September 9, 1638; Jonathan, mentioned
below; Rachel, about 1644; Samuel, about
1646; Mary, about 1648; Daniel, about 1652;
Sarah, about 1654; Ebenezer, about 1659.
(II) Jonathan, second son of John and-
Honor (Treat) Deming, was born in Wethers
field, in 1639, where he resided, and died Janu
ary 8, 1700. The inventory of his estate
amounted to five hundred and fifty pounds
fourteen shillings and three pence. He mar
ried (first) November 21, 1660, Sarah Graves,
probably a daughter of Thomas and Sarah
Graves. She died June 5, 1668, and he mar
ried (second) December 25, 1672, Elizabeth,
daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Gilbert, born
March 28, 1654, died September 4, 1714. Chil
dren of first marriage : Jonathan, born Novem-
ger 27, 1661, married, January 5, 1709, Abigail
Filer, died November 21, 1727; Sarah, August
12, 1663, married — .  Riley; Mary, July
11, 1665, married, November 26, 1685, Joseph
Smith; Comfort, June 5, 1668, married, May
18, 1693, Nathaniel C. Backley; children by
second marriage : Eloisse, born February 16,
1674; Elizabeth, June 12, 1677, married Rich
ard Beckley; Thomas, November 27, 1679,
married, June 2, 1698, Mary Williams, died in
1741 ; Charles, mentioned below; Benjamin,
December 20, 1684; Jacob, December 20,
1689; Mary, October 24, 1692; Ann, October
1, 1695, married, March 12, 171 2, Nathaniel
Wright. (Ill) Charles, third son of Jonathan and
Elizabeth (Gilbert) Deming, was born Janu
ary 10, 1681, in Wethersfield, and lived for
some time in Boston. He purchased fifty-three
and three-quarters acres of land of the heirs
of George Proctor, in Dorchester, in 1718, and
is spoken of in the records as a mariner. His
last years were spent in Needham, where he
died in May, 1740. He married (first) in
Wethersfield, September 5, 1706, Anne, daugh
ter of Thomas and Mary (Hurlbut) Wickham,
born January 22, 1684, died about 1711-12.
Shortly after her death he removed to Boston,
where he married (second), November 5,
1713, Sarah Mears, who died in January, 1765.
There was one child of the first marriage,
Anne, born May 28, 171 1, in Wethersfield,
married, 1731, Josiah Buck, of that town,
where she died March 9, 1772. Children of
the second marriage : Jonathan, born June 25,
1715, died young; Charles, July 25, 1717, was
a sea captain, unmarried; Elizabeth, Decem
ber 11, 1719; Sarah, May 7, 1721 ; Jonathan,

mentioned below; Isaac, August 31, 1724;
William, July 2, 1727, a physician.
(IV) Jonathan, third son of Charles Dem
ing, and fifth child of his second wife, Sarah
Mears, was born January 27, 1723, probably
in Dorchester, and resided in Needham, where
he died May 26, 1791. He married, in 1770,
Esther Edes, daughter of Hon. Peter and
Esther (Hall) Edes, who died August 30,
1792. The Edes family is of ancient English
lineage, descended from Rev. John Edes, who
was forty-one years rector of Lawford. He
was great-grandson of Henry Edes, of Beck
ing county, Essex, England, whose estate was
administered by his son Henry. Rev. John
Edes graduated at St. Johns, Cambridge, Bach
elor of Arts, 1610; Master of Arts, 1614, and
died April 12, 1658. His monument stands in
Lawford. His son John was the father of
John Edes, the immigrant. The last-named
came from Lawford, county Essex, where he
was born March 31, 1651. He was a ship car
penter, and married, in 1674, Mary, daughter
of Peter Tufts, born June 15, 1655. He was
a soldier in the Indian wars of 1675. John,
son of John and Mary (Tufts) Edes, was bap
tized June 26, 1680, in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, and died of smallpox, January 16, 1721.
Pie married, April 13, 1698, Grace, daughter of
George and Elizabeth Lawrence, who was ad
mitted to the Cambridge church, July 20, 1718,
and died August 9, 1758. George Lawrence
was born about 1637, and settled in Water-
town, Massachusetts, died March 21, 1709.
He married (first) September 29, 1657, Eliza
beth, eldest child of Benjamin and Bridget
Crispe, natives of England. Benjamin Crispe
was born about 161 1, came to America in 1629,
and was one of the proprietors of Watertown,
Massachusetts. Elizabeth Crispe died May 28,
1681, and he married (second) August 16,
1691, Elizabeth Holland. The youngest child
of the second marriage was Grace, born June
3, 1680, married John Edes, of Charlestown.
The fourth son of John and Grace (Lawrence)
Edes was Peter, born September 15, 1705,
probably in Charlestown, and lived there and
in Harvard, where he followed the occupation
of hatter. He married, December 18, 1829,
Esther, daughter of Stephen and Grace (Wil
lis) Hall. Stephen Hall, son of the Widow
Mary Hall, who came to this country with her
two sons, lived at Concord, Stowe and Med
ford, Massachusetts, and "Queensbucke," Con
necticut. He married, December 3, 1663, Ruth,
daughter of Dolor Davis, who was in Cam
bridge in 1634, and a petitioner for the town
of Groton in 1656. He had previously resided
at Barnstable, and in 1659 had a grant of land
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He married Marjory, sister of Major Simon
Willard, and their eldest child was Ruth, wife
of Stephen Hall. Their second son, Stephen
Hall, born 1667, died November 7, 1749; mar
ried (first) about 1692, Grace, daughter of
Thomas and Grace (Fay) Willis. She was ad
mitted to the church at Watertown, February
8, 1713, and died of smallpox, November 19,
1721. Their second daughter, Esther, born
December 27, 1700, became the wife of Peter
Edes, in 1729. She died June 14, 1756, and
he married (second) November 26, 1761, Anna
Haskell. He was a man much esteemed,
prominent in ante-revolutionary times, and, was
a member of the committee of correspondence
at Harvard in 1773. He died there, January
25, 1787, in his eighty-third year. His second
daughter and sixth child of the first marriage
was Esther, born June 18, 1739, became the
wife of Jonathan Deming in 1700. Children:
Esther, born June 23, 1772, died April 23,
1791 ; Charles, mentioned below ; Anna, Feb
ruary 17, 1777, died May 15, 1778.
(V) Charles, only son of Jonathan and
Esther (Edes) Deming, was born March 6,
1744, in Needham, where he spent his life and
died December 27, 1817. He married, July
24, 1793, Mehitable, daughter of Moses and
Elizabeth (Newell) Fuller, of Needham (see
Fuller V). Children: Jonathan Edes, born
November 11, 1793; Esther, June 29, 1795;
Charles, August 21, 1796; Anne, February 17,
1798; Charles, June 13, 1799; Mary, December
18, 1800; Elizabeth Fuller, May 23, 1802 ; Wil
liam, February 21, 1804; Isaac, September 2,
1805; Adeline, April 14, 1808; Adeline Town-
send, July 5, 1810; Sarah Fuller, mentioned
below; Francis, April 20, 1814.
(VI) Sarah Fuller, youngest daughter of
Charles and Mehitable (Fuller) Deming, was
born August 24, 1812, and became the wife of
Amos De Forest Lockwood (see Lockwood
VII).

William Hartwell, the im-
HARTWELL migrant ancestor, came to
Concord, Massachusetts, in
1636, when he was twenty-three years of age.
He was born in England in 1613, and was
made freeman at Concord in 1642. In 1653
he was one of the petitioners for the grant of
the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He
was active in the militia, and in 1671 was cor
poral of the company, and quartermaster in
1673. He died March 12, 1690, aged seventy-
seven years. His will mentions his four chil
dren: Sarah, John, Samuel, Martha. His
wife Jazan died August 5, 1695; she was born
in England in 1608. Children: Sarah; John,
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December 23, 1640; Samuel, born March 26,
1645 J Martha, April 25, 1649.
( II) Samuel Hartwell, son of William Hart-
well, was born at Concord, March 26, 1645,
died July 26, 1725. He married, October 26,
1665, Ruth Wheeler, daughter of George and
Catherine Wheeler, of Concord ; she was born
February, 1641-42, died December 9, 1713.
He married (second) Rebecca  , who
died January 23, 1721-22. He married (third)'
February 6, 1724, Elizabeth Fletcher, of
Chelmsford, who was born June 10, 1698, died
October 4, 1732. He was a soldier in King
Philip's war, and was probably a participant
in the celebrated "Hungry March" during that
famous war. He settled in Concord, where
his children were born. Children of Samuel
and Ruth Hartwell : Samuel, mentioned be
low ; Mary, born February 16, 1668 ; Ruth, Oc
tober 17, 1669; William, August 16, 1671 ;
John, June 18, 1673 ; Hannah, October 7, 1675;
Jane, November 30, 1684, died young; Jona
than, 1686.
(Ill) Samuel (2) Hartwell, son of Samuel
( 1 ) Hartwell, was born in Concord, October
6, 1666, died November 27, 1744.. He mar
ried, November 29, 1692, Abigail Stearns, of
Cambridge,, Massachusetts, who died May 11,
1709. He married (second) Rebecca  ,
who died April 19, 1714. He married (third)
Margaret (Tompkins)  , ' widow of
 , and daughter of  Tompkins;
she died April 5, 1723. He married (fourth)
Experience Tarbox, who survived him. In
1694 he bought of Richard Rice part of the
present Hartwell farm in Lincoln, and was
living in that section of Concord in 1696. He
is buried in the old burying ground known as
the Hill graveyard in Concord village. Chil
dren : Samuel, born November 12, 1693; Abi
gail, November 27, 1695; Joseph, August 11,
1698; Mary, January 13, 1700-01; Isaac, No
vember 22, 1703; Ephraim, mentioned below;
Lydia, May 2, 1709.
(IV) Ephraim Hartwell, son of Samuel (2)
Hartwell, was born in Concord, Massachu
setts, January 14, 1706-07, died May 7, 1793.
He remained on the homestead, to which he
succeeded. He was residuary legatee of his
father's estate. In his own will in 1786 he
bequeathed a slave, Violet, to his wife. In
1735 he received a share in the Narragansett
lands on account of the service of his grand
father in King Philip's war. He was a tavern-
keeper. He married, in 1732, Elizabeth Hey-
wood, of Concord, who was born June 3, 1714,
died January 20, 1808. Children, born in what
is now Lincoln: Ephraim, October 29, 1733;
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John, September i, 1736; Elizabeth, December
8, l72>7 ', Isaac, September 5, 1739; Elizabeth,
April 20, 1741, married Jonas Stratton, and
their daughter Lydia married Captain Abner
Chickering, father of Jonas, who manufac
tured the Chickering piano ; Samuel, men
tioned below ; Abigail, June 5, 1744 ; Ephraim,
January 8, 1746; John, August 21, 1747, lieu
tenant in the revolution ; Sarah, August 10,
1750; Jonas, June 26, 1754, graduate of Har
vard College.
(V) Samuel (3) Hartwell, son of Ephraim
Hartwell, was born at Lincoln, June 25, 1742,
died August 12, 1829. He was a clockmaker
by trade. He built a new house on the home
stead. He was a quartermaster in the revolu
tion, and was at the battle of White Plains.
Pie married Mary Flint, born April 2, 1748,
died in 1846. Children : Samuel Estabrook,
mentioned below; Polly, born November 14,
1777, married Andrew Adams; Ephraim, No
vember 16, 1779, died at Strong, Maine; Jonas,
August 3, 1782; Abel, October 11, 1784; Sam
uel, March 28, 1789.
(VI) Samuel Estabrook Hartwell, son of
Samuel (3) Hartwell, was born in 1776, at
Lincoln, died April 3, 1844. He removed to
Winchester, New Hampshire, and later to
Alstead, finally to Langdon, New Hampshire.
He was a merchant, farmer and cattle dealer.
He married, in 1803, Abigail Wilson, born in
1785, died September 12, 1850. Children:
Elijah H., born 1804; Derrick B., 1806; Sam
uel Estabrook, mentioned below; John B., Oc
tober 17, 1816, at Drewsville, married, March
21, 1842, Harriet Hall, removed to Providence,
and was senior partner of Hartwell, Richards
&- Company, dry goods dealers, one of the old
est and largest wholesale houses of Provi
dence; Mary A., October 21, 1818; Caroline
A., January 11, 1824, married Jacob Symonds ;
Clarinda, died in 1862.
(VII) Samuel Estabrook (2) Hartwell, son
of Samuel Estabrook (1) Hartwell, was born
in 1808, died August 15, i860. He followed
farming at Swanzey, Walpole and Langdon,
New Hampshire. He married Lucy M. King,
of Hartford, Vermont, born April 1, 1815,
died March 31, 1859. Children: 1. Ellen M.,
born July 6, 1836; married, in January, 1869,
Charles M. Lovell, and had Anna and Frank.
2. Charles E., born February 3, 1839; married,
November 8, i860, Lucy A. Rice, and had
Harry, born June 6, 1869, served in Company
B, Fourteenth New Hampshire Regiment, in
the civil war. 3. Sarah F., born February 2,
1842, died January 21, 1885; teacher at St.
Luke's Hospital, New York, at Providence,
Brooklyn, and near Philadelphia. 4. Harriet
L., born December 1, 1848; married, Decem

ber 14, 1872, Joseph -B. Bishop, editor of the
New York Evening Post, secretary of the
Panama commission; children: Alice, born
January 19, 1876; Hartwell, June, 1880; Far-
num, January 17, 1886. 5. Frederick W., men
tioned below.
(VIII) Frederick W. Hartwell, son of Sam
uel Estabrook (2) Hartwell, was born January
8, 1850, at Langdon, New Hampshire. His
parents dying during his youth, in 1861 he
came to Providence to live with his uncle, John
Bryant Hartwell. He attended the public and
high schools in Providence, and the Kimball
Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire,
for a year. In 1868 he entered the .office of
Day & Chapin as bookkeeper, and afterward
was transferred to the Elm Street woolen
mill, operated by his employers, remaining
there for about five years as bookkeeper and
paymaster. Shortly before his marriage, in
1873, he resigned to become bookkeeper for
the Providence Steam and Gas Pipe Company,
of which his father-in-law was then treasurer.
In 1884 Mr. Hartwell- became secretary of the
company and retained that office to the end of
his life. In 1893 this company was consoli
dated with western firms under the name of
the General Fire Extinguisher Company, of
which Mr. Hartwell became secretary, and
manager of the Providence plant. In 1906 he
was elected a director of the corporation. Mr.
Hartwell was associated with, various other
commercial and mercantile enterprises. He
was a commissioner of the Dexter Donation
for several years. He died at his home, yy
Parade street, Providence, October 9, 191 1,
after a brief illness. Interment was at the
North End burying ground. Mr. Hartwell
was a layman of convictions. His service as
member of the Central Baptist Church in
Providence from 1866, and as superintendent
of its Sunday school from 1902, was marked
by such devotion and tangible support as to
command the utmost admiration, especially let
us say when found in a busy man of the world.
Frederick W. Hartwell never lost the spring
of perpetual youth, nor forgot that he him
self had once been a struggling young man.
His ear was turned' towards the young man,
and his constant encouragement was often a
source of hope. For many years a member of
the Providence Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, he became its president and served
from 1898 to 1900, and remained a member of
its board of managers. Mr. Hartwell was a
modern business man, that is to say, he re
jected the ancient notion that a bargain must
involve the robbery of one party. In business
he was his brother's keeper. If this policy at
times cost him money the fact remains a

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memorial to his faith in his fellow men. Faith
in man and God and an optimistic mien in the
process of their service — these perhaps sum up
his loved and useful character.
He married, October 15, 1873, Mary Lor-
ing Hartshorn, who was born in Providence,
August 14, 1 85 1, daughter of Rev. Joseph
Charles and Rachel (Thurber) Hartshorn (see
Hartshorn and Thurber). Children: 1. Joseph
C, born at Warwick, Rhode Island, August
20, 1874; educated in the public schools of
Providence, the Worcester Academy, graduate
of Brown University (Bachelor of Arts,
1899) ; now employed in the engineering de
partment of the General Fire Extinguisher
Company; member of the University Club; re
sides with his mother in Providence. 2. John
S., born December 22, 1875, died in 1882. 3.
Lucy King, born February 16, 1878; attended
the public and high schools of Providence,
Abbott Academy at Andover, Massachusetts ;
married William B. Peck, of Providence, and
has three children : Margaret Hartwell Peck,
born July 19, 1904; Ruth Hartshorn Peck, De
cember 13, 1906; Virginia Hunter Peck, June
12, 1913. 4. Mary Hartshorn, bora Novem
ber 21, 1882; attended the public schools of
Providence, Dana Hall, Wellesley and Brown
University; married Leonard Wolsey Cronk
hite, of Boston, and has one child, Elizabeth
Cronkhite. 5. Helen Thurber, born October
28, 1885 ; attended the public and high schools
of Providence, graduate of Wellesley College
in 1908; married Rev. W. Douglas Swaffield,
now of Danielson, Connecticut, and has one
child, Esther Harding Swaffield.
(The Hartshorn Line).
(I) Thomas Hartshorn, the immigrant an
cestor, settled early at Reading, Massachu
setts. He was born in England in 1614. The
family there derived its name from an ancient
parish in Litchfield diocese, county Derby. As
early as the thirteenth century we find Henry
de Hertishorn in Derby. The ancient coat-of-
arms is described : Three bucks' heads. Crest :
A buck's head. Thomas Hartshorn was ad
mitted a freeman at Reading, May 10, 1648;
was selectman and held other offices. He died
about May, 1683. His wife Susannah died
March 18, 1659-60. He married (second)
Hannah  , who was received from the
Ipswich church to Reading, July 20, 1673. He
married (third) Sarah, widow of William
Lamson. Children: Thomas, born October
30, 1646, died young; Thomas, born Septem
ber 30, 1648; John, May 6, 1650; Joseph, men
tioned below; Benjamin, 1654; Jonathan, Au
gust 20, 1656; David, 1657; Susanna, March

2, 1659; Timothy, February 3, 1661 ; Mary,
August 19, 1672.
(II) Joseph Hartshorn, son of Thomas
Hartshorn, was born at Reading, July 2, 1652,
died July 30, 1727, at Walpole. He resided at
Reading and Dedham, and was a soldier in
King Philip's war. He married Sarah  .
Children: Susanna, born 1677; Sarah, 1679;
Mary, 1681 ; Abigail, 1686; Joseph, mentioned
below; Tabitha, 1690; Rebecca, December 7,
1693 ; Thomas, May 8, 1695 ; Ebenezer, July
10, 1697; Martha, July 2, 1700.
(Ill) Joseph (2) Hartshorn, son of Joseph
(1) Hartshorn, was born at Reading, in 1688,
died at Walpole, December 22, 1758. He mar
ried Rachel —  , of Sherborn, March 17,
1709, and she died November 14, 1769. They
lived at Walpole and Sherborn. Children :
Joseph, born March 12, 17 10; daughter, Sep
tember 25, 1712; John, mentioned below;
Sarah, May 28, 1726. And others.
(IV) John Hartshorn, son of Joseph (2)
Hartshorn, was born about 1725, died at Wal
pole, September 16, 1778. He married (first)
September 19, 1751, Mary Fisher, who died
August 1, 1772. He married (second) Febru
ary 26, 1778, Mrs. Mary Morse. Children,
born at Walpole : Fisher, mentioned below ;
Mary, November 12, 1754; John, March 30,
1757 ; Lucy, November 17, 1759 ; Hannah, Jan
uary 14, 1762; Ebenezer, September 7, 1764;
Lewis, March 31, 1767; Asa, January 4, 1770;
Jabez, February 27, 1779.
(V) Fisher Hartshorn, son of John Harts
horn, was born at Walpole, August 27, 1752. He
married (intentions dated January 15, 1779)
Zerviah Boyden. Children, born at Walpole :
Hannah, May 16, 1780; Joseph, mentioned be
low; Preston, August 27, 1784; Rebecca, June
7, 1789; Irene, September 13, 1791 ; Sabin,
September 23, 1793; Curtis, April 25, 1797.
(VI) Joseph (3) Hartshorn, son of Fisher
Hartshorn, was born in Walpole, October 28,
1782, died November 23, 1814. He married
Mary Orcutt, who married (second) Thomas
B. Loring, of Boston, a sailmaker. Children:
Joseph Charles, mentioned below; son, died
September 28, 181 5.
(VII) Rev. Joseph Charles Hartshorn, son
of Joseph (3) Hartshorn, was born in Boston,
October 27, 1812. He learned the trade of sail-
maker in the shop of his stepfather in Boston.
In 1834 he entered Worcester Academy and
he was afterward a student at the South Read
ing Academy. He entered Brown University in
1837 and was graduated in 1841. He then
began to study theology at the Newton Theo
logical Seminary, from which he was gradu
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year as pastor of the Baptist church at George
town, Massachusetts. In 1848 he resigned,
owing to ill health, and in January, 1849, ne
removed to Wakefield and resumed the trade
of sailmaking. In September, 1850, he re
moved to Providence, Rhode Island, and be
came treasurer of the Providence Steam and
Gas Pipe Company, continuing until May,
1884, a period of thirty-three years. He never
resumed his profession, but continued from
time to time to preach. He was an active
member and deacon of the Central Baptist
Church. In March, 1857, he organized a Bible
class for young men and taught it for eleven
years. He was active in the Young Men's
Christian Association and president in 1857-
58. He was elected to the school board in
1855 and reelected several times; in 1856 he
was elected to the common council. For a
time he was inspector of the state prison. He
was chosen a trustee of Brown University in
1872 and served on important committees. He
gave liberally of his means to the college and
was founder of the Joseph C. Hartshorn
scholarship of $1,000 and of the Joseph C.
Hartshorn scholarship II. of $2,000, the Harts
horn premiums in mathematics (three in num
ber by giving a fund of $1,000). He gave to
various charities and was especially liberal in
gifts to the Home for Consumptives in Boston.
In memory of his wife he founded the Harts
horn Memorial College in Richmond Virginia,
for the education of negro women. During
his life he gave $26,000 to this institution and
bequeathed $15,000 additional. To the Baptist
Theological Institution he bequeathed $15,000,
which was expended in a new library building.
He married1 (first)' August 25, 1844, Rachel
Thurber, who died in Providence, October 21,
1882 (see Thurber VI). He married (sec
ond) August 30, 1883, Mary T. Rowe, of New
Gloucester, Maine. Children by first wife :
Mrs. Frederick W. Hartwell (see Hartwell)
and Mrs. James Shaw Jr. An adopted daugh
ter married Rev. R. S. Colwell of Dennison
University, and died in August, 1882. Rev.
Mr. Hartshorn died July 11, 1889, in Newton
Center, Massachusetts. (The Thurber Line).
(VI) Dexter Thurber, son of Samuel Thur
ber (q. v.), was born April 24, 1781, died May
23, 1 87 1, aged ninety years and one month.
The following is taken from an article in the
Providence Journal under date May 24, 1871 :
Mr. Thurber descended from John and Priscilla
Thurber, of Stanton, Lincolnshire, England, who
came to this country in 1671, and settled in New
Meadow (Rehoboth, Massachusetts), now a part of

Barrington, Rhode Island. He was born in Provi
dence, April 24, 1 781, in the cottage still standing
near the northeast corner of Thurber's lane. * * *
He was early engaged with his father in the manu
facture of paper in a mill standing on the site now
occupied by Allen's Print Works. This mill was
erected in 1780 by his grandfather, Samuel Thurber,
in company with his father and uncles, Martin and
Edward. Paper of various kinds was manufactured
here until 1812. The first bank paper issued by the
Exchange and Roger Williams banks was made at
this mill. The mill was subsequently converted into
a cotton manufactory, in which Mr. Thurber, with
others, was concerned under the name of the United
Manufacturing Company. This establishment be
came noted for the production of cotton checks and
stripes, the superior quality of which gave it an ex
tensive reputation. Later in life Mr. Thurber owned
and operated a cotton manufactory at Manchaug,
Mass., where he resided a part of the time for a
number of years. This mill he sold, and about
twenty-three or twenty-four years ago retired from
active business. * * *
At the organization of the city government, in
1832, Mr. Thurber was chosen alderman from the
first ward, and shared the duties and responsibilities
of that board with Henry R. Greene, William T.
Grinnell, John H. Ormsbee, and Rev. Asa Messer,
ex-president of Brown University. Of this official
body not one survives. Mr. Thurber took an early
interest in the Providence Institution for Savings,
and was one of the petitioners for its charter. He
was vice-president of the Mechanics' Association,
and was for many years a valuable member of its
select and other committees; and when in 1837 a
general convention of mechanics and manufacturers
of the country was held in New York to consider
the existing business distress and embarrassments
and to devise means of relief a delegation, consisting
of Mr. Thurber, Stanford Newell, George Baker,
Richard Anthony, Josiah Whitaker and James M.
Warner, was appointed to represent the association
in the deliberations of that body. Of the Roger Wil
liams Bank, incorporated in 1803, Mr. Thurber was
a director until his decease. Mr. Thurber possessed
an observing mind, and watched with interest the
changes that each year developed in the social and
business life of the town and city. His tenacious
memory was stored with reminiscences of men and
events, and there were few occurrences in the north
part of the city that had transpired within the last
eighty years with which he was not familiar, and
concerning which he could not furnish reliable in
formation. * * *
Mr. Thurber sympathized deeply with the philan
thropic movements of our times. His numerous
charities were unostentatious and practical. Many
poor families and individuals will sadly miss a stead
fast friend and a ready helper in their seasons of
need. * * * Mr. Thurber was a member of the
Fourth Baptist Society, as his father had been be
fore him. If we mistake not the clock in the tower
of the church was his gift, and in his will a sum was
set aside for its maintenance and repair. His con
victions of truth were clear and settled. He laid'
little stress on human formulas and rituals, but
rested upon the fundamental principles of revelation.
To deal justly, love mercy and walk humbly with
God, and to do unto others as we would that they
should do unto us, seemed to him the comprehen
sive expression of divine teachings and the sum of
Christian duty. A life of more than four-score years
and ten, marked by scrupulous integrity and a spirit
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trated the strength and influence of these ideas, and
furnished the best commentary upon them that can
be made. * * *
Mr. Dexter Thurber financed for his sons-
in-law, Hartshorn and Arnold, the Providence
Steam and Gas Pipe Company; for his son,
Edmund, the Franklin Foundry and Machine
Company; also the Gorham Manufacturing
Company for his nephew, John Gorham. The
Providence Steam and Gas Pipe Company,
under revised name, General Fire Extinguisher
Company, and the Gorham Manufacturing
Company are now leaders of the world in their
respective lines.
Dexter Thurber married (first) May 27,
1803, Hannah Gorham, born February 19,
1784, died May 12, 1833, aged forty-nine years.
She was daughter of Major Jabez and Cath
erine (Tyler) Gorham, and a descendant of
John Gorham, a native of Benefield, England,
son of Ralph Gorham and grandson of James
Gorham. John Gorham married Desire How
land, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, daughter of
John Howland and Elizabeth (Tilley) How
land, of the "Mayflower;" Hannah Gorham's
lineage was through Jabez, Benjamin, Jabez
(2) and Jabez (3) Gorham. Mr. Thurber
married (second) December 2, 1834, Mrs. Jane
H. Hill, widow of John Hill Jr., and daughter
of William C. and Acsah Hutton. She died
December 25, 1861. Children, all by first wife :
Charles, born July 20, 1804; Edmund, August
15, 1806; Hetta, July 24, 1809; Abby, August
15, 1811; Hannah, August 15, 1813; Emma,
August 3, 1816; Rachel, May 27, 1818, mar
ried Rev. Joseph Charles Hartshorn (see
Hartshorn VII) ; Ann, March 27, 1820; Ann,
August 8, 1822 ; Gorham, April 9, 1825.

This is one of the early Eng-
RAWSON lish names, which has been
formed by adding "son" to the
name of the father. The name Ralph is of
very ancient usage, and is a Christian name,
and was very often written in the early Eng
lish spellings of Relf, Rauf and many other
forms. It was usually pronounced very broad,
as if Rawf, and when the suffix "son" was
added it was soon found convenient to omit
the consonant "f," and it became very easily
Rawson. In this form it has been traced back
in England for a considerable period previous
to the emigration of the Puritans. The records
show a Richard Rawson as a canonist and
jurist, who died in 1543. About 1580 General
Blake Jr., of Little Baddow, county of Essex,
England, married Anna, heir of Rawson. Wil
liam Blake, a brother of this John, came to
America in 1630, and settled at Dorchester,
Massachusetts. The principal features in the

Rawson coat-of-arms are a castle stamped
upon a shield, a design used to commemorate
some noted capture made by the one who re
ceived this coat.
(I) Edward Rawson, the English ancestor,
lived at Colnbrook, Langley Marsh, Bucking
hamshire, and was a wealthy merchant there.
His will was dated February 16, 1603-04, and
proved May 4, 1604. He married Bridget
 , probably Bridget Warde.
(II) David Rawson, son of Edward Raw-
son, was a merchant tailor of London. His
will was dated June 15, 1616, and it showed
that he was well-to-do and a generous man to
those not so fortunate as he. He married Mar
garet, daughter of the Rev. Dr. William and
Isabel (Woodhal) Wilson (see Wilson I).
She married (second) William Taylor, of Lon
don, and died before 1628. Mr. and Mrs.
Rawson lived at Gillingham, Dorsetshire, Eng
land, where their son Edward, mentioned be
low, was born. Margaret Wilson was sister
of Rev. John Wilson, minister at Boston,
Massachusetts. (Ill) Secretary Edward (2) Rawson, son
of David and Margaret (Wilson) Rawson,
was born April 16, 1615, at Gillingham, Dor
setshire, England. He came to New England
in 1637, and settled in Newbury, Massachu
setts, where he became one of the grantees and
proprietors. He was the second town clerk
of Newbury; notary public and register, serv
ing from April 19, 1638, to 1647 > was also
selectman of the town and commissioner to
hear and determine small cases ; was deputy
to the general court from Newbury in 1638
and nearly every year until 1650; was clerk
of the house of deputies in 1645-46 and in
1649. He had a special grant of fifteen hun
dred acres of land in the Narragansett coun
try on account of his services to the general
court. He and Joseph Hills revised the laws
of the province. He succeeded Increase
Nowell, who hadi been secretary of the colony
from the beginning in 1636, being elected May
22, 1650, and afterwards resided in Boston,
being reelected annually until Sir Edmund
Andros came into power. His home in Boston
was on Rawson lane, now Broomfield street,
and he owned several acres bordering on the
common. He and his wife were members of
the church under Rev. John Wilson, after
whose death Mr. Rawson became one of the
twenty-eight disaffected persons who left the
First Church to form the Third or Old South
Church in May, 1669. He became the agent
or steward of an English Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians
in New England in 163 1. He countersigned
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rest of the regicides, Goffe, Whalley and Dix-
well, but they were never arrested. The one
blot on his good record was his participation
in the persecution of the Quakers, a pretty
general fault of the early Puritans. His salary
as secretary was at first twenty pounds a year,
later sixty pounds. He was subsequently
elected recorder of Suffolk county. His fam
ily Bible is now or was lately in the possession
of R. R. Dodge, of Sutton, Massachusetts,
having descended in direct line. He was an
efficient public officer, a useful and distin
guished citizen. He died August 27, 1694.
He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas
Perne, granddaughter of John Hooker, who
married  Grindal, sister of Edmund
Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. Children : Daughter,
married and remained in England; Edward,
graduate of Harvard in 1653 ; Rachel, married
William Aubrey; David, born May 6, 1644;
Perne, September 16, 1646; William, May 21,
165 1 ; Susan, died in Roxbury in 1664; Han
nah, baptized October 10, 1653, died May 27,
1656; Rebecca, born October 19, 1654, died
young; Rebecca, May 23, 1656; Elizabeth, No
vember 12, 1657; Rev. Grindal, mentioned be
low. (IV) Rev. Grindal Rawson, youngest son
of Secretary Edward (2) and Rachel (Perne)
Rawson, was born January 23, 1659, in Bos
ton, and was graduated at Harvard in 1678.
After receiving his first degree, Bachelor of
Arts, he was invited by his brother-indaw,
Rev. Samuel Torrey, to come to his house and
study divinity, and proved an apt pupil. He
preached his first sermon at Medfield, and for
two months after that he was heard in various
churches until October 4, 1680, when he ac
cepted the invitation to fill the pulpit at Men
don, Massachusetts. He preached there until
April 7, 1684, when he was permanently set
tled as minister of the town. Rev. Cotton
Mather, classmate 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 conferred
degrees on the class of that year. Following
is a translation: "The third, somewhat high-
sounding, is 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 Apos
tolic man, was his great-grandmother's brother
and the Right Rev. Edmund Grindal, sometime
archbishop of Canterbury, a most saintly man
and in the archbishopric little less than a Puri
tan, his great-great-grandmother's brother and
may God grant that in learning, holiness and

excellence of character he may resemble both
Wilson and Grindal." Mr. Mather himself
said: "We generally esteemed him a truly
pious man and a very prudent one, and a per
son 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 him and the variety of successful pains
which he took for the good of those to whom
God had therefore exceedingly endeared him-.
We honored him for his intellectual abilities
which procured frequent applications to him
and brought him sometimes upon our most
conspicuous 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 among our Indians of whose lan
guage he was a master that has- scarce an equal
and for whose welfare his projections and per
formances were such as render our loss herein
hardly to be repaired. Such services are Pyra
mids." Dr. Metcalf .said' of him : "He was an
excellent scholar and eminent divine." His
reputation as a theologian was of such a char
acter that the general court sometimes pre
ferred grave and serious questions of ecclesi
astical polity to him for decision. In 1698 he
visited the Indian tribes of the province with
the Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Taunton. He
was appointed chaplain to the forces going to
Canada. He wrote the pamphlet entitled "Con
fession of Faith," published in English and
Indian. His artillery election sermon in 1703,
election sermon, May 25, 1709^ were published.
He died February 6, 1715. A stone suitably
inscribed marks his burial place in Mendon.
He married Susanna, daughter of Rev. John
Wilson, of Medfield; sister of Dr. John Wil
son of Braintree; granddaughter of Rev. John
Wilson (see Wilson III). She died July 8,
1748. They were distant relatives. Children:
Edward, born November 21, 1683, died young;
Edward, 1684, died May 26, 1685; Susanna,
October 31, 1686, married, 1719, Benjamin
Reynolds; Edmund, July 8, 1689; Wilson,
mentioned below; John, October 1, 1695, mar-
ried Mercy Hayward; Mary, June 22, 1699,
married, April 9, 1724, Joseph Dorr; Rachel,
September 6, 1701, married Samuel Wood;
David, October 25, 1703, died January 18,
1704; Grindal, September 6, 1707, married
Dorothy Chauncey ; Elizabeth, April 21, 1710.
(V) Wilson Rawson, fourth son of Rev.
Grindal and Susanna (Wilson) Rawson, was
born June 23, 1692, in Mendon, and died De
cember 1, 1726. He was a farmer at Mendon.
He married Margaret Arthur, of Nantucket,
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Children: Wilson, born August 13, 1713, at
Mendon; Priscilla, December 17, 1715; Mary,
May 12, 1717, died June 22, 1717; Grindal,
mentioned below; Edward, April 2, 1721, mar
ried Mary Morse; Stephen, April 2, 1722;
Paul, April 9, 1725, married Phebe Gardner;
John, January 23, 1727.
(VI) Grindal (2) Rawson, second son of
Wilson and Margaret (Arthur) Rawson, was
born July 13, 1719, in Mendon, and was a car
penter and cabinetmaker of unusual intelli
gence and mechanical genius. During the
revolutionary war he was actively employed in
supplying the government with war utensils.
About 1741 he settled at Providence, Rhode
Island, was an active member of Dr. Hitch
cock's (Congregational) Church, and died in
Providence in December, 1803. He married
(first) January 26, 1746, in Mendon, Hannah
Leavens, of Killingly, Connecticut, who died
December 21, 1750. He married (second) in
Providence, January 16, 1752, Elizabeth Boyd,
born 1727-28, died May 31, 1760. He mar
ried (third) November 23, 1760, Zerviah War
ner, born 1730-31, died May 10, 1765. He
married (fourth) in 1771, Mrs. Nancy (At-
well) Freeman, who died within a short time,
being the mother of one child, Hannah, born
August 18, 1773. Children of first marriage :
Joseph and Hannah, died in childhood. Chil
dren of second marriage: Elizabeth, born
1753; Anna, 1754; Mary, 1755 ; Margaret,
1757, married Isaiah Cahoone; Benjamin, died
young; Joseph, mentioned below. Children of
third marriage : Grindal, born 1763.
(VII) Joseph Rawson, only surviving son
of Grindal (2) and Elizabeth (Boyd) Rawson,
was born December 24, 1759, in Providence,
where he died July 19, 1835. He entered the
revolutionary army at the age of sixteen years
and continued until the close of the war, rising
to the rank of lieutenant. For many years
he was a member of the Congregational church
of Providence, as was also his wife. He mar
ried, in 1785, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel
Rhodes. She died May 9, 1843, in Providence.
Children: Samuel, born August 19, 1786;
Joseph, January 27, 1788; William Rhodes,
1790; Abby, died young; Abby Rhodes, born
September 8, 1794; Grindal, died young; EdL
ward D., born 1800; Hannah Reuben ; Grindal,
mentioned below; George Burrill, August 5,
1805. (VIII) Grindal (3) Rawson, sixth son of
Joseph and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Rawson, was
born August 12, 1803, in Providence, and first
resided m Killingly, Connecticut, settling in
Woodstock, same state, in 1831. There he
was for thirty-five years deacon of the First
Congregational Church, and died August 29,

1869, in New Haven, Connecticut. He mar
ried, March 30, 1824, at Norwich, Lucretia
Cornell, of Bozrah, whose mother was a daugh
ter of Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, of Nor
wich, Connecticut. She died November 23,
1861. Children: Edward Dickens, born Jan
uary 24, 1825; Daniel Leffingwell, September
11, 1827; Henry Martyn, mentioned below;
Harriet Newell, February 22, 1837, died De
cember 23, 1 86 1, in Providence.
(IX) Henry Martyn Rawson, third son of
Grindal (3) and Lucretia (Cornell) Rawson,
was- born March 21, 1830, in Killingly, and
was educated in the public schools and acad
emy at Woodstock, afterwards becoming an
instructor in the academy. Removing to
Providence, he became engaged in the insur
ance business, having an official connection
with the Atlantic and Travelers Insurance com
panies of Providence, and the Home Insurance
Company of New Haven. At the close of the
civil war he was entrusted with the reorganiza
tion of the Home Insurance Company in the
southern states, an undertaking which de
manded the highest degrees of ability, tact and
diplomacy. He was successful in overcoming
the strong prejudices which naturally at that
time existed in the south, and returned to New
England. His last business association was
with W. H. Fenner & Company, with whom he
•continued until failing health compelled him to
retire from business in 1884. After eleven
years of retirement, in which he devoted much
time to literature, contributing to social and
scientific journals, he passed away at his home
on Fountain street, Providence, March 23,
1895. His body rests in Swan Point Cemetery.
He was a lover of good books, and possessed
a very choice library, in which he took much
pride and pleasure. Mr. Rawson was esteemed
as a citizen, was popular in business circles,
and respected as a man. Politically he ad^
hered to the Republican party, was a member
of Beneficent Congregational Church, St.
John's Lodge, No. 1, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, and of the Royal Arch Chapter, of which
he was many years scribe, and also a member
of Calvary Commandery, Knights Templar.
He married (first) November 24, 1850, in Fos
ter, Rhode Island, Sophia E., daughter of Solo
mon H. and Susan Drowne, of Woodstock,
Connecticut, who died August 1, 1854. He
married (second) November 5, 1857, in Provi
dence, Harriet Eliza Wilmarth, born there
October 23, 1832, daughter of William F. and
Hannah Allen (Seymoure) Hammond, of
Providence (see Hammond VI), and. widow
of Marcus Wilmarth. There were two chil
dren of the first marriage: 1. Louise Cornelia,
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the widow of Newton C. Dana, residing in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 2. Sophia Eliza
beth, January 22, 1854; married William A.
Leete, and resides in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Children of second marriage: 3. Lillian Flor
ence, January 10, 1859, in Providence; mar
ried, October 24, 1883, James Gilbert Wool-
worth, of that city (see Woolworth VI). 4.
Harriet Newell, March 3, 1862, died June 1
following. 5. Henry Grindal, mentioned be
low. (X) Henry Grindal Rawson, only son of
Henry Martyn and Harriet E. (Hammond-
Wilmarth) Rawson, was born February 5,
1870, in Providence, and attended Mowry &
Goff's School and the public schools of his
home city, graduated from the high school in
1887, being historian of his class. After leav
ing school he took a position in the treasury
department of the Providence and Worcester
Railroad Company at Providence, and con
tinued there for some years. Having accumu
lated some capital he engaged in trie manu
facture of jewelry and novelties in Providence.
Plis untimely death occurred while swimming
at Coninicut Point, in the town of Warwick,
Rhode Island, July 22, 1906. His body was
recovered a few days later, and after the
funeral at the Beneficent Congregational
Church was buried in the family lot at Swan
Point Cemetery. He was a well-known and
highly respected citizen, who took a deep inter
est in the growth and prosperity of his home.
city, its government and institutions. He rep
resented Providence in the state legislature,
and also served- as a member of the city coun
cil, elected from the fourth ward in 1899, and
continuing in that capacity until his death,
being a member of the committees on rail
roads, education, fire department, and Fourth
of July celebration, serving as chairman of a
part of these. He was a member of the Bene
ficent Congregational Church, of the Citizens'
Historical Society, and the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. At the time of Mr. Rawson's death
the late Governor Elisha Dyer, who was then
mayor of Providence, said : "Mr. Rawson's
untimely death was a great loss to the common
council, for Mr. Rawson was one of the bright
est and most energetic young men in that
branch of the city government. He was keenly
alive to the interests of the city, was inde
fatigable in the committee work which fell to
him, and labored earnestly and diligently for
his constituents. He will be greatly missed by
his colleagues, who ever found him congenial
and more than willing to do his share of labor
incident to proper legislation."
He married, in 1897, Jennie Louise Bur

lingame, of Providence, who survives him with
one daughter, Hope, born May 19, 1901.
(The Wilson Line).
(I) Rev. Dr. William Wilson, prebendary
of St. Paul's in Rochester, and of Windsor,
England, was probably the chaplain of Arch
bishop Grindal, his wife's uncle. He married
Isabel, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Grin
dal) Wooctoal. The last-named was a daugh
ter of William Grindal, a farmer of Hensing-
ham, St. Bees parish, Cumberland. One of his
sons, Edmund Grindal, was the second protes
tant archbishop of Canterbury, appointed by
Queen Elizabeth. Rev. Dr. William and Isa
bel Wilson had a daughter Margaret, who be
came the wife of David Rawson (see Rawson
II). (II) Rev. John Wilson, son of Rev. Dr.
William' and Isabel (Woodhal) Wilson, was
born at Windsor, England, in 1588, and died
August 7, 1677, in Boston, Massachusetts. He
was educated at Eaton and at Cambridge,
where he received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Christ College in 1606, and Master
of Arts in 1609. He became a minister of the
Established Church, and was chaplain to sev
eral families, officiating at Burnstead, Stoke,
Clare and Candish, in county Suffolk, and also
served ten or twelve years as regular minister
at Sudbury, Suffolk. In 1630 he came to
America in the ship "Arabella," but returned
to England for a short time, and again came
to New England. He was the first minister of
the First Church in Boston. His wife's name
was Elizabeth.
(Ill) Rev. John (2) Wilson, son of Rev.
John (1) and Elizabeth Wilson, was born in
1621, in England, came with his father to New
England, was graduated from Harvard Col
lege in 1642, and was made freeman in 1647.
He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Hooker, the first minister of Hartford, Connec
ticut, and his wife Susanna. Thomas Hooker
was born about 1586, at Marfield, Leicester
shire, England, and died July 7, 1674, at Hart
ford, Connecticut. He attended the Market Bos
worth Grammar School and Emmanuel Col
lege, Cambridge, from which he was graduated
Bachelor of Arts in 1608; Master of Arts,
161 1, and became a fellow of the college. In
1630 he left England because of troubles in
curred through his non-conformity with cer
tain doctrines of the Established Church, and
remained in Holland for some time. Return
ing to England for a short period he departed
in 1653 for America, arriving in Boston Sep
tember 4 of that year, and settled at Cam
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the colony which very shortly settled at Hart
ford. He was the son of John Vowell or
Hooker, who was born about 1525, died No
vember 8, 1601, and was buried at St. Mary
Major, Exeter, England. In 1565 he was
chamberlain of Exeter. He married (first)
Martha, daughter of Robert Tucker, of that
town, and (second) Anastasia, daughter of
Edward Bridgman, of Exeter. The second
wife was the mother of Thomas. John Hooker
was a son of Robert Hooker, of Exeter, who
died August 9, 1538, a grandson of John
Plooker, gentleman, of Exeter, representative
in parliament from Exeter, died in 1493. His
first wife, Agnes, daughter and heiress of
Richard Drewell, Esq., of Exeter, was the
mother of Robert. For several generations
the family seems to have used the surnames
Vowell and Hooker interchangeably, and sev
eral generations bearing the baptismal name of
John precede those already given. The known
line begins with Jenaph Vowell, of Pembroke,
whose son, Jago Vowell, married Alice, daugh
ter and heiress of Richard Hooker, of Hurst
Castle, Southampton, and was the father of
John Vowell or Hooker, whose son, John
Hooker, married Marjory, daughter and heiress
of Roger Bolter, of Boltercourt, whose son
was John Vowell, previously mentioned as the
husband of Agnes Drewell.
(IV) Susanna Wilson, daughter of Rev.
John (2) and Sarah (Hooker) Wilson, be
came the wife of Rev. Grindal Rawson, of
Mendon, Massachusetts (see Rawson IV).
(The Hammond Line).
There were several immigrants bearing this
name very early in the settlement of New Eng
land, and they have transmitted from genera
tion to generation the characteristics that dis
tinguished its members as far back in the past
as there is any record. This record is a long
and honorable one, telling of men moral to a
remarkable degree ; honest, honorable, inde
pendent in thought and action ; industrious,
shrewd and energetic; patriotic and brave;
prominent in the communities where they
dwelt, and often leaders of their fellows.
(I) The first record of the Rhode Island
family, still represented in that state, begins
with Edward Hammond, whose origin is un
known. He was born perhaps about 1640, and
died at Bristol, Rhode Island, in January,
1717. He married there, January 5, 1684,
Susanna Bradley, whose origin is also a mat
ter of mystery. She survived him about four
teen years, dying January 17, 1731. Children:
William, mentioned below ; Edward, born De
cember 31, 1687; Margaret, June 24, 1690;
Martha, March 19, 1695.

(II) William Hammond, son of Edward
and Susanna (Bradley) Hammond, was born
December 31, 1685, in Bristol, and died in
Providence, January 21, 1763. He was chosen
constable at the town meeting, June 3, 1723.
He married, about 1710, Mary, daughter of
Jonathan and Margaret (Angell) Whipple,
born about 1689. Jonathan Whipple, born
1664, died September 28, 1721. His wife was
a daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell, pio
neer citizens of Providence. His father, John
Whipple, born in England about 1616, died at
Providence, May 16, 1685. His wife Sarah,
born about 1624, in Dorchester, England, died
in Providence, in 1666. Their eighth son,
Jonathan, inherited from his father one of his
rights of land on the west side of the seven-
mile line, thus being outside of the town of
Providence, but he lived in the latter town.
Children of William and Mary (Whipple)
Hammond : William, mentioned below ; Jona
than, born before September 5, 1721 ; Thomas,
before July 11, 1723; Joseph, after 1723, died
at sea before 1753; Mary. The fragmentary
records of Providence fail to enlighten us
about many of the oldest families of the town,
and this family is among them. It has been
identified with the town and city down to the
present day, and there can be little doubt that
the line here shown is the correct one.
(Ill) William (2) Hammond, eldest son of
William- (1) and Mary (Whipple) Hammond,
was born about 171 1, in Providence, where he
lived and married (first) December 5, 1734,
Mary, daughter of John and Jane (Dearborn)
Potter, born December 22, 171 1, died before
1752. He married (second) March 12, 1752,
Martha Jenckes, born March 14, 1724, in
Providence, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia
(Arnold) Jenckes.
(IV) Deacon James Hammond, of Provi
dence, was undoubtedly a son of William (2)
Hammond, who resided in that town. There
are no records of the latter's children, and
nothing has been discovered to show the time
of the birth of Deacon James Hammond. He
was the town crier of Providence, and from
a poem read at a meeting of the Citizens' His
torical Association, March 1, 1886, the follow
ing concerning Deacon Hammond is extracted :
The Freemen in those days did meet
In the Town House on College street.
Warning was given of the time to come
By good Deacon Hammond with his drum.
In his chaise he'd ride about,
Beat his drum and give a shout,
And attract attention by a noisy Greeting,
Then proclamation he'd make of the Meeting.
His wife's name was Eunice, born about
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seven years, in Providence. The births of
their children are not recorded, but from vari
ous sources it is known that he had sons, Jere
miah and James. The latter, described as his
second son, died at Surinam in 1808, at the age
of twenty years.
(V) Jeremiah Hammond, son of Deacon
James and Eunice Hammond, resided in Provi
dence, where he died March 21, 1842. He
married there, April 5, 1804, Sally Ide, of
Glocester, born 1782-83, died in Providence,
July 16, 1866, at the age of eighty-three years.
There is mention of two children, William F.,
mentioned below ; Mary- Rugg, who died in
May, 1821, at the age of two years and six
months. (VI) William F. Hammond, son of Jere
miah and Sally (Ide) Hammond, was born
January 6, 1806, in Providence, and died there,
September 19, 1895. Mr. Hammond was a
member of the Citizens' Historical Society.
After his death this society dedicated to his
memory a tree at Roger Williams Park and
upon the marker are inscribed these words :
"California Pioneer, Anti-Slavery Advocate,
Upright Citizen." He married, in June, 1828,
at Providence, Hannah Allen Seymoure, born
August 6, 1801, in Newport, daughter of Ed-
mond and Rebecca (Hudson) Seymoure, the
former a native of France, a shipmaster, who
located in Newport, and there married, July
26, 1795, Rebecca Hudson. Mrs. Hammond
died in Providence, January 10, 1875, at the
age of seventy-three years five months and
four days. Two of their children are: 1.
Sarah, married, May 29, 1852, Daniel Leffing
well Rawson, born September 11, 1827, son of
Grindal Rawson, of Providence (see Rawson
VIII) ; he was the first cashier of the Elm-
wood Bank of Providence, in which position
he continued until his death, November 16,
1857, in his thirty-first year ; Mrs. Rawson died
in 1859; they left a daughter, Annie Leffing
well, born September 29, 1856, who is now
the widow of James Wheaton Luther, residing
in Providence; she has a daughter, Marion
Rawson Luther, born May 8, 1892, graduated
from Brown University with the class of 1913,
taking the Bachelor of Arts degree, and in the
following year received the degree of Master
of Arts ; she was president of her class, and a
member of the Sigma Psi Society of Brown,
and is now engaged in teaching at Providence.
2. Harriet Eliza, mentioned below.
(VII) Harriet Eliza Hammond, daughter
of William F. and Hannah Allen (Seymoure)
Plammond, was born October 23, 1832, in
Providence, and was educated in the schools
of the city, including the high school. She
married (first) Marcus Wilmarth, who was a

coffee and sugar planter in the West Indies,
and died July 5, 1854, at the age of thirty
years, leaving a daughter Annie, who died at
the age of three months. Mrs. Wilmarth mar
ried (second) November 5, 1857, Henry Mar
tyn Rawson, of Providence (see Rawson IX).
Mrs. Rawson survives her husband, and re
sides with her daughter, Mrs. James G. Wool-
worth, on Waterman street, Providence, where
her declining years are made pleasant by filial
care and devotion. She has given much of her
life to religious and charitable works, and for
many years was a teacher in the infant room
of the Sunday school of the Beneficent Congre
gational Church. (The Woolworth Line).
The first record of this name in this country
appears in Newbury, Massachusetts, and the
form of the name there recorded is Woolery.
The present usage, however, was established
in the time of the immigrant, and his descend
ants have conferred credit and honor upon the
name by their sterling character and upright,
moral lives. Perhaps the most widely known
representative of this name in America is the
originator of the five-and-ten-cent store. The
family has been established and identified with
with Massachusetts and New York, and has
shown ability in many lines of endeavor.
(I) The first of the name in this country
was Richard Woolworth, who settled at New
bury, Massachusetts, as early as 1678. He had
taken the oath of allegiance at Ipswich, Massa
chusetts, previous to that time, and was then
thirty years old. In those days it was very
difficult to obtain permission to go to New
England, and many who intended New Eng
land as their destination went first to Virginia,
because no obstacles were offered to their emi
gration to that colony. Among the eighty-four
passengers of the "Plain Joan," who landed in
Virginia, May 15, 1635, was Richard Wooley,
born 1600. This vessel sailed from Gravesend,
England, and all its passengers had "brought
attestations of their conformitie to the order
and discipline of the Church of England." As
it is known that large numbers found their
way to New England by way of Virginia,
there is a good basis for the supposition that
Richard Woolworth, of Newbury, was a son
of Richard Wooley, of Virginia. Many au
thorities vouch for the fact that the termina
tion "worth," found in so many names, signi
fies a court, a farm, an island or other place of
possession, and it is probable that Richard
Woolworth adopted it upon receiving a grant
of land. It is well known to the genealogist
that the same name receives various spellings
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written by its possessor. On August 10, 1680,
Richard Woolworth received a grant of land,
among one hundred persons, in the south
eastern part of South-old, then a part of Massa
chusetts, now Suffield, Connecticut, and on the
record of this grant the name is spelled
Wooley. His land adjoined that of John
Huggins, a brother of his wife. He took up
his residence upon this land at once, and died
there December 20, 1696. He married, De
cember 24, 1678, Anna or Hannah Huggins,
born March 15, 1658, in Hampton, New Hamp
shire, daughter of Josiah and Bridget Hug
gins, who settled at Hampton about the mid
dle of the seventeenth century. She died
in Suffield, October 19, 1691. Children:
Daughter, died unnamed; Hannah, born Feb
ruary 10, 1680; Mary, February 22, 1682;
Elizabeth, February 28, 1686; Richard, men
tioned below; Abby, September 10, 1691.
Only two of these children, Hannah and Rich
ard, survived the period of childhood. The
daughter was but fifteen years old at the time
of her father's death, and was allowed to ad
minister the estate.
(II) Richard (2) Woolworth, only son of
Richard (1) and Anna or Hannah (Huggins)
Woolworth, was born December 6, 1687, in
Suffield, and passed his life there, dying Octo
ber 29, 1732. He married, September 15, 1714,
Elizabeth Hall, of Taunton. Her name is the
first on the records of the First Congregational
Church of Suffield, with which she united by
letter, June 1, 1716. Children: Elizabeth,
born August 9, 1715 ; Richard, mentioned be
low; Azariah, October 9, 1718; Hannah, Sep
tember 13, 1720; Timothy, May 17, 1722;
Ebenezer, March 17, 1724; Reuben, December
27, 17215*; Mary, October 21, 1727; Dinah, July
1, 1729.
(Ill) Richard (3) Woolworth, eldest son
of Richard (2) and Elizabeth (Hall) Wool-
worth, was bom March 1, 1717, in Suffield,
and died in May, 1802, in Long Meadow, for
merly a part of Springfield, Massachusetts.
He removed to that town in 1749, and built
and operated a tannery and pottery there. He
married (first) in August, 1748, Naomi
Wright, of Northampton, Massachusetts, born
1721, died before 1762, daughter of Joseph
Wright. He married (second) October 21,
1762, Lois Colton, daughter of William and
Mary (Merrick) Colton, of Long Meadow,
born April 8, 1726, died November 26, 1800.
She was descended from George and Deborah
(Gardner) Colton, who came from England
to Windsor, Connecticut, and were among the
first settlers of Long Meadow. Their son,
Captain Thomas Colton, married Sarah Gris
wold, and there were the parents of William

Colton, father of Mrs. Woolworth. Children
of first marriage : Ruth, born August 25, 1749 ;
Azariah, August 31, 1750; Naomi, August 10,
1751 ; Richard, January 18, 1754; Sarah, July
9, 1756; Thankful, January 11, 1759; Joseph,
August 16, 1760. Children of second mar
riage: Aaron, October 25, 1763; Lucretia,
April 9, 1765; Chester, mentioned below;
Mary, May 2, 1769; John, November 2, 1771.
(IV) Chester Woolworth, fifth son of Rich
ard (3) Woolworth and third child of his sec
ond wife, Lois (Colton) Woolworth, was born
April 5, 1767, in Long Meadow, and settled
in Westfield, Hampton county, Massachusetts,
where he died July 14, 1826. He married
(first) Chloe Lewis, who died December 9,
1809, and her only child died the same day.
He married (second) in May, 1816, Mrs.
Hannah Bryant, who died May 15, 1869. Chil
dren : Chester, born April 1, 1817; Joseph,
mentioned below; Cornelia S., May 14, 1822;
James, May 4, 1824.
(V) Joseph Woolworth, second son of
Chester and Hannah (Bryant) Woolworth,
was born November 18, 1819, in Westfield,
where he resided, and married Mercy Dor-
leskie Sage.
(VI) James Gilbert Woolworth, son of
Joseph and Mercy Dorleskie (Sage) Wool-
worth, was born August 24, 1856, in Westfield,
and was educated in the public schools of that
town, including the high school and Oberlin
College, at Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at
Boston, in 1878, with degree of Bachelor of
Science. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society and the inventor of the Wool-
worth germ-proof water filter, which is now
extensively used. He married, October 24,
1883, in Providence, Lillian Florence, third
daughter of Henry Martyn Rawson, and eld
est child of his second wife, Harriet Eliza
(Hammond-Wilmarth) Rawson (see Rawson
IX). She is a member of Gaspee Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, of
Providence, of which she has been historian,
and secretary for twelve years of the Rhode
Island Branch, Woman's Board of Missions.

In the early records of Reho-
MILLER both, Massachusetts, this name
is spelled indiscriminately Miller,
Millerd and Millard. Most descendants in the
present day use the spelling employed in this
article. The origin of the immigrant ancestor
is unknown, but he was undoubtedly a native
of England, who came with early immigrants
to New England. He may have resided for a
time at Dorchester, where there were several
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(I) John Miller appears in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, as one of the proprietors in
1643, and his sons, John, Ichabod and Robert,
participated in the division of lands in 1668.
His wife Elizabeth was buried April 18, 1680.
They had children, recorded in Rehoboth :
Plannah, born December 23, 1653; Sarah, Oc
tober 15, 1655; Samuel, October 5, 1658;
Joseph, August 15, 1660; Benjamin, Septem
ber 22, 1662.
(II) Robert Miller, born before 1653, re
sided in Rehoboth, and was a soldier under
Captain Turner at the Falls fight in 1676. He
married, December 24, 1662, Elizabeth Saben,
born 1642, died February 7, 1717, daughter of
William Saben, who was among the pro
prietors of Rehoboth in 1643. She married
(second) Samuel Howard. Children, recorded
in Rehoboth : Elizabeth, bora February 5,
1664; Robert, June 12, 1666; Nehemiah, June
8, 1668; Josiah, Julyc 26, 1670; Nathaniel,
March 31, 1672; Solomon, March 6, 1674;
Mary, June 14, 1680; Sarah, September 26,
1684; Experience, May 20, 1687, and prob
ably Ephraim.
(Ill) Ephraim Miller, probably son of Rob
ert and Elizabeth (Saben) Miller, was born
about 1677, in Rehoboth. He married, in
Mendon, February 10, 1701-02, Experience
White, born December 5, 1680, in that town,
daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Rogers)
White, formerly of Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Children, recorded in Rehoboth : Ephraim,
born February 3, 1703 ; Experience, March 3,
1705; Lydia, December 22, 1707 ; Judith, Octo
ber 27, 1710; Daniel, mentioned below; Sarah
and Rachel, twins, September 6, 1717 ; Uness,
March 2, 1719.
(IV) Daniel Miller, second son of Ephraim
and Experience (White) Miller, was born
July 15, 1713, in Rehoboth, where he lived,
and married, September 17, 1735, Hannah
Thayer, born January 27, 1704, in Braintree,
Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel and Sus
anna (Scant) Thayer. Children: Rhoba, born
July 2, 1736; Daniel, July 8, 1738; Judeth,
July 8, 1740; Lydia, March 15, 1742; Josiah,
mentioned below; Peter, June 16, 1745.
(V) Josiah Miller, second son of Daniel
and Hannah (Thayer) Miller, was born Janu
ary 15, 1744, in Rehoboth, and resided in
Cumberland, Rhode Island, originally a part
of Rehoboth. He married, in Cumberland,
June 19, 1766, Jemima Whipple, a daughter
of Ibrook Whipple, born September 15, 1720,
in Cumberland, who was a soldier in the revo
lutionary war. No record of his marriage or
children is discovered. Children of Josiah and
Jemima Miller, born in Cumberland : Josiah

Whipple, mentioned below ; Lucy, born No
vember 15, 1769; Russell, February 18, 1772;
Molly, August 14, 1774; Ibrook, January 21,
1777; Rufus, November 11, 1779; Reuben,
June 30, 1782; Whipple, November 5, 1784.
(VI) Josiah Whipple Miller, eldest child of
Josiah and Jemima (Whipple) Miller, was
born July 19, 1767, in Cumberland, and resided
in Pawtucket, where he was early engaged in
farming and later in the grocery business. He
died before 1854. He married, probably in
Attleboro, Mary Slack, born 1776, in Attle
boro, died in Pawtucket, October 7, 1854,
daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Stearns) Slack,
and granddaughter of Captain John Stearns,
of Attleboro (see Stearns IV). Samuel Slack
was a revolutionary soldier, serving first as a
private in Captain Jabez Ellis' company of
minute-men, which marched on the Lexington
Alarm, April 19, 1775, serving six days. He
appears later as an ensign in a claim for pay
ment of wages as a soldier, dated July 5, 1776,
following an alarm occasioned by the battle of
Bunker Hill. Josiah W. Miller had sons :
Josiah, Daniel, Horace, mentioned below.
(VII) Horace Miller, son of Josiah Whip
ple and Mary (Slack) Miller, was born about
1801, in what was then a part of the town of
North Providence, now in the city of Paw
tucket, and died in that city in 1851. He was
engaged in the mercantile business, principally
dry goods, being one of the pioneer merchants
of Pawtucket in that line, in partnership with
his brother Daniel, and they were very suc
cessful as merchants. He was a member of
St. Paul's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, and
was superintendent of the Sunday school for
a number of years. He was a good citizen,
enterprising and progressive, devoted to his
home and family. After his death his body
was deposited in Mineral Springs Cemetery,
and later removed to Riverside Cemetery. He
was married in St. Michael's Episcopal Church
of Bristol, Rhode Island, by Bishop Griswold,
November 30, 1829, to Elizabeth Borden Mon
roe, baptized June 9, 181 1, in Bristol, daugh
ter of Captain George and Elizabeth (Borden)
Monroe, of that town (see Monroe IV and
Borden IV). She died March 4, 1907, and
was buried in Riverside Cemetery. She was
a member of St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church of
Pawtucket, and deyoted to - the charitable
works of that organization. Children: Horace
George, mentioned below ; Ephraim Monroe
Nelson, who is still living; Mary and Annie,
residing in Pawtucket, members of St. Paul's
(Episcopal) Church, interested in church and
charitable works, and members of Pawtucket
Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution,

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they were much devoted to their mother, to
whom they gave filial care in the closing years
of a very long life.
(VIII) Dr. Horace George Miller, eldest
child of Horace and Elizabeth Borden (Mon
roe) Miller, was born April 6, 1840, in Paw
tucket. His early schooling was obtained in
the well-known "Jones school house," and was
later educated under the care of his uncle, Na
thaniel Bowen Cooke, the well-known edu
cator of Bristol, Rhode Island, at the latter's
boarding school at Webster, Massachusetts.
He also attended the Church Hill School of
Pawtucket and the Lyon & Frieze School of
Providence. He studied Latin under Rev.
George Taft, D. D., then the rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church of Pawtucket. Enter
ing Brown University he received the degree
of Master of Arts im i860, following which he
entered Harvard Medical School, enrolled as
a pupil of the late Dr. Lloyd Morton, of Paw
tucket and the late Dr. Sylvanus Clapp, of
Pawtucket, and was graduated in 1865 with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During
the civil war Dr. Miller enlisted in the volun
teer service, and was with the army engaged
in guarding Washington, D. C, serving as a
commissary surgeon. Soon' after this he be
came assistant surgeon of the United States
Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts,
and was assistant to the surgeons at the Massa
chusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in
Boston. Following this he went to Europe,
where he made a special study of eye and ear
diseases, and in January, 1868, began the prac
tice of his profession in Providence as a spe
cialist in eye and ear troubles. Here he con
tinued in active practice until his death, which
occurred May 29, 1908, at Camden, Maine,
while on a vacation trip. His body was brought
to Providence, and deposited in Swan Point
Cemetery. He became one of the leading phy
sicians of his line in the state of Rhode Island,
and when the Rhode Island Hospital was
opened in 1868 he was appointed ophthalmic
and aural surgeon, which connection continued
during the remainder of his life. At the time
of his death he was senior member of the staff,
and was president of the staff association. Dr.
Miller was a member of the Rhode Island
Medical Society, of which he was president
from 1886 to 1888; a member of the Provi
dence Medical Society, president in 1876 and
1877 ; member of the American Medical Asso
ciation; fellow of the American Academy of
Medicine ; member of the American Opthal-
mological Society; vice-president of the Amer
ican Otological Society, and a member of the
New England Ophthalmological Society, of
which he was two years president.

He married, July 4, 1871, Helen Woods,
daughter of John Woods, of Boston, who died
in February, 1909, in Providence.
(The Stearns Line).
The surnames Stearns, Sterns, Sternes,
Starns, etc., are undoubtedly corruptions or
variations of the English family name Sterne,
a well-known name in the counties of Notting
ham, Berks, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge,
England. Of the Sterne family the oldest coat-
of-arms is: Or, a chevron between three crosses
flory sable. Crest : A cock straggling proper.
These arms were borne by the archbishop of
York (1664-83). Other families of the name
had devices slightly varied from this one.
(I) Isaac Stearns was born probably in the
parish of Nayland, Suffolkshire, England. He
embarked for America, April 8, 1630, in the
ship "Arabella," in which came also Rev.
George Phillips, Sir Richard Saltonstall and
family and Governor Winthrop. Four ships
sailed together from Yarmouth, England, the
"Arabella" arriving at Salem, Massachusetts,
June 12, 1630. But the pioneers were not
pleased with that point, and they proceeded to
what is now Charlestown and Watertown,
where most of them settled. Stearns had a
homestall at Watertown in 1642, bounded on
the north by land of John Warren, west by the
highway, south by lands of Biscoe; east by
Pequessett meadow, a part of which he also
owned. In the distribution of the estate of his
son Samuel in 1724 this homestall, "where his
grandfather had lived," was assigned to his
son Nathaniel. He was admitted a freeman,
May 18, 1631, and was selectman several years.
In 1647 he and Mr. Biscoe were appointed by
the selectmen "to consider how the bridge over
the river shall be built, and to agree with the
workmen for doing it, according to their best
discretion." This is the first mention of a
bridge over the Charles river at Watertown.
He acquired a large estate for his day, leav
ing fourteen parcels of land amounting to four
hundred and sixty-seven acres. He died June
28, 167 1. His will, dated five days before his
death, mentions his children and others. He
married Mary Barker, who died April 2, 1677,
daughter of John and Margaret Barker, of
Stoke, Nayland, Suffolkshire, England. Chil
dren : 1. Mary, baptized at Nayland, January
6, 1626; married (first) July 9, 1646, in Wo
burn, Isaac Learned, only son of William
Learned; (second) John Burge, of Weymouth.
2. Hannah, baptized October 5, 1628, in Eng
land ; married, December 25, 1650, Henry Free
man. 3. John, born about 1631. 4. Isaac,
mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born September
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uel Stone. 6. Samuel, born April 24, 1638,
died August 3, 1683. 7. Elizabeth, born 1640;
married, April 13, 1664, Samuel Manning. 8.
Abigail, married, April 27, 1666, Deacon John
Morse. (II) Isaac (2) Stearns, second son of Isaac
(1) and Mary (Barker) Stearns, was born
January 6, 1633, in Watertown, where he was
made a freeman in 1665. He settled in Cam
bridge Farms, now Lexington, and died there
August 29, 1676. He was married, June 24,
1660, to Sarah, daughter of Captain Richard
and Elizabeth Beers. Captain Beers was one
of the original proprietors of Watertown,
commanded a company in King Philip's war,
and was killed in battle with the Indians at
Northfield, Massachusetts, September 4, 1675.
After the death of Mr. Stearns his widow mar
ried, July 23, 1677, Thomas Wheeler, of Con
cord, Massachusetts. Isaac Stearns left an
estate inventoried at three hundred pounds.
His children were: Sarah, Mary, Isaac, Sam
uel, Abigail, John.
(Ill) Samuel Stearns, second son of Isaac
(2) and Sarah (Beers) Stearns, was born
January 11, 1668, in Lexington, and was killed
by a falling tree, November 19, 1721. He
served as tithingman and assessor of Lexing
ton for several terms; was a resident of the
precinct of Lexington, formerly a part of Cam
bridge, on its organization; was taxed there
in 1694, and was a subscriber to the fund for
establishing the common in 171 1. His widow
Phebe, surname unknown, administered his
estate after death, and subsequently removed
with some of her children to Littleton, Massa
chusetts. Children: Sarah, born January 15,
1697; Mary, January 27, 1699; Abigail, Feb
ruary 8, 1700; Samuel, March 7, 1702; Ruth,
May 25, 1704; Phebe, February 23, 1706; Re
becca, April 15, 1708; Thomas, July 4, 1710;
John, mentioned below; Joseph, April 15,
1715; Benjamin, July 6, 1718.
(IV) Captain John Stearns, third son of
Samuel and Phebe Stearns, was born July 23,
1712, and resided for about a year following
his marriage in Dedham, Massachusetts, after
which he settled in Attleboro, where he was
one of the most respected and substantial citi
zens. He served as town treasurer and repre
sented the town in the general court in 1775
and 1776. He held a commission from the
colony as captain in the militia, but was too old
for service in the revolution. He sent his son
Joseph to serve in the army, and loaned two
thousand dollars to the government to aid in
the prosecution of the war. He received his
pay in Continental money, which was almost
valueless, and on a Thanksgiving gathering of
his family burned the money in their presence,

saying : "There is money the best invested of
any I have ever spent for you." He married
(first) August 11, 1736, Rebecca Dean, of
Dedham, born July 29, 17 15, died 1756, daugh
ter of John and Hannah Dean. He married
(second) September 2g, 1756, Widow Molly
(Corey) Pattee, then of Dedham, probably the
daughter of John and Ruth (Keyes) Corey,
born August 24, 1724, in Chelmsford, Massa
chusetts. Children of first marriage: Rebecca,"
born November 7, 1737; Phebe, . February 25,
1739; Ruth, mentioned below; Hannah, May
25, 1743; Mary, July 29, 1745; Samuel, Octo
ber 17, 1747; Lydia, October 3, 1749"; Joseph,
October 7, 17-51 ; John, September 27, 1753;
Isaac, January 7, 1756. There were two chil
dren of the second marriage, namely Job, died
young, and Abigail, married Lemuel Stratton,
of Foxboro, Massachusetts.
(V) Ruth Stearns, third daughter of Cap
tain John and Rebecca (Dean) Stearns, was
born November 13, 1740, in Attleboro, and
became the wife of Samuel Slack, of Paw
tucket (see Miller VI).
(The Monroe Line).
The Monroe family of Rhode Island has
been numerously and very conspicuously rep
resented in that state down to the present day.
The records of the state do not show the origin
of the family, which was probably located in
southeastern Massachusetts, especially in
Swansea, which adjoins the town of Bristol,
Rhode Island. The first birth record in the
latter town is that of Joseph Monroe, son of
John and Mehitable Monroe, born December
18, 1696.
(I) It is probable that John and Mehitable
Monroe lived in Swansea, settling later in
Bristol, Rhode Island.
(II) John (2) Monroe, presumably a son
of John (1) and Mehitable Monroe, born
about 1694, resided in Bristol. His marriage
is not recorded in that town, but the death of
his wife Elizabeth occurred there December
9, 1743. Their children, recorded in Bristol,
are: Ebenezer, died young; Joseph, born
March 20, 1720; Thomas, mentioned below;
Jeremiah, June 24, 1724; William, May 16,
1726; John, July 26, 1728; George, September
22, 1730; Elizabeth, February 7, 1733; Eben
ezer, May 9, 1736; Thankful, October 11,
1738. (Ill) Dr. Thomas Monroe, third son of
John (2) and Elizabeth Monroe, was born
May 16, 1722, in Bristol, and probably resided
in early life in Swansea. He lived for some
time in Warren, Rhode Island, where three of
his children are recorded, and later in Bristol.
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revolution, was taken pn&oner, and confined
on the prison ship "Jersey" in New York har
bor. He died at Stonington, Connecticut, Sep
tember 12, 1785, where a monument was
erected to his memory. His remains were
later removed to Rhode Island for permanent
burial. He married, in St. Michael's Episcopal
Church, Bristol, December 6, 1760, Sarah
Pearce, born December 21, 1742, in Bristol,
daughter of William and Lydia (Brown)
Pearce. Children, recorded in Warren : Wil
liam, born May 8, 1762; Thomas, January 18,
1765; Bateman, June 8, 1767. In Bristol:
George, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain George Monroe, fourth son
of Dr. Thomas and Sarah (Pearce) Monroe,
was born July 7, 1770, in Bristol, where he
died December 2, 1832. He was commander
of vessels sailing from Bristol. He married,
about 1800, Elizabeth Borden, born in Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, February 23, 1777,
daughter of William and Sybil (Smith) Bor
den, of that town (see Borden IV). His chil
dren, baptized at St. Michael's Church, Bris
tol : Francis Salter, Ephraim, Lydia Brown
and Caroline, December 24, 1809; Elizabeth
Borden, mentioned below, and Ann Russell,
who married Nathaniel Bowen Cooke.
(V) Elizabeth Borden Monroe, daughter of
Captain George and Elizabeth (Borden) Mon
roe, was baptized June 9, 181 1, in Bristol, and
became the wife of Horace Miller, of Paw
tucket (see Miller VII).
(The Borden Line).
The surnames Barden, Burden and Bourden
were originally Borden, and besides the above
many other variations are to be found, in all
some thirty-two. The Bordens of Rhode
Island are numbered among the posterity of
Richard Borden, who was one of the original
settlers in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
(I) Richard Borden, of the county of Kent,
England, born in 1601, son of John Borden,
came to New England in the ship "Elizabeth
and Ann," in 1635, accompanied by his wife
Joan and two children. In 1638 he went from
Boston to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as one of
the founders of that town, was admitted a free
man there in 1641, and subsequently held vari
ous public offices, including that of deputy to
the general court. He worshipped with the
Society of Friends, and in all of his dealings
with his fellowmen he exemplified to a high
degree the principles of that faith. He died in
Portsmouth in 1671, and his wife died there
July 16, 1688. Children: Thomas, born in
England; Francis, also born there; Matthew,
born in Portsmouth, in May, 1638, the first
native white child on the island of Rhode
Island; John, mentioned below; Joseph, born

1643; Sarah, 1644; Samuel, 1645; Benjamin,
1649; Amie, 1654.
(II) John Borden, third son of Richard
Borden, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, September, 1640, died there June 4,
1716. He married, December 25, 1670, Mary
Earl, born in Portsmouth, 1655, died there in
1734. Children: Richard, born October 24,
1671, died July 12, 1732; John, 1675, married
Sarah Earl, of Portsmouth; Annie, May 30,
1678, married Benjamin Chase, of Tiverton,
Rhode Island; Joseph, December 3, 1680, mar
ried Sarah Brownell, of Portsmouth ; Thomas,
mentioned below ; Hope, March 3, 1684, mar
ried William Olney Jr., of Tiverton; William,
August 15, 1689, married Alice Hall, of James
town, Rhode Island; Benjamin, settled in Vir
ginia; Mary.
(Ill) Thomas Borden, fourth son of John
and Mary (Earl) Borden, was born December
13, 1682, in Bristol, and passed his life in that
town, residing on the paternal homestead,
where he died in 1745. The Bristol ferry
leased by his father was operated by him. He
inherited the homestead and was a substantial
and prosperous citizen. He married (first)
April 18, 1717, Catherine Hull, born February
23, 1689, in Jamestown, daughter of John and
Alice (Teddeman) Hull, of that town, who
died without issue. He married (second)
October 4, 1725, Mary Briggs, born July 1,
1708, daughter of Thomas and Mary Briggs,
and descendant of John Briggs, one of the
founders of Portsmouth. Children: Job, born
February 16, 1727; John, May 12, 1729; Mary,
January 1, 1731 ; Joseph, August 12, 1733;
Sarah, April 29, 1738; William, mentioned be
low. (IV) William Borden, youngest child of
Thomas and Mary (Briggs) Borden, was born
January 25, 1741, in Bristol, and died there in
1803. He inherited, with his brother Joseph,
their father's lands on Hog Island, where he
engaged in farming, and bequeathed his lands
to his sons, Hervey and Thomas. He married.
in Portsmouth, November 25, 1765, Sybil
Smith. Children: Hervey, born March 13,
1767, in Portsmouth (the only one recorded
there) ; Thomas, Smith, Abraham, Sybil,
Phebe, Elizabeth, Mary.
(V) Elizabeth Borden, third daughter of
William and Sybil (Smith) Borden, born Feb
ruary 23, 1777, became the wife of Captain
George Monroe, of Bristol (see Monroe IV).

Munro is the name of an ancient
MUNRO clan whose home is near Inver
ness, in the Scottish Highlands.
Donald Munro, first chief of the clan, is sup
posed to have flourished in the latter part of"
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to have rendered material aid to that monarch
in expelling the Danish invaders from his
country. Hugh Munro, who died about 1126,
was the third head of the clan and the first to
be designated as "Baron of Fowlis." "That
barony has ever since formed the title and
been the chief residence of the head of the
house which for more than eight hundred years
has existed in uninterrupted descent in the
male line, — a fact said to be unexampled in
the annals of Scotland and England" (Mac
kenzie, "History of the Munros," p. 6). From
this Highland clan the Munros of New Eng
land are descended.
(I) William Munro, born 1672-73, first ap
pears in Bristol, now Rhode Island, then a
part of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, in
1698. His farm extended from the Gray farm
on the north to Mount Hope farm on the
south, and the title deeds remained in the
family until after 1900. William Munro was
the executor of the estate of his neighbor,
Colonel Henry Mcintosh (Mount Hope
Farm), and managed the property for' Mcin
tosh's widow. He was a member of the first
vestry of St. Michael's Church, of which
church his descendants for five successive gen
erations in the line below described have also
served as vestrymen. He died April 28, 1746,
in the seventy-third year of his age. He mar
ried Mary Lindsay, born 1684-85, died Novem
ber 8, 1760. Their remains now rest in Major
Munro's lot on the Neck, in Bristol. William
Munro's children were : Hezekiah, born July
27, 1702, died August 15, following; William,
born November 20, 1703; Nathan, June 11,
1706; Bennett, mentioned below; George, Au
gust 31, 1710; Nathaniel, October 27, 1712;
Benjamin, November 16, 1714; Mary, Decem
ber 15, 1716.
(II) Captain Bennett Munro, fourth son of
William and Mary (Lindsay) Munro, was
born October 1, 1708, in Bristol, and lived for
some years on Mount Hope Farm. The rec
ords show that he was the second largest slave
owner in the town, and that he bore the mili
tary title of captain. He died September 25,
1775, and was "followed to the grave by thir
teen mournful sons and daughters." He mar
ried, in the latter part of 1733 (intentions re
corded October 13, 1733) Sarah, daughter of
that Nathaniel Bosworth who in 1680 had built
the first house in Bristol. (This house is still
standing). She was born February 2, 1716,
died August 12, 1754. Children: Nathan, born
October 3, 1734; Nathaniel, October 20, 1736;
William, April 7, 1738; George, August 26,
1740; Sarah, November 25, 1742; James,
March 10, 1745; Edward, mentioned below;
Bennett, July 28, 1749; Henry, July 30, 1752;

Benoni, August 11, 1754. He appears to have
had a second wife with the same baptismal
name, as the following children of Bennett and
Sarah Munro are recorded in Bristol : Jemima,
born March 30, 1757; Samuel, November 27,
175.8; Royal, October 8, 1762. The second
wife died September 25, 181 1, aged ninety-two
years. Her death was caused by her clothes
catching fire.
(Ill) Edward Munro, sixth son of Captain
Bennett and Sarah (Bosworth) Munro, was
born April 14, 1747, in Bristol, where his life
was passed. He died March 10, 1835. He
married Sarah Hoar, born 1749-50, died Au
gust 12, 1796. Children, recorded in Bristol,
are: Henry, born May 28, 1771 ; Sarah, April
3, 1777; Bennett, mentioned below.
(IV) Bennett (2) Munro, son of Edward
and Sarah (Hoar) Munro, was born Decem
ber 19, 1785, in Bristol, and passed his life in
that town. He was a vestryman of St.
Michael's1 Church. He married (first) May
16, 1808, Sally, daughter of Daniel- and Sus
annah (Ward well) Gladding. He married
(second) July 6, 1817, Lucy Abell, of Seekonk,
daughter of Preserved Abell, who was quarter
master-sergeant of Walker's Massachusetts
regiment in the war of the revolution. Chil
dren of first marriage : Edward, born April
28, 1810; Phebe Howland, August 19, 18-12,
died 1815; Elinor, October 6, 1814. Children
of second marriage: Sally Gladding, born Jan
uary 22, 1819 ; John Bennett, mentioned be
low ; Permelia Abell, October 11, 1822;,
George, January 2, 1825; Otis, November 10,
1-827; Lucy Bennett, January 15, 1830; Fran
ces Sidney, August 3, 1831 ; Crawford, Febru
ary. 16, 1834; Anne Durfee, July 30, 1837;
Charles Bennett, November 17, 1839.
(V) John Bennett Munro, second son of
Bennett (2) Munro, and second child of his
second wife, Lucy (Abell) Munro, was born
September 20, 1820, in Bristol, and continued
to reside in that town. He represented his
native town in the state assembly from 1853
to 1857 inclusive. He married, December 25,
1846, Abbe Howland Batt, daughter of Cap
tain James and Hannah (Waldron) Batt,
born January 10, 1824, in Bristol, granddaugh
ter of Thomas and Lucretia Waldron, of
Bristol. Thomas Waldron served eight months
as a private in Captain William Throop's com
pany of Rhode Island militia in the revolution.
Captain James Batt, son of James and Mary
Batt, came from Dorsetshire, England, to
Rhode Island. The children of John Bennett
Munro now living are: 1. Wilfred Harold,
mentioned below. 2. Walter Lee Munro, M.
D., born 1857; graduated Bachelor of Arts at
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1882; he graduated from the medical depart
ment of Harvard University in 1885, and has
since practiced medicine in Providence; from
1887 to 1913 he was surgeon of the Rhode
Island Hospital ; he also has for many years
been visiting physician of St. Vincent De Paul
Infant Asylum, and consulting physician of
St. Joseph's Hospital; he is the author of vari
ous articles in the medical journals of the day.
3. Dana Carleton Munro, born 1866 ; graduated
from Brown University, Master of Arts, 1890;
L. H. D., 1912; is now professor of European
history in the University of Wisconsin ; he is
the author of several well-known text-books.
4. Annette Gardner Munro, is dean for women
in the University of Rochester.
(VI) Wilfred Harold Munro, son of John
Bennett and Abbe Howland (Batt) Munro,
was born August 20, 1849, in Bristol. He
was graduated Bachelor of Arts from Brown
University in the class of 1870, receiving sub
sequently the degree of Master of Arts. In
1910 he was made a Doctor of Letters by
Hobart College. In 1870-71 he was master in
De Veaux College, Niagara Falls, New York,
and was associate principal in St. Mark's
School, Salt Lake City, in 1871. In 1873 ne
traveled in South and Central America, and
from 1875 to 1879 was principal of the Aca
demic Institute at Le Roy, New York. From
1881 to 1899 he was president of De Veaux
College, and in 1890-91 was a student at the
universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg, Ger
many. From 1891 to 1899 he was associate
professor and director of the university exten
sion at Brown University, and in 1899 became
professor of European history. Since 1912
he has been professor emeritus of Brown Uni
versity. He is a world-wide traveler. Pro
fessor Munro has written much on historical
and other topics, and is the author of the "His
tory of Bristol, R. I.," published in 1880; Pic
turesque Rhode Island," 1881, and "The Most
Successful American Privateer," 1913. He
has written numerous reviews and articles for
encyclopedias, and is the editor of the works
of William H. Prescott, twenty-two volumes,
published in 1905-06. In speaking of this
work at the time of its completion the "Brown
Alumni Monthly" said: "For a number of
years Professor Munro has been engaged in
editing the works of Prescott. The fruits of
his labors now appear in the sumptuous 'Mon
tezuma' edition of Prescott, issued by the Lip-
pincott's, in twenty-two volumes. Professor
Munro has added to the original text the re
sults of late research in the various fields cov
ered by Prescott's histories." He is also the
editor of the second and the third record books
of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower De-
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scendants. Professor Munro is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, of
which he served as governor, made eligible
through Lieutenant Preserved Abell (1668-
1724), Rehoboth, Massachusetts, who was ser
geant in King Philip's war, ensign in 1690, and
lieutenant under Captain Samuel Gallup in
Phipps' expedition against Canada, 1690. He
is a member of the Rhode Island Society of
Mayflower Descendants, of which he was the
first governor, made eligible through Richard
Warren, James Chilton and William Brewster.
He is also a member and past president of the
Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, to which he was made eligible
through the services of his great-grandfather,
Edward Munro (above), his great-grand
father, Preserved Abell (above), and his great
grandfather, Thomas Waldron (above). Since
1906 he has been president of the Rhode Island
Historical Society. He is a member and past
president of the Rhode Island Alpha of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society; of the Barnard Club,
and of the Rhode Island Churchmen's Club.
He is also a member of the American Anti
quarian Society; the Wisconsin Historical So
ciety; the Minnesota Historical Society, and
the American Historical Association. In 1910
he was elected to the school committee of the
city of Providence and is still serving as a
member of that body.

This old Colonial name has
BARTLETT representatives in every state
in the Union, and many have
borne it who occupied positions of distinction,
not only in New England, but in many of the
central and western states. There are several
families of the name in this country, and the
name is found under various spellings in the
pioneer records of many sections of New Eng
land. Probably the first immigrant was Rich
ard Bartlett, bora about 1575, in England, who
came to America with six children and settled
in Newbury, Massachusetts, in or before 1637.
A large proportion of the early representatives
of this family were resident upon the seacoast,
and engaged in sea-going affairs. It has con
tributed several able clergymen and other pro
fessional men, and has borne its share in the
development of civilization. Joseph Bartlett
was an early settler in New Cambridge or
Newtown, now Newton, Massachusetts, and
his descendants are many in this country now.
The family mentioned below seems to have
belonged to Rhode Island or its immediate
vicinity. (I) John Bartlett was at Weymouth, Massa
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don, same colony, in 1671. In 1682 he re
moved to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where he
purchased land on the sixth of June in that
year, and was buried there August 17, 1684.
Rehoboth then included what is now Cumber
land, Rhode Island, and his residence was in
the latter town, near the then line between
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the Black
stone river. He lived on the north side of
Mill river, above the mill pond. He built the
minister's house in Mendon, and received a
grant of twenty acres for a home lot in that
town, January 1, 1672. In the March meeting
of that year the town voted to charge him ten
pounds for the land. On April 14 of that year
he drew lot No. 9 is the meadows, which- lay
on both sides of Beaver pond brook, on the
north side of the Charles river, and east of
Caleb's Hill. This was in what is .now Mil
ford. During the terrible five years of King
Philip's war he probably resided in" Weymouth
or Braintree. As above noted he purchased,
in June, 1682, fifty acres of land in Rehoboth,
in that section of the present town of Cum
berland, now known as Manville. The inven
tory of his estate amounted to one thousand
three hundred and one pounds seventeen shil
lings and three pence, which was greater prop
erty than most people possessed in his time.
This included a one-half interest in a grist
mill, with five acres of land; his homestead,
with fifty acres, and much other property. His
wife Sarah survived him more than two years
and was buried January 17, 1687. Children:
John, born February 11, 1666, in Weymouth;
Samuel ; Jacob ; Moses ; Sarah ; Mary, Janu
ary 1, 1679, in Mendon; Noah, January 29,
1680; Daniel, January 24, 1684, in Rehoboth.
His whereabouts during the Indian war are
unknown, and no record of the birth of four
of his children has been discovered.
(II) Jacob Bartlett, third son of John and
Sarah Bartlett, was born about 1670, and was
allied with the Society of Friends, as were his
sons. In early life he resided in Providence.
In the tract of land lying between Wrentham
and Mendon, which was not then -attached to
any town, he purchased, October 29, 1696, a
homestead and settled there. On July 26, and
again on October 27, 1713, were laid out to
him thirty-six-acre tracts, and on November
23, 1723, still more land adjoining that he
already possessed. He also purchased much
land and was a very substantial and thrifty
citizen. On November 24, 1737, he conveyed
lands to his sons, Joseph and Jacob, and prob
ably lived with the latter in his old age. About
1696 he built a house, whose massive timbers
and other substantial qualities have preserved
it in good condition until the present time. In

addition to farming he engaged in the manu
facture of hardware and edged tools. His
homestead was in what is now Bellingham,
Massachusetts. His wife's name was Sarah.
The old burying ground on the Bartlett farm
is situated on his homestead, where he was
probably buried. Children: Damaris, mar
ried, January 5, 1717-18, Obadiah Ballou;
Moses, lived in Gloucester; Abner, married,
April 30, 1734, Abigail Arnold; Jacob; Joseph,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Joseph Bartlett, youngest child of
Jacob and Sarah Bartlett, received by deed his
father's homestead, February 6, 1738, together
with two other tracts, making fifty-five acres
in all. His uncle, Moses Bartlett, deeded to
him his homestead of forty acres, one mile
from the town of Providence, March 1, 1726,
and he was made a freeman of that town. He,
however, sold this farm to the previous owner
in May, 1746, for five hundred pounds, and
returned to the paternal homestead, which
stood on the west side of what is now known
as the Mendon road, near a modern school
house, where the old Boston turnpike inter
sects, and stood on a knoll facing south. Be
side farming he was interested in the black-
smithing business on Muddy brook, established
by his father. With his wife he was a mem
ber of the Smithfield monthly meeting of
Quakers, and he served as a member of the
town council. They are described as very
pious and exemplary people, and Joseph was
wont to write poetry on religious topics, some
of which is still preserved. He died December
1, 1 791. He married, November 7, 1744, Abi
gail Aldrich, whose birth and parentage it has
been impossible to establish. She survived
him nearly thirteen years, dying about 1804.
Children : Eber, mentioned below ; Abel, born
May 18, 1748; Chloe, August 4, 1749; Jacob,
February 24, 1751 ; Abner, April 9, 1752;
Phebe, May 9, 1756; Joseph, November 9,
1758; Livin, May 6, 1763.
(IV) Eber Bartlett, eldest child of Joseph
and Abigail (Aldrich) Bartlett, was born Sep
tember 7, 1745, in Cumberland, died Septem
ber 13, 1781, and was buried in the Bartlett
burying ground on the homestead. He is de
scribed as a man of medium- height, well pro
portioned, and of gentlemanly character. He
built a house on the east side of the Mendon
road, on the homestead, where he died. He
married, January 6, 1771, Zibiah Razee, daugh
ter of David and Freelove (Scott) Razee, born
October 13, 1746, in Cumberland, died about
1821-22. After the death of her husband she
worked as a tailor, enjoyed a high reputation
in that line, and was thus enabled to rear and
educate her children. In her old age she was

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cared for by her son, the subject of the next
paragraph, and was buried in the graveyard
beside the Elder Ballou Meeting House, where
the son and his family were also interred. Chil
dren: David, born August 3, 1771 ; Bani, men
tioned below; Chloe, April 21, 1777; Seluma,
December 18, 1780.
(V) Bani Bartlett, second son of Eber and
Zibiah (Razee) Bartlett, was born December
19, 1772, in Cumberland, where he made his
home, and died July 24, 1835. He resided
early in Bellingham, and built a house on the
north side of the road from Woonsocket to
Diamond Hill, one-half mile east of the old
Mendon road. He inherited land from his
father, which he occupied for a few years and
then rented, and removed to the original home
stead. He constructed a dam on the brook
near his house, and built a scythe shop, which
was a large one for the day, and there engaged
for many years in the manufacture of scythes,
which found a ready market in the neighbor
ing cities. On retiring from this business he
returned to the hill farm, where he died. He
was tall and straight, of light complexion, and
is described as a very handsome man. For
over twenty years he was deputy sheriff of
Providence county, and was very often made
administrator of estates which testifies to his
business ability and high standing in the com
munity. He married, January 27, 1802, Phila
delphia Pickering, of Bellingham, Massachu
setts, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bellew)
Pickering, of Mendon, born October 31, 1779,
died April 4, 1837. Children: William, born
October 22, 1802;- Maria, April 20, 1804, died
1809; Eber, September 18, 1805; Sarah, Feb
ruary 29, 1808; Varnum, May 10, 1810;
Leonia, June 16, 1814; Burrill, mentioned be
low. (VI) Burrill Bartlett, youngest child of
Bani and Philadelphia (Pickering) Bartlett,
was- born October 22, 1816, in Cumberland, re
ceived his education in the public schools of
his native town, and in young manhood was a
teacher. Later he engaged in the mercantile
business in Danielson, Connecticut, where he
continued a few years, after which he accepted
the position of superintendent of the cotton
mill at Spragueville, Rhode Island, where he
continued until 1856. He then located in
Providence, Rhode Island, and became a mem
ber of the firm of Phetteplace, Bartlett & Com
pany, soap manufacturers, and continued in
active business for a period of thirty years,
after which he retired, and continued to reside
in Providence until his death, April 21, 1905.
His body was deposited in the family lot in
Smithfield, Rhode Island. He served as a
member of the city council of Providence, rep

resenting the sixth ward, from 1865 to il„VJ
elected as an independent Republican. He
was active in many good works, and esteemed
as a man and citizen. Pie married, February
20, 1845, Ann Maria Phetteplace, of Sprague
ville, born August 8, 181 8, died in October,
1906, daughter of Asel and Nancy (Smith)
Phetteplace (see Phetteplace V). Children:
Lewis Leland, born March 27, 1848; Asel
Phetteplace, mentioned below.
(VII) Asel Phetteplace Bartlett, junior son
of Burrill and Ann M. (Phetteplace) Bartlett,
was born November 14, 185 1, in Providence,
where he was educated in the public schools
and a select school at Hudson, New York.
After leaving school he became a salesman,
and for some time was employed by the whole
sale grocery, firm of Daniels & Cornell. In
1890 he became a partner in the firm of
Sanders, Whitford & Bartlett, later Whitford,
Bartlett & Company, engaged in the same line,
one of the oldest establishments in Providence,
with warehouse on Pine street. There he con
tinued in active business until his death, which
occurred suddenly in Providence, September
8, 191 1. His body was laid to rest in Swan
Point Cemetery in that city. He was a mem
ber of the Masonic fraternity, having attained
the Knights Templar degree, and was also a
member and treasurer of the Providence Ath
letic Club. He was esteemed and respected
for his business ability and many fine personal
qualities. He married, November 1, 1876,
Mary Anna Palmer, born May 15, 1850,
daughter of Richard (2) and Patience Hath
away (Andrews) Palmer (see Palmer VIII) ;
she died at her home on Benevolent street,
Providence, February 18, 1906, and was laid
away in the Swan Point Cemetery. She was
much devoted to her home and family, and an
esteemed member of society. They had one
daughter, Florence Bartlett, who now resides
at the paternal homestead in Providence.
(The Palmer Line).
The name Palmer was originally a common
title of those who had returned from the Holy
Land, and brought back, as a token and re
membrance of their pilgrimage, a palm branch.
Thus in Marmion, Canto I, xxiii :
Here is a holy Palmer come,
From Salem first, and last from Rome.
Certain returned crusaders, and as a recog
nition of their merit, were knighted and allow
ed to assume this title as a surname. It is a
common name in England, and there were sev
eral representatives of it in New England
previous to 1635.
(I) William Palmer, the first American im-

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migrant of the name, came to this country in
the ship "Fortune" with his son William in
1 62 1, and was followed two years later by his
wife Frances in the ship "Anne." He settled
in Plymouth. His land was in what was later
set off as Duxbury. There he lived and died.*
His will was dated December 4, 1636, and
proved March 5 following; it mentions "young
wife Rebecca." By his second wife he had a
son Henry and a daughter Bridget. His land
in Duxbury was sold in 1638 to John Bissell.
(II) William (2) Palmer, son of William
(1) Palmer, was born in England. He mar
ried, in Scituate, March 27, 1633, Elizabeth
Hodgkins. He died in Plymouth before his
father; and after his death his widow married
(second) John Willis. She sued the executors
of the will of William (1) Palmer because she
had been the wife of William (2) Palmer for
a share in the former's estate, but it was denied
her. (Ill) William (3) Palmer, son of William
(2) and Elizabeth (Hodgkins) Palmer, was
born June 27, 1634. He married a daughter of
Robert Paddock, of Plymouth, who died early.
He settled in Dartmouth, of which he was one
of the first purchasers, and died in 1679, previ
ous to June 3. He left a widow, whose name
was Susannah ; a tradition makes her a Hatha
way; at any rate Arthur Hathaway was joined
with her in the administration of her husband's
estate. He left children, including William,
born 1663, and John, mentioned below.
(IV) John Palmer, son of William (3) and
Susannah Palmer, was born May 18, 1665, in
Dartmouth, and settled in Cumberland, Rhode
Island, where he died October 13, 1753. He
married (first) in 1686, Elizabeth, surname
unrecorded, born December 6, 1666, died Feb
ruary 9, 1717, in Cumberland. He married
(second) August 28, 1718, Sarah Blood, born
1682, died July 25, 1766, in Cumberland. Chil
dren of first marriage : John, born November
24, 1687; Sarah, September 29, 1689; Eliza
beth, November 17, 1691 ; Edward, August 29,
1693; Job, September 17, 1695; Aaron, De
cember 19, 1697; Anna, March 24, 1699, died
1716; Isaac, January 14, 1701 ; William, March
18, 1703; Esther, August 31,- 1706, died 1723;
Plenry, October 11, 1709. Children of second
marriage: Gideon, born June 29, 1719; Moses,
mentioned below; Simeon, July 13, 1723.
(V) Moses Palmer, ninth son of John Pal
mer, and second child of his second wife,
Sarah Blood, was born May 8, 1721, in Cum
berland, where he died in November, 1759.
He married (intentions entered February 9,
•William Palmer, of Yarmouth, whom Savage
confounds with the Plymouth man, was entirely
a different person, who ultimately removed to Lone
Island, and died there.

1745), probably February 25, of the same year,
Susan Taylor, daughter of Philip and Comfort
(Dennis) Taylor, born March 30, 1724, in
Little Compton, Rhode Island. Children:
Richard, mentioned below; Philip, born July
2, 1749 : Gideon, June 23, 175,1 ; Mercy, Janu
ary 21, 1753; Moses, February 19, 1755; Com
fort, February 9, 1757; Ruth, November 14,
1758- The Taylor family is descended from Robert
Taylor, who removed from Scituate, Massa
chusetts, to Newport, where he was made a
freeman in 1655, and served as juryman, Octo
ber 22, 1673. He was a ropemaker by occupa
tion, and was appointed by the assembly, Octo
ber 29, 1673, as prisonkeeper. In 1680 he was
taxed one pound seven shillings and six pence,
indicating that he was possessed of consider
able property for his day. He married, in No
vember, 1646, Mary Hodges, and they were
the parents of: Mary, born November, 1647;
Anna, February 12, 1650; Margaret, January
30, 1652 ; Robert, October, 1653 ; John, men
tioned below ; Peter, July, 1661 ; James, died
October 7, 1690. John, second son of Robert
Taylor, was born in July, 1658, at Newport,
where he died June 9, 1747. He settled in
Little Compton, and his will made careful pro
vision for his widow, devised lands to his sons,
fifty pounds each to two of his daughters, and
other property to grandchildren and others.
The inventory of his estate amounted to eight
hundred and seventy-six pounds two shillings,
which included wearing apparel valued at
sixty-one pounds ten shillings ; books, three
pounds, and paper bills, sixty-five pounds four
teen shillings. He married (first) in 1681,
Abigail, whose family name is not preserved,
born 1660, died September 16, 1720. His sec
ond wife, Sarah, died 1764, without issue.
Children: Mary, born October 25, 1682; Anna,
September, 1686; Margaret, July, 1688; Lydia,
April, 1691; John, January 7, 1694; Robert,
December, 1695 ; Philip, mentioned below.
Philip, youngest child of John and Abigail
Taylor, was born May 13, 1697, in Little
Compton, Rhode Island, where he died No
vember 10, 1739. He married there, June 9,
1723, Comfort Dennis, born March 12, 1703,
daughter of Robert and Susanna (Briggs)
Dennis. Children : Susan, mentioned below ;
Abigail, March 4, 1726; Deborah, Septem
ber 22, 1729; Joseph, December 3, 1731 ; Com
fort, May 28, 1735; Philip, July 10, 1737.
Susan, eldest child of Philip and Comfort
(Dennis) Taylor, was born March 30, 1724,
and married, in 1745, Moses Palmer, as above
related. (VI) Richard Palmer, eldest child of Moses
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19, 1747, in Little Compton, where he died
February 10, 1783. He married, June 1, 1775,
Sally Gray, daughter of Samuel and Deborah
(Peck) Gray, born April 8, 1754, died Sep
tember 8, 1836, having been more than fifty-
three years a widow. She was a descendant
of a very old Rhode Island family, founded by
Edward Gray, a merchant of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, where he settled as early as
1643, and died in June, 1681. He received a
grant of a double share of land at Plymouth,
June 3, 1662, and was made freeman, May 29,
1670. He received a grant of one hundred
acres at Titicut, March 4, 1674, was grand
juryman, 167 1, and deputy to the general
court in 1676-77-78-79. He was appointed
a member of a committee, July 13, 1677, to
examine the accounts of the colony and set
tled the accounts of the various towns on
account of the recent Indian war. He had
nine-thirtieths of a tract of Tiverton lands,
purchased with others, March 5, 1680, for
eleven hundred pounds. The inventory of his
estate amounted to one thousand two hundred
and thirty pounds twelve shillings and eleven
pence. He married (first) January 16, 1651,
Mary Winslow, born 1630, died 1663, daugh
ter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. He
married (second) December 12, 1665, Doro
thy, daughter of Thomas and Ann Lettice. She
survived him and married (second) Nathaniel
Clarke. Children of first marriage : Desire,
born November 6, 165 1 ; Mary, September 18,
1653; Elizabeth, February 11, 1658; Sarah,
August 12, i659; John, October 1, 1661. Chil
dren of second marriage : Edward, born Janu
ary 31, 1667; Susanna, October 15, 1668;
Thomas, died November 5, 1721 ; Hannah;
Peter; Lydia; Anna; Samuel, mentioned be
low. Samuel, probably youngest child of Ed
ward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray, was bom
1682, in Plymouth, and settled in Little Comp
ton, Rhode Island, where he died March 23,
1712. His will made liberal provision for his
family, and the inventory of his estate amount
ed to one thousand one hundred and thirty-
eight pounds nine shillings and seven pence.
He married, July 13, 1699, Deborah Church,
born 1672, daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Tucker) Church. She survived him and mar
ried (second) Daniel Thorpe.
The Church family was founded by Richard
Church, born 1608, in England, who came to
America in the fleet with Governor Winthrop
in 1630, and was admitted a freeman of the
Massachusetts colony, October 19 of that year.
He first located in Weymouth, whence he re
moved to Eel river, in the Plymouth colony,
where he was admitted freeman, October 4,
1632. On the tax lists of Duxbury he appears

as early as 1637. He was a carpenter by trade,
and in association with John Thompson was
engaged to build the first meeting house and
the first gun carriage in Plymouth in 1637. In
1649 he sold his land there and removed to
Eastham, Massachusetts, was in Charlestown,
Massachusetts colony, in 1653, and in 1657 at
Hingham. In 1664 he was in Sandwich. He
served often at inquests, was frequently a
referee in disputes, and was sergeant of a mili
tary company, serving in the Pequot war. He
died December 27, 1668, at Dedham, and was
buried at Hingham, beside his wife. He mar
ried, in 1636, Elizabeth Warren, daughter of
Richard Warren, the pioneer, who came to
Plymouth in the "Mayflower," and was among
the Pilgrim fathers. All of his descendants
are eligible to membership in the societies of
Colonial Dames, Mayflower Descendants and
the Colonial Wars. His eldest son, Joseph
Church, born 1638, died 171 1, was a carpenter,
and married, December 30, 1660, Maria
Tucker, born October 8, 1640, in Hingham,
daughter of John Tucker, a pioneer of Water-
town and Hingham, Massachusetts. Their
daughter became the wife of Samuel Gray in
1699, as above noted. Children : Samuel, men
tioned below ; John, born April 14, 1701 ; Doro
thy, January 14, 1704; Joseph, January 20,
1706; Lydia, October 16, 1707; Simeon, De
cember 15, 1709; Ignatius, September 18, 171 1,
died next year. Samuel (2), eldest son of
Samuel (1) and Deborah (Church) Gray, was
born April 16, 1700, in Little Compton, where
he died April 22, 1764. He married there, in
1720, Hannah Kent, born October 3, 1703, in
Barrington, Rhode Island, eldest child of Sam
uel and Desire (Cushman) Kent, granddaugh
ter of Joseph Kent, who came from England
to Dedham, Massachusetts. She was also a
granddaughter of Thomas and Ruth (How
land) Cushman, the last-named a daughter of
John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, both pas
sengers of the historic "Mayflower." She died
in Little Compton. Children : Desire, born
1721, died young; Deborah, 1723, died young;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Hannah, born April
22, 1728; Deborah, November 26, 1730; Lydia,
March 20, 1733; Desire, July 7, 1735; Mary,
July 5, 1739; Thomas, September 7, 1741 ;
Simeon, January 16, 1743 ; Lois, June 12, 1745.
Samuel (3), eldest son of Samuel (2) and
Hannah (Kent) Gray, was born May 12, 1726,
in Little Compton, where he died March 30,
1813. He married, in 1750, Deborah Peck,
born February 23, 1733, died 1791, daughter
of Jonathan and Hannah (Loring) Peck (see
Peck IV). Their daughter Sarah became the
wife of Richard Palmer, as above noted. Chil
dren: Amaziah, born June 24, 1777; Susanna,

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May 3, 1779; Gideon, mentioned below; Rich
ard, December 21, 1782.
(VII) Gideon Palmer, second son of Rich
ard and Sarah (Gray) Palmer, was born May
1, 1 78 1, in Little Compton, and died at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, June 5, 1854. He mar
ried Elizabeth Simmons, born 1778-79, in
Newport, Rhode Island, daughter of Jonathan
and Elizabeth Simmons, of that city (see Sim
mons VI). She died in Providence, March
16, 1853, at the age of seventy-four years.
They had children: Benjamin, born 1814-15,
died June 1, 1870; Richard, mentioned below;
Mary P., married Nathaniel (2) Searles, of
Newport. (VIII) Richard (2) Palmer, second son of
Gideon and Elizabeth (Simmons) Palmer, was
born March 22, 1812, in Providence, where he
died September 13, 1862, at the age of fifty
years. He married, February 22, 1838, Pa
tience Hathaway Andrews, born November 24,
1817, died June 7, i860, in Providence. Chil
dren: Eleanora S., born 1844, died July 9,
1858; Fallie O., born 1847, died August 23,
1868; Mary Anna, mentioned below; Sarah S.,
born September 26, 1852.
(IX) Mary Anna, youngest child of Rich
ard (2) and Patience H. (Andrews) Palmer,
was born May 15, 1850, in Providence, and
married, November 1, 1876, Asel P. Bartlett,
of Providence (see Bartlett VII).
(The Simmons Line).
This name is of Dutch origin and is a con
traction of the name as it first appeared in this
country. At the time of the early Dutch immi
gration surnames were not common in Hol
land, and every man took his father's bap
tismal name, with the syllable son added for a
patronymic. Thus it occurs that this name is
derived from Symonson. The original immi
grant came from Leyden, Holland, and thus
fell among the Pilgrims of New England. The
first settlers of New York were his com
patriots, and in the empire state are many
ancient families still preserving some form of
the old Dutch names.
(1) Moses Simonson, or Symonson, a native
of Leyden, Holland, came to Plymouth, Massa
chusetts, in the ship "Fortune," in 1621, and
settled at Duxbury, near Plymouth. His father
was a communicant of the Dutch church at
Leyden, and Moses was one of the "pur
chasers," which entitled him to admission to
the Plymouth church in this country, where
his children were baptized. He was made a
freeman in 1634 and served three years later
as a juryman. In 1638 he received a grant of
land in addition to one previously made. He
had sons, Moses and Thomas.

(II) Moses (2) Simmons, son of Moses
(1) Simonson, or Simmons, as the name very
quickly was rendered, by the English-speaking
people, resided in Duxbury, where he died in
1689. He had a wife Sarah and children:
John, Aaron, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah, all
of whom married and reared families.
(Ill) John Simmons, son of Moses (2) and
Sarah Simmons, married, about 1670, Mercy
Pabodie, born January 2, 1649, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie. The
last-named was a daughter of John and Pris
cilla (Mullens) Alden, of the "Mayflower,"
and their descendants are all eligible to the
Society of Mayflower Descendants. Children :
John, born February 22, 1671 ; William, men
tioned below; Isaac, January 28, 1674; Mar
tha, November, 1677.
(IV) William Simmons, second son of John
and Mercy (Pabodie) Simmons, was born Sep
tember 24, 1672, in Duxbury, and joined the
movement from that town which was largely
instrumental in the settlement of Little Comp
ton, then in Massachusetts, now a part of
Rhode Island. He married, in 1696, Abigail,
born 1680, daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Tucker) Church, elsewhere mentioned in this
work (see Palmer VI). She died July 4, 1720,
and was survived for about forty-five years
by her husband, who died in 1765. Children:
Mercy, born July 1, 1697; William, September
30, 1699; Lydia, December 15, 1700; Joseph,
mentioned below; John, August 14, 1704; Abi
gail, July 14, 1706; Rebecca, May 8, 1708;
Mary, October 15, 1709'; Benjamin, February
21, 1713; Ichabod, January 6, 1715; Peleg,
December 21, 1716; Sarah, August 26, 1718.
(V) Joseph Simmons, second son of Wil
liam and Abigail (Church) Simmons, was
born March 4, 1702, in Little Compton, where
he lived, and married, March 28, 1726, Rebecca
Wood, born December 20, 1704, in Little
Compton, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Thurston) Wood. Children: John, born
January 29, 1727; Abigail, December 7, 1728;
Edward, mentioned below; Betsey, March 8,
:733; Jonathan, August 20, 1736; Ephraim,
June 29, 1739; Susanna, July 8, 1742; Rebecca,
February 7, 1746; Joseph, 1748.
(VI) Edward Simmons, second son of
Joseph and Rebecca (Wood) Simmons, was
born March 16, 1730, in Little Compton, and
settled in Newport, where he was an active
and prominent citizen, and died! September 10,
1803. He married, May 10, 1753, in Newport,
Mary Robinson, born October 8, 1736, in South
Kingstown, daughter of William and Abigail
(Gardiner) Robinson, of that town (see Rob
inson line). She died March 17, 1804, aged
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record only two children of Edward and Mary
(Robinson) Simmons, namely: Martha, born
April 1, 1754, and Jonathan, mentioned be
low. The church records indicate that Ed-ward
Simmons had a daughter, who died in October,
1760, under two years old, and a son who died
in August, 1762, born in that year; another
son, unnamed, in January, 1764.
(VII) Jonathan Simmons, eldest son of
Edward and Mary (Robinson) Simmons, was
born in July, 1755, in Newport, where he made
his home, and died before 1819. Jonathan
Simmons, of Newport, was an ensign in the
First Newport Regiment in the revolutionary
war under Colonel George Irish. He was later
a lieutenant in Colonel Elliott's regiment of
revolutionary soldiers in 1776, when his pay
account was certified at nine pounds five shil
lings and eight pence. Jonathan Simmons'
wife was Elizabeth, but no record of his mar
riage can be discovered to show her birth or
parentage. She died his widow at Bristol,
Rhode Island, December 4, 1819, aged sixty-
three years. The fragmentary records of
Rhode Island show that Mary Ann Simmons,
daughter of Jonathan, was married in Provi
dence, April 14, 1822, to Jonathan Bassett
Nichols. The family records show that he had
also a daughter, Elizabeth, who became the
wife of Gideon Palmer, of Providence (see
Palmer VII). (The Robinson Line).
The Robinson family for two hundred and
twenty-five and more years has been identified
with the history of Rhode Island. A family
of means and of large land possessions in the
colonial period it was one of position and in
fluence in social and public life, and gave to
the state a deputy governor. More recent gen
erations have sustained the family prestige,
and through the past century and at this time
in turn members in different generations.
(I) Rowland Robinson was, according to
tradition, born in 1654 at or near Long Bluff,
Cumberland, England. He ran away from
home, it is said, and came to the American
colonies, and here bound himself to a carpen
ter. He was rapidly advanced, and as time
passed became possessed of large tracts of
land, building thereon, partly with his own
hands a dwelling house. He was married, in
1676, to Mary Allen, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Bull) Allen, from Barnstable, Eng
land, the latter a daughter of Governor Bull.
Mr. Robinson died in 1716 at his residence
near the cove of the Pettaquamscutt river, and
the remains of himself and wife were buried
in the Narragansett Friends' burying ground,
South Kingstown, some two miles south of

Tower Hill village. He purchased largely of
the Pettaquamscutt and Point Judith lands,
improved these lands, building a number of
homes thereon, and sold farms of from one
hundred and fifty acres to three hundred acres
each. To Rowland and Mary Robinson were
born: John, 1679, married, in 1703, Mary
Hazard; Joseph, 1679; Elizabeth, 1680, mar
ried, in 1698, William Brown ; Margaret, 1683,
married, in 1703, Thomas Mumford; Sarah,
1685, married, in 1712, James Barton; Row
land, 1688; Mercy, 1690, married, in 1714,
Colonel John Potter ; William, mentioned be
low ; Mary, 1705, married, in 1727, Stephen
Hazard; Rowland (2), 1706; Sarah (?), 1707,
married, in 1723, Ichabod Potter Jr., and Ruth,
1709, married, in 1728, Joseph Underwood.
(II) Hon. William Robinson, fourth son of
Rowland and Mary (Allen) Robinson, was
born in 1693, resided in South Kingstown,
Rhode Island, where he purchased his lands
from the Indians. He was one of the promi
nent public men of his time, and served as
deputy from 1724 to 1728, from 1734 to 1736,
and in 1741-42 ; was speaker of the house of
deputies in i735>-36 and 1741-42, and was
deputy governor from 1745 to 1748. He died
September 19, 1751, and was survived more
than twenty years by his widow, Abigail, who
died May 22, 1772. He married (first) in
1718, Martha Allen, widow of James Allen,
and daughter of John Potter, born December
20, 1692, died in November, 1725. He mar
ried (second) March 2, 172-7, Mrs. Abigail
Hazard, widow of Caleb Hazard, and daughter
of William and Abigail (Remington) Gardi
ner. Children of first marriage: Rowland,
born October 8, 1719; John, July 23, 1721 ;
Mary, 1723, died young; Elizabeth, June 16,
1724; Martha, November 11, 1725; children of
second marriage: Christopher, born 1727, died
young; William, August 1, 1729; Mary, men
tioned below ; James, December 31, 1738; John,
January 13, 1743; Christopher, December 31,
1747- (III) Mary, fourth daughter of Hon. Wil
liam Robinson, and third child of his second
wife, Abigail, was born October 8, 1736, in
South Kingstown, and became the wife of Ed
ward Simmons, as above noted (see Simmons
VI). (The Peck Line).
The name of Peck is one of the oldest in
this country, and was planted by several immi
grants in the settlement of New England. The
name is of great antiquity. It is found in Bel-
ton, Yorkshire, England, at an early date, and
from there scattered not only over England
but into every civilized country. A branch
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whose descendants removed to- Beccles, county
Suffolk, and were the ancestors of Joseph
Peck, of Hingham, county Norfolk, the Amer
ican immigrant. Arms : Argent on a chevron
engrailed gules three crosses formed of the
first. Crest : A cubit arm erect, habited azure,
cuff argent, hand proper, holding on one stalk
enfiled with a scroll, three roses gules, leaved
vert. The arms to which Joseph Peck was
entitled are as given above, quartered with
those of the Brunning and Hesselden families.
(I) John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, mar
ried a daughter of — ¦  Melgrave. (II)
Thomas Peck married a daughter of

Middleton, of Middleton. (Ill) Robert Peck,
of Belton, married  ¦ Tunstall. (IV)
Robert (2) Peck, of Belton, married

Musgrave. (V) John (2) Peck, of Belton,
married  Watford. (VI) Thomas (2)
Peck, of Belton, married  Blaxton, of
Blaxton. Children : Thomas, mentioned be
low ; John, settled in Northamptonshire. (VII)
Thomas (3) Peck, of Belton, married 
Littleton. (VIII) John (3) Peck, of Belton,
married  Carre. (IX) John (4) Peck,
of Belton, married  Fleming. (X)
John (5) Peck married  ¦ Wembourne.
Children: 1. John, whose daughter, his sole
heiress, married John Ratcliffe, thus taking the
estate of Belton out of the direct line. 2. Rich
ard, mentioned below. (XI) Richard Peck
married —  Brunning. (XII) Richard (2)
Peck, of Hesden, married  Savill.
(XIII) Thomas (4) Peck, of Hesden, married
 Bradley. (XIV) Richard (3) Peck,
of Hesden and Wakefield, Yorkshire, married
a Hesselden. Children : John, mentioned be
low; Richard, died young; Thomas. (XV)
John (6) Peck married Isabel Lacie, of Brom-
bleton, and was a lawyer. Children : Richard,
mentioned below ; Thomas ; Catherine ; Rob
ert; John; Margaret. (XVI) Richard (4)
Peck was of Wakefield, and married Joan,
daughter of John Harrington, Esq. Children :
Richard, mentioned below ; Margaret ; Isabel ;
Joan; Judith; Elizabeth (XVII) Richard
(5) Peck married Alice, daughter of Sir Peter
Middleton. Children : John, mentioned be
low ; Margaret ; Ann ; Elizabeth ; Isabel.
(XVIII) John (7) Peck, of Wakefield, mar
ried Joan, daughter of John Aune, of Trick-
ley. Children : Richard, married Anne
Hotham ; John ; Thomas ; Ralph ; Nicholas ;
Francis; Robert, mentioned below. (XIX)
Robert (3) Peck was of Beccles, county Suf
folk. He married (first)  — Norton,
(second)  Waters. Children: John;
Robert, mentioned below ; Thomas ; Joan ;
Olivia; Margaret; Anne. (XX) Robert (4)
Peck, was of Beccles, and died 1593, aged

forty-seven. He married Helen, daughter of
Nicholas Babbs, of Guilford. Children: 1.
Richard, died without issue, 1615, aged forty-
one. 2. Nicholas, born 1576; married Rachel
Yonge, 1610. 3. Robert, born 1580; took de
gree at Magdalen College, Cambridge, Bach
elor of Arts, 1599; Master of Arts, 1603; in
ducted over parish of Hingham, England, Jan
uary 8, 1605. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5.
Margaret. 6. Martha. 7. Samuel, died 1619.
(I) Joseph Peck, the American ancestor,
was baptized in Beccles, county Suffolk, Eng
land. In 1638 he and other Puritans, with his
brother, Rev. Robert Peck, their pastor, fled
from the persecutions of their church to Amer
ica. They came in the ship "Diligent," of
Ipswich, John Martin, master. The records of
Hingham, Massachusetts, state: "Mr. Joseph
Peck and his wife, with three sons and a
daughter and two men servants and three maid
servants, came from Old Hingham and settled
at New Hingham." He was granted a house
lot of seven acres adjoining that of his brother,
and he remained at Hingham seven years, and
then removed to Seekonk. At Hingham he
was deputy to the general court in 1639. He
took an active part in town affairs ; was select
man, justice of the peace, assessor, etc. In
1641 he became one of the principal purchasers
of the Indians of that tract of land called
Seekonk, afterwards the town of Rehoboth,
including the present towns of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, and Seekonk and Pawtucket,
Rhode Island. He removed, 1645, to his new
home. An incident of the trip is found in the
town records of Rehoboth. "Mr. Joseph Peck
and three others at Hingham, being about to
remove to Seaconk, riding thither they shel
tered themselves and their horses in an Indian
wigwam, which by some occasion took fire,
and, although there were four in it and labored
to their utmost, burnt three of their horses to
death, and all their goods, to the value of fifty
pounds." He was appointed to assist in mat
ters of controversy at court, and in 1650 was
authorized to perform marriages. He was
second on the tax list. In some instances
land granted to him is still owned by his
descendants. His house was upon the plain
in the northerly part of the "Ring of the
Town," near the junction of the present
Pawtucket with the old Boston and Bristol
road, not far from the Boston and Providence
railroad station. He died December 23, 1663.
His sons united in the amplification of the
written will which was made on his death bed,
and the court accepted it as a part of the will.
He married (first) Rebecca Clark, at Hing
ham, England, May 21, 161 7. She died and
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of his second wife is unknown. Children:
Anna, baptized in Hingham, March 12, 1618,
buried there July 27, 1636; Rebecca, baptized
there May 25, 1620, married  — Hubbard ;
Joseph, baptized August 23, 1623; John, born
about 1626; Nicholas, mentioned below;
Simon, born about 1635 ; Samuel, baptized in
Hingham, Massachusetts, February 3, 1639;
Nathaniel, October 31, 1641 ; Israel, March
11, 1644, died young; Samuel and Israel, July
19, 1646.
(II) Nicholas Peck, third son of Joseph
and Rebecca (Clark) Peck, was baptized April
9, 1630, in England, and was about eight years
of age when he came with his parents to this
country. He settled at Seekonk, now a part
of Rhode Island, in the district known as
Seekonk Plain, in 1645. His home was in the
southeastern part of the town, and he was
active in public affairs, serving as rater (as
sessor) and selectman, and elected deputy in
1669. With the exception of the years 1687-
88, when the town did not elect any deputies,
be continued to serve in that capacity from
1677 to 1690. He was an officer of militia,
serving as ensign from 1677 to 1684, was sub
sequently lieutenant, and later captain, and
died May 27, 1710. He married (first) Mary
Winchester, eldest daughter of Alexander
Winchester, of Plymouth colony, died Novem
ber 6, 1657. His second wife, Rebeccah, died
November 2, 1704. Children: Joseph, born
October 27, 1656; John, August 8, 1660; Heze
kiah, April 1, 1662; Mary, September 15,
1664; Jonathan, mentioned below; Nicholas,
June 6, 1669; Elisha, April 11, 1673.
(Ill) Jonathan Peck, fourth son of Nich
olas Peck and child of his second wife, Re
beccah, was born November 5, 1666, in
Seekonk, and settled at what was then known
as Peck's Hill, two miles from the city of
Bristol, on Warren road. His landed posses
sions here were very extensive, including what
was afterward several fine farms, and remain
ed in the name until 1838. He died about
1717, as his inventory was presented to the
probate court July 3 of that year. He mar
ried, March 31, 1695, Elizabeth Throope. Chil
dren: Mary, born January 23, 1697; Jona
than, mentioned below; Nicholas; November
11, 1700; William, November, 1702; Isaac,
1703; Elizabeth, 1707; Thomas, 1711 ; the first
three recorded in Bristol.
(IV) Jonathan (2) Peck, eldest son of
Jonathan (1) and Elizabeth (Throope) Peck,
was born September 12, 1698, in Bristol, re
sided on the paternal homestead, where he
accumulated a very handsome property, and
died February 25, 1757. He married (first)
in Little Compton, Rhode Island, January 5,

1721, Hannah Wood, born October 7, 1701,
in that town, daughter of John and Mary
(Church) Wood, died June 1, 1730. He mar
ried (second) intentions published November
3, 1 73 1, is Bristol, Hannah Loring, of Little
Compton, born 1706, in Duxbury, Massachu
setts, died August 11, 1756, in Bristol, daugh
ter of Lieutenant Thomas and Deborah (Cush
ing) Loring, and granddaughter of Thomas
Loring, born 1629, in England, son of Deacon
Thomas Loring, who came to America and set
tled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. He
was from Axminster, Devonshire, England,
and his wife, married in England, was Jane
Newton. Thomas (2) Loring very soon set
tled in Hull, Massachusetts, and married, De
cember 13, 1657, Hannah, daughter of Nich
olas Jacob. She survived him, married (sec
ond) Stephen French, and died October 20,
1720. Their eldest son, Thomas (3) Loring,
was born March 15, 1668, in Hull, and pur
chased land in Duxbury, where he settled in
1702. He filled various official stations in that
town, and married, April 19, 1699, at Boston,
Deborah, daughter of Hon. John Cushing.
They had children: Thomas; Joshua, bora
1 701 ; Nathaniel; Benjamin; Hannah, and
Deborah. The elder daughter, born 1706, in
Duxbury, became the second wife of Jonathan
(2) Peck, as above noted. Children of first
marriage of Jonathan Peck: Rebecca, born
September 26, 1721 ; John, April 24, 1723;
Jonathan, January 4, 1725 ; Nicholas, March
14, 1727; Hannah, February 20, 1729. Chil
dren of second marriage : Deborah, mentioned
below; Elizabeth, born 1734; Thomas, June
24, 1736; Sarah, February 11, 1738; Lydia,
March 16, 1740; Mary, December 30, 1741 ;
Abigail, May 11, 1743; Loring, January 19,
1745 ; Nathaniel, December 3, 1746.
(V) Deborah Peck, third daughter of Jona
than (2) Peck, and eldest child of his second
wife, Hannah Loring, was born February 23,
1733, in Bristol, and became the wife of Sam
uel (3) Gray, of Little Compton (see Palmer
VI). (The Phetteplace Line).
The name of Phetteplace has been identified
with Rhode Island from a very early period
in this country, especially in connection with
Providence. The family is said to be descend
ed from Sir John Fetteplace, of Oxfordshire,
England, who was in turn a descendant of
Fetteplace, the Norman usher of William the
Conqueror, who came into England with that
monarch. (I) Philip Phetteplace was an inhabitant of
the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as
early as 1681, appearing as witness to a will
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the American ancestor of those bearing the
name in Rhode Island. He had children :
Sarah, Walter, Philip and Samuel.
(II) Walter Phetteplace, son of Philip
Phetteplace, lived in Providence and Glocester.
In 171 1 he purchased land in Providence, and
afterward bought and sold extensively. In
1731-36, 1745-46, he was deputy from Gloces
ter to the colonial assembly, and was one of
the three members of that body who opposed
the building of additional works at Fort
George in 1746, believing the expenditure too
great for tbe colony in its condition at that
time. He died December 29, 1753. He mar
ried, April 4, 1709, Joanna, daughter of Na
thaniel and Joanna (Inman) Mowry, and they
had children: Jonathan, Job, Philip, Benjamin,
Sarah, Mercy and Mary.
(Ill) Jonathan Phetteplace, eldest child of
Walter and Joanna (Mowry) Phetteplace, re
sided in Glocester, where he married, March
26, 1750, Susanna Smith. The Glocester rec
ords show sons Eliakim and Ezekiel.
(IV) Eliakim Phetteplace, son of Jonathan
and Susanna (Smith) Phetteplace, was born
March 3, 1755, and died February 12, 1831,
in Glocester. He married, October 8, 1775,
Lucretia Evans, born March 22, 1759, died
January 12, 1832. Children, recorded in
Glocester: Area, born December 11, 1776;
Thankful, August 22, 1778; Rhoda, May 30,
1781 ; Nancy, September 24, 1785; Asel, men
tioned below ; Phebe, February 19, 1794.
(V) Asel Phetteplace, son of Eliakim and
Lucretia (Evans) Phetteplace, was born Feb
ruary 24, 1785, in Glocester, in that portion
which is now the town of Burrillville, and
settled on a farm in Smithfield, Rhode Island,
where he passed his remaining years, and ac
quired a handsome property, dying November
11, 1838. His body was deposited in the fam
ily burial place on the farm. He married
Nancy Smith, born January 14, 1783, daugh
ter of Captain James and Nancy (Waterman)
Smith, of Smithfield, died February 18, 1873.
Children: Henry M., born June 23, 1812;
James Smith, June 12, 1814; Thurston, June
17, 1816; Ann Maria, mentioned below; Zal-
mon, April 19, 1821 ; unnamed son, 1824; Car
oline Lucretia, September 12, 1825.
(VI) Ann Maria, eldest daughter of Asel
and Nancy (Smith) Phetteplace, was born
August 8, 1818, in Smithfield, and became the
wife of Burrill Bartlett, of Providence (see
Bartlett VI). (The Andrews Line).
Through the greater part of the last one
hundred years there have figured quite promi
nently in the business of Providence several

generations of the Andrews family, descend
ants of John Andrews, of Boston, Massachu
setts. (I) John Andrews appears in Boston as
early as 1656, a cooper by occupation. A
family Bible has recorded in it that he was "a
sea-cooper, and came from Wales to Amer
ica." He died June 25, 1679, at Boston. Mr.
Andrews married Hannah, daughter of Ed-
mond Jackson, of Boston, and their children
were: John, born November 21, 1656, died
young; Hannah, February 20, 1658; Susanna,
August 12, 1659; Martha, December 5, 1660;
Mary, baptized February 4, 1661 ; John, men
tioned below; James, born December 1, 1664,
died young; Edmond, November 4, 1665;
James, March 17, 1667; Samuel, May 18,
1668. (II) Captain John (2) Andrews, son of
John, the settler, was born September 20, 1662,
in Boston, died July 25, 1742, aged eighty
years. He was a housewright. He purchased
in 1692 several tracts of land and a dwelling
house in what is now Bristol, Rhode Island,
then "New Bristol," Massachusetts, and re
sided there for a period. In 1701 he sold this
property and purchased a farm in Taunton,
Massachusetts, including a water privilege, on
the bank of Three-Mile river, where, with Na
thaniel Linkon, he built a grist mill and saw
mill, the location then taking the name of An
drews' Mills, which it retained about one hun
dred years, and is now Westville. Here Cap
tain Andrews resided the remainder of his
life, a pian highly esteemed. He held various
town offices, was chairman of the board of
selectmen four years, and also deputy sheriff.
He married (first) Alice, born July 6, 1666,
daughter of John and Alice Shaw, of Wey
mouth ; she died February 1, 1735, and he mar
ried (second) Mary, widow of Jacob Barney
and daughter of Rev. Samuel Danforth, fourth
minister of Taunton, Massachusetts. Children
of first wife: Alice; John, born 1686; Edr-
moncl; Samuel, mentioned below ; Seth; Han
nah ; Martha, and Susanna.
(Ill) Samuel Andrews, son of Captain
John (2) and Alice (Shaw) Andrews, mar
ried (first) Elizabeth Emerson; she died
March 14, 1724, and he married (second)
Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Pitts, of Dighton,
Massachusetts. It appears by Bible record his
children born to Elizabeth were : Samuel, Eliz
abeth and Ruth. His children born to his wife
Mary, all in Dighton were : Ebenezer ; John,
born March 13, 1729; Elkanah, March 4, 1731 ;
Stephen, December 22, 1734; Mary, November
30, 1736; Zephaniah, February 9, 1738; Mary,
August 2, 1741, and Job, April 2, 1744.
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Samuel and Mary (Pitts) Andrews, was born
March 13, 1729, in Dighton, and was a mari
ner, commanding vessels at sea. He died in
June, 1767, at St. Eustatius, West Indies. He
married, in 1754, Elizabeth Talbot, of Dighton,
and had children : Elizabeth, married Samuel
Whitmarsh; Hannah, born 1761, married Eph
raim Hathaway ; John, mentioned below ; Icha
bod, 1767, died young.
(V) John (4) Andrews, only surviving son
of John (3) and Elizabeth (Talbot) Andrews,
was born 1764, in Dighton, and was drowned
in that town, January 23, 1807, in his forty-
third year. He married (first) Patience Hath
away, of Dighton, and (second) Sally Pettis,
of Somerset, Massachusetts.
(VI) William Andrews, son of John (4)
and Patience (Hathaway) Andrews, married
Delilah Mason.
(VII) Patience Hathaway Andrews, daugh
ter of William and Delilah (Mason) Andrews,
became the wife of Richard Palmer, of Provi
dence (see Palmer VIII). She died in Provi
dence, June 7, i860, aged forty-two years.

William Sewall, the English
SEWALL progenitor, was of Coventry,
county Warwick. He married,
about 1540, Matilda Home. Children: Wil
liam, mayor of Coventry, 1617, left no male
issue ; Henry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry- Sewall, son of William Sewall,
was born about 1 544, in Coventry ; was mayor
of Coventry, 1589 and 1606; served as alder
man there. He married, about 1569, Margaret
Gresbrook. He was very well-to-do. His will
was dated September 1, 1624, and his widow's
will was dated May 7, 1628. She was men
tioned in the will of her father, Alverey
(Avery) Greazebrook, September 24, 1575.
Children: Henry, mentioned below; Richard,
Anne, Margaret.
(Ill) Henry (2) Sewall, son of Henry (1)
Sewall, was born in 1576, baptized April 8,
He married Anne Hunt in England. He sent
his son Henry to New England in 1634 with
cattle and provisions, and he soon followed
him, settling at Newbury, and in 1646 moved
across the river to Rowley, Massachusetts.
During the last part of his life he is said to
have been slightly deranged, and this doubtless
explains difficulties which he had in his youth
many times with his parents, which are men
tioned in their wills. He died at Rowley in
1657. Child: Henry, mentioned below.
(IV) Henry (3) Sewall, son of Henry (2)
Sewall, was born in 1614. He came to this
country in the ship "Elizabeth and Dorcas,"
with an outfit of servants and cattle for a
plantation, and after spending the winter in

Ipswich, he moved in the spring of 1635 to
Newbury, Massachusetts. Pie was made free
man there May 17, 1637, and became a promi
nent citizen. Pie married Jane, daughter of
Stephen Dummer, March 25, 1646, receiving
from his father five hundred acres of land in
Coventry as a wedding gift. In 1646-47 he
and his wife returned to England with ber
parents, and they lived at Tamworth, Bishop
Stoke and Badesly. Henry Sewall visited his
father in- New England once, returning to old
England, and he made a third voyage at his
father's death, to settle the estate, intending
to return to his family. He bore a letter from
the lord protector, Cromwell, to the governor
of Massachusetts, praising him for his indus
try and good character, and evidently the re
turn of the Stuarts to power influenced him
to remain in this country, as he sent for his
family and lived in Newbury the remainder of
his life. He was deputy to the general court
in 1661, 1663, x668 and 1670. He died May
16, 1700, aged eighty-six years. His widow
died January 13 following, aged seventy-four
years. Children : Hannah, born at Tamworth,
in Warwickshire, May 10, 1649 ; Samuel, born
March 28, 1652, at Bishop Stoke, England,
chief justice of Massachusetts, wrote a diary
which has preserved much valuable family his
tory; John, mentioned below; Major Stephen,
born August 19, 1657 ; Jane, born October 29,
1659, at Badesly, England ; Anne, born Sep
tember 3, 1662, at Newbury; Mehitable, born
May 8, 1665; Dorothy, born October 29, 1668.
(V) John Sewall, son of Henry (3) Sewall,
was born at Badesly, Hampshire, England, Oc
tober 10, 1654, and baptized there November
22, 1654. He married, October 27, 1674, Han
nah Fessenden, of Cambridge, and lived with
his father at Newbury, dying August 8. 1699.
Children : John, died without issue ; Henry ;
Plannah ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Nicholas,
of York; Thomas, died unmarried; Stephen.
(VI) Samuel Sewall, son of John Sewall,
was born about 1688, at Newbury, Massachu
setts. He settled about 1708 in York, Maine,
where his sister was then living. He became
an elder of the church and held various posi
tions of trust. He died April 25, 1769, a man
whose loss was deeply felt by the community.
He married (first) Lydia Storer, and (second)
Sarah (Bachelder) Titcomb. Children of first
wife : John, died young ; Dummer, died young ;
Lydia; Mercy; Mary; Hannah. Children of
second wife: Major Samuel, inventor of the
method of building piers for bridging rivers ;
Sarah ; Jane, twin of Sarah ; Deacon John ;
Joseph ; Moses, of York ; Judge David ; Colo
nel Dummer; Henry, mentioned below.
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Sewall, was born in 1740, and died in 1795.
He lived in Bath, Maine. He married (first)
Mary Stimson, who was born in 1741, and
died in 1777. He married (second) Sarah
Henry, who was born in 1753, and died in
1834. Children by first wife: Samuel, men
tioned below; James, born 1766, died 1839;
Jane, born 1768, died 1842; Henry, born 1772,
died 1850; Betsey. Children by second wife:
Sarah, died in infancy; David, born 1782, died
1864; Joshua, born 1784, died 1870; Nancy,
born 1786, died 1872; Hannah, born 1789, died
1852; Polly, born 1791 ; Charles, born 1794.
(VIII) Samuel (2) Sewall, son of Henry
(4) Sewall, was born on Arrowsick Island,
now a part of Georgetown, Massachusetts, in
1764, and died at Rye, New Hampshire, in
1826. He was apprenticed to a tanner and
followed that trade from the time he was
twelve years old until he was eighteen. He
then lived in Bath, Maine, until he was twenty.
After clearing a farm on Sandy river he mar
ried, in 1787, Abigail Trask, daughter of
Thomas Trask, of Jefferson, Maine. She was
born in 1762. Their home was between Farm
ington and Chesterville, Maine, in the wilder
ness. He was a millwright. In 1796 he be
came interested in the ministry and held meet
ings in Farmington in 1800. He was licensed
to preach in Lincoln, Maine, as a Congrega
tional minister, and in 1805 he moved to Edge-
mont, being ordained pastor there in 1807. He
moved to Phippsburg, Maine, in 1814, and in
1824 was the first missionary to the Isle of
Shoals. Children : Rufus, born 1787, died
1880; Stimson, born 1789, died 1870; Jason,
born 1791, died 1881 ; Lydia, born 1793, died
1796; Samuel, born 1794, died 1847; Abigail,
born 1796, died 1840; Philena, born 1798, died
1837; Levi, mentioned below; Esther, born
1802, died 1847; son> bom 1803, died at birth;
Benjamin Chapman, born 1805; Kiah Bayley,
born 1807, died 1865.
(IX) Levi Sewall, son of Samuel (2)
Sewall, was bora in 1800, at Farmington,
Maine, and died at Island Falls, about i860.
He lived in Phippsburg, Maine, until 1826,
when he moved to Farmington, where he re
mained until 1839. He then moved to Read-
field, Maine, where he remained until 1841,
when he went to Wilton, Maine, remaining for
a year. His property was invested in the
Readfield shoe factory, which was burned in
1841, in August. In June, 1841, he and his
sons began clearing a farm six miles from
Crystal Stream. He was a shoemaker by
trade. He finally settled at Island Falls, five
miles distant from any neighbors. He intend
ed to build a factory there, in order to get
water power from Island Falls, but never car

ried out his design. He was a Whig in poli
tics. He married Rebecca Alexander, daugh
ter of David Alexander, of Harpswell, Maine,
where she was born January 28, 1801. She
died at Island Falls in 1891. Children: 1.
David, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born No
vember 30, 1826, died at Island Falls, March,
1913 ; married Nancy Brown, of Patten, sister
of Charles Brown. 3. Sarah, born July 12,
1828, died at Island Falls, May, 1901, unmar
ried; was postmistress of Island Falls for
many years ; school teacher before appointment
as postmistress. 4. Pauline Wentworth, born
1830, died at Island Falls, May 22, 1874; mar
ried Oliver Dow, born in New Brunswick, a
mill owner at Island- Falls, farmer in New
Limerick, Maine, deceased. 5. Levi Henry,
born 1833, died 1835. 6. Levi, born 1835, died
1838. 7. George, born 1837, died at Augusta,
Maine, 1862, unmarried; enlisted in First
Maine Cavalry, and died of diphtheria in Au
gusta. 8. Wilmot, born 1840, died 1841. 9.
Otis Macomber, born 1842, died 1845. 10.
William Wingate, mentioned below. 11. Fred
Stimson, born 1849, died 1862.
(X) David Sewall, son of Levi Sewall, was
born at Phippsburg, Maine, July 10, 1825, and
died at Island Falls, April, 1907. He married
Harriet Coburn, who was born December 28,
1832, in Lee, Maine, and who now lives at
Island Falls. He was a lumberman. Children.
born at Island Falls: 1. Olive, born August
11, 1862, died September 25, 1862. 2. George
Mitchell, born March 6, 1864; married Etta
Parker, May 26, 1887, of Minneapolis, and
they live at Racine, Wisconsin. 3. Samuel
Trask, born May 23, 1866; resident of Racine.
4. Alice Coburn, born February 27, 1869; lives
at Island Falls. 5. David Alexander, born No
vember 3, 1870, died December 4, 1874. 6.
Mary Grace, born July 29, 1874; married
Plarry C. Hillman, February 26, 1901, of
Island Falls.
(X) William Wingate Sewall, son of Levi
Sewall, was born in Island Falls, Maine, April
13, 1845, the first white child born in that
town. He attended the public schools, and
largely through private study became well edu
cated. He was foreman for Roosevelt's Elk
Horn Ranch in North Dakota for two years
and a half, 1883^86. In the fall of 1886 he
returned to Island Falls, where he has since
cultivated his farm. He has several camps
for hunters on his place. In politics he is a
Progressive, formerly a Republican. He has
been an assessor in Island Falls for several
years and for four years was collector of cus
toms of the district of Aroostook under Presi
dent Roosevelt and President Taft. In re
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Mary Sherman, who was born in New Bruns
wick, Canada, August 2, i860, and removed
with her parents to Aroostook county when
she was three years old. She is a daughter of
Caleb Sherman, a native of New Brunswick,
farmer and lumberman, who died at Oakfield,
Maine, in 1904. Children of Caleb Sherman :
1. Susan, married Charles Berry, of Houlton,
a merchant; she resides at Island Falls. 2.
Joseph, died at Masardis, Maine ; was a miner
in the west and afterward a farmer in Ma
sardis. 3. William, twin of Joseph, resides at
Island Falls, a lumberman. 4. Anna, died at
Oakfield; married William Collis, a saw mill
owner of Oakfield. 5. Lavinia, died at Ma
sardis; married Abon Weeks, of Patten,
Maine, lumberman. 6. Elizabeth, married Wil
liam Harper, carpenter and farmer of Smyrna,
Maine. 7. Ambrose, resides in Oakfield ; mar
ried (second) Adra Thompson. 8. Fred, re
sides at Island Falls, a farmer and merchant.
9. Mary, married William W. Sewall, men
tioned above. 10. Walter, married Amy
Stevens, of Smyrna. Children of William
Wingate Sewall : 1. Lucretia, born April 28,
1884; married Thomas Tracy, of Amity,
Maine; clerk in the grange store at Island
Falls. 2. Fred Stinson, mentioned below. 3.
Harriet, born August 6, 1888; married George
Harmon, of Island Falls, now of Warner, New
Hampshire, principal of the high school; chil
dren: Harriet, born 1910; Donald, March 4,
1913. 4. Merrill, born July 17, 1891 ; married
Myrtle Trafton, of Island Falls, in charge of
his brother's camps at Mattawamkeag Lake.
5. Nancy, born October 7, 1894, student in the
high school.
(XI) Fred Stinson Sewall, son of William
Wingate Sewall, was born at Elk Horn, North
Dakota, August 5, 1886. He attended the pub
lic schools of Island Falls, leaving the high
school in 1903 to work in the woods. Since
then he has been lumbering and assisting his
father on the homestead. In partnership with
his father he has lumber camps on Mattawam
keag Lake. In politics he is a Progressive,
formerly a Republican. In religion he is a
Congregationalist. He is a member of the
Island Falls Lodge of Free Masons, and of
Daniel Randall Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.
He married, June 20, 1912, at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, Phillis G. Garverich, who was
born at Dauphin, Pennsylvania, daughter of
Dr. Frank Garverich, of Harrisburg, and Mar
garet (Steese) Garverich. Children of Dr.
Garverich: 1. Phillis G., mentioned above. 2.
Susan, born 1883. 3. Mary, born 1889, stenog
rapher. 4. Elizabeth, born February, 1893.
Augustus Garverich, father of Dr. Frank Gar
verich, was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, a

retired merchant, living at Dauphin. Mr. and
Mrs. Sewall have one child, Clara Elizabeth,
born at Island Falls, July 24, 191 3.

Isaac Buzzell or Buswell, the
BUZZELL immigrant ancestor of most of
the New Hampshire, Maine
and Massachusetts families of this surname,
was born in England about 1593. He was in
Salisbury, Massachusetts, and one of its pro
prietors in 1639. He was admitted a freeman,
October 9, 1640. He drew land in the first
division at Salisbury, and again in 1640. The
general court allowed his removal to Hampton
in 1639, but ne returned to Salisbury. His
wife Marguerite died September 29, 1642, and
he married (second) Susanna  , who
died March 21, 1676-77. He died July 8, 1683.
His will was dated April 9, 1680. He be
queathed to son William and his wife; daugh
ter Sarah; son-in-law, John Gill, hus.band of
daughter Phebe; Philip Browne, husband of
daughter Mary, and son, Samuel Buzzell; to
the three children left by his son Isaac, and to
grandchild Isaac, son of William. Children:
William; Sarah; Phebe, married John Gill;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Mary, born August
29, 1645, married Philip Brown; Isaac, born
July 24, 1650.
(II) Samuel Buzzell, son of Isaac Buzzell,
was bora about 1628, in England. He was a
planter in Salisbury and Bradford, Massachu
setts. He was of Salisbury in 1662 and prob
ably 1669, but of Andover in 1696 and in Box-
ford at the time of his death. Savage says he
may have been at Marblehead for a short time
in 1668. His will, dated April 9, 1704, was
proved July 27, 1704, naming his wife Sarah
executrix, and his brother-in-law, Solomon
Keyes, of Chelmsford, and John Boynton, of
Boxford, overseers. Children: Isaac, born
August 6, 1657; John, mentioned below; Sam
uel, born May 25, 1662, probably died before
his father; William, born August 5, 1664;
Robert, born February 6, 1666-67 ; James, born
March 30, 1668-69; Mary; Joseph, married
Mary Harvey.
(Ill) John Buzzell, son of Samuel Buzzell,
was born October 7, 1659. He resided at Box-
ford from about 1700 to 1707, perhaps longer.
The death of a John Buzzell is recorded at
Boxford, February 22, 1750-51. Family tradi
tion has it that he was from the Isle of Jersey,
meaning doubtless his father. It seems prob
able that all the Buzzells of this vicinity were
related closely, but the spelling of the name
was so varied as to bewilder the investigator.
Many of the settlers of Marblehead and the
towns of that vicinity were from Jersey,
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French Huguenots and their descendants. In
1694 John Buzzell has a grant of land in
Dover. He married (first) Elizabeth  ,
(second) Sarah  , or vice versa. The
children cannot be given in their natural order.
At Boxford, John Buzzell married, July 8,
1700, Elizabetb Stiles. Children: James, mar
ried, in 1733, Rachel  , and settled in
Wells, Maine; John, mentioned below.
(IV) John (2) Buzzell, son of John (1)
Buzzell, was born about 1700, died in 1775.
He settled in Madbury, New Hampshire. He
was sergeant in the Louisburg expedition in
the French and Indian war in 1745. He mar
ried, January 4, 1724-25, .Sarah Wilbor, who
died in New Durham, New Hampshire, Sep
tember 25, 1788. Among their children was
John, mentioned below.
(V) John (3) Buzzell, son of John (2)
Buzzell, settled in Barrington, and became pro
genitor of a numerous progeny in Barrington,
Northwood and vicinity. He married Phebe
Case, and was a farmer living on the north side
of North River Pond. Children: Solomon,
borri January 5, 1761, served in revolution;
Reuben, born about 1770; John, had the Bar
rington homestead; Samuel; Benjamin, men
tioned below. The census of 1790 gives as the
heads of families in Barrington, John, Sam
uel and Benjamin, who had sons over sixteen,
and Daniel, Moses and Rachel.
(VI) Benjamin Buzzell, son of John (3)
Buzzell, was born in 1780-90, in New Hamp
shire, and died in Monroe, Maine, in 1870. He
came to Monroe with his wife and all his chil
dren were born there. He was a farmer. He
married (first) —  Fowler, of New Hamp
shire, and she died in Monroe. He married
(second) Polly Morrill, who was born in
Monroe and died there. Children, all by first
wife, born in Monroe: 1. Abner, died in New
Hampshire, a farmer ; married a daughter of
William Blaisdell, of New Hampshire ; chil
dren : i. Alpheus, was a forty-niner in Cali
fornia, died there ; ii. Charles, died in Monroe,
a prominent farmer and trial justice, taught
school, married Sarah Larrabee, of Winter-
port, Maine, and had Hodgdon C, attorney in
Belfast, Maine, and a daughter who married
 Rogers, of Belfast ; iii. Hodgdon, died
in Everett, Massachusetts, served in Massa
chusetts legislature and was trustee of a bank.
2. Elijah, died in Monroe, Maine, farmer ;
married Marian Ford, of Monroe; children:
Ezra, John, Elijah, served in civil war ; George,
Noah, Hannah, married  Curtis; Lydia,
married John Ford ; Eveline, married Wilder
Parker, lives in Monroe ; Nancy, married
 Swain, mariner. 3. Noah, died in
Bangor, Maine, unmarried. 4. Delia, died in

New Hampshire; married

Curtis, of

Monroe, who served in Confederate army dur
ing civil war. 5. Benjamin, mentioned below.
6. Sarah, married  — Cheney, of New
Hampshire. 7. Nancy, lives in Bangor; mar
ried Hartford Pond, of that place, merchant.
(.VII) Benjamin (2) Buzzell, son of Ben
jamin (1) Buzzell, was born in Monroe,
Maine, in 1817, and died there in 1891. He
was a mason and farmer, and also ran a store
there for a number of years. He was a Demo
crat in politics, and for several years served
as collector. He married Martha E. Gilmore,
who was born in Belfast, Maine, in February,
1822, and died in Lynn, Massachusetts, in Feb
ruary, 1912. She was daughter of John Gil-
more, who was born in Belfast, Maine, about
1793, and died there about 1858. He was a
sailor and fisherman, and later a farmer. He
married  Patterson, who was born there
and died there about 1-864. Children of John
Gilmore, born in Belfast: 1. David, died in
Belfast, sailor and farmer. 2. James, died at
Belfast, sailor, ship carpenter and later a mer
chant. 3. Sewall, lives in Augusta, Maine. 4.
George, died in Belfast aged seventy years ;
fisherman, farmer and carpenter; married
Hannah Bean, of New Hampshire. 5. Sally
Ann, deceased. 6. Martha E., married Ben
jamin Buzzell, mentioned above. 7. Lucy,
lives in Camden, Maine, over eighty years of
age ; married Alonzo Bean, a retired ship car
penter and farmer, brother of Hannah Bean.
Children of Benjamin and Martha E. (Gil
more) Buzzell, born in Monroe: 1. Eugene,
died in infancy. 2. Adroy, died in infancy.
3. Emma L., born 1848, died 191 2, in Lowell,
Massachusetts ; married Henry Kay, of Bath,
•Maine, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts,
carpenter, painter and sailor; child, Jennie,
died aged seventeen. 4. Charles Frederick,
mentioned below. 5. Eleanora, born 1852;
married Abner Jordan, of Bangor, farmer,
who died in 1907; she lives in New York City;
children: Frank, of New York City; Wallace,
served as an electrician in Spanish-American
war, is now in charge of wireless station at
Key West; and Cora, of New York City. 6.
Frank, born 1854; married Ella Carey, of
Bangor ; died 1909; was a merchant in Charles
town, Massachusetts. 7. Ada, born 1856; mar
ried William Dodd, of Bangor, and they live
in Lynn, Massachusetts. 8. Eugene, born
1858; married Lottie Cowan, of Dixmont,
Maine, and they live in Revere, Massachusetts,
where he is a contractor and builder ; children:
Benjamin, Lucy and Eugene. 9. Everett, born
1862; married Mabel White, of Chelsea,
Massachusetts, where they live; adopted son,
Walter, living with them.

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(VIII) Charles Frederick Buzzell, son of
Benjamin (2) Buzzell, was born in Monroe,
Waldo county, Maine, March 15, 1850. He
attended the public schools of his native town.
He assisted his father on the farm and learned
the trade of mason. From 1870 to 1872 he
followed his trade in Bangor. He lived one
year at Orino, Maine, and at Lewiston, Maine,
for three years. After a year in Belfast,
Maine, he came in 1877 to Caribou in that
state and since then has made his home in that
town. He has followed his trade in that town.
He owns a farm and some business property.
For a time he occupied this building, conduct
ing a general store. His farm is a mile and a
half from the village, on the Washburn road.
In politics he is a Democrat. He was road
surveyor for many years and constable for ten
years. He also served several terms as school
agent. He married, June, 1873, Lillian M. Gilman,
who was born in Jackson, Maine. She is a
member of the Christian church. They have
no children. Edwin Gilman, father of Lillian
M., was born in Jackson, Maine, 1819, died at
Monroe, 1870. He married Lucy Reynolds,
born at Burnham, Maine, 1833, died at Belfast,
1888. Children of Edwin Gilman, born at
Jackson: 1. Nora, born 1853, died at Brooks,
1903; married (first) Albert Newcomb, of
Monroe, a miller, (second) Llewellyn Stimp-
son, of Brooks, Maine, a farmer; had one
daughter, Lilly, married Fred Elkins, resides
at Thorndike. 2. Lillian M., married Charles
Frederick Buzzell, mentioned above. 3. Eu
gene, born 1857, died young. 4. Edwin, bora
1859. 5. William, born 1861, salesagent, died at
Belfast, a young man. 6. Lizzie, bora 1868;
married Frank Robinson, of Swanville, resides
at Kennebunkport, Maine, a merchant. Enoch
Gilman, father of Edwin Gilman, was born in
New Hampshire, and died in Jackson, Maine.
His children: 1. John, died at Jackson, a
farmer. 2. Enoch, died at Brooks, a farmer.
3. Edwin, mentioned above.

Daniel Marshall was a
MARSHALL farmer. He died in Kenne
bec county, Maine, when his
son Alfred was young. He married  ¦ — •.
Children: 1. Alvin, born 1806, died in Warren,
Kennebec county, Maine, farmer. 2. Alfred,
mentioned below. 3. Nancy, born October 11,
1810, died in Danforth, Maine; married Rob
ert Hinch, farmer and lumberman, who died
in Danforth. 4. Benjamin, born October 11,
1814, died in Kennebec county, farmer. 5.
Albert, born August 15, 1818. 6. Samuel, born
1819, died in Houlton, Maine. 7. Sarah, born
February 12, 1822, died in Kennebec county;

married Volunteer Witherell, who died in
Kennebec county.
(II) Alfred Marshall, son of Daniel Mar
shall, was born in Waterville, Maine, March
4. 1808, or at Vassalboro, Maine, and died at
Fort Fairfield, Maine, February 3, 1889. He
attended the schools at Waterville, and became
a farmer. He remained in Ludlow, Maine, for
some years, and in 1859 was a pioneer in Fort
Fairfield, where he cleared his farm. He was
a Republican in politics and held the office of
road surveyor. He was a member of Union
church. He married Aulena Wade, born in
Kennebec county, Maine, August 30, 181 1,
died at Fort Fairfield, July 12, 1888. She also
attended Union church. Children, born in
Ludlow, Maine: 1. Daniel, born September
15, 1836; lives in Mears, Michigan, a farmer;
married Hattie Souers, of that place; children
now living are : Isa, in Michigan ; Claud,
farmer in Mears, Michigan ; Charles, with par
ents. 2. Albert, born July 8, 1838, died in
Montana, 1913 ; married Abby Odlin, who died
in North Dakota; children: Gladys, married
Lawrence Franklin, who has a ranch in Mon
tana ; Inez, married  Thomas, who has
a ranch in Washington State ; Ethel, Aha and
Albert; Albert (2) served through the civil
war, enlisting in the fall of 1861 in the Fif
teenth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry.
3 Sarah, born January 20, 1841, died in
Manistee, Michigan; married Calvin Davis,
of Dexter, Maine ; one son living, Guy, of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 4. Allen, born April
27, 1843, died at Fort Fairfield, June 1, 1900,
unmarried ; was a farmer with Levi W. Mar
shall, mentioned below. 5. Charles, born Sep
tember 18, 1845; married (first) Emily Par
sons, of Caribou, Maine, then called Lyndon,
Maine, and had: Lillian, married George
Stevens, of Fort Fairfield, farmer, and Lena,
married Lee Smith, of Caribou, farmer; mar
ried (second) Mrs. Florence Butterfield; lives
in Caribou ; farmer ; served in civil war, 1864,
Sixteenth Maine Regiment, transferred to
Twentieth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infan
try. 6. Olive, born June 24, 1849; married
James R. Thurlough. 7. Alfred, born Decem
ber 5, 1852; married Mary Cole, of Freemont,
Michigan, merchant; one son living, Edward,
assistant cashier in Bank of Freemont. 8.
Levi W., mentioned below. 9. Thomas, born
August 30, 1857; lives at Fort Fairfield, un
married. 10. Mary, a cousin, daughter of
Samuel Marshall, was brought up with these
children, born at Houlton, Maine, 1854, died
1886, unmarried, at Fort Fairfield.
(Ill) Levi W. Marshall, son of Alfred
Marshall, was born in Ludlow, Maine, Decem
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field when he was five years old and he at
tended the public schools there. During his
boyhood he worked on his father's farm,
which he and his brother Allen inherited. He
now has one hundred and seventy-five acres
of land, of which one hundred and fifty acres
are under cultivation. His place is situated
some four miles from the village of Fort Fair
field, on- the Marshall road to Parker's Siding.
In politics he is a Republican. He has been
road surveyor of the town. He attends the
Free Will Baptist church, and is a member of
the Fort Fairfield Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry. He married, in Easton, Maine, Annie Eliza
beth Trafton, born in Victoria county, New
Brunswick, June 7, 1869. She attended the
public schools there and at Fort Fairfield (see
Trafton II). She is also a member of the
Grange, and attends the Free Will Baptist
church. Children: Glenwood, born February
1, 1894; Alfred. Wade, December 27, 1898;
Verna Estelle, November 23, 1900; Marion
L., March 8, 1903; Philip, April 8, 1910.
(The Trafton Line).
(I) Charles Trafton was born in St. John,
New Brunswick, Canada, about 1809, died in
Brainard, Minnesota, in 1891. His father, or
perhaps an earlier ancestor, came from Eng
land to this country with two brothers. He
settled in St. John, while one brother went to
New York and the other to Boston. He was
a loyalist at the time of the revolution. Charles
Trafton was a farmer in Victoria county, New
Brunswick, until the last three years of his
life, when he moved to Brainard to live with
his daughter Isabelle. He was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church. He married
Julia Hill. Children, order of birth not known:
1. George, died in Victoria county; was a
farmer ; married Mary Day, of Victoria county,
and she lives at Land Brook, Victoria county.
2. Wellington,* mentioned below. 3. Charles,
died at Forest City, Maine, unmarried, when a
young man. 4. Wallace, died in Minnesota,
lumberman, unmarried, when a young man.
5. Robert, a merchant in Montana ; married
Rankin Knowlton, born in Richmond, New
Brunswick. 6. Caroline, died in Richmond,
New Brunswick; married  Carnont, a
farmer there until his death. 7. Isabelle, mar
ried George Jenkins, of Richmond, New
Brunswick, now living in Brainard, Minnesota,
lumberman. (II) Wellington Trafton, son of Charles
Trafton, was born in Richmond, New Bruns
wick, about 1 841, died in Victoria county, New
Brunswick, June 11, 1876, He was a farmer
and lumberman in Victoria county. He mar

ried Elizabeth Jenkins, born in Richmond,
New Brunswick, in 1845, died in Victoria
county, January, 1887. Children, born in Vic
toria county: 1. John Franklin, born June 10,
1864; married Mrs. Mabel (Chesley) Stevens,
widow of Emery Stevens, of Fort Fairfield,
Maine, daughter of Samuel H. Chesley, of
Fort Fairfield; they live on Marshall road,
Fort Fairfield. 2. Cromwell Austen, born July
11, 1866; lumberman in New Brunswick; un
married. 3. Annie Elizabeth, married Levi
W. Marshall (see Marshall III). 4. Seymour
Thomas, born March 10, 1871 ; married 
McDonald, of Perth, New Brunswick; lives at
Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. 5. Allen E.,
born February 15, 1875 ; married Annie Shaw,
of New Brunswick; lives at Riley Brook, New
Brunswick; lumberman.

The Longley family is among
LONGLEY the earliest in New England,
where the immigrant ances
tor, Richard Longley, settled in the town of
Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1635. Some
of his children settled in Groton, Massachu
setts, where one of them was a resident pro
prietor of -extensive territory, which was
divided among his descendants. From this
section members of the family removed to
what is now the state of Maine, being among
the pioneer settlers of that district, then a part
of Massachusetts.
Charles Edmund Longley, a descendant of
this family, was born in 1850, in Sidney,
Maine, and- was- deprived of his parents by
death when he was about twelve years old.
He was thus thrown upon his own resources
as a boy, but was gifted with a worthy ambi
tion, and determined to make a place for him
self in the business world. Considerable pains
had been taken with his education, and he was
a student for some time at the Kent Hill Semi
nary. Going to Boston he found employment
as clerk in a clothing store, and by strict atten
tion to business rapidly acquired a knowledge
of the values of goods and of general business
principles. His industry and ability soon at
tracted the attention of his employer, and be
fore he had attained his majority he was in
full charge of the boys' clothing department.
At the age of twenty-six years he went to
Rhode Island and established himself in the
retail business at Providence, under the name
of the Boston and Providence Clothing Com
pany. This venture was a success from the
start, owing to the thorough business training,
energy and activity of the proprietor. As the
business grew similar stores were established
in other parts of New England, principally at
New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut; Fall

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River and Worcester, Massachusetts, and Paw
tucket and Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Par
ticular pains were taken in choosing the loca
tion of these stores, and they were usually
found in the finest buildings in the cities where
located. Their advantageous locations, to
gether with sound business management, in
sured immediate sucecss, and the business of
the company grew to very large proportions.
Mr. Longley became a member of the Stand
ard Clothing Company of Boston, and in Feb
ruary, 1893, purchased the J. B. Barnaby
Clothing Company of Providence, although the
business continued under the name of the J. B.
Barnaby Company. Mr. Longley became its
president, and filled this position with great
ability up to the time of his death, which oc
curred November 29, 1899, at his home on
Walcott street, in Pawtucket. He was a well-
known and popular citizen, not only of his
home town, but throughout the state. A most
energetic, shrewd and honorable business man,
constantly on the alert to enlarge and increase
the business of the concerns with which he was
identified, and in the management of which he
played a conspicuous part, he necessarily be
came well known among the business men of
the state. He was popular with his employees
because he considered their welfare, and was
popular with the public because he was active
in promoting the public interests. Of genial
manner and most democratic character, he was
always accessible to the humblest of his em
ployees. At his funeral the active pallbearers
were employees of the clothing concerns under
his management, including representatives
from Providence, New Haven and Woon
socket, and the interment was in Swan Point
Cemetery at Providence. For six years pre
ceding his death, the failing health of Mr.
Longley required that the active management
of affairs should be placed in the hands of
trusted employees and associates. His busi
ness enterprises were not abandoned after his
death, and under the same managers it was
continued by his widow. Mr., Longley was a
member of the Squantum Association and
Pomham Club ; the To-Kalon Club of Paw
tucket; the Congregational Club of Rhode
Island; the Pawtucket Business Men's Asso
ciation ; Massachusetts Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons; and St. Paul's Royal Arch
Chapter of Boston. He was one of the orig
inal members of the Providence Athletic Asso
ciation, and continued that connection until a
year before his death, when he resigned. He
was also one of the trustees of the Pawtucket
Congregational Church. Mr. Longley was
much devoted to his home and family; a man
of quiet disposition and domestic habits, an
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ideal husband and father. Such was his exalted
character that he was selected as one of a thou
sand men of the United States to be repre
sented in a biographical work devoted to men
of the highest character and prominence in the
country. In 1879 Mr. Longley married Miss Henri
etta Swinney, born in Savannah, Georgia,
daughter of the late Captain John L. Swinney,
a well known and active merchant of that city,
who won his title in the military service of the
United States under General Winfield Scott
during the Seminole Indian war. His wife
was Martha Mitchell, whose parents resided
near Harper's Ferry. She was left an orphan
when a small child, and' with her infant sister,
was reared by an elder sister, Polly Howell,
in Georgia. Captain John L. Swinney's second
wife, Eliza A. Robinson, of Massachusetts, was
the mother of Mrs. Longley, and was a de
scendant of Elijah Robinson, a soldier of the
revolution (see Robinson IV) . Mrs. Longley is
a close observer of people and events, and amply
able to conduct her extensive business affairs
without losing any of the refinement and cul
ture which have made her so graceful a mis
tress of the home. She is a wide reader, and
has been an extensive traveler, both at home
and abroad. The handsome residence which
she occupies 011 Walcott street was formerly
the Dexter homestead, and was purchased by
Mr. Longley in 1882. To this have been added
many improvements, and it is among the archi
tectural monuments of the city of Pawtucket.
Mrs. Longley is a member of Pawtucket Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in
which she has held the offices of vice-regent
and regent, and for eight years was a director
of the Children of the American Revolution,
an organization in which she takes deep inter
est. Her summer home is at Phillips Beach,
Swampscott, near Lynn, Massachusetts, for
merly the Phillips homestead. Mr, and Mrs.
Longley were the parents of five children :
Charles Edmund; Vawter Clifford; Rosalinde;
Ronald Swift, and Harold Robinson. The last
named died in infancy. The daughter was
married, October 19, 1912, to Samuel Edward
Sternberger, of Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of
Morris Lee Sternberger, a capitalist of that
city. (The Robinson Line).
The Robinson family is an ancient and nu
merous one, both in England and America.
There are several coats-of-arms belonging to
different branches of the name, but in all of
them an ,antlered stag or buck is prominent.
The one which is borne by the Robinsons of
the north, from whom the early American im
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crossed by a green chevron with three gold
cinquefoils set between three bucks tripping
(an heraldic expression signifying that one
forefoot is raised). The crest is a green buck
tripping, with gold antlers and gold spots on
his hide. There were several immigrants bear
ing this name early in New England, includ
ing two with the baptismal name of John. One
of these was the Rev. John Robinson, founder
of the Plymouth colony.
(I) William Robinson appears first in Con
cord, Massachusetts, but soon after that in
Newton, Massachusetts, as a signer of the
secession petition, in 1678. He is also found
of record in both Cambridge and Watertown.
His will, made March 22, 1693, offered for
probate June 26 of the same year, was dis
allowed because of informalities. All of his
children, except Hannah, were then living.
His wife's name was Elizabeth, and their chil
dren were : Elizabeth, married, December 20,
1693, Daniel Gregory ; Ann or Hannah, born
July 13, 167 1, in Concord, died in Cambridge,
October 5, 1672; William, mentioned below;
Mercy, August 7, 1676; David, May 23, 1678;
Samuel, April 20, 1680; Jonathan, April 20,
1682.. (II) William (2), eldest son of William
( 1 ) and Elizabeth Robinson, was born July
10, 1673, in Newton, and died in that town,
November 28, 1754, in his eighty-second year.
He was a selectman of the town, had a large
farm in what is now Auburndale, and also
owned- lands in Mendon, Massachusetts. His
will, made December 25, 1742, was proved
March 11, 1754, names wife Elizabeth, and
gives house and barn and seventy-nine acres
in Newton to his son Jeremiah, fifty-eight and
one-half acres to son William, fifty-five acres
to son John, and six hundred and sixty pounds
to son Ichabod. His real estate was appraised
at seven thousand two hundred and twenty-
one pounds five shillings, and personal estate
one thousand and fourteen pounds seventeen
shillings and six pence. Children: William,
mentioned below ; Jeremiah, born October 27,
1705; Elizabeth, September 10, 1707; Hannah,
September 4, 1709; Josiah, September 17,
1711; Ichabod, February 2, 1713; Thankful,
December 3, 1715; John, 1722. All are men
tioned in his will. The mother, Elizabeth, born
1678, died in Newton, December 17, 1747.
(Ill) William (3), eldest child of William
(2) and Elizabeth Robinson, was born about
1700, in Newton, in which town he lived. He
married (first), in February, 1732, Hannah
Ball, of Watertown, born December 25, 1700,
eldest child of John and Bethiah (Meddup)
Ball. He had a second wife, Sarah, who ap
pears to have been the mother of all his chil

dren, namely: Elijah, mentioned below; Isaac,
born June 9, 1738; Mary, 1739; Solomon, May
3, 1742; Samuel, April 23,. 1744.
(IV) Elijah, eldest recorded son of William
(3) and Sarah Robinson, was born August 1,
1736, in Newton, and appears to have lived
for a time in Attleborough or Mendon, where
several members of this family settled. He
was in Barre, Massachusetts, before the open
ing of the revolution, and after living for a
time in the vicinity of Attleborough, returned
to Barre, as he is credited to that town in the
revolutionary rolls. After the revolution he
settled in Paris, Maine, which was then a
wilderness, and there remained until his death.
An order on the treasurer of the town of Attle
borough, dated July 5, 1776, shows that Elijah
Robinson served in the Lexington Alarm. He
enlisted at Barre, March 3, 1781, and was dis
charged on the 17th of the same month, cred
ited with fifteen days' service in a company
detached from the Fourth Suffolk County
Regiment for an expedition to Rhode Island,
under Major-General Lincoln. He again en
listed from Barre as a private in Captain Jona
than Sibley's company, of Colonel Luke
Drury's regiment, which entered service Au
gust 9, and marched August 13, 1781, arriv
ing at camp, August 22. He was discharged
November 21, 1781, credited with a service of
three months and twenty-three days, including
ten days' travel home. Plis residence at that
time was in Barre, and he was credited to the
town of Barre. He married, in Barre, Massa
chusetts, November 4, 1760, Sarah Blake, born
in March, 1741-42, in Milton, Massachusetts,
daughter of Edward (2) and Elizabeth
(French) Blake, of Milton (see Blake IV).
Their first two children are recorded in Barre :
Samuel, born March 25, 1761 ; Sally, March
12, 1763. Those recorded in Paris are: Ste
phen, born March 3, 1765, married Jemima
Haskell; Joel, resided in Paris; Asa, married
(first) Deborah Briggs, (second) Emma
Woodward; Katie, married a Merrill; Alice,
married Ezra Brett ; John, mentioned below ;
the eldest daughter married Dr. Cyprian
Stevens, of Paris.
(V) John, youngest child of Elijah and
Sarah (Blake) Robinson, was born 1771, in
Paris, and made his home on High street, in
that town, where he died June 19, 1819. He
married Susanna Blake, born January 9, 1780,
in Paris, daughter of Stephen and Abigail
Blake, died January 27, 1832. Children: John,
born March 28, 1801, settled in Calais, Maine;
Preston, November 16, 1802, died June 29,
1877 ; Milla, August 16, 1805, married Simeon
Farnum; Sidney Smith, October 22, 1807;
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and settled in Providence, Rhode Island; Jo
seph ; Eliza Ann, mentioned below ; Mary Jane
and Angeline (twins), the last died at the age
of twenty years.
(VI) Eliza Ann, third daughter of John
and Susanna (Blake) Robinson, was born
June 22, 1813, became the wife of John L.
Swinney, and resided in Georgia.
(VII) Henrietta, daughter of John L. and
Eliza A. (Robinson) Swinney, born April 1,
1849, m Savannah, Georgia, was married, in
1879, to Charles Edmund Longley, a promi
nent merchant of Providence, Rhode Island
(see Longley). (The Blake Line).
(I) William Blake was baptized at Pit-
minster, England, July 10, 1594, son of Wil
liam Blake, of that place. He married there,
September 23, 1617, Agnes Band, widow. It
is thought that she may have been widow of
Richard Band and daughter of Hugh Thorne,
of Pitminster, baptized January 12, 1594. In
the same parish in England four of the chil
dren of William Blake were baptized, but from
1624 to 1636 his place of residence is unknown.
He is believed to have come to America in the
fall of 1635 or early in 1636, and remained
at Dorchester or Roxbury, making the ac
quaintance there of William Pynchon and
others who were considering a plan of settle
ment in the Connecticut valley. At any rate
he was with Pynchon and his associates on
May 14 to 16, 1636, when they drew up and
signed the articles of the association at Aga
wam, now Springfield, and he was one of five
to assign the lots and manage the affairs of
the colony. He drew land there, but apparently-
decided to return to Dorchester and settle. He
drew land in South Boston in March, 1637-
38, and was admitted a freeman, March 14,
1638-39. He was a man of integrity and abil
ity and was constable in 164 1, selectman in
1645-47, and in 1651 was on the committee to
build the new meeting house. In 1656 he was
elected town clerk and "clerk of the writs" for
the county of Suffolk. These offices he held
until witbin six weeks of his death, October
25, 1663. He was also clerk of the train band.
In his will he made a bequest for the repairing
of the burying ground. Soon after his death
his widow Agnes removed to Boston, proba
bly to live with her son John or her only
daughter, Anne Leager. She died in Dorches
ter. William Blake's estate was appraised at
two hundred and twenty-four pounds. Chil
dren : John, baptized at Pitminster, England,
September 6, 1620, died at Boston, January
25, 1688-89; Anne, baptized at Pitminster, Au
gust 30, 1618, died at Boston, July 12, 1681 ;

William, mentioned below; James, baptized
April 27, 1624; Edward, supposed to be the
youngest child, died at Milton, September 3,
1692. (II) William (3), second son of William
(2) and Agnes Blake, was baptized September
6, 1620, at Pitminster, and died in Milton,
Massachusetts, September 3, 1703. In 1660 he
received an allotment of land in what is now
the town of Milton, organized 1662. In 1665
he sold his house and seventeen acres of land
in Dorchester, and settled on Brush hill, in
Milton, where he had a large farm, and was
licensed December 21, 1682, to keep an ordi
nary or inn. He joined the Milton church at
this organization, in 1678, was on a committee
to build the meeting house, served several
years as selectman, and was sergeant of militia.
He represented Milton as deputy to the general
court in 1680, 1683, 1690 and 1697. A carpen
ter by trade, he did more or less work in that
line, but also engaged extensively in farming.
His first wife Anna was living in 1680. Noth
ing has been discovered of her birth, parentage,
death, or the date of their marriage. He mar
ried (second), November 22, 1693, Hannah
Lyon, of Milton, widow of George Lyon, and
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Tolman, bap
tized April 6, 1640, in Dorchester, survived
him many years, dying August 4, 1729. Chil
dren, the first eight recorded in Dorchester:
Samuel, born May 14, 1650; Anne, baptized
March 7, 1651, died young; Anne, born March
6, 1653; Mary, March 20, 1655; William, Feb
ruary 22, 1657; Nathaniel, July 4, 1659; Ed
ward, mentioned below; Experience, June 17,
1665 ; Agnes, September 29, 1667 ; Susan, July
20, 1670; Mehitable, April 2, 1673.
(Ill) Edward, fourth son of William (3)
and Anna Blake, was born April 13, 1662, in
Dorchester, and died in Milton, March 12,
1737. He married, June 26, 1696, Elizabeth
Mory, of Milton, born August 27, 1674, died
May 2, 171 1. Children: Anna, born April 7,
1697; Edward, mentioned below; Aaron, Feb
ruary 23, 1700; Mary, January 3, 1702; Eliza
beth, April 5, 1704; Moses, August 6, 1706;
Abigail and Sarah (twins), January 6, 1709';
Martha, March 14, 171 1.
(IV) Edward (2), eldest son of Edward
(1) and Elizabeth (Mory) Blake, was born
July 22, 1698, in Milton, where he passed his
life. He married, August 6, 1728, Elizabeth
French, of Weymouth, born November 4,
1700, died September 13, 1748, in Milton,
daughter of Stephen and Abigail French. Chil
dren : Elizabeth, born September 5, 1729;
Aaron, January 6, 1732; Abigail, March 10,
1734; Pelatiah, February 13, 1737; Stephen,
January 21, 1740; Sarah, mentioned- below.

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(V) Sarah, youngest child of Edward (2)
and Elizabeth (French) Blake, was born in
March, 1741-42, in Milton, and was married
in Barre, Massachusetts, November 4, 1760,
to Elijah Robinson, later of Paris, Maine,
where she died (see Robinson IV).
Meath was for many
MacLAUCPILAN ages the seat of the
Irish monarchy, and
from the kings of Meath were generally elected
the monarchs of Ireland. From the earliest
period to the fifth century the monarchs of
Ireland were occasionally elected from the de
scendants of each of the three sons of Mile-
sius, namely, from the races of Eber, Erimhon
and Ir; but from the fifth to the eleventh cen
tury, during a period of six hundred years,
the Ui Neill, of the race Erimhon, held exclu
sive possession of the Irish monarchy, until
A. D. 1002, when Brian Boromha, king of
Munster, of the race of Eber, dethroned Mael-
sechlainn, or Malachy the Second, and became
monarch of Ireland.
The Ui Neill took the name from their im
mediate ancestor, Niall of the Nine Hostages,
who was monarch of Ireland from A. D. 379
to A. D. 406. They were divided into two
great families, denominated the northern and
southern Ui Neill.
One branch of the northern consisted of
O'Neills, who were descended from Eogan,
one of the sons of Niall, of the Hostages, and
were princes of Tyrone, and often kings of
Ulster and monarchs of Ireland ; the other
branch consisted of O'Donnells, princes of
Tyrconnell, and some of whom were also mon
archs of Ireland. They descended from Conall
Gulban, another son of the monarch Niall.
The southern Ui Neill were descended from
four other sons of Niall, but chiefly from his
son Conall Crimthanni, many of whose de
scendants were kings of Meath and monarchs
of Ireland. This family took the name of
clan Colmain, from Colman Mor, son of Diar-
maid, son of Crimthann, monarch of Ireland
from A. D. 554 to A. D. 565. The descend
ants of the clan Colman, kings of Meath, took
the name of O'Maelsechlain, or O'Melaghlin.
The O'Melaghlins, kings of Meath, and their
county relatives, ruled over the districts north
of the river Liffy. They were the head family
of the southern Ui Niall race, called clan Col
man, and took their name from Maeilsechlainn,
or Malachy I., king of Meath and monarch of
Ireland in the ninth century; they were for
many centuries kings of Meath and several of
them monarchs of Ireland. Many of them
were also kings of Tara, princes of Bregia and
lords of clan Colman ; the territory called clan

Colman was situated in ancient Teffia, and
comprised the middle and southern parts of
the present county of Westmeath. The
O'Melaghlins, as kings of Meath, had their
chief residence at Dun-na-Sciath, or the fortress
of the Shields, situated on the banks of Lough
Ainnin, now Lough Ennell, near Mullinger.
Murcadh O'Melaghlin was king of Meath at
the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; his
kingdom was transferred to Hugh de Lacy by
a grant from Henry II., and he was the last
independent king of Meath ; but the O'Melagh
lins for many centuries afterwards, amidst in
cessant and fierce contests with the English
settlers, maintained their positions and con
siderable possesions in Westmeath, with their
titles of kings and princes of Meath and lords
of clan Colman, down to the reign of Eliza
beth. Many distinguished chiefs of the
O'Melaghlins are mentioned from the tenth to
the sixteenth centuries. Some chiefs of them
are mentioned during the Cromwellian and
Williamite wars, but after these periods all
their estates were confiscated, and in modern
times scarcely any of the O'Melaghlins are to
be found. At the time of confiscation of their
estates they changed their name to MacLogh-
lin. About this time, too, they emigrated to
Scotland, from thence back to Ireland after
many years. They settled in Londonderry
and the name of MacLaughlin is well known
there. It is remarkable that of the five royal
Milesian families, all of whom were eligible to
the monarchs, none have become so utterly
decayed as the O'Melaghlins.
From O'Melaghlins descended the follow
ing different names : 1. O'Melaghlins, or Mac
Laughlin, kings of Meath and monarchs of
Ireland; 2. O'Hart; 3. O'Regan; 4. O'Kelly;
5. O'Connelly; 6. O'Rory; 7. O'Fallon ; 8.
O'Kendellan; 9. O'Breen ; 10. O'Hennessy ; 11.
O'PIea or Hughes; 12. O'Duan; 13. O'Hunvey;
14. O'Casey; 15. O'Loughlin; 16. O'Donoghoe ;
17. O'Hanaran; 18. O'Mulloy; 19. O'Dooley;;
20. O'Finnellan; 21. O'Mulledy ; 22. O'Toler;
23. MacCoghlan; 24. MacGeoghan ; 25. Mac-
Rourke ; 26. O'Carberry ; 27. O'Heaghy ; 28.
Mulholland. Each of these families again had
offsprings from which many Irish names of
the present day are known. O'Neill, the elder
branch of the O'Melaghlins after their exile,
took the name of MacLoughlin from Lock-
lainn, one of their ancient chiefs. From the
MacLoughlins, who were princes, descended
other well-known Irish names of the present
clay. Some of the MacLoughlins remained
in Scotland and from which descended the
present Scotch MacLauchlans or McLachlans.
In 1587 Archibald MacLauchlan was chief of
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whom descended the present Argyle Highland
Scotch. (I) Alexander MacLauchlan, the immigrant
ancestor, was born in Cumber Claude, county
of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1803, and came to
America, settling in the province of New Bruns
wick, in 1836 or 1837. He made his home in
Fredericton, the capital of the province. He
taught school during the remainder of his
active life in Carleton and York counties. He
was a member of the Free Kirk and a thirty-
second degree Orangeman, one of the few hold
ing the highest rank in the order in New Bruns
wick. He died at Fredericton in 1882.
Alexander MacLauchlan married Adelaide
Haines, born in York county, New Brunswick,
in January, 1837, died in Lewiston, Maine, in
August, 1910. She was thirty-four years
younger than her husband. She was a com
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Her father was a farmer in York county and
died there. Children of her parents : 1. Urbin,
a farmer in York county ; married Catherine
Jewett. 2. Mahala, married  Fowler,
a farmer. 3. Adelaide, married Alexander
MacLauchlan, mentioned above. 4. Anstice. 5.
Sophia. 6. John D., a millwright of Frederic
ton; enlisted in 1861, in Houlton, in the
Twenty-seventh Regiment Maine Volunteer
Infantry, and took part in the first battle of
Bull Run, in the battle of the Wilderness and
the battle of Antietam, in which he was badly
wounded. 7. Victoria, married Thomas
Jewett, brother of Catherine Jewett, mentioned
above.. 8. Judson, an electrician, New York
City. Brothers and sisters of Alexander Mac
Lauchlan: 1. Eliza, bora at Cumber Claude,
Ireland; married  Hopkins. 2. James,
born at Cumber Claude, Ireland, died at Wood
stock, New Brunswick ; proprietor and founder
of the Woodstock Sentinel. 3. Alexander,
mentioned above. 4. Catherine, born at Cum
ber Claude, Ireland, died at Fredericton ; mar
ried John Blair, of Canterbury, York county,
New Brunswick, a carpenter. 5. Martha, born
at Cumber Claude, Ireland, died at Frederic
ton, unmarried.
Children of Alexander and Adelaide Mac-.
Lauchlan: 1. Arthur Herbert, born in 1854,
died at Benicia, California ; was captain in the
Royal Military College of Canada ; served as a
volunteer in the Reil rebellion; was superin
tendent of agricultural works at Benicia. 2.
Milford Stewart, born 1855, died in St. Law
rence county, New York; was a talc miner,
killed by an accident in the mines. 3. Alex
ander, born 1857; resides in San Francisco,
California, unmarried. 4. Alice, died young.
5. Alice Maud Mary, born August, 1861 ; mar

ried James Haight, of Missoula, Montana, for
merly a miner, now deputy sheriff. 6. John
Medley, born April, 1863 ; owner of steam
laundry, Seattle, Washington. 7. James Ed
ward, born December, 1865 ; linotype operator,
New York City; married Sophia  , of
Virginia. 8. Harriet Frances, born March 18,
1867, in Northampton, New Brunswick; mar
ried Charles E. Brasseur, of Haverhill, Massa
chusetts, now of Lewiston, Maine, manager
of the Outlet Shoe Company. 9. George Story,
mentioned below.
(II) George Story McLauchlan, son of
Alexander MacLauchlan, was born at North
ampton, New Brunswick, January 24, 1869.
His parents removed to Fredericton when be
was a year old and he attended the public
schools of that town. At the age of fourteen
he left school to learn photography in Frederic
ton. In 1885 he joined the Royal Regiment
of Canadian Infantry in Fredericton and
served four years, attaining the rank of cor
poral. In 1889 he entered the employ of the
Bates Corporation, Lewiston, Maine, as ship
ping clerk. He afterward filled other similar
positions there until 1892, when he went to
New York City, where he learned the trade of
printer. He was a musician and while in New
York joined the Manhattan Musical Protec
tive Union and Typographical Union. In
1897 he removed to Portland, Maine, where he
followed his trade for nine months. He was
afterward foreman of a newspaper just estab
lished at Cherryfield, Maine. Upon the out
break of the Spanish war he tried to enlist in
various New York regiments and was finally
enlisted as musician in the Fourth New Jersey
Regiment, serving for ten months. He was
mustered out in May, 1899, at Greenville,
South Carolina. He reenlisted in Portland in
the Twentieth Regiment United States Infan
try Band, and went to the Philippines with his
regiment. After two years he was invalided
and sent home. He was discharged in San
Francisco and returned to New York City.
For two years and a half he was employed as
conductor and motorman on the Brooklyn
Bridge electric cars. He then established a
newspaper at Hartland, New Brunswick, and
opened a printing office. He lost his plant by
fire in 1908, removed to Woodstock, where he
continued to publish his newspaper for nine
months. After selling his business he was
foreman in the Mars Hill Viczv for a year and
a half. He then became managing editor of
the Carleton Sentinel, a newspaper established
by his uncle in 1854. After a year he became
foreman of the Fort Fairfield Review. In
June, 191 1, he established the Van Buren
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to the present time. When the great European
war broke out he applied for enlistment in the
Canadian forces to go the front, but was not
accepted on account of age and disabilities re
ceived during the Spanish-American war. In
politics he is an Independent, advocating the
single-tax doctrine of Henry George. In re
ligion he is a Rationalist. He is a member of
Florenceville Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, New Brunswick; Frontier Lodge, No.
yy, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; the
Arlington Tent of the Maccabees of the World ;
and the Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Woodstock, New Brunswick.
He is also a member of the Spanish War Vet
erans Union.
Mr. MacLauchlan married, January 27,
1902, in Brooklyn, Emma Olivia Jewett (see
Jewett VIII), born at Caverhill, New Bruns
wick, March 14. 1879. She is a member of the
Baptist church and of the Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Spanish War Veterans, the Ladies of
the Maccabees and the Rebekah Lodge. Chil
dren: 1. Olive, born October, 1902, died aged
three weeks. 2., Olivia, twin of Olive, died
aged three weeks. 3. Harold Edwin, born at
Hartland, New Brunswick, July, 1905. 4.
Marion Marguerite, born at Blaine, Maine,
June 19, 1908. 5. Georgia Emma, born at Van
Buren, Maine, December 25, 191 1.
(The Jewett Line).
(IV) Thomas Jewett, son of Ezekiel Jewett
(q. v.), by his second wife, Elizabeth (How)
Jewett, was born in Boxford, Massachusetts,
March 20, 1720. He married, in Groton,
Massachusetts, April 2, 1744, Martha Hale, of
Groton. They lived in Boxford, where he
died before his father. Children, born in Box
ford: Daniel, mentioned below; Hannah or
Joanna, born October 24, 1746; Sarah and
Enoch. (V) Daniel Jewett, son of Thomas Jewett,
was born at Boxford, Massachusetts, August
12, 1744. With a party from Essex county he
settled in New Brunswick in 1761 or 1762.
He married, at Maugerville, New Brunswick,
1767, Mrs. Abigail Saunders, and settled at
Sheffield, New Brunswick. He is believed to
be the Daniel Jewett who served in the revolu
tion, as first lieutenant of Captain Jabez West's
company, Colonel Jonathan Eddy's regiment,
in 1776, company raised in Cumberland county,
Nova Scotia. Children, born at Sheffield:
Hannah, born October 30, 1770; Sarah, Octo
ber 30, 1772; Abigail, August 11, 1774;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Daniel, November
18, 1778; Martha, October 4, 1780; Isabella,
July 24, 1782; Lydia, November 17, 1784;

Ezekiel, July 28, 1787; Hannah, October 8,
1789.; David, May 29, 1792.
(VI) Thomas (2) Jewett, son of Daniel
Jewett, was born at Sheffield, New Brunswick,
September 1, 1776. He married (first) July
5, 1803, Catherine Albright, who died at Kes
wick Bridge, New Brunswick, August 20, 1816.
He married (second) Mrs. Lun, whose maiden
name was Naomi Prosses. Mr. Jewett was a
farmer in Keswick Bridge, where he died
January 4, 1842. Children, born at Keswick
Bridge by first wife : John, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, September 8, 1805; Ezekiel, Febru
ary 21, 1807; David, January 4, 1809; Henry,
December 19, 1810; Jacob, August 2y, 1812;
Isaac, October 24, 1814; James, July 22, 1816.
By second wife: George; Samuel, drowned in
Black river; Charles, went to Australia;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Catherine.
(VII) John Jewett, son of Thomas (2)
Jewett, was born April 28, 1804, at Keswick
Bridge, New Brunswick. He married, at
Kingsclear Bridge, New Brunswick, Novem
ber 3, 1831, Elizabeth Eliot, born October 4,
1802, daughter of John and Katherine Eliot.
Children: David, born March 3, 1833; Georgia
Ann, January 13, 1845; Henry O., mentioned
below ; and others.
(VIII) Henry O. Jewett, son of John
Jewett, was born at Caverhill, York county,
New Brunswick, 1859. He resided at Caver
hill. He was a farmer, a Liberal in politics
and a member of the Baptist church. He mar
ried  ; children: Emma Olivia, married
George Story MacLauchlan (see MacLauchlan
II). 2. Lizzie, married Fred Hoyt, a farmer;
resides at Upper Haynesville. 3. Alberta, re
sides at Hodgdon, Maine. 4. Herbert. 5.
Chester, farmer, Caverhill. 6. Alzina, married
John Bragdon, a railroad man. 7. Ida, resides
at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

This surname McClain is also
McCLAIN spelled McClane, McLane, Mc
Lean, MacClain and in various
other ways. The preface Mc or Mac is often
dropped and many of the Lane families belong
to the Scotch. McLain clan, especially those in
. the state of Maine. The MacClean family of
Scotland was in Ayrshire, Moray and Mull,
from time immemorial, and the McLean or
McLane in Argyle and Mull before the year
1300. The history of the clam is interesting.
A large volume has been written concerning
the early history of the McLeans and this
work contains much genealogy of the Scotch
branches of the family.
(I) James McClain or McLain was descend
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near Salisbury, Maryland, and died there in
1859, aged about fifty years. He was a farmer
all his active life, a Democrat in politics. He
married Hettie Dorman, who was born and
died at Salisbury. Children, all born at Salis
bury: 1. Betsey, died at Salisbury; married
George Wainwright. a farmer, now deceased.
2. James, died at Salisbury, a farmer. 3. John,
died at Salisbury ; married Susan Livingston,
now deceased. 4. Purvel, died at Salisbury;
was a carpenter by trade; married Frances
Gordy. 5. Levin Lewis, mentioned below. 6.
Sally, died near Salisbury; married David
Kelley. (II) Levin Lewis McClain, son of James
McClain, was born near Salisbury, Maryland,
in November, 1833, and died at Salisbury, De
cember 31, 1906, or January 1, 1907. He was
educated in the public schools, and learned the
trade of carpenter, which he followed a num
ber of years. Afterward he bought a farm
in Gumboro, Delaware, and conducted it until
1886, when he sold out and bought a farm in
Salisbury, Maryland, where he resided during
the remainder of his days. In politics he was
a Democrat ; in religion a Methodist. He mar
ried Mary Ellen Culver, who was born near
Salisbury, Maryland, August 26, 1834, and
now resides with her son, mentioned below.
She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. John Culver, father of Mrs. McClain, was
born about 1805, near Salisbury, and died
there in 1858. He married Annie LeCates,
born about 1812, and died at Canons Ferry
about 1873, daughter of Nathaniel LeCates, a
native of Maryland, a farmer, who died in
Delaware about 1855. Nathaniel LeCates
married Charlotte Hastings, a native of Mary
land. John Culver married (first) 
Hastings and had one son, Hiram, who died
at Bridgeville, Delaware ; was a very prosper
ous farmer; married Patience Lowe, a native
of Delaware, now living at Bridgeville. Chil
dren of John Culver by his second wife, Annie
(LeCates) Culver: 1. Maria Jane, died in
1909, at Delmar, Delaware; married Isaac
Hastings, a farmer near Salisbury, who died
in 1909. 2. Mary Ellen, married Levin Lewis
McClain, mentioned above. 3. Charlotte Ann,
died in Salisbury; married Warren Hastings,
a farmer, deceased. 4. George Asbury, resides
at Bridgeville, Delaware, a prosperous farmer ;
married Lucile Allen. 5. Kinsey John, died
young. 6. Grace, died young. 7. Elizabeth,
resides near Seaford, Delaware ; married Wil
liam Hearn, a wheelwright. 8. Humphrey,
died at Sea.f ord, Delaware ; married Jane Cul
ver, now deceased ; he was a mariner. 9.
James Byron, resides at Ridney Station, Dela

ware, a brick mason by trade; married Sally
Milton. Children of Levin Lewis and Mary
Ellen (Culver) McClain: 1. Orlando, born in
1859; was drowned about 1888; was a mari
ner; married Maggie Dawson, of Seaford,
Delaware ; she resides in Cambridge, Mary
land. 2. Laura Ann, born in 1861; married
James Niblett, of Gumboro, a farmer, now
living near Laurel. 3. Gordon, born 1863;
married Venie West, a native of Delaware,
now living in Virginia; he is a photographer.
4. Lena Ellen, died young. 5. John B., born
1874; married Jodha Lewis, a native of Mary
land ; he is a contractor, living at Salisbury.
6. Martha Jane, born 1877, died 1884. 7. Day
ton Ernest, mentioned below.
(Ill) Rev. Dayton Ernest McClain, son of
Levin Lewis McClain, was born at Gumboro,
Delaware, May 15, 1879. His parents re
moved to Salisbury, Maryland, when he was
five years old, and he attended the public
schools there, graduating in .1900 from the
Salisbury high school. He then attended the
Wilmington Conference Academy for a time
and entered Dickinson College at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated
in 1906 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He became a student at Harvard University,
from which he received the degree of Mastei
of Arts in 1907. In 1909 he received the de
gree of Doctor of Philosophy from Boston
University, where he studied divinity. He was
appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
churches at Milo and Milo Junction, Maine,
in 1909, and has continued in these pastorates
to the present time. In politics he is an inde
pendent Democrat. He is a member of Dirigo
Lodge, No. 43, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Milo, of which he has been chap
lain for three terms. He is also a member of
the Encampment of Milo and of Canton, No.
44, of Bangor. He is also a member of the
Rebekah Lodge of Milo ; of Milo Lodge, An
cient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the
local chapter, Order of the Eastern Star ; of
Milo Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and of
Pomona Grange ; of the Modern Woodman
of America, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the
Royal Neighbors of the same order at Old-
town, Maine.
He married, March 27, 1901, at Bivalve,
Maryland, Edna May Insley, who was born at
Bivalve, February 15, 1882. She attended the
public schools of her native town and gradu
ated from the Tijaska Grammar School in
1900. She is member of the Order of the
Eastern Star and of the Rebekah Lodge, the
Grange and Pomonas and Royal Neighbors
(see Insley II). Children: 1. May Elizabeth,
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student in the Dover public schools. 2. Pres
ton LeRoy, born at Dover, September 30, 1903,
student in the Dover public schools.

(The Insley Line).

(I)

Insley, said to be of Irish de

scent, lived and died at Bivalve, Maryland.
He married- Susan  ¦ — , who died at Bivalve
in 1886, at an advanced age. Children: 1.
John, born July 27, 1844'; married Clara Rob
erts, of Nanticoke, Maryland ; they are living
on a farm near Greenhill, Maryland. 2. Vic
toria, married Ebenezer White, a farmer at
Hebron, Indiana. 3. Esau, died at Bivalve;
he was a farmer at Bivalve ; married Anne
 . 4. Jacob, was also a farmer at Bivalve
and died there ; married Etta  . 5. James
Knox, mentioned below. 6. George Dallas,
married Susan  , and they lived at
Bivalve, where he is a merchant. The order
of birth is not known.
(II) James Knox Insley, son of

Insley, was born at Bivalve, Maryland, in 1846,
and died there in January, 1912. He was edu
cated there in the public schools, followed the
sea and became a master mariner. He finally
retired from the sea and settled on his farm
at Bivalve. In politics he was a Democrat.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows and the Heptasophs. He married Biddie
A. Messick, who was born at Greenhill, Mary
land, 1851, died at Bivalve, July 30, 1905.
Children, all born at Bivalve: 1. James Fred,
born November 6, 1866; married Emma Hare,
of Baltimore, Maryland, and they live at
Bivalve and follow farming. 2. Mary Vir
ginia, born November 18, 1868; married Wil
liam Elliott, of Elliott's Island, Maryland; he
is a car inspector in Washington. 3. Lulu W.,
born November 2, 1871, died at Bivalve, 1890,
unmarried. 4. Esau, born 1873, died in in
fancy. 5. Effie Lee, born 1876; married
Charles Keyser, of Benning, D. C, a merchant.
6. Walter Gilbert, born 1878; married Mary
Rencher, of Jesterville, Maryland ; they reside
at Salisbury., 7. Herman Roe, born November
4, 1880; cashier of the Rapid Transit Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; married
Myrtle Phillips, of Salisbury. 8. Edna May,
married Rev. Dayton Ernest McClain (see Mc
Clain III).

Alexander McClain, the immi-
McCLAIN grant ancestor, came of an an
cient Scotch family, a branch
of which located early in New Brunswick. He
was a native of New Brunswick and died there
about 1829. He was drowned in the Miramichi
river. He was a farmer and lumberman.

Among his children was Alexander, mentioned
below. (II) Alexander (2) McClain, son of Alex
ander (1) McClain, was born at Miramichi,
New Brunswick, 1824, and died at Mattawam
keag, Maine, 1908. He came to the state of
Maine when he was five years old with his
widowed mother. They 'lived at Cherryfield,
Maine,. where lie received his education in the
public schools. When a young man he was
appointed game warden and deputy sheriff at
Mattawamkeag. He was a hunter and trapper
by occupation. During the last sixteen years
of his life he resided at Brownville Junction,
Maine, with his son, George Washington Mc
Clain. In politics he was a Republican ; in re
ligion a Universalist. He married Mary D.
Shedd, who was born about 1834 at Matta
wamkeag and died at Brownville Junction
about 1897. Children, all born at Macwahoc,
Maine : 1. Emma E., married Humphrey Chad-
bourn, a carpenter and lumberman ; lost his
life by drowning; she is living at Attleboro,
Massachusetts. 2. Etta M., married A. C.
Dougherty, a merchant at Brownville Junction,
who died in 1910; she is living at Brownville
Junction. 3. Rufus R., married (first) Addie
E. Keen, of 'Passadumkeag, Maine; (second)
Lillian Berry, of Brownville Junction, where
he is a merchant. 4. Nathan S., married Ar-
della M. Thompson, of Mattawamkeag, where
he is a merchant and livery stable proprietor.
5. George Washington, mentioned below.
(Ill) George Washington McClain, son of
Alexander (2) McClain, was born at Mac
wahoc, Maine, August 21, 1868. When he was
five years old his parents removed to Matta
wamkeag, Maine, where he attended the public
schools until he was sixteen years old. He
learned the trade of barber and followed it
until 1889 as a journeyman in Mattawamkeag.
He started in business at Brownville Junction
on his own account, opening a barber shop
there in 1889. He was appointed postmaster
by President McKinley, November 29, 1897,
and has continued in office to the present time
by successive reappointments. He was for
merly a Republican, but is now a Progressive.
He has been first and second selectman of
Brownville Junction and in 191 1 was again
elected first selectman. He has been a con
stable of the town for twenty-five years and
has served a number of years on the school
committee. In religion he is a Universalist.
He is a member of Pleasant River Lodge, No.
63, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
Brownville, and is past master ; member of
Rabboni Chapter, No. 62, Royal Arch Masons,
of Brownville, of which he has been high
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cataqua Chapter, No. 21, Royal Arch Ma
sons, of which he was high priest for three
years, being the first to hold that office in this
chapter. He is also a member of Bangor
Council, Royal and Select Masters ; of Mystic
Shrine, of Lewiston. He is past junior grand
warden of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons
of the State of Maine and past grand scribe.
He was associate deputy of the Fifth Masonic
District of Maine for two years. He is a mem
ber of Dirigo Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Milo, Maine ; of the Knights
of Pythias, of Dover, Maine, and was first
past chancellor of Silver Lake Lodge, now the
Dover Lodge. He belongs to Ebeene Lodge,
Independent Order of Foresters, of Brown
ville Junction, and was its first chief ranger,
and- has been its financial secretary from the
beginning to the present.
He married, August 4, 1886, Ida M. Spen
cer, who was born at Miramichi, New Bruns
wick, February 11, 1868. She was educated
in the public schools, graduating from the
Bangor high school. She is a member of the
Protestant Episcopal church. She is a daugh
ter of Samuel and Mary (Jones) Spencer.
Her father was born at Bangor, Maine, in
1831. He was a painter by trade in Bangor,
a Democrat in politics, and a Universalist in
religion. He enlisted in 1861 in a Maine Regi
ment and served in the Civil War. He died at
Oldtown, Maine, in 1904. Mary Jones was
born at Miramichi, about 1836, and died at
Carmel, Maine, in 1893. Children of Samuel
and Mary Spencer: 1. Ida M., married George
Washington McClain, mentioned above. 2.
John S., born at Bangor, 1870; married Maude
Gustin, of Oldtown; he is a painter by trade,
living in Oldtown. 3. Mildred Rosa, born at
Bangor, 1872; married Charles Burrows, of
Oldtown ; employed on the Maine Central rail
road ; they reside at Bangor. Samuel Spencer,
father of Samuel Spencer, was born in Eng
land in 1768, and died at Bangor in 1853.
He came to- this country shortly after his mar
riage and located at Bangor, where he was in
business as a house painter for many years.
He was a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church. In religion he was a Democrat.
Children of Samuel- Spencer Sr. : 1. Allen,
a house painter, died at Bangor, unmarried.
2. Mary, died at Bangor in 1912 ; married
Henry Welch, of Bangor. 3. Martha, mar
ried Allen Sprague, of Bangor, a merchant ;
she resides in Bangor. 4. Charles, a druggist
in Boston. 5. Cyrus, married Catherine Holt,
of Portland; he is a merchant at Dexter,
Maine. 6. Samuel, mentioned above. Chil
dren of George Washington McClain: 1. Clar
ence H., born at Mattawamkeag, September 9,

1887; graduate of the Brownville Junction
high school, a boilermaker in the employ of
the Canadian Pacific railroad. 2. Emma
Esther, born at Mattawamkeag, July 29, 1888 ;
graduate of the Brownville Junction high
school; assists his father in the postoffice. 3.
Walter B., born at Brownville Junction, No
vember 4, 1897 ; student in the high school. 4.
June D., born at Brownville Junction, June 15,
1899; student in high school. 5. Isabelle N.,
born June 1, 1903. 6. Pauline Leah, born Feb
ruary 9, 1907.

From a companion of William
HASKELL the Conqueror, of Norman
French stock, the family of
Haskell is descended, with coat-of-arms. The
escutcheon itself is Norman. Its field is sais,
or fur, derived from the fur with which the
robes of only nobles or knights were lined.
The colors, argent and sable, are those which
rendered the bearers noteworthy, the combina
tion indicating unblemished reputation. Ar
gent compounded with sable means the yield
ing up of pleasure, and also famous. It is
without device and such were in ancient opin
ion of the highest honor. It bears the fesse
or waistbelt of honor, one of the insignia of
knighthood and its being of gold would imply"
that the bearer was a knight of no mean power
or wealth. The legend or origin of the crest
is as follows : At the battle of Hastings, Wil
liam the Conqueror, being faint from lack of
food, saw in the distance near the lines of
Harold an apple tree in fruit. Expressing the
belief that some of the apples would revive
him until the fortunes of the day should be de
cided, one of his attendant knights, Roget de
Haskell by name, dashed forward amid a
shower of the enemy's arrows and brought to
his sovereign a scarf filled with the fruit,
whereupon the Conqueror bade him bear as his
crest a fruit-bearing apple tree pierced by a
flying arrow. This is placed at the head of
the coat-of-arms.
(I) Roger Haskell came with others of the
name to Massachusetts, and was a resident of
Salem in 1637. After the incorporation of
Beverly, he was a resident of that town. Born
about 1613, he died 1667. He was accom
panied by his brothers, William and Mark.
The family traced herein is descended from
William. He was born in 1617 in England,
and first settled in that part of Salem known
as Beverly, then called "Cape Ann side," and
soon became a permanent resident of Glouces
ter, where he died August 20, 1693, leaving an
estate valued at five hundred forty-eight
pounds, two shillings. He was in Gloucester
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Neck two years later, though he appears to
have been absent from the town later. He was
there in 1656, however, and settled on the
westerly side of Annisquam, where he had
several parcels of land, including a lot of ten
acres with house and barn, on the westerly
side of Walker's creek. His sons had land
on both sides, of this creek still held by descend
ants. He was a mariner, engaged in fishing,
but found time to attend to much of the town's
business, serving as selectman several years,
and was representative to the general court
six times in twenty years. In 1661 he was ap
pointed lieutenant of the "trayned band" and
was later captain. He was one of the officers
who refused in 1688 to assess the taxes levied
by Sir Edmund Andros, and was fined by the
superior court at Salem. The repudiated gov
ernor, Andros, was finally driven out of New
England by the indignant victims of his
tyranny. In 1 68 1 William Haskell joined with
others in a petition to the king praying for the
interposition of the crown to prevent the dis
turbance of title to Gloucester lands by Rob
ert Mason, who made claim thereto. He was
one of the first two known deacons of the first
church at Gloucester. He married, November
16, 1643, Mary, daughter of Walter Tybbot.
She died four days before her husband. Chil
dren: William, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Ruth,
Mark, Sarah, Elinor and Mary.
(II) William (2) Haskell, eldest child of
William (1) and Mary Haskell, was born Au
gust 26, 1644, in Gloucester, and operated grist
and saw mills in that part of the town now
Rockport. He died June 5, 1708, and his estate
was inventoried at six hundred sixty-six
pounds, most of it going to his eldest son Wil
liam. He married, July 3, 1667, Mary, daugh
ter of William and Mary Brown, known as
Mary Walker, from her stepfather, Henry
Walker. She was born 1649, and died No
vember 12, 1715. Children: Mary, born April
29, 1668; William, November 6, 1670; Joseph,
April 20, 1673; Abigail, March 2, 1675 ; Henry,
April 2, 1678; Andrew, July 27, 1680; Lydia,
September 4, 1681 ; Sarah, February 26, 1684,
died 1691 ; Elizabeth, April 5, 1686; Hannah,
October 30, 1688 ; Jacob, mentioned below ;
Sarah, September 11, 1692.
(Ill) Jacob Haskell, youngest son of Wil
liam (2) and Mary (Walker) Haskell, was
born January 15, 1691, in Gloucester, resided
in that town, where he was deacon of the sec
ond church, and died August 6, 1706. He mar
ried, December 31, 1716, Abigail Morey, and
their children born in that town, were all mar
ried there except Abner. They were : Jacob,
born October 27, 1718; Abner, mentioned be
low; Abigail, January 27, 1724; Alexander,

March 4, 1726; Israel, October 30, 1729;
Esther, baptized January 23, 1732; Zebulon,
October 17, 1734.
(IV) Abner Haskell, second son of Jacob
and Abigail (Morey) Haskell, was born De
cember 5, 1721, in Gloucester, and lived for a
time in Attleboro, Massachusetts, whence he
removed to Cumberland, Rhode Island, as
early as 1760. He married Grace Slack, of
Attleboro, and one child is recorded in Cum
berland, Esther, born June 11, 1760. Other
records show that he had three sons older:
Samuel, John and Comfort, and there were,
doubtless, others.
(V) Samuel Haskell, son of Abner and
Grace (Slack) Haskell, was- born about 1737,
probably in Attleboro, and spent his active life
as a farmer near Arnold's mills, in the town
of Cumberland, where he owned land. Late
in life he and his wife went to live with their
son, Levi Haskell, on the present site of the
city of Pawtucket. He served in the revolu
tionary war, and received a pension for his
services. He married Mary (Polly) Turner,
daughter of Captain Haile and Sarah (Gibbs)
Turner (see Turner V). Samuel Haskell and
wife were buried in Mineral Spring Cemetery
at Pawtucket. Children : James, not recorded
in Cumberland: Caleb, born May 15, 17821;
Martha (Patty), March 28, 1784; Joshua,
April 9, 1786; Sally, January 1, 1788; W.
Turner, mentioned below ; Samuel, August 4,
1793; Lillias and Levi.
(VI) William Turner Haskell, fourth son
of Samuel and Mary (Turner) Haskell, was
born September 8, 1790, on the paternal farm
in Cumberland, there grew to manhood and
was educated in the public schools. In early
manhood he engaged in the manufacture of
nails, and later settled on a tract of sixty-five
acres of land, known as the Nicholas Brown
place, now owned by Judge Feeley, of Woon
socket. He was industrious and successful,
and devoted most of his life to agriculture.
The town owed him much for faithful and
conscientious public service, acting long as a
member of the town council, being several
years president of the board. He also repre
sented the town in the general assembly, and
was always ready to devote time and influence
to anything calculated to promote the general
welfare. He was a director of the Cumber
land Bank, which was founded in 1823, and
other financial institutions, and his advice in
business matters was often sought. He was a
member of the Society of Friends, from con
viction, and was buried in the Friends' ceme
tery, following his death, "eleventh month,
twentieth day," 1863. He married, in Cum
berland, "tenth month, seventh day," 1813,

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Patience Boyce Smith, born "fourth month,
sixth day," 1794, in Cumberland, daughter of
Area and Sarah (Boyce) Smith, of that town
(see Smith VII). She died "third month,
twenty-sixth day," 1883, in Providence, and
was buried in the Friends' cemetery in Cum
berland. She was a birthright Quaker, a fine
Christian character, and devoted wife and
mother. Children: 1. Joseph Metcalf, born
July 18, 181 5, died in Omaha, Nebraska, where
a number of his descendants still reside. 2.
and 3. Mary Turner and Sarah Boyce (twins),
November 4, 1817; the former married Henry
B. Metcalf, of Cumberland, and the latter John
R. Hoar, of Warren, Rhode Island. 4. Wil
liam H, mentioned below. 5. Eunice P., twin
of William, died young. 6. Maria Hudson,
April 23, 1824. 7. Lewis Turner, December
4, 1825. 8. Ruth A„ mentioned below. 9.
Ellen M., mentioned below. 10. Elizabeth
Boyce, mentioned below.
(VII) William Henry Haskell, second son
of William T. and Patience Boyce (Smith)
Haskell, was born September 1, 1821, in Cum
berland, and was educated in the district
schools of his native town, working on the
homestead farm as soon as he was old enough,
during vacation periods. At the age of eighteen
years he began an apprenticeship to the trade
of machinist in the shops of Ebenezer and
Joseph Metcalf, of Cumberland. In 1840 he
went to Woonsocket, where he continued at
the same trade, and a year later to Fall River,
where he continued as a journeyman until
1845. He then went to Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, where he formed a partnership with
Nathaniel S. Collyer in conducting a machine
shop. In 1850 he became a member of the
firm of Pinkham, Haskell & Company, manu
facturers of bolts and screws, and seven years
later became the sole owner of the plant. From
1861 to 1868 Robert Sherman had an interest
in the business, by purchase from Mr. Haskell,
which the latter repurchased., The business
was incorporated in 1881, with Mr. Haskell
as president, under the title of the William H.
Haskell Company, and in 1898 the concern ab
sorbed the Pawtucket Nut Company, whose
business was removed to the Haskell plant, on
Main street. At this time the style of the
corporation was changed to William H. Has
kell Manufacturing Company. Mr. Haskell
continued as president until his death, which
occurred at his home in Pawtucket, April 19,
1900. His body was deposited in Oak Grove
Cemetery, at that place. For many years he
was president of the board of trustees of the
Park Place Universalist Church. At one time
he was vice-president of the Pacific National
Bank, and at the time of his death he was a

director of the Pawtucket branch of the Indus
trial Trust Company. He married (first)
Hannah Tingley, a native of Cumberland,
daughter of Columbia and Lydia A. H. (Shaw)
Tingley, and granddaughter of Benjamin
Tingley, of Cumberland.
Columbia Tingley was born March 15, 1792,
in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and died May
19, 1880, at the place of his birth. He mar
ried (first) Hannah Haskell, of Cumberland,
(second) Lydia A. H. Shaw, of Newport,
Rhode Island. His children by first wife were :
Columbia and Eliza. By second wife : John,
married Eliza Newell; Lydia, married Dexter
Clark; Hannah, married William H. Haskell,
mentioned above ; Mary Ann, married Jason
Newell ; Frances, unmarried ; Susan, married
Lewis Haskell; Cyrus, married Mary Newell;
Ellis, married Maria Burt. Benjamin Tingley,
father of Columbia Tingley, was a son : of
Samuel Tingley, and was born in 1740, died
May 29, 1828, in Cumberland, Rhode Island,
being buried in Peck's Cemetery, at Arnold's
Mills, Rhode Island. He married, November
10, 1785, Elizabeth (Cole) Phil-brook, daugh
ter of John Cole. Their children were: Co
lumbia, mentioned above ; Elias ; William, and
others. Benjamin Tingley had a distinguished
record for service in the revolutionary army,
serving as sergeant, second lieutenant, lieu
tenant and quartermaster. Records found in
State House, Boston, Massachusetts, office of
the secretary of the commonwealth, are as fol
lows : His name appears with rank of ser
geant on Lexington alarm roll of Captain Jabez
Ellis' company, which marched from Attle
boro, Massachusetts, on alarm of April 19,
1775-; service eleven days (vol. xii., p. 87).
His name appears among a list of officers of
the Massachusetts militia, Attleboro, March 18,
1776, second lieutenant in Captain Jacob Hides'
First Company, Colonel John Daggett's Fourth
Regiment, commission dated March 21, 1776
(vol. xliii., p. 225). Name also appears with
rank of lieutenant on muster and pay roll of
Captain Stephen Richardson's Attleboro com
pany for service at Rhode Island from April
21, 1777, to May 15, 1777 (vol. iii., p. 89).
His name also appears with rank of quarter
master on muster and pay roll of Colonel Isaac
Dean's regiment, for service in Rhode Island
on alarm of July 31, 1780; engaged July 31,
1780; discharged August 7, 1780 (vol. xxvi.,
p. 76).
Mr., and Mrs. Haskell were the parents of
two children: 1. Eunice Edna, widow of
Thomas C. Moies, residing in Central Falls,
the mother of two children, namely : Amy Sey
mour and William Henry Haskell Moies (see
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mother died and was buried at Arnold's Mills.
Mr. Haskell married (second) Ann E. Carter,
who now resides in Providence. They had a
daughter, Elizabeth D., now the wife of B. A.
Hamilton, of Providence, and they have one
daughter, Doris Elizabeth Hamilton.
(VII) Ruth A. Haskell, daughter of W.
Turner Haskell, was born September 9, 1832,
on the paternal farm in Cumberland, where
she attended the public schools for some time,
was later a student at the Friends' school in
Providence, and the Normal School of the
same city, which was a private institution at
that time. She attended Professor Russell's
school of Merrimack, New Hampshire, and
afterwards engaged in teaching, her first school
being in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Later she
taught in Cumberland and the public schools
of Providence. After the close of the civil
war, she opened a private school, known as
"The Miss Haskell School," which she con
ducted successfully for many years. She is
now retired from the profession and resides
in Providence, where she takes an active inter
est in social and religious work. She is an
active member of the Rhode Island Woman's
Club, and a member of the Congregational
church, in which she has taught in Sunday
school for upwards of half a century. She is
a woman of keen intelligence, and has con
tributed much to the uplifting influences of
city life.
(VII) Ellen M. Haskell, sixth daughter of
W. Turner Haskell, was born September 17,
1835, in Cumberland, and has devoted most of
her long life to teaching. After attendance
in the public schools of her native town and
the Friends' school in Providence, taught by
Silas Cornell and his wife Sarah, she entered
the Normal School of Providence, a private
institution which was the foundation of the
present State Normal School. The faculty at
that time consisted of Professor Samuel S.
Greene ; Dana B. Colburn, later principal of
the State Normal School ; William Russell,
subsequently principal of the State Normal
School at Merrimack, New Hampshire, and
Arthur Sumner, a cousin of Senator Charles
Sumner. Upon leaving school she immediately
took up teaching at the Potter avenue school
in Providence, and after one term was trans
ferred to the Bridgham street school, where
she was several years assistant to the principal.
Following this she taught in the high school
of Providence, where she served several years,
afterward becoming principal of Wheaton
Seminary at Norton, Massachusetts, where she
continued three years. She then became a
member of the faculty of the State Normal
School of Worcester, Massachusetts, where

she continued twenty years. At the end of this
period she resigned and has since made her
home in Providence with her sister, Mrs.
Brown. Miss Haskell has ever maintained high
ideals, and has been of material aid to many
students in their struggle for higher attain
ments. (VII) Elizabeth Boyce Haskell, youngest
child of W. Turner Haskell, was born May 31,
1837, and was educated in the schools of
Rhode Island. She married (first) Dr. Charles
Frederick Saunders, of Pawtucket. After his
death she married (second) Henry Tyler
Brown, a native of Voluntown, Connecticut,
born in June, 1830, son of Asher and Mary
(Prentice) Brown. Mr. Brown was for some
years a well known citizen of Providence,
where he entered the employ of the Gorham
Manufacturing Company, as head of the retail
department, finally opening a retail jewelry
store in that city under the name of Gorham
Company & Brown. He later purchased the
Gorham Company's interest in the store, which
was afterwards conducted under the firm name
of Henry T. Brown & Company, After retir
ing from this business he became agent of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company, continuing
in the same until his death. For many years
his home was at Arnold's Mills on the Haskell
homestead, which he improved and beautified.
He died November 25, 1893, and is buried in
the Swan Point Cemetery at Providence. Mrs.
Brown and her sister, Ellen M. Haskell, reside
together in Providence, where they are esteem
ed in society and valued for their many excel
lent traits of character. (The Smith Line).
(I) John Smith, the first of the name in
Rhode Island, was a native of England, born
in 1595, settled at Providence with Roger Wil
liams in 1636. Pie owned a grist mill, was
known as "John the Miller," and died in 1648.
There is record of two children, John and .Eliz
abeth. (II) John (2) Smith, son of John (1)
Smith, married Sarah Whipple, and they be
came the parents of ten children.
(Ill) Benjamin Smith, second- son of John
(2) and Sarah (Whipple) Smith, married
(first) in 1693, Mercy Angell, and (second)
Mercy Waterman, and had fourteen children.
(IV) John (3) Smith, eldest child of Ben
jamin and Mercy (Angell) Smith, was- born
December 8, 1694, and resided in Gloucester,
Rhode Island, where he married Martha
Mowry, and had seven children.
(V) Rufus Smith, second son of John (3)
and Martha (Mowry) Smith, was born May
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that town and in Burrillville, where he ywas a
landowner and farmer. He married in Glou
cester, November 12, 1751, Mercy Taft, and
they had children : James, Rhoda, Sylvia,
Docia, Chad, Area, Sabra, Zadock and Paul.
(VI) Area Smith, third son of Rufus and
Mercy (Taft) Smith, was born October 13,
1764, in what is now the town of Burrillville,
where he grew to manhood. He settled in the
town of Cumberland, on Mendon road, where
he owned land, and was engaged in agriculture.
He died at the home of his daughter on Dia
mond Hill Plains. In religion he was a
Quaker. He married, August 8, 1784, Sarah
Boyce, and they had children : Content, born
September 10, 1786; John Milton, January 25,
1788; Ruth, September 13, 1789; Sabra, April
15, 1792; Patience Boyce, mentioned below;
Amy Ellen, March 1, 1796; William, August
18, 1799; Urania, November 28, 1800; Lydia
B, July 23, 1809.
(VII) Patience Boyce Smith, fourth daugh
ter of Area and Sarah (Boyce) Smith, was
born April 6, 1794, in Cumberland, and be
came the wife of W. Turner Haskell, of Cum
berland (see Haskell VI).
(The Turner Line).
The Turner family has been one of the most
substantial in Rhode Island for many genera
tions, and has included Governor Thomas
Goodwin Turner, and many other conspicuous
citizens. ^
(I) Captain William Turner, of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, 1642-1664, and of Boston after
1665, was one of the founders of the first Bap
tist church in the latter city in that year. Be
cause of his religious convictions he was not
held in honor by the Puritans of Boston, and
his offer to raise a company of volunteers in
King Philip's war was spurned. As the war
grew more dangerous he was later encouraged
by the government, and had command of a
force on the upper waters of the Connecticut
river in Massachusetts, imprisoning the In
dians at the place where the falls have since
borne his name. On the next day, while re
turning to his home, he was surrounded at
Greene river, and was killed with fourteen of
his men. Captain Turner's first wife, Fran
ces, was the mother of all his children. He
married (second) Mary, widow of John Pratt,
and (third) Mary, widow of Key Alsop. Chil
dren: Patience, baptized November 10, 1644,
in Dorchester; Thomas; William; Joshua;
Josiah ; Elizabeth ; Prudence, baptized October
12, 1665, in Boston ; Joseph.
(II) Thomas Turner, eldest son of Captain
William and Frances Turner, was a soldier at
Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1675, and was

subsequently at Bridgewater, Scituate and
Swansea. He was a shipwright, and in 17 15
purchased land in Freetown, Massachusetts.
(Ill) William Turner, son of Thomas
Turner, born 1682-83, was a large landowner
and ship builder, and succeeded to the Indian
war claim of his grandfather. He was one of
the non-resident proprietors who agreed to pay
twenty-three pounds each to carry forward the
settlement of the town of Swansea, and was
a resident there as late as 1748, removing later
to Newport, Rhode Island, where he died Oc
tober *4, 1759, in his seventy-seventh year. He
married, in 171 1, Patience Hale, of Swansea,
and they had children born in that town : Wil
liam, April 27, 1713; Lillis ; Nathaniel; Pa
tience; Caleb, and Haile.
(IV) Haile Turner, youngest child of Wil
liam and Patience (Hale) Turner, was born
October 20, 1734, probably in Swansea, died in
January, 1775. He married, August 11, 1757,
Sarah Gibbs, born December 16, 1736, died
September 29, 1800, daughter of Captain
Jason Gibbs. Children : Polly, mentioned be
low ; Martha, born September 4, 1760; Wil
liam, August 24, 1768; Haile, September 24,
1774- (V) Polly (Mary) Turner, eldest child of
Haile and Sarah (Gibbs) Turner, was born
June 11, 1758, in Warren, Rhode Island, and
became the wife of Samuel Haskell, of Cum
berland, same state (see Haskell V).

John Wingate, the immigrant
WINGATE ancestor, was born in Eng
land some time before 1636,
and was a planter at Hilton's Point, now
Dover, New Hampshiie, as early as 1658. He
received a grant of twenty acres of land, Janu
ary 11, 1658-59, there. When he first came to
Dover, he was in the service of Thomas Lay-
ton, who afterwards gave him another twenty-
acre lot. He also owned other lands. He was
made an inhabitant of Dover, June 18, 1660,
and lived at Dover Neck. His homestead was
in the family for six generations, and the pres
ent house there is on the spot on which the
first was built. In 1683 John Wingate was
"one of the principal land holders in Dover."
He served as juryman, and was selectman in
1674, 1686 and 1687, being chairman the latter
year. He served in King Philip's war, in
active service in the early montbs of 1675.
He was a leader among the property owners
of Dover in the controversy over the Mason
claims in 1683. He made his will during a
severe illness, March 12, 1683-84, and a codicil
eight days before bis death, December 1, 1687.
He died December 9, 1687, and the will was
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Mary Nutter, daughter of Elder Hatevil Nut
ter, who was one of the earliest settlers of
Dover, and who died' in 1674. He married
(second) about 1676, Sarah (Taylor) Can-
ney, daughter of Anthony Taylor, who died
November 4, 1687, and his wife, Phillipa Tay
lor, who died September 20, 1683; and widow
of the second Thomas Canney. She had six
children by her first husband, who were men
tioned in John Win-gate's will. Children :
Anne, born February 18, 1667; John, men
tioned below ; Caleb ; Moses ; Mary ; Joshua,
February 2, 1679, died February 9, 1769 r Abi
gail, born between 1684 and 1687.
(II) John (2) Wingate, son of John (1)
Wingate, was born July 3, 1670. He inherited
the homestead and lived there all his life. He
commanded a company in one of the expedi
tions to Port Royal in the French and Indian
war. He died in 1715. His will was dated
December 28, 1714, and mentions the fact that
he owned a saw mill at Tole End. He mar
ried Ann  — , who married (second) De
cember, 1725, Captain John Heard. Children:
Mary, born October 3, 1691 ; John, mentioned
below ; Ann, February 2, 1694 ; Sarah, Febru
ary 17, 1696; Moses, December 27, 1698; Sam
uel, November 27, 1700; Edmond, February
27, 1702; Abigail, March 2, 1704; Elizabeth,
February 3, 1706; Mehitable, November 14,
1709; Joanna, January 6, 171 1; Simon, Sep
tember 2, 1713.
(Ill) John (3) Wingate, son of John' (2)
Wingate, was born in Dover, New Hampshire,
April 10, 1693. He inherited the homestead-
and lived there all his life. In 1722 the house
of representatives settled accounts for "serv
ice done the province in cutting the road to
and scouting to Winnipishoky pond," and
ordered that John Wingate be paid five shil
lings a day for eight days' service as pilot. On
May 10, 1727, he was on a committee of five
to draw the boundary line between Barring
ton and Rochester. He was selectman from
1729 to 1752, with the exception of four years,
and in 1745 was representative to the general
court. In 1740 he was lieutenant of the Sec
ond Foot Company of militia of Dover and in
1745 was captain. He married (first) in 1717,
_ Dorothy Tebbets, daughter of Samuel Teb-
bets, of Dover. He married (second) Sarah
Ricker, born 1702, died March 4, 1800, aged
ninety-eight, daughter of the immigrant ances
tor, Maturin Ricker, of Somersworth, who
with his brother, George Ricker, was killed by
the Indians. She was once carried off by the
Indians. John Wingate died in September,
1764. His will, dated May 12, 1764, was
proved September 26, 1764. Children: John,

born May 5, 17 19; Samuel, February 19, 1721 ;
Daniel, January 28, 1722-23; Joshua, men
tioned below ; Jonathan, baptized October 22,
1727; Dorothy, baptized September 23, 1733;
Noah, baptized September 27, 1735; Aaron,
baptized February 6, 1737, died young; Sarah,
baptized August 20, 1738 ; Ann, baptized March
14, 17-42 ; Aaron, twin, born November 23,
1744; Moses, twin of Aaron; Mehitable, bap
tized February 22, 1747.
(IV) Colonel Joshua Wingate, son of John
(3) Wingate, was born July 28, 1725, and died
February 9, 1796. He lived on the Blake
farm, at "Littlesworth," Dover, New Hamp
shire. He served in the revolution, being ap
pointed first major, Second Regiment, August
24, 1775. On November 2, 1775, he was made
first colonel of the First Regiment, when the
twelve regiments of the colony were made into
four, and he was stationed at Fort Sullivan,
Seavey's Island. On November 8 he was ap
pointed to raise five hundred men for the de
fence of forts on Piscataqua river. In 1776
he was first colonel of the Second Regiment
which was raised to help General Sullivan who
was to repel the enemy coming from Canada.
He was at Mt. Independence in the summer
of this year, at Ticonderoga. In 1778 Colonel
Wingate led a regiment in the Rhode Island
expedition, as volunteers to aid General Sulli
van. Colonel Wingate was noted for his brave-
ness and courage as a soldier. In 1773 and
1779 he served as selectman of Dover, and as
representative in 1781 to the Second Constitu
tional Convention. His will was made the day
before his death, and he left his son Edmund
an estate of one hundred and thirty acres in
Rochester, which should descend to Edmund's
son Joshua at Edmund's death; the will was
proved February 17, 1796, and the homestead
was divided November 26, 1813. Colonel
Wingate married, about 1757, Abigail Rob
erts, born February 18, 1736, died August
22, 1813. Children: Edmund, mentioned be
low; Stephen, of Dover; Elizabeth, born 1762;
Mary, born 1767-68, died May 26, 1799;
Joshua ;  .
(V) Edmund Wingate, son of Colonel
Joshua Wingate, lived in Farmington. He
married  . Children : Lydia, married
John Foss ; Stephen, mentioned below ; Mary,
married Richard Davis ; Joshua, married
daughter of Daniel McNeale; Abigail, mar
ried Captain John Wentworth.
(VI) Stephen Wingate, son of Edmund
Wingate, married Susan Calef, daughter of
Daniel Calef, of Rochester, and lived in Farm
ington. Children: John, married Nab-by
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Mary, married Asa Littlefield; Stephen, mar
ried Mary Parker ; Abby, married Joseph T. S.
Libbey; William, mentioned below; Lyman.
(VII) William Wingate, son of Stephen
Wingate, married (first) Nancy Morrison. He
married (second) Lydia S. Preston. Child by
first wife : Emma. Child by second 'wife :
Woodbury Haven, mentioned below.
(VIII) Woodbury Haven Wingate, son of
William Wingate, was born in New Hamp
shire, September, 1858. He lived in -Ports
mouth, and now lives at Cambridge, Massachu
setts. He is the owner of a hotel in Williams-
town, Massachusetts. In politics he is a Re
publican, and in religion an Episcopalian. He
is a member of North Adams Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; of Royal Arch Masons, and
Knights of Pythias, North Adams. He mar
ried, September, 1883, Sadie M. Mack, of
Boston. Children: 1. Woodbury Harold, born
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 29,
1886, died in Boston, 1907 ; was a graduate of
English High School, Boston, and a senior of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at time
of death. 2. Louise, born at Portsmouth, Feb
ruary 17, 1888, graduate of Charlestown high
school, and of North Adams Normal School,
1909, is a teacher in Cambridge. 3. Mack
Preston, mentioned below.
(IX) Mack Preston Wingate, son of Wood
bury Haven Wingate, was born at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, February 21, 1889. He at
tended the public schools in New Bedford and
Boston, Massachusetts. In 1906 he became a
clerk in a wholesale grocery house in Boston
and remained for two years. In 1908 he
entered the employ of the Great Northern
Paper Company at Millinocket, Maine. He is
now superintendent of the machine depart
ment of that concern. In politics he is a Re
publican. He is a communicant of the Prot
estant Episcopal church. He married, at Isles-
boro, Maine, December 27, 191 1, Effie Porter
Hatch, who was born January 24, 1886, in
Islesboro. She was educated in the public
schools there and at the Castine Normal
School, from which she was graduated in the
class of 1904. She taught school at Isle au
Haut and Deer Isle, Maine, before her mar
riage. She is a member of Lone Star Chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star (see Hatch IX).
(The Hatch Line).
(I) Elder William Hatch, immigrant an
cestor, was born in Sandwich, county Kent,
England, where he was a merchant. He came
to Scituate, Massachusetts, before 1633, and
in a year or two returned to England to get
his family. In March, 1635, he sailed with his
wife Jane, and children, and six servants, in

the "Hercules" of Sandwich. He was first
ruling elder of the Second Church of Scituate,
and lieutenant of the militia. His brother
Thomas was a settler in Dorchester, Massa
chusetts, 1634, and later in Scituate. The
home of Elder Williams was on Kent street.
His widow Jane married Elder Thomas King
in 1653. Children : Jane, Anne, Walter, Han
nah, William, Jeremiah, mentioned below.
(II) Jeremiah Hatch, son of William Hatch,
was often deputy to the general court; was
surveyor, selectman, and prominent in town
affairs. He owned a large amount of land,
granted him by town of Scituate. Pie died in
1712-13, his will being proved March 10 of
that year. He married, about 1657, Mary,
daughter of John Hewes, "the Welchman,"
and she was living in 1713. Children: Mary,
born February 14, 1658; Jeremiah, August 31,
1660; Joanna, March 21, 1662; Mercy, April
15, 1665; John, January 4, 1667; Lydia, De
cember 15, 1669; Phebe, August 8, 1671, died
young; Thomas, December 15, 1672; James,
mentioned below ; Anna, October 6, 1677 ; Deb
orah, March 24, 1678-79; Israel, died before
1702; Elizabeth; Joseph.
(Ill) James Hatch, son of Jeremiah Hatch,
was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, May 4,
1674, and died in 1741. His will, dated April
29, 1740, was proved June 1, 1741. He was
selectman of Hanover, and was one of first
proprietors of Hatch's Mill, in the part of
Hanover which is now Hanson. He married,
about 1696, Abigail  . Children : James,
mentioned below; Phebe, born June 14, 1701 ;
Abiall, May 19, 1704; Shadruch, daughter,
May 26, 1706, died young.
(IV) James (2) Hatch, son of James (1)
Hatch, was born in Scituate, Massachusetts,
November 19, 1698, and lived in Hanover.. He
was a yeoman. He married Anna  .
Children: Abigail, born October 29, 1725 ; Ex
perience, August 1, 1727; Julia, July 10, 1729;
James, mentioned below.
(V) Captain James (3) Hatch, son of
James (2) Hatch, was born February 3, 1731,
and died at Pembroke, February 11, 1821. He
married (first) January 27, 1763, Mary, daugh-
tre of Thomas Moore, of Pembroke. She was
born September 17, 1746, and died June 6,
1777. He married (second) January 29, 1784,
Sarah Cushing. Seven children by first wife,
of whom two were : Mary, born May 27, 1764 ;
James, mentioned below.
(VI) James (4) Hatch, son of Captain
James (3) Hatch, was born November 3, 1773,
and died July 7, 181 1. He married, June 29,
1794, Orpah, daughter of Lemuel Bonney. She
was born May 12, 1777, and died February 8,
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were: James, March 3, 1796; Nathaniel, men
tioned below.
(VII) Nathaniel Hatch, son of James (4)
Hatch, was born in Hanover, Massachusetts,
July 4, 1800, and died at Belfast, Maine, July
2, 1864. He went to Islesboro, Maine, in 1837.
He married (first) December 22, 1822, Jane
Elizabeth Valleau, and he married (second)
Mary E. Sargent, of Belfast. Children: Theo
dore S., born October 2, 1823 ; Nathaniel, men
tioned below; Lemuel, born May 2, 1831, died
in infancy; Andrew, September 10, 1832, died
September 10, 1847.
(VIII) Nathaniel (2) Hatch, son of Na
thaniel (1) Hatch, was born September 10,
1825. He lives at Islesboro, Maine, a retired
sea captain. In politics he was a Whig and is
now a Republican. He is a member of the
Baptist church. He married, January 4, 1849,
Susan A. Boardman, who was born about 1828
and died at Islesboro in 1907. Children, born
at Islesboro : Henry Porter, mentioned below ;
Cora L., born January 24, 1852, died 1859;
Estelle F., September 18, 1858, lives at Isles
boro, married John Field, overseer of estate
of Mrs. Attlebury; Edith C, May 24, i860,
died 1869 ; Rowena L., May 23, 1864, lives at
Islesboro, unmarried.
(IX) Henry Porter Hatch, son of Nathaniel
(2) Hatch, was born at Islesboro, Maine, Au
gust 20, 1849, and was lost at sea in a heavy
gale off Portsmouth, on the ship "Lester
Lewis," in 1908. He was a sea captain, and
was a member of Islesboro Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons. He married Adelaide
Hatch, born 1854. She attends the Baptist
church at Islesboro. Children, born in Isles
boro : 1. Rosalvena, born November 19, 1879;
was graduated from business college at Salem,
Massachusetts ; married Ralph H. Howe, of
Boston, a travelling salesman, and lives at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 2. Cora Adel-
laide, born October 3, 1880; graduate of
Waterville high school and Castine Normal
School, 1 901 ; teacher in Islesboro; unmar
ried. 3. Amelia Louise, died young. 4. Effie
Porter, born January 24, 1886; married Mack
Preston Wingate (see Wingate IX). 5. Emery
Bunker, born June 28, 1889; married Anna
Ricker, of Turner, Maine, and they live at
Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he is a
merchant, graduate of Belfast high school and
of Hebron Institute, Maine.

James Lane, the immigrant ances-
LANE tor, was living in England in 1654,
when he owned real estate, with his
brother, John Lane, at Rickmansworth, county
Hertford. This land was inherited from their
parents, and their brother Job also claimed a

share. James had paid large debts on the prop
erty, and was a poor man, and on June 6, 1654,
Jeremiah Gould wrote to Job Lane concerning
the land as follows: "You wonder your
Brother James should deceive me to make
away your estate * * * I find a surrender of
premises from your father and mother unto
James and John and their heirs forever * * *
Your brother James, he is very poor and I
hope very honest." James Lane was a crafts
man, and perhaps a member of the guild of
turners in London, 1654. He came to this
country about 1656, with his brothers, Job and
Edward, and settled in Maiden, Massachu
setts, moving soon to Casco Bay, Maine. Ed
ward went to Boston and Job to Billerica,
about 1664. In 1658 James Lane was living
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Novem
ber 19, 1660, he appointed Job Lane his attor
ney, he being at that time an inhabitant of
Maiden. John, son of James, deposed in 1733
that his father settled in Casco Bay "about
seventy-five years since." James Lane became
owner of much real estate there, and a point
of land and an island still bear his name. He
was in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), in
1658, and was one of the petitioners to be
joined to Massachusetts Bay government. In
1665-66 he was sergeant. In 1666 he bought
two islands, Great and Little Mosier, from
Hugh Mosier's estate. At a court in Casco,
July 26, 1666, he was surety under a bond of
one hundred and seventy pounds, for James
Mosier in the settlement of his father Hugh's
estate, and he served on the jury at the same
court which found James Robinson not guilty
of murdering Christopher Collins. In 1675
James Lane was living in Westcustigo, Casco
Bay. During King Philip's war in 1675, Eal-
mouth (Portland) was abandoned, after suf
fering much loss, and Sergeant James Lane
was "killed in a fight with the Indians." His
estate was inventoried in 1680.
He married, probably, Ann  , it is sup
posed. He married Sarah (White) Phips,
daughter of John and Mary White ; Mary was
widow of James Phips, and mother/of twenty-.
six children. Sarah White was halfsister of
Sir William Phipps, royal governor of Massa
chusetts. Children of James Lane, who died
intestate: Ann, married John Bray; John,
mentioned below ; Samuel, married Abigail
 ; Henry, died at Boston, June 4, 1690;
Job, married Mary Fassett ; James.
(II) John Lane, son of James Lane, was
born in 1652, and died in 1738. He testified,
July 2, 1733, that he settled at Falmouth,
Casco Bay, fifty-two or three years before,
living there until the second Indian war, which
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1680 Falmouth was destroyed a second time
by the French and Indians. Records show
that he was at Cape Elizabeth in 1680, and in
1687 he was living near his father-in-law at
Purpooduck Point, but the Indian troubles
forced them to flee, and they settled at Glou
cester, Massachusetts. Samuel Lane, of North
Yarmouth, also went there, and the Lane fam
ily gave the name of Lanesville to a village of
Gloucester. John Lane inherited much land
in Maine, and owned a large amount of prop
erty. Before 1703 he was a member of the
First Church at Gloucester, and in 1728 was
an original member of the Third Church,
Annisquam. He died January 24, 1737-38,
aged eighty-six years, and his son James was
appointed administrator of his estate, March
29, 1738. He married, at Cape Elizabeth,
Dorcas Wallis, daughter of John and Mary
(Shepard) Wallis. John Wallis was a settler
at Falmouth (Portland), and died at Glouces
ter, September 23, 1690, -son of Nathaniel
Wallis, who was born 1632, of county Corn
wall, England, immigrant ancestor to Casco
Bay. Dorcas (Wallis) Lane joined the church
January 14, 1730, and died February 2, 1754.
Children, five born at Cape Elizabeth, six at
Gloucester, nine being baptized at Gloucester
before 1703: James, bora 1682; John, 1688;
Josiah, married Rachel York ; Dorcas, married
William Tucker; Sarah, married Thomas
Riggs; Hephzibah, born July 20, 1694; Mary,
August 8, 1696; Joseph, October 15, 1698;
Benjamin, mentioned below; Deborah, Febru
ary 19, 1703, died May 9, 1729; Job, February
8, 1705-
(III) Benjamin Lane, son of John Lane,
was born at Gloucester, July 25, 1700, and died
March 12, 1773. He bought land in Glouces
ter, November 15, 1727, 1737 and 1738, and
gave receipts for his share of his father's estate
on April 11, 1739, and May 6, 1740. He mar
ried, January 6, 1725-26, Elizabeth Griffin, a
descendant of Samuel and Elizabeth (York)
Griffin. She died of asthma, September 11,
1779, aged seventy years. Children, born in
Gloucester: Thomas, born September 5, 1726,
died September 10, 1726; Benjamin, men
tioned below; Elizabeth, January 3, 1730;
Jonathan, October 2, 1731 ; John, October 15,
1733; Lydia, February 24, 1735-36; Hezekiah,
March 31, 1738; David, baptized 1740; Daniel,
baptized June 3, 1740; Dorcas, baptized Octo
ber 16, 1743; Joseph, baptized September 8,
1745 ; Joshua, twin, baptized September 8,
1745; Lois, baptized December 13, 1747; Na
thaniel, born September 10, 1750; Rebecca,
baptized December 22, 1751 ; Peter, born April
18, 1754, died October 30, 1772.
(IV) Benjamin (2) Lane, son of Benjamin
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(1) Lane, was born in Gloucester, November
23, 1727, and died about 1805. He was one of
the settlers of New Gloucester on Royal's
river, Maine, in 1770, having bought land there
September 11 the same year. He married
(first) intention dated October 28, 1749, Plan
nah Lane, daughter of Samuel (3), son of
Samuel (2), son of James Lane (1). He
married (second) intention September 23,
1780, Mrs. Sarah Pool, who died March 30,
1840, aged eighty-two. Children: Nathaniel,
born September 10, 1750; Benjamin, men
tioned below ; Eliphalet, baptized September 8,
1754; Zephaniah, baptized August 29, 1756;
Hannah, baptized February 12, 1758; John,
baptized October 4, 1759, killed at beginning
of revolution, aged nineteen ; Samuel, baptized
September 20, 1761 ; Joshua, baptized October
2, 176-3; Susanna, baptized February 9, 1766;
Betty, baptized June 3, 1770.
(V) Benjamin (3) Lane, son of Benjamin
(2) Lane, was baptized at Gloucester, Massa
chusetts, December 1, 1752. He moved to
New Gloucester, Maine, and settled in Poland,
Maine, on a one-hundred-acre lot, which he
bought in 1796 and 1798. He bought and sold
various parcels of land at different times. His
will was dated April 13, 1838, and proved
January, 1842, third Tuesday. Pie married
(first) July 3, 1775, Sarah Davis, baptized and
admitted to church at Annisquam, September
27, 1778. He married (second) March 26,
1816, Elizabeth Norwood. He was a farmer
and prominent man in Poland all his life. His
house was one of the best in town. He was
well-to-do and held various town offices of im
portance. Children: Benjamin, born January
14, 1777; John, mentioned in his father's will;
Sally, married  Bailey; Oliver, men
tioned in his father's will; Nehemiah, men
tioned in his father's will; Rebecca, married
 Glover ; Zenas, mentioned below.
(VI) Zenas Lane, son of Benjamin (3)
Lane, was born in Poland, Maine, about 1801,
and died in 1875. He was a farmer in Poland
all his life, and also engaged in the fire and
general insurance business, in which he was
successful. In politics he was a Republican,
and he was a member of the Universalist
church. Between 1817 and 1839 he was party
to transfers of real estate twenty-one times,
and his estate was conveyed to Benjamin But-
tler and others, October 5, 1842. His son
Zenas, jeweller of Mechanics Falls, was ad
ministrator, September, 1875, of his estate. He
married (first) February 2, 1820, Judith Nor
wood, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, born
about 1802, died 1853. He married (second)
Jane Sawtell. Children, born in Poland: 1.
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2. Ellen, died aged twenty-one at Poland. 3.
Columbia, died at Biddeford, Maine, unmar
ried. 4. Zenas, died at Mechanics Falls,
Maine; was a jeweller, was town treasurer and
collector more than twenty years; married
Roxie Rowe ; children : Elmer and Wendell.
5. Adelia, died in Biddeford, unmarried. 6.
Judith, died in Newburyport, Massachusetts,
unmarried. 7. Asa Hanson, mentioned below.
8. Amanda, died in Newburyport, unmarried.
9. Eustace, lives in Boston, piano dealer and
tuner ; married Ella Battles, and has : Walter,
Frank, a printer; Maude, married Nathaniel
Adams, of Newtonville. 10. Gertrude, editor
of "Woman's Home Companion," New York
City. 11. Albert. 12. Alice, married an attor
ney of Boston.
(VII) Asa Hanson Lane, son of Zenas
Lane, was born at Poland, Maine, January 27,
1832. He was educated in the public schools,
and after teaching for a time became a photog
rapher in Waldoboro, Maine, and elsewhere.
His last place of business and residence was
Boston, where he died January 21, 1892. In
politics he was a staunch Republican. He was
active in the temperance, movement. During
the civil war he enlisted at Poland, but was
rejected by the examining board. He married,
March 27, 1862, Anna Bradford, who was
born in Lee, Maine, November 25, 1844 (see
Bradford IX). She attended the public schools
and the State Normal School at Lee, the first
of its kind in the state of Maine. Afterward
she taught school for a year in Springfield and
Enfield, Maine. She is a member of Forest
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Maine. She
is a daughter of Elisha Bradford (see Brad
ford). Child: Emma Bradford, born in Lee,
February 2, 1871, attended the State Nor
mal School at Lee, studied music in Boston
and New York, graduate of the New York
University in school music, 1909, supervisor of
music in the Patten schools.
(The Bradford Line).
(V) Israel Bradford, son of Major William
Bradford, married Sarah Bartlett, of Duxbury.
He resided in Kingston, Massachusetts. Chil
dren : Ruth, born December 11, 1703; Bath-
sheba, November 8, 1704; Benjamin, October
17, 1705; Abner, December 25, 1707; Joshua,
mentioned below; Ichabod, September 22,
1713; Elisha, March 26, 1718.
(VI) Joshua Bradford, son of Israel Brad
ford, was born at Kingston, June 23, 17 10.
He married Hannah, daughter of Elisha Brad
ford, and removed to Maduncook, now Friend
ship, Maine. He and his wife were killed by
Indians, May 27, 1756. The mother was killed
with a baby in her arms. A daughter of twelve

caught the child unharmed and escaped with
it. Two sons were taken to Canada. Elisha
Bradford, father of Hannah, married Hannah
Cole and Bathsheba La Brocke. Joseph Brad
ford, father of Elisha, was son of William
(III) ; married Jael Habert and had sons,
Elisha and Joseph.
(VII) Joseph Bradford, son of Joshua
Bradford, was born March 19, 1751, and died
November 18, 1811.. He removed from Ma
duncook to Sandy River in 1786. He mar
ried Abigail Starling, who died January 16,
1832. Children: Elisha, mentioned below;
Sally, married Peter Parker; Huldah, mar
ried Benjamin Butler ; Polly, married Jonathan
Gordon; Abigail; Jacob Eaton; Betsey; Na
than Pinkham; Hannah, born May 21, 1791,
married John Kempton; Dorothy, December
8, T793 J Joseph, January 22, 1797; Richard,
November 11, 1801.
(VIII) Elisha Bradford, son of Joseph
Bradford, was born October 25, 1774. He
succeeded to his father's homestead. He was
a soldier in the war of 1812. He married, De
cember 24, 1800, Mary, daughter of Captain
Benjamin Butler. She died April 12, 1844;
he died March 17, 1832. Children: Benja
min Butler, born October 14, 1801, married
Ann Pitman, who died in Minneapolis over a
hundred years old; Alfred, born April 10,
1803; Starling, November 4, 1804; Nancy,
March 25, 1806, married James Coffin ; Almira,
October 10, 1807; Paulina, May 24, 1809, mar
ried Joshua Tolle and — ¦  Jackson ; Elisha,
mentioned below; Mary, February 10, 1814;
Elvira, January 14, 1820.
(IX) Elisha (2) Bradford, son of Elisha
(1) Bradford, was born (as in history) Janu
ary 7, 181 1, at Farmington, Maine, and died
in Golden Ridge, Sherman, Maine, January
9, 1903. He attended the public schools of his
native town. He owned a farm in Lee and
also a tannery which was twice destroyed by
fire. After the second fire he removed to Sher
man. In politics a Democrat, he was select
man, chairman of the school board and a lead
ing citizen of Lee. He belonged to the lodge
of Odd Fellows at Farmington. He married
Sarah True, who was born at Litchfield, July
30, 1824, and died at Sherman, June 28, 191 1.
Children, born in Lee: 1. Melvina A., born
August 21, 1 841 ; married Frank Allingham,
of St. John, New Brunswick, a retired mer
chant, living at Sherman Mills. 2. Anna, mar
ried Asa Hanson Lane (see Lane VII)., 3,
Emma, born February 8, 1846; married Hor
ace Gove, and died in Florida, 1897. 4. True,
born February, 1848, died aged four years. 5.
Truman, born May 17, 1852; married (first)
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(second)  and had Mildred, who mar
ried Charles Young, of Golden Ridge, Gladys
and Willis. 6. Preston, born June, 1854; re
sides at Grand Falls, Montana, a ranchman.
7. Mary, died aged four years. 8. Minnie,
born April, 1862; married  ; lives in
Jacksonville, Florida. 9. George, died in in
fancy. 10. Geneva, born 1867; married Irving
Seavey ; she died in 1903, in Sherman, where
he is a merchant.

(VIII) George Edwards Wil-
WILKINS kins, son of Isaac Edwards
Wilkins (q. v.), was born in
Albion, Maine, January 10, 1836, and died at
Presque Isle, Maine, February 14, 1905. He
received his education in Albion, where he
lived until he was nineteen years of age, at
which time he moved to Brownville with his
parents, finishing his education there. He was
a blacksmith by trade. In 1878 he settled in
Presque Isle, where he purchased a farm and
where he also followed his trade. In politics
he was a Republican, and he served as town
collector for the last ten years of his life, in
Presque Isle. He was deacon of the Congre
gational church, being appointed shortly after
his marriage and serving until his death. He
married, in Brownville, October 19, 1858, Ruth
Elizabeth Harmon, who was born in Milo,
Maine, April 11,-1840, and now lives in Presque
Isle. She received her education in Brown
ville, attending high school there. She is a
member of the Congregational church. She
taught school in Brownville and Barnard,
Maine, from the time she was fifteen until her
marriage. She is a daughter of John Harmon, who
was born probably in 1809, in Portland, Maine,
and died in Georgetown, Eldorado county,
California, in 1856. He had a farm in Milo,
Maine; in 1852 he went to California as a
miner, and died of rheumatic fever there. He
was a Whig and Republican in politics. He
married Ann Elizabeth Martin, who was born
in Maine in 18 16, and died at Hyde Park,
Massachusetts, in 1894; she was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children
of John and Ann Elizabeth (Martin) Harmon,
born in Milo: 1. Edward, born February, 1836,
died 1912, in Wisconsin; hotel proprietor;
served in civil war; married Rebecca Red. 2.
Nancy Ellen, born May 8, 1838, died in Mays
ville, Maine, 1889; married Sumner Dyer, of
Foxcroft, Maine, farmer; children: Willis,
farmer of Presque Isle, Lizzie, Nellie, Frank,
farmer in Maysville (Presque Isle) ; Emma,
married Grover Cleaves, of Presque Isle;
George, of Presque Isle. 3. Ruth Elizabeth,

married George E. Wilkins, see above. 4.
Emma Jane, born April 13, 1842; married
(first) Frank Boutwell, of Vermont, a police
man in Boston; daughter, Beatrice, married
Elliott Cornier, of Natick, Massachusetts;
Emma Jane married (second) Harry Dean, of
Boston, and they live in Dorchester. 5. John,
born 1844, died aged two years. 6. John, born
1846, died in Canton, Ohio. 7. Mary Frances,
born January, 1848; married Lewis Rogers, of
Brownville, and she lives in Dorchester ; chil
dren : Lura, of Dryden, Maine, John and
Lewis, of Massachusetts, Annie, living with
her mother. 8. Charles, born 1850, died 1864,
9. Son, died in infancy. John Harmon, men
tioned above, was son of Edward Harmon,
who owned a farm near Portland, where he
died. His children were : Edward, John, men
tioned above; Rebecca, and perhaps others.
Children of George Edwards and Ruth Eliz
abeth (Harmon) Wilkins: 1. George Edward,
born in Brownville, January 30, 1861 ; mar
ried (first) Amanda Carson, of Houlton,
Maine ; children : Frank Edward, died in in
fancy, Margaret, Robert, Eleanor, Roger; mar
ried (second) Jean  , of Vancouver,
British Columbia ; he is a member of A. H.
Fogg Hardware. Company. 2. Grace Harmon,
born February 7, 1864, in Brownville ; mar
ried Jesse A. Rogers, of Baring, Maine, and
they live at Newton, Massachusetts ; he is
superintendent of a bank in Boston; children:
Jesse A., attends Boston School of Technology,
and Carl Wilkins. 3. Helen Frances, bora in
Bangor, Maine, June 13, 1866, died at Katah
din Iron Works, June 12, 1876. 4. Charles
Henry, mentioned below.
(IX) Charles Henry Wilkins, son of George
Edwards Wilkins, was born in Brownville,
Maine, May 12, 1868. He attended the public
schools and graduated from the Maysville high
school. During his boyhood he assisted his
father on the homestead on which he has
always lived and which he now owns in part
nership with his mother. It is located four
miles from the village of Presque Isle in the
town of Caribou and comprises one hundred
and twenty acres, most of which is cultivated.
In politics he was formerly a Republican, but
has been a Progressive since that party was
organized. He is a member of the Congrega
tional church and of the Maysville Center
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and Trinity
Lodge, No. 130, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Presque Isle. He married, November 27,
1890, at Presque Isle, Annie M, Kempton, who
was born at Woodland, Maine, June 29, 1869.
She came to Presque Isle with her parents
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school there. She is a member of the Congre
gational church and of the Maysville Center
Grange. Ivory Bean Kempton, father of Mrs. Wil
kins, was born at Farmington, Maine, Decem
ber 25, 1835, and died at Presque Isle, March
14, 1897. Pie married Olive A. Bennett, who
was born September 12, 1845, in Farmington,
and died October 16,. 1889, in Presque Isle.
He was a farmer all his active life, first in
Farmington, then at Woodland and finally at
Presque Isle, Maine. In politics he was a
Democrat ; in religion a Congregationalist.
Children of Ivory Bean and Olive A. Kemp-
ton: 1. Charles C, born July 9, 1865, at
Woodland ; has a molding mill at Presque Isle ;
married Alice Hafford, of Blaine, Maine; chil
dren: Thomas, Arlene and Aletha Kempton.
2. Jason S., born at Woodland, February,
1867; married Maria Bennett, of Presque Isle,
where he has a farm ; children : Ralph, Fran
ces, Alice, Margaret. 3. Annie M., married
Charles Henry Wilkins, mentioned above. 4.
Hattie A., born at Woodland, November 28,
1871, died at Presque Isle, March, 1888. 5.
Margaret M., born January 15, 1873, m Wood
land ; married Frank L. Scott, of Presque Isle,
where he has a farm ; children : Laila, Una
and Frank. 6. Clara B., born at Presque Isle,
June 21, 1876; married David Sutor, of that
town, a farmer ; children : Harry, Susan, Eve
lyn. 7. Louise H, born at Presque Isle, July
10, 1879; married Orland Scribner, born at
Presque Isle ; she died at Gardiner, Maine,
where he now lives ; children : Gladys and
Rupert Scribner. 8. Justina R., born at
Presque Isle, July 13, 1881 ; married Ambrose
Matthews, of that town, a carpenter, now of
Dorchester, Massachusetts ; children : Cath
erine, Kenneth, Blanche, Carl Matthews and
an infant. 9. Olive A., born at Presque Isle,
November, 1883 ; married John Arnott, native
of England, a carpenter and painter, now liv
ing in Westfield, Maine; no children. 10.
Marion Ethelyn, born at Presque Isle, Sep
tember, 1888, died in infancy. Ivory Bean
Kempton's father lived in Farmington and
died there. His wife Hannah died there in
1 891. Ivory Bean had brothers: John, War
ren and Benjamin; sisters: Fannie and Ruth
Kempton. Children of Charles Henry and Annie M.
(Kempton) Wilkins: 1. Ruth Harmon, born
October 5, 1891 ; attended the public schools,
the Aroostook State Normal School, from
which she graduated in 1910; now teaching in
Houlton, Maine ; member of the Aroostook
County Teachers' Association and of the Con
gregational church. 2. Olive Marion, born
February 18, 1893; graduate of the Presque

Isle high school and of the Aroostook State
Normal School, class of 1912; now a school
teacher in Presque Isle and member of the
Aroostook County Teachers' Association and
the Congregational church. 3. C. H. Bray,
born March 20, 1894. 4. Helen Louise, born
October 11, 1895. 5. George Edward, born
July 19, 1897. 6. Elwood Kempton, born Feb
ruary 11, 1899, student in the Presque Isle
high school. 7. Frances Elizabeth, born Au
gust 6, 1900. 8. June Ethelyn, born June 23,
1909.

This is an ancient cognomen in
STEELE England, and is also found at a
very early date in Scotland,
where the clan bearing it had its home in Les-
mahagon, seventeen miles from the seat of the
ancient abbey of Glasgow, later the seat of a
university founded in 1451 by Bishop Turn-
bull. The family receives mention in Sir Wal
ter Scott's "Chronicles of the Canongate," and
is also mentioned by Dean Swift. In England
the family appears to have been located in the
vicinity of London. From two brothers who
came very early to Cambridge, Massachusetts,
have descended a very numerous progeny,
which has been instrumental in settling and
developing many sections of the United States,
and still stands among the leading names of
New England.
(I) John Steel, founder of the American
branch of the family here dealt with, came
from Braintree, near London, "from whence,"
says he with others, "we had our transporta
tion." Of his immediate connections there, or
of the place of his nativity, we have no reliable
information. John Steel appears to have been
educated for the duties of the magistracy, and
his apparent rank in life seems to have been
well calculated for advancement in that calling.
His name appears first in connection with
Dorchester, one of the earliest settlements of
the colony of Massachusetts, in the year 1630,
ten years only after the arrival of the Pilgrim
company in the "Mayflower." Next he is.
found to have been one of the proprietors of
Cambridge (first called Newtown) in 1632.
Two others, George and Henry Steel, were
also proprietors at the same time. Mr. John
Steel, having been made freeman or elector by
the court, in 1634, was elected a representative
from Cambridge in 1635, Cambridge being
designed to be the capital of the colony, as it
was soon after the seat of the university. Dur
ing this period the numerous arrivals at Cam
bridge and the want of pasture lands in the
vicinity induced a portion of the people, in
cluding a number of the chief men, with the
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location. Another inducement for their re
moval was the dislike of some regulations
which were thought to circumscribe the rights
of freemen. The proposed enterprise met with
strong opposition, but at length its advocates
obtained the consent of the majority, and Mr.
John Steel, in the autumn of 1635, led the
pioneer band through the wilderness to a new
location on the Connecticut river. As leader
and magistrate he appears to have conducted
the expedition safely and wisely. On the mar
gin of the river and near the head of the navi
gable waters they laid the foundations of a new
town, afterwards called Hartford, and of a
new colony (Connecticut), the third of the
colonies of New England. During a period of
twenty-three years John Steel, elected to the
principal colony court, was present at eighty-
eight, at least, of its sessions, and engaged in
its legislation and judicial decisions, and was
for four years its secretary or recorder. For
nearly twenty years he was also secretary of
the town of Hartford, and for a time recorder
of the town of Farmington. During these
years he was likewise called upon to act on
various principal committees or agencies, civil,
military and ecclesiastical, for determining the
contested claims and boundaries of the colony,
for the peaceful acquisition of additional terri
tory and for raising troops for special expedi
tions among the hostile Indians. His closing
years were passed at Farmington, where he
was a member of the church, and died Novem
ber 25, 1665. His residence at Hartford was
on the main street, just north of the present
Atheneum. His will bears date, January 30,
1663-64. He married (first) probably in Eng
land, Rachel Talcott, who died in 1653; (sec~
ond) Mercy, widow of Richard Seymour.
Children : John, mentioned below ; Samuel,
born in England about 1626, died at Wethers
field, Connecticut, August 15, 1685; Lydia,
married, March 31, 1657, James, son of
Thomas and Mary Bird; Mary, died October
2, 1718, married William, son of Thomas
Judd; Hannah, died in 1655, probably unmar
ried; Sarah, born 1638, died May 22, 1695,
married, in 1658, Lieutenant Thomas Judd,
son of Thomas Judd.
(II) John (2) Steele, son of John (1) and
Rachel (Talcott) Steel, was born about 1625,
in England, died in Farmington, Connecticut,
in 1653-54. He married, about 1645, Mary,
or Mercy, daughter of Andrew Warner, who
came from England and settled first at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, where he owned a large
estate in 1635. In the following year he sold
this and removed to Hartford, Connecticut,
being later one of the first settlers of Hadley,
Massachusetts, where he died December 18,

1684. After the death of Mr. Steele, his
widow married William Hills. Children, born
in Farmington : Daniel, born April 29, 1645 ;
Mary, November 20, 1646; Lieutenant John,
November 5, 1647; Samuel, mentioned below;
Benoni ; Henry, died young.
(Ill) Samuel Steele, youngest son of John
(2) and Mary or Mercy (Warner) Steele, was
born March 15, 1652, in Farmington, and made
his home in Hartford, where he died in 1710.
He married, September 16, 1680, Mercy Brad
ford, who was born September 2, 1660, died
in 1720, daughter of Major William (4) Brad
ford, of Plymouth and Kingston, Massachu
setts (see Bradford V). Children, born at
Hartford : Thomas, mentioned below ; Samuel,
born February 15, 1684-85; Jerusha, February
15, 1684-85; William, February 20, 1687;
Abiel, October 8, 1693; Daniel, April 3, 1697;
Eliphalet, June 23, 1700.
(IV) Thomas Steele, eldest child of Sam
uel and Mercy (Bradford) Steele, was born
September 9, 1681, in Hartford, and resided
at West Hartford, where he died in 1757. He
married Susanna Webster, born April 28, 1686,
in Hartford, a descendant of John Webster,
one of the first settlers of Hartford, and also
of Hadley, Massachusetts, fifth governor of
the Connecticut colony, and his wife Agnes.
Robert, third son of Governor John Webster,
resided in Middletown and Hartford, and mar
ried Susanna Treat, daughter of Richard Treat,
one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Con
necticut. Jonathan, son of Robert and Sus
anna (Treat) Webster, married Dorcas Hop
kins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, grand
daughter of John and Jane Hopkins, who were
among the first settlers of Hartford. Stephen
Hopkins, born about 1634, married Dorcas,
daughter of John Bronson, of Farmington.
Their daughter Dorcas became the wife of
Jonathan Webster, and they were the parents
of Susanna Webster, born April 28, 1686, in
Hartford, who became the wife of Thomas
Steele. Children, born at Hartford: Jerusha,
July 1, 1710; Samuel, mentioned below; Wil
liam, December 10, 1713 ; Susanna, December
J5> l?I5* Thomas, baptized October 11, 1717;
James, born December 22, 1719 ; Nathaniel,
November 3, 1721 ; Dr. John, baptized Novem
ber 17, 1723.
(V) Samuel (2) Steele, eldest son of
Thomas and Susanna (Webster) Steele, was
born March 11, 1712, in Hartford, died Sep
tember 12, 1779. He married (first) Decem
ber 20, 1738, Elizabeth Merry, and (second)
Martha S  . Children: Samuel, baptized
February 3, 1740; Elizabeth, born January 1,
1741 ; Thomas, baptized October 24, 1742;
Anna, born September 15, 1745; Sarah, Sep-

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tember 28, 1747; Mary and Sarah (twins),
April 26, 1749; Martha, April 13, 175 1; Lu
cretia, September 13, 1753; Samuel, Febru
ary 28, 1755 ; Allyn, mentioned below ; Martin,
baptized October 11, 1760; Joel, born March
22, 1767.
(VI) Allyn Steele, fourth son of Samuel
(2) and Elizabeth (Merry) Steele, was born
July 21, 1757, in Hartford, where he made
his home, died June 17, 1802. He married,
January 7, 1779, Joanna Cadwell, born Janu
ary 20, 1757, died May 3, 1835, perhaps a
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Porter) Cad
well, of Windsor. Children : Allyn, born Sep
tember 11, 1779; Joanna, March 26, 1781 ; Dr.
Samuel, November 11, 1782; Lucy, December
13, 1785; Timothy Cadwell, mentioned below;
Lucy, December 8, 1793.
(VII) Timothy Cadwell Steele, third son of
Allyn and Joanna (Cadwell) Steele, was born
December 20, 1787, in Hartford, and resided
in Plainfield, Connecticut, where he died De
cember 28, 1844. He married, January 1,
1809J Hannah Sedgwick, born February 6,
1789, eldest child of Timothy and Lucy (Sedg
wick) Sedgwick, died February 19, 1868.
Timothy Sedgwick was a son of William and
Miriam (Webster) Sedgwick. The last named
was descended from Governor John Webster,
above mentioned, through his son Robert. John
Webster, eldest son of Robert, born Novem
ber 10, 1653, married Sarah, daughter of Jacob
and Sarah (Whiting) Mygatt, of Hartford;
the last named a daughter of Hon. William
and Susanna Whiting, among the first settlers
of Hartford. Captain Daniel Webster, fourth
son of John and Sarah (Mygatt) Webster,
was born October 1, 1693, and married Miriam,
widow of Abraham Kellogg, and daughter of
Noah Cooke, of Northampton. Their only
daughter, Miriam Webster, born October 21,
1729, married (first) Elias Hopkins, and (sec
ond) William Sedgwick, becoming the mother
of Timothy Sedgwick, whose daughter Han
nah was the wife of Timothy Cadwell Steele.
Children: Henry, born October 2-6, 1809;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Charles Andrew,
October 19, 1814; George Timothy, Novem
ber 30, 1822.
(VIII) Deacon Thomas (2) Steele, second
son of Timothy Cadwell and Hannah (Sedg
wick) Steele, was born September 18, 1812,
and lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He mar
ried, August 29, 1837, Mary Ritter, a woman
of strong Christian character, whose influence
upon the lives of her children was to them a
great blessing. Children : Mary Louisa, born
October 24, 1840, who married Henry Day
Atwater, of Brooklyn, New York, where she

resides, a widow, and Thomas Sedgwick, men
tioned below.
(IX) Thomas Sedgwick Steele, only son of
Deacon Thomas (2) and Mary (Ritter) Steele,
was born June 11, 1845, in Hartford, died Sep
tember 10, 1903, in Marblehead, Massachu
setts. Very early in life Mr. Steele mani
fested great artistic ability, and much of his
time outside of business hours was given to
painting. His earliest efforts received favor
able comment from competent critics. After
receiving his education in the Hartford high
school, he engaged in the jewelry business. In
1877 he was admitted to the National Academy
of Design of New York. He excelled as a
painter of game, fruit, flowers and still life,
and his paintings began to attract much atten
tion in New York. His fame as an artist grew
rapidly, and in 1887 he closed out the jewelry
business, which he had conducted with profit
and success, and gave his entire time to his
long cherished profession. In 1890 he was
honored by election to the Boston Art Club,
which has the reputation of being very con
servative in the reception of members. Mr.
Steele was an exception, however, to this rule,
for his ability was already widely recognized,
and soon after his election to the Boston Art
Club his noted painting, entitled "Net Results,"
was etched by a Boston publishing company.
In 1880 and 1882 Mr. Steele published two
books, one entitled "Canoe and Camera," the
other "Paddle and Portage," devoted especially
to the 'woods of northern Maine, and compiled
a map showing the results of his explorations,
to accompany these works, which had a wide
sale. Going to Europe Mr. Steele studied the
higher branches of art with P. Marcius-
Simons in Paris, and upon his return to Amer
ica, in 1895, added steadily to his reputation
as a painter. About this time he added to his
publications a work entitled "A Voyage to
Viking Land." Until 19-00 he maintained a
studio in Hartford, and then removed to Bos
ton, where the last three years of his life were
passed. He traveled extensively in Egypt,
Norway, Russia, and other sections of Europe,
and was a member of various organizations,
including the Salmagundi Club of New York,
Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colo
nial Wars, and Sons of the American Revolu
tion. He was a member of the Park Congre
gational Church of Hartford, and was for
some time superintendent of its Sunday school.
While he gave no time to politics, he was an
earnest and straightforward Republican. A
man of simple domestic tastes, he was devoted
to art, to which he applied himself most in
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refined manner gained him admiration every
where as a gentleman, as well as an artist. He
was extremely loyal to New England, its peo
ple, and his home town. While his great
talents won remarkable success he was always
of modest and quiet demeanor.
He married (first) in 1868, Annie Eliza
Smith, who died about six years later. He
married (second) October 26, 1876, Sarah
Cole Goff, daughter of the late Hon. Darius
and Harriet (Lee) Goff, of old and prominent*
Rhode Island families. She accompanied him
on all of his travels, and after the death of her
husband she made her home in Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, where she died December 5,
191 3, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery,
Providence, beside her husband. She was a
member of the Pawtucket Women's Club, the
School of Design of Providence, and of Paw
tucket | Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. There was one child of this mar
riage, Annie Lee Steele, who married, Janu
ary 23, 1904, Herbert M. Adams, son of John
F. and Katherine (Stafford) Adams, of Paw
tucket. There are three children of this mar
riage : Sedgwick Steele, born November 23,
1904; Sarah Goff, June 25, 1908; Herbert Mat
thews Jr., June 6, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Adams
reside in the homestead on Walcott street, Paw
tucket, formerly the home of the Goff family.
Mrs. Adams is a member of Pawtucket Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution,
the Connecticut Society of Mayflower De
scendants, and the Congregational church of
Pawtucket. (The Bradford Line).
The surname Bradford is derived from the
name of a place, Broadford or Bradenford.
There are two very ancient towns of this name,
one in Wiltshire, England, near Bath, and one
in Yorkshire, near Leeds. Near the latter was
the home of the ancestors of the American
family. The family dates back in England
doubtless to the beginning of surnames in the
eleventh or twelfth centuries. One of the first
martyrs burned at the stake during the reign
of Bloody Mary was John Bradford, prebend
of St. Paul and a celebrated preacher. He
was bora in Manchester, Lancashire, 1510, and
was executed July 1, 1555. He was a friend
of Rogers, Hooper, Saunders, Latimer, Cran-
mer and Ridley, who also died at the stake
about the same time. The Bradford coat-of-
arms is: Argent on a fesse sable three stags'
heads •erased or. Right Rev. Father in God
Samuel Bradford, lord bishop of Rochester
and dean of Westminster, bore these arms as
well as those of his Episcopal See. The ances
try of Governor William Bradford has not

been traced beyond his grandfather, mentioned
below, though it is known that the family is
ancient. (I) William Bradford, grandfather of Gov
ernor William Bradford, lived at Austerfield
(Osterfeldt), county Nottingham, England,
and in 1575 he and John Hanson were the
only subsidiaries located there. Bradford was
taxed twenty shillings on land; Hanson the
same amount en goods. His grandson, Wil
liam Bradford (governor), lived with him
after the death of William, his son. The date
of' his burial at Austerfield was January 10,
1595-96. Children: 1. William, mentioned be
low. 2. Thomas, had a daughter Margaret,
baptized March 9, 1578, at Austerfield. 3.
Robert, baptized at Austerfield, June 25, 1561,
married, January 31, 1585, Alice Waingate ;
with him Governor Bradford lived after his
grandfather died; in 1598 Robert was the only
sudsidiary at Austerfield; his will was dated
April 15, 1609, and he was buried April 23
following; children: Robert, Mary, Elizabeth
and Margaret. 4. Elizabeth, baptized July 16,
1570. (II) William (2) Bradford, son of William
(1) Bradford, was born at Austerfield, proba
bly about 1560, and died when yet a young
man, July 15, 1591. He married Alice Han
son. Children, born at Austerfield: 1. Mar
garet, baptized March 8, 1585, died young. 2.
Alice, October 30, 1587. 3. Governor William,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Governor William (3) Bradford, son
of William (2) and Alice (Hanson) Brad
ford, was born in England and baptized at
Austerfield (Osterfeldt), March 19, 1590.
After his father's death he lived at first with
his grandfather, but on his death in 1596 Wil
liam went to live with his uncle, Robert Brad
ford, who lived in Scrooby, five miles from
Osterfeldt, near the estate of the Brewsters,
in county Nottingham. He joined the church
where Rev. Richard Clifton and Rev. John
Robinson preached, and soon became one of
the leading "separatists." His early educa
tional advantages were limited, but by diligent
study be became very proficient in Dutch,
Latin, French and Greek, and also devoted
himself to the study of Hebrew that he might
read the Bible in its original form. He went
with the company which migrated to Holland,
and was a most influential power among them.
On his coming of age he received considerable
property from his father's estate, but did not
succeed him in his commercial undertakings.
He learned the art of "fustian or frieze weav
ing." On November 15, 1613, he was affianced
to Dorothea May, from Wisbeach, Cambridge,
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den, and they were married in Amsterdam,
Holland, December 9, 161 3. His age is given
as twenty-three, hers as sixteen. They em
barked for England, July 22, 1620, and after
many trials sailed from Plymouth, England,
September 6, 1620, on the ship "Mayflower,"
reaching Cape Cod harbor the November fol
lowing. While they were at anchor, and he
was absent from the vessel, Dorothea fell
overboard and was drowned, December 9,
1620. Soon after the death of Governor Car
ver, William Bradford was elected governor
of the colony, which he held by annual election
until his death, May 9, 1657, with the excep
tion of the years 1633-34-36-38-44. He took
a prominent part in all the councils, which
were held at his house, and in all civic, politi
cal and military affairs. From his house at
the foot of Burial Hill each Sunday morning
the company of people who assembled there
marched up to the fort at its top, where re
ligious services were held. The history of the
times which he left gives a correct and valu
able picture of the events of that time. He
married (second) Mrs. Alice (Carpenter)
Southworth, widow of Edward Southworth,
and daughter of Alexander Carpenter, of
Wrentham, England. She died March 26,
1670. Child of first wife: John, of Duxbury,
married Martha Bourne ; died in Norwich,
Connecticut, 1678. Children of second wife :
1. William, mentioned below. 2. Mercy, mar
ried Benjamin or Joseph Vermages. 3. Jo
seph, born 1630, married, May 25, 1664, Jael
Hobart; died July 10, 1715.
(IV) Major William (4) Bradford, son of
Governor William (3) and Alice (Carpenter-
Southworth) Bradford, was born June 16,
1624, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, died Feb
ruary 20, 1703. He removed to Kingston,
Massachusetts, was assistant deputy governor,
was one of Governor Andro's council in 1687,
and was the chief military officer of Plymouth
colony. His will is dated January 29, 1703.
He married (first) Alice Richards, born June
17, 1624, died at Plymouth, December 12,
1671, daughter of Thomas and Wealtyan Rich
ards, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He mar
ried (second) the Widow Wiswell ; (third)
Mrs. Mary Holmes, who died June 6, 171 5,
widow of Rev. John Holmes, of Duxbury, and
daughter of John Atwood, of Plymouth. Chil
dren : 1. John, born February 20, 1653. 2.
William, March 11, 1655, died 1687; married
Rebecca Bartlett. 3. Plannah, married, No
vember 28, 1683, Joshua Ripley. 4. Thomas,
of Norwich. 5. Mercy, mentioned below. 6.
Samuel, 1668, died April 11, 1714; married
Hannah Rogers. 7. Alice, married Major
James Fitch. 8. Melatiah, married John Steel.

9. Mary. 10. Sarah, married Kenelm Baker.
Child of second wife: 11. Joseph, of Norwich.
By third wife: 12. Israel, married Sarah Bart
lett. 13. David, married, 171 4, Elizabeth Pin-
ney; died 1730. 14. Ephraim. 15. Hezekiah.
(V) Mercy, third daughter of Major Wil
liam (4) and Alice (Richards) Bradford, be
came the wife of Samuel Steele, of Hartford
(see Steele III).

John Upham, the immigrant an-
UPHAM cestor, was born in England,
probably in Somersetshire, and
came with the Hull colony to Weymouth,
Massachusetts, giving his age as thirty-five
years, and bringing with him- wife, sister, and
children, whose ages are also given in the pas
senger list. But his age was understated. He
was probably born in 1597. He was admitted
a freeman, September 2, 1635, at Weymouth.
In 1636 he was elected deputy to the general
court and again in 1638-39. In 1643 ne was
selectman, and in 1644 was made commissioner
to hear small causes by the general court. He
held other offices and had various land grants.
Before 1650 he removed to Maiden, Massachu
setts, and was selectman there in 1650-51. He
was commissioner again in 1659-61-62. He
was moderator of town meetings, 1678-79-80.
He was interested in the settlement of Worces
ter in 1678. He married (second) August 14,
1671, Katherine Hollard, widow of Angell
Hollard. Children : John, born 1628 ; Na
thaniel, 1630; Elizabeth, 1632; Phineas, men
tioned below; Priscilla, 1642; John (adopted).
(II) Lieutenant Phineas Upham, son of
John Upham, was born in Weymouth in 1635.
He was the only son of the immigrant leaving
posterity of the Upham surname. He married,
at Maiden, April 14, 1658, Ruth Wood. In
1671 he was constable of Wenham; in 1673
on a committee to lay out a road from Cam
bridge to Maiden. He was lieutenant as early
as September, 1675, and served in King Philip's
war. He took part in the Swamp fight, was
wounded and never recovered, though he
finally was carried home. He died there in
October, 1678. The general court, "in con
sideration of the long and good services her
husband did for the country and the great loss
the widow sustained by his death, being left
with seven small children, etc.," paid her the
sum of ten pounds. She died January 18,
1696-97. Children: Phineas, mentioned be
low; Nathaniel, born 1661 ; Ruth, 1664; John,
December 9, 1666; Elizabeth; Thomas, 1668;
Richard, 1676.
(Ill) Phineas (2) Upham, son of Lieuten
ant Phineas Upham, was born at Maiden, May
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96, 1701-04, 1709-10-17; town treasurer, 1697-
1701 ; deputy to the general court in 1701-02,
1716-18; moderator in 1717. He died in Oc
tober, 1720. Pie married Mary Mellen, about
1682. Children: Phineas, mentioned below;
Mary, born 1685; James, 1687; Mary, 1689;
Ebenezer ; Jonathan, 1694 ; William, October
30, 1697; Elizabeth, 1700.
(IV) Phineas (3) Upham, son of Phineas
(2) Upham, was born in Maiden, June 10,
1682. He married, November 23, 1703, Tam-
zen Hill, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Bick-
nell) Hill. She was born December 10, 1685,
and died April 24, 1768. He was a yeoman,
lived at Maiden and North Salem. In 1707-
08 he was ensign of the Maiden company;
selectman 1707-08-09HO; assessor in 1711-12;
moderator of town meetings 1725-26-28-29-
30-48-52. His will was dated in 1751, and
filed for probate, April 29, 1766. His wife
died in 1768, aged eighty-three years. His
house was still standing and owned by de
scendants at last accounts. Children : Ta
bitha, born December 11, 1704; Mary, March
5. 1706; Phineas, January 12, 1708; Sarah,
May 31, 1709; Timothy, August 19, 1710;
Zebediah, March 12, 1712; Tamzen, May 5,
1713; Isaac, July 31, 1714; Jabez, mentioned
below; Amos, September 29, 1719; Tamzen,
May 21, 1720; Sarah, October 21, 1721 ; Jacob,
April 30, 1723.
(V) Dr. Jabez Upham, son of Phineas (3)
LTpham, was born January 3, 1717, in Maiden.
He married Katherine Nicols, a great-grand
daughter of Lieutenant Phineas Upham. Dr.
Upham was a physician at Brookfield, Massa
chusetts. He built a grist mill there in 1748.
He was captain of the military company which
marched to the relief of Fort William Henry
in 1757. He was deputy to the general court,
1756-60. He died November 4, 1760; his wife
Katherine, March 12, 1774 (gravestones at
Brookfield) . Children, all born in Brookfield :
Phineas, October 4, 1739; Joshua, November
3, 1741 ; Sarah, October 24, 1743; Abigail,
January 4, 1745-46; Jabez, mentioned below;
James, October 25, 1749; Thomas, August 17,
1751 ; William, July 9, 1753; James, July 13,.
1755; Thomas, October 11, 1757; Edward,
1759-60. (VI) Jabez (2) Upham, son of Dr. Jabez
(1) Upham, was born at Brookfield, Decem
ber 28, 1747. He was a soldier in the revolu
tion, enlisting for three years in 1781. He
west to Vermont and thence to Woodstock,
New Brunswick. Two of his brothers were
Loyalists. In Woodstock he engaged in lum
bering. He finally settled at a place named
Upham in his honor, in Kings county. He
died there August 3, 1822. He married Bethia

Cutler, daughter of Thomas Cutler, November
28, 1771. She was born in 1753, and died aged
eighty. Children, born at Brookfield : Char
lotte, born September 7, 1772; James, Septem
ber 9, 1774; William, March 16, 1777; Sarah,
March 17, 1779; Abigail, December 11, 1781 ;
Joshua, mentioned below. Born at Cavendish,
Vermont: Jabez, April 17, 1787; Isabella, De
cember 27, 1790; Thomas C, October 16,
1793; Mary, July 22, 1797.
(VII) Joshua Upham, son of Jabez (2)
Upham, was born at Brookfield, July 28, 178-4.
He served in the militia and held a commission.
He died February 1, 1862. He married, Oc
tober 18, 1812, Charity Fowler, daughter of
James and Rachel Fowler. She was born June
16, 1791, and died. March 29, 1866. Children,
born at Upham: James Wellington, April 18,
1814; Jabez Edward, November 17, 1815;
Charlotte Bernard, April 20, 1818; Mary Ann,
February 18, 1820; Catherine Sophia, May 21,
1821 ; William Henry, February 4, 1822; Fran
ces Caroline, June 10, 1824; Joshua Cutler,
mentioned below ; Sarah Isabella, October 27,
1830; Nathaniel Plart, January 12, 1833.
(VIII) Joshua Cutler LTpham, son of
Joshua Upham, was born at Upham, New
Brunswick, January 2, 1828. He married
(first) January 25, 1853, at Hampton, King
county, Sarah Elizabeth Waterbury, who died
April 24, 1867. He married (second) August
15, 1868, Annie Cunningham, at Sussex, Kings
county. In 1879 he was located about seven
miles east of Grand Falls, on the St. John
river, was a merchant, owned saw mills and
had a farm. Children by first wife: Annie
Caroline, born March 14, 1854; George Cut
ler, mentioned below ; Sarah Susanna, August
20, 1858, died 1863; William H. D., i860, died
1863; Walter Lee, September 1, 1862; Susan
Ellen, December 29, 1863; Sidney Herbert,
1867. By second wife : Emma Albertie, Sarah
Edith, Nettie Darling, Arthur Everett, Henry
Ketchum, Maud Louise.
(IX) Dr. George Cutler Upham, son of
Joshua Cutler Upham, was born March 4,
1857, in New Brunswick. He is a graduate
of Bellevue Medical College of New York
City. He practiced at first in Van Buren,
Maine, then in Presque Isle, and for the past
twenty years in Caribou. In politics he is a
Democrat. He is a member of the local lodges
of Odd Fellows and Free Masons. He mar
ried Annie Dora Farrell, who was born at Van
Buren, May 6, 1863, and was educated in St.
Basil Convent, New Brunswick. She taught
school in Van Buren before her marriage. She
is a communicant of the Roman Catholic
church, a member of the Royal Neighbors and
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daughter of Charles Farrell, who was born
at Van Buren, 1837, died there in 1887, a lum
berman and merchant. He was a Roman
Catholic. He married Caroline Nedeau, who
was born at St. Leonards, New Brunswick,
in 1837, and died at Yan Buren, 1909. Chil
dren of Charles Farrell: 1. Agnes, born 1856;
married John Lebel, of Kamouraska, New
Brunswick ; children : Victor, and Maria Lebel,
who married Robert Basseur, of Millinocket.
2. John, born 1857, died at St. Albert, New
Brunswick, 1896; was a merchant; married
Mary Thibedeau, of St. Basil, and now of Al
bert, Alberta ; children : Romeo, Theresa, Eva,
Lawrence. 3. Mary Jane, born 1859, died at
St. Leonards, 1909 ; married Eli Lapoint, of
St. Leonards, a merchant. 4. Ellen, born July,
1861 ; married Simon Crawford, merchant and
farmer, Van Buren ; children : Edna, Katy,
married Edward O'Cainell, of Van Buren. 5.
Annie Dora, married George Cutler Upham,
mentioned above. Children of George Cutler
Upham: 1. Roscoe Charles, mentioned below.
2. Mamie, born at Van Buren, October 27,
1887; a nun in Good Shepherd Convent, Van
Buren. 3. Odon, born April 3, 1890; for past
three years in United States cavalry, now sta
tioned in Texas.
(X) Dr. Roscoe Charles Upham, son of Dr.
George Cutler Upham, was born at Van Buren,
May 7, 1885. He attended the public schools
of bis native town and the Caribou high school.
He entered the Baltimore Medical College,
from which he was graduated in 1908 with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is a
member of the Alpha Omega Delta, a medical
fraternity. He began to practice medicine in
Caribou, but removed, after six months, to
Fort Kent, where he is now in general prac
tice. He is health officer of Fort Kent ; mem
ber of the Aroostook County Medical Society,
the Maine State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. He is inde
pendent in politics, a Roman Catholic in re
ligion. He married, August 1, 1910, at Fort
Kent, Adelaide Nedeau, who was born at Fort
Kent, October 19, 1885, educated in Walla
grass, Maine, and in the Notre Dame Convent,
Quebec, a Roman Catholic in religion (see
Nedeau III). Children: 1. Bernard, born at
Fort Kent, May 15, 1911. 2. Lewis, bora May
15, 1912. (The Nedeau Line).
(I) Alexis Nedeau was a farmer at River
de Loup. Children: i„ John Baptist, died at
St. Epiphane, Quebec, a farmer. 2. Alexis,
mentioned below. 3. Obline, died at Notre
Dame du Portage ; married David Label, a
farmer. (II) Alexis (2) Nedeau, son of Alexis (1 )

Nedeau, was born in 1821, in the province of
Quebec, died at Notre Dame du Portage, 1893.
He was a Liberal in politics, a Roman Cath
olic in religion. He married Henrietta Dupere,
born 1828, now living at Notre Dame du
Portage. Children: 1. Josephine, married Wil
liam Chatiguy, a farmer; she lives at Salem,
Massachusetts. 2. Joseph, a retired shoemaker
of Notre Dame du Portage. 3. John Baptist,
farmer of Notre Dame du Portage ; married
Philomene Caron. 4. Palmyre, married Joseph
L'Herault, of Quebec. 5. Adelaide, married
Paschal Boucher, undertaker and merchant of
River de Loup. 6. Cleophas, mentioned be
low. 7. Lucy, unmarried, of Notre Dame du
Portage. 8. Trefle, married Lucy Landry; he
lives at Salem, Massachusetts. 9. Alcide,
married (first) Eliza Gardif, (second) Ange
line  ; he was a tinsmith, died at St.
Basil ; she lives at Rochester, New York. 10.
Alexis or Don Gilbert, ordained in the priest
hood, but on account of ill health has had no
pastorate; lives at Quebec. 11. Edward, a
farmer of Saskatchewan, Canada; married
Leah —  . 12. Esdras, carpenter of Fort
Kent ; married Modest Dube. 13. Telesphor,
died at Notre Dame, aged two years.
(Ill) Cleophas Nedeau, son of Alexis (2)
Xedeau, was born at Notre Dame du Portage,
Quebec, September 13, 1853. He is a mer
chant at Fort Kent. In politics he is a Lib
eral. He is a communicant of the Roman
Catholic church.. He married (first) Flevie
Daigle, who was born at Fort Kent, 1850, and
died there in 1886. He married (second)
Margaret Chesse, of St. Hillier, New Bruns
wick. Children by first wife: 1. Joseph, died
young. 2. Mary, died young. 3. Effie Bienne,
died aged five years. 4. Adelaide, married Dr.
Roscoe Charles Upham (see Upham X).

This name has been
BURLINGAME identified with Rhode
Island from a very early
period in the history of the state, and is espe
cially connected with the development of Paw
tucket in recent years. It is of English origin,
and first appears in this country at Stonington,
Connecticut, removing very shortly to Rhode
Island. The social and moral development of
the state has been fostered by this family, as
well as its material progress.
(I) Roger Burlingame is of record at Ston
ington, Connecticut, in 1654, at Warwick,
Rhode Island, in 1660, and at Providence in
1671, when he, with others, was appointed to
make a rate and levy an assessment at Ma-
shantatack. His home appears to have been
in Warwick, as he was elected to represent
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through a question as to the legality of the
election he was not seated. Pie was a mem
ber of the town council in 1698, these facts
indicating that he was a man of standing and
influence in the colony. He became the owner
of about five hundred acres of land, some of
which is now comprised within the city limits
of Providence, and died September 1, 1718.
Plis wife, who bore the baptismal name of
Mary, survived him, but died before the close
of tbe same year. The inventory of his estate
amounted to one hundred and ninty-nine
pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence. Chil
dren: John, Thomas, Mary, Jane, Alice,
Mercy, Roger, Peter, Elizabeth and Patience.
(II) John Burlingame, son of Roger and
Mary Burlingame, was born August 1, 1664,
and resided in Providence. He married Mary
Lippitt, daughter of Moses and Mary
(Knowles) Lippitt, and granddaughter of John
Lippitt, one of the original settlers of Provi
dence, to whom was assigned a house lot and
a six-acre lot in 1638. He signed the agree
ment for a form of government, July 27, 1640,
and was chosen May 16, 1647, with nine others
of the town of Providence, to meet with the
commissioners from three other towns to form
a government under the charter. John Bur
lingame had children : John, Roger, James,
David, Burlingstone, Benjamin, Elisha.
(Ill) David Burlingame, son of John and
Mary (Lippitt) Burlingame, was born about
1696, and resided in Glocester, Rhode Island,
where he died January 27, 1755. His wife's
name was Mary, and they had children, bora
as follows in Glocester: Mary, July 9, 1729;
Benedict, November 19, 1731 ; Thomas, men
tioned below; David, October 26, 1736; Meri-
bah, May 5, 1739; Stutely, May 12, 1741 ;
Sarah, February 19, 1744; Patience, March 9,
1746; Elisha, September 6, 1749; Benjamin,
March 18, 1753.
(IV) Thomas Burlingame, second son of
David and Mary Burlingame, was born Au
gust 18, 1734, in Glocester, where the births
of several of his children are recorded. No
record of his marriage can be found. Chil
dren: Lydia, born October 15, 1757; Thomas,
April 16, 1760; Nathan, February 24, 1762;
Eseck, mentioned below ; Patience, August 5,
1767; Charles, November 8, 1769; Jean, April
19, 1772; Creta, July 14, 1778; James, Febru
ary 1, 1 78 1.
(V) Eseck Burlingame, third son of Thomas
Burlingame, was bora March 24, 1765, in
Glocester, and resided in Coventry, Rhode
Island, where he married, May 19, 1805, Mary
Williams. The imperfect and fragmentary
records of Coventry give little light concerning
the history of this family.

(VI) Sterry Burlingame, undoubtedly a son
of Eseck and Mary (Williams) Burlingame,
was born about 1810 in Coventry, and lived at
Hope, Rhode Island. For some years he re
sided in Genesee county, New York, where he
was a farmer, stock raiser and dealer in stock.
In 1848 he returned to Rhode Island, locating
at Shannock Hill, in the town of Richmond,
Washington county. Plere he purchased and
greatly improved a tract of one hundred and
seventy-five acres of land, where he continued
in stock raising and dairy farming. There he
died December 30, 1885, and was buried in the
family lot on the homestead. Politically he
was a Democrat. There is no record of his
first marriage, but it is known that his wife
died in 1836., He married (second) May 14,
1837, Elizabeth Ann Colgrove. The name of
Colgrove is an old one in Rhode Island, and
appears in Exeter, Warwick, Coventry, Rich
mond and Westerly, but the records are very
meagre and unconnected, and it seems impossi
ble now to learn anything of the ancestry of
Elizabeth Ann Colgrove. She died November
16, 1883, on the farm at Shannock Hill, and
was buried there.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin Burlingame, only
child of Sterry and Elizabeth Ann (Colgrove)
Burlingame, was born May 12, 1848, at Hope,
Rhode Island, and was an infant when the
family settled in Washington county. There
he grew to manhood and was educated in the
public schools. As a boy he pursued the usual
life of farmers' sons, acquiring habits of in
dustry and learning to be useful. He subse
quently learned the carpenter's trade, which
occupied his time for some years, after which
he settled down to farming on the paternal
homestead. This he improved and became ex
tensively engaged in dairy farming and cattle
raising with gratifying success. Thus he con
tinued until his death, March 29, 1912. He
was a member of the Advent church, a pro
gressive and enterprising citizen, esteemed by
his neighbors and friends. He married, Feb
ruary 9, 1869, Mary S. Wilbur, born in Rich
mond, daughter of Charles P. and Amelia W.
(Vincent) Wilbur, of that town (see Wilbur
VIII), who survives and resides on the home
stead. (VIII) Fannie Inez Burlingame, only child
of Benjamin Franklin and Mary S. (Wilbur)
Burlingame, was born at Shannock Hill, edu
cated in the public schools, and now resides on
the paternal homestead in the town of Rich
mond. She married Charles Garfield Cherry,
of Richmond, son of William and Mary
(Mathewson) Cherry. They have one daugh
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dairy farming, and here its owners reside in
comfort and contentment. (The Wilbur Line).
One of the many notable characters in early
New England history was the founder of the
American family, bearing the surname of Wil-
bar, but which 111 the time of the ancestor him
self was spelled Wildbore. This rendition is
said to have been continued through one or
two generations of some branches of the fam
ily after that of Samuel, and in various early
records in towns where some of his descend
ants became settled the name appears in dif
ferent forms, and Savage gives account of
Wilbore, Wildboare, Wilbur, Wildbore and
the name Wilbar now represents a majority of
the descendants of Samuel, of Boston and
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and Taunton,
Massachusetts, where the scene of his life was
chiefly laid, and thus is distinguished from the
more numerous families of Wilbur and Wil-
ber. It may be said, however, that so good an
authority as Austin in his genealogical dic
tionary gives- the family name of Samuel as
Wilbur. In the present work the name will
be mentioned as known to the several genera
tions holding it.
(I) Samuel Wildbore was born in England
and is believed to have come to this country
before 1633, with his wife and several chil
dren. The Christian name of his first wife
was Ann, and reliable accounts mention her
as a daughter of Thomas Bradford, of Lancas
ter, Yorkshire, England, from which part of
the dominion Samuel himself is said to have
come. His second wife was Elizabeth, widow
of Thomas Lechford. The year of Samuel's
birth is not known, but he died September 29,
1656. He was made freeman in Boston in
1633, and with his wife Ann was admitted to
the church in December of the same year. In
1634 he was assessor of taxes, and on Novem
ber 20, 1637, was one of the several disarmed
"in consequence of having been seduced and
led into dangerous error by the opinions and
revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs.
Hutchinson," and therefore being given license
to depart the colony he took up his place of
abode in the colony of Rhode Island. He is
next recorded in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
where on March y, 1638, he was one of
eighteen who entered into the following com
pact : "We, whose names are underwritten,
do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah
incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick,
and as he shall help, will submit our persons,
lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ,
the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to
all those perfect and most absolute laws ofiiis

given us in his holy word of truth, to be guides
and judged thereby." It is evident that Sam
uel Wildbore was a person of some conse
quence in the plantation at Portsmouth, for in
1638 he was present at a public meeting, upon
notice, and in the same year was chosen clerk
of the train band. In 1639 he was made con
stable and given an allotment of a neck of
land lying in the great cove, containing about
two acres. In 1640 he and Ralph Earle, who
seems to have been in some way associated
with him, were ordered to furnish the town of
Newport with new sawed boards at eight shil
lings per hundied feet, and half-inch boards
at seven shillings, to be delivered at the "pit,"
by the water-side. On March 16, 1641, he was
made a freeman in Portsmouth, became ser
geant of militia in 1644, and in 1645 returned
with his wife to Boston. On November 29,
1645, Samuel Wildbore and his wife were re
ceived into the church in Boston, and in a
deposition made May 2, 1648, he made oath
that when he married the widow of Thomas
Lechford he received no part of her former
husband's estate. In 1655 he was again in
Portsmouth, but at the time of making his will
he lived in Taunton and at the same time had
a house in Boston. His will was recorded in
both Massachusetts and the Plymouth colony.
That instrument bore date April 30, 1656, and
was admitted to probate November 1 follow
ing, which fact determines the year in which
he died. His property was inventoried at two
hundred and eighty-two pounds nineteen shil
lings six pence. His children, all by his first
marriage, were : Samuel, Joseph, William,
Shadrach. (II) William Wilbor, third son of Samuel
and Ann (Bradford) Wildbore, was born in
1630, and died in 1710. He spelled his name
Wilbor. About 1654 he settled at Little Comp
ton, Rhode Island, but died at Tiverton. His
wife, whom he married in 1653, was Martha.
Their children were: Mary, Joseph, John,
Thomas, William, Martha, Samuel, Daniel,
loan, Benjamin.
(Ill) William (2) Wilbur, son of William
d) and Martha WTflbor, was born in 1660, in
Little Compton, and resided in that town and
Portsmouth.- He died in 1738. He sold one
hundred acres in East Greenwich, November
5, 1683. His will made December 30, 1732,
proved June 20, 1738, bequeathed to the heirs
of his deceased son Samuel ten shillings. The
inventory of his estate amounted to two hun
dred and thirteen pounds seven shillings and
six pence, including wearing apparel valued at
twelve pounds, cattle, and various other farm
ing property. He married a daughter of Peter
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Little Compton : Mary, 1685 ; William, Au
gust 8, 1687; Hannah, June 17, 1689; Sam
uel, mentioned below; John, May 1, 1693; Jo
seph, May 26, 1695, died 1775; Abigail, April
1, 1697; Jonathan, November 7, 1698; Jede
diah, November 5, 1700; Sarah, September
10, 1702; Phebe, October 1, 1704; Jeremiah,
December 17, 1706.
(IV) Samuel Wilbur, second son of Wil
liam (2) Wilbur, was born February 17, 1691,
in Little Compton, and probably resided in
Swansea, Massachusetts. He was dead De
cember 30, 1732. No record of his marriage
or children appears, but it has been said that
he was the father of
(V/ William (3) Wilbur, who married
Mary Young, and is known to have been the
father of
(VI) Jesse Wilbur, who was born January
28, 1759, and died March 14, 1S53. He mar
ried, March 4, 1784, Abigail Gardiner, born
December 10, 1764, daughter of Rev. John and
Elizabeth (Fones) Gardiner. Children: Henry
G., born September 23, 1785; Sally Fones,
August 16, 1787, married, November 11, 1807,
Maxson Johnson, and died September 1, 1862;
Jesse (2), June 24, 1789; Abby, November 15,
1791, married Ezekiel Johnson, and both died
in Genesee county, New York; Dennis, Sep
tember 25, 1793, married, September 13, 1813,
Mary Bightman; Polly (Mary), June 13, 1795,
married, September 13, 1813, John Posser ;
Fones S., May 13, 1798, married, November,
1824, Mercy Teft, and died in Richmond,
Rhode Island; George W., December 26, 1799;
Nathaniel S., mentioned below ; Betsey, Au
gust 2, 1804.
(VII) Nathaniel S. Wilbur, sixth son of
Jesse and Abigail (Gardiner) Wilbur, was
born July 13, 1802, and married Mary Essex.
(VIII) Charles P. Wilbur, son of Na
thaniel S. and Mary (Essex) Wilbur, resided
in the town of Richmond, Washington county,
Rhode Island, and married Amelia W. Vin
cent. (IX) Mary S. Wilbur, daughter of Charles
P. and Amelia W. (Vincent) Wilbur, born in
the town of Richmond, became the wife of
Benjamin Franklin Burlingame of that town
(see Burlingame VII).
According to family tradition this
SMITH family is of English descent. A
prominent Scotch-Irish family
lived in this vicinity, however, and as Dunbar-
ton was a Scotch-Irish town originally it is
possible that the tradition is not correct as to
the paternal ancestry of the Smiths. Jona
than Smith was early at Bunbarton and is be
lieved to be the ancestor of this family. He

was a soldier in the revolution from Dumbar
ton. In 1790, according to the first federal
census, there were two of the family at Dun-
barton, probably sons of Jonathan. Samuel
Smith had two males over sixteen and- three
females in his family, and William Smith had
five males under sixteen and two females in
his family.
(I) According to family tradition John
Smith was the father of Robert Sterling Smith.
Pie must have been a son of Samuel Smith,
if the census returns were complete. He lived
and died at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He
was a noted singer. He burst a blood vessel
while taking part in a music festival and died
of hemorrhage.
(II) Robert Sterling Smith, son of John
Smith, was born in Dunbarton in 1813, and
died in Whiting, Maine, in 1887. He was a
wrool carder, employed in the mills at Whiting
all his active life. In politics he was a Demo
crat ; in religion a Methodist. He married
Emily Frost Ward, who was born at Milltown,
New Brunswick, 1806, and died at Machias,
Maine, in December, 1903. Children, all born
at Whiting: 1. Daniel Webster, mentioned be
low. 2. Ida, married L. H. Hanscom, of
Machias, an undertaker, who died in 1912; she
resides at Machias. 3. Leafy, married Frank
Wheaton, of Machias, carpenter and builder;
she is living at Machias. 4. Robert, died at
Whiting, aged eighteen years. 5. Nehemiah,
died at Maiden in 191 1, a carpenter; married
Helen Leighton, of Perry, Maine ; she resides
in Maiden. 6. Rebecca, married John A. Gil-
patrick, a lumberman, bora in Whiting. 7.
Edwina, died young.
(Ill) Daniel Webster Smith, son of Rob
ert Sterling Smith, was born in Whiting,
Maine, August 16, 1845. He is now living in
Machias. He attended the public schools until
he was thirteen years old, when he went to
work in the mills and became a foreman, con
tinuing in this employment until he was thirty-
two years old, when he became a lumber oper
ator in Whiting. He sold his business in 1899
and engaged in the lumber business in Jones-
boro, Maine, and after three years he sold his
business there and retired. In politics he is a
Democrat and he has held various offices of
trust in the town. He attends the Methodist
church. He enlisted in the civil war in April,
1864, in the Twentieth Regiment, Maine Vol
unteer Infantry. He was present at Lee's sur
render and was mustered out with his regiment
at the close of the war. He married Susan Maria
Allan, who was born in Whiting, August 17,
1844 (see Allan IV). Children: 1. Lizzie,
born in Whiting, 1869, died in childhood. 2.
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ces E. Bruce. 3. Alice, born 1873, in Machias;
married William Farnsworth, of Jonesboro ;
they reside in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 4.
Harry Lee, mentioned below. 5. Edwina, born
at Machias, 1877; a milliner at Machias, un
married. 6. Eva, born at Whiting, 1879 ; mar
ried Edgar Chase, who was born in Whiting;
he has charge of the Maine Central Store at
Reno, Maine. 7. Howard, born at Whiting,
1881 ; superintendent of the Shook Box Manu
facturing Company at Gloucester, Massachu
setts ; married Emily Durgin, of East Machias.
8. Edith, born at Whiting, 1883; resides with
her parents. 9. Daniel, born 1885, died in in
fancy. (IV) Harry Lee Smith, son of paniel Web
ster Smith, was born at Machias, Maine, July
2, 1875. His parents removed to Whiting
when he was five years old and he attended.
the public schools there and Washington Acad
emy at East Machias. In 1897 he went to
Gray's Commercial College in Portland, Maine.
He then became associated with his father in
the lumber business and remained with him
until 1898. He then began to study law in the
office of J. H. Gray, of Lubec, Maine. After
a year and a half, however, he again entered
the lumber business, buying a lumber opera
tion at Jonesboro. He was in partnership with
W. R. Pettingill, of Waterville, Maine, in this
business for a year. He then completed his
law studies and was admitted to the bar, Au
gust 26, 1900. He began to practice law at
Machias. A year later he formed a partner
ship with Mr. Pettingill and the firm con
tinued for five years. He then removed to
Greenville, Maine, and continued in practice
there until 1910. Since then he has practiced
at Dover and Foxcroft. In addition to his
knowledge of the law, and his experience in
the lumber business, he learned the trade of
wool carder under the instruction of his father,
before he was twelve years old. In politics he
is a Democrat and he has for many years been
a leader of his party. He has been a member
of the Democratic county committee and is
chairman of the Democratic town committee.
He attends the Universalist church. Pie is a
member of Border Lodge, No. 8, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Eastport, Maine;
Uncas Tribe, No. 54, Improved Order of Red
Men, of which he is past sachem and prophet.
Mr. Smith married, November 4, 1898, at
Whiting, Mildred Bruce, who was born at
Doakstown, New Brunswick, January 26,
1875. She received her education in the com
mon schools of her native town and Littleton
and in the high school at Houlton, Maine. She
is a daughter of John Allan Bruce, of Doaks
town, a farmer in Doakstown and in Aroos

took county, Maine. He died at Littleton,
Maine, and his widow resides there. Children
of John Allan Bruce : 1. Laura, born at Doaks
town, 1869; married Daniel A. Doak, a farmer
and lumberman. 2. George, born at Doaks
town, 1871; a farmer at Littleton; married
Kate Spellman, of Littleton, Maine. 3. Fran
ces, born at Doakstown, 1876; married Walter
H. Smith, brother of Harry Lee Smith, men
tioned above ; they reside at Houlton ; he is a
salesman. 4. Mildred, married Harry Lee
Smith, mentioned above. 5. Margaret, born at
Doakstown, 1877; resides at Littleton. 6. John,
born at Littleton, 1879; superintendent of a
lumber mill at Fredericton, New Brunswick;
married Estella Allen. 7. Justice, born at
Littleton, 1881 ; resides there on a farm., 8.
King, born at, Littleton, 1883 ; resides at New
Limerick, Maine. 9. Maude, born at Little
ton, 1885 ; married Edward T. Swage, a mer
chant. 10. Lila, born at Littleton, 1887 ; mar
ried Owen MacCarty, a farmer of Littleton.
11. Charles, born at Littleton, 1889; a farmer
in Littleton. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one
child, Susie Catherine, born at Lubec, Maine,
June 18, 1900. (The Allan Line).
(I) William Allan, a Scotch gentleman, was
born about 1720, and was an officer in the
British army. He married, July 9, 1744, Isa
bella, daughter of Sir Eustace Maxwell, of
Scotland, and at the time of the birth of his
son John he and his family were living in
Edinburgh Castle, where they had sought
refuge during the rebellion. When peace was
declared with France in 1748, the British gov
ernment offered inducements to those who
would settle in Nova Scotia, and William
Allan and his family were among those who
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to settle the
new country.
(II) John Allan, eldest son of .William
Allan, was born in Edinburgh Castle, Scot
land, January 3, 1746. He received a liberal
education, and is thought to have been sent to
Moro for that purpose, there learning a lesson
in political rights. He was a farmer, owning
six hundred and forty-eight acres of land,
known as the "Inverney." Pie was a promi
nent man and held various public offices. In
1770 he was representative to the provincial
assembly, holding that position until June 28,
1776, when his seat was declared vacant for
non-attendance. When the reports of the
battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill reached
Nova Scotia, he spoke such decided words in
favor of the cause of uprising that the pro
vincial government started to arrest him on a
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flee to the United States, where he had already
travelled several times on excursions among
the Indians, and it was through his influence
that a large number of the Mic-Mac Tribe of
Indians took the side of the colonists. With
a few companions he left Cumberland, July 3,
1776, in an open boat, arriving at Passama-
quoddy, August 11, and entering Machias
river on August 13, 1776. He started for Bos
ton in October, 1776, arriving November 1.
After conferring with many prominent men
and members of the council, and finding that
he could gain little promise of aid in furnish
ing Indians he decided to visit congress. He
left Boston, November 29, arriving at Hart
ford, December 6, and crossed the Hudson
river at Fish-kill. He met General Gates, whom
he accompanied to headquarters of General
Washington. He dined with General Wash
ington, December 22. Arriving at Baltimore
on December 30, he was received by congress,
January 4, 1777, and in a short time was ap
pointed superintendent of the Eastern Indians.
He was commissioned as colonel of infantry,
and after receiving his instructions from John
Hancock he left Baltimore, January 17, arriv
ing at Boston, February 3, 1777. In May he
went on an expedition to the St. John river
from Machias, and returned by way of lakes
and rivers, in August, accompanied by a large
number of Indians with their families. About
this time he assumed the duties of head of the
Eastern Indian department, seeing that the
Indians were supplied with food by the state
of Massachusetts, keeping account with the
head of the families. Because of the scarcity
of food and difficulty of getting supplies the
Indians became mutinous, and his life was
often in danger. In 1780 he left his two eldest
sons with the Indians as hostages, and they
were kept more than a year. Colonel Allan
was at Machias until the end of the war. In
July, 1783, he returned to Boston and resigned
his position, and in 1784 went to Maine again.
He started business at Eastport, Maine, on
Dudley, later known as "Allan's Island,"
where he remained two years. After retiring
he moved to Lubec Mills, where he lived until
his death, February 7, 1805, being buried on
his island, which now bears his name. A
monument was erected to his memory in i860
by his descendants, and an iron fence encloses
the lot. In 1776 the provincial government of
Nova Scotia offered a reward of one hundred
pounds for the arrest of John Allan, but the
attempt was unsuccessful. John Allan mar
ried, October 10, 1767, Mary, daughter of
Mark Patton. Children: William, born 1768;
Mary, 1770; John, 1771 ; Isabella, 1773;
George W., 1776; Horatio Gates, 1779; Anna;

Elizabeth, twin of Anna, 1787; Winckworth,
1788; Annie, died in infancy.
(ill) William Allan, son of John Allan,
was born in 1768. He had a son, Henry D.
(Ill) Horatio Gates Allan, son of John
Allan, was born in 1779. He married Alice
Crane. Children : Charlotte, Elizabeth and
Alice, all unmarried; X. Gates, married Joseph
ine Rollins, and had Allan G.
(IV) Henry D. Allan, son of William
Allan, was born about 1820. Pie married
Catharine J. Morong. Children : Alvrah ;
Susan Maria, born August 17, 1844, married
Daniel W. Smith (see Smith III); Lizzie;
Belle; Sarah.

Since the early part of the nine-
POWEL teenth century Newport has been
the summer home of the Powel
family, and for perhaps the last sixty or more
years the permanent abiding place of a more
recent generation — that of Colonel John Hare
Powel, who from young manhood was one of
the prominent citizens of the city, both in civic
and military affairs, having served as lieu
tenant-colonel of Rhode Island troops in the
civil war and as colonel in the military of the
state, and as chief executive officer of New
port. Colonel Powel came of distinguished ances
try and family connections of especial historic
identity with the cities of Philadelphia and
New York. On his paternal side he numbered
among his forbears Robert Hare, Edward
Sbippen and Charles Willing, names illustrious
in the annals of Philadelphia since early in the
eighteenth century ; and on his maternal side
his ancestors include such historic names in
and about New York as Yerplanck, Beekman,
Yan Cortlandt, Schuyler, Provost and other
Dutch families of the New Netherlands.
The paternal grandfather of Colonel John
Hare Powel was Robert Hare, an Englishman
who settled in Philadelphia and there estab
lished an extensive business ; and One of whose
sons, Robert Hare, M. D., was the discoverer
of the oxyhvdrogen blowpipe and became a
distinguished scientist, an associate and fellow
worker with the distinguished Silliman, of
Yale College, and who later occupied the chair
of chemistry and natural philosophy in Mary
and William, and that of professor of chem
istry in the medical department of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.. Dr. Robert Hare's son,
Hon. John I. C. Hare, LL. D., held several
judgeships in Philadelphia ; and Dr. Robert
Hare's nephew, George E. Hare, S. T. D., LL.
D., was a learned clergyman, professor of
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The late Colonel John Hare Powel, a brother
of Dr. Robert Hare, the scientist, and the
father of Colonel John Hare Powel, late of
Newport, was likewise distinguished in his
field of effort — agriculture. He was born
April 22, 1786, in the city of Philadelphia, and
of original name, John Powel Hare. He was
adopted by his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth (Willing)
Powel, the wife of Hon. Samuel Powel, who
was mayor of Philadelphia at the outbreak of
the revolution and toward its close and later
speaker of the Pennsylvania senate; and sis
ter of Hon. Thomas Willing, lawyer and mer
chant, of the firm of Willing & Morris, then
one of the largest in this country, the latter
being the Robert Morris known as "the finan
cier of the revolution." Colonel John Powel
Hare at his majority assumed the name of his
aunt by act of legislature, her two children
having died in infancy. He was educated at
the College of Philadelphia, became a success
ful merchant, and going abroad for pleasure
became secretary of the United States lega
tion in London under William Pinckney. Dur
ing his stay there, it is said by Charles Greville
in his memoirs, he was "the handsomest man
ever seen." In December, 181 1, Mr. Powel
returned to this country; served as brigade-
major of volunteers under General Thomas
Cadwalader, and from December, 1814, till
June, 181 5, was inspector-general with the
rank of colonel in the regular army. He sub
sequently, at the desire of his family, refused
a brigadier-general's commission in the Co
lumbian service, and passed the remainder of
his life in efforts to develop agriculture and
improve the breed of domestic animals in the
United States. He was one of the founders of
the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823,
and its secretary till 1824, corresponded
actively with many English agriculturists, and
imported valuable animals. He published
many papers in the memoirs of the "Pennsyl
vania Agricultural Society ;" "Hints for Amer
ican Husbandmen" (Philadelphia, 1827) ;
pamphlets entitled "Reply to Pickering's At
tack upon a Pennsylvania Farmer" (1825),
and "Remarks on the Proper Termination of
the Columbian Railroad" ( 1830) ; and many
essays in agricultural periodicals. Colonel
Powel was a good speaker and debater, and a
patron of the fine arts. He was a member of
the Pennsylvania senate in 1827-30, and a
delegate to the free-trade convention of 1832.
He died at his home in Newport, Rhode Island,
June 14, 1856.
Colonel Bowel's wife was formerly Julia
Deveaux, of Verplanck Point, on the Hudson,
and she died in Philadelphia in 1845. Their
children were as follows : Samuel, who lived

and died in Newport; Deveaux, who died in
West Philadelphia; Henry Baring, a lawyer,
who died in Portland, Oregon; Robert Hare,
an extensive coal operator who at one time
mined one-sixteenth of the total Pennsylvania
output, and who died in Philadelphia; Julia
Deveaux, Mrs. William Parker Foulke, who
also died in Philadelphia; Elizabeth and Har
ford, who both died young ; John Hare, whose
biography follows ; and Ida, who married
(first) Edward Morrell and (second) John
G. Johnson, a lawyer of Philadelphia.
Referring again to the Willing and Shippen
families, Thomas Willing was elected mayor
of Philadelphia, had previously served as asso
ciate justice of the city, and for some years
just prior to the revolution was associate jus
tice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He
was a leader in the movement against the
stamp act, and one of the committee to enforce
the non-importation agreement of 1765. He
was a delegate to the continental congress, in
1775-76. He voted against the Declaration
of Independence, considering the act prema
ture and the colonies not ready for independ
ence. When the British took possession of
Philadelphia in 1777 he remained during their
occupation, and held communication with Lord
Howe. At the critical period of the war of
1780, when there was great danger of the dis
solution of the American army for want of
provisions, Willing and others subscribed
£200,000 toward the formation of the Penn
sylvania Bank, to procure the necessary sup
plies and to promote the recruiting services.
Of this amount Mr. Willing subscribed £5,000.
He was chosen the first president of the Bank
of North America in 1781. Edward Shippen,
the founder of a family of great distinction,
was early at Boston and Newport, and on in
vitation of Penn, in 1693, went to Philadel
phia, where he was the first mayor under char
ter of 1701. He was wealthy, early chosen to
the assembly, was speaker in 1695, etc. His
great-grandson, Edward Shippen, LL. D., was
partially educated abroad in the Middle
Temple, and on returning to this country be
came a jurist of distinction. He^too opposed
the separation from England. He became asso
ciate justice of the supreme court of Pennsyl
vania and later chief justice.
Colonel John Hare Powel, the younger, son
of Colonel John Hare, was born July 3, 1837,
in Paris, France. Much of his early life was
devated to travel in America and Europe. He
was educated principally under the instruc
tion of an English tutor. He studied law in
the office and under the direction of Henry J.
Williams, Esq., of Philadelphia. When not
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"Powelton," now a part of West Philadelphia,
and at Newport, Rhode Island, which latter
place had long been the summer home of the
family. On the death of his father in 1856
he inherited property on Bowery street, New
port, adjoining the residence of his elder
brother; this circumstance together with his
interest in- the town and his fondness for field
sports and outdoor exercises of all kinds, in
duced him to give up his residence in Phila
delphia and make his permanent home in New
port. This change occurred after his marriage
in i860. Soon thereafter on came the civil
war, which prompted at once participation in
the stirring events of the day. He had been
captain of the Newport company of the Na
tional Guard from its organization, and in re
sponse to the call for troops, in 1862, volun
teered with his company, which became Com
pany L in the Ninth Regiment, Rhode Island
Volunteers. His commission as captain was
received from Governor Sprague in May, 1862.
In June following he was promoted to major,
and to lieutenant-colonel in July. In the en
suing fall he was appointed lieutenant-colonel
of the Fifth Regiment, Rhode Island Volun
teers. Subsequently he was tendered the
colonelcy of either of the nine-months' regi
ments then being raised in Rhode Island, as
well as other military positions, all of which
he declined. He became a member of the
Newport Artillery Company in 1863, and was
made its lieutenant-colonel in April following.
He was advanced in December, 1864, to the
colonelcy of that organization, to which he
was annually reelected until his resignation in
August, 1877.
On his locating at Newport, in i860, Colonel
Powel at once took up the duties of citizenship
and by act and deed soon proved himself an
interested and useful man and as popular as
useful. He was long considered one of the
city's most valued residents. While ever
greatly interested in the municipal welfare and
progress he had little taste or inclination for
public office. His popularity, qualifications
and identity with various societies made him
an available man in his community and the
state for public station, yet he was otherwise
inclined and seldom accepted the tender of
official position at the hands of his many
friends and admirers. He was for several
years a member of the Newport board of
health, and in 1886 he was elected mayor of
Newport and served the city as its chief execu
tive officer for one term of three years, de
clining a reelection, although his constituents
insisted upon his continuing in the office. To
this day his administration as mayor of the
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city is commented upon as an ideal and ex
emplary one.
In June, i860, Colonel Powel was married
to Miss Annie E., daughter of Israel P. Hutch
inson, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia,
and two children blessed the union, namely:
John Hare Powel, now deceased ; and Pember-
ton Hare Powel, born January 7, 1869, who
married Elizabeth Shirlock Whipple, of New
port, and has one daughter, Annie Hare Powel.
The mother of these children died April 23,
1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Personally Colonel Powel was the embodi
ment of refinement and culture, a man whose
quiet and dignified, yet democratic manner was
always a strong characteristic. His politeness
was inborn, consequently it was omnipresent.
Few men in his position were as approachable,
and as void of superfluous dignity, and whether
in his home, or on the street, his manner was
always the same — courteous and affable. Tall
in stature, with a well-rounded physique, he
possessed an imposing presence and a com
manding bearing. His generosity was well
knowm, although ever dispensed in a modest
and unostentatious manner. He was a lover
and patron of the fine arts as well as of stand
ard literature, his large and comprehensive
library affording him ample opportunity for
literary entertainment. His friends were
found among the young as well as the old, and
few, if any, men in Rhode Island can claim
as many friends or admirers, both with the
rich and poor, as Colonel John Hare Powel.
Until a few years prior to his death he found
pleasure in the pastimes of the rod and gun,
and a portion of each day was spent by him in
the woods or at the stream. As a citizen of
Newport Colonel Powel was loyal and pro
gressive, and held in the highest esteem by the
entire community. He died at his home on
Bowery street, Newport, January 2, 1908.
Pemberton Hare Powel, son of the late
Colonel John Hare and Annie E. (Hutchin
son) Powel, was born in Newport, Rhode
Island, January 7, 1869. His educational
training was acquired under the tutoring of
private instructors and in attendance at pri
vate schools. Like his father, Mr. Powel finds
a great deal of pleasure in the pastime of the
rod and gun, and in fact of all outdoor sports.
He is a member of the Newport Reading
Room, of the Boston Athletic Club and vari
ous other social organizations. He attends
Trinity Episcopal Church, of Newport, of
which his wife is a member. In political faith-
he is a Republican, although he has never
sought political preferment.
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in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Shirlock Whip
ple, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
daughter of the late John Whipple and his
wife, Elizabeth Swan, the latter the daughter
of the late Governor Thomas Swan, of Mary
land. To Mr. and Mrs. Powel has been born
one daughter, Annie Flare Powel, born Octo
ber n, 1891, who married December 31, 1914,
Walter Altee Edwards, of the United States
navy, son of the late Dr. Joseph F. Edwards,
of Philadelphia. The wedding took place at
the home of Miss Powel's parents. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. William B.
Meenan, of St. Mary's Church, in the pres
ence of only a small company of relatives and
friends. Later there was a reception, for
which a large number of invitations were
issued. The bride's only attendant was Miss
Marie Louise Edwards, niece of Ensign Ed
wards, who had his brother, Baldwin Edwards,
as best man.
Mr. Powel resides in the handsome resi
dence on Bowery street, Newport, which was
the home of his honored father for so many
years prior to his death.
Frederick August Miller, pro-
MILLER genitor of the American family,
was born in 1799, in Saxony,
Germany, and died there in 1884. He was
educated in his native place and when a young
man learned the trade of weaving woolen cloth
on hand-looms. He followed this trade to the
end of his life. He married Charlotta Bait-
land, who was also a native of Saxony. She
also died in her native land. Of their twelve
children, eleven remained in Germany.
(II) Frederick Ferdinand Miller, son of
Frederick August Miller, was born at Saxony,
October 26, 1840. He was educated in the
schools of Saxony. He learned the trade of
weaver. In 1879 he came to this country and
followed his trade in the mills at Rockville,
Connecticut, and for the past twenty-five years
he has been in the employ of the Hockanum
Mills Company of that city. In politics he is
a Republican. He is a communicant of the
German Lutheran church. He married Henri
etta Amelia Deitzech, who was born in Sax
ony, August 14, 1843. Children: 1. Ham-
mand, born in Saxony, 1863, came with his
parents to America; married Augusta Coopez
and had six children : Jennie, born at Rock
ville, Connecticut, now living in Detroit,
Michigan ; Carrie, born at Rockville, married,
living in Hartford, Connecticut, and has one
son; Frank, born at Rockville, married, and
has one son; Annie, born at Rockville, now
living at Manchester, Connecticut ;* Alex, born
at Rockville; Florence, born at Rockville. 2.

Amelia, born in Saxony, August 22, 1865,
came to America with her parents; married
John Kimmel and has three children: Mar
tha Annie, born at Hartford, Connecticut,
April 27, 1892; Matilda Etta, born at Hart
ford, October 23, 1893, married Bernard Mc
Guire ; Annie Emma, born at Hartford, 1894,
now living in Rockville, Connecticut. 3. Se-
lina, born in Saxony, August 11, 1867, came
to America with her parents ; married George
Raisch, of Providence, Rhode Island, and has
two daughters : Viola and Mildred. 4. Decla,
born in Saxony, 1869, came to America with
her parents; married Henry Lutz, of Provi
dence, and has two sons. 5. Edgar Otto, born
at Rockville, in 1886, now a civil engineer at
Sciotoville, Ohio; married Ada Webster, of
Brooklyn, New York, and has one son.
Pierre Cornier was an Aca-
CORNTER dian and married Cecile Thibo-
deau. Children: Jean Baptiste,
mentioned below; Jacques, Amand, Pierre,
Francois, one or two daughters. They were
one of the wealthiest families of Beaubassin.
(II) Jean Baptiste Cornier, son of Pierre
Cornier, was born on an Acadian farm at
Beaubassin about 1735. When twenty years
of age, with his brother Pierre he joined the
army across the isthmus of Chigneeto, which
was then considered French territory. At the
fall of Beausejour in 1755 his brother Pierre
was captured and condemned to be shot. A
sister, hearing the news, saved his life by
bringing him women's clothes, in which he
escaped. He joined his family and his
brother's family, which had taken refuge in
the woods, leaving their property in care of
relatives at Beaubassin. They went to the St.
John river, escaping the tragedy which fell on
the Acadians in 1755, known as the expulsion
of the Acadians, and lived a year at St. Anne,
where Frederickstown, New Brunswick, is
now situated.- Jean Baptiste Cornier and his
family then moved to the province of Quebec
at Camonraska, from which place they were
driven by the Loyalists. In 1785 he and his
family settled opposite the Grand Isle, and he
was one of the five founders of Madawaska,
which has been a part of Maine since the
treaty between the United States and Great
Britain of 1842. All his children lived in
Madawaska, and their marriages and burials
are recorded in the archives of the parish of
Basil. He returned to St. Anne after peace
was restored, and cleared land, building a new
home. During the revolution St. Anne was
in lawless hands, and after the war the Aca
dians were compelled to give up their land to
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waska was founded. Jean Baptiste Cornier
married, July 5, 1762, at Camouraska, Made
leine Landry, of another exiled family. Chil
dren : 1. Francois, mentioned below. 2.
Pierre, born December 16, 1773, at St. John
river; married (first) Marie Rose Soucis,
(second) Ursula Daigle. 3. Alexis, married
(first) Marie Ann Sansfacon, (second) Jo-
sephte Daigle. 4. Marie, married Louis Sans
facon Jr. 5. Esther, married Toucin  . 6.
Roger, married Germain Soucis, and she mar
ried (second) Francis Violette. 7. Victorie,
married Michael Duplassis. 8. Marie Anne,
baptized May, 1770, married Jean Baptiste
Thibodeau. 9. Madeleine, married Paul Thibo-
deau. 10. Josephte, married Oliver Thibo
deau. (Ill) Francois Cornier, son of Jean Bap
tiste Cornier, married Charlotte Fourmer at
St. Basil, in 1817, and went to Madawaska,
where he lived the remainder of his life. They
had nine sons and seven daughters. Children :
1. Fabion, died in childhood. 2. Francois, mar
ried (first) Argange Michaud, (second)
Megrance Langlois ; died aged eighty-eight
years three months at St. Brune. 3. Cyprien,
married Felicite Violette ; died aged sixty-six
years at St. Bruno. 4. Damien, married Vic
torie Therieault. 5. Fabien, died in childhood.
6. Fabien, married Melie Langlais ; died aged
seventy-five years at St. Bruno. 7. Jean Bap
tiste, mentioned below. 8. Honore, married
Angelo Nadeau ; she died at the Sacre Coeur,
Maine, aged seventy-three years. 9. Louis,
married Eleanor Cyr. 10. Angelique, married
Louis Moreault ; she died aged seventy-two
years. 11. Francois, married Moses Bourgoin ;
she died at Fort Fairfield, aged seventy-five
years. 12. Marie-Anne, married Francois
Declaine; she died at Notre Dame du Mont
Carmel, aged eighty-three .years. 13. Julienne,
married (first) Prudent Lagasse, (second)
Louis Thibodeau, (third) Edward Marten;
she died aged- seventy-three. 14. Elizabeth,
married Desire Violette. 15. Marie, unmar
ried. 16. Marguerite, died young.
(IV) Jean Baptiste (2) Cornier, son of
Francois Cornier, married Mary (Margaret)
Schmidt. He was born April 13, 1813. He
died at Sherman, Maine, August 19, 1895,
aged eighty-two years four months and six
days. He was a barber in Rawson, Maine,
and in Oldtown, Maine. He retired to Sher
man, Maine, there spent the last years^ of his
life, and was buried at Benedicta. His wife
died at Rawson, about fifty years of age. Her
father and mother came from Germany. Chil
dren : 1. John Frances, born 1843, at Rawson,
killed at battle of Antietam. 2. Henry, born
at Rawson in 1845, lives at National Soldiers'

Home, Maine ; enlisted in Company E, Thir
tieth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, serving two
years ; wounded once, taken prisoner, and sent
to Camp Fort Tyler, Texas. 3. George, born
1847, at Rawson, died in Oldtown. 4. Mary
(Margaret), married Thomas Jefferson Boober.
5. Charles, born 1851, at Rawson, lives at
Minneapolis, Minnesota, a manufacturer ; mar
ried Katherine Ryan. 6. William, born at Old-
town, 1853, died in infancy.

George Kramer, progenitor of
KRAMER the American family of this
surname, was born in Hesse-
Darmstadt, Germany. He was educated in his
native place and learned the trade of baker,
which he followed all his active life. He died
in Germany. He married Catherine Rau, and
of their seven children three came to America.
(II) Philip Kramer, son of George Kramer,
was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Janu
ary 9, 1835. He was educated in the common
schools of his native town, and in his father's
bakery learned the business of baking, which
later in life he himself conducted. In 1854 he
came to this country, sailing from Havre in the
ship "Congress" and landing in New York City
after a voyage of thirty days. Soon after his
arrival he obtained employment in New York
in a bakery and he continued to work at his
trade in that city for four years and a half.
He then returned to his home in Germany for
a brief visit and again sailed for New York
from Havre. He made this voyage on the
ship "Homeward." He remained in New York
City until after i860 and then located at Rock
ville, Connecticut, where he found employ-,
ment as a baker and where he afterward estab
lished a bakery on his own account. For a
number of years his place of business was on
Orchard street. He prospered and invested
his savings in real estate which steadily in
creased in value. In 1886 he retired from
active business and from that time to the end
of his life devoted his attention to the care and
improvement of his property. He owned
valuable real estate on Orchard and Ward
streets. In politics he was a Democrat. He
was a communicant of the German Lutheran
church of Rockville. For twenty-seven years
he was an active member of the Turner Soci
ety, a German organization of Rockville, and
for many years was its treasurer. He was a
leading member of the Sick Society, No. 1, of
Rockville, and for more than twenty-five years
its treasurer.
He married (first) Fanny Getzman, who
was born in Baden, Germany, December 26,
1828. She came to America in 1854. They
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ville, aged twenty-six years. Mr. Kramer mar
ried (second) in Brooklyn, New York, January
14, 1906, Martha (Sachse) Brade, who was
born at Melsungen, Germany, March 19, 1851,
daughter of Johans and Elizabeth Sachse. She
came to this country when twenty-one years
of age, landing in New York City, and mar
ried (first) Philip Ziegler, of New York City,
born at Baden, Germany, July 23, 185 1, died
in New York City in 1886. They lived in New
York City. She married (second) August
Brade, who was born at Niedervellmar, Ger
many, November 2, 1830, and came to Amer
ica when a young man, engaging in business
in Brooklyn, where they were married June
3, 1901.. After the death of her second hus
band, Airs. Brade went to Germany to visit
relatives. When she returned to this country
she made her home in Rockville, where she
met Mr. Kramer, whom she afterward mar
ried. By her first marriage she had three chil
dren : 1. Philip Ziegler, born in New York
City, December 25, 1875, mentioned below. 2.
Elizabeth Ziegler, born September 23, 1878,
in New York City; married Tony Mayo, of
New York City, in 1902, and has two chil
dren: Philip Mayo, born in New York City,
May 28, 1903, and Edward Mayo, born in
New York City, January 29', 1908. 3. Fred
Ziegler, born in New York City, died in in
fancy. Philip Ziegler, mentioned above, was born
in New York City, December 25, 1875. He
attended the public schools in that city, and
afterward learned the printer's trade. When
about nineteen years old he came to Rock
ville, Connecticut, and entered the employ of
the United States Envelope Company as press
man, a position he held for a period of twelve
years. He has been in mercantile business in
Rockville since July 1, 1913. In politics he is
an independent, but he has taken a prominent
part in municipal affairs. He served one term
as councilman of the city from ward four. He
is a communicant of the German Lutheran
church, and is a member of the Rockville Turn
Society, of which he has been president for
six years and had been previously vice-presi
dent, trustee, auditor and assistant instructor.
He is also a member of the D. O. H., No., 436,
of Rockville; of Sick Society, No. 1, of Rock
ville. For seven years he belonged to Hocka-
num Chemical Company, No. 1, of the Rock
ville fire department. He is a member of the
Leiderlafel Singing Society of Rockville, also
a member of the Rockville Natur Hiel Verein
and of the Young Germans' American Asso
ciation of Rockville.
Mr. Ziegler married, December 28, 1898,
Stephanie Kramer, who was born at Rock

ville, July 28, 1880, daughter of Albert Kramer.
Children: 1. Albert Ziegler, born at Rockville,
December 2, 1901. 2. and 3. Melvin and Philip
Ziegler, twins, born at Rockville, July 1, 1905.
4. Edward Ziegler, born at Rockville, October
11, 1907.

John Sheldon, the immigrant
SHELDON ancestor, was born in Eng
land, in 1630, died in 1708.
He settled at Providence, Rhode Island, as
early as 1675, and was a tanner by trade. He
testified, February 23, 1675, in relation to the
cirn mill at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, that he
was forty-five years old. He deeded land, May
18, 1685, to his eldest son Timothy, and on the
same day sixty acres to John and Nicholas, his
sons. He was taxed in 1687; deputy to the
general assembly in 1702. He deeded the
homestead to his son Nehemiah, March 20,
1708, on condition that he maintain his father
the remainder of his life. He married, in
1660, Joan, daughter of  and Fridge-
worth (Carpenter) Vincent. The intentions
and marriage were dated March 6, and March
24, 1659. Children : Timothy, born March 29,
1661; John; Mary, married Stephen Arnold;
Nicholas, mentioned below; Nehemiah, born
1672. (II) Nicholas, son of John Sheldon, lived
in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there
November 23, 1747. He married Abigail, born
in March, 1674, died in 1744, daughter of Par
don and Lydia (Tabor) Tillinghast. Children,
born in Providence: Sarah; Nicholas, born
1696; Joseph, 1698; Pardon, 1701 ; Lydia,
married Elisha Arnold; Mercy, married
Thomas Fenner ; Jeremiah, mentioned below.
(Ill) Jeremiah, son of Nicholas Sheldon,
was* born in Providence, Rhode Island. He
was executor of his father's estate. His will
was proved December 20, 1784, and in it he
bequeathed to his wife, Hannah, several daugh
ters of his son Pardon, deceased, daughters
Mercy Mathewson, Wait Luther and Amey
Smith, and to sons John and Jeremiah; Jere
miah, mentioned below, was executor of the
estate. Pie lived in Johnston, Rhode Island.
(IV) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (1)
Sheldon, received by his father's will the
homestead in Johnston, Rhode Island. His
will was proved May 28, 1812, and in it he
mentioned his sons Angell and Charles, his
daughter Sarah, sons Jeremiah, Nicholas, Wil
liam, Tillinghast, Israel and Job. He married
Avis, daughter of Abraham and Anna (Smith)
Angell. They were descended from Thomas
Angell, who came from England in the ship
"Lion" with Roger Williams in 1631.
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was the father of Daniel, who married Plan
nah Winsor, granddaughter of Roger Wil
liams; their son Joshua married Elizabeth
Taylor, and Joshua was the father of Abra
ham, father of Avis Angell. Abraham Angell
was a farmer in Scituate, Rhode Island, and
according to the family tradition served in the
revolution as an officer. Children of Jere
miah and Avis (Angell) Sheldon, born in
Johnston : Angell, lived in Johnston ; Charles,
born 1 791, lived in Providence; Jeremiah, lived
in Warren, Ohio ; William ; Sarah, married
William Sweet ; Nicholas, mentioned below ;
Tillinghast, born 1803, lived in Scituate; Jo
seph, born 1805, lived in Scituate ; Israel, went
west; Job, lived in New Haven, Connecticut.
(V) Nicholas (2), son of Jeremiah (2)
Sheldon, was born at Johnston, Rhode Island,
in 1800. He lived in Providence. He married
Harriet Sweetser, of Charlestown, Massachu
setts. Children : Elizabeth, born in 1823, died
in 1824; Helen Maria, born in 1825, married
Samuel J. Jacobs ; Sarah Sweetser, born in
1827, married George H. Sackett ; Nicholas,
mentioned below ; Harriet Elizabeth, married
John J. Jencks or Jenckes ; Rebecca Olney,
never married.
Harriet Sweetser, mother of Nicholas Shel
don (3) and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
(Rogers) Sweetser, was born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, May 28, 1800, married Nich
olas Sheldon (2), May 12, 1822, died in Provi
dence, June 26, 1885. She was sixth in de
scent from Seth Sweetser, who came to this
country from Tring, Hertfordshire, England.
Born in England in 1606. Inhabitant of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1637. On the
mother's side her grandparents were John
Rogers, of Boston, and Elizabeth Foster, of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the tradition
in her family, like that of all the Rogers, was
of descent from John Rogers, the martyr.
Among other .ancestors' names are those of
Reginald Foster, of Ipswich, immigrant in
1638; Peter Tufts, Richard Austin, Robert
Lord, Ralph Sprague, 1628-1620, inhabitant
Charlestown, Massachusetts ; William' Froth
ingham, who came with Winthrop's fleet, in
habitant 1630 of Charlestown, from Holder-
ness, Yorkshire, England.
(VI) Nicholas (3), son of Nicholas (2)
Sheldon, was born in Providence, Rhode
Island, March 1, 1830, died there August 15,
191 1. He received his early education in the
public schools of his native city and was for
two years a student in the Providence high
school. After a rather brief service in the
cotton yarn business in the employ of Joseph
and Reuben Peckham he went to the New
England Screw Company, the factory of which

was located on Eddy street, with Mr. Henry
L. Kendall, with whom he was associated in
business as long as Mr, Kendall lived. Under
Mr. Kendall's management the first gimlet
pointed screws made in America were manu
factured. When the Sloane machine patent
for making gimlet pointed screws was secured
by Mr. Angell, of the Eagle Screw Company,
the New England Screw Company and the
Eagle Screw Company were merged into one
concern under the name of the American
Screw Company, but Mr. Kendall declined to
be a party to the merger and sold his stock in
the company and established the Kendall
Manufacturing Company at its present loca
tion in Providence. Mr. Sheldon remained
with Mr. Kendall and entered the new enter
prise as a partner, continuing an active and in
fluential factor in the business as long as he
lived. He was for fifty-one years active in
the firm and corporation, after the business
was incorporated as the Kendall Manufactur
ing Company.
Even after he was eighty years old he was
a+ his desk almost every day until about three
months before he died, when ill health com
pelled him to lessen his activities. During the
last months of his life he sought by rest and
recreation to regain his health and made only
occasional visits to his place of business. His
last sickness was brief. He died at his home,
219 Hope street. At the time of death he was
one of the oldest residents in the city, and for
a number of years had been one of the oldest
men in active business.
Mr. Sheldon was an able, astute and success
ful man of business. His position as treasurer
of the great industrial concern which he helped
so much to maintain and develop brought him
into intimate personal acquaintance with the
leading banking men and financiers of the city,
among whom he took high rank for ability and
integrity and commanded their utmost respect
and confidence. He was a director of the Na
tional Exchange Bank, and from 1883, when
he succeeded Henry L. Kendall, to 1903 was
president; trustee of the Providence Public
Library and chairman of its finance and build
ing committee. Mr. Sheldon was self-made
and his path tc success and wealth was not
easy. To his mother he owed much for her
noble example of courage, industry and good
management. His early life of thrift and hard
work was doubtless the foundation of his char
acter and the secret of his long life and sub
stantial success. He was energetic, resource
ful persevering, and steered his business craft
wisely and safely in good weather and bad.
He knew his business in the minutest detail
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tics he was a Republican. In religion he was
an attendant of the Unitarian church, and was
very active in the work of the same. He was
a member of the Squantum Association, the
Hope and Rhode Island Country clubs.
He married Mary Jane, daughter of Wil
liam H. and Susan (Pettey) Dart, of Provi
dence. Children: William Dart, who died in
Providence, married Mary H. Bullard; Helen
Sweetser, who is the wife of B. Thomas Pot
ter, of Providence.

Martin Nowland was born
NOWLAND in Ireland and died in Liver
pool, England, when about
seventy-five years old. After his marriage he
went from his native place to Liverpool, where
he was employed in the preparation of feathers
for the trade. It is said that he left Ireland
at the time of the insurrection. In religion he
was a Roman Catholic. He married Mary
Jane Boyle, who was born in Ireland, and died
in Liverpool. Her father and six brothers lost
their lives in the battle of Vinegar Hill in
Ireland. Children, all born in Liverpool: i.
William, emigrated to Australia. 2. John, a
mariner, died in the Mediterranean Sea, un-
ffiarried. 3. Patrick, died young. 4. James,
mentioned below. 5. Mary Ann, married
James Reed, of Liverpool, a tailor by trade.
6. Catherine, died in Liverpool, unmarried. 7.
Caroline, died in Liverpool, unmarried. 8.
Lucy, married William Campbell, of Oldham,
England, a draper. The order of birth is not
known. (II) James Nowland, son of Martin Now
land, was born November 11, 1808, in Liver
pool, England, and died in Ashland, Maine,
March 1, 1886. He was educated in England,
but came to this country when a young man,
landing in New York City. He enlisted in the
United States army for five years during the
Black Hawk war. After serving for three
years in the Florida campaign he returned to
the Houlton barracks and served through the
Aroostook war in Maine. He was made ser
geant of his company. After he left the serv
ice he followed farming in Houlton for a time.
He removed to St. John, New Brunswick,
where he was an expert accountant. When the
civil war began he enlisted in the Fifteenth
Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry and
was commissioned adjutant, serving two years.
During part of the time he was acting adjutant-
general. In the winter of 1863, after he was
mustered out, he returned to St. John, but
after a short stay went to Ashland, Maine,
where he entered the employ of the Jewett &
Pitcher Lumber Company as expert account
ant. Here he remained for many years. He

also owned and cultivated a farm. In politics
he was a Republican. He was keenly inter
ested in public affairs and held various offices
of trust and honor. For many years he was
first selectman of the town and for several
terms he was town clerk. In 1876 he repre
sented his district in the state legislature and
again in 1878. In religion he was an Epis
copalian. He married (first) Susan Griffin, who died
at Houlton Bay, Maine; children: Katherine,
Susan, Emily. He married (second) in 1849,
at Hodgdon, Maine, Helen Augusta Parker,
who was born at Waterville, Maine, August
8, 1827, and died at Ashland, September 23,
1903. She was a devout Episcopalian, active
in church work and a prominent member of
the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Alexander Parker, her father, was born in
Waterville, Maine, about 1797. He went to
South America and probably died there. He
was a farmer in Waterville and Houlton,
Maine. He married Lucetta (Soule) Lowe,
who was born in Waterville, about 1799, and
died at Ashland, Maine, in March, 1885. She
married (first) David Lowe, who died in
Waterville. Children of Alexander Parker :
1. Helen Augusta, married James Nowland,
mentioned above. 2. Angeline, born 1829, died
young. 3. Olive, born 1831, died in New
Hampshire, unmarried. 4. Charles, born 1834,
died at Littleton, New Hampshire; was a
scythemaker by trade ; married Sarah  ,
who is living in Littleton. 5. Albert, born
1836, at Waterville; married Lizzie A. Ben
son; he died at Oakland; was a carriagemaker
by trade. 6. Alpheus Lyons, born in 1840; re
sides at Puenta, California, a ranchman; mar
ried Mary Alice Campbell, daughter of Wil
liam Campbell, mentioned above, from Old
ham, England. Children of David and Lu
cetta (Soule) Lowe: 1. David Lowe, lived
and died in Sidney, Maine, a farmer ; married
Betsey Hallett, of Belgrade, Maine. 2. Ed
win Lowe, died at Houlton, a farmer ; repre
sentative to the state legislature in 1876 and
1878; married Amanda White, of Hodgdon;
he was commissioned major in the Fifteenth
Maine Regiment in the civil war ; he enlisted
in 186 1 and served to the end of the war. 3.
Angeline Lowe, died unmarried. Children of
James Nowland by second wife: 1. Mary P.,
mentioned below. 2. Carrie, born at Houlton,
November 22, 1853; resides in San Diego,
California, a school teacher, unmarried. 3.
Lucy, born at St. John, 1855, died young. 4.
Alice, born March 19, 1858, at St. John ; grad
uate of the State Normal School at Gorham,
Maine, class of 1881 ; has since taught in the
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Boston, Garden City, Long Island, and for the
past six years has resided in San Diego. 5.
Martin, born March 27, i860; married Belle
Lovell Gannett, of Wollaston, Massachusetts,
a commission merchant ; children : Parker
Hunting, Edgar Lovell and Helen. 6. Helen
Augusta, born in 1863, died young. 7. Charles
Albert, born at Ashland, May 7, 1867; mar
ried Rosa K. Judge, of Quebec; reside at Ash
land; he is overseer of the Aroostook Farming
and Lumber Company ; children : Katherine
and James. 8. Dr. George Dunn, born at Ash
land, May 21, 1869; attended the public
schools, St. John's School at Presque Isle and
a graduate of the Baltimore Medical College
(Doctor of Medicine, 1896) ; practiced medi
cine at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a num
ber of years, and in Aroostook county since
leaving Cambridge, having an office at Ash
land since 1900; an independent in politics;
member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of Cambridge; married, September
30, 1908, in Boston, Annie Gifford, who was
born at Miramichi, October 10, 1874, educated
in the public schools of Bangor; an Episco
palian. (Ill) Mary P. Nowland, daughter of James
Nowland, was born in Houlton, Maine, No
vember 23, 185 1. When she was four years
old her parents removed to St. John, New
Brunswick, and she attended the public schools
there, until she was twelve years old, when
she came with her parents to Ashland, Maine.
She was graduated from the State Normal
School at Castine, Maine. She is prominent
as an educator. She was a teacher in the pub
lic schools of Ashland, Caribou, Deer Isle,
Sedgwick, Van Buren and Fort Kent, where
for the past thirty-five years she has been
principal of the Mattawaska Training School.
She is a member of the Houlton Grange, Pat
rons of Husbandry, and of the Maine State
Teachers' Association. She is a communicant
of the Protestant Episcopal church.

According to the best of
McKENNEY authorities on surnames,
McKenna, sometimes spell
ed McKenny and McKenney, is a variation of
MacKinnon, a family that came from Scot
land to Ulster province. North of Ireland.
The MacKinnons are closely connected with
the MacDonalds of the Isles and have no inde
pendent history of their own. Burke traces
them to Fingon, youngest son of Alpin, king
of Scotland, stating that the spelling of the
name was first Macfingon, then Macfinden and
finally MacKinnon. Burke gives as the coat-
of-arms of the Mackeney family : Sable three
pairs of keys each pair having their handles

downwards lozenged, interlaced and endorsed
or, two and one. Crest: An arm in armour
embowed holding a spear top broken and pen
dant proper. McKenny is an old Irish name.
The McKenny family of Dublin and Ullard
and Ballysonbay, county Kilkenny, baronet,
has this armorial: Or a fleur-de-lis between
three crescents azure on a chief vert a stag
pursued by a greyhound argent. Crest: A
hand in armour couped at the wrist holding a
roll of parchment. Motto: Vincet veritas.
The McKenneys of Maine are mostly de
scended from John McKenney, who was at
Scarborough as early as 1668.
(I) Patrick McKenney was born in Ire
land in 1820, and came to America when he
was seventeen years old, settling at Frederic
ton, New Brunswick. He married Mary J.
Mulaney, who -was born at Fredericton in
1824, and died at Fort Fairfield, Maine, in
1 881. They were communicants of the Roman
Catholic church. Children: 1. Mary Jane, born
at Woodstock, New Brunswick, May 23, 1861 ;
married George White, of Fort Fairfield, now
a farmer at La Grange, Maine ; she died March
15, 1899. 2. James, born in 1863, at Fort
Fairfield, teamster in that town. 3. Catherine
Frances, born at Fort Fairfield, August 4,
1865, died at Presque Isle, September 2, 1909.
4. Lizzie, married Asa Bishop. 5. John, born
at Fort Fairfield, November, 1869 ; married
Almeda Fisher, of Fort Fairfield ; he died
March 18, 1903, at Fort Fairfield, and she
married (second) George McKenney, men
tioned below ; children of John and Almeda
(Fisher) McKenney: Arthur, born August
16, 1896, student in the Fort Fairfield high
school; Gertrude, born July 11, 1898, student
in the Fort Fairfield high school ; Harold, born
March 24, 1900, student in the Fort Fairfield
high school ; Anna, born June 18, 1902. 6.
Nicholas, born December 15, 1871, at Fort
Fairfield ; now living at Bremerton, Washing
ton ; served in the Spanish-American war and
is now employed in the United States navy-
yard. 7. George, mentioned below.
(II) George McKenney, son of Patrick
McKenney, was bora at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
October 15, 1873. He attended the public
schools of his native town. During his boy
hood and afterward he assisted his father on
the farm. At the age of twenty he left home
and for several years was employed on farms
in the vicinity, and also in Massachusetts, New
Plampshire and California. In 19-03, after ten
years of absence from his native place, he re
turned to Fort Fairfield and succeeded to the
farm of his father. Since that time he has cul
tivated this farm of one hundred acres, all of
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He is a communicant of the Roman Catholic
church, and a member of Aroostook Valley
Grange, No. 485, Patrons of Husbandry. He
married, July, 1905, in Fort Fairfield, Almeda
(Fisher) McKenney, widow of his brother
John and daughter of Alfred Fisher, grand
daughter of William Fisher, the immigrant an
cestor. Children of George and Almeda
(Fisher) McKenney: 1. Elizabeth, born at
Fort Fairfield. 2. Eva. 3. George.
Up to 1660 some twenty-eight per-
HALL sons bearing the name of Hall had
settled in New England, seven of
whom bore the Christian name of John, and
from 1660 to 1700 many others of the name
settled here, which fact makes the family of
Hall difficult to trace. In 1650 three John
Halls were living in Dover, New Hampshire,
and at that same time there were flourishing
as many Johns in Middletown, Connecticut.
John Hall, of Dover, brought Ralph, John,
Stephen and perhaps other children from Eng
land very early. John Hall (2), son of the
elder John, born in England, was of Dover
in 1650, a man of good property, a deacon in
the church in 1657, and one of many offices.
dying about 1693. Hatevil, a son of the
younger John, of Dover, and born there, had
a son Hatevil, who was born in Dover in 1707,
married Sarah Furbish, of Kittery, and about
1753 settled in Falmouth, Maine. Through
this couple came a numerous posterity, among
them Thomas S. Hall, the inventor and father
of the American plan of electric automatic
signalling apparatus for railroads. But'it was
from the Connecticut Hall family that de
scended the Hon. Lyman Hall, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
In the early part of the nineteenth century
there came to Providence from Maine, his
native State, one James Stanhope Hall, born
March 25, 1796, and who was married here
May 24, 1820, to Eleanor Ryder Snow.
daughter of Captain Stephen and Mehetabel
Snow, and a descendant of an early New Eng
land family. Captain Stephen Snow was a
sea captain and was lost at sea. The family
tradition states that James Stanhope Hall was
one of three brothers who came from England
to America. Mr. Hall was a cabinet maker
by trade, which he followed here in Provi
dence for a time, but some time after his mar
riage he returned to Maine, later, however,
again taking up his residence in Providence,
and here he engaged in- the furniture business
on Westminster street, near Dorrance. His
business associate was the late George A.
Howard. Later on Mr. Hall was occupied as
a contractor until his retirement from active

business and removal to the neighboring town
of Scituate, Rhode Island, where his death
occurred, November 9, 1875, aged seventy-
nine years, seven months and fifteen days.
Mrs. Hall passed away October 23, 1867, aged
sixty-five years, and the remains of both rest
in the beautiful Swan Point Cemetery, Provi
dence. Mr. Hall's life was so lived as to com
mand the respect and esteem of his business
contemporaries and his numerous acquaintan
ces and friends. The children born to James
Stanhope and Eleanor Ryder (Snow) Hall
were: 1. Almira, who married Mr. Richard
Sanders, of the firm of William A. Howard
& Company, and a prominent and successful
business man. 2. William Henry, mentioned
below. 3. Abby C, died January 25, 1865,
aged twenty-two years.
William Henry Hall was born June 12,
1837, in Providence, and has long been known
in commercial circles of that city, where he is
one of the oldest and most successful real
estate dealers and brokers. LJp to the age of
fourteen he attended the public schools, and
then set "about learning a trade, which might
insure him against want at any time in the
future. He entered a large cigar factory, and
in the short period of six months became an
expert workman. The confinement, however,
was injurious to his health, and for a long
time he was seriously ill, so that his friends
feared he would never recover. Being gifted
with courage and ambition, his will power was
sufficient to overcome his physical ills, and
after a partial recovery he cast about for some
active employment, and finally opened a small
store for the sale of fruits, confectionery and
periodicals. He was then but seventeen years
old, and his capital of less than fifty dollars
was borrowed from a friend, but his except
ional business ability and energy secured him
credit for many articles necessary in his busi
ness and he w-as soon engaged in various suc
cessful operations. His entire time was given to
the care of his venture, and in a short time he
began to accumulate money in a small way,
in the meantime contributing to the support of
his parents. As his health improved his am
bition and ability increased, and, having decid
ed upon a commercial career, he pursued a
course of instruction in Scholfield's Commer
cial College, from which he received a diplo
ma in 1859. Entering a large Providence
business house as bookkeeper, he sold out his
business and store, renting the building to the
purchaser. For four years he continued as
a bookkeeper in Providence, then he removed
to Albany, New York, where he occupied a
similar position with a large wholesale lumber
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offer in Providence, he returned to his native
city early in 1865, to become secretary and
treasurer of the Marietta & Vinton County
Coal & Oil Company. This position he retain
ed until the business of the company was
closed out, and in the meantime operated to
some extent in real estate. Plis first venture
in this line was made in 1866, at which time
the real estate business of Providence was
largely in the hands of one or two established
and influential firms. His unbounded energy,
unimpeachable integrity and persevering in
dustry, had already attracted the attention of
the business men of the city, and in the face
of the most powerful competition he was en
abled to gain a foothold. His business judg
ment was remarkable, the experience gained
in the lumber trade was of much aid
to him, and he soon won a leading position
among the brokers and dealers in real estate
of Providence. One of the most beautiful
suburbs of that city owes its existence to his
foresight and enterprise. Some years ago he
purchased the estate of the late Joseph W.
Sweet, in the town of Cranston, which is now
known as Edgewood, and by the prudent in
vestment of capital, time and labor, he trans
formed the once unpretentious homestead into
an imposing and elegant residence. He also
erected a large business block in Weybosset
street, known as the Hall building, and in
1890 he organized the Central Real Estate
Company, with an authorized capital of
$2,000,000, for the purpose of providing per
sons of modest means with the opportunity of
investing in centrally located business proper
ty, a class of investment usually monopolized
by people possessed of large means. From
its organization Mr. Hall was president and
manager of the company, and its success is
the natural outcome of his business ability,
sagacity and influence in the community. It
was natural that the benefit of his talents
should be desired by his contemporaries in
the management of public affairs, and he has
been frequently called upon to fill various
elective offices. Although having been a can
didate for office upon thirteen different occa
sions in Cranston, Mr. Hall has never been
defeated. For a period of six years he was
a member of the town council of Cranston,
and was one year town treasurer, declining
to be again a candidate for the latter office.
For four terms, 1880 to 1884, he represented
the town in the general assembly, and for the
two succeeding years was a member of the
state senate, being the first Republican chosen
to that office from the town of Cranston. He
was again nominated for this office, but de
clined to be a candidate. He rapidly gained

an influential position in the legislature, and
was chairman of the joint committee on ac
counts and claims in the assembly, and was
the second member of the senate committee
on corporations. As an authority on economic
and governmental questions, he was respected
as a debater, and his influence went far in
directing the public policy of the state. Al
though a man whose mind has been engrossed
with weighty responsibilities, Mr. Hall is a
keen observer, one who notes the little things
in life and finds enjoyment in them. The
position he holds as a business man, citizen
and individual is but the result of his great
energy, executive ability and application of
purpose. His favorite relaxation from busi
ness cares has been found in driving spirited-
horses, and he has possessed some of the finest
teams of horses in the state- His friends
have enjoyed many pleasant excursions in his
handsome coach, to which was attached a spir
ited four-in-hand team, and which he handled
with skill.
Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Cleora
Narzette Hopkins, daughter of the late Wil
liam Lanksford and Elizabeth (Smith) Hop
kins, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
(See Hopkins VII).
Mrs. William H. Hall has been an able help
mate and worthy companion of her worthy
husband, and outside her home life her chief
activity has been in charitable and church
work, in which she has been a very active
and indefatigable worker. The Church of the
Transfiguration (Protestant Episcopal) of
Edgewood, Rhode Island, was founded by
Mrs. Hall and a few others, the first service
of the church having been held in the Nor
wood avenue school house, January 31, 1892,
in which year Mrs. Hall was baptized and con
firmed. It was largely through the untiring
efforts of Mrs. Hall that this church was
made possible in this section, and her devotion
to the church since that time has never
diminished. She has also been an ardent
worker in the societies in connection with the
church, being an active member of the Parish
Aid and Missionary Society and the Church
Guild. For a number of years she was a
teacher in the Sunday school and president of
the Hospitality and Works of Mercy Society.
The present beautiful church edifice on Broad
street, completed in 1910, stands as a monu
ment to the zeal and energetic work of Mrs.
Plall and her co-workers in the church. Mrs.
Hall is also a valued member of the Edgewood
Woman's Club. When the naming of that
beautiful residential suburb of Providence,
called Edgewood, in the town of Cranston,
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some residence, was under consideration,
many names were suggested, but the name of
Edgewood, as suggested by Mrs. Hall on ac
count of its bordering on the wooded section
of Roger Williams Park, found most favor.
The people of that section are now served by
a postoffice bearing that name, and every
thing pertaining to the uplifting of the com
munity finds in Mr. and Mrs. Hall warm and
influential friends. (The Hopkins Line).
The surname of Hopkins was spelled Hop-
kyns in England in the sixteenth century and
earlier. It is an ancient English family of
Oxfordshire, where in 1567 John Hopkyns
was a civic officer in Coventry. From the
strong resemblance of the armorial bearings
of the Wyckhams, of Swelcliffe, county Ox
ford, and those of the Hopkins family of
Oving, it is conjectured by Burke that in early
times some bond of connection existed be
tween the two families. In confirmation of
this conjecture there is found in Sibford
Gower in Swelcliffe parish a small estate
which is charged with a quitrent of a hundred
pence that tradition has assigned to the late
owners as the nineteenth John Hopkins who
had successfully and lineally inherited it with
out intervention of any other Christian name
than John. As this estate joins immediately to
Warwickshire, it may fairly be assumed that
the family of Hopkins in Coventry and Swel
cliffe derive from a common ancestor. A
branch of the family is found in the north of
Ireland. There were three distinct families
early in this country, from all of which have
descended prominent citizens. The name is
found upon the Declaration of Independence,
and in connection with many other historical
events connected with the development of the
United States.
(I) William Hopkins was born in Chesel
bourne, England, and married Joanna Arnold,
also a native of Cheselbourne, daughter of
Thomas and Alice (Gully) Arnold, the last
named baptized November 30, 1577, at Chesel
bourne. (II) Thomas Hopkins, son of William and
Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins, was born April 7,
16 16, in Cheselbourne, and died in October,
1684, at the settlement known as Littleworth,
in the present town of Oyster Bay, Long Is
land. He is found of record in Providence,
Rhode Island, as early as July 27, 1640, when
he was one of the thirty-nine signers to an
agreement for a form of government. In 1652
and 1659-60 he was commissioner; in 1655-56-
57 and 1672 he was deputy to the general
crurt, and was a member of the town council

from 1657 to 1672. On account of the Indian
troubles he removed, about 1676, to Long
Island, and settled at Oyster Bay. He mar
ried, in Providence, in 1648, Elizabeth Arnold
born in Nottinghamshire, England, daughter
of William Arnold. Two sons, William and
Thomas, remained in Rhode Island; the third
son, Joseph Hopkins, died before the removal
of his parents to Long Island.
(Ill) Thomas (2), second son of Thomas
(1) and Elizabeth (Arnold) Hopkins, was
born about 1650, in Providence, and died there
April 1, 1718. He married there, in 1678,
Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith,
died April 21, 1718. She was a granddaughter
of John Smith, the mason, of Providence, so
called to distinguish him from John Smith,
the miller, both being leading citizens of
Providence. Children : Thomas, died after
1746; William, married Deborah, daughter of
Isaac Allen; Joseph, died July 19, 1740; Eliza
beth, died unmarried, February 26, 1731 ;
Mary, married, March 8, 1716, Robert Davis;
Rachel, probably died young; Zebedee, born
February 22, 1697 ; Elisha, married, July 13,
1722 Mercy W^aide ; Ezekiel; Amos, men
tioned below ; Jeremiah, died unmarried, April
26, J733 ; Ann, probably died in infancy.
(IV) Amos, seventh son of Thomas (2)
and Mary (Smith) Hopkins, resided for a
time in Scituate, and removed, in 1752, to
Providence, where he was many years a mem
ber of the town council. He later resided in
what is now North Providence, and died in
1769. He married, October 29, 1727, Sarah,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Smith. She
was descended from Christopher Smith, a
member of the Society of Friends in Provi
dence, who died in June, 1676, in Newport,
having removed to that town for safety dur
ing the Indian wars, with many others in the
outlying districts of Providence. He was tax
ed 3 shillings and 4 pence in Providence, Sep
tember 2, 1650, was a freeman, April 27, 1655,
and juryman in the same year. He was grant
ed a share of the meadows, March 16, 1656,
to be laid out in the meadows called "World's
End," in lieu of a share formerly laid out to
him beyond the great meadow. Pie took up
sixty acres of land and a share in the mead
ows, July 7, 1658, and in a division of lands,
February 19, 1665, he drew lot No. 25. He
subscribed to the oath of allegiance, June 1,
1667. He sold twenty acres of land, August
21, 1660, and another parcel, November 28,
1672. His wife Alice survived him about five
years, dying in 168 1. Children: Susanna, died
1692; Thomas, mentioned below; Benjamin,
born 1631, died December 23, 1713.
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Alice Smith, was a tailor and witnessed the
confirmatory deed given by Roger Williams
to his associates. Pie received a deed of lands
from William Wickenden on the south side
o-f the Pawtuxet river, July 9, 1666. With
his wife, he was drowned in the Pawtuxet
river, January 16, 1670, and his house and
lands were sold by order of the town council,
for £40, to provide for his children. He mar
ried (intentions published January 27, 1659)
Ruth, daughter of William Wickenden, and
their untimely death left four small orphans :
John, born August 4, 1661, died unmarried;
Thomas, August 9, 1664; William, January
10, 1667 ; and Joseph mentioned below.
Joseph, youngest child of Thomas and
Ruth (Wickenden) Smith, was born February
18, 1669, in Providence, where he died No
vember 8, 1739. Pie was reared by his aunt,
Jane Wickenden, of Providence, who became
the wife of Samuel Wilkinson of that town,
and who gave him a deed of eighteen acres
of land. He was a carpenter and was taxed
six pence, June 16, 171 3. He owned a forty
foot lot and a right of commonage and sold
the former and one-third of the latter, March
20, 1716. He bought the interest of his son
in the estate of William Wickenden, February
11, 1730, and resided in Glocester when he
gave a deed of forty-five acres to his son
Wait Smith, April 27, 1731. The administra
tion of his estate was granted to his son Joseph
of Smithfield, November 7, 1739, indicating
the year of his death. The inventory of his
estate amounted to £130, 15s., and nd. He
married (first) April 4, 1699, Elizabeth Haw
kins, daughter of John and Sarah Hawkins,
of Providence, and had a second wife, Mary,
and children : Sarah, Joseph and Wait.
Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Eliza
beth (Hawkins) Smith, married, October 29,
1727, Amos Hopkins, of Providence, as in
dicated above. Children : Amos, died about
1770; Jeremiah, no further record; Uriah,
mentioned below.
(V) Uriah, third son of Amos and Sarah
(Smith) Hopkins, was born December 26,
1738, in Scituate, and died April 3, 1825, in
Providence. He was in his fourteenth year
when he removed with his parents to Provi
dence. He married Lucy, youngest child of
William and Martha Lanksford (Langford),
born July 26, 1745, died December 15, 1816.
Her father, William Lanksford, died May 19,
1745, a little more than two months prior to
her birth, at Paramaribo, Surinam, whither
he went for a season of employment as a
cooper. His widow, Martha, survived him
about fifty-two years, dying in 1797.
The Langford family figured very early in

the history of Rhode Island, where the name
is found under various spellings, including
Lanckford. A Richard Langford was in Ply
mouth, Massachusetts, January 2, 1633, but
disappears from the records of that town
thereafter. A Thomas Langford resided in
Newport, Rhode Island, June 20, 1670, when
he was a boat man. He was probably the
father of Thomas Langford, a carpenter, and
John Langford, a merchant of Newport. John
Langford, the merchant, was made a freeman
of the Rhode Island colony with many others,
April 30, 17 17. The records indicate that he
transacted considerable business. Plis wife's
name was Alida, and they had children, bap
tized at Trinity Church, Newport: Richard,
July 3-0, 1710; Catherine, December 11, 1712;
George, September 26, 1714; Alida, June 10,
1717; John, born May 15, 1719, and it is quite
possible that they were the parents of the
William Lanksford above referred to, who
died in Paramaribo. There is nothing dis
coverable in the records of the state of Rhode
Island to show his birth or parentage, only his
death appearing. No record of his marriage
appears, and it is therefore impossible to learn
the maiden name of his wife Martha. The
Friends' records of Rhode Island show that
Jonas Langford, of Antigua, had a daughter
Mehitable, who died June 30, 1715, being then
the wife of Abraham Redwood Ellis Lang
ford, described as a son-in-law of Jonas
(probably a stepson), died in Newport, Octo
ber 14, 1710. Uriah Hopkin's children: Jesse
born April 5, 1765; Thomas, August 25, 1770;
William, December 6, 1772; Mary, August 7,
1774; Stephen, mentioned below; Abraham,
January 24, 1779; Amey, November 12, 1780;
Nicholas, May 14, 1783 ; Martha, February 8,
1786; Sarah Smith, July 26, 1788.
( VI ) Stephen, fourth son of Uriah and
Lucy (Lanksford) Hopkins, was born No
vember 12, 1776, in Providence, and died there
July 8, 1823. He was a mariner, commanding
vessels sailing out of Providence, and later
settled in the western part of that town, where
he kept a hotel. He married, October 19,
1801, Nancy, daughter of Stephen Brownell,
born 1772-73, died March 2, 1848, aged seven
ty-five years. Children : Eliza Holden ; Wil
liam, died in his second year, and William
Lanksford. (VII) William Lanksford, son of Captain
Stephen and Nancy (Brownell) Hopkins,
married Elizabeth Smith, of North Kings
town, Rhode Island, daughter of William and
Elizabeth Smith. Their children were : Ste
phen Brownell, died young : Josephine Adel
aide ; William Smith ; Cleora Narzette ; Mary
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(VIII) Cleora Narzette, daughter of Wil
liam Lanksford and Elizabeth (Smith) Hop
kins, became the wife of William H. Hall, of
Providence, Rhode Island. (See Hall.)

Andrew Dewing, founder of
DEWING the family, was born in Eng
land, and was one of the early
settlers of Dedham, Massachusetts. His home
was in that part of the town set off later as
Needham. In 1644 he was a member of the
Boston Artillery Company from Natick, his
home being nearer Natick than Dedham. What
is known at present as Ridge Hill farm in
Wellesley, was in the possession of his de
scendants until 181 1. He joined the Dedham
Church, April 19, 1646, and was admitted a
freeman May 6, 1646. He was a highway
surveyor of Dedham in 1651 and 1661 ; fence
viewer several years and constable 1663-64. He
owned a right in the town of Deerfield in 1667.
His will was dated September 8, 1677, proved
October 30, 1677. His first wife, Lydia, died
October 13, 1651. He married (second) No
vember 10, 1652, Ann (Bonstall), who died
September 16, 1677. Children, born in Ded
ham, by first wife: John, February 16, 1649;
John (2d), July 19, 1651. By second wife:
Andrew, born November 26, 1655 ; Rachel,
baptized June 27, 1658; Lydia, 1660; Jona
than, April 3, 1663; Ann, baptized May 6,
1666 ; Deborah, October, 1668.
(II) Andrew Dewing, son of .Andrew
Dewing, was born at Dedham, November 26,
1655, and died January 14, 1717-18. He mar
ried, October 27, 1682, Dorothy Hyde. He in
herited land in Needham, which was incorpo
rated from Dedham in 171 1, and he was one
of the petitioners for incorporation. Children,
born at Needham: Andrew, September 25,
1683; Martha, November 30, 1685; Henry,
October 16, 1690; Esther, September 21, 1692 ;
Edmund, September 9, 1694; Dorothy, July
26, 1697.
(Ill) Plenry Dewing, son of Andrew Dew
ing, was born at Dedham, October 16, 1690.
and died March 21, 1765. Pie married (first)
December 4, 1716, in Roxbury, Mehitable,
daughter of Eleazer and Mehitable (Thurs
ton) Ellis. She was born May 13, 1695, died
in May, 1750. Pie married (second) January
18, 1753, Elizabeth Warren, widow. He was
a farmer in Needham. He joined the church
July 16, 1 721. His will was dated April 29,
1763 and proved April 19, 1765. Children,
born at Needham: Moses, September 15,
1717; Aaron, February 25, 1718-19; Mehit
able, November 6, 1720; Plenry, April 1, 1724;
Ebenezer, mentioned below ; Esther, October

29, 1729; Aaron, September 24, 1731 ; Eph
raim, July 20, 1733.
(IV) Ebenezer Dewing, son of Henry
Dewing, was born at Needham, October 10,
1725, and died there November 26, 1766. He
married in 1753, Isabella Brownley, of Bos
ton, and lived on the homestead at Needham.
She married (second) April 8, 1776, Asa Gay,
of Needham, born August 20, 1728, died April
9, 1806; she was a school teacher in 1773.
Children of Ebenezer and Isabella : Lydia,
born December 2, 1753; Nathan, February 8,
1758; Elijah, mentioned below; Jabez, bap
tized February 22, 1767.
(V) Elijah Dewing, son of Ebenezer Dew
ing, was born at Needham, July 11, 1761, and
died in Medway, September 10, 1844. He
married, May 14, 1788, Betty Reed, who died
September 10, 1844, the same day as her hus
band. They lived at Dover, Needham, Bell
ingham and Medway. His will was proved No
vember 5, 1844. He was a soldier in the revo
lution, enlisting September 24, 1778, in Cap
tain Abel Richard's company, Colonel Jona
than Cogswell's regiment, and serving at Bos
ton on guard duty for nine days. He was
from October 25, 1779, to November 23, in
Captain Thomas Vinson's company, Colonel
Jacob Gerrish's regiment. In 1782 he was in
the Continental service and received a cow
from the town as bounty. He was allowed a
pension March 4, 1831. Children : Elijah, born
October 13, 1790; Sibyl, October 7, 1793;
Elisha, November 9, 1795; Betsey, born at
Needham, December 24, 1797. Born at Bell
ingham : Sally, May 27, 1800 ; Aaron, Janu
ary 29, 1804; Reuben, February 12, 1805; Joel,
February 12, 1807; John, January 18, 1812.
(VI) Elijah Dewing, son of Elijah Dew
ing, was born at Dover, October 13, 1790, and
died at Mendon, November 1, 1864. He mar
ried, at Bellingham, July 5, 1820, Mary,
daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Adams)
Coombs. She was born July 3, 1796, and
died December 23, 1868, at Mendon. They
resided at Bellingrham and Mendon. He was
a carpenter, builder and contractor. His
wife's brother built the famous Adams House,
in Boston. Children: Charles, born May 15,
182 1 ; Mary Elizabeth, June 26, 1826; Martin,
mentioned below.
(VII) Martin Dewing, son of Elijah Dew
ing, was born in Bellingham, July 8, 1830,
and died at his home on Keene street, Provi
dence, Rhode Island, June 16, 1905, aged sev
enty-five years. He attended the public
schools of his native town. In 1853 he en
gaged in business as a fish dealer in Woon
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partnership with P. E. Nichols and engaged
in the fish business at 44 Exchange Place,
Providence, under the firm name of P. E.
Nichols & Company. In 1859 he bought the
interests of his partner in the firm, and in 1861
began to plant and cultivate oysters, starting
with a two-acre bed at Kettle Point and a
small yawl valued at $45. In 1865 he sold to
Charles Monsell a share in the business and
continued under the firm name of Dewing &
Monsell. After the death of his partner, Mr.
Dewing continued the business alone. From
1890 to the time of his death Mr. Dewing
conducted a large wholesale business in Nar
ragansett oysters. He was one of the pioneers
in the oyster business. He consulted the fore
most experts m the world and made a study
of methods and means of oyster culture. He
was one of the first to propagate the seed and
he had a plant near New Haven for this pur
pose. From his beds came the famous Nar
ragansett oysters, considered by the trade to
be the best in the market and also the Duck
River oysters. The demand always exceeded
the supply. Pie shipped oysters not only to
all the principal cities of the United States,
but to Canada, Germany and other countries.
His firm supplied oysters to the Argentine
government in 1905 for the purpose of propa
gation, on recommendation of the United
States government. Mr. Dewing's plant was
a model of its kind. He had two large steam
vessels and two naptha boats and employed
125 men. He owned vast tracts of oyster
beds off Nayatt Point and some 400 acres in
Connecticut waters. Mr. Dewing was a Re
publican in politics. He was a member of the
Pomham Club and a very prominent Mason.
He was made a Mason in i860 in Mt. Vernon
Lodge, joined the chapter in 1861 and the
commandery in 1881. He had also attained
the thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Mas
onry. His success in life was due primarily
to his own perseverance and energy. He pos
sessed unusual business acumen and foresight,
and was exceptionally progressive and enter
prising. In business his name was a synonym
for uprightness and square dealing. He was
generous and charitable, aiding every good
cause and helping those in need and. distress.
He married, November 3, 1852, Ardelia
Cook, who was born December 1, 1831,
daughter of Welcome Ballou and Rhoda Wil
cox (Pickering) Cook, of Mendon. (See
Cook.) She is a member of the Elmwood
Avenue Baptist Church of Providence, and
has been for many years active in church and
charitable work. For upwards of fifty years
she has been a leader in the movement for

woman suffrage in Rhode Island. She was
president of the Woman Suffrage Association
for a time and is now one of its honorary
presidents. Both her daughters are also in
terested in the movement. Children: 1.
Mary Coombs, bora August 20, 1853, at Mil
ford; married January 21, 1880, Bradford
Frank Billings, son of Jonathan and Betsy
(Tolman) Billings; now of Brookline, Mas
sachusetts; child: Mary Louisa Billings,
born November 30, 1880. 2. Ardelia Cook,
born August 23, 1857, at Woonsocket; mar
ried, November 19, 1895, George Drown Glad
ding, son of George Anthony and Julia Ann
(Drown) Gladding, of Providence.
(The Cook Line).
This Cumberland-Woonsocket, Rhode Is
land, branch of the Cooks was of the earlier
Weymouth-Mendon, Massachusetts, family,
the forerunner of which was Walter Cook, the
earliest known American ancestor, from
whom have descended a numerous family,
many of whom have taken an active and hon
orable part in Rhode Island history. Of this
particular line of Cooks under consideration,
that of the last Colonel Levi Cook, of Cumber
land, who was himself a man of substance and
prominence in public affairs, and who reared
several sons to become leading men in the
community, special reference is made to the
late Willis and Lyman Arnold Cook, whose
business affairs for fifty years were so close
ly allied with each other as to make the two
men all but one. The lineage of the late Col
onel Levi Cook and family history follows in
regular order from the Weymouth settler.
(I) Walter Cook, of Weymouth, Massa
chusetts, was settled there as early as 1643,
and was made freeman in 1657. He moved
to Mendon, Massachusetts, prior to March,
1664. The Christian name of his first wife
was Experience, and of his second, Catherine,
one account stating that the latter was for
merly the widow of George Aldrich. His
children born to the first marriage were : Eb
enezer, Walter and Peter ; and those to the
second were : John, Hannah, Peter, Ebenezer,
Walter, Samuel, Nicholas, mentioned below;
Experience. Walter Cook, the father, died
January 5, 1685.
(II) Deacon Nicholas Cook, son of Walter
Cook, born June 10, 168-, married, in 1715,
Elizabeth, called by some Elizabeth Staples.
Mr. Cook was a deacon in the Baptist church
in Bellingham, one of the oldest churches in
New England. The children of Deacon Nich
olas Cook and his wife Elizabeth, all born in
Bellingham, Massachusetts, were: Jemima,

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Nathaniel, Peter, Daniel, William, Caleh
Elizabeth, Abigail, Nicholas, Susanna, Johan
na and Ezekiel.
(Ill) Daniel Cook, son of Nicholas Cook,
was born in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He
married Susanna  , and lived at Wren
tham after 1726. Children, all born at Wren
tham, except the eldest : Thameson, born at
Mendon, June 17, 1725; Priscilla, October 27,
1727; Ezekiel, March 5, 1730; Daniel, men
tioned below; John, April 12, 1738, died
young; Susanna, March 3, 1742-43; Aaron,
December 3, 1746.
(IV) Daniel Cook, son of Daniel Cook,
was born at Wrentham, June 7, 1732. He
married Abigail  . He was a soldier
ir the revolution, credited to Uxbridge, for
merly part of Mendon, private in Captain
Taft's company, Colonel Tyler's regiment. He
enlisted for three years in 1781, aged forty-
nine, five feet, nine inches in height, complex
ion dark, (Mass. Soldiers and Sailors, iii, p.
926). Children, born at Wrentham: Olive,
March 4, 1756; Abigail, March 7, 1759;
Thaddeus, June 15, 1762; Levice, October 20,
1765; Joanna, July 27, 1770; Zimri, mention
ed below; Daniel, August 4, 1775; Ezekiel,
August 25, 1777.
(V) Zimri Cook, son of Daniel Cook, was
born at Wrentham, June 3, 1772. He was an
honest, upright citizen, fie'married, Novem
ber 7, 1793, Joanna Ballou, who was born in
Cumberland, Rhode Island, February 25, 1775
(Levi (5) ; Ezekiel (4) ; Obadiah (3) ; James
(2); Maturin Ballou (1)). She was a "good
wife, gifted in mind and body." He died
at Mendon, April 10, 1812, and his will is filed
at Worcester. She married (second) Ichabod
Scott, of Bellingham, who died November 1,
1843. She died May, 1857, aged 82 years.
Children: Sukey P., born November 15, 1794;
Celissa, September 16, 1796; Milla, June 25,
1798; Zimri, June 5, 1800; Orinda, February
25, 1802; died young; Allen, July 12, 1805;
Welcome Ballou, mentioned below ; Barton B.,
July 9, 1810.
(VI) Welcome Ballou Cook, son of Zimri
Cook, was born at Mendon, September 19,
1807. He married, January 14, 1826, Rhoda
Wilcox Pickering, who was born at Belling
ham, June 12, 1810. Simon Pickering, her
father, was born at Bellingham, July 2, 1764,
married Rhoda, daughter of Daniel Wilcox.
Children : Samuel Pickering, September 12,
1790; Anna Pickering, December 27, 1791 ;
Sally Pickering, June 29, 1794; Esther B.
Pickering, November 13, 1796; Ellefel Pick
ering, April 19, 1799; Rosanna Pickering,
May 17, 1 801 ; Sally Pickering, October 12,
1803; Daniel W. Pickering, 1806; Simon

Pickering, 1808; Rhoda W. Pickering, men
tioned above. Samuel Pickering, father of
Simon, married February 2, 1759; Sarah Bal
lou (Nathaniel (3) ; James (2) ; Maturin Bal
lou ( 1 ) ) . Children : Rosanna, Sarah, Simon,
Mary, Lovina, Esther, Ruth, Eunice and Phil
adelphia. When Welcome B. Cook was five years old,
his father died and he was apprenticed as a
boy in the Whipple family, Cumberland, on
a farm. His schooling was limited. He be
came an industrious and successful man, en
gaging in business as a teamster between Bos
ton, Mendon and Providence. He bought the
homestead which his father had owned at
Mendon and lived there for a time. He also
lived at Milford and at West Upton, where he
kept a hotel. His later years were spent at
Farnumsville, Grafton, Massachusetts, where
he died March 19, 1850. His wife died Jan
uary 9, 1899. She was a member of the Bap
tist church. Both are buried at Farnumsville.
Children : Allen Simon, born September 19,
1829, died at Dansville, Illinois, May 4, 191 1.
2. Ardelia, December 1, 1831, married Mar
tin Dewing (see Dewing). 3. Daniel Pur
ington, February 11, 1834, died February 23,
1882. 4. Francis Addison, October 21, 1835,
died at Danville, Illinois, March, 1904. 5. Mary
Jane, October 16, 1840; married Willard
Phipps, of Mendon and resides at Smithville,
Missouri. 6. Sarah Howard, June 6, 1843, died
March 5, 1892. 7. Walter Irving, June 11,
1846, resides at Danville, Illinois. 8. Welcome
Edwin, April 21, 1849. 9. Georgia Anna,
January 4, 1853, widow of James Crandall,
Kansas City, Missouri.

The following is copied from.
CHESLEY a book in the Boston Pub
lic Library: Jonathan and
Alpheus Chesley — A story of the Piscataqua
river, New Hampshire, and taking the King's
powder at Portsmouth, by a party of men in
December, 1774, which powder was first hid
under an old church in New Hampshire then
brought to Cambridge and stored in Christ
Church (opposite the elm tree where Washing
ton afterwards took command of the army),
and used at the battle of Lexington in April,
l775, mentions two men by the name of Ches
ley, as follows :
In the "First Blow for American Liberty"
mention is made of a party of men including
Jonathan Chesley and Alpheus Chesley, who
went in scows down the Piscataqua river to
Portsmouth, captured the sentinel at the fort,
and got possession of the King's powder, hid
it under an old church, and later brought it
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(I) Nicholas Chesley, who is supposed to
be a son of Jonathan Chesley, was born in
Dover, New Hampshire, in November, 1750,
and died in Paris, Maine, October 14, 1827.
He had a brother, Joseph who died in Paris,
Maine, and two of his brothers settled in An
napolis, Nova Scotia, in 1776 or about that
time, as they were Loyalists at the time of the
revolution. Pie married (first) Sarah Ham
mond, sister of Joseph and Benjamin Ham
mond. Some of his sons moved to Lincoln
county, Maine. His first wife died May 21,
1797, and he married (second) Mrs. Susanna
Sawyer. His widow married Abijah Warren.
Children by first wife: 1. Benjamin, born in
Glocester, Maine, April 21, 1780; married
(first) Mehitable Keith; (second) Polly
Hathaway ; died at Lincoln. 2. Sarah, born at
New Glocester, 1783; married David bairah,
and died at Buckfield, Maine, August 1, 1810.
3. Betsey, born at Paris, Maine, November 15,
1785; married David Dinsmore, and died at
Minot, Maine. 4. Samuel, mentioned below.
5. Nicholas, born at Paris, April, 1792; mar
ried Cynthia Partridge, and died at Bangor,
Maine. 6. Jonathan, born at Paris, May 12,
1794, died there, unmarried; he was a gradu
ate of Bowdoin College. 7. Charlotte, born
at Paris, April 21, 1797; married Aaron Waite
and died at Dixfield, Maine. Children by
second wife, born at Paris : 8. David, married
Mary Knight, and died at Chester, Maine. 9.
William, who went away and never was heard
from; it is supposed he went to sea and was
lost. (II) Samuel Chesley, son of Nicholas
Chesley, was born in Paris, Maine, October
31, 1788, and died at Chester, Maine, October
19, 1869. He was a farmer in Paris until
1862, when he removed to Chester, being a
pioneer settler there. He cleared his farm in
Chester, and resided there the remainder of
his life. He was a Republican in politics. He
held a town office in Chester until a few years
of his death either as selectman or town clerk ;
was also justice of the peace for many years.
He married Martha Perry, at Paris, Maine,
March 31, 1814, and she died in Chester,
June 23, 1859. Children: 1. Samuel Howard,
mentioned below. 2. Addison Perry, born in
Paris, December 9, 1816; married Thankful
Kirby, of Maine, April 24, 1841, and both
died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 3. Martha
Jane, born at Paris, November 4, 1818,
died at Lincoln Center, Maine; married
Mahalon Crockett, of Gorham, Maine, April
24, 1 841 ; he died at Lincoln Center, Maine.
4. Franklin, born October 20, 1820, at Pans,
died at Franklin, Louisiana, May 3, 1863,
during the civil war. 5. Columbus, born

October 22, 1822, at Paris, died May 15, li
in Mattawamkeag, Maine, a farmer; married
Elizabeth Babcock, of Lincoln, August 27,
1854. 6. Mary Ann, born January 27, 1827,
in Chester, died at Lincoln, Maine, married
Alvin Haines, October 26, 1856. 7. Nicholas
Lincoln, born at Chester, November 11, 1829,
died at Oldtown, Maine, May 12, 1902 ; a
farmer; married Rosamond White, of Chester,
and she died at Oldtown. 8. Albion Keith
Paris, born at Chester, August 1, 1831, died in
Mansfield, Massachusetts ; married Helen
Wyman, of Chester, in November, 1859. 9.
Cynthia Victoria, born at Chester, June 30,
1833, died at Winn, Maine; married Rich
mond Wyman, of Chester, December 25,
1856; farmer in Winn, where he died. 10.
Louisa Elizabeth, born at Chester, August 12,
1835, died at Lincoln, Maine; married Eben
Babcock, of Lincoln, November 4, 1855.
(Ill) Samuel Howard Chesley, son of
S'-imuel Chesley, was born in Paris, Maine,
March 6, 1815, and died at Fort Fairfield,
Maine, May 22, 1907. He was eleven years
of age when his parents moved to Chester,
Maine, and he received his education there.
Pie was a farmer in Chester, and after a time
moved to Woodville, Maine, where he re
mained a few years, after which he settled in
Lincoln, Maine. In June, 1876 he moved to
Fort Fairfield, where he purchased the farm
on which he lived the remainder of his life.
His daughter, Mabel L. (Chesley) Trafton,
now owns and lives on the farm. Air. Ches
ley was a Republican in politics, and during
the civil war served as enrolling officer in
Chester, Maine. He also served as selectman
in Lincoln and Chester for several years, and
as representative to the state legislature from
Chester. He was a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church. He married Lovina Lovejoy
at Crystal, Maine, April 18, 1840; she died
in Fort Fairfield, Maine, June 6, 1894. Chil
dren: 1. Martha Perry, born at Crystal, Maine,
September 22, 1841, died at Bangor, Maine,
March 4. 1895 ; married, December 25, 1859,
in Bangor, James H. Bennett ; children : Pren
tice Percival, Lyman LeRoy, Belle. 2. Samuel
Howard Jr., born at Crystal, Maine, January
13, 1843; married Emily (Fogg) Chesley,
widow of his brother, William Franklin Ches
ley, on July 1, 1869, at Chester; she died Sep
tember 1, 1898, at Woodville, Maine; he lives
in Chester; children: William, farmer hi
Woodville, Franklin Brainard, farmer in
Woodville, George Howard living in Wiscon
sin, Melvin Baxter, blacksmith in Lincoln, El
mer LeRoy, farmer in Caribou, Gertrude May,
living in Woodville, unmarried, and Effie
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Crystal, October 30, 1844, died in Chester,
1868; farmer; married Emily Fogg, August
12, 1867, in Woodville. 4. Lucia Elizabeth,
born in Chester, March 15, 18-46; married Dr.
Moses S. Wilson, of Lincoln; one son, Frank.
5. Elberta Lavinia, born at Chester, February
13, 185 1, died at Lincoln, May 7, 1878. 6.
George Roscoe, born February 6, 1854, at
Chester ; farmer in Gardiner, Maine, married,
August 1, 1887, _ in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
Annie J. Rounds, of Lawrence, Massachu
setts ; children : Pearl, deceased, George Plar-
old, of Mars Hill, Ralph Wendell, of Mars
Hill, Mildred Augusta and Percy, with par
ents. 7. Flora Augusta, bora at Chestei,
August 20, 1855, died at Chester, November
24, 1861. 8. Mabel Lillian, mentioned below.
(IV) Mabel Lillian Chesley, daughter ol
Samuel Howard Chesley, was born at Wood
ville, Maine, September 8, 1866. Her parents
moved to Lincoln, Maine, when she was four
years old and to Fort Fairfield when she was
ten. She attended the public schools in those
towns. She is a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church, and of Green Ridge Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. She married (first)
Emery Elbridge Stevens. She married (sec
ond) September 20, 1899, John Franklin Traf
ton who was born at Paris of Lome, Victoria
county, New Brunswick, July 10, 1864, and
educated there in the common schools. He
assisted his father on the homestead until
1876 when his father died. In 1898 he came
to Fort Fairfield where he has since followed
farming. His place is located about five miles
from the village of Fort Fairfield on the Mar
shall road and consists of one hundred and
thirty-six acres of which one hundred acres
are cleared. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of Green Ridge Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry. Mr. and Mrs. Trafton have
no children.
William Lovejoy, father of Lovina (Love-
joy) Chesley, was bora probably in New
Hampshire, and died in Minneapolis, Minne
sota, when about sixty years of age. ' He was
a farmer in Industry, Maine, and then in
Lincoln, Maine. He moved to Minneapolis
when his children were all grown up. He
married Betsey Pinkham, and she died in
Minneapolis, of pneumonia. He died of pneu
monia, there being four days difference in
their deaths. They were members of the
Baptist Church. William Lovejoy's grand
father married a Chesley, and both were from
New Hampshire. Children, order of birth
not given: 1. William, died at Brainard, Min
nesota, farmer. 2. Albion Keith Paris, died
in Minneapolis, lumberman ; married Caro
line Royal, of Patten, Maine. 3. Elbridge,

farmer of Dakota. 4. Fannie, died in Patten,
married Eugene Stimpson, of Patten, farmer.
5. Clementine, died in Patten; married Josiah
Hall, of Patten, farmer. 6. Elizabeth, died in
Patten, married  Hall, brother of Josiah
Hall. 7. Elmira, died in Patten; married
Samuel Berry, of Patten, farmer. 8. Caroline
died in Minneapolis ; married Joseph S. Hall,
of Patten, farmer and starch manufacturer. 9.
Lovina, born at Industry, Maine, January 20,
1 82 1, married Samuel Howard Chesley. (See
Chesley III.) 10. Nancy, died in Patten, mar
ried Lyman Bradford. 11. Sarah Ann, lives
in Minneapolis ; married Wetmore O'Brien, of
Calais, Maine, at St. Anthony Falls, Minne
sota, July 29, 1861.

Ralph Blaisdell, the immi-
BLA1SDELL grant ancestor, was born
in England about 1600. He
came to New England soon after his marriage.
and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts. He
was a tailor by trade. He received grants of
land in Salisbury in 1640-41, 44-45 and bought
the rights of John Harrison, as proprietor, in
1642-43. He was a tavern keeper in 1645
and received a license to sell wine. He was
at York, Maine, for a time, 1637-40. He died
before 1650, but was alive in 1648. His widow
died in August, 1667, and administration on
her estate was granted to Joseph Stowers,
October 8, 1667. As late as 1698, Ebenezer
Blaisdell, grandson, was administering the es
tate of the immigrant. Children of Ralph
Blaisdell : Henry, mentioned below ; Sarah,
died January 17, 1646-47; Mary, born March
5, 1641-42 ; Ralph, born about 1643.
(II) Henry Blaisdell, son of Ralph Blais
dell, was born in England, about 1632, and
came to New England with his parents. He
was one of the first settlers of Amesbury,
where he received various grants of land. He
was a tailor by trade. He took the oath of
fidelity in December, 1677, and was admitted
a freeman in 1690. He married (first) about
1656, Mary Haddon, who died December 12,
1690-91, daughter of Jarrett Haddon. He
married (second) Elizabeth  . He died
between 1702 and 1707. Children all by his
first wife : Ebenezer, mentioned below ; Mary,
born May 29, 1660; Henry, May 28, 1663;
Elizabeth, 1665; Ralph, 1667; John, May 27,
1668; Sarah, November 11, 1671 ; Jonathan,
October 11, 1676; Samuel, died in 1683.
(Ill) Ebenezer Blaisdell, son of Henry
Blaisdell, was born October 17, 1657, and died
August 10, 1 7 10. He received children's land
in 1659, and his father received a township
lot for him in 1660. He was a farmer. He
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He married about 1680, Sarah Colby, daughter
of John and granddaughter of Anthony Colby.
¦ Children, born at Amesbury : Ephraim, about
1682 ; Thomas ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ;
Eleanor, born November 30, 1688 ; Mary, died
young; Ralph, born April 21, 1692; Sarah,
July 2y, 1694.
(IV) Ebenezer (2) Blaisdell, son of Eben
ezer (1) Blaisdell, was born December 29,
1686, at Amesbury. He was a cooper by
trade. He removed to York, Maine, where he
was living in 171 2 and afterwards. The in
tentions of marriage of Ebenezer and Sarah
Chase were published February 5, 1708-09. He
married Abigail (Ingersoll) Jenkins, daughter
of John Ingersoll, of Kittery, and widow of
Joseph Jenkins, of York. She died April
28, 1755- Children of Ebenezer and
Abigail Blaisdell : Sarah, born October 9,
1713; Ebenezer, mentioned below; Ephraim,
September 23, 1717;. Samuel, August 21, 1719;
Daniel, February 7, 1720-21 ; Abigail, January
7, 1722-23; Mary, February 19, 1723-24;
Joseph, October 5, 1725; James, March 7,
1727-28. (V) Ebenezer (3) Blaisdell, son of Eben
ezer (2) Blaisdell, was born at York, Maine,
April 9, 1715. He married (first) Lydia
Webber (intentions dated July 20, 1739). He
married (second) (intentions dated August 20,
1767) Sarah Johnson, of Kittery. He married
(third) (intentions dated December 29, 1780)
Sarah Storer, of York. He was called
deacon. Children, born at York : Daniel, men
tioned below ; Ebenezer, August 30, 1741 ; Eli
jah, September 5, 1743 ; David, October 5,
1745, had son Elijah, of Sidney, Maine;
Enoch, February 22, 1747-48, lived at Leba
non; Samuel, April 7, 1750; Abner, March,
5, 1751-52; Jedediah, May 4, 1754; Lydia,
May 12, 1756; Dummer, May 29, 1759.
(VI) Daniel Blaisdell, son of Ebenezer (3)
Blaisdell, was born at York, Maine, February
13, 1739-40. He married (intentions dated
May 31, 1763) Mary Allen, of Wells. His
will was dated May 10, 1792, proved August
27, 1792, bequeathed to wife Mary and the
following children: Daniel, Ebenezer, Elijah,
Eleanor Lewis, Mary, Mehitable, Lydia, Han
nah. (VII) Elijah Blaisdell, son of Daniel Blais
dell, was born at York, Maine, about 1775. He
lived in Lebanon, Maine, where others of his
family settled. He died at Rome, Maine. He
was a farmer. Children: 1. Webber, died at
Miramichi, by accidentally cutting off his hand.
He married Mrs. Wentworth. His children
were Jane and Oreson. 2. Ivory, married a
Miss Farnham ; children : Lois, David, Ivory,
Judith, Stephen, Betsey, Elbridge, Elijah, Eu-
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nice. 3. Stephen, married Silvia Foster, of
Rome* children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Jesse, El
vira, all deceased. 4. Elijah, born in Leba
non, Maine, 1800; married Matilda Tracy;
children : Mary, died in infancy, Ira F., Web
er, Eben, Emily N., Leonard A., Gilman P.,
William PL, Lucinda T., Frances A., and Hir
am W., Elijah died in Fort Fairfield, Maine,
m 1879. 5. Judith married Jonathan Palmer,
of Belgrade, Maine; children: Burley, Lucin
da; Orinda and Lorinda, twins, George and
another son. 6. Samuel, married (first) Web
ber Blaisdell's widow; children: Samuel,
Wentworth, Betsey; his second wife, Elise
Blaisdell, bore him three children: Uriah,
¦ Plezekiah, Legraw; his third wife, Maria
Blaisdell, had no children. 7. Elizabeth, mar
ried Noah Wentworth, no children. 8. John,
married Rachel Knox, of Belgrade; children:
Melvin, David, Lewis, Mellissa, Atwood,
Frank, James, who died in civil war. 9. Eli,
married Pelenna Turner; children: Stillman,
Anginette, Alimena, Asa Henry, Frank, Sarah,
Marcia. 10. Susan, unmarried. 11. Thomas,
married Eliza Blaisdell; child: Melinda.
(VIII) Elijah (2) Blaisdell, son of Elijah
(1) Blaisdell, was born about 1800, and died
at Fort Fairfield in 1879! He went with his
parents to Rome, Maine, where he attended
the public schools. He settled in Mercer,
Maine, before he married and followed farm
ing. Late in life he retired and made his home
in Fort Fairfield. In politics he was a Re
publican. He attended the Baptist church. He
married Matilda Tracy, who was bora at
Rome, Maine, 1804, and died in Mercer, Sep
tember 15, 1867. She was also a Baptist. Chil
dren: 1. Mary, born 1825, died in infancy. 2.
Ira Foster, mentioned below. 3. Webber,
born 1830, died in Mercer; married Susan
Grant, of Rome. 4. Eben, born 1832 ; mar
ried Eliza Knights, of Rome; he is a retired
farmer, now living at Augusta, Maine. 5.
Emily, born 1834, died at Lewiston, Maine,
unmarried, 1904. 6. Leonard A., born in 1836,
died in Westfield, Maine, was a farmer, mar
ried Sarah Paine, of Sharon, now living at
Blaine, son, Charles Henry, was born August
13, 1858, married, September 11, 1891, Mar
tha Myrtle Turner, born July 1, 1866; chil
dren : Elton Randolph, bora April 9, 1894,
Lucinda Emily, born July 17, 1896, Iva Adelia,
born May 25, 1898, Nevilla Mae, born Septem
ber 28, 1903, Doris, October 17, 1909. 7. Gil
man, born 1838, died at Mercer, unmarried, age
thirty-three years, was a farmer. 8. William,
born 1840, died at Rome, Maine, 191 1, was a
farmer, married Angeline Williamson, of Mer
cer. 9. Lucinda, born 1842 ; married Alcander
Merrill, of Lewiston, a mill agent. 10 Frances

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born August, 1844; married Randolph Towle,
of Mt. Vernon, Maine, a farmer. 11. Hiram
Wells, born June 18, 1846; married Sarah
Thompson, of Bailey, New Brunswick, born
October, 1854, died at Fort Fairfield, Septem
ber 15, 1901 ; he is a Republican, served as
road commissioner; attends the Advent
church ; member of Limestone Grange, No.
272 ; for many years a farmer, now a potato
dealer in Limestone ; children : Gertrude, born
at Auburn, Maine, November 6, 1873, married
Arthur Willey, of Limestone ; Lillian Emily,
born at Fort Fairfield, December 9, 1881, mar
ried Walter Phair, of Limestone.
(IX) Ira Foster Blaisdell, son of Elijah
(2) Blaisdell, was born August 8, 1827, in
Mercer, and died at Fort Fairfield, in May,
1897. He attended the public schools of his
native town. He was a general merchant in
Rome, and afterward a farmer in Fort Fair
field. In politics he was a Republican. He
attended the Baptist church. He married
Mercy A. Goodwin, who was born in Rome,
1829, and is now living in Fort Fairfield. Chil
dren : 1. Herbert S., born December 23, 1849;
a farmer of Fort Fairfield ; married, June 30,
1878, Annie G. Philbrick, born December 28,
1859; children: Geneva E., born October 6,
1879; Merle M., August 3, 1881, married, De
cember 24, 1905, Laura Wallace, who was
born November 6, 1878, children: Wallace
Plerbert, born March 1, 1907, Donald Bruce,
November 30, 1908, Annie Elnor, February
22, 191 1 ; Foster F., February 6, 1884, died
February 16, 1905; Norman S., bora August
26, 1892, died July 20, 1913. 2. Charles Mor
ris, mentioned below. 3. Ida, born March 13,
1854; married George Gannett, a farmer, Fort
P'airfield ; children: Mattie L., born March 21,
1879 ; F Stinson, born June 2, 1884. 4. Adelia
C, born April 25, 1858; married George Tib
betts; one child, born December, 1883, Earle
E. Tibbetts. 5. Frances, born June 13, 1869;
married .George Goodrich, May, 1898; chil
dren: Stanley, born April, 1899; Carrie E.
and Doris A. (twins), born December, 1903.
(X) Charles Morris Blaisdell, son of Ira
Foster Blaisdell, was born in Rome, Maine,
September 15, 185 1. He attended the public
schools of his native town and at Presque Tsle,
whither his parents removed when he was
eleven years old and finally at Fort Fairfield,
graduating from the high school of that town
at the age of twenty years. He assisted his
father on the farm until he came of age, when
he bought land in Fort Fairfield, of which he
was one of the pioneers, and cleared a farm.
He cultivated this place until he sold it in
1907. In 1889 he bought his mother's farm,
comprising one hundred and sixty acres, of

which seventy acres are under cultivation, and
has conducted it since then. In politics he is
an independent Republican. He has served
two years as road surveyor. He is a member
of the Reformed Baptist church and for the
past nine years has been deacon. He married,
at Fort Fairfield, September 15, 1878, Martha
Alice Grant, who was born at Smyrna, Maine,
April 23, 1861. She was educated in the pub
lic schools of Dyer Brook and is a member of
the Reformed Baptist church. (See Grant
II). Children, all born in Fort Fairfield: 1.
Maud Myrtle, born May 22, 1883, died No
vember 17, 1903, in Westfield, Maine ; mar
ried Perry Smith, born in New Brunswick,
now of Boston, and had a daughter, Laura
Myrtle, born January 13, 1903. 2. Minot Sum
ner, born July 11, 1885; married Alberta
Baggs, of Boston; children: Paul Ira, born
July 13, 1910; Harold, August 19, 1911; Re-
gina, April 3, 1913. 3. Ernest Roy, born De
cember 28, 1886; married Helen B. Charleton,
of New Brunswick, now living at Waverly,
Massachusetts; he is an electrical engineer.
(The Grant Line).
Samuel Grant was a native of New Bruns
wick, born about 1780, died at Hodgdon,
Maine, about 1856. He was a shoemaker by
trade. He removed from his native place to
Linneus, Maine, and thence to Hodgdon. He
was a member of the Free Will Baptist church.
He married  White, of New Bruns
wick, who died at Hodgdon, 1845. She was
a member of the' Free Will Baptist church
Children: 1. William. 2. Lydia, died at Houl
ton; married (first) John White, (second)
 Stone, (third) Stephen Randall, of
Linneus. 3. Jane, died at Tobique, New Bruns
wick ; married John Lalley, a farmer. 4.
Hartley, mentioned below. 5. Lizzie, died at
Dyer Brook ; married James' Lilley, of Rich
mond, New Brunswick, farmer and carpenter.
6. Chesley, died at Littleton, Maine, a farmer ;
married Fannie Lilley. 7. Samuel, married
Lydia Giant, a cousin, resides at Houlton; he
served in the civil war. 8. Susan, resides at
Linneus Corners, Maine ; married Seth Ma-
guire, who served in the civil war. 9. Joseph,
died in the service, a soldier in the civil war;
married Margaret Grant, a cousin, who is liv
ing at Houlton; she married (second) Gus
Drew. (II) Hartley Grant, son of Samuel • Grant,
was born at Hodgdon, Maine, April 14, 1831,
and died at Long Branch, Washington, No
vember 1, 1912. He attended the Hodgdon
public schools. Pie was a farmer in Linneus,
Maine, and later in New Brunswick, in Lud
low, Maine, and Smyrna and Limestone, in

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that state. Subsequently he went to the state
of Washington, where he spent his last years.
He enlisted from Smyrna in 1862 in the Twen
tieth Maine Regiment, Company PI. Pie was
wounded and sent to the Baltimore Hospital,
where he remained for six months. In poli
tics he was a Republican. He was a member
of the Free Will Baptist church, and afterward
joined the Saints sect and became very re
ligious, preaching occasionally. He married
Jemima Morrison, who was born at Linneus,
Maine, October i8„ 1836. She is now living
at Rochester, Washington, and is a member
of the Saints church. Children of Hartley
Grant: 1. Albert, born at Richmond, New
Brunswick, April 21, 1854; married (first)
Emma Daggett, of Crystal, Maine; children:
Lee, a blacksmith of Monroe ; Plartley ; Rus
sell, telegraph operator; Coleman, farmer,
New Brunswick ; Chesley. Albert married
(second)  . 2. Hannah, born at Rich
mond, March 20, 1856, died at Dyer Brook,
February 17, 1876. 3. Abner Mansfield, born
May 11, 1858; married (first) Emma Rouse
and had one child who died in infancy ; mar
ried (second) Sybil Rouse, of Caribou, and
bad one child, Adelia, living in Wisconsin. 4.
Martha Alice, married Charles Morris Blais
dell (see Blaisdell X). 5. Dora, born April 26,
1866, in Oakfield ; married Rodney Rouse, of
Caribou, living at Alberta, Canada. 6. Thomas,
born May 7, 1868, at Oakfield; married Ber
tha Rice, of Wisconsin ; resides in Washing
ton, a carpenter. 7. Cora, born October 14,
1872, in Dyer Brook ; married  Ma-
comber, of Wisconsin ; resides in Washington.
8. Bertha, born September 14, 1875 ; married
Elmer Selleck, a blacksmith, now of Washing
ton. Edmund Morrison, father of Jemima (Mor
rison) Grant, was born in Wells, Maine, 1785.
and died at Linneus, Maine, August 16, 1872.
He was a farmer at Wells and New Limerick,
Maine. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married (first) Jemima Rummery, who died
af New Limerick. He married (second)
Martha Nowland. who also died there. He
married (third) Plannah Boober, born in Pis
cataquis county, Maine, June 10, 1810, died
at Limestone, June 4, 1879. Children of Ed
mund Morrison by first wife : Sally, Thomas,
Margaret, Solomon and Nancy Morrison.
Children by third wife: Martha, born Janu
ary 5, 1835, married Amos Barker, of Lud
low, 'Maine, a farmer; Jemima, married Hart
ley Grant, mentioned above; Alvin, born Octo
ber 31. 1839, married Lydia French; Salome,
born February 7, 1841, married Orlando B.
Fox, who died at Fort Fairfield, February,
1903, soldier in civil war, Twentieth Maine

Regiment, 1862-65 : John, born April 13, 1843,
married Clarissa Ann Adams, of Linneus, is a
farmer and lumberman, Oakfield. Samuel
Morrison, father of Edmund Morrison, was
born at Wells, Maine, 1760, died at New
Limerick ; married Margaret Webber, and had
children : Margaret, Samuel, Dolly, Mehitable,
Peggy, Isaiah, Edmund, mentioned above;
Stephen, and Nathan Morrison.

Plon. George Carmichael,
CARMICHAEL one of the most promi
nent and useful citizens
of Rhode Island in his day, was born at Glas
gow, Scotland, November 22. 1838. Through
his father he was descended from one of the
oldest and most distinguished families of the
Lowlands and through his mother from the
Rutherfords, one of the most numerous fami
lies of the Highland clans. He came to this
country when a boy with his parents who
located at Westerly, Rhode Island. Plis school
ing was brief. Pie attended the public schools
but a short time and went to work when very
young. For several years he attended night
school while working days in the mill. He
began his career in the woolen manufacturing
business in the mills of Welcome and Orsemus
Stillman at Westerly, Rhode Island, and after
ward he occupied positions of larger responsi
bility in the mills at Ashaway, Bethel and
Laurel Glen, Rhode Island. Plis application,
ability and industry won for him rapid promo
tion. Though he applied himself closely to his
work, even in his 3'outh, he did not neglect
other duties and the love of his home, always
a dominant characteristic in his life, was shown
by his walking from Ashaway to Westerly
every evening after his day's work in the mill
hi order to see his mother, who was ill. No
thought of his own comfort ever deterred him
from his duties to others. In 1875 he removed
to Shannock, Rhode Island, to take charge of
a woolen mill which was conducted under the
corporate name of the Carmichael Manufac
turing Company and during the remainder of
his life he was active in the management of this
industry. In business he was uniformly suc
cessful. His integrity, industry and thorough
ness commanded the respect and confidence of
his associates in business and brought him
large rewards. To his employees he was
always a wise friend and counselor, and he was
always ready, notwithstanding the demands of
his business, to lay aside his own affairs to
help others.
Well known and honored as he was in the
manufacturing world, his record in public life
won for him a still greater degree of fame. He
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keenly interested in public affairs. In politics
he was a stalwart Republican. In 1877, while
residing in Shannock, in the town of Rich
mond, he was elected to the General Assembly
of the State and reelected for a second term.
Declining a third term, he was elected in 1879
president of the town council of Richmond
and he administered the affairs of the town in
a highly satisfactory manner. Against his own
wishes he yielded to the pressure of public
sentiment and accepted another term in the
General Assembly, being unanimously elected
in 1880. In this session his work as a legis
lator took on a larger degree of importance.
At this time, the remnant of the famous old
Narragansett tribe of Indians still retained
their tribal government and lands in the town
of Charlestown. Their reservation consisted
of six thousand acres. Many attempts to in
duce the Indians to become citizens of the
State and relinquish their tribal organization
had failed. They were exempt from taxation
and from arrest or civil process while on their
reservation. They maintained their own poor
and the State provided their schools. Mr. Car
michael interested himself in the Indians and
was appointed on a commission with Dwight
R. Adams and William P. Sheffield to nego
tiate for the purchase of the common lands of
the Indians and to adjust all the affairs of the
tribe. The work was accomplished in three
years, and proved satisfactory both to the
Indians and the people of the State. The
Indians were paid for their property; they
were admitted to citizenship and their children
entered the public schools. When it was sug
gested that a monument be raised to Roger
Williams in Providence, Mr. Carmichael was
one of the staunch supporters of the project
and when the monument was finally dedicated
he was one of the speakers at the exercises.
He secured from the State an appropriation
for the purchase of the ancient Indian bury
ing ground in Charlestown, where were buried
the principal men, the warriors, kings and
queens of the Narragansetts, and providing for
the care and fencing of the land and the erec
tion of a suitable tablet within the enclosure.
At the same session of the General Assembly,
Mr. Carmichael -secured an appropriation to
protect the outlet connecting Great Salt Pond
in Charlestown with the ocean, preventing the
closing of the inlet by storms and tide and thus
preserving the fishing and shell-fish in the
pond. In 1882, Mr. Carmichael changed his
residence to the town of Charlestown and in
1883 he was elected to the General Assembly
from that town. He continued in the House of
Representatives until 1887 and was then
elected to the State Senate, where he served

for two years. For many years no man pos
sessed greater influence in South county
affairs, and few men in the State were more
successful in securing the ends they had in
view for the public welfare. His name was
known and respected throughout the State and
he gave his time and ability to serve the entire
State and to promote all movements intended
for the public welfare. In 1884 he was a
Presidential elector from Rhode Island and
voted for James G. Blaine for president. In
1888 he was elected clerk of the Supreme
Court and Court of Common Pleas for Wash
ington county and served one year. He was a
member of the committee appointed to investi
gate State prison affairs in 1887. In 1892 he
was appointed special agent of the United
States general land office, and spent three years
in this office, being absent from home during a
greater part of the time.
During the civil war, Mr. Carmichael served
in Company B, of the Ninth Rhode Island
Volunteer Infantry, from May to September,
1862, and he was afterward captain of Com
pany H, Eighth Regiment, for three years,
serving during a part of the time in garrison
ing the forts along the west passage of Narra
gansett Bay. After the war he was prominent
in the Grand Army of the Republic, a member
of Burnside Post, No. 2, of Shannock. He
was a commissioner for the relief of needy
soldiers and sailors, and was a prime mover in
securing the establishment of the Soldiers'
Home at Bristol, Rhode Island. He was influ
ential in securing legislation to reimburse the
soldiers of the Fourth Regiment for their
uniforms, for which they were charged erro
neously. No better evidence of the value of
Mr. Carmichael's labors in behalf of the Grand
Army of the Republic can be asked than the
following resolutions which were presented to
him at his home in Shannock by a delegation
of about fifty representative Grand Army men
of the State. The resolutions were beautifully
engrossed, were presented by Daniel R. Bal
lou, of Providence, in an appropriate speech:
Assistant Adjutant General's Office,
Headquarters Department of Rhode Island,
Grand Army of the Republic.
Providence, Rhode Island, February 9, 1891.
At a meeting of the 24th annual encampment held
in Providence on February 6, 1891, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The Department of Rhode Island, Grand
Army of the Republic, at all times feel under deep
obligations to any citizen of the State for service
rendered in the interest and welfare of the Veterans
of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65; therefore
Resolved, That the thanks of this Department, in
Convention assembled, are most heartily extended
to our comrade, State Senator George Carmichael,
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interest taken in behalf of the Veteran Soldiers
and Sailors before the Legislature of the State of
Rhode Island, and for introducing into the General
Assembly the resolution calling for the revision of
the Adjutant General's report of the State of Rhode
Island for the year 1865.
Resolved, That the foregoing- resolution be spread.
upon the records of the Department and that a copy
of the same be suitably engrossed and framed at
the expense of the Department and presented to
Comrade George Carmichael.
BENJAMIN F. DAVIS,
Attest: Department Commander.
EDMUND F. PRENTISS,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Mr. Carmichael was a member of Franklin
Lodge, No. 20, Free Masons, of Westerly, and
of the Order of the Eastern Star of Hope
Valley, of which his widow is still a member
He also belonged to the Southern Rhode Island
Press Club.
He died July 12, 1903, and was buried in
River Bend Cemetery. Westerly. He was a
man of fine presence and physique, naturally
dignified, but attractive and popular in social
life. He made friends in every walk of life.
Charitable and forgiving, he made no enemies
and cherished no resentments and sought no
revenges even in the heat of political conflict.
His beautiful home was the center of hospi
tality and many prominent men were his
guests from time to time. As a public speaker
he was exceedingly effective. His wide know
ledge of affairs, his fluent speech and natural
ability as an orator placed him among the fore
most public speakers of the State.
He married, November 7, 1858, Abby San
ford Thomas, of North Kingstown, Rhode
Island. She died February 19, 1885, and he
married (second) April 11, 1888, Nellie A.
Clark. She is now living at the homestead,
"River View," in Shannock. Mrs. Carmichael
was born March 25, 1850, a daughter of Sim
eon P. and Catharine (Perry) Clark (see
Clark). She is a lady of culture and refine
ment, a devoted mother, highly esteemed in the
community. Children by the first marriage :
1. George A., born December 22, 1869, for sev
eral years freight agent of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company at
Worcester, Massachusetts, now a broker with
offices in Providence, making his home with
his mother. 2. Welcome S., bora December
21, 1878, now on the staff of the Providence
Journal, making his home with his mother at
Shannock.

The Clark family of Rhode Island
CLARK is descended from an ancient
family of Westhorpe, a manor in
the hundred of Hartsmere, county Suffolk,
England, owned at the time of the Domesday

Book (1081) by Gilbert De Bund, and once
the seat of Charles Brandern, duke of Suffolk.
(I) John Clark, to whom the lineage of the
American family has been traced, was of
county Suffolk, England, where he was buried
March 3, 1559 He had sons: John, men
tioned below, and Thomas.
( II) John (2) Clark; son of John (1), was
born m February, 1541, and was buried in
county Suffolk, April 7, 1598. Pie married
Catherine Cook, daughter of John. Children :
John ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Pasor, 1574 ;
John, 1577; Margaret, 1579; Mary, 1581.
^ (HI) Thomas Clark, son of John (2)
Clark, was born on All Saints Day, November
1, 1570, and died July zy , 1627. He married
Rose Kerige. Children: Margaret, born 1600;
Carew, 1602; William, 161 1; Joseph, men
tioned below, and Dr. John.
(IV) Joseph Clark, son of Thomas Clark,
was born in England, December 9, 161S, and
baptized at Westhorpe, December 16. He and
his two brothers, Thomas and John, came to
New England in 1637, locating first in Boston,
and in the following year at Newport, Rhode
Island. Thomas died October 2, 1674, and
John on February 20, 1676, both leaving no
male descendants. Joseph Clark was admitted
an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck at
Newport in 1638, and was admitted a free
man in 1641. In 1644 he was one of the
original members of the First Baptist Church
of Newport, and in 1646 became a member of
the general court of trials. He was commis
sioner in 1655-57-58-59; assistant in 1658-63-
64-65-78-80 and 1690. He was deputy to the
general assembly from 1668 to 1672 and in
1690. His name appears among the inhabitants
of Westerly in May, 1669, and in 1677 he was
a member of the court of justices of the peace.
He and his wife Margaret were of Newport in
1680. He was twice married. His wife Mar
garet died in 1694. The name of his first wife
is not known. Children : Joseph, William,
mentioned below ; Mary, Sarah, John, Sus
anna, Joshua, Thomas, Carew and Elizabeth.
(V) William Clark, son of Joseph Clark,
was born about 1645, and died September 30,
1683. He married Hannah Weeden, daughter
of William Weeden, and she married (second)
Thomas Peckham, (third) Joseph Clark,
brother of her first husband; she died in 1722.
Pie was commander of sloop taken by the gov
ernment during King Philip's war, in which
he served as captain of a company. He
bought land in Boston Neck, North Kings
town, in 1677. Children: William, mentioned
below ; Thomas, born February 15, 1682 ; Han
nah, March 25, 1683.
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(i) Clark, was born at Newport, May 27,
1673, and died at Richmond, February 28,
1767. He married, April 5, 1700, at Newport,
Hannah Knight, daughter of Jonathan and
Hannah Knight; she was born May 3, 1680,
died in 1743. He deeded farms to his sons,
William, Robert, Elisha, Caleb, Jonathan and
Thomas, and land at -Jamestown and Dutch
Island to his uncle, John Weeden. He was ,
deputy to the general assembly in 1711, 1730
and 1739, and was called captain in the records.
His will was dated in 1769, proved March 7,
1770 at Richmond. Children: William, men
tioned below ; Jonathan, born October 18,
1702; Hannah, September 8, 1704; Thomas,
March 13, 1706; Ruth, July 15, 1708; Robert,
'October 28, 1710; Judith, August 8, 1712;
Elisha, July 10, 1714; Caleb, July 20, 1716.
(ATI) William (3) Clark, son of William
(2) Clark, was bora at Newport, August 26,
1701, and died March 28, 1786, at Richmond.
He married, September 1, 1731, at South
Kingstown, Rebecca Wells, daughter of Peter
and Ann (Watson) Wells, of South Kings
town; she was born December 30, 17 10. Wil
liam Clark was town clerk of Charlestown
from September 4, 1738, to September, 1747,
and deputy August, 1742-44-46. He was
elected town clerk of Richmond, August 15,
1747, and deputy in 1749 and 1756. In deeds
he mentions his sons, Weeden, James and
Joshua, and gave land to his son Peter in
1779. Children: James, bora August 3, 1732;
Ann, February 15, 1734; Hannah, twin of
Ann; William, February 19, 1736; Gideon,
October 15, 1738; Ruth, January 22, 1742;
Peter, April 18, 1745; Rebecca, June 13, 1748;
Joshua, February 19, 1749, mentioned below;
Weeden, January 16, 1756. All were born at
Charlestown or Richmond.
(VIII) Joshua Clark, son of William (3)
Clark, was born at Charlestown, February 19,
1749. He located at Shannock, Rhode Island.
In 1771 he purchased a tract of land and the
water privilege at that place. This property
has remained in the possession of his family to
the present time, and the mill is now owned
by his great-great-grandson, George P. Clark.
He married, February 26, 1769, Elizabeth
Dodge; she died January 23, 1826. He died
July 7, 1796. Children: Rouse, born Decem
ber 7, 1769; Elizabeth, October 17, 1771 ; Wil
liam, April 8, 1773; Joseph, twin of William;
Joshua, January 22, 1775, died September 19,
1787; Wells, February 15, 1777; Susannah,
January 10, 1779; Perry, mentioned below;
Hazard, May 20, 1783; Luke, August 15, 1785,
married Sarah Tifft; Mary, July 10, 1787;
Joshua, June 28, 1790.
(IX) Perry Clark, son of Joshua Clark,

was born in Richmond, Rhode Island, No
vember 21, 1780. He married, April 16, 1815,
Penelope Perry, who was born May 2, 1784.
He built a grist mill at Shannock, and the old
saw mill with its old-fashioned overshot water
wheel, and operated the mills for a number of
years. Once a week he carried his products
to Newport or Providence. He was a gen
eral merchant at Shannock, where he erected
the first store and did a large business. He
died July 24, 1835. His widow died March
19, 1875. Children: 1. Perry, born February
17, 1816; married, September 13, 1837, Pe
nelope Dodge. 2. Charles, January 23, 1818,
died May 9, 1870; married Mary Clark, and
had two children: Charles P., who died un
married, December 25, 1870, and Martha. 3.
Simeon P., mentioned below. 4. Mary, De
cember 10, 1821. 5. Penelope Congdon, Feb
ruary 7, 1825.
(X) Simeon P. Clark, son of Perry Clark,
was bora at Clark's Mills, Rhode Island, Feb
ruary 19, 1820. He received his education
at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut.
At the age of fifteen years he and his brother
Charles succeeded to their father's business.
He also filled the position of bookkeeper for
R. G. Hazard, who operated the mills at Caro
lina at that time. In 1849 he and his brother
Charles built a mill and engaged in the manu
facture of cotton yarn. To this business his
son and grandson succeeded. In 1870 his
brother died and the business was continued
by Simeon P. until 1885, when it passed to the
ownership of his son, who had been associated
with him since 1876. Simeon P. Clark greatly
improved the manufacturing village of Clark's
Mills. He supported the anti-slavery move
ment, but was never active in politics. In early
life he was a member of the Baptist church,
but he afterward became an Adventist and
continued in that faith to the end of his life.
His business ability was of a high order, and
he well deserved the success that he enjoyed.
His public spirit, exemplary character and
kindly nature won him in the fullest degree
the respect and esteem of the community.
He married, November 8, 1843, Catherine
Perry, wdio was born at South Kingstown in
1819, daughter of Walter Perry. To his wife
' he gave much of the credit for his successful
career, and throughout his life he depended
upon her counsel and advice. She was a de
vout Christian, giving freely of her means in
charity. She was a charter member of the
Clark's Mills Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, in the work of which she was deeply
interested. She died February 22, 1897. Chil
dren : George Herbert, born August 6, 1847
(q. v.); Catharine Perry, August 7, 1848;

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Nellie Augusta, March 25, 1850; Julia Wells
(Mrs. Saunders), born November 23, 1854, re
sides on the old homestead at Shannock ; Har
riet Sumner, April 22, 1856, died April 11, 1874.
(The Cross Line).
The Cross family of Rhode Island is de
scended from two brothers, Ralph and John
Cross, who, according to family tradition, came
to Westerly from Scotland.
(II) Joseph Cross, son of John Cross, set
tled in Charlestown, Rhode Island, at what
later was known as Cross' Mills. He married
twice. Children by first wife : Peleg, men
tioned below ; Samuel, and Joseph. Children
by second wife: John, William, Benjamin,
Stephen, Edward, Silas, Gideon, James,
Joshua, Amos, Susannah and Ruhamah.
(Ill) Peleg Cross, son of Joseph Cross,
was born at Westerly or Charlestown, Decem
ber 6, 1723, and died December 27, 1812. He
was admitted a freeman of the colony at the
April session of the general assembly in 1745,
and he was a member of the general assembly
from Charlestown in 1767. His wife Mary
was born July 30, 1735, and died May 27,
1812. Children, born at Charlestown: Mary,
May 1, 1755; Thankful, September 7, 1757;
Peleg, mentioned below ; Mercy, April 28,
1761 ; Anna, December 8, 1763 ; Ruhamah,
July 27, 1767.
(IV) Peleg (2) Cross, son of Peleg (1)
Cross, was born June 24, 1759, at Charles
town. He married, in 1781, Catherine Cong
don, daughter of John, of Charlestown. Chil
dren, born at Charlestown : Mary, November
29, 1781; Sarah, March 31, 1783; Peleg, De
cember 17, 1784; Catherine C, December 26,
1786, married Captain Walter Perry and their
daughter Catherine married Simeon P. Clark
(see Clark); John C, March 26, 1789; Na
thaniel L., March 21, 1791 ; Benjamin C,
March 26, 1793; Joseph H., May 28, 1797;
Celia, May 31, 1800; George W., October 22,
1802.

(XI) George Herbert Clark, son
CLARK of Simeon P. Clark (q. v.), was
born in Carolina, Rhode Island,
August 6, 1847. His youth was spent in Shan
nock, and he attended the East Greenwich
Academy and the Scholfield Commercial Col
lege in Providence. At the age of eighteen
years he became associated in business with
his father, and in 1885 he began to manufac
ture cotton yarn on his own account. In Janu
ary, 1901, the Columbia Narrow Fabric Com
pany was organized for the manufacture of
silk elastic webbing, and incorporated with
George Herbert Clark as president, George P

Clark as treasurer and general manager, and
Henry G. Clark as secretary. The company
began business in the city of Providence, but
after one year removed the plant to Shannock.
Mr. Clark has continued at the head of this
large and prosperous business to the present
time. Pie has made his home in Shannock for
many years. In public affairs he has taken a
prominent part. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and has held the office of assessor of the
town of Richmond. Pie has declined to hold
other political offices. He is one of the most
substantial and influential business men of the
town and is highly respected and honored in
the community. He married, December 26,
1877, Celia E. Carr, of Jamestown, Rhode
Island, daughter of Peleg C. and Catherine
(Weeden) Carr (see Carr). Children: 1.
George Perry, born at Shannock, January 13,
1879, mentioned below. 2. Harriet (Hattie)
Sumner, born January 15, 1880; educated in
the public schools and graduated from the
Westerly high school ; graduate of Smith Col
lege ; now residing with her parents ; she is
president of the board of trustees of the Free
Public Library of Shannock ; she is active in
the work of the Improvement Society of Shan
nock and in various musical organizations. 3.
Henry Garfield, mentioned below. 4. Florence,
born May 3, 1883; graduate of Wellesley Col
lege ; afterward took the teachers' course in
Columbia College ; now teaching at West New-
York, Hudson county, New Jersey.
(XII) George Perry Clark, son of George
Herbert Clark, was born at Shannock, Rhode
Island, January 13, 1879. He received his
early education in the public schools and in
the Westerly high school and the East Green
wich Academy. After leaving school he en
gaged in business with his father, and in 1901
became one of the officers of the Columbia
Narrow Fabric Company, a director and treas
urer, and he has continued at the head of the
financial department of the concern. For a
number of years he has also been general
superintendent of the mill. He has always
made his home in Shannock. In politics he is
a Republican and he has been assessor of taxes
and auditor of the town of Richmond, Rhode
Island. He married, April 26, 191 1, Annie
Mary O'Neil, of Westerly, Rhode Island,
daughter of Eugene O'Neil.
(XII) Henry Garfield Clark, son of George
Herbert Clark, was born May 28, 1881, at
Shannock, Rhode Island. He attended the
public schools of his native village and gradu
ated in 1902 from the Westerly high school.
For one year he was a student at East Green
wich Academy. He entered Brown Univer
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of 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy. For two years he was an in
structor or governor in the Moses Brown
School of Providence. In 1909 he also be
came an officer of the Columbia Narrow Fabric
Company of Shannock, and since that time he
has been a director and secretary of the cor
poration. His home is in Shannock. For
twelve years he has been a member of the
school committee of the town of Richmond,
and he has been chairman also during all his
term of office. At the time of his election he
was the youngest school committee chairman
in the state. For the past three years he has
been a member of the town council of Rich
mond. In politics he is a Republican, but he
retains his independence in municipal affairs.
Mr. Clark is an enterprising and progressive
business man, a leader in his line. He is popu
lar in social life and one of the best known
citizens of the town. He makes his home with
his parents, to whom he has been a devoted
son. (The Carr Line).
(I) Benjamin Carr married in London,
England, September 12, 1613, Martha Hard-
ington. Children : Robert, born October 4,
1614, came to Newport ; Caleb, mentioned be
low ; Richard, January 5, 1621 ; Andrew, De
cember 5, 1622, also came to New England.
(II) Caleb Carr, son of Benjamin Carr,
was bom in London, December 9, 1616, and
came to Newsport in 1638 and became a large
landowner in Newport, Jamestown, and in
other Rhode Island towns. He had a ferry
which remained in possession of descendants
until 1813. He was commissioner often be
tween 1654 and 1662 ; was made freeman in
1655; elected general treasurer in 1661 and
1662 ; often deputy between 1664 and 1690,
and assistant 1679. He was governor of the
colony in 1695, and was drowned December
17, that year. He was buried in the old Can-
cemetery in Newport, where his tombstone
stood until lately, when it was removed to
Jamestown. He married (first) Mercy Vaughn,
who died September 21, 1675, at the age of
forty-five years, (second) Sarah Pinner, a
widow, daughter of Jeremiah and Frances
(Latham) Clarke, and sister of Governor Wal
ter Clarke. Children: Nicholas, born Octo
ber 22, 1654; Mercy, April 6, 1656; Caleb,
August 23, 1657; Mary, January 1, 1661 ; John,
1664; Edward, 1666; all by his first wife.
(Ill) Nicholas Carr, son of Caleb Carr,
was born at Newport, October 22, 1654. He
represented Jamestown in the general assem
bly. He died February 17, 1709. He mar
ried Rebecca Nicholson, born February i,

1656, died May 13, 1703, daughter of Joseph.
Children: Nicholas, born September 19, 1679;
Joseph, March 9, 1681 ; Benjamin, July 7,
1683; Jane, August 3, 1686; Caleb, March 27,
1688; Mercy, April 20, 1690; Rebecca, May
12, 1692; Ann, February 5, 1694; Thomas,
January 25, 1696; Benjamin, November 21,
1697. (IV) Thomas Carr, son of Nicholas Carr,
v/as born January 25, 1696, at Jamestown, and
died there October 14, 1753. He was a mem
ber of the Society of Friends. He married,
February 23, 1720, Hannah Weeden, born
April 14, 1699, daughter of John and Jane
(Underwood) Weeden. Children: Sarah,
born January 11, 1721 ; Jane, January 14,
1723; Benjamin, September 14, 1725; John,
September 20, 1728; Thomas, October 6, 1730;
Nicholas, mentioned below ; Rebecca, June 23,
1735; Joseph, July 15, 1739.
(V) Nicholas Carr, son of Thomas Carr,
was born December 25, 1732. He built a
house on the homestead in 1776 and it is still
occupied by his descendants. He was a patriot
during the revolution. He following farming
in Newport all his active life. He was judge
of the Newport county court for many years.
He died March 3, 1813. He married, Novem
ber 10, 1768, Mary Eldred, daughter of John
Eldred ; she died June 10, 1800. Children :
Mary, born February 19, 1771 ; Thomas, Octo
ber 13, 1772; John, May 5, 1774; Hannah,
February 27, 1782.
(VI) John Carr, son of Nicholas Carr, was
born in Newport, May 5, 1774, and died July
27, 1823. He was a local preacher in the Bap
tist church. He married, December 5, 1805,
Mary Cross, who died December 24, 1822,
daughter of Peleg Cross. Children: Peleg
Cross, mentioned below ; Mary Eldred, born
April 18, 1808; Catherine Congdon, April 23,
1809; Thomas Jefferson, December 25, 1810;
Nicholas, April 8, 1812; John Eldred, Janu
ary 15, 1814; Celia Ann, January 24, 1816;
William Carter, June 24, 1817; George Cross.
December 22, 1818; Hannah Carter, October
9, 1822.(VII) Hon. Peleg Cross Carr, son of John,
was born April 17, 1807, on the homestead and
he succeeded to it. He made a specialty of
sheep. In early life he was a Whig, later a
Republican. During the civil war he repre
sented the town in both branches of the legis
lature. He also served on the town council,
on the board of assessors and the school board.
He died September 16, 1884. He married,
December 31, 1835, Catherine Watson Weeden,
who was born at Laurens, New York, daugh
ter of Joseph and Sarah (Weeden) Weeden,
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in August, 1871. Children: Henry Clay;
Mary Catherine, died July 18, 1898, married
Allen Gardner and had four children : Cath
erine Weeden, John Howland, Lucy Allen and
Giles Carr ; Abby Frances and Thomas Giles,
twins; Hannah Carter, married Gustavus
Adolphus Clarke, and has two children : Clar
ence Field and Celia Elizabeth (Clarke) Good
man ; Sarah Weeden ; Clarence Edward ; Celia
Elizabeth, married George H. Clark, of Shan
nock (see Clark) ; Isabella Watson, married
Walter D. Watson, resides in Michigan, and
had Walter Leon, Richard Carr and John
Mitchell.

1656 or 1657, Rebecca Chubbuck, baptized in
Plingham in April, 1641, and died June 1,
1686, aged forty-five years, daughter of
Thomas and Alice Chubbuck. He married
(second) Ruhamah - — , and he died Sep-

William Hersey was the pro-
HERSEY genitor of all who have borne
this surname in Hingham and
vicinity. The name is variously spelled Hersee,
Harcie and Hearsey on early records. He
came to New England in 1635, and early in the
autumn of that year settled in Hingham. He
was granted a house lot of five acres, July 3,
1636, on what is now South street, nearly
opposite West street. The surname is a very
ancient one, probably of French origin, and
appears among the list of those who went over
to England with William the Conqueror. At
the time of the trouble about the election of
officers for the train band, 1644-45, William
Hersey was assessed a heavy fine for support
ing the views of Rev. Peter Hobart and his
friends, and the family rate towards the erec
tion of a new meeting house was the largest
but one on the list. He was called husband
man. He was admitted a freeman in March,
1638; was selectman in 1642-47 and 1650; in
the artillery company in 1652. He married
Elizabeth  , who died October 8, 1671.
He died March 22, 1657-58. His will was
dated March 9, 1657-58, and proved April 29,
1658. He bequeathed to his wife and chil
dren, and to his grandchildren, John Croade
and William Hersey. His wife was executrix.
His estate was appraised, April 28, 1658, at
four hundred and nineteen pounds thirteen
shillings and six pence. Children: Prudence,
Gregory, Nathaniel, William, mentioned be
low; Frances, married Richard Croade; Eliz
abeth, married Moses Gilman; Judith, bap
tized July 15, 1638, married Humphrey Wil
son; John, born August 9, 1640; James, born
1642 or 1643.
(II) William (2) Hersey, son of William
(1) Hersey, piobably came to New England
with his parents in 1635. He resided _ on the
homestead at Hingham, which was willed to
him by his father; was constable in 1661 ; was
admitted a freeman in 1672; was selectman in
1678-82 and 1690. He married (first) about

tember 28, 1691. His will was dated in it
and proved January 27, 1692. Children, born
in Hingham, by first wife : William, mentioned
below; John, born October 27, 1659; James,
born December 2, 1661 ; Rebecca, born Au
gust 20, 1663; Deborah, born January 1, 1665-
66; Hannah, born February 13, 1668-69; Eliz
abeth, born May 26, 1671 ; Ruth, born Febru
ary 10, 1673-74; Mary, born June 4, 1676;
Joshua, born March 29, 1678 ; Judith, born
September 6, 1680, died September 13, 1681 ;
Judith, born August 29, 1686.
fill) William (3) Hersey, son of William
(2) Hersey, was born at Hingham, October
11, 1657. Pie was a soldier in Captain John
son's company in King Philip's war, Decem
ber, 1675. He was constable of Hingham in
1694 and deputy to the general court in 1688-
90. He settled in Abington, Massachusetts.
He married (first) June 12, 1683, Mary
 , who died October 17, 1690. He mar
ried (second) October 2, 1691, Sarah (Lang-
lee) May, widow of Jonathan May and daugh
ter of John and Sarah (Gill) Langlee. She
was bora in Hingham, March 15, 1667-68.
Children by first wife : Deborah, born April
13, 1684; David, January 28, 1685-86; Isaac,
October 8, 1687, died soon; William, May 19,
1690. Children by second wife : Sarah, Sep
tember 26, 1692; Stephen, December 24, 1694;
Joseph, mentioned below : infant, November
11, 1701 ; Hannah, February 9, 1703-04.
(IV) Joseph Hersey, son of William (3)
Plersey, was born at Hingham, November 9,
1697. He married, December 17, 1719, Abi
gail Nash, of Weymouth, at Braintree. Chil
dren, born at Abington: Abigail, August 31,
1720; Joseph; Joseph, January 23, 1726-27;
Sarah, October 16, 1728; James, mentioned be
low; Abigail, August 2, 1734; Jonathan, Feb
ruary 20, 1736.
(V) James Hersey, son of Joseph Hersey,
was bora at Hingham, April 5, 1733. He mar
ried, March 18, 1756,  . Children, born
at Abington: Olive, December 4, 1756; James,
mentioned below; Noah, July 7, 1763; Amos,
October 30, 1765; Reuben, July 2, 1768;
Simeon, July 19, 1770; Levi, baptized May 30,
1772. (VI) James (2) Hersey, son of James (1)
Hersey, was born at Abington, December 12,
1758. He married  . Children: Ira,
Samuel, mentioned below; James, Simeon.
(VII) Samuel Hersey, son of James (2)
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 . His children were : William R. ; Sam
uel, born July 27, 1814; Hiram B., mentioned
below; Moses B., born September 26, 1816;
Jason, September 20, 1818; Henry B., Decem
ber 10, 1833.
(VIII) Hiram B. Hersey, son of Samuel
Hersey, was bom between the years 1715-20,
in Maine, and died at Patten, Maine, May 29,
1897, aged about eighty years. He' went to
sea when a young man and became first mate
of a whaling vessel. He was an early settler
of Patten, where he cleared a farm and fol
lowed farming and lumbering the remainder
of his days. In politics he was a Whig, after
ward a Republican. In religion he was a Con
gregationalist. He was a Free Mason. He
married Harriet Thayer, who died in Patten
in 1903, aged over eighty years. She was de
scended from the Thayer family of Massa
chusetts, first located at Weymouth. Chil
dren, all born in Patten: 1. Matilda, married
Luther B. Rogers, a farmer and lumberman
of Patten. 2. Sarah Abby, married Winfield
Scott Ball, of Richmond, Maine. 3. William,
died in childhood. 4. John Bradbury, men
tioned below.
(IX) John Bradbury Plersey, son of Hiram
B. Hersey, was born in Patten, Maine, August
14, 1848, and died there October 13, 1905. He
was a lumberman all his active life. In poli
tics he was a Republican ; in religion a Con
gregationalist. He enlisted in Company E,
Thirty-first Regiment Maine Volunteer Infan
try, and served three years in the civil war.
He married Augusta Frye, who was born in
Patten in 1850, and died there in 1872. Chil
dren : 1. Jacob F., mentioned below. 2. Delia,
born at Patten, April 12, 1871 ; married John
McBean, of Calais, Maine, now of Los An
geles, California, a corporation secretary.
(X) Jacob F Hersey, son of John Brad
bury Hersey, was born at Patten, Maine, July
16, 1869. He graduated from Patten Acad
emy in 1887 and for two years afterward was
a student in the University of Maine. He left
college on account of illness. Upon recovery
he taught school for two years as principal in
Patten and Sherman, Maine. In 1893 he was
clerk in a store in Patten and in 1897 he was
appointed postmaster of Patten by President
McKinley, a position he has since held by
successive reappointments. Pie has been town
treasurer for ten years. He attends the Con
gregational church. In politics he is a Re
publican. He is a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, of Houlton ; of
Pomola Lodge, No. 87, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Patten, and is past noble
grand. He has been district deputy of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.

He married, November 27, 1890, at Island
Falls, Maine, Sara Rodette Barker, who was
born November 23, 1869, daughter of Rod
ney Clinton Barker (see Barker III). She
was educated in the public schools and at Pat
ten Academy, and taught school in Patten,
Island Falls and Sherman before her marriage.
She is a member of the Rebekah Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Ideal Lodge,
No. 97, and of the Congregational church.
Children, all born in Patten: 1. Theodate,
born November 19, 1891 ; married, July 10,
19 1 2, in Patten, William Alexander Stalker,
of Framingham, Massachusetts ; she attended
the Fealton Course of Music under Mrs.
Frank Tuck, at Bangor. 2. Thayer Frye, born
April 13, 1893; graduate of the Ricker Class
ical Institute of Houlton, 1912; student in the
University of Maine, 1916. 3. Rodney Barker,
born June 17, 1895; student in Patten Acad
emy, 1913. 4- Waldon Bradbury, born Sep
tember 23, 1900. (The Barker Line).
(1) Cyrus Barker died at Island Falls,
Maine. He owned saw mills near Lewiston,
Maine, and at Barkerville, Maine. He mar
ried  — Mitchell.
(II) Cyrus (2) Barker, son of Cyrus (1)
Barker, was born in Lewiston, Maine, or in
Greene, Maine, October 9, 1800, and died at
Island Falls in April, 1864. He was a wheel-
w right in Lewiston, where his father owned
lumber mills. Later he went to Lowell, Maine,
and then to Mt. Vernon, where he purchased
a farm, which he sold after a time, moving
then to Island Falls. Here he cleared land
for a farm, and lived there the remainder of
his life. In politics he was a Republican, and
he was a member of the Free Will Baptist
church. He married Mary Jane Berry, who
was born in 1807, at Harpswell, Maine, and
died at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1867,
being buried at Island Falls. She was born
at Greene, Maine, and her father was a sea
captain. Her parents died when she was very
young. Children: 1. Addison Perley, born
at Lewiston, 1827, died at Island Falls, 1857,
as a result of having his back broken by a fall
ing tree ; was educated at West Point as a
civil engineer, but became a farmer ; he lived
in Lowell from when he was twelve years old
until he went to West Point, then went to Mt.
Vernon, then to Island Falls; Republican;
member of Free Will Baptist church ; married
(first) Elizabeth Joselyn, and had daughter
Elizabeth, died in infancy; married (second)
Susan A. Brown, born in Woodstock, New
Plampshire, 1834, died in Manchester, New
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Elizabeth, born January 23, 1852, at Wood
stock, married Luther B. Rogers, born at Plar-
rison, Maine, farmer; Charles Eaton, born at
Mt. Vernon, 1854, married Emma  , and
they live at Plymouth, New Hampshire ; Addi
son Perley, born at Island Falls, 1856, married
Minnie Voung, of West Campton, New Hamp
shire, and they live at Plymouth, New Plamp
shire. 2. Mary Ellen, born at Lincoln in 1829,
died at Patten ; married Winchell Woodard,
of Lisbon, Maine, a contractor and farmer,
deceased. 3. Silas Carleton, born 1831, at
Lewiston, died at Togas, Maine, 1912; farmer;
served in civil war ; married Flora  . 4.
Stephen, born 1834, at Lewiston, died at Mon
mouth, Maine, unmarried ; served through civil
war and died of wounds. 5. Rodney Clinton,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Rodney Clinton Barker, son of Cyrus
(2) Barker, was born August .14, 1840, and
died at Island Falls, January 5, 1885. He was
a farmer and lumberman. When he was four
teen years old, his parents moved from Lewis-
ton to Island Falls, and he attended school in
both places. In politics he was a Republican,
and he attended the Congregational church.
He served in the civil war, enlisting in August,
1861, in the Eighth Maine Regiment of Volun
teer Infantry as a private; he reached the rank
of second lieutenant and was discharged in
1865. He married Mary Eliza Gove, who was
born at Monroe, Maine, December 5, 1840, and
died at Island Falls, February 26, 1888. Chil
dren, born at Island Falls : 1. Ella, born March
20, 1867; married Sylvanus Philip Hussey,
born at Oakfield, Maine, deceased; she lives
at Patten, Maine. 2. Sara Rodette, born No
vember 23, 1869; married Jacob F. Hersey
(see Hersey X). 3. Mattie Jane, born Au
gust 28, 1 87 1 ; married Edwin Series Rogers,
of Patten, who runs a lumber mill in New
Limerick, Maine. 4. Inez Cassandana, born
November 25, 1873; married Henry Beecher
Sleeper, of Sherman Mills, where they reside.

William Nightingale,
NIGHTINGALE the immigrant ancestor
of all the Nightingale
families in the United States of colonial an
cestry, was born in England in 1637 and came
to this country about 1660, settling in Brain
tree, Massachusetts, now the city of Qumcy.
He married Bethiah Deering, who was born
August 6, 1649, daughter of Samuel and
Bethiah (Baxter) Deering, and granddaughter
of Gregory Baxter, of Braintree. Mr. Night
ingale died May 10, 1710, aged seventy-seven
years, and his wife passed away September
26, 1687. Their children, born at Braintree,
were: William, in 1666-67; Samuel, February

14, 1670-71; Joseph, mentioned below; Eben
ezer, in 1678; and Benjamin, 1688.
(II) Joseph Nightingale, son of William,
was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1670,
and c.ied there January 6, 1725-26. Pie mar
ried (first) November 8, 171 1, Hannah Paine,
who died October 11, 1718, in her twenty-
seventh year, daughter of Moses Jr. and grand
daughter of Aloses Paine. Pie married (sec
ond) November 20, 1719, Mary Gould, who
survived him. Joseph Nightingale's will, dated
May 11, 1725, and proved January 31, 1726,
mentions his wife Mary, provides tor the col
lege education of his son Samuel, disposes of
a negro man and boy, his slaves, and bequeaths
to his son Joseph. His children, bora at Brain
tree, were: Joseph, February 7, 1712-13, died
July 29,- 1715; Samuel, mentioned below;
Joseph (2), born March 22, 1717, settled in
Braintree. (Ill) Samuel Nightingale, son of Joseph,
was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1715,
and died at Providence, Rhode Island, Novem
ber 30, 1786. He was a graduate of Harvard
College in the class of 1734. He moved from
Braintree to Pomfret, Connecticut, where his
children were doubtless born. He came to
Providence, Rhode Island, about May 29,
175 1, when he bought a house and lot of
Joseph and Sarah Snow for $2,500. He mar
ried, November 6, 1740, Abigail Belcher, who
was born at Braintree, July 16, 1720, and died
at Providence in 1793. His children were:
Samuel, mentioned below ; Joseph, born Sep
tember 16, 1748, died November 3, 1797, at
Providence. (IV) Samuel Nightingale Jr., son of Sam
uel, was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, August
5, 1741, and died at Providence, August 9,
1814. He became a prominent merchant in
Providence, in the East India trade and in
coast trading. He was associated with the
firm of Brown & Ives, of Providence. He
married, April 19, 1767, Susanna Crawford,
who was born at Providence, September 19,
1741, and died May 6, 1790, daughter of
Joseph Crawford. Their children were: 1.
Abigail, born May 5, 1768, died September 5,
1853. 2. John, born October 7, 1769, died
September '24, 1770. 3. Susan, born March
16, 1771, died November 30, 1841 ; married a
McGee. 4. Polly Throop, born March 8, 1773,
died July 30, 1861 ; married Ebenezer Jenckes.
5. Candace Crawford, born February 20, 1776,
died January 22, 1832. 6. Eliza, born August
6, 1779, died February 3, 1863. 7. Samuel, of
wdiom further. According to the census of
1790 he had a son under sixteen, five females
in his family, and also owned two slaves.
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uel Jr., was born at Providence, Rhode Island,
March 20, 1782, and died at Hampton, New
Hampshire, July 5, 1851. He attended the
public schools of Providence, and when a
young man learned the trade of spinning and
weaving in a cotton mill. Subsequently he be
came the owner of the Georgiaville Mills at
Georgiaville, Rhode Island, and for many
years was one of the most successful and
prominent manufacturers of that state. For a
number of years he was president of the Na
tional Exchange Bank of Providence, and was
otherwise prominent and influential in the
community where his active years as a busi
ness man and manufacturer were spent. He
was also an active member of the First Congre
gational Church of Providence. He married
(first) December 15, 1807, Harriet Rogers,
who was bora Alay 26, 1784, and died July 12,
1812. He married (second) November 8,
1815, Elizabeth Kinnicutt Thompson, who was
born October 14, 1791, and died September 10,
1819. Pie married for a third time, May 20,
1822, Eliza Rogers, who was born July 6,
1789, and died March 28, 1871. His children
by his first wife were: 1. Susan Elizabeth,
born January 30, 1809, died December 12,
1883. 2. Harriet Frances, bora October 17,
1810, died January 6, 1894. 3. Mary Jenckes,
born June 28, 1812, died August 10, 1813.
Children by second wife : 4. Crawford, born
November 3, 1816, died August 19, 1892. 5.
Lydia Kinnicutt, born January 23, 1818, died
May 27, 1822. 6. Sarah Thompson, born July
10, 1819, died September 26, 1819. Children
by third wife: 7. Edwin Jenckes, born April
20, 1824, died July 20, 1879. 8. Horatio
Rogers, mentioned below. 9. Samuel Arnold,
born September 16, 1828, died in May, 1906.
(VI) Horatio Rogers Nightingale, son of
Samuel and Eliza (Rogers) Nightingale, was
born at Providence, Rhode Island, March 30,
1826, and passed away in that city June 26,
1885, in the sixtieth year of his age. He re
ceived his early education in the public schools
of his native city and in attendance at the
Lyon & Frieze School of Providence. His
business career was begun with Seth Adams in
the flour, grain and feed trade, in which he
continued for some years. Afterward, in
partnership with Henry T. Cornett, he pur
chased the iron and steel business which was
founded by Dyer & Brown in 1820. This firm
dealt in general hardware, iron and steel at
No. 27 Market street, now Westminster street,
the store running through to that part of Cove
street, now called Exchange Place. In 1826
the firm name became Olney, Dyer & Com
pany, and in 1836 it was again changed to
Dyer & Stead. In 1840 the business passed

into the hands of Rufus Waterman and Charles
PI. Mason, the latter having been a confidential
clerk of the old firm. After three years Mr.
Waterman became the sole proprietor of the
business. Soon after he took into partnership
with him Henry T. Cornett, and moved to the
corner of Exchange street and Exchange
Place. In 1848 Mr. Waterman sold his inter
ests in the concern to Horatio R. Nightingale,
and for a period of twenty years thereafter the
business was conducted with marked success
under the firm name of Cornett & Night
ingale. At the end of that time John B. Kil-
ton became a partner, and after the death of
Mr. Cornett, which occurred April 1, 1872, the
other partners continued to carry on the busi
ness under the name of Nightingale & Kilton.
In 1881 the firm became Kilton, Warren &
Company, Charles H. Warren and Edgar W.
Salisbury becoming partners. In 1884 Horatio
R. Nightingale Jr. bought an interest in the
business, and the firm name then became War
ren, Salisbury & Nightingale. Horatio R.
Nightingale was one of the leading merchants
and business men of the city of Providence for
many years. He was highly respected and
honored in the community as an upright, honor
able and capable man of affairs, a useful and
public-spirited citizen. For a number of years
he served as a director of the National Ex
change Bank of Providence. In religious be
lief he was an Unitarian. In political faith he
was a Republican, but although always taking
an interest in the welfare of the community he
refrained from seeking public office for him
self. On November 27, 185 1, Mr. Nightingale
was united in marriage to Anna E. Pratt,
daughter of Peter and Ann Eliza (Barnes)
Pratt, and to this union were born the fol
lowing children: 1. Annie Rogers, born Octo
ber 24, 1854; married, November 30, 1876,
Charles H. Warren ; children : James, born
October 28, 1877; Elizabeth, born May 9, 1879.
married John H. Muller; Anna Nightingale,
born November 1, 1882, married Samuel T.
Hobbs, and they reside at Worcester, Massa
chusetts. 2. Ploratio Rogers Jr., mentioned
below. (VII) Horatio Rogers Nightingale, only
son of the late Horatio Rogers and Anna E.
(Pratt) Nightingale, was born at Providence,
Rhode Island, December 26, 1861. He attended
the private school of Rev. Charles Wheeler
and studied under private tutors, finally enter
ing Brown University in the class of 1883.
He, however, left college in April, 1881, and
entered the employ of Horatio Rogers in the
cotton industry at Smithville Mills at Willi
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two years in those cotton mills came to the
Elmwood Mills in Rhode Island in the spring
of 1883, where he remained for several months
when he became assistant shipping clerk for
the Household Sewing Machine Company of
Providence. As stated in the foregoing, on
September 1, 1884, Mr. Nightingale purchased
an interest in his father's former firm upon the
death of John P. Kilton, which then became
Warren, Salisbury & Nightingale. At this
time this firm- dealt exclusively in iron and
steel, and for many years had been agents for
the well known firm of William Jessop & Sons
of Sheffield, England. Upon Mr. Nightingale
entering the firm the business was extended
and various lines added to the stock. In 1887
the firm of Warren, Salisbury & Nightingale
occupied nine stores in the City Hall Block,
which had just been completed. On April 1,
1909, Mr. Warren retired from the firm, and
the firm name was again changed, becoming
Salisbury & Nightingale, under which firm
name the business has since been conducted.
This business is now, and has been since April
1, 1897, located at the corner of Mathewson
and Fountain streets, and the firm, which is
one of the best known concerns of its kind in
the New England states, stands high in the
business- world and ranks among the foremost
in the iron and steel trade.
Mr. Nightingale is a Republican in political
faith, but has never cared for nor sought pub
lic office. In religion he is an Unitarian. He
is popular and prominent in the social life of
the city, and a valued member of various
organizations. He is a member of the Squan
tum Association, of which he was president
for three years ; is president of the Rhode
Island Automobile Club; a member of the
Agawam Hunt Club ; the Hope Club ; the
Providence Art Club ; the Rhode Island School
of Design ; the Unitarian Club ; the Psi Up
silon fraternity, all of Providence. Mr. Night
ingale's beautiful home at No. 134 Meeting
street, Providence, is a center of social hos
pitality and activity, artistic and luxurious
within and without. His summer residence is
also beautifully located near East Greenwich,
Rhode Island.
On January 11, 1888, at East Greenwich,
Rhode Island, Mr. Nightingale was united in
marriage to Miss Mary Slater Rhodes, daugh
ter of Henry A. and Hannah W. (Slater)
Rhodes. She was born September 2, 1864,
and passed away June 30, 1893. To this union
were born two children: 1. Harriet Frances,
born February 23, 1889; married, January 16,
1912, Herbert Larned Dorrance, of Provi
dence ; they have one son, Herbert Larned Jr.,
born December 23, 1912. 2. Mary Rhodes,

born April 7, 1891 ; married, October 27, 1912,
Willard Fremont Gordon Jr.; one son, Wil
lard F. Gordon (3rd).
On September 4, 1895, Mr. Nightingale mar
ried (second) Miss Harriet Eugenie Thomas,
who was born April 11, 1870, daughter of
Clarence E. and Harriet E. (Perry) Thomas,
of Wakefield, Rhode Island (formerly of
Wickford, Rhode Island). Mrs. Nightingale
is also prominently identified with the social
life of Providence, being a member of the
Agawam Hunt Club, the Rhode Island School
of Design, and the Rhode Island Society of
Colonial Dames.

The surname Salisbury,
SALISBURY Salesbury, Salusbury, Sals-
bury (the name has nu
merous other modes of spelling in use in
earlier times) is of great antiquity in England
and Wales. It is derived either from the city
of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, or from
Salzburg, a town in Bavaria. Sir Robert
Salusbury says :
My own family came over with William the Con
queror. Adam de Saltzburgh, who attended him,
was a younger son of the House of Bavaria, and
took the name of the town he lived in, the present
seat of the Archbishop of Saltzburgh. Upon their
residence in England, the family anglified the name
into Salsbury, Salesbury and Salusbury. As soon
as the Conqueror's descendants got sufficient foot
ing in Wales, my ancestors had a grant of the
Lordship of Llewenny, in the county of Denbigh,
and were governors of Denbigh Castle for many
generations. They were the first sheriffs and first
members of Parliament for the county of Dembigh.
The English grant of land to Adam in Lancashire,
on the banks of the river Ribble, where he built a
house, now in ruins, called Salusbury Hall. The
arms of Salisbury in England are the same as those
emblazoned over the gates of Salzburg: Gules a
lion rampant argent, ducally crowned or between
three crescents of the last. Motto: Sat est Pros-
trasse Leoni.
The Welsh or English ancestry of the Amer
ican family has not been definitely established,
but there is reason to believe that the names
Nicholas and Humphrey are derived from
intermarriage with the Humphrey-Nicholas
family. We know that in 1669 John Salis
bury, of Erbistock, county Salop, descended
in the seventh generation from- the elder
Thomas Salisbury, of Lleweni, married Kath
erine Nicholas, daughter of Humphrey Nich
olas, of Llacthbwlch, county Montgomery.
Nicholas Salisbury, probably a brother of Wil
liam, mentioned below, came from Wales and
located in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as early as
1685, when he was forty-eight years old.
Therefore he was born in 1637, and there is
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Swansea, were sons of William, of Swansea.
Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas, died February 17,
1687-88, aged fifty-three years ; they had sons,
John, ancestor of the Salisbury family of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and John, of Bos
ton (very fully written in the magnificent
Salisbury memorial volumes) and Nicholas, of
Boston. Plumphrey Salisbury, presumed to
have been the son of Nicholas, was probably
not, for he came to this country, as recently
discovered (New England Gen. Register,
1910), from Glandiray, Denbighshire, in the
ship "Virginia" in 1699. He was then a young
man, coming as a servant or apprentice, and
he married, July 11, 1707, in Boston, Alary
Milborn, and had a son William, ancestor of
a notable family of Braintree and vicinity.
(I) William Salisbury, the immigrant an
cestor of the Rhode Island Salisburys, was
born in Wales, doubtless in Denbighshire. He
deposed May 12, 1656, that he was thirty-four
years old. If this is correct he was born in
1622, and if Nicholas was born in 1637 they
were not father and son, but probably brothers.
William was in Dorchester as early as 1648
(Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts," blue
page additions). He was for a time herdsman
of the town cattle. He settled at Milton, for
merly part of Dorchester and he signed the
agreement of the Milton inhabitants regarding
the parsonage land, May 18, 1664. He re
moved to- Swansea, Massachusetts, as early as
1671, the first of the name in that town. A
list of the men of Swansea, eight soldiers re
corded at Plymouth, includes the names of
William and John Salisbury. They were the
first victims of King Philip's war (p. 145, New-
England Hist. Gen. Reg., 1898). Both Salis
burys were buried June 24. 1675. John was
doubtless an unmarried son of William. His
widow Susannah and family returned to Mil
ton on account of the war. Susanna was ad
mitted to full communion at the Dorchester
church, May 7, 1777, and was dismissed to
the Milton church September 18, 1681. Ad
ministration on the estate of William was
granted August 25, 1675, to the widow. She
died about November 11, 1784, when her eld
est son, "William of Swansea," was made ad
ministrator of her estate and his father's. The
son signs his name "William Salsbery." Chil
dren: John, slain by Indians in 1675, as
stated ; William, mentioned- below ; Abigail,
married, June 9, 1676, John Williston, of Mil
ton; Susanna, born April 27, 1662, in Boston.
Children, bom at Milton: Plannah, May 18^
1665, died June 29, 1665; Samuel, May 17,'
1666, lived at Rehoboth; Cornelius, October
7, 1668; Hannah, April 20, 1671 ; Joseph, May
5, 1675. (The last mentioned were baptized

together after the mother joined the church at
Dorchester). In the will were mentioned also:
Elizabeth, who, with three others, owned the
covenant July 1, 1677.
(II) William (2) Salisbury, son of Wil
liam ( 1 ) Salisbury, was born in Boston, Au
gust 14, 1659. He administered his father's
estate, which proves that he was of Swansea,
after the war. He married, July 30, 1684,
Hannah or Ann Cole, daughter of Hugh Cole.
In 1685 he was surveyor of highways and a
large owner of lands. Children, born at Swan
sea : William, mentioned below ; Mary, born
1688; Susanna, March 29, 1689; Susanna,
March 29, 1692; John, May 25, 1694 (see p.
380, New Eng. Hist. Reg., 191 1, for his Bible
records); Richard, November 3, 1696; Ex
perience, November 25, 1700; Patience, Feb
ruary 5, 1703-04.
(Ill) William (3) Salisbury, son of Wil
liam (2) Salisbury, was born at Swansea, Oc
tober 8, 1685. He and his father were both
signers of the petition to the governor and
council of Massachusetts for the division of
the town of Swansea. Owing to the loss of
the town records it is difficult to get informa
tion of the families of Swansea. He had chil
dren : William, Oliver, mentioned below;
Anne, Mary, Prudence, Levi.
(IV) Oliver Salisbury, son of William (3)
Salisbury, .was bom February 5, 171 1, in
Swansea. When the town of Warren, Rhode
Island, was incorporated from Swansea in
1747, his homestead was in the new township.
He owned much real estate and was a promi
nent citizen. He was married at Warren .(sec
ond) February 7, 1762, to Lydia Bowen, by-
John Wheaton, justice of the peace. In
colonial days the marriages were performed
by magistrates. He had children: Jonathan,
Pardon and Elizabeth.
(V) Jonathan Salisbury, son of Oliver Sal
isbury, was born August 18, 1763, at Warren,
Rhode Island, and died at Providence, Rhode
Island, April zy . 1853. He attended the pub
lic schools, and in his youth worked on the
farm in Warren and learned the trade of ship
wright. He v\ as engaged for some years in
building vessels for the coasting trade. In
1800 he came to Providence, where he built a
hou^e on Eddy street, on land now occupied
by the Eastern Coal Company. He owned
considerable property on the river front in
Providence, and also real estate in Cranston,
Barrington and New Meadows Neck. Of his
five sons, four followed ship building. He
had two daughters. He married, December 29,
1790, at Warren, Elizabeth Thurber, who was
born January 13, 1769, died February 16, 1826,
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born October i, 1791, recorded at Providence;
Joanna, born at Providence, January 23, 1800,
married. Charles V. Merrick ; Henry, August
29, 1802; Sylvester, October 10, 1809; John,
October 20, 181 1; Elizabeth, never married;
Levi, mentioned below.
(VI) Levi Salisbury, son of Jonathan Sal
isbury, was born in Providence, December 20,
1814, and died July 6, 1886. He was born in
the house on Eddy street, and when he was
one year old, at the time of the great gale of
181 5, was taken out of the second-story win
dow of their house with his mother and car
ried to a place of safety. He attended the pub
lic schools of Providence and an academy. He
read law in the office of General Thomas F.
Carpenter, and in due course was admitted to
the bar of Rhode Island, April 6, 1837. Pie
was prominent as a lawyer and also as a judge.
He was on the bench of the court of magis
trates ; was clerk of the court of common pleas
of Providence county and clerk of the munici
pal court of Providence. He was always
keenly interested in public affairs, and was an
active participant in Dorr's rebellion. He was
a prominent member of the Swedenborgian
church, and a member of the local lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was de
voted to his home and family. He married,
June 20, 1848, Catherine Hurd Watson, of
Dover, New Hampshire, who was born June
4, 1825, and died July 12, 1903. Children:
Charles Merrick, and Edgar Watson, both
mentioned below.
(VII) Charles Merrick Salisbury, son of
Hon. Levi Salisbury, was born February 28,
1849. He attended the public schools of
Providence, and entered Brown University in
the class of 1873. He studied law in his
father's office, and was admitted to the bar in
Providence, January 25, 1873. 1° l&92 ne
W'-as admitted to practice in the United States
courts and in 1901 to practice in the patent
office and courts. He has taken high rank in
his profession. He joined the Franklin
Lyceum Debating Society in 1873, and the
Providence Franklin Society in 1876, being
secretary for seven years and president for
three years. He has devoted much of his
leisure time to geology and mineralogy and has
a collection of some six thousand specimens,
many of which are rare and beautiful. In
politics he is a Republican ; in religion an Epis
copalian. He married, in 1878, Amey R.
Knowles, daughter of Hon. John P. Knowles ;
she died May 13, 1880. He married (second)
April 26, 1882, Frances E. Ford, died August
21, 1914, daughter of Samuel R. Ford. Chil
dren: Ernest Ford, born March 28, 1884;
Cecil Wingate, born August 10, 1890.

(VII) Edgar Watson Salisbury, son of Levi
Salisbury, was born in Providence, December
3, 1851. Pie attended the public schools of his
native city, and graduated from the Provi
dence high school in 1870. On August 1, 1870,
he entered the employ of Cornet & Night
ingale, importers of and dealers in iron and
steel, beginning at a salary of $100 a year. He
learned the details of the business in every
department, including the counting room. He
was promoted from time to time and eventually
became a partner in the firm April 1, 1880, the
name of which became Kilton, Warren & Com
pany. In 1884 he became the senior partner
and the firm name was changed to Salisbury
& Nightingale, its present title. He is one of
the foremost merchants of the city, and stands
high in business and financial circles. He re
sides in the house which his father built on
Waterman street. He was quartermaster of
the United Train of Artillery from 1875 to
1880. He is a member of the Squantum and
Economic clubs. In politics he is a Repub
lican, in religion an Episcopalian. He has
never married.

Richard Dart (Darte or Dort),
DART immigrant ancestor of all the Con
necticut and Rhode Island families
of this surname, was born in England and set
tled early at New London, Connecticut, where
he bought the William Welman house, Sep
tember 12, 1664, residing there until he died,
September 24, 1724, aged eighty-nine years.
His sister Ann married, in 1659, Benjamin
Brewster, and lived at Brewster Neck. Dart
married Bethia  . Children, born at
New London: Dinah, January 13, 1665; Dan
iel, May 3, 1666 ; Richard, May 7, 1667 ; Roger,
November 22, 1670; Ebenezer, mentioned be-
Icw ; Ann, February 14, 1675 ; Bethia, July 30,
1677; Elizabeth, December 15, 1679; Sarah,
June 10, 1681 ; Mary, 1685.
( II ) Ebenezer Dart, son of Richard Dart,
was born at New London, February 18, 1672-
73. He married, in 1706. Mary  . Chil
dren, born at Xew London : John, mentioned
below; Rethia, December 12, 1709; Mary, Au
gust 19, 171 1 ; probably others.
( III ) John Dart, son of Ebenezer Dart,
was born at Xew London, October 11, 1707.
( IV ) David Dart, son or nephew of John
Dart, grandson of Ebenezer, was born in 1760-
61. He was a soldier in the revolution and a
pensioner in 1832, then aged about seventy-
nine years (Conn. Rev. Rolls, pp. 655, 661).
The census of 1790 shows that he had one
male over sixteen, two under that age and
four females in his family in Xew London
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He married (first) Mary Fargo, born 1761,
daughter of Robert and Prudence (Stanton)
Fargo; she died October 12, 1798. He mar
ried (second) Mercy Ann Mynard. Children:
David (?), died young; Stanton, born Janu
ary, 1783; Eunice, March 1784; Robert,
March, 1786; Lucy, July, 1788; David, men
tioned below; Moses, April 21, 1794.
(V) David or David S. Dart, son of David,
was born at Montville, about January, 1791.
He removed to Newport, then to Providence,
Rhode Island. The Providence vital records
state that his -son, William H, was bora at
Newport, but the Newport records are silent.
(VI) William H. Dart, son of David S.
Dart, was born at Newport, October 3, 181 1,
died at Providence, February 22, 1861. He
married (by Rev. Frederick A. Farley) Octo
ber 1, 1834, Susan Pettey, who was born in
Providence, December 25, 1810; she died at
Providence, April 3, 1895, aged eighty-four
years. Children, born at Providence: Mary
Jane, July 26, 1835; William Burdick, June
23, 1838, mentioned below; George Henry,
November 13, 1845, died February 6, 1897.
(VII) William Burdick Dart, son of Wil
liam H. Dart, was born at Providence, June
23, 1838. He attended the public schools
there and for two years was a student in
Brown Uhiversity. In 1855 he entered the
employ of the Providence Forge and Nut
Company, and remained with this concern
when it was reorganized as the Providence
Tool Company. When the Rhode Island Tool
Company was organized he was made treas
urer and general manager, and continued at
the head of this business to the end of his life.
He was characterized by sterling integrity,
great enterprise and sagacity, and devotion to
his business. He was a useful and honored
citizen. His home was on Stimson avenue, in
Providence. He was devoted to his home, and
an exemplary husband and father. He died
in Providence, March 10, 1897, and was buried
in Swan Point Cemetery. He married
Mary Crary, of Fall River, Massachusetts,
daughter of Dr. William H. Crary. They had
one son, William Crary, mentioned below ; and
a daughter Amy Fisher, who died young.
(VIII) William Crary Dart, son of Wil
liam Burdick Dart, was born in Providence,
April 21, 1869. He attended Mowry and Goff
School, and- the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He entered the employ of the
Rhode Island Tool Company and learned the
business in detail. He succeeded his father
as president of the corporation and is now
at the head of this concern. He married, Octo
ber 18, 1894, Grace Thomson George, daugh

ter of Charles Henry George (see George).
Child : Margaret, born October 2, 1895.
(The George Line).
Four pioneers of the surname George came
to New England. John George settled in
Watertown, Nicholas in Dorchester, and Peter
in- Braintree, afterward in Block Island. The
fourth is mentioned below. No relationship
has been proved, though it is believed that all
were related.
(I) Richard George was born in England,
and came early in life to- Boston, Massachu
setts. He married, at Boston, Mary Pell,
daughter of William, November 1, 1655. Chil
dren, born in Boston : Mary, August 22, 1656,
died young; Hannah, January 21, 1660;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Mary, January 26,
1665; Elizabeth, April 8, 1670.
(II) Thomas George, son of Richard
George, was born in Boston, October 1, 1663.
He and his wife Hannah were early settlers
in Wrentham, Massachusetts. John George,
doubtless a brother, also settled there and died
there in 1704. Thomas died in October, 1704.
Children, born at Wrentham : Hannah, August
12, 1695; Sarah, December 17, 1697, died
young; Sarah, August 14, 1699; Richard, men
tioned below ; Thomas, baptized May 30, 1703,
died young.
(Ill) Richard George, son of Thomas
George, was born at Wrentham, April 10,
1701, and died there February 17, 1749-50, in
his forty-ninth year. He married, February
8, 1737-38, Jerusha Hancock. Children: Han
nah, born November 30, 1738; Jerusha, May
8, 1740; Thomas, mentioned below; John,
October 28, 1744; Sarah, July 15, 1746; Eliza
beth, August 15, 1748.
(IV) Thomas George, son of Richard
George, was born in Wrentham, December 12,
1742. With his brother he responded to the
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, in Captain
Samuel Cowell's company, Colonel John
Smith's regiment. He was a lieutenant in the
same company, September 24, 1777, Colonel
Benjamin Haws' (Fourth Suffolk County)
regiment ; also a lieutenant in Nathaniel
Heath's detachment, September-December,
1778; also a lieutenant in Captain Samuel Co-
well's company (third), Colonel Haws'
(Fourth Suffolk County) regiment, in
1779, and in the same company under Colonel
Seth Bullard, 1780, on the Rhode Island
alarm; also in 1781 in a Rhode Island cam
paign under Captain Fisher. He married Han
nah Brastow, who died at Wrentham, Febru
ary 22, 1841, aged ninety-five years. Her
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settled in Bristol, Rhode Island. Children,
born in Wrentham: Richard, October 24,
1768; Thomas, mentioned below; Hannah,
January 9, 1772; Warren, December 28, 1775;
Timothy, July 25, 1777; Sally, May 11, 1779;
Polly, May 19, 1781 ; Artemas, May 7, 1783;
Roxa, May 16, 1785; Amanda, October 13,
1788; Lewis, April 29, 1791.
(V) Ensign Thomas George, son of Thomas
George, was born at Wrentham, July 25, 1770.
He married at Wrentham, December 17,
1795, Olive Cowell. Children: Olive, born
January 24, 1801, and others at Mansfield or
Foxborough. (VI) Thomas Metcalf George, son of
Thomas George, was born about 1805, at
Mansfield or Foxborough. He married, August
5, 1827, Rebecca Selina Farrington, born Jan
uary 17, 1810, daughter of Rev. Daniel and
Rebecca Farrington, of Wrentham. He was
a dealer in lumber at South Foxborough, after
ward the town of Mansfield. Children, born
at Foxborough: Thomas Metcalf, May 21,
1828; Timothy Porter, November 30, 1829;
Daniel Farrington, August 29, 183 1; Rebecca
Selina, June 24, 1833; Schuyler Stratton, June
7, 1836; Emily Cowell, June 6, 1838; Charles
Henry, mentioned below; Edward Thurston,
December 17, 1841 ; Harriet Adelaide, Decem
ber 5, 1843 < James Augustus.
(VII) Charles Henry George, son of
Thomas Metcalf George, was born in Foxbor
ough, Massachusetts, July 14, 1839. He at
tended the public schools of his native town.
At the age of twelve he began to work in a
hardware store. Afterward he was a student
at Bristol Academy at Taunton, Massachusetts,
for two years. Afterward he returned to his
old position as clerk in a hardware store in
Providence. At the age of twenty years he
started in business on his own account under
the firm name of C. H. George & Company,
dealers in hardware. His venture proved pros
perous and he continued in business in Provi
dence for many years, building up a very large
and flourishing trade. In 1873 he became a
director of the Roger Williams Bank, and in
1879 was elected its president. He was direc
tor of various other banks and financial insti
tutions. In 1891-92 he was president of the
Providence Board of Trade. In 1887 he was
appointed postmaster of Providence by Presi
dent Grover Cleveland, and continued in office
under President Harrison until July, 1895. In
politics he has always been a Democrat. _ His
home is in Providence. He married, April 14,
1861, at Providence, Clarissa Jackson, born
1842, died September 4, 1880, in Providence
daughter of Henry Jackson. Children, born
in Providence: Edward A., born February 4,
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1865 ; Grace T., July 28, 1869, married Wil
liam C. Dart (see Dart) ; Clarissa R., Septem
ber 27, 1874, died April 10, 1883; Mary W.,
November 10, 1871, died July 13, 1872; Mar
garet E., December 1, 1878.
The name Komstock is
COMSTOCK frequently found in Ger
many, and the name is there
uniformly spelled with a K.
In the Muniment Office at Frankfort-on-the
Main in Germany is a pedigree of the family
of Comstock which gives nine generations pre
vious to 1547, when Charles Von Komstohk,
a baron of the Roman Empire, was implicated
in Von Benedict treason, and escaped into
England with several noblemen of Austria
and Silesia. The arms are or (gold) two bears
rampant sable (black) muzzled gules (red)
in chief; and in base a sword issuing from
crescent, the point downward ; all the last gules
(red). Upon the arms a baronial helmet of
the German Empire mantled or and gules
(gold and red) surmounted by a baron's coro
net jewelled proper, issuing therefrom an ele
phant proper and rampant. The bears imply
courage. The sword issuing from the cres
cent shows that the family had fought against
the Turks. The elephant rampant in the crest
was given as an indication of personal prowess
and sagacity.
(I) William Comstock came from England
with his wife Elizabeth and settled first in
Wethersfield, Connecticut. He subsequently
removed to New London. Children : Samuel,
mentioned below ; William ; Daniel, died in
New London in 1683, aged about fifty-three;
probably Christopher, of Fairfield, in 1661.
(II) Samuel, son of William Comstock,
was born probably in England, and died about
1660. He married Ann  , who married
(second) John Smith, a stone mason, and died
after 1661. The name of Samuel Comstock
appears frequently on the court records both
as plaintiff and defendant. He removed to
Providence, Rhode Island, and March 1, 1654,
bought of John Smith, who afterwards be
came Ann Comstock's second husband, his
house and lot, comprising four acres of land,
in the north part of Providence. Children:
Samuel, mentioned below ; Daniel, born in
May, 1665.
(Ill) Captain Samuel Comstock (2), son
of Samuel (1) and Ann Comstock, was born
in 1654, died May 27, 1727. He resided in
Providence, Rhode Island. He was deputy to
the general assembly in 1699-1702-07-08-11.
He was appointed May 6, 1702, on a com
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He deposed March 22, 1717, that he was sixty-
three years old. His will dated December 21,
1726, proved September 18, 1727, bequeath
ed to wife Elizabeth, his negro woman Effie
and all the rest of movable estate for life, at
her death to be given to the children. He
married, November 22, 1678, Elizabeth Arnold,
who died October 20, 1747, daughter of
Thomas and Phebe (Parkhurst) Arnold. Chil
dren : Samuel, born April 16, 1680, died April
1, 1727, married Anne Inman; Hazadiah,
April 16, 1682, died February 21, 1764, mar
ried (first) Catharine Pray, (second) August
10, 1730, Martha Balcom; Thomas, November
7, 1684, died 1761, married, July 9, 1713,
Mercy Jenckes; Daniel, July 9, 1686, died
December 22, 1768, married (first)  ,
(second) August 2, 1750, Elizabeth Buffum;
Elizabeth, December 18, 1690, married, De
cember 1, 1717, John Sayles; John, mentioned
below; Ichabod, June 9, 1696, died January
26, 1775, married (first) September 13, 1722,
Zibiah Wilkinson, (second) March 26, 1747,
Elizabeth Boyce; Job, April 4, 1699, married
(first) Phebe Jenckes, (second) November
22, 1735, Phebe Balcom.
(IV) John, son of Captain Samuel (2) and
Elizabeth (Arnold) Comstock, was born
March 26, 1693, died January 12, 1750. He
resided in Providence, was a blacksmith, and
a very wealthy man for his day. He deeded
much of his property to his sons before he
died. To his son Samuel thirty acres, dwell
ing house and barn ; to son Joseph seventeen
acres and dwelling house ; to son Jeremiah
one hundred and fifty acres; to son John, a
quarter of forge adjoining to corn mill etc.,
to sons John, Jonathan, James, Nathan and
Ichabod "my homestead farm and dwelling
house in which I now dwell, about one hun
dred and seventy acres, and also land in the
neck I bought of Sam, an Indian, and other
lots." Administration of his estate was grant
ed to his sons Samuel and John, February 12,
1750, and the inventory was £1968 2s. He
was buried in the North burial ground. He
married (first) Esther Jenckes, daughter of
William and Patience (Sprague) Jenckes. He
married (second) Sarah Dexter, born June
27, 1698, died 1773, daughter of John and
Alice (Smith) Dexter. Children: Samuel,
born 1715, died January 16, 1755, married,
January 1, 1738, Anne Brown; Joseph, mar
ried, June 7, 1747, Anne Comstock, died
March 2, 1800; Jeremiah, married, October
25, 1749, Phebe Arnold: John died 1813,
married, April 4, 1751, Mary Ballou; Jona
than, married, April 9, 1750, Sarah Comstock;
James, mentioned below; Nathan, born De
cember 5, 1735, died 1816, married, March

29, 1764, Mary Staples; Ichabod, died Decem
ber 19, 1800, married, April 11, 1760, Sarah
Jenckes. (V) James, sixth son of John Comstock,
was born December 12, 173-3, m Providence,
and died March 7, 1791. He sold land in
Providence, in 1756, and was a freeman there
in 1757. In 1774 he was residing in North
Providence. He married, about 1752-53,
Esther Comstock, daughter of Thomas and
Mary (Jenckes) Comstock, and granddaugh
ter of Samuel (2) Comstock, above men
tioned. She died March 12, 1808, in Provi
dence. Children: Richard, born April 19,
1754; Amy, September 21, 1755; Mercy, July
20, 1757; Woodbury, mentioned below.
(VI) Woodbury, youngest child of James
and Esther (Comstock) Comstock, was born
December 9, 1759, in Providence, and died in
North Providence, November 7, 1793. He
was a member of the Society of Friends. He
married, May 1, 1786, Hannah, daughter of
John Read, born October 30, 1776, died Feb
ruary 26, 1838. She married (second) Samuel
Smith, of Mendon, Massachusetts. Children:
Lydia, born November 23, 1786; Amey,
August 19, 1788; Mercy, April 14, 1791 ;
James, mentioned below.
(VII) James, only son of Woodbury and
Plannah (Read) Comstock, was born Feb
ruary 27, 1793, in North Providence, and re
moved with bis mother, after her second mar
riage, to that portion of Mendon which is
now Blackstone, Massachusetts, where he was
a farmer and retail butcher, and died April
26, 1861. He was a member of the Society
of Friends. He married, March 9, 1814, Cath
erine Farnum, of Cheshire, Massachusetts,
born November 1, 1793, died July 20, 1867,
daughter of Jonathan Farnum, of Cheshire,
(see Farnum VI). Children: Woodbury L.,
born January 26, 1815; Lydia, December 15,
1816, married Laban Bates; Jonathan Far
num, mentioned below ; Anna Smith, Decem
ber 9, 1820; Andrew, mentioned below; James
Kelly and Catherine Farnum, twins, June 29,
1827. (VIII) Jonathan Farnum Comstock, sec
ond son of James and Catherine (Farnum)
Comstock, was born in Blackstone, Massachu
setts, November 24, 1818, and died January
8, 1889, i"' Providence, Rhode Island. He
was for many years identified with the whole
sale beef and pork business, and by his con
nection with the firms of J. F. & A. Comstock,
Comstock & Company, and J. F. Comstock &
Sons, was one of the leaders in the great pro
gress and development of this business within
the last thirty years before his death, which
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meat products in the east. Besides his local
business Mr. Comstock was also largely con
nected with the G. H. Hammond Company,
of Hammond, Indiana, whereby he co-oper
ated in the development of the beef shipping
business to the east, first as live stock in cars,
then as dressed beef, in which form the busi
ness has been extended so enormously, even
across the ocean. Mr. Comstock at the time
of his death was one of the oldest and most
prominent business men of Providence, where
he was so well and favorably known. He
was a member of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Comstock married, February 13, 1840,
Mary Dexter Hall, daughter of Benjamin Hall ;
she died May 13, 1894. Their children were:
1. Louis Hall, bora March 2, 1844; married,
January 27, 1870, Rachel Schuyler Lansing,
and they have had two children, namely:
Mary Lansing, who married William. C. Hun-
toon, of Providence, and Fred Schuyler. 2.
Mary, born September 6, 1846, died in in
fancy. 3. Sarah E., born May 6, 1849, died in
infancy. 4. Walter Jay, born December 12,
1853; married (first) Februarys, 1880, Clara
S. Forney, and (second) January 3, 1894.
Mary Waterman Chapin, daughter of W. W.
Chapin, of Providence ; his children are : Wal
ter J., Catherine, who died in infancy; and
Mary Waterman. 5. William Allen Hall, born
September 14, 1856, married, January 19, 1887,
Plarriet L. Brown, and they have one son,
Jonathan Farnum Comstock. Like their father
before them, these sons have been prominently
identified with the business interests of Provi
dence. (VIII) Andrew Comstock, third son of
James and Catharine (Farnum) Comstock,
was born March 6, 1823, in Blackstone, and died
November 30, 1898, in Providence. He was
educated at the Friends School in Providence,
and early in life entered in business with his
brother, Jonathan Farnum Comstock, in
Blackstone. They engaged in the wholesale
handling of beef and pork, under the title of
J. F. & A. Comstock, beginning in a small
way, and in 1857 removing to Providence,
where they conducted a very extensive busi
ness. In addition to this firm, Andrew Com
stock was interested in another, conducting
business under the style of Comstock & Com
pany, from which he withdrew, but continued
with the firm of J. F. Comstock & Sons to the
time of his death. He was also president of
the G. H. Hammond Company, a very large
beef house in Hammond, Indiana, with plants
in Chicago and Omaha. He became president
of the National Bank of Providence, a trus
tee of the People's Savings Bank, and a trus
tee of Brown University. While interested

in a very extensive way in business enterprises,
Mr. Comstock did not neglect his duties as a
citizen and a Christian, was very active in
church work, and one of the deacons of the
Cranston Street Baptist Church of Providence,
in whose welfare he was greatly interested. Pie
had many friends and acquaintances, and was
esteemed in the business circles of Providence.
He took no active part in political movements,
although he served at one time as a member
of the Rhode Island legislature. He married,
May 24, 1856, Juliette Paine, bora December
25, 1825, died February 3, 191 1, and is buried
in Swan Point Cemetery, beside her husband.
She was the daughter of John Jay and Olive
(Hall) Paine, of Smithfield (see Paine VII).
Children: Frederick Dana, born May 7, 1858,.
died October 11, same year; Frank Paine^
February 26, 1864, residing in Providence;
Clara Elizabeth, November 6, 1866. She grad
uated from Brown University in the class of
1895, with the degree of Ph. B., and two years
later received an A. M. She has traveled ex
tensively in Europe, and now makes her home
at the paternal homestead on Broad street,
Providence. At the funeral of Mrs. Juliette Paine Corn-
stock, February 6, 191 1, her pastor. Rev. L.
L. Henson, D. D., said of her:
* * * Mrs. Comstock was a remarkable woman.
She belonged to what might be called the "old
school" of beautiful womanhood. She was a strong
and vigorous and active woman of strong will and
great courage, and she was ever ready to do her
duty, whatever that might mean for her. Always
quick to perceive and wise to decide and ready to
act, she was a forceful, commanding, beautiful
character. Ever frugal and careful and watchful,
she must have been through all the years a real
helpmeet to her beloved husband. Not afraid of
work, and not unused to hardship, perhaps, in the
early days, she and he together laid deep and
strong the foundations for a life of unusual beauty
and usefulness. Much of his wonderful success, I
can imagine, was due to her influence and her
power. She was likewise a faithful woman. She
was faithful to duty, faithful to friends, faithful to
church, and faithful to God. * * * She was a
woman of rare wisdom. Her wisdom was so great
that her friends constantly sought her advice. This
was true because her wisdom was of such a kind
that she was likewise a woman of sound judgment;
and when in addition to that we remember that she
was an intensely practical woman and exceedingly
discreet as well, we can understand why such was
the case. There is hardly a philanthrooic or char
itable or educational institution in this city that
was not richer by far because of her wisdom and
interest, and on the Boards of many of these insti
tutions she has served with faithfulness and ability.
She was, too, a great worker. In the early days,
her work was largely given to the children of the
Sunday-school, and hundreds of men and women in
this city and other cities would gladly testify to this
hour of the influence this woman has had upon
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me when speaking of this business man or that,
"He, you know, was one of my boys." Once more,
she was always ready to give. She gave lavishly of
her time. The fact is, she was always on hand when
when there was anything that she could do. She
gave of her strength. She gave of her means. God
honored her and her husband with large ability to
give, and they honored Him by giving of that which
He had given to them. She gave in a quiet and
humble and beautiful way, but she eave. The
Cranston Church, of which she was a constituent
member, could never have been what it is to-day,
and could never have reached the place which, it
occupied in the world but for her and her husband.
But their giving was not confined by any means
to the church, for every institution that stood for
the right and for the uplift of humanity has been
made richer, in so far as it was possible, by their
consecrated gifts. And the Gospel is being preached
round the globe at this hour because they were glad
to make it possible for men and women to go.
Many of the poor of this city, moreover, will miss
her more than you and I can imagine, for gifts
which have gone to countless homes bearing the
message, "From a friend," and unknown to the
world, have come from her generous hand. And,
lastly, she was a Christian. And by that I mean a
Christian in the fullest sense of the word. She
was a woman whose faith was made manifest in
her works; and she was such a Christian as is inter
ested in every form of Christian activity. She
worked in the Sunday-school from the beginning of
her church's existence until her declining years
made it impossible to do so longer.
(IX) Frank Paine Comstock, son of An
drew and Juliette (Paine) Comstock, was
born February 26, 1864, in Providence, Rhode
Island. His early educational training was
acquired in the Mowry & Goff English
and Classical School of Providence, be
ing graduated from the latter in 1881.
Upon leaving school he immediately entered
the business of J. F. Comstock & Sons,
with which well known firm he has since
continued successfully. For several years he
was also a director of the G. H. Hammond
Company and the Hammond Packing Com
pany. He was also president of the Provi
dence Ice Company for a number of years.
Mr. Comstock is a member of the Hope Club,
the Squantum Association, the Commercial'
Club, the Providence Board of Trade and the
Churchman's Club. He is a member of Grace
Episcopal Church, of which he is vestryman.
On May 11, 1887, Mr. Comstock was united
in marriage to Laura W. Burroughs, daugh
ter of Samuel N., and Katherine (Sherman)
Burroughs, and to this union have been born
three children, namely: Andrew Burroughs,
born August 4, 1888, who married, June 18^
1914, Marion Hamilton; Hope Marguerite^
born October 16, 1891 ; and Katharine, born
March 4, 1900. (The Farnum Line).
Farnham is the name of an ancient and
honored English family. In America the spell

ing Farnum is used by some branches of the
family, and branches of the Varnum family
spell their names Farnum also. According
to Burke the family seat of the Farnhams in
England was in Leicester county, at Querndon
Plouse. By deeds without dates there appears
to have been two Lords of Querndon in Leices
tershire prior to the reign of Edward I. Burke
gives the line of the principal family of the
name as follows: 1. Robert Farnham. 2. Sir
Robert Farnham, knight. 3. Sir John Farnham,
of Querndon, county Leicester, in reign of
Edward I. 4. Sir Robert Farnham, knight,
living in Querndon, 1346. 5. John Farnham,
esquire, married Margaret Billington. 6.
Robert Farnham, esquire, living in 1440, an
cestor of many of the Farnhams, of Quern
don. 7. Thomas Farnham, esquire, of Nether
Hall, ancestor of the fourth degree. 8. Wil
liam Farnham, esquire, of Nether Hall, knight,
married Barbara, sister of Sir John Hersey,
and had: 1. John, married Dorothy Walwyn,
whose only daughter, Dorothy, married Sir
George Wright. 2. Thomas, of Stoughton,
died 1562, leaving an only daughter, Kathar
ine, who married Sir Thomas Beaumont. 3.
Matthew, succeeded his elder brother in
the estates. 9. Matthew Farnham, esquire, of
Nether Hall, married Lamentia Barrett, of
Medbourn, Leicestershire, and had: Mary,
married Richard Dawes ; Humphrey, see for
ward. 10. Humphrey Farnham, of Nether
Hall, married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Digby, esquire, of Welby. He lived at the
period that the two American emigrants, John
and Ralph, went to New England, and while
he was perhaps not their father, there is every
reason to believe the emigrants were from
Leicestershire, and close relatives. The coat-
of-arms of the branch of the family herein
considered is: A shield, divided into four
squares of blue and white, into a crescent on
each upper square, for service in the Crusades.
Crest: A griffin's head erect, ready to strike.
(I) Ralph Farnum, ancestor of all the Far
num families of southern Worcester county,
was born in England, probably in Leicester
shire, in 1603, died January 8, 1692-93, and
the inventory of his estate is dated March 29,
1693. He came from London in the brig
"James," which sailed from Southampton,
April 6, 1635, and reached Boston, June 3,
1635. He gave his age at sailing as thirty-
two, his wife, Alice's, as twenty-eight, and
they had with them three young children,
Mary, Thomas and Ralph. He was a yeoman
after coming to America, and settled at Ips
wich, of which he was a proprietor in 1639.
He removed to Andover, Massachusetts. Chil
dren : Mary, born 1628, married Daniel Poor,
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ber 20, 1650, resided at Andover, she died
February 3, 1714, aged eighty-five years:
Thomas, 1631, married, July 8, 1660, Eliza
beth Gibbins, who died August 26, 1683, he
died January 11, 1685; Ralph, 1633, married
Elizabeth Hall, in Andover, October 2, 1658,
she died October 14, 1710, aged seventy-eight
years, he died January 8, 1691-92 ; Sarah, born
at Andover, married, April 16, 1658, George
Abbot ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of Ralph and Alice Far
num, was born at Andover, Massachusetts,
about 1640, and died there June 17, 1723, in
his eighty-third year. He married, November
12, 1667, Rebecca Kent, daughter of Stephen
Kent, of Newbury, Massachusetts. She died
February 8, 1728-29/aged seventy-eight years.
Their children, born in Andover, were: (ohn,
January 20, 1670, died February 14, 1670;
John, mentioned below; Stephen, October 19,
1674, died young; Anne, December 11, 1677,
married, April 17, 1701, Thomas Russ ; David,
October, 1681, died November 30, 1687; Jona
than, April 27, 1684, died May 24, 1761, mar
ried (first) 1708, Elizabeth Parker, who died
June 18, 1732, (second) May 31, 1733, Me
hitable Poor, who died January 19, 1763, aged
seventy years; Thomas, August 11, 1687,
probably died young; David, April 4, 1690,
married Dorothy Duncan.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (1) and Re
becca (Kent) Farnum, was born in Andover,
April 13, 1672, died in Mendon, September 9,
1749, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He
removed to Mendon, Massachusetts, about
1700. On the early records there his name is
spelled usually Ffarnum. This double "F"
was common on the colonial records as well
as English for many names beginning with
this letter. His name is third on the list of
proprietors who drew at the sixth division,
February 4, 1707. From time to time he bought
more land and drew with the other proprie
tors from the common land until he was a
large owner of real estate. He married, June
30, 1693, Mary Tyler, and (second) Novem
ber, 1733, Abigail Marsh, of Bellingham. She
died February 21, 1759. Children of John and
Mary (Tyler) Farnum: Mary, born at An
dover, March 16, 1694, married, December 5,
1716, Nathan Penniman, of Mendon; Anna,
January 18, 1696, at Andover, died April 20,
1696; John, mentioned below; Ann, June 3,
1701 married  Penniman, at Mendon ;
Moses, September 8, 1705, at Mendon.
(IV) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and
Mary (Tyler) Farnum, was born December
26, 1797, in Andover, and resided in that part
of Mendon, which is now Uxbridge. He mar
ried, November 8, 1722, Mary Wood, of Men

don, born September 11, 1700, in Bradford,
Massachusetts, daughter of Solomon and
Mary (Hazeltine) Wood, who removed from
Bradford to Uxbridge. Children: Abigail,
born August 7, 1723; Thomas, November 30!
1725; Joshua, July 20, 1730; David, mention
ed below; Sarah, July 20, 1736; Jonathan,
April 21, 1739.
(V) David, third son of John (3) and
Mary (Wood) Farnum, was born April 6,
1732, in Uxbridge, and lived in that town. He
married, January 25, 1758, Leah Allen, of
Medway, born January 16, 1734, daughter of
Ebenezer and Mary (Hill) Allen. Children:
Mary, born October 22, 1758; Jonathan, men
tioned below; Melatiah, October 21, 1761 ;
Catherine, May 16, 1763; Azubah, August 27,
1765; Lois, February 15, 1767; Ruth, Xovem-
ber 5, 1768; David, July 26, 1770; Thomas,
September 6, 1772; Mordecai, November 11,
1774; (VI) Jonathan, eldest son of David and
Leah (Allen) Farnum, was born April 30,
1760, in Uxbridge, and continued to reside in
that town until about 1796, when he removed
to Cheshire, Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
settling on Stafford Hill, where he continued
farming until his death in 1834. He married
Lettice Kelly, and they were the parents of
Catherine Farnum, who became the wife of
James Comstock, of Blackstone, Massachu
setts (see Comstock VII).
(The Paine Line).
There were several families of Paine in
Xew England at an early date, and the name
is often spelled Payne, and has been traced to
an earlier period than it is possible to trace
most names. Because of the general lack of
surnames among the English people it has
been extremely difficult to trace any line for
any considerable period previous to the emi
gration of the Puritan settlers in America. In
the "Visitation" of Suffolk county, a work
originally compiled in 1561, and subsequently
extended, is found considerable matter treat
ing upon old families and upon this family.
According to the various writers, they were
residents in Leicestershire, upon the famous
field of Bosworth, where the last great battle
of the Roses was fought, being one of the
places where Pagen of Domesday fame had
land. The identity of the lineage is made
practically certain by the continued use of the
ccat-of-arms by the family in Bosworth, and
afterward in Suffolk, by two generations of
the original American families.
(I) Stephen Paine, a miller by occupation,
came from Great Ellington, county Norfolk,
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"Diligence" of Ipswich, with a large company
of immigrants from the neighborhood of
Hingham, England, accompanied by his wife,
three children and four servants. He settled
first in Hingham, Massachusetts, and about
1643 removed to Rehoboth, of which town he
was one of the founders and original proprie
tors. He possessed large estates in that and
adjoining towns, was prominent in the affairs
of the church and colony, representing the
town in the general court for many successive
years, until his death in August, 1679; ne was
buried on the 21st. His wife, Niobe, died
January 20, 1660, in Rehoboth, and he mar
ried (second) Alice, widow of William Park
er, of Taunton. She survived him and died
December 5, 1682. It is probable that one of
the three children who came with him died
soon after, as record is found of only two,
Stephen and Nathaniel.
(II) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) and
Niobe Paine, born about 1629, in England, in
herited from his father a house, barn, bark
mill, tannery shop and other property in Re
hoboth, and owned also much land in Attle
boro and Swansea. He was made freeman in
1657, and was buried in Rehoboth, January
21, 1677. He married, in 1652, Ann Chicker
ing, daughter of Francis and Ann Chickering,
of Dedham, Massachusetts. Children: Ste
phen, born September 29, 1654; Rebecca
October 20, 1656 ; John, mentioned below
Mary, May 11, 1660; Samuel, May 12, 1662.
Elizabeth, August 27, 1664; Sarah, October
12, 1666; Nathaniel, September 20, 1667; Ben
jamin, March 9, 1675. All were living at the
time of his death.
(Ill) John, second son of Stephen (2) and
Ann (Chickering) Paine, was born April 3,
1658, in that part of Rehoboth, which is now
East Providence, and had large property in
Swansea, Massachusetts, and ' Providence,
and Bristol, Rhode Island. He was living in
Swansea as early as 1683, was a surveyor of
highways there in 1686, and purchased land,
April 11, 171 1, in Providence, to which town
he removed, his home being located in the pres
ent Providence suburb called Elmwood. He
died there September 28, 17 18. Pie married
(first) about 1681, Elizabeth Belcher, born July
10, 1663, daughter of Joshua and Ranis (Rains
ford) Belcher, of Boston, died before 171 1.
His second wife, Martha, was the mother of
his last four children, all recorded in Provi
dence. Children of first marriage: Elizabeth,
born July 12, 1682 ; John, February 16, 1683!
in Swansea; Stephen, July 5, 1686; Josiah'
March 17, 1687; Joseph, May 3, 1693; Re
becca, May 1, 1694; Solomon, June 21, 1696;
Benjamin, baptized 1699; Nathan, 1701 ; Gid

eon, 1703; Eurania, 1706. Children of sec
ond marriage : William, born November 18,
1711; Abijah, October 18, 1713-; Ezekiel,
Axigust 26, 1715; Lemuel, or Samuel, July 22,
1716. (IV) Benjamin, sixth son of John and
Elizabeth (Belcher) Paine, was born 1699, in
Swansea, and resided in what is now Smith-
field, Rhode Island, where he died January 1,
1784. There is no record of his first mar
riage, but it is known that his wife's name was
Elizabeth, and they had children: Priscilla,
born, June 5, 1722; Dorcas, July 29, 1724;
Nathan, May 18, 1726; Benjamin, March 17,
1728; Job, February 2, 1730. The mother
must have died soon after this date, as Benja
min Paine married (second) in Smithfield,
December 24, 1731, Ann Arnold, born about
1710, second daughter of John and Mary
(Mowry) Arnold, granddaughter of Richard
(2) and Sarah (Angell) Arnold. Richard (2)
Arnold was born March 22, 1642, son of
Thomas Arnold, who was born 1599, in Ches
elbourne, England, son of Richard Arnold, all
mentioned at length elsewhere in this work.
Ann (Arnold) Payne was the mother of one
son, Arnold, born 1734. Benjamin Paine mar
ried (third) November 2, 1734, in Smithfield,
Amie Mowry, born about 1714, in that town,
died May 4, 1749, daughter of John and Han
nah (Packard) Mowry. Children: Anna,
born August 3, 1735; Amie, March 7, 1737;
Elizabeth, April 27, 1738; Mary, July 21,
1739; Sarah, March 14, 1741 ; John, Decem
ber 21, 1742; Abigail, May 2, 1744; Margery,
May 17, 1746; Joseph, August 17, 1747; Ben
oni, April 25, 1749. Benjamin Paine married
(fourth) April 30, 1751, Jemima Eston, of
Glocester, Rhode Island, who survived him
nearly seventeen years, dying October 25,
1800. Children : Jonathan, born February 8,
1753; Abi, September 12, 1754; Jemima, De
cember 8, 1756; Abel, December 31, 1758;
Bela, June 26, 1762. •
(V) Arnold, son of Benjamin Paine, and
only child of his second wife, Ann Arnold,
was bora February 12, 1734, in Smithfield,
and became a very prominent citizen of the
state, and also served as a soldier of the revo
lution. He was ensign of the second Smith-
field company under Captain Abraham Wind
sor, in 1757, and also under Captain Stephen
Arnold, in the same company, in 1758. In the
latter year he was promoted lieutenant, and
held that office in 1760 and 1761. He was ap
pointed one of the justices of the court of
common pleas and general sessions in 1795,
and continued to hold that office until his
death in Smithfield, July 24, 1802. He mar
ried in Smithfield, September 19, 1754, Judith

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Staples, born December 13, 1735, in Smith-
field, daughter of Nathan and Mary Staples
(see Staples IV). Children: Lucinda, born
August 9, 1755; John, mentioned below;
Prusha, November 13, 1759, married William
Aldrich; Daniel, November 13, 1762; James,
June 25, 1765, died April 26, 1833; Arnold,
December 23, 1767; Hyrena, July 19, 1770;
Caleb, June 3, 1773.
(VI) John, eldest son of Arnold and Judith
(Staples) Paine, was born March 8, 1757, in
Smithfield, and died February 20, 1803, in
that town. He occupied several state and
town offices, and was appreciated by his con
temporaries as a man of integrity and worth.
He married, March 8, 1757, Mary Aldrich,
born September 8, 1762, daughter of Judge
Caleb and Mary (Arnold) Aldrich, and
granddaughter of Moses Aldrich, the cele
brated Quaker preacher, elsewhere mention
ed in this work. Mary Arnold, wife of Judge
Caleb Aldrich, was a daughter of Judge
Thomas and Susan (Comstock) Arnold, and
granddaughter of Richard and Mary (Wood
ward) Arnold. Richard Arnold was a son of
Richard and Mary (Angell) Arnold, previous
ly referred to. Children : John, Mary Paine,
Hannah, Prusha, Asenath, Alpha, married
Wanton Mowry ; Judith, married Lewis Whip
ple; John Jay, Mary, Elizabeth and Lucina.
(VII) John Jay, son of John and Mary
(Aldrich) Paine, was born in Smithfield, and
lived in what is now the city of Woonsocket,
where he passed away while still in the prime
of manhood. He married in Bellingham, Mas
sachusetts, March 31, 1819, Olive Hall, bora
March 24, 1798, and died January 9, 1859,
daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Bates)
Hall, of Cumberland (see Hall VI). She uied
at Woonsocket in middle life. Children : Eliza
beth, Sarah, Alpha, Juliette, Lucina, Mary
and John Jay.
(VIII) Juliette, fourth daughter of John
Jay and Olive (Hall) Paine, was born De
cember 25, 1825, and became the wife of An
drew Comstock, of Providence (see Comstock
VIII). (The Bates Line).
The family of Bates, Bate or Batt, as it
was variously spelled, is ancient in England,
and many members of the family in England
and America have been distinguished. The
Bates coat-of-arms is : A lion's head, erased,
gules. The name is a form of Bertelot
(Bartlett), derived from the old name Bar
tholomew, when surnames came into vogue.
Five generations of the family are traced in
England, in the direct line of ancestry of

Clement Bates, of Hingham, Massachusetts,
the immigrant.
(I) Thomas Bates lived in Lydd, parish of
All Hallows, county Kent, England, and died
there in 1485. (II) John, son of Thomas
Bates, died in 1522. (Ill) Andrew, son of
John Bates, had four sons, and died at Lydd
111 I5-33- (IV) John (2), son of Andrew
Bates, died at Lydd in 1580, leaving three
sons. (V) James, son of John (2) Bates,
died at Lydd in 1614. Among his children
authorities give two, Clement of Hingham and
James of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
(VI) Clement Bates, aged forty years, and
his wife Ann, same age, arrived at Boston in
the spring or early summer of 1635, prob
ably in the "Elizabeth," William Stagg, master,
bringing with them five children : James, aged
fourteen years; Clement, twelve; Rachel,
eight: Joseph, five; and Benjamin, aged two
years'. According to the records of Hingham,
Clement Bates, in 1635, was allotted land on
Broad Cove meadows and a house lot on the
south side of the town, now South street. In
1637 he was granted two more acres. He died
in Hingham September 17, 1671.
(VII) Joseph, son of Clement Bates, was
born in England about 1630, and is mentioned
in the records of Hingham as a bricklayer. He
occupied the paternal homestead and became
prominent in local public affairs, serving
as constable (then a very important office)
1675 to 1678, inclusive, and was a selectman
for the years 167 1, 1677, 1684 and 1692. In
1673 he was appointed sexton of the parish
and continued in that capacity until the erec
tion of the new meetinghouse. He was mar
ried in Hingham, January 9, 1657-58, to Es
ther, daughter of William Hilliard, and had
children: Joseph, born September 28, 1660;
Esther, August 29, 1663, married in Boston,
September 16, 1691, Richard Cobb; Caleb,
March 30, 1666; Hannah, October 31, 1668;
Joshua, August 14, 1671 ; Bathsheba, January
26, 1673-74; Clement, September 22, 1676,
drowned June 29, 1706; Eleanor, August 29,
1679; Abigail, October 16, 1680, married June
12, 1704, John Chubbuck. Joseph Bates died
April 30, 1706, and his widow June 3, 1709.
(VIII) Joshua, third son of Joseph and
Esther (Hilliard) Bates, was born August 14,
1671, in Hingham, and married there, Jan
uary 15, 1695, Rachel Tower, born March 16,
1674-75, in Plingham, daughter of Ibrook and
Margaret (Hardin) Tower. Children, born
in Hingham: Rachel, July 14, 1696, married
December 14, 1715, Andrew Beal; Joshua
June 15, 1698; Bathsheba, February 9, 1699,
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23, 1703, married October 8, 1724, Ebenezer
Woodward; Solomon, April 13, 1706; Isaac,
mentioned below; Jacob, August 20, 1710.
(IX) Isaac, third son of Joshua and Rachel
(Tower) Bates, was born March 3, 1708, in
Hingham, and resided in the second precinct
of that town, where he served as constable in
1740. After 1753 he moved to Mendon (now
Bellingham), where he died August 21, 1787.
He married, December 28, 1732, Martha Clark,
born about 1710, daughter of John and Re
becca (Lincoln) Clark, of Hingham. Chil
dren, bora in Hingham: Joseph, August 29,
1733, was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill ;
Micah, January 1, 1736; Ezekiel, May 8, 1738;
Rebecca, November 9, 1740, married, March
13, 1760, Jeremiah (3) Stoddard; Olive, Octo
ber, 1743; Lucretia, August 27, 1746; Laban,
mentioned below; Nicol, April 6, 1753.
(X) Laban, fourth son of Isaac and Mar
tha (Clark) Bates, was born October 30, '1749,
in Hingham, and was a prominent citizen of
Bellingham, where he engaged in farming and
was also a merchant. He was a soldier of the
revolution, serving as private in Captain Jona
than Holbrook's company, which marched on
the alarm of April 19, 1775, discharged at the
end of seven days. He was also in Captain
Amos Ellis' company, Major Seth Bullock's
(Fourth Suffolk) regiment, which marched to
Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the alarm of July
27, 1780, and was discharged August 7, same
year ; service fourteen days. He represented
the town of Bellingham in the general court of
Massachusetts, and died April 7, 1832, in that
town. He married December 8, 1768, in Men
don, Olive Wheelock, born April 12, 1750, in
Mendon, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Taft)
Wheelock, died February 5, 1834, in Belling
ham. Children: Eli, born September 19,
1769 ; Peter, June 23, 1771, died 1776; Nahum,
April 8, 1773; Liberty, July 16, 1775; Sarah,
mentioned below; Olive, June 23, 1779-; Peter,
March 29, 1782; Laban, November 5, 1784;
Smith, Xtovember 28, 1786, died 1788; Abi
gail, May 26, 1789; Polly, November 8, 1791 ;
Smith, October 25, 1794.
(XI) Sarah, eldest daughter of Laban and
Olive (Wheelock) Bates, was born May 1,
1777, in Bellingham, became the wife of Ben
jamin Hall, of Cumberland, and died Novem
ber 29, 1821, in Bellingham (see Hall VI).
(The Hall Line).
The origin of this name is described at
length elsewhere in this work. Among the
numerous Hall families early in America was
one which has been connected with the his
tory of Rhode Island and adjoining sections
of Massachusetts to the present time.

(I) William Hall was one of the fifty-nine
persons admitted as inhabitants of the island
of Aqueednunk (Rhode Island) October 8,
1638. There is reason for believing that he
was the William Hall, a clergyman and writer
of London, who disappears from the records
there in the year of William Hall's admission
in Rhode Island. In 1639 he was a resident
of Newport, and received a grant of land at
Portsmouth July 27, 1644. His name appears
in the list of freemen at Portsmouth in 1655.
In 1654 he sold one-three-hundredth part of
Canonoeut and Dutch Islands. He was com
missioner to the general court in 1654, 1656,
1660 and 1663; deputy 1665-66-67-68 and
1672-73. In the last-named year he was ap
pointed on a committee to treat with the In
dians concerning drunkenness and endeavor
to persuade them to reform. Among the five
chiefs in this council was Philip, whose terri
ble war so harassed the colonies in 1675. His
will, dated March 20, 1674, proved April 19,
1676, made his wife Mary sole executrix, and
disposed of a considerable estate, giving lands
to all his sons and residuary property to his
daughters. Children: Zuriel, William, Benja
min, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Deliverance.
(II) Zuriel, apparently eldest son of Wil
liam and Mary Hall, was made a freeman in
1677 at Portsmouth, where he died in 1691.
His wife's name was Elizabeth, and they had
children: Mary, who married September 16,
1686, Robert Fish, and Zuriel ; probably others,
not recorded.
(Ill) Zuriel (2), son of Zuriel (1) and
Elizabeth Hall, was born in 1677, and resided
in Portsmouth until about 1702, when he set
tled in Bellingham, Massachusetts, where he
died April 3, 1765, in his eighty-eighth year.
Pie married (first) September 11, 1697, in
Sherborne, Massachusetts, Susannah Sheffield,
born December 12, 1675, in Sherborne, daugh
ter of Cornelius and Mary Sheffield, of Hing
ham, and among the pioneer settlers of Sher
borne. She died June 3, 1742, in Bellingham,
and he married (second) Jane, widow of
Pelatiah Smith, born 1669-70, died November
8, 1746, in Bellingham. Children, all of first
wife, born in Portsmouth: Elizabeth, June 8,
1698 ; Mary, July 24, 1700. Born in Belling
ham : Susannah, August 2, 1702; Patience,
November 4, 1704; Seth, mentioned below;
Urania, January 11, 1709; Abigail, July 8,
1712; Ruth, July 21, 1720.
(IV) Lieut. Seth Hall, only son of Zuriel
(2) and Susannah (Sheffield) Hall, was born
April 2, 1707, in Bellingham, and died there
April 27, 1780. He married in Mendon, April
28, 1737, Abigail Albee, bora April 18, 1707,
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(Thayer) Albee, died March 23, 1753, in Bell
ingham. Children : Zuriel, born March 23,
1738, died young ; Seth, mentioned below ;
Zuriel, July 17, 1741 ; Deborah, August 17,
1744-45; John, June 18, 1747; Marvellous,
November 26, 1752, died 1775.
(V) Seth (2), second son of Seth (1) and
Abigail (Albee) Hall, was born May 15, 1739,
in Bellingham, where he lived, and probably
joined some of his children elsewhere in old
age, as his death is not recorded in that town.
The intention of marriage of Seth Hall and
Martha Thompson was entered in Bellingham
April 22, 1757. Perhaps the marriage was not
consummated, as there is no record of her
death or of any children in Bellingham. He
married, December 17, 1761, Elizabeth Spear,
of Cumberland, Rhode Island, undoubtedly a
descendant of the old Spear family of Brain
tree, which settled in Rehoboth and Belling
ham. Her birth is not recorded in those
towns, nor in Cumberland, Mendon or Brain
tree, unless she was the Elizabeth Spear born
in the last-named town in 1731. Children:
George, born May 3, 1762; William, May 23,
1764; Asa, May 29, 1766; Lemuel, May 24,
1768; Benjamin, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
November 26, 1772.
(VI) Benjamin, youngest son of Seth (2)
and Elizabeth (Spear) Hall, was born July 9,
1770, in Bellingham, and died there February
21, 1824. He is recorded as of Cumberland,
at the time of his marriage (intentions pub
lished in that town April 20, 1797), May 1,
1797, in Bellingham, to Sarah Bates, daughter
of Laban and Olive (Wheelock) Bates, of
Bellingham (see Bates X). No children are
recorded in Cumberland or Bellingham. Fam
ily record supplies the next mentioned.
(VII) Olive, daughter of Benjamin and
Sarah (Bates) Hall, was born March 24,
1798, in Bellingham, where she was married
March 31, 1819, to John Jay Paine, of Woon-
sockett, Rhode Island (see Paine VII).
(The Staples Line).
The Staples family is an old one in England
and Ireland, and has coats-of-arms with three
or four staples emblazoned. It is surmised
that some one having to do with the hardware
staple adopted the surname on account of that
fact, but it is more likely that the design was
attached to the coat armor on account of the
name. The motto on the arms, Sans dieu rien,
is French, indicating the French origin of the
family in England. Hugh d'Estaples accom
panied William the Conqueror to England and,
though no descent has been traced from him,
it. is probable that he founded the name in
England. The old French town of Estaples

is now rendered Etaples. Another supposi
tion is that the name comes from a dealer in
wool, called staple. A guild of woolen mer
chants in London, holding a charter from Ed
ward IV, was called "The Staple" about 1450.
In early records the name is spelled without
the final "s." There is a large family originat
ing in Maine, bearing this name, whose de
scendants are widespread.
(I) John Staple, bora about 1610, in Eng
land, was an early inhabitant of Weymouth,
Massachusetts, where he appeared in 1637,
and settled in North Weymouth, some ten
miles from Boston, his home located at the
foot of King Oak Hill. In 1636 he was as
signed six acres in the plain and three acres in
the east field. He was admitted freeman May
10, 1648, and later removed to Dorchester,
where he died. The inventory of his estate
was made July 13, 1683, indicating approxi
mately his death. There is no record of his
wife. Children recorded in Weymouth : Abra
ham, mentioned below ; Rebecca, born No
vember 27, 1639, married Samuel Sumner;
Joseph, February 19, 1641, died young; Sarah,
married Increase Sumner.
(II) Abraham, son of John Staples, was
bora October 20, 1638, in Weymouth, and died
October 20, 1703, in Mendon, Massachusetts,
where he was one of the original settlers and
proprietors. He resided for some time in
Dorchester, where he learned the trade of
weaver, and joined the church March 20, 1658.
Returning to Weymouth he was dismissed to
the Weymouth church January 13, 1660. In
1662 he was associated with other Weymouth
men in a petition for the grant at Mendon,
Massachusetts, and settled there as early as
1663, in which year his son Abraham was
born, the first In the new town. His farm was
situated near the present site of the Congre
gational church, on Main street, long known
as the Stone Tavern, and was owned by the
family about one hundred and forty years.
He was a man of influence and good character,
was admitted a freeman in 1673, and served
on various important town committees. In
1697 he removed to Taunton, but returned to
Mendon in 1700, and died there October 20,
I7°3- When King Philip's war broke out in
1675, the Mendon settlers were forced to flee,
but Staples returned with most of the others
and built a new house to replace that destroyed
by the Indians. In 1685 the town granted him
the "Staples farm," on the border of Little
rond and this estate is still owned by his de
scendants. He was sergeant of the military
company, and probably served in the Indian
war Only twenty of the graves of pioneer
settlers of Mendon are known and marked.

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The dates on the original gravestones of Abra
ham Staples and wife are proved to be wrong,
and in 1877 his descendants erected a monu
ment at his grave, which was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies October 31 of that -
year. He married, September 9, 1660, Mary
Randall, born March 20, 1642, in Weymouth,
died March 9, 1712, in Mendon, daughter of
Robert Randall, who came from Berkshire,
England, and settled at Weymouth before
1640. Children : Abraham, born June 14,
1663; John, 1667; Mary, April 11, 1668, died
young ; Jacob, mentioned below ; Ebenezer,
1677, inherited the Mendon homestead ; Eph
raim, September 2, 1678; Mary, February 8,
1681 ; Benjamin, December 27, 1682; Hannah,
May 13, 1886.
(Ill) Jacob, third son of Abraham and
Mary (Randall) Staples, was born XTovember
16, 1669, in Mendon, and was living there as
late as 1692. Perhaps he lived in some part
of Mendon now another town, as only two of
his children appear in Mendon records. He
died in 1724. He married (first) March 28,
1690, Abigail, daughter of Timothy and Hes
ter Winter, of Mendon, born 1673, and built
a house on the lot given her by her father.
She died before 1696, and he married (sec
ond) September 15, 1696, Mary, widow of
Remember Briggs. Children of first wife, re
corded in Mendon : Abigail, born September
3, 1691 ; Hannah, September 26, 1692. There
is reason to believe that Nathan Staples, of
Smithfield, Rhode Island, was a son of Jacob.
(IV) Nathan Staples resided in Smithfield
with his wife Mary and the following children-
are recorded there : Nathan, born March 7,
1731, died 1732; Nathan, May 28, 1733; Ju
dith, mentioned below ; Hannah, February 8,
1737; Mary, October 5, 1739; Samuel, died
February 19, 1742; Ebenezer, December 1,
1742. (V) Judith Staples, daughter of Nathan
and Alary Staples, was born December 12,
1735, and became the wife of Arnold Paine
(see Paine V).

For almost two and three-quar-
SISSON ters of a century the name of
Sisson has been identified with
the history of Rhode Island, and the various
members of the family have contributed greatly
toward furthering the industrial welfare of
the state, as well as advancing it in other direc
tions. ( I ) Richard Sisson, who was born in 1608,
was a resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
and was made a freeman there in 1653. He
was of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1667;
was the owner by purchase of a two-three-

hundredth part of Conanicut and Dutch
Islands ; and was surveyor of the highways in
167 1. He married Mary  . His death
occurred in 1684, and that of his wife in 169-2.
They had children : George ; Elizabeth ; James,
of further mention; John; Anne; Mary.
(II) James, son of Richard and Mary Sis
son, died- in 1734. He was surveyor of the
highways in 1685 ; constable in 1686 ; and
selectman in 1689. His home was in Dart
mouth. He married Lydia, who was born in
1662, a daughter of John and Sarah (Cook)
Hathaway, and they had children: Richard
of further mention; Mary; James; Jonathan
Philip ; Thomas ; Content ; Sarah ; Hannah
Rebecca. (Ill) Richard, son of James and Lydia
(Hathaway) Sisson, was born February 19,
1682, and was a resident of Dartmouth, Massa
chusetts. He married, in 1704, Mehetabel
 , and they had several children.
(IV) Richard, son of Richard and Meheta
bel Sisson, was born July 17, 1705, and his
death occurred in the same town in 1790. His
entire life was spent in Dartmouth. He mar
ried Alice  .
(V) Joseph, son of Richard and Alice Sis
son, was born September 11, 1728, and died
January 10, 1823. He was of Newport, Rhode
Island, and of Seekonk, Massachusetts. He
married, April 18, 1753, Ruth, born May 1,
1734., died September 11, 1822, a daughter of
Benjamin and Ruth (Fish) Sherman, of
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. They had chil
dren: Susanna, born June 12, 1754; Avis,
born August 10, 1756; Ruth, born September
30, 1758; Eunice, born November 28, 1760;
Hannah, born March 30, 1763; Joseph, born
June 10, 1765; Lydia, born October 20, 1767;
Asa, of furthei mention; Lois, born October
17, 1772; Isaac, born December 20, 1775.
(VI) Asa, son of Joseph and Ruth (Sher
man) Sisson, was born January 7, 1770, prob
ably in Xewport or Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
and removed to Warwick, Rhode Island.
There he was engaged as a butcher and farmer,
and also followed mechanical pursuits. He
married (first) May 1, 1794, Alice Anthony,
of North Providence, Rhode Island; he mar
ried (second) August 15, 1798, Mercy, who
died December 27, 1816, a daughter of Robert
and Plannah Dennis, of Portsmouth; he mar
ried (third) Dinah Collins. Only child by the
first marriage: Alice, born September 25,
1796. Children by second marriage: Plannah,
born at Newport, Rhode Island, June 6, 1799;
Mary, born at Newport, December 20, 1800,
died January 16, 1821 ; Isaac, born at New
port, November 14, 1802, died April 22, 1803;.
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Robert, born at Newport, December 16, 1805,
died in Coventry, Rhode Island, August 14,
1822; Isaac, born at Xewport, May 31, 1807,
died January 17, 1808; Ruth, born at Newport,
November 20, 1808 ; Lydia, born in Warwick,
June 4, 1813; Asa, of further mention. Only
child by the third marriage : Sarah Lewis,
born April 19, 1819, probably at Plainfield.
(VII) Asa, son of Asa and Mercy (Den
nis) Sisson, was born in Warwick, October 5,
1815, died January 19, 1893, at Anniston, Ala
bama, and his remains were interred in the
Friends' Cemetery at Coventry, Rhode Island.
He was still a young lad when he commenced
to learn the machinist's trade in Maine, but he
completed his apprenticeship in Coventry,
Rhode Island. He became associated as a
partner with Perez Peck in 1839, in the manu
facture of cotton machinery, under the firm
name of Perez Peck & Company, and this asso
ciation was continued until the late fifties. Mr.
Sisson removed to Hamilton in 1865, in North
Kingstown township, and manufactured cot
ton yarn at the Annaquatucket Mill for some
years. Mr. Sisson organized the Hamilton
Company in 1850, his associates in this enter
prise being Perez and Isaac Peck and S. H.
Vanghan, and cotton yarn was manufactured
by the concern at Hamilton, Rhode Island, the
village having been given its name at the sug
gestion of Mr. Sisson. Later, in partnership
with Ambrose E. Vaughan, Mr. Sisson owned
and managed the Bayside Iron Foundry at
Wickford, and for a time was an inspector in
the employ of the Providence Water Works,
when the iron pipes were being cast for the
use of the city. He became an official of the
Hamilton Web Company in 1873, remained
with this concern in this capacity for a period
of ten years, when he again entered the em
ploy of the Providence Water Works, and was
active there until his death. In political mat
ters Mr. Sisson was always a stanch supporter
of the Republican party, and held some local
offices while residing in Coventry. The cause
of temperance was one in which he took a
deep interest, and he was an active member in
the Order of Sons of Temperance. He was
a member of the Temple of Honor, and other
temperance organizations. His religious affili
ation was with the Society of Friends.
Mr. Sisson married, in Coventry, Rhode
Island, Mary Ann, born in Coventry, July 15,
18 16, died there in September, 1882, a daugh
ter of Perez and Joanna (Brown) Peck. Perry
Peck was born in Rehoboth, Massachcsetts,
September 14, 1786, and settled in Coventry in
1805. There he became one of the first manu
facturers of cotton machinery in New England.
Children of Mr. and. Mrs. Sisson: An infant.

which died unnamed; Harriet P., born May
25, 1845, died August 10, 1846; Charles, of
further mention; Emily, born January 15,
1856, married Willis H. White, secretary and
assistant treasurer of the Hope Webbing Com
pany, and resides in Providence.
(VIII) Charles, son of Asa and Mary Ann
(Peck) Sisson, was born in Coventry, Rhode
Island, September 7, 1847. His early educa
tion was accjuired in the schools of Coventry,
and it was completed in the Friends' School
in Providence, from which he was graduated
in. the class of 1866. His entrance into the
business world was as bookkeeper for Vaughan
& Greene, who had just commenced the manu
facture of webbing at Hamilton, Rhode Island.
Ambitious and industrious, and endowed with
great natural capacity, it was but a short time
before he had thoroughly mastered all the de
tails of this business, and was advanced to the
position of superintendent of the works, an
office he held with that firm, and its successors,
The Hamilton Web Company, until 1883, when
he removed to Providence. In Providence he
associated himself with Oscar A. Steere in
the establishment of the Hope Webbing Com
pany, on Sprague street. This business was
incorporated in 1889, and in 1890 removed to
Main street, Pawtucket, where it occupied the
large plant which had been erected for its
accommodation. For a time Mr. Sisson was
president of this company, but resigned from
this office in order to assume the duties of
treasurer, an office he filled with the executive
ability so characteristic of the man until 1909,
when he resigned, but has continued to serve
the company as general manager. From the
outset 'he has been the leading spirit in this
corporation, which is the largest of its kind in
the world. Their products are in demand in
the markets throughout the world, their out
put comprising more than thirty thousand pat
terns. In spite of the manifold demands made
upon his time by his duties in connection with
this plant Mr. Sisson, by reason of his sys
tematic and methodical manner of conducting
his business affairs, has been actively con
nected in an official capacity with a number of
other enterprises, among them being the fol
lowing: President of the Frank Mossberg
Company, of Attleboro, Massachusetts; the
Narragansett Textile Company, of Pawtucket ;
the Eastern Machine and Stamping Company,
of Providence; member of the board of man
agers of the Pawtucket Branch of the Indus
trial Trust Company, previous to which he
was a director of the Pacific National Bank of
Pawtucket, which was absorbed by the Indus
trial Trust Company; member of the board of

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directors of the United National Bank of
Providence, having originally been vice-presi
dent of the National Eagle Bank, prior to its
consolidation with the United National Bank.
In the public life of the community Mr. Sis
son has also made his mark. In national
affairs he gives his support to the Republican
party, but in those of a local nature he casts
his vote for the candidate he thinks best fitted
to occupy the office to be filled, regardless of
partisanship. He has served as a member of
the town council of North Kingstown, being
chosen president of that body in 1881. The
cause of education has always had his hearty
support, and he was chairman of the school
committee of North Kingstown from 1875 to
1883. In Providence he was chosen to repre
sent the second ward in the " city council in
1896, served as a member of that body until
1904, when he was elected alderman, and
served one term in that office. In 1906 he was
the candidate of the Democrat and Lincoln
party for the office of lieutenant-governor of
the state, and was also endorsed for this office
by the Prohibition party. He was again the
Democratic candidate for the office of lieu
tenant-governor in 1907, at which election he
received 31,207 votes, coming within nine
votes of being the successful candidate. The
cause of temperance found in him an active
champion, and he was at one time a member
of the Temple of Honor and the Sons of
Temperance. He was president of the Provi
dence Education Association for a period of
three years, and has been a member of the
committee in charge of the Moses Brown (for
merly Friends') School since 1892. As a
member of the Rhode Island Historical Soci
ety he has also rendered valuable service.
Since 1896 he has been living in the fine resi
dence he had erected at the corner of Doyle
and Hope streets.
Mr. Sisson married, in New York, October
4, 1888, Elizabeth Davies Eyre, born Septem
ber 13, 1856, of Philadelphia, daughter of
Joshua and Anna R. Eyre, and they have had
children: Charles P., born February 9, 1890;
Russell E., born August 4, 1891 ; Hope, born
January 21, 1893; Ruth, born February 10,
1894; Alice, born February 27, 1895, died
October 25, 1896; William E., born February
2, 18 "

The name is spelled in a vari-
PHILLIPS ety of forms, and is of ancient
and classical origin, being de
rived from the Greek Philos-hippos, or horse
lover. In Wales and other parts of Great
Britain its use as a surname has continued for
a long period, evidently for five hundred years,

and perhaps much longer. Families and in
dividuals of this name began to emigrate from
the Old World at a very early date in the his
tory of this country, as early as 1630, and some
a little earlier, and located at different points
near the seacoast, but more especially in New
England. From that time to the present they
have continued to multiply and spread, by
natural causes and by emigration, until now
they are to be found in every state from Maine
to California. A recent writer has said: "A
Phillips crossed the water with John Win
throp, and from him descended a long line of
ministers, judges, governors, and councilors —
a sterling race, temperate, just, and high-
minded." This referred to Rev. George Phil
lips, of Watertown, Massachusetts, from
whom are descended five divisions of this fam
ily, so marked by long continued residence in
particular localities, that they might well be
designated as distinctive branches. From this
"earliest advocate of the Congregational order
and discipline," have sprung men who have
stood at the head of great financial institutions,
honored each of the learned professions, and
taken front rank as patriots, leaders and bene
factors of mankind. As promoters of learn
ing they stand in the front rank of the earlier
XTew England history. Hon. Samuel Phillips,
Hon. John Phillips and Judge Samuel Phillips
founded Phillips Academy at Andover, which
was incorporated by an act of the legislature
in 1780, being the first academy so incorpor
ated in America. Six months later Dr. John
Phillips, of Exeter, secured the incorporation
of Phillips Exeter Academy. "In Brechin Hall
at Andover, the library of the theological
school, in the great halls of the academies at
Andover and Exeter, and in Memorial Hall
at Harvard College, one may see hanging upon
the wall portraits of one and another man and
woman of this family, which belongs among
the untitled nobility of New England, repre
senting the best element of life there — not that
which always dwells in the brightest glare of
publicity, but that which directs and shapes
the current of public opinion." As above
noted, the emigration of people of this name
has continued down to recent times, and the
family described. below has only two genera
tions in this country.
(I) John Phillips, born 1740, resided in the
vioinity of Manchester, England, where he
died in 1800.
(II) George, son of John Phillips, born
1764, had a wife Mary, and died in 1815.
(Ill) Thomas, son of George and Mary
Phillips, was born 1800, in Manchester, and
came to this country with his wife Ann about
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subsequently located at Providence, Rhode
Island, where he died in 1871. Pie engaged in
manufacturing at Providence, turning out
machinery for bleaching, dyeing and finishing
cotton goods, and also plumbers' and steam-
fitters' supplies. His establishment was located
on South Main street, with a partner, the busi
ness being conducted under the name of Calder
& Phillips, first established in 1804 by Josiah
Keene, who sold out to Calder & Phillips in
1840. In 1853 Thomas Phillips purchased the
interest of his partner, becoming the sole
owner, and soon after admitted his sons to
partnership, and the business was conducted
by Thomas Phillips & Sons until his death, in
1871. Children: Thomas, born in Manches
ter; William H, born in New York City;
George R., mentioned below ; and five daugh
ters, born in Providence.
(IV) George Rawlinson, third son of
Thomas and Ann Phillips, was born March 4,
1833, in Providence, and was educated in the
public schools of the city. He began his busi
ness career as clerk in a dry goods house in
Providence, where he continued until 1855,
when he entered the employ of his father, and
for ten years before the death of the latter was
the active manager of the firm of Thomas
Phillips & Sons. The plant covered an entire
square bounded by Benefit, Pike, Traverse and
Lockmorten streets, and under the manage
ment of George R. Phillips was developed until
it became one of the most extensive in its line
in the United States, employing at home up
wards of three hundred people. Many im
provements were made in the methods of
manufacturing, and in 1891 the business was
incorporated- under the name of the Thomas
Phillips Company, with a capital of $100,000.
George C. Phillips, only son of George R. Phil
lips, became president and treasurer, and con
tinued as such until it was sold out in 1902,
becoming a part of the Textile Finishing Ma
chinery Company. Mr. George R. Phillips
gave close attention to the development of this
business, and- during the forty years of his
management it prospered and grew. He was
one of the leading citizens of Providence, and
took an interest in the development and prog
ress of the city and its people and institutions.
For twelve years he represented the fourth
ward in the city council. From 1880 to 1888
he was a member of the Squantum Association
and its president for one year of that time.
He was a member of the First Light Infantry,
a militia organization, and when the Veteran
Association was formed he became a member
of that society. He was a member of the
Water Witch Hand Engine Company, in whose
affairs he took an active interest, and was also

a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and
a leading spirit in St. James Church of Provi
dence. He died at his home in Providen.ce,
February 9, 1904. He married, January 27,
1857, Lucy Tiffany Burke, daughter of Rhodes
and Susan R. (Briggs) Burke, of Providence
(see Burke III and Rhodes VII). Their only
son, George C. Phillips, is now engaged in
business in Providence. He married Miss
Thurber. (The Burke Line).
There is an old New England family of this
name still planted in Massachusetts, and it
seems probable that this family is connected
therewith, but the faulty records of Rhode
Island afford us no clue as to the connection.
(I) William Burke was a resident of War
wick, Rhode Island, and had children : Mary,
married Benjamin Carpenter ; Richard, mar
ried Mary Greene ; Seth, of whom further ;
Edmund, married Betsey Taylor ; Christopher,
married Elizabeth Millard ; William, married
Polly Greene.
(II) Captain Seth Burke, second son of
William Burke, was a sea captain, making his
home in the town of Warwick, and later in
Providence. He married, May 26, 1795, in
Warwick, Lucy Tiffany, born September 3,
1769, in Warwick, daughter of Thomas and
Waite (Arnold) Tiffany, of Warwick (see
Tiffany IV). Children: Rhodes, mentioned
below ; Betsey Tiffany, born March 8, 1800,
died 1816; Horatio, February 15, 1803, died
June 7, 1898; William, July 18, 1805; Europy,
April 26, 1808, married Alexander Allen ; Seth
Chase, May 6, 1810; Lucy Tiffany, January
16, 1813.
(Ill) Rhodes Burke, eldest child of Cap
tain Seth and Lucy (Tiffany) Burke, was born
May 19, 1797, in Warwick, where he grew
up and received his primary education. He
settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, where he
was associated with the Aborns as superin
tendent of their cotton mill. Later he engaged
in business with his brother, Horatio Burke,
in Providence. Rhodes Burke was a well-
known citizen of Providence, highly esteemed
as a man of ability and moral worth. While
residing in Warwick, in 1819, he was ensign
of the Kentish Artillery, a militia organiza
tion of the state. He was second lieutenant in
1820-21-22, and captain in 1823-24. In 1839-
40 and 1841 he was one of the notaries of
Kent county. He died January 5, 1857. He
married Susan Rhodes Briggs, born August
20 1799 in Warwick, died December 21, 1868,
eldest child of Samuel and Anne (or Nancy)
(Rhodes) Briggs, of that town (see Briggs
VI) Children: Ann Elizabeth, born Septem
ber 14 1823; William Rhodes, December 7,

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1824; Daniel Briggs, March 5, 1826; Susan
Rhodes, December 10, 1827; Isaac Saunders,
August- 15, 1829 ; Lucy Tiffany, mentioned be
low ; Albert, October 8, 1834; Mary Harris,
February 21, 1836; Theresa, November 14,
1837; Lorania, October 3, 1839; Lydia, July
19, 1842; Georgianna J., January 17, 1845.
(IV) Lucy Tiffany, third daughter of
Rhodes and Susan Rhodes (Briggs) Burke,
was bora February 5, 1831, in Warwick, and
became the wife of George R. Phillips, of
Providence (see Phillips IV).
(The Briggs Line).
(I) John Briggs, of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, was born 1609, and died 1690. His
wife, whose name is not of record, died in the
same year. He was admitted an inhabitant of
the island 'of Aquidneck (Rhode Island) in
1638, signed the compact for a form' of gov
ernment April 30, 1639, and was made a free
man March 16, 1641. He was appointed in
spector of arms October 5, 1643, was assistant
in 1648, and licensed to keep an ordinary in
1649. August 31, 1654, he was appointed a
commissioner to arrange a union of the four
towns, was commissioner of the colony in
1654-55-56, 1659, 1661-62-63, having been
made freeman of the colony in 1655, and was
deputy to the general court in 1664-65-66 and
1668-69. He purchased the house and lot of
John Hall, in Portsmouth, August 24, 1646,
and for forty-two pounds a share in Dart
mouth, October 6, 1662. He deeded to his son,
Thomas, one-fourth of the Dartmouth land
(thirty-five acres), March 1, 1679, and one-
half share to his eldest son John, October 14
following. His son Enoch inherited the home
stead and estates. Children: John, mentioned
below; Thomas, died June 12, 1720; William.
born 1650; Susannah, married a Northaway ;
Job. died 1733; Enoch, died 1734.
(II) John (2), eldest child of John (1)
Briggs, was born 1642, in Portsmouth, and
resided in Warwick and Kingstown, dying in
the latter town in 1697. He was clerk of a
military company there May 20, 1671, took the
oath of allegiance on the same date, was made
a freeman in 1673, and was constable in 1687.
He was one of the six purchasers of a tract of
land in Narragansett in 1672. His home was
probably on the border of Warwick and
Kingstown, as he is sometimes called of the
former town. He married Frances, daughter
of Edward Fisher, of Portsmouth ; she died in
the same year as himself. Children: John,
born February 25, 1668; James, mentioned be
low; Frances, February 26, 1673, died 1693;
Richard, February 1, 1675; Robert, November

13, 1678; Mary, September 27, 1681 ; Ann,
September 2, 1683; Sarah, April 12, 1685.
(Ill) James, second son of John (2) and
Frances (Fisher) Briggs, was born February
12, 1670, in Kingstown, and does not appear
of record thereafter. It is pretty certain that
Job Briggs was either a son of this James, or
of his brother John, who died in 1747, was a
freeman in North Kingstown in 1712. His
will, proved February 8, 1747, left estate to his
wife Sarah, son Ebenezer, daughters Sarah
Smith, Mary Fowler and Deliverance Briggs,
and granddaughter Waite Briggs.
(IV) Job Briggs, born about 1700, resided
in Warwick. The records disclose nothing
further concerning him.
(V) Joseph, son of Job Briggs, so described
in his marriage record, married in Warwick,
Xtovember 26, 1767, Lydia Miller, born July
18, 1747, daughter of Nathaniel and Barbara
Miller. The last-named was a Widow Bowen
at the time of her marriage to Nathaniel, and
her maiden name cannot be discovered. Chil
dren: Almy, born February 1, 1770; James,
October 11, 1771 ; Samuel, mentioned below;
John, August 11, 1776; Joseph, August 14,
1778; Miller, December 16, 1780; Lydia, De
cember 10, 1782; Lydia, December 10, 1782;
Xrathaniel, February 11, 1785; Amos, July 10,
1787; Betsey, May 17, 1789; Catherine, April
20, 1794.
(VI) Captain Samuel, second son of Joseph
and Lydia (Miller) Briggs, was born January
1, 1774, in Warwick, and married in that town,
May 3, 1798, Nancy Rhodes, born February
18, 1774, daughter of Holden (2) and Sus
anna (Wall) Rhodes, of that town (see
Rhodes V). Children: Sukey (Susan)
Rhodes, mentioned below ; Wanton Rhodes,
September 5, 1801 ; Daniel Remington, Sep
tember 27, 1803; Betsey, December 3, 1805;
Lydia, August 21, 1808; Samuel, February 21,
181 1 ; Warren, September 4, 1813; Mary Ann,
May 13, 1816.
(VII) Susan Rhodes, eldest child of Sam
uel and Nancy (Rhodes) Briggs, was born
August 20, 1709, in Warwick, and became the
wife of Rhodes Burke, of Scituate and Provi
dence (see Burke III).
(The Rhodes Line).
(I) Zachariah Rhodes, born 1602-03, was
one of the fifty-eight inhabitants of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, in 1643, when his estate was
rated at fifty pounds. He drew a share in the
woodlands of that town, June 30, 1644, signed
the compact for government July 3 of the same
year, was propounded for freeman, June 4,
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in that year and 1647, He was on a commit
tee appointed August 21, 1648, by the author
ities of Massachusetts, to estimate the damage
to Ponham in the Indian wars and demand
redress. In 1650 he was in Providence, where
he was taxed one pound September 26 of that
year, and was freeman May 18, 1688. He
was at Pawtuxet, in the town of Warwick,
June 1 of that last-named year, when he signed
a petition to be released from the jurisdiction
of Massachusetts. He was constable in 1660,
commissioner in 1659-61-62-63, and in 1663
on a committee to agree with the Indians in
confirmation of previous purchases made from
them. In 1664 he was on a commission to run
the Plymouth colony line, was deputy in 1664-
65, town treasurer, and member of the town
council in the latter year. October 11, 1665,
he was committed by the general court for say
ing: "The court has not to do in matters of
religion." He was drowned off the Pawtuxet
shore about the close of the year 1666. His
will, made April 28, 1662, disposed of a large
property, including lands in Rehoboth and
Warwick. He married, in 1646, Joanna
Arnold, born February 17, 1617, died 1692,
daughter of William and Christian (Peake)
Arnold. She married (second) January 1,
1667, Samuel Reape. Children: Jeremiah,
born June 24, 1647 ; Mary, married, in 1675,
John Low; Rebecca, died 1727; John, men
tioned below; Peleg, died October 6, 1724.
(II) John, son of Zachariah and Joanna
(Arnold) Rhodes, was born 1658, and died
August 14, 1716, in Warwick. He married,
February 12, 1685, Waite Waterman, born
1668, died 171 1, daughter of Resolved and
Mercy (Williams) Waterman. His second
wife, Sarah, born 1663, died March 30, 1730.
Children : Zachariah, born November 5, 1687 ;
Mercy, November 20, 1689; John, mentioned
below; Joseph, September 25, 1693; William,
July 14, 1695 ; Phebe, March 30, 1698 ; Re
solved, May 22, 1702; Waite, December 16,
1703- (III) Major John (2) Rhodes, second son of
John (1) and Waite (Waterman) Rhodes, was
born November 20, 1691, in Warwick, and died
there in 1776. He was a freeman in 1716,
deputy in 1731, 1735, 1742-43-44, I75L J753-
S4-S5, and many years a major of the local
militia. The inventory of his estate amounted
to £94 18s. 3)/2d, including much silver and
three books. He married (first) April 29,
1714, Catherine Holden, who died July 25,
1731,. daughter of Charles and Catherine
(Greene) Holden. He married (second)
Widow Mary Whipple. There was one child
of the second marriage : James, born March

3L 1734- Those of the first marriage were-
Waite, born December 29, 1714; John, May
5, 1716; Catherine, August 1, 1717; Charles,
September 29, 1719; Mercy, March 29, 1721J
Anthony, May 29, 1722; Joseph, August 22,
1723; Zachariah, September 8, 1727; Holden,
mentioned below.
(IV) Plolden, sixth son of Major John (2)
and Catherine (Plolden) Rhodes, was born
May 20, 1731, in Warwick, and died there in
1774. He married Mary Remington, born
August 17, 1725, daughter of Daniel and Ann
(Gorton) Remington. They had but one
child. (V) Holden (2), son of Holden (1) and
Mary (Remington) Rhodes, was born Sep
tember 22, 1750, in Warwick, and died Febru
ary 1, 1809. He married, March 12, 1769,
Susanna Wall, born 1750, died March 16,
1800, daughter of John and Patience (Pierce)
Wall. Children: Mary, born March 21, 1769;
Holden, June 10, 1771 ; Anne or Nancy, men
tioned below; Isaac, March 22, 1777; Daniel
Remington, June 4, 1782; Zachariah, May 20,
1784; Wanton, May 22, 1786; Samuel and
Remington (twins), September 28, 1788;
Perry, March 25, 1792.
(VI) Anne or Xancy, second daughter of
Holden (2) and Susanna (Wall) Rhodes, was
born February 18, 1774, in Warwick, and be
came the wife of Samuel Briggs, of that town
(see Briggs VI). (The Tiffany Line).
For nearly two hundred and fifty years the
Tiffany family has been associated with the
region of country embracing the county of
Bristol, Rhode Island. Long years of faith
ful service to church and town from genera
tion to generation have been marked family
characteristics. (I) Humphrey Tiffany, probably the ances
tor of most of that name, came to Massachu
setts about 1660, and was a citizen of Reho
both as early as January 22, 1663. His home
was in that part of Rehoboth which is now
Swansea, and he was killed by lightning, July
15, 1685, while on a journey from Swansea
to Boston. He was survived by his wife Eliz
abeth, who became executrix of his estate. The
records of Swansea show that he had a daugh
ter Sarah, born July 6, 1683, in that town.
Other known children were : James, Thomas,
Ebenezer, Consider and Hezekiah. The last-
named was drowned December 4, 1685.
(II) James, son of Humphrey and Eliza
beth Tiffany, resided in Swansea until 1690,
when he removed to Attleboro, Massachusetts.
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a house, that remained standing until within
a few years, and in this many generations of
Tiffanys have been born and died. His will,
made June 28, 1732, was proved July 26, of
the same year, and disposed of considerable
property, although he had already bestowed
much upon his sons. At that time he possessed
one hundred acres of land in Ashford, Con
necticut. His first wife, Bethiah, died in Attle
boro, February 27, 171 1, and his second wife,
Elizabeth, survived him and was executrix of
his will. She married (second) March 16,
1734, Andrew Grover, of Norton, Massachu
setts. Children of first marriage: Elizabeth,
born April 16, 1689; Joseph, about 1693;
James, 1697; Samuel, 1701 ; Benjamin, men
tioned below; Ann, 1703; Rebecca, 1704;
Sarah, 1705; Mary, 1706; Martha, 1707;
Lydia, 1708; Bathsheba, 1709; John, Septem
ber 1, 1710. Children of second marriage,
born in Attleboro: Jonathan, June 21, 1714;
Keziah, July 29, 1716 ; Alethia, June 26, 1718;
Noah, February 24, 1720.
(Ill) Benjamin, fourth son of James and
Bethiah Tiffany, was born in 1702, in Attle
boro, and removed, about 1734-35, to War
wick, Rhode Island, where he purchased land,
January 23, 1737. Four years later the west
ern part of this town was set off as the town
of Coventry, including Benjamin Tiffany's
home. He was made a freeman of the colony
by the colonial legislature at Newport, May
2, 1738. His home was probably in the border
of East Greenwich. His wife's name was
Elizabeth, and their children, recorded in East
Greenwich, were : Stephen, born September
29, 1775 ; James, December 26, 1737. Recorded
in Warwick : Thomas, mentioned below ; Asa,
1743; Benjamin, 1745. The fourth is recorded
in Coventry.
(IV) Thomas, third son of Benjamin and
Elizabeth Tiffany, was born February 3, 1739,
in Warwick, and resided in that town, where
all his children are recorded. He married,
January 2, 1763, Waite, daughter of Captain
Josiah and Elizabeth (Vaughan) Arnold, born
1739-40, died in Griswold, Connecticut, March
23, 1820. Children: James, born March 24,
1764; Elizabeth, March 20, 1766; Benjamin,
August 25, 1767; Lucy, mentioned below;
Jonathan, September 19, 1772; Deliverance,
March 17, 1774; Stephen, October 29, 1780;
Daniel, May 23, 1784.
(V) Lucy, second daughter of Thomas and
Waite (Arnold) Tiffany, was born September
3, 1769, and was married, May 26, 1795, to
Captain Seth Burke, of Providence (see Burke
II).

Robert Barker, the ancestor,
BARKER was born in 1616, and came to
this country at an early date
with John Thorp. In 1641 he was one of those
who bought from Jonathan, son of Elder
Brewster, a ferry and one hundred acres of
land at Marshfield. Later he settled in Dux
bury, Massachusetts, where he served as sur
veyor for several years. He died about 1691.
He married Lucy Williams, who died March
7, 1681 or 1682. Children: Robert, born Feb
ruary 27, 1630, died September 25, 1729;
Francis, died 1720; Isaac, mentioned below;
Abigail, died May, 1718; Rebecca, died 1697.
(II) Isaac Barker, son of Robert Barker,
was a surveyor of Duxbury in 1674, and a
constable in 1687. He married, December 8,
1685, Judith, daughter of Governor Thomas
and Mary (Collier) Prince. In i7iohis widow
married William Tubbs, of Pembroke. Chil
dren: Samuel, born September 2, 1667, died
February 1, 1738-39; Isaac, mentioned below;
Robert, born 1673, died September 6, 1765;
Jabez; Francis; Rebecca; Mary; Lydia; Ju
dith; Martha; Bathsheba.
(Ill) Isaac (2) Barker, son of Isaac (1)
Barker, seems to have been a man of great
business ability, as he was interested in numer
ous enterprises, owning a grist mill on the
Herring brook, engaging in merchandising, in
farming, in laying out roads and erecting
water works. He was a great student for his
day, and was a member of the Society of
Friends. He died May 7, 1754. He married,
October 23, 1707, Elizabeth Slocum, of Dart
mouth, daughter of Peleg and Mary (Holden)
Slocum; she was born February 12, 1689, and
died August 18, 1774. Children: Mary, born
August 1, 1708, died 1788; Sylvester, born
May, 1710; Peleg, August, 1712; Prince, Feb
ruary 9, 1716, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, De
cember 9, 1719; Lydia, died August 13, 1754.
(IV) Prince Barker, son of Isaac (2)
Barker, was born February 9, 1716, and died
January 27, 1784. He married, November 6,
1746, Abigail Keen, of Pembroke, daughter of
Benjamin and Deborah (Barker) Keen; she
was born February 6, 1721, and died Septem
ber 2, 1790. Prince Barker was a very hos
pitable man and was noted for his honesty.
Children: Prince, born October 26, 1747;
Isaac, May 1, 1749; Abigail, January 29, 1751 ;
Deborah, January 29, 1753; Benjamin, No
vember 30, 1756, mentioned below.
(V) Benjamin Barker, son of Prince
Barker, was born November 30, 1756, and was
a prominent and wealthy man. In 1773 he
took half the Barker fulling mill, near the
homestead, and later bought the homestead and

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farm in Scituate. Also he owned considerable
property in Tiverton and was very well-to-do
when he died, June 19, 1837. He married
(first) January 31, 1785, Ann Barker, daugh
ter of Abraham and Susannah (Anthony)
Barker, of Tiverton ; she was born August 29,
1750, and died August 16, 1789. He married
(second) June 23, 1791, Rebecca Partridge,
of Boston, daughter of Captain Samuel Par
tridge; she was born in 1752, and died August
11, 1835. Children by first wife: Abraham,
mentioned below ; Susan Ann, born April 27,
1788, died March 5, 1861. By the second
wife: Samuel Partridge, born August 2, 1792,
died in far west.
(VI) Abraham Barker, son of Benjamin
Barker, was born November 16, 1786, and died
February 24, 1855. He married, January 7,
1819, Margaret Buffum, daughter of David
and Hepsibah (Mitchell) Buffum; she was
born at Newport, Rhode Island, August 27,
1785, and died November 4, 1839. Children :
Eleanor, born December 4, 1820; Benjamin;
Abraham Thomas, born July 7, 1824, died
November 29, 1869; Elizabeth Huntington,
born August 11, 1826, died May 8, 1900; Mar
garet Buffum, born April 9, 1829; Anne, born
July 20, 1832, died December 15, 1857.
(VII) Benjamin (2) Barker, son of Abra
ham Barker, was born September 24, 1822,
and died April 14, 1897. He lived in Tiver
ton and was extensively engaged in the lum
ber business. He was highly honored and re
spected by those who knew him. He married,
December 1, 1847, Catherine Jackson Dennis,
daughter of James and Hannah (Jackson)
Dennis, of Cranston, Rhode Island. She was
born December 7, 1829. Children: Richard
Jackson, mentioned below; William Herbert,
born October 4, 1855, died January 20, 1857 ;
Benjamin, born July 19, 1858; Catherine
Wheaton, born January 25, 1863, married Eff
ingham C. Haight of Fall River.
(VIII) Richard Jackson Barker, son of
Benjamin (2) Barker, was born at Tiverton,
Rhode Island, January 27, 1849. He was
educated at the Friends' School in Providence,
the Englewood Military Academy at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, and the Rensselaer In
stitute, Troy, New York. He was appointed
judge advocate of the First Brigade, Rhode
Island militia, by General Burnside, when he
was but eighteen years old, and served on his
staff. He has always been a prominent lum
ber dealer in Fall River, Massachusetts, and
his son is in partnership with him. He is
also prominent in financial circles. He was
the founder and first president of the Warren
Trust Company. In politics he is a Democrat.
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Pie has been president of the town council of
Tiverton, where he resides, and he has twice
been candidate of his party for the state sen
ate from Warren, Rhode Island. He mar
ried, October 9, 1873, Eliza Plarris Lawton of
Tiverton, (see Lawton line). She completed
her school life at Vassar College. She has
always taken a keen interest in educational mat
ters, and was elected to the school committee
of Tiverton, and has been chairman for the
past twenty-two years. She was historian of
the Society of Colonial Dames of Rhode Is
land. She was regent of the Gaspee Chapter,
Daughters of the Revolution, of Providence,
and the only regent of that chapter not a resi
dent of the city, having been historian, serv
ing the chapter and as an officer for fourteen
years. She has been vice-president general of
the national organization, elected by a large
majority at the National Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution at
Washington in April, 1906. When she re
signed as regent to accept the national office,
she was given a beautiful silver-mounted gavel
made of wood from the old Gaspee room. She
is honorary state regent of Rhode Island, and
of several Massachusetts chapters. She has
been chairman of the magazine committee of
the national society, chairman of the furnish
ing committee, member of the auditing com
mittee, and the Continental Hall committee.
She was chairman for Xew England of the
D. A. R. exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition.
For four years she was state historian of the
Rhode Island Society, and for thirteen years
chairman of the Gaspee prize committee. She
is state regent of the Pocahontas Memorial
Association, and vice-president of the Rhode
Island Institute of Instruction. She was one
of the chairmen of the Rhode Island Sanitary
Relief Association during the Spanish war,
and commissioner of the Atlanta Exposition.
She is also a member of the Old Colony His
torical Society, vice-president of the Tiver
ton branch of the Rhode Island Anti-tuber
culosis Society and on the board of directors
of the Rhode Island State Society, and of the
Virginia Society for the Preservation of An
tiquities, honorable vice-president of the
Rhode Island Peace Society, a director in the
Woman's Union, Fall River, and on the board
of the AYoman's Exchange, and on the board of
managers of the Woman's Board of the Union
Hospital Fall River. Mrs. Barker possesses
great executive ability and is a graceful pre
siding officer and a ready public speaker
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Barker, The
Outlook" has an ideal location overlooking
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try about Mount Hope Bay. The grounds
are artistically laid out and the mansion _ is
beautifully appointed. They have a magnifi
cent library and have collected treasures of
art from all parts of the world. A collection
of more than 11,000 book-plates, said to be
one of the finest in this country, was exhibited
by Mrs. Barker at the Atlanta Exposition.
Mr. and Mrs. Barker had one child, Richard
Jackson, mentioned below.
(IX) Richard Jackson Barker, son of
Richard Jackson Barker, was born May 22,
1875, at Tiverton. He attended private schools
in Fall River and at Atlanta, Georgia, and the
English and Classical School, Providence,
where he graduated with honors. He
completed his education at Brown University,
and is now associated in business with his
father at Fall River. He is a member of the
Fall River Lodge, Free Masons, of the Que-
quechan Club, Sons of Brown and the Uni
versity Club, and is an extremely popular man
in the younger financial and social circles in
Fall River. (The Lawton Line).
(I) George Lawton, the early ancestor,
was among the first settlers at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, being admitted an inhabitant
of the island of Aquidneck in 1638. He was a
descendant of Admiral George Lawton, of the
Royal Navy. In 1639 he was one of the twenty-
nine persons who signed the compact for a
body politic. In 1648 he received a grant of
forty acres near that of his brother Thomas,
and the same year he was a member of the
court of trials. In 1655 ne was admitted
freeman, and was deputy from Portsmouth
in 1665-72-75-76-79^80. He was assistant in
1680-81-82-83-84-85-88-89-90. He also held
many other important positions, showing his
capability and prominence in the colony. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and
Martha Hazard, and he died October 5, 1693,
being buried in his orchard. Children : Isabel,
John, Mary, George, mentioned below ; Robert,
Susanna, Ruth, Mercy, Job, Elizabeth.
(II) George (2) Lawton, son of George
(1) Lawton, married, January 17, 1677, Na
omi, daughter of Bartholomew and Ann Hunt,
and lived in Portsmouth. He died September
11, 1697, and his widow married (second),
October 11, 1701, Isaac Lawton. Children:
Elizabeth, born November 15, 1678; George,
mentioned below; Robert, October 14, 1688;
Job, January 22, 1692.
^ (III) Captain George (3) Lawton, son of
George (2) Lawton, was born April 30, 1685,
and married, February 26, 1707, Mary Gould,
of Newport, the ceremony being performed

by Governor Samuel Cranston. He died April
11, 1740. Children, born in Portsmouth:
Robert, mentioned below ; George, born April
20, 1710; Job, December 28, 1712, died De
cember 11, 1713; Job, April 26, 1 717.
(IV) Robert Lawton, son of Captain
George (3) Lawton, was born February 4,
1707-08, and married, November 11, 1742,
Mary Hall, daughter of William Hall. Chil
dren, born at Portsmouth : George ; Mary,
born March 31, 1747; Elizabeth, July 4, 1750;
Phebe, March 30, 1752; Robert, March 14,
1754; William, December 26, 1755; John, No
vember 4, 1757; Ruth, May 23, 1759; Job,
May 8, 1761 ; Parker, April 7, 1764.
(V) Hon. George (4) Lawton, son of
Robert Lawton, was born April 12, 1744. He
served in the revolution in 1777, as a private
in the Rhode Island regiment commanded by
Colonel John Cook, and while the command
was on duty at Fogland Ferry, Rhode Island.
Mr. Lawton was wounded in the leg and left
arm by a cannon shot from a British ship ly
ing in the Seaconnet river. He married, April
10, 1766, Ruth Brownell. He may have mar
ried (second) Anne  . Children, born
in Portsmouth : Robert, January 22, I767;
Thomas Brownell, September 16, 1768;
George, mentioned below; Mary H., April 5,
1772; William, September 16, 1774; Joseph,
April 2, 1776; Ruth, October 17, 1786, prob
ably by second wife.
(VI) George (5) Lawton, son of George
(4) Lawton, was born June 7, 1770, and mar
ried January 31, 1808, Patience Turner,
daughter of Robert Turner. Children, born at
Portsmouth: Robert N., born October 7, 1808;
George B., May 1, 1810; William H., March
¦20, 181 2; Moses Turner, December 25, 1817.
mentioned below; Hannah Turner, married
William Bowers Brayton of Fall River.
(VII) Moses Turner Lawton, son of
George (5) Lawton, was born at Portsmouth
December 25, 1817. His father moved to Tiv
erton soon after his birth, and here he grew
up. His father was a large land owner in
Tiverton. Mr. Lawton was a Republican in
politics. "Although a man of quiet tastes, his
pleasing disposition had made many friends
for him during his life of over three score
years and ten." He married- Elizabeth Till
inghast Harris, who was one of the early
graduates of Warren Seminary, Warren,
Rhode Island. He died August 26, 1893, and
was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall
River. His wife was active in church and
educational work, being one of the first women
in the United States to be elected on a school
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Barker, now holds, the chairmanship of the
school board of Tiverton. Children: George
Robert, born December 31, 1858; Eliza Har
ris, married the Hon. Richard Jackson Barker.
(See Barker.) The Cook family of Mendon,
COOK Massachusetts, and of Cumber
land, Rhode Island, is descended
from Walter Cook (q. tv.). Lavender Cook, a
descendant of Walter Cook, was born in Men
don or vicinity. He was a shoemaker by trade
and also followed farming. He married Olive
Daniels. Children, born in Mendon : Lorin
Morris, mentioned below ; Emma ; Ada.
(II) Lorin Morris Cook, son of Lavender
Cook, was born in Mendon, Massachusetts.
He entered Brown University, from which he
was graduated in 1866 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1868. He practiced
law in Providence, Rhode Island. From 1874
to 1886, he was justice of the police court of
Providence, and he represented the city in the
general assembly of Rhode Island in 1887-88
and 1889-90. In politics he is a Democrat of
prominence in city and state. He married,
December 16, 1873, Lizzie Almena Dale Howe,
who was born October 22, 1848, daughter of
Frederic Webster and Sarah Anna (Claflin)
Howe. Her parents were married at North
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, December 16,
1847. Sarah Anna Claflin was bora at Lyme,
New Hampshire, August 26, 1829, a daughter
of Alfred Claflin, granddaughter of Allerton
Claflin, great-granddaughter of Phineas Claf
lin. Noah Claflin, father of Phineas. was son
of Antipas and grandson of Robert Claflin,
the immigrant ancestor. Robert Claflin or
Mackclothlan, the immigrant, was progenitor
of all the name. Among his descendants were
Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts, and the
great dry goods merchant, H. B. Claflin, of
New York. The family tradition supports
the belief that Robert Claflin was' a soldier in
the Scottish army, taken prisoner by Crom
well at the battle of Dunbar. Many of these
prisoners were sent to New England and were
sold for a term of years to the colonists. Rob
ert settled in Essex county, Massachusetts,
and was admitted as a townsman in Wenham,
November 4, 1661. He received a grant of
land in Wenham in 1669, and sold land there
in 1673. He held the office of highway sur
veyor. His old house was still in use at last
accounts, and at least a part of the house was
standing. Claflin married, October 14, 1664,
Joanna Warner, daughter of John of Ipswich.
Claflin died in 1690. Children, born in Wen
ham, except the second: Joanna, August 12,

<665; Robert, at Brookfield; Elizabeth, May
18, 1670; Priscilla, August 22, 1672; Daniel,
January 25, 1674; Abigail, March 19, 1676;
Mary, February 22, 1678; Antipas, 1680, an
cestor of Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Cook had a broth
er, Frederick Forrest Howe, born October 2,
1865. Children of Lorin Morris and Lizzie
Almena Dale (Howe) Cook: Maurice H,
mentioned below; Frederic Webster.
(Ill) Captain Maurice Howe Cook, son cf
Lorin Morris Cook, was born at Providence,
Rhode Island, October 21, 1874. He attended
the English and Classical School of Provi
dence and entered Brown University, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1897. For five years after
leaving college he was engaged in the manu
facture of narrow fabrics. Since 1906 he has
been a broker in Providence, dealing in in
vestment securities. In politics he is a Re
publican. He served in the Spanish war as
captain of Company B, First Regiment Rhode
Island Volunteer Infantry, in the service from
April 29, 1898, to" March 30, 1899. He had
previously served in the state militia. He is
now on the retired list of the Rhode Island
National Guard with the rank of major. In
college he joined the Zeta Psi fraternity. He
is also a member of the University Club, the
Wannamoisett Country Club and the Central
Congregational Church.
He married, April 29, 1903, at Providence,
Elizabeth Louise Day of Providence, daughter
of Henry G. and Mary Louise (Love) Day.
Her father is a wholesale grain dealer of
Providence. Besides Mrs. Cook, they had a
son, Charles Harold Day, and two other chil
dren who died young. Mr. and Mrs. Cook
have no children.

The name of Blanchard
BLANCHARD has been identified with
Rhode Island from a very
early period and seems to have been also lo
cated in adjoining towns of Connecticut. The
records of Scituate show that Joseph, son of
Nathaniel Blanchard, of Killingly, Connecti
cut, was married, November 27, 1745, in Scit
uate, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Patton,
of Canterbury, Connecticut. Moses Blanch
ard of Scituate, son of William Blanchard,
was married in Warwick, Rhode Island, Janu
ary 1 1735, to Ann, daughter of Samuel
Whaley and they had children, born in Cov
entry Connecticut: Sarah, March 28, 1743;
Moses, April 13, 1745; James. April 18, 1-747;
Samuel, August 18, 1750; Elias March 28,
1753; Tob, August 7, 1755; Ame, June 9, 1759-
It is apparent that he lived elsewhere between
1735 and 1743, or that the records of Coven-

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try fail to note all his children. Benjamin
Blanchard married in Warwick, January 8,
1740, Ann Reeves, and had two children re
corded in Coventry, Rhode Island, both
daughters. Numerous other marriages are
recorded in Rhode Island and a few births.
For instance, Richard and Mary Blanchard of
Warwick had the following children recorded :
John, born September 19, 1697; Benjamin,
November 17, 1701 ; Mary, April 21, 1706;
Timothy, probably a son of Richard and Mary,
had a daughter, Sarah, born June 25, 1728,
in Warwick. Jeremiah Blanchard married in
Coventry, February 16, 1760, Phebe Bates,
and had several children recorded in that town,
including one son, Jeremiah, born October 4,
1764. (I) Thomas Blanchard was born August
30, 1785, as shown by the family record, but
no place is indicated. He lived for a time
in Coventry, Rhode Island, where some of his
children were born, but none appear on the
Coventry vital records. He married, June 12,
1807, Polly Kennedy, born March 20, 1782,
daughter of Alexander Kennedy, of Killing
ly, Connecticut. Alexander and Mary Ann
(Edmonds) Kennedy, resided in Foster,
Rhode Island, where their son George was
born October 1, 1789. The Kennedys were
of Scotch-Irish extraction and came from
XTorthern Ireland to this country, settled in
Voluntown, Connecticut. Alexander Ken
nedy was born in that town and took an active
part in the revolutionary war, during which
he was shipwrecked on the island of Cuba.
He bought what was known as the old Ken
nedy homestead in Foster, Rhode Island, the
deed recorded February 28, 1773, witnessed
by William Brattle, of Cambridge, and An
drew Oliver, of Salem. Foster was then a
part of Scituate. Two years later, April 12,
1775, Mr. Kennedy bought additional land, a
portion from William Ellery, one of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence. This
was lot No. 13 of the Westquenauge Purchase.
He lived to the age of about eighty-seven
years, reared a family of six sons and six
daughters, and is described as a very careful
and shrewd business man. His wife, Mary
Ann (Edmonds) died in June, 1820, aged
eighty-four years, and was buried at the "Line
Store." She came from Griswold, Connecti
cut. Children of Thomas and Polly Blanch
ard: Eliza, bom December 1, 1808; Gilbert
P., May 29, 1810; Erastus Edmund, mention
ed below; Otis, died young; Otis B., Feb
ruary 17, 1816, married, December 19, 1839,
Louisa Martin; Plorace, December 31, 1817,
married (first). May 20, 1845, Sarah Waite,
and (second), May 20, 1864, Ellen Bridgham ;

Simon, April 1, 1819; Matthew A., July 13,
1822, married (first), November 24, 1844,
Amanda Cooper, (second) Ida E. Wilson.
Thomas Blanchard married (second), August
22, 1842, Lucy A. Cook.
(II) Erastus Edmund, second son of
Thomas and Polly (Kennedy) Blanchard, was
born February 23, 1812, in Coventry, Rhode
Island, according to the Providence death rec
ords. He lived for a period in Worcester
county, Massachusetts, as did others- of the
Foster Blanchard family, later in the town of
Burrillville, Rhode Island. He finally settled
in Providence, Rhode Island, and was for
some time employed as traveling salesman by
an oil firm in that city, visiting the principal
towns in the New England states, the state of
New York, and going as far west as Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania. After a quarter of a
century of commercial traveling he retired on
account of declining health, and made his
home in Providence until he died, April 16,
1894, and was buried in the North End Ceme
tery. He was a member of the Roger Wil
liams Free Will Baptist Church, and political
ly a Republican. He married, March 20, 1836,
Elizabeth Jones Aldrich, born in Smithfield
01 Burrillville, daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Jones) Aldrich, of Burrillville, (see Aldrich
VI). She died October 3, 1894, and was
buried beside her husband. She was a member
of the same church. Of their six children
three died in- childhood. One son, Henry T.
Blanchard, was a soldier of the civil war, and
was killed in the battle of the Wilderness.
Plorace Kennedy, the second' son, is mentioned
at length below. The third who grew to adult
life is Mary Elizabeth, who now resides on
Plarrison street in Providence, a member of
the Baptist church and Sunday school.
(Ill) Horace Kennedy, second son of Eras
tus Edmund and Elizabeth J. (Aldrich) Blan
chard, was born March 1, 1844, in Worcester,
Massachusetts, where he attended school un
til fourteen years old, when his parents located
in Providence. There he continued his studies
in the public and high schools, and was a stu
dent of the classical department of the high
school when he left to enlist as a soldier of
the civil war. In 1862 he became a member
of Company B, Tenth Regiment, Rhode Is
land Volunteers, commanded by Captain
Elisha Dyer, in which he served until the regi
ment was discharged from the service. Re
turning to Rhode Island he entered the Scho
field Business College, where he obtained a
commercial education, and soon after took
employment with L. D. Anthony & Com
pany of Providence, dealers in fancy goods,
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year, with others, he engaged in the same line
of business, forming the copartnership of
Murray, Spink & Company, which was later
known as Murray, Blanchard & Young, and
subsequently Blanchard, Young & Company
of which Mr. Blanchard was the senior part
ner at the time of his death. He spent the
evening of Sunday, December 9, 1906, with
his sister, Mary Elizabeth Blanchard, on Har
rison street, and on his way home was taken
Jll, and passed away while being carried to
his home. His remains were laid to rest in
the North Burying Ground. He was a stanch
Republican, served as a member of the city
council from the eighth ward from 1891 to
1897, during which time he was chairman of
several of the important committees, and was
highly esteemed by his associates. Mr. Blan
chard was made a Mason in 1871, in which
year he received the degrees in What Cheer
Lodge No. 21 of Providence. He entered the
lodge April 21, 1871, and received the Fellow
Craft and Master Masons degrees during the
following month. After serving in several
subordinate offices he was elected master of
the lodge in Xovember, 1878, and filled that
office one year. In the following year he was
elected senior warden, but acted as master
during the absence of Hon. Nelson W. Al
drich, who was then a representative in con
gress. Following that time Mr. Blanchard
served the lodge and the grand lodge of the
state on many committees. He was made a
Royal Arch Mason in June, 1872,. in Provi
dence Chapter Xo. 1, and in 1880 was elected
high priest of the chapter, which office he filled
two years. In the Grand Royal Arch Chapter
of Rhode Island he was elected Grand King
in 1889 and 1890; deputy grand high priest in
1891 and 1892, and most eminent grand high
priest in 1893. Following 1887 he was the
representative of the Grand Chapter to Xew
York. The degree of Royal and Select Mas
ter was conferred on him in 1872 in Provi
dence Council No. 1, Royal and Select Mas
ters, and he was elected thrice illustrious mas
ter of the council in 1880. In the Grand Coun
cil he was appointed general lecturer in the
same year, and M. I. Grand Master in 1887.
He was knighted October 1, 1872, in Calvary
Commandery No. 13, K. T. of Providence;
was elected junior warden in 1875, senior war
den in 1876, and reached the office of eminent
commander in 1880 and 1881, being one of the
three to hold this last office for two consecu
tive terms. He took the thirty-second degree
in the Scottish Rite Masonry in 1891, and held
membership in several bodies in Providence
under the northern jurisdiction. In 1889 he
joined Palestine Temple, A. A. O. X. of the

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Mystic Shrine, and was elected potentate in
December, 1906. He represented Palestine
I eniple m the Imperial Council of the Order
ol rsorth America for nine successive years
and part of that time held office in the Impe
rial Council. Mr. Blanchard was anointed and
consecrated to the Holy Order of High Priest
hood in Providence in 1897, and at the organ
ization of the Rhode Island Convention of
Anointed High Priests was chosen its treas
urer. He was very highly esteemed in the
Order, and the Monthly Magazine, issued by
What Cheer Lodge, said of him: "Horace
Kennedy Blanchard had many friends. Few
men have more. They were loyal friends, too.
1 hey knew the sincerity of his friendship, and
that it was backed by a discriminating judg
ment, and so they returned unselfish friend
ship in kind. Brother Blanchard will be sadly
missed. Not alone in the home he loved and
where the sorrow is deepest, but in the com
munity where he has lived and was so well
known; throughout the city itself, in the ser
vice of which he had given his wise counsels ;
and in the business which had always received
his closest attention. Especially will his loss
be felt in Masonic circles, where no one, per
haps was better known to the fraternity in
Providence than he. For more than thirty-five
years he has been giving freely of his time,
and the advice and assistance gained by his
long years oi experience was ever being sought
after and was always cheerfully given, with
out show of arrogance or ostentation, for he
was neither a lover of display nor a believer
in shams." He married, May 17, 1876, Caro
line Potter Hill, born in Plainfield, Connecti
cut, daughter of Edward Eddy and Julia Be
thiah (Shepard) Hill. There were two .chil
dren of this marriage, the younger, Maude
Caroline, died in infancy. Mrs. Blanchard
resides on University avenue in Providence,
and spends her summers at Plainfield, Con
necticut, with her sister, Mrs. Andrews. She
is. a member of Gaspee Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, of Providence,
which she has 1 epresented as a delegate to the
National Continental Congress of that body in
Washington. She is also a member of the
Providence Mothers' Club, and of the Cen
tral Baptist Church of Providence, where her
many good works have endeared her to her
associates and many friends.
Mrs. Blanchard and her sister, Mrs.
Andrews, are both members of the Society of
the Founders of Norwich, Connecticut, num
bering among their forebears a number of the
founders of that town. Among their colonial
ancestors may be mentioned the following
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Josiah Winslow, Thomas Bourne, Lieutenant
William Pratt, Lieutenant Thomas Tracy,
Simon Huntington, Richard Bushnell, Major
Thomas Leonard, John Clark, Lieutenant
Thomas Leffingwell, Captain William French,
Captain Richard Brackett, Lieutenant Wil
liam Backus, Lieutenant Joseph Backus, Ralph
Shepard, Lieutenant Samuel Shepard, Cap
tain Thomas Prentice, Captain Thomas Stan
ton, Sampson- Mason.
Among their revolutionary ancestors may
be mentioned : Captain Isaac Shepard, Asa
Shepard, Josiah Shepard, Rev. Isaac Backus.
(IV) Arthur Horace, only son of Horace
Kennedy and Caroline P. (Hill) Blanchard,
was born February 10, 1877, in Providence,
where he grew up, receiving his education in
the schools of his native city and Brown Uni
versity, from which he was graduated in 1889;
received the degree of Civil Engineer from
Brown University in 1889, and the degree of
A. M. from Columbia University in 1902, and
the Howell Premium in Pure and Applied
Science from Brown University in 1899.
From 1896 to 1903, Highway Engineering
Division, City Engineer's Department, Provi
dence, Rhode Island, American Bridge Com
pany, and in general consulting work. 1903-
1910, Deputy Engineer, State Board of Public
Roads of Rhode Island. 1910 to date, Con
sulting Highway Engineer to various states
and municipalities including the following :
Commissioner of Public Works Department,
Borough of Manhattan, New York City, 191 1 ;
Pennsylvania State Highway Commission,
191 1 and 1913; New York State High
way Commission, 1912 ; Board of Water
Supply of the City of New York, 1912 to date;
National Highw-ays Association, 1912 to date;
New York State Department of Efficiency and
Economy, 1913 to date. 1899 to 1903, Instruc
tor; 1903 to 1906, Assistant Professor; and
1906 to 1911, Associate Professor of Civil
Engineering, Brown University. 191 1 to date,
Professor in Charge of the Graduate Course
in Highway Engineering at Columbia Uni
versity. October, 1909, to September, 1910,
and June and July, 1913, devoted to investi
gations covering highway engineering organ
izations, laws and finance, and the construc
tion and maintenance of all types of roads and
pavements in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium.
Author of Highway Engineering as Pre
sented at the Second International Road Con
gress, Brussels, 1910 (with Henry B. Drowne)
191 1. Section on Highways, American Civil
Engineers' Pocket Book, 1912. Text Book on
Highway Engineering (with Henry B.
Drowne) 1913. Contributor of papers to en

gineering periodicals and proceedings of en
gineering societies. Field of research, High
way Engineering.
United States Reporter and Delegate from
the State of Rhode Island to the Second In
ternational Road Congress, Brussels, 1910;
Member Advisory Commission on State High
ways of New York, appointed by Governor
William Sulzer, 1913; United States Reporter
and Delegate from the State of New York, the
American Society of Civil Engineers, and the
National Highways Association to the Third
International Road Congress, London, June,
19 1 3. Member, National Honorary Scientific
Society of Sigma Xi, American Society of
Civil Engineers, Societe des Ingenieurs Civils
de France, Canadian Society of Civil Engin
eers, Fellow, American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Member, Associa
tion Internationale Permanente des Congres
de la Route, Association Internationale pour
I'Essai des Materiaux, National Highways
Association, American Society of Municipal
Improvements, American Society for Testing-
Materials, Municipal Engineers of the City of
New York, Boston Society of Civil Engin
eers, American Road Builders Association,"
American Highway Association, National
Geographic Society, National Committee on
Prison Labor, American Chemical Society.
American Member, International Committee
on Standard Tests of Road Materials, Asso
ciation Internationale pour I'Essai des Materi
aux ; Member, International Anglo-American
Committee on Standardization of Nomencla
ture of Road Materials ; Secretary, Section D,
Engineering, American Association for the
Advancement of Science ; Secretary, Commit
tee on Materials for Road Construction, Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers; Chairman,
Committee on Standard Tests for Non-Bitum
inous Road Materials ; Member, Committee on
Nomenclature of Bituminous Materials ; Mem
ber, Committee on Standard Tests of Bitum
inous Materials ; American Society for Test
ing Materials ; Chairman, Committee on Stand
ard Specifications for Broken Stone and
Gravel Roads ; American Society of Munici
pal Improvements ; Member, Citizen's Street
Traffic Committee of Greater New York;
Member, The Advisory Board of The Amer
ican City.
Biography in "Who's Who in New Eng
land," 1909; "American Men of Science,"
1910; "International Who's Who," 1912;
"Who's Who in America," 19 14.
He married Mary Temple Burt, of Provi
dence, and had three children: Stuart Duncan;
Jean Winifred and Gerald Geoffrey, born
April 11, 1908. The first two died in infancy.

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(The Hill Line).

Mrs. Horace K. Blanchard is descended
from Edward Hill, who was born in 1758, in
Swansea, Massachusetts, and settled in Plain-
field, Connecticut, where he died in 1851, at a
ripe old age. He married, in Plainfield, Abi
gail Hall.
(II) Daniel, son of Edward and Abigail
(Hall) Hill, lived in Plainfield, and was a sol
dier of the war of 1812. He married Deborah
Wood, daughter of Russell and Catherine
(Kennedy) Wood.
(Ill) Edward Eddy, son of Daniel and De
borah (Wood) Hill, was born in Plainfield,
and lived in that town, where in early life he
engaged in the manufacture of satinet cloth.
Subsequently be was for some years in the
mercantile business, keeping a general store in
Plainfield, and after that engaged in the manu
facture of lumber, in which he dealt until his
death, January 7, 1901. His body was laid to
rest in Moosup Cemetery. He was a member
of the Baptist church, and took an active in
terest in the welfare of the community, acting
in politics with the Republican party. He rep
resented his town, in the state legislature. He
married Julia Bethiah Shepard, a native of
Canterbury, who died August 6, 1904, in
Plainfield, and was buried beside her husband
(see Shepard VIII). She was also a member
of the Baptist church. Children: 1. Caroline P.,
mentioned below. 2. Julia M., who married
E. M. Andrews ; resides in Plainfield, in sum
mer, and at Providence in winter. She was
the organizing regent of Deborah Avery Put
nam Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution of Plainfield, and was its first re
gent, filling the office consecutively for five
years. She is now again serving as regent of
the chapter, and has served as a delegate to
several of the National Continental Congresses
in Washington. She is a member of the Un
ion Plainfield Baptist Church, of Moosup,
Connecticut, and of the Providence Mother's
Club. 3. George Edward, died young.
(IV) Caroline Potter, eldest daughter of
Edward Eddy and Julia B. (Shepard) Hill,
became the wife of Horace K. Blanchard of
Providence (see Blanchard III).
(The Shepard Line).
(I) Ralph Shepard was born 1603, in Eng
land, and came to this country in July, 1635,
on the ship "Abigail," and died September 11,
1693, at the age of ninety years. With him
came to New England his wife Thankful Lord,
then aged twenty-three according to the pas
senger list, and his daughter Sarah, aged two
years. He was a tailor by trade, and settled
first at Charlestown, but in 1636 was one of

the pioneers of the town of Dedham, and
afterward lived at Rehoboth, at Weymouth, at
Concord and finally at Maiden, Massachusetts,
where he was buried. He was a town officer
of Weymouth in 1645. Children: Sarah, born
in 1633, in England; Thomas, about 1635;
Isaac, mentioned below; Trial, December 19,
1641, married Walter Power; Abraham;
Thankus, born at Maiden, February 10, 1651-
52, married, at Chelmsford, February 13,
1669, Peter Dill; Jacob, June, 1653.
(II) Isaac, second son of Ralph and Thank
ful (Lord) Shepard, was born June 20, 1639,
in Weymouth, and resided in Concord, Mas
sachusetts. He was killed by Indians, Feb
ruary 12, 1776. He married, October 10, 1667,
in Concord, Mary Smedley, born June 7, 1648,
daughter of Batiste and Catherine (Short-
hose) Smedley. She married (second), June
9, 1776, XTathaniel Jewell.
(Ill) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) and Mary
(Smedley) Shepard, was born in Concord,
was a land holder in Plainfield, Connecticut,
when the town was chartered in 1699, and the
first town meeting was held in his house. He
married Hannah Spaulding, born April 28,
1666, daughter of John and Hannah (Hale)
Spaulding, of Plainfield.
(IV) Samuel, son of Isaac (2) and Han-
nah J Spaulding) Shepard, resided in Plainfield,
where he married, January 20, 1731, Mary
Spaulding, bora October 12, 171 1, in that town
daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Warren)
Spaulding. He was a lieutenant of militia.
(V) Josiah, son of Samuel and Mary
(Spaulding) Shepard, was born December 7,
1731, and resided in Plainfield, Connecticut.
Pie was a soldier in Captain Dixon's company
of Colonel Sage's regiment, recruited in Con
necticut, in 1776. This regiment was on duty
in New York City and on Long Island, and
participated in the battle of White Plains. He
married Rebecca Bacon, of Plainfield.
(VI) Asa, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Bac
on) Shepard, was born September 10, 1754,
in Plainfield, and married Hannah Shepard.
(VII) Eben, son of Asa and Hannah
(Shepard) Shepard, was born October 28,
1782, in Canterbury, Connecticut, and mar
ried Olive Backus, daughter of Nathan and
Bethiah (Leonard) Backus, of that town (see
Backus VI).
(VIII) Julia Bethiah, daughter of Eben
and Olive (Backus) Shepard, became the wife
of Edward Hill, of Plainfield, Connecticut
(see Hill III).
(IX) Caroline Potter, daughter of Edward
and Julia B. (Shepard) Hill, became the wife
of Horace Kennedy Blanchard (see Blanch
ard III).

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(The Backus Line).
This name is one of those American pa
tronymics that appear somewhat puzzling to
the etymologist. There is no name of that
kind to be found anywhere in England and
yet it is claimed that the family is English in
the origin of its first ancestor. The name
might be Dutch, or German or belong to some
other speech. One derivation given at hap
hazard is that it may be a corruption of Back
house or Bakehouse. This gives the name an
English look and may be its origin. At any
rate the tradition seems to be to the effect that
the stock from which the family sprang be
longed to the old New England Puritan ele
ment. In Caulkins' "History of Norwich" is
said of the Backus family : "It is interesting
to observe how rapidly the settlement ad
vanced in prosperity and comfort. This fam
ily and others in the course of a single gener
ation grew strong and luxuriant, throwing out
buds and branches of rich and noble growth."
A modern genealogical publication says that
the Backus family were of old Puritan stock
and came from Connecticut, where they were
originally owners of one-twentieth of the site
of the town of Norwich, Connecticut.
(I) William Backus was probably born in
Norwich, England, died at Norwich, Connecti
cut. He came from England probably about
1636 and was living at Saybrook, Connecticut,
in 1637. About 1659 he moved to Norwich in
the same state, being one of the first settlers
under the leadership of the Rev. James Fitch
and John Mason. He brought with him three
daughters and two sons and his stepson,
Thomas Bingham. Since the young men were
near mature age and since he made over his
settlement to his son William Stephen his
sons are regarded as first proprietors and his
name does not appear on the records as such.
He is said (by the consent of the others, he
being the oldest man ) to have given the town
its name from the place in England where
he had come. He died soon after his arrival
in the colony, being of an advanced age. He
is said to have been the first Englishman and
the second person to die in the settlement. He
married (first) Sarah Charles; (second) Mrs.
Anne Bingham. The children were : William
Stephen, mentioned below ; a daughter, who
married John Reynolds ; daughter, who mar
ried Benjamin Crane, and another daughter
who married John Barclay.
(II) William Stephen, son of William
Backus, was born in 1660. He received in
course of time the title of lieutenant and was
one of the six Xorwich legatees of Joshua
Arma, one of the original proprietors of Xor
wich, Connecticut. In 1693 Lieutenant Back

us settled in Windham, Connecticut, being one
of the first twenty-two inhabitants of that
town. The present Windham Green was part
of the home lot of William Stephen Backus.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Pratt, of Saybrook, Connecticut. Children:
William, Samuel, born 1693; John, Joseph,
mentioned below; Nathaniel, married Eliza
beth, daughter of T. Tracy.
(Ill) Joseph, third son of William S. and
Elizabeth (Pratt) Backus, was born in Nor
wich, and was a leading man in that town,
where he served many years as justice of the
peace, and also represented the town in the
state legislature. He was opposed to the Say
brook platform, and withdrew from the Nor
wich church when this was adopted by the
church. He was a man of firm convictions
and had great influence in the community. He
married, April 9, 1690, Elizabeth Huntington,
born October 6, 1669, in Norwich, daughter
of Simon (2) and Sarah (Clark) Huntington.
The Huntington family was founded in Amer
ica by Simon Huntington, a native of Eng
land, who grew up in that country and there
married Margaret Baret, sister of the mayor
of Norwich, England, who was a Huguenot of
record in that country. The name sometimes
appears as Barre. Simon Huntington died at
sea in 1633. His son, Simon (2) Hunting
ton, born 1629, in England, was brought to
America in 1633, at the age of four years, and
died in Norwich, June 28, 1706. He repre
sented that town in the general court of Con
necticut in 1674, 1677 and 1685. He mar
ried, in October, 1653, Sarah Clark, born
1633, died 1721, daughter of John Clark, of
Saybrook, and Windsor, who died in 1678, at
Saybrook. He was a deputy to the general
court of Connecticut for twenty-one sessions,
beginning in 1649, was- a churchman and free
man of New Haven, a sergeant of militia,
magistrate and commissioner, entrusted with
many important operations as the result of the
confidence placed in him by his fellow citizens.
Children of Joseph Backus : Joseph, born
March, 1691 ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Ann,
January 27, 1695; Simon, February 11, 1701 ;
James, August 14, 1703; Elizabeth, October
27, 1705; Sarah, July, 1709; Ebenezer, March
30, 1712.
(IV) Samuel, second son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Huntington) Backus, was born
January 6, 1694, in Norwich, and died Novem
ber 24, 1704, in his- forty-seventh year. He
was a quiet citizen and enterprising and pros
perous farmer, residing in what is now Yan-
tic, where he built a grist mill, the second in
the settlement. Pie was granted lands there,
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his death. He married, January 18, 1716,
Elizabeth Tracy, born April 6, 1698, daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Leffingwell) Tracy,
granddaughter of John and Mary (Winslow)
Tracy, and great-granddaughter of Thomas
and Mary (Brown) Tracy, founders of the
Tracy family of Norwich. Lieutenant Thomas
Tracy was born in 1610, at Tewksbury, Glou
cestershire, England, descended from a very
old English family, which is traced to Sire de
Trade, an officer in the army of William the
Conqueror, present at the battle of Hastings
in 1078. Lieutenant Tracy was a ship carpen
ter by trade, and resided in Watertown and
Salem, Massachusetts. In 1637 he removed to
Wethersfield, Connecticut, and in 1649 to Say
brook. He was among the grantees of the
town of Norwich in 1659, settled there the
following year, and in 1662 was one of the
court of commission. Four years later he
was ensign of the local military, and in 1673
was lieutenant of the forces raised to go
against the Dutch and Indians. In 1674 he
was commissary, or quartermaster of the dra
goons, and in 1678 justice. For many years he
was deputy to the general court, and died in
Norwich, November 7, 1685. His son, John
Tracy, born 1642, married Mary Winslow,
and was the father of John Tracy, whose
daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Backus.
Children: Samuel, born January 1, 1718; Ann,
January 10, 1719; Elizabeth, February 9,
1721 ; Isaac, mentioned below; Elijah, March
14, 1726; Simon, January 17, 1729; Eunice,
May 17, 1731 ; Andrew, November 16, 1733;
Asa, May 3, 1736; Lucy, May 19, 1738; John,
October 16, 1740.
(V) Isaac, second son of Samuel and Eliza
beth (Tracy) Backus, was born January 9,
1724, in Norwich, and was very active and
influential in the religious life of the Connecti
cut colony. He joined the church July 11,
1742, in his nineteenth year, but left it three
years later in company with many others, who
became known as Separatists. He became a
minister of this sect, and preached in Connecti
cut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and was
finally ordained as pastor of Titicut, Connec
ticut, April 13, 1748, at the age of twenty-six
years. He was earnest and zealous and beside
caring for his flock, traveled much in Xew
England, preaching the Gospel. After much
investigation and study, he became a Baptist
in religious faith, and presided over a church
which sprang from his original congregation
at -Titicut. He made many journeys through
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connec
ticut while continuing pastor of the Baptist
church at Titicut. Many of his writings in
the interest of religious liberty have been pub

lished. He died Xovember 20, 1806, at the
age of eighty-two years. He married, Novem
ber 29, 1749, Susanna Mason, of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, born January 4, 1725, daugh
ter of Samuel (2) and Rebecca (Read) Mas
on, granddaughter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Miller) Mason, great-granddaughter of Rob
ert and Elizabeth (Miller) Mason, grand
daughter of Moses Read. Children : Hannah,
born November 8, 1750; Nathan, mentioned
below; Isaac, February 21, 1754; Eunice, Oc
tober 23, 1755; Susanna, October 13, 1758;
Louis, August 3, 1760; Lucy, April 13, 1763;
Simon, March 7, 1766; Libel, April 7, 1768.
(VI) Nathan, eldest son of Isaac and Sus
anna (Mason) Backus, was born June 18,
1752, in Titicut. He married Bethiah Leon
ard, born May 8, 1755, daughter of Gamaliel
and Bethiah Leonard, of Raynham, Massachu
setts (see Leonard V).
(VII) Olive, daughter of Nathan and Be
thiah (Leonard) Backus, became the wife of
Eben Shepard (see Shepard VII).
(VIII) Julia Bethiah, daughter of Eben
and Olive (Backus) Shepard, became the wife
of Edward Hill (see Hill II).
(The Aldrich Line).
The surname Aldrich is of ancient English
origin, and the spelling varies considerably.
In early records it was spelled Aldridge and
Oldridge, and some branches of the family still
prefer the spelling Aldridge. The famous
Rhode Island family and their descendants
have for many generations used the spelling
Aldrich. (I) George Aldrich was born in Derby
shire, England, about 1605, and was a tailor
by trade. He married, in England, Novem
ber 3, 1629, Katharine Seald, born about 1610,
according to her deposition made June 8, 1670,
that she was sixty years old. They came to
New England in 163 1, settling in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, and belonged to the church
there about 1636. He was admitted a free
man, December 7, 1636. In 1644 he was re
siding in Braintree, and sold his land in Brain
tree, June 9, 1663, to his friend, Richard Thay
er, of that place. In the latter year he was
among the first seven persons to arrive in the
township of Mendon, Massachusetts, where
he resided until his death, March 1, 1683, ex
cept a year or two at Swansea, 1669-70. His
wife died January 11, 1691. His will dated
at Mendon, Xovember 2, 1682, was proved
April 26, 1683. He bequeathed to his wife:
to children : Joseph, John, Jacob, Mary, Sarah
Bartlett, Mercy Randall and Martha Dunbar.
Children: Abel, born 1633: Joseph, mentioned
below; Mary, June 16, 1637, died 1683; Mir-

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iam, June 29, 1639, died May 10, 1652; Ex
perience, September 4, 1641, died February 2,
1642, at Braintree; John, April 2, 1644; Sarah,
January 26, 1646, died February 17, 1685;
Peter, April 14, 1648; Mercy, June 17, 1650;
Jacob, February 28, 1652 ; Martha, July 10,
1656 (II) Joseph, second son of George and
Katharine (Seald) Aldrich, was born June 4,
1635, probably in Dorchester, and removed
with his father to Mendon, remaining with
him until the time of his death, after which
he settled in that part of Providence which
became Smithfield, Rhode Island. There he
died April 24, 1701. He married, February
26, 1662, Patience Osborne, of Braintree, who
survived him, and died after 1705. Children:
Joseph, born July 14, 1663; Samuel; John,
Ephraim ; Sarah, October 27, 1677 ; and Mercy.
(Ill)' Samuel, second son of Joseph and
Patience (Osborne) Aldrich, was a tanner by
occupation, residing in Providence and Smith-
field; was made a freeman May 6, 1701. Be
cause of his Quaker tenets he refused to par
ticipate in military operations, and was fined
in 1706 for failure to attend training. He was
a preacher of the sect of Friends. He was
possessed of a large landed estate, most of
which he deeded to his sons during his life
time. In September, 1733, he deeded to his
son the homestead and two hundred acres in
Smithfield, on which he lived, in consideration
of support of himself and wife during their
lives. He died April 2, 1747, and was survived
by his wife Jane, whose death record is not
discovered. They had sons : Samuel, Peter,
James and John.
(IV) John, youngest son of Samuel and
Jane Aldrich, resided in Smithfield, where he
married (first) Susanna Smith, who died No
vember 29, 1 741, and (second) Elizabeth Ste
phens. Children by first wife : Hannah, born
and died January 13, 1728; Daniel, October
25, l7?>o; Samuel, August 16, 1732; Job, June
25- !734; Joseph, June 29, 1738; Jethro,
March 19, 1740. Children by second wife :
Plannah, January 16, 1742; John, mentioned
below ; Susanna, November 25, 1745 ; James,
Xovember 7, 1747; Jane, November 4, 1749;
Anne, December 23, 1751 ; Samuel, December
16, 1753; Annie, September 9, 1756; Caleb,
February 28, 1758.
(V) John (2), sixth son of John (1) Al
drich and second child of his second wife,
Elizabeth Stephens, was born February 5, 1743,
in Smithfield. He married (first) March 10,
1766, Mary Smith, of Glocester, Rhode Is
land, and they were the parents of two chil
dren : Welcome, who married Abigail Kimball ;

and Amarancy, wife of Nicholas Bussey. He
married (second) Elizabeth Mann, born
August 25, 1772, in Smithfield, daughter of
Daniel and Phebe (Sprague) Mann, and their
children were : Betsey, who married Cronan
Bowen; Moses, born October 10, 1779; and
Isaac, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac, youngest son of John (2) and
Elizabeth (Mann) Aldrich, was a manufac
turer in association with his brother Moses
in the town of Burrillville, Rhode Island. He
married in Smithfield, November 22, 1806,
Mary Whitney Jones, daughter of Timothy
Jones, and they had children : Isaac, William,
Elizabeth Jones, Charles, James, Jones and
Mary. (VII) Elizabeth Jones, eldest daughter of
Isaac and Mary W. (Jones) Aldrich, became
the wife of Erastus Edmund Blanchard of
Providence (see Blanchard II).
(The Leonard Line).
An extended account of the founding of
the Leonard family at Taunton appears else
where in this work.
(II) Thomas, son of James and Margaret
Leonard, of Taunton, born about 1641, came
to New England with his father when a small
boy, and afterwards worked at the bloomery
and forge with his father. He was a distin
guished character, a physician, major of mili
tia, justice of the peace, town clerk, deacon,
and judge of the court of common pleas from
1703 to 1713, dying November 24, of the lat
ter year. He married, August 21, 1662, Mary
Watson, born 1642, died December 1, 1723,
at the age of eighty-one years.
(Ill) John, second son of Thomas Leon
ard, was bora May 18, 1668, and married
Mary, daughter of Philip King.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of John and Mary
(King) Leonard, resided in Raynham. He
married Sarah Sulker.
(V) Gamaliel, son of Thomas (2) and Mary
Leonard, was born April 30, 1733, and re
sided in Raynham, where he died March 12,
1809. His wife's name was Bethiah, and their
children, recorded in Raynham, were : Bethiah
mentioned below; Gamaliel, born May 31,
1757; Phebe, August 19, 1759; Molly, March
1, 1762; Thomas, April 24, 1764; Keziah,
May 11, 1766; Catherine, September 30, 1768;
Simeon, March 15, 1771 ; Eliakim, July 17,
1773: Cynthia, June 26, 1776.
(VI) Bethiah, eldest child of Gamaliel and
Bethiah Leonard, was born May 8, 1755, in
Raynham, and became the wife of Nathan
Backus (see Backus VI).

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(II) Major John (2) Greene,
GREENE son of Surgeon John (1)
Greene (q. v.), who is describ
ed at some length elsewhere, married about
1648, Ann, daughter of William Almy, of Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, born in England about
1627, died May 6, 1709. Children: Deborah,
born August io, 1649; Jonn. June 6, 1651 ;
William, March 5, 1653; Peter, February 4,
1654; Job, mentioned below; Phillippi, August
7, 1658; Richard, February 8, 1660; Anne,
March 13, 1663; Catherine, August 8, 1665;
Audrey, October 27, 1667; Samuel, January
30, 1670.
(Ill) Major Job Greene, fourth son of
John (2) and Ann (Almy) Greene, was born
August 24; 1656, in Warwick, and inherited
the farm called "Pastuxet," on which he re
sided, and died July 6, 1745. He wasa free
man in 168 1, and was a leading man in town
and colonial affairs. In 1696 he was deputy
01 member of the upper branch of the state
legislature, and was subsequently elected for
thirteen terms. In 171 1 he was assistant, and
for nine years following. He is described as
a man of strong will and much force of char
acter, of muscular build, blunt in speech, but
hospitable and open-handed. He was fond
of amusement and was typical of the old fash
ioned English squire. Before 1700 he built
a mill and house at the present village of Cen
terville, Rhode Island, where he owned a large
tract of fine agricultural lands, on which he
had several tenants. He married, January 22,
1684, Phebe, daughter of John and Mary
(Williams) Savles, a granddaughter of Roger
Williams. Children: Anne, born February
23, 1685 ; Mary, December 3, 1687 ; Deborah,
February 28, 1690; Job, July 5, 1692; Phebe,
October 12, 1694; Christopher, March 9, 1696;
Daniel, February 20, 1698 ; Richard, February
12, 1700; Catherine, March 17, 1702; Philip,
mentioned below.
(IV) Philip, youngest child of Job and
Phebe (Sayles) Greene, was born March 15,
1705, in Warwick, and died April 10, 1791, at
the age of eighty-six years. He inherited the
paternal homestead in which he was born, and
was a man of very high standing and promi
nence. For many years he was town clerk,
served as assistant and deputy, and was for
twenty-five years judge of the court of com
mon pleas. During most years from 1757 to
1779 he was moderator of the town. His farm
included the present village of Riverpomt, and
this land he divided in 1761 among his chil
dren. He married, August 12, 1731, Elizabeth,
daughter of John and Sarah (Gorton) Wickes,
born February 5, 1706, died December 23,
1776.

(1) John Wickes, founder of one branch of
the Weeks or Wickes family in America, was
a farmer in the village of Staines, Middlesex
county, England, eighteen miles west of Lon
don, where he was born, and where his parents
were buried, close by the house in which he
was born. He was at Plymouth, Massachu
setts, in 1637, but soon removed to Rhode
Island, where he was received as an inhabitant
in 1639. He was one of the twelve original
purchasers of Shawomet, now Warwick,
Rhode Island, in 1642, and there resided until
his death. He was very prominent in man
aging the affairs of the town, whose principal
offices he filled until his death. His home was
in the southwest corner of the town, where the
Warwick Neck road joins the main road. He
was killed by Indians early in 1675, at a point
near his home, and his estate was probated by
the town council. He had four children : John,
Plannah, Elizabeth and Mary.
(2) John (2) Wickes, only son of John (1)
Wickes, of Old Warwick, was born in that
town, where he lived, and died between March
2 and April 18, 1689. He married Rose Hard
ing, and had children: John, Sarah, Thomas
and Robert.
(3) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and
Rose (Harding) Wickes, was born August 8,
1677, in Warwick, where he died December
27, 1741. He married, December 15, 1697,
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Gorton, born
about 1676, died January 31, 1753.
(1) Samuel Gorton, ancestor of a large
family in America, was born 1592, in the
parish of Manchester, county Lancaster, Eng
land, at a village called Gorton, where his an
cestors had lived for many generations. In
1637 he sailed from London with his wife and
family, and arrived in Boston the latter part
of March of that year. He visited several
points in Rhode Island, and finally took up his
residence, in 1641, in what became the town
of Warwick soon after. In 1643 he united
with others in the purchase of the tract of land
which included the town of Warwick, and was
a prominent man in the colony, serving as com
missioner several times, beginning with 1641,
assistant in 1649, president of Providence and
Warwick, 1651-52, and for several terms, be
ginning with 1664, was deputy or member of
the upper house of the state legislature. He
was also conspicuous in religious affairs, and
many of his writings were published He
founded a sect in Rhode Island which out
lived him more than one hundred years. He
married Mary, daughter of John and Mary
Maplete in England * Children : Samuel, John,
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Ann, Elizabeth and Susannah. Samuel Gor
ton Greene died in 1677.
(2) Benjamin, apparently third son of Sam
uel and Mary (Maplete) Gorton, was a child
when he accompanied his father to this coun
try, and made his home in Warwick. He
served as a soldier in King Philip's war, and
was one of the grantees of a five thousand acre
tract, to be known as East Greenwich, for
services in that war. In 1686 he was deputy
and was from that time until 1699 a captain
of the militia. He married, December 5, 1672,
Sarah, daughter of Richard and Mary Carder,
who died August 8, 1724. Children : Mary,
born October 31, 1673; Sarah, mentioned be
low; Benjamin, about 1678; Alice; Maplete;
Samuel, May 3, 1687.
(3) Sarah, second daughter of Benjamin
and Sarah (Carder) Gorton, was born about
1676, in Warwick, and became the wife of
John (3) Wickes, as above noted. Their
daughter Elizabeth, born February 5, 1706,
became the wife of Philip Greene, as before
stated. Children : Phebe, born March 25,
1732; Sarah, September 10, 1733, died young;
Job, October 24, 1735; Christopher, mentioned
below ; Philip, March 25, 1739; Elizabeth, Sep
tember 2, 1742; William, October 25, 1746;
Mary, March 14, 1748; Sarah, May 6, 1752.
(V) Colonel Christopher Greene, second
son of Philip and Elizabeth (Wickes) Greene,
was born May 12, 1737, in Warwick, and was
a third cousin and intimate friend of General
Xathaniel Greene, whose residence was near
his own. In 1671 Colonel Christopher Greene
received from his father the mill and an estate
in the division- of the latter's property. He
was educated under the care of his father,
who was a scholar and cultivated man, and
early took an active part in the conduct of
public affairs. He was several terms a mem
ber of the legislature prior to the revolution,
and in May, 1775, was appointed by the legis
lature a major in the army of observation,
under Major-General XTathaniel Greene. He
was made commander of a company of infan
try in the army in Canada, under General
Montgomery, and entered the lower town of
Quebec, where he was made a prisoner. After
being exchanged he rejoined his regiment, and
was soon promoted to major in Varnum's regi
ment, and in 1777 became colonel. Pie was
sent by General Washington to Fort Mercer,
generally known as Red Bank, on the Dela
ware river. His military services were most
brilliant, and were ended by his death at Cro-
ton river, where his force was surprised by
the enemy, May 14, 1781. He married, May
6, 1757, his third cousin Anna, daughter of
Jeremiah and Welthian (Greene) Lippitt, born

November 15, 1735, daughter of John and
Anphillis (Whipple) Lippitt, of Old Warwick
(see Lippitt IV). Welthian Greene was a
daughter of Richard Greene, whose father,
Thomas Greene, was a son of Surgeon John
Greene, of Warwick. Children of Colonel
Christopher Greene : Welthian, born Novem
ber 19, 1751 ; Job, mentioned below; Phebe,
January 16, 1762; Ann- Frances, June 2, 1764;
Elizabeth, December 15, 1766; Jeremiah, Octo
ber 17, 1769; Daniel Westrane, March 2, 1772;
Christopher, August 27, 1774; Mary, Septem
ber '2, 1777.
(VI) Colonel Job (2) Greene, eldest son of
Christopher and Anna (Lippitt) Greene, was
born November 19, 1759, in Warwick, and
was noted for his capability as a business man
and his generosity toward others. When his
father entered the revolutionary army he was
a very young man, but was placed in charge
of the mill and business, which he managed
with signal success. He commanded the Kent
ish Artillery, a militia company which is still
in existence at Apponaug, in Warwick. He
became a lieutenant in the Second Regiment,
Rhode Island State Brigade, in the Continental
service, and received the sword which had been
voted by congress to his lamented father. He
built a house at Centerville in 1685, where he
had over five hundred acres of land, and also
operated a saw and grist mill. He sold the
power and mills with his house in 1805, and
built a new house a short distance west of the
first, in which he died August 23, 1808. He
was one of the original members of the Rhode
Island Society of the Cincinnati, and a mem
ber of the town council from 1793 to 1797,
with the exception of one year. In 1797 he
represented the town in the legislature and
several times later, and was moderator of the
town in 1801. He married, November 29,
1785', Abigail, daughter of Captain Simon and
Ann (Babcock) Rhodes, of Stonington, Con
necticut, born October 27, 1765, died April .18,
1845. She had property inherited from her
grandfather, Colonel Babcock, of Westerly.
Children : Christopher Rhodes, born Septem
ber 19, 1786; Susanna, May 5, 1788; Mary
Ann, May 5, 1794; Simon Henry, mentioned
below. (VII) Simon Henry, youngest child of
Colonel Job (2) and Abigail (Rhodes) Greene,
was born March 31, 1799, at Centerville, and
was educated in the schools of that village, at
a private school in Stonington, and later under
tuition of David Aldrich, at Woonsocket,
Rhode Island. In the winter of 1813-14 he
was in the employ of his brother-in-law, Abner
M. Warriner, then a manufacturer of cotton
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occurred soon after. In 1815 Mr. Greene took
up his residence in Providence, Rhode Island,
where he continued until 1838, when he re
moved to Clyde, in the town of Warwick,
Kent county. His first business training was
secured in the house of Aborn & Jackson, mer
chants and manufacturers, with whom he was
eventually associated as a partner, acting as
agents of the Lippitt Manufacturing Com
pany, under the firm name of Aborn, Jackson
& Greene. In 1828 Mr. Greene formed a
partnership with Edward Pike, under the style
of Greene & Pike, to engage in the business of
bleaching and finishing cotton goods, to which
they afterward added printing machinery,
which business Mr! Greene greatly enlarged
after the death of Mr. Pike in 1842. He
acquired, by purchase from the latter's heirs,
the sole ownership of the property now known
as the Clyde Works. From 1835 to July, 1838,
when he removed to Warwick, Mr. Greene
was a member of the Providence city council,
and as a member of that body was one of the
city audit. To his influence was largely due
the remodeling of the public school system,
and the creation of the office of school superin
tendent, preceding Boston and other cities in
the adoption of this system. In 1840 and 1842
he was elected by the voters of his native town
as their representative in the general assembly.
Following the death of his partner, Edward
Pike, he declined a reelection, but subsequently
represented the town four years in succession,
from 185 1 to 1854, when he again declined to
be a candidate. In 1857 he was elected as a
senator in the general assembly, and filled that
honorable office until 1859. In the following
year he was elected delegate to the national
Republican convention at Chicago, and there
supported at first Hon. Salmon P. Chase for
the office of President, but was among those
who nominated Abraham Lincoln as the candi
date of the party. In 1864 he was chosen
presidential elector and was instrumental in
the reelection of Mr. Lincoln. For fifteen
years he served as a member of the school
committee of Warwick, during a part of the
time being its secretary. The cause of popular
education had in him a very warm friend, as
is evidenced by his long service in its behalf.
Beside the offices previously named Mr. Greene
did great service to his town as a member of
its finance committee, especially during the
trying times of the civil war ; was moderator
of town meetings ; chairman of political con
ventions, and in every one of his activities was
respected and esteemed for his uprightness and
fidelity. It was due largely to his sagacity,
sense of justice and determination that a law
was passed while he was a member of the

finance committee of the assembly levying a
tax upon the deposits in savings institutions,
which hitherto had been exempt. It is a some
what remarkable fact that none of the offices
filled by Mr. Greene were particularly sought
by him, but he felt it the duty of every good
citizen to serve the public to the extent of his
ability whenever called upon, and he laid aside
his personal interests in many cases to take up
the public service, when duty seemed to call.
From very early in life Mr. Greene was a
student, and he became familiar with general
literature, and his writings are distinguished
for their clearness and vigor of expression.
He had a preference for religious philosophy,
and while a young man became an advocate of"
the teachings of the learned and eminent
Emanuel Swedenborg. He united with the
Providence Society of the New Jerusalem
Church, commonly called Swedenborgians, and
in every relation of life he demonstrated the
sincerity of his professions by acts of Chris
tian charity and kindness. He died April 26,
1885, at his home in Clyde, being the last of
the pioneers in the manufacturing industries
of the North Valley of the Pawtuxet river.
He married, March 3, 1822, Caroline Cornelia,
eldest daughter of Edward and Susan (Pot
ter) Aborn, of Providence. Children: 1. Ed
ward Aborn, born January 24, 1823. 2. Henry
Lehre, of whom further. 3. Christopher
Rhodes, born October 14, 1827. 4. William
Rogers, born December 3, 1829. 5. John W.
A., born February 19, 1832. 6. Caroline C,
born August 27, 1834, died September 26,
1838. 7. George Frederick, born March 9,
1837, died October 21, same year. 8. George
F. (2d), born August 26, 1838; married Julia
Dunbar, of Natchez, Mississippi, where he
died Xovember 14, 1914 9- Charles, born
April 13, 1841, died April 17, same year. 10.
Francis C, born June 23, 1842. 11. Abbie S„
born September 29, 1845, died October 27,
same year.
(VIII) Henry Lehre, second son of Simon
PI and Caroline C. (Aborn) Greene, was born
March 31, 1825, at the Aborn homestead in
Providence, and at the early age of three years
entered a private school in that city, known as
the Greene Street School, one of his teachers
being the famous Margaret Fuller. His studies
there were continued until the age of fourteen
years when he removed with his parents to
Clyde in the town of Warwick, Rhode Island
Here 'he at once entered upon that long and
successful business career which has reflected
great credit upon himself, and contributed to
toe support and welfare of the multitude of
people. His first employment was m the
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common hand at regular wages, where he con
tinued about two years, becoming thoroughly
familiar with the details of the business. On
the death of the junior partner, in 1842, he
entered the office of the concern to become
familiar with its business management, and
after three years he returned to the working
establishment, which was conducted largely
under his immediate supervision. He con
tinued in this capacity until 1868. He had a
taste for mechanics, and he now turned his
attention to the mechanical departments of the
works. The spacious buildings forming the
greater part of the immense plant now occu
pied by the Clyde Bleachery and Print Works
were erected from his plans and specifications,
including the erection of the machinery. Under
his supervision the works were almost entirely
rebuilt while being enlarged, and became one
of the most thoroughly equipped establish
ments of its kind in the United States. In
1842 the business was conducted in the name
of his father, S. H. Greene, and in 1865 the
title became S. H. Greene & Sons, although
Henry L. Greene had then been some time a
participator in the profits. When the business
was again reorganized and incorporated he be
came its president, and continued as the active
head of the establishment, though in later years
much of the responsibility of the management
was shifted to the younger shoulders of his
son, Francis W. Greene, agent and treasurer,
and other associates in the corporation. In the
early days of the establishment it employed
thirty hands, and now has use for about seven
hundred. One printing machine constituted
the equipment in 1838, when some fourteen
thousand yards of cloth were bleached daily,
and an additional two thousand yards of
indigo blue material were printed and dyed.
From this small beginning the establishment
grew to a capacity of one and one-half million
yards per week, employing nine printing
machines. Mr. Greene died at Riverpoint,
February 12, 1908. The Providence Tribune
of February 13, 1908, states:
Sitting in his chair at his home at Riverpoint
last evening, Hon. Henry L. Greene, president of
the S. H. Greene & Sons Corporation, the Paw
tuxet Valley's first citizen and grand oid man,
passed peacefully away, a fitting ending to a long,
peaceful, honored, useful life. His death came
suddenly but not unexpectedly. He had been con
fined to the house for a week or two, suffering
from an attack of rheumatism, his death resulting
from apoplexy. Monday the mild weather, fol
lowing the period of extreme cold, tempted him
from the house and he visited his office at the
Clyde Print Works, where he spent a half-hour with
Superintendent John R. Butterworth, apparently
as well as usual and as cheerfully interested in
everything connected with the concern and the
business with which he had been identified for

almost seventy years. He chatted with Mr. Butter
worth about the latter's grandchild and its birth
day, celebrated that day, and was in the best of
spirits, showing nothing to indicate that two days
later he would finish his long and honorable career.
Last evening, sitting in his favorite chair, attended
"by his daughter, who has been his constant com
panion for more than a score of years, he suc
cumbed suddenly to a combination of ailments inci
dent to old age and died full of years and honors
within a few weeks of completing his eighty-third
year. The deceased, since the death of his father in
1885, was the most respected citizen in the valley,
and admittedly its first citizen in every sense of the
word. One of the few valley manufacturers who
made his home in the valley and its interests his
own, he was on terms of affectionate intimacy with
many of the humblest, as well as the highest and
most influential among its citizens. He had worked
in his father's printery as a boy, with many of the
men who were his cotemporaries in old age as in
youth and outlived all but a few of them and there
will be universal regret at the death of one who
was a friend to everybody and who, if he ever had
an enemy, had lived to know for years that he had
none. As the head of one of the valley's most
important industries, he exerted an influence on
the industrial life of the valley second to none, with
the exception of Robert Knight, and during his
long connection with the industry its product, the
"Washington prints," came to be known as a stand
ard among the products of American printeries.
Up to the last week of his life, Mr. Greene con
tinued to take a keen interest not only in the busi
ness affairs in which he was personally interested,
but in all matters pertaining to the welfare and
progress of his town and state and the nation. Be
side the large manufacturing interests already de
scribed in some detail, he had a share in other busi
ness institutions of the state, and was president of
the Phoenix Savings Bank, Pawtuxet Vallev Water
Company, and the Pawtuxet Valley Business Asso
ciation. A quarter of a century since the last
named organization did a wondrous work in bring
ing together the various villages and divided inter
ests occupying that valley. In early life Mr. Greene
was identified with the Whig party, to which he
gave generous and cordial support, anu on the
formation of the Republican party, he enlisted
under its banner. In 1883 he was elected to the
state senate, and again elected in 1888, when he was
assigned to the important committees on finance and
judiciary. In 1884 he became a member of the
board of state charities and corrections, in which
he continued more than six years. During his
term, the buildings of the State Institutions at
Howard were erected. He was president of the
state board of agriculture, and wherever he was
called upon to serve the public interest, he gave
the same thoughtful care and sagacious considera
tion which characterized the conduct of his own
business. He was appreciated and recognized as a
public-spirited citizen, a conscientious public officer,
and a man of the highest character. He early
entered the public service as a member of the town
council of his native town, of which he later became
president, and was especially active in every move
ment tending to elevate the standard of education.
Although he left school and entered the workshop
at a very early age, he did not abandon reading
and study, and continued to store his mind with
useful information and a general knowledge of
literature. Blessed with a retentive memory and
keen powers of observation, he acquired much
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He gained an extensive knowledge of music, and
was a most entertaining conversationalist, and often
gave lectures in various parts of his home state.
After he had been somewhat relieved of business
cares, he ^traveled extensively in Europe, in 1886-87,
in company with his daughters, Susan Aborn and
Caroline Cornelia Greene, but his chief interest
was in his native land. He was a recognized
authority on the interesting history of the Paw
tuxet Valley and its older families, and gleaned by
study and research an inexhaustible fund of infor
mation concerning that historic ground. Several
years toward the close of his life were employed
in writing his memoirs, a most agreeable occupa
tion for his leisure time, and he was also a con
tributor to current literature. Probably the last
publication from his pen was an article in the
"Sunday Tribune" on "Embargoes." Within a few
years before his death he penned the following
letter in response to an invitation to attend a meet
ing called to secure the erection of a soldiers' mon
ument in Warwick: Riverpoint, R. I., February 8, 1908.
Warwick Soldiers' Monument Committee:
Gentlemen: — Your invitation to attend a meeting
of the citizens of Warwick, to be held at the office
of Lieut.-Gov. Watrous next Monday afternoon is
to hand. While I appreciate your courtesy, I am
obliged to decline the invitation on account of ill
health and by the advice of my physician am prac
tically confined to my house. Early in September
I had an attack of pneumonia from which I had
barely recovered when laryngitis followed and I
am now under treatment for that.
Wishing you complete success in erecting a mon
ument worthy of commemorating the patriotic and
self-sacrificing courage of the soldiers of the civil
war, not a few of whom were our own kindred,
even our own brothers, who upheld our Govern
ment in the time of its direful need, and assuring
you of my desire to assist in the praiseworthy un
dertaking in whatever way I am able.
I remain very truly yours, Henry L. Greene.
Mr. Greene accepted the religious teachings
of the society with which his father was so
long associated, and was president of the local
society, and leader of the services held in the
New Jerusalem Chapel, near the print works
at Clyde. He married, August 13, 1849,
Marcy Gooding, daughter of Oliver C. and
Lucy Ann (Greene) Wilbur, died July 22,
1879, and was survived more than eighteen
years by her husband, who made his home
after her death with his daughter, Caroline
Cornelia, at Riverpoint. Children: 1. Susan
Aborn, born August 5, 1850, died February
13, 1889, unmarried. 2. Lucy Anna, born Sep
tember 13, 1852; married, October 3, 1878,
Benjamin Aborn Jackson, a well-known banker
of Providence, and had children: Henry
Greene Jackson, born June 12, 1883, graduated
from Brown University, married, December
31, 1909, Maria Holbrook, of Baltimore, who
died May 11, 1914, and they had two children:
Harriet Woolford, born January 31, 1911, and
Benjamin Aborn (3d), born December 7,

1913; Donald Jackson, born July 16, 1886,
graduated from Brown University; and Lucy
Aborn Jackson, born December 17, 1892. 3.
Caroline Cornelia, now a resident of Provi
dence; she is a member of Gaspee Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, of
Providence, and takes a just pride in the his
tory of her family, which has been so long
and prominently identified with the history,
not only of her native state but of the nation.
4. Francis Whittier, mentioned below.
(IX) Francis Whittier Greene, only son of
the late Henry Lehre Greene, was bora at
Riverpoint, Warwick, Rhode Island, October
15, 1861. His early educational training was
acquired at Mowry & Goff's School of Provi
dence, after which he attended Brown Uni
versity. He married, February 26, 1895,
Jeanette Vreeland, daughter of Thomas and
Amanda (Van Giesen) Vreeland, of Franklin,
New Jersey, and their children are as follows :
Francis V., born September 28, 1899; Ralph
Drayton, born October 27, 1902 ; Eleanor, born
January 29, 1904; and Jeanette, born January
30, 191 1. Mr. Greene entered the firm of S.
H. Greene & Sons in 1892, as a partner, and
upon its incorporation in 1899 became one of
the incorporators, and has continued actively
identified with this concern ever since. For
several years he was a member of the War
wick town council and of the school committee
of the town. He has also represented his
native town in the general assembly of the
state, which honorable position has been held
by this line of the Greene family in unbroken
succession since the days of John Greene, the
surgeon. In 1903 he also represented his town
in the state senate of Rhode Island.
(The Wilbur Line).
An extended account of Samuel Wilbur, the
American immigrant, and his son William ap
pears elsewhere in this work.
(Ill) Daniel, sixth son of William and
Martha Wilbur, was born 1666, and died No
vember 28, 1 741. He married, in 1692, Ann
Barney. Children: William, born March 2,
1694; Peleg, August 30, 1695; Daniel, March
31, 1697 ; Ann, October 20, 1698 ; Martha, Sep
tember 25, 1700; Lydia, November 30, 1702;
Elizabeth, June 11, 1705; John, July 19, 1706;
Thomas, mentioned below; Samuel.
(IV) Thomas, fifth son of Daniel and Ann
(Barney) Wilbur, was born October 22, 1708,
and married, October 28, 1733, Mary, daugh
ter of James and Elizabeth (Gansey) Bowen.
Only one son is recorded.
(V) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) ana
Mary (Bowen) Wilbur, was born in Novem
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married Mary Gorton. Children : Peleg, men
tioned below; James, born September 2, 1766;
Joseph, died young; Polly, May 19, 1771 ;
Phebe, February 16, 1773; Ruth, married
Cranston Evans; Patience, March 6, 1777;
Chloe, July 11, 1780; David, March 16, 1783;
Thomas, October 4, 1785.
(VI) Peleg, eldest son of Thomas (2) and
Mary (Gorton) Wilbur, was born February
22, 1763, and died December 31, 1831. He
married Mary Gooding, born 1772, died Feb
ruary 26, 1822, daughter of Matthew and
Mary Gooding. Children : Peleg, born Feb
ruary 21, 1788; Marcy Gooding, October 20,
1789; Matthew, November 8, 1792; Oliver
Cromwell, mentioned below ; Thomas Brad
ford, November 4, 1796.
(VII) Oliver Cromwell, third son of Peleg
and Marcy (Gooding) Wilbur, was born Octo
ber 4, 1794, and died February 7, 1882, in
Providence. He married, January 6, 1820,
Lucy Ann Greene, born October 25, 1798,
daughter of Benjamin Greene, descendant of
Surgeon John Greene through (II) John,
(III) .Samuel, (IV) Samuel, (V) Caleb, (VI)
Benjamin. (VIII) Marcy Gooding, daughter of Oliver
C. and Lucy A. (Greene) Wilbur, became the
wife of Henry L. Greene, of Warwick, and
died June 22, 1879 (see Greene VIII).
(The Lippitt Line).
The Lippitt family, among the oldest in
Rhode Island, has been of quiet nature, which
has, to some extent, kept it out of the records
of the state. It is now represented by a United
States senator from Rhode Island, and has
been distinguished throughout the generations
by its probity of character, industry and gen
eral ability. The origin of the family is un
known, but it is presumed to have been Eng
lish (I) John Lippitt, founder of the family,
was a resident of Providence in 1638, where
he had a house lot and a six-acre planting lot.
With the others he signed the agreement for
a form of government, July 5, 1640, and was
chosen, May 16, 1647, with nine others, as a
commission to meet with commissions from
the other towns at Portsmouth and form a
government. In the division of Providence
lands he received lot Xo. 53. He is found of
record at Warwick, June 5, 1648, when he
was admitted an inhabitant of that town. He
sold his Providence lands and other property,
April 27, 1652, and was a freeman of the
colony in 1655. In 1662 he purchased six
acres of land in Warwick, and became ulti
mately an extensive landholder there. He
deeded his house and lands to his son Moses,

presumably in consideration of his support
during the balance of his life, and died in 1669,
in Warwick. He had sons, John and Moses.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Lippitt,
resided in Warwick, where he died in 1670.
In 1652 he was fined five pounds for selling
a gun to an Indian. With the consent of his
father he sold one-third of a thirty-acre lot,
January 27, 1668, for twenty shillings. There
is little to be found concerning him in the
records. He married, February 9, 1665, Ann
Grove, and lived but five years after the wed
ding. She married (second) February 21,
1 67 1, Edward Searle. Children: John, born
November 16, 1665 ; Moses, mentioned below.
(Ill) Moses, son of John (2) and Ann
(Grove) Lippitt, was born February 17, 1668,
in Warwick, and was but two years old at the
death of his father. With the consent of his
mother and stepfather he apprenticed himself,
July 3, 1674, to William Austin, of Provi
dence, for a period of fifteen and one-half
years and two months to learn the trade and
art of weaving. For some time he resided at
Middletown, New Jersey, but returned to War
wick. He married (first) December 8, 1697,
license dated at New York, Sarah, daughter of
John and Alice (Stout) Throckmorton.. There
were two children of this marriage, and the
mother probably died about 1706. He married
(second) November 20, 1707, in Warwick,
Anne Philis Whipple, daughter of Joseph and
Alice (Smith) Whipple, born October 6, 1689.
Children of first marriage: Sarah; John, born
December 11, 1705. Children of second mar
riage, recorded in Warwick: Moses, born
January 17, 1709; Jeremiah, mentioned be
low; Christopher, November 29, 1712; Joseph,
September 4, 1715 ; Anne Fillice, August 29,
1717; Freelove, March 31, 1720; Mary, De
cember 2, 1723; John, December 24, 1731.
(IV) Jeremiah, third son of Moses Lippitt
and second child of his second .wife, Anne
Philis Whipple, was born January 27, 1711,
in Warwick, where he resided. He married,
September 12, 1736, Welthian Greene, born
December 19, 1715, daughter of Richard and
Mary (Carder) Greene, the last-mentioned a
daughter of John Carder. Richard Greene
was a son of Thomas Greene and grandson of
Surgeon John Greene, founder of the family
in Rhode Island.
(V) Anne Philis, daughter of Jeremiah and
Welthian (Greene) Lippitt, was born Novem
ber J 5. 1735. and became the wife of Colonel
Christopher Greene, of Warwick (see Greene
V). Anne Philis Whipple was a granddaugh
ter of Captain John Whipple, founder of the
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1617, and is first found of record in this coun
try at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he
was in the service of Israel Stoughton as early
as 1632. By occupation he was a carpenter.
In 1637 he received a grant of land in Provi
dence, and twenty- two years later joined in a
purchase of lands in that place. He was a
deputy to the general court in 1666, 1669-70,
1672 and 1676-77. His death occurred May
16, 1685, in Providence. In 1639 he married
Sarah, surname unknown, born about 1624,
died 1666. In 1641 both united with the
church in Providence. Children : John, born
in 1640; Sarah, 1642; Samuel, 1644; Eleanor,
1646; Mary, 1648; William, 1652; Benjamin,
1654; David, 1656; Abigail, 1659; Joseph,
mentioned below; Jonathan, 1664.
(2) Joseph, sixth son of Captain John and
Sarah Whipple, was born 1662, and died April
28, 1746, in Providence, where he was a mer
chant and a man of large property. In 1688
he was taxed on one hundred acres of meadow,
three home lots, which included three acres of
planting and orchard, and other lands and
rights, with cattle, horses and swine. He was
a member of the town council in 1703-04, and
from 1715 to 1729, with the exception of one
year. In 1714 he was assistant, and was a
colonel of the military in 1719-20. He received
a license December 11, 17 10, from the town
to keep a public house, for which the fee paid
was twenty shillings. The inventory of his
estate amounted to five thousand two hundred
•and ninety-two pounds eighteen shillings and
two pence, including books to the value of five
pounds, a large amount in that day, plate worth
one hundred and eight pounds ten shillings,
and six negroes. His body was deposited in
the North Burying Ground at Providence.
He married, May 20, 1684, Alice Smith, daugh
ter of Edward and Anphilis (Angell) Smith,
born 1664, died July 20, 1739. Their eldest
daughter, Anne Philis, born October 6, 1689,
became the wife of Moses Lippitt, as above
noted.

This name is an old and hon-
BABCOCK ored one in Westerly, Rhode
Island, where the family has
dwelt for more than two and one-fourth cen
turies. Among those conspicuous in the
colonial period were : Dr. Joshua Babcock, of
Westerly, who was a major-general in the
militia and chief justice of the supreme court
of Rhode Island; Colonel Henry Babcock, a
participant in five campaigns of the old French
war and an officer of the revolution, who in
the early part of that struggle was in com
mand of the forces at Newport; and Rev.
Stephen Babcock, a distinguished divine and
ne-34

"New Light" leader. The name as it came
from England was spelled Badcock, and
bearers of that name are still numerous in
England, where four coats-of-arms are found,
belonging to the family in different localities.
(I) James Babcock, the progenitor of the
Westerly family, was born in 1612, and died
in 1679. Pie is first of record in New Eng
land at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1642.
He settled his family in Westerly in 1662,
being among the first settlers in that town.
James Babcock was a prominent citizen in
both towns and acted in various capacities as
the agent or governor of the inhabitants. Both
Massachusetts and Connecticut claimed juris
diction over Westerly, which then included the
present towns of Charlestown, Hopkinton and
Richmond, and the settlers led strenuous lives
in defending their lands from trespassers, espe
cially those from Connecticut, which colony
did not finally relinquish claims until 1728.
James Babcock was twice married. His first
wife, Sarah, bore him four children, and died
about 1665. His second wife, Elizabeth, mar
ried after his death, September 22, 1679, Wil
liam Johnson, and settled in the adjoining
town of Stonington, Connecticut. His chil
dren were: James, born 1641, married Jane,
daughter of Nicholas Brown ; John, mentioned
below ; Job, married Jane, daughter of Rev.
John Crandall ; Mary, married Captain Wil
liam Champlin; Joseph, married (first) Doro
thy Key, (second) Mrs. Hannah Coates; Na
thaniel, died January 2, 1719; Elizabeth, bap
tized September 14, 1692.
(II) John, son of James and Sarah Bab
cock, was born at Portsmouth in 1644. He
married Mary, daughter of George and Eliz
abeth (Hazard) Lawton. Tradition says that
they eloped from Newport and settled among
the friendly Indians on the east bank of Pawca-
tuck river, before the land had been purchased
from the Indians or any movement made
toward settling it. The fact that he was only
eighteen years old when the lands were sur
veyed and first settled would seem to prove
this untrue. He and his father were among
the first eighteen selected by the colony of
Newport to go upon and occupy these lands
in March, 1662, then only recently purchased
from the Indians. The town records show that
in the apportionment, made in 1669, he re
ceived the twenty-seventh lot. His homestead
near Avondale is still occupied by a lineal de
scendant. He served with the Connecticut
militia in King Philip's war, most of the in
habitants of Westerly having fled to the island
of Rhode Island at that time, and was in the
"Great Swamp Fight." He was deputy to the
general court in 1682 and 1684. He died early

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in 1685, and the inventory of his personal
property placed its value at £790 3s. His
widow married, April 21, 1698, Erasmus Bab
bitt, and died November 8, 171 1, in Westerly.
John Babcock's children, all born in Westerly,
were: James, 1663; Ann, 1665; Mary, mar
ried John Macomber ; John, married Mary
Champlin ; Job, married Deborah ; George,
married Elizabeth Hall ; Elihu, tradition says
he was born on the day of the "Great Swamp
Fight ;" Robert, married Lydia Crandall ;
Joseph, married Rebecca Stanton; Oliver,
married (first) Susanna Clark, (second) Deb
orah Knowles.
(Ill) Captain John (2), second son of John
(1) and Mary (Lawton) Babcock, was born
about 1668, in Westerly, was admitted a free
man, February 13, 1689, and died there March
28, 1746. He lived about two miles east of
Pawcatuck bridge, in a house afterward used
as a hotel by Sylvester Gavitt. His wife Mary
was his cousin, daughter of William and Mary
(Babcock) Champlin (or Champlain). He
served the town in many responsible capacities
— assessor, clerk, fence-viewer, surveyor, pro
bate clerk, councilman and ratemaker; was
town clerk from 1706 to 1732, when he was
succeeded by his son William; was deputy to
the general assembly in 1695, 1702, 1713-15-
17-18-20-24-25-26; was justice of the peace
from 1730 to 1737; and captain of militia in
1709-11-15-18-19-20-21-23. On May 19, 1710,
with eleven others, he united in the purchase
of two thousand six hundred and eighty-four
acres of land from the colony, known as the
"Maxson purchase." His children were all
born in Westerly, as follows: John, May 4,
1701 ; Ichabod, mentioned below; Stephen,
May 2, 1706; William, April 15, 1708; Amy,
February 8, 1712-13; Mary, July 23, 1716;
Ann, September 14, 1821.
(IV) Ichabod, second son of Captain John
(2) and Mary (Champlin) Babcock, was born
November 21, 1703, in Westerly, was a lieu
tenant of the first company of Westerly militia,
and was appointed to administer his mother's
estate, November 25, 1760. In July, 1768,
both he and his wife became members of the
Seventh Day Baptist church of Westerly, now
Ashaway. He married, December 1, 1730, his
cousin, Jemima Babcock, daughter of Joseph
and Rebecca (Stanton) Babcock, granddaugh
ter of John and Mary (Lawton) Babcock.
Children: Ichabod, mentioned below; Mary,
born May 9, 1733; Joseph, February 3, 1736;
John, July 27, 1739.
(V) Ichabod (2), eldest child of Ichabod
(1) and Jemima (Babcock) Babcock, was born
December 12, 1731, in Westerly, where he died
August 22, 1801. He was ensign of a com

pany raised in Westerly in 1755, under Cap
tain Henry Babcock, which joined Christopher
Harris' regiment in the expedition against
Crown Point. This regiment marched to Lake
George, where it joined Sir William Johnson's
forces. He was a freeman in 1757, served as
justice of the peace in Westerly in 1761-62
and 1765, and was cornet in Captain George
Thurston's First Battalion of Kings County
Troop of Horse in 1780. He carried dis
patches during the revolution, and in May,
1777, received two pounds fourteen shillings in
compensation from the colony. His fishing
boats were seized by United States troops in
October, 1777, along with those of several
others, and he was granted a compensation of
forty pounds for this loss. He married, March
17, 1756, Esther, daughter of Colonel Joseph
and Mary (Champlin) Stanton, of Charles
town, Rhode Island, born November 23, 1741,
died XTovember 17, 1813, in Westerly (see
Stanton IV). Children of Ichabod (2) Bab
cock: Ichabod, born January 15, 1758; Lucy,
April 25, 1760; Joseph, April 1, 1762; Mary,
April 8, 1765 ; Lodowick Stanton, mentioned
below; Augustus, January 30, 1769; Hannah,
July 2, 1776; Esther, July 18, 1778; Anstice,
February 25, 1780. Two successive sons named
Stephen died in infancy.
(VI) Lodowick Stanton, third son of Icha
bod (2) and Esther (Stanton) Babcock, was
born February 18, 1767, in Westerly, and was
a pioneer settler in the town of Lebanon, New
York, where he conducted a hotel and livery
business and operated a stage line. The fol
lowing is his announcement of the opening of
his hotel at Lebanon Springs, where he died
August 28, 1828:
The subscriber has the pleasure to inform his
friends and the public that he has so far finished
and furnished his New Establishment, four rods
east of the Springs, as to be ready now to wait
on Ladies and Gentlemen, who may visit the
salubrious waters, in a style both agreeable and
convenient, as it respects liquors, food, lodging,
and attention, by the meal, day or week. Parties
will be accommodated on short notice. Travellers
on the Albany and Boston Turnpike will be accom
modated cheap enough to pay the trouble of
coming to the Springs, which is about forty rods
distant. Likewise, keeping for horses at hay or
grass. All which accommodations will be 'furnished
for such moderate considerations, as that his cus
tomers may not only be able, but induced to call
again. Horses and carriages to let, as usual, at my
Livery Stable. L. S. BABCOCK.
July 4, 1820.
He married, in Preston, Connecticut, Feb
ruary 24, 1 79 1, Lydia, daughter of Jabez and
Sarah (Lord) Wight, born May 28, 1770, in
Preston, died at Lebanon, May 4, 1865. Chil
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21, 1792; Lydia, 1794, died same year; Jabez
Wight, mentioned below; Emily, December
22, 1797; Lodowick S., November 18, 1799;
George, January 22, 1801 ; Lydia Esther, April
27, 1806.
(VII) Jabez Wight, second son of Lodo
wick S. and Lydia (WJtifc^ Babcock, was born
September 11, 1795, in Lebanon, New York,
where he passed his life, and died August 1]
1869. He served as supervisor and town
clerk, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and
conducted the tavern built by his father, in
which he was assisted by his sons. He mar
ried at Wallingford, Connecticut, Rebecca,
daughter of Joel and Rebecca (Hart) Cook,
born April 5, 1798, in Wallingford, died Sep
tember 20, 1846, in Lebanon (see Cook V).
Children: Jabez Cook, born June 17, 1821 ;
Plarriet Rebecca, February 26, 1824; William
Henry, mentioned below ; George Frederick,
September 14, 1829; Lucy Maria, April 11,
1832; Emma and Anna (twins), July 20,
1837; Kitty M., November 10, 1840.
(VIII) William Henry, second son of Jabez
W. and Rebecca (Cook) Babcock, was born
July 1, 1826, in Lebanon, where he remained
until the age of thirteen years, attending the
public schools of that town. When thirteen
years old he went to Brooklyn, New York,
where he joined his uncle, Alfred M. Wilder,
who conducted a book store on Fulton street.
Here as a clerk he gained an experience in
business and also extended the brief education
supplied by his early schooling. Upon the re
tirement of Mr. Wilder, William H. Babcock
became his successor as owner and manager
of the store, which he continued to operate for
several years with success. This he finally sold
and returned to his native town, where he set
tled on a small farm, and there continued the
remainder of his life, enjoying the outdoor
occupation, which was most congenial to him.
While spending the winter of 1892-93 in Provi
dence he died there March 8, 1893, and was
buried in Swan Point Cemetery. He was a
faithful member of the Protestant Episcopal
church, and was one of the organizers of the
Church of Our Saviour at Lebanon Springs,
in which he was a communicant from 1870
until the time of his death. Domestic in his
tastes he was devoted to his home and family,
and was esteemed as a useful member of the
community. He married, in Providence, May
l7> !853, Penelope Bennett Andrews, born
there September 27, 1830, daughter of George
and Cornelia Augusta (Lippitt) Andrews, of
Providence (see Andrews VI). Mrs. Bab
cock makes her home on Forest street, in
Providence,' with her daughter, Miss M.
Frances Babcock. She is an esteemed member

of Grace Episcopal Church. Children: 1.
Cornelia Augusta, bora September 16, 1854;
married Professor Winslow Upton, who was
a well known educator and member of the
faculty of Brown University, and died in
Providence, January 8, 1914, leaving beside
bis widow two children: Eleanor Stuart and
Margaret Frances. 2. Mary Frances, who re
sides with her mother in Providence. 3. Wil
liam Henry, bora August 3, 1858; resides in
Chicago. He married Mary E. Fayerweather,
and has three children : Richard Fayerweather,
Henry Andrews and Frederick MorAison. 4.
Emma Huntington, born November 19, 1866;
became the wife of George W. Cutler, of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and has three
daughters : Martha Huntington, Penelope and
Margaret Atherton. (The Andrews Line).
This name, like all in the possessive form, is
of Welsh origin, and is derived from the bap
tismal name of the parent, according to the
Welsh system. Instead of adding son to the
father's name for a surname, the possessive
form is employed, and thus we find many of
our most usual names, such as Jones (John's),
Davis (Davy's or Davie's), Edwards, Evans
and multitudes of similar names.
(I) John Andrews, whose father undoubt
edly bore the baptismal name of Andrew, a sea
cooper, came from Wales to America, and is
found as early as 1656 in the records of Bos
ton, where he died June 25, 1679. His first
wife, Lucie, died in Boston, September 1,
1653, and he married (second) in 1655, Han
nah, daughter of Edmond and Martha Jack
son, of Boston, born there March 1, 1636.
Children : John, born 1656, died young ; Han
nah, February 20, 1658; Susannah, August 12,
1659; Martha, December 5, 1660; Mary, bap
tized February 4, 1661 ; John, mentioned be
low ; James, died young ; Edmond, born No
vember 4, 1665; James, March 17, 1667; Sam
uel, May 12, 1668.
(II) John (2), second son of John (1) and
Hannah (Jackson) Andrews, was born Sep
tember 20, 1662, in Boston, was a housewright
by occupation, and served as captain of militia
in Rhode Island. In 1692 he purchased a
large tract of land, with a house, in New
Bristol (now Bristol), Rhode Island, where
he resided until 1701, when he sold this prop
erty and purchased land in Taunton, Massa
chusetts, which included a water privilege on
Three Mile river. Here, in association with
his son-in-law, Nathaniel Linkon, he build a
grist and saw mill, which, for one hundred
years were known as Andrews Mills, at the
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25, 1742, near the close of his eightieth year.
He served four years as chairman of the Taun
ton board of selectmen, and was deputy sheriff
of Bristol county. He married (first) Alice,
daughter of John and Alice (Phillips) Shaw,
of Weymouth, Massachusetts, born July 6,
1666, died February 1, 1735. He married
(second) May 20, 1737, Mary, widow of Jacob
Barney, and daughter of Rev. Samuel and
Hannah (Allen) Danforth, born December 5,
1698. Rev. Samuel Danforth was the fourth
minister at Taunton. Children of John (2)
Andrews and his first wife: Alice, married
Nathaniel Linkon, of Taunton ; John, born
1686; Edmond, 1692; Samuel, mentioned be
low; Seth, 1702-03; Hannah, 1706; Martha,
married Thomas Jones, of Dighton ; Susanna,
unmarried. (Ill) Samuel, third son of John (2) and
Alice (Shaw) Andrews, was born about 1696,
and resided in that part of Taunton which is
now Dighton. He was a corporal of the Taun
ton company commanded by his nephew, Cap
tain James Andrews, under Colonel Thacher,
and died at Albany, XTew York, in 1756, while
in service on the Crown Point expedition. In
1727 he applied to the court of general sessions
for a license to sell strong liquors in Dighton,
and his application was approved by the select
men of the town. He married (first) Eliza
beth Emerson, who died March 14, 1724, and
(second) Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Pitts,
of Dighton. There were three children of the
first marriage : Samuel, Elizabeth, and Ruth,
concerning whom no further record has been
discovered. Children of second marriage, re
corded in Dighton : Ebenezer, born January
10, 1727; John, March 13, 1729; Elkanah,
mentioned below; Stephen, December 22,
1734; Mary, November 30, 1736, died young;
Zephaniah, February 9, 1739; Mary, August
2, 1741 ; Job, April 2, 1744.
(IV) Elkanah, third son of Samuel An
drews and his second wife, Mary Pitts, was
born March 4, 1732, in Dighton, and was a sea
captain, making voyages to the West Indies
and South America. On one of these trips he
brought home three black children as slaves,
to whom he gave the names of Moses, Eneas
and Fan. After they grew up he gave them
their freedom. He was selectman of Dighton
in 1779 and from 1785 to 1787, and repre
sented the town in the general court in 1786.
He died June 11, 1787, in Essequibo, British
Guiana. The inventory of his estate showed
real estate valued at two thousand six hundred
and eleven pounds, and personal property of
one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine
pounds. At his- death he was possessed of two
hundred and ninty-two acres of land, six

houses and two stores, and held notes against
forty-five individuals, ranging in amount from
£173 down, including one which called for
$1,000 Continental money, valued at £41. He
married Alice Beal, born November 2, 1739,
in Hingham, Massachusetts, daughter of Ste
phen and Alice (Crocker) Beal, died in Digh
ton, June 13, 1808. The Beal family in Amer
ica was founded by John Beal, who came from
Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638. He mar
ried Nazareth Hobart, and their third son,
Jeremiah Beal, born 163 1, in England, married
Sarah Ripley, also born in England, daughter
of William- Ripley. Their second son, John
Beal, born March 8, 1657, in Hingham, Massa
chusetts, had a wife Hannah, whose family
name has not been discovered. Their fourth
son, Stephen Beal, born September 16, 1707,
in Hingham, married in Barnstable, Massa
chusetts, September 16, 1736, Alice, daughter
of William and Mary (Crocker) Crocker.
Their second child and eldest daughter, Alice
Beal, born November 2, 1739, in Hingham,
became the wife of Elkanah Andrews, of
Dighton, Massachusetts, as above noted. Chil
dren: Alice, born January 12, 1758; Elkanah,
February 29, 1760; Joseph, mentioned below;
David, March 19, 1766; Polly, February 26,
1768; William, May 7, 1770; Thomas, De
cember 4, 1772; Clarissa, February 18, 1775;
Job, April 1, 1779.
(V) Joseph, second son of Elkanah and
Alice (Beal) Andrews, was born April 5, 1764,
in Dighton, and died January 24, 1803, at
Bridgetown, Barbadoes. Like his father he
followed the sea. He married, August 15,
1793, Nancy, daughter of Seth and Hannah
Talbot, of Dighton, born February 7, 1769,
died in Providence, March 14, 1856. Seth
Talbot was born November 20, 1743, in Digh
ton, a descendant of Jared Talbot, an early
resident of Taunton, where he was married,
April 1, 1664, to Sarah Andrews, probably a
daughter of Henry Andrews, of that town.
Joseph Talbot, a descendant of Jared, mar
ried, November 11, 1742, in Dighton, Ruth
Reed, born November 3, 1727, daughter of
George and Sarah Reed. Their eldest son was
Seth Talbot, father of Mrs. Joseph Andrews.
Children: Joseph, born November 2, 1794,
died 1796; George, mentioned below; Joseph,
October 4, 1798; Theodore, July 25, 1801 ;
Nancy, August 7, 1803.
(VI) George, second son of Joseph and
Nancy (Talbot) Andrews, was born August
22, 1796, in Dighton, and settled in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, where he died January
3, 1838. He married Cornelia Augusta, daugh
ter of Charles and Penelope (Low) Lippitt,
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21, 1869. Children: Anne Frances, born
March 2, 1824; Charles Lippitt, January 9,
1826; George Lippitt, April 22, 1828; Penelope
Bennett, mentioned below; Joseph, April 12,
1833; Theodore, August 3, 1835; Cornelia
Lippitt, March 8, 1838.
(VII) Penelope Bennett, second daughter
of George and Cornelia A. (Lippitt) Andrews,
was born September 27, 1830, in Providence,
and became the wife of William H. Babcock,
of Brooklyn, New York (see Babcock VIII)!
(The Cook Line).
(I) Henry Cooke, born about 1615, died at
Salem, Massachusetts, December 25, 1661.
He married, in June,' 1639, Judith Birdsale,
who died in 1689, daughter of Henry Bird-
sale, of Salem, Massachusetts. Among his
children was Samuel, who was born Septem
ber 30, 1640-41, who married Hope Parker.
(II) Samuel Cook, son of Henry Cooke, ap
peared at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1663,
and, in April, 1670, removed to Wallingford
with the first planters. He was a tanner and
shoemaker, the first in that settlement ; held im
portant offices in town and church, and died
in March, 1702. It is apparent that he was an
industrious and useful citizen, and achieved
worldly success, as his estate inventoried at
three hundred and forty pounds, a large sum
for that place and time. He married (first)
May 2, 1667, Hope Parker, daughter of Ed
ward and Elizabeth Parker, born April 26,
1650, died before 1690. He married (second)
July 14, 1690, Mary Roberts, who survived
him and married (second) April 9, 1705, Jere
miah Howe. Children of first marriage : Sam
uel, born March 3, 1668; John, December 3,
1669; Hannah, March 3, 1671 ; Isaac, died
young; Mary, April 23, 1675; Elizabeth, died
young; Judith, February 29, 1679; Isaac, men
tioned below ; Joseph, February 25, 1683 ;
Hope, September 27, 1686. Children of sec
ond marriage : Israel, May 8, 1692 ; Mabel,
June 30, 1694; Benjamin, April 8, 1697; Eph
raim, April 19, 1699; Elizabeth, September 10,
1701. (Ill) Isaac, fourth son of Samuel and Hope
(Parker) Cook, was born January 10, 1681,
in Wallingford, and lived in that town, where
he died February 1, 1712. His estate was in
ventoried at one hundred and three pounds.
He married, October 11, 1705, Sarah Curtis,
born October 1, 1687, in Wallingford, daugh
ter of Thomas and Mary Curtis. Children :
Sarah, born July 20, 1707; Amos, died young;
Mindwell, May, 1709; Isaac, mentioned be
low. (IV) Isaac (2), youngest child of Isaac (1)
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1710, in Wallingford, where he made his home
and died March 16, 1780. He was a tanner
and currier, a useful and active citizen re
spected and esteemed. He married, October
13. 1733. Jerusha Sexton, of Wallingford, who
died October 13, 1795. Children: Amos, born
December 5, 1734; Jerusha, November 19,
1730; Laac, mentioned below; Caleb, Xovem
ber 14, 1741 ; Mindwell, died young; Ambrose
May 19, 1744; Elisha, August 16, 1747; Mind
well, April 20, 1750.
(V) Isaac (3), third son of Isaac (2) and
Jerusha (Sexton) Cook, was born July 28,
1739- m Wallingford, and rendered valuable
service to the colony in the revolution. He
commanded a company which gave sixteen
days' service on the Lexington Alarm, April
l9, I775> and was commissioned May 1 of
that year, captain of the Seventh Company,
First Regiment of Connecticut Troops, which
was discharged in December of the same year.
He was commissioned, January 10, 1780,
major of the Tenth Regiment, recruited from
Wallingford and Durham, and was promoted
lieutenant-colonel in March, 1783, having been
in continuous service more than three years.
Pie died at his home in Wallingford in June,
1810. He married, March 6, 1760, his second
cousin, Martha, daughter of Benjamin and
Hannah (Munson) Cook. Children: Joel,
mentioned below; Martha, born June 30, 1770;
Mindwell, July 17, 1772; Phebe, February 9,
1777. (VI) Joel, eldest child of Isaac (3) and
Martha (Cook) Cook, was born October 12,
1760, in Wallingford, and rendered long mili
tary service to his native state. He was a
revolutionary soldier under his father, and was
captain of a company which served through
the war of 1812, under General Harrison, par
ticipating in many fights with the Indians, in
which Captain Cook distinguished himself.
He was but fifteen years old when the revolu
tionary war came on, and was small for his
age, and when he offered his services was
laughed at. However, one officer took him as
a waiter, and a year later he enlisted. Before
1808 he moved from Wallingford to Babylon,
Long Island, and died at Deer Park, in that
town, December 18, 1851. He married, Janu
ary 1, 1784, Rebecca Hart, probably daughter
of Hawkins and Abigail (Hall) Hart, of
Wallingford. Children: Lucy, born April 5,
1785 ; Minerva, June 18, 1789; Leander, March
10, 1792; Patty, November 27, 1794; Rebecca,
mentioned below ; Phebe, January 5, 1901 ;
Jennette, July 8, 1804; Joel Wilcox, April 28,
1808, in Babylon.
(VII) Rebecca, fourth daughter of Cap
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April 5, 1798, in Wallingford, and became the
wife of Jabez Wight Babcock, of Lebanon,
XTew York (see Babcock VII).
(The Lippitt Line).
(I) John Lippitt, the immigrant ancestor,
in 1638 was one of those who had a house and
home lot of six acres in Providence, Rhode
Island. On July 27, 1630, he was one of
thirty-nine persons who signed an agreement
for a form of government. He and nine other
"well betrusted friends and neighbors," on
May 16, 1647, were chosen by the town of
Providence as commissioners to meet with the
commissioners from the three other towns of
Portsmouth in order to form a government
under the charter. This committee was given
full power to act as they chose. "Thus betrust-
ing you with the premises, we commit you unto
the protection and direction of the Almighty,
wishing you a comfortable voyage, a happy
success, and a safe return to us again." Soon
after this he moved to Warwick, Rhode
Island, where he was recorded as an inhabitant
on June 5, 1648, and on April 27, 1652, he
sold all his land in Providence except a five
acre lot and three acres of meadow land, to
Arthur Fenner of Providence. He was made
freeman in 1655. On February 10, 1662, he
bought six acres of land from John Gereardy,
and on February 19, 1665, he received lot 53
in the division of lands at Providence. On
May 22, 1669, he deeded to his son Moses,
his house near the brook that ran between
the house and land of James Greene, and also
lands and meadows. He died after 1669. Chil
dren : John, married, February 9, 1665, Ann
Grove ; Moses, mentioned below ; Xathaniel ;
Joseph, died perhaps early; Rebecca, married
first, Joseph Howard, and second, Francis
Budlong. (II) Moses Lippitt, son of John Lippitt,
was a tanner by trade. He was made freeman
April 30, 1672. He served as a deputy to the
general assembly at Newport from Warwick in
1681, 1684, 1690, 1698 and 1699. In 1687 he
was overseer of the poor. He died January 6,
1703, and his will, dated January 6, 1700, was
proved in 1703, his wife being executrix. His
wife received the twenty acre lot at War
wick, and all housing and lands until Moses
should come of age, and she also had all the
movable estate and all the lands and house-
ing undisposed of during her life, Moses to
receive it when she died. Moses, when he
came of age received the house occupied by
Edward Carter and adjoining lands, also other
lands, half the tanning instruments and half
of the profits of the trade, he being half the
charge. His grandson Moses, son of daugh

ter Mary Burlingame, received all rights in
the Potowomet purchase. Moses Lippitt mar
ried, November 19, 1668, Mary Knowles, who
died December 28, 1719, daughter of Henry
Knowles. Henry Knowles was born in 1609
and died in January, 1670; he lived in Ports
mouth and Warwick. Children, born in War
wick : Mary, married John Burlingame ; Mar
tha, married Thomas Burlingame; Rebecca,
married John Lippitt; Moses, mentioned be
low. (Ill) Moses Lippitt, son of Moses Lippitt,
was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, about
1683, and died December 12, 1745. He was
buried in his own ground at Warwick and
Rev. James McSparren, D. D., preached the
funeral sermon. He was admitted freeman
in 1704, and served as deputy to the general
assembly for six years, 1715, 1716, 1721, 1722,
1727, and 1730. On June 14, 1708, he bought
of Robert Westcott the lot which the latter
had purchased of his brother Zorobabel, and
on May 5, 17 14, he bought a whole purchase
right of land of Benjamin Carpenter of Paw
tuxet. His will was dated June 20, 1744 and
proved January 24, 1745, his wife being ad
ministratrix. His son Moses received four
teen acres in Warwick, land in Providence
and one hundred acres adjoining Pascourge
Cedar Swamp ; Jeremiah, a lot in Horse Neck
and half of warehouse and lot near wharf in
Warwick ; Christopher, one hundred and ten
acres in Natick; Joseph, land and slaughter
house and half of warehouse, cow and twenty
sheep; John, land in Warwick and half of
homestead and buildings, half of stock and
half of tannery supplies, one hundred and
eighty acres of land, and some household
goods when he should come of age; daughter
Ann Francis, fifty pounds and negro woman
Wango ; daughter Freelove, fifty pounds and
negro girl Violet ; daughter Mary, one hundred
pounds and negro girl Cynthia, one hundred
acres of land, two hundred pounds and a bed;
wife received the rest of the estate. He mar
ried, November 20, 1707, Ann Phillis Whip
ple, who was born October 6, 1689, and died
after 1744, daughter of Joseph and Alice
(Smith) Whipple. She was noted for her
remarkable strength. Joseph Whipple was
born in 1662, died April 28, 1746; married,
May 20, 1684, Alice Smith, born 1664, died
July 20, 1739, daughter of Edward Smith.
Edward Smith died November 8, 1693, lived
in Providence; married, 1663, Anphillis An
gell who died after 1694, daughter of Thomas
and Alice Angell of Salem, Massachusetts,
and Providence. Edward Smith was son of
Christopher and Alice Smith of Providence;
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after 1681. Joseph Whipple, father of Ann
Phillis Whipple, was son of John Whipple,
who was born about 1617 and died May 16,
1685; was of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
and Providence, Rhode Island ; married, about
1639, Sarah  , born about 1624 and died
in 1666. Children of Moses Lippitt, born at
Warwick: Moses, born January 17, 1709; Jere
miah, January 27, 171 1; Christopher, Novem
ber 29, 1712, mentioned below; Joseph, Sep
tember 4, 1715; Ann Phillis, August 29, 1717 ;
Freelove, March 31, 1720; Mary, December
2, 1723; John, December 24, 1731.
(IV) Christopher Lippitt, son of Moses
Lippitt, was born at Warwick, November 29,
1712, and died December 7, 1764, at Cran
ston, Rhode Island, where he lived. His father
built for him a large house on "Lippitt Hill"
in Cranston. He and his wife are buried in
the family grounds on Lippitt Hill. He mar
ried, January 2, 1736, Catherine Holden, who
was born October 13, 1717, and died May 4,
1807, daughter of Anthony Holden, who died
before 1724, and was of Warwick; married
Phebe Rhodes, born November 30, 1698, died
after 1761, daughter of John Rhodes, born
1658, died August 14, 1716, of Warwick, mar
ried, February 12, 1685, Waite Waterman.
She was born about 1668 and died after 171 1,
daughter of Resolved Waterman, who was
born about 1638 and died 1670; married, about
1659, Mercy Williams, born July, 1640, died
after 1705, daughter of Robert and Mary Wil
liams of Plymouth and Salem, Massachusetts,
and Providence. John Rhodes was son of
Zachariah Rhodes and Joanna Arnold. Anthony
Holden, father of Catharine Holden, was son
of Charles Holden, born March 22, 1666, died
July 21, 1717, of Warwick, married Catharine
Greene,"born August 21, 1665, died after 1717,
daughter of John Greene. He was born 1620,
died November 27, 1708, of Warwick, and
married. Ann Almy, born 1627, died May 17,
1709, daughter of William and Audry Almy
of Lynn and Sandwich, Massachusetts, and
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. John Greene was
the son of John and Joan (Tattersall) Greene;
John came from Salisbury, England, to War
wick, and. his English ancestry was Richard,
son of Richard, son of Robert. Charles Hold
en was son of Randall Holden, born 1612,
died August 23, 1692, of Salisbury, England
and Warwick; married, 1648, Frances Dun-
gan, born about 1630, died 1697, daughter of
William Dungan of London, England, who
married Frances Weston, widow, daughter of
Lewis Latliam. Children of Christopher Lip
pitt: Anthony, died October 23, 1751, aged
thirteen years ; Freelove, married Olney Rice ;

Mary, married Thomas Rice, brother of Ol
ney; Christopher, Colonel, born October 28,
1744; Catherine, married  Higginbot-
tom; Warren, died November 30, 1751, aged
three years; Phebe, born December 6, 1749;
died December 6, 1751; Moses, born Septem
ber 10, 1751; Charles, born March 2, 1754,
mentioned below; Loudon, born April 17,
1756; Waterman, born May 2, 1758; John,
born February 14, 1763.
_(V) Charles Lippitt, son of Christopher
Lippitt, was born March 2, 1754 and died
August 17, 1845. He was a soldier in the revo
lution in the lieutenant-colonel's company,
Colonel Richmond's regiment, October, 1775,
in Rhode Island. His brother, Colonel Chris
topher had a brilliant war record. He settled
in Providence after his marriage, and lived
there more than sixty years. At the time of
his death he was the oldest man in Providence.
He and his wife were members of St. John's
Church and most of their children are buried
in St. John's churchyard. The record of his
family is taken from- the manuscript of Daniel
Beckwith of Providence. Mr. Lippitt mar
ried, January 12, 1783, Penelope Low, who
died August 27, 1839, daughter of John and
Sarah (Wicks) Low. He died August 27,
1845, at Providence. Children, born at Provi
dence : 1. Julia, born January 29, 1784; died
March 22, 1867; married, September 19, 1814,
Joseph Sweet. 2. Richard, born April 3, 1785;
married Sarah Foster Bishop and had ten
children; was drowned October 31, 1835. 3.
Warren, mentioned below. 4. George, born
May 10, 1788; died December 29, 1813. 5.
Sarah Wickes, born August 22, 1789; died
July 18, 1847, an artist. 6. Catherine Holden,
born October 14, 1791 ; died January 6, 1850;
married Rev. Stephen Hull. 7. Ann Frances,
born August 20, 1793; died February 12, 1822.
8. Charles, born July 30, 1795; died July 16,
1856; married, September 9, 1832, Martha
Brown Rowell, daughter of Jeremiah. 9. Pene
lope, born February 19, 1797 ; died November
5, 1869, unmarried. 10. Mary Ann, born April
25, 1799; died October 19, 1799. 11. Cornelia
Augusta, born October 5, 1801 ; died June 21,
1869; married, October 1, 1822, George An
drews, born August 22, 1796, died January
31, 1838; had seven children. (See Andrews
VI). (V) Warren Lippitt, son of Charles Lip
pitt, was born at Providence, September 25,
1786 and died January 22, 1850. He married,
July 7, 181 1, Eliza Seamans, daughter of
Young and Mary (Larchas) Seamans. She
was born February 20, 1792. They had ten
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who married, December 16, 1845, at Provi
dence, Mary A. Balch. Their daughter Eliza
Young married William Punderson Merri-
man. (See Merriman).

There were several pioneer
EDWARDS immigrants bearing this name
in New England, and all left
a very respectable and useful progeny. Among
the most distinguished of the name may be
mentioned Rev. Jonathan Edwards, who left
a strong impression upon educational and the
ological interests in New England and the
whole United States. The name belongs to
the possessive class, of Welsh origin, similar
to Evans, Richards, Jones (John's), Williams
and many others.
(I) Rice Edwards, a joiner, born about
1615, was a pioneer resident of Salem, Massa
chusetts, where he appeared as early as 1642,
and was in Boston in 1646. He married, in
1643, J°an, name not recorded, who was ad
mitted to the Boston church, May 9, 1647. He
was in Wenham in that year and received a
grant of land there in 1653, becoming a "plant
er." He made a contract with his son, Benja
min, April 18, 1681, by which the son was
to receive the greater part of his estate, in
consideration of the care of the father during
the remainder of his life. His wife was prob
ably not then living. He died before June
15, 1683.
(II) John, eldest son of Rice and Joan
Edwards, was born about 1644, was a mason
by trade and settled in Wenham, where he
died August 28, 1697. He married in Bever
ly, May 20, 1666, Mary, daughter of John
Solart (Selare, in one record). She died be
fore 1682, and he had a second wife, Sarah,
who administered his estate. Two children
are recorded in Beverly: John, mentioned be
low; and Elizabeth, born April 1, 1671. One
child of the second marriage is recorded in
Wenham-: Deborah, born July 22, 1696. The
others, mentioned in the division of the estate,
were: Mary, Abigail, Martha, Sarah, Samuel,
Tabitha, Ellinor, Joseph, Hannah, Joshua,
Thomas. The last two were born after 1688.
(Ill) John (2), eldest child of John (1)
and Mary (Solart) Edwards, was born De
cember 11, 1668, in Beverly, and lived in Wen
ham, where four of his children are recorded.
He married, in Wenham, April 1, 1698, Annah
Dodge, of Ipswich, born December 20, 1674,
eldest daughter of Samuel and Mary Dodge.
Children: Annah, born December 10, 1700,
died young; John, mentioned below; Anna,
March 21, 1707; Samuel, September 19, 1712.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) and Anna
(Dodge) Edwards, was born July 15, 1705, in

W'enham, where he made his home in early
life, settling later in Manchester, Massachu
setts, where he died September 7, 1773. He
married in Manchester, November 9, 1727,
Abigail Hooper, born January 13, 1709, in
Beverly, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain
William and Abigail (Gale) Hooper, of Bev
erly, granddaughter of William and Elizabeth
Hooper of that town. She died February 4,
1804, in Manchester. Children: Abigail, born
August 26, 1728; Anne, June 26, 1730; Daniel,
August 19, 1732; John, mentioned below;
Mary, June 26, 1737; Ruth, baptized June 22,
1740; William, born April 20, 1743; Eliza
beth, March 11, 1746; Samuel, May 30, 1748.
(V) John (4), second son of John (3) and
Abigail (Plooper) Edwards, was born August
16, 1734, in Manchester, where he made his
home. He married (first) in Manchester,
April 25, 1758, Elizabeth Day, born February
12, 1734, in Manchester, daughter of Richard
and Abigail (Hill) Day, died August 28, 1760.
He married (second) December 17, 1761,
Hannah, widow of William- Bennett and
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (West)
Woodberry, born April 22, 1729, died March
29, 1800. There was one child of the first
marriage: Elizabeth, born September 12, 1759.
Children of second marriage: Hannah, born
Xovember 13, 1762; Anna, January 23, 1765;
Sarah, January 21, 1767; Ruth, October 8,
1768; John, February 5, 1770; William, May
z9> 1775 ; Naby, September 17, 1777; Azariah,
mentioned below.
(VI) Azariah, youngest child of John (4)
and Hannah (Woodberry) Edwards, was
born July 5, 1779, in Manchester, and died in
Monroe, Maine. He married (intentions pub
lished August 28, 1801, in Manchester), Nabby
Smith, born December 17, 1777, in Beverly,
daughter of Andrew and Nabby (Woodberry)
Smith of that town. Their children were: 1.
Azariah, born October 20, 1802, at Manches
ter, Massachusetts ; married Catherine Mann,
of Portland, Maine. 2. Orsman, born June
13, 1805, at Manchester; married Anne Sar
gent, daughter of Robert and Mary (Dodge)
Sargent ; died at Monroe, Waldo county,
Maine, April 5, 1837. 3. Anne Sargent, born
August 30, 1812, died April 6, 1872, at Pom
eroy, Ohio. 4. Andrew, born in Monroe, Wal
do county, Maine, with his brother Azariah,
was a pioneer settler of Lincoln, Penobscot
county, Maine ; he married and had several
children. 5. Elmira, born in Monroe, died when
a young woman, in Lincoln, Maine. 6. Nancy,
born in Monroe, married John Winched, of
Zanesville, Ohio, where she died in the early
seventies. 7. Aurenia, born in Monroe ; married
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Mariah, born at Monroe; married James Ed
wards, and died at Pomeroy, Ohio. 9. Elias,
born December 28, 1816, at Monroe; married,
in 1857, Jerusha Lovell, of Pomeroy, Ohio,
where he lived, later removing to Spring Hill,
Kansas, where he died in 1895. 10. George,
born November 28, 1818, at Monroe; married,
at Pomeroy, Ohio, Louise Murray, and died
at Springfield, Missouri, October 30, 1902.
(VII) Azariah (2), eldest child of Aza
riah (1) and Nabby (Smith) Edwards, was
born October 20, 1802, in Manchester, and
died in December, 1870, in Lincoln, Maine.
He was a farmer on a large scale in Lincoln
and a well-to-do and esteemed citizen, being
a pioneer settler there. He married at How
land, Maine, Catherine Mann, an authoress
well known to lovers of good literature, daugh
ter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Hamblen) Mann,
of Portland, Maine. Daniel Mann, her father,
served in the war of 1812, and died at Buffalo,
New York, in 18 14. His wife, Elizabeth
Hamblen, was of distinguished ancestry, be
ing a "Mayflower" descendant and an Amer
ican of royal descent from John of Gaunt, of
England. The children of Azariah and Cather
ine (Mann) Edwards, all born at Lincoln,
Maine, were: 1. Henry Rand, born in 1832,
married Savilla Moore, and died in Lincoln,
in 1902. 2. Charles Wesley, born in 1835,
died in 1854. 3. Fred Almon, born August
25, 1836, married (first) Angie Bruce, and
(second) Harriet Chesley, and died at Lin
coln, October 29, 1908. 4. Daniel Mann, men
tioned below.
(VIII) Daniel Mann Edwards, son of Aza
riah (2) and Catherine (Mann) Edwards,
was born January 28, 1844, in Lincoln, and
was educated in the academy of his native
town. At the age of nineteen years, in 1863,
he enlisted as a soldier of the civil war, be
coming a member of the First Maine Heavy
Artillery, with which he served until the close
of the war. In 1865 he entered the medical
school of the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated in 1867. Settling in
the practice of medicine at Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, he continued with success until deaf
ness compelled him to abandon that work.
Thereafter he engaged in business, giving at
tention to real estate development, in which he
has been a leader, contributing much to the
progress of the town, which had received a
strong impetus from the efforts of his lament
ed father-in-law, Dr. Ariel Ballou. Dr. Ed
wards is a man of superior intellectual attain
ments, progressive, with artistic tastes, design
er of his own buildings, and a forceful and
entertaining writer. At the organization of
the New England Association of the alumni

of the University of Michigan, he was made
vice-president, and he was one of the organ
izers of the Cumberland Golf Club of Woon
socket. He married, January 26, 1870, Laura
Ballon, born June 17, 1841, in Woonsocket,
daughter of Dr. Ariel (3) and Plannah (Hor
ton) Ballou, of that town (see Ballou VI).
She was educated in New England schools
and abroad, and has always been admired and
respected at home. Children: 1. Ariel Ballou,
studied in Rhode Island, at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston, and abroad,
and now resides in Woonsocket ; he is a mem
ber of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower
Descendants, the Cumberland Golf Club, and
various other societies. 2. Edith, was edu
cated in private schools in New England, at
the Lycee Racine, in Paris, France, after
which she was graduated from Bryn Mawr in
1901, with the degree of A. B., and is a lady
of much literary ability and refined taste; she
has given much time to genealogical research,
in which she is deeply interested, is a linguist
of large attainments ; a member of the Rhode
Island Society of Mayflower Descendants ; the
Rhode Island Historical Society; the Ameri
can Academy of Political and Social Science;
the National Municipal League; and Woon
socket Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. 3. Herbert, died in infancy. 4.
Percival, who died in infancy. 5. Daniel
Mann, educated at Harvard University in the
class of 1904, studied abroad, and resides in
Woonsocket; is a member of the Boston
Architectural Club, and also of the Rhode
Island Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Mrs. Edwards resides in winter in Woon
socket, and spends the summer season at her
summer home, "Quisisana," at East Woon
socket. She was for many years very active
in the club and social life of her native city,
was one of the founders of the local chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
of which she filled the office of regent for
three years. In 1910, she was elected state
regent of Rhode Island and held that position
three years. She is very much attached to her
honored father, and from early girlhood took
much interest in his plans for promoting the
progress and welfare of his home town. With
an active mind and generous impulses, she has
always been devoted to her family and friends,
whose welfare she has been ever ready to pro
mote Mrs. Edwards was one of the incor
porators of the "Elder Ballou Meeting House
and Burial Ground Society," of which she is
president. This society was formed for the
purpose of preserving the old Ballou Meeting-
House and of the care of the burial grounds
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(The Ballou Line).
The American Ballou families are of Nor
man-French descent. Guinebond Ballou, their
ancestor, was, it is supposed, a marshal in the
army of William the Conqueror, and fought in
the battle of Hastings, 1066. His descend
ants lived in county Sussex, England, until
late in the fourteenth century, where they
were extensive landholders and held import
ant governmental offices both in state and
church. Later many of them settled in other
counties of England and Ireland and held
large baronial estates there. In England and
Ireland they have preserved an unbroken des
cent of domains and titles for at least six hun
dred years, and in Devonshire they have long
been distinguished. The name has been var
iously spelled Belou, Ballowe, Belloue, Bellew,
etc., but at present it is usually written Bal
lou. (I) Maturin Ballou was born in Devon
shire, England, between 1610 and 1620, and
came to America previous to 1645, the exact
date and place of landing being unknown. He
is first mentioned as a co-proprietor of Provi
dence plantations, Rhode Island, January 19,
1646-47. He was admitted a freeman there
May 18, 1658, together with Robert Pike, who
became his father-in-law, and with whom he
was intimately associated all his life. Their
home lots stood adjacent, in the north part of
Providence as originally settled. Various
parcels of land are recorded to have been sub
sequently assigned to him, but nothing defi
nite concerning his character and standing is
known. He died between February 24, 1661,
when he had land assigned to him, and Janu
ary 31, 1663. His wife was Hannah, daughter
of Robert and Catherine Pike, whom he mar
ried between 1646 and 1649, probably in
Providence, Rhode Island ; she died at the age
of eighty-eight years. Children, born in Provi
dence: John, 1650; James, mentioned below;
Peter, 1654; Hannah, 1656; Nathaniel, died
in early manhood ; Samuel, 1660, drowned
June 10, 1669.
(II) James, son of Maturin and Hannah
(Pike) Ballou, was born in Providence, in
1652. Soon after his marriage in 1683 he
settled in Loquasquissuck, originally a part of
Providence, now Lincoln. It is supposed that
he began preparations to settle there some time
before, and his original log house was erected
before 1685. His second home, a framed
house, stood near the same site, and the well
still remains. On October 22, 1707, his mother
and sister Hannah deeded to him all the
property which had come to them from his
father, and this with his own inheritance of
lands from his father, made him owner of

several hundred acres, together with his home
stead. To this he added other tracts by pur
chase until he became owner of about a thou
sand acres. His most importan acquisitions
were in what was then Dedham and Wren
tham, most of which became the north section
of Cumberland, Rhode Island. His first pur
chase in this locality was made early in 1690,
the grantor being William Avery, of Dedham.
In 1706 he added to- this enough to make sev
eral farms which he afterwards conveyed to
his three sons — James, Nathaniel and Obadiah.
This division was made April 11, 1713. In
July, 1726, he made a gift deed to his young
est son, Nehemiah, of lands situated in Gloces
ter, Rhode Island, and at the same time to
Samuel his home farm. His will was made
April 20, 1734, and in 1741 he appears to have
made another arrangement of his affairs in
relation to his personal estate, which he dis
tributed among his children. The exact date
of his death is not known, but it is supposed to
have been soon after the settlement of his af
fairs. He was a man of superior ability, en
terprise and judgment. He married, July 23,
1683, Susanna, daughter of Valentine and
Mary Whitman. She was born February 28,
1658, at Providence, and died probably in
1725. Children: James, mentioned below;
Nathaniel, born April 9, 1687; Obadiah, Sep
tember 6, 1689; Samuel, January 23, 1692-
93; Susanna, January 3, 1695-96; Bathsheba,
February 15, 1698; Nehemiah, January 20,
1702. (Ill) James (2), eldest child of James (1)
and Susanna (Whitman) Ballou, was born
Xovember 1, 1684, in that- part of Providence
which was later Smithfield, and now Lincoln,
and resided in Wrentham, Massachusetts, on
land that is now a part of Cumberland, Rhode
Island. He married, about 1712, Catherine,
daughter of Elisha and Susanna (Carpenter)
Arnold, born February 8, 1690 (see Arnold
II). Elisha, son of Stephen Arnold, born Feb
ruary 18, 1661, died 1712, married, 1682, Sus
anna Carpenter. Children: Sarah, born No
vember 15, 1713; Ariel, mentioned below;
Bathsheba, November 26, 1717; Martha, Octo
ber 6, 1720; James, December 10, 1723; Elisha,
November 15, 1726; Priscilla, November 6,
1731- (IV) Ariel, eldest son of James (2) and
Catherine (Arnold) Ballou, was born Novem
ber 18, 1715, in Wrentham, and settled on the
paternal homestead, which he received by deed
from his father. It was a large farm, lying in
two states, Wrentham, Massachusetts, and
Cumberland, Rhode Island, about one mile
north of the Ballou meeting house. For several
years before his death, which occurred April

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16, 1791, his lower limbs were crippled by ill
ness, and he had to be moved about in a chair.
He was a supporter of the Six Principle Bap
tist Ministry, of his locality, and was probably
a member of the church in which his wife and
several of their children were members. He
married, about 1740, Jerusha Slack, born Oc
tober 1, 1722, in Attleboro, Massachusetts,
died October 14, 1796, daughter of Benjamin
and Jerusha (Whiting) Slack. Children: Je
mima, born November 23, 1741 ; Jerusha, No
vember 13, 1745; Chloe, March 16, 1749; Me-
latiah, March 26, 1752; Catherine, August 21,
1754; Duty, April 22, 1756; Ariel, mentioned
below; Eunice, June 28, 1760; Esther, March
13, 1762; and Selah, May 17, 1764.
(V) Ariel (2), son of Ariel (1) and Jer
usha (Slack) Ballou, was born February 21,
1758, in Cumberland, in which town he made
his home. By inheritance and subsequent pur
chases he became proprietor of more than two
hundred acres of land, and was an intelligent
and enterprising farmer. By industrious cul
tivation of his lands he was enabled to make
many improvements, increasing their produc
tiveness and extending his buildings. He built
mills for sawing lumber and making cider, and
took care that none of his family should form
dissolute habits through idleness or grow up
incompetent to bear their share of life's re
sponsibilities. He served as a soldier of the
revolution, and received a pension for this
service in his old age. Through service in the
militia he gained the rank of captain, and soon
after his union with the church, in 1814, he
came to be known as Deacon Ballou. This
church was known as "The Church of Christ
of Cumberland, Rhode Island," and after
flourishing for some time became defunct. Mr.
Ballou was the main support of this organi
zation, and his wife and three sons were mem
bers of it. He died on the homestead, Sep
tember 26, "1839, in his eighty-third year. He
married (first) February 21, 1782, Lucina
Comstock, born April 28, 1765, in Wrentham,
daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Arnold)
Comstock. She died July 11, 1801, and he
married (second) June 20, 1802, Edilda Tow
er, born May 27, 1771, daughter of Levi and
Mary (Whipple) Tower, died December 27,
1834. Children of first marriage : Rosina, born
December 2, 1783; Abigail, April 16, 1786;
Cyrus, March 18, 1789; Arnold, March 31,
1792; Sarah, March 2, 1795; Alfred, June 2,
1799. Children of second marriage: Adin,
April 23, 1803 ; and Ariel, mentioned below.
(VI) Dr. Ariel (3) Ballou, youngest child
of Ariel (2) Ballou, and second child of his
second wife, Edilda Tower, was born October
25, 1805, in Cumberland, and grew to manhood

on the homestead. The out-door life and in
dustry practiced while there developed him
very rapidly, and at the age of fourteen years
he. is said to have stood six feet in height, and
to have excelled in athletics. During this per
iod he had been rather dull as a student, but
after attaining his physical growth his mind
developed very rapidly, and he gave attention
to securing an education. In early life he had
attended the district school, and when old
enough to assist on the farm, his schooling was
limited to two or three months in winter.
When seventeen he attended six months the
select preparatory school of Rev. Abial Fisher,
in Bellingham, Massachusetts, and made re
markable progress. He was now prepared to
systematize his private studies, and despite
the faith of his father in physical energy rather
than educational pursuits, he managed to find
many opportunities for study, spending at
least one hour every day in that manner. Con
scientiously he gave to his father what he be
lieved his due — a full day's work. After this
was completed, he was wont to retire to a
roomy chimney closet designed for the stor
age of fuel, where, with book and candle, he
employed his time to the advantage of his in
tellectual development. At this time he was
in sole charge of his father's large farm, from
which he managed to secure financial results
beyond all his predecessors or neighbors. In
no year did he fail to market in Providence
and elsewhere one thousand dollars worth of
produce, and by cutting wood while clearing
lands during his last year at home, he pro
duced an income of $4,000. In the meantime
he taught in the public schools each winter,
and when he left the paternal domicile on at
taining his majority, while his pocketbook was
empty, he had a mature disciplined mind, a
clear conscience and a robust physique. He
was soon made principal of the academy on
Cumberland Hill, Rhode Island, making his
home in the family of Doctor Lamb, of that
town. Here he immediately began the study
of medicine, and after about one year under
the tuition of Dr. Usher Parsons, of Provi
dence, he spent four months at the Berkshire
Medical Institute, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Subsequently he studied a year under Dr. Dan
iel Thurber, of Mendon, Massachusetts, an
eminent master of medical theory and prac
tice, who offered the student a share in his
practice. Young Ballou however entered as
a pupil the classes of the celebrated Prof. J.
Doane Wells, of the Maine Medical School,
connected with Bowdoin College, and was
graduated in September, 1830, with such hon
ors as to secure him the immediate offer of
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Vermont. He chose, however, to locate in the
new village of Woonsocket in his native town,
and in this vicinity he continued in the prac
tice of his profession for a period of fifty-five
years, enjoying the universal confidence and
respect of the community. Doctor Ballou took
an active interest in the conduct of municipal
affairs. For seventeen years he was an active
member of the school board, and was many
years a member of the state legislature, serv
ing part of the time in both branches. Although
a strict Democrat, he was often supported for
office by his political opponents, framed the
statute now a part of the law of Rhode Island
abolishing capital punishment, and was chair
man of the committee on the bill of rights in
the people's constitutional convention. Dur
ing the troublous times known as the "Dorr
War," Doctor Ballou took a firm stand in sup
port of Governor Dorr and the defeated party,
in consequence of which he suffered ostra
cism at the hands of many of his compatriots.
He had planned removal to a western city,
but determined to remain at home and live
down the opprobrium in which he found him
self through his political stand at that time.
He gradually regained his popularity, and in
1852 was one of the presidential electors of
the state. In every test and in every relation
of life Doctor Ballou showed himself to be
a man of great ability and unassailable pro
bity, and when his long and useful life ended,
July 15, 1887, he was widely mourned. His
constant interest in and devotion to the wel
fare of his home town contributed very greatly
to its moral, material and social progress, and
he might justly be termed the father of the city
of Woonsocket. He did not seek for wealth,
but rather sought to benefit his fellows. Such
was the confidence felt in his integrity that
when a young man without property to offer
as security, he borrowed several thousand dol
lars on his note of hand to carry on his first
business enterprise. Doctor Ballou was presi
dent of the Rhode Island Medical Society in
I855-56, and thereafter was one of its censors.
He was also an honorary member of the Maine
Medical Society. He was author of a thesis on
Lactation, published in the American Journal
of Medical Science, which was extensively
copied in European journals. From the ori
gin of the Woonsocket Hospital Corporation
and the Harris Institute, he rendered efficient
service to these institutions, being president of
the former. For many years he was a member
of the Rhode Island Historical Society, in
which he took a deep interest. He continued
to be a student, and after the long and tedious
rides necessary in visiting his patients in the

towns of Smithfield, Cumberland and Men
don, he was wont to devote some time to
study. Thus he kept in touch with the growth
of medical science, and was one of the few
who conformed to the resolution of the Rhode
Island Medical Society to use the metric sys
tem in measuring and in writing prescriptions.
The advantage of his service as counsel was
often sought by other practitioners. He was
early identified with the Masonic fraternity,
with whose broad fraternal and benevolent
principles he was fully in accord. In 1826 he
became a master Mason in Morning Star
Lodge of Cumberland, and after its removal
to Woonsocket was master of the lodge from
1848 to 1853, subsequently serving several!
years as its treasurer. From 1861 to 1865 he
was grand master of the state, and from 1861
to 1864 most excellent grand high priest of the
State Chapter, having become a Royal Arch
Mason in 1858. In 1867 he became a member
of Woonsocket Commandery, Knights Temp
lar. His devotion to the service of the fra
ternity was highly appreciated. He was long
a member of the Episcopal church at Woon
socket, of which he was warden. Doctor Bal
lou took an active interest in the preparation
of the Ballou Genealogy, published in 1888,
of which he was the senior publishing pro
prietor. Doctor Ballou was a stern man — the
terror of evil doers, exacting integrity of all,
but he carried to the sick and to the poor and
hard-used a strong purpose of beneficence, an
ennobling breadth of view, and a cheerful
faith in ultimate good, that made him more
than physician, more than friend or father
to many who now mourn his loss ; for great
as were his mental endowments, he was great
er yet in that indefinite quality, the soul. He
married, September 11, 1832, in Mendon,
Hannah, daughter of Barnabas and Mary
(Morse) Horton, born November 11, 1803,
in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (see Horton
VI). She was a most worthy helpmate of
her husband, to whose influence he ascribed
much of his success in life, and passed away
November 14, 1873. Children: Ariel A., born
Xovember 23, 1833, who was drowned Sep
tember 11, 1844; Annah, January 1, 1837, died
December 10, 1909, unmarried; she was a
woman of fine and strong mentality, the sec
ond librarian of Harris Institute Library, and
one of the eariy members of the Rhode Island
Woman's Club, in Providence; Ella, Decem
ber 7, 1839, died at the age of two weeks;
Laura, mentioned below ; Noble, September
17, 1843, died July 1, 1844.
(VII) Laura, third daughter of Dr. Ariel
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June 17, 1841, and became the wife of Dr.
Daniel M. Edwards, of Woonsocket. (See
Edwards VIII). (The Horton Line).
(I) Thomas Horton, a ship carpenter, born
about 1620, was early in Charlestown, Massa
chusetts, and removed to that part of Dor
chester which became Milton, Massachusetts,
before 1669. After 1672 he returned to Charles
town. The name was usually spelled Or-
ton in the early records, but his descendants
have universally adopted the form Horton, as
found in Milton records. He was appointed
to ring the bell in Charlestown April 3, 1674,
and died in that town May 19, 1687. He mar
ried Mary, daughter of John and Amy Eddy,
of Watertown. She was admitted to Charles
town Church April 12, 1650, and died Septem
ber 13, 1693. Children: Mary, born August
27, 1648; Sarah, married Benjamin Mirick ;
Thomas, mentioned below ; John, March 23,
1657; William, January 13, 1659; Samuel, No
vember 10, 1661 ; Ebenezer, 1663; Ann; Abi
gail; Rachel, August 6, 1669; John, June 6,
1672. The last is recorded in Milton.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas
(1) and Mary (Eddy) Horton, was born Jan
uary 9, 1655, in Charlestown, and lived in
Milton, where three of his children are re
corded. His marriage has not been discovered.
Children: Thomas, born October 3, 1677;
David, mentioned below ; Solomon, January
11, 1682.
(Ill) David, second son of Thomas (2)
Horton, was born October 14, 1679, in Mil
ton, where he died January 7, 1752. He mar
ried there September 10, 1702, Mary Bad
cock, daughter of Enoch and Susanna (Gre
gory)- Badcock, of Milton. Children: David,
mentioned below ; Mary, born December 22,
1704; Rachel, December 2, 1706; Elizabeth,
February 2, 1709; Enoch, March 21, 1711;
Benjamin, March 21, 1713; Ebenezer, March
3, 1715; Joseph, June 1, 1717 ; Thankful, Oc
tober 18, 1719; Martha, November 28, 1721 ;
Ruth, December 20, 1723 ; Susannah, March
25, 1728.
(IV) David (2), eldest child of David (1)
and Mary (Badcock) Horton, was born May
x5> I7°3. in Milton, and lived in that town,
where he died February 15, 1779. He mar
ried, December 24, 1730, Dorcas Littlefield,
of Dorchester, possibly of the Woburn family
of that name; her birth is not recorded in Dor
chester, Boston, Dedham or Milton; she died
June 10, 1777. Children: Barnabas, born
April 23, 1730; Elizabeth, January 22, 1732;
David, mentioned below; Mary, March 31,
1734; Edmond, June 14, 1736; Enoch, March

5, 1742; Lydia, June 15, 1743; Nathan, July
3L 1745; Josiah, May 29, 1747; Lemuel, June
8, 1752; Sarah, March 30, 1756.
(V) David (3), second son of David (2)
and Dorcas (Littlefield) Horton, was born
April 6, 1733, in Milton, where he was living
m 1762 with his wife Desire. No record of his
marriage has been found. One child only is
recorded in Milton. He probably removed
from Milton soon after 1762, and may have
lived in Winchester, New Hampshire. Mit
chell's "Plistory of Bridgewater, Massachu
setts," says that his son came to Bridgewater
from Winchester.
(VI) Barnabas, son of David (3) and De
sire Horton, was born August 1, 1762, in Mil- ¦
ton, and settled in South Bridgewater, Massa
chusetts, before 1785. He was a soldier in
the revolution being credited with two enlist
ments from the town of Bridgewater, Massa
chusetts. At the time of his marriage to Molly
Morse he is called of Milton. He married Molly
Morse, daughter of Ephriam and Fear
(West) Morse, of Kingston, Massachusetts
(see Morse V). Children: David, born 1785,
married a Miss Byram, of Boston; Sybil, 1788,
married, in 1813, Daniel Thompson; Daniel,
I793. married Betsey Lewis, of Pawtucket;
Polly, 1798, married Uriah Waterman, of
Pleasant Rivers, Nova Scotia ; Hannah, men
tioned below.
(VII) Hannah, daughter of Barnabas and
Mary (Morse) Horton, was born Xovember
11, 1803, in Bridgewater, and became the wife
of Dr. Ariel (3) Ballou, of Woonsocket (see
Ballou V). (The Morse Line).
This is a name conspicuous in American and
English annals, and has been traced with tol
erable accuracy to the time of William the
Conqueror. The line herein followed begins
definitely in Essex, England, and was brought
to America early in the seventeenth century.
The name is inseparably connected with the
invention of the electric telegraph and is other
wise distinguished in relation to science, lit
erature and all the influences that make for the
betterment of the condition of mankind. Its
bearers are to be found in remotely separated
districts of the United States, and they have
been noted for their maintenance of the stand
ards set up by their Puritan fathers.
(I) William Morse, born 1614, came from
Marlboro, Wiltshire, England, accompanied
bv his brother Anthony, both of whom regis
tered as shoemakers, and settled in Newbury,
Massachusetts, in 1635. Both he and his wife
Elizabeth were members of the Newbury
church in 1674. He subscribed to the oath of
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1683. Children: Jonathan, mentioned below;
Obadiah ; Elizabeth, both living in 1683 ; Han
nah, born March 6, 1641, in Newbury, married
a Stiles; Timothy, June 10, 1648, died eleven
years old ; Abigail, February 14, 1652, mar
ried (first) John Hendrick, and (second)
Moses Pingry.
(II) Jonathan, eldest child of William and
Elizabeth Morse, was born in 1639, in New
bury, and lived for a time in Beverly, Massa
chusetts, whence he was dismissed to the New
bury church May 19, 1674, was a member of
that church in 1670, was a freeman in 1671,
and removed to Middleboro, Massachusetts,
in whose church he was admitted August 14,
1674. He died July 9, 1709, and his estate was
divided by agreement June 23, 1710. He mar
ried in Beverly, May 3, 1671, Mary Clarke, of
Rowley, Massachusetts, who died before June
22, 1720. Children: Jonathan, mentioned be
low; Mary, baptized June 4, 1676, in Middle
boro, probably died young, as another Mary
was baptized April 7, 1678, in that town.
(Ill) Jonathan (2), eldest child of Jona
than (1) and Mary (Clarke) Morse, was bap
tized Ndvember 16, 1673, at the Beverly First
Church, and resided in Middleboro, where his
will was made February 23, 1724, and proved
July 19, 1725. He married Annis or Annah
Fuller, probably a daughter of Samuel Fuller.
Children: William, born September 24, 1702;
Deborah, April 17, 1704; Jonathan, August
18, 1705; David, mentioned below; Anna,
April 11, 1709; Sarah, February 7, 1711;
Mary, June 30, 1715. The first three were
born in Middleboro.
(IV) David, third son of Jonathan (2) and
Annis (Fuller) Morse, was born October 13,
1707, in Plympton, Massachusetts. His father's
land lay in two towns, and in the division Dav
id's share was in Plympton. In 1707 he traded
this for one-half of the farm of his father-in-
law in the same town, and was described then
as a resident of Middleboro. He deeded his
property to his son Ephraim, June 30, 1761,
and was dead in 1763. He married in Plymp
ton, February 14, 1732, Sarah, daughter of
John and Mary Bryant, born there about 1712.
Children: Noah, born September 16, 1734, a
soldier in the French war, where he probably
died; Ephraim, mentioned- below; Hannah,
married, in 1801, Josiah West; Lucy, died be
fore 1744.
(V) Ephraim, son of David and Sarah
(Bryant) Morse, was born in that portion of
Middleboro which is now Plympton, and re
sided in Kingston, Massachusetts. He mar
ried, June 9, 1762, Fear West, of Kingston,
born there October 4, 1734, daughter of Eli
sha and Martha (Ransom) West. Children:

Mary (Polly, Molly), mentioned below; Jo
seph, born February 12, 1764; Fear, October
9, 1765; Martha, January 18, 1768; Sarah,
February 8, 1770; Parnel, February 10, 1772;
Susannah, married (first)  Rowe, (sec
ond) Jacob D. Coster.
(VI) Mary, eldest child of Ephraim and
Fear (West) Morse, was born October 18,
1762, in Plympton, and became the wife of
Barnabas Horton, formerly of Milton, then of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts (see Horton VI).

This is one of the most
CARPENTER widely distributed names
in the United States, as
well as one of the oldest, and has been notable
among the pioneers of many states. It is
traced to an early period in England, and is
conspicuous in the annals of the American
revolution, and also in civil life through many
generations and representatives. It has car
ried with it New England standards and has
given its sons to the public service in many
commonwealths. There were three families
of this name among the pioneer settlers of
America, the most numerous being that found
ed by William Carpenter, of Rehoboth, Mas
sachusetts. Another large New England fam
ily was founded by William Carpenter, of
Providence, Rhode Island, and a third family
was established early in Philadelphia. A fourth
pioneer was David Carpenter, who died at
Farmington, Connecticut, in 1651. (I) John
Carpenter was born in 1303, and was a mem
ber of parliament in 1323. (II) Richard, son
of John Carpenter, was born in 1335, mar
ried Christian — ¦  ; both are buried in St.
Martin's, Outwich, Bishopsgate, London; he
was a chandler and probably also a gunsmith.
(Ill) John (2), son of Richard Carpenter,
was a brother of the famous town clerk of
London, whose bequest to the city was the
foundation of the City of London School.
(IV) John (3), was a son of John (2) Car
penter. (V) William, son of John (3) Car
penter, was born 1440, died 1520. (VI) James
was a son of William Carpenter. (VII) John
(4) was a son of James Carpenter. (VIII)
William (2), son of John (4) Carpenter, was
born in England. Children: James, heir to
estate; Alexander, born 1560, went to Ley
den; William, came to America 1638 and re
turned to England soon; Richard. (IX) Rich
ard (2), son of William (2) Carpenter, was
of Amesbury, England, and was buried there
September 21, 1625. He had son William.
(I) William, heir of Richard Carpenter, of
Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, was the found
er of the Providence family. William Car
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1611, in Cheselbourne, Dorsetshire, England,
was a daughter of William and Christiana
(Peck) Arnold. They were married before
sailing for America, and on Friday, May 1,
1636, set sail from Dartmouth, England, and
arrived at Hingham, Massachusetts, June 24,
of the same year, having had a very prosper
ous voyage, which consumed less than two
months, an unusual thing in those days. They
settled at Providence, April 20, 1637, and Wil
liam Carpenter became one of the original
proprietors of that town, holding equal rights
with Roger Williams. The entire plantation
was held by Williams, who gave provisional
deeds to his associates, and on December 23,
166 1, William Carpenter received a confirm
atory deed. His home lot was on what is now
Meeting street, where the Friends' meeting
house stands which gave to the street its name,
and his residence was used as a block house
for defense against the Indians. He was one
of the original members of the First Baptist
Church of Providence, organized 1638-39, and
his name appears frequently in the records of
the colony. He was a member of the com
mittees on boundaries, to lay out roads and
build bridges, and served as a selectman. He
was elected representative to the general court,
March 10, 1658, and served also in 1659-60-
61-62-63; was assistant in 1665-66-67-68-69-
70-71-72, and was deputy to the general court
in 1679. During King Philip's war he lost
two hundred sheep, fifty cattle and fifteen
horses. In May of that year his house was at
tacked by three hundred Indians and set on
fire, but the fire was extinguished, although
two persons in the garrison were killed in
action. He left houses and lands to his heirs,
was the last survivor of the thirteen original
proprietors, and as commissioner gave deeds
to their heirs, April 25, 1683. He made his
will, January 10, 1680, to which he added a
codicil, March 15, 1684, on account of the
death of a son, and died September 7, 1685,
having divided his estate among his heirs. His
property after his death was valued at twenty-
two pounds. His wife survived him. Chil
dren: Joseph, Lydia, Ephraim, Timothy, Wil
liam, Priscilla, Silas, Benjamin.
(II) Benjamin Carpenter, apparently
youngest son of William and Elizabeth (Ar
nold) Carpenter, was born in 1653, at Paw
tuxet, in what is now Warwick, Rhode island,
and was a member of the town council from
1693 to 1699. His name appears often of rec
ord in connection with important public af
fairs. He possessed a large estate, and died
March 3, 171 1. He married Mary Tilling
hast, born 1 661, daughter of Rev. Pardon

Tillinghast. Children : William, Joseph, Ben
jamin, and Mary.
(Ill) Benjamin (2), third son of Benja
min (1) and Mary (Tillinghast) Carpenter,
was born 111 1693, and was a farmer at Paw
tuxet, residing for a time in Providence. He
died December 16, 1766. He married (first)
Barbara, daughter of Israel and Mary (Bark
er) Arnold (see Arnold III); (second)
Mercy, daughter of Oliver Carpenter, and
(third) Prudence Kingsley, born about 1714.
The latter survived him nearly thirty-five
years, dying July 29, 1801.
(IV) Nathaniel, second son of Benjamin
(2) Carpenter, was born February 25, 1744,
in Pawtuxet, and was a farmer in the town
of Cranston, Rhode Island, where he died
August 12, 1828. He married, March 26,
1772, Deliverance Greene, born July 22, 1751,
daughter of Elisha (2) Greene, and descend
ant of Surgeon John Greene, who is described
at length elsewhere in this work, (see Greene
V). She died April 24, 1821. Children: Daniel,
born August 4, 1773; James, March 15, 1775;
Job, December 13, 1776; George, March 29,
1780; Abby, in 1782; Deliverance, June 2,
1785; Nathaniel, June 2, 1785; Sarah, Novem
ber 17, 1787; and Earl, mentioned below.
(V) Earl Carpenter, youngest son of Na
thaniel and Deliverance (Greene) Carpenter,
was born March 21, 1794, in Cranston, grew
up on his father's farm, attending the public
school of the neighborhood, and assisting in
the farm work during vacations. For about
two years, beginning at the age of eighteen, he
gave attention to learning the carpenter's trade,
but decided to engage in a business career, and
went to Providence, where he engaged in busi
ness as a grocery merchant. The memorable
gale and high tide of September, 1815, greatly
damaged his stock, which was then located on
Market Square. He continued in business,
however, and some five years later began to
manufacture spruce beer in connection with
his grocery business. His product became
known as "Carpenter's Beer" and was very
popular. The growing demand required him
to keep on hand a supply of ice, and he there
fore engaged in the ice business, which he
conducted with great success for many years,
and was afterward continued by his son. In
1822 he purchased land adjoining Benedict's
Pond, on which he built a storage house, and
soon began supplying others with ice. As his
business extended he leased and built other
ice bouses, and in 1849 constructed the mam
moth ice houses on the southeast side of Mash-
apaug Pond. He was one of the first to in
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and soon after he built two additional houses
for the storage of ice at Randall's Pond in
Xorth Providence. In 1854 his sons became
associated with him in the business, which was
long conducted under the style of Earl Car
penter & Sons. One of the sons died before
his father, and after the death of the latter,
the business was continued by the surviving
son, who is mentioned at length below. Be
ginning with a capacity for storing three hun
dred tons, the business in time reached a di
mension of sixty-eight thousand tons. In 1855
the grocery business was discontinued, but the
ice trade was continued with offices in the same
building, the "Union Building," until 1901.
Mr. Carpenter was a man of pleasing person-
ality and agreeable manners, and became very
popular with the public. From 1820 to 1837
he conducted a restaurant on Canal street,
which was widely patronized, and he became
personally known to and popular with many
citizens of Providence. In early life he was
much interested in military matters, and serv
ed as captain of a local militia company. He
was colonel of the Second Regiment of Rhode
Island Militia in 1824, when General Lafay
ette visited Providence. Mr. Carpenter was
a member of the common council of the city
in 1841-42, served several years as fire warden,
and was often urged by his fellow citizens to
accept an office of trust and responsibility,
which he declined. He was one of the original
share holders and a director of the Traders
Bank, organized in 1836, and was its presi
dent for more than twenty-two years preced
ing his death, which occurred at his home in
Providence, February 10, 1863. He was also
a director of the Providence Mutual Fire In
surance Company. For some twenty years he
was associated, often in an official capacity,
with the First Universalist Society of Provi
dence, upon whose religious services he was
a regular attendant. His fine physical make
up was sustained and prolonged by his love
of out-door sports, as he was especially fond
of hunting and fishing. Of cheerful nature
and generous mind, he dispensed a liberal hos
pitality; was prompt in the fulfillment of all
engagements, and thus enjoyed the esteem and
confidence of all who were privileged to know
him. He married, October 26, 1821, Sarah A.
Harris, daughter of Joseph and Catharine
(Greene) Harris, of Cranston (see Harris
VI). Children: Albert Greene, born July 24,
1822; Charles Earl, mentioned below; Jo
seph Harris, February 20, 1826; Nathaniel
Greene, 1828; and Sarah Clarke, January 18,
1830, who married, September 15, 1851, David
Chase Anthony, of Somerset, Massachusetts.
(VI) Charles Earl, second son of Earl and

Sarah A. (Harris) Carpenter, was born June
22, 1824, in Providence, which grew in his
time from a country town to the second muni
cipality in New England, in whose growth
and rise he bore no inconspicuous part. His
education was supplied by the schools of his
native city, and at one time he was a classmate
of George William Curtis, most famous of
Rhode Island authors. For some five years
he was under instruction of Thomas C. Harts
horn, a noted educator of Providence, and
was later a pupil of Merrick Lyon in the old
Peter Ferris school building on Westminster
street. In 1844 he entered business with his
father, and ten years later became the owner
of a one-third interest, at the same time that
his brother came into possession of a like
share. Less than three months later, the
brother died, and from 1863 to 1869 the busi
ness was in the sole charge of Charles E. Car
penter. In the latter year his brother-in-iaw,
David C. Anthony, became an equal partner
in the business, but died two years later, after
which Air. Carpenter conducted the business
alone until January, 1882, when his son,
daughter and nephew became interested in the
business, from which he retired in 1884. Mr.
Carpenter was very active in furthering the
improvement of his home city, was one of the
first advocates of the steam fire department,
and personally invented, and constructed an
improvement on the first fire alarm telegraph
in the city. From a very early age he was
actively interested in the fire department of
the city, acting as one of its volunteer firemen,
and was instrumental in the establishment and
extension of a paid fire department. For sev
eral years he was a clerk of the Union Fire
Engine Company No. 3, and was later its fore
man and captain. For many years he was a
member of the board of fire wards, a board
resembling the present board of fire commis
sioners. When he joined Union Company No.
3, in August, 1843, its house was located on
Broad street, and his last fire duty was as
clerk of the company for one year after the
organization of the present fire department.
He was among the first to advocate the estab
lishment of the present water works system,
and to his energy and foresight is largely due
the introduction of Pawtuxet water. He was
a member of the first board of city water com
missioners, serving from September 27, 1869,
to November, 1876, participating with Moses
B. Lockwood and Joseph J. Cooke in the con
struction of the present water works. His
father had established the Carpenter fountain,
which furnished water to the lower portions
of the city through long wooden pipes, and
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tion of this fountain, which was located on
Fountain street, below Dean. Mr. Carpenter
represented the fifth ward in the common
council from 1857 to i860, from 1866 to 1869,
and from 1878 to 1881. Many of the im
provements in the fire protection of the city
and its general water service are due to his
energy and good judgment. In May, 1877,
he was elected on the Republican ticket to the
general assembly and was subsequently elected
on the Temperance ticket. Again, in 1884,
he was elected on the Republican ticket,
but declined to run again because of his
connection with the board of public works.
His last public service was in this capacity,
from May, 1884, to February, 1889, when
he retired from public life. He was con
nected with many societies, though he re
fused to affiliate with any secret order. His
memory was retentive, and he was among the
most interesting speakers at the gatherings of
the veteran associations, Rhode Island His
torical Society and the Rhode Island Veteran
Citizens' Historical Society. He succeeded his
father as a director in the People's Savings
Bank, and was a director in the Old Traders'
National Bank until that institution went out
of business. He was a member of the Provi
dence Board of Trade, and vice-president of
the New England Mutual Accident Associa
tion of Boston. From the foundation of the
Rhode Island Homoeopathic Hospital he served
as its president, until a short time before his
death. He was also a member of the Rhode
Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, and of the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children. For some time
he was a member of the board of directors of
the Rhode Island Reform School, resigning in
1866. He was a prominent member of the
First Universalist Church of Providence ; of
the Universalists' Convention, and the Uni
versalist Publishing House, and for almost
half a century was superintendent of the Sun
day school of the First Universalist Church.
His interest in the uplift of public morals was
not confined to the church, and he was treas
urer of the Bethany Home, and of the Rescue
Mission. He was one of the best known of
the older citizens of Providence, and his death,
June 28, 1898, was the cause of wide mourn
ing. He married, October 2, 1849, Adeline
Frances, daughter of Peter Daniels and Lydia
(Kent) Greene, born February 16, 1830 (see
Greene VII). She died at her home on Pit
man street, Providence, November 14, 191 1.
During her declining years she was tenderly
cared for by her devoted daughters, and was
buried in Swan Point Cemetery. She was a
lady of many Christian virtues, devoted to her
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home and family, and her life was an ideal
one. She was very much interested in the
work of the church, and was a faithful and
constant member of the First Universalist
Society. Children: 1. Albert Greene, born
February 24, 1851, died December 6, 1902;
long continued the business established by his
grandfather in Providence. He married Lucy
E. Smith, born December 28, 1854, daughter
of Simri and Sarah F. (Whipple) Smith. No
issue. 2. Abby, born April 24, 1853, died De
cember 11, 1856. 3. Emma Clarke, born June
8, 1858; was married, June 8, 1881, to Sam
Henry Bullock, a real estate operator of
Providence ; she has five children : Abbie, who
married Dr. Alexander M. Burgess, of Provi
dence, by whom she has a son, Alexander M.
Burgess Jr. ; George Burroughs, a cotton
broker of Boston; Earl Carpenter, a chemist,
residing in New York; Richmond Bartlett,
now in business in Providence, and Frances, a
student, now residing at home. Mrs. Bullock
is a member of the Providence Mothers' Club,
and of the First Universalist Church. 4. Lucy
Daniels, born December 14, 1861 ; succeeded
her father by unanimous choice as superin
tendent of the Sunday school of the First Uni
versalist Church. She is a member of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs, of which
she has been president, and is now state secre
tary of the General Federation, and is very
active in the church work ; she is also president
of the Needlework Guild of East Providence.
From early youth she was active in the Sunday
school, of which she was a teacher before be
coming superintendent. She was married, July
27, 1904, to Rev. Henry Irving Cushman, D.
D., then pastor of the First Universalist
Church. Dr. Cushman's first wife was Emily
Gilman, of Chicago, who was the mother of
three children, namely: Ruth, wife of William
G. Anthony, of Providence ; Robert, who re
sides in Brookline, Massachusetts; Albert H.,
a citizen of Chicago. (The Harris Line).
The Welsh custom of adding to a name the
father's name in possessive form to distin
guish one from another of the same Christian
name, was the origin of this patronymic. In
the short four centuries that surnames have
prevailed among the common people in Great
Britain, time has sufficed to make many
changes and modifications in the form of all
classes of words, and names are no exception
to the rule. In the Welsh vernacular William
was "David's," Harry was "John's," and David
was "William's," and thus we have Davy's
(Davis), John's (Jones), Williams and Har
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Welsh names. The Harris family, of whom
this article gives some account, was among
the earliest in XTew England, and has contri
buted much to the advancement of this region
and of the nation, and is now found in con
nection with all worthy endeavor. It has been
especially active in the fields of invention and
pioneer development. Almost every state has
found the name among those of its pioneer
settlers, and it has spread from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. There were two brothers who
were conspicuous in founding Rhode Island.
An extended account of one of these, Thomas,
and his descendants, is given elsewhere in this
work. (I) William, brother of Thomas Harris,
born in 1609, came to Boston in company with
his brother and Roger Williams in the ship
"Lion," and was one of the six persons who
arrived at Providence in 1636, as first settlers.
He was one of the twelve to whom Roger
Williams deeded land in 1638, and also one
of the twelve original members of the First
Baptist Church formed the following year,
and one of the thirty-nine signers of the com
pact for good government in 1640. He was a
man of marked, positive character, and though
he became antagonistic to Williams was popu
lar with the people, and was called to fill many
important posts of honor and trust. He was
commissioner in 1660-62-63 ; deputy in 1665-
66 and 1672-73; assistant 1666-67-68-69-70
and 1673-74-75-76; was a member of the town
council from 1670 to 1677, and general solicitor
in 1671. He removed to the Pawtuxet pur
chase, now Warwick, in 1638, and made sev
eral trips to England in the effort to settle dis
putes about land titles. His first voyage was
made in 1677, and on the fourth voyage, in
1679, he was taken prisoner by a Barbary
corsair, carried to Algiers, and sold as a slave
in the market, February 24, 1680. In the fol
lowing year he was ransomed at a cost of
$1,200, and traveled through France and Spain
on his way to England, arriving in London
only three days before his death, in 168 1, in
his seventy-third year. His wife Susanna died
in 1682. Their children were: Andrew, men
tioned below ; Mary, Susanna, Howlong, and
Toleration, killed by Indians.
(II) Andrew, eldest child of William and
Susanna Harris, was born in 1635, and died
May 1, 1686. He had land laid out to him in
1661, and was deputy in 1669-70 and 1676. He
married, December 8, 1670, Mary Tew, born
August 12, 1647, died in 1688, daughter of Rich
ard and Mary (Clark) Tew, and granddaugh
ter of Henry Tew, a pioneer of Newport,
Rhode Island. Children : Mary, born Decem
ber 17, 1671 ; Anne, November 22, 1673; An-

drew, February 4, 1677, died unmarried ; Hope,
December 14, 1679; Patience, June 21, 1682;
Toleration, mentioned below.
(Ill) Toleration, youngest child of Andrew
and Mary (Tew) Harris, was born June 10,
1685, in Providence, and resided in that town
and Warwick, where he died in 1767. He
married Sarah Foster, who died in 1766. Chil
dren : Anne, born December 31, 1709; Wil
liam, July 23, 171 1 ; Joseph, mentioned below;
Andrew, November 18, 1715; Mary, December
18, 1718; Sarah, June 9, 1722; John, August
19, 1724, died young; John, September 7, 1726;
Phebe, September 7, 1726, married Lenight
Dexter Sr. ; and Lydia.
(IV) Joseph, second son of Toleration and
Sarah (Foster) Harris, was born June 15,
1 7 13, in Warwick, and died in Cranston, Au
gust 13, 1786. He married, July 8, 1733, Sus
anna Bates, daughter of Ebenezer and Cath
erine (Arnold) Bates, the latter a daughter of
Elisha and Sarah (Carpenter) Arnold, a de
scendant of Roger Arnold, of Monmouthshire,
Wales, the first to adopt a surname. This de
scent is covered elsewhere in this work. Elisha
Arnold was born February 18, 1661, son of Ste
phen (see Arnold II). Sarah Carpenter, wife
of Elisha Arnold, was a daughter of Ephraim
Carpenter, son of William Carpenter, else
where mentioned at length in this work (see
Carpenter I). Susanna, wife of Joseph Har
ris, survived him about two years, dying in
1788. (V) Elisha Harris, son of Joseph and Sus
anna (Bates) Harris, was born June 29, 1744,
in Cranston, and died there March 16, 1825.
He married, January 14, 1768, Freelove Dyer,
born July 5, 1748, daughter of John and Free
love (Williams) Dyer, died June 27, 1827,
surviving her husband more than two years.
John Dyer, born in 1719, was a son of Charles
and Alary (Lapham) Dyer, of Newport, Rhode
Island, the latter a daughter of John Lapham,
of Providence and Newport, and Dartmouth,
Massachusetts. Freelove Williams was a
daughter of Joseph Williams, born November
10, 1673, son of Joseph, and grandson of Roger
Williams, of Providence. Joseph Williams'
wife Lydia was a daughter of Benjamin (2)
Herndon, and granddaughter of Benjamin (1)
Plerndon, of Providence. Elisha Harris' chil
dren: Susanna, born June 15, 1769; Joseph,
mentioned below; Ebenezer Bates, July 5,
1773; and Elisha, January 20, 1777, died Au
gust 17, 1790.
(VI) Joseph (2), eldest child of Elisha and
Freelove (Dyer) Harris, was born June 15,
1770, and died in Cranston, December 17,
1853. He married, November 25, 1790, Cath
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and Sarah (Clark) Greene, of Cranston, de
scendant of John Greene, of Newport, and
Middletown, Rhode Island, and of William
Coddington, of Newport (see Greene V). She
died November 25, 1855, in Cranston. Chil
dren: Elisha, born September 8, 1791 ; Sarah
Ann, mentioned below ; Hannah, February 19,
1795; John Clark, November 13, 1797; Joseph
Greene, April 4, 1803; Freelove, Alarch 6,
1805 ; David Sands, and William Sewell, De
cember 24, 1812.
(VII) Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of Joseph
(2) and Catherine (Greene) Harris, was born
June 25, 1793, and became the wife of Earl
Carpenter, of Providence (see Carpenter V).
(The Greene Lines).
Elsewhere in this work appears an extended
account of Surgeon John Greene, ancestor of
most of that name in this country, with thir
teen English generations preceding him. Alen-
tion of his sons James and Thomas and
descendants follows.
(II) James, fourth son of Surgeon John (q.
v.) and Joan- (Tattershall) Greene, was baptiz
ed June 21, 1626, at St. Thomas Church, Salis
bury, England, and was made a freeman of
Warwick in 1647. He resided at Potowomut,
on the southerly side of Main street, and was
town clerk in 1661 ; was a member of the gen
eral assembly as general commissioner under
the first charter, and was deputy and assistant
under the second charter ten years. He re
moved to Portsmouth with other inhabitants
of Warwick to escape the Indians in King
Philip's war, and resided for some years at
"Hunting Swamp." In 1684 he purchased
lands in Warwick at Potowomut, where he
settled, and where his descendant, the distin
guished General Nathaniel Greene, of the
revolution, was born. He died April zy. 1698.
He married (first) about 1658, Deliverance,
daughter of Robert and Isabelle Potter, whose
farm joined his own, born 1637, died 1664.
He married (second) August 3, 1665, Eliza
beth, daughter of John and Susanna Anthony,
of Portsmouth. Children of first marriage :
James, mentioned below ; Mary, born Septem
ber 28, 1660; Elisha, March 17, 1663; Sarah,
August 27, 1664. Children of second mar
riage: Peter, August 25, 1666; Elizabeth, Oc
tober 17, 1668; John, died young; Jabez, May
l7> !673 ; David, June 24, 1677 ; Thomas, No
vember 11, 1682;" John, September 30, 1685;
Susanna, May 24, 1688.
(Ill) Captain James (2), eldest child of
James (1) and Deliverance (Potter) Greene,
was born June 1, 1659, and was made freeman
June 26, 1683. In 1696 he was deputy from
Warwick, and subsequently accompanied his

uncle, Major John (2) Greene, to England,
for which he received from the colony the use
of £300 in bills of credit, without interest for
four years. Pie resided at Nassauket, in War
wick, where he built a house in 1687. He mar
ried, January 29, 1689, Mary, daughter of Cap
tain John and Margaret Fones, of Newport,
Jamestown and Kingstown. Children : Fones,
born Alarch 23, 1690; James, April 2, 1692;
Mary, March 16, 1694, died young; Daniel,
April .7, 1696; Elisha, mentioned below; De
liverance, February 12, 1701 ; Mary, Septem
ber 25, 1703; John, February 26, 1706; Jere
miah, December 16, 1708; Samuel, June 8,
1711. (TV) Elisha, fourth son of James (2) and
Alary (Fones) Greene, was born August 5,
1698, in Warwick, and died in Glocester, Rhode
Island, in 1780. He resided in Cranston near
the present state farm, and was a blacksmith
and iron manufacturer. He was baptized De
cember 5, 1717, and ordained to the Baptist
ministry July 30, 1764, after which he was
known as Elder Elisha Greene, of Providence.
He married (first) September 26, 1723, Mar
tha, daughter of James and Mary (Harris)
Brown (great-granddaughter of Chad Brown),
born October 12, 1703, died July 29, 1725, and
was buried in the North Burial Ground of
Providence. He married (second) March 13,
1727, Abigail, widow of Arthur Fenner, daugh
ter of John and Alice (Smith) Dexter, grand
daughter of Rev. Gregory Dexter, a noted citi
zen of Rhode Island; she -was born April 26,
1696, and died January 11, 1770. Child of
first marriage: James, born September_ 13,
1724. Children of second marriage: Elisha,
mentioned below ; Abigail, married Solomon
Owens. (V) Elisha (2), second son of Elisha (1)
Greene, and eldest child of his second wife,
Abigail Dexter, was born in 1728, in Provi
dence, and died March 13, 1776. He inherited
by his father's will seventy acres of land on
the Pawtuxet river, and was interested in the
iron works at Cranston. He married, in 1750,
Hannah, born lanuary 16, 1729, daughter of
Edward and Hannah (Mattheson) Gorton, of
Warwick (see Gorton IV). Children: De
liverance, mentioned below ; Sarah, born No
vember 26 1752; Hannah, Xovember 16,
1754; Edward, February 3, 1757; Dexter, Feb
ruary 17, 1759; James, October 4 ¦ 17 61;
Arthur, November 10, 1764; Abigail, March
2i, 1767: Mary, April 2, 1770.
(VI) Deliverance, eldest child of Elistia
(2) and Hannah (Gorton) Greene was born
Tulv 22 1751, became the wife of Nathaniel
Carpenter, of' Cranston, and died April 24.
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(II) Thomas, fifth son of Surgeon John (q.
v.) and Joan (Tattershall) Greene, was baptiz
ed June 4, 1628, at Salisbury, England, and was
five years of age when he came with his par
ents to America. He had a home lot assigned
to him in Warwick soon after the organization
of the town, in 1648, and purchased a stone
house September 30, 1660, in that town. This
was one of the earliest houses built in the
town, standing on "the street," nearly oppo
site the lane which leads to the wharf at War
wick Cove. This was the only stone house
on the main land south of Providence, and
stood occupied by Thomas Greene's descend
ants until 1795, when it was removed and a
modern frame house erected on the site. When
the inhabitants of Warwick fled to Ports
mouth to escape the Indians, during King
Philip's war, Thomas Greene remained with
his family and a few neighbors in this house,
which afforded them protection when every
other house in Warwick was burned. It was
thereafter known as the stone castle. Thomas
Greene was a commissioner in 1662, deputy
for ten years, and assistant five years, between
1678 and 1685. He died June 5, 1717, and
was buried near his house, where five genera
tions succeeding him were also buried. He
married, June 30, 1659, Elizabeth, daughter
of Rufus and Margaret Barton, of Warwick,
born 1637, died August 20, 1693. Rufus Bar
ton was a Quaker, and because of persecu
tions by the Dutch authorities at New Amster
dam, removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
about 1640, and received a grant of land there
in 1641. He was a town magistrate in 1648,
and died soon after. Children of Thomas
Greene: Elizabeth, born July 12, 1660;
Thomas, mentioned below; Benjamin, Janu
ary 10, 1666; Richard, March 5, 1667; Wel-
thyan, January 23, 1670; Rufus, January 6,
1673; Nathaniel, April 10, 1679.
(Ill) Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas
(1) and Elizabeth (Barton) Greene, was born
August 14, 1662, in Warwick, and was
drowned in the winter of 1698-99, while going
from Newport to Potowomut, where he re
sided. An inquest was held April 19, 1699,
and the town council arranged the division of
his estate. He inherited from his father a
large farm at Potowomut Neck, which was sold
by his grandsons. He married, May 27, 1686,
his cousin, Anne, daughter of A'lajor John (2)
and Anne (Almy) Greene (see Greene II),
born March 19, 1662, and survived her hus
band fourteen years, dying in 1713. Children:
Elizabeth, born May 8, 1687; Anne, June 25,
1689; John, mentioned below; Phebe, May 10'
1693; Philippa, March 8, 1694; Welthyan, Oc
tober 9, 1696; Deborah, October 25, 1698.

(IV) John, only son of Thomas (2) and Anne
(Greene) Greene, was born April 14, 1691, in
Warwick, and resided on the eastern part of
the paternal homestead, where he died Decem
ber 8, 1757. He married (first) December 6,
171 1, Deborah, daughter of Caleb and Deborah
Carr, of Jamestown, Rhode Island, grand
daughter of Governor Caleb Carr, and great-
granddaughter of Roger Williams. She died
May 6, 1729, and he married (second) Janu
ary 28, 1730, his second cousin, Almy, daugh
ter of Richard and Eleanor (Sayles) Greene.
Richard Greene was born October 4, 1698, son
of James (2) Greene, and brother of Anne
Greene, above mentioned as the wife of
Thomas (2) Greene. Children of first mar
riage: Thomas, born October 29, 1714; Caleb,
June 11, 1716; Anne, February 24, 1718; Ben
jamin, May 2, 1720; Job, March 29, 1721 ;
Almy, January 31, 1723; Richard, mentioned
below ; Nathaniel, April 10, 1727. Children
of second marriage: William, March 1, 1732;
Deborah, September 27, 1735 ; Eleanor, June
2, 1737-
(V) Richard, fifth son of John and Deb
orah (Carr) Greene, was born October 4,
1725, in Warwick, resided on the farm at
Potowomut, and was made freeman of the
colony in May, 1759. He served as deputy
from Warwick in 1765, was noted for his lib
eral hospitality, and died June 19, 1779. He
married, September 28, 1746, Sarah, daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Greene) Fry, born De
cember 21, 1727, died April 4, 1775. Mary
Greene was a daughter of Samuel Greene, of
Appanaug, who was born January 30, 1671,
son of John (2) Greene, and brother of Rich
ard and Anne Greene, above mentioned. Sam
uel Greene married, January 24, 1695, Mary,
daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Carder)
Gorton, and granddaughter of Samuel Gorton,
the immigrant (see Gorton). Their eldest
daughter, Mary, born August 25, 1698, became
the wife of Thomas Fry, and was the mother
of Sarah Fry, who married Richard Greene,.
as above noted. Children : John, born March
22, 1747; Nathaniel, July 31, 1748; Welthyan,
November 17, 1749; Thomas, January 10,
1750; Samuel, died nine years old; William,
JuIY 9, 1754; Mary, October 4, 1756; Ann,
August 17, 1758; Sarah, May 10, 1760; Eliza
beth, October 23, 1761 ; Benjamin, September
28, 1763 ; Job, November 22, 1765 ; Caleb, Sep
tember 18, 1767; Samuel, mentioned below.
(VI) Samuel, youngest child of Richard
and Sarah (Fry) Greene, was born December
12, 1769, in Warwick, and died in 1827, at
Garretsville, Ohio. He married, September
30, 1792, Henrietta Daniels, daughter of Peter
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1854. Children: Benjamin, born November
14, T793; Caleb, February 19, 1795; Job Au
gust 9, 1796; Richard, August 23, 1798- Mary
Henrietta, June 21, 1799; Peter Daniels, men
tioned below ; John Daniels, April 30, 1805.
(VII) Peter Daniels, fifth son of' Samuel
and Henrietta (Daniels) Greene, was born
February 11, 1801, in Providence, and married
in Warren, Rhode Island, September 28 1828
Lydia Kent, born August 13, 1810, daughter of
Willson and Susanna (Brayton) Kent, of Bar
rington, Rhode Island (see Kent V).'
(VIII) Adeline Frances, daughter of Peter
Daniels and Lydia (Kent) Greene, was born
February 16, 1830, and was married, October
2, 1849, to Charles Earl Carpenter, of Provi
dence (see Carpenter VI).
John Greene, not known to be related to
Surgeon John Greene, was a resident of New
port, where he purchased land February 20,
1647, was a freeman in 1655 and commissioner
m 1655-56-57-58 and 1660. He was deputy in
1673 and 1678-79, lieutenant in 1676, and in
that year a member of a court-martial which
tried several Indians for participation in King
Philip's hostile plans. In association with
Benedict Arnold, he purchased, May 22, 1658,
from the Indians, three islands for £6 10s. He
sold a half share in Canonicut and Dutch
Island, in 1661, and was a juryman in 1671.
He purchased land in East Greenwich, and
was admitted a freeman of that town, March
J4> 1658, subsequent to which he received there
a grant of one hundred acres. It is not likely
that he ever lived there, but one of his sons
settled there. He married Mary Jefferay, and
both died after 1705. She was born March
20, 1642, daughter of William and Mary
(Gould) Jefferay.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Mary
(Jefferay) Greene, resided in East Greenwich,
where he died in 1753. He sold land in Ports
mouth, February 20, 1722, for four hundred
and sixty pounds sixteen shillings. The in
ventory of his estate amounted to two thou
sand one hundred and sixty-six pounds. He
was administrator of his father's estate. His
first wife bore the name of Sarah, and the sec
ond, Mary, survived him, and administered
his estate. Children : James, born August 18,
1685 ; John, mentioned below ; Jane, January
30, 1691 ; Uzal, January 23, 1694 ; Ebenezer,
Robert, William, Enfield, Mary, and Hannah.
^ (III) John (3), second son of John (2)
Greene, was born April 9, 1688, in East Green
wich, and lived in that town, where he mar
ried, November 30, 1713, Anne Hill. Chil
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March 31, i7l6; Silas, September 29, mr
21a7;IanUTaiiy 3I' I7l-9; Elizabeth September'
23, 1720; John, mentioned below; Margaret
January 27, ^24; Timothy, June 24, 1725 :
Samuel, May 29, 1727; Esther, July 17 /y2Sg';
Nathan, May 9, 1731. ' ' y'
A (IVLJ-?^ni4)' third son of J°hn (3) and
Anne (Hill) Greene, was born May 31 1722
in East Greenwich, and married, in 1744 at
Xewport, Ann Coddington, born February' 19
1721, m Newport, daughter of Nathaniel (2)
and PI ope (Brown) Coddington.
(V) John Coddington, son of John (4) and
Ann (Coddington) Greene, born about 1746
m Newport, married Sarah Clarke.
(VI) Catherine, daughter of John Cod
dington and Sarah (Clarke) Greene, born
about 1770, became the wife of Joseph Harris
of Providence (see Harris VI).
(The Kent Line).
The origin of this family and the most com
plete history attainable of the first three gen
erations are covered elsewhere in this work.
(IV) Joshua, youngest child of Josiah (q.
v.) and Althea (Bullock) Kent, was born Feb
ruary 28, 1746, and lived in Barrington, Rhode
Island, where he married, January 15, 1771,
Anna Low. Children: Lydia, born May 16,
1772; Susanna, December 26, 1774; Althea,
February 22, 1777; Willson, mentioned be
low; Desire, February 8., 1781 ; Elizabeth,
January 5, 1783; Joshua, March 2, 1785; Ann,
Alarch 25, 1787; William, August 10, 1789;
Fanny, April 12, 1792; Ellery, July 7, 1795;
Amariah, October 14, 1798.
(V) Willson, eldest son of Joseph and
Anna (Low) Kent, was born April 8, 1779,
in Barrington, and married, in Warren, Rhode
Island, February 26, 1804, Susanna Brayton,
born September 23, 1783, daughter of Captain
James Wheaton Brayton, of Warren. Chil
dren: Ann Genette, born July 8, 1806, died
six months old; William, November 13, 1807;
Lydia, mentioned below ; Rebecca Barton, Sep
tember 3, 1810, and Adeline.
Captain James Wheaton Brayton, father of
Mrs. Kent, was a revolutionary soldier, born
in Newport, October 8, 1758, and died at War
ren, Rhode Island, September 23, 1833. His
wife's name was Robe. His second daughter,
Susanna, became the wife of Willson Kent,
as above noted.
(VI) Lydia, second daughter of Willson
and Susanna (Brayton) Kent, was born Au
gust 13, 1810, in Warwick, and married, Sep
tember 28, 1828, in Warren, Peter Daniels
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John Rice (Risse, Rise; Welsh
RICE — Rhys) the progenitor of the Rice
family in Rhode Island, was born
in England about 1646, and came to this coun
try when fifteen or sixteen years of age. Ap
parently he directly joined the settlers at War
wick, Rhode Island, and continued to reside
there until his death. His name first appears
in the records of the colony in a deposition
given in the controversy over land titles be
tween William Harris and the town of War
wick. He is there mentioned as among sev
eral Warwick men who were clearing timber
at Paquabuck (Natick) in Alay, 1663, (10 R.
I. H. S. 69). In 1673 and 1674 he with others
purchased tracts of land near Potowomut and
Coweset Bay from the Indians, Shawpota and
Minaguin. (War. A. 2-171, 234.) By order
of the town, May 22, 1674, a home lot of six
acres was granted to him at the settlement at
Warwick Cove. (War. A. 2-185.) This lot
was beside that of Edmund Calverly. At Xew-
port, May 4, 1675, he was admitted as a free
man of the colony. (R. I. Col. Rec. 2-527.)
He served as a grand juror at Newport in
June, 1687. (R. 1. Col. Rec. 3-229.) He was
chosen a deputy for the town of Warwick to
the general assembly in 1710. (R. I. Col. Rec.
4-87.) At the October session of the general
assembly in 1708, John Rice petitioned to be
allowed some of the vacant land in East
Greenwich. (R. I. Col. Rec. 4-51.) In 1722,
in the dispute over the boundary line between
Rhode Island and Connecticut before the privy
council, he was one of the "ancient inhabi
tants" whose affidavits were presented in sup
port of the Rhode Island claim. (R. I. Col.
Rec. 4-305.) Concerning his death the War
wick records declare: "Air. John Rice, senior,
deceased the 6th day of January 1730-31, in
ye 86th year of his age, who was born in Old
England and came with Air. Calverly." (War
1-38.) On July 16, 1674, at Warwick, John Rice
was married to Elizabeth Holden, by Benja
min Barton, assistant. (War. 1-6.) She was
born in August, 1652, and was the daughter
of Randall and Frances (Dungan) Holden.
Pier father was one of the most prominent
men in the Rhode Island colony and for over
fifty years was almost constantly engaged in
various public services, representing the town
of Warwick as deputy or assistant, and both
the town and colony as commissioner in Lon
don. Her mother, Frances Dungan, was the
daughter of William and Frances (Latham)
Dungan, and the granddaughter of Lewis
Latham, falconer to King Charles I. Her
mother was also half-sister to Walter Clark,
of Newport, for over twenty-five years deputy

governor and governor of the colony. Chil
dren : John, born 1675 ; Randall, born 1677.
(II) Randall Rice (John 1) was born in
Warwick, Rhode Island, about 1677, and died
there about 1742. On November 15, 1731,
he deeded fifty acres of land to his son Ran
dall, and on August 4, 1733, seventy acres to
his son Richard. On March 2, 1737, he and
his wife Elizabeth sold one hundred and twen
ty-eight acres of land to his nephew, Nathan
Rice, of East Greenwich, for £380. His son
Randall was administrator of his estate and
rendered an account August, 30, 1742, show
ing that he had made disbursements to the
extent of £203. His son John, in his will dated
November 26, 1745, mentions his mother
Elizabeth as then living. Children : Randall,
born about 1701 ; Richard, born about 1709;
Isaac, born about 1715 ; George, born about
1717; John, born about 1719.
(Ill) Richard Rice (Randall 2, John 1)
was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, about
1709. He was one of the earliest settlers of
the western part of Warwick, which was set
off in 1741 as the town of Coventry. He made
several purchases of large tracts of real es
tate in Coventry near the Connecticut line,
and was the first to establish a saw and grist
mill in that section now known as Hopkins
Hollow, then designated as Rice's Mills. He
was admitted as a freeman of the colony at
Warwick, February 4, 1734. (R. I. Col. Rec.
4-492.) In May, 1747, he was chosen by the
general assembly as captain of the Coventry
company in the Providence county militia, and
served in the French and Indian war. (Smith,
120). In 1762 he deeded to his son Ebenezer
no acres of land (Cov. 4-38), in 1779 to his
son Richard, 100 acres (Cov. 7-221), in 1781,
120 acres more (Cov. 6-48), in 1781, to his
son John 138 acres (Cov. 6-217), and in 1782,
163 acres more, including the saw and grist
mill. (Cov. 6-218). Richard Rice was mar
ried at Warwick, September 21, 1732, by Wil
liam Greene, justice, to Sarah Kee, daughter
6f Ebenezer Kee, of Killingly, Connecticut.
(War 1-101.) They had ten children all of
whom were living at the time of Richard's
death about 1789. (Cov. 8-52, 135.) Richard
died intestate, possessed of 279 acres. He was
survived by his widow, who released all her
dower rights to her son John, with whom she
lived. (Cov. 7-471.) Children, all born in
Coventry: Sarah, April 5, 1733; Ebenezer,
October 29, 1735; Richard, May 7, 1737; Sus
annah, May 24, 1740; Elizabeth, May 11,
J743; George, December 28, 1744; John, De
cember 11, 1746; Ellinor, October 10, 1748;
Nathan, October 28, 1751; Daniel, November
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(IV) John Rice (Richard 3, Randall 2,
John 1), son of Captain Richard Rice, was
born in Coventry, Rhode Island, December
11, 1746. Upon reaching the age of twenty-
one in December, 1767, his father in consider
ation of "good will and affection" deeded him
a farm of sixty acres. (Cov. 5-2.9.) He re
sided at Rice's Mills, and assisted his father
in running the saw and grist, mill on Roaring
Brook. In 1782 the homestead and the mill
property was conveyed to him by his father
and the business continued by the son until
the time of his death. (Cov. 6-218.) On Oc
tober 30, 1768, at Richmond, Rhode Island,
John Rice was married by Edward Perry,
justice, to Ruth Potter, daughter of Thomas 4
(Ichabod 3, Ichabod 2, Nathaniel 1) and
Martha (Card) Potter. (Rich. 1-135.) Chil
dren, all born in Coventry: Martha, Novem
ber 2, 1769; Sarah, June 5, 1771 ; Nathan,
February 14, 1773; John, August 10, 1776;
Thomas, June 5, 1780; Richard, April 19,
I785- (V) John Rice (John 4, Richard 3, Ran
dall 2, John 1) was born in Coventry, August
10, 1776. The early part of his life was spent
as a farmer in Coventry until after the death
of his first wife, when he married again and
moved to Smithfield, and settled in that por
tion of the town which afterwards was incor
porated into the town of Lincoln, and later in
to the city of Central Falls. He died January
6, 1867, at the advanced age of ninety-one.
He is buried at Mineral Spring Cemetery,
Pawtucket. His first marriage was on Octo
ber 22, 1801, to Phebe Tribbey, daughter of
John Tribbey, of Exeter, Rhode Island. (Cov.
1-240.) She was born September 19, 1784,
and died at Coventry, September 16, 1805.
Children, born at Coventry: John Tribbey,
December 5, 1802 ; Joshua Potter, January 2,
1804. By the second marriage there were
eleven children.
(VI) Joshua Potter Rice (John 5, John 4,
Richard 3, Randall 2, John 1) was born in
Coventry, Rhode Island, January 2, 1804. Up
on the death of his mother the following year
and the re-marriage of his father, he was taken
by his grandfather, John Rice, and brought
up in the latter's family. As a young man he
assisted his grandfather in farming and in
running the saw and grist mill at Hopkins
Hollow, near the present village of Greene,
in Coventry. He later settled in Sterling and
Plainfield, Connecticut. In 1826 he was mar
ried by Samuel Hopkins, justice, to Dorcas
Fiske, daughter of Hopkins Fiske, of Scitu
ate, Rhode Island, and later of Plain-
field, Connecticut. She was born in Scituate,
November 29, 1804, and died at Pawtucket in

1884. She was a woman of strong character
and unusual abilities. Joshua Potter Rice died
at Plainfield, Connecticut, January 9, 1862.
He and his wife are buried in the family cem
etery at Hopkins Hollow, Coventry. Children,
born in Coventry: Phebe Elizabeth, Decem
ber 5, 1827; Sarah Ann, May 31, 1829; Ruth
Mahnda, January 20, 1831 ; John Tribbey,
April 28, 1833; Emily Fiske, August 27, 1835;
Randall Hopkins, May 11, 1837; bom in
Plainfield, Connecticut: Ambrose Potter, May
20, 1839; Dorcas Irene, August 8, 1841 ; Hen
ry Clay, February 2, 1844; Celia Anna, July
27, 1845; Alfred Valentine, May 25, 1847.
(VII)- Randall Hopkins Rice (Joshua P.
6, John 5, John 4, Richard 3, Randall 2, John
1) was born in Coventry, Rhode Island, May
n, 1837. His family soon after moved to
Plainfield, Connecticut, where he attended the
public schools and graduated from the Plain-
field Academy. He began work in Moosup,
Connecticut, where he remained two years. In
1857 he went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and
engaged himself as an apprentice to the ma
chinist trade. He worked at this trade until
the breaking out of the civil war.
At the first call for troops, he enlisted
April 17, 1861, in the Pawtucket Light
Guards, forming Company E, of the First
Rhode Island Detached Militia, and was sta
tioned at Camp Sprague, where 'he was mus
tered into the service of the United States. He
took part in the expedition toward Harper's
Ferry under Burnside. He was in the battle
of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was mustered
out of the three months service at Providence,
August 2, 1861. He returned to the home of
his parents at Plainfield, Connecticut, and be
came active in recruiting. On October 12,
1861, he enlisted at Hartford in the Eleventh
Connecticut Regiment Volunteer Infantry,
and remained with this regiment throughout
the war. He was appointed first sergeant De
cember 3, 1861 ; left Hartford December 16,
1861, for Annapolis, where the command was
encamped until January 9, 1862, when it sailed
for Fortress Monroe and later for Roanoke
Island and Newberne, with the Burnside expe
dition ; in reserve at the battle of Roanoke Is
land ; later landed at Slocum's Creek and en
gaged in the battle of Newberne, March 14,
1862; received bayonet wound in right hand
at Newberne; appointed second lieutenant
March 28, 1862; in skirmishes around New
berne at Evan's Mills and Batchellor Creek;
remained in the vicinity of Newberne until
July, 1862, when the regiment returned to the
Peninsula and encamped at Newport News
Early in August the command was transferred
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and moved to Fredericksburg, where it did
patrol duty about the city until September.
The regiment then returned to Acquia Creek,
embarked at Washington, and with the Ninth
Corps, under Reno, joined in the pursuit of
Lee. Engaged at Turner's Gap, September
14; in the battle of South Mountain, Septem
ber 15 ; and in the battle of Antietam, Septem
ber 17, 1862, where the regiment suffered
heavily in its charge upon the stone bridge.
Appointed first lieutenant, October 27, 1862.
In November made forced march from Pleas
ant Valley, Maryland, to Falmouth, Virginia;
was at battle of Fredericksburg, December 13,
1862. Appointed captain December 17, 1862.
In February, 1863, returned to Acquia Creek
and embarked at Newport News. Engaged in
the fortification and siege of Suffolk in April
and May, 1863; in the fight upon the Edenton
road April 24, 1863, and Providence Church
road May 1, 1863. Received bullet wound
through the left forearm at Suffolk May 3,
1863; in hospital and on furlough in May and
June. In September, 1863, entrenching at
Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. Passed
the winter of 1863-64 in quarters at Gloucester
Point. Veteran furlough in January, 1864.
Moved- from Gloucester Point to Williams
burg in March, 1864. The command was then
under General "Baldy" Smith in the Second
Division of the Eighteenth Army Corps. Early
in May, 1864, returned to James river and dis
embarked at City Point, and entrenched along
the Appomattox river. Engaged in the battles
of Whitehouse Landing; Port Wathal, May
6-8, 1864; Swift Creek, May 9, 1864; Ber
muda Hundred, May 16, 1864; Cold Harbor,
June 1, 1864; and advance upon Petersburg,
June 16-18, 1864. Was wounded through the
body in the right abdomen June 18, 1864 in
the siege of Petersburg. Was confined to field-
hospital at Fortress Monroe June, July and
August. Appointed major October 25, 1864.
Returned to regiment before Richmond in
November, 1864. Appointed lieutenant colonel
November 30, 1864. Passed the winter of
1864-65 above Bermuda Hundred. Appointed
colonel January 31, 1865. Engaged in the
battle of Fort Harrison, Chapin's Farm, New
Market Road, and the fall of Richmond, enter
ing the city the night of its abandonment. In
the occupation- of Richmond was acting brig
adier-general commanding the First Brigade,
Third Division (Devens), of the Twenty-
fourth Army Corps. In August, 1865, con
ducted independent brigade from Richmond to
Lynchburg to reinforce General Curtis. Was
then detached as provost marshal of seven
counties of southwestern Virginia, with head
quarters at Christiansburg. He resigned Sep

tember 18, 1865, having served throughout the
war, enlisting as a private and advancing
through every rank to the colonelcy of his
regiment. - He was a pensioner for many years
before his death.
After the war he returned to Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, and worked at his trade as a
machinist until 1874, when he was appointed
chief of police of that town. At that time
everything was left in the hands of the chief,
and he interested himself in everything that
would conduce to the welfare of the town, the
council meeting but once a month. He served
with distinction until 1882, when he resigned.
In 1885 he was re-appointed but he again re
signed after a short term. He then became
superintendent of the Hope Thread Mill, Paw
tucket, and afterward of the Gage Mill, Paw
tucket. In 1893 he again joined the police
department as captain, and three years later
was for the third time appointed chief, a posi
tion which he continued to hold until his death.
Throughout his career he was known as a man
without fear and ever ready to go where duty
led him.
Colonel Rice and his wife were communi
cants of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Paw
tucket, where a memorial window in remem
brance of them has been installed. In politics
Colonel Rice was a Republican. He was a
member of Union Lodge, No. 10, A. F. and
A. M. ; Pawtucket Royal Arch Chapter, No. 4;
Pawtucket Council, R. and S. M., No. 2 ; Holy
Sepulchre Commandery, No. 8, Knights Tem
plars ; and Tower Post, No. 17, G. A. R. He
was a past commander of the Eleventh Con
necticut Veteran Association.
Colonel Rice was married, December 14,
1863, to Margaret Eliza Bates, by Rev. George
Taft of St. Paul's Church, Pawtucket. Mrs.
Rice was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, No
vember 20, 1842, and was the daughter of
Sullivan and Sarah Cleveland (Burton) Bates.
She was a descendant in the eighth generation
from Clement Bates, who settled at Hingham,
Massachusetts, in 1635. She was a woman of
a most exemplary character and a devoted
member of St. Paul's Church. She died at
Pawtucket, Alarch 4, 1906. Colonel Rice and
his wife are buried at Swan Point Cemetery.
Children born at North Providence, now Paw
tucket : Herbert Ambrose, July 25, 1866; Edna
Amelia, February 29, 1868. Edna A., was mar
ried at St. Paul's Church, Pawtucket, October
23, 1889, to George E. Gale of Amesbury, Masr
sachusetts ; their children, born at Amesbury,
Alassachusetts : Margaret Gale, September 19,
1890; Dorothy Gale, October 17, 1895, and
George E. Gale, Jr., July 28, 1899.
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7, Joshua P. 6, John 5, John 4, Richard 3,
Randall 2, John 1), son of Colonel Randall
H. Rice, was born in North Providence, now
a part of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, July 25,
1866. He attended, the public schools of his
native place, the Church Hill Grammar School,
from which he graduated in 1880, and the
Pawtucket high school from 1880 to 1882. He
then entered the English and Classical School,
Providence, to prepare for college, and re
mained there from 1882 to 1885, graduating
the latter year. In the fall of 1885 he entered
Brown University. While there he became a
member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, an
editor of the "Brunonian," a member of the
Glee Club, and received a junior election to
Phi Beta Kappa. At his graduation in 1889
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts he de
livered a commencement address upon the
"Representation of Minorities." In 1891,
after post-graduate work and upon examina
tion, he received the further degree of Master
of Arts from Brown University. From 1889
to 1892 he taught Latin and mathematics at
the University Grammar School, a private
preparatory school for Brown. He was elected
a member of the Pawtucket school committee
in 1890 and served two years. In 1892 he
entered the Harvard law school, from which
he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws cum laude. While there he
was a member of the board of the "Harvard
Law Review."
In 1895 he was admitted to the Rhode
Island bar, and at once began the practice of
law in Providence, where he has since con-
tinued. He has also been admitted to the
United States district court and the circuit
court of appeals. He was elected as a member
of the general assembly from Pawtucket for
1900-1901, and during that session served on
the judiciary committee of the house. In 1912
he was appointed by Governor Pothier a mem
ber of the Providence county court house
commission. In 191 1 he was elected attorney-
general of Rhode Island for a term of one
year, in 1912 reelected for a term of two years,
and in 1914 again reelected for a further term
of two years. During his last candidacy the
"Providence Journal" of October 22, 1914,
editorially remarked : "It is particularly neces
sary to impress upon the public the value to
Rhode Island of the services rendered by Mr.
Herbert A. Rice in the position of attorney-
general. It is many years since that depart
ment of the state government has been carried
on with such zeal and such regard for the
public welfare as under Mr. Rice's administra
tion. It is impossible to speak in terms too
complimentary of his record. We need more

men in public life of Mr. Rice's capacity and
ideals." Mr. Rice is a member of Union Lodge, No.
10, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
which he is a past master; Pawtucket Royal
Arch Chapter, No. 4; Pawtucket Council,
Royal and Select Masters, No. 2 ; Holy Sepul
chre Commandery, No. 8, Knights Templars;
and Palestine Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is an official of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons of Rhode Island, and- has delivered sev
eral Masonic addresses, including that at the
centennial anniversary of Union Lodge, April
15, 1908, and at the laying of the cornerstone
of the Superior Court House at Westerly,
April 22, 1912. Mr. Rice is also a member of
the American Bar Association, the Rhode
Island Bar Association, the Attorney-Generals'
Association, the Providence Bar Club, the
Rhode Island Historical Society, the Xew Eng
land Historic-Genealogical Society, the Sons
of the American Revolution, the Society of
Colonial Wars, the University Club, the Rhode
Island Country Club, the Wannamoisett Coun
try Club, the Turks Head Club, the To Kalon
Club, the Economic Club and other organiza
tions. He is a communicant of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, Pawtucket. His offices are
at the Providence county court house, and in
the Grosvenor building, Providence. On July
27, 1910, Mr. Rice married Elise D. Coe, of
Providence. They have no children. Resi
dence, No. 158 Medway street, Providence.
This name, of English origin, has
WOOD been identified with the history
of New England from its earliest
period, and immigrants of the name have been
coming to this country down through the gen
erations to very recent times. The family
herein described has been less than a century
in this country, and was founded by William
and Delia (Bundy) Wood, who came from
England to reside in Providence, Rhode Island.
When the gold excitement began in California,
about the middle of the last century, William
Wood went to the new El Dorado, and died
there within a short time.
William H. Wood, son of William and
Delia (Bundy) Wood, was born November 13,
1849, in Providence, and was left fatherless
when a small boy. As soon as he was able he
was obliged to go to work to assist in support
of the family. In consequence of these cir
cumstances his educational privileges _ were
necessarily limited, but he had opportunity tor
attending the public schools for a time, and by
his own efforts became a very well informed
man He was ambitious and industrious, and
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others, who offered him opportunities for ad
vancement. He began his business career in
the office of Jason Stone, a dealer in sewing
machines, with whom he continued several
years. He was ambitious to become a lawyer,
and had natural aptitude for the profession,
but circumstances prevented his preparation
for that line of endeavor. At the suggestion
of the late Daniel Lyman, a well known and
wealthy citizen of Providence, he engaged in
the real estate business, beginning as agent for
the large holdings of Mr. Lyman, and for
more than a quarter of a century, until death
closed his career, he was accounted among the
most active and successful business men of
the city. The confidence imposed in him by
Mr. Lyman was thoroughly justified by his
able and upright handling of the latter's inter
ests. He first opened an office on West
minster street, in a building owned by Mr.
Lyman, and later removed to the corner of
Exchange and Westminster streets, where he
continued business until his death. Many of
the largest real estate deals in Providence were
entrusted to his care, and the system of fair
dealing with all clients, both sellers and pur
chasers, brought to him an extensive business.
Among the valuable properties in his care at
the time of his death were those of the Vinton
and Barnaby estates, and the Nancy K. Bishop
estate. He served as treasurer of the Rhode
Island Investment Company and of the Beck
with Land Company, and was appointed by
the Lemuel Bishop heirs administrator of the
funds received from the French spoliation
claims, arising out of the destruction of the
brigantine "Nancy" in 1799. His death oc
curred very suddenly, May 8, 1905, at Wil
mington, Delaware, while on his way from
Washington to Providence. He was stricken
with illness on the train, upon which he passed
away while being conveyed to a hospital in
Wilmington. His body was brought to Provi
dence and laid to rest in the North burying
ground. Mr. Wood was very prominent in
the Masonic fraternity, being a member of
What Cheer Lodge, and St. John's Com
mandery of Providence, and had attained the
thirty-second degree in Masonry. He was a
member of the Hope Club, and the Metacomet
Golf Club of Providence, and was respected
and esteemed throughout his acquaintance.
He possessed those traits of character which
win and- retain friends, and his integrity was
beyond question. In politics Mr. Wood was
a staunch Republican, and he participated
actively in the conduct of municipal and state
affairs. From 1883 to 1885 he served as a
member of the city council, and in the autumn
of the latter year was sent to the legislature.

As a candidate for reelection he was defeated
as a result of what was known in Rhode Island
politics as the "May Deal." In consequence
of this unfair treatment he retired from the
public service, a loss to the state, since the
services of men of his undoubted probity are
always in demand. Mr. Wood married, Octo
ber 2, 1872, Adele S. Remington, daughter of
William H. and Jane (Smith) Remington, of
Providence (see Remington IX). Mrs. Wood
was born in Providence and educated in the
city schools, finishing her education in a private
school. She has traveled extensively, and in
1910 made a trip around the world. She is the
mother of two children: 1. William Reming
ton Wood, educated in the Providence high
school, and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He became a naval architect, and
for some years was engaged at the Fore River
Works of the Eastern Ship Building Company
at Quincy, Massachusetts. He is now conduct
ing a ranch in California. He married Caro
line Jonsen, of Boston, and has three children:
Remington, Richard, and Elizabeth. 2. Flor
ence Wood, became the wife of George Owen,
a naval architect, and resides at Newton,
Massachusetts ; she has two children : George
and Florence. (The Remington Line).
As evidenced by their business career's and
well known characters as citizens the Rhode
Island representatives of this name have pre
served in remarkable degree those qualities of
their New England ancestry which led to the
establishment of a mighty nation, from humble
beginnings in a forest inhabited by savages
and widely remote from any supporting influ
ences. The Remingtons of this section are
also descended from- some of the best blood
of New England through intermarriages.
(I) John Remington came from Yorkshire,
England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1637,
and was made a freeman there May 22, 1639.
Immediately thereafter he removed to Rowley,
and about 1662 to Roxbury. In April of that
year he calls himself late of Rowley, now of
Roxbury. He had a two-acre house lot on
Wethersfield street, in Rowley, and in 1647
was a lieutenant of militia under Captain Se
bastian Brigham. He died at Roxbury, June
8, 1667. His wife Elizabeth, who'carrie from
England with him, died December 24, 1658,
and he had a second wife Rhoda. He had at
least two sons before the records begin in
Rowley, John and Thomas, probably born in
England. Children, recorded in Rowley : Jona
than, born February 12, 1640; Daniel, October
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April 5, 1645, died 1646; Elizabeth, about
1648; Mary, March 31, 1653, died 1654.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (1) and
Elizabeth Remington, was born about 1628-
30, and resided first in Rowley. He was in
Andover in 1654-56, and settled in Haverhill
as early as 1661. Soon after 1664 he was in
Jamestown, Rhode Island, and later settled at
Warwick in that colony, where he died in 1709.
He had a wife Abigail, and children, recorded
in Rowley: John, born March 12, 1651 ; Abi
gail, September 14, 1652; Prudence, July 14,
1657. Recorded in Andover : Joseph, Novem
ber 29, 1654; Thomas, February 4, 1656. Re
corded in Haverhill: Daniel, October 18, 1661 ;
Hannah, July 3, 1664. He also had a son
Joseph, probably born about 1658, as shown
by the Rhode Island records.
(Ill) Joseph, son of John (2) and Abigail
Remington, resided in Jamestown, Rhode
Island, where he served on the jury, Septem
ber 5, 1682. There is no further record con
cerning him.
(IV) John (3), son of Joseph Remington,
was born April 12, 1680, in Jamestown.
(V) John (4), son of John (3) Remington,
of Jamestown, resided in that town with his
wife Susanna, where the following children
are recorded: Benjamin, born September 19,
1733; Peter, July 1, 1737; Penelope, April 15,
1739; Sarah, March 21, 1741 ; Abigail, May,
1743; John, January 6, 1745. He is also sup
posed to have been the father of Enoch, next
mentioned. (VI) Enoch Remington, born about 1735,
resided with his wife Molly in Warren, Rhode
Island, where two children are recorded:
Molly, born November 11, 1757; Lydia, July
20, 1765. They were probably also the par
ents of Enoch Remington, next mentioned.
(VII) Enoch (2), son of Enoch (1) and
Molly Remington, of Warren, born about
1768, resided in the adjoining town of Bar
rington, Rhode Island, where he died Janu
ary 1, 1795. He married there, August 5,
1790, Ruth Armington, born June 29, 1771. in
Rehoboth, daughter of John and Ruth (Kent)
Armington, of that town (see Armington III
and Kent IV). Children: Samuel Watson,
born January 4, 1791 ; Enoch, mentioned be
low ; Ruth, December 28, 1795 > perhaps others.
(VIII) Enoch (3), second son of Enoch
(2) and Ruth (Armington) Remington, was
born May 3, 1792, in Barrington, where he
resided, and died August 6, 1864, in Provi
dence. He married, March 13, 1814, Phebe
Short, born April 9, 1797, died July 31, 1870,
daughter of John and Betsey (Scott) Short.
John Short was born February 14, 1757. in
Warren, Rhode Island, third son of John and

Phebe Short. He married in Barrington, Sep
tember 30, 1779, Elizabeth Scott, of Cumber
land. Their fourth daughter, Phebe Short, be
came the wife of Enoch (3) Remington, as
above noted. Children : Samuel Watson, born
September 30, 1817; Lucretia S., June 15,
1820; William H., mentioned below; George
A., September 26, 1824; Jeremiah S., Septem
ber 6, 1827; Daniel S., March 3, 1829; Phebe
A., Alarch 12, 1831 ; George A., March 31,
i833- (IX) William Henry, second son of Enoch
(3) and Phebe (Short) Remington, was born
March 29, 1822, in Barrington, where he grew
up and received his education. Possessing am
bition and considerable talent he decided upon
a business career and went to Providence as a
young man, becoming clerk in a dry goods
store. He engaged in business for himself as
a fancy dry goods merchant, in association
with his brother, Jeremiah S. Remington, with
store located in the Arcade. Their business
grew and prospered, and in time they con
ducted four stores, and the senior brother in
time became sole proprietor of the store in the
Arcade, where he continued until his death,
September 9, 1844, at the age of forty-two
years. His body was deposited in the North
burying ground of Providence. He married
Jane Smith, daughter of Colonel Richard and
Elizabeth (Phillips) Smith, of Providence (see
Smith VIII). She survived her husband
almost sixty years, dying at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. William H. Wood, in Provi
dence, July 17, 1902, and was buried in the
same cemetery with her husband. She was a
member of the Baptist church. Children:
Florence, died i860; William R., died 1873;
and Adele S. The last-named is the widow
of William H. Wood, of Providence (see
Wood). (The Kent Line).
The origin of this name and the founding
of the family in America are elsewhere shown
in this volume, and need not be repeated here.
(II) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (1)
(q v.) and Susanna (George) Kent, was born
in 1665, and resided in -Rehoboth, Massachu
setts with his wife Clarissa. No record has been
found of his marriage. Their children, born in
Rehoboth, were : John, August 9, 1697 ; Heze
kiah mentioned below; Susanna, March 1,
1702; Alary, March 3, 1704; James, August
20, 1707.
(Ill) Hezekiah, second son of Joseph (2)
and Clarissa Kent, was born February 28,
1699, in Rehoboth, in which town he lived
and where he married, January 4, 1728, Ruth
Cooper, born April 29, 1704, daughter of Sam
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both. Children : Hezekiah, born December 2,
1728, died young; Hezekiah, 1730, died young;
Sarah, March 16, 1732; Ezra, June 28, 1734;
Ruth, mentioned below; Hannah, April 9,
1740; Hezekiah, April 27, 1745.
(IV) Ruth, second daughter of Hezekiah
and Ruth (Cooper) Kent, was born March 3,
1737, in Rehoboth, and became the wife of
John Armington, of Rehoboth (see Arming
ton III). (The Armington Line).
Since early in the eighteenth century the
Armingtons of the region of country about
either side of the line separating Massachu
setts and Rhode Island have been a continuous
family. They became allied by marriage with
some of the first colonial families of that sec
tion, and the posterity of the founders of the
family have been among the substantial men
and women and prominent citizens of their
respective communities. The wife of the emi
grant settler, a woman of education and cul
ture, after her husband's death soon after
taking up his residence in New England, estab
lished a school in Roxbury in which she taught
French. The name is connected with both the
army and navy in the revolution. In later
generations in Seekonk, Massachusetts, and
in what is now East Providence, there figured
conspicuously the late Hon. Francis Arming
ton, long in public life in those communities,
as have others of the name since. In the city
of Providence such men as the late Asa Wat
son Armington, long identified with the bank
ing house of Brown & Ives, and his brother,
the late Dr. Hervey Armington, an eminent
physician, were of a type of men to live long
in the annals of that city.
(I) Joseph Armington, born on the island
of Guernsey, Great Britain, came from Eng
land to- Boston in 1714, returned to England
on business, and died there about 1715.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Arm
ington, was born about 1707, on the island of
Guernsey, came to this country with his father,
and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, pre
sumably when about twenty-one years of age.
He was a brickmaker by trade, and lived in
Rehoboth, where he died August 15, 1746.
He married there, May 27, 1729, Hannah,
daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Carpen
ter) Chaffee, born October 3, 1707, died Feb
ruary 22, 1799, at Rehoboth. Children : Nich
olas, born January 12, 1730; Joseph, June 4,
1731 ; Josiah, July 28, 1733, died young; John,
mentioned below; Deliverance, October 24,
1737; Susanna, January 9, 1739; Hannah,
April 20, 1742; Josiah, April 4, 1744; William,
November 22, 1746.
(Ill) John, fourth son of Joseph (2) and

Hannah (Chaffee) Armington, was born June
12, 1735, in Rehoboth, and passed his last
years in Waterford, Vermont, where he died.
He married (first) January n, 1757, Ruth
Kent, born March 3, 1737, daughter of Heze
kiah and Ruth (Cooper) Kent, of Rehoboth
(see Kent III). He married (second) Janu
ary 13, 1788, Chloe Newman, of Rehoboth,
and they had one child, Abigail, born March
18, 1789. Children of first marriage: Syl
vester, born November 20, 1757; Joseph, Feb
ruary 12, 1759; Molly, October 13, 1760; Han
nah, January 20, 1764; Bety, September 23,
1765; Russell, April 16, 1769; Ruth, men
tioned below; Olive, August 16, 1773; John,
May 10, 1776; Pruda, August, 1778.
(IV) Ruth, fourth daughter of John and
Ruth (Kent) Armington, was born June 29,
1771, in Rehoboth, and became the wife of
Enoch Remington, of Barrington, Rhode
Island (see Remington VII).
(The Smith Line).
(I) John Smith, the miller, one of the first
white settlers of Providence, so named to dis
tinguish him from John Smith, the mason, also
a pioneer of that town, was born 1595, in Eng
land, and died 1648, in Providence. He was
first at Dorchester, in Massachusetts, and was
banished with Roger Williams and others from
the colony in 1635 on account of their religious
views. With Williams he settled at Provi
dence in 1636, and was town clerk in 1641. An
agreement was made with the town, March 1,
1646, by which Smith was to set up a mill on
the stream known as the Moshausick, where
he was then living, in consideration of which
he was granted land in the valley, and it was
agreed that no other mill would be allowed in
the colony. In 1647 twenty-two acres were
laid out to him, partly on account of the mill,
and at the time of his death he was in posses
sion of one hundred and fifty acres. That he
was a thrifty and prosperous man is indicated
by the fact that his widow Alice was taxed
two pounds and ten shillings September 2,
1650. They had children : John and Eliza
beth. (II) John (2), son of John (1) and Alice
Smith, probably born about 1630, died 1682,
in Providence. He was a miller and succeeded
his father in the management of the property,
which was confirmed to him and his mother by
the town after the father's death. He pur
chased two shares in the town, April 27, 1655,
and drew twenty-one acres in his father's right
at a division made February 19, 1665. He had
various parcels confirmed to him by the town,
May 24, 1673. His house was burned by the
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he saved the town records by throwing them
in the mill pond. He was ensign of the mili
tary company, November 6, 1654, juryman
1661, deputy 1666 and 1672, and town clerk
from 1672 to 1676. He married Sarah Whip
ple, born 1642, died after 1687, daughter of
John and Sarah Whipple. Children: John,
died April 20, 1737; Sarah, died October 14,
1725; Alice, born 1665; Mary, died December
13. 1737; Job, died January 13, 1750; Ben
jamin, born 1672; Isabel, 1683; Daniel, died
1683; Elisha, born 1680; William, mentioned
below. (Ill) William, son of John (2) and Sarah
(Whipple) Smith, was born 1682, and died
December 11, 1753, in Smithfield, Rhode
Island. He built the county court house, for
which he received six hundred and sixty-four
pounds nine shillings, and was many years
major of the militia. He was deputy to the
general court in 1714-16-20-21-24-27-29; as
sistant 1729-30-31, and moderator of Smith-
field in 1733-34-35-40, deputy from Smith-
field in 1735 and 1744. The inventory of his
estate amounted to £547 6s. He married Mary
Sayles, born May 30, 1689, died after 1754,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Sayles. Chil
dren: Daniel, Richard, Elizabeth, Sarah and
Abigail. (IV) Daniel, eldest child of William and
Mary (Sayles) Smith, was bom September
28, 1712, in Providence, and resided in Smith-
field, where he married, August 3, 1735, Mary
Aldrich, daughter of Moses and Hannah
(White) Aldrich, born February 15, 1714, in
Mendon, Massachusetts. He resided for some
time in Burrillville, which was cut off from the
ancient town of Smithfield. One child is re
corded in that town ; no others have been dis
covered. (V) Martin, son of Daniel and Mary (Aid-
rich) Smith, was born October 15, 1747, in
Burrillville, and was married, in Smithfield,
November 4, 1764, to Alary Mowry, born Oc
tober 30, 1745, daughter of Uriah and Urania
Mowry. Children : Cynthia, born February
9, 1765; Pitts, mentioned below; Phebe, July
21, 1769; Mary, April 25, 1772; Daniel, Octo
ber 27, 1774; Sarah, June 11, 1778.
(VI) Pitts, eldest son of Martin and Mary
(Mowry) Smith, was born October 10, 1766,
in Smithfield, and married there, May 31,
1795, Susanna, surname not preserved (possi
bly Steere), born February 19, 1776. Chil
dren: Richard, mentioned below; Daniel, born
January 22, 1798; John, February 19, 1802;
Lawraun, May 17, 1806; Mary Steere, March
28, 1708.
(VII) Richard, eldest child of Pitts and
Susanna Smith, was born May 15, 1796, in

Smithfield, and died in Providence, August
28, 1864. In early life he resided in Gloces
ter, and when a young man, in 1820, removed
to Providence, and took possession of the Bull
Dog Tavern, which was built in 1798 at Bull
Dog Square, now known as Randall Square.
He succeeded Calvin Dean in the management
of the hotel, and continued until 1840, when it
was sold to Mary Ann Madden. During the
time when Richard Smith conducted the hotel
the large assembly room in it was devoted on
Sunday to religious meetings, with steadily in
creasing congregations, until the attendance
was gathered into the Fourth Baptist Church
Society. Baptisms were performed in the
Moshausick river, which flowed near the tav
ern. Later Colonel Smith conducted succes
sively the Franklin House, the Eagle House
and American Hotel, and was one of the best
known hotel men in the state in his day. He
was among the "forty-niners" who went to
California in search of gold, but soon returned
to Providence, and continued to make his home
there until his death. He married Elizabeth
Phillips, daughter of David Phillips.
(VIII) Jane, daughter of Richard and Eliz
abeth (Phillips) Smith, married, April 17,
1850, William H. Remington, of Providence
(see Remington IX).
The Watsons of the Narragan-
WATSON sett country, whose early home
was on the eastern slope of
Tower Hill, were among the first and largest
purchasers of the fertile district upward of
two hundred years ago, and some of those
lands have never gone out of the Watson
name. A prominent family from the begin
ning it has allied itself by marriage to some of
the most respectable and distinguished fam
ilies of Rhode Island, among them the Heards,
Robinsons, Perrys and Browns, who at a
period before the revolution were the largest
landowners in the southern part of the state,
and noted for dispensing an elegant and
princely hospitality and furnishing a genial
and polished society when the city of Provi
dence was yet but a small village. Many of
the Narragansett Watsons, too, have filled
high and honorable stations in life.
It is the purpose of this article to treat
briefly only of the family of Rev. Elisha Free
man Watson, of South Kingstown, and of his
lineage, whose only son, Colonel Arthur Ham
ilton Watson, was during his life active and
prominent in the business and social life of
Providence. Rev. Elisha Freeman Watson,
of South Kingstown, is descended from John
Watson, the progenitor of the Narragansett
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John Watson (2), John (3), Elisha and Free
man Perry Watson. These generations in de
tail are as follows :
(I) John Watson is of record in North
Kingstown, Rhode Island in 1673. He was on
the tax list of 1687, and in that year served as
constable. Later he was on the grand jury,
was conservator of the peace and deputy in
1690. He was twice married, first to Dorcas
Gardiner, and second to Rebecca Gardiner,
daughter of George and Herodias (Long)
Gardiner. His death occurred in 1728. His
children were : John, Samuel, William, Fran
ces, Ann and Herodias.
(II) John (2)' Watson, born July 22, 1676,
died November 8, 1772, in the ninety-seventh
year of his age. He was the first child born in
Narragansett after the Indian war. He was
blest with more than an ordinary amount of
good common sense, and was early employed
in many offices, being a member of the general
assembly, all his duties being performed with
strict fidelity and integrity. His health was
ever excellent, he never having been confined
to his bed until a few days before his death,
and he retained his mental faculties unim
paired to the last. He had eight children,
fifty-seven grandchildren, forty-five great
grandchildren and three great-great-grand
children, a large number of whom followed his
remains to their last resting place. He was a
loving husband and father, a just magistrate,
a good neighbor, a mild master and a loyal
friend. Mr. Watson was three times wedded.
On April 8, 1703, he married Hannah Champ
lin, daughter of Jeffrey Champlin. She died
October 31, 1720. On April 22, 1722, he mar
ried Abigail Eldred, widow of Samuel Eldred,
and daughter of Stephen and Mary (Thomas)
Northrop. She died August 22, 1737. In Sep
tember, 1738, he married Sarah Mowry, who
died March 12. 1764. In a diary kept by his
son, Jeffrey Watson, is a copy of the publish
ment of the third marriage, which is a good
illustration of the customs of the times.
Kings County, September, A. D. 1738. These are
to publish the banns of marriage between John
Watson and Sarah Mowry, both of South Kings
town, in the county aforesaid, and if any person or
persons can show just cause why these two may not
be joined together in matrimony they must make
their application as the law directs, and not to pull
down or deface this publication at their peril. Given
under my hand and seal in South Kingstown, this
10th day of September, A. D. 1738.
Per Isaac Sheldon, Justice.
Mr. Watson's children were all born to his
first and second marriages. They were : Han
nah, born Alarch 1, 1705, married (first) Wil
liam Clarke, who died in 1746, and she mar
ried (second) David Greene; Ann, born March

27, 1708, married Benjamin Allen, and died
in 1 77 1 ; John, born March 13, 1709, married
Isabel Sherman, and died April 26, 1791 ; Jef
frey, born April 3, 1712, married Bathsheba
Smith, and died May 10, 1787; Elisha, born
September 14, 1714, died September 11, 1737;
Dorcas, born October 25, 1716, married Eze
kiel Gardiner, and died in 1785 ; Amy, born
October 18, 1719, married John Lillibridge;
Freelove, born in 1723, married John Champ
lin ; and Alary, born in 1725.
In 1708, after his first marriage, John Wat
son (2) bought of William Gardiner seventy-
five acres near Pettaquamscott Rock, and this
land, with other land added to it, was in the
possession of lineal descendants until a few
years ago, when Mr. J. V. B. Watson sold it
to Mrs. Carver. This was the first deed given
since 1708, as it had been willed from father to
eldest son, whose names for generations had
been John. In the seventh generation the eld
est son, John, having died the second son,
Joseph, succeeded to the estate, and it was his
son who gave the deed. Five generations of
Watsons and eldest sons are buried on the this
land, John (2) Watson became a large land
owner, and the greater part of his lands he
gave to his sons by gift before he' died.
(Ill) John (3) Watson, was born March
13, 1709, died April 26, 1791. On June 2,
1736, he married Isabella Sherman, daughter
of Job and Bridget (Gardiner) Sherman. She
died May 22, 1753. He and his wife were
members of the Society of Friends, and were
censured for allowing a daughter to marry out
of the Society. Thomas Hazard preached his
funeral sermon from the text, "The grace of
God has appeared to all mankind." To John
and Isabella Watson were born children as
follows : John, born Alay 23, 1737, married,
October 11, 1764, Desire, daughter of Thomas
and Mercy (Williams) Wheeler, of Stoning
ton, Connecticut ; Hannah, born in September,
1738, died February 14, 1757; Bridget, born
December 24, 1741, married Abijah Babcock,
and died June 11, 1768; Job, born August 7,
1744, married Sarah Howard; Mercy, born
September 3, 1746, married Abijah Babcock;
Elisha, born August 5, 1748, married Miriam
Babcock and Susannah Perry; Isabella, born
May 7, 1753, married Peleg Gardiner, and died
in 1785; Walter, born May 7, 1753, married
Abigail Hazard.
(IV) Elisha Watson was born- August- 5,
1748. Plis first wife, Miriam Babcock, was a
daughter of Daniel and Dorcas (Brown) Bab
cock. In 1784 he married (second) Susannah
Perry. By his first wife he had children:
Mary, born April 6, 1775, married John, son
of John and Desire Watson; Elisha, born Oc
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August 30, 1778, died November 17, 1855;
Asa, born May 24, 1780; George, born March
24, 1782; and William, born December 26,
1783, married May Cole. To the second mar
riage the following children were born : Free
man Perry, born May 16, 1787; Susannah,
born March 13, 1789, married George, son of
John Watson Jr.; Elizabeth, born June 13,
1790, married Benjamin Brown; Miriam, born
October 30, 1793. married Stephen Browning.
(V) Freeman Perry Watson, born May 16,
1787, married, December 13, 181 1, Phoebe Wat
son, daughter of Job and Phoebe (Weeden)
Watson, and their children were : Job W.,
born February 9, 1813, died February 7, 1785;
Elisha Freeman, born March 28, 1814; Free
man P., born Alarch 1, 1819, married (first)
Mary Watson, daughter of Daniel and Mary
(Congdon) Watson, who died June 12, 1890,
and (second) Abby Hull, daughter of Benja
min Hull; and Phoebe W., born in 1825, mar
ried, January 25, 1849, Stephen H. Tefft.
(VI) Elisha Freeman Watson was born at
what is known as Boston Neck, in the town
of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, March 28,
1814, and he died at his home "Alatunuck
Brook Farm," in the same town, January 16,
1900, aged eighty-five years nine months and
nineteen days. His early studies were pursued
under the instruction of William H. Gaynor,
a teacher of high repute in those days. He
was prepared for college at Amherst, Massa
chusetts, at Bristol, Pennsylvania, and he
taught school to aid in paying his expenses in
college. Entering Brown University at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, in 1837, he was gradu
ated therefrom in 1840, and three years later
received the degree of Alaster of Arts from
that institution. His life work having been
decided young he began the study of theology
at the General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church at New York,
and he completed his studies under the Rev.
Dr. Francis Vinton, of Newport, Rhode Island.
He was ordained to the ministry in August,
1843 For three years following the Rev. Mr.
Watson was rector of St. Paul's Church,
Tower Hill, and St. Matthew's Church, James
town, both charges in his native state. Suc
ceeding this and for upwards of three years
he was rector of Christ's Church at Lonsdale,
Rhode Island. From 185 1 to i860 he was not
in the regular work of the ministry, but was
retired to a farm in South Kingstown, where
his time was given to agricultural pursuits.
In i860 he again took up his ministerial call
ing, and was the rector of a church in Otis,
Massachusetts, and of one at New Boston,
Massachusetts. On the breaking out of the
civil war in 1861, the patriotism of the Rev.
Mr. Watson was manifested by his acceptance

of the appointment made by Governor An
drew of chaplain of the Eleventh Massachu
setts Volunteer Infantry, which became a part
of the Army of the Potomac, and for three
years and more, with an absence from his regi
ment of but two weeks, he shared the fortunes
of war. Subsequently he was a volunteer chap
lain in the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteer
Infantry, returning home from the front in the
fall of 1864.
In the early days the Rev. Mr. Watson
affiliated with the Whig party, but when the
Republican party was organized he became one
of its staunch supporters. During the cam
paign of 1856 he spoke all over Rhode Island
and in Massachusetts in support of Fremont
and Dayton. He never was an office-seeker
himself, but for some years was superintend
ent of schools in South Kingstown. The read
ing of Clarkson's "Abolition of the British
Slave Trade," strongly impressed him with
the evils of slavery, and he became one of the
early ardent Abolitionists. He identified him
self with the first temperance movement of the
town, becoming a member of the society organ
ized there in 1834, and he had for his motto,
"From the cradle to the coffin a temperance
man." He interested himself in public ques
tions, and was thoroughly posted. Education
had always interested him, and he never ceased
to be a student, his declining years being de
voted to his linguistic studies.
On January 6, 1843, the Rev. Mr. Watson
was united in marriage with Mary Dockray,
of South Kingstown, daughter of John B. and
Alary (Peckham) Dockray. She died October
5, 1904. This union was blessed with one son,
Arthur Hamilton, born September 20, 1849.
(VII) Colonel Arthur Hamilton Watson,
born in Lonsdale, Rhode Island, September 20,
1849, attended the public schools of South
Kingstown, and prepared for college at a pri
vate school in Kingston, subsequently enter
ing Brown University, whence he was gradu
ated in 1870 with the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy. In the year following his gradu
ation he began a business career as clerk m
the boot and shoe house of Greene, Anthony
& Company of Providence. On January 1,
1871 he became a partner in the firm, and re
mained the active man in this concern until his
death Xovember 16, 1913- By close applica
tion to this business, and his peculiar fitness
therefor, possessing the requisite qualities tor
success, he became the head of the largest boot
and shoe establishment in Rhode Island. He
developed and enlarged it to great proportions,
and interested himself in several other enter
prises in the management of which he figured
somewhat conspicuously. Comparative y early
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in the banking business and numerous other
activities. He became identified with the
Nicholson File Company, and later was made
its vice-president, which office he continued to
hold until his death. He also became con
nected with the Narragansett Electric Light
ing Company, and was one of the vice-presi
dents of that corporation. He served for a
number of years as a director of the Globe
National Bank, formerly in operation in this
city, and was also a director of the American
National Bank, for the fifteen years preceding
its absorption by the Rhode Island Hospital
Trust Company. He was president of the
Commercial Bank from its inception until its
absorption by the Union Trust Company, when
he became a director in the latter corporation,
which position he held at the time of his death.
A number of years ago Colonel Watson be
came a director in the Union Railroad Com
pany, and retained the office after the lease of
the company to the Rhode Island Company.
He was a director in the American Screw
Company and president of the Providence,
Fall River and Newport Steamboat Company.
Colonel Watson served some time as vice-
president of the Providence Board of Trade,
and was also vice-president of the board of
managers of the World's Columbian Exposi
tion from Rhode Island. He became identified
with the Rhode Island Insurance Company and
at the time of his death was a director in the
corporation. His political career, which covered a period
of nearly fifteen years, began in 1883, when
he was elected to the common council from
the second ward, His reelection followed an
nually, until he completed ten years service in
the lower branch of the city council. The last
three years of his membership were spent as
president of the council. In the elections of
1892 Colonel Watson was the Republican can
didate for mayor, but was defeated by William
K. Potter, the Democratic candidate, who was
reelected. In 1893 be entered the board of
aldermen from his ward, and served three
terms there, the last two as president. While
in the common council he was chairman of
the joint special committee which investigated
the municipal court and was also a member of
the special committee on the celebration of the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the town of Providence. He re
tired from politics in 1896. He was a mem
ber of the Hope, Agawam Hunt, Commercial
and University clubs, and for three years was
aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Au
gustus O. Bourn.
On February 20, 1873, Colonel Watson was
married to Miss Annie P. Sprague, daughter
of Colonel Byron Sprague, of Providence (a

sketch of whom appears elsewhere) and their
children were: 1. Harriet Sprague, born Jan
uary 25, 1874. She married, January 3, 1899,
John Bosworth Lewis, and had children: J.
Bosworth Jr., born January 29, 1900; Arthur
Hamilton Watson, May 18, 1904; Dexter Lap
ham, December 4, 1907. 2. Byron Sprague,
see forward. 3. Mary Dockray, born Novem
ber 20, 1881. She married, April 26, 1905,
Mason Freeman Cocroft, and had children:
Frances Freeman, born December 2, 1906;
Mason F. Jr., born March 23, 1910; Arthur
W., born July 25, 1914. 4. Annie Hamilton,
born December 16, 1887. She married, No
vember 3, 1909, Charles Fletcher, and had
children: Anita W., April 5, 1911 ; Mary
Hayes, November 13, 1914. Mrs. Watson
died February 22, 1904 ; she was a prominent
member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and was a director in the Society
of Colonial Dames.
(VIII) Byron Sprague Watson, son of
Colonel Arthur Hamilton and Anna P.
(Sprague) Watson, was born May 26, 1876.
He prepared for college at the Berkeley School
and the University Grammar School, and was
graduated from the classical department of
Brown University in the class of 1897, the de
gree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred upon
him. In the procession of his commencement
day walked his grandfather, Rev. Elisha Free
man Watson, of the class of 1840, and his
father, Colonel Arthur Hamilton Watson, of
the class of 1870. Mr. Watson commenced his
business career with the firm of Greene, An
thony & Company, in the wholesale boot and
shoe business, beginning with the lowest rung
of the ladder, in order to become thoroughly
and practically familiar with the details of
every branch of this enterprise. In 1903 he
became a member of this well known firm,
and. is now the sole surviving partner. Mr.
Watson served as colonel on the private staff
of Governor Charles Dean Kimball. While
he is interested in the public welfare of the
city and country and is a staunch Republican,
Mr. Watson takes no active part in political
life. He is a member of the Hope, Agawam
Hunt, Rhode Island Country, Commercial,
Dedham Polo, and several other clubs, and
has won a place for himself in the business
world, where his opinions carry- weight. He
is a director in the Nicholson Fire Company,
Narragansett Electric Lighting Company,
Union Trust Company, and Rhode Island In
surance Company.
Mr. Watson married, October 31, 1899, Isa
bel, daughter of Edward A. Loomis, and has
had children: Isabel Loomis, born December
9, 1903 ; Annie Potter Sprague, November 30,
1905 ; Hope, December 29, 1907.

ADDENDA— ERRATA— INDEX

ADDENDA AND ERRATA

Ames, p. 1295, 1st col., 26th line, Mrs. Abby Greene
Harris Ames died at her late home, 109 Benefit
street, following- a long- illness; she was a mem
ber of the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Society of May
flower Descendants.
Bassett, p. 2030, 2d col., Edward D. Bassett died July
28, 1914, and everything in his paragraph should
read in the past tense.
Carpenter, p. 852, 1st col., 32d line, date 1908 should
be 1898.
Daley, p. 793, 2d col., 45th line, one hundred and
forty members should read one hundred and
forty-three members; p. 794, 1st col., 38th line,
sentence beginning: This is the English branch,
etc., should be eliminated.
Denny, p. 2101, 1st col., 43rd line, Thomas Denny
married M. Louise Jenkins.
Giles, p. 1062, 2d col., 22d and 23d lines, name Poor
should read Pool.
Goodrich, p. 2037, 2d col., Benjamin to be named
among other children of William Goodrich, the
emigrant.
Guernsey, p. 186, 2d col., 57th line, Frank Edward
Guernsey was elected to the sixty-fourth Con
gress in September, 1914.
Hoadly, p. 1069, 1st) col., among the children of Mr.
and Mrs. George Hoadly, there is an error as to
death of their son George, born March 25, 1895;
he is still living.
Horton, p. 1163, 2d col., 26th line, date 1782 should
be 1682.
Houghton, p. 1222, 2d col., 39th line, Whitingham,
Vermont, should be Conway, Massachusetts; p.
1223, 1st col., 6th line, born June 13, 1847, should
be June 30, 1847; 8th line, Geneva should be
Genevieve; 13th line, 19 should be 23; 14th line,
Alice Ball should be Alice Eisenbury Ball; 15th
line, Frederick should be Fred Eugene.
Lance, p. 1649a, 2d col., 34th line, Catherine Bean
should be Catherine E., born March 13, 1842,
daughter of Asa Bean; 35th line, Luther Clyde,
born 1866; 37th line, Josephine May, born 1870;
49th line, two years should be one year; 52d line,
after business should read with the firm of Chase
& Roys, then became partner, etc.; p. 1649b, 1st
col., 1st line, nine years should be six years.
Littlefield, p. 1243, 2d col., Nathan W. Littlefield is
governor of the Rhode Island Society of May
flower Descendants, governor-general of the Sons
and Daughters of the Pilgrims, president of the
Society of Descendants of the Founders of Rhode
Island, and vice-president of the National Anti-
Saloon League.
McElwain, p. 923, 1st col., 48th line, Grace Chapel
should be Grace Church.
Miner p. 1204, 2d col., 54th line, Pope should be
Bishop; 57th line, Hyman L. Miner should be
Ahiman Lewis Miner.
Noble, p. 689, 2d col., 50th line, the material in

parentheses and all that follows pertaining to
the Sherman family Is erroneous.
Rumrill, p. 1988, substitute for generations III, IV
and V:
(III) David Rumrill, son of Simon Rumrill,
was one of the early settlers of New Ipswich,
New Hampshire. His lot was No. 76 originally
owned by Eleazer Cummings, later by Ira Smith.
He also had Lot No. 138. He was a soldier in
the Revolution from New Ipswich in Captain
Stephen Parker's company, Colonel Moses Nich
ols's regiment, General Stark's brigade at the
Battle of Stillwater in 1777. In 1790, the census
shows that he was living in New Ipswich and
had in his family three males over sixteen, three
under that age and eight females. The history
of New Ipswich tells us that he had fifteen chil
dren. Among them was Simon, mentioned below.
(IV) Simon Rumrill, son of David Rumrill,
was born at New Ipswich, Jlily, 1767. He settled
at Charlestown, New Hampshire. He married,
first, January, 1790, Joanna Kemp and removed
from New Ipswich to Charlestown soon after
ward. He married, second, January, 1800, Han
nah Perry. Children: Stephen, born January 14,
1791, lived at Northfield, Vermont; Abigail, born
May 23, 1793; Lois, June, 1795; Isaac, September
15, 1797, settled at Springfield, Vermont; Rachel,
died aged two years. Children by second wife:
Benjamin, born October 6, 1800; Hannah, June 18,
1802; Levi, September 29, 1804; Joseph, men
tioned below.
(V) Joseph Rumrill, son of Simon Rumrill,
was born about 1810 in New Hampshire. He
married Cordelia Keys, also a native of New
Hampshire. Among their children was Charles,
who died at Unity, New Hampshire, July 15, 1898,
aged fifty years, seven months, and Edwin Jo
seph, mentioned in sketch.
Shaw, p. 369, 1st col., 41st line, Francis Marion
Shaw also had a daughter Alice.
Slocum, p. 2009, 1st col., 24th line, Morrisville should
be Morristown.
Smith, p. 1791, since this narrative was put in print
we have received revised Grout narrative, which
will be found on pages 1868-69. The reader will
regard the latter and entirely disregard the
Grout narrative on pages 1792-93.
Stanley, p. 604, 1st col., 31st line, John should be
John Currier.
Thompson, p. 596, Colonel John Edmund Thompson
died August 17, 1914, having met with an acci
dent while cranking his automobile.
Tracy, p. 521, 1st col., Lieutenant Thomas Tracy was
one of the first proprietors of Saybrook and Nor
wich; his son John married Mary Winslow,
daughter of Josiah Winslow, who was the
brother of Governor Edward Winslow, of Ply
mouth. „ ,
Warner, p. 1655, 2d col., 5th line, should read
Charles Henry, son of Elisha Mann Warner in
stead of Elisha Mann.

INDEX
NOTE.-An asterisk <?) preceding a name refers to note under heading of Addenda and Errata.

Abbot ancestry, 2236
Benjamin, 2236
Charles W„ 2237
George, 2236
Adam^ancestry, 567, 1389, 1418,
1584, 1662
Alvin W., 568
Amos F., 1419
Annie L., 455
Archelaus, 1389
Benjamin, 1584
Benjamin D., 1580 \
Daniel, 1584
Edrick, 1584, 1585
Edward, 1662
Eleazer, 1662

Eli, 1419
Frank, 1420
Friend, 1584
George, 1584
Hallett, 568
Henry, 1418
Herbert M., 455
Horace, 1419
James A., 568
John, 857, 1389,
Jonathan, 567
Justus, 169
Lowell, 1662
Lowell P., 1390
Martin, 568
Olin D., 568
Peter, 1389
Philemon, 1662

1662

Thomas, 1419
Timothy, 1419, 1584
Warren, 1390
William, 168, 1389
Willie W., 1390
Zachariah, 1419
Adreon ancestry, 1413
Edward L., 1413
Stephen W., 1413
Akeley, George H„ 2221
George W., 2221
Albee ancestry, 124
Cvrus H., 125
Elmer G., 125
George B., 1417
Henry, 124
Zinah H„ 1418

IV

NEW ENGLAND

Alden ancestry, 5, 372, 389, 846,
1450, 1691
Andrew, 861
David, 390, 861, 1450
Ebenezer, 373
George L., S61
George W., 862
Henry, 1450
Isaac, 847
James C, 847
John, 5, 372, 373, 389, 390,
846, 847, 861, 1450
Joseph, 6, 373, 390, 847
Lincoln S., 848
Philander, 861
Samuel, 6
Seth, 6
Aldrich ancestry, 521, 2024
Amos, 2025
Augusta G., 2026
Edwin, 2025
Florence A., 2026
George, 521
Isaac, 522
Jacob, 2024
John, 522
Joseph, 522
Joseph C, 2025
Moses, 2024
Robert, 2025
Samuel, 522
Walter J„ 538
Alexander ancestry, 2013
Ernest J., 2014
Harris J„ 2014
Hugh, 2014
Randall, 2014
Robert, 2014
Alger ancestry, 572, 635
Charles S„ 573
Ebenezer, 573
Everett M., 573
Israel, 572
Jonathan, 635
Joseph, 573
Sanford, 573
Thomas, 572
Allan ancestry, 462
Henry D., 463
Horatio G., 463
John, 462
William, 462
Allbee ancestry, 1415
Benjamin, 1415
Ebenezer, 1416, 1418
George B„ 1417
Horace, 1417
John, 1416
Lewis L., 1416
Timothy J., 1416
Zina H, 1418
Allen ancestry, 700, 1167, 1263,
1822, 2070, 2358
Amos, 1167
Benjamin, 2071
Bishop, 1168
Charles E., 703, 1264
Charles P., 1825
Daniel, 1217, 1218
Ebenezer, 1263
Edward, 1263
Elijah, 1263
Elisha, 1822
Emery, 2358
Fred E., 2358
George, 700
George G„ 1264
Hezekiah, 1316
Hiram B„ 1168
Howard B., 1168
Isaiah, 1822
Isaiah N„ 1822
J. Augustus, 1825
James, 1167
John, 1263, 1315, 1825
John J„ 703
Jonathan S., 1263
Joseph, 1316, 2071
Joseph D., 702
Lysander C, 1168
Phinehas, 701
Roger, 1167
Samuel, 700, 701, 1167, 1315,
2071
Stephen, 1167
Timothy, 701
Viall, 2071
William, 2071
William G, 1822
William H, 1823

AUerton ancestry, 1694
Alley ancestry, 278
Alexander, 279
George O., 279
Hugh, 278
Joshua, 279
Nathaniel C, 279
Samuel, 279
Allyn ancestry, 1000
Freeman, 1001
Harriet U., 1002
James, 1002
John, 1000
John T., 1002
Lyman, 1001
Nathan, 1001
Robert, 1000
Ames ancestry, 12S8
John, 1289
Samuel, 1288
Samuel, 1291
Samuel, Judge, 1289
Amsbury ancestry, 2070
Jabez, 2070
Jeremiah, 2070
Mowry, 2070
Andrews ancestry, 426, 531, 1999
Elhanan W., 2001
Elkanah, 532
Elijah, 2000
Elisha, 2000
George, 5 32
George M., 2001
Ira 1999
John, 426, 427, 531, 1999, 2001
Joseph, 532
Samuel, 532
Angell ancestry, 1838, 1853
Abiah, 1854
Ann F., 1856
Benjamin, 1854
Eben S., 1855
Hope, 1854
James, 1838
John, 1838, 1854
Lemuel, 1854
Louis L., 1855
Thomas, 1838, 1853
Angevine ancestry, 666
Alice F., 667
Louis, 667
Pierre, 667
William, 667
Zacharie, 666
Anthony ancestry, 2054, 2064,
2276
Abraham, 2055, 2064, 2277
Albert L„ 2065
Andrew J., 2278
Anna E., 2067
Benjamin, 2055, 2064, 2277
David, 2055, 2227
David R., 2228
Ellen, 2056
Francis, 2054, 2064, 2276
Gardner, 2065
Henry F., 2278
Jane L., 2056
John, 2055, 2064, 2277
John B., 2056
Jonathan C, 2065
Mary B„ 2056
Newton J., 2279
William, 2055, 2065, 2277
Armington ancestry, 556, 728
Asa, 729
Asa W., 729
Emma F., 731
Hervey, 730
James H, 729
John, 556
Joseph, 556, 728
Arnold ancestry, 45, 348, 1011,
1912, 2052, 2147, 2160
Aaron, 1913
Arthur H, 2053
Benjamin, 350
Benedict A., 45
Caleb, 45, 2052, 2149
Caroline F., 2049, 2054
Daniel, 1913
Edward E., 2161
Elisha, 2148
Ernest M.. 350
Israel, 2148
James, 2149
James B., 45
Joseph, 45, 2052
Joseph H, 2053
Levi B„ 350

Nathaniel, 2161
Noah, 19J3
Oliver, 45
Philip, 349, 2161
Richard, 348, 1912, 1913, 2147,
2160
Roby, 2149
Roger, 2147
Stephen, 349, 2052, 2148, 2161
Thomas, 45, 349, 1912, 2052,
2147, 2148, 2160, 2161
Thomas G., 350
Walter S., 351
William, 45, 349, 1011, 2052,
2148, 2160
Aseltine ancestry, 779
Alanson M., 779
Azro M., 780
Conrad, 779
John, 780
Austin ancestry, 911, 1245, 2364
Alanson, 2364
Arthur E., 1246
Chauncey G„ 913
Daniel, 912
Elijah S., 912
, Ezekiel, 1245
Frank L., 911
Hattie M., 2364
Jeremiah, 1245
John, 911, 1245
Lyman, 911
Mellen A„ 2364
Pasco, 912
Robert, 1245
Warren R., 913
Zachary T., 911
Babbitt ancestry, 1370
Edward, 1370
Frederick H, 1371
George H., 1371, 1372
Joseph H, 1371
Nathan, 13 70
Babcock ancestry, 529, 1425
Daniel, 1425
Daniel C, 1426
Ichabod, 530, 1425
Jabez W., 531
James, 1425
John, 529, 530, 1425
Joseph, 1425
Lodowick S., 530
Margaret S. B., 1426
Mary F., 531
Oliver, 1425
Penelope B., 531
William H, 531
Backus ancestry, 520
Isaac, 521
Joseph, 520
Nathan, 521
Samuel-, 520
William, 520
William S., 520
Bacon ancestry, 1385
Abner, 1386
Daniel, 1385
Henry, 1385
Henry C, 1386
Justin H, 1386
Michael, 1385
Nehemiah, 1386
Thomas, 1385
Willard H„ 1387
William C, 1386
Bagley ancestry, 74
Francis M„ 74
Reuben, 74
Bailey ancestry, 384, 898, 2041,
2317
Bethuel, 898
Charles W., 2041
George W„ 2041
Isaac, 384. 2218
Israel, 890
James, 384
John, 384, 2317
Joseph, 898
Joshua, 2041, 2318
Sarah, 384
William M., 384
Baker ancestry, 983, 2034, 2187
Abraham, 2187
Charles, 2187
Charles H„ 2187
Francis, 2034, 2187
Gorham, 2035
Gorham H, 2187
John, 983

NEW ENGLAND

Joseph W„ 2187
Judah, 2035
Lillie C, 2187
Nathaniel, 983
Samuel, 983, 984
William, 2034
Baldwin ancestry, 1770
Abiel, 1770, 1771
Chauncey C, 1771
Ezra, 1770
Jennie S., 1771 i
Jonathan, 1770
Joseph, 1770
Reuben C, 1771
William A., 1771
Ball ancestry, 1354, 1429
Abraham, 1354
Allen D., 1431
Ebenezer, 1354
Eleazer, 1429
Frank P., 1431
Franklin P., 1355
Henry W., 1430
Israel, 1429
Jeremiah, 1354
John, 449, 1429
Nathaniel, 1429
Rufus, 1430
William D„ 1430
Ballard ancestry, 30S
Albert, 309
Harry F., 309
William, SOS, 309
Ballou ancestry, 1234, 22S4, 2327
Ariel, 538, 539
Ariel, Dr., 539
Ella H, 2286
Ezekiel, 2285, 2328
Fenner, 1235
Henrv L., 2329
James, 538, 1234, 2284, 2327
Latimer, 2328
Latimer W., 2330
Levi, 2285, 2328
Levi T, 2285
Maturin, 538, 1234, 2284, 2327
Nathaniel, 1234
Noah, 1235
Obadiah, 2285, 2327
Roland H., 2331
Walter S., 2285
Ziba, 1235
Bancroft ancestry, 648
David, 649
John, 648
Otis H, 649
Peter M., 649
Raham, 649
Thomas, 648, 649
Timothy, 649
Bangs ancestry, 743
Edward, 743, 744
Elkanah, 744
Elisha, 744
Elisha D., 744
Jonathan, 743
Banigan, Joseph, 994
Mary A., 994, 996
Banks ancestry, 571
Eli, 571
Harry G., 572
Jesse, 571
John, 571
John M., 572
Joseph, 571
William H., 571
Barber ancestry, 118
Elisha, 119
Elisha D., 119
George, 118
Orlando D., 119
Zachariah, 118, 119
Barbour ancestry, 363
Elisha, 363
Eliot, 364
George, 363
Oliver, 364
Zachariah, 363
Barker ancestry, 490, 512, ti.it,
2172
Abraham, 513
Benjamin, 513
Cyrus, 490
David, 2138
Edward, 2137, 2172
Eliza H., 513
Gideon, 2138
Henry A, 2176
Henry A. R., 2173
Isaac, 512
James, 2137, 2138, 2172

John, 2138, 2172
Joseph, 2173
Matthew, 2173
Peter, 2173
Prince, 512
Richard J., 513, 514
Robert, 512
Rodney C, 491
Rowland, 2137, 2172
William, 2173
William C, 2173
Barnes, Hope N, 2275
John S., 2276
Barney ancestry, 69S, 1295
Charles, 1296
Edward, 698, 1295
Elisha, 1295
Elkanah, 1296
Herbert E., 699
Jacob, 698, 1295
John, 699, 1295
John P., 699
Jonathan, 699
Joseph, 699
Lizzie M., 1297
Martin, 699
Martin F., 1296
William, 1295
Barrell ancestry, 599
Fred A, 601
George, 599
John, 600
Jonathan, 600
Joshua, 600
William, 600
William D., 600
Barrows ancestry, 2023
Delmar A., 2024
George, 2023
Hamlet W., 2024
Jesse, 2023
John, 2023
Moses, 2023
Robert, 2023
Bartlett ancestry, 417, 707, 2113
Abner, 2113
Asel P., 419
Bani, 419
Burrill, 419
Eber, 418
Edwin E., 70S
Florence, 419
George W., 70S
Jacob, 418, 2113
John, 417, 2113
John R., 2113, 2115
Joseph, 418
Richard, 707, 708
Rufus, 2113
Samuel, 708
Smith, 2113
Barton ancestry, 2222
Joseph E., 2222
William, 2222
Bascom ancestry, 1705
Elias, 1706
Elisha, 1706
Ezekiel, 1706
Franklin H., 1707
Ira G., 1707
Thomas, 1705, 1706
Bass ancestry, 1189
John, 1189
Jonathan, 1189
Samuel, 1189
Bassett ancestry, 2029, 2035
Bertha M., 2036
Daniel, 2031
•Edward D., 2030
Ferdinand H., 2032
Gerrv, 2032
Horatio, 2035
Horatio L., 2035
Isaac, 2030
Isaac H„ 2030
Jacob P. H., 2032
Joseph, 2029, 2031
Massa, 2030
Nathaniel, 2031
William, 2029, 2030
Batesenaance^try2,03l74, 503, 1080,
1742, 1763
Barnabas, 274
Clement, 274, 503, 1081
Ebenezer, 1742
Edward, 1742
Edward L., 1743
Elijah, 1764
George E., 277
Isaac, 504

Isaiah, 1742
James, 1763
John, 276, 1763
Jonathan, 1081
Joseph, 503, 1081, 1742
Joshua, 503
Joshua H, 1082
Josiah, 275
Laban, 504
Merrick L., 1082
Nathaniel, 1764
Samuel, 274, 1081, 1763
Solomon, 276
Stephen T, 275
Thomas, 274, 503, 1763
William, 1742
William G., 1764
William H., 275
Beaman ancestry, 1186
Edmund A., 1188
Edmund S., 1188
Gamaliel, 1186, 1187
John, 1187, 1188
Lemuel, 1187
Phineas, 1187
Bean ancestry, 337, 90S
Charles H., 337
James, 908
Jeremiah, 337
Joel, 909
John, 908, 909
John S., 337
Joseph W, 338
Joshua, 909
Lewis S., 910
Ozias, 910
Philo, 909
Beckwith ancestry, 71, 104, 2057
Alonzo S., 2057
James, 72
James H. 104
James W., 73, 74
Jane L., 2057
John, 72
John R., 73
John W., 72
Mathew, 71
Thomas W., 72
William C, 2057
William M., 104
Worden, 72
Belden ancestry, 889
Cassius M., 891
Hiram, 890
Jesse F., S90
Jonathan, 890
Levi, 890
Richard, 890
Samuel, 890
Stephen, 890
Bellows ancestry, 1307
Hamlet C, 1308
John, 1307
Joseph, 1307
Sydney H, 130S
Ward, 1308
Bennett ancestry, 147, 1439
Arthur M., 148
Daniel, 1440
Edward C, 1440
Edward D., 1440
Elisha, 147
Tsaac, 1439, 1440
James, 1439
John G., 148
Benson, John, 1864
Benton ancestry, 797
Daniel, 797, 79S
Daniel W., 798
Ebenezer, 797
Edward, 797
Elias, 79S
Guy P., 798
Nathaniel, 798
Besse ancestry, 270
Anthony, 270
Elisha, 270, 271
Joseph, 270
Nehemiah, 270
Bickford ancestry, 770
Eli, 771
George H., i72
George H, Rev., 771
John, 770, 771
Thomas, 770
Bicknell ancestry, 1691
Joshua, 1692
Zachariah, 1692
Zachary, 1691
Bigelow ancestry, 1502
John, 1502, 1503

VI

NEW ENGLAND

Jonathan, 1503
Jonathan B., 1504
Joshua, 1503
Phineas N, 1504
Walter J., 1504
Binney ancestrv, 1767
Barr.abas, 1767
Horace, 1768
John, 1767
William, 1769, 1770
Birge ancestry, 1248
Daniel, 1249
Ezekiel, 1249
Jonathan, 1249
Julius C, 1250
Richard, 1249
William, 1249, 1250
Bisbee ancestry, 1889
Abner, 18S9
Arthur B., 1S90
Elijah W„ 1890
Elisha, 1889
John, 1889
Thomas, 1889
Bishop ancestry, 2358
Alfred, 2359
Asa A., 2359
James C, 758
John, 2358
William, 2358
Blackden ancestry, 285
John, 285
Napoleon B., 285
Owen E., 285
Blaisdell ancestry, 480
Charles M., 482
Daniel, 481
Ebenezer, 480, 481
Elijah, 4S1
Henry, 480
Ira F., 482
Ralph, 480
Blake ancestry, 435, 1282, 1435
Charles M., 1437
Ebenezer, 1437
Edward, 435
Henry, 1435
Humphrey, 1435
Increase, 1283
James, 12S2, 1436
John, 1436
Joseph, 1436, 1437
Robert, 1435
Seth, 1437
Seth M., 1437
William, 435, 1282, 1435, 1436
Blanchard ancestry, 319, 515, 867
Arthur H, 518
Caroline P., 517
Charles P., 871
David, 319, 320
Erastus E., 516
Herbert H., 870
Horace K., 516
Isaac, S71
Jacob, 868
James B., 320
John, 870
John P., 871
John W., 890
Jonathan, 868, 871
Joseph, 870
Nathaniel, 871
Rial, 869
Samuel, 868
Seth, 869
Stephen, 868
Thomas, 516, 868, 871
Watson S., 869
Blanding ancestry, 1180
Christopher, 1181
William, 11S1
William B., 1182
William, Col., 1182
William, Dr., 1181
William O., 1182
Blethen ancestry, 264
Alphonso G., 265
Frank, 266
Isaac, 264
James, 264
John, 264
Walter H, 265
William D„ 265
Bliss ancestry, 1823, 1871
Daniel, 1825, 1871
George N, 1871
James, 1871
James L., 1872
Jonathan, 1824, 1825

Thomas, 1823, 1824
William C, 1873
Bliven, Edward, 42
Nathan, 42, 43
Elodgett ancestry, 769, 1071
Amos, 769
Andrew J., 770
David, 1072
Ernest H, 770
Ira, 769
Israel P., 1072
Joseph, 1072
Ruel, 769
Samuel, 1071
Thomas, 769, 1071
Wells H., 1072
Blossom ancestry, 767
Benjamin, 768
Orvis G., 768
Peter, 767
Thomas, 767
William R., 76S
William R., Dr., 768
Boardman ancestry, 1668
Harold S., 1669
James A., 1668
James M., 1668
Bodine ancestry, 1426
Benjamin, 1427
Francis M., 1427
Jean, 1426, 1427
William, 1427
William H, 1428
Bolles ancestry, 1420
Almon I., 1422
Francis A., 1421
Ithamar, 1421
Jonathan, 1421
Joseph, 1420
Lemuel, 1421
Samuel, 1420
Bolstridge, Ebenezer, 191
James, 191
Boone ancestry, 1626
Richardson, 1626
Samuel, 1626
Sherman W., 1627
Borden ancestry, 415, 2058
John, 415, 2058
Richard, 415, 2058
Thomas, 415, 2058
William, 415
Bosworth ancestry, 2050
Edward, 20 50
Ichabod, 2050
Jonathan, 2050
Peleg, 2050
Smith, Col., 2051
Boulier, Amos, 132
Francis, 132
Bourne ancestry, 683, 2129
Andrew. 2130
Eli, 2130
Ezra, 683
Richard, 683
Sarah F. W., 684
Shearjashub, 683
Stephen, 2130
William H, 684
Eoutwell ancestry, 1942
Asa, 1942
Harry S., 1943
James, 1942
James M., 1943
John, 1942
Levi, 1942
Eowen ancestry, 1799, 2185
Arnold M„ 1800
Benjamin, 2186
Clovis H, 2185, 2186
Elisha, 1800
Jabez, 2186
Joseph, 1800, 2186
Mary Ellen, 2185
Obadiah, 1799
Richard, 1799, 2185
Thomas, 2185
William E., 1800
Boyce ancestry, 1434
Abraham, 1435
Caleb, 1435
David, 1435
Lester E., 1435
Nelson, 1435
Boylston, Dudley, 1846
Thomas, 1846
Boynton ancestry, 2084
Benjamin, 2085
Christopher, 2085
Henry, 2084

James, 2085
John, 20S5
Joseph, 2085
Thomas, 2084, 2085
Robert, 2085
Roger, 2085
William, 2085, 2086
Bradford ancestry, 450, 1112, 1265,
2263
Allen T. S., 126S
Elisha, 450
Israel, 450
John, 2263
Joseph, 450
Oliver, 1114
Samuel, 1266, 2264
Sarah, 1268
William, 455, 456, 1265, 2263,
2264
Bradley ancestry, 379, 2011, 2206
Charles, 3S0, 3S1
Charles B., 381
Charles S., 380
Eber, 2011
Eli J., 2011
Elisha, 2208
Elizabeth, 2011
George L., 381
George S., 2208
Harmon H., 2011
Helen M., 384
Ichabod L., 2208
Isaac, 379, 2207
John, 380
Jonathan, 380
Joseph, 379
Josiah, 2207
Samuel, 2207
Stephen, 2011
William, 2207
Zebulon, 2207
Bragdon ancestry, 102
Arthur, 102
Harper A., 102
Horace, 102
Bragg ancestry, 1517
Alba M., 1517, 1518
Calvin, 1517
Henry, 1517
Luther, 1517
Marshall F., 1518
Roswell, 1517
Braley ancestry, 1958
John, 1959
Roger, 1958, 1959
Silas, 1959
Branch ancestry, 155 7
Christopher, 1557
Daniel, 1558
John, 1558
John B., 1559
Nicholas, 155S
Peter, 1558
Stephen, 1558
William L., 1559
Bridgham ancestry, 60 4
Henry, 605
Joseph, 605, 611
Joseph, Dr., 605, 606
Samuel W., 608, 610, 611
Samuel W., Gen., 606
William H, 611
Briggs ancestry, 510, 1741, 2301
Alexander B., 2322
Asa S„ 2321
Asa S., Dr., 2323
Barnabas W., 1741
Benjamin, 1741
Bowen, 2321
Ebenezer, 2320
James, 510, 1741
John, 510, 2320
Joseph, 510, 1741
Leverett A., 2322
Samuel, 510
Sweet, 2321
Walter, 1741
Brigham ancestrv, 1432
Alden, 1434
Asa, 1433, 1434
Charles W., 1434
David, 1433
Frederick L„ 1434
Thomas, 1432, 1433
Brinsmade ancestry, 1062
Abraham, 1063
Ali, 1063
Daniel, 1063
Hobart, 1064
John, 1063

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Lewis, 1064
William, 1063
Britton ancestry, 1373
James, 1373
Wilson, 1373
Brockway ancestry, 1464
Thomas, 1465
William, 1464, 1465
Wolston, 1464
Broder, Mary J., 2095
Thomas, 2095
Brooks ancestry, 577, 1197
Cyrus S., 1197
Daniel, 578
Frank H, 579
John, 578, 1197
Jonas H, 579
Joshua, 577
Levi H, 1197
Samuel, 57S, 579, 1197
Samuel T., 579
Thomas, 577
Brouwer ancestry, 213
Abraham, 214
Adam, 213
Clarence A., 215
Frank, 215
Fred T., 215
Jacob, 214, 215
Jacobus, 214
Brown ancestry, 7, 48, 76, 125,
191, 283, 444, 698, 842, 891,
906, 994, 1365, 1694, 1723,
1789, 1890, 2103, 2181
Andrew, 1790, 1891
Andrew C, 1892
Benjamin, 191
Betsey, 1479
Caleb, 842
Chad, 7, 698, 1789, 1890, 2103,
2181
Charles R., 283
Cyrus H., 49
Cyrus W., 48, 49
Daniel, 1366
David, 1124
David F., 842
David R., 842
D. Russell, 1723
Ebenezer, 283
Edmund, 907
Edmund T., 908
Elisha, 698, 1891, 2104
Elisha, Rev., 1892
Elizabeth B., 444
Francis, 906
George A., 241
George F., 995
George W., 995
Gilbert, 192
Harry J., 842
Henry T„ 444, 1367
Herbert W.. 192
Isaac, 2105
Jacob, 1898
James, 283, 842, 1016, 1694,
1789, 1891, 2104, 2181
James P., 241
James S„ 1015, 1367
Jedediah, 48
John, 7, 48, 841, 994, 1014,
1365, 1694, 1789, 1891, 1898,
2104, 2181, 2182
John E., 49
John T., 892
Jonathan, 191 „„„
Joseph, 191, 906, 994, 995,
1014, 1366, 1789
Joseph G., 1893
Joseph R., 1124
Joshua, 891
Josiah, 841, 907, 994
Mary E., 49
Moses, 842
Nathaniel, 891
Nathaniel B., 1366
Nathaniel W., 2106
Nicholas, 48
Obadiah, 698 .
Peter, 1124
Philip, 1014
Richard, 891, 1790
Roswell, 48
SaUmuelB"77!91479, 1898, 1899
Sewell, 191
Simeon, 891
Simeon C., 892
Sophia F., 2106
Storrs E., 12b

Sylvanus, 1014
Theodore, 1S99
Thomas, 48, 84, 906, 907, 1366
William, 76, 1124, 1694, 2216
Woodford, 77
Browning, James, 2072
John, 2072
Bruce, Harvey, 1398
Jesse, 1398
Bugbee ancestry, 722
Edward, 723
Edwin H., 724
Elizabeth D., 723
Hezekiah, 723
James, 723
James H„ 724
John E., 724
Joseph, 723
Samuel, 723
Bulkley ancestry, 1208
Gershom, 1209, 1210
John, 1209, 1210
Joshua R., 1210
Peter, 1209
Bullard ancestry, 780
Bertrand E., 782
Daniel, 781
Edward, 7 81
Edwin, 781
Isaac, 781
Vernon A., 781
William, 780, 781
Bullock ancestry, 158, 1567, 2067
Abby C, 159
Asa, 2068
Ebenezer, 2068
Emma \\ ., 1568
Jabez, 159
James W., 2068
John, 158
John, Capt, 159
Jonathan R., 1568
Nathaniel, 1567
Richard, 15S, 1567, 2067
Samuel, 1567, 2067, 2068
Stephen, 2068
William, 1567
Burbank ancestry, 998
Harvey, 998
Nathaniel, 998
Burdick ancestry, 747
Isaiah, 747
James, 748
Robert, 747
Burgess ancestry, 691
Benajah, 692
Ebenezer, 692
Frederick E., 693
Jabez, 692
Jacob, 692
Nairn, 692
Samuel, 692
Thomas, 691
Burke ancestry, 66, 509, 1438, 1668
Elijah, 1439
George H, 1439
Jesse, 143S
Jonathan, 66, 143S
Rhoda, 509
Richard, 66, 1438
Robert H, 1668
Robert J., 1668
Russell, 1439
Seth, 509
Solomon, 1099
Solomon W., 1100
William, 509, 1426, 1668
Burlingame ancestry, 35, 458
Benjamin, 35
Benjamin F., 459
David, 459
Edwin H, 35
Erastus N, 35
Eseck, 459
John, 35, 459
Jonathan, 3t>
Roger, 35, 458
Samuel, 35
Sterry. 459
Thomas, 459
Burnham ancestry, 198, 1650
Antoinette, 198
Ebenezer, 1651
Elijah, 1651
George H, 1652
James, 1651
Jesse S., 1652
John, 1650
Joshua, 1651
Josiah, 1650

Walter E., 198
Walter H., 1654
Walter W., 1653
Burns ancestry, 61
Frank W„ 61
James, 61
William H, 61
Burr ancestry, 1382
Albert 1., 1384
Asahel, 1383
Henry C, 13S4
Jehue, 1382
John, 1382
Jonathan, 1383
Samuel, 1383
Burrows ancestry, 2144
Caleb G., 2146
John, 2144
Joseph, 2145
Nathan, 2144
Robert, 2144
Buxton ancestry, 1423
Anthony, 1423
Benajah C, 1424
Daniel, 1424
George C, 1424
George D., 1425
John, 1424
Joseph, 1424
Buzzell ancestry, 429
Benjamin, 430
Charles F., 431
Isaac, 429
John, 429, 430
Samuel, 429
Byam ancestry, 1165
Abraham, 1166
Ezekiel, 1166
Ezekiel G, 1167
George, 1166
John, 1166
Cadle, Cornelius, 1441
Cady ancestry, 1162, 1638, 1967
Calvin, 1968
Daniel/ 1638
Eleazer, 1163
Heber C, 1969
Henry C, 1969
Hezekiah, 1638
James, 1162, 1638
John, 1162
John G, 196S
Jonas, 1638
Jonathan, 1968
Joseph, 1968
Nicholas, 1162, 1967
Squire, 1163
Calderwood ancestry, 1533
Charles A., 1534
David, 1533
Robert, 1533
Cameron ancestry, 1522
Carl W., 1522
Frank W., 1522
John, 1522
Warren E., 1522
Campbell ancestry, 935, 1663
Andrew, 935
David D., 1664
Eugene M., 937
Fred M., 937
Frederick P., 1663
George, 939
George M., 936
Hannah G., 939
Horace, 935
Hugh, 935
James, 936, 937, 939
Jeremiah, 1663
Jeremiah R., 1663
Matthew M., 1664
Milton A., 937
Percy A., 1664
Peter, 935
Smith, 1164
Wallace H. 936
William, 936
Capron ancestry, 1449
Banfield, 1449
Charles E., 1450
Curtis W., 1449
Jonathan, 1449
Walter, 1449
Carlisle ancestry, 1452, 1737
Ara M., 1453
Daniel, 1452, 1737
David, 145 2
Edwin M., 1453
George, 1738

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Harry A., 1738
John, 1737
Joseph, 1737
Lewis M., 1453
Martha A., 1738
Theodore, 173S
Theodore E., 1738
Carmichael ancestry, 483
George, 483
George A., 485
Welcome S., 485
Carpenter ancestry, 95, 542, 848,
1309, 1760
Abel, 1310
Amos B., 852
Benjamin, 543, 1760
Charles E., 544
Charles L., 850
Charles W., 850
Earl, 543
Henry A., 1310
Horace S., 849
Isaiah, 851
James, 1309
Job, 1760
John, 95, 354, 1308, 1309
Jonah, 851
Joseph, 1760
•Miner B„ 852
Nathaniel, 543
Noah, 850
Obadiah, 849
Peter, 1309
Richard, 1309
Samuel, 1310
Stephen, 1309
William, 95, 542, 848, 849, 1309
William, Rev., 849
Carr ancestry, 488, 1518, 1556, 2058
Benjamin, 48S, 2058
Bradbury, 1519
Caleb, 488, 1557, 2058, 2059
Charles B., 1520
Frank N., 1520
George C, 1557
George W., 2059
John, 488, 2059
John P., 1519
Martin W., 1519
Nicholas, 488
Parker, 1519
Peleg, 488
Robert, 1557, 2058, 2059
Samuel, 1557
Thomas, 488
Carrington, Edward, 2212
Mary F., 2212
Carver ancestry, 2042
Eleazer, 2042
Gilbert S., 2043
Herbert S., 2043
Jabez, 2042
Jay W., 2043
John, 2042
Jonathan, 2042
Nathaniel, 2042
Robert, 2042
Cary ancestry, 1454, 1525
Asa C, 1526
Charles H, 1454
Emma E., 1454
George C, 1526
John, 1524
Jonathan, 1525
Luther, 1525
Recompense, 1525
Caswell ancestry, 1183
Ebenezer, 1183
Edward A., 1186
Nathan, 1186
Samuel, 1183, 1184
Thomas, 1183
Chace ancestry, 2155
Anna H., 2157
Arnold B., 2158
Harvey, 2156
Job, 2156
Jonathan, 2156, 2157
Oliver, 2156
Samuel B., 2157
Chadsey ancestry, 153
George H. W., 155
Henrv R., 155
Henry T., 154, 155
Hester A., 156
Jabez, 153
Jeremiah G., 154
John W., 154
William, 153
William N„ 155

Chaffee ancestry, 2133
Ebenezer, 2135
John, 2134
Joseph, 2134
Samuel, 2135
Thomas, 2133
Champlin ancestry, 739
Benjamin, 740
George A., 740
Jeffrey, 739
John, 739
Samuel, 740
Samuel A., 740
Chandler ancestry, 1451
Albert H., 1452
Austin N., 1452
Henry, 1451
James M., 2172
Joel, 1451
Lowell E., 2172
Nathan, 1452
Nehemiah, 1451
Samuel, 1452
Thomas, 1451
William, 1451
Chapman ancestry, 805, 1141, 2250
Benjamin, 1142
Case, 2250, 2251
Charles H, 2251
Charles P., 2251
Daniel, 805
Eben, 1142
Edward, 1141
Frederick, 805
Hannah H., 1142
John, 2250
John N, 1142
Joseph, 1142
Mary E. C, 2251
Samuel, 805, 1141, 1142
Sumner, 2250
Chase ancestry, 237, 1012, 1675
Abner, 1676
Aquila, 1675
Benjamin, 1013, 1680
Benoni, 1675
Charles, 1013, 1677
Clark, 1680
Dudley, 1013
Ernest W., 1678
Harry A., 238
Holder, 1680
John, 1677
Jonathan, 1677
Julian A., 1760
Martha J„ 1760
Moses, 1675, 1677
Moses R., 1676
Nathan, 1680
Philip B., 1680
Philip S., 1680
Rolla M., 1676
Reuben B., 237
Sarah A., 238
Walter, 1013
William, 1012, 1677, 1679, 1680
William F„ 1678
Cheney ancestry, 1052, 1107
Daniel, 1108, 1109
Duston, 1109
Frederick P., 1109
Fred N, 1110
Giles, 1109
John, 1108, 1109
Joseph, 1053
Josiah, 1053
Reuben P., 1109
Thomas, 1109
William, 1052
Cherry, Charles G., 459
Fannie I., 459
Chesebrough, Albert G., 2179
Albert S., 2179
E. Stanton, 2179
Chesley ancestry, 47S
Nicholas, 479
Samuel, 479
Samuel H., 479
Chester ancestry, 39
Abraham, 40
Albert L., 40
Benjamin F., 40
Christopher, 40
Elizabeth R., 41
Samuel, 39, 40
Childe ancestry, 1047
Charles B., 1048
Daniel, 1047
David, 1047
John, 1047

John B„ 1049
Levi B., 1048
William, 1047
Zachariah, 1047
Childs ancestry, 312
Asa, 313
Charles H., 313
Daniel, 313
John, 312
Jonathan, 313
Josiah, 313
William, 312
Christie ancestry, 181
Jesse, 181
John T., 182
Peter, 182
Walter R., 182
Church ancestry, 1548, 1906
Benjamin, 1548
Caleb, 1906, 1907
Ebenezer G., 1907
Ebenezer K., 1907
Gilbert L., 1907
Gilbert L. Jr., 1907
Isaac, 1906
Joshua, 1907
Richard, 1548, 1906
Rufus, 1907
Churchill ancestry, 149
Benjamin, 150
John, 150
Thomas W., 151
William, 150
Claflin ancestry, 216
Arthur W., 217
George L., 216
Lyman, 216
Mary A., 218
Rebecca G., 216
Clapp ancestry, 757
Ebenezer, 758
Frederick O., 760
James O., 759
Joseph, 758, 759
Nathaniel, 758
Nicholas, 758
Otis F., 759
Clark ancestry, 206, 261, 302, 391,
485, 983, 1735, 2005, 2354
Albert B., 983
Benjamin, 2005
Bernal A., 303
Calvin H, 302
Charles C, 2355
David, 392
Elias, 304
George E., 262
George H, 487
George P., 487
Heman B., 2005
Henry C, 1038
Henry G., 487
Hugh, 391
Isaac, 392
Isaac W., 261
Jacob, 393
James, 206, 304
James G., 1702
Jessie F., 207
John, 392, 485
John D. B., 303
John I., 305
Joseph, 392, 485
Joshua, 486
Lewis, 2005
Luther, 2005
Perry, 486
Pitt 393
Robert, 206, 2354
Samuel, 983, 1735, 2354
Simeon P., 486
Stanford R., 1735
Stanley R., 303
Solomon, 392
Sterry, 1038
Susan E., 1736
Thaxter, 261
Thomas, 485
Timothy, 1.734
Walter A., 983
Warren, 983
William, 485, 486, 1734
Willis B., 2005
Clarke ancestry, 231, 1702, 2243
Charles W., 2245
Elias, 231
James G., 1702
John, 2243
Joseph, 2243, 2244
Joshua, 2244

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Mallon, 1702
Marcie, 1702
Mary E., 2246
Samuel C, 232
Thomas, 2243, 2244
Thomas M., 2244
William L., 2245
Clayton ancestry, 143, 207
Charles F., 143
Charles W., 143, 207
Ira, 208
Lyman, 143, 207
Closson ancestry, 1384
Ichabod, 1384
Timothy, 1384
Clough ancestry, 765
Benoni, 766
George D„ 767
John, 765
Nathan, 766
Reuben, 766
William, 766
Coan, Leander S.. 194
Martha J., 194
Coates ancestry, 1572
Adelaide L., 1574
George H., 1572
Cobb ancestry, 1161
Crocker, 1161
Ebenezer, 1161
Elizabeth C, 1162
Henry, 1161
John, 1161
Nathan, 1161
Otis T., 1162
William E., 1162
Coburn ancestry, 87, 103, 1950
Alvah, 951
Christopher C, 88
Daniel, 950
Edward, 87, 103
Ferdinand R., 88
Henry W., 951
Jacob, 950
Jonas, 87
Merrill, 951
Phineas, 951
Ray A., 951
Silas, 88
Thomas, 87
Zachariah, 8 7
Cochran ancestry, 248
Joseph, 248
Robert, 248
Sewall, 248
Cochrane ancestry, 247
James, 247
James B., 248
John, 247
Joseph, 247
Levi, 247
Coe ancestry, 2125
David, 2127
Eli, 2127
Henry, 2125
Henry L., 2127
John, 2125, 2126
Joseph, 2127
Nelson, 2127
Robert, 2125, 2126
Thomas, 2125
Coes ancestry, 1839
Aury G„ 1839
Daniel, 1839
Frank L., 1841
John, 1839
Loring, 1839, 1841
Russell R., 1841
Coffin ancestry, 136, 988
Artemas W., 137
Grindall, 137
James, 988
Nathaniel, 989
Nathaniel S., 138
Nicholas, 136
Orrin S., 138
Peter, 136, 9SS
Tristram, 136, 137, 9S8
Uriah, 989
Colburn ancestry, 378
George W., 378
Mary A., 378
Cole ancestry, 50, 1253, 1541, 2254
Abby A., 1542
Asenath W., 1542
Benjamin, 50
Daniel, 1541
Ebenezer, 50, 1254, 1541
Ephraim, 1253
Henry, 1540

Hugh, 50, 1540
Isaac, 2254
Isaiah, 1541
James, 1253
John, 1254, 2254
Joseph, 2254
Judson H„ 1254
Mary F. T., 2255
Nathaniel, 1253
Oliver D., 2255
Rufus L., 1254
Samuel, 1541
Seth, 1541
Stephen, 1254, 2254
William, 2254
Collyer ancestry, 2183
Isaac, 2183, 21S4
John, 2183
Samuel, 2183, 2184
Samuel S., 2184
Colt ancestry, 2262
Benjamin, 2262
Christopher, 2262, 2263
John, 2262
Colton ancestry, 1842
Aaron, 1842
Benjamin, 1842
Elizabeth S., 1843
George, 1842
Isaac, 1S42
Reuben, 1842
Samuel H., 1842, 1843
Comstock ancestry, 497, 1020
Andrew C, 499
Benjamin, 1020
Clara E., 499
Frank P., 500
James, 49S
John, 49S, 1021
Jonathan F., 498
Richard W., 1022
Samuel, 497, 1020, 1021
William, 497, 1020
William, Capt., 1022
William P., 497
Woodbury, 498
Conant ancestry, 108, 2200
Daniel, 2200
Edward L., 113
Ephraim, 109
Hervey, 2200
Hezekiah, 2200
Isaac, 109, 110
John, 108, 109, 2200
Joseph A., 109, 110
Josiah, 2200
Lot, 10S, 109, 2200
Mary E., 2202
Peter, 109
Richard, 108
Robert, 109
Roger, 108, 2200
Samuel M., 2202
Stephen R„ 112
Congdon ancestry, 29, 976
Benjamin, 29, 976
Daniel, 30
Gilbert, 977
Gilbert M., 978
James, 977
Johns H, 978
Jonathan, 977
Joseph, 977
Stanton W., 30
William, 29
William W., 30
Cook ancestry, 341, 477, 507, 515,
533, 2301, 2331
Ariel, 2331
Benjamin, 2302
Daniel, 478
Ebenezer, 2301
Francis, 341
Henry, 533
Isaac, 533
Joel, 533
Lavender, 515
Levi, 2331
Lorin M., 515
Lyman A., 2332
Mary C, 342
Maurice H., 515
Nathaniel, 2331
Nicholas, 477, 2331
Samuel, 533, 2301
Walter, 477, 507, 2301, 2331
Welcome B„ 478
Willis, 508, 2332
Zimri, 478

Cooke ancestry, 1212
Daniel, 1212
Henry W., 1214
Jesse, 1213
John, 1212
Joseph J., 1214
Joseph S., 1213
Nicholas, 1212
Cookson ancestry, 286
Abram, 286
Daniel, 289
Daniel N., 289
Daniel Noyes, 290
John, 289
Joseph, 286
Coombs, George, 1659
Peter, 1659
Coon ancestry, 737
Caleb, 737
Charles B., 738
Elias, 737
Moses B., 738
Cooper ancestry, 301
David T., 301
Joseph A., 302
Samuel, 301
Copeland ancestry, 772
David, 773
Edmund, 773
John W., 773
Lawrence, 772
William, 772
Zion, 773
Corey ancestry, 2286
Anthony, 2286
Gideon, 22S6
John, 2286
John A., 2286
William, 2286
Corliss ancestry, 1158, 1594
A*a, 1594
George, 1158
George H, 1159
Hiram, 1159
John, 1158
Jonathan, 1594
Maria L., 1161
William, 2154
Cornell ancestry, 366
Isaac R., 367
John, 366, 367
John, Rev., 367
Richard, 366
Thomas, 366
Whitehead, 367
William, 366
Cornier ancestry, 466
Francois, 467
Jean B., 466, 467
Pierre, 466
Cory ancestry, 228
Alexander H, 229
Isaac, 229
Joseph P., 229
Philip, 228
Thomas, 22S
William, 228
Cote ancestry, 1448
Alfred F., 1448
Augustin, 1448
Henry, 1448
Joseph D., 1449
Cottle, Sheppard P., 105
Coy ancestrv, 2251
George S., 2251
John, 2251
Jonathan, 2251
Samuel, 2251
Samuel A., 2251
Susan P., 2252
Cozzens ancestry, 1275
Benjamin, 1275
Benjamin Jr., 1275
Leonard, 1275
Crafts ancestry, 1764
Albert B., 1765
Frederic A., 1765
Griffin, 1764
John S„ 1764
Moses, 1764
Samuel, 1764, 1765
Craig ancestry, 79
Daniel S., 79
Jacob, 79
Crandall ancestry, 165, 902, 2256
Agnes L, 168
Alonzo, 903
Asa, 167
Benjamin, 166

NEW ENGLAND

Fred A., 903
Giles, 902
Guy, 167
Hannah, 2258
Harry, 16S
James, 167
Joel, 902, 2257
John, 165, 2256
Joseph, 166, 2256, 2258
Peter, 902
Samuel, 902, 903
Walter B., 903
William, 2257
William E., 2257
William H., 2257
Crane ancestry, 683, 769, 1672
Barzillai, 1673
Benjamin, 683
Charles R., 1674
Columbus, 769
Elisha, 1673
Gershom, 1672
Harry, 684
Henry L., 1674
Hezekiah, 684
Isaac, 684
Jackson, 769
John, 684, 1672
Joshua E., 1673, 1674
William B., 685
William H, 685
Cranston ancestry, 2188
Benjamin, 2189
Caleb, 2189
James, 2188
Jeremiah, 218 9
John, 2188
William, 2188
William R., 2189
William S., 2189
Crehore ancestry, 1740
Teague, 1740
Timothy, 1740
William, 1740
William B., 1741
Crockett ancestrv, 153, 1895
Aaron H., 153
Charles W., 1895
Daniel, 153
Daniel H., 153
Ephraim, 1895
James, 1895
John, 1895
Jonathan, 153, 1895
Morris C, 153
Thomas, 1895
Walter H, 1896
Crosby ancestry, 235, 1311
Edward, 1312
Edward C, 1312
Godfrey, 1311
Luther, 235
Luther B., 235
Marion A., 236
Nathaniel H., 236
Simon, 235
Cross ancestry, 487, 1861, 207£
Charles H., 1862
George, 1862
Grace L„ 2080
John A., 2080
Joseph, 487
Lewis B., 1863
Nathaniel L., 2079
Peleg, 487, 2079
Robert, 1S61
Stephen, 1862
William J., 2079
Crossman ancestrv, 377
Elisha, 377
John, 377
Robert, 377
Samuel, 377
Theophilus, 377
Crouse ancestry, 309
Elbridge D., 310
Gould, 309
Jeremiah, 310
Crowell ancestry, 1555
Hiram, 1556
John, 1555
Mary C, 1556
Samuel, 1556
Thomas, 1555
William B., 1556
Cummings ancestry, 1255
Albert E., 1255
Harrv W., 1255
Hezekiah, 1255

Currier ancestry, 75, 1833
Elijah, 1833
George O., 1833
Henry C, 76, 2169
John D., 1833
John F., 76
Moses H, 76
Richard, 75
Samuel, 75
Curtis ancestry, 1874
Bridgham, 1879
David, 1S75
Edward, 1878
George, 1S75
George W., 1876
Henry, 1874
John, 1874
John G., 18S0
James B., 1876
Joseph, 1874
Joseph B., 1877
Samuel B., 1S77
Cushing ancestry, 828
Adam, 829, 830
Daniel, S29
Ezra, 830
John, 828, 830
Matthew, 829
Peter, 82S
Theophilus, 829
Thomas, 828
William, 828
Cushman ancestry, 545
Gideon, 789
Henry I., 545
Lucy D., 545
Thomas, 1695
Cutler ancestry, 1994
David, 1995
Harry M., 1996
John, 1994
Jonathan, 1995
Marcy M., 1995
Thomas, 1995
Timothy B., 1995
Cutter ancestry, 718, 1157
Elizabeth, 719, 1157
John, 720
Richard, 719, 1157
Samuel, 1157
William, 719, 1157
William R„ 719, 720
Daley ancestry, 791
David, 792
Gideon, 793
James, 792
John, 791
Joseph, 792
Moses, 793
•Olin W., 793
Orrin, 793
Dalton ancestry, 7S4
Charles, 784
Charles F., 784
William, 784
Damon ancestry, 173
Abiah, 173
Albert H, 174
Daniel, 173
Jason F., 174
John, 173
Joseph, 173
Joshua G., 173
Zachariah, 173
Dana ancestry, 1143
Ephraim, 1144
Jacob, 1143
Nathaniel, 1143
Richard, 1143
Samuel, 1143
Daniels ancestry, 1154
Henry C, 1156
John P., 1155
Joseph, 1155
Robert, 1154
Samuel, 1155
Danielson ancestry, 394
Hezekiah L., 395
James, 3 94, 395
John W., 395
Samuel, 394
William, 395
Darling ancestry, 365, 991
Annie M., 362
Charles C, 366
Dennis, 365, 991
George C, 993
George H., 992

John, 365, 991
John A., 992
John O., 993
Levi B., 366
Samuel, 991
Ziba, 992
Dart ancestry, 355, 495
Abial, 355
David, 495, 496
Ebenezer, 495
Egbert, 356
George, 355
John, 495
Richard, 495
William B., 496
William C, 496
William H, 4 96
Davenport ancestry, 1018, 2288
Horace W., 1018
John, 2288
Samuel, 2288
Sarah J., 1018
Thomas, 228S
Davis ancestry, 1410, 1520, 1671,
221S, 2255
Aaron, 2218
Benjamin, 2218
Charles G., 1671
Daniel H., 1671
Dolor, 1410
Edmund, 1461
Ezekiel, 1411
Fred C, 1411
Fred L., 1521
Gilman H., 1671
Jacob, 1520
Jeffrev, 221S
John, 478, 1410, 2255
John L., 1521
Joshua, 2218
Lucius C, 1411
Moses, 1520, 1521
Reuben, 1521
Simon, 1410
Thomas, 2255
Day ancestry, 1105, 1169
Abraham, 1105
Addison, 1169
Addison L., 1169
Ezra, 1169
John, 1105
Plin, 1169
Robert, 1105
Dean ancestry, 343
James, 344
John M., 3 44
De Boer, Joseph A., 1936
Deland ancestry, 1805
Benjamin, 1805, 1806
George, 1805
Joseph F., 1807
Deming ancestry, 399, 1194
Charles, 400, 401
David, 1195
David A., 1195
Henrv B., 1196
Henry O., 1195
Jacob, 1195
John, 399, 1194, 1195
Jonathan, 400
Richard H, 1195
Timothy, 1195
Dennett ancestry, 2223
Abel, 2223
Alexander, 2223
Ebenezer, 2223
Eli, 2224
John, 2223
Samuel, 2223
Dewey ancestrv,. 1170, 1530
Eldad, 1531
Gardner W., 1172
Jedediah, 1530, 1531
Joseph L., 1171
Josiah, 1170, 1171
Simson, 1171
Thomas, 1170, 1530
William, 1171
Dewing ancestry, 476
Andrew, 476
Ardelia, 477
Ebenezer, 476
Elijah, 47 6
Henrv, 476
Martin, 476
De Wolf ancestry, 806, 2258
Balthasar, 2260
Charles, 2260, 2261
Delavan, 806

NEW ENGLAND

Edward, 2260
Francis E„ 2262
George, 2261
George B., 2262
James, 2268
John, 806
Mark A., 2260, 2269
Paul C, 800
Dexter ancestry, 1759, 1928
Anna F., 1759
Anthony H, 1932
Gregory, 1929
John, 1929
Nathaniel B., 1930
Nathaniel G. B., 1930
Nathaniel W., 1931
Samuel F., 1759, 1931
Simon W., 1930
Dickinson ancestry, 1065
Joel, 1065
Joseph, 1065
Nathaniel, 1065
Diman ancestry, 3S5, 1268, 2194
Byron, 3S6
Harry, 2194
James, 385, 1269
Jeremiah, 3S6, 1269, 2194
Jeremiah L., 387
John B., 38S
Joseph, 1269
Louise, 388
Nathaniel, 3S6
Thomas, 385, 1268, 1269
Dimond ancestry, 2093
Francis M„ 2094
James, 2093
Jeremiah, 2094
Joseph, 2094
Royal, 2094
Thomas, 2093
Dole ancestry, 740
Charles S., 742
Eleazer, 742
Joel R. T., 742
Nelson A., 742
Richard, 740, 741
Silas, 741
Stephen, 741
Doten ancestry, 1398
Edward, 1398, 1399
Isaac, 1399
John, 1398, 1399
Douglas ancestry, 1631
Earl, 1631
John, 1631
William, 1632
William L., 1632
Douglass ancestry, 785
Daniel, 786
Ivory, 786
James H, 786
Leicester E., 786
Milo, 786
Richard, 785
William, 785, 786
Dow ancestry, 736, 1137
George F., 1138
Gilbert A., 737
Gilbert B., 737
Henrv, 736, 1137, 1138
John," 79, 1137, 1138
Joseph, 1138
Moses, 736
Richard, 736
Stephen, 736, 1138
Thomas, 736, 1137
Dowley, Darius L., 1399
George S., 1399
Drake ancestry, 1093
Enoch, 1094
George S., 1095
George S., Dr., 1095
John, 1094
Nathaniel, 1094, 1095
Silas, 1095
Draper ancestry, 705
Noah, 705, 706
William H, 706
Drew ancestry, 1542
Aaron, 1543
Daniel, 1542
Ernest C, 1543
John B., 1543
Dring ancestry, 1270
Caroline A., 1273
Charles H.( 1273
Charles P., 1272
John, 1271
Marie B., 1273
Philip, 1271
Thomas, 1271

Drowne ancestry, 635
Benjamin, 63 6
Leonard, 635
Samuel, 636
Solomon, 636
Drury ancestrv, 1713, 2282
Caleb, 1713, 2283
Daniel, 1713
Ebenezer, 1713
Fred L., 2284
Hugh, 1713, 2282
John, 1713, 2283
Josiah, 22S3, 2284
Moses, 22S3, 2284
Thomas, 1713, 2283
Dudley ancestry, 1600, 1899
Carlos H, 1901
David P., 1901
Jacob, 1900
James, 1601
John, 1601
Lionel E., 1602
Micajah, 1601
Micajah H, 1601, 1602
Samuel, 1601, 1900
Samuel P., 1900
Stephen, 1601, 1900
Thomas, 77, 1600, 1899
William N., 1901
Duffy ancestry, 2027
James, 2027
Michael, 2027
Patrick S., 2027
Dunbar, Fanny, 666
Richard, 666
Dunnell, 2099
David, 2099
Jacob, 2100
Michael, 2099
Thomas, 2099
Durfee ancestry, 1273, 2136
Albert G., 2136
Benjamin, 1274
David, 1274
Emily E., 2137
Joseph, 2136
Samuel, 2136
Sanford, 1274
Sarah C, 1275
Thomas, 1273. 2136
William, 1274, 2136
Durgan ancestry, SO
Fred G., 81
George W., SO
Joseph M., SO
Durgin ancestry, 887
Albert J., S88
William, 887
William W., 888
Duston, Thomas, 1110
Dutton ancestry, 593, 1608, 1731
Albert H, 1733
Alonzo E., 1611
Amasa, 594
Asahel, 1733
Azro, 1733
David, 1733
David H, 5 94
Elias C, 1733
Elijah, 1732
John, 593, 1610, 1731, 1732
Joseph, 593, 1731
Josiah, 1610, 1611
Nathaniel, 1731
Percy M., 1733
Thomas, 593, 1610, 1731
Walter A., 1611
William, 1610
Dwinell ancestry, 1932
Albert D„ 1933
Archelaus, 1932, 1933
Franklin A., 1933
Israel, 1933
Jonathan, 1932
Melvin R., 1934
Michael, 1932
Thomas, 1932
Dyer ancestry, 198, 2061
Arthur C, 198
Charles, 2062
Helen, 19S
John, 2062
Mary E., 2063
Reuben, 2062
Rodney F., 2062, 2063
William, 2061
Earle ancestry, 638
Ralph, 638, 639
Robert, 639

\

Thomas, 639
William, 638
Easier, George, 311
James, 310
Eastman ancestry, 602, 2315
Ichabod, 603
Philip, 602
Roger, 2315
Samuel, 603
Eaton ancestry, 99, 1402, 2006,
2095, 2204
Alice M. M., 2098
Amasa M., 2097
Asa, 1404
Benjamin, 99, 1404
Ellis M., 1404
Everett H, 1404
Francis, 99, 2006
Frank L., 2007
Jairus, 2007
John, 1403, 2006, 2095, 2096
John E., 2205
John, Rev., 2007
Jonas, 1403, 2095, 2096, 2204
Joseph, 1403
Joshua, 2204
Levi, 2096
Levi C, 2096
Noah, 2096
Oscar G., 2007
Pearson, 1403
Eddie ancestry, 2044
Alexander, 2044
William, 2044
Eddy ancestry, 1779
Albert G., 1781
Amasa, 17 80
Elisha, 1780
Jesse P., 1781
Samuel, 17S0
William, 1779
Zachariah, 1780
Edgar, Annie, S06
James, 806
Edgecomb ancestry, 242
James, 242, 243
James A., 243
Nicholas, 242
Robert, 242
Samuel, 243
Thomas, 24 2
Edmonds ancestry, 1850
Daniel, 1S50
Harriet C, 1850
John, 1S50
John G., 1850
Edson ancestry, 1923
Benjamin, 1925
Charles M., 1925
Dean W., 1927
Eli, 1926
Elijah, 1925
George L., 1925
Ira H, 1926
Jacob, 1926
Jonathan, 1924
Joseph, 1923
Samuel, 1923
Simeon, 1926
Timothy, 1924
Edwards ancestry, 536, 1850
Azariah, 536, 537
Daniel M„ 537
John, 536
Girden, 1851
Greenman, 1851
Laura B., 537
Rice, 536
Thomas, 1850, 1851
Eldridge ancestry, 94, 195
Ebenezer, 19o
Ensign, 195
Jehosaphat, 195
Messenger F„ 94
Samuel, 195
Seth, 94
Warren J., 196
William, 195
Wilson E., 195
Elliott ancestry, 1454, 2203
Bennett, 2203
Harry C, 1455
John, 2203, 2204
John H, 1454
William H., 1455
Ellis ancestry, 103, 2021
Leonard, 103
Robert, 2021
Thomas B., 2021
Thomas R., 2021
William, 103

Xll

NEW ENGLAND

Emerson ancestrv, 271, 1052, 1678
1679
Daniel, 272
Enoch, 1679
James, 1052, 1679
John, 272, 1679
Jonathan, 272
Joseph, 1052, 167S
Lyman, 167 9
Martin L., 273
Michael, 272
Robert, 1052, 1678
Samuel, 272, 273
Thomas, 1052, 167S, 1679
Emery ancestry, 709, 2353
James, 2354
James N„ 710
John, 709, 2353
Jonathan, 709, 2353, 2354
Joshua, 709, 710
Samuel, 2354
Sanford E., 710
Smith, 710
Willard, 710
Esterbrook ancestry, 1400
James, 1400
Robert, 1400
Thomas, 1400
Warren, 1400
William H„ 1401
Estev, Endicott, 1S3
William B., 183
Evans ancestry, 344, 1719
Eli, 344
Estwick, 1719
George F., 1719
Mary E„ 345
Raymond R., 344
Richard, 1719
Everett ancestry, 1776, 1939
Abijah, 1940
Amherst, 1940
George D., 1776
John, 1940
Martha A., 1776
Richard, 1939, 1940
Richmond P.. 1940
Fales ancestry, 612, 1301
David G., 1302
James, 1301
John, 1302
John R., 1302
LeRoy, 1303
Nathaniel, 612
Peter, 1302
Warren R., 1303
Farmer ancestry, 1605
Alonzo C, 1606
Benjamin, 1605
Bradley, 1606
Daniel, 1605
Edward, 1605
Frank E., 1607
John, 1605
Uzziah, 1606
Farnam, Mary C, 1039
Farnham ancestry, 1934
Aaron, 1934
Horace M., 1935
John, 1934, 1935
Nathaniel, 1934
Ralph, 1934
Farnum ancestry, 500, 1564
David, 501
Jerome B., 1564
Jerome E., 1565
John, 501, 1564
Jonathan, 501
Ralph, 500, 1564
Farr ancestrv, 1100, 1727
Claude H., 1729
George B., 1728
Henry E., 1728
Joseph, 1728
Lafavette, 1101
Merton E„ 1102
Royal D., 1728
Salmon, 1728
Stephen, 1101, 1727
Thomas, 1100
Farrell, Michael, 260
Farrington ancestry, 1552, 1709
Daniel, 1553, 1711
David, 1553
Edward, 1709, 1710
Elijah, 1553
Franklin, 1712
Franklin R., 1712
Frederick H, 1712

George H, 1553
Jacob, 1711
John, 1552, 1710
Lillia R., 1553
William R., 1712
Farwell ancestry, 1471
George, 1471
Henry, 1471
Isaac, 1472
Joseph, 1471
Simon, 1471
William, 1472
Fayer ancestry, 1468
Marshall M., 146S
Thomas, 1468
Thomas J., 1468
Fenno ancestry, 1826
Enoch, 1S26
Isaac, 1826
Jeremiah, 1827
John, 1826
Ferguson ancestry, 1216
Fred H, 1217
James, 1216
John, 1216
Justin; 1216
Myron S., 1217
Samuel, 1216
Ferrin ancestry, 1866
Albert W, 1868
John, 1867
Jonathan, 1866
Whitman G„ 1867
Zebulon, 1866, 1867
Ferris ancestry, 1463, 2317
Aaron A., 1463
Aaron G., 1463
Heman, 1463
Joseph, 1463
Zachariah, 1463, 2317
Ferry ancestry, 1168
Charles, 1168
Ebenezer, 1168, 1169
Solomon, 1168
Fischer ancestry, 1513
Daniel, 1513
Eugene A., 1514
Louis, 1514
Fish ancestry, 1073, 1454
Ezra K, 1075
George R., 1454
Hamilton, 1074
Harold R., 1454
Jonathan, 1073, 1074
Mary R., 1454
Nathan, 1073
Nicholas, 1074
Samuel, 1074
William J., 1454
Fisher ancestry, 122, 174
Ansel W., 176
Anthony, 174, 175
David, 175
Eleazer, 175
Enoch H, 175
Ida M., 123
Joseph, 123
Levi, 176
Thomas A., 123
William, 122
Fiske ancestry, 1442
Isaac, 1444
John, 1443, 1444
Nathan, 1443
Nathaniel, 1443
Robert, 1443
Simon, 1443
William, 1443
Flanders ancestry, 1404
Albert W., 1406
Christopher, 1405
Hiram, 1406
Philip, 1405
Ralph E., 1406
Stephen, 1404, 1405
Flannery, Thomas, 112
Flemming, Thomas, 138
Fletcher ancestry, 86, 1455
Allen M., 1456
Jesse, 1455
Joshua, 87
Robert, 86
Stoughton A., 1456
Timothy, 1455
William, 87
Flint ancestry, 627
Alonzo, 628
Drusilla, 633
George, t>31
Henry, 628

John, 628
Jonathan, 628
Susan A., 629
Thomas, 627
Thomas W.,.627
William W„ 631
Fogg ancestry, 258
Almon H, 259
Charles H, 259
Samuel, 25 8
Ford ancestry, 196
Abner, 196, 197
Caleb J., 197
Louis C, 197
Michael, 196
William, 196
Foss ancestry, 684
David L., 684
Furn E., 685
John, 684
Jonathan, 685
Joshua, 685
Loren C, 685
Mark, 685
Nathaniel, 685
Foster ancestry, 1698, 1784, 2001,
2269
Aaron, 1785
Card, 2270
Chauncey, 1786
Ebenezer J., 2003
Edward, 1784
Elizabeth F., 1698
Ethan, 2270
Isaac, 2002
Jacob, 2002 -
John, 2269, 2270
John B., 1698, 2271
Joseph, 2002, 2270
Leonard R., 2002
Mary E., 2272
Reginald, 2002
Theodore W., 1786
Timothy, 1784, 1785
William W., 2271
Fox ancestry, 1175
George H., 1176
Jabez, 1175, 1176
John, 1176
Thomas, 1175, 1176
William, 1176
Freeman ancestry, 853
Augustus W., 854
Edmund, 853
Edmund A., 855
Fred D., 855
John, 853, 854
French ancestry, 843, 1104, 1458
Alexander, 845
Asa, 845, 1459
Charles L., 844
Edward S., 846
George B., 844
George N., 1459
Harold F., 844
Isaac, 843
Jabez. 845
Jacob, 843
James M., 845
John, 969, 1104, 1458
Lyman, 1459
Mark, 844
Marvin M., 845
Nathaniel, 1459
Nicholas, 843
Samuel, 845
William, 969, 1458, 1459
Frenier ancestry, 1989
Antoine D., 1989
Cassimir, 1990
Charles, 1990
Henry, 1990
Henry T., 1990
Jean, 1989
Joseph, 1990
Frothingham ancestry, 22, 2107
Ebenezer, 2108
Nathaniel, 22, 23, 2107, 2108
Samuel, 23
Theodore, 23
William, 22, 2107
Fuller ancestry, 327, 398, 1457.
2291
Ambrose, 327
Amos, 1457
Arthur H, 1458
Benjamin, 1457, 1458
Byron S., 1457
Enoch, 1457
Francis P., 1457

NEW ENGLAND

George A., 2291
Jabez, 327
John, 399
Joseph, 1457
Lafayette D., 328
Moses, 399
Olive D., 2291
Robert, 399
Rufus, 2291
Thomas, 399, 1457
Gage ancestry, 574
Asa, 575
Benjamin, 574
Elbert E„ 575
Franklin B., 575
John, 574
Royal, 575
William, 575
Gallagher ancestry, 145
James W., 146
John, 145
Norman I., 146
Gallup ancestry, 838, 1559
Benadam, 839, 1559
Elihu, 1561
Isaac, 839, 1561
John, 838, 839, 1559
Julius C, 1561
Thomas, 1559
Gamage ancestry, 1013
Gammell ancestry, 1551
John, 1551
William, 1551
William, Prof., 1552
Gardiner ancestry, 616
George, 616
Henry, 739
Nicholas, 616, 617
Nicholas R., 617
Peleg W., 617
Gardinier ancestry, 1827
Dallas, 1828
Ermin M., 1828
George M. D., 1828
Jacob J., 1SZ7
John S., 1827
Samuel, 1827
Samuel S., 1827
Gardner ancestry, 28, 642, 1504
Abbie P., 29
Alfred B., 1505
Brayton, 643
Ezekiel, 28, 29
George, 28, 29
George H, 29
Henry W., 643
James, 1504
Nicholas, 28
Rathbone, 643
Samuel, 642, 1504
William, 643, 1504
Gartland, Patrick, 1585
Thomas F„ 1585
Gates ancestry, 717, 858, 1787, 1846
Amos, 1787
Benjamin F., 859
Charles S„ 719
Coleman, 718
Daniel, 1846
Isaac, 1787
Lemuel, 1415
Luther, 718
Nathan P., 718
Pearly, 1847
Samuel P., 1847
Silas, 1846
Simon, 85S, 1787
Stephen, 718, 858, 1414, 1787,
1846
Zelotes, 858
Gay ancestry, 2287
David, 2287
John, 2287
Lemuel, 2287
Mace, 2287
Samuel, 2287
Timothy, 2287
Gellerson ancestry, 123
Benjamin F., 124
Josiah, 123
George ancestry 496
Charles H., 497
Richard, 496
Thomas, 496, 497
Thomas M., 497
Getchell ancestry, 239, 29b
Daniel, 240
Dennis, 239, 296
Dennis F., 242

Samuel, 239
Stephen, 296
Wallace I., 240
Gibson ancestry, 1218, 1390, 1604
Abraham, 1391
Alexander, 1605
Cyrus D., 1220
Isaac, 1219
James, 1605
John, 1218, 1309, 1605
Lucy J., 1220
Gilchrist ancestry, 1465
Alexander, 1466
Clarence D., 1466
William, 1466
Giles ancestrv, 1060
Delphina, 1062
Edward, 1060
Eleazer, 1060
•Jason, 1062
Samuel, 1061
Thomas, 1061
Gillette ancestry, 569, 1460
Azro, 570
Billa, 570
Ebenezer, 570
Enos S., 571
Henry O., 1461
John, 570
Jonathan, 569, 1460
Joseph, 569
Josiah, 1460
Leon H., 1461
Timothy, 1460
Waters, 1161
Gilpatric ancestry, 321
Caleb, 321
George H., 322
George W., 321
Gladding ancestry, 989
George W., 989
Henry B., 990
John, 989
Jonathan, 989
Royal H, 990
Royal P., 991
Timothy, 989, 990
Gleason ancestry, 801
George, 802
James, 801
John, 801
Joseph, 802
Joseph T., 802
Thomas, 801
Glidden ancestry, 179
Haven, 179
Henry C, 179
Oren A., 180
Goble ancestry, 1469
Augustine, 1469
John J., 1469
Philip H, 1469
Goddard ancestry, 1534, 1834
Alice C, 1537
Ebenezer, 1834
Giles, 1835
Henry E., 1537
John, 1535, 1834
Joseph, 1535
Robert H. I., 1836
Warren, 1536
William, 1835
William G., 1835
Godfrey ancestry, 1224
Bradford, 1225
Frederick, 1226
George, 1225
John, 1225
Richard, 1225
Goff ancestry, 2292
Almira W., 2299
Darius, 2293
Darius L., 2296
Joseph, 2292
Lyman B., 2298
Richard, 2292
Gooch ancestry, 796
James, 796
John, 796
Robert, 796
Goodhue ancestry, 63
Harold V., 64
Herbert N., 64
Isaac W., 64
Joseph, 63
Nathaniel, 64
Samuel, 63
Stephen B., 64
William, 63
Goodiell, Solomon, 2222

Goodman ancestry, 1200
Moses, 1200
Richard, 1200
Timothy, 1200
William, 1200
William A., 1200
Goodrich ancestry, 1576, 2037
David, 1576, 1577, 2037
Eleazer, 2038
Elijah H., 1577
John E., 1577
Josiah, 1577, 2037, 2038
Samuel, 2038
Sylvanus O., 2038
•Vernon C, 2038
William, 2037
Goodwin ancestry, 1508, 2265
Benjamin, 2265
Christopher, 2265
Henry, 2265
John, 1508, 2265
John J., 1509
Nathaniel, 2265
Gorham ancestry, 931, 1506
David, 1507
Freeman, 1507
George H„ 1508
Isaac, 932
Jabez, 932
James, 1506, 1507
John, 931, 1506, 1507
Matthias, 1507
Ralph, 1506
Gorton ancestry, 523, 2146
Benjamin, 524
Edward, 2147
John, 2146
Samuel, 523, 2146, 2147
Goss ancestry, 565
Charles H., 566
David, 566
Horace C, 566
Philip, 565, 566
Gould ancestry, 204, 300, 859
Dudley F., S59
Edward, 204
Fred D., 300
George H, 1792
Henry, 859
Henry H, 205
Isaac, 300
Jarvis, 204
John, 204
Joseph, 204
Nathaniel S., 860
Oliver, 205
Rebecca J., 205
Samuel, 204, 300, 859
Gowdey ancestry, 1936
Edwin M., 1937
George, 1937
James, 1937
John H, 1938
John M., 1937
Levi, 1937
Graham ancestry, 1467
John, 1468
Warner A., 1468
William, 1468
Granger ancestry, 1006
Chester, 1007
Launcelot, 1006
Samuel, 1006
Simeon, 1006
Thomas, 1006
William S., 1007
Grant ancestry, 482, 2192
Benjamin, 2192, 2193
Christopher, 2192
Hartley, 482
Henry T„ 2194
Samuel, 4S2
» Thomas C, 2193
Gray ancestry, 807, 2325
Charles A., 807
Charles C, 2327
Edward, 2325
George M., 807
Joseph B., 2326
Levi, 807
Samuel, 2326
Thomas, 2326
Greene ancestry, 223, 523, 547, 867,
931, 1117, 1702, 1883, 2138,
2318
Asahel W„ 1883
Benjamin, 931, 2318
Caroline C, 527
Charles, 1704
Christopher, 524

NEW ENGLAND

Elisha, 226, 547
Francis W., 527
Gardner, 867
Gideon, 1118
Henry, 2319
Henry L., 525
Jabez, 1118
James, 547, 1118
James A., 2140
Job, 523, 524, 2319
John, 548, 549, 931, 1117, 1118,
2138, 2139, 2318
John C, 549
John, Dr., 225
John, Maj., 225
Joseph W., 2139, 2140
Lauriston H, 227
Lester H, 1884
Lloyd, 1118
Lorenzo M., 1704
Milton G., 1704
Nahum, 1703
Nathan, 867
Olin D., 1705
Otto V, 1705
Peter, 226, 2139
Peter D., 549
Philip, 523
Richard, 548, 1117
Robert, 1117
Rufus L., 1884
Samuel, 548, 931
Simon H, 524
Stephen, 226
Thomas, 548, 1702
Uziah, 1703
William, 226, 931, 1702, 1703,
2139
William C, 227
Greenlaw, Samuel, 2165
Greenough ancestry, 962, 1761
Beulah, 1763
David, 962
Frank M., 962
Henry W., 1762
James C, 1762
John, 1761
Joseph, 962
Thomas, 1761
William, 1761
William B., 1762
Gridley ancestry, 583
Abel, 584
George, 584
George O., 584
Joel, 584
Joseph, 583
Samuel, 583
Silas, 584
Thomas, 583
Griffin ancestry, 169
Albert S., 170
Samuel R., 169
Thomas, 169
Grindle ancestry, 277
Arthur M., 278
Wade D., 278
William, 277
Griswold ancestry, 1066
Huldah, 1066
Isaac, 1066
William D., 1066
Grosvenor ancestry, 645
Charles W., 646
Clarence W., 648
Cora E., 648
Daniel, 646
Ebenezer, 645
Evelyn V., 648
John, 645
Jonathan P., 646, 647
Grout ancestry, 1669, 1868, 1962
Braman, 1670
Don, 1963
Don D„ 1964
John, 1669, 1670, 1868, 1962,
1963
Jonathan, 1670, 1868, 1869,
1963
Lory, 1670
Luman M.. 1963
Solomon, 1963
Thomas, 1670
Guernsev ancestry, 185
Benjamin, 185
Edward H, 186
•Frank E., 186
John, 185
Josephine F. L., 187
Oliver, 185
Samuel, 185

Guild ancestry, 362
Ebenezer, 363
John, 362
Joseph, 363
Guiteras, Elizabeth M., 655
Gertrude E., 655
Ramon, 655
Hacker ancestry, 59
George, 59
Isaac, 59, 60
Jeremiah, 60
Jerrie F., 60
Tom E., 60
William, 59
Hadley ancestry, 142, 859
Abel, 142
Ephraim, 142
George, 859
George L., 859
Samuel, 859
Wells, 859
Wells G., 859
William W., 142
Haines ancestry, 346, 2167
Albert L., 2168
Daniel, 2168
Henry A., 346
John, 2168
Joseph W., 2168
Mary L., 2169
Matthias, 2167
Samuel, 2167, 2168
William A., 346
Hale ancestry. 1639
John, 1639
Jonathan, 1639
Thomas, 1639
William, 1639
Haley, William, 85
Hall ancestry, 371, 472, 504, 2137
Benjamin, 505
Christopher, 2137
Clara N, 1473
George, 371
George W., 2137
James S., 472
John, 2137
Jonathan, 372
Joshua, 2137
Samuel, 372
Seth, 372, 504, 505
William, 504
William H, 472
Zuriel, 504
Hallett ancestry, 2032
Andrew, 3032, 2033
Bertha M„ 2036
Ebenezer, 2033, 2034
Emma I., 2034
George W., 2034
Jonathan, 2033
Lot, 2034
Hamblin ancestry, 1562
Benjamin, 1563
Elkanah, 1563
James, 1562
Reuben, 1563
Hamilton ancestry, 1480
David, 1480
Fremont, 1482
Gabriel, 1481
Henry W., 1481
Jonathan, 1481
Hamlin ancestry, 1622
Ebenezer, 1623
George H, 1624
James, 1622
Lewis, 1623
Nathaniel, 1623
Perez, 1624
Wellington, 1624
William, 1624
Hammond ancestry, 156, 409, 1807
Daniel S., 157
Edward, 409
James, 409
Jeremiah, 410
Jonathan, 1S08
Joseph, 156
Joseph W., 1808
Pardon T, 157
Ruth H, 157
Thomas, 1808
William, 156, 409, 1807
William F„ 410
William J., 156
William P., 157
Hapgood ancestry, 1412
Joseph, 1413
Josiah, 1413

Shadrach, 1412
Thomas, 1412
Hardison ancestry, 268
George W.( 269
Ivory, 268
Jerry, 268
Joseph, 268
Martin, 269
Oliver A., 268
Stephen, 268
Harlow ancestry, 808
Eleazer, 808
Elias, 808
Eliphas, 809
Frank E., 809
John M., 809
Levi, 809
Samuel, 808
William, 808
Harmon ancestry, 106
Archie B., 107
Benjamin, 107
John, 106, 107
Nathaniel, 106
Samuel, 107
Samuel H, 107
Stephen, 107
Harriman ancestry, 1515
Fred S„ 1516
John, 1515
Jonathan, 1515, 1516
Joshua, 1516
Leonard, 1515
Sprague E., 1516
Harris ancestry, 317, 545, 1044,
1291
Amaziah, 1044
Andrew, 546
Caleb, 1293
Cyrus, 1293
Cyrus, Hon., 1294
Elisha, 546
Esek, 1044
George, 1045
Henry, 1293
Jonathan, 319
Joseph, 5146, 1044
Richard, 319, 1044
Robert, 319
Thomas, 318, 1044, 1292, 129»
Toleration, 546
William, 546, 1292
Harrison ancestry, 2088, 2363
Benjamin, 2088, 2089
Joel, 2363
Samuel F., 2363
Samuel W., 2363
Hart ancestry, 877
Henry, 878
John, 877
Samuel, 878
Stephen, 879
Thomas, 877
William, 878
Hartness ancestry, 1406
James, 1407
John, 1406
John W., 1407
Thomas, 1406
Hartshorn ancestry, 403, 1375
Charles, 1375
Charles P., 1375
Jacob, 1375
John, 403
Joseph, 403, 1375
Joseph C, 403
Samuel W., 1375
Stella J., 1376
Thomas, 403, 1375
Hartwell ancestry, 401
Ephraim, 401
Frederick W., 402
Mary L., 403
Samuel, 401, 402
Samuel E., 402
William, 401
Harvey ancestry, 1491
David, 1491
George H, 1491
Henry C, 1491
James G., 1492
William, 1491
Harwood ancestry, 1257
Andrew, 1257, 1258
George H„ 1258
George D., 1259
James, 1257
James F., 1258
John, 1258
Haskell ancestry, 441
Abner, 442

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Ellen M„ 444
Jacob, 442
Ruth A., 444
Roger, 441
Samuel, 442
William, 442
William H, 443
William T., 442
Hassett ancestry, 351
John C, 351 i
John E., 351
Thomas, 351
William, 351
Hatch ancestry, 447, 448
Harry P., 448
James, 447
Jeremiah, 447
Nathaniel, 448
William, 447
Havens ancestry, 1488
Carrie O., 925
George H., 925
John, 1488
Sanford W., 1488
Silas N., 1488
Walter L., 1488
Hawes ancestry, 1727
Edward, 1727
John H, 1727
Hawley ancestry, 83, 1394
Eli J., 1395
Ephraim, 1394
Jabez, 1394
Joseph, 83
Major, 1394
Nathan, 1394
Samuel, 1394
Hayden ancestry, 81
Benjamin, 82
Charles, 82
Charles H., 82
Henry, 82
John, 82
Josiah, 82
Nehemiah, 82
Hays ancestry, 1598, 1822
Aaron, 1599
Datus L., 1599
George, 1598
Lindsay M., 1599
Thomas E., 1822
William, 1599, 1822
Hayward ancestry, 825, 1306
Jonathan, 825
Joseph, 825
Linus E., 825
Martin, 825
Nathaniel, 1306
Peter, 825
Thomas, 825, 1306
Timothy, 1307
Hazard ancestry, 1684, 2149
Frederick R., 2153
Jeffrey, 1685, 1687
Jeremiah, 1684
John, 1685
John G., 1685
Lauriston H., 1688
Robert, 1684, 2149, 2150
Rowland, 2151
Rowland G., 2150, 2153
Thomas, 1684, 2149, 2150
Hazelton ancestry, 1489
Daniel, 1490
Daniel W., 1490
John, 1489
Samuel, 1489
Stephen, 1489, 1490
William F., 1490
Hazen ancestry, 595, 1731
Daniel, 596
Edward, 595, 746
Israel, 796
Jacob, 796, 797
Jasper, 596
Joseph, 1731
Louis, 797
Thomas, 596
Heaton ancestry, 1964
Charles H., 1966
Clifton M., 1967
Gershom, 1965
Homer W., 1965
James, 1965
Nathaniel, 1964, 1965
Henderson ancestry, 1589
David, 1590
Moses C, 1590
Ola H, 1590
Henry ancestry, 1482
Hugh, 1482, 1483

Hugh H, 1484
Hugh, Hon., 1484
John, 1482
Robert, 1482
William, 1483
Henshaw ancestry, 930
Benjamin, 931
Daniel, 931
John P. K., 931
Joshua, 930, 931
Thomas, 930
William, 930
Herreshoff ancestry, 2176
Charles F., 2176, 2177, 2179
James B., 2177
John B., 2179, 2180
Julian L., 2181
Karl F., 2176
Lewis, 2177
Nathaniel G., 2178, 2179
Herrick ancestry, 1578
Ephraim, 1578
Harley S., 1579
Henry, 1578
James, 1579
Leander, 1579
Newton, 1579
Samuel, 1578
Stephen, 1578, 1579
Hersey ancestry, 489
Hiram B., 490
Jacob F., 490
James, 489
John B., 490
Samuel, 489
William, 489
Hicks ancestry, 1043, 1912
Daniel, 1043
Ephraim, 1043
Hezekiah, 1912
John, 1043
Jotham, 1912
Nathan, 1043
Ransom, 1912
Robert, 1912
Hidden ancestry, 969
Andrew, 970
Charles H, 971
Ebenezer, 970
Edward, 970
Henry A., 971
James, 970
James C, 970
Walter, 971
Wilkins U., 971
Higgins ancestry, 181, 184, 1172,
1817, 2309
Aldus C, 2313
Andrew J., 184
Benjamin, 1172, 2309
Dyer, 1817
Eleazer, 1172
Enoch, 1172
Ephraim, 181, 1172
Freeman, 2309
George W., 1818
Henry M., 1173
Isaiah, 181
John K., 1173
John W., 2313
Katherine E., 2312
Lewis, 2310
Milton P., 2310
Moses, 1817
Percy E., 184
Peryntha D., 1173
Prince, 2309
Richard, 1172, 2309
Timothy, 2309
William H. H., 1817
Hill ancestry, 519, 677, 879, 973,
1918
Aymer S. C, 880
Arthur H., 679
Benjamin, 974
Beriah, 879
Caleb, 677
Calvin, 678
Cromwell, 974
Daniel, 519
David, 974
Deborah W., 1918
Ebenezer, 879
Edward E., 519
Fred B., 1918
Henry C, 679
Israel, 879
John, 879
Jonathan, 677
Joseph, 973
Samuel, 974

Seth C, 880
Thomas J., 975
Warren, 880
William, 677
Hinds ancestry, 650
Benjamin, 650
Corliss, 652
Cornelius, 652
Ellen M., 653
Elisha, 651
Hiram D., 652
Jacob, 650
James, 650
John, 650, 652
Oscar L., 651
William H., 652
William L„ 651
Hinsdale ancestry, 1086
Barnabas, 1087
Daniel, 1087
Robert, 1086
Hiscock ancestry, 236
Gustavus B., 237
Samuel, 236
Hoadly ancestry, 1066
•George, 1067, 1069
George, Hon., 1068
Samuel, 1067
Timothy, 1067
William, 1066
Hoar ancestry, 1732
Benjamin, 1732
Charles, 1732
Daniel, 1732
John, 1732
Samuel, 1732
Hodgman, William L., 2243
Hoit ancestry, 755
Benjamin, 756
Charles E., 756
John, 755
John L., 756
Jonathan, 756
Joseph, 755, 756
Thomas, 755
Holbrook ancestry, 108, 1514, 1682
Abel, 1514
Asa W., 1683
Charles A., 1514
David, 1683
Henry E., 1683
Ichabod, 1682
John, 1514, 1682
Nathaniel, 1514
Nehemiah, 1682
Thomas, 108
Timothy, 1514
Walter J., 1514
William H, 1683
Holcombe ancestry, 681
Amos, 682
Carmi, 682
Cyrus, 682
Luman C, 682
Nathaniel, 681, 682
Samuel, 682
Thomas, 681
Holden ancestry, 1205, 1259
Benjamin, 1206
Clarence L., 1260
Clark, 2101
Cyrus A., 1206
Daniel, 1259
Edward H., 1207
George B., 1206
James, 1205
John, 1206
John S., 1260
Josiah, 1206
Justinian, 1205
Lewis, 1260
Nathan, 1259
Richard, 1205
Hollister ancestry, 1472
Alvah, 1473
Elijah S., 1473
George B., 1474
Gurdon, 1473
Howard C, 1474
John, 1472
Joseph, 1473
Thomas, 1473
Hollywood ancestry, 1561
Joseph M., 1562
Peter, 1561
Peter F., 1561
Holmes ancestry, 669, 1088
Abbie W., 669
Duncan, 670
Ephraim, 1090
George C, 670

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George H, 669
John, 1089
John H, 1090
John S„ 1090
Joseph, 1089
Levi, 1090
Loren S., 670
Robert, 1088
Stephen, 1088
Sylvester, 1090
William, 1089
Holt ancestrv, 1485, 2333
Abel, 2334
Charles T., 1486
Ebenezer, 1485
Edward E., 1486
Erastus, 2334
Erastus E., Dr., 2334
Nathan, 1486
Nicholas, 1485, 2333
Reuben, 1485
Samuel, 1485
Sidney L., 14S6 ^
Timothy, 14S6
Holton ancestry, 1247, 1469
Elihu D., 1470
Erastus, 1247
Henry D., 1470
Joel, 1469
John, 1247
Lewis C, 1248
Lucius M., 1247
Ora, 1247
William, 1247
Zoeth, 1470
Holyoke ancestry, 1579
Edward, 1579
Elizur, 1579, 1580
Jacob, 1580
John R., 1580
Richard, 15S0
Silas G., 1580
Hone ancestry, 149
David A., 149
James, 149
Thomas, 149
Hooker ancestry, 1495
Amos, 1495
Franklin, 1497
George W., 1497
Henry, 1495
John P., 1496
Liberty H, 1496
Orman V. B., 1496
Parker, 14 96
Hopkins ancestrv, 280, 474, 1046
2003
Amos, 474
Charles S., 2005
Daniel, 281, 2005
Eben S., 282
Ebenezer, 2004
George G., 1046
Harry D., 2005
Henry, 2004
James R., 282
John, 2003
Lewis G., 1047
Milton W., 1046
Robert, 281
Solomon, 280, 281
Stephen, 475, 2004
Thomas, 474
Uriah, 475
Wait, 2005
William, 280, 474
William L., 475
Horn ancestry, 2362
George W„ 2362
Percy A., 2363
William, 2362
Horton ancestry, 541, 983, 1163,
1896
Barnabas, 541
Comfort, 983
Daniel, 1896
David, 541, 1163
•David K., 1164
Enoch, 1163
Frances A., 1897
Fred B., 1897
John, 983
Jonathan, 983
Nathan B., 1897
Royal, 1896
Solomon, 1896
Stephen, 1163, 1164
Thomas, 541, 1163
William H, 1164
Houghton ancestry, 694, 1221,
1779, 2166

Charles E., 694
Cora A., 2167
•Emory, 1222
Emmons W., 2167
Frederick L., 1779
John, 1221
Jonas, 693
Jonathan, 693, 694
Joshua, 1222
Josiah, 693
Luke, 2166
Philemon, 1222
Robert, 1222
Solomon, 1222
Thomas, 2166
William, 2166
Howard ancestry, 217, 1447, 1813,
2319
Albert C, 218, 1814
Benjamin, 217
Charles E., 1448
Frederick H, 2330
Henry W., 2320
James, 2319
Jesse, 217, 1814
John, 1447
Luther G., 1447
Nathaniel, 1447
Peter, 217, 1814
Robert, 1447
Samuel, 1447, 2319
Solomon, 217, 1813
Thomas, 217, 1813
Timothy, 1447
Howe ancestry, 255, 1844, 2073
Abraham, 1844
Amasa, 255
Arthur W., 2075
Caleb, 2074
Ebenezer, 2074
Ephraim, 1844
Fannie S., 2075
.George, 1844
James H., 1845
John, 1S44, 2073, 2074
Josiah, 1844
Leon S., 256
Moses, 2074
Nehemiah, 2073
Samuel, 2073
William, 255, 1844
Howes, George A., 1284
Susannah, 1284
Howland ancestry, 35, 470, 1619,
1941, 2078
Alice S., 1621
Daniel, 1619, 1620, 1621
Henry, 1619
Humphrey, 2078
Jabez, 1941, 2078, 2272
James, 470
John, 35, 1694, 1941, 2078
Joseph, 1941
Martin, 470
Mary P., 471
Richard G., 1621
Samuel, 2079
Zoeth, 1619
Hoyle ancestry, 2059
James, 2060
John, 2059
Joseph, 2060
Hoyt ancestry, 347
Levi, 347
Thomas H, 347
Hubbard ancestry, 1083, 2316
Abner, 10S4
George, 1083, 2316
Joseph, 1083, 1084
Hudson ancestry, 1665
Albert A., 1667
Arthur J. B., 1668
Daniel, 1665
Marinus W., 1666, 1667
Samuel, 1666
Samuel E., 1667
Thomas, 1666
Huling ancestry, 693, 1475
Alexander, 693, 1475
Daniel, 693, 1475, 1476
Edward B., 1476
Edward C, 1476
James, 1475
Milo C, 693
Humphrey ancestry, 614, 1110.
2071
Charles B., 1111
Ede, 1111
Eva D., 1112
George, 615
George W., 615

James, 1110
James L., 1112
John, 615
Jonas, 614, 2071, 2072
Josiah, 2072
Samuel, 615, 2072
William, 615
Hunt ancestry, S10, 827, 1228
1918, 2087
Annie M., 2087
Archibald J., 813
Bartholomew, 1228
Claramon, 1919
Daniel A., 811
Daniel I., 811
Enoch, 810, 827
Ephraim, 810, S27
George W., 1918, 2087
Harry D., 1919
Hiram F., 2087
Irving O., 811
John, 810, 812, 1918
Joseph, 122S
Joshua, 1228
Josiah A., 1228
Josiah D., 1229
Peter, 810, 811
Reuben, 828
Simeon, 812
Stephen F., 812
Thomas, 827
Washington, 1918
William D., S12
William W., 813
Huntington ancestry, 1336
James, 1336
John A., 1336
Simon, 1336
Hurlburt ancestry, 1381
Asher, 1381
Charles O., 1382
Gideon, 1381
Nathan, 13S1
Nathaniel, 13S1
Otis C, 1382
Thomas, 1381
Hutchins ancestry, 1085
George F., 1085
Harry W., 1086
Hezekiah, 1085
Hyde ancestry, 1996, 1997
Asaph H., 1997
Edward D., 1997
Elihu, 1997
John, 1996
Richard, 1996
Richard W., 1997
Samuel, 1996
William, 1996
Ide, Nicholas, 2128
Jacob, 2129
Ingalls ancestry, 938, 2198
Ebenezer, 939
Edmund, 93S, 2198
Eldad, 2199
Henry, 2199
John, 938, 2199
Joseph, 2199
Robert, 2198
Samuel, 2199
Ingraham ancestry, 1285
Ira, 1286-
John, 1285
Jonathan, 1286
Nathaniel, 1286
Richard, 1285
Inman ancestry, 625
Albert H, 626
Francis H, 625
William H, 626
Insley, James K, 440
Irish ancestry, 1278
Alonzo, 1278
Calvin A., 1279
Jesse, 1278
John, 1278
Jonathan, 1278
Peter, 1278
Wesley M., 1279
Ives ancestry, 1837
Benjamin, 1837, 1838
Robert H, 1838
Thomas, 1837
Thomas P., 1838
Jackson ancestry, 787, 1129
Edward, 1129
Fred K., 788
Horatio N, 788
James, 787

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John, 787
John H., 788
Samuel, 1130
Sebas, 1129, 1130
Jaquith ancestry, 1613
Abraham, 1613
Ebenezer, 1613
Enoch, 1614
Henry A., 1614
Ralph, 1614
Thomas, 1614
Jenckes ancestry, 2075, 2116
Charles, 2076
Jeremiah, 2076, 2116
John C, 2077
John J., 2077
Jonathan, 2116
Joseph, 2075, 2076, 2116
Nathaniel, 2116
Obadiah, 2076
Thomas A., 2116
Thomas B., 2116
Jenks, Boomer, 717
Lyman, 717
Jennison ancestry, 884
Israel, 885
Joseph S., 885
Peter, 885
Robert, 8S5
Samuel, 885
Samuel W.. 886
Theodore C, 886
William, 8S5
Jewett ancestiy, 438, 1719
Daniel, 438
Ebenezer, 1721
Edward, 1719
Eliphalet, 1719
Ezekiel, 1720
Farnum, 1721
Henry O., 438
John, 438
Maximillian, 1719
Stephen, 1720
Thomas, 43 8
Jillson ancestry, 1091
Allen B., 1092
Francello G., 1092
James, 1091
Nathaniel, 1091
Ollys A., 1093
Uriah, 1091
Johnson ancestry, 704, 915, 1316,
1661, 1984, 2045
Alfred S., 917
Andreas, 2045
Arthur P., 917
Asa, 705
Benjamin, 705
Charles W., 1317
Chauncey N., 1663
Cyrus U, 1661
David W., 1663
Edgar M., 918
Elisha, 1316, 1661
George N., 1986
Henry T., 1985
Howard H., 1663
Humphrey, 915
Isaac, 1985
James, 916
Job, 916
John, 704, 705, 915, 916
John G., 2045
Joseph, 1661, 1985
Josiah, 1663
Nathaniel, 915
Perrin, 1661
Peter O., 2045
Pliny, 916
Pliny F., 916
Rawson T., 1316
Robert, 1984
Samuel, 1984, 1985
Timothy, 704
William, 1984
William S., 1984
William S., Hon., 1985
Johnston ancestry, 342
John G., 342
Neil, 342 nnn,
Johnstone ancestry, 2021
Robert, 2021
Robert F., 2021
William, 2021
joneTk^e^'f^SO, 721, 1532
Edward, 393, 721

George, 721
George C, 721
Homer M., 599
Isaac, 393
John, 393, 394, 1532
Samuel, 598
Solomon, 1533
Thomas, 1532
William, 598
Jordan ancestry, 126
Amos B., 126
Cyrus J., 126
Edward M., 126
Jedediah, 126
. Robert, 126
Jose ancestry, 2028
Benjamin B., 2028
Christopher, 2028
Edwin H., 2028
Ernest P., 2029
James, 2028
Nathaniel, 2028
Richard, 2028
William, 2o28
Judson ancestry, 1069
Frederick J., 1070
Frederick N, 1070
Jeremiah, 1069
Joshua, 1069
Pixlee, 1070
Samuel, 1069
William, 1069
Kellogg ancestry, 262, 1492
Benjamin, 1494
Benjamin P., 1494
Ezekiel, 1493, 1494
Gardiner, 262, 263
Joseph, 1492
Martin, 1492
Mary F., 263
Nathaniel, 262, 1493
Phillippe, 1492
Walter E., 1494
Kelley ancestry, 2289
Arthur L., 2290, 2291
David, 2290
Edward B., 2291
John, 2289, 2290
Joseph H, 2290
Micajah, 2290
Kelly ancestry, 317
James, 348
John, 347
Leo J., 348
Kelton ancestry, 1042
George, 1043
John, 1042, 1043
Nathaniel, 1042
Thomas, 1042
Kendall ancestry, 1231
Benjamin F., 1231
Hiram, 1231
Lydia K., 1232
Paul, 1231
Kent ancestry, 221, 549, 555, 635,
1754, 1947, 2131
Abdiel, 1949
Dorman B. E., 1950
Elijah, 1755, 2131
Ezekiel, 194S
Hezekiah, 555
Isaac B., 222
John, 1755, 1947, 194S, 2131
Joseph, 222, 555, 635, 1754,
1755, 1947, 1948, 2131
Joshua, 549
Josiah, 222. 635
Murray A., 1949
Remember, 1755, 1948
Samuel, 222, 635
Willington, 1755
Willson, 549
Kenyon ancestry, 329, 2140
Elijah, 329, 330
James, 2140
James N„ 2140
James S., 2141
John, 329, 2140
Jonathan, 329, 2140
Lewis, 329
Mary A., 330
Nathan, 2140
Samuel, 329
Keyes ancestry, 249
George L., 249
John, 249
Orman L., 250
William, 249
Kidder ancestry, 592, 960
Aaron, 592

Abiah, 595
Benjamin, 961
Charles H., 593
Enoch, 961
Ephraim, 594
Fred T., 595
James, 592, 960
John, 592, 961
John F., 962
Joseph, 595
Moses, 593
Nehemiah, 595
Reuben, 593
Thomas, 592, 593
William, 961
William D., 961
Kilburn ancestry, 1232
Elijah, 1234
George, 1234
John, 1232, 1233
Thomas, 1232
Kilton ancestry, 1189, 1575
George B., 1575
John J., 1190, 1191
Robert, 1189
Thomas, 1575, 1189, 1190
Walter A., 1191
Winfield S., 1576
Kimball ancestry, 864, 959, 1114,
1648, 1909
Amherst, 1910
Asa, 1910
Benjamin, 959
Charles D., 1116
David, 1167
Dean, 1115
Edith P., 1911
Elbert B., S66
Emery S., 1115
Frank H, 960
Fred E., 866
George H, 865
Horace, 1910
Horace A., 1910
Horace B., 1911
Jacob, 960
Jarvis, 1115
John, S65, 1114, 1909
John H., 865
Joseph, 1115, 1909
Moses, 960
Philemon, 1909
Richard, 864, 959, 1114, 1648,
1909
Stephen, 960
William N, 960
King ancestry, 1104
Frederick, 1104
George W., 1104
Richard, 1104
Kingman ancestry, 760
Eliphalet, 760
Henry, 760
John, 760
Matthew, 760
Kingsbury ancestry, 1819
Annette R., 1821
Benjamin, 1820
Joseph, 1S19
Lyman E., 1821
Nathaniel, 1820
Kinlock ancestry, 1828
Alexander, 1828, 1829
Alexander G., 1829
Everett S., 1829
Francis, 1828
Kinney ancestry, 1131
Harry W., 1133
Henry, 1131
Jonathan, 1132
Joseph, 1131, 1132
Joseph N., 1132
Thomas, 1131
Kinnicut ancestry, 635
Daniel, 635
John, 635
George R., 635
Roger, 635
Kinson ancestry, 1338
Amos, 1339
William, 133S
William R., 1339
Kirkland ancestry, 1339
Daniel, 1340
Edward, 1340
Edward, Dr., 1341
Nathaniel, 1339
Philip, 1339
Samuel, 1340

XV111

NEW ENGLAND

Kitchen, Henry, 183
William, 183
Knight ancestrv, 141, 233, 1528,
1595, 2202
Alfred, 1529
Benjamin, 1528, 1595
Benjamin B., 234, 2243
David, 1528
Ebenezer, 1596
Elbridge, 141
En os, 1595
Eugene W., 1596
Hermon, 141
Ira, 1595
Jonathan, 233
Joseph, 1528
Philip, 1595
Richard, 1528, 2202
Robert, 233
Samuel, 2202
Samuel P., 2202
Stephen, 234
Thomas, 1529
William, 1529
William H, 1529
Knowles ancestry, 641, 1938
Daniel, 1938
Edward, 1938
Henry, 193S
John P., 1938, 1939
Jonathan, 1938
Mary E., 1939
Nathaniel, 641
William, 1938
Kramer, George, 467
Martha, 468
Philip, 467
Dance ancestry, 1649a
Joseph, 1649a
•Joseph T., 1649
Robert, 1649a
Theron H., 1649a
Lane ancestry, 44S
Anna B., 450
Asa H, 450
Benjamin, 449
James, 448
John, 448
Zenas, 449
Lang ancestry, 295
George E., 295
James, 295
Thomas, 295
Langdon ancestry, 1130
John, 1131
Oliver, 1131
Paul, 1130
Philip, 1130
Langworthy ancestry, 58
Andrew, 5S
Robert, 58
Samuel, 58
Lanphear ancestry, 663
Edwin T., 664
Elisha, 664
George, 663
John, 664
Louisa C, 665
Nathan, 664
Robert, 665
Thomas P., 664
Larrabee ancestry, 66, 1442, 1901
Elmer E., 1902
George H, 66
Harold D., 1902
James R, 1902
John, 1902
Lena, 66
Robert, 1902
Samuel, 1442, 1902
Sarah E„ 66
Stephen, 1442, 1901
William, 1442
Lawless ancestry, 665
James, 665
John, 665
William, 665
Lawrence ancestry, 1344, 1630,
1998
Archibald I., 1631
Artemas, 1348
Benjamin, 1346
Charles C, 1999
Ebenezer, 1998
Enoch, 1345
Ephraim, 1346
Henry, 1345
Isaac, 1999
James E., 1630
Jay H, 1347

John, 1345, 1630
John P., 1347
Jonathan, 1998
Leonard P., 1999
Marshall W., 1348
Martin R., 1347
Merrill L., 1348
Nathaniel, 1345, 1630
Pele, 1998
Peter, 1999
Rufus, 1346
William, 1630
Lawton ancestry, 514
George, 514
Harriet F. A., 2130
Moses T, 514
Robert, 514
Lear ancestry, 151
John, 151, 152
John E., 152
Joseph, 152
Thomas, 152
William W., 152
Learnard ancestry, 764
Benjamin, 765
Heman, 764
Leavitt ancestry, 162
Amos, 162
Artemas, 163
John, 162
Lewis R., 163
Moses, 162, 163
Nehemiah, 162
Lee ancestry, 1251
Christopher M., 1251
Samuel, 1250
Thomas J., 1251
Leland ancestry, 1319
Caleb, 1320
Ebenezer, 1320
Fred A., 1321
Henry, 1319
Hopestill, 1319
James, 1320
Joseph W., 1321
Otis, 1320
Phineas, 1320
Lemmon, John G., 1775
Sarah A., 1775
Lente ancestry, 250
Abraham, 250
Allen R., 252
Cornelius R., 252
Daniel, 251, 252
Harry H, 252
Jacobus, 251
Leonard ancestry, 388, 522, 1341
Claude G., 1343
Daniel, 1343
Daniel G., 1343
David, 1343
Eugene S., 1342
Gamaliel, 522
Jacob, 1341
James, 389, 522, 1341, 1342
John, 388, 1341, 1342
Nathaniel, 1341
Philip, 1343
Samson, 3S8
Shepard, 1342
Spencer H, 1342
Stephen, 389
Thomas, 522, 1342
Uriah, 1341
Zephaniah, 389
Leslie ancestry, 1649
George, 1649
James, 1649
John P., 1650
Samuel C, 1650
William, 1649
Leviston, Daniel, 969
John, 968
Lewis ancestry, 330, 1045, 2183
Augustus J., 1045
Amos, 1045
Arnold, 331
George, 2183
Isaiah, 2183
James, 2183
John, 330, 2183
Jonathan, 331
Joseph W., 2183
Samuel, 330
Stephen, 331
Winslow, 2183
Lillie ancestry, 1955
Dean K, 1956
George, 1955
Joseph, 1956

Obadiah, 1956
Robert B., 1956
Samuel, 1955
Lippitt ancestry, 52^, 534
Charles, 535
Christopher, 535
Jeremiah, 528
John, 528, 534
Moses, 528, 534
Warren, 535
Littlefield ancestry, 1238
Daniel, 1240
Edmund, 1238, 1239
Francis, 1239
•Nathan W., 1242
Rufus A., 1241
Seth, 1240
Livermore ancestry, 1138, 1803
Abijah, 1138
Elisha, 1138
John, 1138, 1803
Jonathan, 1803, 1804
Samuel, 1138, 1803
Solomon K., 1804
Thomas, 1138
Thomas A., 1804
Locke ancestry, 1349
Ebenezer, 1350
Joshua, 1350
Oren, 1350
William, 1349
Lockwood ancestry, 396
Abraham, 396
Amos, 396
Amos De F., 397
Benoni, 397
Gershom, 396
Robert, 396
Longley, Charles E., 432
Henrietta S., 433
Loomis ancestry, 984
Anita Y., 986
Edward A., 986
John, 985
Joseph, 985
Joshua, 985
Joshua A., 986
Samuel, 985
Thomas, 985
William, 985
Lord ancestry, 1886
John, 1887
Nathan, 1886, 1887
Nathan, Rev., 1887
Samuel, 1887
William A., 1888
William H, 1888
Loud ancestry, 2082
Esau, 2084
Francis, 2082
Jacob, 2084
Samuel, 2084
Lovell ancestry, 580
Alexander, 580
Christopher, 581
Leverett T., 582
Lewis C, 581, 582
Michael, 581
Nathaniel, 581
Wilson S., 582
Lowe ancestry, 333, 1952
Daniel, 334
David, 1952, 1953
Ephraim, 334
Frank E., 1953
Henry R., 335
James K., 335
Job, 334
John, 334, 1953
Joseph, 1953
Thomas, 333, 334, 1952
Ludington ancestry, 1005, 1102
Corbet L., 1103
Elliot K., 1103
Francis H., 1103
Isaac, 1006
John, 1005, 1006, 1103
Jude, 1006, 1103
William, 1005, 1102, 1103
Lundy, Thomas A., 91
William, 91
Luther ancestry, 49, 1629
Ebenezer, 630
Samuel, 629
Theophilus, 49
William H, 49
Lyford ancestry, 188
Biley, 188
Elisha H, 188
Francis, 188

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James, 188
John, 188
Thomas, 1S8
Lyman ancestry, 1830, 2089, 2108
Cyrenius, 1831, 1832
Daniel, 2090, 2110
Elias, 1831, 1832
Espilon, 2109
Henry, 2109
John, 1831, 2109
Richard, 1830, 2090, 2109
Thomas, 2090, 2108, 2109, 2110
Lynch, Edward R., 1280
John, 1279
McClain ancestry, 438
Alexander, 440
Dayton E., 439
George W., 440
James, 438
Levin L., 439
McCulIough, Alexander, 1226
John G., 1226
McCune, Charles H., 1984
William, 1983, 1984
McDonnell, Mary S., 2141
Patrick, 2141
Thomas F. G., 2141
McElroy, William B., 996
Mary A., 996
McElwain ancestry, 922
•Henry E., 923
James, 922
Jonathan, 923
Timothy, 922
McGlauflin ancestry, 171, 293
Ernest T., 172
Ezra, 172
James, 171, 294
James F. A., 294
John, 171, 293
McGregor, Cassius, 725
William, 725
McGuinness, Bernard, 1210
Edwin D., 1210
Ellen T., 1212
Felix, 1210
McKenney, George, 471
Patrick, 471
McKewen, Frederick, 587
Samuel H., 587
McLaughlin ancestry, 200
Clyde D., 201
Daniel, 200
Daniel W., 201
Nelson, 200
Robert, 200
McLeod, Angus H, 580
Charles F. M., 580
McNally, James, 307
Michael, 307
McQuarrie, Alexander, 144
MacLaughlan, Alexander, 437
George S., 437
Mack ancestry, 1907
Edward R., 1909
Elisha, 1908
Henry R., 1908
John, 1907, 1908
Nehemiah, 1908
Resolved, 1908
Warren W., 1909
Mackenzie ancestry, 586
Frank S., 5 87
John, 586
Joseph, 586
Justin F., 586
Macomber ancestry, 1602
David, 1603
Jacob, 1603
James H, 1604
John, 1603
William, 1602, 1603
Maddox, Joshua, 135
Nathan, 135
Main, Martin L., 204
Martin V. B., 204
Manchester ancestry, 340
Emma L., 341
Isaac, 340
Jacob, 340
John, 340
Mary S., 340
Thomas, 340
Walter H., 341
Willard M., 341
William, 340
Mann ancestry, 1501
Arnold, 1502
Charles A., 1502
John, 1501

Thomas, 1501, 1502
Thomas, Judge, 1502
Marsh ancestry, 2365
John, 2365
Joseph, 2365
Moses, 2365
Samuel, 2365
Thomas, 2365
Marshall ancestry, 431, 1057
Alfred, 431
Charles E., 1058
Daniel, 431
James C, 1058
Joseph H, 1057
Leslie K., 1058
Levi W., 431
William, 1057
William, 1059
William A., 1058
William S„ 1057
Marston ancestry, 860
Elijah, 861
Isaac, 860
Nathaniel, 861
Thomas, 860, 861
William, 860
Martin ancestry, 633, 1851
Aaron, 1852
Anderson, 634
Blanche V., 1439
Ebenezer, 634
Frank J., 1853
George, 1851, 1852
Gurdon M., 1852
Horace A., 634
John, 634
Kimball P., 1852
Nathaniel, 634
Nora F., 634
Richard, 634
Robert, 633
Walter L., 1439
Mason ancestry, 873, 984
Edward L., 874
Isaac, 873, 984
Isaiah, 874
Leonard, 874
Marshall, 874
Nathan, 984
Nathaniel, 874
Sampson, 873, 984
Thomas, 2095
Mather, Cotton, 1
Matson ancestry, 1499
Alexander H., 1500
David, 1501
Francis, 1500
Samuel, 1500
William, 1499, 1500
William W., 1500
Matteson ancestry, 920, 1751
Andrew R., 1753
Archibald C, 922
Asahel, 921
Charles, 921
Corey, 1751
David, 1751
Frank W., 1752
George, 921
George A., 922
George W., 1752
Henry, 920
Hezekiah, 921
Joseph, 1751
Josiah, 1751
Paul, 922
Reuben, 921
Robert, 1751
Matthewson ancestry, 2061
Bradford N, 2061
David A., 2061
Josiah, 2061
Russell, 2061
Mayo ancestry, 1625
Ebenezer, 1625
Gideon, 1625
John, 1625
Jonathan, 1625
Nathaniel, 1625
Samuel, 1625
Mead ancestry, 1954
Gabriel, 1954
Israel, 1954
Nathaniel, 1955
Oliver, 1954
Samuel, 1954
Merrill ancestry, 252, 933
Abel, 253
Arthur R.. 934
Daniel, 934
David L., 934

Enoch, 934
Israel, 254
James, 253
John, 934
Levi, 254
Nathaniel, 253, 933
William, 254
William G., 255
William J., 255
Merriman ancestry, 1745
Amasa, 1746
Caleb, 1745
Charles, 1746
Charles H„ 1746, 1748
Edward B., 1749
Elisaph, 1746
Harold T., 1748
Isaac li., 1749
Nathaniel, 1745
Theophilus, 1745
William P., 1746
Merritt ancestry, 180
Ezekiel, 180
George F., 180
Metcalf ancestry, 1031, 2195
Brian, 2195
Burgess, 2196
Chandler, 2196
Charles H, 2196
Ebenezer, 1032
Humphrey, 2195
John, 2196
Jonathan, 1031
Joseph, 1032
Leonard, 2195
Michael, 1031, 2195, 2196
Nathaniel, 1031, 1032
Roger, 2195
Willis C, 2197
Millar ancestry, 2045
Clinton F., 2046
Collinwood C, 2045
John J., 2045
Miller ancestry, 411, 466, 2020,
2056
Annie, 412
Daniel, 412
Ephraim, 412
Frederick A., 466
Frederick F., 466
Horace, 412
Horace G., 413
John, 412
Josiah, 412
Josiah W., 412
Lewis L., 2057
Mary, 412
Nathaniel, 2057, 2058
Nathaniel, Dr., 2057
Philip, 2057
Robert, 412
Samuel R., 2020
Millerd ancestry, 982
John, 982
Joseph, 982
Nathaniel, 982
Robert, 982
Mills ancestry, 1946
Benjamin, 1946
Jonas, 1946
Joseph, 1946
Moses, 1946
Samuel, 1946
Samuel C, 1947
Samuel H., 1947
Zachariah, 1946
Miner ancestry, 1611, 2215
Albert L., 1613
Bradley, 2216
Charles, 1615
Christopher, 1615
Clement, 1611, 2215
Clement S„ 1612
Cyrus, 1615
Cyrus C, 1615
Ephraim, 1615, 2215, 2216
Francis W„ 2217
George H, 1615
Henry, 2215
•Hyman L., 1204
James, 1615
Lodowick, 2215
Ross H, 1616
Saxton, 2216
Stephen, 2216
Susan F., 221S
Susan S., 1204
Thomas, 1614, 2215
William, 2215
Moies ancestry, 374
Charles P., 374, 376

XX

NEW ENGLAND

Eunice Edna, 377
John, 375
Thomas, 375
Thomas C, 376
Monroe ancestiy, 414
George, 415
John, 414
Thomas, 414
Moody ancestry, 1248, 1379, 1864,
2220
Angie B., 1865
Ebenezer, 2220
Elmina A., 1864
George, 1248, 2220
Gideon W., 1379
Gilman S., 1S64
Isaiah, 1248
Isaiah M., 1248
John, 1248, 2220
Lewis C, 1864
Samuel, 1248, 2220
Seymour W., 1380
Simeon, 1248
William G., 1380
William S., 1380
Zimri, 2220
Mooers, George H., 2171
Moon ancestry, 2158
James, 2158, 2159
Moses, 2159
Roger, 2159
Moore ancestry, 218, 726, 1376
Alanson S., 727
Alfred K, 728
Annie R. P., 220
Daniel, 218
David C, 219
Edmund, 218
Elmer E., 219
Ephraim, 1377
George M., 1378
Henry M., 728
James, 726
James S., 219
John, 1376
John A, 727
Jonathan, 218, 1376
Joseph, 21S, 1376, 1377
Joshua, 219
Levi B., 1377
Milton G., 1377
Nathaniel, 727
Robert, 727
Samuel A., 727
Tilly, 1377
Morgan ancestry, 24
John P., 26
Joseph, 25, 26
Junius S., 26
Miles, 24
Nathaniel, 25
Morrill ancestry, 1036
Abraham, 1036
Albert H, 103S
Henry A., 1037
Isaac, 1037
Jacob, 1037
Paul, 1037
Samuel, 1037
Morris ancestry, 74, 244
Calvin L., 74
Isaac, 74, 244
William P., 244
Morse ancestry, 302, 541, 1079
David, 542
Ephraim, 542
George, 302
James, 1080
John, 302
Jonathan, 542
Joseph, 1079
Joseph, Capt, 1080
Samuel, 1079
Thomas, 1080
William, 541
Morton ancestry, 1586
Arthur O., 1588
Eleazer, 1587
Ephraim, 1587
George, 1586
Henry G., 1588
Ichabod, 1587
James L., 1587
Nathaniel, 1587
Mosher, Albert B., 1665
William A., 1665
Moses ancestry, 2205
Caleb, 2205
John, 2205
Luther, 2205

Luther M., 2206
Michael, 2205
Moss ancestry, 343
Charles H, 343
Hamlet, 3 43
Thomas, 343
William E., 343
Moulton ancestry, 918, 2303
Benjamin P., 2307
Chase, 919
David C, 2303
David P., 2307
Edward S., 920
Jacob, 2304
Jacob S„ 2306
James B., 920
John, 2303, 2304
Jonathan, 2304
Samuel S., 2303
Stephen, 919
Stephen C, 920
William, 918, 919
Mower ancestry, 1604
Curtis, 1604
Emory C, 1604
Jonathan, 1604
Marshall, 1604
Samuel, 1604
Mowry ancestry, 2110, 2300, 2355
Daniel, 2111, 2356
Elisha, 2111
Elisha C, 2112
Harris J., 2112
Henry, 2301
Ida R., 2113
Joseph, 2111, 2356
Nathaniel, 2110, 2301, 2355
Roger, 2300
Stephen, 2301
Uriah, 2301
William, 2111
Mudge ancestry, 2265
Enoch, 2266
Enoch R., 2267
Henry H., 2268
John, 2265, 2266
Thomas, 2265
Munro ancestry, 415
Bennett, 416
Edward, 416
John B., 416
Wilfred H, 417
William, 416
Munroe ancestry, 918, 1545, 2194
Addison P., 1546
Barden, 918, 1546
Bennett, 2194
Edward, 2194
John, 1546
Philip A., 1546
Stephen, 1546
Thomas, 1546
William, 1545, 2194
Murdock ancestry, 1323
Benjamin, 1324
Edgar W., 1325
Elisha, 1324
Fuller, 1324
Herbert T., 1324
John, 1324
Lewis H., 1324
Moses T., 1324
Robert, 1323
Murray ancestry, 1331
George G., 1331
James, 1331
James M., 1331
Nedeau ancestry, 458
Alexis, 458
Cleophas, 458
Nevers, John G., 241
Samuel, 242
Newcomb ancestry, 61, 1133, 2013
Andrew, 61, 62
Benjamin, 2012
Ebenezer, 2012
Eliakim A., 2013
Elymas S., 2013
Francis, 2012
Hezekiah, 1133
Jonathan, 2012
Leo A., 2013
Peter, 2012
Simon, 62
Solomon, 2012
Newton ancestry, 1729, 2323
David, 1730
Henry, 2325
Isaac, 2323

John, 1730
John C, 2324
Louis S., 1731
Roger, 1730
Samuel, 1729, 1730
Sheldon, 1730
William K., 2324
Nichols ancestry, 981
Israel, 982
Richard, 981, 982
Samuel, 982
Nicholson ancestry, 2121
George, 2125
Paul C, 2125
Samuel M., 2124
Stephen, 2123
Stephen B., 2123
Thomas, 2121
William, 2121
Nickerson ancestry, 1122
Edward I., 1123
Israel, 1123
John, 1123
Lyra B., 1124
Mulford, 1123
Nicholas, 1123
Sparrow H, 1123
William, 1122
Nightingale ancestry, 135, 491, 928
George C, 929
Horatio R., 492
Jeremiah, 135
Joseph, 491
Joseph, 928, 929
Josiah, 135
Samuel, 491, 929
Simeon, 135
William, 491, 928
Niles ancestry, 777, 2009
Albert A., 2010
Barnabas, 2010
Charles A., 779
Charles C, 779
Chester S., 778
George H, 778
¦Increase, 778
John, 777, 778, 2009
Nathan, 778
Peter, 778
Salmon, 2010
Samuel, 2009
Thomas, 2009
Noble ancestry, 686
Asahel, 687
David, 687
Eli, 690
Elisha, 688
Guy C, 691
Harmon, 689
•Henry H, 689
John, 687, 690
Mark, 690
Ransom, 628
Robert, 690, 691
Sylvester C, 691
Thomas, 686
Norris ancestry, 1032, 2091
Ezra, 1034
Henry M., 1036
John, 2091
John H„ 1035
Jonathan, 1033
Maria D., 2093
Moses, 1033
Nicholas, 1032
Oliver, 2091
Samuel, 2091, 2092, 2093
Thomas, 2091
Norton ancestry, 16, 789
Benjamin, 17
Daniel, 17
Elijah A., 790
Elisha, 789
Joseph, 17, 789
Nathan, 7S9
Nathan A., 790
Nathan J., 790
Nicholas, 16
Solomon, 17
Thomas, 789
William E., 18
Nowland ancestry, 470
James, 470
Martin, 470
Mary P., 471
Noyes ancestry, 129, 2015
Breed, 2016
Charles E., 130
Cutting, 130
Edward L., 2016

NEW ENGLAND

xxi

James, 2015, 2016
John, 2016
Joseph, 130
Josiah, 130
Josiah M., 130
Lucius H„ 2016
Moses, 130
Nicholas, 129
Oliver, 2016
William, 129, 2015
O'Brien, Thomas, 1330
Thomas E., 1331
O'Dell, Hiram, 1969
Hiram W„ 1969
Hiram M., 1970
Olney ancestry, 315, 1134
Alfred, 317
Cyrus, 925
Elam, 1134
Ezra, 925
Frank F., 1134
Ira, 925
Joseph, 316
Mary E., 317
Stephen, 317, 1134
Thomas, 315, 316, 925, 1133,
1134
Ordway ancestry, 1660
Charles D., 1660
George W., 1660
James, 1660
John, 1660
Ormsby ancestry, 2187
Jeremiah, 218S
John, 2188
Jonathan, 2188
Joseph H., 2188
Richard, 2187
Orvis ancestrv, 1509, 1511
Edward C, 1511
Franklin H, 1510
George, 1509
George A., 1511
Levi C, 1510
Paul W., 1511
Samuel, 1509
Waitstill, 1509
William, 1509
William F., 1511
O'Sullivan ancestry, 1869
Daniel, 1870
John, 1870
Rev. William J., 1871
Otis ancestry, 2212
David, 2213
John, 2212, 2213
Joseph, 2213
Nathaniel, 2213
Orin F., 2214
Samuel A., 2214
Orr ancestry, 2272
Adelbert F., 2273
Adelbert L., 2273
William, 2273
Packard ancestry, 764
Sheppard, 764
Washington, 764
Page ancestry, 287
Daniel, 287
Samuel T., 287
Sherman D., 287
Paine ancestrv, 256, 501, 612
Arnold, 502
Benjamin, 502
Daniel U, 257
Joshua, 257
John, 502, 503
John J., 503
Leon G., 258
Nathaniel, 612
Samuel, 257
Stephen, 501, 502, 612
Thomas, 256
Uriah, 257
Palmer ancestry, 284, 419, 2086
Bezaleel, 2087
Gideon, 422
John, 420, 2086, 2087
Jonathan, 284
Moses, 420
Offin B., 284
Richard, 422
Richard P., 420
William, 419, 420
Park ancestry, 1336
Anna C, 1338
Edward, 1336, 1337
Luther, 1338

Nathan, 1337
Richard, 1337
Thomas, 1337
William, 1337
Parker ancestry, 621, 1543, 1616,
1927, 2016
Aaron, 622
Abel, 1544
Arthur H, 624
Benjamin, 2017
Charles, 2017, 2019
Earl E., 2070
Edmund, 1617
Edmund L., 1618
Ernest L., 1618
Gideon, 1544
Harry H. E., 2018
Henrv, 622
Henry B., 624
James, 1544
James F., 1545
John, 1544, 1617, 2016
John G., 1544
John L., 1618
Jonas, 1617
Josiah, 1544
Lemuel, 1927
Levi, 1928, 2017
Nathaniel, 621, 1617
Phineas, 1617
Reuben, 2017
Richard F., 1928
Samuel, 1927
Silas, 2017
Solomon, 1927
Thomas, 621, 1616, 2016
Timothy, 621, 622
Willis M., 1928
Parkhurst ancestry, 2352
Elisha, 2352
Elisha E., 2352
George, 2352
John, 2352
Partridge ancestrv, 1396
Edward M., 1397
Herbert E., 1397
John, 1396
Reuben, 1397
Samuel, 1397
Patch ancestry, 714
Edith M., 716
James, 714
John, 714
Joseph, 715
Nathan, 715
Salome, 717
William W„ 715, 716
Pattee ancestry, 1592, 1935
Asa C, 1935
David R., 1935
Frederick B., 1594
Fred O., 1594
George H, 1593 i
James P., 1594
Jed L., 1593
Laban L., 1593
Laommi, 1593
Peter, 1592
Richard, 1593
Weston A., 1935
Patterson ancestry, 1280
Ansel, 1280
Charles E., 1281
James H, 12S0
Paul ancestry, 1739
Ebenezer, 1739
Luther, 1739, 1740
Luther G., 1740
Richard, 1739
Samuel, 1739
Payne ancestry, 632
Aldrich, 633
Benjamin, 632
Gilbert H., 633
Noah, 632
Stephen, 632
Peaks ancestry, 2021
Archibald G„ 2022
Israel, 2022
Josiah F., 2022
Justin H, 2022
William, 2021, 2022
Pearce ancestry, 926, 997
Benjamin, 997
Benoni, 927
Daniel, 927
Earl D., 997
Edward, 927
Edward D., 997
Henry, 927, 928

John, 926
Nathaniel, !I27
Pearse ancestrv, 220
Nathaniel, 221
Richard, 220, 221
Robert, 221
Robert M., 221
Robert R., 221
Pease ancestry, 325
Daniel, 326
Hermon L., 327
Isaac, 326
Israel, 326
John, 326
Leroy, 327
Levi, 327
Robert, 326
Peck ancestry, 31, 423, 1261, 1298,
1693, 1761
Allen, 1261
Allen O., 1262
Asa, 32
Benjamin, 1261
Elizabeth A., 1213
Ellen O., 1263
Ellis, 32
Frederick S., 34
Jathniel, 1761
John, 424, 1298
John M., 1299
Jonathan, 425
Joseph, 31, 424, 1693, 1761
Leander R., 33
Maria S., 1262
Mary T., 1262
Nathaniel, 31, 32
Nicholas, 425, 1693
Robert, 1693
Samuel, 1261
Solomon, 32
Peckham ancestry, 1856, 2252
Caleb, 2252
Daniel, 1856
John, 1856, 2252
Philip, 2252
Samuel, 1856
Thomas, 1856, 2252
Thomas C, 1857
Peirce ancestry, 352, 972
Barnard, 1330
Charles M., 972
Edward, 355
Edward M., 355
Giles, 353, 354, 355
John, 353
John B., 353
John P., 354
Richard, 352
Thomas J., 354
Thomas J. H, 972
William C, 972
Pelletier ancestry, 244
Cyril, 244
Ludger I., 245
Thomas H, 24 4
Pelton ancestry, 670
Ephraim, 671
Henry, 671
John, 670
Lyman E., 671
Rollin M„ 672
Samuel, 670
Perkins ancestry, 745, 824, 1304
Abraham, 746, 824, 1304
Asa, 1305
David, 1304
Frederick T., 747
George H., 747
Jacob, 745
James, 825
John, 745, 1305
John B., 746
Jonathan, 746
Luke, 824
Matthew, 7 46
Merritt G, 1305
Perrine, George H., 84S
Rosetta L., 848
Perry ancestry, 139, 207, 896, 1696,
1701
Arthur, 1699
Arthur L., 1699
Benjamin, 895
Chadbourne W., 140
Chancv S., 1701
Charles, 1696, 1698
David. 139
Edward, 1695
Ezra. 895
Harvey C, 1699

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NEW ENGLAND

Henry O., 139
Henry W., 141
James, 896
James, Dr., 896
John, 1699, 1700
Jonathan P., 896
Joseph, 1700
Joseph T., 207
Lewis F., 896
Nathaniel, 895
Samuel, 1695, 1696
Simeon, 1696
Simeon F., 1698
Thatcher, 1701
Thomas, 1696, 1698, 1699
William, 207, 1700
Phelps ancestry, 1378
Edward, 1378
John, 1378
Levi W., 1379
Peter, 1379
Phetteplace ancestry, 425
Asel, 426
Eliakim, 426
Jonathan, 426
Philip, 425
Walter, 426
Phillips ancestry, 311, 509, 982,
1466, 2239
Charles, 1466
David, 2240
David G., 2240
Eugene F., 982, 2240
Eugene R., 2241
George R., 509
Gilman, 311
Jeremiah, 2240
Jeremy, 2240
John, 508
Joseph, 2240
Josephine J., 982
Lucy T., 509
Metaphor, 311
Michael, 2239
Winfield S., 1466
Pickard ancestry, 1446
Amos, 1446
Enoch E., 1446
Jeremiah, 1446
John, 1446
Joseph, 1446
Samuel, 1446
Warren D., 1447
Pierce ancestry, 38, 359, 1329, 1363,
1526, 1548, 1809, 2214
Abel, 1527
Abel A., 1527
Anthony, 1364
Azrikim, 39, 360
Barnard, 1330
Benjamin, 2215
Calvin, 39
Charles W., 1811
Daniel, 1364, 1527
David, 2214
Duane C, 1365
Edwin, 1365
Eli, 1365
Ephraim, 39, 360, 1330, 1364,
1549, 1810
Frank W., 1812
Freeman A., 1527
Galen, 1330
Isaac, 1549, 1S10
James L., 2215
Jeremiah, 1330
John, 1363, 1527
Joseph, 39, 360
Joshua, 1330
Josiah, 1527
Levi, 1811
Levi L., 1811
Lewis W., 361
Mial, 1330, 1549, 1810
Michael, 38, 360, 1329, 1548,
1809
Nathan, 361, 1549, 1810, 2214
Nathan G., 361
Nathaniel, 360
Peter, 38
Richard, 38
Samuel, 2214
Stephen, 39
Thomas, 1526
Waterman, 1549
Pierson ancestry, 1207
Henry, 1207
Job, 1207, 1208
Lemuel, 1207
Philip T. H., 1208

Samuel, 1207
Theodore, 1207
Pike ancestry, 1919
David, 1920
James, 1919, 1920
Jonas, 1920
Onesiphorus, 1920
William, 1920
William C, 1920
Pindell, John R., 2164
Lyman J., 2164
Pingree ancestry, 939
Aaron, 940, 941
Daniel, 940
David A., 941
Job, 940
John, 940
Lydia M., 943
Moses, 939
Parker P., 940
Samuel E., 942
Stephen, 941, 942
William, 941
William S., 944
Plummer ancestry, 1772
Daniel, 1772
David, 1772
Francis, 1772
Joseph, 1772
Micajah, 1773
Moses, 1773
Osgood, 1773
Pollard ancestry, 1367
Don C, 1369
James A., 1369
Joseph, 13 68
Moses, 1368
Roland P.. 1368
Thomas, 1368
William, 1367
William S., 1370
Pomeroy ancestry, 881
Caleb, 881, 882
Elijah, 882
Eltweed, 881
Enoch, 882
Henry C, 882
Jesse, 882
Samuel, 881
Pomroy ancestry, 883
Charles C, 884
Cyrus, 883
Pond ancestry, 364
Daniel, 364
Ephraim, 364
Pool ancestry, 833, 1723
Harrison, 833, 1723
Horace M., 833, 1723
John, 833, 1723
Poole ancestry, 822, 1880
Alva P., 823
Benjamin F., 826
Charles, 1881
Edward, 822, 823
Franklin, 826
Harriet E., 827
Horace A., 823
John, 826, 1S80, 1881
Jonathan, 1881
Joseph, 822, 825
Micah, 826
Nahum A., 823
Samuel, 822, 823
Samuel P., 823
Thomas, 1881
William E., 1881
Porter ancestry, 339, 1335
Daniel, 339
David, 1335
Epaphras, 1336
Hezekiah, 1335
John, 1335
John L., 339
Samuel, 1335
Post ancestry, 679
Abraham, 679, 680
Curtis M., 680
Major, 680
Nathan N, 681
Stephen, 679
William, 680
Potter ancestry, 56, 209, 952, 1312,
1628, 1904, 2063, 2308
Abel, 1904, 2308
Albert E., 1629
Albert T, 1628
Amelia, 58
Anthony, 209
Benjamin, 2308
Dexter B., 1314

Edwin C, 953
Fenner, 2064
George, 56, 57, 1904, 2308
George E., 210
Ichabod, 2063
James, 210
James A., 1905
Jeremiah, 1313
John, 1313, 1904, 2063
John G., 210
Joseph, 57
Joseph H, 57
Nathaniel, 2063
Nicholas, 952
Robert, 952, 1313
Robert T., 57
Samuel, 209
Samuel J., 2064
Solomon, 209
Thaddeus, 952
Theophilus, 952
Thomas, 56, 1904
Zuriel, 1906, 2308
Powel ancestry, 463, 1770
John H, 463, 464
Pemberton H., 465
N Samuel, 1770
Powers ancestry, 1538, 1591
Daniel, 1591
Dennis O., 1592
Edgar J., 1592
Ezekiel, 1538, 1539
Joel, 1591
Josiah, 1538
Mark, 1539
Morton H, 1592
Norman C, 1539
Peter, 1591
Samson, 1591
Smiley S., 1592
Walter, 1538
Pratt ancestry, 840
Charles A., 841
David, 840
George G., S41
John, S41
Solomon, 840
Prescott ancestry, 117
John, 117
Jonas, 117, 118
Timothy, 118
Preston ancestry, 2190
Elizabeth L., 2194
James H, 2192
John, 2191
Julius H. 2192
Roger, 2191
Samuel,. 2191
Silas, 2191
Prevost ancestry, 1818
Charles A., 1819
Francis, 1819
Julius, 1819
Melasipe, 1819
Punshon, John W., 1130
Thomas B., 11,30
Putnam ancestry, 7, 1075
Benjamin, 10
Benjamin W., 1078
Caleb, 1078
Caleb S., 1079
Daniel, 10
Ebenezer, 1077
George H., 12
George P., 11
Henry, 10
Herbert, 13
Jacob, 1078
John, 1076
Leander, 1078
Nathaniel, 9
Seth, 1077, 1078
Sydney C, 1079
Thomas, 1076, 1077
Putney ancestry, 1648
John, 1648
Rackliffe ancestry, 298, 304
Alanson, 298
Benjamin, 298
Bertrand R., 299
Elbridge H., 304
Henry B., 304
J. Henry, 304
Rafford, Charles, 2226
John, 2226
Randall ancestry, 96
Charles, 96
George W., 96
William H, 96

Randolph ancestry, 20S7
Peyton, 2088
Richard K., 2088
William, 2087, 2088
Ransom ancestry, 2209, 2238
Amasa, 2210, 2238
George, 2210
George M., 2239
• George P., 2210
Jared, 2238
Joseph, 2209
Joshua, 223S
Matthew, 2209
Matthew J., 2210
Robert, 2209, 2210, 2238
Samuel, 2210
Warren G., 223S
Rawson ancestrv, 68, 405, 1053
Abner, 1054
David, 68, 405
Edmund, 1054
Edward, OS, 405
Grindal, 406, 407, 1053
Harriet E., 410
Henry G., 408
Henry M., 407
Joseph, 407
Wilson, 406
Ray ancestry, 1444
Abel, 1445
Amos, 144 5
John C, 1445
Jonathan, 1445
Joshua, 1444
Myron H, 1445
Samuel, 1145
Razee ancestrv, 1030
Alice A., 1031
Arion M., 1031
Anthony, 1030
Benjamin, 1030
Joseph, 1030
Stafford W., 1030
Whipple, 1030
Read ancestry, 1588
Benjamin, 15S8
Benjamin C, 1589
George, 1588
George E., 1589
Solomon, 1588
Reed ancestry, 932, 1565, 2080
Amos N., 2082
Amos S., 2081
Asa, 932
Daniel, 2081
Ezekiel S., 1566
Francis, 1567
George, 1565
Levi, 932
Samuel, 1566
Thomas, 2081
William, 1565, 1566, 2080
Woodbury A., 933
Remington ancestry, 554
Enoch, 555
John, 554, 555
Joseph, 555
William H, 555
Reynolds ancestry, 58, 697, 1127,
2219
Abraham, 1898
Albert, 697
Charles W., 1129
Edwin H, 53
Eldred, 5 8
Henry, 53
Henry R., 58
Isaac, 1898
James, 52, 697
John, 53, 58, 1898
Joseph, 53, 1127
Lucian B., 58
Lucy W., 54
Luke, 1128
Luther C, 1128
Nathaniel, 1127, 2200
Oral M., 59
Orrin A., 1128
Orrin L., 1129
Robert, 53, 2200
Thomas, 1127
Walter S., 697
William, 52
Rhodes ancestry, 510, 821, 1008
Charles, 1009
Edward S., 821
Elisha H., 1009
Elisha H, Gen., 1010
Holden, 511
John, 511

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Nehem'ah, 821
Peter, 1009
William, 821
William N„ 821
Zachariah, 510, 1008
Rice ancestry, 550, 1571, 1729,
1738
Abel, 1571
Albert M., 1729
Alfred, 1729
Benedict, 1571
Bezaleel, 1739
David, 1739
Edmund, 1738
Elisha, 1739
Henry, 1738
Herbert A., 552
John, 550, 1739
Joshua P., 551
Josiah, 1739
.Marcus M., 1572
Micah, 1729
Randall, 550
Randall H„ 551
Richard, 550
Robert, 1571
Ruez H, 1729
Samuel, 1571
Silas, 1572
Titus, 1572
Rich ancestrv, 1328
Davis W., 1329
Richard, 1328
Stephen J., 1329
Stephen S., 1329
Thomas, 1329
Richards ancestry, 19, S96
Abiathar, 897
Edward, 896
Isaac, 19
Isaac S., 20
John, 896, 897
Joseph, 19
Joseph T., 20
Nathaniel, 19
Silvanus, 897
Thomas, 19, 20
Richardson ancestrv, 133, 299,
1299, 1392, 1978
Alton E., 1659
Amos, 1978, 1979
Chester G., 300
Frances S., 1659
Frederick A., 1301
Ira, 1979
Isaiah, 1300
James, 133
John, 1299, 1300
Joseph, 1393
Lemuel, 1979
Lewis S., 1394
Nahum, 134
Nahum A., 134
Nathan, 1300, 1393
Nathaniel, 1393
Orville H, 1979
Ralph, 1393
Robert W., 29:<
Samuel, 1300
Serrel A., 1393
Stephen, 1978
Thomas, 1392
William F., 1301
Richmond ancestry, 55, 1721, 1743,
1749, 1753, 2219
Alfred W., 834
Apollos, 1721
Charles F., 1722
Edward, 56, 903, 1743
George M., 1751
Henry, 833, 1721
Henry P.. 1744. 1745
Horace, 1722
Howard, 1751
Job, 1721
John, 55, 2219
John R., 1744
Joseph, 1753
Josiah, 56, 833, 1753
Lucian A., 834
Lucius, 1722
Peleg, 1744
Perez, 1744
Peter B., 1753
Philo W., 1721
Russell W„ 1745
Samuel N, 1750
Silvester, 1743
Sylvester, 1749, 1750
Walker, 833
William H, 1744

Ricker ancestry, 563
Joseph, 563
Joshua, 563
Maturin, 563
Nathan, 564
Orson, 563
William, 564
William A., 501
William G., 564
Rideout ancestry, 80, 295
Abraham, 80
Elijah S„ 296
Ezekiel, 296
Jacob, 80
Jephtha, 295
Ripley ancestry, 1018
Benjamin W „ 1018
James M., 1019
William, 1018
Roberts ancestry, 1203
Christopher, 1204
John, 1203
John P., 1204
Peter, 1203
Susan S., 1204
Robertson ancestry, 1401
Charles E„ 1102
George, 1401
John, 1402
Louis J., 1402
William, 1401
Robie ancestiy, 803
George A., 804
Henry, 803, 804
Ichabod, 803, 804
Jeremiah S., S04
John, 803
Louis S., 804
Thomas, 803
Robinson ancestry, 423, 433, 914,
1214, 1516
Amos, 914
Arthur W., 1517
Edward H, 1215
Elijah, 434
James, 1215
John, 434
Rowland, 423, 1214
Stephen, 914
Sylvester, 1215
Thomas T., 1516
Warren, 914
William, 423, 434, 1215, 1516
William A., 1215
Rockwood ancestry, 1643
Edward O., 1645
Elisha, 1643, 1644
George I., 1645
Nathaniel, 1643
Nicholas, 1643
Otis, 1644
Richard, 1613
Rodman ancestry, 694
Albert, 696
Charles, 696
Clarke, 695
Franklin, 696
John, 694
Robert, 695
Robert F., 696
Samuel, 695
Thomas, 694
Walter, 696
Rogers ancestry, 26 4
Justin N., 264
Noah, 264
Walter D., 264
Root ancestry, 335
Joshua, 335
Solomon, 335
William B., 335
Rose ancestry, 1499
Edward, 1499
Timothy, 1499
Ross ancestry, 619, 774
George, 774
Henry H., 775
James, 619, 774
Jonathan, 620
Jonathan, Hon., 620
Roger, 620
Royal, 620
Thomas, 619, 620
Royce ancestry, 590
David, 590
Gershom, 591
Philip, 591
Rublee ancestry, 800
Charles C, 800
Chauncey M„ 800
George C. 801

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NEW ENGLAND

Luman, 800
William, 800
Rugg ancestry, 775
Daniel, 775
John, 775
Levi, 775
Rumrill ancestry, 1988
•Clinton J., 1989
Edwin J., 1989
Joseph, 1988, 1989
Simon, 1988
Rush ancestry, 2169
Charles J., 2170
John, 2170
John D., 2169
Russell ancestrv, 953, 1943
Albert P., 954
Charles S., 1945
George A., 955
James, 953, 1945
John, 1944
Nathan, 954
Philip, 953, 1944
Rufus, 1945
Samuel, 954
Stephen, 1945
Thomas, 1945
William, 953, 954
William R., 1945
Ryan, James, 567
John H., 567
Ryder ancestry, 1353
Daniel A., 1353
Eleazer, 1353
Herbert D., 1353
Jotham, 1353
William, 1353
Sackett ancestry, 1688
Adnah, 1688
Frederic M., 1688
John, 16SS
Safford ancestrv, 1523
Jesse, 1524
John, 1524
Noah, 1524
Noah B„ 1524
Philip, 1523, 1524
Thomas, 1523, 1524
Salisbury ancestry, 493
Charles M., 495
Edgar W., 495
Jonathan, 494
Levi, 495
Oliver, 494
William, 494
Sanderson ancestry, 1596
Corbin L., 1598
George H., 1598
Hiram, 1597
John, 1597
Joseph, 1597
Lerov T., 1598
Robert, 1596
Truman S., 1598
William, 1597
Sanford ancestry, 288
Peleg, 288
Wiliam, 288
Sargent ancestry, 956
Amasa, 958
Frederick W., 959
Isaac F., 957
Jonathan, 956
Mark J., 957
Philip, 956
Robert, 958
Stephen, 958
Thomas, 958
William, 956, 957
Wiliam B.. 957
William M„ 958
Saunders ancestry, 1574
Benjamin, 1574
Daniel, 1575
Harry L., 1575
John P., 1575
Julia W.. 487
Nathan, 1575
Tobias, 1574
Sayles ancestry, 1913
Ahab, 1914
Clark, 1915
Frederic C, 1915, 1917
Israel, 1914
John, 1913, 1914
Richard, 1914
Robert W , 1917
William F., 2210
Schaer. Arnold, 1957

Schermerhorn ancestry, 612
Arnout, 613
John, 613
Peter, 613
Svmon, 613
William C, 613
Schofield ancestry, 308
Daniel, 308
John L„ 308
Scofield ancestry, 1569
Columbus S., 1569
Edwin, 1569
Eleazer, 1569
Frank L., 1571
Jeremiah, 1571
John, 1569, 1570
John B., 1570
Lorenzo D., 1570
Sewell, 1569
Scribner ancestry, 202
Caleb W., 203
Daniel, 202, 203
John, 202
Margaret E., 203
Thomas, 202
Seal, Mary E„ 706
Thomas J., 706
Searles ancestry, 1497
Almon, 1498
Charles A., 1498
John, 1498
John E., 1498
John R., 1499
Robert, 1497, 1498
Salter, 1498
Sessions ancestry, 1023
Alexander, 1023
Anna M., 1025
Darius, 1024
Nathaniel, 1023
Thomas, 1024
Sewall ancestry, 427
David, 428
Fred S., 429
Henry, 427
John, 427
Levi, 428
Samuel, 427, 428
William, 427
William W., 428
Shapleigh ancestry, 1120
Alexander, 1120
Alfred L., 1122
Augustus F., 1121
Elisha, 1120
John, 1120
Nicholas, 1120
Richard W., 1121
Sharpe ancestry, 2131
Caleb, 2132
Henry D., 2133
Isaac, 2132
John, 2131
Lucian, 2132
Robert, 2131
Wilkes, 2132
William, 2132
Shaw ancestry, 345, 357, 368, 1847
Abraham, 368
Benjamin, 368
Edward, 357
George E., 357, 358
George S„ 1847
George W., 358
James, 345, 357
John, 368
John P., 346
Joseph, 369
Joseph A., 370
Linus H, 369
Mary E., 1847
Robert, 371
•Robert K, 371
Samuel, 369
Shedd ancestry, 964
Charles E., 967
Daniel, 964
Edward W., 967
Jacob, 965
Joel, 965
Joel H, 966
Nathan, 964, 965
Sheldon ancestry, 468, 1781
Benjamin, 1782
Charles M., 1782
Harriet S., 1782
Isaac, 1782
Jeremiah, 468
John, 468
Nicholas, 468, 469

Rebecca O., 469
William, 1781
William H, 1782
Shepard ancestry, 519, 1235
Asa, 519
Eben, 519
Isaac, 519
Josiah, 519
Otis, 1236, 1238
Ralph, 519, 1235, 1236
Samuel, 519, 1236
Thomas, 1235
Shepardson ancestry, 874
Ansel, 875
Daniel, 874, 875
David A., 876
Francis W., 876
Frederick H., S76
Joel, 876
John, 875
Nathaniel, 875
Shepley ancestry, 749
George L., 749
John, 749
Sherman ancestry, 59, 198, 230,
1782, 2060
Alfred, 231
Alfred E„ 231
Benajah, 230
Benjamin, 230
Caleb, 19S
Charles W., 199
Daniel, 1783
Eber, 59
Emma G.. 59
Henry, 59, 1782
John P., 1783
John S., 2060
Jonathan, 230
Nathaniel, 59
Peleg, 1783, 2060
Peleg B., 230
Philip, 230, 1783
Ring, 198
Samuel, 198, 1783, 2060
Silas, 2060
Thomas, 1783
Walter N, 59
William, 198
William C, 59
Sherry ancestry, 351
James, 352
John W., 352
Samuel, 352
Shorey ancestry, 1607
Abel, 1607
Alanson, 1608
Erton E., 1608
George, 1608
John, 1607
Miles, 1607
Shufelt ancestry, 866
Howard H, 867
Joseph P., 867
Peter, 867
Simmons ancestry, 422, 1453, 1554
Comfort, 1453
Edward, 422, 1554
George W., 1453
John, 422, 1554
Jonathan, 423, 1554
Joseph, 1554
Moses, 422, 1554
Nathan, 1554
Smith B., 1453
Thomas, 1453
William, 422, 1554
Simmonds ancestrv, 1201
David, 1202
David K., 1203
Elijah, 1202
John, 1201
Samuel, 1201
William, 1202
Sisson ancestry, 506, 2313
Asa, 506, 507
Charles, "507
David, 2314
Frank H, 2315
George, 2314
Henry T., 2314
James, 506, 2314
Joseph, 506, 2314
Richard, 506, 2313
Skiff ancestry, 1125
Henry G., 1126
James, 1125, 1126
Nathan, 1126
Stephen, 1126

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xxv

Stephen D., 1126
Vinal, 1126
Skinner ancestry, 1286, 1771
Amos, 1287
Clark J., 1287
Ezra, 1771
Henry A., 1772 '
Henry H., 1772
Hewitt, 1771
Josiah, 12S7
John, 1771
John C, 1288
Samuel, 1287
Thomas, 1286, 1287
Slade ancestry, 905, 1550
John, 905
Lloyd, 1550
Obadiah, 1550
Samuel, 90 6
William, 905
William L., 1550
Slater ancestry, 1845
George B., 1845
Samuel, 1845
William, 1845
Slayton ancestry, 220S
Leland, 2209
Samuel, 2209
Thomas, 2208
Slocum ancestry, 2007, 2241
Abel, 2243
Anthonv, 2241
Appelles, 2008
•Charles H, 2009
Ebenezer, 2242
Giles, 2242
Nelson, 2008
Orson, 2009
Samuel, 22 42
Simon, 2007
Smalley ancestry, 1408
Benjamin, 1408
David, 1408
Edward, 1408
Erastus, 1408
Francis, 1408
Fred O., 1409
James, 1408
Orren E., 1409
Smith ancestry, 91, 444, 556, 588,
834, 862, S92, 901, 1096, 1790,
2056, 2303
Alfred H, 894
Andrew, 863
Area, 445
Benjamin, 444, 589
Charles, 836
Chileab, 1790
Clarence L., 864
Daniel, 557
Daniel W., 461
David F., 864
Ebenezer, 893
Edwin A., 92
Edwin J., 2206
Elisha, 2303
Ellen M., 1869
Eva A., 2320
Everett. K, 901
Ezekiel, S93, 894
George S., 2320
George W., 894
George W., 901
Harry C, 2206
Harry L., 462
Henry, 588
Hosea, 91
Huntington, 1064
Isaac G, 838
Isaiah D., 91
James, 93, 862
James H, 1073
Jesse, 2303 n „ .„
John, 461, 556, 836, 892, 2056,
2303
Jonathan, 1791
Joseph, 5S9, S93, 901
Julia E„ 838
Leonard S., 1073
Martin, 55 7
Moses, 1790
Nathaniel J., 94
Nehemiah, 834, 8 3d
Newell D-, 93
Orlando, 836
Orlando R., S3*
Paul, 1791
Pitts. 557
Ralph L., 1064
Richard, 557

Robert E., 902
Robert S., 461
Rufus, 444
Samuel, 93, 588, 1096, 1790
Samuel W., 1096
Shubel, 836
Simon, 1096
Thomas, 892
William, 557, 2056
William S., 1791
Willis, 864
Smyth ancestrv, 588
Royal, 589
Wavland R., 590
William E., 590
Snow ancestry, 1373
Amos W., 1374
Benjamin, 1374
James, 1374
Joseph, 1374
Sarah J., 1375
William, 1373
Soule ancestry, 163
Barnabas, 164
Benjamin, 164, 165
Benjamin F„ 165
George, 163
John, 164
Moses, 164
Southard ancestry, 639
Benjamin, 640
Constant, 639, 640
Edward, 639, 640
Herbert E., 641
John, 640
Silas, 641
Thomas, 640
• Sparks ancestry, 1284
Charles E., 1284
Ebenezer, 1284
Herbert C, 1285
Thomas, 1284
William K., 1285
Sparrow ancestry, 1082, 1417
Jackson W., 1082
James, 1417
Richard, 1417
William, 1417
Spaulding ancestry, 658, 911
Albert C, 662
Andrew, 660, 661
Bezaleel B., 660
Cyrus M., 662
Dexter, 663
Edward, 658
Edward M., 660
Eleazer, 662
Frank D., 662
Henry, 911
Hosea, 661
James, 661
Jason L., 663
John, 659, 662
Jonathan, 661
Leonard, 663
Leonard D., 663
Levi, 912
Lewis H, 663
Reuben, 659
Richard M., 658
Samuel, 659
Thomas, 912
Uriah, 659
Spear ancestry, 88, 856
Ebenezer, 89
Edmund, 89
Ernest A., 858
Forest L., 90
Fred F., 90
George, 88, 856, 857
George W., S58
Gideon, 89
John, S9, 856
Joseph, 89, 856
Joseph E., 89
Richard, 856
Richard A., 857
Spearin ancestry, 130
Charles H., 131
David, 131
John, 130
Samuel G„ 131
Spencer ancestry, 1332
Horatio N, 1332
Horatio N, Dr., 1333
Isaac, 1332
Isaac S., 1332
Israel, 1332
Jared, 1332
Samuel, 1332

Spofford ancestry. 1131
Alvah M., 1432
Artemas, 1432
-John, 1431, 1432
Jonathan, 1432
Samuel, 1432
Kpoonei- ancestry, 1793, 1970
Charles H., 1971
Daniel, 1793
Elizabeth, 1970
John, 1970
John A., 1971
Nathan, 1970
Samuel, 1793
Shearjashib, 1793
Stephen A„ 11171
William, 1793
Sprague ancestry, 813, 2165, 2232
Amasa, 816, 817, 2234
Amasa, Col., 816
Andrew, 2165, 2166
Benoni, 819
Bvron, 818
Daniel, 820
Daniel H., 820
Edward, 814, 2232
Ernest L., 821
Harriet B., 819
James L., 820
James W., 820
John, 820
Joshua, 2165
Peter, 814, 2233
Ralph, 819
Samuel, 819, 820, 2165
William, 814, 815, 816, 819,
2165, 2232, 2233, 2234
William, Gov., 817, 818, 2234,
2235
Stanard ancestry, 1177
Edwin O., 1178
Joseph, 1177
Obed, 1178
William, 1177
William K., 1179
Stanchfield ancestry, 301
Ivory N, 301
Solomon, 301
Standish ancestry, 1921
Alexander, 1921
Ebenezer, 1922
Moses, 1922
Myles, 1921
Otis, 1922
Richard H., 1922
William O., 1922
William W., 1922
Stanley ancestry, 601, 2006
Charles A., 604
Chauncey, 602
Eugene A., 2006
•John, 601, 604
John C, 2006
Jonathan, 601
Jonathan P., 602
Joseph, 603
Lyman, 604
Mark P., 602
Mathew, 601, 604
Samuel, 601
Saul, 601
Silas W., 602
William J. B., 2006
Stanton ancestry, 1268, 2142, 2253,
2255
Daniel, 2144, 2253
George F„ 126S
Joseph, 2143, 2253, 2254
Margaret D„ 1268
Samuel, 2144
Thomas, 2142, 2253, 2255,- 2256
William, 2255, 2256
Staples ancestry, 505
Abraham, 505
Jacob, 506
John, 505
Nathan, 506
Stark ancestry, 1766
Aaron, 1766
Daniel, 1766
James R., 1766
Jonathan, 1766
Stearns ancestry, 413, 711, 948,
1191, 1646
Abner, 1192
Charles, 1646
Daniel, 712
Edward, 1192
Edwin R., 1194
Ezra S., 713

XXVI

NEW ENGLAND

George A., 1647
George S., 1193
Henry A., 1193
Isaac, 413, 414, 711, 1191
Isaiah, 712
Jason C, 1647
John, 414, 948, 1192
Jonas, 949
Jonas B., 949
Joseph T., 950
Josiah, 948
Lyman, 949
Nathaniel, 712
Riley B., 949
Samuel, 414, 711, 712, 948,
1646
Shubael, 1646
Timothy, 1646, 1647
Timothy L., 1647
Stebbins ancestry, 673, 1059, 1637
Ebenezer, 673
Edward, 1637
Elisha, 673
George E., 674
John, 673, 1638
Joseph, 1059, 1060
Lemuel, 1638
Ralph, 673
Ralph S., 674
Rowland, 1059
Rowland, 1637
Thomas, 1059, 1637
Stedman ancestry, 1334
Charles J., 1335
George T., 1334
James, 1334
Thomas, 1334
Steele ancestry, 452, 944
Allyn, 454
George, 944
James, 944
John, 452, 453
Samuel, 453
Sanford, 945
Stephen, 944
Thomas, 453, 454
Thomas S., 454
Timothy C, 452
Zadoc, 945
Stephens ancestry, 291, 569
Alexander, 569
Charles, 291
Charles W„ 292
David, 291
George, 569
Stevens ancestry, 945, 1779, 2015,
2357
Amos, 2015
Arthur D., 94S
Charles, 2015
Charles H., 948
Cyprian, 947
Ezra, 2015
Genery, 946
George C, 2357
Jacob, 945
James, 2015
James R., 947
John, 1779, 2357
John M., 2015
Joseph, 947
Leverett, 2357
Leverett C, 2357
Oliver W., 947
Paul, 2358
Rufus, 2013
Samuel, 945, 1779
Samuel M., 946
non, 947
Jmas, 945, 2357
mlard, 947
William, 1779, 2357
Stewart ancestry, 1401, 1657
Alexander, 1401
Daniel, 1401
James, 1657
Robert, 1657
William D., 1657
Stimson ancestry, 391
George, 391
Jeremy, 391
John J., 391
Stiness ancestry, 2227
Edward C, 2229
George A., 2230
Henry W., 2231
John H„ 2230
Philip B., 2227, 2228
Samuel, 2227

Samuel G., 2228
Walter R., 2228
Stinson ancestry, 799
Galen H, 800
Henry A., 799
Samuel, 799
Stoddard ancestry, 1428
Increase B., 1429
Ira L., 1429
John, 1428
Robert, 1428
Stone ancestry, 731, 761, 2189
Abel, 762
Alma H., 1.079
Amos, 2190
Bingham H, 733
Charles, 2190
Charles B., 763
David, 731, 762
David T., 733
Enos, 763
Henry R., 1079
Hiram T., 733
Hugh, 2189
Isaac C, 733
John, 732, 762
Micah, 732
Micah H, 732
Peter, 2190
Robert G., 732
Simon, 762
Symond, 761
Stratton ancestry, 1857
George O., 1859
Nathaniel H, 1859
Samuel, 1858, 1859
Strong ancestry, 978
Daniel, 979
David, 979
Ebenezer, 979
John, 978, 979
Nathan M., 979
Stuart, Elizabeth A., 313
Studley ancestry, 636
Benjamin, 636, 637
Eliab, 637
John, 636
John E., 638
John M., 637
Zenas, 637
Sturges ancestry, 232
Howard, 233
Howard O., 232
Rush, 232
Thomas, 232
-Walter K, 232
Sumner ancestry, 886
George, 886
Joseph, 886
Roger, 886
Samuel, 886
William, 886
Sutton, Arthur B„ 1658
Charles E., 1658
Sweet ancestry, 43, 1713, 1902
Abijah B., 1903
Angell, 1903
Augustus, 1903
Benoni, 43, 1714
Byron W., 1903
Daniel C, 44
George M., 1715
Harriet M., 44
Harry C, 1715
James, 43, 1714
Jeremiah, 1714
Job. 43
John, 43, 1713, 1902
Jonathan, 1714
Matthew, 1903
Rufus, 43, 44, 1715
William, 1715
Sylvester ancestry, 78
David W., 78
Guy A., 79
Joseph, 78
Wilbert A., 78
Taft ancestry, 1049, 1993
Aaron, 1050
Alphonso, 1050
Charles C, 1994
Charles P., 1051
Gideon, 1994
John, 1993
Joseph, 1050
Peter, 1050
Peter R., 1050
Robert, 1049, 1993
Willard S., 1994

Taylor ancestry, 987, 1539
Cathleen, 988
Elijah, 1540
John, 1539
Jude, 987
Jude Jr.,- 988
Moses, 1539
Noah, 1540
Reuben, 1540
Teel ancestry, 1788
Benjamin G., 1788
Caleb, 1788
Mary A, 1789
Nathan, 1788
William, 1788
Temple ancestry, 128
Abraham, 128
Joseph, 128, 129
Levi, 129
Noah, 129
Richard, 128
Templeton ancestry, 1882
Adam, 1882
Hiram E., 1883
James, 1882
James. Rev., 1883
John, 1883
Percy L„ 1883
Tenney ancestry, 675
Ira, 676
John, 675, 676
Joseph, 676
Reuben, 676
Samuel, 676
Thomas, 675
Terry ancestry, 1634
Benjamin, 1634
Burgess P., 1635
Isaac, 1634
Moses, 1635
Seth, 1634
Thomas, 1634
Tewksbury ancestry, 1960
Amos B., 1962
Amos W., 1961
David, 1960, 1961
Edward W., 1962
Henry, 1960, 1961
Thalheimer ancestry, 1099
John, Rev., 1099
William B„ 1099
Thayer ancestry, 313, 331
Alexander, 315
Allen, 333
Ebenezer, 332, 333
Ferdinando, 314, 332
Henry J., 333
Isaac, 332
Johannes, 331
Richard, 332
Samuel, 333
Thomas, 314, 332
William, 315
Thibault ancestry, 2039
John B., 2039
Moses L., 2039
Nelson, 2039
Thomas ancestry, 1865
Andrew, 1865
David, 1865
Fred B., 1866
Gardner, 1865
Henry A., 1865
Israel, 1865
Thompson ancestry, 187, 238, 596,
1350, 1950, 1981
Alexander, 1950, 1951
Ambrose, 1981
Charles, 1982
Charles F., 19S2
Charles H., 1983
Daniel, 1951
George H., 1352
Horace, 1352
James, 187, 188, 596, 1350
1351, 1950, 1981
John, 238. 1981, 1982
•John E., 596
John S., 596
Joseph, 1982
Joshua, 187
Robert, 187
Samuel, 1352
Simon, 187, 1351
Solomon P., 238
William, 1351, 1982
William P., 1352
Zaccheus, 1352
Thornton ancestry, 2299
Jesse S., 2300

NEW ENGLAND

XXVU

Mancv, 2300
Richard, 2299
Simon, 2299
Thurber ancestry, 404, 925
Dexter, 404
James, 925
John, 98, 925
Samuel, 926
Thurlough ancestry, 127
Flora T., 128
Frederick, 127
James, 127
Reuben F., 128
Richard, 127
Thurston, Mary F., 2255
Tiffany ancestry, 511
Benjamin, 512
Humphrey, 511
James, 511
Thomas, 512
Tilley ancestry, 99, 899
George, 899
Harold L., 101
Henry, 100
Hiram H., 900
James, 100
John, 100, 899
Louis K., 101
Russell, 899
Samuel, 100
Silas H, 899
Walter, S99
William, 100
William T., 900
Tillinghast ancestry, 157, 562
Pardon, 157, 562
Philip, 157, 562
William, 662
Tillotson ancestry, 1641
Isaac, 1642
John, 1641, 1642
Lee S., 1642
Stephen O., 1642
William, 1641
Timothy, Daniel, 2157
Elkanah, 2157
Tinkham ancestry, 734, 1025
Amos, 734
Charles C, 735
Ellison, 1028
Ephraim, 734
Ernest W., 1027
Henry C, 735
Herbert L., 735
Hezekiah, 1025
John, 734, 735
Josiah, 735
Levi, 735
Mary L., 1029
Nehemiah, 1025
Peter, 734
Samuel S., 734
Seth, 734
William, 1025
Titcomb ancestry, 617
Daniel, 618
George A., 618
John, 618
John W., 619
William, 618, 619
Todd ancestry, 297
Alfred, 297
Arthur W., 298
Lorenzo D., 298
Tompkins ancestry, 1911
Micah, 1911
Nathaniel, 1911, 1912
Samuel, 1911
Towne ancestry, 50
Aaron, 51
Jacob, 50
John, 50
Jonathan, 51
Josiah, 51
William, 50
Trafton ancestry, 176, 432, 48U
Charles, 432
Herbert W., 177
John B„ 177
John F., 480
Mabel L., 480
Mark, 17 6
Wellington, 432
Trainor, John R, 158b
Patrick, 1586
Treadwell ancestry, 100 3
Edward, 1003
George B., 1004
Hezekiah, 'l003, 1004
John, 1003

Minor, 1004
Samuel, 1003
Sanford L., 1005
Truman ancestry, 561
Jonathan, 5 01
Joseph, 561
Nathan, i61
Nathan H., 562
Thomas, 561
Tupper ancestry, 1655
Frederick S., 1656
Israel, 1656
Jackson, 1656
Samuel, 1656
Thomas, 1655, 1656
Turner ancestry, 44 5
Haile T., 445
Thomas, 445
William, 445
Tuttle ancestry, 1355, 1387, 2225
Allison E., 1388
Burton B., 1357
Caleb, 1356
Chandler, 1357
Frank J., 2226
Hanson, 1388
John, 1387, 1388, 2225
John F., 2225
Jonah B., 1357
Solomon, 1356
Thaddeus, 2225
Thomas, 1356, 1388
William, 1355
Twitchell ancestrv, 794
Asa H, 795
Benjamin, 794
Ebenezer, 794, 795
Isaac J., 795
Joshua, 794
Tyler ancestry, 1486, 2302
Ebenezer, 2302
Job, 14S6, 1487, 2302
Moses, 1487
Parker, 1487
Phila B., 2303
Samuel, 2302
William, 2303
Tyzzer ancestry, 1198
George R., 1198
Josiah, 1198
Walter G., 1199
Updike ancestry, 54
Daniel, 54
Gilbert, 54
Ludowick, 54
Upham ancestry, 456
George C, 457
Jabez, 457
John, 456
Joshua, 457
Joshua C, 457
Phineas, 456, 457
Roscoe C, 458
Utter ancestry, 45
Abraham, 46
George B., 46, 48
George H, 47
Henry E„ 48
John, 46
Nicholas, 45
Thomas, 46
William, 46
Van Heusen ancestry, 266
Garrett A., 267
Harmen, 267
Jan, 267
Johannes, 267
Volkert, 267
Vaughan ancestry, 1173
Asa, 1174
Benjamin, 1174
George, 1174
Herman W., 1174
John, 1173
Julius C, 1174
Leonard, 1174
Robert, 1174
Whitman, 1174
Viall ancestry, 1689
Anson, 1690
Benjamin, 1690
John, 1689
Nathaniel, 1690
Richmond, 1690
William A., 1691
Viles ancestry, 2039
Jesse, 2040
Jesse S., 2040

Jesse Sumner, 2041
John, 2039, 2040
Vincent ancestry, 1707
Ezra, 1709
Nicholas, 1708
Walter B., 1709
William, 1708, 1709
William, Dr., 1708
Vose ancestry, 67, 2118
Edward F., 67
Eliza S., 67
Henry, 67, 2119
Jeremiah, 2119
Joseph, 2119
Joshua, 67
Lemuel, 67
Mary L., 68
Robert, 2118, 2119
Seth M., 2120
Thomas, 2119
Waite ancestry, 2019
Horace, 2019
Nathaniel, 2019
Smith, 2019
Smith B., 2019
Wakefield ancestry, 776, 2366
Aaron, 2366
Albert E„ 777
Frederick W, 777
George F., 777
James, 776
John, 776
John W., 777
Waldron ancestry, 170
Edward, 170
George, 170
John, 170
Richard, 171
Silas H., 171
William, 170
Wrales ancestry, 830
Joseph, 831
Nathaniel, 830
William, 831
Walker ancestry, 976, 1106, 1395,
1554, 2274
Alfred, 2275
Benjamin, 1106
David, 1554, 1555
Edward W., 1107
George W„ 2274
Gilbert, 1555
Horatio, 1396
James, 1554
John, 2274
Nathaniel, 976
Peter, 1395
Philip, 976
Richard, 1105
Robert, 1395
Samuel, 1106, 1396, 2274
Timothy, 1106
Widow, 976
William H., 2275, 2276
William R., 2275, 2276
Zachariah, 1395
Zacharias, 1395
Wallace ancestry, 1523, 2026
Andrew J., 1523
Everett J., 1523
George, 2027
James, 2026, 2027
Moses, 1523
Robert C, 2027
William, 1523
Waller ancestry, 963
Chester, 963
Chester C, 964
Halley T., 964
Henry C, 963
Israel, 963
Joseph, 963
Walton ancestry, 211
John, 211
Mary W„ 213
William A., 211
William H., 213
Ward ancestry, 144, 1422
Daniel, 1422
Frank E., 1423
Henry, 1423
Henry S., 1423
John M., 144
Josiah, 144
Obadiah, 1422
Richard, 1422
William, 1422
Wardwell ancestry, 653
Benjamin, 654, 655

NEW ENGLAND

Henrv, 655
Hezekiah, 656
Hezekiah C, 658
Isabella M., 656
Samuel, 656
Samuel D., 656
Sophia L., 656
William, 653, 654
William T. C, 657
Uzal, 654
Warfield ancestrv, 2162
Arthur V, 2163
Elihu, 2162
Lewis, 2162
Samuel, 2162
Samuel V, 2163
Warland ancestry, 1016
Charles A., 1017
John, 1017
Marv D., 1018
Owen, 1016
William, 1016
Warner ancestry, 1654
•Charles H., 1655
Elisha M., 1655
John, 1654
Nathan, 1655
Samuel, 1655
Warren. ancestry, 1960, 1974, 2117
Amos, 1977
Carrie M., 1960
Charles C, 1977
Charles W., 1977
Daniel, 1976
Ebenezer, 1976
Elijah, 1977
Frank M„ 1960
John, 1975, 1976
Lewis L., 1960
Mary L., 2118
Pliny, 2117
Wilmot L., 2117
Washburn ancestry, 338, 1971,
1997
Alexander N, 1974
Asa, 1974
Elijah, 338
Gamaliel, 1998
George C, 199S
George F., 339
James, 1974, 1997
John, 1973
Joseph, 338, 1974
Joseph F., 338
Miles, 1997
Moses, 1997
Samuel, 1974
Samuel F., 1974
Seth, 1974
Waterman ancestrv, 751, 2046
Franklin A., 753
George, 752
John, 751, 2047, 2049
John O.. 752, 2047
John Olney, 2048
Lewis A., 754
Resolved, 751, 2046, 2047
Richard, 751, 2046
Watkins ancestry, 674
Eustace V, 674
Harris R., 675
Miner, 674
Vine, 674
Watson ancestry, 83, 259, 292, 557,
998
Abraham, 999
Arthur H„ 559
Byron S., 560
Charles F., 293
Ebenezer, 84
Edward, 292
Eliphalet, S4
Elisha, 558
Elisha F., 559
Enoch J. N., 259
Freeman P., 659
George, 999
George E., 260
George H, 999, 1000
Isaac, 999
Jacob, 999
James, 259
John, 83, 84, 998, 999
Nathan, 999
William, 292
Watt ancestry, 1859
James, 1859
Martha W., 1860
Peter M., 1S60

Weare ancestry, 1583
Daniel, 1583, 1584
John, 1584
Joseph T., 1584
Nathaniel, 15S3
Weaver ancestry, 96, 1681
Andrew, 96
Benjamin, 1681, 1682
Charles B., 97
Clement, 1681
Isaac, 97
Joseph B., 1682
Perry, 1682
Webster ancestry, 133, 1179
Hosea, 133
John, 1179, 1180
John, Col., 1180
Nathan, 1180
Samuel, 1180
William H„ 133
Weeden ancestry, 2060
Benjamin D., 2061
George, 2060, 2061
James, 2060
Samuel, 2060
Thomas, 2060
William, 2060
Weekes ancestry, 1138
Ammiel, 1139
George, 1138, 1139, 1140
Isaac, 1140
Reuben, 1140
Reuben D. M., 1140
Silas B., 1140
Weeks ancestry, 345, 1325, 1707
Amos, 345
Ebenezer, 1325
Ebenezer H., 1326
Edward H, 1707
Eliakim, 1326
Frank, 345
Holland, 1325
Howard T., 1707
John E., 1327
John T. C, 1707
Joseph, 1325
Leverett F., 345
Philip, 1707
William H, 1707
Welch ancestry, 872
Allen B., 872
James, 872
Moses, 872
Philip, 872
Rodman E., 872
Simeon, S72
Welles ancestry, 1084
John, 1085
Joseph, 1085
Robert, 1085
Thomas, 1084
Wells ancestry, 1801
Ebenezer, 1801
Harriet E., 1803
Hugh, 1801
John, 1801, 1802
John W., 1802
Noah, 1802
Samuel, 1801
Thomas, 1801
Wentworth ancestrv, 110
Enoch, 112
John, 112
Shubael, 112
Sion, 112
William, 111
West ancestry, 761, 855, 2036
Caleb, 761, 855
Charles, 855
Charles H, 761
Darius, 761, 855
Francis, 855, 2036
George C, 761
Israel, 105, 106
Nathan, 2036
Samuel, 2036, 2037
Samuel F., 2037
Westcott. ancestrv, 1649b
Charles W., 1649b
James W., 1649b
Stephen O., 1649b
Stukeley, 1649b
Wetherell ancestry, 373
George, 374
John, 374
Parmelia A., 377
Willia'm, 374
Zelotes, 374
Whalen ancestry, 245
Carl W., 246

Dennis, 245
Patrick W., 245
Wheaton ancestry, 1756
Andrew, 1757
Ephraim, 1756
James, 1757
James L., 1757
James L., Dr., 1760
Lucas, 1757
Robert, 1756
Wheeler ancestry, 1358
George, 1358
George B., 1359
Hezekiah, 1358
John, 1358
Jonathan, 1358
Jonathan F., 1359
Peter, 1358
William, 1358
Wheelock ancestry, 322, 1276
Benjamin, 323
Dexter, 1277
Eugene A., 324
Gershom, 1276
Henry M., 1277
Jerrv, 323
John, 1277
Joseph, 1276, 1277
Martin, 1277
Ralph, 322, 1276
Silas, 323
Silas M., 324
Simeon, 323
Whidden ancestry, 2360
Benjamin, 2360
George, 2360
George F., 2361
Whitcomb ancestry, 1317, 1359,
1893
Arthur A., 1895
Asa, 1359, 1360, 1361
Asa W., 1361
Charles W.,. 1361
Cummings P., 1319
Henry M., 1894
Hiram M., 1894
Israel, 1813
John, 1317, 1359, 1893, 1894
Jonathan, 1359, 1893
Joseph, 1894
Lot, 1318
Myron C, 1319
Perez, 1318
Robert, 1318
Samuel, 1894
Thomas, 1360
Willard P., 1894
White ancestry, 201, 305, 667, 1040,
1361, 1613, 1635, 1639
Alfred, 1636
Alfred H, 1636
Amos L., 1040
Benjamin, 1640
Charles, 305
Daniel, 400, 1613, 1635
David, 1613
Ebenezer, 1639
Edward, 667
Elijah, 668
Elliott G., 1363
George F., 201
George W., 1363
Hunter C, 1042
Hunter C, Gen., 1041
Isaac, 1701
James, 668
John, 201, 1040, 1363, 1635
Joseph, 667
Joshua, 1640
Joshua E., 1641
Joshua S., 1640
Luther, 1636
Mark, 1362
Nathaniel, 1635
Nicholas, 667
Peregrine, 1362
Preserved, 1635, 1636
Samuel, 1363
Stillman, 668
Thomas, 1613, 1639
William, 305, 1361, 1613
Zebulon, 1640
Zophar, 1613
Whitehouse ancestry, 85
Benjamin, 86
Enoch, 85
Fred M., 86
Nathaniel, 85
Pomfret, 85
Thomas, 85

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Turner, 85
William, 85
Whitney ancestry, 306, 1-161, 2043
Bela B., 2044
Eleazer, 2043, 2044
Fred N, 2044
John, 21, 1461, 1462
John E., 306
Joshua, 2044
Moses, 1462
Nathaniel, 1462
Samuel, 1462
Silas, 2044
Thomas, 2043
William P., 306
Whiton ancestry, 1725
David, 1726
Ezra, 1726
Ezra J., 1726
James, 1725
Matthew, 1726
Whittemore ancestry, 1156
Samuel, 1157
Thomas, 1156, 1157
William, 1157
Wickes, John, 523
Wiggin ancestry, 69
Edward, 70
Fred S., 71
Phineas, 70
Samuel, 70
Thomas, 69
Wightman ancestry, 36
Daniel, 36
Edward, 36
George, 36, 37
Henry H, 37
Holmes, 37
John, 36, 37
John A. C, 37
Wilber ancestry, 527
Daniel, 527
Oliver C, 528
Peleg, 528
Thomas, 527
Wilbour ancestry, 1860
George, 1S61
Hezekiah, 1861
Samuel, 1860
William, I860, 1861
Wilbur ancestry, 460, 2272
Charles P., 461
Jesse, 461
John, 2272
Nathaniel S., 461
Samuel, 460, 461, 2272
Thomas, 2272
William, 460, 461, 2272
Wilcox ancestry, 1223
Amos, 1223
Samuel, 1223
Silas, 1224
Silas R., 1224
William, 1223
Wilder ancestry, 763, 1980
Aholiab, 1981
Benjamin F., 764
Daniel W., 1981
Edward, 763
Jabez, 763
John, 1980
Devi, 1981
Nathaniel, 1980
Nicholas, 1980
Orcas C, 1981
Robert, 763
Robert W., 764
Theophilus, 763
Thomas, 1980
William H., 764
Wilkins ancestry, 193, 451
Bray, 193
Charles H., 451
George E., 451
Isaac, 193
Isaac E., 193
James, 193
Timothy, 193
Wilkinson ancestry, 1144
Ahab, 1145
Henry W., 1147
John, H45
Laurance, 1144
Simeon, 1146
Washington A, 1146
Willard ancestry 1321, 1580
Benjamin, 132,4
Harley R., 1583
Henry, 1581

Hezekiah, 1582
John E., 1582
Joseph, 1322, 1323
Reuben, 15S2
Richard, 1321, 1580, 1582
Simon, 1321, 1581
Thomas, 1582
Willcox ancestry, 1776
Abner, 1778
Edwin D., 1778
Giles, 1777
James, 1777
Joseph, 1777
Julius A., 1778
Samuel, 1777
William, 1777
Willey, Isaac, 145
Williams ancestry, 980, 1116, 2102
Alonzo, 980
Alonzo R., 981
Daniel, 1116
Howell, 2102
John, 2102
Marie S., 980
Morgan, 2102
Nathaniel, 2103
Peleg, 1117
Richard, 2102, 2103
Roger, 1012
Samuel, 2103
Seth, 2103
Silas, 1117
Thomas, 2102
William, 2102
Willis ancestry, 13
Charles, 13
George, 13
Grinnell, 16
Nathaniel, 13, 14
Nathaniel P., 15
Willoughby ancestry, 1256
Francis, 1256
John, 1256
Jonas, 1256
Nehemiah, 1256
William, 1256, 1257
Willson ancestry, 1586
Jeremiah, 1586
John B., 1586
Leo F., 1586
Samuel W., 1586
Wilson ancestry, 408, 575, 1150,
1297
Benjamin, 1151, 1153
Benjamin C, 1298
Charles E., 1298
Clarence E., 1154
Edward J., 1298
George B., 1298
George F., 1152
Henry P., 577
Homer B., 577
James, 576
Jesse, 576
Jessie, 1154
John, 408, 1151
Jonathan, 1297
Joseph, 576, 1297
William, 408, 575
Zadok P., 576
Wing ancestry, 1884
Daniel, 1885
George W., 1886
Godfriedus, 1884
John, 18S4, 1885
Joseph A., 1885
Josiah, 1885
Matthew, 1884
Samuel, 1S85
Wingate ancestry, 445
Edmund, 446
John, 445, 446
Joshua, 446
Mack P., 447
Stephen, 446
William, 447
Woodbury H, 447
Winslow ancestry, 51, 178, 189,
1096
Augustus S., 1098
Benjamin, 178
Edward, 51, 189
Eli K, 178
Frances E., 190
James, 189
Job, 1096, 1097
John F., 1098
Jonathan, 190
Joseph, 1097

Kenelm, 51, 52, 189
Nathan, 190
Richard, 1097
Samuel, 178
Samuel A., 178
William, 51, 189
Witham, Allen C, 1-1 1
John, 140
Witheiell ancestry, 1173
John, 1173
Philander S., 1173
Whitefield, 1173
William, 1173
Wolcott ancestry, 1084
Elisha, 1084
Henry, 1084
Horatio G., 1084
Samuel, 1084
Wolfe ancestry, 603
John C. S., 603
Wood ancestry, 162, 297, 903, 1716,
1794
Abial W., 1795, 1798
Abiel, 904
Abraham, 1715, 1716
Adelaide R., 162
Albert, 1716
Albert B., 1717
Edwin T., 904
Ernest H., 162
Francis C, 297
Georgie F. C, 1718
Henry, 903
Hiram, 904
Jennie Isabel, 1717
Joshua, 904
Judson I., 1798
Michael, 1715
Pliny W., 1795, 1797
Samuel, 1716
Simeon, 1794, 1795
Solomon, 1794
Thomas, 904, 1794
Thomas P., 904
William, 553, 1715
William H., 553
Woodcock, John, 1816
Woodbury ancestry, 685
James, 686
James M., 686
John, 685
Peter, 684
Woodbridge ancestry, 1164
Benjamin, 1164, 1165
John, 1164
Samuel, 1165
Woods ancestry, 897, 1343, 1511,
2246
Abel, 2246
Alva, 2247
Charles D., 898
Ephraim, 1349
Henry J., 897
Isaac, 1349
John C. B., 2249
Joseph, 897
Leonard, 1512
Marshall, 2248
Moses W„ 897
Nathaniel, 1349
Samuel, 1348, 1511, 1513, 2246
Samuel H, 1513
Wood-ward ancestry, 722, 1054
Charles S., 1056
Henry, 1054
Henry L„ 1056
Henry Linde, Dr., 1056
Israel, 1055
John, 1054, 1055
Samuel, 1055
Samuel B., 1055
Solomon, 722
Stimpson H., 722
Thomas, 1054
Woolworth ancestry, 410
Chester, 411
James G-, 411
Joseph, 411
Richard, 410, 411
Worden ancestry, 1310
Asa, 1311
John, 1311
Peter, 1310, 1311
Samuel, 1311
Worthen ancestry, 790, 2315
David, 790
Edward D., 791
Ezekiel, 2316
Horace W., 791

NEW ENGLAND

Jesse, 791
John, 2315
Thomas, 790
Wright ancestry, 114, 307, 1986,
1992, 2279
Chester, 1987
David, 1992
Edith A., 120
Ephraim, 114
Ezekiel C, 117
George F., 114
George M., 115
Henry, 116, 2279
Herbert N, 116
James, 307, 1987
James E., 1988
Jehiel, 1992

John, 1986, 1991
Jonathan E., 1987
Josiah, 1992
Morris S., 2280
Nathaniel, 19S7
Octavius A„ 2279
Robert, 307
Samuel, 1986, 1987, 1991
Stephen, 116
Thomas, 1991
William X, 1992
Winfred H, 1993
Wyman ancestry, 159
Abel, 160
Francis, 159
Horace, 160
Horace W., 161

John, 159
Jonathan, 160
Yeomans ancestry, 666
Edward, 666
John, 666
Samuel, 666
York ancestry, 41
Benjamin, 42
James, 41, 42
William, 42
Young ancestry, 97
George A., 99
Jacob, 97
John, 97
John C, 98
Ziegler, Philip, 468

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